# Portland, Oregon: Its History and Builders/Volume 1/Index

​INDEX
Abernethy, George, Governor of Provisional government, 107-133.
Adams, John Quincy, interpretation of Treaty of 1818, 105.
Adams, W. L., founder of "Oregon style" in political writing, 494; with D. W. Craig, father of Republican party in Oregon, 667.
Agriculture in Oregon, 347.
Agricultural press, 503.
Ainsworth, Capt. J. C., 212; photo, 259.
Alvord, Mrs. Genevieve, 480.
Allen, preparatory school, 397.
Anderson, Levi, gives estate for boys' home, 480.
Anderson, Gen. Thomas M., commander of The Expedition to the Philippines, 574; historical notice of, 581.
Anian, Strait of, 20.
Astor, John Jacob, trading expedition to the Columbia river in 181 1, 42; men associated with Astor, Alexander Mackay, Duncan MacDougal, Donald MacKenzie, David and Robert Stuart, Ramsay Crookes, Wil- son Price Hunt, and John Clarke, 42; his partners betray him, 44.
Astoria in 1813, 60.
Atkinson, Rev. George H., brought first school books to Oregon ; first to take ac- tion for a system of free public schools in Oregon, 368 ; wrote Governor Lane's mes- sage on schools, 368; located at Oregon City in 1848, 664 ; a great pioneer preacher, 368; photo, 368.
Atwell, H. C, Pres. Horticultural Society, 363.
Australian ballot, adopted in the United States first at Portland, 562.
Ball, John, first school teacher in old Ore- gon, 46; also 365.
Banks, first Bank and Banker, 514; bank panic, 1893, 515; squeeze of 1907, 516; bank capital of Oregon, 517; clearances for six years past, 517; condensed statement for October, 1910, 518; statements of Portland banks, 1910, 519-531 ; growth of banking, 613.
Barry, Col. A. C, made first railroad survey from Rogue River valley to Portland, 283.
Baptists, church of, 417-422.
Bates, Blanche, actress, 608.
Beach, F. E., Pres. Fire Ins. Co., 534; named Portland the "Rose City," 627.
Beal, Cornelius, reformer and divorce law- yer, 555-
Beaver money, 513.
Beck, William, bridge first Willamette river bridge, 343 ; his tall hat, and what came of it, 623.
Beebe, Gen. Charles F., organized Oregon Brigade, 573.
Benton, Thomas H., prophecy, 13; friend to Oregon, 148-152.
Benefactors of the City, Stephen Coffin, John H. Couch, W. W. Chapman, Mrs. C. H. Lewis, Donald Macleay, Matthew P. Deady, Joseph A. Strowbridge, William S. Ladd, John Wilson, Henry Failing, Ella M. Smith, Levi Anderson, Simeon G. Reed, Mary A. Knox, Anna Mary Mann, P. J. Mann, Mary A. Holbrook, Mrs. Rosa Bur- rell, Henry W. Corbett, W. T. Gardner, The Catholic Sisters, and Joseph Buchtel.
Beer and hops, 334.
Bellinger, C. B., 558.
Blanchet, Francis Norbert, first Catholic priest and Bishop to Oregon, 85.
Big Business, founders of, 615.
Boys' and Girls' Aid Home, 460.
Boise, R. P., Judge and Lawyer, 550, 552.
Bonneville, Lieut., expedition of 1832, 46.
Bridger, James, friend and guide to pioneers, 44.
Bridge of the Gods, 267.
Bridges of Portland, 342, Maybell's poem thereon, 344 ; traffic on, 346, 619.
British capture Astoria, 60.
British Benevolent Society, 473.
Block house at Cascades, 568.
Brown, J. Henry, historian, 596.
Brown, Tabitha, pioneer heroine, starts a college, 388.
Brown, Mrs. S. A., teacher of first night school, 384.
Buchtel, Joseph, 345, 595.
Bull Run, water supply, 339.
Burrell, Mrs. Rosa, President of Woman's Union, 384, 594.
Burns, Hugh, financier of Provisional gov- ernment, 131.
California an Island — Dutch map of 1624, 20.
Canemah, The canoe place, 667.
Cardwell, Dr. J. R., 25 years President of
Horticultural Society with his report on
The prune, 351-358.
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Carver, Jonathan, map of, ZT, attaches the
name of "Oregon" to the country, Z7- Carson, Luella Clay, President Mills College,
403-
Catholic church, first efforts to get priests, 84; Schools and Colleges, 391-395; develop- ment of, 413, 427; Archbishop Christie, and other leaders of, 433-434.
Cattle in Oregon, 348.
Chapman, W. W., notice of, 209; able law- yer, 551-
Chapman, Dr. J. A., mayor, 539.
Charitable Institutions, 447; "Homes," 456.
China flour trade, 320.
Chinook Jargon language, Indian, 88-91.
