Deaths

Armstrong and Hannah Rankins on Oak Ridge

This name originated, doubtless, under a mistaken view of things, as the furnace didn’t stand on a ridge.  When your correspondent read on the stone in the arch of the old furnace stack, “Oak Ridge Furnace built by W. H. Allison, 1856.”  I could not help saying to myself that the year of ’56 must have been a year of mistakes.

Ernest Whitcomb Crichton

After an illness of 10 days, Ernest Whitcomb Crichton, a veteran steamboat man of Oregon, died last night at his home, 280 East Seventeenth street, North. The cause of death was peritonitis. Mr. Crichton was born at Buckhorn Furnace, Lawrence county, Ohio, in 1850 and came to Oregon in 1875, taking a position with the old Oregon Iron Company, with headquarters at Oswego. In 1877 he went into the steamboat business with Captain U. R. Scott, S. H. Brown, Z. J. Hatch and L. B. Seeley, having charge of the steamers “Ohio” and “City of Salem.”

Obituary of James Caulley (Colley)

James Caulley was born near Waterloo in Lawrence County, Ohio, and spent all his life in Lawrence, Scioto and Jackson counties with the exception of his army life and the time he spent at Dayton, which was not very long. In 1861 he enlisted

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