Background
Hiram Straight was born on March 7, 1814, in Washington County, New York, to Lydia Fanning Straight and Elisha Straight.
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A native of New York state, he would live in Iowa before traveling the Trail to what was then the Country. In, he would serve in the Provisional Legislature of and the Territorial Legislature. The couple would have seven children together, including George, Julia, Cyrus Branson, Mary Etta, Jane, Hiram Junior., and John.
In 1843, Straight and the family would take the Trail to what was then the Country, arriving at City,
The Straight family settled on 600 acres (24 km2) at the mouth of Abernethy Creek on the Clackamas River.
In 1845 and 1846, Straight was elected to and served in the Provisional Legislature of representing the Clackamas District, now Clackamas County, In 1846, the boundary dispute was settled and in 1848 the region south of the 49th degree became the Territory. He was the foreman of the jury in this trial that had followed the Cayuse War.
Straight was elected to the Territorial Legislature 1855 for the 1855 to 1856 session. Hiram Straight continued to farm until his death on January 8, 1897, at the age of 82 at Canemah, which is now within City.
The 19-plot cemetery is one of 800 historic cemeteries in The family home, built in 1856, is still standing.
Membership
There he farmed this land that would later become his donation land claim, and was a member of the Lyceum in City. In 1850, Straight served on the jury that convicted five members of the Cayuse tribe of murder and sentenced them to death for their role in the Whitman Massacre. He served for that single session as a member of the Democratic Party representing Clackamas County.
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Democratic party