Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-12-30

down with the cholera, which was at
thai time epidemic ON the plains.
The family, after many hardships,
reached the Willamette Valley, in
the State of Oregon, where Miss
Scott engaged in school-teaching I'M
til the following August, when she
was married to Mr.. B. c. Duniway,
a farmer by birth, education and
intuition, with whom she lived for
nine years upon farm, working at
what seemed her allotted destiny-a
maid-of-all-work but performing
prodigies of labor without assistance;
and in recounting the exploits Of her
early life, she has calculated that she
has MIXED a sufficient quantity to
float the Great Eastern and made
butter enough to grease the axles of
the Universe. After this nine years
experience of farm life, her husband
failed in business, through indorsing
heavily for ambitious friends, and
being compelled to leave the farm,
he removed to the village of La
fayet:e.
He was shortly afterward stricken
down by an accident, and rendered
almost helpless. Mrs. Duniway i'm
mediately took affairs into her own
hands, opened school, and with no
help taught successfully for four
years, having under her care in that
time some 1900 different pupils.
Besides conducting the school she
personally cared for the needs of
large family of young children, and
kept boarders, her household averag-
ing from thirteen to fifteen in num-
Der. To accomplish this work it was
necessary for her to rise at four
o'clock every morning, attend to
household duties until nine, then
rush to her school and take up her
duties there; return to the house at
noon for q hurried lunch, which had
been prepared in the morning; after
school was over, at ha'f-past four in
the afternoon, she returned home to
complete the labors of the day.
After four years thus spent in
school-teaching she became interest
ed in a millinery and fancy-goods
business in the town of Albany, in
the interior of Oregon. In this bus
mess she was so far successful that
after five years of constant effort she
found herself with sufficient means
to inaugurate her pet enterprise
starting weekly newspaper. By
this time three of her six children
were old enough to enter the print
ing Office, and they Immediately took
charge of the type-setting, she en-
ploying o tutor for the first year to
initiate them into the mysteries of
composition and thorough newspaper
work. Her newspaper, the Ne,o
North West, began its existence in
Portland, Oregon, on the 9Th of
May, 1871, since which time it has
prospered, OUTLYING many more
ambitious journal. Her sons have
performed the entire mechanical la
Dor upon the paper and attended
school during the time, keeping
ahead in their classes, and without
any other guide or dictation than
their own good sense, they have con-
tributed invaluable service in bring
ing the paper to time.
Her daughter was graduated in
music at seventeen, and has been
since very successful teacher. She
has proved most serviceable toward
Mrs. Duniway's public career by
holding the domestic reins with a
steady hand during the latter's alb
sences from her large and happy
household.
Mrs. Duniway's newspaper is de.
voted mainly to progressive ideas; a
free speech, free press, and free |
people, being its motto. She has
been assisted in her literary labors in |
The last two or three years by Mrs.
Q. A. Coburn, her sister, who also |
displays rare ability as a writer. In
addition to her editorial labors, Mrs.
Duniway has written many serial
stories that have commanded atten.
lion throughout the Pacific Coast.
She travels and lectures almost con-
SANITY, her lectures averaging within
The last five years from three to five
Zach week. She receives invitations
from all parts of the Pacific Coast
and elsewhere, which she fills when
over opportunity offers, devoting her
energies mainly to the Temperance
movement, political, social, and do
nestle reform, and the enfranchise-
nent of women.
Mrs Duniway early evinsed taste
|or poetry, and wrote poems that APP