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Oregon Republican League Family History Project RETURNS!!

2010-07-22T16:55:00.000-07:00

After some prodding, our moderator agreed to return to the highly popular ORL Family History Project. We look forward to those familial observations and quirks any time! THANK YOU TO EVERYONE THAT MAKES THIS POSSIBLE!!!

God Bless Our Past, Present & Future Veterans: Freedom Is Not Free

2008-11-11T21:38:00.000-08:00

Arlington National Cemetery's "Photo of the Week": November 3rd, 2008

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/photo_gallery/11-03-08.html

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-09-24T11:18:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every week, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 427-428.

BENJAMIN F. RENN. - It is with a hearty good will that we accord to this representative citizen of our county a place in its abiding chronicles, for one who has defended his flag in the time when civil strife sought to rend our fair land in twain, who interposed his own life between his country and ruin, and on many fields of blood demonstrated that his was real patriotism, deserves to be placed high in the roll of honor, far above what our poor tribute could do, though freely it is paid. Of these real veterans we love to dwell upon their deed, facts, not fiction.

His birth occurred on December 15, 1837, on his father’s farm in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, where he spent the years of his minority. The total amount of his schooling was summed up into three months, but industrious habits and an active mind would not be content at this and he followed Franklin’s plan until he became well read and abreast of the times. In the spring of 1859 he went to Bremer county, Iowa, and rented a farm from a man who was heavily attacked with the Pike’s Peak fever. Farming, for one season, he then, in 1861, enlisted in Company G, Ninth Iowa Infantry, Captain William Washburn, Colonel William Vandevere, First Division General Osterhause, Fifteenth Army Corps, General John A. Logan. He was in continuous service for three years and participated in many battles and sieges, besides much skirmishing and scouting, among which were Pea Ridge, Helena, Arkansas, then on to Vicksburg, where the soldiers suffered much from small pox, many dying. Here he helped to build many of the famous works of U.S. Grant. After some time here he was put under Sherman and fought at Chickasaw and Bayous, took part in the expedition up the White river, capturing seven thousand Confederates with all of the munitions, did field service at Port Hudson, was in the front in the struggle at Jackson, Mississippi, then on to Champion Hills, and again at the siege of Vicksburg, where he saw Grant and Pemberton under the old oak tree making terms. After this they again fought before Jackson and captured it, then across the Black river and so ended the first campaign. Suffering an attack on the fever here, he was removed to Memphis to the hospital, but regained his command at Stevenson, Alabama, in the fall of 1863, then hurried into the siege of Atlanta, with heavy fighting for forty days, when the city fell. This being the end of his time he was discharged at East Point, twenty miles south of Atlanta, in the enemy’s country, and was forced, with thirty companions, to fight the way back through Bragg’s lines, who held sway between Atlanta and Nashville. He arrived home safely in October, 1864, having never received a would through all these fierce fights, and having attained to the rank of sergeant. He remained in Pennsylvania for one year recuperating and then turned again to Iowa, engaging in general work until 1866, when on account of his health, he went to California via New York and the Isthmus, landing in San Francisco on July 5, 1866. Later he was able to enter active service and engaged as sawyer in Santa Clara and Mendocino counties for four years and then went to Kansas and later to southern Minnesota, purchasing a farm and remaining for four years. In 1876 he sold out and went to Salem, this state, laboring for wages and purchasing a farm later in Marion county, whence he went to Clark county, Washington territory. In 1866 he sold out there and came to Pendleton, where he has followed the hotel and feed business since, now being the owner and proprietor of a fine two-story pressed brick building at the corner of Court and Cotton streets.

On September 25, 1871, he was married to Miss Theresa Benedict, in Osage Mission, Kansas. They have the following children: Robert S., express agent at Pendleton; Dora, at Colfax; Minnie; Celia; Arthur Garfield; Orien Logan, the last two in school. Mr. Renn is Republican in politics and quite active in the campaigns. He is also a member of Kit Carson Post, 26, G.A.R., of Pendleton, where he held the position of vice commander for one term. He is one of the leading citizens of the city and is respected and esteemed by all, being a real lover of the country for which he did such valiant service.

Have you forgotten?

2008-09-11T10:04:00.000-07:00

Smoke from the remains of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan the day after the attacks. [From Reuters]

"HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?"

Darryl Worley

Lyrics

I hear people saying we don't need this war

But I say there's some things worth fighting for

What about our freedom and this piece of ground

We didn't get to keep 'em by backin down

They say that we don't realize the mess we're gettin in

Before you start your preachin let me ask you this my friend

Have You Forgotten

How it felt that day

To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away

Have you forgotten

When those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside

Going through a living hell

And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden

Have you forgotten

They took all the footage off my TV

Said it's too disturbing for you and me

It'll just breed anger, that’s what the experts say

If it was up to me I'd show it everyday

Some say this country's just out lookin for a fight

But after 9/11 man I'd have to say that’s right

Have You Forgotten

How it felt that day

To see your homeland under fire and her people blown away

Have you forgotten

When those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside

Going through a living hell

And we vowed to get the ones behind bin Laden

Have you forgotten

I've been there with the soldiers

Who've gone away to war

And you can bet that they remember, just what they're fighting for

Have you forgotten

All the people killed

Yeah, some went down like heroes in that Pennsylvania field

Have you forgotten

About our Pentagon

All the loved ones that we lost and those left to carry on

Don't you tell me not to worry about Bin Laden

Have you forgotten

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-07-11T17:51:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every week, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 413-414.

JAMES POWER. - Among the worthy names of pioneers that adorn the pages of this work there must be alotted a space for that of Mr. Power, who was one of the early ones to settle in this part of the county. It was in the year 1880 that the wave of western action began to move him toward the Pacific slope, and being one who is ready to perceive a good thing, he was not long in shaping himself for the trip. Fortune had some good things stowed away in this fertile soil of Umatilla county that she was holding for those who would leave the land of their fathers and follow her leading. Our subject was one of those favored ones and now he can with satisfaction look over a whole section of as fine wheat fields as the sun shines on and rejoice that his strong box holds the deeds of it all. He first took up three hundred and twenty acres under the homestead and pre-emption rights and by good management he soon doubled his holding.

When the steel rails had not spanned the continent it was necessary for the pioneer to resign himself to the “prairie schooner” and laboriously toil toward the setting sun. But after the steam chariot began its courses it was indeed a brave and hardy spirit that would undertake that weary job of crossing the plains by team. But this obstacle was not to stop Mr. Power and he hitched his team night and morning from Missouri, Grundy county, the place of his birth, to Pendleton. With what a sense of rest did he select his claims on what is now the cross road between Stages and Despain Gulches, ten miles northwest from Pendleton. The journey was ended and he had found the spot fortune had selected for him. He was born September 1, 1850, and followed farming for thirty years before trying the west, and twenty years since coming here have made him a man of wide experience in tilling the soil and he is enabled by the best methods to get the very best returns from his land. His parents were James and Dorcas (Morris) Power. In all the local affairs and county politics he has a real personal interest and manifests activity in their adjustment as also in the school matters. The Republican fold is his political place as it manifests forth the principles he deems are the best for the welfare of the nation.Fraternally he is linked with the Red Men and is also a member of the Pioneer of the Pacific.

He was married March 12, 1876, to Miss Elsie Wild, daughter of Philip A. and Mary E. (Sandlin) Wild. Nine children have been born to them: Philip A., Mary E., Albert S., Thomas C., Alma A., William M., Henry F., and two deceased, Rebecca F. and Milliard H. The youth is now the patriarch with his children growing up around him and soon, as the old pioneers of the county are called away one by one, will his name be on the list, but his good works will remain to inspire and lead forward those who shall follow.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-06-18T15:15:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-06-15T20:48:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-05-01T18:57:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday/Thursday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 396.

GEORGE BUZAN. - Among the worthy representatives of that time honored class of men and women who fought their way into the domain of the savage and wrested from his selfish grasp the fertile sections of the various states of this Union, must be mentioned those whose intrepidity and valor led them into these regions to do the pioneers’ work, from which have resulted such rich legacies and bountiful bequests to the later settlers in this favored spot. A typical one in this number of sturdy pioneers is the man whose name initiates this paragraph, and whose life of uprightness and intrinsic moral worth has been passed largely in the bounds of Umatilla county.

George Buzan was born in Grundy county, Missouri, on October 14 1850, to Wills and Eliza J. (Reeder) Buzan, natives, respectively, of Indiana and Ohio. In his native state and in Kansas were passed the years of the minority of our subject, who received in those places the educational discipline to be gained from the common schools. At the age of twenty-three his aspirations led him to seek his fortune in the far west, and he accordingly migrated to Colorado, afterward to Wyoming, and then to Nevada and finally to California, where he engaged in the agricultural pursuit. It was in 1877 that he came to this county, settling first on Wild Horse creek, about five miles west from Adams, giving his attention there to wheat raising until 1890. He secured his land by the pre-emption and homestead rights and gained a very gratifying success while engaged in its cultivation. In 1890 he left the farm and embarked in the operation of a foundry for the Pendleton Manufacturing Company, following the same for four years. After the expiration of this time he removed to Helix until 1898, in which year he received the nomination for county assessor on the Republican ticket and carried the county by a handsome majority. During his term of two years he served with such acceptibility and efficiency that the people again asked him to assume the trust for another term, in which incumbency he is now serving. He is generally active in the political matters of the county and nation, having attended many of the conventions, seeking ever the welfare of the people and the advancement of the commonwealth.

He was married to Miss Martha E., daughter of David and Clara (Pence) Brown, in 1880. The issue of this union has been four children: Clinton, Myrtle J., Laura Belle, Clara Ollie, deceased. Mr. Buzan is affiliated with the I. O. O. F., having been a member of that order since 1872, with the Masonic fraternity and the Woodmen of the World. He is also a member of the Christian church, being a free supporter of its interests and an ardent champion of his faith, ever demeaning himself so that his life will be a light and his example worthy to be followed.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-04-09T16:29:00.001-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday/Thursday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 390-391.

JOHN S. VINSON. - This prominent business man, successful educator and esteemed citizen is one of the early pioneers of Umatilla county, and has been a potent factor in its industrial development for thirty-five years, holding in this time many public positions, where he has ever shown a faithfulness and wisdom that have endeared him to the constituency and commanded the respect and admiration of all.

He was born to James S. and Catherine (Sackette) Vinson, in Des Moines, Iowa, on December 25, 1848, and crossed the plains with his parents in 1852. They settled in Clackamas county, establishing the post office of Needy, James S. Vinson being the first incumbent, who also operated a general merchandise establishment until he became bankrupt by taking the Oregon Indian war script from the settlers, which depreciated in value to almost nothing. At this time his wife died, and he turned to the mines in Idaho for employment, remaining there for three years, after which time he married Mrs. Asenath Long, a pioneer of 1862. They removed to this county, settling on Butter creek, where they remained until 1882, when Mrs. Vinson died and he returned to Iowa on a visit to his sister, wife of General Weaver. In 1895, he returned to the Willamette valley, where he passed away to his rewards in another world, in November, 1895, being eighty-six years of age. He had been a prominent man in public affairs, always faithful and efficient. It was he who was the commissioner appointed by the court to locate the town of Pendleton.

Our subject was educated in the public schools and higher institutions in the Willamette valley, and then taught school in this county for six years, taking rank with the first educators in this part of the country. Succeeding this he was appointed postmaster at Vinson post office on Butter creek, occupying that position for ten years and operating a prosperous general merchandise establishment meanwhile. After this he removed to Nolan and established a post office, adding the grain business to his merchandising. During this time he was nominated by the Republicans for legislator from this county, but was defeated by the division of the county. In 1892 he again received the nomination, but that year the county went entirely Democratic. He has ever displayed that activity and interest in political matters that becomes the loyal citizen. In 1895 he purchased a fruit farm and gave his attention to its cultivation and improvements for three years, and then traded it for a general merchandise business in Milton, continuing there with a fine trade until one year ago, when he sold out and brought his present business in Freewater. In addition to his business, which is very prosperous, he owns city property in Freewater and in Pendleton that is quite valuable.In fraternal affiliations he is identified with the K. of P., the Pioneers of the Pacific, and is counselor of Harmony Lodge, No. 237, Order of Pendo, all of Freewater.

By the way of reminiscence it is interesting to note that during the Bannock war Mr. Vinson remained on the farm on Butter creek with only one companion when thirty-five of the Indian lodges were on his place. Some men who were hunting stock, having stopped at his house on the night of the Willow creek fight, were murdered the next day, and stragglers from that battle came announcing that the volunteers were all murdered, which caused considerable consternation, and our subject was useful in allaying the fears and removing those who were wounded and the women and children of an emigrant train that had just arrived to a place of safety, although he returned the next day and remained on his farm.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-04-02T21:15:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday/Thursday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 390.

FREDERICK A. HILL. - Deceased. To the esteemed citizen, worthy pioneer and respected gentleman whose name initiates this paragraph we accord this memorial in these chronicles of the county where he labored so long and faithfully, ever striving for the betterment and advancement of his fellows and the upbuilding of the commonwealth. He was in the van guard of that noble class of men and women who gave their lives to cut the way into these regions for the ingress of civilization’s principles, and to lay the foundations of the nation broad and deep, extending it to the limits that nature intended, and which noble work cannot be eulogized in too exalted terms. While many transients were within the borders of the county at different times, there were comparatively few actual settlers here when Mr. Hill took his ranch on Umatilla river about four and one-half miles southwest from where Pendleton now stands, in 1859. His widow owns the place and resides there to-day. For the first few years he was engaged in raising cattle and then went into the sheep business, which he followed continuously until his death. He owned a ranch on Crab creek , which was headquarters for the sheep, but this, however, he sold a little while before his death, leaving to his widow three other ranches and a large amount of stock, valued at about ten thousand dollars. Mr. Hill was always interested in politics, formerly adhering to the principles of the Democratic party, but later affiliating with the Republican party, whose platform more nearly expressed that which he believed to be for the good of the nation and the state.

He was married, on January 29, 1862, to Miss Phoebe, daughter of Jacob and Annie (Brown) Messinger, natives of Ohio. The fruit of this union has been the following: Daniel, Ellen Jane, wife of William Barber; Jacob C.; Frederick A.; Ernestine, wife of John Padon; Augustus F.; Dora Annie, wife of Luther Mathews; Rachel, wife of Charles Kidder; Rosa Ada, deceased; Phoebe, deceased; and Chancy E.

Mr. Hill was born in Leipsic, Germany, on September 4, 1832, remaining there only thirteen years, at which age he took up a seafaring life and followed the same for seven years, after which he came to California and spent a number of years in the search for nature’s hidden wealth. Then, as mentioned above, he came to this county and here in 1886 he was called from the scenes of earth to the world beyond. His children and widow mourn a devoted husband and a loving father. Mrs. Hill still resides upon the old homestead, where so many of their happy days were spent and around which cluster the memories and endearing thoughts of the days that will never return, again passing here quietly the golden years of her career, winding the last knots of the thread of life that has been well spun, cheered by the remembrance of days of industry and years in which integrity and uprightness were the constant dominant powers of her existence and wherein she stands at the present time.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-03-26T10:49:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-03-19T11:33:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday/Thursday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 379-380.

JOHN RUSH.- As a defender of the flag in the time of war, an intrepid pioneer during the days of explorations, a loving husband and estimable citizen, the man whose name heads this paragraph has left a record untarnished and commendable, of which those who succeed him may be justly proud. The spirit in the “Green Mountain” boys that led them to accomplish deeds of valor in the days of the Revolution, is the same that inspired this one of their descendants to equally as brilliant efforts in defense of the Union, which they established.

Born in Vermont, to Benjamin and Mary (LaBelle) Rush, on March 25, 1841, he passed the first years of his life there also, gaining the education possible in the limited time. When but fourteen years of age, in 1855, he traveled across the continent to engage in the mining fields of California. Considering the modes of travel then in vogue, and his tender years, together with the lawless state of affairs in the western regions at that time, this is sufficient to demonstrate the sterling qualities in the lad, which so brightly materialized during subsequent years. When the call came for men to fight for the honor of their flag, young Rush was ready to respond, and enlisted in Company B, First Battalion, Nevada Cavalry, under Captain Joseph H. Mathewson. June 21, 1863, was the date of his enlistment, and for three continuous years he did faithful military service for his country, when he was mustered out at Camp Douglas, Utah. From here he went to Kansas and remained there until 1872, at which date he came to this county and took up a homestead and purchased one hundred and sixty acres more from the railroad, ten miles northwest from where Athena now is. Here he engaged in the cultivation of his farm until the time of his death, which sad event occurred October 5, 1895.
The record of his life shows Mr. Rush to have been a man of great energy, of fearless courage, directed by an excellent and wise judgment, and possessed of a tender heart that always accompanies a really brave spirit. The time of his demise was a day of sadness for all who knew him, but his meed is that he left the heritage of a brilliant career and untarnished life for the edification and encouragement of those who follow after.

His political life was marked with activity and uprightness, being a prominent figure in the convention , but never seeking for himself political preferment. He held with the Republican party and was a member of the G. A. R. In 1868 he was married to Miss Martha Ann Seratt, daughter of John and Nancy (Lane) Seratt. She with six children survives him. The children are as follows: Anna, Harriet, Dorothy, Alberta, Edwin, Ida M. Mrs. Rush still lives on the old home place, which she is carrying on in a commendable manner, demonstrating that she is capable of wise husbandry in addition to her other many accomplishments. On August 15, 1901, death again made inroad into the household, this time carrying off Miss Dorothy, who peacefully passed the river and now sleeps in that great bivouac of the dead.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-03-14T22:14:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-03-05T15:30:00.001-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-02-27T15:14:00.000-08:00

The Loss of Oregon's Sgt. Josh Brennan in Afghanistan

2008-02-22T12:03:00.000-08:00

Josh's mother has posted this article on her myspace. We'll post the formal citation soon. Josh was the first person to respond, when the ORL asked for some Eastern Oregon online volunteer assistance. We had no idea, at the time, that he was doing so from halfway around the world, and in harm's way.
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Inserted: For publication 02/24/2008 in the New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/magazine/24afghanistan-t.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

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Battle Company Is Out There
The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan's Korengal valley is one day after another of difficult decisions and bloody consequences. Hearts and minds are hardening.

by Elizabeth Rubin

We tumbled out of two Black Hawks onto a shrub-dusted mountainside. It was a windy, cold October evening. A half-moon illuminated the tall pines and peaks. Through night-vision goggles the soldiers and landscape glowed in a blurry green-and-white static. Just across the valley, lights flickered from a few homes nestled in the terraced farmlands of Yaka China, a notorious village in the Korengal River valley in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar. Yaka China was just a few villages south and around a bend in the river from the Americans' small mountain outposts, but the area's reputation among the soldiers was mythic. It was a known safe haven for insurgents. American troops have tended to avoid the place since a nasty fight a year or so earlier. And as Halloween approached, the soldiers I was with, under the command of 26-year-old Capt. Dan Kearney, were predicting their own Yaka China doom.
The Korengal Valley is a lonely outpost of regress: most of the valley's people practice Wahhabism, a more rigid variety of Islam than that followed by most Afghans, and about half of the fighters confronting the U.S. there are homegrown. The rest are Arabs, Pakistanis, Chechens, Uzbeks; the area is close to Pakistan's frontier regions where Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other Al Qaeda figures are often said to be hiding out. The Korengal fighters are fierce, know the terrain and watch the Americans' every move. On their hand-held radios, the old jihadis call the Americans ''monkeys,'' ''infidels,'' ''bastards'' and ''the kids.'' It's psychological warfare; they know the Americans monitor their radio chatter.

As far as ''the kids'' are concerned, the insurgents are ghosts - so the soldiers' tactics often come down to using themselves as bait. The insurgents specialize in ambushes, harassing fire and hit-and-run attacks. NATO's military advantage in such a war is air power. The soldiers don't hesitate to call in Big Daddy (who, in today's military, often flies in with the voice of a female pilot). But while these flying war machines are saviors to the soldiers, they cannot distinguish between insurgents and civilians.

I went to Afghanistan last fall with a question: Why, with all our technology, were we killing so many civilians in air strikes? As of September of last year, according to Human Rights Watch, NATO was causing alarmingly high numbers of civilian deaths - 350 by the coalition, compared with 438 by the insurgents. The sheer tonnage of metal raining down on Afghanistan was mind-boggling: a million pounds between January and September of 2007, compared with half a million in all of 2006.

After a few days, the first question sparked more: Was there a deeper problem in the counterinsurgency campaign? More than 100 American soldiers were killed last year, the highest rate since the invasion. Why were so many more American troops being killed? To find out, I spent much of the fall in the Korengal Valley and elsewhere in Kunar province alongside soldiers who were making life-and-death decisions almost every day - decisions that led to the deaths of soldiers and of civilians.

