WILLIAM BYRON BARNES,

...living in Klamath Falls, has been active in political and fraternal circles us well as in business affairs. At one time he was quite extensively engaged in stock-raising and is still the owner of valuable timber claims in the state. At the present writing he is serving for the second term as sheriff of the county, his reelection being proof of the confidence reposed in him and of the excellent record which he made as an official during his first term. He was born in Bridgeport, Mono county, California, May 14, 1865, his parents being James A. and Mary J. (Patterson) Barnes, both of whom were natives of Ohio. They were reared and married in Birmingham, Iowa, and in 1862 came to California, crossing the plains with horse teams. The father died in Modoc county, California, in 1898, when about fifty-six years of age. his birth having occurred in 1842. The mother resides with her son Hiram at Kelseyville, Lake county. California. The father had farming interests in Modoc county at the time of his death. In early days he was a freighter and engaged in teaming for many years. In his family were five children: Hiram, of Kelseyville; Frank, of Summer Lake, Oregon; William Byron; Marion, living in Lakeview, Oregon; and Emma, who died in May. 1891. William B. Barnes was reared in Bridgeport to the age of nineteen years, when the family removed to Modoc county. Later he went to Summer Lake and there engaged in the stockraising business until he came to Klamath Falls in 1904. Here he conducted the American Hotel until about 1908. when he was elected sheriff of the county, in which position he is now serving for the second term. He has always voted with the republican party and has filled a number of local offices, also taking an active part in the organization work of the party. For two years he served as assessor of Lake county, Oregon, and for two years was deputy sheriff of Modoc county, California. He has frequently been a delegate to party conventions and has served repeatedly on election boards. While he has disposed of his large ranch in Lake county he still owns timber claims but devotes the greater part of his time and attention to his official duties.

In 1885 Mr. Barnes was married to Miss Tilly McDowell, a native of Missouri, who was reared in Oregon and California and is a daughter of Mrs. Flavia McDowell, who has been postmistress at Summer Lake for many years. The four children of this marriage are: Marion, who is acting as deputy sheriff; Golda, the wife of Vernon Houston, of Klamath Falls; Hazel, who is in the sheriff's office; and Zeddie.

Mr. Barnes is a self-made man. He had little opportunity for acquiring an education and whatever he has won or enjoyed in life has been the result of his own efforts. In the early days he engaged in teaming from Lakeview, Oregon, to Redding, California, for four or live years and also in logging in Shasta county, California, with a twelve horse team for one season before he went into the cattle business. The necessity of providing for his own support and earning his living wherever he could find the opportunity prevented him from having a home until after his marriage. This brought him into contact with many rough characters and the knowledge which he gained in that class of service proved valuable to him in the discharge of his duties as sheriff. He has made an excellent record in office especially in the capture of cattle and horse thieves whom he has followed as far east as the Missouri river, bringing to punishment various men of this class who had been stealing in the northwest for twenty years. His work in this connection has been valuable to the community and his record as sheriff is one well worthy of praise.

The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912: Joseph Gaston - V4 1912 S J Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago  Page 641

HENRY SNOWGOOSE

...is the owner of one hundred acres of land on the Klamath river, adjoining Keno, of which half is under cultivation, and in addition to raising the cereals best adapted to the soil and climate he has given considerable attention to live-stock interests, making a specialty of the breeding of jacks. He dates his residence here from 1891. He was born in Parke county, Indiana, September 8, 1842. a son of Henry and Selma (Wendel) Snowgoose, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they were reared and married. They came to the United States in 1839, settling in Indiana, where both died. The father had devoted his life to merchandising. The only survivor of the family is Henry Snowgoose, his sister Louisa, who was his junior, having died in early life.

Henry Snowgoose resided in Indiana until twenty-one years of age, devoting his time largely to the acquirement of an education and to the work of the fields. He began teaching when twenty years of age and after a year went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he entered the Iron City Commercial College, from which in due time he was graduated. For about twenty-five years he successfully engaged in teaching in the district schools of Iowa, proving himself a capable educator who imparted clearly and readily to others the knowledge that he had obtained. In 1891 he came to Keno, where he has since resided. He owns one hundred acres adjoining the town and lying along the Klamath river. Of this he has about fifty acres under the plow and his methods of farming are modern and progressive. He makes a specialty of raising jacks, having brought a carload here from Iowa when he came. He also conducts a feed stable and he has a boat-landing at his place. In addition to his other property he owns four city lots and two dwellings and his realty possessions are the visible evidence of his life of thrift and energy.

