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The Importance of Memory and Place A Narrative of with Lewis L. McArthur

by Erin McCullugh Peneva

GROWING UP IN THE SLEEPY Eastern Oregon town of Dayville, I knew my fair share of colorful place-names — Murderers Creek, Battle Creek, Mule, and Izee, for example. Murderers Creek held a particular fascination as it applies to a beautiful, meandering, cool country creek where riders water their horses and families picnic. When I asked another local child how Murderers Creek got its name, she replied that it was because a group of miners murdered a few Indians somewhere along its banks. Someone else told me that it was named for the killing of several of the wild horses that still roamed the hills and meadows. Since those credulous days, I have learned that the creek earned its name when a small party of Paiute Indians killed a group of prospectors who were inves- tigating the potential of the creek. Murderers Creek is but one of thousands of place-names documented in Oregon Geographic Names, an important text that speaks to the long history of place and memory in Oregon. Lewis L. McArthur holds the first six editions of Oregon The small bit of information offered in Oregon Geographic Names about the Geographic Names, the first of which his father Lewis A. “Tam” beautiful creek near my hometown may seem insignificant outside of Grant McArthur published in 1928. The seventh edition was published in County, but the name is loaded with meaning. The name remarks on the pres- 2003, and an eighth edition is currently being developed. ence of gold miners in the Dayville area, as well as the fact that, while the Civil War raged east of the Mississippi River, Indians still lived and fought in the John Day Valley. The moniker further notes the manner in which locals chose Without Oregon Geographic Names, there would be many misremembered to memorialize the event. One hundred forty years later, the creek still flows, Oregon place-names and, consequently, a loss of Oregon history. What began standing as a small marker of local history. In this manner, place-names not with one man’s personal passion and interest is now an important source for only serve as geographic markers but as cultural and historical markers, as well. Oregon geography and history, with smatterings of etymology, folklore, and Place-names give us value and a sense of shared community and memory. humor mixed in. The text provides glimpses of life across the state encompassing

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 © 2008 Oregon Historical Society McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  Unless otherwise noted, all photos courtesy Lewis L. McArthur all the periods of Oregon history. From its earliest conception, Oregon Geographic Names took on a life of its own and continues to grow, much in the same man- ner as its original compiler, Lewis A. “Tam” McArthur, intended. Lewis Ankeny McArthur, known to many as “Tam,” was born at The Dalles, Oregon, on April 27, 1883, into a family closely connected to Oregon history. His paternal grandfather, Navy Lieutenant William P. McArthur, was responsible for leading the first survey of the Pacific Coast for the United States Coast Survey of 1849 and 1850, while his maternal grandfather, James W. Nesmith, was an Oregon pioneer who arrived in 1843 and was heavily involved in territorial and state government, serving as U.S. Senator from Oregon from 1861 to 1867 and as a Representative from 1873 to 1875.1 McArthur’s mother, Harriet Nesmith, was one of the original organizers of the Oregon Historical Society, continuing to serve on its board for twenty-six years, from 1898 to 1924. There is little wonder that McArthur developed such a passion for precision and Oregon geography. The idea for a book dedicated to Oregon place-names likely came from a 2 comment by Harvey Scott, then-editor of the Oregonian. Scott had published a Lewis A. McArthur is pictured with his son Lewis L. and his daughter Mary number of editorials expounding on place-names in Oregon, particularly those Lawrence at the Hansen Resort at what is now Lake Creek Lodge on the Metolius with Native American names, and believed an entire book dedicated to the topic River. might be interesting. McArthur apparently took this sentiment to heart. He began compiling information from county biographical guidebooks, current history texts, post office histories, and records of the provisional and territorial business, without names. And you can’t . . . really think about your own locality government of Oregon. One of the most important sources of information on without names, without some way to identify things. And that takes you into Oregon place-names was people’s memories. the place. You have to have names to develop your history.”3 The first full-length edition of Oregon Geographic Names appeared in 1928, In the following narrative, Lewis L. McArthur recalls how his father devel- with a second edition following in 1944. Before McArthur could finish the oped, researched, and published the first edition of Oregon Geographic Names. third edition of Oregon Geographic Names, he fell ill and passed away in 1951. He also discusses how he became involved with the Oregon Geographic Names McArthur had compiled all the text for the third edition, and his second wife Board, his work with Oregon Geographic Names, and the direction the text is Nellie Pipes McArthur read and corrected the proofs, putting the work in final taking in 2008. This narrative is not a primary document, but is developed from form. She also created a separate biblio-index of the people