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. 723.
 
C. F. RAY

     Born in Saratoga County, New York, in 1819; came to Oregon, locating first
at Salem; resides now at Ray's Ferry, near St. Paul, Marion County. This ferry,
the first upon the Willamette, was instituted, according to Mr. R.'s belief, in
1836. by the Hudson's Bay Company. Mr. Ray purchased from James Force, in 1850,
the first and only mail route in Oregon Territory which run upon wheels, viz.,
the route from Oregon City to Salem. He afterwards extended it to Corvallis;
introducing the first Concord coaches in the Northwest. He also. built and
operated the first livery stable in Salem. He married Amelia Eyre, who was born
in England in 1834, and whose parents came to Oregon in 1843.  Children; Mrs.
Mary F. Apperson, Mrs. Eliza Coyle, Amelia, Alice, Ida, William M., WAlter W.,
Inez, John T., Charles D., Maud L., and Guy.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.