QUIGLEY, Arthur
- Born: March 1863, Washington Territory, USA 1
- Marriage (1): JERVEY, Adda on 1 August 1884 in Wahkiakum, Washington State, USA
Another name for Arthur was QUIGLY, Arther.
General Notes:
The 1871 Washington State and Territorial Census for Clark County, Washington Territory, recorded Arthur Quigley, a white male, 6 years old and born in Washington Territory with parents of non US birth.
Arther [sic] was recorded by the 1880 US Census living with his parents and two brothers in District 2, Clark County, in Washington State. His age was recorded as 15 years and he had been born in the State of Washington. No occupation was noted beside his name and he was recorded as single.
The 1900 Federal US Census for Monticelo Precinct, Cowlitz County in Washington State recorded Arthur Quigley as head of a household consisting of himself, his wife, and his seven children. The village name appears to be Catlin. Arthur was recorded as born in March 1863. He was 35 years of age and had been married for 15 years. The entry recorded him as born in Oregon, and similarly his parents as born in Oregon, information we know from other sources not to be accurate. Arthur was a farmer by occupation. The answer 'no' was made to whether he could read and write, and 'yes' to whether he could speak English. He owned his farm freely, his schedule number being 35.
Note: In the 1910 census the correct birth places are recorded for Arthur's parents, suggesting that it is possibly his wife who gave the information in 1900, or that the person who did misunderstood what was being asked.
Arthur Quigley, a widower, was recorded by the 1910 Federal US Census living with his son Walter at Oak Point Precinct in Cowlitz County, Washington State. He was 44 years old and born in Washington State, his father being of Scots-English descent and his mother of Irish-English. He spoke English. His occupation was noted as a 'hook tender' in a lumber camp. He was an employee and in work. he had been nine weeks out of work during 1909. he was a house owner , and he owned his house without mortgage. 1 2 3
Research Notes:
ANDREW OR ARTHUR?
'Pioneers of Clark County' states that a son called 'Andrew' was born in 1865 to Arthur and Jane Quigley. It may be there was another son, but the 1880 US census cites an 'Arther' aged 15.
OREGON TERRITORY
From Wikipedia:
The Oregon Territory is the name applied both to the unorganized Oregon Country claimed by both the United States and Britain (but normally referred to as the Oregon Country), as well as to the organized U.S. territory formed from it that existed between 1848 and 1859.
The Territory of Oregon was organized on August 14, 1848, by an act of Congress out of the U.S. portion of the Oregon Country below the 49th parallel north. It originally included all of the present-day states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as Montana west of the Continental Divide, and Wyoming west of the Continental Divide and north of the 42nd parallel north'97 the northern border of the Mexican Cession.
The first territorial capital was in Oregon City. The capital was later moved to Salem in 1851.
In 1853, the portion of the territory north of the lower Columbia River and north of the 46th parallel east of the river was organized into the Washington Territory.
On February 14, 1859, the territory entered the Union as the U.S. state of Oregon within its current boundaries. The remaining eastern portion of the territory (the portions in present-day southern Idaho and western Wyoming) was added to the Washington Territory.
In 1861 and then 1863, portions to the east were organized into the Nebraska Territory and Idaho Territory (respectively.)
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Territory
WASHINGTON TERRITORY
From Wikipedia:
The Washington Territory was a historic organized territory of the United States that was formed in February 8, 1853 from the portion of the Oregon Territory north of the lower Columbia River and north of the 46th parallel east of the Columbia. A first draft of the bill named the area "Columbia Territory," but the name honoring George Washington was proposed by Congressman Richard H. Stanton of Kentucky.
The territorial capital was Olympia, and the territory's first governor was Isaac Stevens.
The original boundaries of the territory included all of the present day State of Washington, as well as northern Idaho and Montana west of the continental divide. Upon the admission of the State of Oregon to the union in 1859, the eastern portions of the Oregon Territory, including southern Idaho, portions of Wyoming west of the continental divide (then Nebraska Territory), and a small portion of present-day Ravalli County, Montana were annexed to the Washington Territory.
In 1863, the area of Washington Territory east of the Snake River and the 117th meridian was reorganized as part of the newly created Idaho Territory, leaving the territory within the current boundaries of the State of Washington, which was admitted to the Union on November 11, 1889 as the 42nd U.S. state.
COWLITZ COUNTY ECONOMIC HISTORY
Cowlitz County derives its name from the anglicized version of the Indian term Cow-e-liske (the name of the local tribe), which is believed to mean either river of shifting sand or capturing the medicine spirit. Neighboring Wahkiakum County derived its name from the chief (and namesake) of a local Kathlamet Indian tribe. The Indian translation of the term is unknown. The two counties were among the first organized in April of 1854 by the newly-formed Washington Territorial Government. The enacting legislation was signed into law by Governor Isaac I. Stevens.
