copyright 2021 by Jerry Olson 9/12/2021 Short Biographies S-Z of All of the Surveyors and Individuals Associated with the Surveyor General's Office in Oregon 1851-1910 copyright 2021 by Jerry Olson 9/12/2021 Typical Format Photo Short Biography (if available with permission Born-Died to post) (biography) means that there is a biography Political Affiliation, if of some kind available in the Biography known Credits and sources for photos Section. Type of Surveyor First Contract or Year can be found in the Photo Engagement Section. See the end of this section for a list of to abbreviations. Last Contract or Year Engagement Sanderson, Born in England, Edward came to the U. S. in 1851 as a Edward Wavell youth, and became a citizen when his father was naturalized. His family settled in Tennessee, and in 1870, Edward was 1844-1913 County Surveyor of Blount County, Tennessee. He was a Dem stock farmer in Butte Creek, Wasco County, Oregon in 1880. Rep He received two Contracts in Umatilla County in 1880-81. USDS Contract 368 1880 The first was for five townships South of Hepner. The second to was for two townships West of Hepner and four more South of Contract 417 1881 Hepner. They were surveyed with consistent crews each season, Edward married Angeline B. "Angie" Hamilton in San Jose in 1883 and was the Sheriff of Gilliam County from at least 1888-91. By 1890, he was in Santa Clara, California, and was listed as a stockman and orchardist there from at least 1892-97; a surveyor in Gilroy, California in 1900; a surveyor in Oakland in 1910; and a carpenter in Oakland in 1910. Angie died in Oakland in 1911, and Edward in 1913. He was successfully sued by a sister in 1895 for the collection of a $125 promissory note. Surveying South of the River [email protected] Biographies M-Z 427 copyright 2021 by Jerry Olson 9/12/2021 Sartwell, Dugald Dugald was born in New York, the son of a physician, and Stewart "D. S." probably was named for the Scotch philosopher. He was a 1823-1910 jeweler in New York in 1850, and always was listed as a Dem watchmaker, in 1860 and in the California voter registers from Contract 241 1875 1867-98. He came to California in 1852 via Panama, and by to 1859 he was functioning as an assayer for the recent copper no more finds. In 1860, Dugald was in Crescent City with an 18 year old Indian girl named Betsey Tatausi and a half Indian 3 year old son. He would sire two more half Indian sons in the next three years. From 1859-62 he was the lightkeeper at Battery Point Lighthouse, and was an elected Supervisor of Del Norte County in 1864. Dugald stayed near Crescent City the rest of his life, was listed as a surveyor in 1870, a civil engineer in 1880, and from at least 1870-75 was Del Norte County Surveyor. Dugald received Contract 241 in 1875 for one township in Oregon just across the border in Curry County. It was for 10 sections along the Chetco River out of Brookings. A. H. Cleveland surveyed Contract 372 for 2 Sections in 1879 adjacent to Dugald's survey, and those two sections were shown on the official plat of Dugald, without distinction of who did the survey. He used a five man crew that included at least two settlers in the township. Beginning in about 1877, Dugald was the official weather observer for Crescent City, reporting both to Portland and San Francisco. He was appointed postmaster of Crescent City in 1887. Probably all during his residence in Crescent City, he ran a business from a shop that offered the repairing of watches, clocks, jewelry, sewing machines and musical instruments. Dugald was a widower, living with his two youngest sons in 1910, and died later that year. His oldest son, Henry, died in a rescue attempt of stranded Sailors on the shipwrecked schooner Elvinia in 1882. Saunders, Born in Ireland, William came to the U. S. in 1851 to William N. California and then crossed the Siskiyous from California the gold fields in Althouse and Waldo in April 1851. He and 40 1829-1901 other miners drafted the mining code of the Northwest on the USDS bank of Canyon Creek in 1852. and he is credited with Contract 322 1879 discovering the "Caesar Diggings of Southern Josephine to County. In 1860 he was a miner in Josephine County, and in no more 1863 he was the Josephine County Assessor, lasting until 1865. He became a citizen in 1866, and by 1874 he was the Josephine County Surveyor, holding that office nearly ti l til 1888 li i i Ki b G t P d Surveying South of the River [email protected] Biographies