Gaston, Joseph.  "Portland, Oregon Its History and Builders."  Vol. 3. 
Chicago and Portland, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1911. p. 541.
 
ARTHUR LYLE VEAZIE

     Arthur Lyle Veazie, an attorney at the Portland bar since 1893, was born in
Dallas, Oregon, September 8, 1868, being a son of Edmund F. and Harriet (Lyle)
Veazie.  The father, a native of Bangor, Maine, died in Wasco county, Oregon, in
1877, while the mother, a native of this state, was born in 1847 and is now
living in Portland.
     The family has been closely identified with the pioneer history of Oregon.
Felix Scott, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a native of
Virginia and crossed the plains to the Pacific coast in 1845, spending the
winter at Sutter's Fort, completing the journey to Oregon in the spring of 1846
and settling in Lane county, where a number of his descendants reside.  He and
the men of his family were active in the Indian wars and in many pioneer
enterprises, including the building of the McKenzie wagon road.  Having engaged
successfully in mining in California, he and several associates returned to the
Atlantic coast by sea and brought a band of blooded horses and cattle, with
which they undertook the journey across the plains to Oregon, but the whole
party was slain en route, in the year 1859.
     The grandfather, John Eakin Lyle, was born near Knoxville, Tenn., and came
to Oregon in 1845 and in the following year married Ellen Scott, who had crossed
the plains with her father, Felix Scott.  John E. Lyle taught the first school
in Polk county, and a monument marks the site.  In this connection there
appeared in the Oregon Spectator of Oregon City, March 19, 1846, the following
advertisement:
 
     Jefferson Institute is located in the Rickereall valley, one mile west of
the residence of Col. N. Ford.  The first session of this school will commence
on the second Monday of next April, and continue twenty-four weeks.  Scholars
from a distance can be accommodated with boarding in the neighborhood.  Terms of
tuition, $8.00 per scholar.
John E. Lyle, Teacher
N. Ford, James Howard, William Beagle; Trustees
March 7, 1846
 
     The paper which contained this advertisement was the first published in
American territory west of the Rocky mountains, and its first issue was February
5, 1846.  Mr. Lyle always took an active interest in education, giving a
considerable part of his donation claim at Dallas for the founding of La Creole
Academy, besides laboring with his own hands in the erection of the first
building used by the school.  He died January 22, 1872, at Florence, Idaho,
while engaged in mining.  His daughter Harriet, on April 18, 1867, at Dallas,
became the wife of Edmund F. Veazie.  They were the parents of four children:
Arthur L. and Jesse Clarence, both residing in Portland; Julia Grace, the wife
of Professor Irving M. Glen, of the University of Oregon; and Edith F., who
married Edwin R. Bryson of Eugene.
     Edmund Fuller Veazie was born November 7, 1833, at Bangor, Maine, a son of
Jesse Veazie and Martha (Catlin) Veazie.  He acquired his education in local
schools and in the state of Massachusetts.  After following teaching as a
profession for several years, he was drawn to Kansas by the slavery troubles
like many other young men from New England, and after a time made the journey to
California, engaging for several years in gold mining there and in southern
Oregon.  Returning then to his old occupation of teaching, he had charge of La
Creole Academy at Dallas and of the Jefferson Institute in Linn county.  In 1869
he removed to what is now Crook county, Oregon, where he engaged in stock
raising until his death, which occurred by drowning in the John Day river in
June, 1877.
     Arthur Lyle Veazie received his education at La Creole Academy and the
University of Oregon, graduating from the latter in 1890, and from the law
department in 1893, entering immediately upon the practice of his profession,
which he has followed with success.
     On the 18th of October, 1898, Mr. Veazie was married to Miss Agnes Margaret
Greene, a daughter of Judge Roger Sherman Greene of Seattle, and a descendant of
Roger Sherman.  Mrs. Veazie is a graduate of the University of Oregon and of the
University of Washington as well, and has been a member and director of the Art
League of New York, having devoted her talents to art.  Mr. and Mrs. Veazie have
four children, Grace Ellen, Emily A., Harriet L. and Edmund A.
     In his political views Mr. Veazie is an earnest republican, but has never
sought any office.  As a representative of pioneer families, he feels a great
pride and interest in the development and future of Oregon, and in all that most
deeply concerns the welfare of its people.
 

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2006 by Diana Smith.
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above.