[or-roots] Stephen Coffin Helps Establish Portland

[Connie Guardino]

"...James Terwilliger came with the emigrants of 1845, established a claim
south of the Overton tract, and the following year build a blacksmith shop. In
this same year Daniel H. Lownsdale located on what later was called the King
claim, established the first tannery in the far Northwest. He tanned on a
large scale, and turned out excellent leather, which he exchanged for raw
hides, furs wheat, or cash. Cpt. John H. Couch, of Newburyport, MA, returned
to Portland in 1845 and selected a tract north of the Lovejoy-Pettygrove
claim. The new proprietors added two partners, Stephen Coffin and W. W.
Chapman, and formed the Townsite Promotion Company. Coffin established a canoe
ferry in 1848. When traffic was heavy he used a raft of canoes. An excerpt
from a diary of that year says, 'Portland now has two white houses and one
brick and three wood-colored frame houses and a few cabins....'"

Cecil Houk wrote:

> Nanci:
>
> The Coffin name sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
>
> Cecil
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nanci Axelton" <naxelton at hotmail.com>
> To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 11:45 AM
> Subject: [or-roots] Foster 1940's
>
> > Cecil,
> >
> > My family lived in that area in the 1940's, did you ever meet anyone with
> > the surnames of Mann or Coffin?  I remember my uncle telling me stories
> > about my dad and his friends driving those gravel roads.
>
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