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Pooler, Lewis Clinton
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| LAST: Pooler
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FIRST: Lewis
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MID: Clinton
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| GENDER: M
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| BORN: 22 Feb 1832
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DIED: 8 Nov 1901
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OCCUPATION: Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Oswego, Oswego Co., New York
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| DEATH PLACE: Marion Co., Oregon
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NOTES:
1880 OR CENSUS - Lewis Pooler, age 49, occupation farmer, b. New York, is enumerated with wife Adeline, age 39, b. Iowa, along with Effie Bell, age 16, Ida G., age 14, Emery S., age 10, Amy C., age 9, Earl, age 5, and Wayne, age 1 month, all born in Oregon.
BIOGRAPHICAL: “L. C. Pooler is planting about ten acres of corn which he intends to cast before the swine.”
Weekly Capital Journal 25 May 1893 3:4.
BIOGRAPHICAL: Pooler Family
One hundred and sixty acres of the old Rice Dunbar and Charles Scriber donation land claims, one and a half miles east of Pratum, was occupied for many years by Lewis Clinton Pooler, a pioneer of 1852, and one of the honored farmers of this section. Mr. Pooler came from an old New York family and was born in Oswego in 1832, the son of parents who devoted their active lives to farming. As a boy, he removed with the rest of the family to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he received the greater part of his early education, and where his parents spent their last days.
The ancestral records of the Pooler family, formerly spelled Poolleer, prove them of English extraction. George Poolleer, the first of the name to settle in the United States, was born in England in 1733, and died in 1837 in Oswego, NY. He came to the United States in 1774 and served as a captain in the Revolutionary war. His wife was also English by birth, and of their union six children were born, of whom Joshua, the father of Lewis Clinton, was born in 1792, and died in 1812 in Indiana. He married Mary Stafford, an Italian, her birth having occurred in 1793, and her death in 1857. Of their nine children only two are now living, Mrs. Mary Peck of Gypsum City, Kansas, and Emory Pooler of Topeka, same state.
At the age of twenty years Mr. Pooler started out to make an independent living, having secured a position as a driver with a party crossing the plains. This was in 1852, and though the year brought much disaster to many who were westward bound, this special train escaped all but slight inconveniences.
The Indians were not particularly troublesome, nor did disease devastate the ranks of the home-seekers. Mr. Pooler lived for a time in Oregon City, and afterward went to the Sound country, remaining for a couple of years, then returning to Oregon City, where he found employment in the near-by country as a teamster. In 1855, he married Adaline Stormer, daughter of Isaac and Katherine Reasoner Stormer. The mother died when Adaline was a child. The father married a second time, this union being with Mary A. Cooley, and with his family crossed the plains in 1852, in the same train with Mr. Pooler. The second wife died on the plains in 1852, and Mr. Stormer married a third time to Mary Lamb. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pooler, the order of their birth being as follows: Jefferson A., who married Miss Annette Leonard, and by her had two children, Virginia, who died in infancy, and Clora, who became the wife of C. H. Lenge; Mary Alice, the wife of William Bowen, located near Willard, in the Waldo Hills, and they have four sons; Archie, Ernest, Clifford, and Adolph; Marian Annette, the wife of William McAllister of Pratum, and the children born to them were Guy, Mark, Russell, and Lenna, the latter of whom is deceased; Effie Belle, the wife of George Bock of Salem, by a former marriage, with Reuben Stedman, having two children, Stella and Jay, both of whom are deceased; Ida G., the widow of Eugene McAllister of Kansas City, Kans., her one daughter Eugenia, now living with her grandmother; Emory S., who died at the age of 17 years; Amy Catherine, a school teacher who lives in Eastern Oregon; Earl L., who married Maude Desart, by whom he had two children, E. Lorene and Owen Lewis, this son being located near his father’s farm; and W. Ivan, living at home.
After marriage, Mr. Pooler and his wife went to housekeeping on Drift Creek near Sublimity, where they lived for three years, at the end of which time they settled upon the farm now occupied by his widow. This was a discouraging undertaking at first, heavily timbered, with no modern improvements whatever. By sheer force of willpower and determination it was transformed into a paying investment, and equipped with modern buildings. Here Mr. Pooler passed many happy and successful years, his death occurring September 8, 1901, at the age of sixty-nine years, the esteem and confidence of his neighbors having been given him for his many fine personal qualities, for his public-spiritedness, thrift, and enterprise. Since his death his widow has ably stepped into his place, and assisted by her sons, continues the policy of advancement inaugurated by this honored and high-minded pioneer. Mrs. Pooler has eleven grandchildren living.
During the Indian wars in 1854-55, Mr. Pooler gave himself freely to the service which lay before him as a citizen of the Sound country, becoming a volunteer in a service which left him a cripple throughout the remainder of his life, from the effects of a wound received at that time. Source - Portrait and Biographical Record of the Willamette Valley, Chapman Pub. Co., 1903, pg. 417-418.
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OBITUARY:
Lewis Clinton Pooler, a pioneer of 1852, passed away November 8, 1901, at his home in Waldo Hills, at the age of 69. He was known for his public spirit, thrift, and enterprise.
He was born in Oswego, N.Y., on Feb. 22, 1832, the son of parents who devoted their active lives to farming. As a boy, he moved with his parents to Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he received his education, and where his parents died.
At the age of 20 (1852), Mr. Pooler secured a position as a driver with a party crossing the plains. Mr. Pooler lived for a time in Oregon City.
In 1855, he married Adaline Stormer, who with her family also came to Oregon in 1852. After their marriage they set up housekeeping on Drift Creek near Sublimity, where they lived for three years then settled on a farm in Waldo Hills, where he remained until his death.
Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pooler, namely: Jefferson A., Mary Alice, wife of William Bowen; Marian Annette, wife of William McAllister; Effie Bell, wife of George Bock; Ida G., wife of Eugene McAllister; Emory S., Amy Catherine, Earl D., and W. Ivan.
(Source - Scrapbooks in Silverton Public Library)
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INSCRIPTION:
Lewis C. Pooler
Aged
69 Years, 6 Months
And 16 Days
Crossed The Plains in 1852
Died
At His Home In Marion Co., Oregon
November 8, 1901
No Pain, No Grief, No
Anxious Fear,
Can Reach Our Loved
One Sleeping Here
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SOURCES:
Hellie, Mader & Rickey
Saucy
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Silver Creek, ED 85, pg 115A)
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