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Lake County, Oregon Genealogy & History |
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C Cogswell, C. A. |
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 Hon. C.A. Cogswell- As stated in the article on Lake
county and Lakeview, 25 years ago there were scarcely more
than 10 residents in what is now Lake county, Oregon. Hon.
Charles A. Cogswell, the distinguished senator in the last
three sessions of the Oregon state legislature from the
remote southeastern part of the state, was one of the 10
hardy pioneers above referred to. Senator Cogswell was a
mere youth with but $25 in his pockets when he decided to
brave the hardships of a frontier life in the then wilds
of Southeastern Oregon. He hailed from Vermont, where he
was born in 1844. His parents removed to Iowa in 1857,
where he received the benefit of a common school
education. During the war with the South, he fought under
Gen. Sherman's commanded and subsequently removed to Goose
Lake valley, in Lake county, Oregon, where he has since
resided. For 25 years Senator Cogswell has striven, and
not in vain, to bring about a development and civilization
of one of the most remote corners of the continent. The
results have been worthy of his indefatigable and well
directed efforts. After the rough corners of his frontier
existence had begun to wear smooth, Senator Cogswell took
up the study of the law, and was admitted to practice in
the Oregon courts. In 1887 he was elected to the office of
Judge of Lake county. In 1888 he received a flattering
majority for state senator and was re-elected to the same
office in 1892 by double his former majority. During his
term in the senate, Mr. Cogswell was a leading spirit, and
many of the important measures that became laws during
that session originated with him. He received the
Democratic vote of the members of the Senate for the
office of president of that body, and he was made chairman
of the committee on federal relations. The name of Senator
Cogswell is often mentioned in connection with the
gubernatorial honors of the state, but this has been done
without his sanction. Senator Cogswell is now the mayor of
Lakeview. He enjoys a must lucrative law practice besides
having large stock as well as other interests in
Southeastern Oregon. He is a man of marked ability, an
ardent Democrat in politics and he is honored by an
admiring constituency from both parties alike.
The Oregonian's
Handbook of the Pacific Northwest |
Hon. Bernard Daly, M.D.- There
was probably no more distinguished member of the house of
the last legislature than Dr. Bernard Daly, the
representative from Lake and Klamath counties. Dr. Daly is
a native of Ireland, having been born there in 1858, but
he was raised in the state of Alabama. He received a
thorough preliminary education in his youth and graduated
in his youth and graduated from the Ohio Normal University
at Ada in 1886, and from the Medical Department of the
University of Louisville in 1887. During the latter year
he took up his residence at Lakeview, where he began the
practice of his profession in which he has not met with
signal success. Although hailing from a somewhat remote
part of the state, Dr. Daly has always been indefatigable
in his efforts in behalf of Southeastern Oregon. He was
elected to the last legislature by a most flattering
majority and he served his constituents in a most able
manner. Although on the side of the Democratic minority,
Dr. Daly was a leader and many of the important measures
introduced and enacted are to be traced to his sagacious
efforts. Dr. Daly's interest in behalf of education led to
his appointment as a member of the board of regents of the
Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, the
position made vacant by the death of Hon. W.S. Ladd, of
Portland. Dr. Daly is a most prominent citizen of Lakeview
and is untiring in his efforts to make Southeastern Oregon
one of the most important agricultural sections of the
state.The Oregonian's Handbook of the Pacific Northwest Edward Gardner Jones, Editor 1894, The Oregonian Publishing Co. Contributed by Shauna Williams |
 Hon. W.M. Townsend- The
name of Hon. W.M. Townsend has been prominently identified
with the growth and development of the Willamette valley,
in Oregon, for the past 30 years. Judge Townsend was born
in the state of Indiana in 1839, where he received a
common school education. Early in life he became imbued
with a desire to go west, and in 1855 he settled in
Kansas. Ten years later the Pacific coast proved a more
inviting field for the man of push and ambition, and Judge
Townsend removed to Yamhill county, in Oregon. During his
stay in Kansas he enlisted in the 15th Kansas regiment and
served with honor during the civil war. In 1870 Judge
Townsend was elected a member of the Oregon legislature
and in 1874 he occupied a seat in the Senate along with
such men as Dolph, Hirsch, Watson, Meyers and Cochran.
During his term as senator, Judge Townsend was made
chairman of the committee on ways and means. In 1878 he
was elected judge of Yamhill county. Judge Townsend has
always been a partisan democrat and in recognition of his
ability as a leader and expounder of the principals of
democracy, he was chosen by the state central committee in
1880 and 1884 to canvass the state for Hancock and
Cleveland respectively. In 1878 Judge Townsend adopted
journalism as a calling and established the Oregon
Register at Lafayette. In 1885 he was appointed by
Cleveland receiver of the land office at Lakeview where he
has since resided. Judge Townsend enjoys the honor of
having been the first mayor of Lakeview, to which position
he was elected in 1888. He now holds the office of judge
of Lake county, and he also finds time to edit one of the
most sprightly weekly newspapers in Oregon, The Lake
County Examiner. Judge Townsend is well known throughout
the state and is a man of recognized ability. In 1878 he
declined the nomination for governor of the state and in
1884 he received the complimentary vote of the democratic
minority in the legislature for United States senator.
Judge Townsend has unlimited confidence in the future
development of Lake county and Southeastern Oregon and no
one man is doing more than he is to aid and hasten this
rapid development. Just as "The Handbook" is going to press word reaches The Oregonian that Hon. W.M. Townsend, the subject of the above sketch, is dead. Judge Townsend was one of the best known and highly respected citizens of the state, and his death will be mourned by his numerous friends and admirers in all parts of the coast. The Oregonian's Handbook of the Pacific Northwest Edward Gardner Jones, Editor 1894, The Oregonian Publishing Co. Contributed by Shauna Williams |
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