Portrait and biographical record of western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present.., Part 156

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman publishing company
Number of Pages: 1064

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Dr. Kinney was born January 30, 1850, in Chehalem valley, Yamhill county, Ore., where his father, Robert C. Kinney, settled in 1847. He is one of eight children born to his parents, being the second youngest son. Other members of the family are as follows: Mrs. Jane Smith; Albert W., who died in Salem in 1880, and was president of the Salem Flouring Mills Company ; Augustus C., a physician of Astoria; M. J., formerly proprietor of the Astoria Packing Com- pany, of Portland; Josephine, now Mrs. Walker. of San Francisco; William S., deceased, who was for a number of years president of the Clat- sop Mill Company; and Mrs. Dr. J. E. Peyton, of Redlands, Cal.

When but a lad of eight years Dr. Kinney went to McMinnville, and attended school until he was eighteen years old, attending the Baptist college of that city a portion of the time. In 1868 he went to New York, entered Bellevue Hospital Medical College, where he spent three years in hard study and one and one-half years in hospital work. In 1872 he graduated and returned to Portland. He practiced in Portland for four years and has the distinction of having been the first surgeon in St. Vincent's Hospital. In 1876 he removed to Morrow county and spent three years in sheep ranching and medical prac- tice. In 1879 he opened an office in Salem and again engaged in the practice of his profession, limiting his work to general surgery, and con- tinuing there with success until 1885, when he lo- cated in Astoria, which has since been his home. Dr. Kinney is well versed in his profession and keeps abreast of the times in both medicine and surgery. Every two or three years he avails him- self of the opportunities to return to New York and take a post-graduate course. He was ap- pointed state health officer under Governor Pen- noyer for the port of Astoria and served from 1891 to 1895. In 1903 he was appointed a mem- ber of the state board of health by Governor

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Chamberlain and upon the organization of that body was elected vice-president of the board.

His marriage in Portland with Louise P. Dickinson, of Washington, D. C., resulted in the birth of two children, Albert W. and Au- gustus M. The former is now a student at Northern Pacific Dental College at Portland. The family are influential members of the Pres- byterian Church and are prominent in social circles. Dr. Kinney is a Master Mason ; a mem- ber of A. F. & A. M. and R. A. M., both of Salem; of the Astoria Progressive Club, the Pioneer Association, and was elected mayor of the city of Astoria by a handsome majority in 1893. He was one of the organizers of the State Medical Society organized in Salem in 1875 and was elected its first president. He is also a member of the Clatsop County Medical Society, of the American Medical Association and of the American Public Health Association.

He first became identified with railroad work as the instigator and promoter of the Astoria & South Coast Railroad, and was vice-president of it for some time. This road comprised eighteen miles of track from Astoria to the . seaside. About 1889 he conceived the idea of building a railroad from Astoria to Portland along the south bank of the Columbia river, and for six years following devoted a great deal of time to that enterprise. By almost indefatigable ef- fort and persistency he at last secured the in- terest of various capitalists and a company was formed, with Dr. Kinney as vice-president. In 1896-97 the Astoria & Columbia Railroad was built, and it is worthy of note that it was one of the few railroads built in the United States during that year. The road has been of much benefit to the people of that section and was afterward consolidated with the Astoria & South Coast Railroad. This secured for As- toria direct railroad communication with Port- land as well as to the seaside and to Ft. Steph- ens. Dr. Kinney and his brother, M. J., were the founders of New Astoria, on the Columbia river at Ft. Stephens. This place has a popu- lation of about six hundred and is now known as Hammond, this name being a compliment to Mr. A. B. Hammond, president of the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad. The foregoing goes to prove that Dr. Kinney has every claim upon the citizens of his section as a broad-minded. progressive citizen as well as a public-spirited benefactor.

JOSHUA PATTERSON. The foundation of the present ample competence of Joshua Pat- terson was laid in patient toil and unusual per- severance, for this honored farmer of Jackson county had practically no resources when he first

began to earn his living in 1873. At the time he was sixteen years old, having come to the west with his parents in 1862, from Eaton coun- ty, Mich., where he was born December 2, 1857. Mr. Patterson soon after coming here chose So- noma county, Cal., as his home, and after work- ing on a farm for a year ran in debt for a thresh- ing machine, which he paid for on time, and ran with fair returns for a couple of years. Dispos- ing of this machine, in company with his brother, J. L. Patterson, he purchased. a threshing outfit costing $6,000 which they operated very suc- cessfully for two years in Yolo, Colusa and Butte counties, Cal. During 1876 and 1877 he farmed on the plains in Yolo county, and altogether made considerable headway in acquiring the fortune of which he had thought so much and for which he had planned so wisely.

