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754 THE CAYUSE WAR.

hood and from that state in 1S39 to Van Buren Co Iowa, emigrating in 1848 to Oregon and locatin, .. ^enton Co. He was an ardent preacher of his faith from youth to old age. Id., March 20, 18G9.

Caleb Richey died in Pleasant Valley, Nev., Nov. 28, 18,5. Reno State

JOU l^e toliS in Marion County, Oregon, in Sept. 1878. Olympic*

^Tjtu^aV^as born in Ripley Co., Ind., Dec. 25 1838, and emigrated with his parents to Oregon. They remained but one winter m the ^ illamette Valley going to Cal. in 1849, and remaining there, where the elder Lindsay died in 1851 His subsequent history belongs to California, honoma Co. Bist.,

""Daniel Trullinger was born in Ross County, Ohio, February 14, 1801. In 1822 he went to Indiana as an Indian trader. The same year he married Elizabeth Johnson at Whitewater, Indiana. He soon after went into mill- ing and flouring. He helped to erect the first log building in Covington In- diana In 1838 he moved from Indiana to Henry County, Iowa. On April 8 1848 he left Davis County, Iowa, where he was residing at that time, for Oregon, accompanied by his wife and sons, G. J., N. H. and. wife J. C, and D P. ; abo six daughters. The family travelled to near St Joseph, Missouri, when it ioined a team of about 300 emigrants bound for Oregon and Califor- nia Oregon City was reached September 15, 1848. Mr Trullinger immedi- ately took up a donation claim of (540 acres, upon which he resided until his death in 1868. In addition to the various pursuits followed by him, he was also a minister of the gospel, serving as a Christian minuter about 4o years. By well-directed correspondence after coming to Oregon, he aided emigration very much. Mrs Trullinger died in 1833, at the age of 81.

J C Trullinger, son of the above, was born in Fountain County, Indiana, July 29, 1828; arrived in Oregon in 1848. In 1849 he went overland to the mines of California, remaining there until January 1, 18o0, when he returned to Oregon, and in 1850-1, in company wich ^s brother G J. ™™L8«» built a large warehouse at Milwaukee, at a cost of $14,000. In 18o2 he located a donation claim of 320 acres at Fano Creek, 9 miles south of Port- land, and built a saw-mill and flour-mill. In 1863 this property was disposed of, and the milling property at Oswego was purchased, including the town site, laying out the town in 1864. In the erection of the first monument for the survey and platting of the town, the first pig of east-iron run by the Ore- gon Iron Company, being also the first cast west of the Rocky Mountains, was utilized for that purpose. In 1870 he sold the Oswego property, having nreatly improved the mills, built a steamer on Oswego Lake, also two mil., of railway connecting the lake with Tualitan River. On his return m the f dl of 1870 from a trip East, he purchased the Centerville mills immediately re bnilding and improving them. Without disposing of the Centervi le prop- erty he removed to Astoria in 1875, immediately engaging extensively in the lumbering business, building large mills, two miles of standard-gauge rail- road with necessary rolling stock for a logging railway. He is abo engaged in farming and stock-raising extensively, and at one time also in merehaiidis- i 2 In 18 55 was elected mayor of Astoria for a term of 2 years. In 18o6-7 h?put an electric-liVat plant in Astoria. In 1853 Mr Trullinger married Mis^lla indi Boyles; who had crossed the plains in 1352. He has a family . of 6 sons and 2 daughters.

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