Clark, George Rogers, protege of Thomas Jefferson, in Ohio valley against the Brit- ish, 50; Kept in Ohio valley during Revo- lutionary war by Washington, 51 ; captures old Vincennes, 50; his great services to the nation, 50.
Clark, William, of Lewis and Clark expedi- tion, 55.
Craig, D. W., a founder of the Republican party in Oregon, 667.
Crematory The, of, 340.
City of Portland, government of, 336 ; Ex- pansion of, 609; water works of, 338; statistics of, 338; steady growth of, 609; commanding position of, 621-622; gateway of, 621 ; population of, 612.
Civil war, trouble from Threatened, in Ore- gon, 571-
Children's Home, 456.
Choir, first Congregational, 211, 409.
Coburn, Mrs. Kate, editorial writer, 606.
Code law. Provisional government, 548.
Code makers. The, 558.
Coffin, Stephen, an owner of townsite and a founder of the town chapter XI, 209; or- ganized the Union League, 571 ; Brigadier General of militia 1861, 571-573.
Clothing in 1844, in Oregon, 235.
Colleges, Portland gives Presidents to Three,
403-
Columbus. Christopher, tribute to \)y Joaquin Miller, 19.
Columbia gateway. The, 621.
Columbia river, first hint of, 21 ; discovered by Captain Robert Gray, 30; Carver's map showing probable location, t,-] ; present ef- forts to open the river into British Colum- bia, 279; The gateway to the "Inland Em- pire," and all the commerce to the Indies, see map, 621.
Commercial independence, fight for, 318.
Congregationalists, 414, 423. leaders of, 431.
Cook, Capt. James, life and services, 25 ; dis- covers coast of Oregon, 24; starts the fur trade, 25 ; death of, 25.
Cook, Vincent, and the salmon business, 250.
Couch, Capt. John H., brings a ship to start the salmon fishery trade, 203; his great service in locating the city at this point. Chapter X, 214.
Corbett. Henry W., a United States Senator, 213-564; President of Lewis and Clark Exposition. Chapter XXVIII.
Cotton, W. W., one of the Code makers, 558.
Cox, Lewis B., able lawyer, good citizen and advocate of Lewis and Clark Exposition, 555, 556.
Coxey, General, The armies of, 628.
Crosby, Capt. Nathaniel, starts town of Mil- ton, 204.
Churches, The first in Oregon, 407; list of subscribers to the building fund of, 407; photo of in Chapter XXXIII ; early his- tory of first churches, 408; progress of dovyn to 1890, 412 ; Congregationalists, 414 ; Episcopalians, 415; Baptists, 417; Presby- terians, 418; Hebrews, 420; Unitarians, 421; Lutherans, 421; Christians, 422-423; Evangelicals, 423 ; other sects, 423-427.
Church activities, .-111
Curry, George L., editor of Spectator, 489; founder of "Free Press," 491 ; Governor of Oregon, 491.
Dandelion, The, imported into Oregon by Nineveh Ford, 121.
Dairying in Oregon, 348.
Drake, Capt. Francis, discovers coast of Ore- gon, 21 ; names the country "New Albion," 24.
Deady, Matthew P., 236; greatest of the law- givers, 557.
Dentistry, College of, 400, 542 ; dentists, their schools and ethics, 541-542.
De Smet, P. J., first missionary to the Flat- head Indians, that sought the "Book of Heaven," 85.
Direct legislation, started in the United States near Portland, Oregon, 565 ; votes on by the people in 1904, 1906, and 1908, 564; measures voted on and expenses of submission to vote, 564-566.
Doctors, The, in public affairs, 539; college and medical education of, at Portland, Chapter XXV, 536.
Docks, public for, at Portland, 226.
Dodson, W. B. D., historian of Second Ore- gon Volunteer Infantrj-, 572.
Douglas, Stephen A., forces President Polk to pay Oregon's delegate his expenses to Washington City and return, 232.
Druggists, early, Snell and Story, 216.
Dunbar, William, introduces Oregon flour into China, 320.
Duniway, Abigail Scott, editor and reformer, 606.
Duniway, Clyde Augustus, President of Montana University, 403.
Dryer, Thomas J., founder of The Weekly Oregonian, 497.
Dye, Mrs. Eva Emery, author of many books, 607; sketch of Oregon City, 650.