In 1881 Mr. Patterson renounced his bachelor state and married Ella J. Fewel, in Sonoma county, soon afterward returning to Jackson county, where he purchased the ranch upon which his parents had settled in 1862, and where he has since made his home. Three children were born to them : Myrtle in 1882, Clay in 1883 and Hazel in 1886. Mr. Patterson now owns two hundred and thirty-eight acres in the home place, one and a half miles east of Talent, be- sides another ranch in the vicinity consisting of two hundred and forty acres. He also owns forty acres of timber land. Repeating his for- mer threshing success, he has owned and oper- ated two different steam machines in this coun- ty continuously from 1882 to 1900, and his ex- perience in the line is probably as varied and lengthy as that of any other man in the west. He owned and operated the first complete steam threshing outfit in Jackson county. His patron- age from the largest and most prosperous farm- ers in this state and California has enabled him to gain an accurate idea of the grain and gen- eral produce resources of the west, and it is needless to say that he thinks this part of the country a mecca for the deserving and ambitious young man.

In platting his land Mr. Patterson has thought of the pleasures as well as the profit of exist- ence, and his gardens and orchard are intended primarily to contribute to the comfort and con- venience of his immediate family. He had one hundred and thirty-five acres set out in apples, including three leading varieties of winter apples, the Spitzenberg, Yellow Newtons and Jonathans. He raises high grade stock, grain, alfalfa, and garden produce, and runs his farm along modern and scientific lincs. Mr. Patterson is a Republi- can in politics, and in addition to other local offices he was elected county commissioner in 1901. He finds diversion in two of the fore- most fraternal organizations of the country, viz.,

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Ashland Lodge No. 45, I. O. O. F., and the Phoenix Lodge No. 107, A. O. U. W. Mr. Pat- terson is highly respected by his fellow agricul- turists of Jackson county, and wherever he has lived his earnest and industrious and highly moral life has commanded approval and admira- tion.

BARTHOLOMEW CAREK KINDRED. Not only because almost eighty-six years have passed over his head, leaving his heart still young, his sympathics still keen, is Bartholomew Carek Kindred beloved and honored in Clatsop county, but more especially because he repre- sents that type of pioneer which is of all other classes in America the most thoroughly na- tional, and which is fast receding into that future from which there is no returning. Each month lessens the roll call of the heroes who bore, un- flinchingly, deprivations inconceivable to toilers of today, yet the majority of whom attest tlie life-giving and retaining qualities of the very struggles which we view with admiration and wonder. They were simple folk, these pioneers of the early '4os, they ate wholesome food, kept their muscles in trim with varied physical ex- ercise, and their minds clear with the philosophy that recognized no cause for worry or fault-find- ing. Moreover, their isolation engendered gen- erosity and kindliness for those in like posi- tions, and the desire for greed in agricultural regions was always tempered with sympathy for neighbors also in search of the opulence and peace of the world.

This pioneer of 1844 was born in Jackson county, Ind., April 25, 1818, and even his ex- treme youth took on a semblance of the adven- ture and excitement which characterized his early sojourn in Oregon. His father, David Kindred, and his mother, Telithia (Remie) Kindred, were born in Madison county, Ky., both the paternal and maternal families having been established there by the grandparents in the days of Daniel Boone. Grandfather John Kindred and the Remie family sailed away from the shores of France in search of the larger freedom of the states, both grandfathers coming from England across the channel in order to escape the law, punishable by death, should any tradesman emi- grate from English shores. Those were the days when the loss of the colonies rested heavily upon the mother country, and she naturally re- sented the passing from the realm of those skilled in the crafts or arts, and whose immigra- tion would redound to the credit of the lost coun- try across the sea. Both the father and mother of Bartholomew were born amid troublesome times in Kentucky, and both were reared in the fort of Daniel Boone, and the friendship thus

started resulted in later marriage, and the rear- ing of a family of seven children, of whom Bar- tholomew is the third and at present the only one living.

