OBITUARY: ADAM CATLIN

Submitted by: Diana Smith

Source: "The Morning Olympian", 16 Oct 1907, p. 4.

"Adam Catlin Passes Away"

   Adam Catlin of Portland, and widely known in Olympia, died suddenly Monday
morning on the steamer Kellogg, on Cowlitz river. He had been in excellent
health for some time and apparently was perfectly well when he started on a trip
to his farm on the Cowlitz river, but while standing and conversing with the
captain of the boat he fell forward and died almost immediately. In his death
one of the oldest of the pioneers of the state of Washington has been taken
away. He was the son of Seth Catlin and Agnes Redpath Catlin, and was a cousin
of Dr. N. J. Redpath of this city and a distant relative of Mr. M. O'Conner.
   Adam Catlin was born in St. Clair county, Ills., in 1842. In 1848 the family
crossed the plains with the emigration of that year and went to the town of
Milwaukee, Oregon. They remained there for a short time and then went directly
to Catlin, or Monticello, as the little settlement near there was then called,
and located there. Adam Catlin lived upon his farm at that place until the last
fourteen years, and during that time it was one of the most noted places on the
Southern border of the state of Washington, being well known to all travelers
going up or down the Cowlitz river. It was in the immediate track of all travel
from the Willamette valley to Puget Sound, and almost every pioneer of early
days who made that journey has been a guest at one time or another at the Catlin
place. The little town of Monticello near the place has been largely washed
away, but the Catlin place has remained as it was.
   Mr. Catlin leaves a wife, Mary, living in Pollard, and four children, of whom
James R. Catlin and Charles H. Catlin, still live on the old place, and Ernest
B. Catlin and Mary T. Catlin live in Pollard.
   Mr. Catlin was a brother of Charles Catlin and of Judge John Catlin of
Portland, deceased, who was so well known for so many years as Multnomah county
judge and in other prominent positions. He was a man who combined in himself all
of the good qualities of the early pioneers and was respected and honored by all
who knew him. His sudden death will be an unexpected sorrow to many friends. He
will be buried today at 2 o'clock at Catlin, Wash.