Subduing the Valley
Over the last two years, the Americans have steadily increased their presence in Kunar province, fanning out to the small platoon-size outposts that have become the signature of the new counterinsurgency doctrine in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The Korengal Outpost, nicknamed the KOP, was built in April 2006 on the site of a former timber mill and motel. The soldiers of Battle Company of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team live there in dusty tents and little wooden huts. They now have hot food and a small chow tent with an Internet linkup and a few phones for calling home. But the place was protected by not much more than concertina wire and sentries. Nearly every time I arrived at the KOP our helicopter was greeted by sniper fire or the dushka - a Russian-made antiaircraft gun.

Dan Kearney was essentially lord of the Korengal Valley. A self-described Georgia army brat, he grew up idolizing his warrior dad, Frank Kearney, and wanted to move in his father's world of covert and overt operations. (His father is now a lieutenant general in Special Operations command.) Kearney often calls himself a dumb jock, playing the crass, loudmouthed tough guy with his soldiers. He had been in Iraq and told me he had gone emotionally dead there with all the dying and killing, and stayed that way until the birth of his son a year ago. His hardest day in Iraq was when a close friend, Rob Shaw, was severely wounded by an improvised explosive device that killed his first sergeant and a bunch of their friends - and the next thing he knew their colonel was asking Kearney to step in for Shaw and lead the company.
But as hard as Iraq was, he said, nothing was as tough as the Korengal. Unlike in Iraq, where the captains and lieutenants could let down their guard in a relatively safe, fortified operating base, swapping stories and ideas, here they had no one to talk to and were almost as vulnerable to enemy fire inside the wire as out. Last summer, insurgents stormed one of the bases in a nearby valley and wounded 16.

And unlike every other place I've been in Afghanistan - even the Pech River valley, just an hour's drive away - the Korengal had no Afghan police or district leaders for the Americans to work with. The Afghan government, and Afghans down the valley, seemed to have washed their hands of the Korengalis. As Kearney put it to me one day at the KOP, the Korengal is like a tough Los Angeles neighborhood, ''and we're the L.A.P.D. kicking in the door, arresting guys, demanding information about the gangs, and slowly the people say, 'No, we don't know anything, because that guy in the gang, he's with my sister, and that other guy, he's my uncle's cousin.' Now we've angered them for so many years that they've decided: 'I'm gonna stick with the A.C.M.''' - anticoalition militants - '''who are my brothers and I'm not gonna rat them out.'''
So what exactly was his job out here? To subdue the valley. It's a task the Marines had tried, and then the soldiers of the Army's 10th Mountain Division - a task so bloody it seemed to drive the 10th Mountain's soldiers to a kind of madness. Kearney's soldiers told me they'd been spooked by the weird behavior of their predecessors last May: near the end of their tour, many would sit alone on the fire base talking to themselves. Privates disobeyed their sergeants, and squad leaders refused to step outside the wire to show the new boys the terrain. No one wanted to be shot in the last days of his tour.
Kearney kept his soldiers on a tight leash at first. Col. John Nicholson, a brigade commander with the 10th Mountain Division, had promised the Afghans he would not bomb their homes. When Kearney and the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team officially took over from the division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team on June 5, they kept that promise. ''My guys would tell me they didn't know which houses they're shooting from, and I'd tell them they can't shoot back into the villages,'' Kearney recalled. ''They hated me.'' The insurgents were testing the new captain, he suspected, by deliberately shooting from homes. On July 10, the Korengalis ambushed his soldiers from one house they often used - a three-story mansion on a fertile outcropping, with balconies overlooking the valley, that belonged to Haji Matin, a timber baron turned insurgent leader. It had been the scene of fighting in the past.
When Kearney's moment of decision came, two of 2nd Platoon's sergeants, Kevin Rice and Tanner Stichter, had been shot, and the fight was still going on. Kearney could see a woman and child in the house. ''We saw people moving weapons around,'' Kearney told me. ''I tried everything. I fired mortars to the back side to get the kids to run out the front. I shot to the left, to the right. The Apache'' - an attack helicopter - ''got shot at and left. I kept asking for a bomb drop, but no one wanted to sign off on the collateral damage of dropping a bomb on a house.'' Finally, he said, ''We shot a javelin and a tow'' - both armor-piercing missiles. ''I didn't get shot at from there for two months,'' Kearney said. ''I ended up killing that woman and that kid.''

Kearney could often sound cold-blooded, like when he'd march into the mess tent in shorts, improvising rap lyrics about killing bad guys. But then he'd switch to counselor, trying to salvage a soldier's marriage, or he'd joke with a Korengali elder about arranging a marriage between his own infant son and the elder's daughter to make peace. The performances steeled him against shouldering so much mortality. As he put it, ''The only reason anyone's listening to me in this valley right now is 'cause I'm dropping bombs on them.'' Still, he wasn't going to let himself shoot at houses every time his unit took fire: ''I'd just create more people that hate me.''

A Blood Feud
In late 2001, the B-52 symbolized, for many Afghans, liberation from Taliban rule. They wove images of the plane into their carpets. Urban legends sprang up about the B-52's power, how the planes glided along unscathed, even as the Taliban barraged them with antiaircraft fire. Kabulis spread the story that the B-52s had dropped thousands of leaflets saying, ''Hit us if you can!'' - and afterward the Taliban didn't waste their bullets on the B-52s.

But the jets that defeated the Taliban were wiping out innocent families as well. In July 2002, Special Forces in the mountains of Oruzgan thought they were destroying a high-value Taliban target, but instead they rocketed and bombed an engagement party. About 40 Afghans were killed and nearly 100 were wounded.

Such mistakes have continued, though the causes can change. The insurgents regularly use civilians as shields, children as spotters and women as food suppliers. NATO killing civilians is great propaganda for the Taliban. At the same time, to Afghans with little technological sophistication, the scale and impersonality make the accidents seem intentional. Many are convinced the Americans are deliberately bombing them and even deliberately aiding a Taliban comeback. The reality is that bombs are only as accurate as the intelligence on the ground - and since 9/11, the U.S. and NATO have used air power as a substitute for ground troops.

By now, seven years of air strikes and civilian casualties, humiliating house searches and arbitrary detentions have pushed many families and tribes to revenge. The Americans then see every Afghan in those pockets of recalcitrance as an enemy. If you peel back the layers, however, there's always a local political story at the root of the killing and dying. That original misunderstanding and grievance fertilizes the land for the Islamists. Whom do you want to side with: your brothers in God's world or the infidel thieves?
In the case of the Korengal Valley, the story began about a century ago, when the tribesmen now known as Korengalis were kicked out of the province of Nuristan (immediately north of Kunar province) and settled in the Korengal, which was rich with timber forests and farmland. Over time they made an alliance with one branch of the large Safi tribe, which once dominated Kunar politics. But down the road along the Pech River valley, the rest of the Safis opposed the Korengalis.

As the Afghans tell the story, from the moment the Americans arrived in 2001, the Pech Valley timber lords and warlords had their ear. Early on, they led the Americans to drop bombs on the mansion of their biggest rival - Haji Matin. The air strikes killed several members of his family, according to local residents, and the Americans arrested others and sent them to the prison at Bagram Air Base. The Pech Valley fighters working alongside the Americans then pillaged the mansion. And that was that. Haji Matin, already deeply religious, became ideological and joined with Abu Ikhlas, a local Arab linked to the foreign jihadis.
By 2007, the Americans understood what happened. Last year, the governor of Nuristan even sat them down with the Korengali elders to try and mediate between the two sides. Nothing came of it. Kearney tried to dig deeper, sending e-mail messages to anthropologists and Afghan experts to get their guidance. He spent hours listening to Haji Zalwar Khan - who acted as the valley's representative to the Americans and the government - talk about history and grievances. Haji Zalwar, a jihadi veteran of the anti-Soviet fight, bore the valley's burden almost alone and had the grim demeanor to prove it. Kearney met as many villagers as possible to learn the names of all the elders and their families. But he inherited a blood feud between the Korengalis and the Americans that he hadn't started, and he was being sucked into its logic.

''Serious P.T.S.D.''
Last autumn, after five months of grueling foot patrols up and down the mountains, after fruitless encounters with elders who smiled in the morning and were host to insurgents in the evening and after losing friends to enemy fire, Captain Kearney's men could relate to the sullen, jittery rage of their predecessors in the 10th Mountain Division. Many wondered what they were doing out there at all.

Kearney refused to entertain that thought. He would tell his visitors, whether generals or reconstruction teams, that his campaign plan was clear, if modest: ''It's World War II Pacific-island hopping, turning one village at a time.'' Over five months, he had gained about 400 yards of terrain. When some generals and colonels had flown in for a quick tour, and Kearney was showing them the lay of the land, one officer said to another, as Kearney later recalled it, ''I don't know why we're even out here.'' Another officer jumped in to talk up the logic of the operation. Kearney told me he thought: Sort your stuff out before you come out here. My boys are sucking it up and dying. ... For besides being lord of the valley, he had another role to play - motivator, disciplinarian and confidant to his soldiers. ''It's like being in charge of a soap opera,'' he told me. ''I feel like Dr. Phil with guns.''

One full-moon night I was sitting outside a sandbag-reinforced hut with Kearney when a young sergeant stepped out hauling the garbage. He looked around at the illuminated mountains, the dust, the rocks, the garbage bin. The monkeys were screeching. ''I hate this country!'' he shouted. Then he smiled and walked back into the hut. ''He's on medication,'' Kearney said quietly to me.
Then another soldier walked by and shouted, ''Hey, I'm with you, sir!'' and Kearney said to me, ''Prozac. Serious P.T.S.D. from last tour.'' Another one popped out of the HQ cursing and muttering. ''Medicated,'' Kearney said. ''Last tour, if you didn't give him information, he'd burn down your house. He killed so many people. He's checked out.''

As I went to get some hot chocolate in the dining tent, the peaceful night was shattered by mortars, rockets and machine-gun fire banging and bursting around us. It was a coordinated attack on all the fire bases. It didn't take long to understand why so many soldiers were taking antidepressants. The soldiers were on a 15-month tour that included just 18 days off. Many of them were ''stop-lossed,'' meaning their contracts were extended because the army is stretched so thin. You are not allowed to refuse these extensions. And they felt eclipsed by Iraq. As Sgt. Erick Gallardo put it: ''We don't get supplies, assets. We scrounge for everything and live a lot more rugged. But we know the war is here. We got unfinished business.''

For sanity, all they had was the medics' tent, video games and movies - ''Gladiator,'' ''Conan the Barbarian,'' ''Dogma,'' Monty Python. Down the road in the Pech Valley, soldiers played cricket with Afghan kids and had organized boxing and soccer matches. Lt. Kareem Hernandez, a New Yorker running a base on the Pech River, regularly bantered over dinner with the Afghan police. Neighbors would come by with tips. But here in the Korengal, the soldiers were completely alienated from the local culture. One night while watching a scene from HBO's ''Rome'' in which a Roman soldier tells a slave he wants to marry her, a soldier asked which century the story was set in. ''First B.C. or A.D.,'' said another soldier. The first shook his head: ''And they're still living like this 800 meters outside the wire.''
At the end of the summer, Kearney told his dad, ''My boys are gonna go crazy out here.'' The army sent a shrink, and Kearney got a wake-up call about his own leadership. He discovered that half his men thought he was playing Russian roulette with their lives and the other half thought he stuck too closely to the rules of engagement. ''The moral compass of the army is the P.L. and the C.O.'' - the platoon leader and the commanding officer, Kearney told me. ''I told every one of my P.L.'s that they have to set that moral standard, that once you slip to the left, you can't pull your guys back in.''

Operation Rock Avalanche
On Oct. 19, Kearney and Battle Company were air assaulted into the insurgents' backyard for a mission that many thought insane. It was called Rock Avalanche and would last about six days. One of its main targets was the village of Yaka China.

Kearney, being the good soldier, tried to pump up his boys with the promise that they would be going after insurgents who had killed their friends and whose grizzled faces were plastered on their bad-guy family-tree wall at the KOP. They would upset the guerrillas' safe haven and their transit routes from Pakistan. They would persuade the villagers to stop harboring the bad guys by offering an $11 million road project that had just been approved by NATO and Kabul and would be built by the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team. And they'd complete the ''human terrain mapping'' that is part of the new counterinsurgency doctrine - what families dominate, who's married, who's feuding, are there divisions to be exploited?

It was a lot to ask of young soldiers: play killer, cultural anthropologist, hearts-and-minds winner and then killer again. Which is why, just hours before the mission was to begin, some soldiers were smearing black-and-green war paint on their faces when their sergeant shouted: ''Take it off. Now!'' Why? They'd frighten the villagers.

It seemed a moot point as Rock Avalanche got under way. Apache gunships were scanning the ridges for insurgents. Other helicopters were dropping off more soldiers. An unmanned drone was whining overhead as it sent infrared video feeds to a large screen back at the battalion's headquarters, Camp Blessing, six miles north of the KOP.
Almost immediately, high on a mountainside looking down on Yaka China, Kearney had to play God. In a ditch to his left, Jesse Yarnell, a young intelligence officer, along with John, an Afghan interpreter, were intercepting insurgents on their two-way radios saying, ''We see them, we're going to wait.''
''They're right down there!'' said Kevin Caroon as he gazed out of his night vision. Caroon, from Connecticut and a father of two, was an Air Force JTAC - the joint terminal attack controller who talks the combat pilots onto their targets. ''See that? Two people moving south 400 meters away from us,'' Caroon said, pointing down the mountain face. More insurgents were located nearby.
''Sir, what do you want to do?'' Caroon asked Kearney.
''I want them dead,'' Kearney said.
''Engage them?''
''Yes. Take 'em out.''
Caroon radioed the pilot his instructions, ''On-scene commander's intent is to engage.'' And that was it.
A sudden wail pierced the night sky. It was Slasher, an AC-130 gunship, firing bullets the size of Coke bottles. Flaming shapes ricocheted all around the village. Kearney was in overdrive. The soldiers back at the KOP were radioing in that the drone was tracking 10 men near the tree line. Yarnell was picking up insurgent radio traffic. ''They're talking about getting ready to hit us,'' someone said. The pilot could see five men, one entering a house, then, no, some were in the trees, some inside, and then, multiple houses. He wanted confirmation - were all these targets hostile? Did Kearney have any collateral-damage concerns? Cursing, Kearney told them to engage the men outside but not to hit the house. The pilots radioed back that men had just run inside. No doubt there would be a family. Caroon reminded Kearney that Slasher had only enough fuel to stay in position for 10 more minutes.
''What do you want to do, sir?'' Caroon asked him.
Kearney radioed his soldiers back at the KOP to contact his boss, Lt. Col. Bill Ostlund. Ostlund, a Nebraska social scientist who could switch effortlessly from aggressive bomber to political negotiator talking family values with Afghan tribal elders, was in the crowded tactical-operations room at Camp Blessing watching the drone's video feed and getting the same intelligence. He signed off on collateral damage, and Kearney turned to Caroon: ''Take out the compound. And anyone that comes out.''

Flaming rockets flashed through the sky. Thunder rumbled and echoed through the valley. Then there was a pause. Slasher asked Caroon whether the insurgents were still talking. Kearney shouted over to Yarnell in his ditch, ''You picking anything up?'' Nothing. More spitting rockets.

The night seemed incomprehensible and interminable. Slasher departed and Gunmetal - an Apache helicopter - swept in. Radio communication kept breaking down. At one point the crew of Gunmetal, sensing no hostile intent, refused Kearney's orders to fire. Then suddenly Gunmetal was rocketing at figures scattering for cover. Then Slasher was back in the sky doing more ''work.'' In the predawn light Bone - the nickname for the B-1 bomber that seemed to be the soldiers' favorite - winged in and dropped two 2,000-pound bombs above the village. Finally, around dawn, a weary Kearney, succumbing to gallows humor, adrenaline and exhaustion, said: ''O.K., I've done my killing for the week. I'm ready to go home.''
Kearney estimated that they killed about 20 people, adding: ''I'm not gonna lie. Some are probably civilians.''

In the logic of war, the best antidote for the menacing ghostliness of the ambushing enemy is killing and knowing you've killed them. The soldiers in the Korengal almost never had that kind of satisfaction. Any insurgents, if they were killed, would be buried fast, and all that was left in their wake were wounded civilians. That morning, after a long night of fighting, was no different. Within an hour or so, Lt. Matt Piosa, an earnest, 24-year-old West Point grad, and his patrol were in Yaka China. They radioed that the village elders were asking to bury their dead. They'd also collected wounded civilians. The tally was bad - 5 killed and 11 wounded, all of them women, girls and boys.

Kearney radioed Camp Blessing the bad news and dropped his head between his knees. Killing women and children was tragedy enough. But civilian casualties are also a political issue. If he didn't manage to explain his actions to the Yaka China villagers and get them to understand his intentions, he could lose them to the enemy. Meanwhile, Yarnell and his team were intercepting radio messages like: ''Be very quiet. Move the things over here. Pray for us.'' At least some of the insurgents from the previous night's fight had survived to fight again. The planes were tracking them hiding along a creek. But after the civilian casualties of the night before, senior commanders were refusing to give Kearney clearance to bomb or rocket them.

The short day was fading. The sun dropped behind the peaks. The cold winds rattled our bones. The soldiers tried to make light of their conviction that they'd be attacked by those insurgents dissolving into the villages. Their fears were realized.

Hearts and Minds
To try to acquire allies, Kearney and some of his men flew down the next day to Yaka China. With nowhere else to land, the Black Hawk helicopters descended on the roof of a house not far below the compound that Slasher, the AC-130, had rocketed the night of the 19th. Dust and dried grass whipped across the house and the villagers' faces. Just to endear themselves even more, the soldiers from Battle Company had to step on harvested corn as they climbed down; it was drying on the second story.

The adversaries faced off in the courtyard as chickens sprinted in and out. On one side were Kearney, Ostlund and Larry LeGree, a naval nuclear engineer and head of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, together with their entourage, including interpreters, all in futuristic high-tech gear. On the other side were the Korengali elders, who looked as if they stepped out of ''Lord of the Rings'' with their crooked walking sticks, beards dyed red and blue eyes framed by kohl. With no Afghan government out here, the elders are the only channel for communication. The younger men sat on the ground, wrapped in shawls and bold indifference.

Kearney squatted and told the Korengalis that when he came to this region he hoped to walk into Yaka China and find out what the villagers needed. Instead, he found that there were some 50 insurgents in and around the village. He pointed to the evidence - military radio batteries that his men had found, binoculars, rockets, an old pistol, a small pamphlet titled, in Arabic, ''How to Kill,'' and one in Pashto, ''The Concise Book on the Virtues of Jihad'' - that had been collected in the general area by Afghan soldiers and Americans. It was not a very incriminating haul, and everyone knew it.
The day before, a U.S. medevac had airlifted out the wounded civilians from the village. Humanitarian assistance was air-dropped in, including concrete for retaining walls, rice and blankets for winter. The provisions were not compensation, Kearney told the elders. ''It's what the government does for their people when there is security here,'' he said. He asked them to tell him where in the mountains the insurgents were hiding their supplies. ''That way I don't have to come in here and shoot at you and identify the good guys from the bad guys,'' he said.
To keep his bearings amid the hostile faces, Kearney kept appealing to Haji Zalwar Khan, the leading go-between among the valley's elders. He made his fortune in the timber trade and blamed the Americans for shutting it down. He tried to placate both the Americans and the insurgents. He was not about to side with Kearney in public. ''How can I know where you found these things?'' he asked, referring to the jihadi items. ''In the mountain? The house? How do I know whom they belong to?''

Kearney smiled. He was getting used to the routine between the Americans and the villagers - miscommunication and deception. The encounter felt as much performative, a necessary part of the play, as substantive. And I wondered how Kearney was going to keep his sanity for 10 more months.
Just a week or so earlier, I had been at the KOP when villagers from Aliabad - a mile south of the KOP, and the home village of Haji Zalwar Khan - complained to Kearney that some ordinance had hit a house. Later they sent up the homeowner's teenage son to wrest compensation from Kearney. As we walked to the KOP's entrance to meet the boy, a shot rang out, then another. The bullets smacked the dirt in front of us. Kearney shoved me into a shack where an Afghan was cooking bread. A few more shots were fired. It was ''One-Shot Freddy,'' as the soldiers refer to him, an insurgent shooter everyone had a theory about regarding the vintage of his gun, his identity, his tactics - but neither Kearney's scouts nor Shadow the drone could ever track him. I accidentally slashed my forearm on a nail in the shack and as I watched the blood pool I thought that if I had to live with Freddy and his ilk for months on end I, too, would see a forked tongue in every villager and start dreaming of revenge.

