Page:Oregon Historical Quarterly vol. 8.djvu/337

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HISTORY OF STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 329 Prettyman, Dr. Perry ... 1 Shattuck, Mrs. E. D 1 Pullen, Andrew 1 Sherlock & Bacon 3 Pullen, George P 1 Sherlock, S. & Co 1 Randall, E. G 1 Starr, A. M. & L. M 1 Bobbins, George Collier. . 1 Stephens, Miss 1 Schenck, Charles 1 Thomas, Benjamin 3 Seymour & Joynt 1 Zimmerman, George 1 Perhaps it will not be amiss to briefly refer to these ex- hibitors, as most of them have been strongly identified with building up Portland and Multnomah County. Sherlock & Bacon were liverymen of the early days. Adolph Miller was the first drayman in Portland, and his widow and a number of children now live in this city. George P. Pullen and Andrew Pullen were Columbia Slough farmers as well as David Powell, John Powell, Henry Holtgrieve, Thomas Cully, George Zimmerman and A. J. Dufur all be- ing among the most resolute and energetic pioneers, who set- tled in that region when it was almost an impenetrable forest. One who passes through that section of country now can scarcely comprehend the amount of energy and determina- tion it required on the part of the first settlers there to make it habitable. J. D. Holman was school clerk of District No. 1, Portland, for many years, and his son, Frederick V. Hol- man, is one of the best and most favorably known lawyers of the present day in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Frazar were the grandparents of Mr. Walter F. Burrell, a well-known business man of Portland. Mr. Frazar was United States Assessor of Internal Revenue during Mr. Lincoln's first term as President. The Standard Mills, alluded to, was the mill at Mil waukie admittedly the best flour mill in Oregon in its day. Clinton Kelly better known as (( Father Kelly" was a pioneer of 1848, and an important personage in the formative period of the country, as he stood strongly for all that goes to make up character in its highest sense. Almost the whole of his donation claim lies within the present city limits of Portland. A. P. Ankeny was a captain of volun- teers during the Yakima Indian war of 1855-56, and a man of great energy and enterprise. His adopted son, Hon. Levi