The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 166

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833-
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1072

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With the spirit of adventure strong within him, Captain George A. Gore ran away from home when fourteen years of age, to see something of life and make his own way in the world. He learned to cook on board a steamer and such was his industry and

fidelity that he was soon promoted from the ship's galley and at the age of sixteen years was signed on as first mate on a large steamer. Before he reached the age of sev- enteen years he attained the position of cap- tain and engaged in steamboating throughout the remainder of his life, holding many responsible positions in connection with steamship companies prior to his death, which occurred on the 28th of May, 1905. In appreciation of his exceptional ability and loyal service the company not only con- tinued his salary up to his death but even paid to his family his stipend for one month after his demise had occurred, and it was given in appreciation of the value of the services which he had rendered and received in that spirit by the family, who were not in need of a gift, but on the contrary were left by him with ample means and in com- fortable circumstances. His record was at all times an enviable and honorable one. He never lost a life nor had an accident dur- ing the twenty years that he was captain of the Tacoma, and for six months before the completion of that boat he was paid a reg- ular salary in order to retain his services. The company further showed their apprecia- tion of his worth and fidelity by sending several of its officers to the funeral, some of them coming as far as from St. Paul, Minnesota. He was a man greatly beloved by all who knew him, for he was genial, courteous and kindly in spirit and at the same time was a strict and careful discip- linarian, where the interests of his ship were involved.

Captain Gore was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Peck. They had been ac- quainted practically their entire life. They attended school together and were sweet- hearts even in that early day. Mr. and Mrs. Peck, her parents, were natives of the east; coming west they settled in Michigan in early life being married in Buffalo, New York, which was Mrs. Peck's home. It was in Detroit, on the 13th of November, 1867, that Elizabeth Feck became the wife of Cap- tain Gore. They continued to reside in Michigan for about six years longer and in 1871 came to Oregon, settling in Washing- ton county, near Tualitin, on a tract of eighty acres which he purchased. George A. Gore was one of a family of seven chil- dren, namely: Cecelia, now deceased ; Charles E., who is living in Kalama. Wash- ington, and has five children, two of whom are in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Captain John C. Gore, who makes his home in Nelson, British Columbia, and is married and has two children; Mrs. Anne Hedges. deceased, who has seven children; Mary, who has de- parted this life; and Mrs. Drucilla Bronson, who has three children and lives in Alaska.

In the family of Captain and Mrs. Gore were seven children: Frances L .; Margaret, now deceased; Mrs .. Grace H. Robinson, a resident of Tualitin, Oregon; Mrs. Helen C. Seed, of Portland, whose husband is a con- tractor and builder; George G., deceased; Mrs. Lilly M. Baker, who has also passed away: and Mrs. Elizabeth Wilson, of Salem,

GEORGE A. GORE

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Oregon, where her husband owns a large brewery. The death of Captain Gore oc- curred May 28, 1905, and was the occasion of deep regret to all who knew him-the company whom he represented, his many friends and most poignantly his immediate family, to whom he was a loving and de- voted husband and father. . He was a repub- lican in his views but his activity naturally precluded his connection to any considerable extent with political affairs.

Frances Gore now resides upon the eighty acres of land which her father first pur- chased on coming to the northwest and has never lived anywhere else, save the period which she spent as a student in school and college in Portland. She has a wide ac- quaintance in this part of the state and is much beloved by all who know her. She is a lady of liberal education and broad cul- ture and possesses, moreover, excellent busi- ness ability. She leases all of her land for a cash rental and thus has a comfortable competence which enables her to live most pleasantly in a fine old home. She has in her own name eighty acres of land and also an interest in other property. Her relig- ious faith is that of the Congregational church and she is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Rathbone Sisters.

