[or-roots] Fw: Matheny and Leabo ferries 2 different ferries

Thu Feb 25 22:06:37 PST 2010

Received it more than once.  All is well. It came through
Joanne Broadhurst

In a message dated 2/25/2010 7:59:44 P.M. Hawaiian Standard Time,  
nancydean at columbia-center.org writes:

I'm resending this post not sure if it went though  before keeps bouncing 
back to me? Please let me know? 

Sorry if you get it more than once, twice or  more ..  Matheny and Leabo 
ferries 2 different  ferries?     Nancy

_Historic ferries in Oregon - Wikipedia, the free  encyclopedia_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon)   
Daniel Matheny later started the Wheatland  Ferry in the 1850s around the 
same location. .... Historic photos of  Oregon ferries from the Oregon 
Department of ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon -  _Cached_ (mhtml:{CD7E9
BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://74.125.155.132/se
arch?q=cache:kBlg0lt1pj0J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon+M
atheny+Ferry,+Oregon&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us)  - _Similar_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://www.google.com/sea
rch?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:*:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7GGLL_en&q=related:en.wikip
edia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon+Matheny+Ferry,+Oregon&sa=X&ei=WRaHS
5fvBoWusgPUqp2UBw&ved=0CAoQHzAB) 

The first recorded ferry in Oregon was on the _Willamette River_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Willamette_River)  near present-day _Wheatland_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
/Wheatland,_Oregon) ._[1]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#ci
te_note-Oregon-0)  This ferry was  built during 1843–1844 and operated by 
_Jesse Applegate_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Applegate)  when he occupied the 
former _Methodist Mission_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Mission)  at 
Mission Bottom. Daniel Matheny  later started the _Wheatland Ferry_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Wheatland_Ferry)  in the 1850s around the same  location._[1]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikiped
ia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Oregon-0) 
The _Michel Laframboise_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Laframboise)  Ferry 
operated on the Willamette  running between _Champoeg_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ
oeg,_Oregon)  on the south bank and the north bank of the  river._[2]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-French-1)  The ferry  
operated from 1850 to 1857._[2]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Orego
n#cite_note-French-1)  
_Boones Ferry_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boones_Ferry)  was operated starting in 
1847 by _Alphonso Boone_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_Boone) , the grandson 
of _Daniel Boone_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Boone) . This ferry remained in 
operation near  _Wilsonville_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilsonville,_Oregon)  
until 1954, when a bridge was built over  the Willamette near the site._[3]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wi
kipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-2)  
Polk and Marion  counties

Discontinued ferries in _Polk_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polk_County,_Oregon)  
and _Marion County_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_County,_Oregon)  include the 
Claggett at _Independence_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence,_Oregon) , which 
ran until 1950._[4]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-
Claggett-3)  Hales  Ferry, near _Jefferson_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson,_O
regon) , operated as early as 1846, and another  Jefferson ferry was run by 
Jacob Conser in 1848._[1]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#ci
te_note-Oregon-0)  Doaks  Ferry operated six miles (10 km) north of _Salem_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem,_Oregon) . It was established in the 1840s by 
Andrew  Jackson Doak, and sold in 1860 to Jesse Walling, who platted _Lincoln, 
Oregon_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lincoln,_Oregon&action=edit&redlink=
1) ._[1]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Oregon-0)
  Doaks Ferry Road  is named for it. Spongs Ferry operated at Spong's 
Landing, now a Marion County  park, on the opposite side of the river from 
Doaks._[5]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Spongs-4)  
Halls  Ferry operated beginning in 1868 about six miles (10 km) south of  
Salem, and Halls Ferry Road still exists today._[6]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic
_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Halls-5)  The ferry was  started by Isaac (or 
Noah) Leabo, who sold to it Benjamin  Franklin (B. F.) Hall in either 1882 
or 1884, when  it became known as Halls Ferry._[6]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor
ic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Halls-5)  B. F. Hall's  father, _Reason B. 
Hall_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reason_B._Hall&action=edit&redlink=1) 
, was the founder of the _Buena Vista Ferry_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_
Ferry)  in 1852, which still operates to  this day. Halls Ferry changed 
hands twice and was subsequently renamed, first  to "Croisan's Ferry" and later 
to "Pettyjohn's Ferry"._[6]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#
cite_note-Halls-5)  It is uncertain  when the ferry ceased operations. 
There was also a "Halls Ferry" railroad  station at this locale._[6]_ 
(mhtml:{CD7E9BC3-73B6-4889-9D87-80D0C1A2580E}mid://00000690/!x-usc:http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Historic_ferries_in_Oregon#cite_note-Halls-5) 

----- Original Message ----- 
From:  _daviesw739_ (mailto:daviesw739 at aol.com)  
To: _or-roots mail list_ (mailto:or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us)   
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 9:47  PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] Into the Eye of  the Setting Sun

I don't know where you come up with this off  the wall stuff but someone 
has fed you a bunch of BS about grampa's  ferry.
Walt

In a message dated 02/25/10 16:13:07 Pacific Standard Time, 
_pmml at meritel.net_ (mailto:pmml at meritel.net)  writes:

he was not. 
 iSIAH LEABO WAS LEGAL OWNER  
HAVE PAPERS TO PROVE HE LOST IN COURT  HE CLAIMED TO BE ENDED UP PAYING FOR 
THE FERRY TO iSIAH.

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