The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 96

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

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of the City Water Works Company. He owns a comfortable home in the city and much valuable business property and has also an interest in the old homestead of one hundred and ten acres.

In 1887 Mr. Bowman was united in mar- riage to Miss Anna Jordan, of English par- entage, who was born in August, 1867. They became the parents of three children: Mrs. Laura M. Smith, whose birth occurred in 1888, and who makes her home in Curry county; David E., who was born in 1890, and who resides in Marshfield; and Nancy E., who was born in 1891, and who became the wife of Herbert Looney, of Marion county. Mr. Bowman's first wife died in 1892 and in 1894 he was again married. His second union was with Miss Eleanor E. Anderson, who was born in Andersonville, California, February 8, 1874, a daughter of Ira D. and Nancy Sarah Anderson, the former of Fort Madison, Ohio, and the latter of Illinois. They came west and settled at Anderson- ville, California, later coming to Linn coun- ty, Oregon, where both passed away, the mother in 1911, and the father many years previously. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman have five children: Ivan M., who was born January 29, 1900; Preston D., whose birth occurred June 23, 1905; Corinne A., whose natal day was January 21, 1908, and who passed away on the 28th of the same month; Helen R., who was born in December, 1908; and Nolan S., whose birth occurred February 18, 1911. Mr. Bowman gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but never seeks public office, although he is now serving as deputy sheriff of the north end of Curry county. He was postmaster of Brockway, Douglas county, for some time and did able and conscientious work in this capacity. He belongs to the Presbyterian church and is a member of the Woodmen of the World and the Independent Order of Red Men. He has made many friends in Oregon, all of whom respect him as a man of fine business ability and honorable standards, and his record is a credit to his community.

K. V. KRUSE is the senior partner of the Kruse and Banks Shipbuilding Company, ex- tensive shipbuilders of North Bend, Coos county, Oregon. Mr. Kruse was born in Den- mark in July, 1853. He received his early education in his native country and emi- grated to America, in 1874. In early life he was a sailor and after reaching the new world continued in that vocation for eight years, making San Francisco his headquar- ters. In 1900 he came to Coos bay and at North Bend entering into partnership with Robert Banks started a ship yard. The part- ners have since continued in the shipbuild- ing business. They are the builders of large ocean going vessels and all other kinds of water craft used on both inland waters and on the high seas. They have at the present time in their yards two vessels under con- struction, one two hundred and five feet and the other two hundred feet in length, both of which are wooden.

Mr. Kruse was united in marriage in 1881, to Miss Mary Rasmussen, a native of Den- mark, from which country she emigrated to America in 1874. To Mr. and Mrs. Kruse seven children have been born: Lena, who was born in 1883 and resides at home; Thea, born in 1886, who is at home; Bertha, who was born in 1888 and is the wife of Dr. Ca- they, a resident of Portland, Oregon; Laura, who was born in 1892 and resides at home; Fred, born in 1894, at home; and Henry and Peter, deceased. Mr. Kruse belongs to the republican party and has fraternal re- lations with the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He and his family are members of the Lutheran church of North Bend. Kruse and Banks are among the largest shipbuild- ers of the Pacific coast and they have gained a good reputation in the business world by virtue of the excellency of the workmanship as well as the material used in the construc- tion of their boats.

JASON MACHADO, who has recently re- tired from merchandising but still retains important real-estate interests in Myrtle Point and elsewhere in the county, was born at St. Michaels, Portugal, in 1846, his par- ents being Frank and Helena (Dias) Mach- ado, the former a native of Brazil and the latter of Portugal. The maternal grand- father was a distinguished lawyer and a rec- ognized leader among men.

Jason Machado is one of a family of twen- ty-one children who were born to his par- ents but all are now deceased with the ex- ception of two, his brother being Alfred, a farmer, sailor and fisherman who was also a sea captain and is living near Prosper, Oregon.

