Index to: "Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon"

The following is an index of biographies published in "Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon, containing original sketches of many well known citizens of the past and present" [Publisher: Chapman Pub. Co., Chicago, 1904.]

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Ackley, Lorenzo D.
Adams, Charles
Adams, J. Frank
Agren, Ludvig
Ahlf, John H.
Ainsworth, George Jennings
Ainsworth, J. C.
Ainsworth, Capt. J. C.
Alderman, Henry H.
Alley, Frank E.
Ament, C. G.
Ament, C. W.
Ament, Edward Glenn
Ament, M. C.
Anderson, Edmund A.
Anderson, Eli K.
Anderson, Judge Olof
Andrus, Dwight R.
Andrus, Riley
Apperson, Capt. J. T.
Applegate, Daniel A.
Applegate, John
Applegate, Peter
Arnold, Job N.
Arzner, John L.
Ash, Lewis

Baldwin, George T.
Baldwin, Henry H.
Baldwin, Wallace
Banton, John L.
Barker, A. Y.
Barker, John F.
Barker, William H.
Barlow, William
Barnard, Charles P.
Bartlett, R. L.
Bartoldus, Frederick
Bashor, J. F.
Bates, Hon. George W.
Bayley, Winslow
Beall, Robert V.
Beall, Thomas F.
Bear, John
Beckley, Hon. Henry
Beebe, Gen. Charles F.
Beekman, Cornleius C.
Bell, John c.
Belland, Lars O.
Bellinger, John H.
Bellinger, Merritt
Benedick, Philip
Benedict, Rial
Bensell, Royal A.
Benson, John R.
Bergman, Hon. Isaac
Berry, Judge Milton
Bessey, Elmer L.
Beswick, Richard
Bethers, George
Beyers, Ophir H.
Bickel, Fred
Bigelow, Russell
Binder, Anthony
Bixby, Joseph
Blair, James H.
Blakely, Samuel
Bodyfelt, George W.
Boggs, James L.
Boise, Hon. Reuben P.
Bond, Joel
Bonham, Hon. Benjamin F.
Booth, Hon. J. O.
Booth, Rev. Robert
Border, William A.
Boyle, Isaac L.
Boyle, Joseph L.
Bradbury, Clement
Bradshaw, William H.
Brady, Charles J.
Brant, Peter
Brattain, Eldon M.
Breen, Martin
Bremner, Alexander
Bridges, Hon. Joseph T.
Briggs, William F.
Bristow, Eugene L.
Britt, Peter
Brix, Asmus
Brockway, Beman B.
Brockway, Burban
Bronaugh, Earl C.
Bronaugh, Earl C., Jr.
Brower, David M., M.D.
Brown, Alonzo F.
Brown, Charles M.
Brown, George
Brown, George M.
Brown, Samuel H.
Brown, Thomas R.
Brownell, Hon, G. C.
Buchanan, Hon. John A.
Buckley, John
Buick, D. S. K.
Bullard, Robert W.
Burdic, Rurick L.
Burk, William C.
Bursell, Oliver
Bush, Asahel
Butler Brothers
Butts, Elam
Bybee, William
Byrom, Peter