When Bartholomew was fourteen years of age his parents moved to Iowa and located on the Skunk river, and there they farmed until about 1837. That year the family moved overland to Missouri, and in August, 1840, Bartholomew married Rachel Myler, who was born in Madison county, Ky., and who four years later joined the Kindred family on their trip across the plains. The year 1844 witnessed many depart- ures from peaceful homes, but all who set out suffered intensely from various causes, and the memory of the jaunt to all who survive partakes of the nature of a nightmare. So often has the story been told, so often the terror-stricken nights of the campers, with sight and ears strained for sound of stealthy Indian steps been depicted in romance and on canvas, that to re- capitulate is to weaken an impression buried deep in the hearts of all who know and appreciate the pioneer. The family located in Clatsop coun- ty, where the parents died, the mother January 2, 1898, at the age of seventy-five years nine months and twenty-one days. The first winter was spent near Oregon City, below the mouth of the Clackamas river, and while there they discovered the iron ore, since extensively worked by the Oswego Iron Company.

Bartholomew Kindred located first where Ger- hart's Park is now situated, and where he bought the right to a section of land, very wild and heavily timbered. In November, 1846, being dis- contented with the prospects of his farm, he moved to the farm upon which he now lives, and upon a part of which Hammond has since been built. Ever since he has engaged exten- sively in general farming and stock-raising, and besides the greater part of his original dona- tion claim he owns two double blocks in Ham- mond, comprising the old farm, as well as a com- fortable residence in which he is living retired. He has participated in the border trials of the pioneers, has fought the wary and outraged In- dians in their efforts to regain the happy hunting grounds which they and their forefathers trod so fearlessly, and he has withstood the desola- tion, deprivation and many hardships incident to redeeming the western wilderness. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Kindred, eleven of whom are living: Henry P., of As- toria; James, of Warrenton; Nancy, the wife of Henry Fisher, of Svenson, Ore .; Julia, the wife of John Babbidge, of Astoria; Amelia, the wife of Charles Holt, of Bucoda, Wash .; Wil- liam, a resident of Shoalwater Bay, Wash .; Amanda, the wife of William Matterson, of Portland; David, of Shoalwater Bay, Wash .;

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Rosetta, the wife of Frank Cunningham, of Hammond, Ore .; Mary, the wife of Frank Mudd, of Hammond, Ore .; and Sarah, the wife of Willis Mudd, of Fort Stevens, Ore. By no means a politician, Mr. Kindred is yet a stanch supporter of Republicanism and has served for many years on the school board. His declining but nevertheless vigorous years are being spent in the sunshine of many friendships, and in the brightness radiated from the good will of all who are privileged to know him.

JOHN LARSEN. The liberal and progres- sive sons of Denmark are represented by John Larsen, one of the successful farmers and stock- raisers of the vicinity of Tillamook. Mr. Larsen was born on a farm near Copenhagen, Denmark, July 12, 1835, and, according to the custom of his country, took the first name of his father, who was called Lars Peterson. Lars Peterson was a native of the same part of the country, as was also his wife, Anna Maria (Nelson) Peter- son, both of whom spent their entire lives in the little country across the sea. The father. was the foreman in a wool factory, and lived to the good old age of four score years, his death occurring in 1868. His wife died in 1884, when eighty- seven years old.

Next to the youngest of ten children, John Larsen received a fair education in the public schools of Denmark, and from the age of sixteen to twenty served an apprenticeship to a carpenter. For a year thereafter he worked at his trade in his native land, then crossed into Germany, and for four years was journeyman carpenter in different parts of the empire. Frugal and industrious, he saved money as he went along, so that when the inspiration came to inimigrate to America he had the money with which to carry out his desire. Embarking in a sailing vessel bound for New York, he spent thirty-five days on the water, and after landing made his way to Indianapolis, long recognized as the headquarters for his country- men in this country. Here also he added to his little fortune, and four years of steady application sufficed not only to learn the language of his adopted country, but to acquaint himself with the resources and possibilities of various districts. He became interested in the far west, and as before, he had the means to reach his goal in comfort. In New York he took passage for the Isthmus of Panama, and there re-embarked for San Francisco, soon after taking another steamer for Portland. For a time he worked at his trade in Idaho City, and in August, 1865, came to Ore- gon City, working at his trade until the spring of 1866. Coming to Tillamook county, he walked from Astoria down the beach in search of desir- able farm land, and finally selected his present