Jason Machado started out to earn his own living in 1861, when fourteen years of age. His father was a merchant and prom- inent in the community in which he lived. The son had opportunity for attending school for only five months. He left home to avoid enforced military service and, shipping on an American vessel, arrived in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, in 1861. He worked in a res- taurant there for six months for a dollar per week and board and on the expiration of that period went to Portland, Maine, where his brother lived. He afterward fol- lowed the sea for five years, serving as cook on a ship, and also as steward on sailing vessels. He likewise engaged in mackerel fishing off Cape Breton for one season and in 1866 took passage on the Concordia for New Orleans. His first position there was driving a delivery wagon but in 1867 he was stricken with yellow fever and when he had recovered he became a butcher and engaged in business with his brother Wil- liam. Later he was alone in business and added to the scope of his activities by put- ting in a line of groceries. He continued in merchandising there for a number of years until 1878. when he left the Crescent City for San Francisco. After remaining there for a brief period, he made his way northward to Oregon, settling in Prosper,

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where he conducted a meat market and grocery store. A little later he removed to Coquille and opened a hotel, which he condneted for a year. He then came to Myrtle Point where he opened a butcher shop and later added a stock of groceries. As lis trade grew in that connection he dis- continued the meat market and afterward opened a general mercantile store which he has since conducted, meeting with success. He came to the west practically empty- handed and industry and enterprise have been the features which made for his pros- perity. In May, 1912, he sold his stock of merchandise but he retains his real-estate holdings, consisting of one hundred feet frontage on a business street, also farm prop- erty on the river, timber land and town property. He has made extensive invest- ments in real estate in California, and all his property interests represent the fit utili- zation of time, talents and opportunities.

Jason Machado has been married twice. He first wedded Miss Bessie Deary, a na- tive of New Orleans, as were her parents, who were of Scotch and Pennsylvania Dutch descent. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Machado was celebrated in New Orleans in 1877 and to them were born four children: Glenn, who was educated in St. Mary's Col- lege in Portland, and is now a resident of San Francisco; Bessie, of Myrtle Point; and Jason W. and Lawrence, both in school. The wife and mother died May 12, 1906. More than four years later in San Francisco on the 1st of October, 1910, Mr. Machado was married to Mrs. Mary Morris, the widow of George Morris, of Marshfield, Oregon.

In his religious faith Mr. Machado is a Catholic. He gives his political allegiance to the democratic party but has had neither time nor inclination for office, preferring to give his undivided attention to business, and his activities and enterprise as a merchant and his wise investments in real estate have placed him among the substantial residents of Coos county.

SHADRACH HUDSON. The pioneers in the settlement of the state of Oregon werc sturdy, upright and industrious men, who gave their energies and abilities to the forma- tion of a new country out of undeveloped wilderness. Their virtues and characteris- tics find a worthy representative in Shad- rach Hudson, who crossed the plains with ox teams in 1847 and who since that time has been identified with the evolution and progress of the American northwest. He en- countered hardships and perils, has farmed and raised stock, and has finally retired after an eventful and successful career, which has influenced and hastened the growth and civi- lization of this section. He is living in the Soldiers' Home at Roseburg as an honored veteran of the Rogue River Indian war.

Shadrach Hudson was born in Cass county, Michigan, on November 10, 1830, and is a son of John and Rhodia (Denman) Hudson. natives of New Jersey. Representatives of the family on both sides have been in Amer- ica since pre-Revolutionary times. The pa-

ternal grandfather of our subject was a native of New Jersey and the ancestors in the ma- ternal line also came from that section of America. The family was founded in Ohio by the great-grandfather and grandfather of our subject on the maternal side, who came to that state in the early period of its set- tlement. Mr. Hudson's parents were mar- ried in that state in 1820 and later removed to Michigan, returning to Ohio in 1834. They were the parents of five children, of whom Shadrach, the eldest son, is the subject of this review. Another, Clark, who has passed away, was married and had three children, of whom one is surviving. The youngest son Joseph, is also deceased, and his widow resides in Coquille city, Coos county. They had seven children, Mamie, Josephine, Eliza- beth, Maude, John, Joseph and Daniel.