mentioned in the an October 2006 interview conducted with Lewis L. McArthur at the Oregon book — which must have been a painstaking process — getting the third edi- Historical Society. The original transcripts are located in the Oregon Histori- tion off to press in 1952. In 1959, McArthur’s son, Lewis L. McArthur joined the cal Society Research Library.4 In the narrative, Lewis L. refers to Tam simply as Oregon Geographic Name Board and later responded to the call for a fourth “Father” or “my father.” edition of Oregon Geographic Names. Under the diligent eye of Lewis L. McArthur Oregon Geographic Names — Father was always interested in which had to do with the local news now it its seventh edition, published in 2003 — swelled to more than 6,200 writing and publications, and when and one thing or another. In the latter entries and carries much of the same tone and tradition as it did under his he went to the Portland Academy in part of the 1890s, C.E.S. Wood wrote a father. Oregon Geographic Names breaks place-names into six roughly defined the 1890s, he was a great friend of series of Indian tales, and around 1898, periods of history: Native American life, exploration, pioneer, Indian wars and Max Wood, who was the son of C.E.S. the boys printed that in an edition of mining, homestead, and the modern period of made-up names. It is not only Wood.5 They both lived in the same one hundred copies. The Oregon His- a good source for knowledge of Oregon geography but is also an informative Northwest [Portland] neighborhood, torical Society has a copy. Father’s copy compendium of Oregon memory. When asked why place-names are so impor- and they had a little printing press. Of was given to me, and in turn given to tant, Lewis L. McArthur answered “that without names you have nothing; you course, it all had movable type. Father my son; he has it now. It’s a beautiful, can’t conduct . . . any thought process except some pure theoretical mathematical printed a little thing called the The Bee, beautiful production. They printed it

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  March 1910. Talbot became president the benefit of all the infrastructure Hewett who was very, very involved of Pacific Power & Light, and he hired that we have now. And the maps were in marine history. He was an author- father. Max Wood also came along as poor. The Forest Service was getting ity on that. I guess that’s just the way an early employee. out maps, but large areas of the state it developed. We were always brought Father, before he went to Berkeley, were not mapped at any large scale. up in history. When [my parents] built had been a reporter for the Oregonian, Contour wise, they were not mapped the house, they built a great big living under Edgar Piper. Harvey Scott [Ore- at all in some parts of Eastern Oregon. room, a great big library, nice kitchen, gonian editor] had written a number And Father actually produced a map of and we had a breakfast room, which of very interesting editorials on names, the state of Oregon with five-hundred- was a very pleasant little room, but on Indian names, other names, and foot contours, which was as close as there wasn’t enough money or enough classic names. Father was intrigued he could get, and it was all on sheets.7 space to put a dining room, so if we by this. One of the editorials said that It was a huge, big product completed were going to have a dinner, why, we’d the subject of names would make a shortly after World War I. This project have it in the living room. But in the very interesting volume, and that is all served as the basis for Father’s honor- breakfast room, we all sat around the Scott ever said about it. I guess that the ary Masters Degree from University table — the six of us, the four kids and old gentlemen picked it up from that, of Oregon in 1921. As this developed my mother and father — and on the A young Lewis A. McArthur poses for a because he continued his interest with with his surveying and geography wall there was that map of Oregon, the photograph in about 1909. the Geographic Names Board.6 In 1917, and history, he got interested in the base map. If some question came up, Father was appointed general manager names and he wrote this all up in our [Father would] say, “show me on the of Pacific Power & Light, and was made house. He had a library, an eighteen- map,” and you would have to get up up, and it’s got red highlighted letters vice president and general manager in by-thirty library. The library was as and go over and look at it. He would and all sorts of things. C.E.S. Wood 1923. Sometime in that period he got big as the living room and it was all tell you about where it was and you had it bound in nice red leather. started writing on this thing [Oregon lined with books; and he had cabinets would go over and find it. My father went off to college at the Geographic Names]. He had a private for maps and what have you. He had My father would sit there and expa- University of California, Berkeley, in secretary named Gertrude Humphrey an Underwood typewriter and a chair tiate on all sorts of things, including 1903 and was immediately interested who came to work for him two weeks that supposedly was a Queen Anne the problems of the precession of the in publications and ended up being before I was born. She was a typical chair, which I have, and I use for my equinox. He would talk about other one of the assistant editors of the secretary of the old days with carbon computer now. He’d sit there and type scientific things. He had a wealth of Daily California, which in my day we paper and a type-writer. You wouldn’t these things and send it