James Breckenridge Chenowith LAST NAME: Chenowith FIRST NAME: James MIDDLE NAME: Breckenridge NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE:  GENDER: M MILITARY: Spanish American War BORN: 26 Oct 1869 DIED: 3 Aug 1939 BURIED: Aug 1939 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:  Night Watchman BIRTH PLACE:  Independence Co., Arkansas DEATH PLACE: Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon NOTES:  1920 OR CENSUS - James B. Chenoweth, age 50, occupation house carpenter, b. Arkansas, is enumerated with wife Grace G., age 44, b. Minnesota, along with Joseph S., age 16, Paul H., age 14, Ruth, age 12, and Whalley, age 11, all born in Oregon. OBITUARY:  JAMES CHENOWETH DIES AT HOSPITAL Long Resident Here Was Noted Local Builder, Spanish War Vet.  James B. Chenoweth, 70, of Salem, died yesterday at the US veterans’ hospital at Portland. A carpenter for 22 years of his 33 year residence in this city, he supervised construction of several major buildings in Salem before retiring about 10 years ago.  Funeral services will be held in Salem at 10 o’clock Saturday morning from the capel of the Clough-Barrich company, with the IOOF lodge and United Spanish War Veterans of which organizations he was a member, joining for the service. Burial will follow in the IOOF cemetery.  He was born October 26, 1869, in Izzard county, Ark., coming overland by covered wagon to Coburg, Ore., in 1882. After a residence there and at Walla Walla, he went to Waitsburn, Wash., and enlisted in Company K, 1st Washington. He became a sergeant and was mustered out in August, 1899, at the Presidio of San Francisco.  Came Here in 1903.  He located in Salem in 1903 where he married the daughter of D. L. Smith, January 18 of that year. Mrs. Chenoweth survives him as do four children, Joseph, Paul and Wholley Chenoweth and Mrs. Ruth Hornaday; his mother, Mrs. N. C. E. Mattingley of St. John, Wash.; two brothers, W. M. Chenoweth of Woodburn and Nickolas Chenoweth of Seattle; four sisters, Mrs. Ivy Lindley of St. John, Wash., Mrs. May Schalaak of Starbuck, Wash., Mrs. Maggie Johnson of Lewiston, Ida., and Mrs. Ada Swegel of Portland; also three grandsons and several nieces and nephews.  Oregon Statesman 4 Aug 1939 9:6,7  James B. Chenoweth, age 70, late resident of 609 North 16th, passed away at the Veterans hospital in Portland August 3. Survived by wife, Grace G. Chenoweth; sons, Paul H., Wholley J., Joseph D., all of Salem; daughter Mrs. Ruth Hornaday of Salem and three grandchildren; mother, Mrs. C. E. Mattingly, St. Johns, Washington. Funeral services will be held from the Clough-Barrick Co. chapel Saturday, August 5, at 10 a.m. Interment IOOF. Ritualistic services by the IOOF and Spanish War Veterans.  Oregon Statesman 4 Aug 1939 9:2 INSCRIPTION:  Jas. B. Chenowith Sgt.  1st Washington, Inf.  Sp. Am. War 1869 - 1939  SOURCES:  LD  OSBH DC (Multnomah Co., 1939) #2396  S&H pg 76  Saucy Survey & Photographs 1920 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., Salem, ED 349, sheet 4B) OS 4 Aug 1939 9:6,7  OS 4 Aug 1939 9:2 CONTACTS:  LOT: 877 SPACE: 4 SW LONGITUDE:  LATITUDE:  IMAGES: