>From A Brief History of the Old Wasco County, Oregon Pioneers Association by William Howard McNeal published 1975 pg 162: Circuit Court Judges of Wasco County At the May 3, 1928 session of the Wasco County Pioneers Association, B.S. Huntington, Attorney of The Dalles and Spikane, gave the following short historical account of the Circuit Court of Wasco County: The first session being held August 14, 1854 and precided over by Judge Nathan Olney, first merchant of The Dalles 1848, whose term expired in 1861. ....... And from the first message/reference - I was real confused about the arrow- this makes more sense to me ..... pg 92: Olney Nathan (1825-1866) First Dalles Merchant of 1848 was a native of Penn. When he returned from service in the Cayuse Indian War of 1847-1848 in the Walla Walla Campaign, following the Whitman Massacre by the Cayuse Indians, he built a log cabin at 103 W 2nd on the banks of Mill Creek in which he lived with his Indian wife Annette (B. 1838 at The Dalles) and had a small store trading with the Indians and the emigrants as the first Merchant of The Dalles. In 1849 when Col W.W. Loring arrived with the 4th U.S. Infantry he made a Military Reservation of 10 square miles for Fort Dalles, forcing Olney to move to Chenowith Creek where he built his 2nd log store and dwelling about where old Hwgy. 30 bridge is located in the Westgate area, where he once again traded with the Indians, emigrants and Ft. Dalles soldiers. In 1851 the Military Reservation was reduced to One Square Mile, permitting boats to land at The Dalles where civilians could work the boats, live and build a community. Olney was a Veteran of the Yakima Indian War of 1855-56 and an interpeter in the Coat <sic> Indian uprisings of 1861-62 which made him a Civil War Veteran also. Following that service he took his wife and sons Frank & Melvina (B. 1856) and son Wm. (B. 1858) to the Yakima Indian Reservation where he was entitled to a rich Toppnish stock claim. One day his horse stepped in a badger hole throwing him off onto his head driving an old Indian arrow into his brain. He was buried at Ft. Simcoe, Wn. and his family remained on the Yakima Indian Reservation. He played the violin. ---W.H. McNeal's HISTORY OF WASCO COUNTY; P. 56, 59, 233, 274, 444 ********************************** The Havnar Family Network Family Internet Exchange http://havnar.home.mindspring.com/