Portrait and biographical record of the Willamette valley, Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present, Part 194

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

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The marriage of Judge Kincaid occurred in Macomb county, Mich., September 29, 1873, and united him with Miss Augusta Lockwood, a native of that locality. Her brother, C. M. Lock- wood, was for many years identified with the interests of Oregon, having conducted the stage line between The Dalles and Salt Lake City for some time. His death occurred in Michigan. The one child born to Judge and Mrs. Kincaid is named Webster Lockwood. Among the so- cieties with which Judge Kincaid is connected are the State Pioneer Association, the Oregon Historical Society, the Commercial Club of Eu- gene, and for some time he belonged to the Illi-

hee Club of Salem and the Multopor Club of Portland. The life of Judge Kincaid has been one that is noticeable even among the many who have proven potent factors in the upbuilding of the west, and to no man is greater credit due for the stanch support which he has given toward the promotion of all worthy movements. He is today numbered among the representative citizens of Oregon, and as such is given a place among the records of her past.

EDMUND WALLER HARTLEY, one of the representative farmers of Marion county, occupies one of the most picturesquely located country homes within the limits of the county, where he and his family dispense a generous hospitality to friend and stranger alike. His farm, which is located seven miles east of Salem, consists of four hundred acres, most of which is under a high state of cultivation. The original tract, upon which he located in 1865, consisted of three hundred and twenty acres of the most fertile and productive land in the county. Mr. Hartley has also indicated his faith in the future of Oregon by purchasing real estate in Salem.

Mr. Hartley was born in Hardin county, Ky., February 6, 1825, and is a son of Joseph and Polly (Singleton) Hartley. There he was reared on his father's large farm. When the family removed to Jefferson county, Ill., in 1841, he accompanied them, helping to found a new home in a desolate and sparsely inhabited prairie region. In the spring of 1865 he started across the plains with his family, his outfit consisting of three wagons, one drawn by four horses and the other two by oxen. The journey consumed about six months. With rare judgment he located at once upon the farm which has since been a source of pride to him, and which is providing him with a comfortable income. All the improvements upon the property are entirely due to his energy and progressive spirit, and he is regarded as one of the most successful farmers in the county.

Mr. Hartley was united in marriage with Ann Eliza Whitlow, December 29, 1847. She is a native of Laurel county, Ky., where she was born October 22, 1829. Of this union twelve children have been born. In the order of their birth they are as follows: M. Jane, single, living at home ; Emily D., wife of J. L. Cline, of Portland, Ore .; Charles L., farming eight miles south of Salem; Joseph T., deceased ; Elenora S., wife of Levi S. Brower, living near Mill City; Letitia M., de- ceased ; Hiram A., living seven miles southeast of Silverton ; Edgar, of Salcm; Amanda I., wife of G. D. Bowen, who lives near Silverton ; Ida May, and M. Maggie, at home, and an infant, de- ccased.

Mr. Hartley is an enthusiastic advocate of, the

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best possible educational advantages for the children of the present generation, and for some time has served with fidelity as a member of the school board. He is a member of the old school Baptist Church, and contributes generously of his means towards its support and in behalf of its charities. He is deservedly honored for his bus- iness ability and integrity, as well as for his many estimable personal characteristics. In politics he has always been a Democrat.

GUS A. HURLEY. The real estate, law and insurance business of Cooper & Hurley, though established but two years ago, has the distinction of being the only enterprise of its kind in Inde- pendence, and has already worked up a trade in keeping with the high character and unquestioned ability of the men directing its affairs. The finan- cial, commercial and agricultural opportunities of Polk county contribute to the principal bus- iness of the firm, and it is their intention to boom these important departments, and thus enhance the value of lands whose sale has been placed in their hands. At their well equipped offices on the east side of Main street, information is forth- coming regarding almost all of the inducements held out to home-seekers. Loans are also ne- gotiated, property rented and collections made.

Gus A. Hurley, of the firm of Cooper & Hur- ley, is a native son of Oregon, and was born at La Fayette, Yamhill county, June 14, 1877. His father, Andrew, from whom he inherited a liking for law, was born in the state of Maine, and was one of the sterling western pioneers whose successful career was of his own fashion- ing. He removed at an early day to Oshkosh, Wis., and finally became interested in the steam- boat business on the Mississippi river, becoming in time an officer on the boats. After crossing the plains in the early '50's, he located at Salem and engaged as a plasterer and mason, in the meantime spending his spare moments in master- ing the intricacies of legal science. About 1873 he began to practice his profession, and was thus engaged up to the time of his death in 1895, at the age of fifty-six years. He was an active Re- publican, and, as indicated by his various inter- ests, a man of marked ability and indefatigable energy. He married Almira Smith, who was born in Yamhill county, and is the mother of two children, of whom Gus A. is the oldest. Almira Smith was a daughter of Sidney Smith, without doubt one of the very first to cross the plains to Oregon, for he came with a delegation of home-seekers as early as 1839, locating in the Chehalem valley, where he died at an advanced age.

