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He was one of the first members of Ashland Lodge, No. In 1S92 he was grand master of the grand lodge of Oregon. He became a member and past patriarch of the Pilot Rock encampment and he was also grand patriarch of the grand encampment of Oregon. For two years he was grand representative from Oregon to the sovereign grand lodge sessions and he was also prominent in the Rebekah organi- zation. He was laid to rest with the hon- ors of the order, having passed away on the. Ith of March, , when almost eighty- six years of age. He had remained almost to the last a splendidl.

He was free from ostentation and dis- play but the sterling traits of his character were always manifest in his relations to the individual and the community at large. Wherever known he was highly esteemed and most of all where he was best known, and at liis death lie left the enviable record of an untarnished name. The fntlier was a native of Ireland and the mother's birth occurred in California.

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Dom- inick O'flara came to California with his parents in via the Isthiuus of Panama. Mis death occurred in Portland in when lie was fifty-two years of age. Before he Nettled in Oregon he was engaged in mining, but after his arrival in this state he worked for the Union Pacific railroad for several years before engaging in agricultural pur- suits.

He owned a gold mine in California which had been left him by his father. Fra- ternally he was a Mason and exemplified in his life the beneficient spirit of the craft. The mother is living in Pendleton. To their union five children were born: Frank, who is the subject of this review; Maggie, who is the wife of A. Frank O'Gara was reared by his grand- mother with whom he made his home until During those years he attended the public schools and acquired the education which prepared him to enter Heald's College in San Francisco.

Desiring to make his perma- nent home in Oregon, however, he returned to this state and accepted employment with Jacob Stubenbordt, who subsequently be- came his father-in-law. After his marriage he became a partner of the company and after Mr. Stubenbordt's death was sole man- ager of the business. A short time afterward he disposed of his business interests and departed for Idaho, where he worked for John P. After again returning to Oregon in , Mr.

O'Gara opened his present store and started in the retail grocery business, carrying a stock valued at fifteen thousand dollars. AH this has been invaluable to him during the past ten years while he has been the proprietor of his present store. His is the success which brings highly remunerative returns, and at present he is the owner of three business houses besides the store which he is occu- pying. He also owns three dwellings in this city. Kelly, you sell too cheap! A rude horseferry was in operation but on stormy days it was carried far out of its course and some days it never crossed at all.

Often the loaded wagon with its occupant stood in the driving rain all day, only to return at night and try again the next day. Kelly built a flatboat for his own use, propelled by oars; but that was interfering with the business of others—at least it was so regarded—and the boat was cut loose from its moorings and left to drift along the flats of the east side. The truant craft was found, brought back and fastened by lock and chain to a tree. The next day both boat and tree were far down the river.

When he returner after a fruitless trip and told the tale the family were indignant, but his happy laugh is still remembered; he seemed to consider it only one of the "light afflictions. A stock company of east side residents was formed for the object of putting on a steam ferry. The Stark Street Ferry Company got out an injunction prohibiting any other company landing within certain limits.

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But the building went on, the steam ferry was finished and made regular trips, landing outside the proscribed hmits. Plympton Kelly was the captain of the new boat and its name was "Independence. When the "Victory" appeared on the river with flying colors she made the short distance from bank to bank in much less time than was possible for the "Independence," restricted as she was to landing far above and below the city limits, the old company having purchased exclusive rights for a mile up and down the river.

The "Independence" was finally withdrawn and put in the cattle-carrying trade, and the "Victory" was one in fact as well as in name. But the end sought had been obtained— an efficient means of crossing the river that could be relied upon with some degree of certainty. In January, , Clinton Kelly was called upon to bear what was probably the heaviest burden of his life; the Kelly home was again left without a mother. The years were telling upon him and he was less able to bear a load of sorrow that threatened to crush him.

He had himself been near death's door, and it was this fact and the consequent watching night and day, which she would yield to no other, that prostrated Mrs. Sorrowfully he rose from a sick bed and with a breaking heart bade the companion of his joys and sorrows a final farewell. He gathered the younger children around him—of whom there were five, the youngest a boy of seven— and together they mourned their irreparable loss.

