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sterling honesty— qualities which his son has inherited to a marked degree. The doctor spent live years of his early life on a farm and fruit nursery, and at the early age of seventeen became a school teacher. He began the study of medicine with his uncle, a Scotch physician, in 1856 and worked his way through college. He came to California in 1860, and for three years super- intended a silver mine, and in 1867 filled the position as assistant assayer on the celebrated Comstock lode. He shortly afterwards returned to his profession and took the honors of the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific in 1870, and came to Oregon in 1871, settling in Portland, where he has since resided, having built up a large and extensive practice and established an infirmary and sanitarium, which, in the future of the Northwest, promises to be to Portland all that the hosts of such institutions are to metropolitan cities elsewhere. He served for two years as Professor of eye and ear diseases in the Medical Department in the Willamette Uni- versity. The doctor is a man of original ideas, of thorough fearlessness of character, science-loving, and a liberalist in medicine, religion and pol- itics. In the relation of husband and father, no man in the State is more happily placed. Five sons give fair promise of perpetuating the name and making it honored in the future history of our State. As an occuHst Dr. Pilkington is gaining an enviable reputation throughout the State. During his residence here he has performed all of the great operations upon the eye, such as the modified Linear extraction, eneucleation, artificial pupil, etc., as performed by the great masters of the old world with remarkable success. Over eighty per cent, of his cataract operations have been suc- cessful. The doctor is one of the most genial men in his profession and is universally esteemed and respected by a very large circle of friends and acquaintances. He is of ordinary height, rather slight build, a face fairly beaming with good humor, full beard and brown hair. He has never sought political honors, being literally wedded to his profession, the practice of which occupies his entire attention.

FRANK G. ABELL, The popular and artistic photographer of Portland, was born in Roscoe, Winnebago county, Illinois, September 20, 1844. He went with his parents to California in 1857, and finished his education in the Methodist College at Sfmta Clara. After leaving this institution he remained "with his parents at their home in Petaluma, Sonoma county, for a few weeks, and then joined the Lloyd Magruder mining expedition to Powder river. He was then but sixteen years of age, and not taking kindly to mining, returned home in the following fall, 1862. Having taken a fancy to the photographic business, and being possessed of talent in that line, he proceeded to San Francisco, and entered the well-known establishment of William Shew, on Montgomery street, where he remained four years, becoming master of the art in all its branches. In 1863, at the age of nineteen, Mr. Abell was married to Miss Kate Lauder, daughter of George Lauder, Esq., a prominent hay and grain dealer of San Francisco, and has now two children, the oldest of whom, Emma May, aged eighteen, is at present perfecting her musical education