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George K. Gay
George Kirby Gay (August 15, 1810 – October 7, 1882) was an English sailor and later settler in the Oregon Country. He was a member of the Willamette Cattle Company that brought livestock to Oregon and built the first brick house in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. Gay also participated in the Champoeg Meetings that created a provisional government in what would become the U.S. state of Oregon.
==Early years==
George Gay was born in Gloucestershire, England, on August 15, 1810.〔 He became an apprentice sailor at the age of eleven and traveled much of the world and came to the United States.〔Corning, Howard M. (1956) ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, p. 97.〕〔Lang, Herbert O. (1885) (''History of the Willamette Valley, Being a Description of the Valley and Its Resources, with an Account of Its Discovery and Settlement by White Men, and Its Subsequent History Together with Personal Reminiscences of Its Early Pioneers''. ) G.H. Himes, Book and Job Printer, pp. 595-596.〕 As a sailor, his last trip was aboard the whaleship ''Kitty'', which he left at Monterey, California, in 1833 where he joined up with fur trapper Ewing Young.〔Lyman, Horace S. (1903) ''History of Oregon: The Growth of an American State''. North Pacific Publishing Society, New York. Vol. III. p. 218.〕〔 Gay went with Young to trap fur bearing animals to the north.〔
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