From Lane Co Oregon

ARTHUR LYLE VEAZIE

Arthur Lyle Veazie was born at Dallas, Oregon, September 8, 1868. His father, Edmund Fuller Veazie, was a native of Hamden, Maine, and his mother was a native of Polk County, Oregon. The father died in Wasco county, Oregon, in 1877, while the mother, Harriet Jane Lyle, who was born in 1847, died in 1927 and is buried in Portland. The family history is closely connected with the pioneer development of Oregon. Felix Scott, great-grandfather of Arthur L. Veazie, with his wife, Ellen Scott and a large family, crossed the plains to the Pacific coast in 1845. He was born in West Virginia, December 13, 1786. He moved to St. Charles county, Missouri, in 1819; was a member of the senate for several terms and served as lieutenant governor of that state. The opportunities of the far west attracted him. He spent the winter of 1845-6 at Sutter's Fort, now the site of Sacramento. In the spring of 1845 he journeyed northward to Oregon by pack train and lived in Yamhill county until 1849 and then settled in Lane County. He engaged successfully in mining in California. Felix's eldest son (Felix Jr.) returned overland to the midwest (where his uncle lived in Illinois) and bought fine cattle, which he successfully brought to the ranch in Oregon. Later, Felix Sr., with several associates returned by way of the sea to the Atlantic coast, where they invested their money in fine blooded horses and started across the plains to Oregon with their stock, (as they could not travel by ship due to the gold rush), but the entire party was slain outside Winnemucca, Nevada, in the year 1858. His son, Felix Scott, Jr., opened the first wagon road through the McKenzie Pass in 1861, taking a train of loaded freight wagons through with ox teams from Eugene to eastern Oregon.

It was also in the year 1845 that John Eakin Lyle, a grandfather of Arthur L. Veazie, came to Oregon. He was born near Knoxville, Tennessee, and was married in Oregon in 1846 to Ellen Castlio Scott, who had crossed the plains with her father, Felix Scott and Felix's second wife, as his first wife had died in childbirth, Ellen Castlio, born 1805 in Davidson County, Tenn. John E. Lyle was the first school teacher of Polk county and a monument marks the site on which he conducted his school, which was advertised in the Oregon Spectator of Oregon City, March 19, 1846, as follows:

"Jefferson Institute is located in the Rickereall Valley, one mile west of the residence of Col. N. Ford. The first session of this school will commence on the second Monday of next April, and continue twenty-four weeks. Scholars from a distance can be accommodated with boarding in the neighborhood. Terms of tuition, $8.00 per scholar.

John E. Lyle, Teacher

N. Ford, James Howard, William Beagle -- Trustees

March 7, 1846"

The paper which contained this advertisement was the first published in American territory west of the Rocky mountains, and its first issue was February 5, 1846. Mr. Lyle always took an active interest in education, giving a considerable part of his donation claim at Dallas for the founding of La Creole Academy, besides laboring with his own hands in the erection of the first building used by the school. He died January 22, 1872, at Florence, Idaho, while engaged in mining. His daughter Harriet, on April 18, 1867, at Dallas, became the wife of Edmund F. Veazie. They were the parents of four children: Arthur L. and Jesse Clarence, both residing in Portland; Julia Grace, the wife of Professor Irivng M. Glen, of the University of Washington; and Edith F., who married Edwin R. Bryson of Eugene.

Edmund Fuller Veazie was born November 7, 1833, at (Hamden)Bangor, Maine, a son of Jesse Veazie and Martha (Catlin) Veazie. He acquired his education in local schools and in the state of Massachusetts. After following teaching as a profession for several years, he was drawn to Kansas by the slavery troubles, like many other young men from New England, and after a time made the journey to California,engaging for several years in gold mining there and in southern Oregon. Returning then to his old occupation of teaching, he had charge of La Creole Academy at Dallas and of the Jefferson Institute in Linn county. In 1869 he removed to what is now Crook county, Oregon, where he engaged in stock raising until his death, which occurred by drowning in the John Day river in June, 1877.