Kearney was angry. ''Taliban shot your house?'' he asked the boy from Aliabad. An interpreter translated.
No, said the boy, Americans did.
''What'd we shoot with?''
''I don't know the weapon, but there's little holes and two big holes.''
''I didn't shoot into Aliabad,'' said Kearney, adding that if one of his soldiers had, it was because insurgents were firing from the village.
''No one shoots from the village," said the boy, though everyone knew insurgents had wounded several of Kearney's soldiers by shooting from the mosque, the cemetery, the school. ...
The boy changed course, ''God knows better than me,'' and that sent Kearney on a riff: ''Yes. God does and God talks to me and told me they do.'' And by the way, hadn't the boy noticed that the bad guys always start shooting first?
''O.K., then shoot them, not our house,'' the boy said.
''Then tell me where the bad guys are,'' Kearney said. The boy said he didn't know. What he knew was that the Americans were always shooting at the village.
This went on for some time. When the boy again protested that no one shoots from his village, Kearney interrupted him. ''Aminullah does,'' he said. Aminullah was a native of Aliabad and a rising figure in the valley's insurgency.
The boy smiled.
''You're smiling because you know I'm right,'' Kearney said.
''You're right,'' the boy said. ''So shoot the cemetery, not our house.''
Kearney moved closer to him. ''Look, if you want help with your house, all you have to do is ask. But don't accuse us every time something goes wrong.''
The boy laughed and repeated that he didn't know where the bad guys were.
''It's crazy, man. They must be ghosts!'' Kearney said, laughing.
''Aminullah doesn't come to Aliabad anymore,'' the boy said, perhaps trying to give Kearney a bone.
Kearney leapt at it. ''So Aminullah is bad?''
''Yes.''
''Ah! Finally! We're getting somewhere.'' Kearney took off his helmet and squeezed his hands together and rocked as he sat on a wall. ''What about Mohammad Tali, he's a good guy isn't he?'' Kearney asked.
Smiling again, the boy looked at the dirt: ''No. You already told us he's a bad guy.''
''Ah!'' Kearney said, throwing up his hands. ''So you were down there in the village when I gave radios and food. But instead you say I shoot at you all the time?'' Kearney swung his legs back and forth. ''Hey dude, ask yourself. Why would I bring you radios and food and shoot at you? Does Aminullah? No. What happened that day after I left?'' The boy said all he knew was that the villagers went home and ''they'' started shooting. ''Where?'' Kearney asked, ''from your village?''
''What can I say? The Americans were in my village.''
''Yeah, so I was doing good stuff for you guys and they shot at me. And what I'm trying to say is they could have shot at you again. And if I shoot at your house I'll help. We'll fix up that wall. I'm not here to hurt you.''
Everyone was getting restless in the little check post. Kearney tried to lighten up a bit. He asked the boy what he thought about the Americans.
''You build roads and clinics and schools and are here to help,'' the boy said.
''Cop out,'' Kearney shouted, chuckling. ''Easy answer. Hey dude, you can say we're rotten and messing up your lumber trade.'' The boy laughed. Kearney laughed. Pfc. Michael Cunningham, the radio operator, and Sgt. Taylor White, who always manned the check post, both laughed.
''See, I knew it,'' Kearney said. ''That's what you really think. Think I want to be here?''
''Yeah,'' the boy said. ''I think so.''
''Dude. I got a wife and son. I came here to help you out. If you give me as much help as possible I'll get out of here a hell of a lot faster.''
Kearney told him to enjoy Ramadan, and then shouted, ''Where's my fuzzy friend?'' as he looked about for Jericho, the puppy whose ears were chopped off by an Afghan worker: it was pre-emptive preparation for dog fighting - the ears would just give an enemy dog something to grab onto. ''I need someone to make me happy. Jericho, I need some love.'' Jericho appeared, leaping about. Kearney picked him up. ''Hey, what's up buddy? You're a good boy. You smell like dirt.''

Kearney turned to Cunningham and White and said, ''Well, he's the first to admit Aminullah's bad.'' And give or take a little unreliable information shared here and there, that was the Korengal routine.

Fight Time
The day after the meeting with the elders of Yaka China, Yarnell and John could hear insurgents trying to pinpoint where Kearney and his men were. The helicopters had moved us to a ridge line, about 8,400 feet high, straddling the Korengal and Shuriak Valleys. The insurgents used the deep caves, boulders and forests as hideouts and transit routes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. We could hear someone who called himself Obeid saying he'd do whatever the Yaka China elders decided - whether to cooperate with the Americans or take revenge. By evening the elders had apparently reached their verdict. It was fight time.

Kearney, too, had reached a verdict. He would fool the insurgents, feigning a troop extraction when the helicopters came for resupply and pushing out his best guys in small ''kill teams.'' We heard the insurgents say, ''We have wolves on them,'' meaning spotters. A hoarse, whispering insurgent had eyes on either Sgt. Larry Rougle and his scouts or on Lieutenant Piosa and his rear guard. There was joking that Rougle and Piosa should dance and see which one the whisperer was spying on. Then nothing happened for almost 24 hours.

Rougle - who was called Wildcat - was on his sixth deployment since Sept. 11, 2001. He was with the first group of Rangers in Afghanistan. Even his rough background was something of a legend; he would tell how he grew up in a South Jersey gang, shot a guy, went to ''juvie,'' and there taught himself Russian (though he was estranged from his Russian father), taught himself politics, history, zoology. At night out in the woods, he'd tell his fellow scouts, ''You know penguins are monogamous?''

I hung out with Piosa and his crew. His white skin, red hair and blue eyes belied the months of constant warfare he and his platoon had scraped through. It was a beautiful autumn afternoon and the soldiers were joking around, heating up Meals Ready to Eat, spitting gobs of Copenhagen and then, in a moment, recess was over. The insurgents were on them. Bullets ricocheted all through the woods. A strange silence fell as everyone scrambled for cover. Three of us crouched behind a skinny pine tree. And the silence broke: curses, shouting.
''Where's it coming from?''
''Where are my guys?''
''Jones, are you seeing things?''
More bullets. Cracks against the tree trunks. Bits of confusing information were coming in on Piosa's radio.
''They're comin' up the low ground at 2-4'' - Sergeant Rice's call sign.
''One W.I.A. hit in the arm.'' Then there was panic and screaming.
''The enemy's overtaken the hill,'' bellowed Pvt. Sterling Dunn from further down the trees.
''2-4 is hit'' - that was Rice.
''Wildcat is run over the hill'' - that was Rougle.
''Get a team to run up there and take that hill. They pushed Wildcat over the hill!'' Piosa shouted, trying over and over to reach Rice and Rougle, but getting no answer. The battalion surgeon, Capt. Joel Dean, and a sergeant sprinted up the hill to get to the wounded. As the first Americans neared Rice and Rougle's positions they were fired on from those same positions. What was going on?

I followed Piosa through the brush toward the ridge. We came upon Rice and Specialist Carl Vandenberge behind some trees. Vandenberge was drenched in blood. The shot to his arm had hit an artery. Rice was shot in the stomach. A soldier was using the heating chemicals from a Meal Ready to Eat to warm Vandenberge and keep him from going into shock.

Piosa moved on to the hill where the men had been overrun. I saw big blue-eyed John Clinard, a sergeant from North Carolina, falling to pieces. He worshiped Rougle. ''Sergeant Rougle is dying. It's my fault. ... I'm sorry. ... I tried to get up the hill. ...'' Sergeant Rougle was lying behind him. Someone had already covered him with a blanket. Only the soles of his boots were visible.

''There's nothing you could do,'' Piosa said, grabbing Clinard's shoulder. ''You got to be the man now. You can do it. I need you to get down to Rice and Vandenberge and get them to the medevac.'' Clinard wiped his face, seemed to snap to and headed off through the trees.

Two of Rice's squad mates appeared, eyes dilated. They couldn't believe they'd seen, up close, the ghosts they'd been fighting for the last five months. ''I saw him in the eyes,'' Specialist Marc Solowski said. ''He looked at me. I shot him.'' He and Specialist Michael Jackson had crawled up the hill twice trying to retake it. Each time the insurgents in ''manjammies'' whipped them back with machine-gun fire. There was blood on the stones around us. Some thought they saw blood trailing down toward the village of Landigal, where they were sure an insurgent had dashed into a cottage.
''We're not losing this hill again,'' Piosa shouted. ''This hill is ours!'' He wanted bombs to be dropped immediately.

''There's women praying in that house,'' Dunn shouted back.
I was fixating on Rougle's black hat, lying by the bloodied rock patch where Dunn was sitting, when Sergeant Stichter, Dunn's senior, appeared, out of breath and shaking, back from tending to Vandenberge. He needed water. The F-15 known as Dude was en route, the Apaches were chasing men and Kearney - who had bolted down the mountain, throwing grenades in caves - was barking orders. Kearney was badly shaken. He adored Rougle, and he'd broken down when he saw his big old buddy Rice bleeding at the landing zone. Rice comforted him and then lumbered to the helicopter, just asking to talk to his wife before they put him under.

The insurgents had run off with some of Rougle, Rice and Vandenberge's stuff - ammunition, communication equipment, night vision goggles, machine guns. Kearney wanted the equipment back. He wanted to punish the valley. Stichter had his eyes on a guy pacing a rooftop in Landigal and wanted to blow his head off. Specialist Mitchell Raeon, whose uniform was now soaked in Rougle's blood, had the guy in his scope but couldn't range that far. ''That's a female,'' Dunn said.

Kearney had identified insurgents who'd dashed into a house and wanted to hit them, but Stichter got back word from Camp Blessing saying the target was too close to other houses. Kearney sent back a reminder - you let some guys get away the other night. It was impossible to know for sure, but Kearney believed they were the guys who had killed Rougle, and now, he said, you're going to let another group get away?
Someone cursed, then said, ''They're all leaving the house.''
Kearney radioed down to one of his lieutenants at an observation post. ''Where are they going?'' Yarnell heard the insurgents say they were coming back for the rest of the equipment. And then, with no warning, an F-15 dropped a bomb on Landigal, but off target, or so it seemed. Kearney was furious. He was sure headquarters had intentionally missed the house he had wanted hit.

I noticed Raeon was packing and unpacking Rougle's things. Rougle's scouts were in disarray, rudderless, and admitting it. Raeon said he kept seeing in his mind Rougle's face alert and then dead, switching back and forth; he wanted it to stop.

The next day brought another brief firefight, and Rougle's scouts rallied swiftly. They said they felt him watching and proud. There were more bomb drops and refusals to drop bombs, and then Becky, everyone's favorite Apache pilot, swept in. Not only did she offer the comforting voice of a woman seeping right into their ears, but Becky was one of the most aggressive shooters. She flew up and down the canyon walls seeking out and rocketing insurgents. We heard them on the radio again boasting about retreating to safety under fire. They talked about the strike in Landigal that they thought might have killed Azizullah - ''a real bad guy,'' the radio operator told me.

Kearney was watching a crow flying above us. ''Taliban are right,'' he said. ''Like they said yesterday, follow the birds, they follow the Americans. I wish I was made as strong as haj'' - their nickname for insurgents. ''They were balls to do what they did. And guess what? I'm not gonna lie. They won.''

Killing Together
As we waited for dusk to get back to the KOP, we all knew the insurgents were nearby, eyes on Kearney, eyes on the soldiers down in the valley. Even nightfall was no comfort because the full moon was floodlighting the Korengal. I returned to the KOP by helicopter with Kearney, while 1st and 2nd Platoons had to make the long trek back on foot. As soon as 1st Platoon set off, the insurgents struck with a devastating L-shaped ambush. All Kearney could do, back at the KOP, was calm his boys on the radio, get in the medevac and invoke the gods of war. The Apaches, Slasher and Bone dropped bombs all night. The soldiers and insurgents were so close that when Slasher, the AC-130, flew in, the pilot coordinated not with the JTAC but with Sgt. Roberto Sandifer, the platoon's forward observer, who at that moment was under fire watching one of his guys die.

Around midnight, 1st Platoon filed into the KOP, eyes bulging, drenched in sweat, river water and blood. They were hauling the belongings of Mohammad Tali, a high-value target. Specialist Sal Giunta had killed him.
The next day I climbed up to the KOP and found Specialist Giunta, a quiet Iowan lofted into a heroism he didn't want. His officers were putting him up for a medal of honor. Giunta told me the story of that night, how they'd barely moved 300 yards before they were blasted. Giunta was fourth in the file when it happened, and he jumped into a ditch. He couldn't figure out why they were getting hit from where Joshua Brennan and baby-faced Franklin Eckrode should have been leading up ahead. He knew it must be bad, but as he leapt up to check he got whacked with a bullet in his armored chest plate. It threw him down. They were taking fire from three sides. He grabbed some grenades: ''I couldn't throw as far as Sergeant Gallardo. We were looking like retards and I decided to run out in front of the grenades.'' He found Eckrode with gunshot wounds. ''He was down but moving and trying to fix his SAW'' - a heavy machine gun - ''so I just kept on running up the trail. It was cloudy. I was running and saw dudes. Plural.''

He couldn't figure out who they were. Then he realized they were hauling Brennan off through the forest. ''I started shooting,'' he recalled. ''I emptied that magazine. They dropped Brennan.'' Giunta scrambled up to Brennan. He was a mess. His lower jaw was shot off. ''He was still conscious. He was breathing. He was asking for morphine. I said, 'You'll get out and tell your hero stories,' and he was like, 'I will, I will.'''

They were still taking fire. No one was there to help. Hugo Mendoza, their platoon medic, was back in another ditch, calling: ''I'm bleeding out. I'm dying.'' Giunta saw Brennan's eyes go back. His breathing was bad. Giunta got Brennan to squeeze his hand. A medic showed up out of the sky. They prepared Brennan to be hoisted to the medevac in a basket. Soon he would be dead.

As the medevacs flew out, Sergeant Sandifer had talked in air cover: Slasher, the AC-130. The pilot was a woman and, Sandifer later told me, ''It was so reassuring for us to hear her voice.'' She spotted guys hiding and asked if she was clear to engage. '''You're cleared hot,' I told her. And we killed two people together.'' But, at this point, the killings were no consolation to Sandifer.

As Giunta said, ''The richest, most-trained army got beat by dudes in manjammies and A.K.'s.'' His voice cracked. He was not just hurting, he was in a rage. And there was nothing for him to do with it but hold back his tears, and bark - at the Afghans for betraying them, at the Army for betraying them. He didn't run to the front because he was a hero. He ran up to get to Brennan, his friend. ''But they'' - he meant the military - ''just keep asking for more from us.'' His contract would be up in 18 days but he had been stop-lossed and couldn't go home. Brennan himself was supposed to have gotten out in September. He'd been planning to go back to Wisconsin where his dad lived, play his guitar and become a cop.

Sandifer was questioning why they were sticking it out in the Korengal when the people so clearly hated them. He was haunted by Mendoza's voice calling to him: ''I'm bleeding out. I'm dying.'' He worried that the Korengal was going to push them off the deep end. In his imagination it had already happened. One day an Afghan visited their fire base, Sandifer told me. ''I was staring at him, on the verge of picking up my weapon to shoot him,'' he said. ''I know right from wrong, but even if I did shoot him everyone at the fire base would have been O.K. We're all to the point of 'Lord of the Flies.'" And they still had 10 months to go in the Korengal.

I wondered how Kearney was going to win back his own guys, let alone win over the Korengalis. Just before I left, Kearney told me his biggest struggle would be holding his guys in check. ''I've got too many geeking out, wanting to go off the deep end and kill people,'' he said. One of his lieutenants wanted to shoot every Afghan in the face. Kearney shook his head. He wished he could buy 20 goats and let the boys beat and burn them and let loose their rage. He tried to tell them the restraints were a product of their success - that there was an Afghan government with its own rules. ''I'm balancing plates on my goddamn nose is what I'm doing,'' he said. ''All it's gonna take is for one of these guys to snap.''

But leave the Korengal, as the colonel had suggested, and let some other company deal with it? No way. He'd spent five months learning the valley, getting involved in it; he couldn't just pull out. At least he would keep the insurgents busy here so the other companies could do hearts and minds unimpeded down along the Pech river. ''I lost seven dudes here,'' he told me. ''It's too much blood. I don't want to give this up. This is mine.''

To Be Continued
Colonel Ostlund and his officers, and the governor of Kunar and his officials, held an all-day meeting with the Korengali elders. The elders wanted to talk about Rock Avalanche and the devastation that had rained down on them. Colonel Ostlund told them, ''If anything should happen to Captain Kearney, pain and misery will knock on many doors in the Korengal.'' He gave them 10 days to pick sides - the insurgents or the government. Only then would he consider going ahead with the road project. Their answer came back. They would leave the valley altogether. But they didn't, and 10 days later insurgents pulled off another ambush of a platoon from the 173rd. The entire patrol went down, either wounded or killed. Kearney told me recently that they had wounded Abu Ikhlas and killed some other bad guys. He said he was pretty sure that Haji Matin, the embittered timber lord, had been killed, too. But the dialogue with the Korengalis was pretty much the same as it had been. Only the winter snows have brought some minor respite to the valley.

-- Jillian Dunham
Research Editor
The New York Times Magazine
212-556-XXXX

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-02-21T16:30:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday/Thursday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

An Illustrated History of Umatilla County & Morrow County, by Colonel William Parsons and W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the State of Oregon. W. H. Lever, Spokane, WA, (1902), p. 354-355.

LEWIS M. HUSON. - Few are now living who came earlier to this western country than this estimable citizen and worthy pioneer whose name we gladly incorporate in this record of Umatilla county. In the early ‘fifties he sought the California gold fields, where for three years he delved for hidden treasure, and at the time of the Fraser river exodus went thither also in the employ of the American Tunnel Company. From that point he returned to Puget Sound and entered the employ of the government as assistant surveyor under Major Tilton. In this capacity he helped to sectionize all of Lewis and Thurston and a part of King counties. From this he turned, in 1858, to Walla Walla and lived there for four years. For twenty years he visited various sections of the country until satisfied with his explorations he came back to Umatilla county and took up a homestead and pre-emption where he now lives, six miles northwest from Helix. Thrift and economy have enabled him to add to his real estate until he now owns one whole section, which he cultivates to wheat principally. The Washington White variety finds favor with him, and his average yield is thirty bushels per acre annually. Sufficient stock for the necessities of the farms is all that he raises. His farm presents the appearance of thrift and wisdom used in its culture. Taste and good judgment are displayed in the improvements, such as a good comfortable residence, substantial outbuildings and necessary equipage.

On February 22, 1853, Miss Jane McMillan and Mr. Huson were married. Her parents were Archibald and Mary J. McMillan. The following children have been born to them: Elizabeth, married to Charles Parish; Neina B., married to C. C. Anderson; Lewis E.; Charles P.; Myrtle, married to C. B. Haun; John C.; William C.; and Pearl and an infant, the last two being dead. His fraternal affiliations are with the Maccabees and the U. F. of F. U. He is also an exempt fireman from the Walla Walla department. It was Mr. Huson who drew the petition for the formation of the First Washington Artillery. In political matters Mr. Huson is widely and favorably known, being a Republican, having once, however, been with the Populists. Ever active in attendance upon the conventions that proper men should be placed upon the tickets, but never accepting office for himself, he was won, in the hearts of the people, an enviable reputation for unselfishness and hearty activity for the good of all.

Mr. Huson was born to Calvin and Betsy (Crego), on April 5, 1836,in New York state. His early education was excellent, attending the Lina Academy and later graduating from the Dundee Academy, and then at the early age of seventeen engaged in teaching in Virginia. The same mental vigor and keen perception that characterized his early years of precocity have ever been leading factors in his life and have stamped him, as he justly deserves, a leader among men.

From a whisper, to a ROAR: The Conservative Majority Project

2008-02-15T09:14:00.000-08:00

Red Tide Rising:

Individual Responsibility, Limited Government, Constitutional Democracy, Property Rights, and The Free Market.

Any Questions?

http://www.conservativemajorityproject.com

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-02-14T09:01:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-02-07T14:04:00.000-08:00

Dorchester is coming February 29th - March 2nd in Seaside, OR

2008-02-06T10:25:00.000-08:00

Dorchester XLIV is coming February 29th to March 2nd, 2008 at the Seaside, Oregon Convention Center. Dorchester is America's oldest annual political convention, where "Politics IS Fun!" is the mantra. Please join our friends at Dorchester. Register now, at:

http://dorchester.org/

Many opportunities exist, for online Republican Professional Development. Please review some of the following web-based resources:

"Are you talking to me?", A Guide to Reaching Young Voters, from the Harvard University Institute of Politics.

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/IOP_Voters_Guide.pdf

The Voter Registration and Mobilization Guide, from the Harvard University Institute of Politics (September 2006).

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/voter_registration_guide.pdf

A State-by-State Guide to Absentee Voting, from the Harvard University Institute of Politics (2008).

