The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 4

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833-
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1072

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Since leaving the bench Judge Bronaugh has given his attention especially to the law of real property and is regarded as author- ity upon this subject in Portland. Few men are better informed not only concerning

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the law of property but also concerning realty valnes and the possibilities for real- estate development here. He is now vice pres- ident and general council of the Title & Trust Company of Portland and for many years has been local counsel for the states of Ore- gon and Washington for the Alliance . Trust Company, Ltd., of Dundee, Scotland, In- vestors Mortgage & Security Company, Ltd., and for the Western and Hawaiian Invest- ment Company, both of Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a director of the Portland Trust Company of Oregon until he became circuit judge.

On the 14th of June, 1888, Mr. Bronaugh was married in San Jose, California, to Miss Grace L. Huggins, a daughter of Asa G. Hug- gins, of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Bronaugh were classmates in college. Their marriage has been blessed with four children: Eliza- beth, twenty-three years of age, who is mar- ried to Joseph E. Hall, Jr., of Hood River; Lewis J., twenty-one years of age; Earl C., eighteen; and Polly, fourteen years of age. The family home is at Homewood, their resi- dence near Oak Grove on the Willamette river. Mr. Bronaugh is connected with a number of the leading associations of Portland. He is a member of the State Bar Association and of the Multnomah County Bar Association. He was elected a member of the city council from the seventh ward in 1900 and during his two years service was chairman of the committee on streets, health and police and a member of the judiciary committee. In 1901 he received legislative appointment as a member of the charter board and served as chairman of the committee on executive department and a member of the committee on the legislative department. In 1911 he was chosen chairman of the commission ap- pointed to draft a charter providing a com- mission for government for the city of Port- land. His knowledge of the law, combined with practical ideas and progressive and patriotic public spirit, have well qualified him for the important work that he has done in Portland's behalf. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, in which he is a ruling elder, and in various departments of the church work is helpfully interested, acting on its board of trustees and serving for a long period as Sunday-school superintendent. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian Association and no good work in the name of charity or re- ligion seeks his aid in vain, if he can find opportunity to render assistance thereto.

His social nature finds expression in his membership in the Arlington and Commer- cial Clubs and he belongs also to the Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Delta Phi. While a uni- versity student he became one of the organ- izers of Chase Chapter of Legal Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, of the University of Oregon. He belongs to the Mazamas, the Mountaineer- ing Society of the northwest of which he has been an enthusiastic member for four- teen years. Fraternally he is connected with the Masons, having attained the Royal Arch degree and also belongs to the Royal Ar- canum. His interests touch the various ac-

tivities which constitute important courses in life and as is seen he is associated with those social, fraternal and church interests which constitute an even balance to profes- sional and business life. His is a well rounded nature and in the development of strong and honorable manhood has com- manded the respect, confidence and honor of his fellowmen.

NIELS SIMMONSEN. Among the prom- inent and respected inhabitants of Portland who are of Danish nativity, is Niels Simmon- sen, a retired farmer and realty operator, who has lived on American soil since 1872. His father was Simon Larsmussen, and both parents died in Denmark. In their family were five children, the subject of this review being the youngest in order of birth.

Niels Simmonsen received a common-school education in his native land and in 1872 he emigrated to America, settling in Port- land. During the first year of his residence in the new world Mr. Simmonsen was em- ployed on a dairy farm and for the next three years he worked as a farm laborer. He then bought thirteen acres of heavy timber land, situated where East Portland now stands and all being within the city limits. This tract is at Fifty-eighth street. Mr. Simmonsen cleared this land and lived on it for several years, farming and gardening, and selling it off in separate subdivisions at about six hundred dollars an acre. In 1886 he again purchased land, this time securing four acres of what was known as Belmont Park, now known as the Westdale addition to Portland. It is located between Sixtieth and Salmore streets. Mr. Simmonsen owns a fine home and has in addition five improved lots now valued at about twenty-five thousand dollars.

