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several lectures on the phonograph, electricity and other scientific subjects. Mr. Lundberg became a member of the Masonic fraternity in 1866, and has so continued ever since.


JAMES R. BAYLEY, M. D.

The subject of this pen sketch has been a resident of our State for almost thirty years, during which time he has been closely identified with its progress, and to-day, although he is aged and gray, and his footsteps totter somewhat, be is a man who commands the esteem and respect of all who know him, and one who stands high in his profession. He was born in Clark county, Ohio, in 1819. receiving an academic education at Springfield, his younger days being divided between town and country life. He commenced the study of medicine in 1841 and was admitted to practice three years later, being a graduate of the Ohio Medical College. He at once commenced practice at his old home in Springfield, where he remained for four years, afterwards locating in Cincinnati, where he enjoyed a successful practice for seven years. In 1852 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Harpole, of Green county, Ohio, and moved to Oregon in 1855 and settled at Lafayette, remaining there two years and moving to Corvallis, where he has resided ever since. He was a member of the Territorial Council in 1856 and 1857, and has been twice elected Judge of Benton county. He was a member of the State Senate in 1866 and 1868, and was appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue in 1869, serving until 1873. Since that time he has devoted himself to the practice of his profession in Benton county. He is a thirty-two-degree Mason and Past Grand High Priest and Past Grand Master of the Masonic jurisdiction of Oregon; has been a prominent Odd Fellow and is of Presbyterian religious belief. He is the father of six children and the grandfather of one. He is tall and slender, with pleas- ant face and an agreeable temperament.


HON. O. W. FULTON,

An esteemed citizen of Astoria, and one of the most prominent young at- torneys in the State, made his appearance on this mundane sphere August 24, 1853, at Linn, Ohio, where he remained until 1855, when with his parents he removed to Harrison county, Iowa, where his early boyhood was spen t on a farm. In May, 1870, they moved to Pawnee county, Nebraska. His father served as Second Lieutenant in Co. A, Twenty-First Iowa Regiment. The subject of our sketch received a liberal education, attending the com- mon schools in Iowa during th'^ winter months of his residence there and the High School at Pawnee City for a couple of years. In 1873 he com- menced the study of law in the office of Hon. A. H. Babcock, of Pawnee City, Nebraska, and was admitted to the bar in 1875. He started for Ore- gon the same year and landed in Portland nearly broke. Nothing daunt- ed, however, he went to Albany, where he heard of a vacancy in a school near Waterloo, about eighteen miles distant. Mr. Fulton walked there, secured the school, walked back to Albany, passed his examination, se-