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. 652.
 
JAIRUS BONNEY

     Jairus Bonney, with his wife Jane, and their six children, crossed the
plains from Illinois to California in 1845, and in the following year came to
Oregon.  The survivors of the family are the mother, Jane Bonney, who is aged
seventy-five years; Martha (Bonney) Rhodes, aged forty-eight; B. F. Bonney, aged
forty-six; Emily (Bonney) Broyles, of Wasco County; and Ellen (Bonney) Bidwell,
aged thirty-eight, of Drain, Douglas County.  The latter is said to have been
the first child born in California of parents who were American citizens.  The
mother and her two first named children live in Clackamas County.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2008 by Diana Smith. Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.