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Rh Lieutenant Wilkes gave him papers for sailing the Star of Oregon. "Captain Gale has always been a man of great energy, brave, fearless and honest” (J. W. Nesmith, in address before Oregon Pioneer Association, 1880, p. 12 of Transactions). Together with Alanson Beers and David Hill, he constituted the executive committee of the provisional government, elected July 5, 1843. He died in Eagle Valley, Union County, Oregon, De cember 13, 1881. For his biography, see The Oregonian, December 29, 1881, p. 4; February 12, 1882, p. 4; October 12, 1883, p. 1; May 9, 1877, p. 4. Note 1, p. 17. Jesse Applegate possessed energies of character and leader ship that gave him large public influence. He was chosen a captain of the immigration party of 1843. He took an active part in the provisional gov ernment. In 1849 he moved from Willamette Valley to Yoncalla Valley, in the Umpqua country. He was a member of the Oregon constitutional convention of 1857. He was born July 5, 1811, in Henry County, Ken tucky; died April 2, 1888. His brothers, Lindsay and Charles, were also notable in Oregon history. “ Applegate was a farmer, trader and surveyor, from Missouri. Full of original thought and suggestion, of great energy and endurance, he has written his plain Saxon name upon every page of the early annals of the country, not lacking the useful talent for either leading or following others,'more often in the minority than otherwise " (Matthew P. Deady, address before Oregon Pioneer Association in 1875) . For biography of Jesse Applegate, see The Oregonian, July 8, 1889; tributes to his memory, ibid., April 24, 1888; also see tribute by Samuel Bowles, in his book , Our New West ( 1869). For his narrative, “ A Day with the Cow Column in 1843," see Transactions of Oregon Pioneer Association , 1876 , pp. 57–65; this volume, p. 17; vol. v, p. 297.

Note 3, p. 17. Morton Matthew McCarver was born in Kentucky in 1807. He was commissary -general in the Rogue River War. He was speaker of the legislative committees of 1844 and 1845, of the provisional government. He laid out the old part of Tacoma, where he settled in 1868. He was one of the founders also of Burlington, Iowa, Sacramento, California, and Linnton, Oregon. McCarver engaged in the Cayuse War of 1847–48. He died April 17, 1875. For his biography, see The Oregonian, May 21, 1897, p. 8; McCarver and Tacoma, by Thomas W. Prosch. His partners in the Tacoma townsite were Lewis M. Starr and James Steel, of Portland, Oregon; this volume, p. 192; vol. v, p. 296.

Note 4, p. 17. John G. Baker was a prominent resident of Yamhill County, of which he was sheriff during four years of the provisional gov ernment, and two years of the territorial government. He was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1818, and came to Oregon in 1843.

Note 5, p. 17. Captain Absalom J. Hembree was reconnoitering with (233)