From the public schools Gus A. Hurley entered the state normal school at Monmouth, from which

he was graduated in 1896, and thereafter he studied law under W. H. Holmes, of Salem, Ore. He was admitted to the bar June 12, 1899, and conducted a general law practice until associating himself with Mr. Cooper, under the firm name of Cooper & Hurley. He has a profound know !- edge of law and general business, his occupation embracing more lines of activity than falls to the lot of the average legal practitioner. He is inter- ested in the building up of Independence, and is secretary of the Independence Improvement Company. He is also fraternally inclined, and is identified with the Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Although one of the youngest, he is also one of the most promising of the professional and business men of this county, and his friends and associates predict for him a career of more than ordinary useful- ness.

LINUS W. HARGER. When the town of Newberg was but a scattering array of houses Linus W. Harger proved an in- spiration to various lines of activity. He came to the locality in 1872, and, forc- seeing the need of such a structure, erected the first warehouse in the town in 1875, a de- parture appreciated to the full by the sur- rounding farmers, who flocked thither with their products. About the same time Mr. Harger invested in three hundred and twenty- three acres of land, which has since been his home, and where he has extensively culti- vated grain, raised stock, and grown fruit. He has been very successful from a business standpoint, and in his private character has won the esteem of all with whom he has been associated.

This honored Oregonian pioneer was born in Hampden county, Mass., November 9, 1833, and comes of a family long identified with the pilgrim state. His paternal grandfather, David, was born there, and during the war of 1812 left his forge and anvil in a paying little black- smith shop to serve the interests of a stricken country. His son, Leander, the father of Linus, was also born in Massachusetts, and lived for the greater part of his life near West Granville. In later life he removed to East Bridgewater, Mass., and died there at the age of eighty years. He married Marcia Coe, who was born in Massachusetts March 26, 1803, and who is now living at the old home in East Bridgewater, aged one hundred years. Her father, Seth, was born in Massachusetts, and came from ancestors long residents of the snug little country of Wales.

The oldest son and second child born in his

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father's family, Linus W. Harger was edu- cated in the public schools and at a Massachu- setts Academy, and at the age of eighteen engaged in the butchering business for a year. Afterward he served an apprenticeship to a carpenter, and was then engaged in building and contracting until his thirty-ninth year. In 1854 he came to Oregon via Panama and San Francisco, and after three years' residence in Washington county, worked at his trade in different parts of the valley, being engaged by the government at Fort Dalles for about a year. The following two years were spent in travel throughout the middle west, where Mr. Harger looked for a desirable permanent locality, but found none to compare with the state of Oregon. Via the plains he returned in 1860, again settling in Washington county, where he bought a hundred and eighty acres of land, which he improved, and in connection with the management of which he also en- gaged in building and contracting for four years. Mr. Harger then became identified with the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, and as a traveling builder was thus engaged until 1872. Having in the meantime sold his home in Washington county, he located on his present farm in Yamhill county, with the substantial development of which he has since been connected. Aside from building the ware- house which furnished an impetus to trade in general at Newberg, Mr. Harger has been identified with general affairs in his locality, his sound business judgment, sterling integ- rity and caution making his advice invaluable upon all matters affecting the welfare of his fellow-townsmen.

In Oregon City, Ore., Mr. Harger was united in marriage with Harriett Pambrun, a native of Washington, and whose father, Peter C. Pambrun, was born in France. Mr. Pam- brun was a man of leading characteristics, and besides having an enviable European war rec- ord took an active part in the advancement of affairs in the extreme northwest. At the great battle of Waterloo, he was a non-con- missioned officer, and was wounded and taken prisoner. After being released he became identified with the Hudson Bay Company in British North America, and there had charge of two ports. He was one of the best known pioneers of that region, and his work in con- nection with the Hudson Bay Company was in every way creditable, his management of their trading posts being characterized by business shrewdness and unquestioned integ- rity. Mr. Pambrun was killed by a horse fall- ing with him while out with a party of friends in search of coyotes. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Harger: Helen M.,

Emerite, Theresa Ruth and Catherine, the wife of F. D. Kinney, a farmer near Newberg. Mr. Harger is a Democrat in political affiliation, and is fraternally a charter member of the Masonic lodge at Newberg. With his family he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.

