BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, December 10, 1948
Thomas Denney Settled in
Fanno Area With Sawmill
f RADE DEMAND OF CALIFORNIA BOLSTERED
ORE. TERRITORY'S ECONOMIC DEV ELOPMENT
B y Ifw-vey S. Robinson
(Continued from last week)
The news of the treaty with
Great Britain in 1*4« giving the
Uaited States undisputed title to
the Oregon Country came as music
to the ears of the Denneys and
Hicklina in a little frontier aettlo-
ment in southern Indiana.
The
spirit of the pioneers was in their
blood.
Great grandfather John Denney
had come from England to plon-
eer on the shores of Chesapeake
Bay. His son Adam, a soldier in
the American
Revolution, had
moved on into North Carolina and
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Kentucky.
Adam's son, Fielding, fought in
the War of 1812 and went to In-
dlana where he married Jane
Hicklin, daughter of another fam-
lly of pioneers and where his
children Thomas, Robert Aaron
and Rebecca were born. Now these
children and their cousins, John,
Felix and James Hicklin felt the
urge to move on again to a new
frontier.
Thomas Denney was a sawmill
man. He had heard marvelous
tales of the Oregon Country sent
back by missionaries and travel-
King and milling in Oregon. So he
dismantled his mill in Indiana and
packed and shipped hia machinery
around Cape Horn to Oregon.
That machinery was pretty aim-
pie compared to what we know
now. Bandsaws and circular saws
were not yet invented.
It was
JUMt a kind of up and down af-
f air much the same as a Jig saw.
Qn January 4 18 4 » Thomas Den-
ney married Miss Barilla F. King
|n Jennings county, Indiana. In
March of the same year, acCom-
pan|ed by his wife, his two /bro-
thers, Robert and Aaron, his un-
married slstet Rachel and tjiree
cousins. Felix. John and Jgmes
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Hicklin,
he started _
across.
the
plains for Oregon with ox teams
and covered wagons,
Several oxen died on the Jour-
ney f rom drinking alkali water,
but aa|de from this they had little
troubie and Mrs. Denney said that
sba enj 0yed It greatly,
T
arriVed at Foster's farm in
<^jac|lamaa county October 6 and
from ther<( came to MllwaulUe,
where Thomas found employment
Lot Whitcomb’s sawmill for the
w(n( er
H<j secure(, a donati0n land
|n Washlngton county, .even
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. miles southwest of Portland. With
Stories of great wea th in land
brought from Milwauk,e
and forests. Land to be had for
a board , hanty lnto which
the taking. Great tree, untouched
m#v#d and commenced plon-
by the saw and people living in
log cabins because there wai no eer
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sawed lumber available.
The sawmill arrived »n d WM
He saw a great future for log- set up right on the claim. Located
on Fanno creek, it derived its pow­
er from the stream. Sometimes the
water was too low. At other times
with the aid of a dam, a good
"head’' was secured and the mill
ran day and night to utilise the
power while it was available.
The sawmill was a profitable
venture. Most of the early frame
houses in eastern
Washington
county were btilt from lumber
sawed from Denney's. California
was clamoring for lumber.
Rough boards brought *100 per
thousand, shingles $25. Most of
the material for a house was fin­
ished right on the building site.
Work proceeded slowly. It would
take the carpenter and his help­
er several weeks to get the lumber
In shape. One man would plane
the boards, others with special
tools would put the tongue and
groove on the flooring. Those old
carpenters were masters of their
craft. Some of their old houses
are still standing, almost as phimb
and true as ever, after nearly 100
years.
The Californians were produc­
ing plenty of gold and nothing
else. They needed lumber, clothing,
flour, fruit and vegetables
and
many other things for which they
were willing to pay high prices and
the Oregon pioneers hastened to
take advantage o f the market
The rich virgin soil was tilled
Intensively. Oregon apples, cher­
ries and prunes became famous.
Fanno onions were known through­
out the Pacific area:
Standard
Flour from Milwaukie was con­
sidered tops. Woolen mills sprang
up and sent their product to the
gold diggers and elsewhere.
Tom Denney was a community
leader. He served several terms
as Justice o f the Peace In the
early ’50’s. He took a leading part
in the agitation for a road to
Portland and donated six months
labor by hla hired man.
The roadway did not follow the
canyon but atruck over the hills
to the south cutting into old Sev­
enth Street.
Like the King of
France in the old rhyme it went
“ straight up the hill and then
went down again." The w o rk wels
nearly all done with shovel and
axe and proved so steep as to test
the mettle of the best oxen.
The Denney cabin was soon re­
placed
by a substantial frame
house which was the center
of
much activity for many years. A f­
ter Thomas Denney and his wife
had passed away and the children
all grown and gone to homes of
their own. the old house was razed.
It never had any occupants but
Denneys.
(Continued next week)
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