Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Oregon Republican League: Elder Photos



Oregon Republican League:Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 116.

MELDRUM, HENRY, of Oregon City, was born in Pacific County, Washington, November 5, 1852, and moved to Oregon in 1856. He was employed for twenty years on government surveys in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and has lived continuously in Clackamas County, except for short periods in Lake and Tillamook counties. He has been Deputy United States Surveyor since 1873, and in 1893 was appointed Deputy United States Mineral Surveyor for four years. Mr. Meldrum has been a member of all country conventions since 1882, if two state connections, of State League meetings in 1892 and 1895, and chairman of the county central committee in 1894-96. He was elected County Surveyor in 1884 and declined renomination. He is now the Republican nominee for County Clerk.

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