Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-04-28

selected Cyrus Shepard, of Massachu.
Setts, and Philip l.. Edwards, of Ken
| tucky.
" In those days there was a hard and
fast rule that when 4 minister was as.
signed TO a church, he should stav one
year, and no longer This rule meant
that our family were either always
packing up to move or getting settled
was born on January 24 1895 in
Waterloo, Ill., at the home of Enoch
Moore. By the time l was : wears
when | started to school, | had lived
IN seven different towns or villages.
| went to school first at nanvilIe
next year at Carlyle, the following
year at Lebanon, and so ON. NV faith.
er was connected with the Illinois con.
ference for many years.
In 1852, when | was II years old
we started for Oregon. Captain Bid.
die was elected captain of our train
My father hired man named Clav to
drive one of our teams. Mr.. Clary was
from Texas, and had lived good deal
among the Indians in Texas and New
Mexico. One night he told my father
he had Just met an Indian he had
known in the southwest, and the In.
dian had invited. him to come TO n Ma
sonic lodge the Indians were going to
hold at midnight. Cary told the In.
dian my father was a Mason. and
asked if he also could come. NY step
mother was fretful, nervous. com
planning woman, and she cried and
begged father not to go. She said she
knew the Indians would kill him.
Father went, and did not get back
to camp till nearly daylight. He said
the Indians had good idea of Ma
sonry, though they did not follow the
same ritual in all respects as their
white brethren. Whether the Indians
were Masons or not, don't know, but
! do know they sent runners ahead,
and we needed no guards against the
Indians. Not a head of our stock was
intenerred with, nor single thing
belonging to our train disturbed.
''We spent the winter of 1852 near
a store and blacksmith shop at what
is now Eugene. The following wear
father supplied the Mary's River cir
cult, while we lived at Corvallis. He
was under Presiding Elder Peame.
Later my father was presiding elder
Of the Umpqua district. My father
spent his last years at Corvallis. lie
died there on February 10, 1884.
81 started to school at the William.
cite university in September, 1855.
The Willamette university was at
first called the Oregon institute, It's
first teacher was Mrs. Wilson, whose
maiden name was Chloe A. Clark.
She came in the great reinforcement
IN 1883 on the Lausanne. In 1S47.
when James II. Wilbur came to Oregon
with Rev William Roberts, he took
charge of the Oregon institute In
1880 Rev. Nehemiah Doane, whose
widow lives here in Portland became
a teacher in the Oregon institute. Mr..
Doane had charge until the arrival of
Rev. Francis S. Hoyt Rev. Mr.. Hoyt
and Mrs. Hoyt came by way Of the
lSthmus of Panama, and Rev. John
fllnn, who, at the age Of 81 years, still
lives and breaches here in Portland,
came with them. Rev. and Mrs. Hoyt
and Rev. John Finn arrived in Port.
land in October, 1850
/ 'When | started from Corvallis for
Salem TO attend the Willamette uni.
versity, in the fall of 1855. | was ac.
companicd by Presiding Elder Pearne
and Rev. F. $, lloyt. We rode horse.
back, and reached Salem about dusk.
We went at once to Mr.. Hoyt's house,
where | maUp my boma for tho ,,oy .