off to Koke- information. He would ask questions still had on the masthead, “Monarch dare touch her typewriter. Father wrote Chapman in Eugene. and we were supposed to be able to of the College Daily’s.” He did end up letters to many of the postmasters of I don’t know that he intended respond or to give something inter- as the editor of the Pelican, which was small communities to ask how they got to publish a book immediately, but esting that was going on. My mother the college humor magazine. When he their names. He knew some of them. there’s an interesting subject, because would contribute somewhat, but she got out of college, like a lot of other He knew the story of Portland and St. it tied in with family history. Remem- had had encephalitis when my younger people, he was faced with the grim Helens and things like that, because ber that both my great-grandfathers sister was born and after that had the realities of going to work. He’d been he was a voracious reader of history were here in the 1850s, and Father was shakes. Her mind was all right, but studying agriculture and soil technol- and he was also intensely interested interested in the history, and so was my it was awkward for her. So, it was a ogy and didn’t see any immediate in mapping and surveying — all on a grandmother. My grandmother, Har- very, very interesting period of grow- opportunity in that field, so he went side-line to the Pacific Power & Light riet [Nesmith] McArthur, was one of ing up. to work for Oregon Electric Railway. business. the founders of the Oregon Historical Book publishing was all linotype in Father worked under Guy Talbot for But, at that time, Pacific Power & Society and she was on the first board those days.9 Koke-Chapman produced two years, until the organization of Light were running a lot of their own of directors.8 The whole family was the first edition, and it was put out in Pacific Power & Light Company in level lines, because they did not have interested in history, even Grandpa 1928.10 I remember the endless galleys,

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  always go to see him.12 When he went liam Markland Molson, of Montreal, to Bend, for example, somewhere of the Molson brewing family. She was along the line he’d talk to Bill Vande- very interested in history and had quite vert, of the Vandevert Ranch, which is a collection of books, including the now Sun River. Sawyer knew all those Charles Wilkes Report books.13 Father people, and they’d get together. He was inherited a lot of those. He bought interested in surveying and level lines, other books as well. He bought Van- and we would drive around. I was only couver and Cook’s journals, and other a kid, probably ten or twelve years old. travel journals or records and read That was nice, but I found some of them.14 That was how he put together the interviews a little boring. We went the history of [Oregon’s] capes, the from Bend over to Burns one time, and maritime features of the Columbia that was [still] a gravel road, before it River, and much of what the early was paved. Later on, we went down to explorers had done. Lakeview, and we might have taken the Father’s job often required him to district manager. They were looking go down to Salem to the legislature. at things, and they would go down Of course, that gave him the chance to one way and come back

up some other way, just OHS neg., OrHi 4 5 47 seeing the country. Every This photograph shows the 1923 Wade Pipes house on Green Hills as it looked when time we’d get to some odd the McArthur family moved in. The McArthur home provided an intellectual and place, my father would ask nurturing atmosphere for the four McArthur children: Lewis L., Mary Lawrence, some questions. He was 3 Harriet, and Arthur. picking up information all the time. He had this tremendous memory. He and I remember Father correcting between these various places, and he was a very, very outgoing them and becoming infuriated when would usually go by train. I went a person; he liked to talk to something was wrong and he had to couple of times with him. I remember people. I’m a little more of re-write a whole paragraph in order primarily going to Bend, but I also a reclusive. to justify the thing.11 It must have been remember going one time to Yakima, That is what he was a pain in the posterior. He did all this when we took the train. During those doing and he kept on with himself and during this period Pacific trips we would combine the geographic that. Meanwhile, while he Power & Light was very active. They names work with business, and we were was talking with all these had offices in Walla Walla, Lewiston, always looking for people [to talk to]. people about the local Yakima, and Toppenish, Washington, Father would take me out of school and history, he was also a book and at Bend and Madras in central say, “Well, you’ll learn more coming collector and he collected Oregon. They did not go down to with me than you ever will in school.” all sorts of books him- Klamath Falls and they did not go into So, I wandered around with him quite self. He’d also gotten some eastern Oregon, but they were along a bit. He liked some company and also books from my aunt Velina Lewis A. McArthur and his wife Nellie Pipes the Columbia River, Hood River, and somebody to carry the bags. [Nesmith] Molson, our McArthur moved to the Ambassador Apartments The Dalles, and then to Astoria. Father He was a great friend of Robert grandmother’s younger in Portland, Oregon, where this photograph of was moving back and forth extensively Sawyer, from Bend, and we would sister, who married Wil- Lewis A. was taken around 1949.