CHARLES C. LIGGETT has been a farmer since he was nineteen years of age and is now cultivating one hundred and sixty acres of land three miles from Lakeside, on Ten Mile lake. He also operates a model dairy and engages to some extent in logging. He was born in Polk county, Oregon, on May 24, 1872, and is a son of John W. and Susan (Davis) Liggett. His father was born in Oregon, August 25, 1843, and his mother is a native of Missouri. John W. Liggett en- gaged in the cultivation of the soil in Polk county until his death, in 1873. He and his wife were the parents of two children: Charles C., of this review; and Mrs. Laura Houser, of Oakland, California. A short time after her first husband's death Mrs. Liggett was united in marriage to C. W. Sanford and to this union were born nine children, eight of whom are still living: Ernest, who is a resident of Oakland, California; Mrs. Ida Nollner, of North Bend, Oregon; Herman W., who makes his home in Sumner, Ore- gon; Cora D., who married C. J. Sanford, of Alsea Bay; V. P., who is living on the north fork of Coquille river; Mrs. Maggie Bowern, who resides on a tributary of Ten Mile lake; Grace, who makes her home in Alsea, Oregon; and Mrs. Minnie Simpson, of North Bend, Coos county.

Charles C. Liggett received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Oregon and laid aside his books at the age of nineteen years and has been engaged in farming since that time. He purchased forty acres of land in Coos county and improved and operated it until 1906. He made constant additions to his holdings and in the latter year traded two hundred acres of well cultivated land for the one hundred and sixty acre farm which he now owns. It is located three miles Vol. IV-45

from Lakeside near the Lakeview schoolhouse and is one of the best cultivated properties in the district. Mr. Liggett makes a specialty of dairying and has been very successful in this branch of agriculture. He owes his rapid success to his thorough knowledge of the details of farming and the scientific and progressive methods by which he carries on agriculture. Besides his holdings on Ten Mile lake he also has an interest in six hun- dred and four acres of the family estate.

On January 12, 1902, Mr. Liggett was unit- ed in marriage to Mrs. Markham, a daughter of Benjamin Roberts and the widow of Charles Markham. She is a native of Ore- gon and in her parents' family were the following children: Mrs. Munson, of Temple- ton, Oregon; Jane Stewart, deceased; David, who resides in Templeton; James, Mrs. Edith Benson, George, Abraham, Allen and Joseph, all of Templeton; and Lizzie, deceased. Mrs. Liggett received her education in the public schools of Coos county. Her mother died in 1909 and her father is still living at Tem- pleton, Oregon, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. Mrs. Liggett had three children by her first marriage: Milton, born in 1893, who is living at home; Earl, whose birth oc- curred in 1895 and who is also residing on the home farm; and Edith, born in 1897. To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Liggett five chil- dren have been born: Clinton, whose birth occurred December 12, 1902; Reta, born on the 18th of July, 1904; Bernetta, born on January 5, 1906; Elsie M., born May 28, 1907; and Geneva, whose birth occurred on June 23, 1909. Mr. Liggett gives a gen- eral allegiance to the republican party but has often been independent in his political views. He takes an intelligent interest in public affairs but in politics, as in all other relations of his life, he keeps his mind un- biased and his judgment broad.

FRANK ROGGERS has for a period of twenty-three years been a resident of Lake county, having taken up his home in Lake- view in 1889. He was born in Portugal, August 27, 1852, a son of Frank and Mary (Frances) Rodrique, for so the name was originally spelled. His parents are still liv- ing in Portugal, the father being now nearly one hundred years of age, while the mother is more than eighty. The former was a stone mason in active life, following that trade for many years. In his family were nine sons and two daughters, of whom five sons and one daughter came to the United States and all are residents of California with the exception of Frank Roggers, of this review. After coming to this country they changed the spelling of their name to the present form. The first of the family to cross the Atlantic was Manuel Roggers, who came in 1864. In 1872 Frank Roggers arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, but thinking to find still better opportunities in the western coast country made his way to California in March, 1874. He worked for wages on a ranch for a time and later preempted land in Santa Clara county, California. He subse- quently lived in Siskiyou county for three

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or four years, and then left California for Oregon, arriving in Lakeview in the spring of 1889. He lias since been a resident of this county, where he was employed by others until lie began dealing in sheep on his own account, being connected with the sheep industry until 1911, when he disposed of his herds. He homesteaded a tract of land near Lakeview in Goose Lake valley, and took a desert claim at Cox's Springs. He was also at one time owner of the Plush Hotel, at Plush, and a resident of that town. He is still the owner of twenty acres of land near Plush but has sold his other properties there.