Economics, price and wages, 628. Economics, morals and politics, 632. Editors, Portland's, 595. Edwards, Philip L., teacher of Methodist
Mission school, 366. Election, The first state, 237. Electric power. The greatest in the world
tributary to Portland, 662. Emigration of 1843, 93. English exploration westward, 31, 36. 49. England, joint occupancy of Oregon with,
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Carver, Jonathan, map of. 37%; attaches the name of "Oregon" to the country, 37. Carson, Luella Clay, President Mills College, 403. Catholic church, first efforts to get priests, 84; Schools and Colleges, 391-395; develop- ment of, 413, 427; Archbishop Christie, and other leaders of, 433-434. Cattle in Oregon, 348. Chapman, W. W., notice of, 209; able law- yer, 551. Chapman, Dr. J. A., mayor, 539. Charitable Institutions, 447; "Homes," 456. China flour trade, 320. Chinook Jargon language, Indian, 88-91. Clark, George Rogers, protege of Thomas Jefferson, in Ohio valley against the Brit- ish, 50; Kept in Ohio valley during Revo- lutionary war by Washington, 51; captures old Vincennes, 50%; his great services to the nation, 50. Clark, William, of Lewis and Clark expedi- tion, 55. Craig, D. W., a founder of the Republican party in Oregon, 667. Crematory The, of, 340. City of Portland, government of, 336; Ex- pansion of, 609; water works of, 338; statistics of, 338; steady growth of, 609; commanding position of, 621-622; gateway of, 621; population of, 612. Civil war, trouble from Threatened, in Ore- gon, 571. Children's Home, 456. Choir, first Congregational, 211, 409. Coburn, Mrs. Kate, editorial writer, 606. Code law, Provisional government, 548. Code makers, The, 558. Coffin, Stephen, an owner of townsite and a founder of the town chapter XI, 209; or- ganized the Union League, 571; Brigadier General of militia 1861, 571-573- . Clothing in 1844, in Oregon, 235. Colleges, Portland gives Presidents to Three, 403. Columbus, Christopher, tribute to by Joaquin Miller, 19. Columbia gateway, The, 621. Columbia river, first hint of, 21; discovered by Captain Robert Gray, 30; Carver's map showing probable location, 37%; present ef- forts to open the river into British Colum- bia, 279; The gateway to the "Inland Em- pire," and all the commerce to the Indies, see map, 621. Commercial independence, fight for, 318. Congregationalists, 414, 423. leaders of, 431. Cook, Capt. James, life and services, 25; dis- covers coast of Oregon, 24%; starts the fur trade, 25; death of, 25. Cook, Vincent, and the salmon business, 250. Couch, Capt. John H., brings a ship to start the salmon fishery trade, 203; his great service in locating the city at this point, Chapter X, 214. Corbett, Henry W., a United States Senator, 213-564 President of Lewis and Clark Exposition, Chapter XXVIII.
Cotton, W. W., one of the Code makers, 558. Cox, Lewis B., able lawyer, good citizen and advocate of Lewis and Clark Exposition, 555, 556.
Coxey, General, The armies of, 628. Crosby,
Capt. Nathaniel, starts town of Milton, 204.
Churches, The first in Oregon, 407; list of subscribers to the building fund of, 407; photo of in Chapter XXXIII; early history of first churches, 408%; progress of down to 1890, 412; Congregationalists, 414; Episcopalians, 415; Baptists, 417; Presbyterians, 418; Hebrews, 420; Unitarians, 421; Lutherans, 421; Christians, 422-423; Evangelicals, 423; other sects, 423-427.
Church activities, 444.
Curry, George L., editor of Spectator, 489; founder of "Free Press," 491; Governor of Oregon, 491.
Dandelion, The, imported into Oregon by Nineveh Ford, 121.
Dairying in Oregon, 348.
Drake, Capt. Francis, discovers coast of Oregon, 21; names the country "New Albion," 24.
Deady, Matthew P., 236; greatest of the law-givers, 557.
Dentistry, College of, 400, 542; dentists, their schools and ethics, 541-542.
De Smet, P. J., first missionary to the Flathead Indians, that sought the "Book of Heaven," 85.
Direct legislation, started in the United States near Portland, Oregon, 565%; votes on by the people in 1904, 1906, and 1908, 564; measures voted on and expenses of submission to vote, 564-566. Doctors, The, in public affairs, 539; college and medical education of, at Portland, Chapter XXV, 536. Docks, public for, at Portland, 226. Dodson, W. B. D., historian of Second Oregon Volunteer Infantry, 572. Douglas, Stephen A., forces President Polk to pay Oregon's delegate his expenses to Washington City and return, 232. Druggists, early, Snell and Story, 216. Dunbar, William, introduces Oregon flour into China, 320. Duniway, Abigail Scott, editor and reformer, 606. Duniway, Clyde Augustus, President of Montana University, 403. Dryer, Thomas J., founder of The Weekly Oregonian, 497. Dye, Mrs. Eva Emery, author of many books, 607; sketch of Oregon City, 650. Economics, price and