Lane County Historian

DR. ANDREW WILSON PATTERSON Pioneer Physician, Surveyor, Educator, Hop Grower

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PIONEER DOCTORS OF EUGENE HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY OF CROW Many pictures of each group THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT

LANE COUNTY PIONEER-HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Vol. VI - No. 4 Eugene, Oregon December, 1961

PRICE 50 CENTS PER COPY -61-- LANE COUNTY PIONEER-HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2161 Madison St., Eugene, Oregon - Merle S. Moore, Editor -CONTENTS - CORRECTION FOR VOL. VI, No. 3, Sept. 1961 62 THREE PIONEER DOCTORS OF EUGENE, Effie R. Knapp 63 A HISTORY OF THE COMMUNITY OF CROW, ORE., Ruth Mavity...70 THE PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL REPORT 78

Andrew Jackson Crow and his first wife Christina Zumwalt Crow, from whom the post office of Craw took its name. Crossed the plains to Oregon in1852, wife died Aug. 2 of cholera enroute.Settled on his DLC, Oct. 15, 1852 - signed with his (X) mark - between Crow and Hadleyville. Married Mrs. Mary Taylor Sanders in Lane Co. Had 10 children by first wife and 3 by second.Children of Christina: EllenF.(McCoy); Cynthia E.; Sarah Susanna (Gibson); William Marion; James A. J.; Mary Jane (John H. Cochran); Lucinda S.; John L.; Lodema A. (Sedlak, Bandy); Rosanna Amanda. To A. J. and Mary Taylor Sanders: Nancy M. (Hinton), Thomas N.; Margaret J.(Keyte).Cynthia and Lucinda died on the Oregon Trail with cholera, that had taken their mother. CORRECTION FOR VOL. VI, No. 3Sept. 1961 The title under the picture on page 56 should be: "Rev. Gilmore Callison and second wife, (Mrs.) Eliza Linder Callison; whom he married after the death of his first wife soon after their arrival in Oregon in Sept. 1852.Their DLC was across the river from Jasper.He assisted in organizing and building Christian churches in Pleasant Hill (1850) and in Eugene City (1866)." His first wife was the mother of all of his children.Eliza Linder was the mother of Rebecca Linder (Callison), page 53. 62- Three Pioneer Doctors of Eugene By EFFIE R. KNAPP

