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 of this city for several years before her marriage. She is a distant relative of the poet Keats.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Moser hold membership in the First Christian church and he is identified with several fraternal and social organizations. He is prominent in the Knights of Pythias, in which order he was grand chancellor for Oregon from June, 1908, until June, 1909. He is also a past exalted ruler of Portland Lodge, No. 142, B. P. O. E., having served from April 1909 until April 1910. He is a life member of the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, the Commercial Club and several other organizations of like character. He served for three years in the Oregon National Guard as a noncommissioned officer. He has always been a stalwart republican, interested in the success of the party and doing all that he can to further its success. His ambition, however, is not in the line of office seeking. He has some real-estate and mining investments which are paying good returns, but his time and attention are chiefly given to his law practice and in a profession demanding keen intellectuality and individual merit he is making continuous progress.

Henry Lewis Pittock, who for half a century has been identified with Portland, as managing owner and publisher of the Oregonian, is known for the impress that his life has made upon the pages of its history. Quiet and unostentatious, he has ever sought to keep his personality in the back ground, but as the man behind the paper which for over fifty years has led public thought and voices its sentiments, anticipated the public needs and fostered every movement for the development of the city during the entire period of its growth from a mere village to a metropolis, has been associated to some extent with its every thought and action since its infancy, his career is inseparably linked with that of Portland and the influence that his character has had upon the moulding of its history can hardly be appreciated.

Mr. Pittock was born in London, England, March i, 1836, a son of Frederick and Susanna (Bonner) Pittock, both natives of Kent county. His father first came to America in 1825, with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Pittock, who emigrated from Dover, Kent county, England, and established their home in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Frederick Pittock later went to London, where he learned the printer's trade and was married but returned to Pittsburg in 1839 and spent the remainder of his life in that city, engaged principally in the printing business. Henry Lewis Pittock was the third in a family of eight children, of whom five are yet living. A brother, Robert Pittock, formerly of Portland, died in San Diego, California, three years ago. Another brother, John W. Pittock, was the founder of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Leader.

In the public schools of Pittsburg, Mr. Pittock received his early education and later attended the preparatory school of the University of Western Pennsylvania. His father being a printer, he learned something of the trade while working in his office in Pittsburg and was attracted to Portland by letters written to the Pittsburg papers by members from the missionary colony founded in Oregon by the United Presbyterian church. He decided to seek his fortune in the new country, and in the summer of 1853, at the age of seventeen years, he and his elder brother, Robert, joined an emigrant party for the Pacific coast. At Malheur river they separated, the brother going to Eugene, while Henry Pittock came to Portland. He attempted to get work in the different newspaper offices of the city but failed. After looking for employment for several days without success he refused a position as assistant bar tender at the Columbia Hotel because it afTorded no possibilities of a career. In the latter part of October he was offered a situation by Thomas J. Dryer, proprietor of the