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is before him. Self-made, he is yet well made, and weariiij: without ostoii- tation the honor of work well done, he is sure to reach the honor of better work more nobly done in the future. He has long been a member and min- ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

PROFESSOR I. W. PRATT

Was born in Waterloo, Seneca county. New York, March 17, IWW, au.i was the fourth son of a family of ten children. His father was a descendant of Matthew Pralt, one of the early Pilgrims to Massachusetts. The family re- moved to Ohio early in the '40s and located on the Western lieserve, where the then coming Professor spent most of bis minority upon a faini, receiv- ing only a common school education. He graduated at Norwalk Academy, at the age of twenty years, and followed railroading on Mad River and Lake Erie railroad for three years, advancing from brakeman to engineer. In 1860 he chose teaching as a profession and took a normal course in Michigan. In 1862 he came to California and taiight successfully in El Dorado county until 1867, when he came to Oregon. Here he entered Jigain upon the duties of his profession, soon after his arrival, in East I'ortland. In April, 1869, he took charge of Harrison-street school, in the city of Port- land, where he still remains. He is the only teacher who has remained continuously in the public schools of the city since that date. Professor Pratt was married to Sophia C, eldest daughter of Peter Taylor, of Port- land, July 14, 1874. He has served eight years on the State Board of Ed- ucation, and has been appointed for another term of four years. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, his relation with that organization be- ginning in 1865. In 1869 he helped organize and was first W. M. of Wash- ington Lodge, No. 46, A. F. and A. M. in East Portland. He received Chapter and Templar degrees in Portland in 1875-7. ■ In 1872 he took the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and in 1878 was elected to and received the thirty-third and last degree of this Rite, with Hon. R. P. Earhart and Dr. E. L Bailey, Medical Director of the Department of the Columbia, by the Supreme Council for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States, which met in that year in the city of Washington, D. C. He was elected Grand Secretary of the Grand Lodge of Oregon for 1879. At the present time he is Master of Portland Lodge, No. 55, High Priest of Portland Royal Arch Chapter, No. 3, Captain General of Oregon Com- mandery Knights Templar, No. 1, and the presiding officer in all the b nlies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.

JOSEPH BAOHMAN, Of the firm of J. Bachman & Bro., is one of the lively and energetic men whose interests are solely identified with the city of Portland. He liii« Ijeen a resident of this city for the past twenty years, and expects, if spared by Providence, to put in at least twenty years more in the same place. He has, however, little dread of the hereafter, as he is so well covered with in- surance in this world that he has assurance enough that fire will not affect