"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 481.
 
JACOB C. SPORES
     This veteran and pioneer of Oregon was born in Montgomery county, New York,
July 23, 1795, and arrived in Oregon September 5, 1847, coming that fall to Lane
county, being the first settler in the portion of the county which we have
denominated the McKenzie River Settlements, and where he still resides.  At an
early day Uncle Jake Spores and her ferry was known far and wide, while it is
said of him that he had a peculiar faculty of carrying on satisfactory
negotiations with the Indians in the neighborhood.  Age is now naturally telling
upon the good old man, but we see in him the remnants of a robust constitution
and magnificent physique.  He has been twice married; in the first instance to
Miss Eliza Hand, August 11, 1816, and secondly to Mrs. Nancy Trimmer, June 20,
1842, by whom he has had a large family.  A view of Mr. Spores' residence will
be found in this work.

 
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