The followingbiographiesareex- M.D., physician and surgeon, Eugene cerpts from the manuscript dealing with City, Lane County, Oregon. Office and the medical story of Lane County soon residence corner Ninth and High Streets, to be published by the Lane County nearly opposite the Eugene City Livery Medical Society Stables." He had been mentioned by the There has accumulated much infor- historian, Bancroft, in his list of doctors mation about three of the very early in Lane County before 1860. Eugene doctors who were contempo- The doctor had begun his practice in raries and very little about the many Eugene City, five years before the above other pioneer men and women of that professional card which was probabjy profession. Whether each of these three prompted to meet the competition of in his own particular way was of such another physician, Dr. j. W. Mahtn, outstanding personality that he attracted then living near Monroe who also carried wide attention and respect or whether all an ad in the local publication, saying that three exemplified the proverbial maker his services would be available at any of the better mousetrap is problematical. time to residents of both Benton and It was the great German neurologist, Lane Counties. physiologist, and pathologist, Dr. Carl Dr. Hanchett was the sonof Dr. W. H. Northnagel (1847-1905) who LutherHanchett, a surgeoninthe said: "Only a good man can become a United States Army. He studied under good physician." The three men who are the direction of his father and two other the subjects of the following biographies doctors, attended a course of medical lec- demonstrated the truth of the saying. tures in Geneva, New York, and in all, The first of these three: a round vola- studied four years before beginning prac- tile little man, exclusively engaged in the tice as physician and surgeon. Several one profession from the time ofhis years of successful practice, first in Cold- arrival in Eugene until his death, and an water, Michigan, later in Sacramento, active participant in every phase of com- California, preceded his location in Eu- munity life; gene in 1859. The second: lean, tall (he was six feet, Dr. Leonard Jacobson,ofEugene, four inches), reserved and so versatile while still a student in Medical College that he seemed capable of engaging in in Oregon, wrote a paper in 1941 on any profession which interested him; early medical practice in the Upper Wil- The third: enigmatic, temperamental, lamette Valley in which he quotes from skilledphysician and surgeon, whom a pioneer woman's recollections of Dr. other doctors respected and from whom Hanchettduring herchildhood,her they often sought assistance, and who family having arrived in Eugene in 1854. gave to the world a physician son who She describes the doctor as a jolly little brought distinction to the entire West. man, obviously liked by the children who gathered around the table to watch him DR. WILLIAM H. HANCHETT mixing and measuring and packing into The first of these, Dr. William H. little white papers the ingredients of Hanchett, announced in the OREGON which he carried in his medicine case. STATE JOURNAL (a weekly paper Among the remedies used were Dover's published inEugene)initsissue of powders, quinine, castoroil, and blue March 19, 1864: "Wm. H. Hanchett, mass (a form of mercury now given in 63- one-tenth grain calomel tablets hut which of apparent recurrence of various diseases as given then, often salivated the pa- showed his intelligent approach to his tient). Various liniments and "sticking duty professionally and as a conscientious plasters" were also used. Reference was adviser. made to the practice of cupping and to As an illustration of his concern, Dr. the common ailments of the time which Hanchett had submitted to the local she mentionedas inflamationofthe newspaper in February, 1869, an article bowels or stomach,(appendicitis was on vaccination as a protective agent and unheard of at that time), putrid sore had asked, and secured, publication of throat, lung fever, scrofula, rheumatism, paragraphs dealing with the subject from and felons. the January issue of the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal. Dr. Hanchett became a much publi- He made the prophetic statement: "It cized citizen from his earliest appearance is the opinion of the medical profession in Eugene. It was rarely that a week that smallpox can be almost banished passed without some mentioninthe from the world by a thorough and syste- weekly newspaper of the doctor or his matic adoption of vaccination andre- wife, and often of both. The news stories vaccination." gave details of his various surgical opera- This was at a time when smallpox was tions,thecountlessaccidentcases* being reported as spreading seriously as treated,incidents of, the horseback or far away as in San Francisco, where it buggy trips to see patients, the gifts of was said nearly one-fourth of the afflicted flowers, fish, or fruit to the newspaper had died. The State Journal had sug- families; his service on all sorts of com- gested in January, 1869, "a preventative mittees and boards - civic, political or medicinecream of tartar and sulphur," religious,hisassistancewithcharity and advised: "It is worth trying, it costs affairs, entertainment ofthe winning little, and cannot fail to do much good. baseball team, opening of the Hanchett Take one ounce cream of tartar, 2 ounces home for meetings of all sortseven for flowers oi sulphur, and mix well in a marriage ceremonies. pint of molasses; dose, one teaspoon on If he felt strongly on any current issue going to bed (adult),/2teaspoon (chil- or differed radically with others, his de- dren). In ten days or two weeks it will fenseofhisposition was announced have cleansed the system effectually." through the press. At one time he de- In the old I.O.O.F. cemetery, adjoin- fended his reported criticism of a drug- ing the University of Oregon campus, gist who had, he felt, overcharged one there is a simple, weathered white marble of his patients for brandy, and at another shaft, the south face of which bears the time denied that he had said there was inscription "William H. Hanchett, born a case of dreaded smallpox in town. At July 30, 1805, died June 11, 1875. On the same time, his warning at the time the opposite, or north side, almost inde- iscarved "Louise, H., his *Accidents that required the treatment of the cipherable, pioneer doctor included those incident to wife, died June 18, 1896, aged 79 years." the then common use of horses; frequent The plot, grass covered, contains two runaways that resulted in overturned bug- gies and wagons, sudden kicking or a rider rambling rose bushes and an old lilac beingthrown whenhismount became tree. frightened; axe or knife injury. Sometimes Mrs. Hanchett had lived twenty-one a patient would be poisoned by medicine, e. g. vaccine, that had become spoiled on years longer than her husband. Her will account of lack of refrigeration, etc., during contained eight distinct sections provid- long periods (sometimes 6 months) of de- ing for the disposition of her estate alter livery by sailing ships and overland trans- portation. 64the preliminary sentence: "I desire all "Again we are called upon. to record the death of one of our most useful citizens. He was a man of strict, temperate hab- its, a quick, active brain and more than ordinary ability, which induced him to be charitable in all his dealings and espe- ciall; to the poor. Through his long and useful life he bore a spotless reputation. His high sense of honor and pure moral qualities of heart always placed him on the side of right. His work is done and what a noble work it was. Hundreds in our community mourn his lossand call his name blessed."

