Felix Alver COLLARD

                         Felix and his family spent the winter of 1847-48 in a log cabi n at
Oswego.  Near here he took up a donation land claim consisting of a s quare
mile.  A Catholic convent school stands on part of it today.  However , he did
not stay long at Oswego but settled at Parkplace, which is on the out skirts of
Oregon City;he built a blacksmith shop on his land, which consisted o f severl
acres, the smithy being on the north side of the road that bordered h is place.
The present St. Agnes Baby Home is on the  property.  He built his ho use
several hundred yards northwest of the home, toward the Clackamas riv er.

       Felix was also a worker in wood and a coffin maker for the earl y Bay Creek
settlement. . . . On July 9, 1848, only a few months after their arri val in the
territory, we find Felix Collard and his wife helping organize the fi rst
Baptist Church in Oregon City.  Felix was a devout member of the Bapt ist Church
as his forebears had been before him.  He had an uncle, the Rev. Char les
Hubbard, one of the Pleasant Hill emigrants with Felix, who had bee n a Baptist
minister in Missouri; his mother's people, the Cannons, were also str ong
Baptists.  A Democrat in his political allegiance, Felix served in th e Oregon
legislature from Clackamas county.