: Sandler's Series of Readers and Spellers, Goodrich's Geography, Thompson's Arithmetics and Bullion's Grammar.

Soon after that, Sylvester Pennoyer, who had come from New York to Puget Sound and started an unsuccessful law firm, became the next schoolteacher of Portland Public Schools.

There, according to the Oregon Sentinel, Outhouse declared himself a "Union man," and that he was "equally opposed to Secession and Abolitionism.

In 1875 he was appointed Vice President of the newly formed Teacher's Institute in La Grande, where he presented on "his method of teaching English grammar in his usual happy way of illustration.

In 1885, he was appointed to the La Grande land office by President Grover Cleveland, and he held that position until his death.

[17] In February 1959, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Oregon's statehood, an eighth grade class at Capital Hill School reenacted Outhouse's instruction at the Portland Schoolhouse.