Calhoun, George S.
Calvert, Jesse L.
Cameron, Theodric
Campbell, David
Campbell, James E.
Campbell, John C.
Cannon, Richard L.
Caples, Hon. J. F.
Carl, Charles E.
Carl, Herman L.
Carle, Lorenzo D.
Carlton, S. Adolphus
Carr, James
Carson, Alfred H.
Carter, Hon. E. V.
Carter, Franklin M.
Carter, William A.
Cartwright, George W.
Case, Mrs. Mary
Casebeer, John L.
Casebeer, J. M.
Cathcart, C. F.
Cathcart, Simon Boliver
Chamberlain, Hon. G. E.
Chambers, Hon. John H.
Chance, William G.
Chapman, Andrew J.
Chapman, Daniel
Chapman, Henry H.
Chapman, John H.
Chapman, Matthias J.
Chase, George L.
Chavner, Thomas
Christie, Johnson
Churchill, Joseph L.
Clark, Henry J.
Calrk, Hon. Newton
Cleland, Hon. John b.
Cleland, William A.
Clements, John F.
Clinton, Nicholas Sr.
Coe, Robert LO.
Coffelt, Enos J.
Cole, Byron
Coleman, Mathew H.
Collier, Joseph A.
Colson, Ebenezer Newell
Colver, Samuel
Colvig, Marcellus N.
Colwell, Daniel
Condit, Philip
Cone, Winfield S.
Conger, Joseph
Cooksey, Mrs. M. M.
Coolidge, Orlando Jr.
Cooper, Plinn
Corbett, Hon. Henry W.
Corliss, Herbert A.
Cornelius, Col. Thomas R.
Cornelius, Thomas S.
Coshow, Oliver P.
Coshow, Oliver P., Jr.
Costello, James
Cowan, Robert
Cowls, Hon. John W.
Cox, George W.
Cranfill, Franklin L.
Cranfill, Isom
Crawford, Gen. A. M.
Crawford, John B.
Cronemiller, Daniel
Crosno, Charles B.
Crowson, George W.
Croxton, Thomas F.
Culin, Walter, M.D.
Cutlip, Mark D.

Daley, Adoniram J.
Danielson, Stian
Dannals, Reuben
Datin, Rev. Paul
Davis, A. A.
Davis, Platt A.
Day, Silas J.
Dean, Doctor F.
Dean, Ralph F.
Decker, Charles
Dekum, Adolph A.
Dement, Russell C.
Dement, William T.
Denver, William J.
DeRoboan, Emil
Devlin, John
Devore, William H., M.D.
Dickison, Charles A.
Dickison, William R.
Dieleman, Rev. Leopold
Dimmick, Benjamin
Dimmick, George W.
Dimmick, Thomas M.
Disher, William F.
Diven, Charles L.
Dodge, Nathan P.
Dolph, Cyrus A.
Dolph, Hon. Joseph Norton
Donaldson, Joseph G.
Donnell, G. W.
Dosch, Col. Henry E.
Drake, William B.
Drew, Calif N.
Duncan, Henry C.
Dunn, Mrs. Patrick (Mary Minerva Hill)
Durham, George H.
Durland, Coe G.
Dutton, James H.
Dyer, George M.
Dysinger, William L.

Earhart, Rockey P.
Eckhoff, Charles
Eddy, Benjamin L.
Edlund, Gustavus
Eggleston, Capt. M. F.
Elliott, Charles A.
Elmore, Samuel
Emery, Stephen O.
Emmitt, John
Emmitt, Hon. Robert A.
Estes, Oris B., M.D.
Evans, Capt. Hiram S.
Evenson, Ole
Everding, Henry

Failing, Edward
Failing, Henry
Failing, James F.
Failing, Hon. Josiah
Fallin, William H.
Farlow, Edward J.
Farmer, Axom D.
Fate, David
Fate, Frank
Fate, Remick
Felter, John W.
Fenton, James D.
Fenton, Hon. William D.
Ferguson, Albert W.
Ferguson, E. Z.
Ferr, Thomas V.
Ferrey, James L.
Ferry, Joseph
Fields, Frank S.
Finnamore, David
Fish, Thomas P.
Fisher, Charles V., M.D.
Fisher, Thomas F.
Fitzhugh, Judge Joseph S.
Flanagan, John
Flanders, Capt. George H.
Flavel, Capt. George
Fleischner, I. N.
Fletcher, James M.
Flook, John G.
Foster, Isaac N.
Foudray, Elbert D.
Frater, W. A.
Frazer, Arthur L.
Frazier, William
Freeberg, A. W.
Freeman, William J.
Fullerton, Hon. James C.
Fulton, Hon. Charles W.
Furry, Samuel