In Iowa, in 1865. Mr. Snowgoose was married to Miss Sarah Frances Taylor, a native of Indiana, who died in Iowa in 1868. leaving two children: Daniel, whose home is in Jerome, Arizona; and John, living in Mono county, California. In Iowa, in 1871, Mr. Snowgoose was again married, his second union being with Amanda Perkins, a native of New York. They have one son, Charles, of Klamath Falls.

Mr. Snowgoose was reared in the faith of the democratic party but afterward became a populist and is now independent. He has served for three terms as justice of the peace and for six years held that office in Iowa. His decisions were strictly fair and impartial and he has made a most creditable record in this connection. Laudable ambition prompted him to come to the new and growing Pacific coast country, where he believed that better opportunities could be secured, Gradually he has worked his way upward undeterred by obstacles and difficulties in his path and his energy and persistency of purpose have featured largely in the attainment of the success which is now his.

Good, Rachel Applegate. History of Klamath County, Oregon : Its resources and its people, illustrated

Klamath Falls, Or.: unknown, 1941, Pages 111-112

EDWARD KELLER

...is of that class who recognize and utilize opportunities and in so doing contribute to public prosperity as well as to individual success. He has been the chief promoter of various enterprises and interests which featured prominently in the growth and upbuilding of this state and he never falters in the accomplishment of any task to which he sets himself, if success may be gained by persistent endeavor and honorable effort, tie lives at New Pine Creek and is the treasurer of the Pine Creek Water Company, also president of the Eureka Mining 4 Milling Company and a stockholder in several of the banks of this district. He has not always been a resident of the far west, although he has ever resided west of the Mississippi. His birth occurred in Buchanan county. Iowa, January 10. 1858, his parents being Morris and Crecensia (Gruman) Kellor, both of whom were natives of Germany, born in 1814 and 1816 respectively. They were reared and married in that country and with the desire to enjoy better business opportunities came to the United States in 1840, settling first in Wisconsin. They were afterward pioneers of Iowa, removing thither about the time when the state was admitted to the Union. In 1866 they went to Nebraska and in 1882 became residents of Alameda county, California, where their last days were passed, the mother dying about 1895 and the father in 1899. The latter had long been a farmer and in early life was a cabinet-maker. In his family were nine sons, of whom one died at the age of fifteen years, while eight are now living. He also had two daughters. The living are: B. H., a resident of Columbus, Nebraska; John, of Richland, Nebraska; Christine, the widow of Henry Foster, of Clearwater, Nebraska; J. J., of Newport, Nebraska; H. W., living in David City, Nebraska; Richard, whose home is in Oakland, California; M. J., of Seattle, Washington'; Amelia, the wife of C. M. Taylor, of New Pine Creek; Edward, of this review; and Albert, of Alaska.

Edward Keller remained with his parents until 1881. In 1877 the family went to the Black Hills of Dakota and later the parents came to the coast, Mr. Keller joining them the following year. He resided in San Francisco for ten years and then came to New Pine Creek, where he has since made his home. He performed the different services incident to the development of the ranch when at home and after starting out independently in life he worked with cattle for two years. After his arrival on the coast he engaged in clerking in a store in Alameda. Subsequent to coming to New Pine Creek he engaged in merchandising here for three years and in 1893 he entered the flour milling establishment, of which he took personal charge in 1895. This has been his principal activity since and he has developed a large trade, for he manufactures flour according to modern processes and the excellence of his product insures a ready sale. In various other fields, too, his labors have constituted an element for public progress here. In 1905 he became the first president of the California & Oregon Light, Heat & Power Company and has since remained its chief executive officer, giving his entire attention to its interests during the first year of its existence. He was one of five men who put up the first telephone system here, called the Lakeview & New Pine Creek Electric Company, Inc. Mr. Keller was one of the directors but later disposed of his interest in the business. He is the treasurer and was one of the incorporators of the Pine Creek Water Company and since its incorporation has been president of the Eureka Mining & Milling Company. He was one of the original stockholders in the First National Bank of Lakeview and the Lakeview Savings Bank and is still connected with those institutions. His investments in property, too, have been extensive. He has one hundred and twenty acres of timber and three hundred and seventy acres of farm land in Goose lake valley and he raises more grain than any other man in the valley. He also has one of the pleasant homes here, which is situated in the east side of the village, at the foothills of the mountains, near his mill, the power for which is generated by the water from New Pine creek.

