Last Updated on May 6, 2012 by Warren Palmerton Hunt, who has been a highly respected citizen of Lewiston since 1862, and is numbered among the California pioneers of 1854, was born in Erie County, New York, March 13, 1832, a son of Isaac and Diantha (Allbee) Hunt, the former a native of Vermont and […]
Last Updated on May 30, 2013 by Dennis P. H. McEvoy, the subject of this sketch was born May, 9, 1848, in Sidney, Australia. He left Australia with his parents in 1849, for San Francisco, by way of Honolulu. After leaving Honolulu the vessel met with such adverse winds and weather, that it was six
Last Updated on May 18, 2011 by Joseph Edward Gibbons, 79, of Salinas, Calif., a former Baker City resident, died Aug. 1, 2007. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Philip Neri Church in Portland. Joseph was born on June 8, 1928, at Boise to Michael and Nora Gibbons, emigrants
Last Updated on October 17, 2011 by Muddy Creek, Baker County, Oregon Ferdinand Boesch, 103, of Haines, died Oct. 18, 2005, at Settlers Park in Baker City. His funeral will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at Gray’s West & Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey Ave. Pastor Robin Harris of the Cornerstone Baptist Church in North
Last Updated on May 30, 2013 by Dennis It is probably true that the real estate operator has the opportunity as well as the responsibility of doing more actual good ‘for the county that he represents than any other profession. He brings settlers and home seekers and builds up the county in more ways than
Last Updated on August 18, 2012 by Dennis H. Titchenal, of Santa Ana, was born in Harrison County, West Virginia, January 2, 1817, a son of John R. and Rebecca (Harbertt) Titchenal, both natives of West Virginia. His father, a black-smith by trade, moved to Missouri in 1819, and in 1833 to the vicinity of
Last Updated on June 2, 2011 by Celebration of the life of Leavon Ida Hutchinson Taber was held in Bellevue, Wash . She was born April 14, 1910, In North Powder, the daughter of Albert and Annie Hutchinson. Along with her siblings, Leavon grew up on a ranch near North Powder, moving to Bellevue in
