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Oregon Republican League:Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 176-178.
BAYLEY, DR. J. R. [Editor inserted: James Riley Bayley], a physician of Newport, was born in Clark County, Ohio, in 1819. He graduated from the Ohio Medical College in 1844. He practiced in Ohio till 1855, when he came to Oregon and located in Corvallis. He was one of the original Republicans of the state. He was a member of the territorial council in 1856 and 1857, and of the state senate in 1866 and 1868. He was Judge of Benton County two terms, and Supervisor of Internal Revenue from 1869 to 1873. Dr. Bayley is president of the Newport Club.
BARRETT, HON. WILLIAM N., of Hillsboro, was born in Washington County, Oregon November 24, 1855. He graduated in 1879. For ten years before and after graduating he taught school. In 1884 he was admitted to the bar. In 1882 he was elected to the legislature, and again in 1890. For seven years he was Deputy District Attorney, and in 1892 was elected District Attorney, and again in 1894. He was City Recorder for seven years. He has been a member of conventions and league meetings.
BAYER, J. C. [Editor inserted: Joseph C. Bayer], of Portland, was born in Santa Rosa, California, in 1855, and was educated in San Francisco and Oakland. He learned the metal cornice and roofing trade, and in 1879 came to Oregon and established himself in that business in Portland, and has built up a large business. He organized the Builders’ Exchange in 1882, and was its president for two years. He has been a consistent and active Republican and is now a nominee for the legislature.
BAKER, M. [Editor inserted: Micajah Baker], of la Grande, was born in Kentucky, March 29, 1831, and moved to Oregon in 1862. He settled in Union County, and is a lawyer by profession. He has been a Republican from the foundation of the party, and in 1860 was a delegate from Ohio to the national convention. He has repeatedly been a delegate to county and state conventions during his thirty-four years of residence in Oregon; also several times chairman of the county central committee and member of the state central committee. He was a delegate to the National Republican League in 1895.
BARNES, F. S.[Editor inserted: Friend S. Barnes], of Forest Grove, was born in Lewis County, New York, October 17, 1839, and came to Oregon in 1882, locating in Portland, subsequently moving to Forest Grove to engage in the jewelry business. He cast his first vote for Lincoln in 1860, served through the war, and has always been an earnest Republican. He was a delegate to the county, district and state conventions in 1894, and the league meetings in 1894-95-96.
BARTLETT, EDWARD W., of La Grande, is one of the most prominent lawyers and Republican leaders of Union County, and has for four years been president of the La Grande Republican Club. He was born at Eau Claire, Wisconsin, December 21, 1863, and came to Oregon in the spring of 1889. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1890 and 1892, and to the league in 1895. He was appointed Attorney for the State Board of Commissioners for the sale of school and university lands. Mr. Bartlett is an active Republican, and an influential campaign worker and speaker.
BALL, CHAUNCEY, of Portland, was born at Albion, Erie County, Pennsylvania, September 3, 1827, and enjoyed the educational facilities of those times. At the age of sixteen he went to Commouth, Ashtabula County, Ohio, from there to Wisconsin, and thence to Michigan. For ten more years thereafter he followed a seafaring life, and in 1851 made his way to California, engaging in mining and following the sea for seven years. In 1858 he went to British Columbia, and in 1859 came to Oregon, where he has resided ever since. For three years he was a Deputy Marshal under Henry L. Hoyt. For ten years he was a member of the Portland fire department, and was secretary of the department three terms. He was engineer of the new custom-house and postoffice fifteen years. Up to March 1895, he was engaged in farming, but was then elected president and business manager if the Multnomah Fruitgrowers’ Union, which position he still holds, having been the chief promoter of the organization. Mr. Ball is an old Lincoln Republican and an active worker. He has been chosen delegate to two county and two state conventions, and was one of the organizers of the party in the state and a constant worker for it ever since.
BARLOW, CASS U. [Editor inserted: Cassius Union Barlow], of Barlow, was born at that place October 19, 1858, and moved to Oregon City when a child. From 1870 to 1880 he attended school at Portland and Monmouth, and then became a member of the firm of Shepard, Jaycox & Co., at Walla Walla, Washington, for two years, and also engaged in wheat growing. Later he acted as traveling agent of the Portland firm of Staver & Walker for five years. He then became manager of the Seattle branch and made trips East. Since 1889 he has lived at Barlow, and is a member of the Barlow-Will Mercantile Company. In 1889 he attended the national league convention at Baltimore as proxy for M. C. George. He is secretary of the Barlow Republican Club, and has represented the club in the league.