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/pdfs/absentee_ballot_guide.pdf

GOPAC's 2004 Get-Out-The-Vote guide:

http://grahamsgrassroots.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/GOTV.pdf

GOPAC's "Precinct Leader Get Out the Vote Handbook":

http://grahamsgrassroots.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Precinct.pdf

GOPAC's "Money" (A Step-by-Step Guide to Raise the Necessary Capital for Winning Your Campaign):

http://grahamsgrassroots.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Money.pdf

GOPAC's "Winning Habits of Successful Legislators":

http://grahamsgrassroots.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Winning.pdf

Oregon Republican League Blogspot: Oregon Republican History Project in Effect

http://www.oregonrepublicanleague.blogspot.com

NW Republican Blogspot: "where Republicans in the Pacific NW can come to share ideas, news and of course read those of our distinguished stable of contributors"

http://www.nwrepublican.blogspot.com/

Oregon Republican Party:

http://orgop.org/

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-01-30T18:19:00.001-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-01-23T15:11:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-01-10T20:39:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday (still traveling), the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000605

WILSON, Joseph Gardner, (1826 - 1873)

WILSON, Joseph Gardner, (cousin of James Willis Nesmith), a Representative from Oregon; born in Acworth, Sullivan County, N.H., December 13, 1826; moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1828 and later to a farm near Reading, Hamilton County; attended the district schools until 1840 and Cary’s Academy from 1840 to 1842; was graduated from Marietta (Ohio) College in 1846; professor in Farmer’s College, near Cincinnati, in 1849; was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1852 and was admitted to the bar; moved to Oregon Territory in 1852 and commenced the practice of law in Salem, Oreg.; clerk of the Territorial legislature in 1853; first secretary of the Willamette Woolen Co. when it was established in 1854; prosecuting attorney of Marion County 1860-1862; associate judge of the State supreme court 1864-1866 and 1868-1870; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress and served from March 4, 1873, until his death in Marietta, Ohio, July 2, 1873; interment in Pioneer Cemetery, The Dalles, Oreg.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2008-01-02T11:38:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday (we're late!), the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000552

WILLIAMSON, John Newton, (1855 - 1943)

WILLIAMSON, John Newton, a Representative from Oregon; born near Junction City, Lane County, Oreg., November 8, 1855; attended the country schools; attended Willamette University, Salem, Oreg.; moved to Prineville, Oreg., and engaged in livestock raising; sheriff of Cook County 1886-1888; member of the State house of representatives 1888-1898; served in the State senate 1900-1902; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1907); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906; engaged in stock raising and agricultural pursuits; appointed postmaster at Prineville, Cook County, Oreg., March 21, 1922; reappointed on May 18, 1926, and served until June 30, 1934, when he retired to his farm in Central Oregon; died in Prineville, Oreg., August 29, 1943; interment in the Masonic Cemetery.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

2007-12-31T22:48:00.000-08:00

Robert Burns, Standard English Translation

Old Long Past

Chorus.
And for old long past, my joy (sweetheart),
For old long past,
We will take a cup of kindness yet,
For old long past,

Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days of old long past.

And surely you will pay for your pint-vessel!
And surely I will pay for mine!
And we will take a cup of kindness yet,
For old long past.

We two have run about the hillsides
And pulled the wild daisies fine;
But we have wandered many a weary foot
Since old long past.

We two have paddled in the stream,
From morning sun till noon;
But seas between us broad have roared
Since old long past.

And there is a hand, my trusty friend!
And give me a hand of yours!
And we will take a right good-will drink,
For old long past.

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Robert Burns' Original

Auld Lang Syne

Chorus.
And for auld lang syne, my jo,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne,

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

We twa hae run about the braes
And pu'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl'd i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.

And there's a hand, my trusty fiere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right guid willy waught,
For auld lang syne.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE AND ALL: The Reason for the Season

2007-12-24T21:52:00.000-08:00

Luke 2:1-20 (New International Version)
Luke 2
The Birth of Jesus
(1) In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (2) (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) (3) And everyone went to his own town to register.
(4) So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. (5) He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. (6) While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, (7) and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

The Shepherds and the Angels
(8) And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. (9) An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. (10) But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. (11) Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. (12) This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."
(13) Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying,
(14) "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

(15) When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about."

(16) So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. (17) When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, (18) and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. (19) But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. (20) The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-12-20T08:58:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

Every Wednesday (we're late!), the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000533

WILLIAMS, Richard, (1836 - 1914)

WILLIAMS, Richard, a Representative from Oregon; born in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio, November 15, 1836; attended the common schools; moved to Monroe County, Oreg., in 1851; was educated at the Willamette University, Salem, Oreg.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1857 and commenced practice in Kirbyville, Josephine County, Oreg.; moved to Portland, Oreg., in 1865 and practiced law; unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law in Portland, Oreg.; elected a member of the Portland School Board in 1890 and served for twenty years; died in Portland, Oreg., June 19, 1914; interment in Riverview Cemetery.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-12-12T21:38:00.000-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-11-28T21:38:00.000-08:00

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! PROCLAMATIONS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN

2007-11-22T10:27:00.000-08:00

http://www.allabouthistory.org/thanksgiving-history.htm

Thanksgiving History – The Thanksgiving Proclamation
New York, 3 October 1789

By the President of the United States of America: a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor--and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me `to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.'

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be -- That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks -- for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation--for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed--for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted -- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions--to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually -- to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed--to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn [sic] kindness onto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord -- To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease [sic] of science among them and us -- and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

Thanksgiving History – The Day

Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day October 3, 1863

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence [sic], have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

Abraham Lincoln

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-11-21T20:39:00.002-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-11-21T20:39:00.001-08:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-11-14T10:48:00.001-08:00

Thank you, men and women of the American armed forces, for your service yesterday, today and tomorrow

2007-11-11T12:56:00.000-08:00

http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp

World War I – known at the time as “The Great War” - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-11-07T10:14:00.000-08:00

Please join the Official Oregon Republican Party site on Myspace here:

2007-10-24T17:02:00.000-07:00

Please join the Official Oregon Republican Party site on Myspace here:

http://www.myspace.com/oregon_republican_party

Oregon Republican League on Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/oregonrepublicanleague

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-10-24T16:59:00.001-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-10-17T21:51:00.001-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-10-10T21:18:00.000-07:00

Western Oregon University College Republican 2007-2008 Kickoff Success

2007-10-05T10:46:00.000-07:00

Western Oregon University College Republican 2007-2008 Kickoff Success, September 24th, 2007.

Included in this photo: Jon Trump, Kevin Britt, Marian Lucas, Tyler James LaBar, Sarah Anderson, Nathan Millar, Hilary Holmgren, Tyler Russell, Becky Pearce, Teresa Lucas, Stephanie Williams, Samantha Lines, Amber Riley, Janell Michell, Barbie McGehee, Michael Maeda, Rachelle Parrs, Garry Britt, Rachel Johnson

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-10-03T15:10:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-09-26T13:40:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the forward, Angela! When a soldier comes home..

2007-09-23T20:28:00.000-07:00

From a forwarded anonymous bulk email:

When a soldier comes home, he/she finds it hard to......

...to listen to his son whine about being bored.

....to keep a straight face when people complain about potholes.

...to be tolerant of people who complain about the hassle of getting ready for work.

...to be understanding when a co-worker complains about a bad night's sleep.

....to be silent when people pray to God for a new car.

...to control his panic when his wife tells him he needs to drive slower.

...to be grateful that he fights for the freedom of speech.

...to be compassionate when a businessman expresses a fear of flying.

...to keep from laughing when anxious parents say they're afraid to send their kids off to summer camp.

...to keep from ridiculing someone who complains about hot weather.

...to control his frustration when a colleague gripes about his coffee being cold.

...to remain calm when his daughter complains about having to walk the dog.

...to be civil to people who complain about their jobs.

...to just walk away when someone says they only get two weeks of vacation a year.

...to be happy for a friend's new hot tub.

...to be forgiving when someone says how hard it is to have a new baby in the house.

....not to punch a wall when someone says we should pull out immediately

The only thing harder than being a Soldier...

is loving one.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-09-19T20:03:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-09-12T20:52:00.000-07:00

The Soviet Union Strikes Back !!

2007-09-12T11:20:00.001-07:00

Here SHE is.. the USS New York

2007-09-10T08:05:00.000-07:00

From a forwarded mass e-mail..

Here SHE is, the USS New York, made from the World Trade Center!

USS New York

It was built with 24 tons of scrap steel from the World Trade Center.
It is the fifth in a new class of warship - designed for missions that include special operations against terrorists. It will carry a crew of 360 sailors and 700 combat-ready Marines to be delivered ashore by helicopters an d assault craft.

Steel from the World Trade Center was melted down in a foundry in Amite, LA to cast the ship's bow section. When it was poured into the molds on Sept 9, 2003, "those big rough steelworkers treated it with total reverence," recalled Navy Capt. Kevin Wensing, who was there. "It was a spiritual moment for ever ybody there."

Junior Chavers, foundry operations manager, said that when the trade center steel first arrived, he touched it with his hand and the "hair on my neck stood up." "It had a big meaning to it for all of us," he said. "They knocked us down. They can't keep us down. We're going to be back."

The ship's motto? "Never Forget"

Please keep this going so everyone can see what we are made of in this country!

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-09-05T11:57:00.000-07:00

Oregon Native Son: Starting A Republican Party

2007-09-04T11:36:00.000-07:00

From gesswhoto.com

Oregon Native Son
VOL. II NOVEMBER, 1900
NO. 6 NATIVE SON PUB. CO.
PORTLAND, OREGON

Starting A Republican Party
A Document That Marks the Origin of the Republican Party in Oregon.

The following is a true copy of the first call and resolutions of the first meeting for the formation of the Republican party in Oregon:

Willamette Forks, O.T., July 14, 1865. - In pursuance of the recommendation of Ben Davis and H. Shaw, as to starting a Republican party, the undernamed think the time has come. The old parties have lost all the good that was in them, and the time has come when the Republican is the party for this age. We think that the spread of slavery should be stopped. We, the undersigned citizens, join the new party:

On motion of Hiram Smith, T.J. Vaughan is chairman, and on motion of M. Wilkins, Thomas Cady is secretary.

I. Van Duyn
J.C. Spore
Dave Wilson
John Bouey
Frank Bouey
E.J. Keith
A. Wadsworth
Henry Smith
F.M. Simmons
John Post
G.D. Coffin
T. Newland
James Donnals
H. Miller
M. Wilkns
W. Nelson
James Lytle
Robert Wilson
C.C. Morton
H. Greenwood
Chairman, T.J. Thomas Cady
A.H. Vaughan
Jacob Zimmer
W. Cranem
J.S. Fields
W. Whitney
S. Bonnette
M.H. Harlow
G.R. Ward
Hiram Smith
William Long
Wilson Smith
John Young
B. Ramsy
William Polic
John Maxwell
Shel Spencer
A.A. Spencer
Thomas Cady
T.J. Vaughan
John Sippi
Vaughan; secretary

Deschutes County Republican Roundup

2007-09-04T10:28:00.000-07:00

Deschutes County Republican Roundup

When: Saturday, September 22, 2007
Where: High Desert Museum
OR
Who: www.deschutesrepublicans.org

Updated Non-Oregon, Anti-Ron Paul, GOP Straw Poll from gopstrawpolls.com or whoever

2007-08-30T10:00:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-08-29T11:37:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-08-22T17:06:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-08-15T09:47:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-08-08T09:47:00.001-07:00

Oregon Republican League: Biographies 104

2007-08-01T10:07:00.000-07:00

Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000220

DELLENBACK, John Richard, (1918 - 2002)

DELLENBACK, John Richard, a Representative from Oregon; born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 6, 1918; B.S., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1940; attended Northwestern University School of Speech, Evanston, Ill., 1946 and 1949; J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1949; United States Navy, 1942-1946; United States Naval Reserve; lawyer, private practice; faculty, Oregon State College, 1949-1951; delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1964, 1968, and 1972; member of the Oregon state legislature, 1960-1966; vice chairman of Judicial Council of Oregon; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974; associate director, United States Peace Corps, 1975-1977; president, Christian College Coalition, 1977-1988; died on December 7, 2002, in Medford, Oreg.

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Representative Dellenback married Mary Jane McMullen, the great granddaughter of Marion McMullen and Evangeline Ryle.

Descendants of Marion McMullen

1 Marion McMullen b: 14 Jul 1845 in Dearborn Co., Indiana d: 13 Apr 1924 in Mcville, (Boone Co.) Kentucky
.. +Evangeline Ryle b: 13 May 1848 in Boone Co., Kentucky m: 28 Nov 1867 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 02 Feb 1905 in Mcville, (Boone Co.) Kentucky
........ 2 Alfred McMullen b: 13 Aug 1877 in Bellevue Bottoms (Boone Co.) Kentucky d: 05 Nov 1939 in Covington, (Kenton Co.) Kentucky
............ +Lydia Blanche Jane Kite b: 24 Jan 1882 in Blanchette, (Grant Co.) Kentucky m: 10 Aug 1901 d: 05 Dec 1965 in Covington, (Kenton Co.) Kentucky
................... 3 William Franklyn Mc Mullen b: 07 Feb 1903 in Covington, Kentucky (Kenton Co.) d: 28 Nov 1970 in Cincinnati, Ohio(Hamilton Co.)
....................... +Catherine DeMoss
................... *2nd Wife of William Franklyn Mc Mullen:
....................... +Verlie May Wells b: 05 Aug 1909 in Covington, Kentucky (Kenton Co.) m: Apr 1928 in Covington, Kentucky d: 23 Mar 1980 in Los Angeles, Calif.
............................. 4 Mary Jane McMullen b: 17 Sep 1928 in Covington, Kentucky (Kenton Co.)
................................. +[2] John Richard Dellenback b: 06 Nov 1918 in Chicago, Illinois m: 10 Sep 1948 in Marion, In. d: 07 Dec 2002 in Medford, Oregon
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
............................................ +[3] Living Ouellette
.................................................. 6 Living Dellenback-Ouellette
.................................................. 6 Living Dellenback-Ouellette
............................. 4 Living McMullen
................................. +Donald Roland Suttles b: 14 Nov 1929 in Cold Spring , Ky. Campbell Co.
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
............................................ +Living Martinez
.................................................. 6 Living Suttles
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
............................................ +Living Miller
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
............................................ +Living Jaquish
.................................................. 6 Living Suttles
.................................................. 6 Living Suttles
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
.................................................. 6 Living Daughter)
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
........................................ 5 Living Suttles
............................................ +Living Brantley
.................................................. 6 [1] Living Suttles
........................................ *2nd Wife of Living Suttles:
............................................ +Living Hobson
.................................................. 6 [1] Living Suttles
............................. 4 Mary Jane McMullen(Benedict) b: 17 Sep 1928 in Covington, Kentucky (Kenton Co.)
................................. +[2] John Richard Dellenback b: 06 Nov 1918 in Chicago, Illinois m: 10 Sep 1948 in Marion, In. d: 07 Dec 2002 in Medford, Oregon
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
........................................ 5 Living Dellenback
............................................ +[3] Living Ouellette
.................................................. 6 Living Dellenback-Ouellette
.................................................. 6 Living Dellenback-Ouellette
................... 3 Thomas Irvin Mc Mullen b: 20 Apr 1906 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky d: Nov 1936 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky
....................... +Helen McCormick b: 1908 m: 1930 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky
................... 3 Ellen Mae Mc Mullen b: 16 Feb 1908 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky d: 24 Aug 1961 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky
....................... +Lester Green Gillespy b: 1905 in Covingoton (Kenton Co.), Kentucky m: 15 Mar 1935 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky d: in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky
............................. 4 Living Gillespy
................................. +Living Leslie
........................................ 5 Living Leslie
............................................ +Living Richman
.................................................. 6 Living Richman
.................................................. 6 Living Richman
.................................................. 6 Living Richman
........................................ 5 Living Leslie
............................................ +Living Dow
.................................................. 6 Living Dow
.................................................. 6 Living Dow
.................................................. 6 Living Dow
............................. *2nd Husband of Living Gillespy:
................................. +Living Wheeler
................... 3 Charles Alfred Mc Mullen b: 12 Dec 1920 in Covington (Kenton Co.), Kentucky d: 25 Oct 1984 in Ft. Thomas, (Campbell Co.)Kentucky
....................... +Iris Ginn b: 1928 in Covington, Kentucky (Kenton Co.) m: 1949 in Covington, (Kenton Co., )Kentucky
................... *2nd Wife of Charles Alfred Mc Mullen:
....................... +Phyllis Williamson b: 1930 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co.)Ohio m: 1951 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co.), Ohio d: in Ft. Mitchell(Campbell Co., )Kentucky
............................. 4 Living McMullen
............................. 4 Living McMullen
................................. +Living Berger
............................. 4 Living McMullen
........ 2 Ida McMullen b: 18 Sep 1868 d: 25 Dec 1905
............ +Roll Akins
........ 2 Oscar McMullen b: 05 Nov 1869 in Boone Co., Kentucky(Macville) d: 17 Feb 1959 in Dayton (Campbell Co., ) Kentucky
............ +Lillie Willis b: 18 Mar 1881 in Casey City, Kentucky m: 25 Oct 1900 d: 10 May 1936 in Dayton (Campbell Co., ) Kentucky
................... 3 Jessie May McMullen
................... 3 Ella Nora McMullen b: 04 Aug 1909 in Dayton (Campbell Co., Kentucky d: 22 Oct 1977 in Eugene, Oregon
....................... +Joseph Edward Studenberg b: in Lawrenceburg, Indiana
............................. 4 Living Jr.
................................. +Living DeLong
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
............................. 4 Living Churchill(Jack)Studenberg
................................. +Living Lombardi
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
............................. 4 David Robert (Bob) Studenberg b: 21 Feb 1936 in Loveland Ohio d: in Eugene, Oregon
................................. +Living Gustafson
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
........................................ 5 Living Studenberg
................... *2nd Husband of Ella Nora McMullen:
....................... +Noel Spicknel
........ 2 Hubert McMullen b: 18 Jun 1871 in Boone Co., Kentucky (Macville) d: 28 May 1945 in Cincinnati, (Hamilton Co.) Ohio
............ +Amanda E. Dorman b: 19 Aug 1875 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co., ) Ohio m: 01 Dec 1889 in Rising Sun, Indiana d: 15 Jun 1947 in Cincinnati (Hamilton Co., ) Ohio
................... 3 Lee Omar McMullen b: 03 Nov 1890 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 04 Nov 1955 in Covington, (Kenton Co.) Kentucky
....................... +Geneva Akin b: 07 Oct 1892 in Bellevue, Kentucky d: 02 Mar 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.)
............................. 4 Living McMullen
................................. +Living Krumer
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
............................................ +Living Hunley
.................................................. 6 Living McMullen
.................................................. 6 Living McMullen
.................................................. 6 Living McMullen
.................................................. 6 Living McMullen Step-son
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
............................................ +Living Clark
.................................................. 6 Living Clark
.................................................. 6 Living Clark
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
............................................ +Living McNamara
.................................................. 6 Living McMullen
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
............................. 4 Hubert Lee McMullen b: 30 Dec 1914 in Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.) d: 22 Jun 1972 in California
................................. +UNKNOWN Nanette
............................. 4 Ruth Ellen McMullen b: 09 Jan 1917 in Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.) d: 22 Dec 1997 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co. ) Ohio
................................. +Melville Atkinson d: 20 May 1995 in Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.)
........................................ 5 Living Atkinson
........................................ 5 Living Atkinson
........................................ 5 Living Atkinson
............................. 4 Robert Lee McMullen b: 08 Sep 1922 in Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.) d: 16 May 1936 in Killed by a drunk driver.(Cincinnati, Ohio, (Hamilton Co.)
................... *2nd Wife of Lee Omar McMullen:
....................... +Mamie ?
................... 3 Raymond Earl McMullen b: 05 Nov 1892 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 05 Jun 1945 in Cincinnati (hamilton Co.) O
....................... +Gladys Montgomery b: 30 Aug 1894 d: 1968 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co.), Ohio
............................. 4 Living McMullen
................................. +Thomas Allen Bohrer b: 23 Dec 1928
........................................ 5 Living Bohrer
............................. 4 Gladys Mae McMullen b: 08 Sep 1909
................................. +Max Peskin b: 08 Sep 1909 m: 23 Sep 1933
........................................ 5 Living Peskin
........................................ 5 Living Peskin
........................................ 5 Living Peskin
............................. 4 Vincent Earl McMullen b: 20 Apr 1918
................................. +Helen Marie Daniels b: 15 Jun 1922 m: 17 Jan 1941
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
............................. 4 Julie McMullen b: 04 May 1920
................................. +August Dunnemann m: 17 Dec 1938
........................................ 5 Living Dunnemann
............................. 4 William Raymond McMullen b: 26 Oct 1924
................................. +Mary Kathleen Johnston b: 01 Sep 1926 m: 07 Oct 1946
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
........................................ 5 Living McMullen
................... 3 Luella McMullen b: 18 Jun 1895 in Boone County, Kentucky d: 15 May 1979 in Cambridge, Ohio
....................... +Arthur Ernst Milton Plueddemann b: 17 Oct 1892 in Saginaw, Michigan m: 17 Jun 1916 in Cincinnati (Hamilton Co.), Ohio d: in Akron, Ohio
............................. 4 Living Plueddemann
................................. +Living Boyce
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
............................. 4 Dale Reinhardt Plueddemann b: 08 Feb 1918 in Cincinnati, (Hamilton Co.), Ohio d: 25 Jul 1988 in Burlington, Iowa
................................. +Mary Lois Campbell b: 13 Apr 1926 in Bentonville, Arkansas m: 03 Jun 1944 in Sonoma, California
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
............................. 4 Arthur Harold Plueddemann b: 11 Jun 1925 in Cincinnati(Hamilton Co.), Ohio d: 14 Dec 1997 in Akron, Ohio
................................. +Gladys (Jackie) Mansell b: 13 Nov 1925 in Masury, Ohio m: 22 Jul 1944 in Akron, Ohio
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........................................ 5 Living Plueddemann
........ 2 Otha McMullen b: 26 Sep 1874 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 28 Mar 1911 in Cincinnati (Hamilton Co.), Ohio
............ +UNKNOWN Georgia
................... 3 Paul Marion McMullen
................... 3 Lillian McMullen
........ 2 Nannie McMullen b: 03 Jan 1876 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 23 Aug 1895
........ 2 Susie McMullen b: 23 Aug 1879 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 12 Feb 1910 in Hamilton County, Ohio
............ +Arlie Adams d: in Hartwell, Ohio
................... 3 Elmore Adams
................... 3 Ethel Adams
................... 3 Alma Adams
........ 2 Everet McMullen b: 27 Aug 1882 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 26 Sep 1883
........ 2 Lena Dell McMullen b: 22 Mar 1885 in Boone Co., Kentucky d: 20 Jun 1903
............ +Fred Birkle

Oregon Republican League: VISIT AN OREGON COUNTY FAIR NOW !!

