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| Birth: | 13 Dec 1833 in Munsey Mission, Upper Canada, Canada |
| Death: | 22 Oct 1908 in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Thomas HURLBURT b. 3 Mar 1808 in Augusta Township, Grenville, Ontario |
| Mother: | Betsy Almira ADAMS b. 16 Oct 1815 in Fredericksburg, Upper Canada, Canada |
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| Burial: Gresham, Multnomah, Oregon |
| Occupation: Soldier; Civil Engineer |
| Cause: Arterial sclerosis (Dr. Faulkner A. Short) |
| Changed: 1 Sep 2003 |
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| Mary ADAMS (Wife) b. 17 Nov 1838 in Putman Co., Indiana
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| Marriage: | 3 JUN 1857 in Albia, Monroe, Iowa |
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 Thomas M. HURLBURT b. 28 Mar 1860 in Albia, Monroe, Iowa, USA
- Isabella Lellia (Lillie) M. HURLBURT b. Oct 1861 in Albia, Monroe, Iowa, USA
- Deady (Ada; D.D.) HURLBURT b. 23 Jan 1867 in Albia, Monroe, Iowa
- Dottie M. HURLBURT b. 28 Jul 1869 in Glenwood, Iowa
- John Samuel HURLBURT b. 28 Aug 1873 in Corbett, Multnomah, Oregon
 Mollie HURLBURT b. Apr 1877 in Hurlburt, P. O., Multnomah, Oregon, USA
- George Horace HURLBURT b. 20 Sep 1879 in Hurlburt P. O., Multnomah, Oregon
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Individual:
"John Adams Hurlburt, born at Munsey Mission, U. C., December 13
th 1833," from Hurlburt family Bible970 Milwaukee Street
Lot 39-4W; E. Holman Co.
"John Q. A. Hurlburt was born December 13, 1833, in Munceytown, Canada West (now Muncey, Ontario). He died in Portland, Oregon, October 22, 1908. He married Mary Adams, born November 17, 1838, Putnam County, Indiana, died in Portland, October 18, 1907. She was the daughter of Samuel and Diadama (Moore) Adams. They were married in Monroe County, Iowa, June 4, 1857. [The Hurlburt Family Bible says he married Mary Adams on 3 June, 1857.] From the birth of the subject until he was ten years of age he seldom saw any white people, except his father and mother, and the Indian language was practically his mother-tongue. He could speak it much better than English until he was nearly fifteen years of age. He spoke the Indian tongue without the white man's brogue, which is more than can be said of his English, for until he was nearly grown, people who did not understand the Indian language, thought he had some foreign accent. ... When very young he was named by the Indians Subunung, which literally translated means 'Star Net,' that being the Indian name for the Little Dipper." "In 1844 Mr. Hurlburt removed from Canada with his parents to the Indian territory now called Kansas and Oklahoma, going by boat to Chicago, thence by stage to Ottawa, Ill., over a very muddy road, and often for considerable distances without a house or any improvements in sight. From Ottawa he proceeded to St. Louis by boat and thence by boat to what was then called Westport Landing, which was then all woodland from the landing clear back to Westport, a distance of nearly seven miles. This section is now within the confines of Kansas City. The eastern part of what is now called Kansas was then an Indian territory, upon which the government had settled the remnants of various tribes of Indians. These had small villages and did a little farming, but the greater part of the country was an uninhabited rolling prairie. These semi-civilized tribes were a sort of buffer between the settlers in Missouri and the wild and warlike tribes further west. It was only a few days' travel west to where the buffalo were still plentiful, and parties of the Kaw and Kansas Indians went every summer on buffalo hunts, and occasionally had conflicts with the wilder Indians on the plains. Mr. Hurlburt was present at several genuine Indian war dances, where fresh scalps were exhibited.