BARLOW, WILLIAM, of Barlow, was a member of the first Republican convention in Oregon, and has been an earnest party worker ever since. He was born on a farm in Indiana in1822, and has made farming his business through life. He was one of the pioneers of the state, and has taken an active part in the moulding its destinies. He has filled numerous offices of trust, such as Justice of the Peace, County Assessor, County Commissioner, etc., but has been too busy a man to seek legislative honors, though he has given his time to conventions freely. He is an earnest advocate of the coinage of both gold and silver without restriction.
BAKER, JOSEPH E., of La Grande, was born in Van Buren County, Ohio, February 20, 1854, and came to Oregon in 1862 settling in Union County, and is engaged in the practice if law in La Grande. He is a member of the La Grande Republican Club, and has taken an active part in the party for years. He was a delegate to the county convention in 1886 and 1888, the state convention in 1886, and the league in 1894 and 1895. In 1890 to 1894 he was chairman of the county central committee.
BAYARD, C., E., of The Dalles, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849, where he lived until 1876, when he went to San Francisco. In 1880 he came to Oregon and settled at The Dalles. He was County Assessor in 1883-84, Deputy County Clerk in 1885-86, and during Harrison’s administration was special agent of the Indian service. Since then he has been special agent of the land department. He has been a Republican since boyhood.
BAKER, COLONEL EDWARD DICKERSON, first Republican senator from Oregon, was born in London, England, February 24, 1811. He was four years of age when his family came to America and located in Philadelphia. He was early apprenticed to weaver, but, his father being an educated man and a teacher, young baker did not lack for mental training. At the age of fourteen he accompanied the family to Illinois, settling in the Wabash valley, but soon crossing the state in to Belleville. Here, young Baker won the favor of Governor Edwards and had access to his fine library, and stored his mind with the gems of literature. At the age of eighteen he went to St. Lois to find employment, and drove a dray. A little later he began the study of law at Carrollton, Illinois, in the office of Judge Caverly, at the same time serving as Deputy County Clerk. Before he was of age he had secured a license to practice law. In 1832 he served as a private in the Black Hawk war. In 1845 he was elected to congress, being the only Whig from the state of Illinois. The next year he raised a regiment for the Mexican was and served with distinction until its close. Later he went to California, and, with the murdered Senator Broderick, fought bitterly the pro-slavery Democratic rulers of the state. So great a reputation as an orator did he make, that the first Republican state convention held in Oregon decided to invite him to come north to stump the state. A little he came to Oregon and charmed and fired all with his eloquent pleas for liberty and union, and in 1860 was elected the first Republican to represent the state in the United States Senate. He went to Washington when treason was plotting openly, and at once became a commanding figure in the senate, his matchless oratory and fiery denunciation of traitors compelling all to yield to him the first place in debate. When Sumpter was fired upon he went to Philadelphia and recruited the “California” regiment, of which he became colonel. He divided his time between his senatorial and military duties, and it was dressed in his uniform and after arriving hastily in the senate that he delivered that masterly, impassioned, extemporaneous reply to a treasonable speech just made by a Southern senator, which was one of the classics of the literature of liberty and popular government. A few months later , at the battle of Ball’s Bluff, October 21, 1861, while gallantly leading his brigade, he was killed, yielding up his life for the cause of liberty, in whose defense his voice has been raised for a quarter of a century.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
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Hello. My mom was a Barlow and I see Cass Barlow moved to Oregon City, so are these some of the Barlow Road Barlows? This site is a great idea. Thank you! Sarah P.
Here is a brief blurb, on the formation of the Barlow Road. It is from the End of the Trail Interpretive Center website. Let me see if there's an established genealogy out there, for Sam's early generations. -Tony
http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org/road2oregon/sa21barlowrd.html
The Final Leg of the Trail
Looking down on the Columbia River Gorge from high up on Rowena Loop, one sees where the river cuts through the Cascade Mountains. For three years this was the end of the Oregon Trail as an overland route. It was here, just past The Dalles, that the wagons were loaded on rafts or bateaux and floated down to Fort Vancouver and Oregon City.
