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 A Hudson's Bay Co. Marriage Certificate. 327 her senior. Her father had been since 1835 stationed at Fort St. James on Lake Stuart (British Columbia) in charge of the New Caledonia district, and his family resided with him there, and Mr. McKinlay was a clerk in the same district. It is probable that the daughter was educated for the most part at home, but, perhaps, had been at Fort Vancouver attendng school previous to her marriage. In 1841 Mr. McKinlay was placed in charge of Fort Walla Walla and remained there until 1846, when he was promoted tO' be chief trader and went to Oregon City to take charge of the company's business there. Some time after the treaty of 1846 he succeeded to the busi- ness as member of the firm of Allan, McKinlay & Co. He became an American citizen and took title tO' a donation land claim on the outskirts of Oregon City and the house he built and occupied on that claim is still standing. Afterward he was engaged in raising stock on a farm on the west side of the Willamette opposite Champoeg. If the stoiry be true, Sarah Julia Ogden, during her infancy, was an innocent participant in an exciting episode among the mountains or on the plains of Southern Idaho. The story goes that during one of the trapping expeditions of her father, at a time when' there was strenuous rivalry with the American trappers, the camp' of Mr. Ogden was raided one morning and the horses stampeded, and that one of the horses with a baby strapped toi its board and tied to the saddle ran into the camp of the Amicricans, but that the mother of the child, Mrs. Ogden, followed right into' the camp, caught and mounted the horse and made off, and on the way caught and led away a packhorse loaded with furs; while the American; trappers shouted and threatened with their rifles but were too gallant to shoot. Joseph L. Meek gave this story to Mrs. Victor and it appears in "The River of the West," but Mr. Meek had not come to the mountains until 1829, after Mr. Ogden had made his last trip to' the Snake country. Miss Laut in her "Conquest of the Great Northwest," published in 1908, gives the same