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Oregon Republican League:
Republican League Register of Oregon, The Register Publishing Company, 1896, page 259.
PEEBLES, HON. JOHN C., was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, January 23, 1826, and came to Oregon from Indiana in 1850, settling in Marion County. In 1852 he was Assistant Clerk of the House, and in 1853 was elected a member of that body. In 1854 he was elected to the Territorial Council, and in 1857, a member of the constitutional convention. In 1860 he was elected state librarian. In 1862 he was elected County Judge, and again in 1866 and again in 1874. In 1880 he was Chief Clerk of the House. He was for years a member of the state and county conventions and committees, and twice chairman of the state convention.
-Tony Larson
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