M-Z 428 copyright 2021 by Jerry Olson 9/12/2021 Althouse does not now exist and was a prosperous gold mining town, probably on Althouse Creek Southeast of Cave Junction. It produced record amounts of placer gold in the late 1800's. William received Contract 322 for one fractional township for six miles of line in 1879 in Curry County, just Southeast of Cave Junction. He was single and the County Surveyor in nearby Althouse in 1880. A national publication noted him as the Josephine County Superintendent of Schools in 1882-84 in Kirbyville. He was listed as a widower and a surveyor in Grants Pass in 1900 and died there in the County Hospital in 1901 Saxton, Willard Roy was born in Wisconsin and Roy "Roy" graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1904. After school he 1881-1910 went to work for the U. S. USS Reclamation Service out of Special Instructions 1906 Pendleton and then moved to to Hermiston when the office moved. no more He received Special Instructions from his agency to survey some farm tracts along the ORN RR. They were surveyed in 1909 and approved both by USRS and the GLO. He was an engineer in Hermiston in 1910 and died at age 29 at the sanitarium at Hot Lake on July 27, 1910, after five days illness. Roy's death was caused by polio encephalitis, a form of spinal meningitis, a year after his survey. Newspapers claimed it was from working in the heat of the desert. In his obituary, he was credited with discovering the Cold Springs Reservoir site for the Umatilla Project, and with doing much of the surveying. It was also noted that he was an accomplished violinist and played piccolo in the Wisconsin Band. Schiller, Eugene Born in Germany, Eugene came to the U. S. in 1880 and lived in Oregon by 1886 when he married Anna Maria Jenne Mueller, a recent widow with five children, ten years his 1855-1917 senior. Anna had immigrated to the U. S. in 1866, from USDS Germany also, and they had one son together in 1887. Eugene Contract 648 1896 became a citizen in Portland in 1895. He received Contract to 648 for one township in Wallowa County and Contract 673 for Contract 673 1896 one township in Josephine County, also in 1896. Surveying South of the River [email protected] Biographies M-Z 429 copyright 2021 by Jerry Olson 9/12/2021 Contract 647 was for a full township at the town of Wallowa, with Robert C. Bonser as a chainman. Bonser would become a U. S. Deputy Surveyor the next year and eventually the County Surveyor of Multnomah County for 19 years. Contract 673 was for a full township between Grants Pass and Cave Junction and included Lincoln and Marion Wilkes as crewmen. Lincoln had already surveyed two Contracts on his own as a Deputy Surveyor, and his nephew Marion would be a Deputy in the future. Eugene was an engineer for a RR at Klamath Falls in 1899, and took out a passport to travel for two years in Europe in 1900. He surveyed the bay at the Port of Toledo in 1910. He was divorced in Beaverton in 1910, and Anna was listed as single and living separately the same year. Eugene died in Sylvan in 1917 and Anna in 1919. They must have reconciled because Anna is buried next to Eugene, and is memorialized on the same tombstone. She was also the executrix of his will and was left some property. Eugene had an estate of $20,000 with several properties included around the state. Scholfield, Socrates was born the first son of Nathan Scholfield, a Socrates cotton and woolen mill operator, machinist, civil engineer, and mathematician. In 1833 Nathan wrote an article for the 1831-1914 Franklin Institute on the use of a sextant in measuring distance Whig between two points by observations from both ends using USDS mirrors. It was a well documented premise, with ample Dr/Clerk calculations to back it up. He patented a governor for water Claim Contract 93 1859 wheels that was used throughout the milling industry. In 1845 to Nathan wrote a three-volume book on advanced geometry and Clerk 1859 trigonometry for college level study. He travelled to Oregon in 1850 as part of a group of investors from San Francisco that wanted to profit from the settlement of the Territory. They hoped to find gold, identify harbors, survey townsites, and promote them. They were headed for the Klamath, but first explored the Rogue where they found hostile Indians which made it not suitable for settlement, and then moved on to the Umpqua. They surveyed the harbor, and surveyed the townsites of Umpqua City, Scottsburg, and Elkton.