Charles H. Cronk
C.H. Cronk was agent and operator of the C. and N.-W. R.R., Oregon; born in Rensselaer Co., N.Y. in 1831; his father’s people were early settlers on the Holland Purchase, and his mother was of Dutchess Co., N.Y.; they came West in 1847, and still reside at Brodhead; the son our subject, was educated in the Ball Seminary, Hoosac Falls, N.Y.;
William Crapp
WILLIAM CRAPP is recognized as one of the progressive farmers of the town of Oregon, and his success has been achieved entirely by his own efforts and the counsel and economy of his faithful wife.
Hans Peter Christensen
HANS PETER CHRISTENSEN. He was born Dec. 28, 1872 in Store Lindet (Lolland) Birket Sogn ord Maribo, Denmark. He was baptized March 2, 1873 in Birket Church and confirmed there April 17, 1887 by Pastor Kejser-Nielsen.
James Courtier
JAMES COURTIER, farmer, Sec. 34; P.O. Union; a native of Pennsylvania; was born in Bradford Co., in December, 1825; his father, John Courtier, a farmer, was also born in Pennsylvania of German parents;
John H. Coward
JOHN H. COWARD, boot and shoe maker, Oregon; born in Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, England, Oct. 30, 1824;
William Comstock
WILLIAM COMSTOCK, deceased; was born in 1808, in Rhode Island; he was the second of eight children of Aaron and Patience (Spencer) Comstock, and with whom he removed, when a young man, to Delaware Co., N.Y., and there devoted his time principally to farming till the spring of 1844;
John Culb
JOHN CULB, a prosperous farmer of the town of Oregon, was born in the province of Bavaria, Germany, on September 11, 1848, and is one of three children born to Henry and Elizabeth (Brown) Culb both of whom are also natives of the Fatherland, where the father served six years in the German army.
F.C. Comstock
F.C. COMSTOCK, merchant, Oregon; born in Otsego Co., N.Y. in 1839; son of William and Fanny Comstock, both natives of New York, who settled on Government land in town of Dunn, Dane Co., in the spring of 1845;
R.B. Chandler
R.B. CHANDLER, of the Exchange Hotel, Oregon, is a native of Oxford, Me.; at 18 he went to Lowell, Mass., where he was employed in building locks and dams; was also in charge of gangs of men in damming the Merrimack at Lawrence, and controlled 1,500 men in the building of the South Hadley and Holyoke dam; in 1843, he was in Mexico, and from 1848 to 1852, in California; the year 1852 found him on a farm in town of Primrose, he having visited the State ten year before; Mr. C has expended much in ditching and improving his farm of 320 acres in Primrose, erecting a house at a cost of $3,300, which was destroyed by the tornado of May 23, 1878;