The west end of the gorge was wretchedly unsuitable for a wagon road: the river was hemmed in by steep slopes and cliffs of hard, volcanic rock, the climate was cold, wet, and windy, and the only areas that were reliably flat enough to permit wagons to pass were soggy bottomlands that were subject to seasonal flooding. Before 1843, no wagon had made it much past Fort Hall intact. From 1843 until 1845, wagons could reach The Dalles, but from there the emigrants had little choice but to make a raft of pine logs, buy a raft from enterprising Indians, or rent a bateaux from the Hudson's Bay Company for around $80. Many lives were lost on the rapids of the Columbia River, the relentless winds overturned many a raft, and there was a stretch of impassable rapids that had to be portaged. Worse still, families were often divided as cattle were driven over Lolo Pass, on the northwest shoulder of Mount Hood, to Eagle Creek and Oregon City. Despite these hardships, almost one in every four emigrants chose the river route after the Barlow Road was opened.
When -- and if -- the pioneers emerged from the Columbia River Gorge, they floated downriver to Fort Vancouver, a British fur trading post. Chief Factor John McLoughlin was under instructions to discourage American settlers, but the "Great White-Headed Eagle," as he was called by the natives, was a Christian in the best sense of the word and could not ignore the plight of the onrushing immigrants. He extended credit to many penniless pioneers, and he was still owed thousands of dollars at the time of his death in 1857.
McLoughlin encouraged the Oregon Trail travelers to head south to Oregon City and the Willamette Valley. This was in part to keep American influence from spreading throughout the extensive territory claimed by Great Britain under the auspices of the Hudson's Bay Company, but also because he had a stake in the city he had founded at Willamette Falls in 1829. The HBC ran a store there, and McLoughlin would build a house and later retire there. By 1844, Oregon City had three stores to supply farmers and was the seat of the newly-founded American Provisional Government. Anyone wishing to file a land claim had to come to Oregon City.
Two emigrants would make decisions at or near The Dalles that would change the character of the Trail. In 1843, Jesse Applegate had the misfortune of losing a wagon to the vagaries of the Columbia River, and his wife suffered the heartbreak of watching a child drown whom she had refused permission to learn to swim. From this experience, Applegate made the decision to open a trail across the inland deserts and into the Willamette Valley from the south. This he did, but the Southern Route (we know it today as the Applegate Trail) was a less than desirable route. The terrain was harsh and dry, and in one of those rare instances where emigrants' worst fears occasionally came true, Klamath Indians sometimes raided passing wagons. More than one wagon train over the years had to be rescued by Army troops or irregulars riding out of the Willamette Valley.
In 1845, Sam Barlow found himself arriving late at The Dalles, where he was faced with the prospect of waiting for a bateaux that was downstream with no scheduled return. Running out of money, food, and patience, Barlow stated that, "God never made a mountain but what He provided a place for man to go over or around it." He then set off with his wagons around the south shoulder of Mt. Hood, Oregon's tallest volcano.
Following an Indian trail, Barlow managed to get his wagons about halfway around the mountain before being forced to admit defeat. At the crest of the Cascade Mountains, Joel Palmer climbed the glacier now named for him and scouted a route off the mountain. Palmer saw that there was little chance of getting the wagons through, so the party sent some of their wagons back to The Dalles and cached the rest of their possessions at a spot they christened Fort Deposit. Most of the party and their livestock was able to enter the Willamette Valley by following the Lolo Pass Trail, an old Indian trail around the northwest flank of Mt. Hood that was too narrow and steep to allow wagons to pass. Thus free to proceed on foot, Palmer, Barlow, and Barlow's eldest son attempted to walk off the mountain.
Exhausted, footsore, and cold, Palmer and the Barlows stumbled into Eagle Creek and met local resident Philip Foster. Rejoining his wife and family in Oregon City, Barlow spent the winter contemplating his route over Mt. Hood. He approached the Provisional Government and obtained official permission to build the Mount Hood Toll Road in early 1846. The Provisional Government allowed him to charge $5 a wagon and 10¢ a head for livestock to use the Road.
With Philip Foster as his financial backer and a crew of forty men, Barlow hacked out a narrow road through forests, rivers, and marshy meadows from The Dalles to Oregon City, a distance of about 150 miles. Reuban Gant is recorded to have driven the first wagon across the new road in 1846; Barlow reported to the Oregon Spectator -- the first newspaper published west of the Rockies -- that 145 wagons and nearly 1600 head of livestock made it over the Road that first year.