In 1875 Mr. Simmonsen was married to Miss Karey Larsmonsen, a native of Den- mark, who came to America in 1873. Her parents both died in the old country. Mr. and Mrs. Simmonsen are the parents of one son, Charles, who was born in 1876. He was married on December 21, 1905, to Cora Ells- worth, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ells- worth, both of whom were born in. Pennsyl- vania. The parents were married in that state and lived there for several years, later moving to Nebraska and from there to South Dakota, where the mother died in 1901. The father subsequently drove across the plains to Oregon and settled at Portland, where he still lives. He was twice married, his sec- ond union being with Mrs. Jennie Burt, widow of Harry Burt. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmonsen are the parents of three children: Walter, born September 8. 1906; Geneva, born December 3, 1907; and Karey, born June 16, 1909.

Politically Mr. Simmonsen of this review is a republican. but has never sought office. Both he and his family are members of the Scandinavian Lutheran church. By his fore- sight in grasping the opportunities at hand and by his industry, economy and thrift, Mr. Simmonsen has come to be one of tlie sub- stantial, well known and respected citizens

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of Portland. Faithful and consistent in his church life, living quietly in the home circle, he is enjoying the rest and comfort to which his earlier labors and activities so fully en- title him.

ARA W. McLAUGHLIN is one of the pro- prietors of the large furniture store of the Flint-McLaughlin Company, the oldest es- tablishment of this character in Eugene. The store has had a continuous existence of about a quarter of a century. Mr. MeLaughlin has been one of the partners for the past four years and has brought to its conduct a spirit of enterprise and progressiveness which is manifest in the growth and development of the business to this period. He was born in Nodaway county, Missouri, in 1873, and is a son of Richard S. and Wilhelmina (Cham- bers) Mclaughlin. The father is a native of Galesburg, Illinois, and was between eighteen and twenty years of age when he went to Missouri, where he was married. He engaged in farming in that state until 1877, when he removed westward to Oregon, establishing his home in Milwaukie, where he is still liv- ing on a ranch. He cleared and improved the ninety acres which he owns and is thereon engaged in general farming. He was born in 1848 and has now passed the sixty-fourth milestone on life's journey.

Ara W. Mclaughlin was a lad of but about three years when brought to the northwest. After acquiring his preliminary education in the public schools he entered the normal department of Portland University, from which he was graduated with the class of 1897, having taught two years prior to the last year of his course. He then served one year as principal of the Mount Pleasant school and put aside all business and personal considerations at the time of the Spanish- American war in order that he might enlist in defense of his country's flag. He joined Company I of the Second Oregon Regiment, was sent to the Philippines, where he re- mained until his command was returned to this country, and was mustered out in August, 1899. He then again resumed the profession of teaching, which he followed for three years as principal of the Milwaukie school, the last two of which he was on the Clackamas county board of examiners. After this he received his initial business training in the furniture line in six years of experience with the Powers Furniture Company. which firm he entered as janitor and from which he retired as auditor. In 1908 he formed his present part- nership with Laurence R. Flint, becoming one of the proprietors of Eugene's oldest furniture establishment. now conducted un- der the firm name of Flint-McLaughlin Com- pany. Although this is the oldest furniture store in the city it is thoroughly modern in its equipment and line of house furnishings handled. They keep on hand a large stock, the output of the best factories of the coun- try, and a liberal patronage is accorded them in recognition of their straightforward busi- ness dealings and their progressive methods.

On November 28, 1907, Mr. Mclaughlin was united in marriage to Miss Josie Hale Bush, Vol. IV-2

of Bay Center, Washington, a daughter of the Hon. A. S. and Mrs. Ellen (Knight) Bush. The father, a veteran of the Civil war, was a pioneer of Pacific county, Wash- ington, and one of the makers of that part of the country in which he lived. He was honored by his fellow citizens with election to the office of county judge and also served satisfactorily in the legislature of that state for three consecutive terms. Mrs. McLaugh- lin was for several years a teacher and for the last two years, prior to her marriage, served as superintendent of schools of Pacific county. On February 9, 1909, Mrs. Mc- Laughlin and infant son, Ara Bush McLaugh- lin, passed away. In the short time here spent in her new home she had made many friends, all of whom loved her for her noble character.