2007-07-27T21:11:00.000-07:00

If you haven't hit one yet... hit several now !! :o)

http://www.oregonfairs.org/dates.htm

2007 Oregon Fair Dates

Baker County Fair August 8 –11
Benton County Fair August 1 –5
Clackamas County Fair August 14–19
Clatsop County Fair July 31–August 4
Columbia County Fair July 18–22
Coos County Fair July 24–28
Crook County Fair August 8–12
Curry County Fair July 26–29
Deschutes County Fair August 1 –5
Douglas County Fair August 7 –11
Gilliam County Fair August 30–September 2
Grant County Fair August 21–25
Harney County Fair September 4 –9
Hood River County Fair July 25–28
Jackson County Fair July 17–22
Jefferson County Fair July 25–28
Josephine County Fair August 14–18
Klamath County Fair August 9 –12
Lake County Fair August 30–September 3
Lane County Fair August 14–19
Lincoln County Fair July 19–22
Linn County Fair July 19 –22
Malheur County Fair August 1 –4
Marion County Fair July 12–15
Morrow County Fair August 15–19
Multnomah County Fair May 26–28
Oregon State Fair August 24–September 3
Polk County Fair August 9 –12
Sherman County Fair August 28–September 1
Tillamook County Fair August 8 –11
Umatilla County Fair August 7 –11
Union County Fair August 1 –4
Wallowa County Fair August 4 –11
Wasco County Fair August 16–19
Washington County Fair July 26–29
Wheeler County Fair August 6 –12
Yamhill County Fair August 1 –4

Oregon Republican League: Republican Biographies 104

2007-07-25T13:16:00.000-07:00

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000959

CRUMPACKER, Maurice Edgar, (1886 - 1927)

CRUMPACKER, Maurice Edgar, (son of Edgar Dean Crumpacker and cousin of Shepard J. Crumpacker, Jr.), a Representative from Oregon; born in Valparaiso, Porter County, Ind., December 19, 1886; attended the public schools of Valparaiso, Ind., and Washington, D.C.; was graduated from the Culver (Ind.) Military Academy in 1905 and from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1909; studied law at Harvard University; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in Portland, Oreg.; was commissioned December 31, 1917, as first lieutenant in the aviation section of the Signal Reserve Corps; accepted appointment as captain in the Air Service (production), National Army, July 8, 1918, and served until December 27, 1918, when he was honorably discharged as captain in the Air Service (aircraft production); special deputy district attorney for Multnomah County, Oreg., in 1921; unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in 1922; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth and Seventieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1925, until his death in San Francisco, Calif., July 24, 1927; interment in Riverview Cemetery, Portland, Oreg.

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Maurice's grandparents were Theophilus and Harriet Emmons Crumpacker

Descendants of Theophilus Crumpacker

1 Theophilus Crumpacker b: 17 Jan 1823 in Bedford Co., VA d: 27 Nov 1908 in Porter Co., IN
.. +Harriet Emmons b: 1820 in Virginia m: 28 Feb 1848 in Laporte Co., IN d: 1907
........ 2 Maurice Edgar Dean Crumpacker b: 27 May 1851 in Laporte Co., IN d: 19 May 1920 in Valparaiso, IN
............ +Charlotte Ann Lucas b: 06 Mar 1853 in Belvidere, Illinois m: 10 Nov 1875 in Porter Co., IN
................... 3 Maurice Edgar Crumpacker b: 19 Dec 1886 in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana d: 24 Jul 1927 in San Francisco, CA
....................... +Cully Anna Cook b: 22 Apr 1891 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon m: 08 Oct 1913 in Multnomah Co., OR d: 19 Jan 1968 in Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii
............................. 4 Edgar Dean Crumpacker b: 29 Aug 1916 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
............................. 4 James Cook Crumpacker b: 1914 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon
............................. 4 Peter Crumpacker b: 11 Oct 1922 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon d: 28 Dec 1965 in Portland, OR
................... 3 Owen L. Crumpacker b: 12 Mar 1880 in Valparaiso, IN d: 30 Aug 1942 in Valparaiso, IN
................... 3 Frederick Charles Crumpacker b: 16 Sep 1881 in Porter Co., IN d: 22 Nov 1948 in Hammond, IN
....................... +Mary M. Windell m: 17 Feb 1909 in Valparaiso, IN
............................. 4 Mary Jane Crumpacker b: in Lake Co., IN
................................. +? Hall
............................. 4 Marjorie Ann Crumpacker b: in Lake Co., IN
............................. 4 Frederick Charles Crumpacker b: 26 Nov 1909 in Indiana d: 28 Aug 1963 in Valparaiso, IN
............................. 4 Owen W. Crumpacker b: 28 Jan 1912 in Lake Co., IN d: 10 Feb 1998 in Hammond, IN
................................. +?
........ *2nd Wife of Maurice Edgar Dean Crumpacker:
............ +Abbie M. Parshall m: 20 Apr 1879
........ 2 John W. Crumpacker b: 19 May 1849 in Laporte Co., IN d: 06 Apr 1913 in Laporte Co., IN
............ +Anna J. Smith m: 03 Jan 1877 in Porter Co., IN
........ 2 Daniel W. Crumpacker b: Jan 1853 in Laporte Co., IN d: 26 Aug 1924 in Cook Co., IL
............ +Viola Jane Abbitt m: 20 Nov 1890 in Cook Co., IL
................... 3 Florence Crumpacker b: Dec 1891 in Cook Co., IL d: 26 Nov 1946 in Kankakee Ci., IL
........ 2 Eliza Crumpacker b: 1855 in Laporte Co., IN d: Sep 1881 in Porter Co., IN
............ +Melvin Lewis m: 11 Jan 1877 in Porter Co., IN
................... 3 Wayne Lewis b: 1878 in Porter Co., IN
................... 3 Katherine Lewis b: 24 Jan 1879 in Indiana d: Feb 1869 in Garland Co., AZ
................... 3 Harry Lewis Crumpacker b: 06 May 1881 in Indiana d: 24 Jun 1969 in Michigan City, IN
....................... +Blanche E. Bosserman m: 12 Jun 1907 in Laporte Co., IN
............................. 4 John W. Crumpacker b: 13 Jul 1908 in Laporte, IN d: 31 Dec 1996 in Melbourne, FL
............................. 4 Helen Louise Crumpacker b: 1910 in Laporte, IN
............................. 4 ? Crumpacker b: 1914 in Laporte, IN
................... *2nd Wife of Harry Lewis Crumpacker:
....................... +Harriett H. Bray m: 15 Jan 1921 in Laporte Co., IN
........ 2 Dora Annette Crumpacker b: 1858 in Indiana d: 13 Jun 1914 in Chicago, IL
............ +Iredelle L. Luther m: 15 Nov 1880 in Porter Co., IN
................... 3 Margaret M. Luther b: Jan 1883 in Indiana
....................... +? Schneider
................... 3 Lucille L. Luther b: Jan 1886 in Indiana
....................... +? Casey
........ 2 Peter Hinton Crumpacker b: Aug 1858 in Laporte Co., IN d: 13 Sep 1918 in Hammond, IN
............ +Ida Mae Younglove
................... 3 Harriet Crumpacker b: 25 Nov 1883 in Hammond, IN d: Feb 1969 in Riverdale Co., IL
....................... +Clarence A. Scott m: 28 Oct 1908 in Lake Co., IN
............................. 4 William Ashe Scott b: 22 Dec 1910 in Indiana d: 24 Oct 1994 in San Marcos, CA
............................. 4 Peter C. Scott b: 16 Dec 1911 in Indiana d: 10 Sep 1999 in Orland Park, IL
................... 3 Charles Theophilus Crumpacker b: 11 Nov 1886 in Valparaiso, IN
....................... +Luella Arnos
................... *2nd Wife of Charles Theophilus Crumpacker:
....................... +Elsie Grant m: 1923
................... 3 Edgar Dean Crumpacker b: 05 Nov 1893 in Hammond, IN d: Dec 1978 in Chesterton, IN
....................... +Gladys M. Martin m: 06 Jun 1917 in Lake Co., IN
............................. 4 Muriel Louise Crumpacker
................................. +William Kayes
........................................ 5 Living Kayes
........................................ 5 Living Kayes
........................................ 5 Living Kayes
............................. 4 Patricia Martin Crumpacker
................................. +Emil Johnson
............................. 4 June Elizabeth Crumpacker
................................. +James Kirk
............................. 4 William Peter Crumpacker
................................. +Louise Behlan
........................................ 5 Living Crumpacker
............................................ +Living Overman
.................................................. 6 Living Overman
.................................................. 6 Living Overman
........................................ 5 Living Crumpacker
............................................ +Living Miller
.................................................. 6 Living Crumpacker
........................................ 5 Living Crumpacker
........................................ 5 Living Crumpacker
............................................ +Living Niedner
.................................................. 6 Living Niedner
.................................................. 6 Living Niedner
........................................ 5 Living Crumpacker
............................................ +Living Sisamis
........................................ 5 Donna Lee Crumpacker b: 1952 d: 1984
............................................ +Living Dillingham
.................................................. 6 Living Dillingham
.................................................. 6 Living Dillingham
............................. 4 Barton Mayes Crumpacker b: 20 May 1920 in Illinois d: 05 Nov 2000 in Chesterton, IN
................................. +Elaine Kenkel
................... 3 Dorothy Louise Crumpacker b: Feb 1897 in Hammond, IN d: 1957
....................... +James H. Linn
........ 2 Charles I. Crumpacker b: Feb 1863 in Valparaiso, IN d: 31 Mar 1932 in Valparaiso, IN
............ +Grace Rathburn
........ *2nd Wife of Charles I. Crumpacker:
............ +Aurette Mae Coveney m: 27 Dec 1887 in Jasper, IN
........ 2 Grant A. Crumpacker b: 23 Jul 1867 in Valparaiso, IN d: 09 Jun 1947 in Valparaiso, IN
............ +Charlotte Wade m: 19 Feb 1891 in Martin, TN
................... 3 Wade Emmons Crumpacker b: 06 Nov 1893 in Valparaiso, IN d: 1929 in Valparaiso, IN
................... 3 John Peter Crumpacker b: 26 Oct 1895 in Valparaiso, IN d: 11 Sep 1949 in Chicago, IL
....................... +Florence ?
................... *2nd Wife of John Peter Crumpacker:
....................... +Rachel Thatcher m: 29 Dec 1923
................... 3 Mary Arden Crumpacker b: Jun 1899 in Indiana d: 1944
....................... +Leo A. Besozzi
................... 3 Ruth Annette Crumpacker b: 1907 in Porter Co., IN
....................... +Bernard J. Stiegler

EMERGENCY SUPPLY HELP REQUESTED NEAR OREGON BORDER

2007-07-22T21:56:00.000-07:00

News here:

http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070720/46a184c0_3ca6_1552620070721-1645889744

Oregon Republican League on Myspace thanks Monica for the head's up !

There is a emergency help needed on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, in Owyhee, NV. The reservation is on the Nevada, Idaho border and is very isolated. The people are needing any kind of help they can get. The people have been without running water and electrcity for the last 5 days.Due to the power poles being burned down, by the fires in Northern Nevada. The elders and childern are having a hard time dealing with the heat and no water. Food is going bad because of no power for electrical household items.

The people are looking for:
Water, Ice,Dry Ice,Flashlights, Batteries A,AA,AAA,C,D,Food Items, Fans operated by batteries, and if you can Generators are much in need for power. Or any type of help!
Thank you for your time and i hope you may give, it is much appreciated.

Contact info: Shoshone-Paiute Tribes
Sho-Pai Fire Station
1935 FireLane PO Box 219 89832
(775)757-2473
Ask for Brent Hunter, or you may contact me here in Elko,NV, Si Thomas 775-777-7739

Ventura County Republican Project up and going strong...

2007-07-18T12:24:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-07-18T12:16:00.000-07:00

Congressional Biographical Directory

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000743

COON, Samuel Harrison, (1903 - 1980)

COON, Samuel Harrison, a Representative from Oregon; born in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, April 15, 1903; attended public schools in Cambridge and Boise, Idaho; graduated from the University of Idaho at Moscow in 1925; worked as a wool grader, bank clerk, foreman of a sheep ranch, and as office manager for a mining concern; owned and operated a cattle ranch near Keating, Baker County, Oreg., 1929-1950; supervisor Keating Soil Conservation District, 1941-1945; engaged in the real estate business in 1951 and 1952; served in the senate of the Oregon legislature in 1951 and 1952; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; served as Deputy Director for the International Cooperation Administration in Lima, Peru, from February 26, 1957, to March 20, 1959; resided in Laguna Hills, Calif., until his death there on May 8, 1980; cremated and ashes scattered at sea.

Descendants of Samuel Coon

1 Samuel Coon b: 1840 in Pennsylvania
.. +Annie b: 1852 in Denmark
........ 2 Harry M. Coon b: Sep 1875 in Nebraska
............ +Edna Salone Jewell b: 1879 in Idaho
................... 3 Samuel Harrison Coon b: 15 Apr 1903 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho d: 08 May 1980 in Laguna Hills, California
................... 3 Jewell Coon b: 1902 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho
................... 3 Helen Coon b: 1908 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho
................... 3 Edward Coon b: 1910 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho
................... 3 Dorothy Coon b: 1921 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho
........ 2 Abbie Coon b: 1868 in Illinois
........ 2 Vera Coon b: 1879 in Nebraska

Republican History Project expanding to four new states..

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... and Ventura County, California's is well on their way !! College Republicans and Women's Clubs in Idaho, Kentucky and Ohio are working on their volunteer network and genealogy software training right now. To our growing band of national helpers... THANK YOU!!

http://www.venturarepublican.blogspot.com

Wikipedian Protester (Hat tip to Matthew Larson...)

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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY ! ! !

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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States
1911 - 2004

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HISTORY OF BENTON COUNTY, OREGON
Published By: David D. Fagan
Portland, Oregon (1885)

BLAIR, Thomas J.--Was born in Bond county, Illinois 11 June 1830, but at the age of 6 years went with his parents to Lee county, Iowa, where he resided and engaged in farming until the spring of 1853. Mr. BLAIR and his wife now crossed the plains to Oregon, arriving in October of that year; but in March of 1854, he removed from Oregon City to Benton county, and first settled on the South Fork of Mary's river, on land now owned by Mr. SPEARS. While residing on this claim our subject found the country in the throes of a civil war, and like every patriotic citizen he determined to contribute towards the maintenance of the Union, therefore, in 1864 he enlisted in Company A., First Oregon Infantry and with that corps served nearly 2 years. Upon obtaining his discharge he disposed of his farm, removed to Yaquina Bay and there dwelt for 3 years, when, transferring his residence in 1878, to the city of Corvallis, he engaged in a warehouse and grain-storing business. In the spring of 1884, Mr. BLAIR was elected to the office of Treasurer of Benton county on the Republican ticket, and is still the able and efficient holder of the position. Married in Lee county, Iowa in 1851, Miss Lucinda J. MONTGOMERY, who died 30 June 1881, and had a family, viz: Martha N (now Mrs. F. H. SAWTELL), Nellie, and Clara.
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Thomas's parents were Colbert Blair and Elizabeth Hill.

Descendants of Colbert Powell Blair

1 Colbert Powell Blair b: 30 Jan 1805 in Burke, NC d: 1906 in Pendleton, Umatilla, OR
.. +Elizabeth Hill b: 13 Feb 1807 in , KY m: 19 Feb 1824 in ,Montgomery, IL d: 12 Oct 1860 in ,Benton, OR
......... 2 Oliver P. Blair b: Abt. 1825 in Hurricane Twp., Montgomery, IL
............. +Melinda J. Criel b: WFT Est. 1819-1843 m: 15 Jul 1860 in Benton, OR d: WFT Est. 1865-1931
......... 2 Fannie W. Blair b: Abt. 1825 in Hurricane Twp., Montgomery, IL d: 1905 in Lincoln, OR
............. +Miles Henckel b: 10 Mar 1820 in Pendleton, VA m: Abt. 1841 d: 01 Jan 1849 in Lee, IA
.................... 3 Josiah Henckel b: 10 Jan 1843 in Lee, IA d: 10 Aug 1905 in Prineville, Crook, OR
........................ +Mattie G. Bradford b: WFT Est. 1839-1866 in Lexington, MO m: 18 Nov 1883 in Aullville, Lafayette, MO d: 20 Jun 1895 in Prineville, OR
.................... 3 Colbert Henckel b: 04 Jun 1847 in Lee, IA d: 08 Mar 1937 in Lakeview, Lake, OR
.................... 3 Levi Henckel b: 21 Oct 1849 in Lee, IA d: 20 Aug 1920 in Corvallis, Benton, OR
........................ +Naomi Nevada Belle Kirkpatrick b: 15 Dec 1859 in Kirkville, IA m: 06 Nov 1872 in Benton, OR d: 02 Dec 1873 in Albany, OR
.................... *2nd Wife of Levi Henckel:
........................ +Emily Rees b: 06 Sep 1858 in Jasper, IA m: 23 Nov 1875 in Belfountain, OR d: 04 Sep 1930 in Portland, Multnomah, OR
............................... 4 Arthur L. Henckel b: 12 Oct 1878 in Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon d: 14 Jan 1919 in Portland, Oregon
................................... +Leola Cline m: 23 Nov 1897 in Benton Co, OR
............................... *2nd Wife of Arthur L. Henckel:
................................... +Charlotte Spencer b: 07 Mar 1884 in Little Elk, Benton Co, OR m: 01 Jan 1902 in Blodgett, Benton Co, OR
........................................... 5 Melba Henckel b: 1902 in Benton Co, OR
........................................... 5 Merwin Low Henckel b: 18 Aug 1906 in Benton Co, OR d: 07 Feb 1994 in Wasco Co., OR
............................................... +Mary Elizabeth b: 21 May 1907
......... *2nd Husband of Fannie W. Blair:
............. +Lorenzo Scovel b: WFT Est. 1803-1830 m: Abt. 1850 d: WFT Est. 1855-1916
.................... 3 Mary Scovel b: WFT Est. 1843-1866 d: WFT Est. 1874-1950
........................ +McAdams b: WFT Est. 1833-1865 m: WFT Est. 1874-1907 d: WFT Est. 1874-1945
............................... 4 Lottie McAdams b: WFT Est. 1865-1900 d: WFT Est. 1873-1981
............................... 4 William McAdams b: WFT Est. 1865-1900 d: WFT Est. 1874-1978
.................... 3 Belle Scovel b: WFT Est. 1843-1866 d: WFT Est. 1874-1950
........................ +G. A. Nye b: WFT Est. 1833-1865 m: WFT Est. 1874-1907 d: WFT Est. 1874-1945
......... 2 Thomas Jefferson Blair b: 11 Jun 1830 in Hurricane Twp., Montgomery, IL d: Aft. 1884 in Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon
............. +Lucinda Jane Montgomery b: 26 Jun 1829 in VA m: 26 Feb 1851 in Lee County, IA d: 30 Jun 1881 in Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon
.................... 3 Charles L. Blair b: 10 Apr 1854 in Benton Co, OR d: 17 Aug 1854 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Martha Narcissa Blair b: Abt. 1855 in Benton Co, OR
........................ +F. H. Sawtell b: 1844 in France m: 10 Jan 1873 in Benton Co, OR
............................... 4 E. N. Sawtell b: 1875 in Benton Co., OR
............................... 4 W. B. Sawtell b: 1877 in Benton Co., OR
.................... 3 Kate Blair b: 01 Jun 1860 in Benton Co, OR d: 13 Apr 1861 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Clara Blair b: Abt. 1868 in Benton Co, OR
......... 2 Chloe Jane Blair b: Abt. 1833 in Hurricane Twp., Montgomery, IA d: 1870 in Marion County, Oregon
............. +Thomas Skipton b: 16 Feb 1829 in Washington Co., OH m: 06 Jul 1851 in Appanoose Co, IA
.................... 3 Elizabeth Skipton b: 1853 in Oregon
........................ +James Irvin
.................... 3 Fanny Skipton b: 1855 in Oregon
.................... 3 Mary Olive Skipton b: 1857 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Maca Skipton b: 1859 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Martha Skipton b: 1862 in Benton Co, OR
........................ +John A. Armstrong
.................... 3 James L. Skipton b: 27 Aug 1863 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 John Wesley Skipton b: 02 Jun 1867 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 William Lee Skipton b: Mar 1870 in Benton Co, OR d: 28 Jun 1942 in Marion Co, OR
........................ +Carrie Edith Garwood b: Sep 1878
......... 2 James Holmes Blair b: 1836 in Lee, IA
............. +Rebecca Caroline Barker b: WFT Est. 1832-1852 m: WFT Est. 1867-1901 in Benton, OR d: WFT Est. 1867-1936
......... 2 Sophia W. Blair b: Abt. 1838 in Lee, IA d: Bef. 1905 in Oregon
............. +James B. Irwin b: 1823 in Sheridan Co, MO m: 06 May 1855 in Benton, OR
.................... 3 Martha Irwin b: 1856 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Louzina Irwin b: 1859 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 John F. Irwin b: 1863 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Colbert M. Irwin b: 1868 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Elizabeth M. Irwin b: 1868 in Benton Co, OR
......... 2 Martha N. Blair b: Abt. 1840 in Lee, IA
......... 2 John B. Blair b: 1842 in Lee, IA d: Aft. 1906 in Lakeview, Oregon
............. +Serepta Jane Fuller b: 23 May 1850 in Benton Co, OR m: 11 Jul 1867 in Benton, OR
.................... 3 Tracy Blair b: in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Wellington S. Blair b: 1868 in Benton Co, OR
......... 2 Meekey M. Blair b: Abt. 1846 in Lee, IA d: Aft. 1905 in Lincoln County, Oregon
............. +Frank Mathias Trapp b: 05 Mar 1838 in Missouri m: 18 Jan 1863 in Benton, OR
.................... 3 Dudley Trapp b: 1864 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Fanny Trapp b: 1866 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Effie Trapp b: 1868 in Benton Co, OR
........................ +Sidney A. Pruett b: 1856
.................... 3 Chauncey Trapp b: 1871 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Ettree Trapp b: 1873 in Benton Co, OR
.................... 3 Clyde Trapp b: 1878 in Benton Co, OR

