John S Tripp

John S Tripp arrived in Oregon in 1852, applying for a donation land claim in Tillamook County in September of the same year.

In December of 1853, he was one of the citizens who petitioned the territorial legislature to create a new county from Yamhill County lying west of the Coast Range. This act created Tillamook County and a County Court was created, with the following people on it: Isaac W Alderman, Commissioner John Tripp, Commissioner Elbridge Trask, Commissioner O.S. Thomas, Sheriff Thomas M Cochran, County Clerk

The Oregon Archives show that an Assessment was done for the years 1854, 1855, 1857, 1858, & 1859 associated with John S Tripp.

John Tripp is found in the 1860 Census Hoquarten Prairie, Tillamook County. He is a bachelor at this time, but living nearby is the Trask family. Hannah Trask's daughter, Rosealtha Abell was the widow of John P. Higginbotham. Her husband died about 1862. By the 9th of Nov 1862, she remarried John S Tripp.

In 1866, John Tripp donated five acres of land near Fairview on which to construct a building for religious purposes, this became part of the Tillamook United Methodist Church.

In 1870, John S Tripp found in the Census of Tillamook County, but doesn't not appear to have anyone living with him.

John S Tripp has a Probate in the Tillamook County Court #15.

Source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=77732159