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  meet some more people and ask some tions of Willamette by various peoples more questions. He actively cultivated that heard the word, and they all have several friends like Omar Spencer, who to do with Walla, water, Walla Walla, was an authority on Columbia County Willamette, and Walulla. Wallowa is and history and . He’d a Nez Perce word for a fish trap. But find people who were from all over, again, maybe the wall has something and he’d run into people everywhere. to do with it because of the fish trap. He knew, for example, the Hanleys Father, he talked to the Indians, but over in Burns. I’m not sure how, but again, getting involved with the jargon somehow or other he’d met them, was difficult. but I think a lot of it had to do with Getting the true Indian name is the Bureau of Reclamation meetings pretty tough. I made a survey of the that went on. In those days, people names in OGN [Oregon Geographic were much more social. You’d have a Names] and there are less than one meeting of the Electric Light people, hundred Indian names that I think the Northwestern Electric Light and were ever used by the Indians for the Power Association, or you would have feature that we were talking about. a meeting of the people involved in the Neahkahnie Mountain, however, is U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Sawyer one of them, and that is a reasonable was head of the Reclamation Congress. approximation of what the Indians People would go to these meetings and called it. They did not call it mountain they’d not only discuss the immediate they called it Neahkahnie. Netarts is problems, but they would discuss all the place of the oyster, the ne mean- sorts of other things going on in the ing the place, and the same way that state. In those days, there were many ne, Kahnie, the Kahnie was the god more active players in the life of the and the ne was the place. There are state. It has faded out now. a number of those names. There are I remember other times when other names scattered throughout the driving to Eastern Oregon when we state, but again, many of the Indians stopped at the Warm Springs Agency. do not want to give the Indian name Tam McArthur corresponded with men and women across the state, seeking Father would talk to the Indians, and or the location. That is something that information about local place-names, such as in this letter concerning he would talk to the Indians up in the is their business. Scissorsville. Many of his letters are archived at the Oregon Historical Society Umatilla Reservation. He tried to find By 1936, Father was no longer Research Library in Portland. out the meaning of some of the Indian general manager of Pacific Power & words, and I think that probably was Light, and he had the opportunity as difficult for him then as it is now to put together the second edition, there was a good deal of make-work they got out the post office books, to get anything really concise. There which he’d been thinking about for by the Works Progress Administration, they used the microfilm, but they also are the professional linguists that are some time. He had a lot of additional and Father prevailed upon Colbert compared that with Father’s records. able to put something together, but for names. Because of his surveying, he to have a couple of the secretaries go Father’s records, of course, were not the amateur it is very, very difficult. met all sorts of people in Washington over to the post office department and always copied one hundred percent A correct rendering [spelling] of the [D.C.], and one was Admiral L.O. copy off the postal records for Oregon. correctly, but the microfilm was not word is even more difficult, I think, Colbert, who was head of the Coast & That was where a lot of the early post always legible either, so it made a as I remember there are eleven rendi- Geodetic Survey.15 In the early 1930s office information came from. When great combination. He was able to

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  get more post office information, and Mort said that the thing to do was to cisco in 1928 and worked for a book good maps were beginning to come just take the third edition and photo dealer named John Howell. Father out in the 1950s. Father would also copy that, reproduce it, and then add had bought books from Howell. I write the local post master in Ione or the new information on as an appen- remember in 1929, I was down there in Hermiston, or where ever it might dix.16 I thought that was a bummer. with Father and he went in to see be, asking, “How did the town get that By 1969 or 1968, things had really Howell’s bookstore. Here is this bright name?” When he would get an answer begun to gel, and I was getting infor- young English man clerking for him, back, he would file the response in one mation together, trying to figure out and they struck it off immediately. of several grey binders that are cur- what to do. I traveled around the state Magee used to kid me, he said that I rently housed in the vault