Most of the Kaw Indians at that time had only bows and arrows, and except breech-clout, leggings and moccasins were entirely naked; but they carried well-dressed buffalo hides to serve as blankets. "The men generally had the hair cut from their heads, except a small portion about the crown, which was braided and had feathers stuck in it, making it conspicuous, and which said more plainly than words: 'Take it if you can.' These Indians were exceedingly well developed physically, and had wonderful endurance. They were as a rule great thieves, but strictly honest among themselves and with their friends. Mr. Hurlburt spent one summer among the Cherokees, many of whom had large plantations, owned hundreds of negroes and were very wealthy. In many cases they were well educated, and they had a newspaper published in the Cherokee language in Tahlequa. Until he was more than twelve years of age Mr. Hurlburt had never been inside of a school-room though he had already become quite proficient in artithmetic and the ordinary English branches, having been taught principally by his mother. He then attended school at the Shawnee mission, taught by Professor Scarrett. In 1852 his educational opportunities were broadened by a course of two and a half years at Victoria College (now university as part of the University of Toronto) (then) at Coberg, Ontario, after which he taught school for a winter at Penetanguishine, where he had a very full school, some of his pupils being able to speak English alone, some French and some Indian. But as he could speak the Indian language perfectly and had some knowledge of French and English, he got along remarkably well, and was popular among all. In the spring of 1855 he bade adieu to his school and joined a surveying party operating on Georgian Bay.
Previous to this he had thought to become a sailor, but this experience determined him to take up the business of surveying. Upon the breaking up of the party, late in 1855, he started for Kansas, but on account of an attack of pneumonia he did not get any further than Monroe County, Iowa, where he engaged in surveying and served one term as county surveyor. (He also taught school, per the 1860 U.S. census, and did some farming per a letter to his father.) In August, 1862, Mr. Hurlburt enlisted in the volunteer service for the Union, and shortly afterwards was mustered in as first sergeant of Company K, Thirty-sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He was mustered out as captain at the close of the war, in August, 1865. During his term of service he participated in several engagements. Except when wounded he was never in the hospital, or rode in an ambulance, or failed to go on duty when called upon. He was severely wounded and taken prisoner at Mark's Mills, Ark., April 25, 1865, was paroled shortly after, and with three others was taken by ambulance to Little Rock, Ark., thence home on leave of absence to Albia, Iowa, where he remained about a month; but as his leave had expired, although his wound was not yet healed, he returned to what was left of the regiment at Little Rock, after which he served as acting regimental quarter-master until near the close of the war. (Note: He told his children that he was shot through the shoulder, but in the excitement did not realize he was injured until the blood poured out of his boot tops.) His experience was that there was no bitter feeling between the actual soldiers in the field. They had learned respect for each other, could tell of kindnesses shown them or their comrades by the soldiers of the other side, and seemed glad of the opportunity to return the kindness. Many of those who participated in his capture had themselves lately been captured at Vicksburg, and were proud to tell how well 'the Yanks' had treated them. As an instance to illustrate this feeling: After being taken prisoner Mr. Hurlburt was placed under the shade of a tree. Some of the enemy went into a field and brought him some bundles of rye from which to make a soft bed. To a Confederate captain who stopped to talk with him he spoke of having lost a Mackinaw blanket sent him from home, and the captain gave him a quilt, all that he had for a bed, which was tied behind his saddle. A woman, an angel in disguise, when she heard the firing, and knew a battle was in progress, tore up everything she had that was made of cotton or linen to serve for bandages for the wounded. She and a negro woman, both on horseback, came every day with two large baskets filled with pies, cakes and other eatables. One basket she took into a planter's house and gave to the wounded boys in gray, and then she went around the negro cabins and divided the contents of the other basket among the wounded boys in blue, many of whom had but a short time to live. Generally on handing something to them she would say in pleading tones: 'Now you won't come and fight we uns any more will you?' From his conversation with southern soldiers Mr. Hurlburt believes that just at the close of the war, if volunteers had been called for to drive the French out of Mexico, a large majority of the southern troops would have enlisted, and that they would have been proud to fight under the Stars and Stripes, which they still loved, although for a time fighting against them. After the close of the war Mr. Hurlburt returned to Monroe County, Iowa, and soon afterward obtained employment in the civil engineering department of the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, continuing in their employ until 1870, when he came to Oregon to assist in the surveying of the Oregon & California Railroad. In this work he remained until its discontinuance in 1873, and during this time he explored the larger part of the mountains of southern Oregon looking for railroad routes (During this period, Portland City directories show the family lived in the vicinity of 10th & Mill streets. His oldest son, Thomas, and his brother Horace, worked under him. He laid out the 'Buck Rock Tunnel' route over the mountains which was not used. As late as 1965, engineers maintain the Southern Pacific railroad should have used the route he surveyed. (See: Our Public Lands, U.S. Department of the Interior bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 2.) He also did considerable work for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, in charge of locating parties, and has been engaged on several contracts for surveying public lands for the government. He is now (1903) probably the oldest surveyor in Portland."
