Marion-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Bybee, Robert E February 25, 1893
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Oreonian February 2,1893
Robert E.Bybee Is Dead
The Well Knoen Horseman Passed Away Yesterday at Oakland,Cal.
Robert E.Bybee,the well knonw horseman,died yesterday at Oakland.Cal,where he 
was attedning a race meeting of the California Blood Horse Association.A 
telegram from the deceased's father,stating that he would start with the 
remains for Portland,was the first intimation of her widowhood by Mrs.Ella 
Bybee,who resides at No.22 Eleventh street. The body will arrive here Tuesday 
morning.
There were few men in Portland who enjoyed awider range of acquaintances than 
Robert E.Bybee.When only 2 years of age he accompanied his parents from 
Missouri to this state.That was 47 years ago,and he resided here ever 
since.The aged father who survives him was the first man in Oregon to breed 
and train running horses,and to that business the son's life was devoted.He 
was afamiliar figure on every  racetrack in the nOrthwaest.Four months ago he 
took three of his best horses,Misty,Mon,Rosebud and Broadchurch to 
California,and won some good purses with them.A report that he was seriously 
ill reached the city recently,but it was subsequently contradicted.The cause 
of death is not stated in the telegram received by the widow but it is 
believed that he succumbed to a heart affection that had troubled him for a 
long time.
A widow,daughter,a afther and three sisters are the deceased horsemen's 
mearest living relatvies.he leaves considerable property,among it being a 
valuable stock farm near Salem.

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