wages, 628. Economics, morals and politics, 632. Editors, Portland's, 595. Edwards, Philip L., teacher of Methodist Mission school, 366. Election, The first state, 237. Electric power. The greatest in the world tributary to Portland, 662. Emigration of 1843, 93. English exploration westward, 31, 36, 49. England, joint occupancy of Oregon with, 105. ​INDEX Episcopalians, The, 415, 423; founding of in Oregon, 425, 426; first services in Oregon at Oregon City by St. Michael Fackler in 1847, 665. Exports, increase and character of, 317-328, 614. Expositions, Clark, 584. Express business, 251. industrial, 583; Lewis and Failing, Henry, 214. Farnham, Russell, diplomat, fur trader and friend of John Jacob Astor, 45. Farm, first in Oregon on Portland townsite, 206; farming, Winship plants first garden, 42. Farrell, Sylvester, 345. Ferry, The first at Portland, 220. Financial condition of Portland 1910, 534- Fire department, 340. Fire, great of 1873, 248. First things at Portland, 210. Fishing industry, 249, 328, 329. Flanders, Capt. George H., 203, 214. Flathead Indians seek "Book of Heaven," 79, 98. France conveys title to Oregon to the United States, 140. French exploration westward, 31. Frazer, Judge A. L., 471. Foreign commerce, growth of, 316. Founding the City, Chapter X, 193. Founders of the City, 198. Foundresses of Catholic Twelve," 393. Flower mission, 467. schools, "The Fruit production at Portland, growth of, 316; fruit trees, first grafted brought to Oregon, 351; first trees from fruit seed brought from England in 1825, 351; varieties brought, 352; George 'Settlemier brings trees from California, 352; high prices of first fruit, 353; challenge to the world on fruit, 355; Lownsdale, M. O., battle for clean fruit, 355; fruit growing and school teaching, 357%; walnut growing, 359; pro- fits of fruit growing, 361; statistics of, 361. Fur skins, numbers of taken in four years, 68. Fur trading sea captains sailing under false flags, troubles of, 136; profits of fur trad- ing, 69. Gass, Patrick, with Lewis and Clark, 59. Gaston, Joseph, organizes first company that built a railroad (longer than a portage road) in Oregon, 286; promotes the first and second land grants for railroads in Oregon, 293; builds 40 miles narrow gauge railroad in Willamette valley, 298. Gateway, The Columbia, 621. Grand Army of the Republic, 571. Gray, Capt. Robert, sails through Straits of Fuca, 27; discovers and enters the Colum- bia river with the first ship to cross the Columbia river bar, 30. Gray, William H., drafted the first law to provide common school education to all children, west of the Rocky Mountains, 122; his history of Oregon, 596. German Aid Society, 474. 677 Gibbs, Addison C., lawyer and "war Gover- nor," 553, 572; defeated for Senator by J. H. Mitchell, 560. Glisan, Dr., 537. Geology of this region, 62. Gold discovered in California, 210; a great event in the development of world-wide prosperity, 511%; its effect on the people, 234; discovered in Oregon, 236; amount mined in 1866, 244; amount exported in 1867, 274. "Gods," The bridge of, 267. "Goose Hollow,” 211. Grain ships in 1878, 311. Growth of the City in 1878, 310. Grover, Lafayette, Legislator, Congressman, Governor and United States Senator, 552. "Hall," St. Helen's, gives school, 395. Hamilton, Genl. Edward, lawyer and com- rade of Genl. President Zachary Taylor, 553. Hawkins, L. L., founder of City Museum, and promoter of skyline roads and parks, 405. Hennepin, Father, his story of exploring upper Mississippi river, doubted, 33- Hebrews, the church of, 420-424; their moral uplift work, 443. Hidden, Mrs. M. L. T., poet and reformer, 603. Higginson, Ella, poet, 603. Hill's Military Academy, 396. Hill, William Lair, codified the laws of Oregon, 558. Himes, George H., his history of Willamette valley, of the Oregon press, curator of the Historical Society, 481, 596. Hines, Rev. H. K., history of Oregon Mis- sions, 596. Historians, 595. Holladay, Ben, buys the Oregon Legisla- ture and steals a land grant, 289; his career and character, 291, 292. "Homes," The Charitable, 456; The Chil- dren's, 456; The Patton for Aged Women, 457; The Old Peoples, 459; St. Joseph's, 460; Boys' and Girls' Aid, 460, 463; Odd Fellows, 460; Baby Home, 462; St. Agnes' Baby, 463; St. Mary's Boys and Girls, 464; Home of the Good Shepherd, 465; Florence Crittenton Home, 466. Hood, mountain, first ascent of, 624. Hops and beer, 334. Horticulture, 351. Hospitals, The Good Samaritan, 447; St. Vincents, 451; Homeopathic, 452; County hospital, 453 Tuberculosis hospital, 454. Hoyt, Ralph W., Manager of Rose Festival, 627. Hudson Bay Co., when organized, 65; its owners and great powers, 66; capital stock and profits, 67%; forts, posts and Indians, 67; offers to sell out to the United States, 231. Hughes, Ellis G., real estate