[Source: John Quincy Adams Hurlburt, abridged from his autobiography with some additions and corrections by Roy Hurlburt, his grandson, in March 1975.]
(The Portland City directory shows the family resided there until after 1876 when they moved to a farm south of what is now Corbett, Multnomah County. On July 3, 1888, their home was destroyed by fire and 'all of the family possessions and records were to the best of his knowledge and belief consumed by fire at that time.' Sworn statement of son, D.D. Hurlburt, February 20, 1942.)
HURLBURT, Multnomah County. Mr. and Mrs. John Quincy Adams Hurlburt made settlement in the east part of Multnomah County about 1877 or 1878 at a point about three miles southeast of Springdale. The Hurlburt home was on a bench about a half mile northeast of Sandy River and about 800 feet west of what was later Hurlburt School. Hurlburt post office was established in the Hurlburt home on June 20, 1899, with John A. Hurlburt postmaster. By this time Mr. Hurlburt had discarded the Quincy part of his name. The office was closed November 14, 1903, apparently because of the extension of rural free delivery. John S. Hurlburt, now [1947] of Joseph, Oregon, and long a business associate of the writer [Lewis A. McArthur], furnished information for this paragraph.
"When he (J.Q.A. Hurlburt) entered the army he and over two-thirds of his company were Douglas Democrats. At the second election of Lincoln all but two or three of the votes in the conmpany were cast for Lincoln; and having once turned Republican, he, as well as most of the others, have remained loyal to the party. He is a memnber of Fairview Lodge No. 92, A.F.& A.M., of which he is past master. His membership was originally in Albia Lodge No. 76 of Albia, Iowa.
Mr. Hurlburt and his wife, Mary, had nine children, three of whom died in childhood. Those living at the time the quoted portions were written [1903] were Thomas, formerly county surveyor and city surveyor of Portland, now examiner of government surveys; Deady, a barber in Portland; John and George, both beginning the practice of surveying in and about Portland; Mrs. Isabella Sill, of Spokane, Wash.; and Dottie, wife of Waldemar Seton, a lawyer lately elected justice of the peace for East Portland.
[Sources: Portland City Directories Portland & Vicinity, Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago, 1903; Our Public Lands, Fall 1965, Vol.15, No. 2, Dept of the Interior; The First Century of Methodism in Canada, J.E. Sanderson, Toronto; 1910 Obituary of J.Q.A.Hurlburt, Oregonian, Portland, Oct. 23, 1908 Obituary of Mary Hurlburt, Oregon Journal, Oct. 18, 1907 Obituary of Mary Hurlburt, Oregonian, Oct. 20, 1907; Indian in a White Man's Skin, no date, United Church of Canada, Toronto; The New Outlook, December 2, 1931; Letter of John to his parents dated Albia, Iowa, May 7, 1860; Oregon Journal, Portland, May 17, 1927; Oregon Journal, Dec. 16, 1931]
When he died in October 1908, John Quincy Adams Hurlburt was a widower, aged 74, and left an estate evaluated at $1,947.60 which was divided equally among his six living children: Isabella Rhoda Sill, T. M Hurlburt, Deady Hurlburt, Dottie M. Seton, John S. Hurlburt, and George H. Hurlburt.
Marriage:
"John Adams Hurlburt Married to Mary Adams, June 3rd 1857," fro
m Hurlburt family Bible
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