Mr. Roggers gives his political allegiance to the republican party. He is filling the office of road supervisor and has charge of the road from Plush to Warner Canyon, a distance of about forty miles. During the two years of his incumbency he has done considerable work on the road, greatly im- proving the public highway. His fraternal relations are with the Masons and the Elks. For fifteen years he has been a Master Mason and also belongs to the Eastern Star, while in 1910 he became a member of the Benevo- lent Protective Order of Elks. He has never regretted his determination to come to the new world. He crossed the Atlantic at the age of twenty years, empty-handed, but has gradually worked his way upward and year by year has been made to count in his search for success, so that he is now one of the substantial residents of Lakeview.

FREDERICK J. SCHLIEMANN is engaged in general merchandising at Gold Beach and also has important stock-raising interests near the town upon a ranch of six hundred acres. Oregon has drawn her citizens from every state in the Union and among the quota furnished by Illinois is Mr. Schliemann, who is a native of Peoria. He was born July 3, 1852, one of the ten children of Julius and Matilda (Kahlbrock) Schliemann. Seven of the number reached adult age, those beside our subject being: John, of Hennessey, Okla- homa; William, a resident of Los Angeles, California; Ferdinand, of Susanville, Cali- fornia; Helen, the wife of Rev. Walter Evans, of Plainfield, Illinois; Louisa, who married Rev. Mathias Kaufman, of Boston, who is the editor of a religious paper of that city; and Mary, who married Charles A. Kel- sey, of Sherman, Texas, from whom she be- came legally separated.

In his father's home in Illinois Frederick J. Schliemann spent his youthful days and at times assisted his father in the bookbinding business. His education was acquired in the public schools, the work of the grades being supplemented by a high-school course, and later he pursued a course of study in the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago. He left home at the age of twenty-two years and located for the practice of his profession in Wisconsin in 1874. There he remained in active prac- tice until 1903, when he came to Curry county, settling at Gold Beach, where he practiced for a time. He also lived at Wed-

derburn, Oregon, just across the river from Gold Beach, and at length, abandoning pro- fessional activities, purchased a ranch of two hundred acres, cultivating and residing thereon for about four years. He still owns the property but is now renting it out. In 1909 in connection with his son-in-law he purchased a mercantile business, carrying a large stock and enjoying an extensive trade. He also continues in the practice of medicine and he has important stock-raising interests, he and his wife owning about six hundred acres of land near Gold Beach, upon which he is raising stock of good grades. His various interests are bringing substantial re- turns, for he is an enterprising business man, watchful of opportunities and utilizing lıis advantages with good results.

On the 26th of September, 1875, while a resident of Wisconsin, Dr. Schliemann was married to Miss Charlotte L. King, a native of St. Lawrence county, New York, and a daughter of Robert and Sarah (LeClaire) King. The father, a native of Quebec, was of Scotch-Irish descent and the mother was a native of Canada. Mrs. Schliemann is the only one now living of a family of nine children and by her marriage has become the mother of two children: Fredericka, who was born February 13, 1892, and is the wife of Wesley Miller, who is in partnership with her father in merchandising in Gold Beach; and John, who was born September 14, 1895, and is in school. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have two chil- dren, Myra A. L. and Lorana. The family is socially prominent and Dr. Schliemann is a valued member of the Modern Woodmen camp. Independent in his political views, he holds to progressive methods, believing that advancement should be made along political lines just as surely as along business or professional lines. He held various offices while a resident of Wisconsin, including that of supervisor, and was officially connected with the schools. At the present writing lie is serving as health officer of Curry county. At all times he has kept in touch with the onward march of the profession, following sci- entific methods in his practice and rendering valuable aid to his fellow townsmen.

E. A. PRIDAY is postmaster of the town of Pluslı, Lake county, and the president of the Warner Valley Mercantile Company, owning and conducting the only store of the town. The business interests which claim his atten- tion are large and of growing proportion, nor is his activity confined alone to merchandis- ing, for he deals in various products produced in this part of Oregon and also handles real estate. He was born in Gloucestershire, Eng- land, August 11, 1871, and is a son of Albert J. and Mary (Dipper) Priday, who were also natives of England and about 1877 came with their family to the new world, settling in what is now Crook county, Oregon. They sailed first to New York, thence to San Fran- cisco and proceeded on their way by boat to Portland, being over a month on that trip. The father died in Cook county in 1902, when fifty-two years of age. He had followed farming in England and in this country had

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engaged in sheep-raising and conducting a sheep ranch. The mother still makes her home in Crook county, fourteen miles north- east of Madras, on Willow creek, the family having resided on that ranch for a quarter of a century. They have altogether about seven thousand acres of land on which they pasture extensive herds of cattle and to some extent engage in raising other stock. The · sons and daughters of the family were six in number: E. A., of this review; Mary, the wife of Hugh Davy, of Idaho; Leslie, who conducts the home ranch; Ida, who is mar- ried and resides near Pineville, Oregon; Percy, who died at the age of twenty-two years; and John, at home.