and railroad lawyer, public spirited citizen, 555. Humane Society, 470. Hunt, Wilson Price, brought Astor party overland from St. Louis to Oregon, 43. Digitized brand from St. L ​678 INDEX Hunt, George W., Railroadman, see Chapter XVI. Hutchison, Dr. Woods, got his start in Port- land, 541. Ignorance of Oregon, in public men, 144. Illiteracy, the menace of, 405, 569, 570. Indian, An, the first man to cross the con- tinent, 38. Indians, origin of, 64%; numbers of in Old Oregon, 67; how managed by the Hudson Bay Co., 69, 78; and the land question, 73- 75; at the Walla Walla Council, 74; their title to the lands, opinion of Judge Story, 75; the great council at Fort Simcoe, 76; the Flathead Mission, 79; Missionaries to, 80; their reverence for religious teachers, 86; decides to fight the white man, 86; not trusted by John McLoughlin, 87; Chinook, language of, 88; no Indian wars during rule of Dr. John McLoughlin, 187; Indian wars, 568, 569; representative Indians, photo, 569. Initiative and Referendum laws, votes on, 564. Iron, manufacture of, commenced at Port- land, 244. Jefferson, Thomas, the Westward Colonizer, 49; his great anxiety to annex territory of Louisiana, 53 to 55; organizes the Lewis and Clark Expedition before securing Louisiana, 55%; his ideas of territorial ex- tension, 147. Johnson, William, a naval hero who claimed the first land now within the city limits, 204. Joint occupancy with England, 105. Joseph, Chief, the great Indian of the region of Old Oregon, 569. Judges, non-partisan movement for, 563. Juvenile Court, 471. Kamm, Jacob, stands first in steamboat de- velopment, 212; photo of, 259; his steam- ship "George Wright," and other boats, 279. Kelley, Hall J., 100; his great work for Oregon, 149-151. Kelly, James K., Legislator, United States Senator, Chief Justice of Supreme Court, and law maker, 558. Koehler, Richard, his work on the Oregon railroad system, 300. Labor Unions, 627. Ladd, William S., 213; first banker, 514. Land, the question with the Indians, 73. Land titles to the town site, 221. Lane, Joseph, first Governor under U. S. authority, 233. Lambert, J. H., produced "Lambert" cherry, 357 photo of, 241. La Salle, explored the Great river to its mouth, 34, 35%; death of, 35; his claims for France, 34; the "lion-hearted," 33; dis- covers the Mississippi river, 32. Lausanne, The Ship, 652. Law, evolution of in Oregon, 547. Laws and judges at Portland, 549. Lawyers that laid foundations, 545; none in first organization of government in Oregon, 545; in Provisional government, 546%; the first lawyer in Oregon-A. L. Lovejoy, 547; the production of Code laws, 548. Lawmakers, The, 557. Lease, Jacob P., brought first sheep to Oregon, 349. Ledyard, John, sent across Russia by Thomas Jefferson to reach and explore Oregon in 1786, 52. Lee, Jason, 81, 99; sketch of, by Mr. John Gill, 157. Legislation, direct, by the people, 563, 564; movement for, started in the United States at Milwaukie, suburb of Portland, 565; votes on by the people in 1904 to 1908, 564. Lewis, C. H., 213. Lewis, Merriwether, Capt., 56. Lewis and Clark Expedition, organized be- fore Louisiana transferred, 55; starts for Oregon, 56; winters on the Missouri river, 57; reaches Oregon, 58. Lewis and Clark Exposition, 584; father of it, Daniel McAllen, 584; the four men that assured its possibility, 585; ground plan and buildings of, 586-588; events leading up to it, chronology of, 587; the size of it, 580. Library, City's Public. 404. Life Insurance in Oregon, 531. Lindsley, Rev. Aaron Ladner, 441. Lisa, Manuel, reaches head of Snake river in 1808. Live Stock at Portland market, 363. Logan, David, brilliant lawyer, 551. Lord, William P., lawyer, jurist, foreign minister and Code maker, 558. Lovejoy, Amos Lawrence, the first lawyer in Oregon, and first man to propose a town on Portland townsite, 199, 547. Louisiana, purchase of, the greatest land pur- chase in all history, 56. Lownsdale, Daniel H., 208. Lownsdale, Millard O., his work for better fruit, 355. Lucas, John Baptist Charles, secret agent of President Jefferson to St. Louis and New Orleans in 1801, 53; portrait of, 43. Lucier, Ettienne, opened first farm in Oregon on East Portland townsite, 206, 347. Luelling, Henderson, brought first grafted fruit trees to Oregon in 1847, 351. Luelling, Seth, planted first prune orchard in Oregon, 353. Lumbering at Portland, 329; ships engaged in carrying, 330; vast importance of the in- dustry. 