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E. L. Quimby

Sec. 15/22-- Map 9A

Ebenezer Lane Quimby was born June 28, 1813 on the Vermont farm of his parents, Benjamin and Jane (Lane) Quimby.⁽¹⁾ He and his wife Elmira Peck left Illinois for Oregon in 1849, bringing their oldest daughter. Until 1852, the family was located at Milwaukie, when they settled a donation land claim.⁽²⁾ In 1885 he moved to Woodburn, Marion County, Oregon where he died on February 7, 1891.⁽²⁾ At the time of the 1870 census, Josiah Rankin, the son of John Rankin, was living in his household.

His wife was Elmira M. Peck. She was born in Vermont about 1818. She died on their East Portland claim on May 9, 1876.⁽⁴⁾

They had the following children:

Richard Price was born in Mongtomgeryshire, Wales on September 24, 1835. In 1856 he went to New York. From there, he spent time in Columbus, Ohio having, among other job, one in an asylum; in 1860 he was in New Orleans. Upon the outbreak of war, he returned to Ohio, and joined the Union forces, in Company G, Third Regiment of Ohio Infantry, under Captain O. T. Turner.

Upon his discharge, he started for California, via Nicaragua. At Stockton he worked as warden of an insane asylum. From there he came to Oregon, locating at The Dalles, Oregon City, returning to California. About 1865, he returned to Portland where he had charge of a farm connected to a private Portland Asylum. On his marriage, he purchased land along Hawthorne Ave.

1. Joseph Gaston, Portland: It's History and Builders (Chicago:, 1913), vol. II, pg. 759-760 "Richard Price."

2. Snyder, p.212-213.

3. Nellie Hiday. 1870 U. S. Census Multnomah County, Oregon. Portland, Oregon: Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon, 1963.

4. Gaston vol. 2, p.760.

5. Park vol. 1, p.56 [1:160].