"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling, publisher, 1884. pg. 491. LESTER HULIN The subject of this sketch, a view of whose homestead appears in this work, was born in Saratoga county, on the shores of Round lake, town of Malta and state of New York, March 22, 1823. Here he received his education and grew to manhood. In the year 1844 he proceeded to Henry county, Iowa, and in the spring of 1845, at St. Louis, met Fremont and Col. Ebert, and with them engaged to join an exploring expedition through Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Northwestern Texas, the Indian Territories, and back to St. Louis. In Colorado the expedition was divided, Ebert taking charge of one party with Fitzpatrick as his guide. With it went Mr. Hulin. After encountering many an adventure by flood and field, many a hair-breadth escape from man and beast, in the fall of the year 1845 he returned to St. Louis, but not long after moved to Iowa and there made his home until the spring of 1847. At this time he started for Oregon by way of the plains, leaving St. Jo, Missouri, and having had the necessary experience, was at once selected to place guards and select camping grounds for the company with which he traveled. The journey was not attended by any remarkable occurrences other than in a brush with the Indians Miss Ann Davis, now the wife of C. Hendrick's, who has the ferry of his name on the McKenzie river, received two arrow wounds; and old Uncle Isaac Briggs, now a resident of Springfield, received a severe scalding by falling through an active mud spring at Black Rock. Arriving in Oregon by the southern route in 1847, Mr. Hulin in the first instance worked in Corvallis, but in the month of December of that year came to Lane county and took up the claim now owned by John B. Fergueson on Long Tom river. From January to July, 1848, he was engaged in the Cayuse war; in September he went to the gold mines of California, and operated between the South and Middle Forks of the American river, there passing the winter. In July, 1849, he proceeded to San Francisco with the purpose of returning to Oregon, and therefore took passage on the schooner "Hackstaff," there being on board besides, C. J. Hills, C. Mulligan and James Chapin, all well-known pioneers of Lane county. Sailing from the Bay City on the twentieth of July, for the first eight days they experienced strong gales and a rough sea, succeeded for another period of eight days by dead calms, an unlooked for length of time that caused them to run short of water. To supply this want, the master, when off Rogue river, determined to run in to the shore, rather than float casks to the fresh stream, in doing which the schooner was stranded on the bar. Our subject and his co-voyagers now landed and took their way homewards on foot, arriving at the settlements in the Willamette valley after an arduous journey of twenty-four days. At the end of the three weeks Mr. Hulin returned to California, overland, and there remained until about January 1, 1850, when he returned by water to Portland, per bark "Ann Smith," George Flanders, master. At this period he came to Lane county, took up a claim situated three miles and a half from Junction City, in a southeasterly direction, where he maintained a continuous residence until the time of his establishing a domicile in Eugene City in September, 1881, still, however, retaining his farm. Mr. Hulin has made two visits to the home of his youth, once over the line of the Central Pacific railroad, in 1871, and again, in 1884, by the Northern Pacific railroad. He married, December 1, 1853, Abbie J. Craig, a native of Jackson county, Michigan, and has four children, viz: Charles S., Anna, now Mr. Tozer, Samuel Addison and Lester Gilbert. ******************* 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.