[or-roots] Some interesting Oregon tidbits from the SpokaneRegister, 1895

Mon Feb 1 19:39:18 PST 2010

Are you putting Spokane tidbits online also?  I have alot of Oregon families that migrated to Eastern WA (Spokane, Rosalia, etc).

Denise
Researcher of AGEE, ATTERBURY, BELIEU, FALES, GAGE, GILLIAM, KENT, LANDRETH, LITTLE, LIVINGSTON, MATTHEWS, SHAFF, etc
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  From: Robyn Greenlund 
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  Subject: [or-roots] Some interesting Oregon tidbits from the SpokaneRegister, 1895

  Rev. Edgar P. Hill of Freeport, Ill. Has been given the unanimous call to the First Presbyterian church of Portland

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 1895

  Mrs. Joseph Dixon died at her home on Oak creek, near Corvallis, last Sunday. She was born in Missouri on 1830, and came to Oregon in 1853.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 1895

  Mrs. Savanahh Hall, 53 years old, and a pioneer of 1853, died at Myrtle Creek last week. Her husband, John Hall, has served three terms as commissioner of Douglas county.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 1895

  William Levens, who was working a claim on Tennessee gulch, has, it is thought, one of the best paying mines in southern Oregon. He was in Canyonville recently with $700 to $800 in gold dust taken out of two or three sluice boxes.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 1895

  There was a tripple wedding at Brownsville Sunday morning, the brides being the three daughters of Mrs. Booker. Miss Josie was married to Joseph Harrison, Miss Etta to Allen Chastain, and Miss Ella to William H. Templeton.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 21, 1895

  The name Eureka postoffice at Cracker Creek, the scene of operation of the E. & E. mines, has been changed to Bourne, in honor of Mr. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., one of the stockholders of the Eureka and Excelsior Consolidated Mining Company and known as the free silver champion of Portland. Mr. J. Henry Longmaid had the honor of christening the new post office and the postmaster is Mr. R.R. Weatherred.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 23, 1895

  She Was A Pioneer

  Mrs. James Monaghan Dies After an Illnes of Several Weeks Leaving Six Children. Robert, the Eldest, Arrived From Annapolis In Time to Be at Her Bedside

  Mrs. Margaret Monaghan, wife of James Monaghan, died at her home near Gonzaga college at 8 o'clock last night, aged 43 years and 9 months. She had been ill for several weeks with rheumatism and la grippe and her death was not unexpected. A week ago physicians decided that she could not recover.

  She leaves besides her husband six children, three girls and three boys, Robert, who is a cadet in the United States naval academy at Annapolis, being the eldest. Robert arrived home two days ago in answer to a telegram summoning him to his mother's bedside.

  Mrs. Monaghan was one of the pioneer women of the northwest. She came to Walla Walla with her parents from Ireland in 1859, when she was 7 years old, and was married to Mr. Monaghan at Walla Walla in 1871. They moved to Fort Coville and subsequently lived at Fort Spokane and Coeur d'Alene City, finally settling down in Spokane. Mrs. Monaghan's maiden name was McCool, and her aged parents are still living at Walla Walla, Hugh McCool, collector of customs at Northport, is her brother, as are also Joseph and James McCool. She was a lady of lovable qualities and was possessed of a hindly disposition which made her many friends.

  Mr. Monaghan, who is one of the earliest pioneer settlers of the northwest, and his family, will receive the sympathy of friends throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho and British Columbia in their great loss.

  “She was essentially a pioneer woman, with all the attributes of the founders of this great commonwealth.” said Hon. M.M. Cowley last night. “She was full of charity, generous-hearted to a degree seldom known, sweet-tempered, modest, gifted with a graciousness not often surpassed. She was conspicuous for her goodness, perfect in her reliance upon the goodness of God and the virtue of her neighbors, the sweetest of mothers, the best of wives, the most dutiful of daughters. She went to meet her Creator believing and trusting in the life to come with a convincing strength that never failed.”

