"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling, publisher, 1884. pg. 490. B. M. RICHARDSON Was born in Franklin county, Missouri, January 22, 1832, and there he remained until in 1846, in which year he accompanied his father Benjamin Richardson, to Oregon, crossing the plains with ox-teams in the party captained by Oris Brown, who had visited the country in 1843. This company which was originally composed of fifty wagons, kept together as far as Big Blue, when dividing, one part took the Applegate route, and that to which Richardson belonged coming by the Barlow road. Settling in Yamhill county, near Lafayette, about October, 1846, in the following spring, 1847, they moved to Polk county and there resided until the fall of 1848, when they came to Lane county and located near what is now known as Richardson's Butte. The subject of this sketch, in 1849, took up a claim ten miles west of where Eugene City has since spring up, and there has lived ever since. A view of Mr. Richardson's residence will be found in this work. He married M. P. Gibson, (who came with her father Archibald Gibson in 1850) a native of Missouri, April 1, 1852, and has six children. Mr. Richardson's father died December 12, 1880, and his mother, Mary Richardson, in the following year. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2005 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.