ZACHARIAH J. IMUS was born in Co- shocton county, Ohio, July 20, 1849, his father being a native of New York, born in April, 1824. In his youth, and in truth up to the time of his death, the elder Mr. Imus enjoyed moving from place to place, going when a very young man to Michigan, where he remained but a short time, soon returning to Coshocton county, Ohio. Here he built up a little home, leaving it, however, for Illinois, settling in Peoria county. Proceeding to Iowa in 1855, he bought land in Ringgold county, where he acquired quite a reputation for land-trading. At this time the war was being waged in the southern states, and it was evident that it was not near its close. Mr. Imus had not enliste.1 earlier on account of his family, who were de- pendent on him, but now, seeing his duty, he left his home, joining Company I, Twenty- ninth Iowa Infantry, in the spring of 1862, going at once to the front. His fighting days were soon numbered, however, for he con- tracted a disease that brought him to the hos- pital, and there he remained for a year before he was mustered out of service in 1865. His death occurred the same year, when he was in his forty-fifth year.

The mother was, in maidenhood, Miss Ma- tilda Reed, a native of Maine, and after her husband's death she went to Missouri, where she lived at the time of her death. Eight children were born of this union, the eldest of whom was Zachariah. A year after his father left for the front this lad of fifteen took up the burden of life, making his own way from this time on. For several years he re- mained near his mother, helping her from the meager results of his work. At twenty-two years of age he left Iowa, settling in Osborne county, Kans., where he engaged in farming. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres, putting upon the claim the necessary improve- ments, but in 1881 he left that state, coming to Oregon. Here he bought fifty-two acres near Dundee, Yamhill county, the principal part of the ground being used for the cultivation of hops. The land adjacent to the town, about four and a half acres, was in grass. For ten years this property remained in his possession, but having interested himself in the politics of his adopted city, he soon found other duties

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that demanded his attention, so sold his hop- farm in 1901. Through Republican influence, he received the appointment of postmaster, November 6, 1898, and has since served as school director, school clerk and road super- visor.

Mr. Imus was married in Osborne county, Kans., to Miss Hannah Hughes, who was born in White county, Ind. Her father, John Hughes, was a native of Philadelphia, Pa., and during his residence in that city engaged in the manufacture of shoes. In his later life he tried farming, locating in Indiana. He then moved to Nemaha county, Neb., where for three years he ran a hotel in Pawnee City. His next move was into Kansas, where he bought three hundred and twenty acres, and in 1880 came to Oregon, dying here in 1881. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Imus are, in order of birth, Gertrude, James Elmer, Francis, deceased, Lena, Alvin, deceased, Blanche, Rhoda and Ralph. Gertrude is en- gaged in teaching.

RICHARD B. LINVILLE, one of the hon- ored residents of Newberg, was born in Clay county, Mo., October 17, 1835, and prior to coming to Oregon in 1891 had an extended business and political career in different parts of the middle west. His grandfather, Richard Linville, was born in North Carolina, and set- tled in Missouri, and in 1846 crossed the plains with ox-teams. On the way his wife was drowned in fording a stream, and alone and disconsolate he pursued his way west, settling in either Polk or Benton counties, where he was successful as a farmer and stock-raiser. John Linville, the father of Richard B., was born in North Carolina, and removed with his father to Missouri. Besides engaging in farm- ing he also preached in the pulpit of the Cum- berland Presbyterian church, and during his comparatively brief life accomplished much good in the world. In later years he was an invalid, and his death occurred in Missouri when his son Richard was eight years of age. His wife, Nancy Jameson, was born in Vir- ginia and died in St. Louis, Mo., leaving five sons and one daughter, of whom Richard B. is the fourth.

At the age of nineteen Mr. Linville gradu- ated from the high school, and entered an academy in Missouri. He was reared to farm- ing, and led a practically uneventful life up to the breaking out of the Civil war. In Sep- tember, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, of the Fifth Missouri Cavalry, attained to the rank of sergeant major, and after serving for one year obtained permission to organize a

company for a new regiment. September 30, 1862, he was commissioned captain of Con- pany E, Thirty-fifth Missouri Infantry, which he organized, and was discharged from the ser- vice May 13, 1865. For the greater part he was engaged in bushwhacking in Missouri and Arkansas, and was wounded in the right side, the ball still remaining in that part of his anat- omy. His left side did not escape the atten- tions of the enemy, but the ball failed to reach a vital spot, owing to the fact that he carried a newspaper in his pocket.