Gaither, James J.
Gall, Christopher C.
Gallier, Stephen
Gamble, William H.
Ganiard, Oscar O.
Geary, Edward R.
George, Hon. M. C.
Geyer, Frederick
Gibson, Milton B.
Gilbert, Alexandre
Giles, Daniel
Gilkey, Herbert L.
Goeller, John F.
Goodspeed, Eli
Goodspeed, Henry F.
Gore, E. E.
Gore, William H.
Gowan, George Richard
Gowen, Edmund W.
Graham, Elisabeth
Gray, Mrs. John Henry Dix (Laura W. Ball)
Grayson, George W.
Gregory, William J.
Griffith, John B.
Grubbe, George W.
Guerin, George H.
Gunderson, Charles S.

Hacker, Isaiah
Hahn, Hon, John
Haines, Joseph A.
Hair, W. M.
Hale, Hon. William C.
Hall, John F.
Hallock, Edward
Hamakar, John W.
Hamblock, John
Hamblock, John F.
Hamilton, J. D.
Hamilton, Salathiel, M.D.
Hamilton, Samuel B.
Hamlin, Capt. Frank B.
Hamlin, John
Hammersly, Joseph L.
Haney, Robert
Hanks, James L.
Hanks, Marion
Hanley, Michael
Hanly, Thomas P.
Hanna, Hiero K.
Hannum, William M.
Hansbrough, Hon. James M.
Hansen, Jens H.
Harlocker, Hon. Lintner
Harmon, Hon. C. E.
Harris, William C.
Harrison, Henry C.
Harrison, Marcus W.
Hartill, William
Hartley, James T.
Hasard, Charles E.
Hatfield, Job
Hathaway, Benjamin H.
Hawley, John H.
Hayden, Jasper
Hayden, Marion
Hayes, Lewis
Haynes, Dr. Frederick W.
Haynes, Jerry C.
Hays, William S.
Hazard, Louis H.
Hazard, Silas H.
Heberlie, Frank
Hedden, Cyrus
Hellenbrand, John W.
Helman, Abel D.
Helms, James
Henderer, Charles M.
Henderer, John J.
Henderson, Henry L., M.D.
Henley, James T.
Hermann, Cass M.
Hermann, Ernest W.
Hermann, Dr. Henry
Hermann, Theobald M.
Hermann, Washington P.
Herrin, John S.
Hicks, John M.
Hilborn, Charles S.
Hildebrand, William C.
Hill, Col. J. Linsey
Hines, Pauline A.
Hirsch, Hon. Solomon
Hockersmith, John N.
Hodson, John M.
Holden, Ebenezer C.
Holden, Horace F.
Holland, David
Hoover, Elmer V., M.D.
Horton, Charles
Houck, George E., M.D.
Hough, Asa C.
Howard, James S.
Howard, J. W.
Howe, Motier
Howell, Ralph H.
Hoyt, Capt. Richard
Hubbard, Samuel J.
Hughey, Mrs. Myra
Humphreys, Thomas N.
Hunt, Capt. George
Huston, Benjamin W.
Huston, Hon. S. B.
Hutchinson, Hon. J. S.
Hyde, John L.
Hyde, William H. S.

Ingram, John W.
Inman, Hon. R. D.
Irvin, Samuel G.
Irvine, Robert A.

Jackson Carl H.
Jackson, Commodore Stephen
Jackson, George A.
Jackson, Col. James
Jackson, John
Jackson, Wesley
Jacobson, Axcel C.
Jeffers, Elijah C.
Jennings, Lewis L.
Jensen, Lars
Jess, Alexander M.
Jewell, Leonard L.
Johnson, Curtis
Johnson, Capt. E.
Johnson, John
Johnson, John E.
Johnson, Robert
Johnson, William
Jones, Benjamin F.
Jones, Garl T.
Jones, Harvey
Jones, Herman H.
Jones, John H.
Jones, John L.
Jones, S. Donald

