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 INDEX

Abernethy, George, Governor of Provisional government, 107-133.

Adams, John Quincy, interpretation of Treaty of 1818, 105.

Adams, W. L., founder of "Oregon style" in political writing, 494; with D. W. Craig, father of Republican party in Oregon, 667.

Agriculture in Oregon, 347.

Agricultural press, 503.

Ainsworth, Capt. J. C., 212; photo, 259.

Alvord, Mrs. Genevieve, 480.

Allen, preparatory school, 397.

Anderson, Levi, gives estate for boys' home, 480.

Anderson, Gen. Thomas M., commander of The Expedition to the Philippines, 574; historical notice of, 581.

Anian, Strait of, 20.

Astor, John Jacob, trading expedition to the Columbia river in 181 1, 42; men associated with Astor, Alexander Mackay, Duncan MacDougal, Donald MacKenzie, David and Robert Stuart, Ramsay Crookes, Wil- son Price Hunt, and John Clarke, 42; his partners betray him, 44.

Astoria in 1813, 60.

Atkinson, Rev. George H., brought first school books to Oregon ; first to take ac- tion for a system of free public schools in Oregon, 368 ; wrote Governor Lane's mes- sage on schools, 368; located at Oregon City in 1848, 664 ; a great pioneer preacher, 368; photo, 368.

Atwell, H. C, Pres. Horticultural Society, 363.

Australian ballot, adopted in the United States first at Portland, 562.

Ball, John, first school teacher in old Ore- gon, 46; also 365.

Banks, first Bank and Banker, 514; bank panic, 1893, 515; squeeze of 1907, 516; bank capital of Oregon, 517; clearances for six years past, 517; condensed statement for October, 1910, 518; statements of Portland banks, 1910, 519-531 ; growth of banking, 613.

Barry, Col. A. C, made first railroad survey from Rogue River valley to Portland, 283.

Baptists, church of, 417-422.

Bates, Blanche, actress, 608.

Beach, F. E., Pres. Fire Ins. Co., 534; named Portland the "Rose City," 627.

Beal, Cornelius, reformer and divorce law- yer, 555-

Beaver money, 513.

Beck, William, bridge first Willamette river bridge, 343 ; his tall hat, and what came of it, 623.

Beebe, Gen. Charles F., organized Oregon Brigade, 573.

Benton, Thomas H., prophecy, 13; friend to Oregon, 148-152.

Benefactors of the City, Stephen Coffin, John H. Couch, W. W. Chapman, Mrs. C. H. Lewis, Donald Macleay, Matthew P. Deady, Joseph A. Strowbridge, William S. Ladd, John Wilson, Henry Failing, Ella M. Smith, Levi Anderson, Simeon G. Reed, Mary A. Knox, Anna Mary Mann, P. J. Mann, Mary A. Holbrook, Mrs. Rosa Bur- rell, Henry W. Corbett, W. T. Gardner, The Catholic Sisters, and Joseph Buchtel.

Beer and hops, 334.

Bellinger, C. B., 558.

Blanchet, Francis Norbert, first Catholic priest and Bishop to Oregon, 85.

Big Business, founders of, 615.

Boys' and Girls' Aid Home, 460.

Boise, R. P., Judge and Lawyer, 550, 552.

Bonneville, Lieut., expedition of 1832, 46.

Bridger, James, friend and guide to pioneers, 44.

Bridge of the Gods, 267.

Bridges of Portland, 342, Maybell's poem thereon, 344 ; traffic on, 346, 619.

British capture Astoria, 60.

British Benevolent Society, 473.

Block house at Cascades, 568.

Brown, J. Henry, historian, 596.

Brown, Tabitha, pioneer heroine, starts a college, 388.

Brown, Mrs. S. A., teacher of first night school, 384.

Buchtel, Joseph, 345, 595.

Bull Run, water supply, 339.

Burrell, Mrs. Rosa, President of Woman's Union, 384, 594.

Burns, Hugh, financier of Provisional gov- ernment, 131.

California an Island — Dutch map of 1624, 20.

Canemah, The canoe place, 667.

Cardwell, Dr. J. R., 25 years President of

Horticultural Society with his report on

The prune, 351-358.

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Carver, Jonathan, map of, ZT, attaches the

name of "Oregon" to the country, Z7- Carson, Luella Clay, President Mills College,

403-

Catholic church, first efforts to get priests, 84; Schools and Colleges, 391-395; develop- ment of, 413, 427; Archbishop Christie, and other leaders of, 433-434.

Cattle in Oregon, 348.

Chapman, W. W., notice of, 209; able law- yer, 551-

Chapman, Dr. J. A., mayor, 539.

Charitable Institutions, 447; "Homes," 456.

China flour trade, 320.

