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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

The Horn Album, Umatilla County, Oregon: A Genealogist's Dream


I purchased this family photograph album at the Seattle Antiquarian Bookshow last week, along with way too many books. The album contains three carte de visite photographs and nine tintypes, all identified, but undated. The album is inscribed “My Father’s album presented to Mr. & Mrs. William K. Backstrom [?] by Miss Lenora V. Horn.” Most of the people in the album have early connections to Umatilla County, Oregon. Only one of the photos displays a photographer’s imprint, and unfortunately, the information I found on the photographer was minimal, and didn't help to narrow down the date of the photo any further than I had already estimated. Most of the photographs seem to be taken in the 1870s or early 1880s.

Inside album - Left: inscription, Right: Charley Powers
Inscription - inside front cover
Inscription - inside back cover 
Subjects featured in this album are:

1) Charley Powers – cdv photograph
2) George Horn – tintype photograph
3) Calvin Wallace – cdv
4) Miss Ada Walton – tintype
5) Will Looney – tintype
6) Annie Sappingfield -cdv circa
7) William Sappingfield – tintype (tinted)
8) John W. Horn & Arthur Noble - tintype
9) George Horn & John W. Horn - tintype
10) George Horn & Abrigail [Abigail] Horn – tintype
11) Angeline Doty now Angeline Minich – tintype (tinted), taken at the F.A. Smith Studio in Salem.
12) Misas [Misses] Ingram – tintype (tinted)

John William Horn (b. 1858) and George Washington Horn (b. 1857-1931) were brothers, both born in Oregon to Adam Wise Horn and Elizabeth McClure Looney (b. abt 1840)1,2. John W. seems to be the original owner of the album and his daughter, Lenora V. Horn inscribed the above mentioned notation. Susan Anna Ritchey was John’s second wife and Lenora’s mother.3,5 John’s brother, George, married Abigail Simmons4.

An obituary in the Portland Morning Oregonian provides a great deal of genealogical information about William Sappingfield (b.1830) and his origins6. It also provides a photograph to compare with the identified photograph in the album, and I am certain he is our man. In 1866, William Sappingfield married sixteen-year-old Frances W. Looney in Marion, Oregon7. As for the “Annie Sappingfield” in the album, I haven’t been able to find a possible match for her. I have an inkling it might be Frances, because the photo inscription was written overtop an erasure, and it looks like the given (erased) name began with an F. It could be a case of misidentification.

Elizabeth Looney (b. abt 1840) and Frances W. Looney (b. abt 1850) were both daughters of William Looney (b. abt 1818) and Elmira McClure.8,9 Their father, William, drowned on 15 Aug 1850 at age 33, as he tried to cross the Santiam River, near Hale’s Ferry.10,11 His widow, Elmira, married Nelson Ransome Doty about a year later12. Angeline Doty was born to Nelson and Elmira in 185713. Angeline married Jacob P. Minch in 1882. The William Looney featured in the album is a bit of a puzzle. The image can’t be William Looney, father to Elizabeth and Frances, because it likely dates to the 1870s.

I believe the Charley Powers in the album is Charles E. Powers (b. 10 Sept 1853) who married Emma Wallace in 187614. Emma’s brother was James Calvin Wallace (b. abt 1856), and he is also featured in this album15.

Arthur Noble, who posed with John Horn in image #8, is probably Arthur B. Noble, (b. 1855) husband of Alta Horn, sister of George and John W. Horn.16

I’m unsure how Miss Ada Walton is connected to John William Horn. I did find information on Ancestry databases pertaining to an Ada Ossie Walton (b. abt 1867), daughter of Lane County Judge, Joshua Jones Walton and his wife, Rebecca Gale. Ada was a school teacher in Oregon from 1882-1902, and later worked in Seattle as a stenographer/bookkeeper.17

If you can elaborate on any of these people, I hope you’ll leave a comment below.

Left: Annie Sappingfield  Right: William Sappingfield



1 "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDQJ-V4B : 13 December 2017), Jno W Horn in entry for A Horn, 1860.↩
2 "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF8B-MYH : 12 April 2016), John Horn in household of A W Horn, Oregon, United States; citing p. 1, family 1, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,785.↩
3 "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCSD-J9S : accessed 18 October 2018), John W Horn, Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 55, sheet 16B, line 54, family 160, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1956; FHL microfilm 2,341,690↩
4 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for George Washington Horn, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber= 66615)↩
5 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for John William Horn, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?ancRecordNumber= 66617) ↩
6 “Man Who Crosses Plains to Oregon in 1847 Dies in Goldendale,” The Morning Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, 3 August 1911, p. 6. Image provided by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR (http://www.oregonnews.uoregon.edu). ↩
7 Ancestry.com. Marion County, Oregon, Marriage Records, 1849-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012; entry for William Sappingfield; citing Custer, Jeanne, and Daraleen Wade, compilers. The Marriage Records of Marion County, Oregon, Volume 1, 1849–1871. Salem, Oregon: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society, 1979.↩
8 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Elizabeth McClure Looney, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber=27602↩
9 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Frances William Looney, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber= 71668 (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber=27602↩
10 “Casualties [death of William Looney],” Oregon Spectator, Oregon City, Oregon, 5 September 1850., p. 2. Image provided by University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR (http://www.oregonnews.uoregon.edu↩
11 Ancestry.com. Willamette Valley, Oregon, Death Records, 1838-2006 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012, entry for William Looney, citing Death, Burial, and Obituary Collection. Salem, Oregon: Willamette Valley Genealogical Society, accessed 18 Oct 2018.↩
12 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Elmira McClure, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?recordNumber=29990)↩
13 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Angeline Doty, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?ancRecordNumber=19995)↩
14 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Charles E. Powers, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?ancRecordNumber= 60838↩
15 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for James Calvin Wallace, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?ancRecordNumber= 25198)↩
16 Ancestry.com. Oregon, Early Oregonians Index, 1800-1860 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014, entry for Arthur B. Noble, citing Early Oregonians Database Index. Oregon State Archives, Salem, Oregon. (https://secure.sos.state.or.us/prs/profile.do?ancRecordNumber= 14186) ↩
17 General Register of the Officers and Alumni 1873-1907. Eugene, Or.: The University, 1908. Print.↩
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