m THE IMMIGRATION OF 1845.

affairs, currency, the sale of spirituous liquors, weights and measures, the seat of government, and a new road

Thomas Simpson Kendall, born in Ohio, was educated at Jefferson College and Cannonsburg Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania. His first congrega- tion was in Tennessee, irom which state he was driven on account ot hi3 denunciation of slavery. He was an influential minister of the Presbyterian « iomination in Oregon from 1845 to the time of his death whica occurred Dec. 5, 1871, at the age of 62. His wife was the daughter of James Williams of Linn County. Albany Register, Dec. 10, 1870.

Francis S Holland was born in Liberty, Indiana, Deo. 21, lo->. lie set- tled in Clackamas County in 1845, of which he was clerk for m my years. In 1862 he removed to the Dalles, where he held the office of recoruer for the remainder of his life, his death occurring in San Francisco, * eb. 1 J, 1807. He left two children. Dalles Mountaineer, March 2, 1867.

William Berry emigrated from Farmington, IlLnois. IJ.3 was one ot the men 1 -ft at Fort Deposit in the Cascade Mountains 1 i the winter ot 1845. He vert to the Willamette Valley in the spring of 184G, but eventually settle 1

i the Lewis and Clarke River of Clatsop plains. In March 18/ o he died alone in his boat, in which he was returning from Astoria, at the age or cj years, Laving a family. Astorian, March 27, 1875. _

Mrs Rebecca Tanning, mother of Levy Fanning, died at her residence near Albany, in Feb. 1881. She was believed to have been 10 J years of age on tie 1st of" January previous. She was the mother of 18 cmklren, lo of whom lived to be men and women, and 13 of whom were living at the time of her death. Portland Standard, Feb. 18, 1881. .. ... v . r

Samuel Simmons settled on Howell Prairie. Lis wife died November 6, 1879 aged 79 years. Their children were 5 tons, and one daughter who u the wife of Wesley Shannon of Salem. Salem Statesman, Nov. 14, 18/9.

Thomas Hart settled in Polk County soon after arriving 1:1 Oregon, i or 30 years he resided on his farm, amassing a considerable fortuac. lie wai jj years ol 1 at the time of his death, in February 1874, and until 5 years be. ore had continued to labor upon his farm, doing the work of a man in his prime. He served in the war of 1812, being then 33 years of age. Portland Oreuoman,

1 eb 14 1874

" Elisha Packwood, brother of William and Samuel who arrived the pre- vious year, was born in Patrick County, Virginia, in July 1810, and removed with his father's family to Indiana and Missouri, whence he migrated to Ore- son I e remained two years in the Willamette Valley, alter which he went to Pueefc Sound with his brother William, who determined to settle tnere, but not liking the country, returned to the Willamette, and in March lo48, went to Caliiornia by sea with his family, arriving j^t before the gold discovery. His first expedition from Yerba Buena was to the Santa Clara \ alley, where a cousin, Parrington Packwood, was living. He then went to the New Alma- e'en quicksilver mine, but soon hearing of the gold found above gutter s ± ort, fitted up a wagon, and with it moved his family to the gold-fael .1. He spent the summer of 1848 working with his 16-year old son Samuel Tait, at Mormon Island after which he went to Coloma and established a trading post, vlie.e he remained until November 1849, when he returned to the States by way of the Isthmus of Panama, by the steamer Unicorn, Captain Paster-a Jfeitub vessel with an American crew-arriving by way of New Q ilea ns a ml the Mississippi River at their former home. In the spring of 185J Mr 1 ack* ooJ returned across the plains to California, with a large tram, arriving m the San Jo. e Valley in October. He brought out several hundred cattle cnietly cows, and went into the business of supplying fresh milch cows to milkmen, taking from them their old stock. In 1852 he brought out by an agont another herd of cattle, and continued in this business of uealmg m neat Btock until the great flood of 1861-2, having acquired property to the amount of about 440,000j but the disasters of that i_^or»ble year deprived hin. or