Garfield County, Washington Biographical Brevities

The following are biographical “brevities” or short sketches of individuals. They appeared often in publications with limited space and resources, that still wanted to provide details of living residents in order to encourage their purchase of the publication. The source of these is the Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon .

  • Allen, Nelson: lives four miles east of Pataha City; is a farmer; owns 160 acres of land; address is Pataha City. He was born in Henry County, Iowa; came to Oregon City, Oregon, in 1852, and to this county in 1877.
  • Ball, W. A.
  • Bankson, A. C.
  • Bean, O. E.
  • Bihlmaier, Jacob
  • Blackmun, Andrew
  • Braden, L. G.
  • Bramlet, George W.
  • Bridgewater, W. W.
  • Burford, George W.
  • Burge, C. C.
  • Caples, H. L.
  • Clark, Charles, N.
  • Cluster, William F.
  • Cooley, Andrew S.
  • Cook, John B.
  • Corder, Francis M.
  • Courtney, L. B.
  • Cox, V. L., Mrs.
  • Coyle, A. P.
  • Crumpacker, H. D.
  • Crumpacker, W. T.
  • Cunningham, Thomas
  • Daughtery, F. M.
  • Davis, A. D.
  • Day, D. B.
  • Delaney, Thomas E.
  • Dickson, Ewell S.
  • Dickson, Gilbert
  • Estes, Newton
  • Fitzsimmons, C. W.
  • Foote, C. B.
  • Forrest, G. H.
  • Frary, T. C., M.D.
  • Gallagher, James F.
  • Gammon, Robert
  • Gilbert, Charles
  • Granlund, Abraham
  • Green, C. F.
  • Green, William
  • Hagaman, M. G.
  • Harrrington, Isaac
  • Harris, Byron A.
  • Harris, G. S.
  • Harris, M. C.
  • Harris, W. B.
  • Hawley, L. R.
  • Hawley, William B.
  • Haworth, John
  • Hendershott, William
  • Houser, John
  • Howard, J. A.
  • Howell, Welburn
  • Hughes, John G.
  • Hull, J. W.
  • Hunter, F. W.
  • Hutchinson, H. C.
  • Illsley, Fred F.
  • Isecke, Charles
  • James, G. W.
  • Jenkins, John W.
  • Jones, Samuel T.
  • Judkins, Elisha D.
  • Kanawyer, J. J.
  • Keffer, William P.
  • Kelley, D. E.
  • Kennedy, J. H., M.D.
  • Kernohan, Robert
  • Kindlie, Oliver C.
  • King, William
  • Kirby, Lindsay
  • Kneen, C. O.
  • Leachman, Joseph E.
  • Lewis, David R.
  • Lewis, William T.
  • Lister, Joseph B.
  • Logan, F. B.
  • Long, Cyrus J.
  • Lundy, C. A.
  • Lynch, Jay
  • McCabe, C. A.
  • McCalpin, Orange
  • McFall, William
  • McKeliar, Douglas
  • Malone, Albert H.
  • Malone, Lewis E.
  • Marks, Martha J.
  • Marks, William H.
  • Marsilliot, Julia
  • Megginson, James
  • Milam, Joseph S.
  • Mills, J. A.
  • Mochel, Charles H.
  • Mochel, G. L., Jr.
  • Montgomery, William H.
  • Montgomery, William J., M.D.
  • Morris, William W.
  • Morse, A.
  • Oliver, E.
  • Owsley, Henry
  • Palmer, James
  • Parker, G. A.
  • Perkins, Alva H.
  • Peterson, Peter
  • Plummer, Casper
  • Rafferty, Joseph
  • Rash, John
  • Rash, W. A.
  • Rauch, John W.
  • Reed, William G.
  • Reuck, Theodore
  • Rice, H. C.
  • Richardson, George R.
  • Robison, Andrew M.
  • Robison, James M.
  • Robinson, Thomas W.
  • Ruark, John M.
  • Ruark, Thomas
  • Scott, Harmon
  • Seeley, Charles H.
  • Shaner, W. J.
  • Shannon, Thomas William
  • Shields, Charles H.
  • Stallcop, William B.
  • Steen, J. E.
  • Stephens, E.
  • Stiles, Charles T,
  • Strain, Dudley
  • Sumpter, Alexander, Jr.
  • Suttie, William
  • Swezea, Smith W.
  • Swinney, Green
  • Teale, E. G.
  • Tomlinson, I. J.
  • Trescott, David L.
  • Troyer, A. E.
  • Truax, Charles E.
  • Ward, Charles
  • Ward, Thomas
  • Weissenfels, J. A.
  • Welch, D. T.
  • Wheeler, N. A.
  • Wilson, George D.
  • Wilson, Samuel L.
  • Wilson, W. E.
  • Woodward, Albert C.
  • Zemel, Dirk
  • Zumwalt, D. B.

Source: Gilbert, Frank T. Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon. Portland, Or.: Printing House of A.G. Walling, 1882.

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