at Oregon a reasonable amount with the gas would walk around [the book store] Historical Society. station business, but not too much. and Father had a cane with a bent He put that all together and it is all I had also become involved in the top and he would reach out and hook on record. By this time, Father had the historic preservation business and me and drag me back to get me away text for the third edition completed. was a member of the State Advisory from somewhere. David Magee and His health, however, failed badly in Committee on Historic Preservation, Father became great friends and Father early 1950, and by late 1950, he was I was an original member of that. bought a lot of books from him. Before in serious condition. He spent most That got me involved in a tremendous and during the war [WWII], when I of 1951, until his death, either in the amount of history. I met people who was attending college at University of hospital or in a rest home, and then were interested in history and they California, Berkeley, I would go to San This photograph, taken around 1937, he passed away. would give me information or leads Francisco occasionally and sometimes captures Lewis L. McArthur as a I had always been tangentially inter- or say “Did you know about this?” or I would put my head in Magee’s shop, young man. He attended University ested in Father’s project, but I was very “Why don’t you look that up?” They just to say “How do you do?” Near the of California, Berkeley, majoring in busy with my family and my work, in would frequently ask questions such end of the war, I was detailed to go to economics, before being called into the same way that Father had been in as, “Why do we have a place named China, and part of that assignment was active duty as a first lieutenant of infantry during World War II. the early days. He was busy with his ‘Legality’ over in Gilliam County?” to have a four-month crash course in own affairs, and he had always said that George Abdill down in Roseburg, the Mandarin Chinese at the University of you owe something to the community. head of the Douglas County Museum California which was my old stomp- I figured, well this is an interesting at the time, was a retired Southern ing grounds. I was there from April graphics. This included hyphenation, thing, I’ll work on it. Later on, about Pacific [SP] locomotive engineer who to August in 1945, and I spent a lot of justification, leading, and pagination. 1963 or ’64, after the Oregon Geo- gave me a lot of information about the time over in San Francisco. Magee was He said that he could justify it down graphic Names Board was operating, early SP business. He had a librarian an intergenerational person. He was to a thirty-second of an “em.”17 Tom Vaughan said that we needed to who stayed on after he passed away. I a good friend of Father’s and a very I made the decision that I would have another addition of Oregon Geo- would go down there when I was going good friend of mine. I used to talk try to maintain Father’s original style graphic Names. I said, “Well, I’ll work back and forth to San Francisco, and to him about the book [Oregon Geo- in the text. I think that I have done a on that,” as I already had some ideas I would stop there to prowl around in graphic Names]. He put me in touch reasonable job on it. It’s concise, I avoid on it. By that time, things were begin- some of the old books there. I always with Gordon Nelson, who developed redundancy, avoid the use of the word ning to simmer down a little bit for me. found a good amount of informa- the electronic system for the fourth that, use appropriate words, and watch The first thing that I decided was that tion. edition of the book. This was one of my tenses. It’s not simply the facts, you I was not going to fiddle around with I was making rather regular trips the earliest electronic publications. It know; there’s a story and you have to linotype and its endless galleys as I had to San Francisco and Los Angeles, was all in computer printout. Being have the story. I also try to include seen Father do. I just was not going and I had a good friend down there a professional printer and computer a bit of humor. For example, what I to put up with it. We knew that other named David Magee who was a book programmer, he figured out a way of consider to be my best effort at humor things were coming along. Binford & dealer. Magee had come to San Fran- programming it to achieve exemplary in the whole book concerns the Watson

