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<DIV>In a message dated 5/17/06 11:03:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
ssteward@ccountry.net writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>This family newsletter article from Martha (Gale)
Hockersmith indicates "My three brothers Newton, Marion, and William J Gale,
started the first newspaper in Eugene."</FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>Sue,</DIV>
<DIV>Thank you for this bit of information. It leaves a lot unsaid. I'm
wondering what the name</DIV>
<DIV>of the newspaper was and about what year. There were many early newspapers
in</DIV>
<DIV>Eugene -- some that didn't last very long at all.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3>Might there be some information at the Lane County
Historical Society about the newspaper?</FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>The "Lane County Historian", publication of the Lane County Historical
Society is where</DIV>
<DIV>I got my first clue. In an article that I can't put my fingers on right now
-- (do you ever </DIV>
<DIV>lose things in stacks of papers?) -- it said that all the sons of William
Gale went into</DIV>
<DIV>the newspaper publishing business except William J. Gale -- and that he
lived near</DIV>
<DIV>Junction City and is buried there -- or something like that. The headstone
does say</DIV>
<DIV>that he died at age 21, so he probably doesn't have much history here.
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<DIV>The family came to Oregon in 1853 and he died in 1859. At least that
confirms why I</DIV>
<DIV>could not find him on any census. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks again for your help.</DIV>
<DIV>Linda</DIV>
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