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, (1902), by Western Historical Publishing Co. of Chicago, page 461

GEORGE W. PORTER

Mr. Porter was born in Dixmount, Maine in 1832, and when but three years of age his mother died and he spent his childhood and youth in the home of relatives. When he arrived at the age of twenty his attention and time were turned to teaching school, and for a series of years he was numbered with the active and progressive educators of his native place. Following this he learned the wagonmaker's trade and wrought at it for ten years, then turned to farming for a time, and in 1870 he migrated to this section of the west. For a period he was occupied in farming near to John Day and then took a homestead in Malheur, but subsquently he bought the place where he now lives two miles west from John Day. Here he owns and cultivates three hundred and twenty acres of land is counted one of the leading stockmen and agriculturists of the county. His place is well improved and an air of neatness and thrift characterize everything about his premises, and he has added many things that make rural life attractive and comfortable, while his care and ability as a farmer are manifested in every department. Mr. Porter also owns the ranch that he secured in Malheur and considerable other property, being a substantial representative of the property interests of his region. His herds are extensive and his skill in handling them gives him the best of returns from his investments.

The marriage of Mr. Porter and Miss Caroline Prentice was celebrated in Maine in the year 1856. To them have been born four children: Francis, Edith, Lesley and Mary, all of whom are married. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Porter is identified with the Masons, Archon Lodge, in Dixmount, Maine. In politics he is a staunch Republican and has always been an upholder of their platform. He has a goodly prominence in local affairs, having served as justice of the peace for two terms in succession, and is always wide awake in matters that pertain to the welfare of the state and education.
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George's parents were Benjamin Porter and Lavina Corthell.

Descendants of Benjamin Porter and Lavina Corthell:

1 Benjamin Porter b: Abt. 1798 in Maine
.. +Lavina Corthell b: 1802 d: 1835 in Penobscot County,Maine
......... 2 Joshua Porter b: 09 Nov 1819 in Dixmont,Maine
......... 2 William Porter b: 22 Jan 1823 in Dixmont,Maine
......... 2 Alfred Porter b: 16 Aug 1824 in Dixmont,Maine
............. +Louisa F. Stevens b: Aug 1838 m: 23 Oct 1855 in Penobscot County,Maine
.................... 3 Maud E. Porter b: Jul 1877 in Maine
.................... 3 Jackson Porter b: Sep 1887 in Maine
......... 2 Eliza Porter b: 29 Jun 1831 in Dixmont,Maine
......... 2 George W. Porter b: 31 Dec 1832 in Dixmont,Maine d: Aft. 1910 in Grant County, Oregon
............. +Martha Green m: 26 Mar 1853 in Penobscot County,Maine
......... *2nd Wife of George W. Porter:
............. +Eliza Turner m: 24 Sep 1853 in Penobscot County,Maine
......... *3rd Wife of George W. Porter:
............. +Caroline Prentiss b: 1835 in Maine m: 17 Apr 1856 in Penobscot County,Maine d: Bet. 1900 - 1910 in Grant County, Oregon
.................... 3 Hattie F. Porter b: 17 Jul 1859 in Dixmont,Maine
.................... 3 Florance Edith Porter b: 02 Dec 1863 in Dixmont,Maine
.................... 3 Lesley Porter b: 1866 in Dixmont,Maine
.................... 3 Mary Porter b: 1869 in Dixmont,Maine
......... 2 Julia Porter b: 1842 in Dixmont,Maine
......... 2 Lavina Porter b: 1847 in Maine

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An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake and Klamath Counties, State of Oregon
Western Historical Publishing Company Publishers Spokane, Washington (1905)
Pages 402-403

CHARLES H. SOUTHERN is one of the pioneers of the Boyd country where he has dwelt constantly since coming to Oregon. He is well known business man and property owner and one of the most prominent citizens of the place. He was born in Iowa, on May 14, 1855, the son of Martin and Elizabeth (Bolton) Southern, natives of Virginia. The father's parents were also born in Virginia. The mother came from an old Virginia family. In the fall of 1871, the family came to Oregon and settled in Wasco county near Boyd. The father died on May 5, 1900. Our subject always lived with his parents and upon his father's death, he purchased the old homestead from his mother, which is a residence and eighty acres where he now lives, and four hundred acres of choice wheat land adjoining. Charles H. was educated in the place where the family lived in his early days and was married on November 4, 1878, at The Dalles. The lady of his choice was Miss Emma Rice, who was born in Lane county, Oregon. Her father, Horace Rice, was a native of Ohio and his father died when he was a small lad. He came to Oregon with his mother and brothers and sisters in 1851. His mother had married Beckwith Cook. She died in Polk county, Oregon, in 1874. Mr. Southern has no full brothers living, one half brother, William, two sisters, Mrs. Ella Rice and Mrs. Lenna Seeley (should be Seely). Mr. and Mrs. Southern have two children, Ethel, wife of Roy D. Butler, a merchant at Boyd and mentioned elsewhere in this work, and Harry dwelling at home. Mrs. Southern has the following named brothers and sisters, George, Austin C., Mrs. Etta Waterman and Mrs. Nellie Mann.

Mr. and Mrs. Southern are both devout members of the Methodist church while he holds the office of trustee. He also belongs to the W.W. Politically, he is a Republican and active in the support of the principles of his party, being frequently at the conventions and also taking a keen interest in the campaigns. He has been school director many terms and is a zealous supporter of educational advancement. Mr. Southern laid out the townsite of Boyd in 1895 but he had been in business there since 1889 as a general merchant. About 1899, he sold his store to his son-in-law and now gives his attention to the oversight of his property interests.
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Charles Southern's parents were Martin Southern and Martin's second wife, Elizabeth Bolton.
Descendants of Martin Southern

1 Martin Southern b: 21 Dec 1817 in Giles County, Virginia d: 08 Nov 1877 in Wasco County, Oregon
.. +Malinda MEADOWS b: 10 Oct 1818 in Giles Co., Virginia m: 27 Aug 1838 in Giles Co., Virginia d: Apr 1848 in Cedar Co., Iowa
......... 2 William H. SOUTHERN b: 1839 in Virginia
......... 2 Elizabeth Jane SOUTHERN b: 07 May 1842 in Cedar Co., Iowa d: 30 Jan 1919 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California
............. +Daniel Lewis MANN b: 10 Nov 1834 in Waterville, Lamoille Co., Vermont m: 28 Sep 1860 in Delhi, Delaware Co., Iowa d: 16 Jan 1919 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
.................... 3 Clara Evelyn MANN b: 06 Aug 1861 in Delaware Co., Iowa d: 14 Dec 1866
.................... 3 Martha Amelia MANN b: Aft. 10 Jan 1862 in Iowa d: 1938 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................ +David Palmer RUSSELL b: Aft. 10 Jan 1856 in New York m: 1884 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California
............................... 4 Robert Gould RUSSELL
................................... +[1] Helen Marie DUNN
............................... *2nd Wife of Robert Gould RUSSELL:
................................... +Dorothy KRONINGER
........................................... 5 Gladys Elaine RUSSELL
............................................... +Gerald WHIPPLE
...................................................... 6 Living WHIPPLE
.......................................................... +Living CLEARY
................................................................. 7 Living CLEARY
................................................................. 7 Living CLEARY
...................................................... 6 Living WHIPPLE
.......................................................... +Living ANNAND
...................................................... 6 Living WHIPPLE
...................................................... 6 Living WHIPPLE
.......................................................... +Living PATTERSON
...................................................... 6 Living WHIPPLE
.......................................................... +Living ALLISON
........................................... 5 Living RUSSELL
............................................... +Richard T. HART
...................................................... 6 Living HART
.......................................................... +Living GRADY
...................................................... 6 Living HART
.......................................................... +Living WIENER
................................................................. 7 Living HART
................................................................. 7 Living HART
...................................................... 6 Living HART
.......................................................... +Living HURLEY
................................................................. 7 Living HURLEY
................................................................. 7 Living HURLEY
............................... 4 Daniel Palmer RUSSELL b: 06 May 1885 in Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois d: 26 Nov 1947 in Fresno Co., California
................................... +Martha DEVONEY b: Abt. 1890 in England m: Abt. 1909
........................................... 5 David P. RUSSELL b: 08 May 1911 in California
............................................... +Joyce
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living PAPPAS
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Hedy
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living SCOFIELD
................................................................. 7 Living SCOFIELD
........................................... 5 Raymond RUSSELL b: in Santa Clara County, California
............................................... +Phyllis
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Kazumi
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Camille
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Susan
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
........................................... 5 Mary Elizabeth RUSSELL
............................................... +Maynard VOGEL d: Deceased
........................................... *2nd Husband of Mary Elizabeth RUSSELL:
............................................... +Charles COPE
...................................................... 6 Living COPE
...................................................... 6 Living COPE
........................................... 5 John Duncan RUSSELL b: 11 Nov 1913 in Santa Clara County, California
............................................... +Vera
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Patricia
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
........................................... 5 Robert Stanley RUSSELL b: in Santa Clara County, California
............................................... +Pat
........................................... *2nd Wife of Robert Stanley RUSSELL:
............................................... +[1] Helen Marie DUNN
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living ELLIOTT
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... *2nd Wife of Living RUSSELL:
.......................................................... +Living MILES
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
........................................... 5 Daniel R. RUSSELL b: 18 Feb 1912 in Santa Clara County, California
............................... 4 Emma Jean RUSSELL b: 1886 in Dakota Territory
................................... +Thomas J. FRASER b: Abt. 1882 in Ohio m: Abt. 1905
........................................... 5 Alvin W. FRASER
............................................... +Bette PFEIFFER
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
.......................................................... +Living GRISEL
................................................................. 7 Living GRISEL
................................................................. 7 Living GRISEL
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
........................................... 5 Phillip I. FRASER
............................................... +Gayle
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
.......................................................... +Living PANTONE
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
........................................... 5 Lucinda Jean FRASER
...................................................... 6 Living Ellen
...................................................... 6 Living Martha
........................................... 5 Thomas J. FRASER II b: 17 Sep 1906 in California d: 14 Apr 1990 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California
............................................... +Elizabeth WHITE b: Abt. 1908 in California m: Abt. 1928 d: 30 May 1988 in Tuolumne Co., California
...................................................... 6 Sue FRASER d: Bef. 14 Jul 2005
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
.......................................................... +John O'BRIEN
................................................................. 7 Living O'BRIEN
................................................................. 7 Living O'BRIEN
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
.......................................................... +Living Patty
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
...................................................... 6 Living FRASER
...................................................... 6 David Phillip Sr. FRASER b: 29 Aug 1934 in French Camp, San Joaquin Co., California d: 14 Jul 2005
.......................................................... +Living Norie
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
................................................................. 7 Living FRASER
............................... 4 Gladys Ethel RUSSELL b: 1888 in Dakota Territory d: 25 Sep 1980 in Yolo Co., California
................................... +Gustav Adolph Sr. HAUSSLER b: 21 Jul 1884 m: Abt. Jan 1908 d: 12 Jan 1964 in Yolo Co., California
........................................... 5 Gustav Adolph Jr. HAUSSLER
............................................... +Jane
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
.......................................................... +Living Dixie
................................................................. 7 Living HAUSSLER
................................................................. 7 Living HAUSSLER
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
........................................... 5 Kenneth Southern HAUSSLER
............................................... +Marie SPURRIER
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
.......................................................... +Living WELLMAN
................................................................. 7 Living WELLMAN
................................................................. 7 Living WELLMAN
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
...................................................... 6 Kenneth Russell HAUSSLER b: 29 Jan 1957 in California d: 24 Oct 1981 in Los Angeles Co., California
........................................... 5 Robert Reed Sr. HAUSSLER b: 28 Jan 1915 in Davis, Yolo Co., California d: 14 Jul 2004 in Davis, Yolo Co., California
............................................... +Mollyellen PETERSEN
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
.......................................................... +Living LIPELT
................................................................. 7 Living LIPELT
................................................................. 7 Living LIPELT
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
.......................................................... +Living HANSEN
................................................................. 7 Living HANSEN
................................................................. 7 Living HANSEN
...................................................... 6 Living HAUSSLER
............................... 4 Richard Leroy RUSSELL b: Aft. 10 Jan 1890 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California
................................... +Margaret KRUSE
........................................... 5 James Leroy RUSSELL
............................................... +Pat
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Karen
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 Living RUSSELL
.......................................................... +Living Robin
................................................................. 7 Living RUSSELL
...................................................... 6 James RUSSELL b: 1952 d: Bef. 15 Feb 2006
........................................... *2nd Wife of James Leroy RUSSELL:
............................................... +Carol
........................................... 5 Anna Marie RUSSELL
............................................... +Bob EVANS
............................... 4 Joseph Franklin RUSSELL b: 1891 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California d: Abt. 1919
............................... 4 John Manfred RUSSELL b: Aft. 10 Jan 1893 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California d: Aft. 10 Jan 1920
............................... 4 Lillian RUSSELL b: 1895 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California
................................... +George BARTH
........................................... 5 Beverly BARTH
............................................... +Benito ZENGA
............................... *2nd Husband of Lillian RUSSELL:
................................... +Edgar WHITESIDE
............................... 4 Ruth Marian RUSSELL b: Aft. 10 Jan 1898 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California d: Aft. 10 Jan 1920
............................... 4 Esther Mae RUSSELL b: 1900 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California d: Aft. 10 Jan 1920
................................... +Billy MCCALLUM
........................................... 5 Betty MCCALLUM
............................................... +David William Sr. KELLEY
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
.......................................................... +Living Dianne
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
.......................................................... +Living MCLEAN
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
...................................................... 6 Living KELLEY
............................... 4 Evelyn M. RUSSELL b: 1904 in Jamestown, Tuolumne Co., California d: Deceased
................................... +Jack PRINCE
........................................... 5 Beth PRINCE b: 1923 d: Deceased
............................................... +J HOOF
...................................................... 6 Living HOOF
...................................................... 6 Living HOOF
................................................................. 7 Living John
...................................................... 6 Living HOOF
...................................................... 6 Living HOOF
.................... 3 Lenore Almeda MANN b: 1864 in Iowa d: 1930
........................ +Frank MARTIN b: Abt. 1871 in Georgia m: Abt. 1908
............................... 4 Constance MARTIN b: Abt. 1892 in California
.................... *2nd Husband of Lenore Almeda MANN:
........................ +Nathaniel D. CHRISTIAN b: 20 Feb 1872 in Georgia m: Abt. 1909 d: 14 Jul 1955 in San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California
.................... 3 Almina Pearl MANN b: 20 Nov 1865 in Iowa d: 23 Feb 1946 in San Joaquin Co., California
........................ +Harry Vernon OWENS b: 28 Sep 1865 in Pennsylvania m: Abt. 1888 d: 11 Nov 1963 in San Joaquin Co., California
............................... 4 Francis OWENS
................................... +Vince COONEY
........................................... 5 Vincent Paul COONEY
............................... *2nd Husband of Francis OWENS:
................................... +MATTHEWS
............................... 4 Clara J. OWENS b: Aug 1889 in California
............................... 4 Erma M. OWENS b: Mar 1891 in California
............................... 4 Ruth I. OWENS b: Oct 1892 in California
............................... 4 Ira Vernon OWENS b: 04 Mar 1899 in California d: 07 Jan 1944 in San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Stella M. WEAVER
........................................... 5 Beverly Rutts OWENS
............................................... +Al TRAPP
........................................... 5 June V. OWENS b: 23 Jun 1922 in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., California d: 20 Jun 2006 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
............................................... +John GALLAGHER d: Bef. 20 Jun 2006 in San Joaquin Co., California
...................................................... 6 Living GALLAGHER
.......................................................... +Living Jean
...................................................... 6 Living GALLAGHER
.......................................................... +Living Julie
................................................................. 7 Living GALLAGHER
.................... 3 Frances Ercel MANN b: 25 Apr 1867 in West Liberty, Muscatine Co., Iowa d: 19 Feb 1940 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................ +Eugene Douglas I GRAHAM b: 22 Jan 1866 in Lodi, San Joaquin Co., California m: 05 Sep 1888 in Modesto, Stanislaus Co., California d: 19 Feb 1944 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California
............................... 4 Robert Elsworth GRAHAM b: 04 Dec 1889 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California d: 07 Dec 1977 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Edith Gertrude GELLER b: 03 Aug 1894 in Washington m: 04 Dec 1913 d: 12 Jul 1981 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................................... 5 Eugene Douglas GRAHAM b: 22 Sep 1914 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California d: 07 Jul 1998 in Grass Valley, Nevada Co., California
............................................... +Alice d: 07 Jul 1998 in Grass Valley, Nevada Co., California
...................................................... 6 Living GRAHAM
.......................................................... +Living ALEXANDER
...................................................... 6 Living GRAHAM
.......................................................... +Living NYBERG
................................................................. 7 Living NYBERG
........................................... 5 Edith Lorraine GRAHAM b: 04 Jul 1923 in San Joaquin Co., California d: 20 Jul 1995 in Toledo, Lucas Co., Ohio
............................................... +Donald PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
...................................................... 6 Living PETRIE
........................................... 5 Donna Lea GRAHAM b: 07 Jul 1935 in San Joaquin Co., California d: 21 Mar 2002 in California
............................................... +Alton Dean HIGGINS b: 03 Apr 1929 in San Joaquin Co., California d: 06 Jan 1980 in Contra Costa Co., California
............................... 4 Lloyd Linville GRAHAM b: 22 Apr 1891 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California d: 25 Nov 1960 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California
................................... +Mary Louise MENKING b: 25 Aug 1882 in Hoboken, Hudson Co., New Jersey m: 02 May 1917 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California d: 03 Jul 1968 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................................... 5 Frances Myrle GRAHAM
............................................... +Seward Carlton STROUD
...................................................... 6 Living STROUD
.......................................................... +Living QUICK
................................................................. 7 Living STROUD
................................................................. 7 Living STROUD
...................................................... 6 Living STROUD
.......................................................... +Anja HEIBLOEM
................................................................. 7 Living STROUD
................................................................. 7 Living STROUD
........................................... 5 Henrietta Mae GRAHAM b: 07 Nov 1919 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California d: 17 Feb 2003 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
............................................... +Bruce Lorn Jr. MASON b: 21 Aug 1921 in French Camp, San Joaquin Co., California m: 08 Sep 1946 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California d: 24 Jan 2006 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
............................... *2nd Wife of Lloyd Linville GRAHAM:
................................... +Viola HAYNES m: Aug 1932 d: Jul 1949 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California
........................................... 5 Living VALEU
............................................... +Dean Alvin WRIGHT
........................................... *2nd Husband of Living VALEU:
............................................... +Robert WHITE
........................................... *3rd Husband of Living VALEU:
............................................... +R. James STIGER
...................................................... 6 Living STIGER
.......................................................... +Living GIOVANOZZO
...................................................... 6 Living STIGER
.......................................................... +Living BRUCE
............................... *3rd Wife of Lloyd Linville GRAHAM:
................................... +Caroline R MATTHEWS b: 06 Sep 1894 m: 1950 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California d: 28 Nov 1960 in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California
............................... 4 Eugene Myrle GRAHAM b: 13 Sep 1896 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California d: 22 Feb 1982 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California
................................... +Frances Maud MANNING b: 21 Aug 1896 in Hawaiian Islands m: Abt. 1924 in Sonora, Tuolumne Co., California d: 23 Jul 1964 in Tuolumne Co., California
........................................... 5 Carolyn GRAHAM b: 20 Dec 1924 in Tuolumne Co., California d: 18 Feb 1980 in California
............................................... +Edwin KING
............................... *2nd Wife of Eugene Myrle GRAHAM:
................................... +Alice Catherine FAHEY b: 15 Oct 1901 in Confidence, Tuolumne Co., California m: Aft. 1964 in Sonora, Tuolumne Co., California d: 16 Jun 1988 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California
.................... 3 Genevieve Ethel MANN b: Apr 1870 in California d: Aft. 1930
........................ +Joseph Franklin STUART b: 19 Oct 1864 in Silveyville, Solano Co., California m: Oct 1887 d: 31 Dec 1954 in Santa Cruz Co., California
............................... 4 Evelyn STUART
................................... +MCMILLEN
........................................... 5 Virginia L. MCMILLEN
............................................... +Gordon ADAMS
............................... 4 Arthur L. STUART b: 15 Jul 1889 in California d: 12 May 1968 in San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Genevieve Effie b: Bef. 13 Feb 1889 in California m: Abt. Jul 1909 d: Bef. 1968
........................................... 5 Arthur L. STUART
........................................... 5 Michael STUART d: Bef. 2000
............................................... +Esther
........................................... 5 Bernice STUART
........................................... 5 Ercell STUART
........................................... 5 Ginnie F. STUART
............................... 4 Ernest Franklin STUART b: 01 Oct 1890 in Oakdale, Stanislaus Co., California d: 11 Jul 1943 in San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Gwendolyn A. b: Abt. 1891 in California m: Aft. Oct 1917
............................... 4 Raymond S. STUART b: 07 Aug 1893 in Oakdale, California d: 18 Aug 1974 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Elsie E. JACK b: Abt. 1891 in California m: Abt. 1914 d: in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................................... 5 Jane STUART
............................................... +Jack Matthew DONALDSON b: 11 Jun 1914 in California d: 18 May 1994 in San Joaquin Co., California
............................... 4 Allan Edison STUART b: 16 Aug 1895 in California d: 26 Nov 1948 in San Joaquin Co., California
........................................... 5 Virginia STUART
............................... 4 Wesley Martin STUART b: 13 Jan 1900 in California d: 18 Apr 1984 in San Joaquin Co., California
................................... +Josephine STUART b: 07 Nov 1904 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California m: Abt. 1921 d: 06 Sep 1994 in Stockton, San Joaquin Co., California
........................................... 5 Ellen Mary STUART
............................................... +Earl ROBERTS
........................................... 5 Wesley Raymond STUART b: 19 Oct 1923 in San Joaquin Co., California d: 13 Sep 1944 in Peleliu Island
......... 2 Leonard Watson SOUTHERN b: 1843 in Iowa
......... 2 Minerva A. SOUTHERN b: 1846 in Iowa
*2nd Wife of Martin Southern:
.. +Elizabeth Ann BOLTON b: 25 Dec 1828 in Giles Co., Virginia m: 17 Feb 1850 in Cedar Co., Iowa d: 05 May 1900 in Boyd, Wasco Co., Oregon
......... 2 Margaret SOUTHERN b: Abt. 1851 in Tipton Co. or Cedar Co., Iowa
......... 2 Charles Henry SOUTHERN b: 14 May 1855 in Delaware or Cedar, Iowa d: 18 Jul 1935 in Boyd, Wasco Co., Oregon
............. +Emma A. b: Feb 1856 in Oregon m: Abt. 1879 d: Aft. 22 Apr 1930
.................... 3 Ethel F. SOUTHERN b: Aug 1881 in Oregon
.................... 3 Henry D. SOUTHERN b: Jun 1883 in Oregon
......... 2 Emmarilla Francis SOUTHERN b: 17 Jul 1859 in Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa d: 18 Feb 1874 in Boyd, Wasco Co., Oregon
......... 2 Ella SOUTHERN b: 03 Jul 1863 in Delaware or Cedar Co., Iowa d: 09 Oct 1942 in Corvallis, Benton Co., Oregon
......... 2 Martin Estell SOUTHERN b: 21 Apr 1869 in Iowa d: 20 Aug 1878 in Boyd, Wasco Co., Oregon

