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754  and from that state in 1839 to Van Buren Co., Iowa, emigrating in 1848 to Oregon and locating in Benton Co. He was an ardent preacher of his faith from youth to old age. Id., March 20, 1869.

Caleb Richey died in Pleasant Valley, Nev., Nov. 28, 1875. Reno State Journal, Dec. 18, 1875.

Jesse Parrish died in Marion County, Oregon, in Sept. 1878. Olympia Transcript, Oct. 5, 1878.

J. J. Lindsay was born in Ripley Co., Ind., Dec. 25, 1838, and emigrated with his parents to Oregon. They remained but one winter in the Willamette Valley, going to Cal. in 1849, and remaining there, where the elder Lindsay died in 1851. His subsequent history belongs to California. Sonoma Co. Hist., 622.

Daniel Trullinger was born in Ross County, Ohio, February 14, 1801. In 1822 he went to Indiana as an Indian trader. The same year he married Elizabeth Johnson at Whitewater, Indiana. He soon after went into milling and flouring. He helped to erect the first log building in Covington, Indiana. In 1838 he moved from Indiana to Henry County, Iowa. On April 8, 1848, he left Davis County, Iowa, where he was residing at that time, for Oregon, accompanied by his wife and sons, G. J., N. H. and wife, J. C., and D. P.; also six daughters. The family travelled to near St Joseph, Missouri, when it joined a team of about 300 emigrants bound for Oregon and California. Oregon City was reached September 15, 1848. Mr Trullinger immediately took up a donation claim of 640 acres, upon which he resided until his death in 1868. In addition to the various pursuits followed by him, he was also a minister of the gospel, serving as a Christian minuter about 40 years. By well-directed correspondence after coming to Oregon, he aided emigration very much. Mrs Trullinger died in 1833, at the age of 81.

J. C. Trullinger, son of the above, was born in Fountain County, Indiana, July 29, 1828; arrived in Oregon in 1848. In 1849 he went overland to the mines of California, remaining there until January 1, 1850, when he returned to Oregon, and in 1850–1, in company with his brother, G. J. Trullinger, built a large warehouse at Milwaukee, at a cost of $14,000. In 1852 he located a donation claim of 320 acres at Fano Creek, 9 miles south of Portland, and built a saw-mill and flour-mill. In 1863 this property was disposed of, and the milling property at Oswego was purchased, including the town site, laying out the town in 1864. In the erection of the first monument for the survey and platting of the town, the first pig of cast-iron run by the Oregon Iron Company, being also the first cast west of the Rocky Mountains, was utilized for that purpose. In 1870 he sold the Oswego property, having greatly improved the mills, built a steamer on Oswego Lake, also two miles of railway connecting the lake with Tualitan River. On his return in the fall of 1870 from a trip East, he purchased the Centerville mills, immediately rebuilding and improving them. Without disposing of the Centerville property, he removed to Astoria in 1875, immediately engaging extensively in the lumbering business, building large mills, two miles of standard-gauge railroad with necessary rolling stock for a logging railway. He is also engaged in farming and stock-raising extensively, and at one time also in merchandising. In 1885 was elected mayor of Astoria for a term of 2 years. In 1886–7 he put an electric-light plant in Astoria. In 1853 Mr Trullinger married Miss Hannah Boyles, who had crossed the plains in 1852. He has a family of 6 sons and 2 daughters.