village now stands on my original i had such an organization aa early CANADA VACATION
>1280 acres."
as 1844, in the Immediate vicinity
Mr. ad Mrs. Paul Knepp, of
j J. Q. A Young, like moot Wash­ of Elam Youngs home. They held Eighth St. and family enjoyed a
ington county pioneers was a their first meeting in the house of weeks vacation, with relatives, in
staunch Christian, a member of the David T. Lennox. In 1853 the Bap­ Victoria, B. C.
Methodist Episcopal Church. He tists built their own church build- |
I had been a member of a little ing. still standing, at West Union HOLIDAY OCCASION
Methodist congregation which met,
In early days when every fam-
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Benson and
1 sometimes in the homes of its , ily occupied a donation claim of family were holiday visitors, at
EARLY HISTORIAN ERRED AND MISTAKE STILL
members, and at other times in a 640 acres there could be no pop­ the home of Mrs. Benson's sister,
building erected on the Edward ulous communities, a neighborhood in Portland.
PERSISTS TO CONFUSE FACTS OF SETTLEMENT
Constable claim near ‘the Elam could not well include more than |
Young homestead for community four or five families. Other neigh- i FRIENDS IN NEWBERG
;
use,
principally for church pur­ bors were at least a mile or two
about
2^
mile»
north
of
Reedville.
By H«rv*y S. B o MMMI
Fulton Bowman enjoyed Christ­
There the father and mother spent poses, a building which was later distant. Almost every one of these mas Day, with friends in New­
Any reader who has addition­ j the rest of their lives and upon moved to Hillsboro and became the crossroads neighborhoods had a;
berg, Oregon.
al information on names, pla­ 'this homestead Elam Young died, original of the Methodist Church church organization of some kind I
| at that place.
ce« or event» covered by Mr. j February 9, 1855.
and a family might go several
After moving to Cedar Mill, Mr miles to worship with a denomina- ■ NEW YEAR’S DAY GUESTS
ItoblnMon are Invited to write
It will be noted that Elam Young
Mr. and Mis. Pete Sarti, 719 N
the newspaper. In thLs way, a
never lived at Cedar Mill and never I Young founded and supported a tion of its own choice.
E. Canyon road, Beaverton, had
Methodist
church
at
that
place.
Ac
­
more eon» pie te hintoricai ae­
There
are
many
descendents
of
I
operated a sawmill there or else­
cording to the Oregon Guide Book, the Hall, the Jones and the Young as New Year’s day guests, Mr. and
rie« will be possible.
where.
Mrs. Harry Armstrong, Mrs. Nell
Addreaa letter» to Hervey S.
The first resident upon the Cedar the first church building was families still in this section of the
Keebler,
from Lebanon, Oregon.
erected
in
1865.
“
Its
Congregation,"
Aobinaon, % Beaverton Knter-
'country, intermarried among them- '
Mill site was appal ently George W.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Grigson, Port­
according
to
the
same
work,
"had
priae, Beaverton. Oregon.
selves
and
with
later
settlers.
Most
| Jones who located there in 1851
land.
and filed upon a donation land its beginning in 1852 when the of the data for this article came
(Continued from last week)
j claim. Jones had for neighbors, ac­ settlers held services in their log­ from some of them and doubtless
An error concerning the begin­ cording to the plats of the first cabin homes.”
there are letters, documents and
The question arises, “Who were reminiscences in their possession
ning of the settlement at Cedar Federal Land Survey in 1852, Sam­
Mill has been current for the past uel Walter and F. J. Pearson on the settlers who lM*gaii holding which would throw additional light :
25 years. This error of some early the east, Josiah. Lawrence and meetings in their homes in 1862, upon this interesting community.
historian even found its way into William Hall to the south, Francis ten years before the Youngs came
If any of our readers have such
the first edition of Lewis A. Mc­ McGuier and G. W. Woods on the to Cedar Mill?” Is the reference 1 material we would be delighted to I
Arthur’s Oregon Geographic Name«. west and James Flippen and J. B. to a congregation of the Jones, see it. We do not claim infallibility i
Hall and other familie« in the and. if we are mistaken in any
Mr. McArthur is a scholarly and Hall to the north.
careful historian and his work
In 1855 John Quincy Adams Cedar Creek vicinity or does it respect we welcome correction.
became the accepted authority on Young, Elam's son who had been refer to the group about the old
(Continued next week)
the subject, but in this instance he 19 years old when he came to Ore­ Elam Young home or to any of
■was misinformed. In the series of gon with his parents in 1847, mar- several congregations of the same PARENTS FOR DINNER
articles which began in the Ore­ I ried Elizabeth Constaole an orphan type scattered about the country
Mr. and Mrs. McNicholas, of
gon Historical Quarterly in De­ I girl who had been living with rel­ In those pioneer days? Almost Farmington toad, had her parents. I
cember 1925, proceeding publica­ atives in the vicinity of his father's every neighborhood had one.