It was long ere he regained his wonted cheerfulness. Sometimes, on the spur of the moment, he would call her name, only to be reminded that she was far away, beyond the sound of human speech.

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It is said that troubles never come singly; in the fall of that year the loghouse, its cellars and storerooms fairly bursting with provisions, was burned to the ground. A frost-proof apple house and a born soon followed and a few years later a large new barn stuffed with hay, the lower story containing hundreds of bushels of fruits and potatoes, was consumed by the flames. This happened at Christmas time. A heavy snow lay on the ground and the winter's stores were in ashes. One approached him pityingly, expressing regret at his hard lot. He responded with a laugh of almost boyish freedom: What if one of the children had been burned!

The wet condition of the road caused the body to skid for several feet before the oxen could be brought to a halt and thus a tragic termination of the lad's life was averted by a rare chance; or shall we call it Providence? The boy was only slightly hurt, but his coat bearing the muddy wheel marks was hung away in a closet to be worn no more, only to be taken out at times and contemplated with feelings of deep emotion, as if it were something sacred. Clinton Kelly reared a family who have been a credit to his name, several of them becoming valued citizens of this part of the country.

His oldest son, Plympton Kelly, was a prosperous farmer of Kellys Butte, Oregon, but is now deceased. Hampton Kelly, a great Bible student and church worker, died in Wasco county, Oregon, in Archon, for many years an itinerant preacher in Oregon died in Portland in John Crain died in infancy. Sarah Margaret married J. Kern, of Portland, and both are now deceased.

Penumbra Kelly is also living in Portland. He was sheriff of this district for a number of years and also by appointment of President Arthur was United States marshal of this district for several years, while for four terms he represented Multnomah county in the state legislature.

Turner, of Stockton, California. Maria Emily is the widow of Rev.

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John Shaver, of Portland. Martin Judy, of the southern California confemce. Richmond Kelly is a resident of Portland. Raymond, the youngest, died in infancy. The descendants of the Rev. Clinton Kelly to the third and fourth generation live in and about Portland. They constitute, with the descendants of his three brothers mentioned above, his cousins the Fawcetts and other more distant relatives, the "Kelly Clan," which holds its annual reunion at Portland the last Saturday in June.

Kelly's last days on earth we speak reverently. Calling in his neighbors he told them he had not long to stay—that he was going home to God. He assured them his mind was as clear as at any time in life and expressed the great comfort and satisfaction he derived from the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ that he had tried to preach for many years. Then they knelt together in love and commemorated the Last Supper, joining in one of his favorite hymns — "I will sing you a song of that beautiful land;" after which he took each by the hand in an affectionate farewell, they "sorrowing most of all for the words which he spake that they should see his face no more.

From a contemporary writer we quote: It was with the greatest difficulty that he could converse with the friends "who called to see him, and in lieu thereof he requested that a copy of these, his dying words, should be addressed to each. Friend, imagine yourself standing upon the brink of death, the boundless unknown spreading away from your feet: During my affliction I have had many manifestations of the great love of Jesus, which has given me patience and resignation and a good hope through grace; and I suppose that if hundreds, nay, even thousands of men and women were present to witness my unshaken confidence in God, who can have no such opportunity, it would be a saving lesson to them.

I want to say to one and all that there is no name given under heaven whereby we can be saved only the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. For fifty years it has been my special care to make myself acquainted with the religious theories of the world, and the best you can do for your soul's sake is to cast the whole of them to the moles and bats and trust alone in Jesus Christ for salvation from sin here, victory in death, and eternal salvation above.

This you would all admit if your souls were in my soul's stead, standing ready to depart. I want you to understand that this is not the result of a fevered brain or hallucination of any kind. I have not had an hour's fever in the whole course of my disease.