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-06-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

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From : "History of Central Oregon "
Biographical Sketches of Lake County, page 893 (1906)

RINEHART, Elmer E.

Elmer E. Rinehart is sheriff of Lake county, Oregon, having been elected to that office on the Republican ticket in the spring of 1904. He came to Lake county in 1894 and engaged in the saw mill business in partnership with Resa A. Hawkins, a pioneer of the county, under the firm name of Hawkins & Rinehart. Their plant is situated in the Crooked creek valley, where the company also owns a large tract of timber and agricultural lands. They are still running the mill with profit, and in addition they are quite extensively engaged in the business of raising and farming.

Mr. Rinehart, is a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, and was born January 29, 1864. His father David G. Rinehart, is a native of Pennsylvania, but removed to Ohio about the time of the construction of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. Upon the outbreak of the Rebellion he enlisted in the army and his military record covers a period of three and one-half years, during which time he was a participant in some of the most severe battles of the war, among which may be mentioned the battle of Bull Run. He is still living in Ross county Ohio, at the age of eighty-two years. Our subject’s mother was Elizabeth (Erlywine) Rinehart a native of West Virginia. She hat attained the age of sixty-five years when she died in 1895.

Mr. Rinehart was a member of a family of eleven children, eight of whom are still living. The first twenty years of his life were spent in the state of his birth. In 1884 he came west and settled in Surprise valley, California. during his boyhood he mastered the trade of stationary engineer, and since coming to the west has followed that trade, his work being confined to the running of engines in lumber and grist mills.

On May 20, 1888, Mr Rinehart was married to Addie Peters, a native of California, and daughter of Claus Peters, a German by birth and a pioneer of California. Claus Peters was one of the first settlers in Surprise valley, and his death occurred there December 14, 1904. Mr and Mrs Rinehart have been parents of one child, a son by the name of Clarence D.

It may be said to the credit of Mr. Rinehart that he started in business in Lake county ten years ago without a dollar in his own name; but so diligently has he applied his energies to his business and so faithfully has he met all adversities that he is now in the best of circumstances and enjoys the good will of a wide circle of friends.
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Elmer's parents were David Rinehart and Elizabeth Erlywine.

Descendants of David G. Rinehart

1 David G. Rinehart b: in Greene Co, PA d: in Chillicothe, Ross, OH
.. +Elizabeth A. Erlywine b: 02 May 1829 in West Virginia m: 19 Feb 1846 in Greene Co, PA d: 1895 in Chillicothe, Ross, OH (?)
......... 2 Elmer Erlywine Rinehart b: 24 Jan 1864 in Chillicothe, Ross, OH d: 1919 in San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
............. +Adeline Peters b: Abt. 1869 in Surprise Valley, CA m: 20 May 1888 in Surprise Valley, CA (?) d: Unknown in Lakeview, Lake Co, OR (?)
.................... 3 Vene Elmer Rinehart b: 22 Oct 1905 in Lakeview, Lake, OR d: 07 Aug 1982 in Lakeview, Lake, OR
........................ +Evelyn Davis ?
.................... *2nd Wife of Vene Elmer Rinehart:
........................ +Naomi Louise Hafkesbring b: 27 Apr 1907 in Algiers, Orleans, LA m: 04 Feb 1931 in ? d: Abt. Aug 1986 in Claremont, California
.................... 3 Clarence Rinehart b: 1906 in Lakeview, Lake, OR
........................ +Myrtle
......... 2 David C. Rinehart
......... 2 William Rinehart
......... 2 Adam E. Rinehart b: 09 Jan 1849 in "Old Dominion", West Virginia d: 25 Jun 1925 in Lakeview, Lake Co, OR
............. +Margaret Best b: 04 Jul 1856 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI m: 26 Apr 1873 in Yreka, Siskiyou, CA d: 02 Feb 1932 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA
.................... 3 William E. Rinehart b: 02 Aug 1875 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 13 May 1948 in Reno, Washoe, NV
........................ +Josephine Pruett
.................... *2nd Wife of William E. Rinehart:
........................ +Maude White
............................... 4 Vera Grace Rinehart
................................... +Roland Fay Richardson
............................... *2nd Husband of Vera Grace Rinehart:
................................... +William White
........................................... 5 Margaret Rae White
............................................... +Allen Reyes
........................................... *2nd Husband of Margaret Rae White:
............................................... +Phil Jameson
............................... 4 Raymond C. Rinehart
................................... +Dorothy May Steele
............................... 4 Daughter Rinehart d: 04 Mar 1916 in Guano Valley, NV
............................... 4 Edward W. Rinehart
................................... +Kay Johnson
............................... *2nd Wife of Edward W. Rinehart:
................................... +Lois
............................... *3rd Wife of Edward W. Rinehart:
................................... +Lucy Pruitt
.................... 3 Harry Elmer Rinehart b: 26 Feb 1877 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 22 Dec 1940 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA
........................ +Eva Mae Larson b: 18 Nov 1875 in Coleville, Mono, CA m: 23 Aug 1900 in New Pine Creek, Modoc, CA d: 04 May 1959 in Saratoga, Santa Clara, CA
............................... 4 Dorothy Helen Rinehart
................................... +Alexander Charles Ash
........................................... 5 Gordon Victor Ash
............................................... +Patricia Wycoff
........................................... 5 Dixie Lee Ash
............................................... +Harold Dean Leventon
............................... 4 Victor Larson Rinehart
................................... +Jessie Alma Reynolds
........................................... 5 James Rinehart
............................... 4 Earl Robert Rinehart
................................... +Jessie Miller
.................... 3 Effie Rinehart b: 02 Nov 1879 d: 1950 in Alturas, Modoc, CA
........................ +Thomas B Sizer b: 1865 in England m: 09 Oct 1906 in Reno, Washoe, NV d: 1934
.................... 3 Grace L Rinehart b: 14 May 1881 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 08 Feb 1973 in Lakeview, Lake Co, OR
........................ +Erastus James Jr. Beebe b: 07 Jul 1873 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA m: 26 Feb 1903 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 05 Mar 1924 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA
............................... 4 Kathryn Beebe
................................... +Preston G Johnson
........................................... 5 Robert P Johnson
............................... 4 Vancel Leland Beebe b: 04 Mar 1904 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 22 Mar 1964 in Adel or Lakeview, Lake, OR
................................... +Jane
.................... 3 Marion Walter Rinehart b: Nov 1891 d: 05 Aug 1975 in Lakeview, Lake Co, OR
........................ +Lavinia Hardy
............................... 4 Beatrice Rinehart
................................... +Dexter Kelley b: 12 Dec 1917 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 01 Jan 1996 in Reno, Washoe, NV
............................... 4 Mary Rinehart d: 1925
............................... 4 Kay Rinehart
.................... *2nd Wife of Marion Walter Rinehart:
........................ +Lillie Belle Chambers b: 26 Jun 1905 in Alturas, Modoc, CA m: 14 Nov 1935 in Reno, Washoe, NV d: 08 Jun 1988 in Alturas, Modoc, CA
.................... 3 Ernestine Rinehart b: 03 Aug 1892 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA d: 04 Aug 1892 in Cedarville, Modoc, CA
......... 2 John B. Rinehart b: 1850
......... 2 Newton Rinehart b: 1852
......... 2 Mary R. Rinehart b: 1860
............. +John Holdren b: 1855 m: 03 Aug 1876 in ?, Ross, OH
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 ? Holdren
.................... 3 Maize Holdren b: 1881 d: 1962
........................ +Elizabeth Mae Brown b: 1884 d: 1961
............................... 4 Mary Lucille Holdren b: 19 Jun 1905
................................... +Jacob Laubensheimer
......... 2 Ella May Rinehart b: 1867
............. +Luther Rinehart b: 24 Jan 1856 d: 04 Jan 1884 in Chillicothe, Ross, OH
.................... 3 Louie Rinehart
........................ +Harry C. Flynn b: 1880 m: 14 Apr 1903 in Pee Pee Twnshp, Pike City, OH
......... *2nd Husband of Ella May Rinehart:
............. +Albert Thomas Smith b: 1878
.................... 3 Mettie G. Smith
......... *3rd Husband of Ella May Rinehart:
............. +Jacob Laubensheimer b: 09 Sep 1870 m: 17 Feb 1892 d: 28 Feb 1900 in Mt Tabor Cemetary
.................... 3 Albert Wesly Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
.................... 3 ? Laubensheimer
......... 2 Emma Rinehart b: 1869

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

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Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

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Oregon Historical Society Library
Portrait And Biographical Record Of Portland And Vicinity
Chapman Publishing, Page 572, March 17, 1905

James E. Marquam

Is one of the representative sons of Oregon, his birth having occurred in this state June 12, 1850, a half mile east of the town which bears the family name. His father, Alfred Marquam, was born in Kentucky and there engaged in the manufacture of chairs and also followed the painter’s trade. Attracted by the opportunities of he great northwest, he made his way with an ox-team across the plains to Oregon, in the year 1845, traveling by way of the Meeks cutoff. The journey was a difficult one, for there had been little travel prior to that time and it required no little courage to face the hardships and difficulties incident of a trip across the plains and through the mountains f[v]astnesses. He started in the spring and after several months spent upon the way reached his destination and secured a donation land claim of six hundred and forty acres. He built the first house and the first store in the town that now bears his name and was also the first postmaster here. He aided materially in the development and upbuilding of this portion of the state and the town of Marquam now stands as a monument to his work and to his memory. He was an advocate of the Republican party and had no little influence throughout Oregon not only in political circles, but as a representative of business interests and of the pioneer development of the state. He passed away at the age of sixty-two years, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Olive W. Burbage, was also a native of Kentucky and likewise died in Oregon.

Reared under the parental roof James E. Marquam assisted his father during the period of this boyhood. He was the fifth in a family of eleven children and to the common schools system of the state he was indebted for the educational privileges he enjoyed. At the age of eighteen years he rented his father’s land and began farming on his own account, which pursuit he followed upon the old homestead for ten years. During that period, with the capital he had gained through his labors he purchased one hundred and seven acres of land in the brush and with characteristic energy he began its development and cultivation. The most of his life, however, he has rented land and has thus carried on farm work which has brought him a fair return.

Mr. Marquam was united in marriage in the town of Marquam to Miss Mary Ross, a native of Oregon and a daughter of Thomas Ross, who was a carpenter and farmer. He made the journey with ox-teams across the plains to the northwest in the year 1850 and secured a government land claim in Clackamas county. Six children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Marquam: James C.; Homer A.; William G., deceased; Thomas C., Jewell and Itress. James C. now conducts a general merchandise store at Marquam and is also serving as postmaster, having been appointed to the position August 8, 1900.

Mr. Marquam is a member of the Knights of the Maccabees and also belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church. In his political views he is an earnest Republican, doing everything in his power to promote the success of the party, and for one term he served as road supervisor and for one term as school director. He is a representative of one of the oldest families of this portion of the state and as far as possible he has carried on the work of improvement and progress, which was instituted by his father in pioneer times.
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James Marquam's paternal grandparents were Phillip Winchester Marquam and Charlotte Mercer Poole.

