Curry, George Law
journalist, governor, was born July 2, 1820, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1846 he moved to Oregon, and two years later founded the Oregon Free Press, the first weekly paper on the Pacific coast. In 1849 he was appointed the first secretary of the territory. In 1854 he was appointed governor of Oregon territory, which office he filled until 1859, when the territory was admitted as a state. He died July 28, 1878, in Portland, Ore. con- CURRY, JABEZ LAMAR MONROE, soldier, educator, clergyman, legislator, author, was born June 5, 1825, in Lincoln county, Ga. He attended the academies in Georgia and Alabama, and subsequently received the degree of LL. D. from the university of Georgia; and was a graduate of the Harvard Law school. He served as a representative in the state legislature of Alabama; and was a member of congress during 1857-61. He served as a member of the confederate gress; and during the war was a lieutenant-colonel of a cavalry regiment. He has been president of Howard college, Ala.; professor in Richmond college; and was president of trustees of Richmond college. He has served as a minister plenipotentiary to Spain; and has been trustee and general manager of the John F. Slater fund, and the Peabody Education fund. He is the author of Baptists and Pedobaptists, their Radical Differences in Faith and Practice; Constitutional Government in Spain; Gladstone, a Study; and Southern States of the American Union.