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. 900.

REV. GUSTAVUS HINES

     Born in Herkimer County, New York, in 1809; entered the itinerant ministry
in 1832 in the Genessee conference; remained there until 1839, when he was
appointed missionary to Oregon, and arrived here in 1840; he was an active
participant in the formation of the provisional government.  In 1845 he returned
to New York, from whence he returned to Oregon in 1853.  He represented the
Conference of this State in the General Conference in 1868.  He died in 1871 at
Oregon City aged sixty-four.  He was the author of two works relating to Oregon.
 
 
from page 232
 
     "In 1840 -- Methodist Episcopal Protestant Mission -- Mrs. Lee, second wife
of Rev. Jason Lee; Rev. J. H. Frost and wife; Rev. A. F. Waller, wife and two
children; Rev. W. W. Kone and wife; Rev. G. Hines, wife and sister; Rev. L. H.
Judson, wife and two children; Rev. J. L. Parish, wife and three children; Rev.
G. P. Richards, wife and three children; Rev. A. P. Olley and wife.  Laymen --
Mr. Geo. Abernethy, wife and two children; Mr. H. Campbell, wife and one child;
Mr. W. W. Raymond and wife; Mr. H. B. Brewer and wife; Dr. J. L. Babcock, wife
and one child; Mrs. Daniel Lee; Mrs. David Carter; Mrs. Joseph Holman; Miss E.
Phillips.  Independent Protestant Mission -- Rev. Harvey Clarke and wife; P. B.
Littlejohn and wife; Robert Moore, James Cook, and James (Travers, according to
Judge Deady), Fletcher, settlers.  Jesuit Priests -- P. J. DeSmet, Flathead
Mission.  Rocky Mountain men with native wives -- William Craig, Doctor Robert
Newell, Joseph L. Meek, George Ebbert, William M. Dougherty, John Larison, Geo.
Wilkinson, a Mr. Nicholson, and Mr. Algear, and William Johnson, author of the
novel, "Leni Leoti, or, The Prairie Flower."  The subject was first written and
read before the Lyceum at Oregon City, in 1843."
 
 
Regarding the organization of Oregon's first provisional government:
 
from page 243
    " There were three distinct factions -- the Methodist missionaries and their
associates, the independent settlers, and the Catholics as allies of the
Hudson's Bay Company.  The first business was the choice of a committee to draft
a constitution and code of laws, the following gentlemen being selected:  Rev.
F. N. Blanchet, representing the Catholics; Rev. Jason Lee, Rev. Gustavus Hines
and Rev. Josiah L. Parrish, representing the Methodist Mission; D. Donpierre and
M. Charlevo, representing the French Canadian settlers; Robert Moore and Etinne
Lucier, representing the American settlers; William Johnson, representing the
purely English element."
 
from page 250
     "It was in 1842 that the first regular educational institution in Oregon
was founded, one which has done noble work for the youth of the coast, and which
still flourishes under the management of its founders, the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  On the seventeenth of January, 1842, at the call of Rev. Jason Lee, the
people assembled at Chemeketa, now North Salem, to consider the question of
establishing an educational institution capable of meeting the wants of the
growing community.  A committee was appointed and the meeting adjourned till the
first of February, when it convened in the old mission building which had been
erected in 1834.  The Oregon Institute was then founded with the following board
of trustees:  Rev. Jason Lee, Rev. David Leslie, Rev. Gustavus Hines, Rev. J. L.
Parrish, Rev. L. H. Judson, Hon. George Abernethy, Alanson Beers, H. Campbell
and Dr. J. L. Babcock.  A location on French Prairie was first selected, but
that place being deficient in pure water, the institute was finally located on
Wallace Prairie, two and one-half miles below the present City of Salem.  A
constitution was adopted on the fifteenth of March, and on the twenty-sixth of
October the school was formally placed under the charge of the Methodist
Episcopal Church."
 
from page 255
     "On the fifth of July the people again assembled at Champoeg to hear the
report of the Legislative Committee, the meeting being presided over by Rev.
Gustavus Hines."

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.