[or-roots] Hi Cousins!

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

Leslie Chapman wrote:

>Some of the folk on here are cousins; 
>

Most folks got cousins -- it's just finding them.  I was married maybe 
twenty years before we figured out my wife, Chris, was my 8th cousin.

If you are from the southwest, Texas Gov "Bow-Tie" Smith, and New Mexico 
Gov Tom Bolack are both my cousins, as was Pres Lincoln's personal 
physician in Springfield and a US Senator from Oregon [again, topical] --

    DOLPH, Joseph Norton (uncle of Frederick William Mulkey), a [US] 
Senator from
Oregon; born in Dolphsburg, Tompkins (now Schuyler) County, N.Y., 
October 19,
1835; attended the common schools and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, 
Lima, N.Y.
taught school and studied law; was admitted to the bar in Binghamton, 
N.Y., in
November 1861 and commenced practice in Schuyler County, N.Y.; in 1862 
enlisted
in Capt. M. Crawford's company, known as the Oregon Escort, raised under 
an act
of Congress for the purpose of protecting against hostile Indians emigrants
crossing the Plains that year to the Pacific coast; filled the position of
orderly sergeant; settled in Portland, Oreg., in October 1862; city 
attorney in
1864 and 1865; United States [p.1094] district attorney 1865-1868; 
member of the
State senate in 1866, 1868, 1872, and 1874; engaged in various enterprises;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1882; reelected 
in 1888
and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1895; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1894; resumed the practice of law in Portland, Oreg., where he
died on March 10, 1897; interment in Riverview Cemetery. -- Biographical 
Directory
of the American Congress, 1774-1949 Biographies D page1094

 His nephew Fredrick William Mulkey (1874-1924) was elected in 1907 and 
again in 1918 to two short terms as First Position Senator.  (This could 
be interesting to check out more fully, as it would seem some political 
maneuvering was involved.)

Need I go on?

There is a semi famous (crackpot) physicist, whose name I don't seem to 
recall (at that moment - he's Francis Eugene Nipher) from the 1800's who 
is sometimes still cited as an authoritative source by science fiction 
time travel fanatics -- he married a cousin and their daughter, Mrs. 
Harry M. (Edith) Pollard, is sorta well-known in Boulder, CO. There is 
some serious mis-information in these folk's genealogies, so if you 
happen to be another cousin, please contact me.

The early folks in Oregon are a lot like the pre-1650 folks in New 
England -- if you have ancestors in either group, they are probably 
related to half of the folks in that group, and the other half are 
related to the spouse.

Fare thee well, Ramblin' Man,

Bill Strickland