In 1866, in Andrew county, Mo., Mr. Lin- ville entered upon his first political responsi- bility, when he was elected surveyor of the county, and served for two years. He was afterward elected county treasurer and served one term. For the following two years he engaged in the hardware business in Hopkins, Mo., and here, in 1872, was elected surveyor of Nodaway county, serving one term. In 1879 he removed to Kansas, and at Ness City, Ness county, engaged in a general merchan- dise business for twelve years. This stage of his career Mr. Linville recalls as a very pros- perous one, he happening there during a busi- ness "boom," and when men with ability and common sense were appreciated at their true value. Here also he entered the political arena, and was elected probate judge of Noda- way county in 1878, serving for one term.

In 1891 Mr. Linville became identified with Oregon, locating at Mount Tabor, where he engaged in farming on a small scale. In 1897 he removed to Yamhill county, and bought ten acres of land near Newberg, where he con- ducted a fruit ranch with considerable success, but disposed of this property in 1901. He then invested in a large stock of general com- modities and has since engaged in general merchandise business with continued success. Mr. Linville was married while living in Mis- souri to Emma Richardson, a native of that state, and who died in Missouri in 1874, leav- ing four children: Henry R., a graduate of the University of Kansas, and of Harvard University, where he received the degree of A. B. the first year, that of A. M. the second year, and Ph. D. the third year, and who is at present a teacher of biology in a boys' high school in New York City; Minnie, who is the wife of F. G. Shown, a farmer of Grant county, Ore .; Preston, who is deceased; and Julia, who is the wife of D. Connell of the vicinity of Portland. For a second wife Mr. Linville married, in Kansas, Mrs. Annie M. Jarrett, whose father, Ely Harmon, was born in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Harmon removed from Pennsylvania to Kansas in 1879, locating in Ness county, where he farmed for many

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years, but is now living retired. One child has been born to Mr. Linville and his present wife: Richard B., Jr., who is living with his parents. Mr. Linville has been a stanch Re- publican ever since his voting days, and he is fraternally connected with the Masons and the Grand Army of the Republic.

HENRY F. HOLLENBECK. As a partner in the largest real estate firm in Eugene, H. F. Hollenbeck occupies a position in the community commensurate with his varied and extensive business experience, and his recognized capacity for painstaking and conscientious work. From a worthy Teutonic ancestry he derives the con- servatism and thrift which proceeds slowly but surely to its goal, undisturbed by distractions however alluring or promising. He was born on a farm twelve miles from Madison, Jefferson county, Ind., July 31, 1862, his grandfather, Henry Hollenbeck, having established the fam- ily in Scott county, the same state, after his emi- gration from Germany in the early pioneer days. Enoch R. Hollenbeck, the father of H. F., was born on the Scott county farm, and in early life selected the mason's trade as a means of live- lihood. This, combined with general farming, constituted the labor of his active years, and his ability in both directions brought him fair re- turns from a financial standpoint. As a young man he removed to Jefferson county, Ind., and afterward lived four years in Seymour, Ind., re- moving to Lincoln, Neb., in 1882. He came to Eugene, Ore., in 1887, and was soon engaged in a paying contracting business, doing the masonry work for the reservoir and many public buildings, and establishing a reputation for thoroughness and substantiality, so essential to the trade which he dignified with his labor and high character. Through his marriage with Elizabeth Maden, who was born in east Tennessee and died in Eu- gene, Ore., nine children were born, eight of whom are living, H. F. being the second in order of birth. William R., the oldest son, is a drug- gist in Florence, Ore .; James W. is a business man of Moro, Ore .; May is the wife of George Tucker, of Oakland, Cal .; Florence married John Jenkins of Lane county; Flora, now deceased, became the wife of Mr. R. E. Bristow, of Eu- gene; Charles and Louis are residents of Los Angeles, Cal .; and Maggie is now the wife of R. S. Smith. During his boyhood days in Ind- iana H. F. Hollenbeck learned the trade of plas- terer, and at the age of sixteen began to work regularly with his father, the two trades combin- ing most advantageously. He accompanied his father to Lincoln, Neb., where success awaited them, and they secured some of the largest con- tracts in the city, both on private residences and

