The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-20
AFFIRMATION.
THE MAN FOR The PLACE.

Frank Irvine Dunbar, of Clat-
sop county, the republican NOM
inee for secretary of state, was
and is one of the best nonlna-
tions ever made for that import
ant office in this state. Method
ical in business, obliging and
painstaking i'll his intercourse
with those he comes i'll contact,
and from eight years ex-
perience in the auditing and re-
cording departments of Clatsop
county he is pre-elnincntly quail
flied for TIE position for which
he is a candidate.
Mr.. Dunbar was born at sea,
September IA, 1860, under the
American flag, on the ship Matt1-
pan, of which his father was cap
tain, while enroute from the West
Indies to Boston.
Mr. Dunbar's parents trace
their ancestry to the sturdy Pur
itans who came to the bleak
shores of New England on the
Mayhower early i'll the seven-
teenth century, to secure for
themselves and posterlty the
blessings of civil and religious
liberty denied them i'll the land
of their nativity.
While still young his pareats
removed to Brooklyn, N. Y,
where he attended school until
he was fourteen years Of age,
when having lost his father he
left his school for good, to battle
with the realities Of life. His
first position was with Geo. w,
Bruce, one of the largest i'm
porting hardware establishments
of that day in the city of New
York. For eight years he re-
manned with this concrn, work
ing himself through successive
grades until he mastered the i'll
tricacies OF that important branch
of commercial trade.
At the age of twenty-five Mr..
Dunbar severed his connection
with his new York employers
and came to Astoria ia 1882,
where he had some distant rela-
tiVes.
His first engagement i'll that
city was with Mr.. A. V. Allen,
who was then, as he is now, one
of the leading grocers of that
city. He continued with Mr..
Allen eight years as book-keeper,
when he left his position i'll 1896
to fill the office of recorder OF
Clatsop county, to which he had
been elected. He was reelected
and served i'll that office until
June, 1894, when he was elected
county clerk of the same county
and reelected in 1896. As all
indication of Mr.. Dunbar's pop
u1arity, each time that he was
before the people for their votes
he was elected by Increased ma
jorities,
Mr.. Dunbar in 1889 was united
by marriage with Miss Lillian c.
Crosby, a most estimable lady,
daughter of Captain Albert Cros.
by, one of the first and best
known bar pilots at the entrance
of the Columbia river.
During his residence of six
teen years in Astoria he has beer
interested and has taken all &C.
tive part in many of the institu
tions of that city. He was fol
several years a director and is
now president of the Astoria
building and loan association,
an institution that has been sue.
cessfu1 since its organization fol
the purposes for which it was es
tabiished. He was all active
member of the Oregon National
Guard and received an honorable
discharge after five years service
veteran fremen; is a membe,
of the Chamber of Commerce
an energetic mealber of the Pro
gressive and Commercial Assoc1
alton, and of other local busines
and fraternal organizations.
AS a public officer Mr.. Dunba
is manly, courteous and obliging
Should he be elected secretar,
of state the same disposition will
prevail i'll all the departments O
that office. A gentleman b!
birth and education, nethodica
in his Office accounts and records
conscientious in his dealings, h
will be a valuable officer for tn
state and worthy successor il
that Office of such Of his pre-
deccssors, as Gov. S. F. Chad
wick, Hon. Rockey P. Earhar
and Senator George w. Mcbride