"I did not know what a Yankee was. I remember that when I was on the steamer they used to say to me 'So you are going to be a Yankee!' I did not like it a bit. We had more the English way of talking, and did not say 'I guess.' It was a long time before we could talk like the Yankees. "When my father first came to Oregon he was pretty wealthy and bought this place. But he lost so much in the flood of '61 that he was nearly broken up. He never fully got over this--together with sickness and other things. "When the Hudson Bay Company was at Fort Vancouver, and during the Whitman massacre, Ogden was governor at the fort. Well, his son was my first husband--his name was Isaac. Peter Skeen Ogden was a wealthy old man; he was from Montreal. He left considerable money to his children. He had four; Isaac, who lived at Champoeg, where we were married; William, who lives in Portland; Emma, who died at the age of thirty; and Mrs. Sarah Draper, of McMinnville, who has six children. "My mother was a daughter of Stephen Lewis--I think that would be the English of it; but the French called it Lucier, Etienne Lucier. What makes me think it was 'Stephen,'--I have heard mother say she named my brother Stephen for his grandfather. My grandfather was a Frenchman from Canada, and my mother was the daughter of his first wife; I think she came from east of the Rocky Mountains." Mrs. Tremewan was well acquainted with Archibald McKinley, who settled just across the river from Champoeg; and the family of Mr. Pambrun, one of whose daughters was Mrs. Dr. Barclay, of Oregon City; Mrs. William Pratt, another; and Mrs. Harriet Harger, of Chehalem Valley, another. Mrs. Harger has a family of six daughters. LOUIS LABONTE'S RECOLLECTIONS OF MEN. See Reminiscences of Louis Labonte, Vol. 1, p. 169. Doctor McLoughlin: Big man, hair white as snow, face ruddy; fine man, but like a grizzly if he was mad; carried a cane, stood straight as an arrow; treated him very kindly; got him to school at Vancouver, took him by the hand, told him he would provide him books and pens; he went to school to Mr. Ball. Douglass: Slim, but even taller than McLoughlin; his hands reached below his knees. Peter Skeen Ogden: A tall, big man--big as McLoughlin; an American by birth. Donald Manson: A large man; face ruddy; white hair. Jason Lee: Very tall, powerful; not straight. Doctor Barclay: Medium height, heavy set. Pambrun: Medium size; his wife from the Red River. Archibald McKinley: Lived across the river from Champoeg; big man; red face. George T. Allen: A small looking man; he was nicknamed Twahalasky, Indian name for coon; and a small-sized Cascade Indian bearing that name traded names with Allen. James Birnie: A powerful, heavy man; very fine looking; exceedingly hospitable. Alexander Latty: A fine man; captain of steamer _Beaver_ two years; he was also mate of the schooner _Cadboro_, built in England.