DR. A. W. PATTERSON The second of this group of three doc- tors carried a professional card in the local paper in 1865 which read: "A. W. Patterson, Physician, having had the ad- Mrs. Dr. Hanchett, wife of Dr. William H. Han- chett, one of the first to practice medicine in vantage of a medical education bygrad- Eugene City(late1850's).See accompanying uation in the same, with years of success- story. ful practice since, feels justified in ac- cepting the confidence ofthepublic, my just debts be paid and my body de- which he hopes still to honor and retain cently buried." After providing gifts of by due attention and integrity in the silverware,andpicturestovarious dischargeofhisprofessionalduties. friends, and bequests totaling $600, the Office at residence, Eugene City, Sept. 1, balance of the estate, which was valued 1865." at $2850, was to be used for the build- Andrew W. Patterson was born in ing, under certain conditions, of a new Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Oc- St. Mary's Episcopal church of Eugene, tober 4, 1814. His preparatory educa- Oregon, with Professor B. J. Hawthorne tion was followed by a course in the and the Reverend D. E. Loveridge as Western University of Pennsylvania, at executors. The terms were met and the Pittsburgh. He began the study of medi- little stone church which stood for nearly cine under Dr. J. Gazan before entering forty years at the southwest corner of the Pennsylvania College of Medicine, a Seventh and Olive Streets was promptly schoolestablishedbythefacultyof built and dedicated in 1899. The Louise Jefferson Medical College. Following a H. Hanchett memorial window has been year of practice in Pittsburgh,he was incorporatedinthe new St.Mary's graduated with an M.D. degree in 1841. Episcopal church, built in 1938 at Thir- He practiced in Indiana for a while and teenthand PearlStreets(southwest then returned to Pittsburgh, where vari- corner). ous activities occupied him. Dr. Hanchett's standing in the com- He became a traveling salesman for a munity was indicated by the eulogy pub- surgical instruments manufacturer. He lished in the Journal following his death published the Northwest Literary Mag- which the newspaper said occurred "at azine, one of the first publications de- the ripeold age of 69 years and 6 voted to pioneer history. His printing months." The obituary saidinpart:65plant was destroyed by fire. His young wife and their baby died after only a year ground. Continuing: "There were more of marriage. school books now but still they were not Restless and unsettled, he yielded to plentiful and were handled with care. his growing feeling that an entirely new (Hence the "Thumbpapers," of the title, start must be made and chose the then editor.) By 1859 and 1860 book stores much publicized new country of great were established in Eugene City, and opportunities - Oregon, with itsfine books were brought to Oregon in sailing climate and its fertile acres available to vessels and in wagon freight trains. One all citizens who settled there. of the earliest series of books was the set His daughter, the late Miss Harriet prepared by Dr. A. W. Patterson, that Patterson, in a recorded interview with many-sided and splendid pioneer phy- Dr. Donald B. Slocum in 1956, when sician who not only practiced his profes- asked "What started him out West?" sion for many years, but who served in said: "There were about three things the Rogue River Indian Wars, taught that started him out Westthe death of school, surveyed and platted a greater his baby and his wife, and the burning part of Eugene City, served as Lane of his bindery, his print plant in Pitts- County School Superintendent, was a burgh ... And then the third thing was member of the Oregon Legislature, and that urge to go, go, go... and he started pioneered in the commercial hop growing out just as a pioneerto keep going." business in Oregon, sending to England And so, in April, 1852, he was one of for new and desirable varieties of hops. a party of five who started out on horse- He prepared the spellers in the series of back for the Far West. This was a year books, also the First, Second, and Third of great emigration to the Pacific Coast, Readers." and after the many hardships of such a Besides serving in the many ways indi- trip, the party arrived five months later cated by Mrs. Barette, he is credited with at The Dalles, Oregon Territory, being having exerted strong influence in secur- the first to reach this state that year. ing the establishment of the University Here, Andrew Pattersonleftthe of Oregon in Eugene while he was serv- party, deciding that he would take ad- ing in the State Senate 1870 to 1874 vantage of the Donation Act of 1850. The University was opened to students The land he chose was about a mile west in 1876. of the present Eugene. While a lieutenant in the militia in And then this gifted, resourceful, ver- 1859 at the Battle of Hungry Hill in satile man began a variety of occupations the Rogue River Wars, he was called nicely summarized by Mrs. A. E. (Leo- upon to care for the wounded and was nore Gale) Barette in her book, Thumb- commissioned as a surgeon in the U.S. papers: Sketches of Pioneer Life, printed Army, but due to illness he resigned later in 1950, in recalling her pioneer mother's in the year. tales of life in Eugene in the l850s. She He plotted the site for the City of tells about her mother's happy memories Eugene in 1853, and surveyed various of the evening writing school taught by other districts in Oregon and Washing- Dr. Patterson and goes on with praise ton. Surveying (he waschief clerk in the of the doctor about whom she says: "Dr. surveyor-general's office for five years) Patterson, tall, dignified, patrician, was and medical practice demands increased a scholar and a gentleman. He was liked so that by 1863 he decided to confine his and respected by the students and they activities to his profession of medicine. learned many things from him besides ,He was married on July 4, 1859, to penmanship." She goes on to tell about Miss Amanda C. Olinger, who, at the his educational and professional back- age of six years, had arrived in Oregon -66 The Patterson family, taken about 1895.Dr. A. W. Patterson (1852) and Wife Amanda C. Olinger Patterson (1843), married Eugene 1859. Children from left: Ida, Clyde, Harriet, Augusta (Mrs. L. H. Potter), Anna. Read accompanying article for activities of this remarkable citizen.