Mr. Mclaughlin is well known in various connections. He has been a member of the Oregon Historical Society since 1897 and himself has been a resident of the state for thirty-five years, witnessing much of its growth and development. He is the president of the Merchants Protective Association of Eugene and is deeply interested in every- thing pertaining to tlie welfare and improve- ment of the city. Fraternally he is con- nected with Spencer Butte Lodge, No. 9, I. O. O. F .; Wimawhala Encampment, No. 6; and Canton Hovey, No. 4, having thus taken the various degrees of Odd Fellowship. He is also helpfully interested in the moral prog- ress of the community, holds membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is a steward, is one of the directors of the Young Men's Christian Association and is chairman of its committee on religious work. In a word, he takes an active interest in everything that pertains to the material, in- tellectual and moral development of Eugene and the state at large. In his business career he has been actuated by a spirit of progress that has led him forward, step by step, until he now occupies an enviable position in the commercial circles of the city.

TOSEPH ADAMS HILL, the present vice principal and actual head of the Hill Mili- tary Academy. was born in Portland, August 19. 1880. He is the eldest son of Dr. Joseph Wood Hill of Westport, Connecticut. Yale '78, former principal and lessee of the Bishop Scott Academy and present principal of the Hill Military Academy. and his wife, Jessie Katharine Adams, of Westport. Connecticut. His one surviving brother, Benjamin Wood Hill, is of the class of 1912, Sheffield Scientific School.

Mr. Hill received his preparatory school education at the Bishop Scott Academy. Upon his graduation in 1899 he entered the biological course at Sheffield Scientific School with intention of preparing for a medical career. During his senior year the sudden death of his mother completely changed his plans and he gave up the study of medicine for a commercial career. After his gradua- tion in 1902 he entered the employ of the American Steel & Wire Company. He be- came a salesman in their Boston office and

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a year later was transferred to their elec- trical and wire rope department at Worces- ter, Massachusetts. In 1904 he accepted a position as salesman with the Lake Erie Nail & Supply Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and later was appointed traveling sales manager of the Clifton Nail & Supply Company of St. Louis, Missouri, and the Grant Nail & Supply Company of Boston, Massachusetts, as well as the Lake Erie Nail & Supply Company.

The Lewis & Clark Exposition in 1905 caused him to resign his position and to re- turn to Portland, where he entered the serv- ice of the United States geological survey, who were then investigating the black sands of the Columbia river under the direction of David I. Day, the noted geologist, and assisted in the operation of the electrical furnace used in smelting the iron ores found in the black sands.

Subsequently he accepted a position with the Tualitin Mill & Lumber Company and then entered into the corporation of the East Side Slab Wood Company. He filled the posi- tion of secretary-treasurer of this corpora- tion for a number of years and then sold out his interest and departed for the Nevada gold fields. Here he visited the camps of Gold- field, Tonopah, Wonder, Fairview, Goldbanks, Dixie and Hike and became actively engaged in mining. Later on he visited the camps of Florence, Dyke, Veryville, New Goldfield, Rebel Creek and Fortuna in the northern part of Nevada, and in 1908 returned to Portland in order to accept the position of vice principal of the Hill Military Academy. He soon assumed the actual management of the institution and his progressive .spirit united with the broader experiences of his father was largely instrumental in making the academy one of the strongest and most thorough preparatory schools in the Pacific northwest, an accomplished fact proven in the well established reputation of the school and in the liberal patronage accorded it. Mr. Hill is an active republican and a mem- ber of the University Club and the Multno- mah Amateur Athletic Club.

GEORGE W. TAMIESIE, M. D. With broad college training and hospital experience to qualify him for the practice of medicine, Dr. George W. Tamiesie entered upon the active work of his profession in Portland in 1902, and has since made continuous progress. He was born in Linn county, Iowa, May 9. 1875, his parents being John Batiste and Phillipine (Goffette) Tamiesie. As the name indicates, he is descended from an old French family. the original spelling of the family name being Tamiesier. A representa- tive of this family has been immortalized in one of the works of Victor Hugo. The grand- father was one of the French colonists, who established the salt works in Onondaga county. New York, and in early life John Batiste Tamiesie, who was born in Syracuse, New York, became connected with the salt industry but afterward turned his attention to general agricultural pursuits. After leav- ing the Empire state when a young man, he

removed westward to lowa and after re- siding in that state for a considerable period of time came to Oregon in 1879. At Oswego lie took up contracting but after seven years purchased a tract or land in Washington county, which he carefully and successfully cultivated to the time of his death, which occurred in 1910. His wife was of French parentage, although her birth occurred across the border in Belgium. By her marriage she became the mother of. ten children, eight of whom are yet living: John Henry, a mechani- cal engineer of Portland; James P., who is mentioned elsewhere in this work; Marie; Victor J., living in Oregon; Augustus E., who is first assistant physician in the insane asylum at Salem; George W., of this review; Katherine, the wife of William Reiling, of Hillsboro; and Joseph, a dentist, practicing in Portland.

