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From: Leta D Christiansen <>
Subject: Re: Oregon Journal-1935
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 12:52:25 -0700
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I have two volumes of Fred Lockley's Impressions. because my GGP are in
them. If your looking for a certain name let me know and I will see what I
can find. My GGGP were James Givens Campbell and Elizabeth Amanda Black
Campbell,
and My two sets of GGP were Lucien B. Frazer and Elizabeth Amanda Campbell,
and Aaron H. Denny and Almyra Amanda King.
Leta Denny Christiansen
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Subject: Oregon Journal-1935


> Below is a copy of a 1935 newspaper article from The Oregon Journal.
Thought
> this may be of some interest to the list.
> Katy
> ---------------------------------->
>
> IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN
> by Fred Lockley
> Oregon Journal-Sunday Morning May 5. 1935
>
>
> “I was born at Sublimity on April 1, 1856”, said Mrs. J. M. Rankin
when
> I interviewed her recently in her home on East Belmont Street. “My father’
s
> name was James D. Brown. There were three James D. Brown’s at Sublimity.
One
> was called ‘Black Jim’, another, ‘Bach Jim’, and the third, who was my
> father, “Sandy Jim”. My father was born in Kentucky. He was the son of
> Gabriel Brown. They crossed the plains to Oregon in 1842. Dr. Elijah
White
> was captain of their wagon train. There were over 100 persons in the
train.
> My mother’s maiden name was Sarah Jane Evans. She was born in Missouri.”
> “My grandfather’s grandfather was given what they call a ‘soldiers
> script’ for his
> services in the Revolutionary War. He was supposed to take up land in
> Tennessee with it. I remember my father showing it to me, but I guess the
> thing ran out, for nothing was ever done with it.”
> “All the old-timers in the Waldo hills will remember my father, James
D.
> Brown, and my grandfather, Gabriel Brown, for they were early settlers
there.
> My father took a donation land claim not far from his father’s claim.
> Father’s claim was half a mile from that of my Aunt Cynthia Brown Davie.
> Aunt Cynthia was my father’s sister. She was born near Little Rock,
> Arkansas, on January 5th, 1829. Her husband, Allen J. Davie, died in the
> fall of 1875 and Aunt Cynthia lived until the Spring of 1903.
> My Aunt Hulda’s place was not far away. All of us children called her
> ‘Granny’. We all loved her dearly for she was a good soul. They moved to
> Southern Oregon in 1865 and settled on Rogue River and we never saw them
> anymore.
> My father’s sister, Cynthia married Allen J. Davie at Champoeg on
March
> 18, 1844. Uncle Henry Foster was also one of the early settlers in the
Waldo
> Hills.”
> “Allen J. Davie who married Aunt Cynthia took a claim near Sublimity
in
> the fall
> of 1849. He was born in Alabama in 1816. My uncle, Allen J. Davie was
> elected secretary of Sublimity College in 1857. I went to school there
> during the last two years of the Civil War. Thomas H. Crawford was my
> teacher.”
> ***
> Right here it might be well to give a brief note about Sublimity
college.
> On December 12, 1857, a bill was introduced in the territorial legislature
to
> establish a college at Sublimity. The bill became a law on January 8,
1858.
> J. Denny, Thomas J. Conner, Eli Hubbard, Drury S. Stayton, Jessie Harritt,
> William Bishop, Jeremiah Kenoyer, David R. McMillan, James Campbell,
Hadley
> Hobson, Solomon Albrison,
> George W. Hunt, J. M. Chandler, Morgan Rudolph and Allen J. Davie were
> appointed
> trustees. The college was to be operated by the United Brethern Church.
> Many years ago I interviewed W. H. Hobson, a pioneer merchant of
Stayton,
> whose father, Hadly Hobson, was one of the trustees. Hadley Hobson took a
> donation land claim a mile north of Slayton. He was born in North
Carolina
> in 1811 and crossed the plains with his brothers George and Alfred in
1847.
> They went
> to California and in 1848 came by sailing vessel to Oregon.
> Allen J. Davie was made the secretary and Milton Wright president of
the
> college. Milton Wright later moved to Dayton, Ohio. He became a bishop of
the
> United Brethern church. His sons, Orville and Wilbur, were the first
> persons in the world to fly a heavier-than-air machine. Orville was born
in
> 1871 and he and
> Wilbur made their first flight on December 17, 1903.
> The tuition fee at Sublimity college was $5 a term of three months,
but
> for any study about the primary grade students had to pay 50 cents per
term
> for each additional study.
>

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