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- 1850 United States Federal Census
about Gabinl Trullenger
Name: Gabinl Trullenger
Age: 26
Birth Year: abt 1824
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1850: Milwaukie, Clackamas, Oregon Territory
Gender: Male
Family Number: 80
Household Members:
Name Age
John C Trullenger 22
Daniel Trullenger 49
Elizabeth Trullenger 44
Gabinl Trullenger 26
Ellen Trullenger 14
Elsa Trullenger 12
Daniel P T Trullenger 10
Angeline Trullenger 12
Sarah Trullenger 7
Paul Summers 23
Robert Brown 23
Joseph Manning 23
Oregon, Wills and Probate Records, 1849-1963
Name Andrew J Cutting
Probate Date 9 Mar 1861
Probate Place Clackamas, Oregon, USA
Inferred Death Year Abt 1861
Inferred Death Place Oregon, USA
Item Description Probate Bonds and Letters of Administration, 1859-1887
G.J. Trullinger was appointed guardian of the person and estate of Emma and Ira Cutting infants and minor heirs of Andrew J Cutting late of said county and state deceased, and said G.J. Trullinger given bond and taken oath required by law is duly authorized to take the guardianship ...
1860 United States Federal Census
about G J Trullinger
Name: G J Trullinger
Age in 1860: 36
Birth Year: abt 1824
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1860: Molalla, Clackamas, Oregon
Gender: Male
Post Office: Oregon City
1870 United States Federal Census
about G Trullinger
Name: G Trullinger
Age in 1870: 48
Birth Year: abt 1822
Birthplace: Iowa
Home in 1870: Upper Molalla Precinct, Clackamas, Oregon
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Molalla
Gabriel J Trullinger in the 1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Gabriel J Trullinger
Age: 76
Birth Date: Feb 1824
Birthplace: Indiana
Home in 1900: Milk Creek, Clackamas, Oregon
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Ureka Trullinger
Marriage Year: 1895
Years Married: 5
Father's Birthplace: Ohio
Mother's Birthplace: South Carolina
Household Members:
Name Age
Gabriel J Trullinger 76
Ureka Trullinger 45 wife
Flora A Trullinger 4 dau
Addie H Christensen 18 step dau
Martin G Christensen 17 step son
OUR PROUD PAST
The first year in Oregon, Gabriel worked in Oregon City at his native trade of cabinet making. Nathan and Frances headed ten miles south of Oregon City and settled on Milk Creek near what is now Union Mills. They built a cabin and started to cultivate the land. A donation land claim was filed for this land in the Trullinger name.
In 1849, the excitement of the gold rush broke. Father Daniel with sons, Gabriel and John Corse, travelled by horseback to California. Daniel, being forty seven years old, soon found panning gold too hard a work for his age, gave up and returned home. Gabriel and John stayed for two years and returned home with a small fortune, having sometimes panned $80 per day in gold. John is said to have brough back $18,000. The United States was offering free land for the claiming in Oregon - 320 acres for single people and 640 acres if you were married. Apprehensive that gold might become overly plentiful and land therefore would become more valuable, Gabriel and John decided to return to Oregon and look for land to settle. They took the schooner Montague by sea for the return trip from San Francisco to Portland. John later related the experience thus: "The vessel was a fore and aft schooner of about 500 tons and was called the George H. Montague. Her commander and owner was Captain Montague, a typical Yankee skipper, a born sailor and a prodigy in the use of an unlimited vocabulary of oaths. A cargo of general merchandise was taken on and with eight cabin passengers and about twenty in the steerage, the schooner set sail from San Francisco on 1 January 1851. A very pretty run was made up the coast and just before dark on the evening of 4 January, we hove in sight of the Columbia, where Captain Coates, a Hudson Bay Company pilot, and the one who lost the ship Peacock on Peacock spit, was taken on board. A stiff gale was blowing and the heavy seas were breaking over the then dangerous bar until it resembled a boiling caldron of seething waters. To cross in was impossible, and the little vessel was put out to sea. The storm continued for eighteen days, but during that time we sighted the river twice each day. The sails were torn into shreds, and when at last we were able to reach port there was scarcely a whole piece of canvas on the vessel. We were not driven any distance northward, but remained almost opposite the Columbia the whole time. On the evening of 22 January, the bar had moderated somewhat, and shortly after sundown pilot Coates headed the little craft for the river, bringing her safely in and dropping anchor where Sand Island now is."
Upon their return, the two brothers headed for what is now called Milwaukie and built the first warehouse there. Finding they were not always in agreement, they decided to split and go separate ways. Gabriel headed ten miles south of Oregon City to a place later to be called Union Mills and John Corse headed ten miles northwest of Oregon City to a place later to be called Lake Oswego. And the die had been cast for this family who would contribute so much to the settling of the Oregon Territory.
On 22 July 1852, Gabriel took up a homestead along the banks of Milk Creek and established a home for himself and his bride, the former Sarah Glover of Eagle Creek. There in 1854, he built one of the Oregon country's first sawmills. Untill 1890 only rough lumber was produced. In that year, Gabriel imported from England what was said to be the Pacific Coast's first power driven planer. This piece of machinery is now in the museum of the Oregon Historical Society at Portland. it is not on display at this time. When the planer was installed, Gabriel and Sarah had been married fifteen years and had a family of seven - Daniel Newton (b 1853 m Juliet Howard), James Barton (b 1856 m Nealie Rowell), Edward l. (b 1861 m Mary Martin), Dellazon Lee (b 1863 m Maude Paine), Sara Ellen (b 1865 m Edward Paine), Jane Elizabeth (b 1867 m Frank Paine), and Isaac V. (b 1869 m Elizabeth Crowley). Two other children passed away. The oldest son, Ben died in infancy and a daughter, Katherine, drowned in Milk Creek at the age of 12. In 1877, Gabriel put water power from his Milk Creek dam to work in another mill - this to produce flour. Trullinger's mill had steel rollers, not stone, and produced white flour, bran, shorts, middlings, and a product similar to cream of wheat. In 1879 a third mill for wool processing was added. Wool from the rural area's sheep was washed and carded, bound for home spinners who spun their own yarn and knitted garmets for their families. With these three mills in production, Gabriel gave the name Union Mills to his operations. Machinery for all three Trullinger mills was brough by ship across the atlantic, around Cape Horn and up the Pacific coast. It was then hauled by wagon from Oregon City to Union Mills.
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1824 - 1905 (81 years)