with her parents in the 1843 Whitman of the Masonic order and the State train of 100 wagons which had started Medical Society. out from Independence, Missouri. Patterson Street was named for him, as was also the old Patterson School The important and difficult role played which was located on the northwest by the pioneer doctor's wife is indicated corner of Thirteenth and Alder Streets. in Miss Patterson's statement that all A daugthter, for many years a Eugene patients who needed constant attention school principal, is honored in the nam- were moved to the doctor's home where ing of the present west side Ida Patter- Mrs. Patterson nursed them and "where son School. they could be under constant surveil- The Patterson home, the site of which lance." The death of three of the eight was selected by the doctor after the 1861 Patterson children may, or may not have floods, as the only high point of ground had any connection with this practice. he could see in the residential area (at Although hampered by failingeye- 751 East Eleventh Avenue). The site sight during the last ten years of his life, had been occupied continuously by the the doctor continued with office consulta- family since the early70s, until the tions in his home until his death in 1904 death of Miss Harriet Patterson in 1956. at the age of 90 years. He was a member67It is now a fraternity house. DR. ABRAM SHARPLES son Medical College, offers his profes- The third man of the group of three sional services to the people of Eugene was Dr. Abram Sharples. The compiler City and the vicinity. Refers to Dr. P. and editor of this material acknowledges J.S. Ten Broeck, Surgeon, U.S.A.; her real debt for information about the Medical Director U.S. Department, Co- Sharples family activities to Dr. Abram lumbia; Drs. Chapman and Watkins, Sh'arples' granddaughter, Mrs. William Portland; Dr. J. W. McAfee, Salem; C. H. (Dorthea Sharples) Lewis, of Dr. Cabanias, Jacksonville." Dr. Shar- Seattle; to his grandson's widow, Mrs. pIes gave Toland Medical College of Caspar Wistar Sharples ofPaterson, San Francisco, in 1869, in his Lane C. Washington; andto Mrs. Wm. H. registration. Hutchinson, R. N., and Miss Dorothy He had received his medical degree in Vernon, R.N., both of Seattle, who were 1864 from Jefferson Medical College, associatedwithDr.Caspar'Wistar served as an interne there, then assisted Sharples in hospital service in Seattle. in the capacity of surgeon in caring for Some light is thrown on the Abram the injured on battlefields of the Civil Sharples story through Roger DeBusk's* War. "Following the war he was sent paper also, written in 1929 while a stu- to Alcatraz Island," his family state, and dent at the University of Oregon Med- "on that same boat, which had to go ical School on the Medical History of round Cape Horn, was his future wife. Lane County, Oregon, which records After his service, he looked around and information obtained through interviews chose Eugene City, as it was called then, with Abram Sharples' widow, on the as a good location for a living. Many Sharples farm near Goshen. times his fee consisted of hay for his It has been impossible to reconcile the horse,grain,chickens,vegetables,or conflicting dates in the various sources nothing." as to the exact time of Dr. Sharples' He was born on a farm near Phila- residence in Eugene, Corvallis, Salem delphia in 1833. He was a descendant of and again Eugene. Dr. Olaf Larsell, in John Sharples, famous Quaker who pre- his The Doctor inOregon mentions ceded Wm. Penn to America in 1682, "confusion" as to Dr. Sharples residence and of James Sharples, the celebrated in Salem and Eugene. But all sources painter of the Revolutionary period. Dr. agree that he lived for a while in Cor- Abram Sharples named his son, born in vallis, lured by the prospect (unsuccess- Eugene in1866, after his(Abram's) ful) of establishment of a medical school grandfather, the famous physician and there, that he helped in organization of anatomist, Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). the Willamette Medical School in Salem There has been a Caspar Wistar, accord- in 1866 and 1867, that he taught anat- ing to the Sharples family tree, in every omy in this school, at least until it was generation for more than 150 years. The moved to Portland in 1878(it is not 11 - year - old great-grandson of Abram impossible that he may have commuted S'hiarples, bearing the famous name, now between Eugene and Salem) ; and during (1959) lives on the Sharples farm with practically all that time, Eugene news- his widowed mother, at Paterson, Wash- papers were giving details of his medical ington. practice throughout Lane County. He Many Lane County residents remem- had arrived in Eugene in November, ber the old Sharples home at the south- 1865, and his professional card in the east corner of Eleventh and Pearl Streets State Journal at that time read: "Dr. and the black walnut tree svhich Mrs. Abram Sharples of Philadelphia, late of *Dr. Roger DeBusk is now Executive Di- the U.S. Army, and graduate of Jeffer- rector of Grace Hospitai in Detroit, Mich. -68 Dr. Abram Shorples, celebrated Lane Co. phy- Dr. Abram Sharples group-4 generations. From and surgeon,locatedinEugeneCity, left: Mrs. Dr. A. Sharples, Dr. Casper Wistar sician Sharples (born Eugene, 1866), his son, Caspar 1865.Please read accompanying story. Wistar Sharples and his daughter, Monica Shar- pies (Mrs. Gordom Hill). Sharples had plantedsoonafterher arrival in Eugene. Efforts were made to and built hop kilns of sufficient capacity prevent cutting down the tree but the to dry not only his own hops butthose improvement of the streets years after of other growers. the replacement of the old house by the Roger DeBusk summed up the gen- spaciousShelleyresidence necessitated eral reputation of this vigorous doctor destruction of the tree. There is now a and farmer thus: "Dr. Sharples made servicestationontheoldSharples such a lasting impression on those who place, where the Shelley house had been. knew him that the mention of the name There were no hospitals during Dr. to otherresidents brings forth many Sharples' early practice in Eugene and stories of the doctor's personality and the doctor brought many of his patients conduct. The ability of the doctor was to his home to be cared for by Mrs. established and respected by all who Sharples during their convalescence. He knew him.It seems that surgery was entered into a partnership with Dr. Pat- the forte of this man and he was not par- terson in 1869 which lasted until 1872. ticularly interested in any other branch. The doctor bought a farm inthe All during his active period he did most PleasantHill-Goshen area where he of the surgery over a large part of the specialized in growing fine prunes which country and was called by all those prac- he packaged and advertised profitably. He was engaged also in hop growing69 (Continued on Page 80) Lewis D. (18491 and wife Sarah 5. Crow (1852) Gibson, married Lone Co. 1854, and their 15 children, oil born and raised on Gibson donation land claim 10 miles west of Eugene, present location of Fern Ridge reservoir.From left, front row: Lodema Alice (Matlock), Lewis Dozier Gibson (father), Belle OrlenoBond), Effie May (Motlock, Hortog), Sarah Susannab (Crow) Gibsonmother), Joseph Young, James Noah, Rohcrt Rufus, John Madison, Mary NaomiI Belshow). Back raw: Elizabeth EllenGreen), Sarah Amando) Carlin, Hayden!, Porodine AreiineI Purkerson), Andrew Archibald, Thomas Jefferson, Christina JaneHembree), Lewis William. Taken July 4, 1884 on banks of Wiilamette, 1ust above Ferry St. bridge. Photo loaned by RebeccaI.Gibson (Mrs. Robt. RI.See story opposite page. A History of the Community of Crow, Oregon Compiled by RUTH MAVITY

