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Attorney in that city. He has recently entered the law oflfice of Caples & Mulkey with a view of completinj? his studies and applying for admission to the bar at the March terna of the Supreme Court. Mr. Pittenfrer is a young gentleman of fine personal appearance, hglit built, retjular features, smooth face, with the exception of a mustache, and dark brown hair. He is of a genial disposition, enjoys a joke and has the hapi)y faculty of making friends of all with whom he comes in contact.

W. LUNDBERG Was born in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, on September «;, IKM]. He received his early education until the age of fourteen under the direction of private instructors, and was confirmed according to the rites of the Lutheran Church. Besides his mother tongue, he became master of Ger- man, French and English, and having a great taste for mechanical work, was apprenticed to a manufacturer of philosophical and mathematical in- struments. His uncle, P. Faber, who was then Director General of the gov- ernment telegraph, instructed him in the use of the instruments, and through him the youth acquired a fondness for electrical experiments. When young Lundberg's term of four years as apprentice had expired, he traveled for a short time through Germany, France and England, and not feeling satisfied with the information he received there in regard to elec- tricity, made up his mind to go to the very fountain head of electricity and liberty, and ari'ived in New York in the early part of 1855, when he immedi- ately went to work for the firm of Charles T. and J. N. Chester, then the most prominent manuf acturing electricians of the United States. When the rebellion broke out, in 1861, a brother of the above firm, S. Chester, was appointed Captain of Company I, of the Fifteenth New York liegiment, under Col. John McLeod Murphy, with the intention of making his com- pany a telegraph corps. Mr. Lundberg received the appointment of First Lieutenant of this company and was sworn into the United States service, but when the government would not recognize the company as a telegraph corps, they were, after sixteen weeks' service, mustered out. He then re- ceived a call from the Califofnia State Telegraph Company as manufac- turing electrician, and arrived in California the latter part of 1861. After remaining in their service two years he started an establi shment of his own, and met with great success, sending instruments all over the world. In April, 1870, Mr. Lundberg superintended the electrical department under Col. Von Schmidt in removing Blossom Rock in San Francisco harbor, ex- ploding twenty -three tons of powder in one charge. In 1871 he soUi out his establishment and took a trip to Japan, where he remained four months, and then returned to San Francisco, where he lived until 1875, when he came to Oregon, arriving here the latter part of November. The following January he received appointment of Superintendent of Fire Alarm Tele- graph and has held that position ever since. In 18S1 Mr. Lundberg asso- ciated himself with J. Dilg in a manufacturing establishment for electrical. surveyors' and optical goods. In 1879, together with a few others, he or- ganized the Natural Science Association, before which he has delivered