In 1892 Mr. Keller was united in marriage to Miss Sarah M. Dick, who was born in Mono county, California, in 1874, a daughter of Morris Dick, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Keller have three children, Richard, Elsie and Theresa, all born in California, near New Pine Creek. The state line runs through this town but Mr. Keller's home is on the Oregon side. It is a beautiful and attractive residence, which he erected in 1906. He owns here seventy-four acres, on which stand his home and his mill. A part of the tract is on the mountain side, while a portion is within the corporation limits of the city. Mr, Keller is a republican but has never held public office, always declining to accept positions of political preferment. He recognizes what is necessary in town building and in his business career has labored to anticipate and meet the needs of the public. At all times he is actuated by a spirit of loyalty to the community at large and yet is not without that laudable ambition which is ever the spur to industry, causing a man to push beyond the point to which he has already attained and reach the heights of success.

Good, Rachel Applegate. History of Klamath County, Oregon : Its resources and its people, illustrated

Klamath Falls, Or.: unknown, 1941, Pages 405-406

GEORGE RITER

...is one of the well known business men of Roseburg, where he is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business, representing The West Coast Life Insurance Company of San Francisco, of which he is district manager.

He was born in Pike county, Illinois, March 31, 1856, and is a son of Casper and Christine (Shear) Riter, both of whom were natives of Ohio. They celebrated their marriage in Illinois, to which state they had moved with their parents when they were children. The father was by occupation a farmer and, after his wedding, first located in Pike county, Illinois, and in 1871, removed to Kansas, from which state he, some time later, went to Utah, and from there to Denver, Colorado, where he continued to live until the time of his death, which occurred in 1907, at the age of seventy-nine years.

George Riter was reared in his parents' home, and received his elementary education in the public schools of Illinois and Kansas. At the age of twenty years, he went to the San Juan country, Colorado. After a time, he went north where he engaged in mining at Black Hawk., and Central City, Colorado, where he took up the work of amalgamation and milling, at the old Winnebago mine, under Professor John Terry. After completing the required course, he was graduated as amalgamator of gold ores. Immediately after his graduation, he went to Silver Cliff, where horn silver had just been found. After remaining at Silver Cliff one winter, he went to the scene of the Leadville excitement, remaining there a year. Here he engaged in mining on Friar hill and then returned to the San Juan country, where he engaged in mining in the vicinity of Silverton. He then went to New Mexico and Arizona, and then returned to Colorado.

During all the time spent in his travels as above cited, he was engaged in the mining business. He crossed Arizona on a mule, with pack animals, twice before there was a railroad across the territory. From Colorado he went to the Wood river country in Idaho, and was there engaged in mining nearly three years, after which he went to the Okanagon district in Okanagon county, Washington, and later to British Columbia, where he was identified with the mining industry for ten years. He then went to the Thunder Mountain district in Idaho, during the gold excitement at that place, being among the first to go over the Dixie trail, and making a second trip over the Warren trail, after which he went into the Bitter Root mountains, in what was known in early days as the Moose City district. He then went to Grants Pass, for a few weeks, and from there to Goldfield, Nevada, where he remained for some time in the mining districts of that state.

After leaving Nevada he went to California, and was identified in mining in Inyo and Mono counties and still has an interest in the Blind Spring Hill Company, which is the owner of the oldest mining property in California. He is also the owner of mining interests in British Columbia and Idaho, and is a stockholder in the Oregon & Washington Underwriters, an incorporated insurance agency of Portland, Oregon. On leaving Enyo county, California, he purchased a team and started overland for Roseburg, Oregon, traveling along the Owens river for a short distance, and crossing the desert and Pummice plains, to Mono lake, at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Thence he proceeded to Bridgeport and after a few days' travel crossed over into Nevada by way of Garden City, Carson City, Steamboat Springs, Reno, Lovelocks, and old Winnemuckka, Willow Point, Quinn River bridge, and crossed the Nevada-Oregon boundary line at Denio.

Many times on the trip, he was obliged to load the wagon with water and feed for his horses for a two-day trip through the hot sands and Alkali flats which lie between the watering places. From Denio, Oregon, he continued to Andrews, West Fall, Malheur. and Baker City, Oregon, where he rested his team for a few days and again started out for Roseburg, by way of Sumpter, Austin, Prairie City, and down the John Day river, traveling the old military road to Mitchell, and across the Blue mountains, and down Mill creek to Prineville, in Crook county. where he again rested his faithful team for two days.

