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ing Their children axe many of them living the grass valleys of the Klamath basin which they were the first, of the American frontiersmen to
Boone, married George L. Curry, afterward governor of Oregon Territory.
^SS^ at Salem, and put up the first ^^^ there He served in the Cayuse war under Colonel Waters. In 1850 he re u rTe'd to Souri, to bring'to Oregon his father and ^er^d injhe ^ lowing year was married, and removed to a farm in ^® V°™7r«3v in present town of Junction City. In 1875 he removed to ^SSSiS^ta Washington, where he erected a flouring .mill and made ^^^^J; at the same time laying off the town of Palouse City on his land at the iaU, of Palouse River. Mr Breeding was a genial man, his headasAdir te w snow, with < keen, kindly blue eyes and rugged features on which the glow ot health was stamped. NichoVs Indian Affairs, MS., 17, 18. r\^^*r> IS
Georee William Burnett was born in Nashville, Tennessee, October 18, 18U At 6 years of age he removed with his parents to Missouri, and Lw-n«- riedin that state to Miss Sidney A. Younger in 1831. He settled in the autumn of 1847 on a land claim in Yamhill County ^«^^^^ death in December 1877. He was a brother of Peter H. Burnett, a religious S^SS&miland useful citizen. *™%E*^& state legislature. Or. Pioneer Assoc, Trans., 1*77, P- ^' f^q'tit removell " -Ezekiel Kennedy was born in Kentucky m December 1789 but > removed to Frankfort at an early age. He built the state-house m that city in 181 J ffi fwt f™ Fanny iLSton of Shelbyville, Ky., whom he mamed about this time In 1834 he removed to Missouri, and in 1846 to Oregon m the southed branch of the immigration, being one of to^W«^ the Umpqua Valley. In the spring of 1847 he settled ^ in Y amli ^ *£™J* where for a number of years he remained and occupied ^ of P^^* and honor. He finally settled at Dallas where he died June 11, 18oJ, leaving a widow and 4 children. Dallas Times June 26 18oJ. nhnArm set tle<l
Frederick W. Geer, with his wife Mary Ann, and 2 chil J^ £™£ l on the west bank of the Willamette, opposite the present town o^ButtevUte. The family was increased after arriving m Oregon to 10 ch ^^ £™ others of this name in Oregon, Mr Geer achieved success m his undertakings. Portland Oregonian, May 20, 1876. "Hp removed
Towner Savage was born in the state of New York ml 801 He ^m^ea to Kalamazoo Co*, Mich. , and thence to Oregon, and settled in Marion County. He died at Salem, March 3, 1871. Salem Statesman March l 4 ,1871.
David Colver settled 14 miles east of Salem, where he co ^ e ^^7 until his death, December 31, 1874, at the age of 80 years. Salem Statesman,
^Ja'mefLith, born in Virginia in 1802 settled m Polk County Oregon, in 1846, where he died March 25, 1872. Dalles ^ b ^^^^^ James D. Fay came to Oregon, an orphan, in 1846. He poesessert goo i talents, and studied law under A. A. Skinner and Judge ■ Thaym of <^£* He married a daughter of Jesse Applegate; but his P« ht ^ an fXh e married obnoxious to her family, there was unhappmess. ,» h «^ t ^^Xter Miss Rosa Young of Jacksonville. He had a son by his first and a c ^™ei by his second wife. He committed suicide at Empire City in Coos County,
June 4 1879. Portland Oregonian, June 7, 1879. . , ,. ,
Tames T Crump, whose father opened the first store m Salens and ched about 1864, was born in Missouri and emigrated with his parent* m 1^ He was a young man of promise, but committed suicide m .1 ^™f ^^ few months after his marriage, on account of disa PP° in ^^™ S £™™ g a business situation. He had two brothers, one °^™™™f wm ** ^^ and two sisters, living in Salem. Or. Statesman Feb. ! ^, ^/^ ^ Lee
Wilson Lee settled on the Little Luckiamute m Polk County. Mrs ue*