Shadrach Hudson was educated in the pub- lic schools of Ohio and in 1847 when he was seventeen years of age started with his par- ents and five brothers across the plains with ox teams. The long trip was made under the most primitive conditions and the party en- countered many hardships and perils, the two youngest brothers and the mother dying upon the journey. The remainder of the family arrived in Oregon the last of October, 1847, and settled in the Willamette valley. near what is now Eugene. They had en- countered disease and contagion upon their journey but had escaped trouble with the Indians. They were members of the second train to reach Oregon via Shasta, Butte and the Rogue river. When they started from Independence a Mr. McGoon was made cap- tain of the caravan which consisted of one hundred wagons and many cattle and horses. After leaving Fort Hall the train was divided into two companies, one taking the northern route via the Columbia river. This portion of the caravan which included the Hudsons wintered in the Willamette valley and then went to California in 1849, at the time of the gold discoveries in that state, reaching San Francisco and journeying from that city to the mines on the American river. The father of our subject and his three sous re- mained in that section until April. 1850, when they traveled by vessel up to the Co- lumbia river to the Clatsop plains where they were among the few white settlers at that time. Here John Hudson took up a donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres and operated and improved it as well as he could under the primitive conditions for one year. In October, 1850, Shadrachı Hudson and one of his brothers drove their cattle to the Umpqua valley where they were later joined by their father in the operation of a donation claim of three hun- dred and twenty acres. Later Shadrach Hudson took up another claim of similar size and upon the combined holdings the family carried on stock-raising, selling their cattle at excellent prices for beef in the gold fields. The father remained upon this property until his death which occurred in 1872 after which the claims were sold and the three brothers located near Wilber where they carried on an extensive sheep-raising enterprise for five

SHADRACH HUDSON

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years, disposing of their holdings at the end of that time and going to Coos county. In 1877 Shadrach Hudson went into the mining district of Curry county and followed min- ing in that section until he had the misfor- tune to lose liis arm, as a result of tuber- culosis of the bone. He then retired from active work and gave his mining interests to his niece.

He has been identified with much of the upbuilding and development of the section in which he resides and has borne his part in the Indian wars. He enlisted as a pri- vate in 1855, in Company I, Second Regiment Oregon Mounted Volunteers under the com- mand of Captain W. W. Chapman, and served during the entire period of the Rogue River Indian war from 1855 to 1856. He is now in the eighty-second year of his age and is living retired in the Soldiers' Home at Rose- burg. He can look back upon a long and constructively active life spent in a newly opened country and identified with an im- portant period of its development. He has proven himself worthy of a high place among the band of pioneers who as by magic wand transformed wild and primitive conditions into civilization and a great and prosperous commonwealth.

E. H. CHEEVER is a member of the firm of Cheever & Bowman, general hardware merchants, of Langlois, and has built up an excellent patronage along this line by stead- ily adhering to upright business methods and honorable standards of activity. He was born in Vernon, Oneida county, New York, in 1858, a son of S. W. and Caroline E. Cheever, likewise natives of the Empire state. His mother died in that state and in 1872 his father moved to Iowa, settling in Butler county. There he purchased land and cultivated and developed his farm until his deatlı, which occurred in the sixty- seventh year of his age. He was twice mar- ried. By his first union he had three chil- dren: Frank M., of Iowa; George H. of Waterloo. Iowa; and the subject of this re- view. He and his second wife were the par- ents of five sons, all of whom are still liv- ing.

E. H. Cheever received his education in the public schools of Iowa and remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age. He then went to Charles City, Iowa, and worked for two years upon a farm before moving to Minnesota, where he worked at carpentering for a year and a half. At the end of that time he returned to Iowa and spent one year before coming to Oregon. For two years he worked at his trade in Portland and then came to Curry county. where he engaged in carpentering and build- ing, following both lines of occupation for some time. In the meanwhile, however, he had proved up a title to a ranch four miles from Langlois and eventually moved upon his property, which he developed and im- proved for seven years: He still owns his farm of two hundred and sixty-two acres but leaves the active work of the fields to others. When he abandoned agriculture hé

moved into the village, where he established himself in the general merchandise business and after a short time sold his interests and became associated with J. A. Bowman in the conduct of a hardware and implement store, with which he has been connected since that time. He has made a comfortable fortune which he has invested judiciously in local enterprises, owning a fine home set in the midst of two acres of land in Langlois, and also a tract of twenty-two acres adjoin- ing the town site.