332, 614. Lutheran Church, 421, 424. Lyman, Horace, Sr., first Congregational minister at Portland, 414. Lyman, Horace, Jr., historian, 596. MacKenzie, Alexander, first white man to cross the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, 38; proved non-existence of the Strait of Anian, 38, 39. Macleay, Donald, donates great park to city, 544. Mail service to and in Oregon, 255; present service, 257. ​INDEX Mann, P. J., founded Old People's Home, 459. Mann, Mrs. Anna Mary Lewis, erected Old People's Home, 594. Manufacturing establishments, 333. Markham, Edwin, poet, 598. Marquam, P. A., lawyer and judge, 553. Matthieu, F. X., cast the deciding vote for an American government in Oregon, 151; an official under the Provisional govern- ment, 113; the only living survivor of the Provisional government when this book was written. Maybell, Stephen, his poem on the Bridge, 344. Meat Supply, 363. Medical College, 538. Meek, Joseph L., separates the contending factions at Champoeg in 1843, and secures vote for an American government, 153; delegate from Provisional government to the President and Congress, 131. Military Organization, First, 568. Miller, Joaquin, poet, see lines on Columbus, 19, 604. Miller, Mrs. Lischen, founder of "Drift,” first Oregon magazine, 509%; one of the founders of the Pacific Monthly, 605. Minto, John, farmer, explorer, poet, 235, 598. Mississippi river, head of, found by Lieut. Pike, 41. Missionaries to save the Indians, 80, 81; to save the Flatheads, 79, 98. Mitchell, John H., lawyer, senator and politician, 556; the lawyer politician, 559; supported by democrats when opposed by republicans, 562. Money, pioneer legal tender, 511; the Oregon Mint Kind, 513%; beaver money, 514. Morals and Politics, 632. Morality, 633. Morris, Benjamin Wistar, Bishop of Oregon, 437. Municipal Association, and Morals, 633. Museum, City, founded by L. L. Hawkins, 405. Myers, W. H. H., Commander of Indian War Veterans, 569. McAllen, Daniel, Father of Lewis and Clark Exposition, 584. McKenna, T. I. 345. McKinnell, Henry, first homeopathic phy- sician at Portland, 538. McLoughlin, John, never trusted the Indians, 87; a long and useful life, see sketch of, by Frederick V. Holman, 186; robbed of his landclaim, 189; built first house at Oregon City in 1829, 651. Naming the City, 200. Napoleon sells Louisiana to President Jeffer- son, 54. Needlework Guild, 470. Neighborhood House, 466. Nesmith, James W., makes roll of the pio- neers of 1843, 101, 102; Supreme Judge of Old Oregon, 120; the first Judge in Oregon, 546; his account of the first Oregon made ship, 261; farmer, Congressman and United States Senator. 679 Newspapers, pioncer, Chapter XXIII, 481; the first daily in Oregon, 491; list of papers started and failed, 502; list of papers pub- lished in Portland in 1910, 504, 505, 506, 507. Nichols, Dr. S. A., et. al., 538. Northrup, E. J., 216. Odd Fellows Home, 460. Ogden, Peter Skene, the great explorer, 70; ransoms white women and children from the murdering Savages, 72. Olney, Cyrus, a U. S. District Judge, and founder of part of Astoria, 551. Ordway, June McMillan, poet, 603. Oregon, name of, 37%; discovered by the Spanish sea captains, 22. Oregon, "no-man's" land, 106; title to the country, 134; its "Hall of Fame," 146. Oregonian, the Newspaper, started as a weekly, 497; history of, 498; who built into a great paper, 498%; editors and managers of, in 1910, 506. Oregon Steam Navigation Co., 267, 269; great profits of. 274, 275, 278; great op- portunities of, 278; sold to Henry Villard, 277. Oregon City, Chapter XXXIII; first church in Old Oregon, 654; names of the sub- scribers to the building fund for, 407; the territorial capital, 666; gateway to the Willamette valley, 667; birthplace of the Republican party in Oregon, 666; manufac- tures of, 671; Indians at, 672. Overton, William, first man to claim the land on which Portland got its start, 197. Pacific University, a founder of, Tabitha Brown, 390. Pacific Monthly, 509. Page, W. W., an able lawyer, 554- Pharmacy, College of, 543. Parker, Rev. S. H., sent to Oregon by the Presbyterians in 1835, 82; teaches the Flathead Indians, 82; his experience with Indians at the Willamette Falls, 651. Parks and Playgrounds, 543. Patton, Matthew, gave land for Home for Aged Women, 458; the Patton Home, 457. Pennoyer, Sylvester, taught school in Port- land, 372; his swallow tail-coat, 372; Gov- ernor of Oregon. Pettygrove, F. W., gets half interest in town site, 199; buys out Lovejoy and then sells the whole townsite to D. H. Lownsdale for $5,000 worth of leather not yet tanned, 201. Pike, Lieut., U. S., explores Mississippi river and discovers Pike's Peak, 41. Pioneers, The, what induced them to come to Oregon. 103; character of, 103-104; those of 1843, Nesmith's list, 102; list of those settling in the city, in 1852, 217; Himes list of those residing in the city from time of location, 218; their sufferings in get- ting to Oregon, 388-390. Philippine War, 572. Pittock, Henry L., gets the Oregonian, 500; starts the Daily, 500. Poets, The Oregon, 595. ​
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Political drift of. 634.
Politics, morals and economics, 632.
