OHY_Lot184 Guide to the Burney, Cox, and Simpson Families Photographs Collection 1860-1925 Burney, Cox, and Simpson families photographs collection Collection arranged and described by Renee Ziemann and Megan K. Friedel, June 2006 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Oregon Historical Society, Research Library © 2006
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Org. Lot 184 Burney, Cox, and Simpson families photographs collection circa 1860-1925 0.54 cubic feet 164 photographs in 2 boxes This collection includes portraits of the Burney, Cox, and Simpson families of Portland, Or. Family photographs range over four generations, circa 1860-1925, from early settlers and their families to their relatives in the eastern United States. Captions on materials in the collection are in English. Biographical Note

William Thomas Burney (b. 1852) was the son of Morrison W. Burney and Nancy Brown Burney and brother of Sally Burney Cramer. He was educated at the common schools of Palmetto, Ga. and later studied law at the University of Virginia. He came to Oregon in November of 1878, where he practiced law and later was appointed Registrar of the United States Land Office at Oregon City, Or. in 1886, after which he operated a land office in Portland. On 1880 February 21, he married Alice Blandina Simpson (1861-1891), daughter of Gen. Benjamin Simpson and Nancy Cooper Simpson. They had five children: Lounora (died as a baby); Ben Simpson; Dora; Alladine, who married Arthur Wayland Wright and had one daughter, Nancy Burney Wright; and Nancy Katherine, who married Walter Glen Cox and had a son, Glen Cox, Jr. After Alice's death, William married her sister, Elanora "Nora" Simpson in August of 1895. They had one son, Tom.

General Benjamin Simpson (1816-1910) was the third out of the eleven children of William Simpson (1793-1858) and Mary "Polly" Kinsey Simpson (1797-1858). He and his second wife, Nancy Cooper Simpson (b. 1819) had ten children: Sylvester (b. 1844); Samuel L. (1845-1898), who married Fanny McFarlane; Louisa, who later married Roy Stowall; Dora (b. 1855), who married William Milton Killingsworth; Elanora (b. 1856), William Thomas Burney's second wife; Frank; William, who married Mary Dickenson and had two sons, Harold and Ben; Grover B. (b. 1858), who later married Alma Beasley and had two sons, Dudley (b. 1890) and Burney (b. 1892); Alice (1861-1891), William Thomas Burney's first wife; and Clarence (b. 1865).

Dora Simpson (b. 1855) married in 1875 William Milton Killingsworth (b. 1850), a Portland, Or. real estate developer who laid out the Walnut Park addition, established the city's first streetcar line, and was elected in 1905 to the Oregon state legislature. The couple had six children: Nancy (b. 1877); Fay (b. 1879); William Milton, Jr.(b. 1880); Alice, who later married C. L. Shorno; Louisa "Lou", who later married Harry Swart and had a daughter, Betty Lou Swart; and Flawnice, who later married Dell O'Holon.

Norris Remy Cox (1855-1925) was the son of William H. Cox and Adeline F. Sauvier Cox and brother of Alfred Cox. He married Lillie B. O'Neal, daughter of Thomas O'Neal, in 1879 and practiced as a dentist in the offices of Glenn & Cox, with Dr. John G. Glenn, in Portland, Or. Norris and Lillie had two children, Norris Roy Cox and Walter Glenn Cox. Walter later married Nancy Katherine Burney, daughter of William Thomas and Alice Blandina Simpson Burney, and had a son, Glen Cox Jr.

This collection contains 164 portrait photographs in two boxes of various members of the related Burney, Cox, and Simpson families of Portland, Or., dating from circa 1860-1925. Included are studio portraits and informal snapshots from three to four generations of each family, as well as many friends of family members. Subjects include William Thomas Burney and his wives, Alice Blandina Simpson Burney and Elanora Simpson Burney, and their families; General Benjamin Simpson; Norris Remy Cox and his family; various members of the related Dolph, Killingsworth, and Wright families; U.S. senators Harry Lane and John Hipple Mitchell; and prominent Portland real estate developer William Milton Killingsworth, as well as many others. Also included are views of scenic locations in and around the Portland area, as well as views of family homes and the office of dentists John G. Glenn and Norris Remy Cox. The collection also contains family trees for each of the Burney, Simpson, and Cox families, as well as the Killingsworth family, that were created during the course of processing this collection.

Photographs in this collection were taken by Frank G. Abell, Joseph B. Buchtel, Corry A. Bushnell, and Joseph Thwaites, all of Portland, Or., as well as by many others. Includes cabinet cards, cartes de visite, cyanotypes, and one ambrotype.

This collection is organized into the following series:

Series A: Portraits, circa 1860-1925 Series B: Views, 1867-circa 1892 Series C: Family trees

Prints from this collection are open to the public. Nitrate negatives are stored offsite and are not available for use by researchers.

The Oregon Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Burney, Cox, and Simpson Families Photographs Collection, Org Lot 184, Oregon Historical Society Research Library

Photo accession no. 983D124

Nitrate negatives from this collection are stored offsite.

The collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Burney, Alice Blandina Simpson, 1861-1891--Photographs Burney, Elanora Simpson, b. 1856--Photographs Burney, William Thomas, b. 1852--Photographs Cox, Norris Remy, 1855-1925--Photographs Killingsworth, William Milton, b. 1850--Photographs Lane, Harry, 1855-1917--Photographs Mitchell, John H. (John Hipple), 1825-1905--Photographs Simpson, Benjamin, 1816-1910--Photographs Abell, Frank G., d. 1910 Buchtel, Joseph B., 1830-1916 Bushnell, Corry A., d. 1941 Thwaites, Joseph Burney family--Photographs Cox family--Photographs Dolph family--Photographs Killingsworth family--Photographs Simpson family--Photographs Wright family--Photographs Dentists--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Legislators--United States--Photographs Mayors--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Real estate developers--Oregon--Portland--Photographs Portland (Or.)--Photographs Photographs Home and Family Portland Oregon Ambrotypes Cabinet photographs Cartes de visite Cyanotypes Series A Portraits circa 1860-1925

This series is arranged alphabetically by the last name of the subject.

 1/1 Alice Simpson Burney circa 1879-1880 Photographer unknown.

Copy photograph; original not in collection.

 1/2 Ben Simpson Burney circa 1885-1910 Taken by Joseph Thwaites and others.

Includes photograph of Ben with Nancy Katherine Burney Cox and William Thomas Burney.

 1/3 Elanora "Nora" Simpson Burney circa 1865-1910 Taken by Buchtel and Stolte (Portland, Or.), Francis A. Smith (Salem, Or.), D. B. Taylor & Co. (San Francisco, Ca.), and others.

Includes cartes de visite ands photo-postcards of Nora with Dora Simpson Killingsworth, Lou Simpson Stowal, Tom Morrison Burney, and William Thomas Burney.

 1/4 Lounora Burney circa 1882-1887 Taken by Denny H. Hendee (Portland, Or.). 1/5 Nancy Brown Burney circa 1870-1881 Taken by C.W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.).

Includes cabinet card of Nancy with Sally Burney Cramer and William Thomas Burney.

 1/6 Tom Morrison Burney with unidentified others circa 1910-1920 Photographer unknown. Two photo-postcards. 1/7 William Thomas Burney circa 1879-1910 Taken by Frank G. Abell (Portland, Or.) and others. 1/8 Frederic B. Chandler circa 1898 Photographer unknown. Cyanotype. 1/9 Glen Jr. Cox circa 1905-1920 Taken by Davies Studio (Portland, Or.) and others. 1/10 Lillie B. O'Neal Cox circa 1865-1925 Taken by Buchtel and Cardwells (Portland, Or.), Davidson Photo (Portland, Or.), and others.

Includes photograph of Lillie on the steps of her home in Seaview, Wash.

 1/11 Nancy Katherine Burney Cox circa 1885-1891 Taken by Joseph Thwaites (Portland, Or.) and H. S. Shuster (Astoria, Or.). 1/12 Norris Remy Cox circa 1884-1890 Taken by Davies Studio (Portland, Or.) and Davidson Bros. (Portland, Or.). 1/13 Norris Roy Cox circa 1886-1887 Taken by Davies Studio (Portland, Or.) 1/14 Walter Glenn Cox circa 1884-1910 Taken by Isaac Davidson, Towne, Davies Studio (Portland, Or.) and others.

Includes snapshot photograph of Walter with a group of boys at the Boys Department of the YMCA in New York, N.Y. and also with Nancy Katherine Burney Cox.

 1/15 Billy and Katherine Dolph circa 1920s Taken by E. Martin Webb.

Photograph includes their children, Jane and Cyrus Dolph.

 1/16 Cyrus A. Dolph and wife circa 1893-1925 Taken by Davies (Portland, Or.), Corry A. Bushnell (Portland, Or.), C. Elmore Grove (Portland, Or.), and others. 1/17 Hazel Dolph circa 1900-1920 Taken by Aune Studio (Portland, Or.). 1/18 Dr. John Dorning circa 1892 Taken by Dana Portraits (New York City, N.Y.). 1/19 Dr. John G. Glenn circa 1880-1884 Taken by Davidson and Bros. (Portland, Or.). 1/20 Julius A. Goerdeler circa 1900-1920 Taken by Vetter Studio (New York City, N.Y.) and others. 1/21 Backus and Lavina Henry and family circa 1860s Taken by Vetter Studio (New York City, N.Y.) and others.

Copy photographs of daguerreotypes or ambrotypes. Parents of Mary Lavinia Henry Glenn, wife of Dr. John G. Glenn.

 1/22 Else Hubert 1913 Photographer unknown.

Taken in Kirkland, Wash. with a friend identified as "B. T."

 1/23 Dora Simpson Killingsworth circa 1900-1923 Taken by Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.) and Trover Cronise Studio (Salem, Or.). 1/24 Fay Killingsworth circa 1896-1910 Taken by Owen Spencer Burns (Portland, Or.) and Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.) 1/25 Flawnice Killingsworth circa 1896-1910 Taken by Owen Spencer Burns (Portland, Or.) and Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.).

Includes photograph of Flawnice with sister, Louisa Killingsworth Swart.