Crow is almost the geographic center theownershipofwhichfrequently of Township 18 S, Ranges 5 and 6 West changed hands. Among the known own- in which most of the community lies and erswere Tom Burg,JosephFleck was therefore the logical spot for a sup- (Neomia FleckLiles'father), Clark ply center and post office for the area. Sturtevant and Darwin Sturtevant. Who built the first house or opened the There were others. Darwin sold his store first store, I have not been able to learn. to Leland and Bee Lewis in 1942. They It is known that the village was named operated for two and a half years and for Andrew Jackson Crow, a settler of then sold to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sikes, 1852, whose descendants are still active Bee's parents. Mr. Sikes retired in 1959 in the area. The post office was estab- and the store was discontinued. lished in 1874, with Alexander Wood The community of Crow has not made thefirstfederal appointee. For years history; it IS history. Andrew Jackson Crow was nothing more than a horse Crow was only one of the many settlers barn, a building, housing the store and whom the Donation Land Law of 1850 postoffice and sometimes the people who brought to the Oregon Territory. The ran them. story of the Crow community is the story There was always one and sometimes of the individual families of these settlers two stores in Crow from very early days, and of their descendants. Families were large in those days and not all the chil- 1851 dren remained at home base. This ac- LEWIS D. GIBSON count is limited only to those families Also on the welcoming committee for who are represented in the community the settlers of 1852 was Lewis D. Gib- today and tothe children oftoday's son who came to Oregon in 1849, went families who still remain at home. to California in 1850, but returned in 1851 and settled in the Fern Ridge area. 1850 In 1854 he married Sarah A. Crov, Stephen Jenkins was a Baptist ministerdaughterof Andrew Jackson Crow. who claimed his land, built a comfortableThere were 15 children of this union home, bestrode his horse one day and of whom one was Robert R. who mar- rode off toward Monroe to find himself ried Rebecca Miles. Rob and Rebecca a bride, as was the pioneer custom. He lived on land lost to Fern Ridge Lake returned with one in the person of Sarah and when the dam was built, bought in Brown. He sired a daughter, Dorcas. In the Crow area. Their son, Robert or 1854 he organized a church and built a Bob, who owns a logging business, mar- meeting house on his land, which he ried Marion Boehringer of Crow. They called the Palestine Baptist Church. One lived in the community until 1956 when of the first elders of this church was they moved to the Elmira district. Their James C. Job, a Baptist from Indiana roots in Crow are strong. who first settled in Missouri and arrived 1.852 in Oregon in 1854. The years passed. SamuelAbbott,awell-to-doMis- Stephen preached; Dorcas grew. Hosea sourian, left there April 11, 1852, with Stephens came courting and they were nine other families including that of his married but before their first child ar- son (wife and five children) and their rived, Hosea was dead. Dorcas named daughter-in-law's parents, the John her daughter Eva but when the child Geabharts. First cholera and then moun- was only fourteen months old Dorcas tam fever struck the train and the Abbott alsodied. The Jenkins' grandparents children lost both parents, their paternal cared for Eva until she was fourteen grandmother and their maternal grand- when she went to live with her Uncle father. Grandfather Abbott located a land claim in Lane County and all the John Jenkins who had built his home Abbotts became residents of Eugene and about where Toricelli's now live. From Crow except John G., who lived in Port- this home she was wooed and won by land. The grandchildren were: 1. Sam- one William Lee Ford, who had come uel, who married Louisa Smith. Two of without family from Kentucky. Their their children concern us: (a,) Lucy, who son,Stephen Ford,asurveyor with married John J. McCulloch(son of officesinEugene, now liveson the John McCulloch who came in 1854), Jenkins' grant and has most of the orig- parents of Charley and Jess McCulloch inal acreage which he has improved ex- who are still identified with the com- tensively by a dam for irrigation and munity, and (b) Emma, who married Richard L. Hayes, long a resident of the other good farm practices. He married community. Charles McCulloch's son, Hazel 'Watkins. Their son, Kendrick, Tom, married Margery Canaday, great- has built a home for his wife and young granddaughter of Sarah Abbott Cana- sons on part of the original grant. Thus day, Samuel's sister. 2. Sarah married five generations are rooted in this soil. Dr. Madison Canaday who had also This, of course, a Century Award Farm. come to Oregon with his parents in 1852. 71- Their son, Henry, is the father of Am- E. Crabb. Of their five childrenfour brose and Marion Canaday who operate became a part of Crow, John J., Thomas a sawmill in the Crow area. Jefferson, Belle M. and Sarah V. Since John J. married one of the Abbott girls, 3. Mary Ann Abbott who married we have already identifiedhis descend- Thomas Jefferson Holland, also an 1852 ants with community life in Crow. arrival in the territory. He took a land claim at Crow. His son, Walter, who Jefferson'sfirstlovewas Cynthia was a teacher and justice of peace in Crow, granddaughter of Andrew Jack- early manhood, married Nell Hinkson son Crow, but death claimedher before in 1904. Nell was the daughter of Nel- he could and it is said that part of his son Cicero Hinkson who came to Ama- heart was buried in the Oak Hill Ceme- dor County, California, in 1849 but did tery with Cynthia. Later he met and not come to Oregon untill882. He married Lydia Hollingsworth, daughter settled on land over Timber Ridge on of another pioneer, who settled about which the postoffice of Alma was later where the Harwoods now live. establishedand where heservedas Alma'sfirstpostmaster. Walter, who Sarah V. married Frank Hemenway was Lane County commissioner from and went to live near theHollings- 1935 to 1950, has one son who remained worths. They had a son, Norman, who in the community. spent all of his youth in the community. Belle married A. G. McDaniel. They lived out their lives in a house on the 1852 old home grant.

Richard B. Hayes came to California in 1850 and to Oregon in 1852, taking a donation land claim in Fern Ridge. In 1860 he purchased 1043 acres of land in Township 18S, Range 5W. There he bred horses and entered politics. His son, Richard L., homesteaded land on Wolf Creek Road and brought his bride, Em- ma Abbott, to a home built very nearly on the site where my own home now stands. He lived on this land for about 40 years, although he lost Emma a num- ber of years before he left the farm.

