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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1889)
40 THE WEST SHOEE. eighteen months and was wounded in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, or Bhiloh, where he was in Pren tiss' division. Afterwards he served as enrolling offi cer for Grundy county, Mo., by appointment of the governor, with the rank of captain. The present ses sion is the third he has attended as representative of his county. J. L. Roe, republican, resides at Summerville, where he has a fine farm, and represents Union coun ty in the house. Mr. Roe was born January 10, 1852, in Huntingdon county, Pa, and removed to Iowa in 1850, where he resided until he came to this state in 1880. From 1872 to 1878 he taught school in winter and farmed in summer, except in 1873, when he at tended the Missouri State Normal School, at Kirks ville. Mr. Roe is a close student of political econo my, and of scientific subjects and systems of theology, an equal suffragist and tariff protectionist, and made a joint canvass with his opponent at the last election. R. V. Shout, a resident of Wilsonville, Clacka mas county, and republican representative from that county, was born March 31, 1823, in Allegheny coun ty, Pa., and came to this state as a pioneer of 1817. In 1819 he went to the California mines, and was one of the famous vigilante committee of San Francisco in 1850, which drove the " hounds " from that city. The same year he made a survey of the city of Port land, and in 1851 settled on the farm he now occupies, engaging continuously since in surveying and farm ing. Reside filling several minor offices, he was sur veyor of Yamhill county in 1850, a member of the constitutional convention in 1857, and assessor of Clackamas county in 18G2-3. E. L Smith, the gentleman chosen to preside over the deliberations of the house the present session, is a well known merchant of Hood River, Wasco conn ty, which county he represents by selection of the re publicans. Mr. Smith was born in Orleans county, Vt, in 1837, and moved to California in 1801 to Washington in 1S00, and to this state in 1870. When in California ho served as a member of the legisla tare of that state, and in Washington was a member of the council and secretary of the territory. In this state ho was register of the U. S. land office at The Dalles, and is now serving his third term in the Wis latere. Mr Smith is president of the Columbia Waterway Association, and is grand master of the grand lodge of the A. O. U. W. for Oregon Wash ingion and British Columbia. J. M. Stafford, republican representative from Lane county, is engaged in farming and stock raisin, near Eugene City. Rom in Atchison countv Z May 18, 1812 he came to Oregon with ox team in the large immigration of 1852, settling on a donation claim in Mohawk valley, uTy, where he still lives. Besides holding several m' offices, he has twice sat in the legislature, betogT only republican representative elected from ma i ty in 1880. J. A. Strowbridge, a republcan representative from Multnomah, is a well known business man of Portland. J. A. Thomas, of Arlington, is a republican repre sentative from Gilliam county, and was born inlW las county, Or. in 1854. Mr. Thomas is a merchant, and was mayor of the city in 1880-7 and treasurer of the county from 1880 to 1888, when he was elected to the legislature. D. P. Thompson, republican representative from Multnomah county, is one of Portland's leading bni ness men and president of the Commercial National Bank. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio, November 8, 1833, and came to Oregon in 1854. Mr. Thompson ii a blacksmith by trade, a surveyor and civil engineer by profession, and a banker by occupation. He wai educated in the common schools and high school of his native town, where he also learned his trade. He was in the engineer corps of Gen. Jacob Blickenj dorffer, now chief engineer of the Union Pacific, in the survey of the Steubenville & Indiana railroad be fore coming to this state. Mr. Thompson was deputy United States surveyor for twenty years, an officer in the First Eegiment Oregon Cavalry Volunteers, gov ernor of Idaho Territory, state senator from Clacka mas county in 1868 and 1870, twice mayor of the city of Portland, presidential elector in 1881, and is now representative in the legislature, president of the Or egon Alpine Club, and director of school district No. 1, embracing the city of Portland. Mr. Thompson'i business interests are very large throughout the en tire northwest J. B. Waldo, republican representative of Marioi county, is a resident of Salem. Judson Weed, republican representative from Columbia county, is engaged in farming near Ter nonia, and is a native of Jackson, Ohio, where he wai born April U, 1817. At the age of seventeen he en listed in the army, and was one of seven brothers is the war of the rebellion. After the close of the H he attended the normal school at Lebanon, Ohio, and taught school until he came to this state in 1875. h 188G he settled upon the homestead he now occnpie Mr. Weed has taught in Washington, Linn and Col umbia counties, and was elected school superinten dent of the last named in 1878, assessor in 18SG, d representative in 1888. J- N. Williamson, republican representative fro3 Crook county, resides in Prineville and is wgW raising sheep. He was born in Lane county, Oreg in 1855, and when eight years of age moved with3