 1/26 Nancy Killingsworth circa 1892-1910 Taken by Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.) and unidentified photographer. 1/27 William Milton Killingsworth circa 1900-1910 Taken by Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.). 1/28 William Milton Killingsworth, Jr. circa 1881-1910 Taken by Isaac Grundy Davidson (Portland, Or.) and unidentified photographer.

Includes cabinet card of William with his sister, Alice Killingsworth Shorna.

 1/29 Jack Knight circa 1885-1900 Taken by White (New York City, N.Y.). 1/30 Harry Lane circa 1884-1891 Taken by Abell and Son Inc. (Portland, Or.). Mayor of Portland, 1905-1909.

Served as United States Senator from Oregon (Democratic), 1918-1917.

 1/31 Hollister D. McGuire circa 1889-1891 Taken by Hayes and Hendee, Jr. (Portland, Or.). 1/32 Kate McGuire circa 1889-1930 Taken by Hayes and Hendee, Jr. (Portland, Or.) and unidentified photographer. 1/33 Dr. Stewart McGuire circa 1888 Taken by Joseph Buchtel (Portland, Or.). 1/34 John Hipple Mitchell and wife circa 1866-1900 Taken by W. R .Hansen (Chicago, Ill.) and Jassett (Washington, D.C.).

John Hipple Mitchell served as United State Senator from Oregon (Republican), 1873-79, 1885-1897, and 1901-1905.

 1/35 Belle Louise Ogilbe 1883 Taken by Frank G. Abell (Portland, Or.). 1/36 Thomas O'Neal circa 1880s Photographer unknown. 1/37 Aladine Scroggins circa 1890-1900 Photographer unknown. 1/38 Alice Killingsworth Shorno in wedding dress circa 1900 Photographer unknown. 1/39 Gen. Benjamin Simpson circa 1881-1910 Taken by C.W. Motes (Atlanta, Ga.) and unidentified photographer. 1/40 Ben Simpson circa 1889-1893 Taken by E. E. Bertrand's Studio (Spokane Falls, Wa.). 1/41 Clarence Simpson circa 1900-1910 Photographer unknown. 1/42 Dudley and Burney Simpson 1900, 1903 Taken by Finely (Chicago, Ill. And Godfrey, Ill.). 1/43 Grover B. Simpson circa 1890-1927 Taken by Matzene (Chicago, Il.) and unidentified photographers. 1/44 Harold Simpson circa 1886-1891 Taken by Joseph Thwaites (Portland, Or.). 1/45 Nancy Cooper Simpson circa 1870-1875 Taken by Stratford. 1/46 Samuel L. Simpson circa 1875-1890 Taken by Cutberth (Portland, Or.) and unidentified photographer. 1/47 Sylvester Simpson circa 1884-1910 Taken by Abell and Son (Portland, Or.), F. M. Harkness (Portland, Or.), and an unidentified photographer.

Includes photograph of Sylvester with his wife, Fanny McFarlane Simpson.

 1/48 William Simpson circa 1889-1893 Taken by E. E. Bertrand's Studio (Spokane Falls, Wash.).

Cabinet card photograph of William with his wife, Mary Dickenson Simpson, and children, Ben and Harold Simpson.

 2/1 Arvilla McGuire Stolte circa 1883-1900 Taken by Benjamin A. Gifford and unidentified photographer. 2/2 Louisa Simpson Stowall circa 1887 Taken by Towne (Portland, Or.). 2/3 Roy Stowall circa 1893-1899 Taken by Davies (Portland, Or.). 2/4 Betty Lou Swart circa 1915-1925 Taken by Corry A. Bushnell (Portland, Or.). 2/5 Louisa Killingsworth Swart circa 1890-1910 Taken by Bushby and Co. (Portland, Or.) and Christopher Aerne Jr. (Portland, Or.). 2/6 Alladine Burney Wright circa 1900-1915 Taken by Hemenway Photos (Los Angeles, Ca.), F. A. Webster (Oakland, Ca.), and unidentified photographers.

Includes damaged photographs.

 2/7 Nancy Burney Wright circa 1912-1925 Taken by Hemenway Photos (Los Angeles, Ca.), F. A. Webster (Oakland, Ca.), and unidentified photographers.

Photographs include Nancy as a child with William Thomas Burney, and Alladine Burney Wright.

 2/8-2/10 Unidentified individuals circa 1870-1920

2/10 contains an eighth-plate ambrotype in brass preserver of an unidentified child.

 Series B Views 1867-circa 1892

Series is arranged alphabetically by geographic name.

 2/11 Oregon City 1867-circa 1890 Taken by Eaton (Portland, Or.) and others. 2/12 Portland, Or.--General views undated Photographers unknown.

Includes copy photograph of view of Front Street, originally taken in 1852.

 2/13 Portland, Or.--Office of Glenn & Cox, Dental Surgeons circa 1892 Taken by Davies (Portland, Or.). 2/15 Unidentified locations--Homes and landscapes undated Photographers unknown. Series C 2/16 Family trees

Series contains family trees for the Burney, Cox, Killingsworth and Simpson families that were created and collected while this collection was being processed.