Despite being cheaper than renting HBC bateaux and (perhaps) safer than rafting down the Columbia, Barlow was almost universally reviled for building his toll road. Many emigrants were incensed at the idea of having to pay a toll on the last 150 miles of a 2000 mile journey, particularly when they reached Laurel Hill, a slope so steep that the emigrants had to wind ropes around tree limbs and drag hundred-foot-long tree trunks to lower their wagons safely down the incline. Laurel Hill was such a nightmare that even after months of heat, dust, disease, and death, most diarists proclaimed it the single worst stretch of the Oregon Trail, bar none. The Barlow Road's elevation was also a source of difficulty for the emigrants, as snow and icy fog are commonplace on the mountain during the fall. As Barlow's original toll gate was on the east side of the mountain, weary and frustrated emigrants cursed him for collecting tolls from dead people -- that is, charging tolls to people who would die while attempting to follow his road into the Willamette Valley.
Over the years, five toll gates were built to serve Barlow Road traffic from 1846 until 1915, when the right-of-way was willed to the State of Oregon and the last gate, near the town of Rhododendron, was removed. The route was one way -- west -- for its first fifteen years, until a road was blasted out around Laurel Hill. With the Barlow Road open to traffic in both directions, it became a true thoroughfare, and emigrants were gradually displaced by stagecoaches and freight wagons. In the 1880s, it served the first tourists headed up from the Willamette Valley to vacation and recreation sites on Mt. Hood.
Today, much of the western half of the Barlow Road in Clackamas County is paved over and used by skiers, hunters, and campers visiting the mountain from the Portland area, though this is less a testament to Barlow's skill as a surveyor than it is the result of the terrain dictating where it would be feasible to build a road. However, parts of the Road's eastern half in Wasco County are still very pristine, just as the last emigrant wagon left it over a century ago.
This is best read, with a fully expanded page. Here are the first three generations:
Descendants of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow
1 Samuel Kimbrough Barlow b: 07 Dec 1795 in Nicholas county, Kentucky d: 14 Jun 1867 in Clackamas co., OR
.. +Susannah Lee b: 16 Mar 1791 in Greenville, Greenville, SC d: 10 Dec 1852 in Barlow, Clackamas co., OR m: 06 Aug 1820 in Bloomington, Monroe, Indiana
........ 2 Sarah Barlow b: 30 Apr 1820 in Marion co., IN d: 1894
............ +Albert P. Gaines b: Abt. 1820 in Canton, Illinois, USA m: 17 Feb 1839 in Fulton co., IL
................... 3 Amanda Susannah Gaines b: 1842 in Canton, , Illinois, USA
....................... +William Vance Rinehart b: Abt. 1840 in of Canton, , Illinois, USA m: 1864
............................. 4 Anna M. Rinehart b: Abt. 1865 in Canyon, , Oregon, USA
................................. +Chilberg
........ 2 William Barlow b: 26 Oct 1822 in ten miles W. of Indianapolis, Indiana, in Marion Co., IN d: 13 Jun 1904 in Oregon
............ +Rachel Larkins b: 29 Jun 1832 in Perry co., OH d: 26 Sep 1849 in Oregon Territory m: 20 Aug 1848
........ *2nd Wife of William Barlow:
............ +Martha Ann Partlow b: 23 Sep 1822 in Virginia d: 1901 in Clackamas Co., OR m: 26 Mar 1852 in Oregon Territory
................... 3 Mary Susannah Barlow b: 19 Apr 1853 in Barlow, Clackamas Co., Oregon d: Aft. 1930 in Oregon
....................... +Henry Jasper Wilkins b: Nov 1849 in Alabama d: 21 Jan 1933 in Oregon
................... 3 Virginia Ann Barlow b: 1856 in Barlow, Clackamas Co., Oregon d: Bef. 1870 in Clackamas Co., OR
................... 3 Cassius Union Barlow b: 18 Oct 1859 in Barlow, Clackamas Co., Oregon d: Bef. 1930 in Piedmont, California
....................... +Addie P. b: Feb 1872 in Michigan d: Aft. 1930 in California m: Abt. 1899 in Oregon
............................. 4 William P. Barlow b: 15 Apr 1904 in California d: 13 Apr 1988 in Oakland, Alameda, California
................................. +Muriel I. b: 27 Sep 1909 in California d: 09 May 1994 in Oakland, Alameda, California
........ 2 James K. Barlow b: 28 Jan 1826 in Hendricks, IN d: 20 Jul 1866 in Barlow, Clackamas co., OR
