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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