1854

John McCulloch came to this state and county from Virginia, having been preceded to Lane County in 1853 by his brother, Thomas, who remained a bache- br all his life. John's land was on what is now Briggs Hill Road. This isthe first grant we have had which is not in John McCulloch, Crow 1854.Founder of the Township 18. In 1859 he married Mary Lane County McCulloch family. 72- The Joseph Sturtevant(1854)family, wife Mary Pierce Sturtevant(1865).Children, fromleft: Andrew, Belle, Jim, Clark, Albert.Clark was Post Master of Crow for many years.

1854 Sylvester Stephens, and we shall resume Joseph Sturtevant came firstto the his story then. northern part of the Oregon Territory, took a land claim and was raising horses THE LILES for the cavalry at Fort Walla Walla. When James Washington Liles came The Indians were unfriendly and after back from California he acquired part of a skirmish he was left for dead on the the old Bryant grant (now Pepiots) battlefield.Someonefoundhim,ex- where his son Oren lived until his death tracted the bullet and nursed him back in 1954. In 1860 he married Margaret to health. By the time he was ready to Job, whose father came in 1854 and was begin life anew, his land was forfeited an elderitiStephen Jenkins' Church. so he came south, arriving in Lane Coun- Joseph Liles married Kate Sovereign, ty in 1854. Here he bought land and the daughter of another early settler. Their son, Virgil, was born in 1893. In married but his wife died soon after the 1920 he married Neomia Fleck, whose birth of a child and the child died soon mother was the granddaughter of Daniel thereafter. When the Civil War began, Gates. Joseph and Kate Liles, Joseph and he went back to join the Confederate NettieFleck,Neomia's parents,and forces but was turned down because of Virgil Liles, whom Neomia later mar- old bullet wounds. He returned to Ore- ried, were among the organizers of Crow gon with 'hissister and her husband, Grange in 1911. - 73 - THE CORYELLS When Elijah Bristow (first settler in Lane County)in1848 camped over- night at Coryell Pass on the way to his already prepared home at Pleasant Hill, he found Abraham Coryell and his son, Lewis, there. Lewis (or Louis) with whom we are concerned, came to Ore- gon in 1847. His son, Dick, was born in Pleasant Hill in 1863. We know some- thing of Lewis's life between these dates. In 1848 news spread through the Wil- lamette Valley of the discovery of gold in California. At once almost every able bodied man who could possibly leave was off to the gold mines. Among them were two then unattached young menJames Washington Liles and Lewis Coryell (Lewis D. Gibson was also in this cate- gory). After Lewis Coryell returned from California he married Mahalia Matheny and we presume established his home in Pleasant Hill for Dick was born there. In 1886 the Dick Coryells came to live on the Ed Holland place, the farm on which Wes McCulloch now lives. Dick, now 98 years of age, lives Lewis(Louis) Coryell, Lane Co.pioneerof with his wife, Laura who was a John- 1847.Father (Abraham C.( and he located on son, on the Vaughn Road on what was claim just west of the confluence of the Coast and Middle forks of the Willamette River, about Burg land in the early days. halfway between Eugene City and Pleasant Hill, Dick'ssister Martha married Levi where many pioneers camped over nightnamed Berkshire. Although neitherof them Coryell Pass.Married Mahalia Matheny. Their lived in this area, they belong in this son Dick born at Pleasant Hill, 1863, who moved narrative because they are the grand- to the Crow community in 1886. parents of Bill Scharen. Bill and Doro- thy Scharen came to the community 18 19S, Range W. In 1872 he married years ago, purchasing land across from Abby J. Simmons. Their daughter, Zel- the old Crow School and planting a fil- ma, married Flem Henderer and in 1960 bert orchard. Seven years ago they in- Crow Grange honored them with a re- creased their holdings by buying part of ception on the occasion of their 50th the old Burg land opposite the Coryells. anniversary. They raised their children Mrs. Scharen has served her turn as in the community but the children have president of the P.T.A. and Mr. Scharen made their adult lives elsewhere. A son, is very active in scout work, being master J. Merle, married Flossie Plank but he of Troop 189. lost her in the twenties. Merle had a number ofhobbies,including photog- 1864 raphy, and now in poor health lives back Francis Marion Nighswander came in the hills on the old Nighswander land from Ohio in 1864 and settled not far amcng the souvenirs of a long lifein from the Hollingsworths in Township which he found much of interest. - 74 The Nighswander family, Crow 1864.Francis Marion with his wife, AbigailNighswander and daughter Zelma(Mrs.Henderer, who celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary recently).Back row: Har- vey, Frank, Myra, Merle (J.M.). See story opposite page.

