James Alexander Hough born April 19, 1818 in Ohio to Joseph Bean Hough and Hannah Catherine Finley. James married Fedelia Russell April 26, 1856 in Washington county Indiana. His father Joseph Hough owned and operated a flour mill/saw mill at Boggstown, in Shelby co. Indiana. James perished with Jesse Columbus Wilkes in a flood that destroyed the Jackson Falls Mill in Washington county, Oregon on Dec. 8, 1857. They were buried together in Harrison Cemetery, Washington county, Oregon. James was an employee of the mill owner John Henderson Brake Jackson.
THE OREGON STATESMAN, Tues. Dec. 22, 1857
A sad disaster occurred on Tusday night on Jackson Creek, a north branch off the Tualatin River owing to the heavy rains that fell during the day, the dam at Jackson's sawmill being on this mountain stream about 20 miles southwest of Portland, gave way about 9 o'clock at night, precipitating a large body of water and a great number of logs which had collected above the dam, with such violence against the gristmill as to sweep away instantly like mere cobwork leaving scarcely a vestige remaining. Two men Mr. James Huff the miller and Jesse Columbus Wilkes who was engaged in sacking his flour were the only people known to be in the mill at the time they were lost. Search was made for their bodies by neighbors who recovered them the following Thursday, one of them was bruised and mangled. They both left families to mourn their untimely fate. The mill was owned by Mr. Jackson who built it in 1853 at an expense of $6,000. there was collected in the mill at the time about 4,000 bushels of wheat which proved a total loss. The entire value of the property destroyed was about $11,000.
THE OREGON STATESMAN, Tues. Dec. 22, 1857
A sad disaster occurred on Tusday night on Jackson Creek, a north branch off the Tualatin River owing to the heavy rains that fell during the day, the dam at Jackson's sawmill being on this mountain stream about 20 miles southwest of Portland, gave way about 9 o'clock at night, precipitating a large body of water and a great number of logs which had collected above the dam, with such violence against the gristmill as to sweep away instantly like mere cobwork leaving scarcely a vestige remaining. Two men Mr. James Huff the miller and Jesse Columbus Wilkes who was engaged in sacking his flour were the only people known to be in the mill at the time they were lost. Search was made for their bodies by neighbors who recovered them the following Thursday, one of them was bruised and mangled. They both left families to mourn their untimely fate. The mill was owned by Mr. Jackson who built it in 1853 at an expense of $6,000. there was collected in the mill at the time about 4,000 bushels of wheat which proved a total loss. The entire value of the property destroyed was about $11,000.
James Alexander Hough born April 19, 1818 in Ohio to Joseph Bean Hough and Hannah Catherine Finley. James married Fedelia Russell April 26, 1856 in Washington county Indiana. His father Joseph Hough owned and operated a flour mill/saw mill at Boggstown, in Shelby co. Indiana. James perished with Jesse Columbus Wilkes in a flood that destroyed the Jackson Falls Mill in Washington county, Oregon on Dec. 8, 1857. They were buried together in Harrison Cemetery, Washington county, Oregon. James was an employee of the mill owner John Henderson Brake Jackson.
THE OREGON STATESMAN, Tues. Dec. 22, 1857
A sad disaster occurred on Tusday night on Jackson Creek, a north branch off the Tualatin River owing to the heavy rains that fell during the day, the dam at Jackson's sawmill being on this mountain stream about 20 miles southwest of Portland, gave way about 9 o'clock at night, precipitating a large body of water and a great number of logs which had collected above the dam, with such violence against the gristmill as to sweep away instantly like mere cobwork leaving scarcely a vestige remaining. Two men Mr. James Huff the miller and Jesse Columbus Wilkes who was engaged in sacking his flour were the only people known to be in the mill at the time they were lost. Search was made for their bodies by neighbors who recovered them the following Thursday, one of them was bruised and mangled. They both left families to mourn their untimely fate. The mill was owned by Mr. Jackson who built it in 1853 at an expense of $6,000. there was collected in the mill at the time about 4,000 bushels of wheat which proved a total loss. The entire value of the property destroyed was about $11,000.
THE OREGON STATESMAN, Tues. Dec. 22, 1857
A sad disaster occurred on Tusday night on Jackson Creek, a north branch off the Tualatin River owing to the heavy rains that fell during the day, the dam at Jackson's sawmill being on this mountain stream about 20 miles southwest of Portland, gave way about 9 o'clock at night, precipitating a large body of water and a great number of logs which had collected above the dam, with such violence against the gristmill as to sweep away instantly like mere cobwork leaving scarcely a vestige remaining. Two men Mr. James Huff the miller and Jesse Columbus Wilkes who was engaged in sacking his flour were the only people known to be in the mill at the time they were lost. Search was made for their bodies by neighbors who recovered them the following Thursday, one of them was bruised and mangled. They both left families to mourn their untimely fate. The mill was owned by Mr. Jackson who built it in 1853 at an expense of $6,000. there was collected in the mill at the time about 4,000 bushels of wheat which proved a total loss. The entire value of the property destroyed was about $11,000.
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