George Anson Pease
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| Born | September 30, 1830 Stuyvesant Landing, Columbia County, New York State |
| Died | January 22, 1919 (aged 88) Portland, OR |
| Known for | River navigation |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred A. Moore |
| Children | Archibald Leon Pease, Harriet M. Pease Colbert, Francis A. Pease, and George E. Pease |
| Parent(s) | Norman Pease and Harriet McAllister |
George Anson Pease was a well-known steamboat captain in the Pacific Northwest region on the United States, who was active from the earliest days of steamboat navigation on the Willamette River in the 1850s. He worked in various roles until the early 1900s, commanding numerous vessels during that time. During a flood in 1861, while in command of the sternwheeler Onward, Pease rescued 40 people from a flood in the area of Salem, Oregon.
George Anson Pease was born at Stuyvesant Landing, Columbia County, New York State, on September 30, 1830. His father was Norman Pease (b. 1805; d. Jan 4, 1847, age 43), who was an architect and builder in New York State. His mother was Harriet McAllister, who moved to Oregon in 1862 from New York, and who died in 1890, at Oregon City, Oregon, at the age of 90 years.
Pease, the oldest of the family, had six siblings, one of whom died in infancy. The others, all sisters, were:
Pease and his sisters were all educated in the subscription schools of New York State. At age fifteen he started working with his father to learn the carpenter and joiner's trade. When his father died, in 1847, Pease completed his apprenticeship with another man.
In 1849, news of the California Gold Rush induced Pease to go to the west, by way of a ship around Cape Horn. Pease arrived on September 30, 1849. Pease worked in the mines for a while, where he achieved some success in the following winter, but he was cheated by his partner, and ended up with nothing.
Pease then went north to the Oregon Territory, arriving July, 1850 on the brig Annie E. Maine, crossing the Columbia River bar on July 21.
Pease bought a pair of flatboats and ran them on the Willamette River from Milwaukie, Oregon to Oregon City and later from Portland. Pease began in a keel-boat in 1850, taking freight from Portland to Oregon City for $20 a ton. The boat was propelled by Native Americans with poles, oars and sails.
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