Arthur Lyle Veazie attended the La Creole Academy, and the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated in 1890. He afterward became a student in the law department of the same institution and is numbered among its alumni of 1893. Through the intervening period of twenty-eight years he has successfully followed his profession and is a high type of attorney, thorough, attentive and bringing an excellent order of ability to matters entrusted to his care. He is always courteous and liberal with his clients and those with whom he has business relations. One who has known him well speaks of him as a model member of the bar whose example might be followed with profit. He has made a specialty of real property law, though exceptionally well qualified in all lines that ordinarily confront the general practitioner, and is a good trial lawyer as well as a safe advisor. He has an extensive general practice. For many years he taught real property law in the law department of the University of Oregon at Portland. A convincing speaker, he presents matters clearly and in a manner showing the application of thought and research.

Mr. Veazie was married October 18, 1898, to Miss Agnes Margaret Greene, a daughter of Judge Roger Sherman Greene of Seattle and a descendant of Roger Sherman. Mrs. Veazie is a graduate of the University of Oregon (1890) and of the University of Washington and has been a member and director of the Art League of New York, having devoted much time to the cultivation of her talents in that direction. Mr. and Mrs. Veazie have four children: Grace Ellen, Emily A., Harriet L. and Edmund A.

Politically Mr. Veazie is a stalwart republican and his greatest achievement perhaps has been along the line of his constant fight against single tax. He was one of the official speakers for the loan campaigns throughout Oregon during the World war and also served on the draft registration board. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, heartily supporting its plans for public good, and he is an earnest and consistent member of the First Baptist church. He contributes liberally to charities of all kinds, is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and since 1895 has been recording secretary thereof in Portland. Appreciation of his splendid work came to him on the twenty-fifth anniversary thereof, on which occasion he was presented with a silver cup by the Young Men's Christian Association, the date being January 21, 1920. He has ever been a close student of history and of political problems and of the great sociological and economic questions before the country today and generally follows the lines of well educated and well informed men. His life has been characterized by industry and by conscientious service in behalf of every cause which he espouses and his labors have been far-reaching and resultant. Arthur Lyle Veazie died in 1941.

Census

1870, August 29; Wasco Co, OR; The Dalles, Antelope Valley Pct, East of Deschutes river, p 452

Edmund F. Veazie, 36, ME, stock raiser, 1630 pers. prop.

Harriet, 22, OR, keeping house

Arthur, 1, OR

1880, June 1; Polk Co, OR; Dallas, p 466

Mrs. Ellen Lyle, head, 55, MO, VA, TN, Wd, keeping house

Joanna, dau, 30, OR, TN, VA, single, school teacher

Wm. M, son, 23, OR, TN, VA, single, law student

Mrs. H. J. Veazie, dau, 32, OR, TN, VA, Wd, school teacher

Arthur L, grandson, 11, OR, ME, OR, att. school

Clarence J, grandson, 9, OR, ME, OR, att. school

Julia G, granddaughter, 7, OR, ME, OR, att. school

Edith F, granddaughter, 4, OR, ME, OR

1900, June 1; Multnomah Co, OR; Portland, Pct 2, p 128; 695 Hoyt st.

Arthur Veazie, 31, Sept 1868, OR, ME, OR, mar 2 yrs, att. at law

Agnes M, wife, 31, Oct 1868, IL, MA, CT, mar 2 yrs, 1 child-1 living

Grace E, dau, 10/12, July 1899, OR, OR, IL

Harriet Lyle, m in l, 52, Sept 1847, OR, TN, MO, Wd, 4 children-4 living

Tillie Baker, servant, 20, April 1880, OR, WI, WI, single

(next door, at 697 Hoyt st.)

Jesse C. Veazie, boarder, 28, July 1871, OR, ME, OR, single, atty. at law

1910, April 18; Multnomah Co, OR; Portland Pct 10, p 279; 695 Hoyt st.

Arthur L. Veazie, 41, OR, ME, OR, 1st mar, mar 11 yrs, lawyer, own office

Agnes M, wife, 41, IL, MA, CT, 1st mar, mar 11 yrs, 4 children-4 living

Grace E, dau, 10, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Emily A, dau, 8, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Harriet L, dau, 6, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Edmond A, son, 4, OR, OR IL

1920, January 7; Multnomah Co, OR;Portland Pct 20, p 9; 695 Hoyt st.

Arthur L. Veazie, 51, OR, US un, OR, lawyer, own office

Agnes, wife, 51, IL, MA, Un

Grace Ellen, dau, 19, OR, OR IL

Emily, dau, 17, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Harriet, dau, 16, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Edmund, son, 14, OR, OR, IL, att. school

Carey, Charles Henry. "History of Oregon." Vol. 3. Chicago-Portland: Pioneer Historical Pub. Co., 1922. p. 278