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subject to many hardships in crossing' the yjlaius with their ox teaniH. With bis parents he settled in Washinji^ton county, where they remained about a year and then moved to Sau\'ie's Island, where they remained until 1853, going from there to Jackson county and engafjed in farming and stock- raising. In 1856 returned to Yamhill county and in 1858 moved to Wasco county and was engaged most of the time in stock-raisiug and running pack trains. In 1861 there was a company of seventy-five organized to prospect for gold, and Col. Miller was elected captain, and tbey were the first discov- erers of the John Day, Burnt River and Powder River mines, which after- wards turned out very rich. Moved to Yakima valley, in Washington Ter- ritory, in 1869, where he resided uutil 1877, when he returned to The Dalles. Served in Capt. John F. Miller's company during the Rogue river war of 1853, and was commissioned as Colonel and took an active part in the Uma- tiUa war of 1877-8. He was apijointed Warden of the Oregon State Peni- tentiary in 1878 by His Excellency Gov. Thayer, and it is due to his careful management that the institution has been run so economically during the past four years. He is an excellent manager, a careful financier, and in his general supervision of the work has been as careful of the State finances aa he would have been of his own. He is well hked by the inmates of that in- stitution, and is strict, without being harsh or cruel. He was married to Miss Sarah E. Raflfety on the 21st day of September, 1864, and one child, a bright, intelligent little girl, has thus far blessed their union.

MARION F. MULKEY.

The subject of this biographical sketch has led an active life, both as a public man and as a private individual. He is one of our self-made men, and from obscurity in early life has attained a prominence in the legal fra- ternity highly flattering to a gentleman of his age. He was born in John- son county, Missouri, November 14, 1886, and with his father, Johnson Mul- key, came to Oregon in 1847 and settled on Oak creek about three miles west of Corvallis. They there took up a donation claim and hved a pioneer's life in every sense of the word. Among the teachers in the traditional log school house of that early day who wielded the birch over young Mulkey's shoulders were Hon. James H. Slater, our present United States Senator, and Hon. Piiilip Ritz, now a prominent fruit grower near Walla Walla. En- dowed with more than ordinary ambition, and with a view of getting out- side the ruts of routine life on the farm, he, in 1854, entered the Pacific University at Forest Grove, and, under the venerated Dr. Marsh, com- menced fitting himself for college. In the fall of 1858 he entered Yale Col- lege, at New Haven, Conn., from which he graduated as one of the class of '62. He returned to Portland and lead law Avith Hon. E. D. Shattuck and was admitted to the bar in 1864. He was appointed Deputy Provost Mar- shal hi 1863 and helped make the enrollment of that year. In 1866 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of the fourth Judicial District, and in 1867 represented the citizens of the Third ward in the Portland City Council. In 1872 he was elected City Attorney and re-elected in 1873, since which time he has been associated in the practice of his profession with Hon. John F.