The daily Alaskan., 1921-06-18
Few Persons in Oregon Have Benn Through as Interesting .Eeperi- cnceS as Resident Who Remem- % bers Incidents Dating Back to 1862.
By ADDISON BENNETT.
1862.

S4th birthday, Lot P. w. Quimby is sort of walking encyclopedia of the city dating back to Washing tons birthday anniversary in 1862. He is not an Oregon pioneer. as such nomenclature Is usually understood, but person who has resided in one place for a period of 59 years comes near being a pioneer at any rate.
 There are but few persons in Ore gon who have had as interesting eX- periences as "L. P. w." as most of his friends address him. By the way, his full name is Lot Woodruff Por- ter Quimby. the christian names com ing from antecedents of the family. He was born in Vermont. near Lyn- don, q place that now has pOpula- tion of close to 35O0 people, July 6, 1887, when Martin Van Buren, our eighth president, had occupied the White House but a triAe more than four months. succeeding Andrew Jackson.
 We had bu. 26 states in the union then, and threu territories. the lat ter being Florida. Iowa md Wiscon- sin. Richard NJ. Johnson was vice president. James K. Polk, speaker of the house. and in he senat" were such men as Henry Clay. Daniel " ster. Franklin P,erce anl John .. Calhoun. Yes. it was Il long time ago when "L. r. w" tame into the world and he will probably live to see. or live under. other presidents. perhaps several of them, for the old Green Mountain state boys and girls were Of hardy rGcc.
 Father Earmer.RltckSmi
 l.. r. W.'s father was farmer blacksmith He resided on small farm in the suburbs of Lyndon and had a shop Tn the town. There were five children :u ;he Qu,mby family. two boys and three girls. Lo- Was next to the youngest, sister. now residing in Portland, Mri EP. Swet- land. whose son, Lot Quimby Swct- land is one of thu proprietOrs of tine Perkins hotel
 There is no rSe telling how young Lot passed his early years. for boys and girls of those days had to learn tGe Nv. ., soon as they were old enough to coax the milk frori COW or wleld hoe in the field. In the winters they got a little schooling good schooling with q plentiful ad- mixture of the birch or hickory if they ran counter to the commands of the teacher. And young Lot went the way Of others in his early years, When he was l7 years old he was allowed to shift for himself and hir- ed out to an uncle at SIS month. cracking big wages for those days. and his duties were not considered arduous He only had to carry a pack Of about l00' pounds of merchandise from house to house and make as many sales as possible turnout nnLh- err Vernon, and the adjacent sec tions of Canada.
 By the time he was 20 he had saved up quite a little fortune. and he de- cided to go west" Yes. he had the California fever and told his parents he was going 10 the Golden West. His father bade him god speed and q fve-dollar gold piece, which was to pay postage on freq '.nt letters to the old home.
 Youth Starts for West
 Heiourneyed to New York and took the steamer Great Northern for Pan anna, with 1899 other passengers. The railroad across the Isthmus had just been completed. that was in 1858, and the passengers went across by rail. On thr yves: coast they were transferred to the steamer Arizona fer San Francisco and arrived there .une &. having made the trip from New York in remai kablC time for those times, F days. There was the "Sung Nermorte: in q strange lard g days less than legal age. but with the substantial sun of S25 in gold .u his pocketsI
 He very QuicSlr got job up rear Napa on a farm. the wage Eeing s25 month, and reu aimed tbare for three months, when h. went to the mines near Columbia, ir Tuolumne county. where he paid . small sum for an interest in placer prospect and banned out q few hundred dol lars in the next three months. There had been great trouble in the mines there. as well as in other parts of the state, and the gigilantes had been organized. In the mines the thieves were robbing sluice boxes and near Columbia P. ?. w. says he one mOrn-