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286 lack of practical skill as the intense rivalry of others at more central points. Oregon alone could furnish enough inventors to supply the world if the race of Fulton and Edison should fail elsewhere!

The Jorys have been a prolific family in Oregon, the oldest son, John, who married Caroline Budd, having a family of ten children; James, who married Sarah A. Budd, a sister of Caroline, eleven children; Thomas, of South Salem, who married Katharine Leabo, seven children; William, who married Jane Moore, four children; and H. Stevens, of South Salem, who married May Budd, still another sister of Caroline and Sarah A., five children. Thomas C. Jory, well known over the entire state as an educator and an advanced thinker on political and social matters, lives upon a part of the old donation claim, in a locality of ideal Oregon beauty, with his family of wife and three children.

The Grandfather Jory, who came to America and then with his sons to Oregon, is said to have thought himself the last of his race; but besides the numerous family founded by himself in Oregon and in California, it is now known that there are also many other Jorys in different parts of the United States and England. H. S. LYMAN.