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 Oregon Spectator for a while, was first assistant commissary-general under General Joel Palmer, audited the claims of the Cayuse War, went to the legislature and became the first chief-justice of the supreme court of Oregon as a state. "Early in the seventies his voice failed him for public speaking." He related many anecdotes and reminiscences, among them the following dialogue that took place between him and Dr. John McLoughlin when the two were alone in the judge's office at Oregon City:

Reverend Joab Powell—"Uncle Joab"—was the most famous of the early Baptist preachers. He came to Oregon in 1852 and settled at the Forks of Santiam River, where between his sermons and baptisings he made his home until his death in 1873. He has been vividly described in C. H. Mattoon's Baptist Annals of Oregon: "He traveled all over the Territory, and was well known everywhere, and whenever it was announced that he was to preach, he was sure of