Dr. Tamiesie was only four years of age when brought by his parents to Oregon and was a lad of eleven years when the family removed from Oswego to what has since been known as the old homestead farm near Hillsboro. In pursuing his education he at- tended the high school of the latter place and afterward took up the profession of teaching, which he followed in the public schools for five years. He regarded this work however, merely as an initial step to other professional labor for it was his desire to enter upon the study of medicine, and while teaching he began reading with that end in view. Later he entered the medical depart- ment of the University of Oregon and was graduated therefrom April 1, 1902. During his last year there, he was an interne in the county hospital. Since his graduation he lias practiced at his present location, maintain- ing an office at 5191/2 Williams avenue in Portland. Success has attended him from the outset and his practice has gradually grown as his worth and ability have become recog- nized. The elemental strength of his char- acter was shown in the fact that he pro- vided for his own education and his industry and ambition enabled him to pursue his col- lege course and qualify for his chosen life work. He is a lover of his profession, deeply interested in its scientific and humanitarian phases. He has an office splendidly equipped with modern instruments and appliances and he puts forth every effort to make his labors effective in restoring health and checking the ravages of disease. Three of the seven sons of his father's family adopted the profes- sion of medicine and a fourth became a dentist and has an office adjoining that of our subject. The record made by these brothers is commendable, for all hold to high professional ideals.

In 1902 Dr. Tamiesie was married to Miss Theresa Reiling, a daughter of Martin Reil- ing, who came to Oregon in 1876 and is now living at Roy. this state. Dr. and Mrs. Tamiesie have two children, Sylvester Law- rence and Lenore Beatrice. The parents are members of the Roman Catholic church and are well known socially. He is a gentleman of cordial and genial manner, sympathetic. courteous and kindly. and all who know him

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speak of him in terms of admiration and high regard. He is devoted to his family and his profession and stands as a high type of American manhood and chivalry.

ORVIL DODGE born at Gerard, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, January 5, 1839, and now resides at Myrtle Point, Coos county Oregon. His father's name was Nor- man Dodge, who was born at Oneida county, New York, in 1810, and was married to Deborah Press, of Gowanda, that state in 1835.

When the subject of this sketch was two years old .his parents moved to Loraine county, Ohio, where the mother died in 1843. When the boy was eleven years old he was sent to Cattaragus county, New York, where he was placed in school. When he was thirteen years old he was sent to the high school at LaGrange, Indiana, by an uncle. In 1857 he drifted to DeKalb county, Illi- nois, and in the following year he was mar- ried to Alice Walrod at Sycamore, Illinois. In 1860 he with his wife and child, named Lydia Jane, crossed the plains, arriving in California in October of that year. He soon engaged in the sawmill industry on Ant- lope creek, twenty-five miles from the Sac- ramento river. After three months of suc- cessful milling, the Indians crept down in the night time and set fire to the mill, com- pletely destroying the same with a large amount of lumber, leaving him penniless. In September, 1861, he moved to Jackson county, Oregon, and after mining in that vicinity a short time he answered the call of his county and enlisted in the First Ore- gon Cavalry on the 27th of December, in that year at Camp Baker. In March, 1862, Norman Ovando was born to him, thus mak- ing two issues by his first marriage. After serving thirteen months against the hostile Indians he was discharged on account of in- jury received at or near Fort Walla Walla when in pursuit of the Indians. While in the service he acted as hospital steward most of the time. After leaving the army he took up the occupation of photography, and traveled quite extensively, visiting new min- ing camps in eastern and southern Oregon, but finally in 1866, settled in Coos county. Here he was again married, his second union being with Miss Louisa A. Schroeder, in April, 1867. There are six children of that marriage, namely: Henry Orvil Augustus, Dora Belle, Edgar Allen, Alta Estella, Daisy Dell and Norman Orvil.