public buildings. After coming to Eugene the son worked at his trade for a year, and then en- gaged as a clerk in various mercantile establish- ments for three years, afterward engaging as a partner with C. T. Wandell in Eugene, in the management of the New York Racket Store. Two years later he started a piano and organ business, continuing the same until 1897. He then went to New York City that his wife might perfect her musical education. In 1899 Mr. Hol- lenbeck returned to Eugene, and after acting in the capacity of yard manager of the planing mill operated by his brother-in-law, Mr. George Midgley, managed the Eugene Hotel for a couple of years. In 1902 he became a partner of C. S. Farrow in the real estate business, and now handles some of the most valuable town and coun- try property in Lane county.

In common with the rest of the community, Mr. Hollenbeck is justly proud of his wife, who is said to be one of the finest musicians on the coast, and is now in charge of the Musical De- partment of the University of Oregon. Mrs. Hollenbeck was formerly Rose M. Midgley, and was born in Springfield, Mo. She was educated at the University of Oregon, making a specialty of music, and later studied for a year under Prof. Epstein of St. Louis. Mrs. Hollenbeck had the advantage of further training under S. P. Mills, Sharwenka, and Gertitoski, of New York, and afterward entered the National Con- servatory of Music, finishing her eastern train- ing under Josefy. No greater recommendations were required for this lady than her enviable position with the university, or the appreciation which is unstintingly shown her by all true lovers of music on the coast. Faultless technique, beautiful expression, and wonderful tone effects, characterize her interpretation of the world's greatest masterpieces, and added to these is that capacity for infinite painstaking which is the greatest joy of the harmony loving mind and heart. Mr. and Mrs. Hollenbeck are members of the Christian church. Mr. Hollenbeck is a member of the Eugene Real Estate Exchange, and is fraternally identified with the Woodmen of the World.

VAN DORN McFARLAND. Thirty years of building and contracting in Eugene have established the reputation of Van Dorn McFar- land as one of the foremost in his line in Lane county. To his chosen work Mr. McFarland brings an experience dating from the time when, as an energetic but very youthful devotee of hammer and chisel, he used to search the woods for material to fashion picture frames and other articles comparatively easy of construction. These embryonic undertakings back in Belmont

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county, Ohio, happened half a century ago, and the youth who was fascinated by the possibilities of putting boards together, and spurred on by his natural mechanical ingenuity, was sixteen years old, having been born in Belmont county, February 23, 1837.

As the name indicates, Mr. McFarland is of Scotch ancestry, and he inherits that combina- tion of dogged perseverance and adaptiveness which make of the best of his countrymen sub- stantial and practical successes. His father and grandfather, both named William, were born in the state of Pennsylvania, the former in Red- stone, and both became very early settlers of Bel- mont county, Ohio. The grandfather was a far- mer during his active life, and embellished his career with lengthy service during the war of 1812. His death occurred on his farm in Bel- mont county, at an advanced age, his son, Wil- liam, also a farmer, living to the age of sixty- three. The younger William married Lucinda Sutton, who also died in Ohio, and two of whose six children are living, Van Dorn being the youngest, and the only one in Oregon. From the farm Van Dorn McFarland stepped into a carpenter apprenticeship, having worked with tools on his own responsibility ever since he could remember, and gained a great liking for the work. About 1863 he removed to Savannah, Ill., and worked on the old Western Union Rail- road, and later helped to build every station on the line of the Sabula, Ackley & Dakota Rail- road for seventy miles out of Sabula, Iowa. While thus employed as foreman of a large building force, he was located principally along the Wapso river, Iowa, a very unhealthful dis- trict, with the result that foreman and crew con- tracted malarial fever, and all were glad when the large contract was completed. Mr. McFarland himself, after looking around for a place to re- cuperate, decided upon Eugene, Ore., intending to return east when his cure had been effected. A year in the city not only restored him to health, but inspired him with a wholesome and emphatic appreciation of Eugene as a building and business center. Accordingly, he engaged in his old occupation of building and contracting with such good results that he decided to make this his permanent home. This was in 1873, and ever since he has lived there, in the meantime putting up hundreds of houses and public build- ings, contributing much to the upbuilding of the city. He superintended the construction of the Masonic Temple Building, of the John Klemm, Chrisman, and Matlock buildings, and scores of the best and most artistic residences in the city. He is skilled in every detail of his interesting work, and is known not only in the immediate city, but throughout the county. As relaxation from business cares, he superintends the work on

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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 194

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