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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 63: in the Northwest, among the Indians; trip to Alaska; life in Portland, Ore.; 1874 to 1881 (search)
s, returning from his visit around the world in 1879, made us a call. We gave him and his party an evening reception, having invited public men from the territory of Washington and the State of Oregon to meet him. When General Grant and his wife rode up with me from the Vancouver dock to my quarters, he had many observations, he said: I think, Julia, that must have been put up on Howard's account; it wasn't here in my day! During the reception that evening Governor Ferry, of Washington Territory, in an informal address in behalf of the citizens, welcomed the general and his friends to the Pacific coast. The general, standing with his hand upon a cionary, W. H. Gray, historian of Oregon. During the fall of 1879, President Hayes, accompanied by General Sherman and others, paid a visit to Oregon and Washington Territory. I met him at Roseberg as they came up from California, and accompanied them along the line of the railroad and elsewhere, while they were in my departmen