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See also:OREGON See also:CITY , a city and the See also:county-seat of Clackamas county, Oregon, U.S.A., on the E. See also:bank of the Willamette See also:river, and S. of the mouth of the Clackamas river, about 15 m.' S. by E. of See also:Portland. Pop. (189o) 3062; (1900) 3494 (535 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910) 4287. It is served by the See also:Southern Pacific railway, by an electric See also:line to Portland, by other electric lines, and by small river steamboats. The See also:principal business streets are See also:Main See also:Street, on level ground along the river, and Seventh Street, on a See also:bluff which rises abruptly See also:loo ft. above the river and is reached by four stairways elevated above the tracks of the Southern Pacific. The residences are for the most See also:part on this bluff, which commands views of the peaks of the Cascade Mountains. The river here makes a picturesque plunge of about 40 ft. over a See also:basalt See also:ridge extending across the valley, and then flows between nearly See also:vertical walls of solid See also:rock 20-50 ft. high; it is spanned by a suspension See also:bridge nearly 'co ft. above the See also:water. A See also:lock See also:canal enables vessels to pass the falls. The water-See also:power See also:works woollen-See also:mills, See also:flour-mills, See also:paper-mills, and an electric power plant (of the Portland Railway, See also:Light and Power See also:Company), which See also:lights the city of Portland and transmits power to that city for street See also:railways and factories. The See also:municipality owns the waterworks. Next to See also:Astoria, Oregon City is the See also:oldest See also:settlement in the See also:state. In 1829 Dr See also: After 184o, in which See also:year McLoughlin laid out a See also:town here and named it Oregon City, a Methodist See also:Mission disputed his claim. He aided many destitute See also:American immigrants, See also:left the service of the company, and removed to Oregon City. In 185o See also:Congress gave a See also:great part of his claim at Oregon City for the endowment of a university, and in 1862 the legislature of Oregon reconveyed the land to McLoughlin's heirs on See also:condition that they should give $See also:I000 to the university fund; but the questionable See also:title between 184o and 1862 hindered the growth of the See also:place, which was chartered as a city in 1850. O'REILLY, JOHN See also:BOYLE (1844–1890), Irish-American politician and journalist, was born near See also:Drogheda on the 28th of See also:June 1844, the son of a schoolmaster. After some years of newspaper experience, first as compositor, then as reporter, during which he became an ardent revolutionist and joined the Fenian organization known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he enlisted in a See also:British See also:cavalry See also:regiment with the purpose of winning over the troops to the revolutionary cause (1863). At this See also:period wholesale corruption of the See also:army, in which there was a very large percentage of Irishmen, was a strong feature in the Fenian See also:programme, and O'Reilly, who soon became a great favourite, was successful in disseminating disaffection in his regiment. In 1866 the extent of the See also:sedition in the regiments in See also:Ireland was discovered by the authorities. O'Reilly was arrested at See also:Dublin, where his regiment was then quartered, tried by See also:court-See also:martial for concealing his knowledge of an impending See also:mutiny, and sentenced to be shot, but the See also:sentence was subsequently commuted to twenty years' penal See also:servitude. After confinement in various See also:English prisons, he was transported in 1867 to See also:Bunbury, Western See also:Australia. In 1869 he escaped to the See also:United States, and settled in See also:Boston, where he became editor of The See also:Pilot, a See also:Roman See also:Catholic newspaper. He subsequently organized the expedition which rescued all the Irish military See also:political prisoners from the Western Australia convict establishments (1876), and he aided and abetted the American propaganda in favour of Irish nationalism. O'Reilly died in See also:Hull, See also:Mass., on the loth of See also:August 1890. His reputation in See also:America naturally differed very much - from what it was in See also:England, towards whom he was uniformly mischievous. He was the author of several volumes of See also:poetry of considerable merit, and of a novel of convict See also:life, Moondyne, which achieved a great success. He was also selected to write occasional odes in See also:commemoration of many American celebrations. See J. J. See also:Roche, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, (Boston, 1891). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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