[or-roots] Stationery engineer

[Roy Blaine]

A stationary engine is a donkey. My family logged that country. My grandfather had a stationary engine mounted at the top of a grade and used it to brake the (Model TT) rigs down the hill fully loaded. 

Roy
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On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:34 PM, "Leslie Chapman" <opera_70 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> Here's a poser for you; in the 1920 Census Saginaw, Lane co Precinct my Aunt Hazel's widowed brother in law Lee Montieth (Monteith?) is listed in column 26 as an engineer not specified of what and in column 27
> which is supposed to be the industry or whatever is the word Stationery. 
> 
> The reason I am concerned is I find on Family Search WW I draft cards; Thomas Lee Monteith b 1888 NC who lists himself as a Donkey Engineer and that he is sole support of a four year old child, it seems like enough evidence to associate Thomas of the draft card with Lee of Saginaw, but why the heck didn't he get listed as a Logging or Donkey Engineer in the census? 
> 
> In the draft registration he lists he is working for Fishhawk Logging in Fishhawk which unless I assume historic place doesn't narrow it down to much more than northern end of the state. I wonder if the daughter is left with grandma and grandpa all the time and Lee just calls that home because he migrates with the logging camps? Some day I really should look into trying to trace my closer relatives and the logging camps they inhabited. Of course considering how little we have learned so far about the one right under out noses I may  not get far. 
> 
> He lists Vesper or Visper as residence and I get nothing for that name off of GNIS, anybody heard of such a place?
> 
> Les C
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