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THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF OREGON a-19

was the mother of 4 sons and 3 daughters. I'ortlaiid Oregonian, J)eceniher 13, 1879.

Hugh Harrison was boru in Harrison county, Ivy., whieh county was named after his grandfather. He was for several years in the Rocky Mountains with Kit Carson, but settled in Soutii Salem in 1847, where he died at the age of 76 years, May 27, 1877. Portland Standard, June 1, 1877.

Joseph Merrill, boi'n in Ross county, Ohio, November 15, 1818, removed with his parents to Illinois, at the age of 10 years, returned to Ohio when he attained his majority, and married the next year a Miss Freeman, of Chillicothe, the ceremony being performed by Justice of the Peace Thurston, afterward U. S. Senator from Ohio. Jlerrill subsequently returned to Illinois, where he resided until 1847. In the spring of 1848 he settled in Columbia county, Oregon. He died at his home. May 6, 1879, regretted by the community in which he lived. Portland Standard, May, 13, 1879.

Mrs. John Fisher lost her husband at the crossing of the Platte river, June 6, 1847 ; and on Snake river she buried her little girl 2 years of age. She arrived late in tiie autumn at Tualatin Plains, where during the winter she met W. A. Mills, who had arrived in 1843. He proposed marriage and they were united in 1848, continuing to reside near Hillsboro. Mrs. Mills had five children, two sons and three daughters. She was born in Wayne county, Ind., April 20, 1822, and died December 11, 1869. Salem Farmer," March 26, 1870. William Glover settled in Marion county. Mrs. Jane Jett Graves Glover was born in Pittsylvania Co., Va., in 1827, removed with her parents to Missouri in 1830, and was married to William Glover in 1843, with whom she came to Oregon in 1847. She died December 31, 1876. Id., Jan. 12, 1877.

Leander L. Davis was bom in Belmont Co., Ohio, and crossed the plains in 1847, settling in Marion Co. He served in the State legislature in 1866. He died June 29, 1874, at Silverton, aged 48 years. Id., July 4, 1874.

Mrs. Olive Warren Chamberlain was born in Covington, New York, Feb- ruary 12, 1822. While she was a child, her father, an itinei-ant Methodist preacher, removed with her to Michigan, where in 1843 she married Joseph Chamberlain, and came to Oregon. She was the mother of ten children, eight of whom survive her. She died October 27, 1874, at Salem. Salem, Or., States- man, November 7, 1874.

Mrs. R. A. Ford, who settled with her husband in Marion county in 1847, after becoming a widow, studied medicine, and practiced in Salem, educating a son for the profession. She died in March, 1880, in the city of Portland. Portland Standard, April 2, 1880.

William H. Dillon was a native of Kent Co. Del., from which he removed ^^•hen a child, to the Scioto valle.y in Ohio. When a young man he removed again to Indiana, and thence to Oregon. Dillon lived one .year on Sauvie's Island, when he went to the California gold mines, returning in a few months with a competency, and settling near Vancouver.

Samuel T McKean was from Delaware county, New York, where he mar- ried Polly Hicks, in 1817, and removed to Richmond, Ohio, from which place many years later he again removed to Illinois, where he founded the town of Chillicothe, naming it after the old Indian village of that name in Ohio. When he came to Oregon he had a family of six children. In the autumn they removed to San Jose, California. During his residence in Oregon, McKean held several places of trust and honor, as member of the legislative assembly, clerk of the district court of Clatsop county, and afterward as county judge, and president of the board of trustees of the town of Astoria. He died at San Jose, in 1873, and his wife followed him in 1877, leaving many descendants. San Jose Pioneer, April 28, 1877.

George La Rocque, a native of Canada, was born near Montreal in 1820. At the age of 16 he entered the United States and like most Canadians, soon sought employment of the fur companies. Being energetic and intel