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Miller, Samuel

Samuel Miller, the father of Mary E. Miller, who married John L. Barlow, the son of Samuel. He was born in September of 1806, in Salem County, New Jersey. He was a millwright by trade, and was married to Rachel Jane Hart. They had five children: Mary E., John F., Margaret S., Thomas M., and Henrietta. He died at Oregon City on July 4, 1884.

Monteith, Malcolm J.

Malcolm J. "Little Mac" Monteith, the youngest son of Walter and Margaret A. (Smith) Monteith, of Albany, Oregon. Malcolm was born in about 1865 in Albany.

Paxton, Andrew B.

Morgan, Malinda Emily (Boon)

Malinda ("Minnie") Emily Boon, who was born on the Oregon Trail on September 10, 1845. She married Amos H Morgan in Salem, and they settled in Portland. They had two sons and one daughter, all of whom survived their parents. She died in Portland on December 28, 1918.

Dennie, Oliver

Morris, Bishop Benjamin Wistar

Bishop Benjamin W. Morris, Episcopal bishop of Oregon. He was born on May 30, 1819, in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania. He was elected to be Bishop of Oregon in October of 1868. He married Hannah Rodney, of Delaware, in June of 1852. He died on April 8, 1906, in Portland.

Hinkle, David

Morse, Henry B.

Henry Bromwell Morse, originally from Bath, Maine, who arrived in Oregon in 1858, from California. He married Harriet Newell Millard (the daughter of Dr. Justin Millard) in Portland in 1861. Their children were Henry F., Dr. Edwin W., Eugenia, Emma C. (Riddell), and Harriet M. (Lockwood). The Morses were among the charter members of the Westminster Presbyterian Church. Henry was the Portland City Treasurer in 1862, as well as a merchant and miner.

Buchtel, Joseph, 1830-1916

Moyer, John M.

Reverse of photo labeled "Mr." Moyer of Brownsville, Oregon. This must be John M. Moyer, who was born in Pennsylvania in 1829 and came west over the plains from Ohio in 1852. He first settled as a carpenter in Clackamas, but moved to Linn County by June 1857, when he married Elizabeth Devine Brown, the daughter of the Hon. Hugh L. Brown, founder of Brownsville. They had three children: Edward D., Hugh B., and Ethel (deceased by 1885). John Moyer became the proprietor of the woolen mills in Brownsville. He died in Brownsville, July 25, 1904.

Paxton, Andrew B.

Murray, Orlena Maria (Cardwell) Johnson and Lillie

Orlena Maria (Cardwell), the daughter of William Lee and Mary Ann (Biddle) Cardwell, who came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Portland. She first married Charles F. Johnson in 1855 in Benton County. After his death, she then married George W. Murray, in Portland, in 1863. She is pictured with her daughter, Lillie, who was born in 1858, the daughter of Charles Johnson.

Murray, Lillie Cora Johnson

Lillie Cora Johnson, the daughter of Charles F. and Orle(a)na Johnson. Her father died when she was young, and her mother married George W. Murray. Lillie married John M. P. Chalmers in 1886 and resided in Portland, but they divorced between 1900 and 1914. She was the mother of Louise Chalmers (married Barton).

Miller, Maud

Transcription from back: “Maud Miller about 1873. Dau. Of Juaquin [Joaquin]. Property of Belle W. Cooke, Property of Ruth Lee.”

Buchtel, Joseph, 1830-1916

Newby, Sara Jane (McGary)

Sarah Jane McGary, born December 23, 1823, in Kentucky, who married William T. Newby in 1841 in Missouri, and started across the plains to Oregon in 1843. They settled in Yamhill County and obtained a donation land claim. William was an assessor in 1848 for the Provisional Government, and would be a state senator in 1870. They founded what would become McMinnville (named after Newby's home town in Tennessee), having built a grist mill in 1853 and a store in 1854. The town of McMinnville was platted in 1856. They had nine children. She died in Marion County on January 29, 1887.

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