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wiiH AHsistaut Provost Marshal General of the State from June, 1864, until his election iis Assistant Secretary of the State Senate in January, 1865. He came to Sau Francisco in June, 1870, and to Portland, Oregon, the same year, and in 1H71 settled at Albany, Orej^on, where he was engaged in the wheat and agricultural implej:ent business until March, 1874, when he removed to Portland, where he has since resided. He was elected Mayor of Portland in i877, and be it said, to the credit of his administrati{m ot the city affairs, that no complaints were made of injudicious management or extravagant practices. From 1876 to Februaiy, 1880, Mr. Newbury was engaged very extensively in the sale of agricultural implements, and was the head of the house of Newbury, Hawthorne & Co. for several years. Since the latter date he has been engaged in the practice of law, under the firm name of Newbury <fe Grant. He has gained some prominence in the T. O. O. F., having attended the Sovereign Grand Lodge at Baltimore, Md., in 1879, as Grand Representative from this State, duly elected by the Grand Lodge of Oregon. He was married at Middleton, Wisconsin, October 11, 1860, to Miss Alziua Taylor. He is of medium height, lias black hair and pleasant features and a bright eye. He is honored and respected by all who know him, and although of a retiring disposition, is none the less popular with the [)uiilic. He takes an active interest in politics and is a pronounced Re- publican.

BUSHROD WASHINGTON WILSON

"Was born in Columbia, Washington county, Maine, July 18, 1824. At three years of age he was sent to school and kept there continuously until he was twelve years old, when his father, who in the meantime had removed to New Jersey and from thence to New York City, made arrangements to send him to a preparatory school to fit him for Yale College. The idea was dis- tasteful to "Bush," and when the day arrived for him to commence his pre- paratory life he turne<l up missing. After some considerable search his father found him employed in the office of the New Brighton Association in Wall street, New York, an institution of which Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt was President. After quitting this place he went to work in printing offices, among which were the "New Yorker," "Courier and Inquirer," "Brother Jonathan," etc. Horace Greeley, then editor of the " New Yorker," was a good friend to the boy and gave him much instruction that has since proved of great benefit to him. His mother died in 1840, when his father removed to Illinois, taking his son with him, where he married again. "Bush's" stepmother was a good woman, hut her ways were not the young man's style, HO, with the consent of his father, he " struck out." With forty-three cents he started and worked his way from St. Charles, Illinois, to New York, arriving at the latter place with a few dollars earned en route. Here heshippedfor a whaling voyage and went around the world, stopping at various ports. His life was a wandering one for the next few years, includ- ing eight years at sea. Tired of a nomadic hfe, he arrived in Oregon in 18.50, and has been a resident of the State ever since. He came by the way of Cape Horn and California, and landed at the mouth of