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Political History of Oregon, 1853-65.
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Stark what Judge Black said of Justice Hunt, of the supreme court: "He was a very lady-like personage."

In January, 1862, a call was issued for a union state convention to be held at Eugene City on the ninth of April. This call was signed by H. W. Corbett, E. D. Shattuck and W. C. Johnson, republican state committee, and by Samuel Hanna, claiming to be chairman of the democratic state committee, and by the following persons, most of whom had been classed as democrats : J. J. Hoffman, A. C. Gibbs, W. S. Ladd, A. M. Starr, S. G. Reed, S. J. McCormack, Alonzo Leland, John McCraken, R. J. Ladd, A. C. R. Shaw, H. J. Geer, David Powell, W . H. Farrar, A. Dodge, Lucien Heath, Joseph Cox, R. C. Geer, A. B. Hallock, James H. Lappeus, George H. Williams, B. F. Harding, E. Williams, B. Simpson, I. R. Moores, E. N. Cooke, H. M. Thatcher, David McCully, L. E. Pratt, H. Rickey, James Shaw, Joseph Magone, A. C. Daniels, J. W. McCully, Thomas Strang, H. Zanklosskey, T. B. Rickey, William Graves, E. N. Terry, A. L. Lovejoy, J. S. Rinearson, R. P. Boise, D. P. Thompson, F. L. Cartee, C. P. Crandall, A. F. Waller.

J. J. Hoffman, whose name heads this list, was a clerk in my office, and A. C. Gibbs, whose name stands second, was my law partner. Pursuant to the above-named call, a convention was held at Eugene consisting of the following delegates: Benton—A. J. Thayer, J. R. Bayley, W. B. Spencer, M. Woodcock, A. G. Hovey. Clackamas—A. L. Lovejoy, W. Carey Johnson, M. C. Ramsby, S. Huelet, W. S. Dement, J. T. Kerns. Clatsop—William L. Adams. Columbia E. W. Conyers. Douglas—T. B. King, W. T. Baker, T. R. Hill, E. A. Lathrop, J. Kelly, S. B. Briggs, James F. Watson, R. Reil. Jackson—L. A. Rice, James Burpee, S. Reddick, W. W. Fowler, W. S. Hayden, J. B. Wrisley, O. Jacobs,