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E. E. LaBrie, republican representative from
Douglas county, is engaged in farming and stock
raising near Wilbur. He was born in Douglas coun
ty, Oregon, September 4, 1858.
William M. Laud, a well known business man of
Portland, is a member of the republican delegation
from Multnomah county. He is a native Oregonian,
born in Portland September 10, 1855, and was edu
cated at Amherst college, Mr. Ldd is a director of
school district No. 1, embracing the city of Portland,
and a member of the old banking firm of Ladd & Til
ton. He is connected with a number of important
business enterprises throughout the northwest
It. It. Law ii li x, republican representative from
Yamhill county, is engaged in farming near North
Yamhill. He was born October 1828, in Lincoln
county, Mo., and is an Oregon pioneer of 1847. Mr.
Laughlin served as a private in the Cayuse war of
1818, and in the fall of that year went to the Califor
nia mines, returning in 1851. In the Indian war of
1855-G he again served as a private. He was a mem
ber of the house in 18CG and again in 188G, being re
elected in 1888.
Samuel Layman, republican representative from
Marion county, is a farmer by occupation, residing in
Woodburn. He was born February 13, 1833, in
Shenandoah county, Va. His father emigrated from
Virginia to Ohio in 1 83G, and to Illinois in 1813. Mr.
Layman moved from Logan county, Illinois, to Marion
county, Oregon, in 1878. He was a member of the
house during the session of 1887.
John W. Maxwell, republican representative of
Tillamook and Yamhill counties, is a resident of the
former. Ho was born in Fulton county, Illinois, De
cember 3, 1S31, and served a term as deputy sheriff
there. In 1801 ho enlisted in Co. K, Seventh 111. Cav
alry, and was mustered out as first lieutenant, declin
ing further service aud a captain's commission be
cause of wounds and sickness. After the war he set
tled in Hancock, serving five years as a member of
the county court, and onco decliniug a legislative nom
ination. In 1SS1 he camo to Oregon and settled in
Baker county, removing to Tillamook two years later
Ho represented the counties of Tillamook and Clatsop
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L. 0. McCoy, republican, represents the county of
Wasco, and is engaged in mercantile business in
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Oregon, and a year later the family moved to Uma!
una couniy, ai a ume when few white people lived in
that portion of the stdte. He lived on a farm until
twenty.two years of age. I 1SS3 he engaged in bus
mess in Grant
ltoitEirr A. Miller, democrat, represents Jackson
county, and is one of the most promising of Oregon's
young men. He was born near EugeDe City, October
22, 1854, the family being among the earliest pioneer,
of the state. He graduated at the Willamette Uni
versity in the class of '78, and was admitted to the
bar March 7, 1887. He is president of the alumni
association of the university and of the Southern Or.
egon Fruit Growers' Association. For a time lie en.
gaged in journalism, being successively local editor
of the Salem Statesman, legislative reporter of the
Portland Oregonian, associate editor of the Pohrit
and editor and proprietor of the Hesperian. He is
now engaged in farming and fruit culture at Jackson,
ville. His wide experience in farming, mining, stock
raising, journalism and other pursuits, added tohii
academic training and legal studies, make him pea
liarly adapted to the work of practical legislation, si
he demonstrated while a member of the last house.
He is aide-de-camp to Governor Pennoyer, with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel, and takes great interest h
the militia of the state.
It. 0. Miller, democrat, represents the county of
Linn, and resides in Lebanon.
J. C. Moore, republican representative from Wash,
ington county, was born in Washington county, Ar
kansas, September 3, 1830, and worked on his father!
farm until reaching his majority. In 1852 he crossed
the plains with an ox team, reaching Oregon without
a dollar after a tedious journey of six months. He
split rails for a living that winter, and then teamed
two years, when he went to the California mines, re
turning in 1858. In 1859 he was elected assessor ol
Washington county for two years, after which he
farmed until 1864, when he was elected sheriff, which
position he held for three terms, or six years. He
then lived upon his farm until 1877, when He rented
it and engaged in merchandising in Greenville, is
which he still continues.
J. B. R. Morelock, democratic representative
from Linn county, is a mill operator residing b
Brownsville, and was born in Morristown, Tenn, com
ing to Oregon in 1872. Mr. Morelock has been may
or of Brownsville, and is a man of great force d
character.
8. P. Moss, democrat, is joint representative fro"
the counties of Lake and Klamath, and resides in
Paisley, in the former county. He was born in
ria, III, Jane 21, 1840, and came to Oregon with J
parents in 1852, settling in Linn county. He resided
in that county for sixteen years, and in Northern Cal
ifornia and Southeastern Oregon twenty years, and
now engaged in stock raising. In 1856 Mr.
served as a volunteer in the Indian war then ragisf
J. Myers, democrats representative from V
county, resides in Scio, and was born in the &m
be represents on the 8th of August, 1864. Mr.