History of Lebanon (there is a link from the Linn County Genealogical Website). 3rd page.
The late Judge Owen Denny, who crossed the plain when a boy in 1852 and lived much of his early life on the Denny homestead west of Lebanon, became the American Consul General in several cities in China. There he saw the ring-necked pheasant and conceived the idea of shipping some to Oregon. As most of the first birds sent over in 1881 died on the way, he sent a second lot the following year to his brother who lived on the family homestead. Of this second shipment twenty-eight survived. John Denny kept them penned up until he was sure they were all well acclimated. Then he turned them loose on Peterson's Butte. The value of the gift has increased each year until now it is estimated that as food alone it is worth not less than $7,000 a year. The esthetic value is immeasurable.
In appreciation of the effort he made to introduce this valuable fowl, a venture that cost him more than $4,500 of his own money, the Oregon State Legislature empowered the game commission to pay a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Denny after Judge Denny's death. And though an effort has been made to call the bird the Denny pheasant, the name has never come into common use.
Sportsmen of the state have reason to thank Judge Denny for the introduction of one of the most popular game bird in the West - the China Pheasant
The late Judge Owen Denny, who crossed the plain when a boy in 1852 and lived much of his early life on the Denny homestead west of Lebanon, became the American Consul General in several cities in China. There he saw the ring-necked pheasant and conceived the idea of shipping some to Oregon. As most of the first birds sent over in 1881 died on the way, he sent a second lot the following year to his brother who lived on the family homestead. Of this second shipment twenty-eight survived. John Denny kept them penned up until he was sure they were all well acclimated. Then he turned them loose on Peterson's Butte. The value of the gift has increased each year until now it is estimated that as food alone it is worth not less than $7,000 a year. The esthetic value is immeasurable.
In appreciation of the effort he made to introduce this valuable fowl, a venture that cost him more than $4,500 of his own money, the Oregon State Legislature empowered the game commission to pay a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Denny after Judge Denny's death. And though an effort has been made to call the bird the Denny pheasant, the name has never come into common use.
Sportsmen of the state have reason to thank Judge Denny for the introduction of one of the most popular game bird in the West - the China Pheasant
History of Lebanon (there is a link from the Linn County Genealogical Website). 3rd page.
The late Judge Owen Denny, who crossed the plain when a boy in 1852 and lived much of his early life on the Denny homestead west of Lebanon, became the American Consul General in several cities in China. There he saw the ring-necked pheasant and conceived the idea of shipping some to Oregon. As most of the first birds sent over in 1881 died on the way, he sent a second lot the following year to his brother who lived on the family homestead. Of this second shipment twenty-eight survived. John Denny kept them penned up until he was sure they were all well acclimated. Then he turned them loose on Peterson's Butte. The value of the gift has increased each year until now it is estimated that as food alone it is worth not less than $7,000 a year. The esthetic value is immeasurable.
In appreciation of the effort he made to introduce this valuable fowl, a venture that cost him more than $4,500 of his own money, the Oregon State Legislature empowered the game commission to pay a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Denny after Judge Denny's death. And though an effort has been made to call the bird the Denny pheasant, the name has never come into common use.
Sportsmen of the state have reason to thank Judge Denny for the introduction of one of the most popular game bird in the West - the China Pheasant
The late Judge Owen Denny, who crossed the plain when a boy in 1852 and lived much of his early life on the Denny homestead west of Lebanon, became the American Consul General in several cities in China. There he saw the ring-necked pheasant and conceived the idea of shipping some to Oregon. As most of the first birds sent over in 1881 died on the way, he sent a second lot the following year to his brother who lived on the family homestead. Of this second shipment twenty-eight survived. John Denny kept them penned up until he was sure they were all well acclimated. Then he turned them loose on Peterson's Butte. The value of the gift has increased each year until now it is estimated that as food alone it is worth not less than $7,000 a year. The esthetic value is immeasurable.
In appreciation of the effort he made to introduce this valuable fowl, a venture that cost him more than $4,500 of his own money, the Oregon State Legislature empowered the game commission to pay a pension of $50 a month to Mrs. Denny after Judge Denny's death. And though an effort has been made to call the bird the Denny pheasant, the name has never come into common use.
Sportsmen of the state have reason to thank Judge Denny for the introduction of one of the most popular game bird in the West - the China Pheasant
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