Knute A. Peterson, an early Portland resident, who was a clerk at Breck and Ogden and at the hardware store of Corbett and Failing. He also was the proprietor of a dry goods and grocery store in downtown Portland in the mid-1850s.

Briggs R. Peterson, who was born in Maine in October 1828 and went to California after learning the trade of ship joiner. He arrived in Portland in 1862, and was a mechanic, carpenter and volunteer firefighter. He was also an accomplished tenor soloist and traveled to Boise for concerts. Briggs and his wife, Jane, had Laura, Lillie, Jennie, Marsha, and Forest. Briggs died May 28, 1913, in Portland.

Aurelia V. Blain, born December 1849 in Oregon, to Rev. Wilson and Elizabeth Blain. They lived in Linn City, where her father was an editor and Presbyterian preacher. She married Winfield Scott Peters, who was a freight clerk in Albany, on December 7, 1875. Their children were Wilson Webb and Ethlind. Aurelia died in Oakland, California, in 1924, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery in Albany.

Martha L. Geary, born in 1840 in Missouri, to Rev. Edward Ratchford and Harriet (Reed) Geary. Martha married Eugene L. Perham on January 1, 1857, in Linn County, Oregon. They lived on a Donation Land Claim in Benton County. Their children were: Theodore, Prentise R., Harriet L., Hugh W., Guy, and Nathaniel C. The child pictured above could be Hugh, Guy, or Nathaniel. Martha died in Portland in 1924.

Dora Percy (?) and child, taken in San Francisco.

Robert C. Percival, born in 1822 in Missouri, who came to Oregon in 1854. He settled in Polk County and eventually married Martha E. Davis. They had one son, Sydney Davis Percival, born in 1869, in Dallas, Oregon. Robert died in 1897 and was buried, with the rest of his family, in Monmouth, at the Fircrest Cemetery.

Robert Thomas Pentland (see previous photo for biographical details)

Robert Thomas Pentland, who was born in Newcastle, England, in 1820, and came to Oregon in 1845. He first lived in Oregon City, working at a grist mill owned by George Abernethy. He became business partners with Abernethy and Leander Holmes, owning property at Willamette Falls, and started what was then the largest flouring mill in Oregon Territory. At this time, he also was in partnership with Stephen Coffin, owning an interest in the first Portland water works company. After several devastating setbacks to his businesses, he removed to The Dalles in the early 1860s and started two flouring mills there.
He had married Jane Law (Lax?) in England before coming to the United States. She died in 1875, and he married Eliza E. Reynolds the year afterwards. They had triplets in October of 1877, one son and two daughters. In 1878, Pentland purchased the flouring mill in Scio, Linn County, and the family settled there. He died in Marion County in 1915.

George Anson Pease, who was born September 20, 1830, in Stuyvesant Landing, New York, to Norman and Harriet (McAllister) Pease. He came to Oregon via The Horn, arriving in California in September 1849, and came to Oregon the following year. He had six siblings, five of whom grew to adulthood. He purchased boats and began running from Milwaukie to Oregon City, and then expanded to Portland. He worked for many years for the People's Transportation Company, which became the Oregon Steamer and Navigation Company. He worked as captain of the dredge, the 'W. S. Ladd,' until 1903, when he retired.

He married Mildred A. Moore, of Linn City, in 1857. They had four children, but only two of them survived to adulthood: Archibald L. and Harriet M. (who married Edward J. Tibbetts).

Archibald L. Pease, son of Captain George Anson and Mildred A. (Moore) Pease, born at Oregon City in 1859. He was trained by his father from an early age and worked for many years for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. He married Ada E. Stevens, of Oysterville, in October of 1880. They had two sons: George Norman and Archie LeRoy. He died in 1919, in Portland, from prolonged illness.

Photograph labeled 1853, probably indicating the year Pearson emigrated to Oregon.

Mary Ann Guthrie Pearson with a guitar

Ann P. Root, born about 1820, who married Rev. Thomas Hall Pearne in New York in 1841. They came to Oregon in 1851 as missionaries from New York, via the Isthmus of Panama. They adopted a son named George Maret Pearne, who died in Portland in 1880 of tuberculosis. Ann and Thomas had left Oregon in about 1866 for Ohio, where Ann died in 1874, of heart disease.