Mr. and Mis. War d Baily, of Canby •
tion in book form in 1927, we find: claim.
A Methodist congregation began to Xmas dinner.
“Cedar Mill, Washington County.
It was not until 1862, that J.Q.A. holding meetings in a log-cabin of
This name was given by Elam Young, bought a portion of the Thomas Denny’s claim on Fanno TWENTY-ONE GUESTS
Young to his sawmill in 1847 and George W. Jones claim and built creek about 1852 and by 1857 had
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Kleek,
has been retained ever since.”
a log cabin near the falls of Cedar built a church at what is now the near Tigard entertained twenty-
Don't He .4 Guinea Pig'
In the second edition (1944) the .Creek. This location is about five village of Progress. This building, one with a Christmas dinner and
error was corrected but not before , miles east of the old Elam Young 1 which the builders named Ames party, at their home on the Kinton
Let us fix up those dented
the workers of the Federal Writer's homestead and about three miles Chapel was also used for a time road.
fenders.
Project, WPA, had repeated it in ' from present Beaverton.“Here,’’ to by the McKay school before its
their Oregon Guide Book (1940) .quote his own words, J.Q.A. Young second building was erected in 1864. HOLIDAY IN GRESHAM
BEAVERTON BODY SHOP
Mrs. Sarah Walker and her
which had a wide circulation and ^'purchased 280 acres of land and Still another congregation was
is frequently consulted by histor­ ran a sawmill for a few years and formed in 1850 in the home of Rev. daughter Virginia Chamberlain,
259 N. W. Canyon Road
Albert Kelly about where Glen- were Christmas Day visitors, a*
ians and writers. Hence it has ap­ then sold it to W. R. Everson.
Phone Beaverton 4162
cullen
is
now.
peared in a number of places since
the William Newcomer home in
He named the place Cedar Mill
The West Union Baptist Church Gresham.
and specialized in the cutting of
that time.
The facts are, as brought out in cedar siding, shingles, shakes and
McArthur’s revised work, "Dr. other cedar products which were
Elam Young, a well known Oregon extensively used in buildings in
pioneer came to Oregon in 1847. He Portland, which was then growing
was working in the Whitman saw­ ' rapidly.
mill at the time of the massacre of
Mr. Young does not state that he
November 29, 1847. The Young fam­ built the mill on his property. It
ily escaped with the exception of may have been there when he
one son, James, who was killed.
j bought it. After selling the mill he
They arrived in Oregon City early built another house near the same
in 1848 and soon thereafter set­ site ami kept store and post office
tled on a claim about where the In it for seven years.
village of Orenco now stands, six
He says, "I named the post of­
miles northeast of Hillsboro and fice at Cedar Mill and an entire
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE
Friday, January 13,
1950
Elam Young Never Founded
Cedar Mill; Died Too Soon
MR.GUINEYPIGG
FEW DAYS AT DEPOE
The Misses Danae and Claire
Livesay, of Greenway Drive, en­
joyed a few days vacation, at
Depoe Bay.
|
APPENDIX RECOVERY
“Dick” Best, of Lombard St. is
recovering from a recent appendix
operation, at the Jones hospital, in
Hillsboro.
T
HERE FROM METZGER
FRIDAY VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schaffer
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Jack
Anderson,
I
spent Friday at the Edward Sheets have moved from Metzger to Sabin
Ave. here.
home on Farmington road.
SEE WORK EXEMPLIFIED
GRANTS PASS VISIT
Mr. and Mrs. William Bollinger
Mis. Leia Richey, of Second St.,
is visiting her son and family, at visited Hillsboro Rebekah Lodge,
at Hillsboro recently to see the
Grants Pass over the holidays.
Rebekah degree exemplified.
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