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obtained a knowledge of the art of printing, and was for a season during bis studies a writer for the newspapers. Gov. Chadwick is a gentleman of low stature and heavy set, slightly inclined to corpulancy. He is of very pleasing address and a man of great geniality of character. As a public otiicer, he made friends rapidly, and the vote he received on the occasion of his re-election to the office of Secretary of State was a flattering testimonial of the esteem in which he was held by the public. As a speaker, he is forci- ble, earnest and persuasive, and possesses a vast fund of what has been termed j^ersonal magnetism. Altiiough now turning fifty years of age, he is in excellent preservation and bids fair to live for another quarter of a century. Gov. Chadwick held many minor and important offices in early life. He was Deputy U. b. District Attorney and acting Prosecuting At- torney under our Territorial existence in Southern Oregon, and was the first judge of Douglas county and first postmaster of Scottsburg. He has contributed largely by his valuable writings and addresses on various occa- sions, especially those delivered at the laying of the comer stone of the State Capitol building, and at the pioneer re-union, to the history of our State. He was married in 1856 to Miss Jane A. Smith, a most estimable lady and a native of Virginia and of an excellent family. By this marriage there are four children, two daughters and two sons. The elder daughter became the wife of W. T. Long, Esq., of Salem. The Governor is very fond of good society, and, like all genial men, is fond of good plain living, which he enjoys as much as any gentleman with whom we ever met. His genial man- ners, liberal and charitable disposition, and liis many acts of kindness have won for him a host of friends, of whom he must feel justly proud. He prizes highly his annual feast that comes off on the first day of January, when he makes his yearly round among his acquaintances, and he is credited with ample capacity for this treat. He is a good and trusty citizen of the olden time in Oregon and a resident of Salein, in our State.

GEORGE HUMPHREY.

No man is better or more favorably known in Linn county than is he whose name heads this sketch, and who is at present the Sheriff of that county. He was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 23, 1833, and with his parents moved to Illinois in 1835, and a year later moved to Iowa, where be resided until 1865, when he moved to Oregon and settled in Linn county, where he has resided ever since, and where he has made a host of friends who have every confidence in his honesty, efficiency and integrity, and that they have not mistaken their man is evinced by the fact that he has never betrayed them, and by his obliging and accommodating disposition has ever sliown a willingness to do anything in his power to show his apprecia- tion of their regard. Mr. Humphrey never had many educational advan- tages, but he has managed to pick up considerable information, and is to- day better posted on general subjects than many who, in early life, enjoyed facilities for securing knowledge of which he was deprived. Mr. Humphrey was for eight years prior to 1880 Deputy Sheriff of Linn county, and in 1882 he was nominated and elected Sheriff of that county by a h