farm, which originally consisted of one hundred and sixty acres. Large general farming and stock-raising interests have necessitated addi- tional land, and at present he is owner of two hundred and ten acres. He has about twenty- five head of stock, and raises general produce, at the same time occasionally working at his trade in the neighborhood. His residence, barns, fences and general appointments are those of the progressive and painstaking husbandman, who has confidence in his ability to succeed, and who finds his work congenial, dignified and remuner- ative. Mr. Larsen has not allied himself with any particular political party, but has been called upon to fill various political offices, among others that of road supervisor for four terms. His standing in the community is strengthened by his association with Bay City Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Mr. Larsen has the high morality and faith- fulness to trusts imposed so characteristic of his countrymen, and his career adds yet another ex- ample of the stability and worth of the sons born under the Danish flag.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SWOPE. Con- spicnous among the active and useful citizens of Lincoln county is Benjamin Franklin Swope, the well known deputy district attorney. Well edu- cated, capable and the possessor of keen percep- tive faculties, he early acquired an excellent rep- utation as an educator, and now holds an assured position in the legal world, and a place of in- fluence in the official management of the town and county. A son of T. W. Swope, he was born January 12, 1867, in Nodaway county, Mo. His paternal grandfather, John A. Swope, who was born near the city of Frankfort, Ky., mi- grated with his family to Missouri, where he took up land, as a pioneer settler clearing up a good farm, on which he spent his remaining days.

A Kentuckian by birth and breeding, T. W. Swope removed when a young man to Indiana, locating near Terre Haute, where he was engaged as a tiller of the soil for a few seasons. Going to Missouri in 1861, he opened a grocery store in Graham, Nodaway county, and, having also taken up a tract of land, was there engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits for nearly three decades. Coming to Oregon in 1888, he located in Oregon City, where he is now suc- cessfully employed in fruit raising, at the age of sixty-seven years being hale and vigorous. He married Helen Stevens, who was born in Mis- sonri, and died, in 1891, near Mound City, Mo., while on a journey to her early home. She bore her husband six children, the boys and girls be- ing equally divided as to numbers, Benjamin F. being the second child. After leaving the dis-

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trict schools of Nodaway county, Mo., in which he was brought up, Benjamin F. Swope was graduated from the high school at Maitland, Mo. Coming with his parents to Oregon in 1888, he taught school at Halsey, Linn county, one term, in Clackamas county two years, and in Clarke county, Wash., three years. Having in the mean- time fitted himself for the legal profession, he was engaged in the practice of law in Oregon City from 1895 until 1899, when he opened an office in Toledo, where he has since been an important factor in the practical management of public af- fairs. Appointed deputy district attorney in 1899, soon after opening his law office in Toledo, Mr. Swope has since served most ably and acceptably. For two years he was also city recorder, and for a short time filled the mayor's chair, resigning the position at the end of two. months. One of the leading Republicans in this section of the state, Mr. Swope was a member of the state central committee from 1900 until 1902, and in 1900 was a delegate to both the county Republican conven- tion, and to the state Republican convention, which was held in Portland. Fraternally he be- longs to Newport Lodge, No. 8, A. F. & A. M., of Newport; to the Woodmen of the World, and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

In Oregon City, Ore., February 1, 1894, Mr. Swope married Grace Holmes, who was born in Iowa, and came to Oregon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oren Holmes, when a child of three years. Mr. and Mrs. Swope have two children, namely : Cecil A. and Bessie H. Their family residence is in Newport, but Mr. Swope's office and business headquarters are still at Toledo.

JUDGE GEORGE T. BALDWIN. When Judge George T. Baldwin, then a youth of nine- tcen, came to Klamath Falls in 1875 and started a modest little hardware enterprise, he found no competitors to stimulate exertion, or rival claim- ants to financial supremacy. The entire field was his because he had the far sightedness to select it before anyone else did, and because he had the brain power to draw practical deduc- tions from situation, climate and general re- sources. Long ago the unpretentiousness dis- appeared from the embryo hardware business, and through various stages its ambitious and in- creasingly modern successor has gained the top round of the ladder, and is not surpassed in ap- pearance, equipment or extended patronage in any interior town in the northwest. The success- ful and prominent owner, uninfluenced by the coming and going of less persistent merchants, is as easily the leader in his line as heretofore, and occupies the same relative position in the com- munity that he did in its log-house, stage-coach

