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he has lived has been known as a gentleman of reliability and t^haiactei-. He was married to Miss Annie Bond in the year 18(i8,

HON. JAMES N. RICE.

This gentleman is one of the Representatives from Linn county. He was born in Campbell county, Tennessee, on the 17th of March, in the year 1882. "When quite young his parents moved to Missouri, where they liv^d on a farm until the year 1850. Young James attended school a certain li umber of months in each year, and the remaining portion of his time was spent in assisting his father with the farm work, so we find him in the year 1850, when he came to Oregon, a good specimen of the intelUgent, sturdy, self- confident farmer lad of the West. On arriving in Oregon he took up a farm in Linn county, and has resided there si7ice, happy in the cultivation of his acres and the presence of his browsing stock. In the year 1857 Mr. Rice, then twenty-five years of age, was married to Miss Naccy Rol)nett, and they have now nine children living and in the best of health. He vol- unteered his services in the years 1855 and 1856 in the Rogue river Indian war, and served throughout that campaign with much distinction, receiving a very painful and severe wound at the battle of Little Meadows, by being shot through both thighs. The people of Linn county made ;i good selec- tion when they sent Mr. Rice to the House of Representatives, and he has watched their interests faithfully, and served his people well.

HON. J. H. HAWLEY Is one of the Representatives from Polk county. He is a tiue-looking and warm-hearted gentleman, with a face expressive at once of gentleness and stability of character. He is about six feet tall and his face is covered with a full brownish beard intersprinkled with the silvery threads. He was born in Canada in the year 1834, and when yet an infant his parents removed to Michigan, thence to Iowa, from which place they went to Missouri. They came to Oregon m 18M and located in Yamhill county, where yorag John followed the plow for thirteen years. In 1857 he removed to Polk county, where he has since resided. During the last ten years he has been engaged in the general merchandise business at Bethel. He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1862, and served in that office six years. In 1857 he was mar- ried to Miss Eliza Mulkey, who is a cousin of Mrs. J. N. Dolph and of Prosecuting Attorney Mulkey, of Multnomah. Mr. Hawley is a retiring and unassuming man, and although he says very little, entertains pro- nounced views on every question of importance, and if he does make a re- mark it is generally " the right word in the right place." He is a Repub- lican, of good party standing.

HON. ARAD OOMSTOOK STANLEY. There are some men so happily constituted that with nerves of steel they can watch the play of passion as it flashes through the actions of men and