Lang, H. O., ed. "The History of the Willamette Valley, Being A Description of the Valley and its Resources, with an account of its Discovery and Settlement by White Men, and its Subsequent History; Together with Personal Reminiscences of its Early Pioneers." Portland, OR, Geo. H. Himes, Book and Job Printer, 1885. p. 639. DANIEL H. LOWNSDALE Born in Marion County, Kentucky, April 8, 1803. Married, at the age of twenty-three, Miss Ruth Overfield, and removed to Gibson County, Indiana. Here his wife died in 1830, leaving three children -- a boy (J. P. O. Lownsdale, or Portland), and two girls. After traveling in the south and in Europe, he set out for Oregon in 1845; arriving late in the year, he immediately took a land claim near the site of Portland, then a wilderness and untrodden by whites. this claim is now known as the Amos King claim, and adjoined that of Lovejoy and Pettygrove. In 1848 he purchased the site of Portland from F. W. Pettygrove, paying five thousand dollars -- doubtless then an extravagant price. In 1850 he married Mrs. Nancy Gillihan and had by her two children -- M. O. Lownsdale, now of Portland, and Mrs. Ruth Hoyt, of Columbia County. Mr. Lownsdale held several public positions, among them that of U. S. Postal Agent in Fillmore's administration, and he also had a seat in the Legislature. Died May 4, 1862. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2005 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.