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From: "Sherry (Morell) Shelts" <>
Subject: Re: [ORLANE] Judges in Lane Co., 1870s
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:49:56 -0500


Mr Powers,
Where would I write to try to find an obit for 1918 and maybe
some kind of a death notice for 1896?
It has been a couple of weeks since I wrote the genie angel
volunteer for Lane Co, and she has never responded, so where would the
biggest library be, that would have the newspapers for look-up's?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Sherry Morell Shelts


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From: Lester M Powers <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, February 20, 2004 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ORLANE] Judges in Lane Co., 1870s


To follow up on the elections of 1872, I found a
little more information --

State and local elections were held in June of 1872,
but the federal election was apparently held later that
year.

Charlotte's book is right. Lane County did send
three representatives to the Oregon state legislature in
1872. There were five men on the ballot, and three of
them won. The three who were elected were N. Martin, C.W.
Washburn, and A.S. Powers, where I think A.S. Powers was
my great granduncle. It appears that Oregon counties were
represented by one or more people based on population.
Multnomah County had four representatives, Lane County had
three representatives, Grant County had two, Baker County
had one, and Coos and Curry shared one between them.
The state Senate had a similar system. (Based on The
Oregon State Journal," Eugene, June 29, 1872.)

I don't really know, but I suppose that rather than
carve up counties into representative districts, Oregon
then might have simply elected so many representatives
"at large" per county. What I'm used to seeing of olden
times is back on the east coast with one representative
elected per town, so it's disorienting when counties
jump in.

I kept hunting, hoping to find A.S. Powers' name
spelled out. Well, after his election, he got lopped off
even more, lost his "A.S.," and became just "Mr. Powers."
Thus: "Mr. Powers moved that so much of the Governor's
message as related to deaf mutes be referred to the
Committee on Education. Mr. Powers offered a joint
resolution to refer that portion of the Governor's
message relative to a reapportionment of the Senators and
Representatives among the several counties to a joint
committee of three from the House and two from the
Senate." ("Oregon State Journal," September 28, 1872.)

Meanwhile, I think I should revise my critique of
the two Eugene papers. The "Oregon State Journal" for
1871-1872 was mostly a political rag (Republican). It
had mostly state and national news, mostly political,
with a little local stuff here and there. It had some
obits and marriages, but not many. The "Eugene City
Guard" was much more of a local paper. Go to the "Guard"
first for local news (and some obits and marriages). Alas
for me, the "Guard"'s local news was primarily local to
Eugene itself. My people were at Springfield. The
"Guard" had some stuff for outlying places like Springfield, but not
nearly enough in my opinion. For
availability through interlibrary loan see
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/micro/papers.htm.
This seems to be one of the rare cases where a website is
better than the Union List.

Lester Powers




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