Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Kincaid Family

Oregon Republican League "Bridging the Generations Project 400": ORL Kincaid Family

Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 231.

KINCAID, HON. HARRISON R., Secretary of State and editor of the Oregon State Journal, was born near Indianapolis, Indiana, January 3, 1836. He lived and worked on a farm, and in 1853 came to Oregon, settling near Eugene, where he has ever since resided. He worked on the farm and in the mines and ranches Southern Oregon, Northern California, and Central California, and attended Columbia College, until he began to learn the printer’s trade in the office of the People’s Press, at Eugene, in 1860. He subsequently worked as printer and editor on the State Republican and Union Crusader, of Eugene, and March 12, 1864, founded the Oregon State Journal, which he has edited continuously for thirty-two years. During that period he was has discussed all the political issues of the times. He served as Clerk in the United States Senate eleven years, ending in 1879, editing his paper by mail and sending Washington correspondence to other papers. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions. In 1870 he was honored with the nomination for Senate Printer, but the whole state ticket was defeated. In 1894 Mr. Kincaid was nominated and elected Secretary of State.

Harrison's parents were Thomas Kincaid and Nancy Chodrick.

Descendants of Thomas Kincaid

1 Thomas Kincaid b: 27 Jul 1800 in Greenbrier Co., Virginia d: 22 Nov 1866 in Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon
.. +Nancy Chodrick b: 07 Jul 1816 in , Butler Co., Ohio m: 09 Jan 1831
........ 2 Harrison Rittenhouse Kincaid b: 03 Jan 1836 in Madison Co., Indiana d: Aft. 1920 in Oregon
............ +Augusta A. Lockwood b: 03 Sep 1852 in Macomb Co., Michigan m: 29 Sep 1873 in ,Macomb Co., Michigan d: Aft. 1920 in Oregon
................... 3 Webster L. Kincaid b: Sep 1883 in Oregon
....................... +Dorothy C. b: 1890 in Oregon
............................. 4 Harrison R. Kincaid b: 1911 in Portland, Oregon
............................. 4 Webster L. Kincaid b: 1917 in Portland, Oregon
........ 2 Austin C. Kincaid b: 18 Dec 1837 in , Madison Co., Indiana d: 20 Feb 1838 in , Madison Co., Indiana
........ 2 Rebecca Ann Kincaid b: 08 Feb 1840 in , Madison Co., Indiana d: 05 Feb 1864 in Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon
............ +Horace E. Lawrence b: in ,, New York m: 1856
........ 2 Elizabeth Maria Kincaid b: 16 Feb 1842 in Hamilton Co., Indiana
............ +James Newton Gale b: 11 Jan 1831 in Illinois m: 1860 in Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon
................... 3 May Gale b: 1880 in Olympic, Thurston Co., Washington
................... 3 Lenora Gale b: 1881 in Olympic, Thurston Co., Washington
........ 2 John Kincaid b: 27 Apr 1844 in , Madison Co., Indiana d: 30 Jun 1844 in , Madison Co., Indiana
........ 2 John Sandford Kincaid b: 14 May 1845 in , Wapello Co., Iowa d: 27 Dec 1873 in Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon
........ 2 Mary Alice Kincaid b: 28 Jun 1848 in , Hancock Co., Indiana d: 27 Jan 1870 in Danville, Livingston Co., New York
........ 2 Eliza Jane Kincaid b: 03 Nov 1850 in , Madison Co., Indiana d: 28 Jan 1851 in , Madison Co., Indiana
........ 2 George Summerfield Kincaid b: 04 Mar 1858 in , Lane Co., Oregon
............ +Laura A. Watkins b: 25 May 1860 in , Linn Co., Oregon m: 10 Sep 1876 in Eugene, Lane Co., Oregon