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cured his certificate and taught for one term at $40 per month and board around. He then went to Astoria and commenced the practice of law, where he has since resided, and has succeeded in building up a lucrative business. In 1878 he was elected State Senator and served his con- stituents and the State at large faithfully in that capacity for the term of four years. He is rather above average height, spare built, smooth face with the exception of a mustache, light hair and whiskers and a pleasant eye. He stands well in business, legal and social circles and has hosts of friends throughout the State. He is married and is said to make a model husband.

D. L. MOOMAW,

At present a prominent citizen of Baker City, was born in Eastern Virginia, in 1837 and came to Oregon in 1858. He settled in Oregon City, where he was engaged in teaching school until the spring of 1861. The gold excite- ment caused by the discovery of that coveted commodity in Northern Idaho induce him to emigrate hence and he remained in the mines for several years. His success was not brilliant in amassing a fortune of any considerable magni- tude, and he returned to Oregon in the spring of 1870, locating at Baker City, where he has resided ever since. He has become closely identified with the interests of that section of the country and is enthusiastic in its praise. He has alwa ys been an active politician, but is not a candidate for political honors. He is a gentleman of pleasing address, a little below medium height, heavy set, full beard and hair of dark brown. He is unmarried ; in fact, he is considered by many a confirmed old bachelor, but he is still in marke t and is very popular among the ladies. He is an uncompromising Republican and represented his county in the last Repu blican State Con- vention.

H, F. ADAMS, M. D. Was born June 23, 1836, in Sheldon, Vt. When fourteen years old he was sent to Sfc Albans Academy and later to North Hampton Institute. His early religious training was in the Congregational Church. When scarcely nineteen years old young Adams attended his first course of lectures at the Medical Department of the University of Vermont. During the following summer he read with Surgeon O. S. Searles, M. D., and in the fall he en- tered the Medical Department of the University of New York, a private student of Prof. Valentine Mott, M. D. The next year he entered for his third course of lectures at Albany, New York, but while there his health failed and he was compelled to seek rest, he having already been troubled with hemorrhage of the lungs. He soon after began the practice of medicine in Oakland county, Mich., where he was united in marriage to Miss Lavinia Perry. This union was brief, as his devoted wife soon fell a victim to that dread disease phthisis pulmonalis. Soon after this event the Doctor en- tered the volunteer corps of surgeons in the United States army. His health, however, became again impaired and he was compelled to resign his position and go north. In the fall of 1862 he settled in Jo Davis county.