After leaving Prineville, he continued hi? journey by way of the Chutes river, and the town of the Sisters, and crossed the lava capped range of the Cascades, near the snowcapped mountain of the Three Sisters, in a blinding snow storm. Then he descended the lava-covered west slope to Lost creek, and then to the beautiful McKenzie, and on down the river to Eugene and turned toward Roseburg, by way of Cottage Grove, London Springs, and the Shoestring route to Oakland, and on to beautiful Roseburg. In the month of October, 1908, having traveled over two thousand miles by team, he arrived in that city.

Mr. Riter was united in marriage, August 22, 1909, to Mrs. Marie Seldon Flint. Mr. Riter gives his political allegiance to the' republican party, and is just the same age as that great organization. He has never been at any time an office seeker. He was made a Mason at Silverton, Colorado, in 1883, in San Juan Lodge, No. 33. Afterward he affiliated with Laurel Lodge, No. 13, of Lewiston, Idaho, and he and his wife are members of the Roseburg Chapter, No. 8, of the Order of Eastern Star. Mr. and Mrs. Riter are members of the Presbyterian church.

History Of Idaho: By Hiram T French, M S, Volume III - The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York, 1914, Pages 692-693

ARTHUR M BOWEN

This is a practical age and today, more than ever before, whatever their vocation or calling, men are measured by what they accomplish. "Efficiency" is indeed the slogan of the hour and life a constant measure of strength, a contest where ability, force and character are the determining factors. Arthur M. Bowen, of Twin Falls, a young and native westerner, came to Idaho in 1904 and in less than a decade has become one of the leading men of the state, both in his profession of law and as a factor in the public life of the commonwealth.

He was born in Mono county, California. April 26, 1876, and when a small boy accompanied his parents to Nevada, where he lived until about eighteen years of age and acquired his education. After leaving school he worked for a time in the mines of Nevada and Utah and later taught school in the latter state. In the meantime he had begun to prepare for law and so assiduously and intelligently directed his energies to that accomplishment that at the age of twenty-three he had qualified for the profession and was formally admitted to the bar in 1899. He began the practice of law in Eureka, Utah, and came from there to Blackfoot, Idaho, in 1904, where he remained three years. The next four years he was a resident of Hailey, Idaho, and from there he came to Twin Falls in 1911. He has been very successful in his chosen profession and stands high at the bar of Idaho, as is evidenced by his nomination in 1912 for the office of justice of the supreme court of Idaho. In line with his professional interests he affiliates with the Twin Falls County Bar Association and is a member of the American Bar Association. As a Democrat he has long taken an active interest in political affairs. While a resident of Hailey, Blaine county, he served as a member of the state senate during the tenth session of the state legislature and at that time supported both the direct primary law and the local option law and took a strong stand in favor of an effective employers' liability law. In fact, all measures that had for their true aim the progress of the state and the welfare of its citizens received his unreserved commendation and stanch support. He was a Democratic candidate for congress in 1910 and, as previously stated, has now been nominated as a justice of the supreme court of Idaho. His whole life has been spent in the West and he is well acquainted with the conditions and advantages of the various states of this section. From this knowledge and experience he asserts his firm belief that Idaho offers more opportunities for men and women of push and industry, of vigor and ambition, than does any other state of the Union.

Mr. Bowen was married at Salt Lake City, Utah, February 12, 1898, to Miss Elizabeth Bernhart, a daughter of Mrs. W. B. Kennedy, of Eureka, Utah. One son and three daughters have been b9rn to their union, namely: Theodore E., Phoebe, Elizabeth and Nellie.

Fraternally Mr. Bowen is associated with the Masonic order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Woodmen of the World. In the Independent Order of Odd Fellows he has "passed all the chairs" of his local lodge and is a member of the grand lodge of that order. He is also a member of the Twin Falls Commercial Club.

History Of Idaho: By Hiram T French, M S, Volume III - The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago & New York, 1914, Pages 948-949

HON. JOHN W. MOORE.

No history of San Joaquin county would be complete without mention of Hon. John W. Moore, one of its best known and most popular citizens. He is conducting extensive agricultural interests on Union Island, and, moreover, is representing his district in the general assembly, to which position he was called by his fellow townsmen, who, recognizing his worth and ability, have made him their leader in matters of legislation. His public career shows that the trust reposed in him has not been misplaced, for his official service has been characterized by unfaltering loyalty to the welfare and best interests of his district.