Of course, the region's history far pre-dates its organization. The area now known as Cowlitz County was inhabited by numerous Native American Indian tribes--chief among them the Cowlitz--all of whom were drawn to the region by plentiful salmon from the Columbia River. Also dependent on salmon from the Columbia were the Wahkiakum and Kathlamet, the largest Indian tribes in Wahkiakum. There is substantial evidence that these tribes traded extensively with those in western and eastern Washington. Consequently, they are considered the first regional inhabitants to engage in commerce. Unfortunately, the Indian population was decimated by the smallpox epidemic of 1829-30. And in 1855, the surviving Indians were removed to the Yakima Indian reservation in central Washington.
White exploration into the region is recognized as having begun in 1792, the year Lieutenant W.R. Broughton, in command of the British ship Chatham, sailed past the mouth of the Columbia and approximately 100 miles upriver to present-day Vancouver. Along the way, he discovered Puget's Island, which lies mid-river from what is now the town of Cathlamet in Wahkiakum County, and Mount Coffin, an historic Indian burial site in present-day Longview. (Note: the English brig Jenny may actually have been first since Lieutenant Broughton discovered it at anchor beyond the sand bar at the mouth of the river.)
The next explorers to venture through the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum region came the long way. Under orders from President Thomas Jefferson to chart a navigable commercial waterway from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an expedition in 1805. They did not find the so-called Northwest Passage, but they did reach the Columbia River, which they eventually navigated to the Pacific. On November 5, 1805, they made camp where the Kalama River flows into the Columbia. They reached present sites of Longview and Cathlamet over the following several days.
By the 1820s, the British Hudson's Bay Company had established a lucrative fur trade in the region. The importance of Cowlitz to this enterprise was underscored after the company located its regional headquarters in Vancouver, Washington. Thousands of furs were sent down Cowlitz rivers to the Columbia, where they were loaded onto ships bound for ports around the world. By the late 1830s, though, over-hunting and changing fashion tastes brought an end to the fur trade. Still, many former trappers and fur company employees chose to remain in the area. They subsequently became the region's first white settlers. In fact, the first permanent white settler in Wahkiakum County was James Birnie, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, who in 1846 located his family in what is now Cathlamet.
During the 1850s and 1860s, white settlement of the region was well underway. Drawn by the promise of land ownership, most settlers homesteaded tracts of land along the Columbia River. Some ventured further inland, following any of a number of tributaries that fed the Columbia. In Cowlitz County, settlers were concentrated around the river valleys of Kelso-Longview. Settlements in Wahkiakum County sprang up first around Cathlamet and in the valley surrounding the Elochoman River. Later, they began appearing further west around the Grays-Deep River valley.
Numerous towns were organized during this period, the first of which was Monticello (near present-day Longview). It was there on November 25, 1852 that a group of prominent settlers from the Cowlitz and Puget Sound regions met to draft a petition to their Oregon Territory delegate in the District of Columbia calling for a separate territory north of the Columbia River. Three months later, the U.S. Congress formed Washington Territory.
Roughly 85 percent of Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties is forest land. Therefore, it is not surprising that the logging and lumber industries have been the foundation of the local economy since the pioneer days. In fact, nearly every town that sprang up in the late 1800s did so around a logging or lumber-milling operation.
The first commercial logging and lumber processing in the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum region was developed in the late 1840s to provide wood for homes and other buildings. Numerous other logging and lumber operations were established in quick succession. Logs were originally hauled from the forest on greased skids by teams of oxen and then floated downriver to sawmills for processing. By the 1890s, however, teams of oxen and greased skids were replaced by locomotive "steam-donkeys." Lumber output expanded as demand soared in the wake of a West Coast building boom. It is estimated that at the turn of the century, in excess of 1,000 workers were employed in Cowlitz County's logging and lumber firms. At that time, the largest operators were the Hammond Lumber Company, Inman Paulsen Company, Western Company, and Wisconsin Timber Company. The two largest logging concerns in Wahkiakum County were Olsen Brothers Logging Company and Deep River Logging Company. 4
Arthur married Adda JERVEY on 1 August 1884 in Wahkiakum, Washington State, USA. (Adda JERVEY was born in September 1867 in Iowa, USA, died in 1899 in Cowlitz County, Washington State, USA 5 and was buried in 1899 in Cowlitz View Memorial Gardens, Kelso, Cowlitz, Washington, USA 5.)
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