Bacon, John M. - was bonr October 27, 1822 and came to Oregon from Main and IL.  He was married to Rachel W. Newman and their children were:  Theodore, Elmer, Grant Herbert, Claude, Laura, Adelia, Ella, Allenia, Jerome, Oscar and Robert.
John Helped Samuel K. Barlow cut out barlow road around Mt. Hood in 1845.  Was Postmaster of ORegon City from 1868-1890.

 BROOKS, John - was born March 7, 1824 and came to Oregon from Missouri.  Originally from Hart Co., Kentucky.  Many family members are buried in Salem Pioneer Cemetery.John and his wife Martha Rebecca Harper had the following children:  Mary, Irene, Nancy, Jane, William, John, Lydia, Frank, Clyde,Edward, Lenore, and Benjamin.

BROWN, Henry G. - came to Oregon via the Isthmus of Panama to San Frisco California up the Sacramento Valley from New Hampshire.  Henry was born December 15, 1832 and married Pricilla.  He had a 160 acre homestead and later purchased the  Henderer Donation Land Claim of 163 acres and eventually had 1600 acres.  Henry was a Republican State Representative in 1882.  His house built in 1883 near Elkton, OR is still lived in by his descendants.  Henry died August 29, 1902 and Priscilla died July 17, 1902.  Henry and Pricilla had the following children:  Samuel Henry, Hattie S., Helen J., Edward B., Francis C., and Martha.

 Butler, Peter - was born March 9, 1789 and came to Oregon from Warren Co. IL. : Ira F.M., Eliza Grounds, Margaret Smith, Elijah D., John M., Elizabeth Hutchinson, William C., and Joseph W.
Butler/Davidson/Murphy families established Monmouth Christian College, now Western Oregon State University.  See "Letters from the Butler Sisters" on WOSU Library/Archives website.
Served as a Major with the Kentucky sharp shooter militia at the defense of New Orleans in the War of 1812.  In 1828, with fifteen other veterans, he left Warren County Kentucky on horseback, journeying north across Ohio, then to western IL where governemnt land had been set aside for War of 1812 soldiers.  In 1829, he built a log cabin six miles from where Monmouth, IL, was later established.  He served as county commissioner, county surveyor (whenasked to survey the new town of Chicago, he refused, saying a town built on the  swampy shores of Lake Michigan did not possess a future), shriff, and state representative and state senator.  He was elected Captain of the Warren County Militia Company in the Black Hawk war 1832.  In 1850, the first wagon train from Monmouth, IL, left for OR.  Thrity nine persons with ten wagons, led by Elijah Davidson.  In 1852 another party went to ORegon, including Elijah Davidson Butler in 1853, peter organized his own train, under the command of his oldest son, Ira. (see letters from Monmouth Oregon to Monmouth Illinois).  "Not a wheel turned in the morning until all hands had gathered while the old man offered prayer.  On Sunday they camped.  But on the unlucky day when the Butler cow was swept away by the North Platte River, to the loss of the Butler breakfast coffee cream, the old man was human enough to 'cuss out' both cow and river." "I drove my buggy nearly all the way myself.  After all, there is more depending on the disposition of a person to stand that trip than their consitutuion, for if a person cannot accomodate themselves totheir situation, it will be hard to stand the trip, but if they can feel satisified to sit down in the mud, dust, sunshine, or rain and eat whatever they have, then sleep on the ground or in the wagon or any other place which they can get, then the trip will be easy and half teh difficulties surmounted."

 Butler, William Cook -was born October 2, 1814 and came to Oregon from Warren Co., IL he was married to Rebecca Elaine Lucas and their children were:  : Draper, Katherine, Alice, John, Victoria, Viola, and Will.