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Told by the Pioneers New York, with Capt. Clanrick Crosby in command. On board were Capt. C. Crosby's ·wife, Phoebe, his three children, Clamick, Jr., 12 years of age, Phoebe Louise, aged 7, Cecelia, aged 4, ;'lrs. ~lary Crosby, wife of Capt. Nathaniel Crosby, .Jr. (my grandparents), their three children, Nathaniel 3rd, aged 13 years, ::\lary L., aged 11 years and Martha Ruby, aged 9 years (my mother), :F'irst Officer Washington Hurd, his wife, Elizabeth (Capt. Crosby's sister, and daughter, Ella, aged 2 years, Second Officer Alfred Crosby, youngest brother, and his \"ife Clara (they settled in Astoria where one daughter still resides), Capt. Nathaniel Crosby, Sr., father of the Crosby brothers, .!'III'S. Holmes, companion, who went out to join her husband, and they settled in Portland, and :Mr. Conners Lilly, a passenger. There were only four men forward: Richard Hartley, a Scotchman, Joseph Taylor and Foster and Nathaniel Lincoln, brothers of Mrs. Nathaniel Crosby. ·With the exception of the colored cook and steward, one pas~ senger and two men, it was a family party. The Grecian arriyed at Portland ~rarch, 1850. In 1851 or 1852, the two Captains Crosby located in Tumwater, Oregon, (now "\Vashington), where they built a general store and a flour mill. Capt. Clanrick remained iu Tumwater, part of which was his donation claim, and Captaiu Nathaniel returned to Portland. He took the first cargo of spars to China from ::\Iilton, Oregon, in 1852 and in the fall of the same year took a load of spars from Olympia (iu 1852), the first spars taken from Puget Sound. They were cut at Butler's Cove. Capt. l\. Crosby owned at one time the whole of that part of Portlaud called Albina (I think it was his donation claim). lIe sold it for what in those days would be cousidered a big price, but would be very little uow. He had the money in a tin box such as thev • • • used in early days and that uight someone entered the house and the mone\- was stoleu. In his office he had some fine elk horns which had • been given him b~- au Indian. Ever afterwards, this Indian would come to him for all sorts of supplies, etc., expecting them gratis. One day m:-- grandfather objected to gi,-iug him something he wauted and he said, "Captain Crosby, remember them elk horns I gave yon." Af~ tel' that when any objection was made, the Indians always repeater} this saying. In 1853, Capt. Crosby gave np his business in Portland, having made his home there about six years, and takiug his family ·with him sailed the seven seas, as the saying was, for several years. They visited many ports. They took a tutor along for the child1'eu. I remember my mother telling of quite a loug stay in Hamburg, Germauy, also of taking the passage north of Scotland coming home and of encountering a terrible storm there which her father newr expected the ship to weather. 47
Told by the Pioneers They returned to 'Wiscasset Maine, which had been their home before going to Portland, and remained for a short time, then sailed for China. Capt. Croshy gave up going to sea and went into the ship chandlery business in Hongkong, but he lived only a short time, as he died suddenly at the age of 46 in the year 1856 in Hongkong, where he is buried. His daughter, Mary, had married and gone to San Francisco some time before and his daughter, Martha, my mother, married Capt. Samuel C. Woodruff soon after her father's death and remained in Hongkong. His widow, my grandmother, and his son, Nathaniel, came to Tumwater in 1858, where Nathaniel was given employment by his uncle, Capt. Clanrick Crosby. Nathaniel, called by his friends "Nat", married Miss Cordelia Jane Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith, who had a prosperous farm a few miles south of Olympia on Chambers Prairie. They built what was considered quite a spacions house at that time, in the north end of Tumwater. I have always had a great affection for this house as it was my birthplace. My grandmother resided with them until her death in May of 1866. One son, Frank L. Crosby, for many years Clerk of the Court in Tacoma, was born in this house, and another son, Harry L. Crosby (father of Bing Crosby) was born after the family moved to Olympia several years later. In 1864, Capt. Woodruff died in Hongkong, leaving my mother with two children, Samuel Crosby VYoodruff, aged 6 years and Ada Augusta 'Woodruff, now Mrs. Oliver Phelps Anderson (whose pen name is "Ada Woodruff Anderson") aged 4 years. Mrs. "Yoodruff and her sister Mrs. Caleb Smith, also a widow, came to the United States on a sailing vessel with Capt. "Villiams in command. There was a thick fog when they reached Cape Flattery. The Captain knew they must be near shore as he could hear the breakers, so he cast anchor. The first one did not hold and the second one dragged, but the third one held, fortunately, for 'when the fog lifted they were right in among the rocks. They were lucky that there was no storm and lucky, too, that the ship was hrought safely through. Mrs. Woodruff and Mrs. Smith resided in Tumwater with their brother and sister-in-law for a year or so, then Mrs. Smith married NIr. Platt Conklin of San Francisco and went there to live, and Mrs. 'Woodruff married :Mr. Andrew Jackson Burr of Olympia August 6, 1865. I am their eldest child, born ~fay 5, 1866 and my brother, Charles A. Burr was born May 6, 1869. In 1881 he carried the Seattle "IntelligenceI''' before it consolidated with the "Post". He and Ron Crawford carried the entire Citv of • Seattle. Later he was with the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railroad Co., when they built their road along the north shore of Lake vVashington. About 1890 he was in the Adjutant General's office under General R. G. 0 'Brien; was secretary of the State Board of Control for seven years; was employed by the Capital National Bank of 48
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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