After returning from his adventures, his mining and his freighting, he made his home for several years at Corvallis, and in 1880 and in 1887 was sent from Benton County as a representative to the state legislature He was a member of the first Oregon Railroad Commission, created in 1887. He also served two terms on the city council of Corvallis. In 1883, three years after the death of his first wife, he was married to Wilhelmina Robertson of Albany. He had four children by his first marriage and three by his second. He spent the later years of his life at Lebanon, where he died on October 7, 1916, one day before his 74th birthday. He was buried in the Keeney Cemetery, six miles south of Brownsville, in the burying ground of the community to which he had come afoot from Portland 64 years before. He was a frequent contributor to the Oregon Native Son during its short period of publication and was well known among the members of the Oregon Pioneer Association. His book, Stories of Old Oregon, was printed by the Statesman Publishing Company, Salem, in 1905. It is a book of 293 pages, with the following chapters:
1. STORIES OF OLD OREGON. 2. A TEST OF COURAGE. 9. A LEGEND OF WALLOWA LAKE. 10. NED LEACH'S STORY. 11. JACK HART'S ENCOUNTER WITH ROAD AGENTS. 12. WAS IT LUCK OR PROVIDENCE. 13. BUCKSKIN'S FIGHT WITH THE WOLVES. 14. A CHANCE MEETING OF OLD FRIENDS. 15. DANDY JAM. Stories of Old Oregon has for several years been out of print and can now be secured only at second-hand book- stores, usually at a price three or four times as great as it sold for originally. George A. Waggoner's granddaughter, Elea- 3-| 4- 5- 6. ADVENTURES IN THE MINES.
HOW CAPTAIN DOBBINS WAS PROMOTE