days. Mr. Baldwin operated independently un- til taking J. T. Forbes as his partner in 1881. From 1889 until the fall of 1890 he again con- ducted the business alone. Evan Rogers Reames was admitted as a partner in October, 1890, but since October, 1896, Mr. Baldwin has been sole manager and owner of the hardware, vehicle and implement business. In this, his twenty-eighth year as a merchant, his zeal is undiminished, and his experience is as practical and valuable as that of any other similarly employed in the state. Mr. Baldwin is also vice president of the First National Bank recently organized at Klamath Falls.

Born in St. Louis, Mo., January 21, 1856, Mr. Baldwin was the only child born to Robert Thompson and Isabella (Evans) Baldwin, na- tives of England and Ireland respectively, and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent. Robert T. Baldwin was born July 20, 1795, and came to America in 1830 equipped with the harness- maker's trade. Locating in Philadelphia, he lived there until 1838, and then removed to St. Louis, where he followed his trade until 1871. In the spring of that year he brought his family to Oregon, locating in Ashland until 1874, and after that plying his trade in Klamath Falls un- til his death, June 21, 1889. His wife was born in 1829, and came to America with her first hus- band, Mr. Hammond, her death occurring in Klamath Falls in 1898.

In St. Louis, Mo., Judge Baldwin attended the public schools, and after joining his parents in Aslıland, Ore., in 1872, took a course at the Ash- land Academy. The following year he went to work as a clerk for B. T. Reeser, of Ashland, and during the three years thus employed gained the preliminary knowledge of business upon which the structure of his subsequent success has been erected. Since undertaking his present business in Klamath Falls his ineffective energy has penctrated many grooves of public improve- ment, and his name is invariably associated with the modern, progressive and cheerful in munici- pal life. He is one of the promoters, and the present secretary and treasurer, of the Klamath Falls Light & Water Company, and he has done much to maintain the excellent light and water supply. A Democrat since casting his first pres- idential vote, Judge Baldwin has been prominent as an office holder, and has been several times president of the city council. From 1886 until 1888 he served as county treasurer, and in 1902 was elected judge of Klamath county for a term of four years. His fraternal associations are with the Blue Lodge No. 77, A. F. & A. M., of Klamath Falls; the Knights Templar of Ash- land; Oregon Consistory No. 1, A. & A. S. R. and the Shrine of Portland; and Linkville Lodge No. 110, A. O. U. W., of which latter order he

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is a charter member, and has passed all of the chairs.

In Josephine county, this state, August 19, 1875, Judge Baldwin married Ursula Josephine Nail, who was born in Jackson county, Ore., Au- gust 2, 1855, and of which union there have been born four children, the order of their birth being as follows : Maud E., a photographer of Kla- math Falls: Charles R., an electrician of this town; Will W., a clerk in the store of his father in the Falls; and Floyd L .. , living at home. Mrs. Baldwin is a daughter of James R. Nail, who was born in Cumberland county, East Tennes- see, December 28, 1817, and who now lives at Glendale, Douglas county, Ore. Mr. Nail mar- ried Elizabeth Wilson, also of Cumberland county, Tenn., and born January 14, 1818. Ten children were born to this couple, seven daugh- ters and three sons, nine of whom attained ma- turity, Mrs. Baldwin being the seventh in the family. As early as 1839 Mr. and Mrs. Nail removed from Tennessee to near Little Mary's, Mo., where the former engaged in farming until 1853, and then sold his land and crossed the plains with ox teams. He was five months on the way, and the first winter was spent in Wil- lamette. In the spring of 1854 the family moved to Sams Valley, Jackson county, and the following year moved to Jackson Creek, owing to the depredations of the Indians, and the con- stant danger to life on the ranches. On the creek Mr. Nail mined with fair success, and in 1859 located in Williamsburg, Josephine county, where he took up a claim and combined farming and mining. A short time ago he moved to Glendale, where he has since lived retired.

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Portrait and biographical record of western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present.., Part 156

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub Publication date: 1904 Publisher: Chicago, Chapman publishing company Number of Pages: 1064

Author: Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: Chicago, Chapman publishing company
Number of Pages: 1064