On April 1st, 1889, Mr. Cheever was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Russell, a native of Shelbyville, Tennessee, and a daughter of James P. Russell, an early set- tler of Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. Cheever has been born one daughter, Ethel, whose birth occurred March 29, 1891, and who is now the wife of Clyde Corrick, connected with the city railroad in Portland. Mrs. Corrick is a graduate of the Albany Con- servatory of Music and is an excellent musi- cian.

Mr. Cheever gives his allegiance to the republican party but never seeks public of- fice. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World and belongs to the Presbyterian church. He is actively and intelligently in- terested in the welfare of the section which has been his home for many years. He is regarded as one of the most representative citizens of Langlois and his industry, in- telligent activity and high personal stand- ards have brought him prosperity in busi- ness and won many friends.

JOHN R. MILLER is conducting the larg- est general merchandise store in Port Or- ford and has been the proprietor of this es- tablishment since 1902. He has gained pros- perity in a short time by hard work and persistent attention to business and is num- bered among the valued and representative business men of his section. A native son of Oregon, Mr. Miller was born at Waldo Hills, Marion county, April 30, 1864, a son of W. C. and Permelia A. Miller. His father was born in Ohio and crossed the plains with ox teams to Oregon in 1847, among the early settlers in the state. The mother was a native of Missouri and also came overland with ox teams in 1850. She began the jour- ney in company with her parents but her father and two sisters died upon the way. The parents of our subject were married in Marion county and there the father took up a donation claim, upon which he lived until 1869, when he moved to Curry county and settled on the Rogue river, where Gold Beach now stands. Here he also took up land and carried on extensive stock-raising, breeding high-grade sheep and cattle and owning at one time three thousand head of stock. He lived upon this property until his death, which occurred on April 8, 1892. His wife survived him until 1897. In their family were six children, four of whom are living: Alfred, who is operating his father's homestead on the Rogue river; John R., of this review; Eva M., of Roseburg: and Elva A., the wife of R. H. C. Wood, of Roseburg.

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Jolın R. Miller received his early education in the public schools of Curry county and supplemented this by a course in a business college in Benton county. When he was nineteen years of age he began to earn liis own livelihood, working upon the neighbor- ing farms until 1892, when he took charge of his father's ranch and continued to man- age it for five years. At the end of that time he bought a stock of general merchan- dise and went into business at Port Orford, locating in this city in 1898. Two years later he disposed of his business and went to Dawson, Alaska, where he furnished sup- plies to the miners. In 1904 he returned to Port Orford and bought a fine store which he stocked with complete and up-to-date lines of goods and he now operates one of the largest general merchandise establishments in the city. His stock is neatly and taste- fully arranged and a constantly increasing patronage is evidence of his success and is the result of his long experience and his business ability. He has built up in Port Orford a modern, growing and intelligently operated enterprise and has achieved his pros- perity by hard work and straightforward metliods.

John R. Miller has been twice married. In 1893 he wedded Miss Addie L. Burrow, a native of Tennessee, and they had one daugh- ter, Anita, who died when she was three years of age. Mr. Miller's first wife passed away in 1898 and in 1902 he was united in marriage to Miss Belle I. Nordberg, a na- tive of Port Orford and a daughter of Wil- liam and Lucinda Nordberg. The father came to Oregon in the early '50s and the mother was a native of this state. In their family were three children: Franz and Mrs. Wright, both of whom reside in Port Or- ford; and Belle I., the wife of our subject.

Mr. Miller gives his allegiance to the re- publican party but has never sought public office. He is well known in the affairs of the Woodmen of the World, holding mem- bership in the camp at Port Orford. He is one of the leading business men of the city, active in promoting his own and general prosperity and at the same time mindful of his obligations as a citizen. The enterprise which he established he has made successful by seizing any opportunity for advancement and by adhering faithfully to high standards of commercial honor.