1865 captainperformingtheceremony,a Sylvester Stephens came to Oregon in young orphan, Mary Elizabeth Pierce. 1865 with his wife, Mary Ann Sturte- They all came down the Willamette vant, and her brother, Joseph Sturtevant, Valley to this area where Joseph already who was making a return trip West. had his holdings and where Sylvester They did not cross the plains but came Stephens in 1867 purchased 1000 acres acrosstheIsthmusofPanamaby of land, much of which remains in the "Shank's mare" and mule team to the family. Sylvester had six sonsfour of Pacific side where they caught the ship whom: Hosea,Joseph,Church and Golden Rule. On the way to Seattle, Clark concern us.Hosea, Stephen Joseph met and married with the ship's Ford's grandfather, died young. Joseph - 75 - married Eudora Peterson, daughter of a man named Jamison(?) and from one of the early practicing physicians in whom Daniel got it. Two of Daniel's Oregon. Joseph liked land and extended sons have helped to build Crow, one by his share of his father's estate by pur- virtue of living here his entire life and chase until he had acquired almost the the other through his daughter, Nettie equivalent of his father's holdings. Mrs. Fleck, and his granddaughter, Neomia Eudora Stephens, widowed by an acci- Liles, who were active in community life dent in the woods, still maintains her as long as they lived here. home and land which are kept in good Daniel's son, Henry, married Mary condition by her daughter Mildred's Jane Arbuckle, daughter of an 1852 husband, Ernest McCulloch, manager settler on Lower Spencer Creek. Their of the Lane County Fair. Mrs. Stephens daughter, Nettie, married Joseph Fleck, and her husband were charter members who came to the community in 1890. of Crow Grange which she served for These are the parents of Neomia Fleck, many years as chaplain. She is much loved who became the wife of Virgil Liles. in the community. The Fleck holdings were a little outside Adjoining this farm is that of Mrs. the area we are recording, but Joseph BerthaStephens,widow ofChurch and Nettie were an integral part of com- Stephens, who died in 1952. Both Church munity life in those early years. The and Bertha were charter meribers of Gates' relatives, of course, were in the Crow Grange. (Their son, Clair, and heart of Crow. his wife,lola,are running the farm. They also belong to Crow Grange.) 1871 Not far from the Stephens holdings, Mrs. Burg arrived in Oregon with Joseph and Mary Sturtevant made their the Daniel Gates family. She was a home on land which Joseph had acquired widow with small children,Caroline on his first trip west and had several being only three. The land she acquired children: James, who died a bachelor; was where the Coryells now live. One Andrew, whose widow still lives on part of the Burg daughters was the first per- of the original purchase; Belle; Albert, son to be buried in the Gates' Cemetery. and Clark who served as postmasters of Caroline Burg was to marry John Smig- Crow for a number of years. At the time icy, a step-son of George Loehner, with the Crow postoffice was discontinued in whom he came as a boy in 1872. For a 1938, Clark's son, Darwin, was post- time Tom Burg owned a store in Crow master. From 1903 to 1942 Crow Store prior to 1900. Elizabeth lived out her was operated by Sturtevants, first by the life in the community and is buried in parents and later by Darwin and his the Gates Cemetery. John and Caroline wife, Ruth Freeman Sturtevant. Smigley had a son, Fred, who has only recently retired from the County Road 1871 Department and is living with his wife, Daniel Gates came to Oregon by way who was Rose Doster, on part of the old of California. Mrs. Gates died in Cali- Burg grant. fornia and was buriedthere.Daniel arrived in Lane County when his son, 1872 Joseph, who was so many years a resi- GeorgeLoehnerarrivedinLane dent of Crow, was only six years old. County in 1872 with his wife and two The property Daniel bought extends into boysa step-son, John Smigley, men- the very heart of Crow. It was the Old tioned above, and a son, Henry. George Hiram Rowe Donation Land Claim bought 200 acres from Henry Mounts which had been previously acquired by in Township 18S, Range 5W. He home- 76- steaded another 160 acres and bought condemnation by theState Board of anotherfortyacres from theGates Education. The Crow Grange Hall is family. He married Ida Elizabeth Red- used for most community social functions man. Their daughter, Vera, after rais- largerthanfamilysize. The Crow ing her family in Eugene, is now living Grange Community Service Project for on the farm which has been kept intact. this year is the completion of a tennis court and picnic area on grange prop- Of course settlers did not stop coming erty adjoining the school. in 1872 but by that time the land in the We have good roads, good schools, valleys was taken and for some time the good people, and a beautiful countryside. ownership of the land did not change It is inevitable that we shall be overrun very much. The private cemeteriesthe by homeseekers. That is progress. My Liles, the Gates, the Stephens, the Mc- own hope is that it will be some time Cullochsgre%v but the young came before anyone disturbs the peaceful val- along to fill the gap. (Of these ceme- ley across which, from my west windows, teries threethe Gates near Crow, the I see one of the last covered bridges in Stephens off the Vaughn Road and the Lane County at the foot of fir-banked McCulloch off the Briggs Hill Road hills. are well maintained and in use today. (The Liles Cemetery is used very infre- quently.) As time passed, farms did change hands, large holdings were di- vided and new families came who con- tributed as much to the growth and im- provement of the community as those previously mentioned but the community retained much of its early pioneer flavor until almost mid-century. This was due partly to bad roads and partly to the factthattelevision had not yet been perfected. Now the Crow Road, the TerritorialRoad,the Vaughn Road (and it was always the best of the lot) and Wolf Creek Road are black-topped. This brings the whole state nearer just as television brings in the whole world. Educators may say we are shortsighted but with the hardihood of pioneers who know what they want, the voters of the community have resisted school consoli- dation beyond the point where it would cost them the high school. In 1949, Had- leyville, Wolf Creek, Vaughn, and Crow Elementary Schools were brought togeth- er in Applegate Elementary School and Abbottchildren, Crow 1852.Theylostboth in 1958 we consolidated with the Lorane parents,paternalgrandmotherandmaternal District whose high school students came grandfather who died on the Oregon Trail. Left to Crow. In 1956 the new high school to right, sitting: Sarah (Mrs. Madison Canady), Mary (Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Holland)(mar. building came into use, replacing the 1852). Standing: Stirling, John, Samuel Jr. See one built in 1912 and used long after its story page 71. - 77 The President's Annual Report (78th Year)

