Jacksonville OR: Attorney Benjamin Franklin Dowell 1874 LAWS OF OREGON, His Book

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Jacksonville OR: Attorney Benjamin Franklin B.F. Dowell's 1874 LAWS OF OREGON Book
While preparing to list this volume for its book value alone, a quick googling of the owner's signature, "B.F. Dowell" turned up the historical connection to Jacksonville, and I really believe the book would be in a better home there rather than in a law collection. But that is up to the bidders.
The Organic and Other General Laws of Oregon: Together with the National Constitution, and Other Public Acts and Statutes of the United States. 1843-1872.
Published by Eugene Semple, State Printer, 1874. Hardbound in leather, 922 pages, size about 10-1/2 x 7 inches. Condition: calf covers are worn, front cover detached, spine top title label missing, bottom label worn. First free endpaper through page 2 are separated as a group from the rest of the binding, which is intact. First few pages have browned and brittle edges, remainder of book slight toning of edges. Several pencil and pen notations inside, quite brief, only add to the historic value of the book. Dowell has glued an 1879 newspaper article from the Daily Oregonian on the inside front cover, entitled "State Circuit Court Rules," and inside the back cover a clipping of an article about the decision of a case in which he was the plaintiff, B.F. Dowell vs. The City of Portland, which he won. His signature appears twice in the front of the book. Once on the first free endpaper, and once along the top of the title page. Please give this book a good home.
Benjamin Franklin Dowell, a native of Virginia, came west on the overland trail in 1850. He practiced law in Jacksonville, Oregon and in Washington, D.C. Dowell, with the assistance of his wife and others, owned the Oregon Sentinel newspaper in Jacksonville.
An attorney in Jacksonville, Oregon, Dowell was a native of Virginia, born in 1826. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in law in 1847. Dowell came overland to California in 1850, but migrated to Oregon almost immediately. With little legal business in Oregon, Dowell taught school and then ran a pack train from various points to the gold region of southern Oregon and northern California in the 1850s. He resumed practicing law after his pack train was captured by a group of Native Americans.
Dowell practiced law in Jacksonville, and specialized in pressing “Indian depredation” and military expense claims for Oregonians who had suffered genuine or fancied losses. Many of these claims were against the Federal government, so Dowell spent much of his time in Washington D.C., being shunted from one treasury official to another. Similar to most attorneys of the time, he had political ambitions. To gain a political career, Dowell purchased the Oregon Sentinel (Jacksonville) in 1864. Through his wife and a series of eight editors he ran the paper remotely for fourteen years. His political ambitions were never realized, and he remained a claims agent and attorney. Dowell died in 1897.
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