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try schools, though they were still supported by pri-

( iftAi * was an ardent supporter of the administration. In 18b.3, wmie nis of 1861-5, ™* ^^ l ^^Te was in congress, Dr McBride received the ap- eldest son John R. M ^^^ the Sandwich Islands, which position he pomtment of U. b. cominissionei tu t 0rpffon i n Dec. 1875, aged 73,

field for several years He ^f^^riespS sons and daughters, leaving a numerous family of ^^^^SSia, a woman of marked ^JS^^^*^* ^77,'at St Helen. 0*** Transcript, March 3 » 1877 ' removed from Tennessee, where he was born • Sle Md out th ^ town o7 Lebanon, Marion County on his land in 1/98. He laid out tne ™ u property, a wife, and 7 children,

claim. He died Aug. 1877, leaving a arge > proi ^ > Charles and

namely, Joseph Ralston, Tacoin^Wi ^^Ms DC Rowland, Salem, John Ralston, Lebanon; Mrs Moist AiDany,i ? 1877

Or.; and Mrs John Hamilton, (Whs lOt .& attfe ^^'whenb

E"£ oFls^tKI^F^e, 18% O**,*.*-** March 2> 1872. , . -.QJ7 np „ r "N"ewbur£r in Yamhill County,

MiiSrSlSfti S£ ffijjJS^ Hv4 on */— sec-

a son and a daughter. Olympia Tr™^g,ffi^ »^ Q and

noWa^ffiTorn in Onono^aCo K Y^ll^-

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the commissary department ^Jer Genei^^^. w

established the Free Press, Crawford ™^™jS°J e iom ed the exodus as printer; but when the California gold ^f^Xpredous metals, with to the mines, returning soon to Ore^flJ^ °j* e 1 h first gteam .

which he purchased in 1851 a + ^"^ n ^ e ^ Oregon City, Portland, and boat that ran on the Willamette ^River between O egon ug^ ^ ^ Vancouver; and afterward on the upper vv in u _ Champoeg,

1852 he went into mercan f^Xcl^nKepf^e town away/ & where he continued to reside till tne *°°" ° i m a

Crawford was a member of the J^ lepsto He ^

member of the state grange and of ^the Or gon pione r ^ ^^

in Clackamas County in the summer oi ion.

1877, 66-7.