............ +Rebecca Larkins b: 28 Oct 1826 in Perry co., OH m: 06 Apr 1848 in Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 Caroline F. Barlow b: 1850 in Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 James Albion Barlow b: 1855 in Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 John L. Barlow b: 1858 in Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 Emma J. Barlow b: 1860 in Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 George O. Barlow b: 1863 in Clackamas co., OR
........ 2 John Lawson Barlow b: 1828 in Marion co., IN d: 1879
............ +Mary E. Miller b: 1834 in Maryland m: 1851 in Oregon Territory
................... 3 M. Jennie Barlow b: 1854 in Oregon City, Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 James A. W. Barlow b: 1858 in Oregon City, Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 Franklin Barlow b: Mar 1860 in Oregon City, Clackamas co., OR
................... 3 Nettie Barlow b: 1866 in Oregon City, Clackamas co., OR
........ 2 Elizabeth Jane Barlow b: 1832
............ +Absalom Fonts Hedges b: Bef. 1832 m: 18 Apr 1847 in Oregon Territory
*2nd Wife of Samuel Kimbrough Barlow:
.. +Elizabeth Garrison b: 10 Feb 1802 in Hopewell twp., New Jersey d: in Clackamas co., OR m: 26 Oct 1853 in Clackamas county, Oregon Territory
Hi Tony: If it's not too much trouble, can you tell me if Bayley could also be spelled BAILEY? My grandmother was a Lincoln County Bailey. Great posts! EC Cline
Hi EC - Yes, this family does appear to shift their spellings at the turn of the century. Here are a couple generations of this clan. Again, this is best viewed with a fully expanded window:
Descendants of James Riley Bayley
1 James Riley Bayley b: 20 Oct 1820 in Springfield, Clark Co., OH d: 24 May 1901 in Newport, Lincoln Co., OR
.. +Elizabeth Harpole b: 02 Feb 1834 in Ross Co., OH d: 08 May 1899 in Newport, Lincoln Co., OR m: 21 Feb 1852 in 21 FEB 1852
........ 2 Lester Saylor Bayley b: 21 Oct 1852 in Cuyahoga Co., OH d: 30 Jan 1900 in Wilbur, WA
............ +Amelia Hannah Denney b: 30 Oct 1864 in Bremer Co., IA d: 20 Nov 1950 in Spokane, WA m: 04 Mar 1881 in Medical Lake, WA
................... 3 James William Bayley b: 25 Dec 1881 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: Oct 1969 in Yucaipa, San Bernardino, CA
................... 3 Marcus Lester Bayley b: 10 May 1884 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: Sep 1963
................... 3 Emery Saylor Bayley b: 17 Sep 1886 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: Aft. 1934
................... 3 Berta Bayley b: 12 Nov 1888 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: 12 Nov 1888 in Peach, Lincoln, WA
................... 3 Mary Elizabeth Bayley b: 03 Oct 1889 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: Aft. 1934
................... 3 Ida Hazel Bayley b: 03 Oct 1892 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: 11 Dec 1927 in WA
................... 3 Hazel Mary Bayley b: 12 Oct 1900 in Peach, Lincoln, WA d: 28 Oct 1925 in Pendleton, Umatilla, OR
........ 2 Cora Bayley b: 01 Sep 1854 in Ohio d: Bet. 1920 - 1930 in Oregon
............ +Sherman S. Ritchey b: Nov 1864 in Oregon d: 04 May 1938 in Coos County, Oregon m: 20 Oct 1886 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
................... 3 Paul Bayley Ritchey b: Jul 1889 in Oregon
................... 3 Jean Elizabeth Ritchey b: May 1891 in Oregon
................... 3 Lola Cora Ritchey b: Sep 1895 in Oregon
........ 2 Marcus Tracy Bayley b: 18 Sep 1859 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR d: in Corvallis, Benton Co, OR
........ 2 Elizabeth J. Bayley b: Abt. 1870 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR d: 10 Jan 1936 in Salem, Marion Co., OR
........ 2 Elvira Bayley b: 12 Jan 1866 in Corvallis, Benton Co., Oregon d: 28 Mar 1940 in Benton, Oregon
............ +Jesse J. Wiley b: 1863 in Oregon d: 18 Sep 1941 in Benton, Oregon m: 06 Jun 1892 in Benton Co OR
................... 3 Claude Ray Wiley b: 12 May 1894 in Oregon
................... 3 Vivia Wiley b: 1901 in Oregon
........ 2 Mary Eleanor Bayley b: 1875 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
........ 2 Albert Parker Bayley b: 16 Aug 1862 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR d: 17 Aug 1862 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
........ 2 William Harpole Bayley b: 16 Jun 1863 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR d: 16 Jun 1863 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
........ 2 Emery Parker Bayley b: 09 Feb 1856 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR d: 08 Dec 1859 in Corvallis, Benton Co., OR
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