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  Cabin down in Douglas County, where and pour through them to get names [Oregon Historical Society] have got all excellent ones. Some are just very, very this woman told me about it. She said and tie them into the names on the the mug books, the Illustrated History primitive. But the only other one than her grandfather or somebody had gone maps. In this manner, I was able to of , and you have got OGN that is produced by a professor of up, and they gave the cabin its name. get information on new place-names. Rachel Applegate’s book on Klamath history was Edmond S. Meany’s book She said her grandfather had told her There was other information coming County.18 in Washington.19 All the others have who Watson was and where the cabin in on the post offices and I would get Most people overlook the whole been produced by either English pro- was. She ended up saying it was a nice new stuff. Additionally, I used cor- geographic names business. I had been fessors, occasionally somebody in the place where they stopped on the first respondence for finding information. a member of the American Names linguistics like William Bright, by an night of their hunting trip and they There was a fellow over at the Central Society for many, many years, was interested amateur, or by a geographer. had a little cooler over the spring with Oregonian in Prineville who would president of it for two years, and on the There are many, many tools available netting over it where they could put the send me stuff. The members of the board for a long time. But, of all the if you have the time to search them. I venison. I ended up writing in the book Oregon Geographic Names Board were geographic names books that I know just kind of fell into the project, and the statement saying, “In the compiler’s also helpful. Francis “Van” Landrum, of — and there are many of them scat- the deeper I got, the more I became opinion the venison was more often down in Klamath Falls, was quite an tered throughout the country, some of intrigued with it so that now I cannot poached than fried.” I use that because historian and did a lot of work on that them very good — I don’t think there’s imagine being without it. I think that that is the type of humor that I try to area. There were all kinds of things any up to OGN, but there are some is probably the way Father felt. put in; it is the type Father put in. going on with people who would Around the time the fifth edition send stuff in. One of the things that Oregon Geographic Names is currently in its seventh edition with an eighth being was ready to be published, I was quite we missed was I had about half of developed for publication. Lewis L. McArthur, who recently celebrated his ninety- active with the Oregon Geographic John Horner’s Wallowa County name first birthday, is still deeply involved with the process and keeps an office at the Names Board. The federal govern- stuff, and everybody wondered where Oregon Historical Society, where he regularly receives letters from across the state ment was in the process of producing the rest of his information was. Grace concerning place-names or asking for information. His children have also joined the rest of the 1–to–62,500 maps, one Bartlett had said that when Horner the project, and his daughter Mary McArthur now holds his place on the Oregon inch to the mile maps, which they did went on or died, his nephew had taken Geographic Names Board and is continuing working on Oregon Geographic for practically all of western Oregon them and hung onto them like grim Names. His son, Lewis A. McArthur is working on the McArthur family history and genealogy. and a smattering of eastern Oregon. death because he thought they were an By about 1970, they had come to the invaluable resource. He was a dentist conclusion that they were going to do down in Eureka. He did not have any NOTES it on the 1 to 24,000, the same way as more use for them than my left foot, the rest of the United States. The West but he took them. Tom Vaughan and I 1. Nesmith Point, just south of Warrendale available at http://www.ohs.org/education/ was way, way behind the eastern part made a determined effort to get them in Multnomah County, is named for James W. oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Harvey- of the country in terms of mapping. I back, but we were never successful. Nesmith, Lewis A. McArthur’s grandfather. Scott.cfm accessed Aug. 5 2008. was getting the proofs on those maps That went on for years, and about five Conversation with Lewis L. McArthur, June 3. Lewis L. McArthur, interview by Eliza 2008. and looking them over for name cor- years ago, I was talking to Jack Evans Jones, December 28, 2006, interview SR 11092, 2. Harvey Scott (1838–1910) and family transcript (transcribed by Alton Spencer), rections, just the same way that Father over in the La Grande area, and he arrived in Oregon, via the , in Oregon Historical Society Research Library, did. I made lists of the names that said he understood that somebody 1852, from Illinois. Scott became editor of Portland. Lewis L. McArthur added additional were on the quadrangles and checked in Wallowa County had a copy of the the Oregonian in 1865. After a brief hiatus, information during the process of preparing off which ones I knew about. The Horner notes. He did a little gumshoe he returned to the Oregonian as editor and this narrative for publication. Bureau of Land Management had the work and discovered that the Horner part-owner. He is also the brother of suffragist 4. Additional information is from Lewis A. . Mount Scott in Portland, original land entry books, the big red notes were located at the Oregon His- McArthur and Lewis L. McArthur, eds., Oregon Oregon is named in his honor. For more on Geographic Names 7th ed. (Portland: Oregon volumes, in their office in the Lloyd torical Society. As far as other book Scott, see Oregon Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003); conversations Center. I would go over there at noon sources on Oregon place-names, you History Project, “Harvey W. Scott, 1838–1910,” with Lewis L. McArthur; and Omar C. Spencer,

