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his message to the house of representatives in De- cember, recommended the consideration of military

being the second son of a family of 12 children. In 1832 he removed to Illi- nois, and thence to Iowa in 1837, where in March 1841 he married Mary Ban- ning and four years later reached Oregon. He settled in the spring of 184b on the Santiam River, in Linn County, where he continued to reside for the 20 years preceding his demise on the 7th of March, 1866. Id., March 31 1855.

Elisha Griffith, the son of William N. and Sahra Conner Griffith, was born in Fayette Co., Penn., March 13, 1803. He married Elizabeth Fmdley, in Clark Co., Indiana, in 1824. They lived some years in Indiana and Illinois before removing to Oregon; and after arriving in the Willamette Valley, lived in Linn Co Mr Griffith died at Brownsville, October 12, 1871. Id., Nov. lb, 1871, and Aug. 13, 1874. Mrs Elizabeth Griffith, his wife, born m Westmore- land Co., Penn., March 11, 1805, died at her home, June b, 1874.

Isaac Hinshaw was born in Highland Co., Ohio, December lo, 1813. He, like others, moved from Ohio to Indiana, and from Indiana to Mo., ever drifting westward until he arrived on the shores of the Pacific. His first wife was Mary Cox, whom he married in 1838, and who died in 1843. He married Miss Melissa Buell, Jan. 1, 1851. Becoming insane from con- tinued ill health, he committed suicide by drowning, June 27, 1873. Id.,

July 17, 1873. . .

John Lloyd came from Clay County, Missouri, and settled in Benton County, near the present town of Monroe. His son W. W. Lloyd, who was but four years old when he started for Oregon, and who grew up to be an es- teemed citizen, died at the age of 33, in Benton County. Id., Marcn 19, 1872.

John We.dey Baker was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, November 12, 1831. He came with his father's family to Oregon; and m 1848 settled on French Prairie, where he married Mary Jane Brown m March 1866. He removed to Pacific County, Washington, in 1872, and died on the 26th ot March 1874. Id., April 16, 1874. .'

Harris Speel, a native of Philadelphia, went from Oregon to California in 1846, and served in Fremont's battalion. He was killed by a fall at feanta Cruz in June 1858, aged 52 years. 8. F. Bulletin, June 10, 1858.

Mrs Tabitha Ridgeway, a native of Kentucky, accompanied her husband to Oregon in 1845. She died at Sheridan, in Yamhill County, Nov. 4, 1877—6 years after the death of Mr Ridgeway— aged 55 years. Portland Advocate,

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George Hannon was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1820. At the age of 23 he removed to New York, and thence to Missouri, in which state he married Liza Jane Eavens, Feb. 2, 1844, and the following year joined the caravan to Oregon. He went first to Oregon City, where he remained some years, finally settling in the Umpqua Valley, where he died Feb. 23, 1877, leaving his wife and 7 children at Garden Bottom in Douglas County. Rosehury 1 Lam- dealer, March 17, 1877. „„ ,

David Ingalls, a native of Maine, was born Oct. 31, 1808. In 18obhe removed to Columbus, Ohio, in which state he was married in 1839, moving to Iowa in 1840, and to Oregon five years later. In the spring ot 184b he settled at Astoria. His daughter, Mary Columbia, was the first child ot white parentage born at that place. Ingalls was much esteemed and beloved by the people of Astoria, among whom he lived until the 31st of Aug., 1880, when he quietly passed away, according to an impression entertained by him for five years that he should die at that time. Daily Astoria,,, Sept. 12, 1880. John T. Jeffries, born in Missouri, in 1830, emigrated to Oregon m 184o, and settled in Yamhill County. When eastern Oregon began to attract attention he removed to the Dalles, where he practised law, but finding cattle buying and selling more profitable, he engaged successfully in that business. He died Feb. 24, 1867, at the Dalles, leaving two children, a son and a daughter. Dalles Mountaineer, March 2, 1867. Hist. Or.. Vol. I. 34