Kahler, Charles W.
Kamm, Mrs. C. A.
Kamm, Capt. Jacob
Kearney, Thomas J.
Kearns, George W.
Kellogg, Capt. C. H.
Kellogg, Capt. Joseph
Kellogg, Capt. Orrin
Kendall, Reese P.
Kenney, Thomas J.
Kentnor, William W.
Kershner, Andrew
Kezartee, George W.
Kilgore, Silas W.
Kime, Albert W., M.D.
Kindred, Bartholomew C.
King, George
Kinney, Alfred, M.D.
Kinney, Hammond C.
Kinney, Mrs. Lyman C. (Julia Folson)
Kinney, Marshall J.
Kinney, Mrs. N. W.
Kinney, Robert C.
Kirchoff, Henry W.
Kirkpatrick, John
Kleinhammer, Claus
Knapp, Richard B.
Knoblauch, George A.
Kronenberg, John L.
Kruse, George W.

LaCrosse, Henry
Ladd, Charles E.
Ladd, William S.
Laird, John C.
Lamb, George b.
Lamb, James H.
Lamb, John J.
Lamphere, Hiram
Lane, Gen. Joseph
Lane, Simon R.
Lane, Mrs. S. R.
Lanagell, Nathaniel
Langlois, James S.
La Raut, N., Sr.
Larsen, John
Larson, William
Layton, John T.
Leach, Maurice F.
Leathers, Richard M.
Lebeck, Leander
Leep, Kersey A., M.D.
Leever, William C.
Leneve, John W.
Levens, Grant
Lewis, George W.
Lewis, John M.
Lindley, George P.
Linn, David
Linton, Charles E., M.D.
Linville, Thomas
Lister, Edward
Long, Christopher
Lorenz, Nicholas
Lovell, James L.
Lowe, David John
Lowe, Yelverton M.
Lowry, Henry W.
Lyons, James A.

McCall, Mrs. Mary E.
McCallen, Andrew
McCloskey, Sol J.
McCormick, Thomas
McCoy, Joseph W.
McCoy, Melancthon
McCraken, Hon. John
McDermott, Henry
McDonald, George
McDougall, James
McIntosh, Donald
McIntosh, Peter
McKeever, William
McKenzie, Robert
McKnight, William
McMillen, Capt. J. H.
McNair, Alexander
McNair, Archibald
McNary, Lawrence A.
Mackenzie,Kenneth A. J.
Mallory, Hon. Rufus
Malone, Charles L.
Malone, James
Marolf, John
Marsters, Hon. Alva C.
Martin, Alexander, Jr.
Martin, Alexander, Sr.
Martin, Thomas
Masters, William
Mathews, Dudley P.
Matson, Alfred
Matthieu, Francois X.
Maury, Col. Reuben F.
Mayer, Jacob
Mays, John R.
Meldrum, Hon. J. W.
Merchant, William Thomas
Merrill, Nathan S.
Merriman, George F.
Merritt, John W.
Mesh, Jesse
Metschan, Hon. Phil
Micelli, Joseph
Mickelson, Michael
Miller, David H.
Miller, Francis M.
Miller, John F.
Miller, Samuel C.
Million, William B.
Mills, Capt. Leonidas E.
Mitchell Brothers
Mitchell, John H.
Moore, James S., M.D.
Moore, Luther B.
Moore, Samuel c.
Moreland, Hon. J. C.
Morgan, Drury
Morgan, John M.
Morris, G. C.
Morris, Levi
Morrison, William I.
Morton, George W.
Moulton, John T.
Mulkey, Hon. B. F.
Munson, Joel W.
Myer, William
Myer, William C.

Narcross, Warren H.
Nash, Capt. John T. C.
Nay, Joseph L.
Neal, Jerome b.
Nealon, Stephen M.
Neil, Claiborne
Neil, Hon. Robert P.
Nelson, Thomas
Nesmith, Hon. J. W.
Newbury, Gus
Nice, Hnery
Nickerson, Clark
Noble, William Henry
Noland, George
Noland, Capt. P. C.
Nordstrom, John
Norris, John R.
Nosler, Judge John H.
Nurnberg, John G.
Nye, John J.

