Clackamas County OR Archives Biographies.....Howard, Bayne A. July 14, 1883 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/or/orfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ila Wakley iwakley@msn.com November 7, 2009, 12:29 pm Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 186-187 Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company BAYNE A. HOWARD is one of Mulino's loyal sons and prominent business men and the mill which he conducts has been operated in succession by three generations of this well known pioneer family. It is of English origin and was founded in Maryland in 1684, Howard county, that state, being named in honor of the family. Charles Turner Howard, the father of Bayne A. Howard, was born July 28, 1841, a son of Richard Rutter and Cynthia (Turner) Howard, the former a native of Maryland and the latter of Hardin county, Kentucky. They were married June 16, 1828, and to them were born ten children: Francis T., William, John, Mrs. Sarah Officer, Charles Turner, Daniel Boone, Mary, Grace, Mrs. Anne Weatherstone and Anthony Wayne, all of whom are deceased. In the fall of 1846 the family came to Oregon, crossing the plains in a "prairie schooner" drawn by oxen, and a few days after their arrival in Clackamas county Richard R. Howard filed on a donation land claim on Mill creek. He cleared and developed the ranch and at Mulino built a sawmill and a grist mill, both of which were operated by water power. The sawmill was erected in 1848 and the grist mill was completed in 1851. The burrs for the grist mill were sent around Cape Horn and did not reach their destination until a year after the order was placed. The shafting and wheels were of wood and the flour sacks were made by hand by the mother of Charles T. Howard. Flour from the McLoughlin mills cost twenty-five cents a pound but Richard R. Howard charged only from sixteen to eighteen cents and had more orders than he could fill. He paid five dollars a bushel for wheat in the early days, when gold dust was plentiful and the price of all commodities was high. In 1851 and 1852 pack trains came from the mines in northern California and from the southern Oregon diggings near Jacksonville to load up with flour here. Two or three barrels were ground in an hour and by working twenty-four hours between fifty and sixty barrels were turned out in a day. The biggest run ever made in twenty-four hours was seventy-two barrels. Charles T. Howard was educated in Clackamas county and received instruction from Lafayette May, who taught school in a log cabin owned by his brother Tom. Mr. Howard named the town of Mulino, choosing the Italian word for mill. After his father's death he succeeded to the business, which he successfully continued, gradually introducing new methods and modern appliances. He abandoned the old water wheel and installed three iron turbines, one of which supplies the plant with electric light, but water is still the motive power. In agricultural matters he was keenly interested and became a charter member of the local grange. A man of marked public spirit, he was a thorough believer in community cooperation and manifested an unselfish devotion to the general good. It was chiefly through his efforts that the local telephone line was secured and for years he worked untiringly toward getting the railroad through this district. He was a strong believer in prohibition, woman suffrage and the right of the people to govern themselves without the interposition of political bosses. During the administration of President Cleveland he was appointed postmaster of Mulino and his commission, dated December 21, 1888, was signed by Don M. Dickinson, postmaster general. For more than thirty-five years Mr. Howard was the incumbent of that office, establishing an enviable record of public service. Mr. Howard was married May 28, 1874, to Miss Mary Hannah Sanders, who was born May 1, 1853, on the North Howell prairie near Salem, and still resides in Mulino. Her parents, Asa and Abbie (Woodward) Sanders, came to Oregon with the pioneers of 1851 and located on a donation land claim on North Howell prairie. They proved up on the property, which they sold about the year 1857, and then moved to Molalla, in Clackamas county, purchasing a part of the Swiegel donation land claim. To Mr. and Mrs. Howard were born two sons: Claude Sanders, who conducts a greenhouse and who is agent at Mulino for the Willamette Valley Southern Railroad; and Bayne A. The demise of the father occurred October 14, 1923, and his brother, Anthony Wayne Howard, passed away June 5, 1924, being the last survivor of the family of ten children. Bayne A. Howard was born July 14, 1883, and for two and a half years attended school at Mulino. For one term he was a student at Woodburn and at an early age started to work in his father's grist mill, mastering every detail of the business. During 1905 he was employed on a Columbia river seining ground and the balance of his business career has been spent in the mill. Since his father's death he has controlled the business, with which he has been identified for more than thirty years, and under his able management its continued expansion is assured. Throughout the existence of the industry a high standard of service has been maintained and the firm name has long been synonymous with enterprise and reliability in this locality. The mill has been in constant operation for seventy-seven years and is the oldest of the kind west of the Rocky mountains. It was built to endure and the big twelve-inch hewn timbers are as sound as the day they were first mortised and tennoned. The production of flour was discontinued about 1924, although the mill still grinds other grains, but the plant is now devoted chiefly to the manufacture of mixed feed, which is sold in large quantities to the poultry raisers and dairymen of this region. In 1908 Mr. Howard married Miss Lillian Gans, who was a native of Milwaukie and passed away January 2, 1915. Her father, Henry Gans, was born in Germany and left that country to avoid military service. Prior to the Civil war he located in Memphis, Tennessee, and afterward journeyed to the west, opening a store in a small mining camp near Boise, Idaho. In the '60s he went to Oswego, Oregon, moving soon afterward to Milwaukie. He purchased a ranch on which there was considerable timber and the wood was sold to steamboats operating on the Willamette river. Later he returned to Oswego, where he engaged in general merchandising for many years, and in the early days was postmaster of the town. Mr. Gans also owned a valuable farm in that locality and prospered in all of his undertakings. He was thrice married and his daughter Lillian was one of the children of his second wife. Mr. Gans is now living in Oregon City, making his home with his daughter, Mrs. C. W. Pope, who also was born of the second union. Mrs. Lillian Howard was the mother of two children: Loran A., aged seventeen years; and Burrell G., who resides with his maternal grandmother. On August 21, 1920, Mr. Howard married Miss Estella A. Riley, a daughter of William and Mary Ellen Riley, the latter dying many years ago. Mrs. Howard was born in Pennsylvania and ably discharges the duties of postmaster, an office to which she was appointed soon after the death of her husband's father. Mr. Howard belongs to the Grange and to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is a man of progressive spirit and substantial worth and has many steadfast friends in the county in which his life has been spent. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/or/clackamas/bios/howard968gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/orfiles/ File size: 8.0 Kb