[or-roots] Stephen Coffin Helps Establish Portland

[Cecil Houk]

Ah ha!  There are streets in Portland named after Terwilliger and Couch, but not Coffin.

I still can't remember why I remember the Coffin surname. ???

Cecil
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Connie Guardino 
  To: or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us 
  Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 5:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [or-roots] Stephen Coffin Helps Establish Portland


  "...James Terwilliger came with the emigrants of 1845, established a claim south of the Overton tract, and the following year build a blacksmith shop. In this same year Daniel H. Lownsdale located on what later was called the King claim, established the first tannery in the far Northwest. He tanned on a large scale, and turned out excellent leather, which he exchanged for raw hides, furs wheat, or cash. Cpt. John H. Couch, of Newburyport, MA, returned to Portland in 1845 and selected a tract north of the Lovejoy-Pettygrove claim. The new proprietors added two partners, Stephen Coffin and W. W. Chapman, and formed the Townsite Promotion Company. Coffin established a canoe ferry in 1848. When traffic was heavy he used a raft of canoes. An excerpt from a diary of that year says, 'Portland now has two white houses and one brick and three wood-colored frame houses and a few cabins....'" 
  Cecil Houk wrote: 

    Nanci: 
    The Coffin name sounds familiar, but I can't place it. 

    Cecil 
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