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THE WEST SHORE.
ho is engaged in farming on the old donation claim
taken np by his parents, who crossed the plains in
1817. He was born in Benton county September 12,
18G0, and graduated from the Willamette University
in
H. J. Bean resides in Pendleton, and is a repub
lican representing Umatilla county.
James E. Bluxdell, republican, represents the
county of Douglas. He was born in Bridgeport,
Conn., May 7, 1812. Ten years later the family land
ed in San Francisco, after a voyage of five months
around the Horn, and at once settled in the mines
near Coloma, in El Dorado county, Cal, where Mr.
Blundell attended the primitive schools of that peri
od. During the silver excitement known as the " Wa
shoe stampede " he went to Nevada, but soon returned
a poorer and wiser young man. In 18C5 he came to
Coos county, Oregon, and followed dairying, mining
and clerking until 1871, when he settled in Douglas
county and has since been engaged in teaching school,
being now a resident of the town of Riddle. Mr.
Blundell was a census enumerator in 1880, and was
elected to the legislature in 1880, being again elected
in MS.
J. T. Bowditcii, is a democratic representative
from Jackson county and a resident of Ashland.
0. B. Cnosso, resides at Toledo, Benton county,
and represents that county in the house, having been
elected on the republican ticket.
Skymouii W. Condon, republican representative
from Line county, is a resident of Eugene City, where
ho is engagod in the practice of law. He was born
in Albany, Oregon, February 5, 1800, and graduated
at the University of Oregon in 1882. Mr. Condon
served in the office of the secretary of state under R.
P. Euhart, and in 1882 was elected state librarian in
joint convention of the legislature. For the legisla
ture in 1SSS ho received a majority of three hundred
and ten after a spirited canvass.
Asa II. Ciiook, republican, represents the counties
of Coos and Curry, and resides near Ellensburg, in
the latter county, where he is engaged in farming,
dairying and stock raising. He was born in Portland'
Whiteside county, 111., December 12, 1837. He bJ
came a resident of Oregon in 1858, ince which time
ho has been elected sheriff once and pint representa
tive twice,
W. It. Derby, republican representative from Yam
hill county, is engaged in farming near Lafayette!
i6 Z ? ,iQ 0ntAri0, CUQty New York. August
2 J, 1829, and four years later moved with his parents
to Michigan Territory. He attended the schools of
that section a portion of each year until sixteen years
of age. At twenty ho worked for himself and attend-
ed a branch of the Michigan University four terms.
AffAr tftftnhinff school four wintflrn Im
mercantile pursuits, but failing health sent him back
to farming, which he followed until 1863, when he
enlisted in the army and served with Sherman in tie
Atlanta campaign and the march to the sea, passing
through the grand review at Washington. In the fall
of 1873 he came to Oregon, and the next year pur.
chased the farm at Lafayette upon which he now re.
sides. Mr. Derby has served his fellow citizens ai
school inspector, highway commissioner and justice
of the peace.
R. P. Earhart, republican representative from
Multnomah county, is one of the best known and
most popular men in public office in the state. Mr.
Earhart is a native of Franklin, Ohio, where he was
born June 23, 1837, and came to Oregon in 1855.
Since 18G6 he has been almost continuously in tie
the service of the public in some capacity, the most
important of which were those of special U. 8. Indian
agent at the Warm Springs reservation, in 1866-67;
representative of Marion county in the legislature, in
1870; in the U. S. surveying service from 1874 to
1878; secretary of state eight years; adjutant general
of Oregon from 1885 to 1887, and now representative
from Multnomah county. Mr. Earhart is engaged ii
business in Portland as manager of an insurance
company.
Theron E. Fell, republican representative of
Morrow county, is a dealer in wool, a member of the
firm of Ayers & Fell, and manager of the Monoi
County Land and Trust Company. He was born ii
Bloomington, III., in 1858, and became a resident of
this state in 1882.
J. J. Fisher, M.D., is one of the republican rep
resentatives from Multnomah county. Dr. Fieher
wasbornin Missouri, January 21, 1841, but grew to
manhood in Indiana. He graduated at Rush Medi
cal College, Chicago, and began the practice of medi
cine in Illinois in 18G9. In 1871 he emigrated to
Nebraska, where he served two years as coroner ol
Merrick county, and came to Oregon in 1880. He
engaged in the practice of his profession in Album
C. G. Fisher is a resident of Dallas, and a repub
lican representative from Polk county.
Eber B. Gambee, democratic representative fro
Umatilla county, is a farmer and stock raiser li
at Alba, in that county. He was born near AdriA
Michigan, September 24, 1852, and graduated fro
the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in 1873,
the degree of A.B., and received the degree of A.
in 187G. In 1874 he went to California and ta
school until 1881, except two years, when he was
tor of the Ukiah Democratic Dispatch. For fi
years he was a member of the county exanfort
board, and for two years principal of the Ukiah pa