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chat time. He tiieu came to Oregon, stopping in Rogue river valley, where he spent the summer of 1871." In the fall of the same year and during the winter he attended school at Ashland, where he paid l)oard by cutting wood and "doing chores." In the spring of 1872 he commenced teaching scliool. After teacliing tor a short period he and six others started for Boise City with a band of horses. Returning in the fall of that year he again attended school at Ashland Academy. The summer and fall of 1873 was spent in teaching and in surveying. In May, 1874, he received the nomination for Representative by the Republicans of Jackson county, but was defeated He was married September 1, 1874, to Miss Ella J. Ghitwood, daughter of J. H. Chitwood. From 1874 to 187(5 lie was connected with Dr. Chit wood in a drug store, and during that period studied law. In 1875 he became a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the First Judicial District, and was beaten bv 185 votes. In 1877 he took charge of the "Oregon Sentinel," which position he held for neaily a year. In December of that year he was ad- mitted by the Supreme Court of Oregon. l!i March, 1878, he went to Lake county and opened an office and in November with his brother, W. W. Wat- son, established the "State Line Heralcj." In this year his name was again placed on the Republican ticket as a candidate for District Attorney of the First District, but he declined to run. In the early part of 1880 he enlarged the "Herald" and made it a stalwart Reptiblican paper. In April, 1880, he was placed on the Republican ticket as a candidate for Presidential Elector, and received the highest vote on the ticket. During this canvass his news- paper office was bjarned with all in it. In November, 1880, he changed his residence to Portland and during the last campaign made a canvass of a portion of the State in behalf of the Republican party.

FRED PAGE TUSTIN, ESQ.

The old countries of the Eastern continent have contributed largely to the talent of this, our own free America, and. generally speaking, those who have received their education in the schools of old England and come hither and adopted our manners and customs without forcing upon us, as many do, taunts and sneers of superciliousness, rarely fail to make warm and last- ing friends and to meet with the business success they so deservedly merit. Their educational training, when rigidly followed, is perhaps superior to our own. and, when preparing for a profession the English student is, be- yond a doubt, put through a better course of pieparatory study than is he who pursues the same profession under the American system of prepara- tion. The subject of this sketch was born and raised on English soil and did not leave his native land until along in 1872, at which time he was about twenty-four years of age, having been born in the city of Oxford. England, November 7, 1848. He studied law with Edward Vcre Nicoll, at Shipston, in the county of Worcester, England, from 1864 to 1872. In the spring of the latter year he started for Oregon, reaching Roseburg on July 3d of the same year. While in Roseburg he was engaged in various pursuits, in all of which he succeeded in gaining warm and steadfast friends by liis quiet, in- dustrious habits and gentlemanly deportment. As soon, however, as he had