Johann Ulrich Wagner, one of the oldest and most respected settlers
of Clackamas County, was buried near Stafford Wednesday.
He was born at Chur, Switzerland, and when a young man of 19 years
came to the United States and settled in Milwaukee, Wis. He
resided there until 1873, when he, with his family, removed to
Portland, where he followed his trade of tanner until 1876, when
he located on the banks of the Willamette nine miles above Oregon
City. He resided there until death. Besides his widow he
leaves seven children---Charles F. and Fritz Wagner, Mrs. Gustav
Stein, Mrs. Homer Kruse, of Wilsonville; Mrs. Fred Eilers, Mrs.
F. J. Siemon, of Portland, and Mrs. Martin Dragseth, of Hood River. |