Descendants of Phillip Winchester Marquam

1 Phillip Winchester Marquam b: 04 Mar 1782 in Manchester, Lancashire Co., England d: 06 Apr 1864 in Tippecanoe County, Indiana
.. +Charlotte Mercer Poole b: 08 Sep 1784 in Fredrick Co., Maryland m: 22 Jan 1807 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland d: in Layfayette, IN
......... 2 Elizabeth Marquam b: 04 Dec 1807 in Frederick Co., Maryland
............. +John Young m: 19 Dec 1826
......... 2 William Earl Marquam b: 31 Mar 1809 in Frederick Co., Maryland
............. +Jane Cochran m: 18 Feb 1836
......... 2 Sara Anne Marquam b: 28 Oct 1810 in Frederick Co., Maryland
............. +james wallace m: 01 Mar 1831
......... 2 Pamela or Permelia Marquam b: 09 Oct 1812 in Hagerstown, Fredrick Co., Maryland
......... 2 Charlotte Marquam b: 09 Mar 1814 in Frederick Co., Maryland d: 10 Oct 1868 in Indiana
............. +John Holladay b: 13 Jan 1813 m: 16 Jan 1836 in Tippicanoe d: 22 Nov 1855 in Indiana
......... 2 Alfred Marquam b: 14 Mar 1817 in Frederick Co., Maryland d: 23 Feb 1887 in Marquam, Oregon
............. +Olive Wise Burbage b: 17 Mar 1824 in Riddle Mills, Bourbon county, Kentucky m: 06 Nov 1842 in Liberty, Clay Co., Missouri d: 26 Feb 1893 in Marquam, Clackamas county, Oregon
.................... 3 Mary J. Marquam b: Abt. 1843 in Missouri
........................ +Daniel Albright
.................... 3 George W. Marquam b: 1844 in Missouri d: 1936 in Washington
........................ +Armina Alice Covey b: 28 Oct 1853 in Scotland Co, Missouri d: 16 Oct 1932 in Oregon
............................... 4 George A. Marquam b: Abt. 1877 in Wasco, Oregon
............................... 4 Chester G. Marquam b: 20 Apr 1878 in Wasco, Oregon d: 1961 in Washington
................................... +Jennie D. b: 1887 d: 1938 in Washington
........................................... 5 Clifford O Marquam b: 1912 d: 1971 in Washington
............................................... +May b: 1917 d: in Washington
........................................... 5 Frank Marquam b: 1913 d: 1926
.................... 3 Sarah E. Marquam b: Abt. 1846 in Oregon
.................... 3 William T. Marquam b: Abt. 1848 in Oregon
.................... 3 James Edward Marquam b: 12 Jun 1850 in Oregon d: 19 Jul 1925 in Clackmaus Co., Oregon
........................ +Mary Elizabeth Ross b: 1856 in Oregon m: 1876 in Clackamas Co., Oregon
............................... 4 William G. Marquam d: Bef. 1905
............................... 4 Thomas C. Marquam
............................... 4 Itress Marquam
............................... 4 James Clyde Marquam b: 23 Aug 1877 in Marquam, Clackamus Co., Oregon
............................... 4 Homer Arden Marquam b: 28 Jan 1884 in Oregon
................................... +Goldie Gertrude Drake b: 09 May 1889 in Oregon m: 1908
........................................... 5 Ross A. Marquam b: Abt. 1915 in Oregon d: Abt. 2003
............................................... +Marie d: Abt. 2003
........................................... *2nd Wife of Ross A. Marquam:
............................................... +unknown
...................................................... 6 Living Marquam
...................................................... 6 Living Marquam
........................................... 5 Arlaine E. Marquam b: Abt. 1919 in Oregon
............................... 4 Jewell Olive Marquam b: 25 Oct 1890
................................... +Whitten
.................... 3 Philip Agustus Marquam b: 12 Oct 1851 in Marquam, Clackamas Co., Oregon d: 22 Mar 1928 in San Francisco
........................ +Laura June Childers b: 1855 in Scotland Co, Missouri m: 1871 in Clackamas co., oregon
.................... 3 Melissa A. Marquam b: Abt. 1852 in Oregon
........................ +E. M. Hartman m: 1874 in Clackamas co., oregon
.................... 3 Alfred Burbage Marquam b: 18 Sep 1854 in Oregon d: 04 Mar 1935 in Bakersfiled, CA
........................ +Emma Dell Scott b: 08 Nov 1860 in Des Moins, Iowa m: 22 Jul 1878 d: 20 May 1931 in Porterville, CA
............................... 4 Lena Maud Marquam b: 19 Aug 1879 in Marquam, Clackamas Co., Oregon d: 30 Jul 1960 in Umatilla, OR
................................... +Clarence William Jackson b: 26 Nov 1873 in Canyonville, Oregon m: 1905 in Douglas Co., Oregon d: 23 May 1923 in Portland, OR
........................................... 5 Midred Dorthy Jackson b: 02 Mar 1911 in Tiller, OR d: Sep 2001
............................................... +Frank Murray
...................................................... 6 Living Leingschied
.......................................................... +Living Scott
................................................................. 7 Living Scott
..................................................................... +Living Chell
............................................................................ 8 Living Chell
............................................................................ 8 Living Chell
............................................................................ 8 Living Chell
................................................................. 7 Living Scott
..................................................................... +Living
............................................................................ 8 Living Scott
............................................................................ 8 Living Scott
............................................................................ 8 Living Scott
............................................................................ 8 Living Scott
................................................................. 7 Living Scott
..................................................................... +Living
............................................................................ 8 Living Scott
...................................................... *2nd Husband of Living Leingschied:
.......................................................... +Living Slayton
................................................................. 7 Living Slayton
................................................................. 7 Living Slayton
...................................................... 6 Living
...................................................... 6 Living Murray
.......................................................... +Edward Robinson d: 03 Apr 2005 in idaho
................................................................. 7 Living Robinson
................................................................. 7 Living
................................................................. 7 Living Jane
................................................................. 7 Living
................................................................. 7 Living
...................................................... 6 Marvin Murray b: 1945 d: Bef. 1997
.......................................................... +Living
................................................................. 7 Living Murray
........................................... *2nd Husband of Midred Dorthy Jackson:
............................................... +Leingschied
........................................... 5 Clarence Marquam Jackson b: 13 Mar 1916 in Tiller, OR d: 07 Dec 2005 in Memorial Hospital, Modesto, CA
............................................... +Dorothy Marie Halcomb b: 03 Nov 1925 in Fresno, California m: 16 Dec 1943 in Porterville, CA d: 22 Mar 2006 in San Bernardino, CA
...................................................... 6 Living Jackson
.......................................................... +Living Landon
................................................................. 7 Living Landon
..................................................................... +Living Hand
............................................................................ 8 Living Hand
................................................................. 7 Living Landon
..................................................................... +Living Mitchell
................................................................. 7 Living Landon
...................................................... 6 Living Jackson
.......................................................... +Living Calvino
................................................................. 7 Living Calvino
...................................................... *2nd Husband of Living Jackson:
.......................................................... +Living Mellinger
................................................................. 7 Living Mellinger
...................................................... 6 Living Jackson
.......................................................... +Living Ericson
................................................................. 7 Living Jackson
..................................................................... +Living Mabile
............................................................................ 8 Living Mabile
................................................................. 7 Living Jackson
..................................................................... +Living Alvarez
............................................................................ 8 Living Alvarez
............................... 4 Alfred Lloyd Marquam b: 31 Jan 1881 d: 27 May 1960
................................... +Grace N. Clellan b: Abt. 1894 m: 1913
............................... *2nd Wife of Alfred Lloyd Marquam:
................................... +Betty Andrews m: 1943
........................................... 5 Living Marquam
...................................................... 6 Living Marquam
...................................................... 6 Living Marquam
............................... 4 Chester Ray Marquam b: 01 Jan 1884 d: 1950
................................... +Mary Estelle Ames m: 1906
........................................... 5 Thelma Duran Marquam
............................... 4 Sylvia Dell Marquam b: 30 Dec 1885 d: 1927
................................... +John Bayliss Speed b: 06 Sep 1874 m: 02 Dec 1906
........................................... 5 John Alfred Speed
............................................... +Frances Schacht
...................................................... 6 Living Speed
...................................................... 6 Living Speed
.......................................................... +Living Zygielbaum
................................................................. 7 Living Zygielbaum
................................................................. 7 Living Zygielbaum
............................... 4 William McKinley Marquam b: 02 Sep 1897 d: 19 Aug 1979
................................... +Marion Elizabeth Taylor b: 14 Oct 1901 in Webberville, Texas m: 26 Jun 1933 in Garden Wedding, Olive st., Porterville, CA d: 05 Feb 1994
........................................... 5 Living Marquam
............................................... +Living Giddings
...................................................... 6 Living Giddings
...................................................... 6 Living Giddings
.................... 3 Olive C. Marquam b: Abt. 1855 in Oregon
.................... 3 Jessie C. Marquam b: Abt. 1862 in Oregon
........................ +Charles E. Young m: 1880 in Clackamas Co., Oregon
......... 2 Henry P. Marquam b: 1820
......... 2 Philip Augustus Marquam b: 28 Feb 1823 in Maryland d: 08 May 1912 in Oregon?
............. +Emma Kern b: Abt. 1840 in Peoria, Illinois d: 02 May 1902 in Oregon
.................... 3 Mary E Marquam
........................ +Penumbra Kelly
.................... 3 Katie L. Marquam
.................... 3 Willametta Marquam
.................... 3 Thomas Alfred Marquam
.................... 3 PhilipAugustus Marquam, Jr b: Abt. 1856 in Oregon
........................ +Unknown b: in Washington
............................... 4 PhilipAugustus Marquam, b: Abt. 1890
.................... 3 William W. Marquam b: Abt. 1858 in Oregon
.................... 3 Charlotte C. Marquam b: Abt. 1860 in Oregon
.................... 3 Jessie L. Marquam b: Abt. 1862 in Oregon
.................... 3 U.S. Grant Marquam b: Abt. 1864 in Oregon d: 19 Apr 1906
.................... 3 Sarah S. Marquam b: Abt. 1866 in Oregon
........................ +Dr. Heel
.................... 3 Jane or Janie H. Marquam b: Abt. 1868 in Oregon
......... 2 Mary Jane Marquam b: 17 Feb 1825
......... 2 Louisa Marquam b: 13 Apr 1827

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President Bush Commemorates Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery

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President Bush Commemorates Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetary

11:20 A. M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, all. Secretary England, members of the Cabinet, General Pace, members of Congress, members of the United States military, veterans, families of the fallen, our fellow citizens: Welcome.

Today we honor the warriors who fought our nation's enemies, defended the cause of liberty, and gave their lives in the cause of freedom. We offer our love and our heartfelt compassion to the families who mourn them. We pray that our country may always prove worthy of the sacrifices they made.

For seven generations, we have carried our fallen to these fields. Here rest some 360,000 Americans who died fighting to preserve the Union and end slavery. Here rest some 500,000 Americans who perished in two world wars to conquer tyrannies and build free nations from their ruins. Here rest some 90,000 Americans who gave their lives to confront Communist aggression in places such as Korea and Vietnam.

Many names here are known: the 18-year-old Union soldier named Arthur MacArthur, who grabbed a falling flag and carried it up Missionary Ridge; the Tuskegee Airmen who defended America abroad and challenged prejudice at home; the slain war hero and President who asked that we "assure the survival and success of liberty" and found his rest beneath an eternal flame. Still others here are remembered only by loving families. Some are known only to God.

Now this hallowed ground receives a new generation of heroes -- men and women who gave their lives in places such as Kabul and Kandahar, Baghdad and Ramadi. Like those who came before them, they did not want war -- but they answered the call when it came. They believed in something larger than themselves. They fought for our country, and our country unites to mourn them as one.

We remember Army Specialist Ross Andrew McGinness. Ross was born on Flag Day in 1987. When he was in kindergarten, he said he wanted to grow up to be "an Army man." He enlisted at 17 -- the first day he was eligible. He deployed to Iraq. Last December, a grenade was thrown into his Humvee as Ross was patrolling the streets of Baghdad. The soldiers inside could not escape in time, so Ross leapt into the vehicle and covered the grenade with his own body. By sacrificing himself to save four other men, he earned a Silver Star -- and the eternal gratitude of the American people.

We remember Marine Sergeant Marc Golczynski of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Marc volunteered for a second tour of duty in Iraq. He knew the dangers his service would entail. Before he deployed, he wrote the following in an email to his family and friends: "Please don't feel bad for us. We are warriors, and as warriors have done before us we fight and sometimes die so our families do not have to." Marc left behind an eight-year-old son, Christian, who is with us today; he managed to be brave while he held his father's folded flag.

With us are other children and families mourning moms and dads and sons and daughters. Nothing said today will ease your pain. But each of you need to know that your country thanks you, and we embrace you, and we will never forget the terrible loss you have suffered. I hope you find comfort in knowing that your loved ones rest in a place even more peaceful than the fields that surround us here.

The greatest memorial to our fallen troops cannot be found in the words we say or the places we gather. The more lasting tribute is all around us -- a country where citizens have the right to worship as they want, to march for what they believe, and to say what they think. These freedoms came at great costs -- and they will survive only as long as there are those willing to step forward to defend them against determined enemies.

As before in our history, Americans find ourselves under attack and underestimated. Our enemies long for our retreat. They question our moral purpose. They doubt our strength of will. Yet even after five years of war, our finest citizens continue to answer our enemies with courage and confidence. Hundreds of thousands of patriots still raise their hands to serve their country; tens of thousands who have seen war on the battlefield volunteer to re-enlist. What an amazing country to produce such fine citizens.

Laura and I have met many of them; we've sat at the bedsides of the wounded. This morning, I met service members who received medals for distinguished service -- and found myself humbled by their grace and their grit. I had the honor of meeting with families of the fallen in the Oval Office, and was amazed by their strength and resolve and decent grace under pressure. We've heard of 174 Marines recently -- almost a quarter of a battalion -- who asked to have their enlistments extended. For these extensions, they would earn no promotion and no promise of a favored posting. They want to serve their nation. And as one of them put it this way: "I'm here so our sons don't have to come and fight here someday."

Those who serve are not fatalists or cynics. They know that one day this war will end -- as all wars do. Our duty is to ensure that its outcome justifies the sacrifices made by those who fought and died in it. From their deaths must come a world where the cruel dreams of tyrants and terrorists are frustrated and foiled -- where our nation is more secure from attack, and where the gift of liberty is secured for millions who have never known it.

This is our country's calling. It's our country's destiny. Americans set off on that voyage more than two centuries ago, confident that this future was within our reach -- even though the shore was distant, and even though the journey may be long. And through generations, our course has been secured by those who wear a uniform, secured by people who man their posts, and do their duty. They have helped us grow stronger with each new sunrise.

On this Day of Memory, we mourn brave citizens who laid their lives down for our freedom. They lived and died as Americans. May we always honor them. May we always embrace them. And may we always be faithful to who they were and what they fought for.

Thank you for having me. May God bless you and may God continue to bless our country.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

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Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

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Oregon loses former State Representative Mac Sumner (R-Molalla)

2007-05-14T12:17:00.000-07:00

It is with a sad heart that we must report that former State Representative Mac Sumner (R-Molalla) passed away last evening at the Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City. Mac passed away with his devoted wife Sandy and the rest of his family at his side. Mac Sumner was 66 years old.

I had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Mac on a number of issues. Mac was as genuine a man as you will ever meet. He worked hard, and his passion drove him to do what he felt was best for his family, his community and his state.

Mac is the father of 7, a devoted family man, former mayor of Molalla, and an elder in the Molalla Christian Church.

Mac was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2004. Mac was re-elected in 2006, but had to step down after the November 2006 election for health reasons. Unfortunately, many of the lowlifes on the liberal blogs questioned whether or not Mac was really sick, or if he ran in 2006 knowing he would have to resign in order that the Democrat couldn't win the seat.

Obviously, Mac was very sick. No doubt some of the leftoids are going to hatch conspiracy theories like "Karl Rove actually captured Mac, he isn't really dead, he is just living at Camp David".

And why did Mac run? Because he thought he would beat the cancer, and he so desperately wanted to continue to serve the people of his district. Unfortunately God had other plans for Mac, plans that did not include the Oregon Legislature.

Mac, we are going to miss you. You were one in a million.
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As I've been traveling a good deal, the above post is from NWRepublican.. and authored by 1001ST FIEND.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-05-09T08:35:00.000-07:00

GOP STRAW POLL

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HAPPY EASTER!! Please remember the reason for the season

2007-04-07T21:25:00.000-07:00

The last seven utterances of Christ:

Luke 23:34: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Luke 23:43: "Today you will be with me in paradise."

John 19:26-27: "Woman, behold your son; son, behold your mother."

Matthew 27:46, Mark 15:34: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

John 19:28: "I thirst."

John 19:30: "It is finished."

Luke 23:46: "Father into your hands I commend my spirit."

The visit of the angel:

Mathew 28:5-7: "The angel said to the women, 'Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. [6] He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. [7] Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-04-04T09:33:00.000-07:00

Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

Governor Tom McCall
Biographical Note

Thomas Lawson McCall, Governor of Oregon from 1967-1975, was Oregon's thirtieth governor. McCall was born in Egypt, Massachusetts on March 22, 1913. He was the son of Henry McCall and Dorothy Lawson McCall.

Noteworthy accomplishments of his administration included cleaning up the Willamette River; tougher land-use laws; a bill which ended the threat of private development on Oregon's beaches; the nation's first mandatory bottle-deposit law; and creative energy conservation measures, such as a ban on outdoor business lighting during the energy crisis of the 1970's.

McCall's parents moved to Portland from Massachusetts in 1909. Shortly thereafter they moved to a ranch near Prineville on the Crooked River. McCall spent significant time during his childhood both on the ranch and in Massachusetts. McCall attended the University of Oregon, where he graduated with a degree in journalism in 1936. His first job was at the News-Review in Moscow, Idaho, from 1937-1942. In 1939 he married Audrey Owen. They moved back to Oregon and he began working for The Oregonian newspaper, and then as a news announcer at KGW radio. In 1944 their son, Thomas W. L. McCall, Jr. (known as "Tad") was born. McCall enlisted in the Navy that same year, and served as a war correspondent in the Pacific.

In January of 1946 he returned to Oregon and began a nightly radio talk show on KEX in Portland. He joined the Young Republicans, and in 1949 he was offered a job as Governor Douglas McKay's assistant. That same year his second son, Samuel W. McCall III was born.

In 1964 McCall ran for Secretary of State as a stepping-stone to the governorship. He defeated Alfred Corbett, a victory which ran counter to the trend of Republican defeats in the 1964 elections.

In 1966 he decided to run for governor, and found he was opposed by his own party. Nevertheless, he ran on the issue of "livability" and defeated Robert Straub in the general election in November 1966. His first major political victory came with legislation known as the "Beach Bill," which granted the state government the power to zone Oregon's beaches, thus protecting them from private development.

McCall was known for being more publicly accessible than many of his predecessors as governor. He held open houses and enjoyed making public appearances. His independence resulted in poor relations with his own party. However, his accessibility endeared him to the media, which supported him in glowing terms.

In 1969, his belief in the control of development led to a proposal for land-use planning. McCall wanted to broaden Oregon's industrial base, but at the same time insisted on conserving the environment. His proposed legislation (Senate Bill 10) required local governments to complete comprehensive zoning plans within two years.

Perhaps the most famous environmental legislation enacted under McCall was House Bill 1036, the "Bottle Bill," which was the nation's first mandatory bottle-deposit law and was designed to decrease litter in Oregon. The bill was enacted in 1971.

Also in 1970 McCall approved the "Vortex I" rock concert at McIver State Park as a way to divert potential anti-war protestors from rioting during the national American Legion convention in Portland. It was a unique state-supervised event that drew 35,000 participants over several days. Although the danger of rioting was probably minimal, the move nevertheless helped to cement McCall's re-election victory over Robert Straub.

Despite his notoriety as an environmentalist, McCall did side with economic concerns on certain issues, such as timber harvesting (he opposed restrictions on private industry) and nuclear power (he supported the Trojan nuclear facility). With regard to labor concerns, McCall vetoed legislation designed to organize migrant farm workers.

In 1973 land-use planning again became a major issue, and Senate Bill 100 from that session was designed to provide state control over land-use decisions. Although the final bill did not go as far as McCall originally intended, a compromise bill forged by L.B. Day, McCall's head of the Dept. of Environmental Quality, created the Land Conservation and Development Commission.

In 1973 McCall developed a plan for tax reform which included an increase in the income tax and a freeze on property taxes, with the goal to shift funding for schools away from property taxes and toward the income of the wealthy. He encountered fierce opposition to the plan, and relied on his personal popularity to carry it to victory at the polls. However, the proposal failed with the voters.

In terms of national issues, McCall was a vocal and steady supporter of the war effort in Vietnam. He was one of the first prominent Republicans to publicly call for President Nixon's resignation due to the Watergate scandal. In late May of 1973, McCall called for voluntary measures to help alleviate concerns over the energy crisis. He also ordered extensive conservation measures to be followed by state agencies, and ordered businesses to shut off outdoor lighting to conserve energy. He also supported an innovative gas rationing plan that used vehicles' license-plate numbers ("odd" or "even") to determine when a person could purchase gasoline. The latter idea gained national attention.

McCall left office on January 14, 1975. Despite his famous 1971 quote imploring people not to move to the state, Oregon's population grew 25% during his eight years in office. He took a job as KATU television's news analyst, and also traveled nationwide supporting other states' efforts to enact bottle bills similar to Oregon's. He also actively opposed a 1976 effort to abolish the LCDC, and another effort to dismantle it in 1982. In February of 1978 McCall announced he would once again run for governor, however his campaign suffered from a lack of both funding and focus, and he was defeated by Victor Atiyeh in the Republican primary.

In December of 1982 he was hospitalized, and on January 8, 1983 Tom McCall lost a long battle with cancer. He was buried in Redmond Memorial Cemetery.

Oregon Republican League: History 104 Biographies

2007-03-28T08:39:00.000-07:00

Every Wednesday, the Oregon Republican League will post the biographies of important figures, in the League's/State of Oregon's history. Feel free to comment or share stories of your family's Republican affiliation.

Governor Mark O. Hatfield
Biographical Note

Mark O. Hatfield was governor of the State of Oregon from January 12, 1959 to January 9, 1967.

Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon, on July 12. 1922, to Charles Dolen and Dovie Odem Hatfield. He graduated with a B.A. from Willamette University in 1943 and an M.A. degree Stanford University in 1948.

From 1943 to 1946 Hatfield served in the United States Naval Reserve as a lieutenant junior grade. During World War II he served in the Pacific in landing craft operations. His trip into Hiroshima a month after the bomb had been dropped formed his view against nuclear war and nuclear weapons. After World War II he was assigned to French Indochina (Vietnam). This experience shaped his views about imperalism and colonialism and his strong stand against the Vietnam War.

Hatfield taught political science and was dean of students at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon from 1949 to 1956.

Hatfield began his political career in the Oregon legislature in 1951. He served in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1951-1955 and in the Oregon Senate from 1955-1957. He became the youngest Secretary of State in Oregon history in 1957, and held that office for two years, until he was elected governor in 1958.

Hatfield, a Republican, defeated Democrat incumbent Robert D. Holmes. Among the major accomplishments of Hatfield's administration were the passage of a tax cut in 1959, the establishment of a state-backed birth control system, the prohibition of capital punishment in the state, and the reapportionment of the state's congressional districts. Hatfield was reelected in 1962, defeating Democratic challenger Robert Y. Thornton.

Hatfield served as U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1967 to 1996. He consistently voted against military appropriations, voted to end the war in Vietnam, co-sponsored a nuclear freeze resolution with Senator Edward Kennedy and called for a Code of Conduct to regulate US arms sales. Senator Hatfield served as chairman of the Appropriations Committee.

Hatfield married Antoinette Kuzmanich on July 8, 1958 and has four children.

GOPAC's 10 Questions Every Candidate Should Be Prepared To Answer

2007-03-23T11:43:00.000-07:00

http://gopac.org/training/10_questions.php

10 Questions Every Candidate Should Be Prepared To Answer

In every campaign, you will face hundreds if not thousands of questions from reporters, citizens, voters, donors, supporters, and opponents. Some you will answer well. Others you will wish you had the chance to answer again. With a little bit of practice and preplanning, you can develop effective ways to articulate your beliefs, avoid missteps and be your campaign’s own best salesman.

These ten questions cover a wide range of campaign activity and are some of the most commonly asked of candidates in campaigns. Study them. Decide now how you would answer them. Practice.

Why are you running?
What is your greatest strength? What is your greatest weakness?
What is your opponent’s greatest weakness? What is your opponent’s greatest strength?
How will you establish an effective contrast to your opponent?
What is your campaign theme? What are the 3 to 5 core issues your campaign is about?
How will you assemble an army of volunteers and supporters to help you?
How many votes do you need to win?
How much money do you need to raise? Where will it come from?
How much money have you raised and how much do you have on hand?
When you win, how do you intend to make a difference?