Obenchain, Bartlett
Obenchain, George W.
Obenchain, Madison
Ogden, E. F.
Olds, Eli P.
Oliver, Caleb T.
Olson, Frederick
Olson, Jonas
Olsson, John A.
Orth, John S.
Owens, William
Owens, William H.
Ozouf, A. E.

Palmberg, Charles G.
Pankey, James A.
Parker, Sisney
Parrish, Lewis
Parson, John S., M.D.
Party, Mrs. N. A.
Patterson, F. F.
Patterson, Joshua
Patterson, Smiley H.
Patterson, Sylvester
Patterson, William
Pearce, W. A.
Pease, David E.
Pease, Capt. George Anson
Peebler, J. Fred
Peil, Emil
Pelton, Horace
Pendleton, Jasper C.
Peninger, William H.
Perdue, John
Perdue, Leonard L.
Perdue, William
Perry, Vale N.
Peterson, Albert T.
Peterson, Charles A.
Peterson, Peter
Phelan, Perez L.
Phelps, George W.
Phipps, robert
Plimpton, William W.
Pohl, William C. A.
Poley, C. M.
Porter, B. R.
Powell, Willis B.
Powers, Ira F., Sr.
Pracht, Alexander H.
Prall, John W.
Pratt, Irving W.
Price, Edmond J.
Price, William K.
Prim, Charles
Protzman, George
Provost, Hon. D. B.
Pryce, Roland
Puckett, George W.

Quick, Isaac C.
Quimby, Lot P. W.

Rader, Joseph M.
Randleman, Martin L.
Ranzan, John P.
Rapp, Fred
Rast, John G.
Raymond, Ephraim
Reader, J. K., M.D.
Reader, Mrs. J. K.
Reames, Alfred E.
Reames, Evan R.
Reames, James R.
Reed, Frank
Reed, Grenville
Reeser, Benjamin f.
Rennier, Thomas W.
Reynolds, Charles E.
Rice, I. F.
Richardson, Jesse
Riddle, George W.
Rigler, Frank
Riley, Thomas
Rinehart, Jasper N.
Robb, Hon. Walter L.
Robe, Rev. Robert
Roberts, John H.
Roberts, John N.
Roberts, Louis A.
Robertson, Robert
Robinson, James J.
Robinson, Joseph M.
Robinson, Reuben F.
Robinson, William
Robison, Price
Robison, Samuel M.
Robnett, Isom C.
Rogers, Anson
Rogers, Henry
Rogers, Capt. Stephen C.
Rooke, James W.
Rose, Aaron
Rosenberg, Charles C. C., M.D.
Ross, Benjamin F.
Ross, James H.
Ross, John E.
Rowe, Hon. Henry S.
Rowe, John L.
Ruble, David
Russell, James H.
Ryan, Daniel
Rycraft, Squire L.