Rev. Thomas H. Pearne, missionary to Oregon Territory of 1851 and Methodist minister. He was the founder of the Pacific Christian Advocate in 1854 in Portland. He married Ann P. Root in 1841 in New York. They left Oregon in about 1866 for Ohio, and she died there in 1874.

Evelyn Lucille Payne, (later Parry) as a young girl. She was born February 23, 1906, to Irvin R. and Minnie W. (Stuivenga) Payne. She married Glenn D. Parry in Lincoln County, on August 9, 1926, and lived in Toledo the remainder of her life. She died July 10, 1994.

Thomas Paulson (Paulsen), who worked as a printer in Portland, Salem and Jacksonville, Oregon. He was born in Denmark on February 19, 1835, and crossed the plains from Omaha to Oregon in November 1861. He married Fannie M. Campbell on September 7, 1871, and farmed in Washington County in 1880. He died in Portland on December 2, 1911.

Lillian Estelle Patton, the daughter of Thomas McFadden and Frances ("Fannie") M. (Cooke) Patton, born May 31, 1858, in Salem. Her father was a lawyer, the first county judge of Jackson County, and U. S. Consul to Japan. She married John David McCully in Marion County on May 31, 1880. Lillian died December 28, 1929, in Hood River, Oregon.

Mrs. Patton (nee Weed)

Harriet Patterson, who died in her teens of scarlet fever.

Lowry Paton, born about 1873 in Minnesota, to Anna and James Paton. He was 19 years old when this portrait was made, in about 1891.

Henry George Parsons, born in New York in about 1831, and who arrived in Oregon via the Plains in 1850. He married Mary Jane Mercer in King County, Washington Territory, in March 1857. By 1870, he had moved to Thurston County, Washington Territory, and was farming. They had six children in 1870: Flora Ann, Nancy Ellen, William M., Eliza A., Anna V., and Lela M. Henry died January 5, 1907, in Thurston County, and is buried in Ruddell Pioneer Cemetery in Lacey, Washington.

Thomas Mapel Andrew Jackson Parrish, second child of Edward Evans and Rebecca (Mapel) Parrish, born in Morgan County, Ohio, on January 9, 1830. He came across the plains with his family in 1843-44. He married Eleanor Boers on December 15, 1855, and they settled in Marion County, having five children. He worked as a trader, then moved to Rock Creek, Grant County, to work with stock. He died in Wheeler County, Oregon, in 1894.

Samuel B. Parrish, son of Rev. Josiah L. and Elizabeth (Winn) Parrish, born February 25, 1838, in New York. They came to Oregon in 1840. In his early years, he worked in his father's book and stationery store in Portland, and was the Portland Chief of Police during the years 1886-90. He also worked as the Malheur Indian Agent for a time. He married Adda Hawley in 1885, and died in Portland on July 12, 1897.

Rebecca Mapel, born October 4, 1803, in Green County, Pennsylvania, who married Rev. Edward Evans Parrish in Pennsylvania, in 1827. She was his second wife. She became step mother to the six children of his previous marriage, and went on to have six children of her own: Elizabeth Ellen, Thomas Mapel Andrew Jackson, Mary Ann Springer, Rebecca Shinn, Edward Evans, Jr., and Rachel Marinda. They crossed the plains, starting in 1843 in Ohio, and arrived in Oregon City in 1844. They settled on a donation land claim in Salem, before Salem was a town. Rebecca died May 13, 1880, in San Jose, California.

Rebecca Shinn Parrish, born March 9, 1834, in Columbus, Ohio, to Edward Evans and Rebecca (Mapel) Parrish, who came to Oregon in 1844. Her father's diary notes that she was rolled over by their wagon on the Trail, and broke her leg. Rebecca married, first, Samuel Erastus May, in Marion County, Oregon, in 1852. They divorced, and she married James R. Robb. Her third husband was William M. Steele, and they had three children: Frank, George, and Ada. She became prominent in WCTU work, and died in Turner, on May 20, 1909.

Elizabeth Winn, born March 17, 1811, in Montgomery County, New York. She grew up primarily in Rochester, and married Josiah L. Parrish in 1833. They set sail for Oregon Territory with their three children on the Lausanne in October of 1839. They arrived, via Cape Horn and the Sandwich Islands, in May 1840. They settled in Portland, where her husband was a Methodist minister. She died on August 28, 1869, in Salem.