E. A. Priday remained in Crook county with his parents until twenty years of age and early became familiar with the different phases of stock-raising and herding. When two decades of his life had passed he went to Arizona, where he engaged in railroading for eight or nine years, and then returned home where he spent three or four years. In 1905 he came to the town of Plush and en- tered merchandising, organizing the Warner Valley Mercantile Company which was incor- porated in 1905. Its incorporators were E. A. Priday, N. L. Caldwell and J. J. Van Keulen, who are respectively president, vice president and secretary and treasurer. Mr. Priday and Mr. Van Keulen are both active in the store, the former being continuously prominent in its management since the incorporation. In January, 1912, he was appointed postmaster at Plush and is now filling that position. The mercantile company is capitalized for twenty- five thousand dollars. They handle a large and well selected stock of general merchandise and in fact buy and sell everything native to this region, also handling real estate.

In 1898 Mr. Priday was married to Miss Belle Caldwell, of Tulare, California, a daugh- ter of Dr. Caldwell. Theirs is a hospitable home and their friends in Lake county are many. Mr. Priday is a Royal Arch Mason and gives his political allegiance to the repub- lican party. He ranks with the enterprising, progressive business men and the salient traits of his character have gained him class- ification with the representative citizens of this county.

T. J. SULLIVAN is the manager and lessee of the Plush Hotel, in the town of Plush, and is among the citizens of foreign birth who have come to America to enjoy the broader business opportunities of the new world, where advancement is more quickly secured. He was born in County Cork, Ireland, November 10, 1881, his par- ents being John R. and Johanna (Lane) Sul- livan. The mother died on the Emerald isle, June 15, 1890, and the father still follows farming in his native country. In the fam- ily were six sons and four daughters, of whom T. J. Sullivan is the sixth in order of birth. Three of the brothers, Dennis, John and T. J., came to the United States, making the voyage in the order mentioned, and all are now residents of Lake county, Oregon.

It was in March, 1903, that T. J. Sullivan landed in New York, whence he made his way direct to San Francisco, where he re- sided until about four years ago. He worked in a dry-goods store all his life until he came to Lake county, where he herded sheep for a few months. He afterward was em- ployed in a saloon at Plush until June, 1910, when he leased the hotel which he is now conducting, greatly improving the service, ac- commodations and facilities and building up a gratifying patronage by his genial and pleasant manner, which most truly expresses that hospitality which makes for the com- fort of his guests. He has a number of claims in the Windy Hollow gold-mining dis- trict in this county and his investments argue well for success in the future.

On the 17th of November, 1911, Mr. Sulli- van was married to Miss Christina Flinn, a native of County Cork, Ireland, who in 1901 crossed the Atlantic to New York and spent about seven years as a nurse in a hospital in that city, coming thence to Oregon. She is a daughter of Michael Flinn, still residing in Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan hold mem- bership in the Catholic church of Lake View and his support is given to the republican party, the principles of which he considers to be most conducive to good government. -

C. B. PARKER is superintendent of the "MC" ranch, the property of the Warner Valley Stock Company, Inc. For six years he has acted as superintendent of this ranch of thirty-two thousand, nine hundred acres, the largest in Lake county, and the respon- sibilities which devolve upon him in this connection are of a most extensive and ardu- ous character. He was born in Siskiyou county, California, January 13, 1863, and is a son of Louis R. and Mary (Fogerty) Parker, natives of Ohio and New York re- spectively. They were married in the east and crossed the plains in 1849, with Siski- you county, California, as their destination. The father died in 1867 but the mother now makes her home in Modoc county, California.

