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in the year 1840. They hved there a number of years and then moved to Michigan, Mr. Ireland commenced learning the printer's trade in the office of a newspaper published at Mishawaka, by Hon. Schuyler Colfax, after- wards Vice-President of the United States. He established the "Free Press" in that city in 1855, and shortly afterwards moved. to Miiiuui-sota. In 1860 he was sent to Eed river of the North by Burbank <V' Co., of 8t. Paul, Minn., with the machinery for the first steamboat ever built on that stream. In 1861 I'.v" was Clerk of the Sempk^ Commission, appointed liy Congress to settle troubles growing out of liquor selling and timber stealing on the various Indian reservations in Minnesota. From Minnesota he moved to Oregon and established the "Enterprise" at Oregon City in 180G, and for some time was the city editor of the " Daily Oregonian." In 1870 he was the local editor of the "Daily Bulletin," and remained on that paper until 1872, when he went to Astoria and started the "Daily Astorian," which he managed very successfully until 1881. He was for three years Mayor of that city, and made a host of warm, personal friends during his official career. He was elected one of the delegates to the National Re]niblicau Convention, which met at Chicago in 1880, and is at present the member from this State of the National Republican Committee. He disposed of his interest in the "Astorian" in 1881, and moved to Portland, where he is now engaged in the management of one of the best conducted job printing offices in this city, under the firm name of D. C. Ireland & Co. Mr. Ireland is an active, en- ergetic buvsiness man, and is fast building up a trade that i)romises success and competency within a few years. As a writer, Mr. Ireland is ■forcible and accurate; as a reporter, he is considered one of the best in the State, " brevities " being his specialty, and as a printer, he is thoroughly competent. He is strong in his friendship and bitter in his animosities. Fearful lest some of our lady readers may become too much interested in him, we might add that he is a married man and the father of several bounc- ing girls and boys.

M. L. CHAMBERLIN.

No young man in Marion county is better known or has more warm p er- sonal friends than he whose name heads this sketch. He is literally a self- made man, and what little of success he has met with in life has been the result of his own eflbrts, and he has had much to contend with. In face of adverse circumstances, however, and without being peculiarly favored by any freaks of fortune, he has succeeded in placing himself above.probabili- ties of want, and, above all, he has earned and well merits the confidence and esteem of an unusually large circle of friends. Mr. Chamberlin was born at Dryden, Mich., May 17, 1847, and with his parents immigrated to Oregon in 1858. He settled in Yamhill county, and in 1867 moved to Salem, where he has resided ever since. Being the only boy in a family of eight children, adverse circumstances placed him at their head at an early age, and manfully has he discharged his trust, having denied himself mudi to aid and assist his sisters in securing an education, and his reward has been a liberal one, in that the family to-day stands among the highest in socid,