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served for eight years acceptably, before the wild tribes had lost the verve of the war-trail. At the close of his official term he went to Yaquiaa Bay and erected the steam saw-mills at Oneatta and resumed the old Ime of goods and lumber, building two handsome schooners to ship the latter pro- duct to San Francisco. He, also, at one time ovmed a saw-miU at Santiam Citv, sold drv goods and groceries in Salem, and has, in fact, led an active and enterprising life. He was appointed Surveyor General of the State m 1872, and held the position four years. Mr. Simpson has nine children by his present wife, four daughters and five sons. Three daughters and two sons are graduates of the Willamette University. Sometimes the favorite andagainthejestof fortune, he is still at the front in the strength of a storm-toughened age, a fast friend and a fearless foe, giving yet the promise of many years of usefulness.

JOSEPH BUCHTEL.

The genial, energetic .Jo Buchtel is a good representative Oregonian. He was born in Stark county, Ohio, November 22, 1830, and moved to Ur- bana, Champaign county, Illinois, in 1839. He obtained such an education as was then afforded by the public schools of Ohio and Illinois. Quite early he was put at the tailor's trade, but not liking the sedentary life, engaged as clerk in a dry goods store, afterwards worked on a farm and then went into the daguerreotype business. Left Urbana for Oregon April 2, 1852, managing an ox team in the I. R. Moores emigrant train. He first stepped foot in the then little village of Portland September 18, 1852. Worked for Colonel Backenstos, helped load the Charles Deveus with lumber, and then went to Oregon City, and soon after commenced his remarkable career at steamboating on the Upper Willamette river during the winter months. In the summer, when the water was too low for na^^gatiou, he run a daguerreo- type gallery in difi'erent places, including Oregon City, Astoria, Lafayette and Portland. It was while engaged as steward and in other capacities that he displayed many of those remarkable traits of bravery and courage so characteristic of the man. Joseph Buchtel's steamboating covered a period of four years, of the most perilous river navigation known in the his- tory of the country. It was a period when the business was in its begin- ning in Oregon and all sorts of hazardous experiments were being tried. The stories of hair-breadth escapes and daring ventures to save his vessel, or the lives of men in peril, that is told of Joe Buchtel would make an in- teresting volume of itself, but we have not space to name them in this brief sketch. At length he got tired of this dangerous and toilsome life, and es- tablished a permanent photograph gallery in Portland, which he still owns, and which is now known as " The San Francisco Gallery." In this business, as in everything else he ever undertook, Mr. Buchtel took a leading posi- tion. The fame of Buchtel's pictures is world-wide, and his enormous list of negatives includes all the notable personages of Oregon and all distin- guished visitors from abroad. In this business he always kept in the lead. Every new style of picture ever introduced into the United States was brought out at Buchtel's gallery. He would allow no one to e