My mind has been all the while as clear and rational as through common life. Now if this little circular should bring any of you to God, I am content. Richmond Kelly, practicing medicine in Portland, is one of the pioneer settlers of the city, his birth occurring in Multnomah county, September 15, He is a son of the Rev. Clinton Kelly, who is mentioned above. His education was acquired in the public schools of Portland and in Willamette University at Salem, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Arts degree in He then took up the study of medicine, entering Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio, from which he was graduated with the M.

Ask any of Oregon's pioneers concerning Mrs. Charlotte Moffett Cartwright and they will tell you of one who from the period of Portland's early development has taken an active and helpful part in the promotion of the civilization of the northwest; ask any connected with benevolent work and they will tell you that Mrs. Cartwright has been a leading factor along many lines of charity, yet she modestly disclaims any recognition for what she has done in these directions. Her good deeds have been the outpouring of a generous spirit and the expression of a nature that in its interests reaches out to all humanity.

Cartwright was born in Chicago, Illinois, only five years after the city had been incorporated, her natal day being December 21, Her parents were James and Sophronia Kurd Terwilliger, the former a native of Holland and the latter of Scotch descent. They continued their residence in Chicago until May, , when they started with their four children on a long trip across the plains to Oregon, being members of the party that took the Stephen Meeks " Cut-Off ," thinking thus to find a shorter and more speedy route through to the northwest.

The company became lost in the mountain wilderness, however, and death and destruction threatened them before they found their way again to the beaten path. Like many others, Mrs. Terwilliger was prostrated by the perils and hardships of the westward journey and survived only a few days after they reached The Dalles.

The father with his little family continued on his way down the Columbia and up the Willamette until he arrived at the present site of Portland in November, , and erected the first dwelling—a log cabin—on the immediate site of the city, which was founded in The name of Charlotte Terwilliger is found on the roll of the first pupils of the first school taught in Portland.

Her girlhood was passed amid the wild scenes and environment of pioneer life here in the little city that was built along the river front and was extending, as the population increased, across the lower levels and on to the surrounding hills. The most farsighted would not have dreamed during the period of her girlhood that Portland Heights and other heavily timbered regions would one day become the most beautiful residence district of the little city. Even at the time of her marriage Portland gave little evidence of the growth to which it has since attained.

William Bond deserves mention in this volume not only because of personal characteristics which endeared him to his fellow men but also because he was one of the first manufacturers of Portland. For many years he remained a resident of this city, honored and respected by all who knew him. His parents were among the pioneer settlers of the Keystone state but at a more remote period his ancestors lived in New England. Both the father and mother of Mr. Bond were born in Massachusetts. His mother was a Cushman of the stock of Robert Cushman of the Plymouth Colony and was a cousin of Charlotte Cushman, the distinguished tragedienne.

He was twelve years of age when he left home to learn a trade. He recognized the fact that his tastes and inclinations were along mechanical rather than agricultural. Martha Brown, who is living eight miles from Vancouver. Tenney was again married, his second union being with Sarah llulett, of Vancouver. George's church in New York city, and was for three years in charge of St. George's chai el on Stanton street, one of the most crowded tenement districts in the world. He afterward served as rector of Trinity church at Toledo, Ohio, for five years and of Emmanuel church at La Grange, Illinois, for ten years.

Scadding came to Oregon on the 12th of October, , having been elected third bishop of this state by the diocesan convention which met in June of that year. He was consecrated at Emmanuel church in l. As a child she first saw the si ot where the city of Portland now stands, and at that time a solitary log cabin was the only evi- dence of human occupation.

Great trees filled the valley and only a few brave settlers had taken up their homes along the streams where now are to be seen all the evidences of an advanced civilization.

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She has literally seen the city rise out of a wilderness and she has personally known hundreds of men and women prominent in early times who have long since passed from the stage. Hamilton was born at Burlington, Iowa, February 9, There were forty ox teams in the train and the hardships of the journey were much more severe than those ordinarily experienced. The party was attacked by Indians, but un- der the leadership of an experienced pioneer the savages were driven off and a great danger was averted.

While on the trail a son was added to uie lamny.