By HAROLD L. EDMUNDS, 1961 PresidInt

Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to consists largely of answering inquiries this public meeting of the Lane County about pioneer family history. Our thanks Pioneer Historical Society. This meeting to Mrs. Leah Menefee for so' very well will be the last public meeting of 1961, fulfilling the office of recording secre- and under our by-laws this meeting is tary. Mrs. Menefee is away from town the annual business meeting, for a report today. on activities for the year, and election of directors. The membership secretary's work is no smalltask,recording payment of The Society has enjoyed an active dues, issuing receipts, and accounting to year. Public meetings have been held the treasurer for dues paid. Our thanks every m o n t h, excepting the summer to Mrs. Ruth 'Richardson for her good months. The meetings have been well services as membership secretary. (Mrs. attended. Richardson please stand.) The annual pioneer picnic was held Although the Society is a non-profit June 24, 1961, with a record attend- organization, it takes money to carry on ance. the work, and the treasurer's job is an active one. Our thanks to Percy M. Publication of the Lane County His- Morse for his good work as treasurer. torian has continued, and put on a quar- terly basis this year for the first time (Mr. Morse please stand.) in its 6 years of publication. Committees should be given credit: Our house committee arranges meeting Membership of the Society now con- places for meetings, and sees to it that sistsof 217 active members, and 61 quarters arranged for are available and honorary members. Among our members comfortable. The Society appreciates the are 63 members of the Oregon Historical use of HARRIS HALL, made available Society. by the Lane County Commissioners. Mr. We have received good co-operation Calder, chairman of our house commit- from our local papers, announcing and tee, please stand. reporting our public meetings. For many years the annual picnic has To itemize all the work of officers and been arranged and managed by Mr. committees would be impractical in this Claire Parks as chairman,assisted by report, because of the timeit would many individuals. Are you here, Mr. take, but the work of officers and com- Parks? mittee chairmen should be recognized The work of the program committee and their activities briefly mentioned. ably speaks for itself. Mrs. Daye Hulin The work of the recording secretary is chairman. Mrs. Hulin please stand consists of numerous activities; making and take a bow. minutes of all meetings, and answering We work in close co-operation with correspondence.The correspondence the Lane County Museum Commission. - 78 Col. Hills is a member of our Museum Our finances are in good shape. Our Committee. Are you here, Col. Hills? bookkeeping year is not yet finished, but after the first of the year any member The Society has a library at the Lane wishing detailed information on finances County Museum. Mrs. Ruth Richardson can obtain it from our treasurer. '\fVe is our library chairman. have taken in about $1,200.00 during The historian is under the direction the year to date and spent about the of Mr. Merle S. Moore, chairman of same amount. We had a surplus of a publications committee. This is a heavy few hundred dollars at the beginning of assignment. Mr. Moore please stand. the year, and will have about the same surplus at the end of the year. An important program of the Society is obtaining and publishing pioneer di- Our finances are materially assisted aries. Mrs. Menefee, recording secretary by business firms in Lane County. We is chairman of our Diary Committee. have one supporting member who con- During 1961 the Society has reproduced tributes $50.00 annually, and six sup- several manuscripts written by pioneers porting members who contributed $25.00 who came to Oregon, and has stockpiled each in 1961. a number of other diaries. Altogether The supporting member is Weyer- under this program 15 manuscripts of haeuser Company, at $50.00 annually. different nature have been reproduced, of which 9 were out of print by the Fall The contributing members at $25.00 of this year. 'We therefore plan to re- annually are: printthe Tetherow, Owen, Belshaw, The Eugene Fruit Growers Associa- and Stewart diaries,sinceorders for tion these have been received since our supply of copies was exhausted. First National Bank of Oregon The new publications for the Fall of Citizens Bank 1961are the Helen Stewart (Love) Giustina Bros. Lumber Company diary of1853, a Lost Wagon Train diary, and the letters of Esther Brake- Hult Lumber Company, Junction man Lyman and her husband, Joseph City Lyman. Eugene Register-Guard So far as we know, the Lane County We are much indebted to these seven Pioneer Historical Society is known to concerns; without their financialassis- have collected and printed the largest tance the Society would be handicapped. collection of 1853 diaries and narratives, of all routes, ever gathered in the United Isubmit the foregoing President's re- port,which I have tried to make brief ElectionofDirectorstoservefor THREE PIONEER DOCTORS three terms resulted in the following: (Continued from Page 69) Edward F. Bailey, Et+iam L. Newman, Alfred L. Lomax, Percy M. Morse, ticing in the Willamette Valley when- Harold L. Edmunds, Mrs. Ed Clark ever there was an operation to be per- (of Oakridge). formed that was not very simple. He was one oí the most respected citizens the At the regular meeting of the Board, Willamette Valley has ever known." He held Dec. 27, 1961, the following offi- cers were elected for the year of 1962: died in 1920. President, Etham L. Newman; Vice Abram Sharples' son, Caspar Wistar, President, Edward F. Bailey; Cor-Re- born in Eugene City in 1866, was one cording Secretary, Leah C. Menefee; of the most distinguished surgeons in the Membership Secretary, Ruth E. Rich- Northwest, having practiced for 51 years ardson; Treasurer, Percy M. Morse. in Seattle, 'Washington, until his death Merle S. Moore was reappointed editor in 1941. of the LANE COUNTY HISTOR- IAN magazine.

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