Gaston, Joseph. "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912." Vol. 4. Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 34-35. WEBSTER LOCKWOOD KINCAID, only child of Harrison R. and Augusta A. Kincaid, was born September 16, 1883, in the house built by his father more than fifty years ago on a six acre tract owned by him since 1854, then at the south end of Olive street, now almost in the center of Eugene. At the age of nine years this boy, who was passionately fond of outdoor exercise and did not like the routine and confinement of the school room, gained conisderable notoriety for extraodinary physical endurance by riding a bicycle from Salem to Wilhoit Spring and return, on one of the warmest days of summer, at a speed that caused some of the men of the party to become completely exhausted. at the age of about ten years, while at Newport, Oregon, with his parents, who frequently took him to the coast there or to the beach in Washington north of the mouth of the Columbia river, he wrote an account of a "Rough Sea Voyage," which was published in some of the papers and caused much amusement and favorable comments on account of the spelling and the quaint description of the sea-sickness of several prominent people whose names were mentioned. A steamer lying in the harbor took a party of excursionists out on the ocean to fish. The boy went along and described the peculiar sayings and doings of the passengers in a style that made Mark Twain's "Innocents Abroad" dull and dreary reading by comparison. At the age of eleven years in company with his parents he went on an excursion to the state of Washington and British Columbia, and visited Tacoma, Seattle, Port Townsend, Victoria and other places along Puget Sound. He wrote an account of a "Trip to Victoria," which was published in several newspapers and caused much favorable comment as being a splended description of the events and scenes witnessed. He received letters of commendation from distinguished men. At the age of about thirteen years he accompanied his father while secretary of state when he went to Union in eastern Oregon along with Governor Lord and State Treasurer Metschan to select the site for a building on the six hundred and forty acres of land that had been purchased for a branch asylum. The purchase of the land was afterward declared unconstitutional by the supreme court and the building was not commenced on the site which they then selected. under later laws land has been purchased near Pendleton and a branch asylum is being built there. When about fourteen years old along with his parents he visited Tacoma, Seattle, Spokane, Helena, Livingston and Yellowstone National Park. At later dates he has visited the principal cities of California with his parents, and with his father visited the Puget Sound cities and went over the Cascadian Pacific Railway east about five nundred miles to Banff, the Canadian National Park, passing nearly all the way through the most mountainous country and the wildest scenery on the face of the earth, and returning by rail to the Columbia and then down that river by steam-boat about one hundred miles through Arrow Head lakes to Nelson and thence by rail to Spokane, Walla Walla and Portland. He has traveled much in Oregon, California, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia and has at various times from early childhood visited many of the most interesting places on the Pacific coast, including the Klamath Falls section of southeastern Oregon. He is a graduate of the Eugene high school and of the University of Oregon in the class of 1908. Since arriving at the age of maturity he has been unusually active and prominent in business affairs and is regarded by his numerous acquaintances all over the state as one of the brightest and most promising young men in Oregon. He is a valuable assistant and adviser of his father in all his purchases and sales of lands and in his plans to attract settlers and develop and increase the prosperity of Oregon to the extent that the climate and natural resources amply justify. In every effort to promote the public good he has taken an active and leading part. He is a member of the Masonic order of the Thirty-second degree. Not only as the son of a pioneer family who have taken a prominent and valuable part in the settlement, upbuilding and development of the territory and state of Oregon from a wilderness to a splended land of gardens, farms, orchards, villages and cities, he is, as a native Oregonian, on account of superior ability and honoroble [sic] achievement entitled to special notice in the history of Oregon. He was married at the residence of his father and mother, 85 East Ninth street, Eugene, Oregon, January 22, 1909, to Miss Dorothy Catherine Hills of Portland. She is a granddaughter of the late Cornelius Hills, one of the earliest and best known of the pioneers of Oregon. He was shipwrecked somewhere on the coast of southwestern Oregon, if we are not mistaken in the date, in 1847, and made his way in a famishing condition on foot, over logs and through thick underbrush, into the nearest settlement in the upper Willamette valley, which then consisted of Eugene Skinned where the city of Eugene now is, Elijah Bristow and perhaps Felix Scott and John Diamond and one or two others south of Salem. Mr. Hills settled on the north bank of the Willamette river in the mountains a few miles east of Eugene, where he owned a large tract of land, raised a large family and rsided until he passed away a few years ago. To Webster L. Kincaid and wife a son was born, April 5, 1910. He was named for his grandfather Harrison Rettenhouse Kincaid, and is about two years old. A picture with his father, grandfather and great-grandfather the latter then almost ninety-five years old and now almost ninety-six, was taken when he was just one year old. On account of his extreme activity and determination to get out of doors and stay out all the time, the boy bids fair to be a true representative of his pioneer ancestors who like the Arabs were at home on the plains, in the valleys, on the mountains or wherever they happened to be, without a house and with or without a tent. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project Jenny Tenlen. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.