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acciutinned to auch confinement; all- having been brought up In tents, tepees, or the open air. Some were diseased; many became ill from change of diet, and soon an epidemic similar to diphtheria broke out, and instead of a school, the place became a hoq;>ital ivith sixteen children lying sick at one time in one small room. According to Doctor Mo* Looghlin, the school was continued until 1838 amid discouraging circumstances, the missionaries doing eveiirdiing in their power to remedy the ¥rant of proper buildings*

The Pint School Teadicr in Ongon. Philip L. Ed¥raunds ¥ras a Kentuckian by birth. He came from Richmond, Missouri, to Oregon, when he was twenty-three years of age. Of more than ordinary attainments, he loved order and refinement. A frontiersman, he knew how to accom* modate himself to the rough condition of pioneer life. While possessed of high moral sense, he was not a missionary. After teaching thiy school, he returned to Missouri, studied law and married. In 1850 he went to Calif omia. - set tling in Nevada county, taking an active part in- politics and dying in May, 1869.—**Centennial History of Oregon.**

Methodist Reinforcements. In 1 83 7, eight persons were brought on the ship * 'Hamilton** from Boston via the Sandwich Islands as a reinforcement for the mission of which Jason Lee was the head. Among them was Elijah White who was to be the physician of the Mission. He brought with him his wife, an infant son, and an adopted son fourteen years of age. There were also Alanson Beers, the blacksmith, who was later member of the first Executive Committee of the Provisional Government; the kmdly W. H. Willson, who Uved to locate the Salem townsite; Miss Anna Maria Pittman; also Miss Susan Downing and Miss Elvira Johnson. In October, 1839, another reinforcement came on the "Lausanne" from New York, increasing the missionary family to sixty persons. A hospital was at once built and the work of the Misuon enlarged and intensified in eveiy way possible.