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iu this State. In appearance Mr. Johns is a fine specimen of manhood ; his physique is of the Roman style of " architecture," and commands respect from those with whom he comes in social or business contact.

I. N. SANDERS,

The presfcnt Assessor of Multnomah county, was born in Orange county, Indiana, iu the year 1840. His father was a farmer, and the boy was brought up with a practical knowledge of soil-culture, in the meantime at- tendiug the neighboring schools, until the age of twenty-two. At the breaking out of the civil war young Sanders joined the Sixty-Sixth Indiana regiment, which for a time was in the Fifteenth Corps under Gen. Logan, and again in the Sixteenth, under Gen. Dodge. He marched with the gal- lant Sherman from Atlanta to the sea, and participated in all the battles on the line of march. The soldier boy was watched over by a lucky star, and with the exception of being shot through the shoulder at the battle of Col- yerville, Tenn., Oct. 11, 1863, received no wound. He was mustered out of service in June, 1865, in Indiana, and then went to Centralia, Illinois, where he lived five years, engaged in the profession of school teaching. In 1870 he came west to Oregon and took up his abode in East Portland, where he has since prospered. He is a true Republican and was elected City Re- corder there in 1875 and subsequently re-elected four times. In 1882 the Republicans of Multnomah saw that they had to put a ticket in the field which was composed of popular men, and whom the people could place de- pendence on, iu order to secure a victory. Mr. Sanders was nominated for the responsible position of Assessor, and although his opponent was a strong man, our hero was elected by a handsome majority. He was mar- ried to Miss Asenath Ferguson in 1864, and they have six children. He is a member of Orient Lodge, No. 17, I. O. O. P., and has received all the honors of that order, having been P. G. and Representative to G. L.; he is also a member of George Wright Post, G. A. R.

EDWARD M. WAITE, Known among the printing fraternity of the State as the "Ben FrankHn" of Oregon, was born, as he says, B. C, and judging from his patriarchal ap- pearance, nobody will dispute his assertion. In 1841, when about eleven years of age, he left Springfield, Mass., his native city, for Westfield, where he was apprenticed in the good, old-fashioned way, to Elijah Porter to learn the art of printing. Here he remained about five years, when he went to New York and worked a short time on the "Journal of Commerce," when he took Horace Greeley's advice and "went West," and he did not stop going in that direction until he arrived in Oregon City in 1851, where he hired out to work on the " Oregon Statesman," then owned by A. Bush, Esq., Terri- torial Printer. Here he put in nearly two years, when he quit the art pre- servative business and engaged in sundry speculative schemes, among which were stock buying for the immigrant trade iu Eastern Oregon, ship- ping produce to California, etc. In company with E. Holland he went to