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whilst under their charge. Eeturning home after graduating, he startoj a parochial school in connection with the cathedral of thia citv, and remained there for one year, when he was elected County School Siiperinten.lt.nt, in 1868, which position he resigned one year later to accept the deputy County Clerkship under Mr. B. L. Norden, and retained that position until the close of the term in July, 1870. During a portion of the time that he was Scliool Superintendent he was also Deputy Marshal under Mr. A. L. Zeiber. In July, 1870, he took charge of the commercial and aclvertisiug departments of the "Daily Herald," and resigned that position several mouths after to accept the captaincy of the Portland police force, being the first man chosen for that office, and he held it until March, 1875. Two months after he was elected to the Common Council, and in that capacity served the city's best interests fgr a term of three years. During his spare moments he ap- plied himself to the study of law. In the Spring of 1879 he was appointed Justice of the Peace, and served for one and a half years, at the end of which time he started a real estate agency. In February, 1882, he purcUased the "Catholic Sentinel," and since that time has ably conducted it, and his literary efforts entitle him to rank amongst the foremost literary men of our State. He has at all times taken an active part in military and civic mattens, and has been for many years an active member of the Board of Fire Dele- gates from Multnomah Engine Company No. 2. He served for four years from 1871 till 1875, as Captain of the Emmet Guard. He was also appointed on Major General Effinger's staff, with the rank of Major, in 1878, holding that position until the present time. He was Sergeant-at-Arms of the House, in 1876, when ex-Governor Grover was elected to the Senate. In the societies connected with the Catholic Church, of which he has always been a faithful and consistent member, he has held many positions of trust, having been President of the St. Vincent de Paul Society for eight years. He is also State Treasurer of the A. O. H., and for four years has been successively elected President of the Father Mathew Temperance Society. The above is a short summary of his career, and it certainly is a commendable one. Without any desire to flatter, we can say that no man ever looked more earnestly after the welfare of the suffering and needy, or is more ready to aid them in accordance with his means, than is this gentleman; and he is amongst those whose unostentatious acts of friendship and charity resound their praise more eloquently than all the laudations that language can devLse. Captain Wiley was married February 9, 1874, to Miss Maggie Hickey, a highly-esteemed young lady. A trio of fine, healthy children now occupy their parental solicitation and add to the ornamentation and comfort ot their household.

J. F. ATKINSON. Amongst the several Portland printers who are well known, there are few who have had a more varied experience than the one whose name appears above. His early life was spent in roving, and we are satisfied he is correct in the statement that a recital of his perigrinations when between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five would alone almost fill this book. He came to