Mr. Dodge resided at Coos Bay four years, being engaged in the drug and general mer- chandise business, but in 1871 moved to the Coquille valley, forty miles southeast of Coos Bay, and has since lived at or near Myrtle Point, Oregon, except when serving as re- ceiver of public moneys in the general land office, at Washington, D. C., from 1899 to February 1903, when he resigned. He served as United States commissioner at Myrtle Point, Oregon, for a period of twelve years. During his residence in Coos county, he estab- lished and published two newspapers, name- ly : The West Oregonian and the Coquilla Val-

ley Sentinel, the latter being the official paper of Coos county. In 1898 he compiled and pub- lished the history of Coos and Curry counties, which was endorsed by the Pioneer Associa- tion. He is now engaged in mining, being secretary and manager of the Salmon Moun- tain Coarse Gold Mining Company.

Mr. Dodge is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church at Myrtle Point, Oregon.

He was initiated into Washington Centen- nial Lodge, No. 14, A. F. & A. M., March 25, 1901, passed May 9, 1901 raised June 19, 1901, and is a member of LaFayette Chapter, Orient Commandery No. 5, K. T. and Almas Temple, all of Washington, D. C.

JOHN ANDREW BUCHANAN has been engaged in the general practice of law in Roseburg since 1898 and is meeting with a success which is the natural result of his ability, training and efficiency. In associa- tion with Ora H. Porter he has offices in the Perkins building and has built up in fourteen years a gratifying and still increasing clien- tage. He was born in Drakesville, Iowa, October 2, 1863, a son of Amos and Luvina (Jones) Buchanan. He came to Oregon with his parents in 1874 and lived for one year in Monmouth, after which the family re- moved to Moscow, Idaho.

There John A. Buchanan lived upon a ranch and attended the rural schools until 1884, when he returned to Oregon and entered the Oregon State Normal School at Mon- mouth, graduating from that institution in 1887. After this he taught school for ten years, holding the position of principal in the public schools at Amity, North Yamhill, Mc- Minnville and Dallas. While engaged in that line of occupation he studied law under O. H. Irvine, of McMinnville, and was admitted to the bar in 1896. In 1898 he removed to Roseburg and has secured a steadily increas- ing practice since that time. He is a strong and able practitioner, well versed in the many details of his profession and with the ability to make his knowledge effective. His practice has grown continuously and during the fourteen years of his residence in Rose- burg he has been identified with many im- portant legal cases, in all of which he served his clients ably and zealously and with con- stant consideration for their interests.

On January 16, 1901, Mr. Buchanan was united in marriage to Mrs. Madge (Bond) Ragsdale, a daughter of P. J. and Mary (McClain) Bond, who came from Missouri about 1892 and settled in Roseburg, where for some time the father was prominent in the jewelry business. He is now, however, living retired. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan have two children: Maurine, who was born Decem- ber 20, 1903, and Louise, born August 4, 1906.

Mr. Buchanan is one of the most prominent and important figures in local politics and is serving as a member of the lower house of the state assembly. To this office he was elected in 1908 from the sixth district, which comprises Jackson and Douglas counties. He served for two years with efficiency and

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ability, was reelected in 1910 and still con- tinues to serve. He is interested in educa- tional matters and for eight years has been a member of the Roseburg board. Frater- nally he belongs to Grand Lodge, I. O. O. F .; Woodmen of the World and the United Artisans and is prominent in the Masonic order, holding membership in Laurel Lodge, No. 13, A. F. & A. M. For the past nine years he has been an active member of the Oregon National Guards and is first lieuten- and in the Fourth Company, Coast Artillery Corps, at Roseburg. He is president of the Douglas Creditors Association. Mr. Buch- anan is one of the successful lawyers of Rose- burg and has gained substantial success by reason of his energy and ability. The zeal with which he has devoted his energies to his profession, the careful regard which he mani- fests for the interests of his clients and his assiduous attention to the details of his cases have brought him a large practice and made him very successful in its conduct.

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The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 4

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833- Publication date: 1912 Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1072

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833-
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1072