  The arrangements for the funeral have not been made and will be announced later.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 23, 1895

  Samuel F. Staggs died at McMinnville April 13, aged 78. He crossed the plains from Missouri, reaching Oregon in 1846.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 23, 1895

  W.H. Byars, the new commandant of the soldier's home, has arrived at Roseburg, and is getting in readiness to assume his office on May 1.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, April 23, 1895

  Portland – Isaac Barnes, one of the old residents of Portland, died at the residence of his son, Frederick Barnes. He was 83 years of age, and first came to this county in from England in 1813, locating in Albany, N.Y. After two years he went back to England, but returned shortly afterward and engaged in the business of brushmaking in New York. In 1856 he removed with his family to Iowa, and in 1861 crossed the plains for Oregon, and ever since he lived in the vicinity of Portland

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Jul 9, 1896

  Baker City – Fannie Jenkins, aged 14, daughter of Captain Wm. [William] Jenkins, a miner employed at the Virtue mine, while walking from their cottage to a neighbor's house with her little brother in her arms, stumbled, and in trying to save the child from being injured, fell backward and broke her neck. Death was instantaneous. The place where she fell is as level as a floor.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Jul 9, 1896

  Oregon – Doc Burns, a 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Burns, came near drowning in the Olalla the other day. He had gone swimming and by some means got beyond his depth, when his mother noticed him and screamed for help. J.M. ___[unreadable], who was cutting hay nearby, ran to the rescue and, plunging in the water, caught the boy as he was going under the third time. A little care brought the boy around all right.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Jul 9, 1896

  La Grande— News has been received from Fox Hill that Joseph Leasey was accidentally killed by being thrown from a wagon loaded with wood. Leasey and a number of others from Island City went upon the hill for wood. It is supposed that the accident was caused by a brake of the wagon giving way, but no particulars have been received. 

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  Portland – C.F. Kent, a well known citizen of Oregon, died suddenly at the home of his step-daughter, Mrs. Jesse Crame. Mr. Kent was 75 years of age. He came to Oregon in 1863, and for some time was engaged in the mines of southern Oregon. He was a quartermaster during the war of the rebellion. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  The Dalles- Mrs. S.A. Davenport was this morning adjudged insane, and will be taken to the asylum in the morning. She is flighty on the subject of Christian science and it is hoped a few weeks, or at most a month's treatment, may restore her mental balance, says the Chronicle.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  Roseburg – Mrs. Sheridan, the wife of Thomas Sheridan, Sr., died at her residence the other afternoon. Mrs. Sheridan had been an invalid for a number of years. She was an old pioneer of this county, and left a husband and four sons.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  Kendrick, Idaho – J.S. Falls, better known to the people of this country as “Old California”, shuffled off this mortal coil last Friday morning. A little more than six months ago he was sentenced to the Nez Perce county jail for selling liqour to the Indians, and about two weeks after the completion of his sentence he died of heart failure. His remains were interred at Lewiston last Saturday at the county's expense. And now every time the eye gazes upon the little log cabin in Brady Gulch, the memory will recall many peculiar incidents in his checkered career, says the Times.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  DEATH OF A WALLA WALLA PIONEER

  Had Lived in the County for About Forty Years.

  “Walla Walla. Wash.. Nov. 30.-A. S. Van Horrn, an old pioneer, died in the hospital in this city last night of congestion of the liver. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1833, crossed the plains in 1849 and settled in Salt Lake. He came to Walla Walla in 1859 and was one of the best known pioneers in eastern Washington.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

  Joe Twyman, another old-timer, 73 years of age., was found dead in a house five miles west of the city this morning. He lived alone on what is known as the old Coe farm. As he had not been seen for several days, his neighbors went to his home this morning and found him lying dead on the floor. He lay near a stove, an arm load of wood beside him, and his white locks covered with the snow which had drifted on him. He had gloves on his hands, and sacks wrapped around his feet, indicating that he entered the house just before he died. The supposed cause was heart disease. Twyman had lived in this county 40 years and at one time was well-to-do, but it is said he gave away most of his property to a woman with whom he was infatuated, who abandoned him shortly after she secured possession.

  Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Washington, Dec 3, 1896

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