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moved with hiP parents to Illinois. In 1845 the family went to Texas, where young Peter received the advantages of a common school education. In 1853, attracted by the great gold discoveries, he went to California, by the way of New Orleans, Nicaragua and San Francisco to the gold mines. He remained there till May, 1855, when he immigrated to Oregon and located in Clackamas county. In 1857 he was married to a most estimable young lady, named Miss Delilah C. May, who came with lier parents from Illinois in 1847. In 1862 Mr. Noyer traveled through the wilds of Eastern Oregon and Western Idaho, which territory was at that time infested Avith maraud- ing bands of hostile Indians, but he fortunately escaped with a sound scalp and no regrets. In 1874, as a recognition for his services to the grand old Democratic party, he was elected a member of the Legislature, and in 1882 he was returned. He has been a life-long Democrat of the .Jackson school, and his probity and character are above suspicion.

HON. JOHN C. CARSON.

When the Republican county convention of Multnomah county were last spring casting about for honest representative men with whom to trust the interests of the people in the House of Representatives, one of the names mentioned was that of Hon. John C. Carson, of Portland, and his nomina- tion followed almost immediately. His nomination was nominally equiv- alent to his election, and his constituents have not been disappointed in their estimate of the man. He has labored night and day for the best in- terests of the State at large and for the proper advancement of the interests of his own county, having never allowed a single opportunity to pass where- by a point could be made for those whom he represents. He was born on a farm in Center county, Pennsylvania, February 20, 182.5, and with his parents removed to Richland county, Ohio, in 1832. He received very fair educational facilities, having attended the common schools in early life and entered Ashland academy, in Ohio, along in 1842, where he remained three years under the tutorship of Prof. Andrews, afterwards a Brigadier General in the Union army and the President of Kenyou college, where ex-President Hayes graduated. Mr. Carson supported himself during his academic course by working at the carpenter's trade. He afterwards commenced the study of medicine under Dr. Kenneymau, of Ashland, Oliio, and with him came to California in 1850 to start an hospital in San Francisco. The project was abandoned, however, owing to ill health, and a year later young Carson pushed on to Oregon, reaching Portland in September, 1851, where he has resided ever since. He followed the busines s of a builder and contractor until 1857, when he erected the first sash and doo r factory built in that city, it being located on the water front at the foot of Jefferson street. His busi- ness increased so rapidly that he was compelled to seek more extensive quarters, which he found at Weidler's mills, in the northern part of the city, where he has now the most extensive establishment of the kind on the northwest coast and is doing an immense business, his sales reaching about $150,000 annually, and constantly increasing proportionate with the growth of the city; his business office being located at the corner of Third and E

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