OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD NEW YEAR NUMBER.
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RECORDER TOM P. RANDALL.
The subject of this sketch was born anil
raised in Clackamas county. Mr. Randall is
a bright young man, possessed of thorough
business qualifications, having held many po
sitions of trust and responsibility in this citv
and county, to the entire satisfaction of all.
He is now serving his fourth year as recorder
of conveyances of Clackamas county, and the
records show that he has been careful and
painstaking in the neatness and correctness
thereof. Tom is kind and obliging, honored
and upright in all his dealings in public and
private life and enjoys the esteem or every
one.
COUNTY' TREASURER A. LUELLING.
Alfred Luelling. a pioneer of 1847, was
born November 30, 1831, in Indiana, and at
the age of 6 years went with his parents to
Iowa. His father was engaged in farming
and the nursery business. After remaining
there 10 years he came to Oregon, in 1847.
Alfred drove the ox-team across the plains,
being just six months to a day from their
starting to a point opposite Vancouver. His
father brought nursery stock with him,
about 750 grafts, shrubs, etc., which were
planted in wagon boxes. They settled the
same year near Milwaukie. The subject of
this sketch attended school for about two
years and at the age of 20 was married to
Miss Mary E. Campbell, of Milwaukie. In
i860 Mr. Luelling was elected County Com
missioner of Washington County, and in 1874
and 1876 was elected County Clerk of the
same county. He returned to Clackamas
County in 1878 and lived at Milwaukie until
1896. when he was elected County Recorder
of this county. From 1898 to 1900 he served
as Deputy County Treasurer and was elected
Treasurer by the people in June, 1900, which
position he now holds. Mr. Luelling is a
strictly honorable gentleman, and the num
ber of times he has been elected to fill posi
tions of trust shows the high esteem in
which be is held by his fellow men. In poli
tics Mr. Luelling is a reformer in the strict
est sense, and has always taken a prominent
part at their conventions and those of the
local and state grange, of which he is a
prominent and influential member.
CORONER M. C. STRICKLAND.
Dr. M. C. Strickland is a native of Vir
ginia and a descendant of Revolutionary
stock. He came to Oregon five years ago
and began the practice of medicine in Ore
gon City, where he still resides and enjoys a
large and lucrative practice and is held in
highest esteem by his many friends. He re
ceived his preliminary education at the Uni
versity of North Carolina and his medical
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education at the Jefferson Medical College,
of Philadelphia, graduating there in 1889
with high honors, obtaining hospital appoint
ment. He was elected Coroner of Clacka
mas County June 6, 1898. and re-elected
again in 1900, which office he still holds and
fills to the entire satisfaction of his con
stituents. Dr. Strickland is one of the best
educated men in Clackamas County and is
very popular socially and professionally.
SUPERINTENDENT J. C. ZINSER.
J. C. Zinser was born 4(1 years ago among
the vine-clad hills of the Black Forest, whose
legend-haunted, castle-crowned summits are
world renowned in song and story. JTTs early
boyhood he spent in the best schools of Ger
many, for two years winning first rank in a
class of 36 boys. From the age of 14 his
fortunes became identified with those of the
New World, and for the next 25 years we
find him in a part of that stirring life of the
Middle West.
After spending five years at Northwestern
College, graduating from two courses and
assisting in part as tutor for two years, he
received the degree of B. S. and the honor
ary M. S. To recruit' Ins overtaxed physi
cal strength he spent tITe next year and a
half in the Rock Mountains. Next we find
him successively teaching, managing his
mother's farm, until he settles down to his
life work teaching. During his seven years'
principalship of the High School of Belvi
dere, 111., he prepared many students for col
lege, and they are today meeting success in
every walk of life.
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But the same unaccountable pioneer in
stinct which brought him from the, Old
World to where the world is young, caused
him to cast his lot with Oregon and Clack
amas County. For two years he was prin
cipal of Barclay High School, Oregon City.
In 1000 be was elected Superintendent ul"
Schools of Clackamas County, and it is his
modest ambition educationally to make his
county the banner county of the state.
Mr. Zinser has published a translation of
a pedagogical work which was adopted for
the series of the Herbart Club of the United
States. He is at present a member of the
executive committee of the State Teachers'
Association of Oregon.
SURVEYOR ERNEST P, RANDS.
Was born in Iowa in 1868 and came to
Clackamas County in 1877 and resided near
Beaver Creek until he moved to Oregon
City. He attended the Forest Grove Uni
versity for four years. He is a skillful and
trustworthy surveyor and has followed that
profession since 1890. Since 1895 he has
been Deputy United States Surveyor and
has had large and important contracts in
the different parts of Oregon and Idaho.
Mr. Rands was elected County Surveyor of
Clackamas County in 1808, and was re-elected
by an increased majority in 1900, receiving
the largest vote of any man on the
Republican ticket. Mr. Rands is a
courteous and obliging gentleman and is
honorable in all his dealing with his fellow
men.