"first white male child born west of the Rocky Mountains" His father came from New York as asst. missionary with Dr. Whitman in 1836...went to the Fraser River in 1858, and there engaged in the steamboat business as mate and pilot." "entered employ of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company..as mate on steamboats...given command of a steamer running from Celilo to Lewiston, Idaho, and from Olds Ferry, now Huntington, to Owyhee Crossing, on the Snake River"
May, 1868-returned to Astoria
1886-elected a member of the Oregon State Senate
1894-elected County Judge of Clatsop County
Survived by wife and eight children--Mrs. Augusta Fox, Harry D., William J., Charles E., Mary Alice, Sarah and Louise Gray of Astoria and Mrs. R. C. Wright of Portland.
--excerpts from The Morning Oregonian, October 28, 1902
Enlisted in the Washington Guard at the start of the Civil War- this group was disbanded in 1862.
May, 1868-returned to Astoria
1886-elected a member of the Oregon State Senate
1894-elected County Judge of Clatsop County
Survived by wife and eight children--Mrs. Augusta Fox, Harry D., William J., Charles E., Mary Alice, Sarah and Louise Gray of Astoria and Mrs. R. C. Wright of Portland.
--excerpts from The Morning Oregonian, October 28, 1902
Enlisted in the Washington Guard at the start of the Civil War- this group was disbanded in 1862.
"first white male child born west of the Rocky Mountains" His father came from New York as asst. missionary with Dr. Whitman in 1836...went to the Fraser River in 1858, and there engaged in the steamboat business as mate and pilot." "entered employ of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company..as mate on steamboats...given command of a steamer running from Celilo to Lewiston, Idaho, and from Olds Ferry, now Huntington, to Owyhee Crossing, on the Snake River"
May, 1868-returned to Astoria
1886-elected a member of the Oregon State Senate
1894-elected County Judge of Clatsop County
Survived by wife and eight children--Mrs. Augusta Fox, Harry D., William J., Charles E., Mary Alice, Sarah and Louise Gray of Astoria and Mrs. R. C. Wright of Portland.
--excerpts from The Morning Oregonian, October 28, 1902
Enlisted in the Washington Guard at the start of the Civil War- this group was disbanded in 1862.
May, 1868-returned to Astoria
1886-elected a member of the Oregon State Senate
1894-elected County Judge of Clatsop County
Survived by wife and eight children--Mrs. Augusta Fox, Harry D., William J., Charles E., Mary Alice, Sarah and Louise Gray of Astoria and Mrs. R. C. Wright of Portland.
--excerpts from The Morning Oregonian, October 28, 1902
Enlisted in the Washington Guard at the start of the Civil War- this group was disbanded in 1862.
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