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 during which time he traveled largely over the state, and it is doubtful if there is a man living today in Oregon who has a more intimate acquaintance with the Slate and with its people than Penumbra Kelly. His capable service as United States marshal commended him for election to the office of sherif of Multnomah county in 1888. He was twice reelected, serving for three consecutive terms, covering the period from 1888 until 1894. Since his retirement he has served almost continuously as deputy sheriff, so that his connection with the sheriff's office covers more than twenty years. He has long been recognized as a leading and influential member of the republican party in Multnomah county, makes friends easily and even his political enemies admire him for his qualities as a man and his fearless defense of his honest convictions.

Mr. Kelly was united in marriage, on September 30, 1873, to Miss Mary Emma Marquam, the eldest child of Hon. Philip A. Marquam, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. They have three children, Mary Agnes, Samuel Ralph and Sarah Maldon. The last named is the wife of Nicholas Cogley, and they have one child, Nicholas Penumbra Cogley.

Mr. Kelly is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His activity in political circles, his wide and favorable acquaintance throughout the state and the fact that he is numbered among the earliest of the Oregon pioneers all entitle him to representation in this volume.

The name of Philip Church Schuyler is closely interwoven with many of the events which stand prominently forth upon the pages of Portland's history. Moral and musical interests of the city, the cause of intellectual development and many municipal projects profited by his cooperation, and thus his life work became an integral chapter in the annals of the city. New York numbered him among her native sons, his birth having occurred in Ithaca, on the 4th of December, 1835. He was descended from Philip Schuyler, who came from Amsterdam, Holland, prior to 1650, and who married Margarita Van Schlictenhorst and lived in Albany, New York. His parents, Philip Church and Lucy M. (Di.) Schuyler, lived for a time on a farm near Ithaca, New York, where his grandfather, John H. Schuyler, had resided. Later his father engaged in the drug business in Ithaca, where he remained until 1855, when he removed to Kansas with his family and there became deeply interested in the struggle to make Kansas a state. He was a devoted adherent of the anti-slavery cause and therefore cast the weight of his influence in favor of its admission as a free state.

The youthful days of Philip Church Schuyler of this review were passed in his native city, where his attention was largely given to the acquirement of his education in the public schools. At the age of seventeen years, however, he left the Empire state to cross the plains to Oregon in the year 1852. with his uncle, the Hon. William H. Gray, who first came out with Marcus Whitman as a missionary and who married Mary Dix, the sister of Philip Schuyler's mother. James C. Van Renssalaer also accompanied the party to the northwest and the long, tedious journey across the continent, fraught with many hardships and dangers, was completed in the fall of that year. Here Mr. Schuyler engaged in the drug business in connection with Smith, Davis & Company until the firm dissolved, after which he turned his attention to the insurance business, in which he continued with success for many years.

At the same time Mr. Schuyler found opportunity for cooperation in many public affairs and was ever deeply interested in any (Project relating to the city's welfare or betterment. He served as a member of Governor Gibbs' staff in 1863, and became connected with the first fire department of the city—a volun-