Chinook Jargon language, Indian, 88-91.

Clark, George Rogers, protege of Thomas Jefferson, in Ohio valley against the Brit- ish, 50; Kept in Ohio valley during Revo- lutionary war by Washington, 51 ; captures old Vincennes, 50; his great services to the nation, 50.

Clark, William, of Lewis and Clark expedi- tion, 55.

Craig, D. W., a founder of the Republican party in Oregon, 667.

Crematory The, of, 340.

City of Portland, government of, 336 ; Ex- pansion of, 609; water works of, 338; statistics of, 338; steady growth of, 609; commanding position of, 621-622; gateway of, 621 ; population of, 612.

Civil war, trouble from Threatened, in Ore- gon, 571-

Children's Home, 456.

Choir, first Congregational, 211, 409.

Coburn, Mrs. Kate, editorial writer, 606.

Code law. Provisional government, 548.

Code makers. The, 558.

Coffin, Stephen, an owner of townsite and a founder of the town chapter XI, 209; or- ganized the Union League, 571 ; Brigadier General of militia 1861, 571-573.

Clothing in 1844, in Oregon, 235.

Colleges, Portland gives Presidents to Three,

403-

Columbus. Christopher, tribute to \)y Joaquin Miller, 19.

Columbia gateway. The, 621.

Columbia river, first hint of, 21 ; discovered by Captain Robert Gray, 30; Carver's map showing probable location, t,-] ; present ef- forts to open the river into British Colum- bia, 279; The gateway to the "Inland Em- pire," and all the commerce to the Indies, see map, 621.

Commercial independence, fight for, 318.

Congregationalists, 414, 423. leaders of, 431.

Cook, Capt. James, life and services, 25 ; dis- covers coast of Oregon, 24; starts the fur trade, 25 ; death of, 25.

Cook, Vincent, and the salmon business, 250.

Couch, Capt. John H., brings a ship to start the salmon fishery trade, 203; his great service in locating the city at this point. Chapter X, 214.

Corbett. Henry W., a United States Senator, 213-564; President of Lewis and Clark Exposition. Chapter XXVIII.

Cotton, W. W., one of the Code makers, 558.

Cox, Lewis B., able lawyer, good citizen and advocate of Lewis and Clark Exposition, 555, 556.

Coxey, General, The armies of, 628.

Crosby, Capt. Nathaniel, starts town of Mil- ton, 204.

Churches, The first in Oregon, 407; list of subscribers to the building fund of, 407; photo of in Chapter XXXIII ; early his- tory of first churches, 408; progress of dovyn to 1890, 412 ; Congregationalists, 414 ; Episcopalians, 415; Baptists, 417; Presby- terians, 418; Hebrews, 420; Unitarians, 421; Lutherans, 421; Christians, 422-423; Evangelicals, 423 ; other sects, 423-427.

Church activities, .-111

Curry, George L., editor of Spectator, 489; founder of "Free Press," 491 ; Governor of Oregon, 491.

Dandelion, The, imported into Oregon by Nineveh Ford, 121.

Dairying in Oregon, 348.

Drake, Capt. Francis, discovers coast of Ore- gon, 21 ; names the country "New Albion," 24.

Deady, Matthew P., 236; greatest of the law- givers, 557.

Dentistry, College of, 400, 542 ; dentists, their schools and ethics, 541-542.

De Smet, P. J., first missionary to the Flat- head Indians, that sought the "Book of Heaven," 85.

Direct legislation, started in the United States near Portland, Oregon, 565 ; votes on by the people in 1904, 1906, and 1908, 564; measures voted on and expenses of submission to vote, 564-566.

Doctors, The, in public affairs, 539; college and medical education of, at Portland, Chapter XXV, 536.

Docks, public for, at Portland, 226.

Dodson, W. B. D., historian of Second Ore- gon Volunteer Infantrj-, 572.

Douglas, Stephen A., forces President Polk to pay Oregon's delegate his expenses to Washington City and return, 232.

Druggists, early, Snell and Story, 216.

Dunbar, William, introduces Oregon flour into China, 320.

Duniway, Abigail Scott, editor and reformer, 606.

Duniway, Clyde Augustus, President of Montana University, 403.

Dryer, Thomas J., founder of The Weekly Oregonian, 497.

Dye, Mrs. Eva Emery, author of many books, 607; sketch of Oregon City, 650.

Economics, price and wages, 628. Economics, morals and politics, 632. Editors, Portland's, 595. Edwards, Philip L., teacher of Methodist

Mission school, 366. Election, The first state, 237. Electric power. The greatest in the world

tributary to Portland, 662. Emigration of 1843, 93. English exploration westward, 31, 36. 49. England, joint occupancy of Oregon with,

105.