The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-06-01
HARRISON r. KINCAID.
|om the Illustrated Republican Standard, Salem,
Oregon, May 10, 1S94)

HARRISON n. hlflcdlu, Tue fGpuDil-
n nominee for secretary of state
as born in Indiana, eighteen miles
brtheast of indianapolis, January 3
b36. From his eighth to tenth yeal
travelled with his father and mother
tn team, camping cut in summer
id housing up in winter, through
inois, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas
ennessee and Kentucky, and re-
rned to Indiana by steamboat from
emphis to Jrffersonville- The re
ainder OF the time up to his seven
enth birthday was spent i'll working
the farm, plowing, cutting wood
ubling, clearing an! performing
her hard manual labor, and in at
nding country schools very small
brtion of the tine. In 1853, i'll his
ghteenth year, he came with his
Ients AMI three sisters and one
5ther, he being the oldest of the
ildren, to Oregon. He drove an ok
am all the way from Indiana to the
illamette valley. They crossed the
ississippi river at Burlington on the
and the Missouri river at Council
utfs on steamboat. There was
BIT a house then where the city of
fnaha now stands, and no Settle
.nts along the emlsrant trail west of
L Missouri river until they arrived
Fosters, near Oregon City. In
ttobcr, 1858, they settled near Ed
ne, where Mr., Kincaid has resided
er since. He cut AMI split rails and
need part of his fathers donation
i'm, worked at digging in the mill
ce a. S Springfield, near Eugene, and
the harvest field. In the spring o!
$55, he went to the mines i'll South
b Oregon on foot, and worked III
h mines on Althouse creek, during
|.t summer. When wor; in the
ines was stopped by the Indians
Hing good many miners, he went
foot carrying his blankets and
pking utensils, over the Cat
,untains to Crescent City, California
d spent the winter there making
lis and cutting cord wood IN spruce
q redwood tlmber. In the spring
1856 he went to San Francisco 10y
amer, and spent nearly two years
brking in the mines and On Ranches
the Sierra Nevada mountains, and
the Sacramento vailcy. He re
fned to Oregon by steamer from
IN Francisco to Portland i'll D"ctm-
r, 1857, and arrived home at E',-
me by steamboat to Corvallis and on !
BIT the remainder of the distance
out January l, 1858. He worked /
the farm near Eugene, making
lces, getting out sawlogs and haul !,
them to the river for some time. |
hen spent IA year or two attending
blumbia college at Eugene. Among
classmates were Joaquin Miller, J.
Watson, (since judge of the second
llcial district, and U. S. district at
+ney), w. H. Byars (since state
Inter and now U. s. surveyor gen
hD, J. j. Walton, ]. D. Matlock and /
hers who have since been promi-
nj in public affairs.
In the summer of 1860 he COM
enced learning to set type in the
Eople's Press office in Eugene, then
9 leading republican paper of the
bite, and while its editor, B. J. Pen !!
a, was canvassing the state for Lin
In and Hamlin, along with L. j.
yer and DIR. Watkins, the three
publican nominees for presidential
ectors, Kincaid, the young printer,
ote nearly Ill the editorials for the
per during that exciting presidential
Empaign. In 1861 he made several
fps over the Cascade mountains by
|e Mckenzie trail with pack animals,
|ossing snow ten feet deepa distance of
enty miles the first trip, supplying
DIVISIONS to the miners at Canyon
|ty.
In 1862 annd 1868 he worked as
inter and editorial writer on the
ate Republican, and later on. the
|nion Crusader, in Eugene. The
|st-named paper was moved to Salem
April or May, 1868, and consoIi-
ted with the Argus from Oregon
fly. March 18th, 1864, H. r. Kin
\ id issued the first number of the Ore
Pn State Journal at Eugene, which
/ has continued to edit ever sincA,
Pw for period of more than thirty
Fars continuously. 1t has been re-
Farkable for the candor, indepen-
Fnce, consistency and uniform good
dgment and fairness of its editorials,
ways expressing decided opinions Oh
Important questions as they came
b for discussion and decision, from
|ne to time, and never waiting to AS
Frtain what direction public opinion
|ould take or what any other paper or
krson might say. But every ques-
bn has been considered upon its
erits, from public standpoint, and
Frsonalities and attacks upon the
|otlves and private character of indi-
|dnals, whether in public or private
Fe, have been carefully avoided, SO
lat the editor enjoys the respect and
Pnfdence not only of the entire
bwspaper fraternity of the state, re
krdless of politics, but of the people
all parties, including those whose
Pinions and interests he has most
|rongly opposed. He served as a
Jerk in the United States senate
even years, terminating in June,
B79, when the democrats gained con-
'ol of that body and removed the re
ublicans for political reasons and fill
4 their places with democrats. Dur
lg that time he kept up his paper at