Arthur Lyle Veazie
 Submitted by:  Lynn Mack
 
 
Arthur Lyle VEAZIE was born at Dallas, Oregon, September 8, 1868.  His
father, Edmund Fuller VEAZIE was a native of Bangor, Maine, and his
mother is a native of Oregon.  The father died in Wasco county,
Oregon, in 1877, while the mother, who was born in 1847, still makes
her home 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 1846 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 and with several associates returned by way of
the sea to the Atlantic coast, where they invested their money in fine
horses and cattle and started across the plains to Oregon with their
stock, but the entire party was slain while en route, in the year
1858.  He 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 Scott, who had
crossed the plains with her father, Felix SCOTT.  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 Rickreall 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 Irving 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 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 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 local
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 while he espouses and his labors have been far-reaching
and resultant.
 
History of Oregon, Biographical, Vol. III, The Pioneer Historical
Publishing Company, 1922, Pages 278-282
 
 

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