Polk, President, loi ; his treason to Oregon,
143-
Portland, its great future foretold, 13; its commanding position, 620.
Portland Academy, 397.
Port of Portland Commission, 341.
Post Office, work of, in, 1910, 257, 346; re- ceipts of, in, 1910, 617.
Plummer, Dr. O. P. S., history of telegraph in Oregon, 253.
Preachers, groups of great, 428; pioneer preachers, 428.
Presbyterians, churches of, 418, 425, 426, 439.
Printing Press, the first on the Pacific Coast in Oregon, 481.
Prohibition of alcoholic liquors, 124.
Provisional Government, steps to form, 107- 108; organization and laws of, 107-133; common schools for, 122; temperance prin- ciples of, 124; finances of, 128; names of the men who organized it. 112.
Quinn's, Mrs., twenty thousand dollar for- tune made in cutting up salmon, 251.
Railroad in Oregon, started, 245 ; first ef- forts at, 280; first subscribers of money for, 281 ; first company to construct in- corporated, 285 ; Californians' schemes to control, 287-289; commencement of con- struction work, 288; Ben Holladay buys the Oregon Legislature to steal the landgrant, 289; "East Side" or Salem R. R. Co. a fraud, 290; the first Oregon Central Co. gets a second landgrant, 293 ; Portland men start railroad construction work — names of subscribers to stock, 288; W. W. Chap- man's railroad work, 295 ; Henry Villard's work, 294-297 ; lands granted to Oregon railroad, 298; William Reid's railroad work, 299; Joseph Gaston builds first nar- row gauge railroad in Oregon, 298; the railroad work of Richard Koehler. 300; the work of George W. Hunt, 301 ; the work of James J. Hill, 301 ; work of E. H. Harriman, 302; work of Maj. Alfred H. Sears, 307; work now in progress, 302; Electric Roads, 304; railroad mileage tribu- tary to Portland, 305 ; the cable street rail- road, 307 ; Portland's first street railroad, 306; the great traction company, mileage and business of in 1910, 308.
Ray, Charles, first to carry U. S. mail out of Portland, 257.
Reed, Cyrus A., a pioneer lumberman, 333.
Reed, Simeon G., leaves fortune to found a college, 402.
Reed, Amanda, wife of S. G. Reed, provides for Reed Institute by last will, 402.
Republican party organized in Oregon by efforts of W. L. Adams and D. W. Craig, 667.
River Traffic, increase of, 309, 667.
Rivals to Portland, 193.
Rose Festival, 626 ; proposed by E. W. Rowe, 627; made great success by George L. Hutchin, 627 ; and general manager of, Ralph W. Hoyt, 627.
Rose City, so named by Frank E. Beach, 627 ;
made a "Rose City" by labors of Frederick
V. Holman, 627. Russia, recognized right of United States up
to Alaska, in old treaty, 140.
Sabin, Miss Ella, Supt. of City Schools, 384; photo of, 403.
Sacajawea, the Indian guide to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 58.
Sail vessel, first built in Oregon, 261.
Salmon packing commenced, 249, 328.
Salvation Army, 476.
Samuel, L., started first illustrated paper on the Pacific Coast at Portland, 508 ; founder of Oregon Life Ins. Co., 532.
Shannon, George, with Lewis and Clark, 60.
Slavery, prohibited by Provisional govern- ment, 116.
Swallow-tail coats. Gov. Pennoyer's, 372 ; Fred Bickel's, 373.
Shattuck, Erasmus D., a great judge, 554.
Stage, The, 608.
Seal of Territor}', 233.
Sears, Maj., his railroad work, 307; predicts Northern Pacific railroad will be forced to come to Portland, 620.
Ship channel to the sea, 341.
Simpson, Samuel L., poet, 599.
Sitton, Mrs. L. W., President of Board of Education, 386.
Smith, Solomon, teaches school for Dr. John McLoughlin. 46.
Swift & Co.. meat packing plant, 363.
Sheep and Wool, 349. 327, 350; first sheep brought to Oregon by Jacob P. Lease, 349 ; the first from Eastern States by Shaw, 349 ; the first well bred sheep brought across the continent from Ohio, 2,500 miles, walking all the way, 349.
Settlemier, George, brought fruit trees from California, 1850, 352.
Spain, seizes British ships as pirates, 138; France refuses aid in quarrel, 138; dis- covery of Oregon, 22; title to Old Oregon,
138, 139- Spectator, The, 485. Steel, W. G., mountain explorer, 626. Street Cleaning, 340. Scott, H. W.. memorial of, 9; his account of
condition of the country in 1856, 227; made
Editor of the Oregonian, 502. Scott, Thomas Fielding, Bishop of Oregon,
436.
Schools in Old Oregon, the first, 46, 346; first mission school, 366; the first school in Portland, 367; first school organization, 369, 371 : Harrison street school, history of, 374; high school organized in 1869, 375; night school organized in 1873. 376. 479: school directors, Hsts of, 377; salaries of teachers 1878. 377; teachers list of, 379; schools in 1910, 385; Catholic schools in city, 391, 393; private schools, 395-399; State Reform school (now called Oregon Training school), 403; church schools, founding of, 427.