ALFRED OLSON is living retired in Port Orford and resting after a useful and event- ful life spent in different occupations and in various countries. His residence in Curry county dates from 1877 and for eight years he was active in the operation of a fine ranch of two hundred and thirty acres in this section. He has however, definitely aban- doned agricultural pursuits and is enjoying the rest which he earned by diligence and in- dustry. He was born in Norway, in 1833. and was educated in the public schools of that country. In 1856 he came to America and settled first in New York where he lived for a short time. He was a sailor and had followed the seas for two years while a res-

ident of Norway and after he came to Amer- ica sailed out of New York to various Euro- pean ports for some time. He later went to London and after a short period of residence in that city pushed on to New Zealand where lie mined for gold for three years. He next journeyed. to Chile, South America, with the intention of working in the gold mines of that country but was prevented by Indian interference and he returned to America, set- tling in San Francisco where for some time lie worked in a lumberyard. He was en- gaged in lumbering in the Redwood sec- tion of Mendocino county, California, for several years and then came to Port Orford in 1877. Here he continued in the lumber business working as foreman in a logging camp until 1900, when he purchased a ranch of two hundred and thirty acres which he operated and · developed until 1908 when he moved to Port Orford and retired. He has since sold his ranch and has invested ex- tensively in property in Port Orford where he owns a beautiful and comfortable home.

Mr. Olson gives his allegiance to the re- publican party but is not an office seeker. An eventful life has broadened his outlook and increased his interests without detract- ing in any way from his loyalty to his adopted country. He is giving his entire time to the supervision and management of his property in Port Orford and has many friends in this section.

ERIK ARNESON is cultivating one hun- dred and forty-two acres comprising one of the most highly developed and improved ranches in Coos county. He is a native of Norway, in which country his parents Arne and Ingburg (Erickson) Arneson were also born, his natal day being August 15, 1851. He is the eldest of nine children born to his parents. The others are: Annie, who passed away leaving one son; Carrie, the wife of Park Adams of Vancouver, Washington; Andrew, also deceased; Lena, the widow of Captain Antone Nelson of Seattle. Washing- ton, by whom she has two childen; Elisa. who has passed away; Julia, the widow of Thomas Clark of Sacramento, California, and the mother of two children; Ida, who has been stenographer for Senator Bourn of Portland, Oregon, for twenty years; and Louis, who is receiver for the United States Land Office of The Dalles, Oregon, and the father of two children.

Mr. Arneson was reared on the homestead farm and received his education in the pub- lic schools. He came to America in 1866 with his parents, and lived at home until he was twenty-seven. He was then mar- ried and took up a homestead claim of three hundred and twenty acres in Nebraska, which he began to improve and cultivate. In

1882 he removed to Colorado Springs, where for five months he engaged in teaming, haul- ing railroad ties from one settlement to another, and in Angust of that year con- tinued his journey to San Francisco by rail, thence to Portland by boat, arriving in the latter city, September 2. 1882. For a short time he worked in a blacksmith shop and

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later was engaged in construction work on the Southern Pacific railway, but after five months removed to Fairview and opened a blacksmith shop, building up a prosperous business. He also owned his own home which was one of the commodious and com- fortable buildings in Fairview. After eight years he sold his shop and rented a ranch, where he carried on general farming, spe- cializing in dairy work. He milked one hun- dred and fifty cows and had one of the most flourishing and prosperous enterprises of its kind in the vicinity of Fairview. Mr. Arne- son operated his dairy in conjunction with his ranch for three and one half years and at the end of that time moved to Clark county, Washington, where he purchased land and engaged in general agriculture and dairying for two years. When he returned to Fairview he bought his brother's land and directed his energies to looking after the comfort of his mother and father who had then reached an advanced age. After one year he purchased the farm near Myrtle Point, where he now lives. Mr. Arneson lived continuously for eighteen years in Coos county, with the exception of four years which he spent in blacksmithing and gold mining in Republic, Washington. His fam- ily, however, remained upon the Oregon ranch during this period. He has cleared and im- proved his acres and his is now one of the model farms near Myrtle Point. . He has al- ways been progressive and broad minded. He bought the first traction engine ever operated in Coos county and all his activ- ities are carried on along modernly scientific principles. He is engaged in general farm- ing and also operated for some years a saw- mill upon his holdings. The lumber which he cut he sold in the markets of the state and the income thus derived was a valuable addition to his resources. He has, however, disposed of his mill and now devotes his time to general agriculture. He has sold parts of his ranch at different times and his present holdings comprise one hundred and twenty three acres of the finest land in Coos county and ninteen acres of river bottom land which he has also improved and de- veloped.

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The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 96

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