Savage, Lincoln
Scarth, William
Schmidt, Samuel
Schroeder, Augustus H.
Schroeder, J. Fred
Schroeder, Hon. J. Henry
Scott, Harvey W.
Scott, Joseph L.
Sears, John w.
Sehlbrede, Hon. Charles A.
Sellwood, John W.
Sengstacken, Henry
Shambrook, David R.
Shambrook, George
Sharon, E. E.
Shattuck, Solon O.
Shaver, George W.
Shaver, Capt. J. W.
Shaw, H. M., M.D.
Shaw, Mrs. Mattie
Shearer, Francis M.
Sherwin, Hon. Eugene A.
Shive, William T.
Shook, Isaac N.
Short, J. Obed
Shrum, George W.
Shull, Benjamin C.
Shupe, Hon. John H.
Sibley, Joseph E.
Sigler, Bluford D.
Simmons, George
Simpson, A. M.
Simpson, Louis J.
Simpson, Marshall W.
Sladen, Capt. Joseph A.
Small, Matthew
Smart, John H.
Smick, William A.
Smith, Amedee M.
Smith, Amedee M., Jr.
Smith, Elisha N.
Smith, Judge G. W.
Smith, Irvine M.
Smith, John H.
Smith, Milton W.
Smith, Robert
Smith, Robert G.
Smith, Samuel
Smith, Judge Thomas
Smith, Willard N.
Smith, William D. L. F.
Smith, Capt. W. H.
Snider, Charles U.
Songer, Samuel T., M.D.
Songer, Hon. William F.
Sorensen, Nels P.
Sowell, John H.
Sparlin, Henry H.
Staley, George W.
Stanley, J. Johnson
Stansbery, John E.
Staples, E. T.
Stauff, Alexander
Stearns, Daniel w.
Stearns, Orson A.
Steele, William Z. G.
Stephenson, G. W.
Stewart, Frank A.
Stewart, Joseph H.
Stillwell, William D.
Strang, Z. C.
Strange, Rev. Ferdinand G.
Strickland, Frank M.
Strong, Lewis
Stukel, Stephen
Sturgess, Melvin D.
Summers, Gen. Owen
Sunderland, Milton
Surprenant, Hon. Joseph W.
Sweek, Hon. Alexander
Sweetland, Walter I.
Swinden, John
Swingle, Charles J.
Swope, Benjamin F.
Sykes, Samuel K.

Taylor, C. C.
Taylor, Henry H.
Taylor, James
Taylor, John b.
Taylor, Stephen C.
Taylor, William
Tharp, J. M.
Thayer, Claude
Thiel, William
Thompson, Jacob
Thompson, Judge Marshall D.
Thornton, Hon. Henry
Thornton, James
Thrift, Thomas J.
Tom, David R.
Tozer, Job R.
Trefethen, Charles A.
Trenchard, Hon. C. J.
Trimble, James
Trout, F. M.
Tuffs, James P.
Tupper, John P.
Turpen, William
Tuttle, Jay, M.D.
Twitchell, James C., M.D.

Ulrich, William

Van Brimmer, Benjamin F.
Van Brimmer, Clinton D.
Van Brimmer, Daniel
Van Dyke, John G.
Van Hardenberg, Peter V.
Van Sant, James K.
Vaughn, Amos N.
Vaughn, Warren N.
Vaupel, Charles H.
Vawter, William I.
Virgin, William J.
Volkmar, William C.

Wade, Ira
Wade, Robert L.
Wagner, Fred D.
Wagner, Jacob
Wagner, J. Marsh
Wait, Charles N.
Waite, Solomon M.
Walch, James
Walker, Daniel
Walker, James W.
Walker, William Albert
Warren, Daniel K.
Warren, Miles
Waugh, Lester
Weatherly, Hiram
Weaver, Adam
Weaver, Cleland
Weaver, Edwin
Weaver, John
Weaver, John W.
Weeks, Alfred
Weiss, Max
Wells, James
Wells, John W.
West, Walter T.
Weston, Horace E.
Wetmore, Jared D., M.D.
Whalley, Hon. John W.
Wheeler, William S.
Whitehead, Ransom H.
Wild, George
Wiley, David J., M.D.
Wiley, Henry
Williams, George V.
Williams, Hon. George H.
Williams, Isaac F.
Williams, James
Willis, John A.
Willis, Owen L.
Willis, Judge William R.
Willits, Levi F.
Wilson, Charles
Wilson, H. J.
Wilson, Jefferson
Wilson, Purdy A.
Wilson, Thomas
Wilson, William H.
Wilson, Mrs. William. H. (Hannah Dickenson)
Winter, James T.
Wirt, Augustus C.
Wolke, Joseph
Wollenberg, Heyman
Wood, Marvin S.
Woodruff, Delos
Worden, Major Charles
Worth, John Q. A.
Wright, Charles S.
Wright, John
Wright, William A.

York, Henry
York, John W.
Young, Andrew
Young, Benjamin