Social Life of City, 623.
Skookum, Charley, his hearse, carriage and family at the Circus, 624.
Steamboat Development, 258-263. ​
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Story, U. S. Supreme Court Judge's opinion of Indian land titles. 75.
Story Tellers, The, 595.
Stow, Mrs. Marion Cook, poet, 605.
Strong, Judge William, account of the first steamboats, 263; Lawyer and U. S. District Judge in two states, 553.
Summers, Col. Owen, Provost Marshal of Manila, 577 ; takes the field against Filipinos, 578; given command of a Bri- gade, 579; recommended for a Brigadier General's Commission, 580 ; death of Sum- mers, 581.
St. Agnes' Baby Home, 463.
St. Helen's Hall school, 395.
St. Mary's Home, 464.
St. Joseph's Home, 460.
St. Vincent's Hospital, 451.
Tacitus, the historian, describes Oregon set- tlers, 48.
Taxpayers in 1859, list of, and taxes, 618.
Terwilliger, James, starts first business in Portland, 200.
Territorial official, notices of, 236.
Teachers, school for apple growers, 358.
Telegraph in Oregon, first work, 253.
Tillamook Bay, named "murderer's harbor," 27; Capt. Robert Gray's battle with the Indians there, 27.
Timotsk, Indian Chief, 115 years old, ^d, "jy,
87. Title to the Oregon country, 134. Thompson, R. R., 215. Thompson, Dr. Mary, 538. Thornton, J. Q., Oregon delegate, opposes
purchase of Hudson Bay Co., and has
trouble with President Polk, 232. Townsite proprietors, 206. Town and Country, condition of in 1856,
227. Tributary territory, 621. Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 454. T'Vault, Col. W. G.. 122, 127.
Unitarian Church, 421.
University of Pacific, mothered by Tabitha Brown, 388.
U'Ren, William S., advocate of direct legis- lation, 565.
Utilities, Public, 341.
Vancouver, location and settlement of, 641.
Vergennes, Count, predicts American Revolu- tion, 36.
Victor. Frances Faller, historian and poet, 596, 600, 602.
Villard, Henry, his railroad work in Oregon, 294, 297 ; donates land for Children's Home,
457- Visiting Nurse Association, 468.
Wages and Prices, Portland and elsewhere. 1910, 628.
Wagon Road, first out of Portland, 221. Wait, Aaron E., editor, lawyer and judge,
491, 551-
Wakeman, Mrs. Emma J. Supt. Good Sama- ritan Hospital, 448.
Walnut growing in Oregon, 359.
Washington, George, first public service, 36 ; a westward colonizer, 49.
Watt, Joseph, ships first cargo of wheat to Europe, 245 ; his work for Oregon, 350.
Water Works, The City, 338.
Waymire, John, starts first hotel in Port- land, 201.
Webster, Daniel, his record on Oregon, 99 ; wanted no more new states, 144.
Wells, Wm. Bittle, founder of Pacific Monthly, 510.
"West Shore," The, first illustrated journal on the Pacific Coast, 508.
Wheat, first cargo shipped to Europe, 245.
Whitman, Marcus, missionary to Oregon, 82; slain by the Indians ; a great man, hero and patriot, full notice of, by Dr. Joseph R. Wilson, 172.
Whitcomb, Lot, founded Milwaukie, Oregon, 194; built first steamboat 1850, 259.
Wilcox, Dr. Ralph, first physician and first school teacher in Portland, 202, 367, 536.
Wilcox, T. B., develops great flour trade with China. 320.
Wilkes, Jabez, Indian War Veteran, V. C,
569. Williams, George H., Judge, U. S. Senator
and U. S. Attorney-General, 237, 551. Wilson, John, gave library to city, 404, 592. Wilson, Dr. R. B., one of the first physicians,
536, 537- Wilson, Dr. George F., member of Advisory
Board, this book, U. S. Surgeon, explored
Alaska, see Chapter XXV, 540. Winship, Jonathan, trading expedition to the
Columbia river, 1809, 41 ; built first house
and planted first garden in Oregon, 42. Woman, first white to come to Oregon, 84. Woman's Union organized the night school,
276, 384, 478. Woman's Exchange, 480. Woman Physician, first in Portland, Dr.
Mary Thompson, 538; photo of, 537. Wood, Col. C. E. S., the latter day Homer,
607. Woods, Mrs. George (Aunty), 457. Wool and Sheep, 349, 350. Wool, export of, 327. Woolen Mills, 350. Wyeth, N. J., trading expedition to Oregon
1832, 46; second expedition, 46, 365.
Y. M. C. A., 398.
Y. W. C. A., the largest association in the
United States but one. Mrs. Jessie M.
Honeyman, president and manager for
many years, see photo,