 OHQ vol. 109, no. 3 McCullugh Peneva, The Importance of Memory and Place  “Lewis Ankeny McArthur, 1883–1951,” Oregon of the Bend Bulletin. After purchasing the Historical Quarterly 56:1 (March 1955): 4–11. newspaper, Sawyer became editor and remained See also Lewis L. McArthur, “The U.S. Steel so until 1953. Sawyer was active in Northwest Corporation in Portland, 1901–1941,” Oregon politics and Deschutes County, served as Historical Quarterly 107:3 (Fall 2006): 424–37. director of the American Forestry Association, 5. Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852–1944) and sat on the board of the Pacific Northwest graduated from West Point military Academy in Regional Forestry Advisory Council. He also 1874 and went on to serve as an army lieutenant. contributed to the Oregon Historical Society. He fought in the Nez Perce War of 1877 and the For more on Sawyer, see Robert W. Sawyer Bannock-Paiute War of 1878. After moving to Papers, Knight Library, Special Collections Portland, Wood was influential in the cultural and University Archives, University of Oregon, scene and is widely remembered in Oregon for Eugene. his first-hand account of Chief Joseph’s surrender 13. Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United speech in 1877, The Pursuit and Capture of Chief States Exploring Expedition 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, Joseph. See Robert Hamburger, Two Rooms: 1842, 5 vols. (Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1849). The Life of Charles Erskine Scott Wood (Lincoln: 14. George Vancouver, A Voyage of Discovery University of Nebraska Press, 1998). to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the 6. See also the history of the Oregon World: in which the coast of north-west America Geographic Names Board in this issue: Champ has been carefully examined and accurately Clark Vaughan, “The Oregon Geographic Names surveyd: undertaken by His Majesty's command Board: 100 Years of Toponymic Nomenclature,” (London: G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798); James Oregon Historical Quarterly 109:3 (Fall 2008). Cook, Captain Cook's Three Voyages Round the 7. Tam was always interested in surveying. World: With a Sketch of His Life, ed. Charles R. In 1910, he started the contour-map project Low (London: G. Routledge, 1882). of the state of Oregon. This brought him into 15. Maps created by the United States Coast contact with geologic surveys of the state, the and Geodetic Survey are archived at Oregon new topographic map program, as well as the Historical Society Research Library, Portland. name recording process. Conversation with For more on Admiral Colbert, see Leo Otis Lewis L. McArthur, August 5, 2008. Colbert, Profiles in Time, National Oceanic 8. Harriet Nesmith McArthur served at and Atmospheric Administration, available at Oregon Historical Society from 1898 until 1924. http://www.history.noaa.gov/cgsbios/biob10. Spencer, “Lewis Ankeny McArthur,” 5. html accessed August 5, 2008 9. The successor to moveable print, 16. Binford & Mort is a book publishing linotype printing involved setting the letters and printing house previously of Portland nad in order and then casting the letters with hot now out of Hillsboro, Oregon. lead to form “slugs.” These slugs were literally 17. An “em” is the size of the space taken up lines of type. This process made editing difficult by the letter “m” in lowercase type when printed. and laborious. Conversation with Lewis L. “Leading” refers to the amount of space between McArthur, 5 August 2008. the lines of type. 10. Koke-Chapman was a printer out of 18. F.A. Shaver, comp., Illustrated History Eugene, Oregon. of Central Oregon: Embracing Wasco, Sherman, 11. A galley is the printed compilation of all Gilliam, Wheeler, Crook, Lake, and Klamath of the lines, known as slugs, set into place and Counties, State of Oregon, (Spokane, Wa.: produced by the linotype machine. The galleys Western Historical Publishing Co., 1905); Linsy arrived in long sheets, without pagination, for Sisemore, ed., Rachel Applegate Good, historian, proof by the author. Justification is the process History of Klamath County, Oregon: It’s Resources of inserting spaces between words and letters and its People (Klamath Falls, Or: 1941). in order to create equal-length lines. 19. Edmond S. Meany, Origins of Washington 12. Robert Sawyer (1880–1959) moved to Geographic Names, (Seattle: University of Bend, Oregon, in 1912, soon joining the staff Washington Press, 1923).

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