C. B. Parker, the youngest son and second youngest child, was reared in Siskiyou and Modoc counties, California, with the usual experiences of the boy who spends his youth upon the ranch. He served for two terms or four years as sheriff of Modoc county, to which position he was called as the republi- can candidate. Otherwise he has largely de- voted his attention to stock-raising and at one time was the owner of a ranch of four hundred and forty acres in Modoc county. He sold this, however, before coming to Lake county six years ago. He now owns three hundred and twenty acres in the Coleman valley. He was formerly quite extensively engaged in the sheep industry in the vicinity of Paisley for four years and still has about two thousand head. His attention, however, is now chiefly given to the interests of the Warner Valley Stock Company of which he is one of the stockholders and its secretary and superintendent. The place is known as the "MC" ranch, by which name it is usually spoken of throughout the district because of

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the brand "MC" being used upon the cattle. While the company makes a specialty of the raising of cattle, having five thousand head, they also raise and herd sheep and horses. Mr. Parker employs fifteen buccaroes through- out the year and employs forty men in the haying seasons, which last for about two months. They put up three thousand tons of hay or more and also purchase a consider- able amount. They cut altogether about ten thousand tous. This indicates something of the great volume of business and the in- terests which command the attention of Mr. Parker, who at all times displays a spirit of enterprise in his control of business af- fairs. He recognizes the vast possibilities of the northwest in stock-raising and ranch- ing and sound judgment guides him in all of his undertakings.

In 1889 Mr. Parker was married to Miss Katie L. Fitzpatrick, a native of Shasta county, California, and a daughter of Alex- ander and Mary Fitzpatrick. Three children have been born to them, Arthur, Leland and Vera. A lifelong experience in his present line of occupation has well qualified Mr. Parker for the vast responsibilities devolving upon him and as a prominent stockman of southern Oregon he well deserves represen- tation in this work among those who are proving potent forces in the development and upbuilding of this state.

CLARENCE INGRAM, cashier of the Leba- non National Bank, is a native son of Linn county and from an early date his interests have been identified with its development. He is familiar with agricultural life in this section and has been successful in it, has also conducted a mercantile store and is at the present time an important figure in financial circles. He was born upon his father's farm October 3, 1876, a son of W. H. and Mary (Miller) Ingram, the former a native of Port- land, Maine, and the latter of Des Moines, Iowa. His father came to Oregon by way of Panama in 1852 and three years later the mother of our subject arrived in this state with her parents, having journeyed across the plains with ox teams. The father settled in Linn county near Albany, his parents having proved up a half section of land in that dis- trict and he bought a farm eight miles south of Lebanon. After his marriage he purchased the property upon which he resides. He owns six hundred acres of the finest and most productive land in the county and is numbered among the representative and sub- stantial farmers. He is sixty-five years of age. His wife passed away in 1892. Their family of thirteen children, of whom nine are still living, is as follows: Herbert, who resides on the old homestead; Clarence, the subject of this review; Oscar, of Lebanon, who is employed as a traveling salesman; E. F., a mail carrier, of Lebanon; Hiram, who resides at home; Minnie the wife of Frank Apger, of Marcola; Emma, who also resides at home; Alice, who married Otto Frank of Linn county; Grace, the wife of Edward Knoy, of Lebanon; Caroline L., Albert W.,

and Blaine, all of whom have passed away; and one child, who died in infancy.

In the acquirement of an education Clar- ence Ingram attended the public schools of Linn county and Sodaville College, completing his studies in a business and normal college. He fitted himself for teaching and when he left school at the age of eighteen followed this occupation for ten winters, working upon the home farm during the summer months. In' 1903 he went to Lebanon and there opened a general merchandise store which he conducted until 1909, when he disposed of his interests. Two years later he became cashier of the Le- banon National Bank and this position he still fills. He has made the best possible use of his many opportunities and has acquired a comfortable fortune, which he has invested judiciously. He owns one hundred and thirty acres of land in Linn county, holding the title in partnership with E. B. Day. He also owns his own home in Lebanon.

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The centennial history of Oregon, 1811-1912, Part 166

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833- Publication date: 1912 Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company Number of Pages: 1072

Author: Gaston, Joseph, 1833-
Publication date: 1912
Publisher: Chicago, The S.J. Clarke publishing company
Number of Pages: 1072