One of California's native sons, John W. Moore was born in Butte county on the 15th of June, 1855. His parents are Lucian B. and Matilda (Spalding) Moore, the former a native of Penobscot county, Maine, and the latter of Kentucky. The family history has it that one of the ancestors in the paternal line came to America in the Mayflower, and the progenitor of the Spalding family arrived about thirty-two years after the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. Henry A. Moore, the great-grandfather of John W. Moore, was a valiant soldier of the Revolutionary war, and one of the maternal ancestors, familiarly called Jack Spalding by his many friends, was also a member of the Continental army. He was connected with the Spalding who, with two other soldiers of the Revolutionary war, challenged Major Andre at Tarrytown and found concealed upon him the papers which had been given him by Benedict Arnold, and which were to betray the American forces into the hands of the British.

Lucian B. Moore, the father, came to California from Maine in 1849, making his way around Cape Horn on a sailing vessel, which dropped anchor in the harbor of San Francisco on the i5th of December. For several years he engaged in mining for gold and was quite successful in his search for the precious metal. During the '505 he served as Chinese tax collector in Marysville. Yuba county, California. He was very prominent in local political circles in that county, and was also a recognized leader in state politics. He gave his political allegiance to the Republican party, strongly championed its measures, and did effective service in its behalf. In his business career he likewise displayed qualities of leadership, and his marked enterprise, keen sagacity and unfaltering diligence made him a prosperous citizen. He died in the year 1882, and the state thereby lost one of its honored and valuable pioneer citizens.

John W. Moore was reared in Yuba county, California, living with his maternal grandparents until fourteen years of age, at which time he began earning his own living at the old Jefferson mine in that county. He followed mining there for a short time, and subsequently went to Gold Run in Placer County, California, where he continued his search for gold. Subsequently, however, he engaged in silver mining for a number of years at Virginia City, Nevada, and later turned his attention to mining and contracting at Bodie in Mono county, California, where he resided for some time. On the expiration of that period he came to Stockton and was connected with the Stockton Independent, a local newspaper, for three years. At the present writing, in 1904, he is engaged in general agricultural pursuits on Union Island, having located here in 1888, and through the intervening period he has successfully carried on general farming. He is most progressive in His methods of agriculture, using the latest improved machinery and putting to the practical test the most modern ideas concerning farm methods.  In all that he does he is eminently practical, and his efforts have resulted in winning for him a position of prominence among the leading representatives of this great department of business activity in San Joaquin county.

On the 9th of May, 1877, occurred the marriage of Hon. John W. Moore and Miss Susanna Hooper, of Bodie, California, and to them have been born four children, but only two are living: John W. and Hazel. Fraternally Mr. Moore is connected with the Native Sons of the Golden West, being one of the oldest members of the lodge in Stockton. He also affiliates with Morning Star Lodge, F. & A. M., and with the Elks Lodge in Stockton. In politics he is an unfaltering Republican, and for years has taken an active and helpful part in promoting the interests of the Republican party in San Joaquin county. His name is associated with important legislative measures. On the 6th of November, 1902, he was elected to represent the twenty-fourth district of California in the general assembly for a term of two years. He introduced a bill for increasing the salaries of the attendants in the various asylums of the state, and for state institutions, but withdrew same, having compromised the matter with the governor and the president of the board of the Lunacy Commission, whereby an increase of twenty percent was guaranteed them, which was satisfactory to all concerned. Conjointly with Hon. August E. Muenter he prepared and secured the passage of a bill for the purpose of securing the right of way for a canal to carry off the flood waters of the Mormon slough in San Joaquin county. Great benefit has resulted to the community through this measure, which passed both houses and became a law.

Mr. Moore is widely and favorably known throughout the community, his abilities well fitting him for leadership in political, business and social life. The terms progress and patriotism might be considered the keynotes of his character, for throughout his career he has labored for the improvement of every line of business or public interest with which he has been associated, and at all times has been actuated by a fidelity to his country and her welfare.

A History Of  The New California: It's Resources and People - Edited by Leigh H Irvine, Illustrated. Vol II, The Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1905 - Pages  1020-1021

CLARENCE MARION KIRKPATRICK

Homesteading on 120 acres northwest of Malin, Clarence Marion Kirkpatrick is proud of the ranch and home he has built up since he took over the land in 1904, planting barley, wheat and rye for his first crops. He was born in Mono County, California, June 10, 1881, to Abe and Belle (Barnes) Kirkpatrick. His father was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, in 1858, and died in Iowa, in 1895. His mother, also a native of Iowa, was born in Van Buren County in 1857, and, in 1910, came to Klamath County to make her home with the four of her seven children that reside here. She passed away at Klamath Falls, January 19, 1937. Completing his schooling, in 1896, Clarence Kirkpatrick engaged in farm work in Iowa, until coming to Klamath County in 1900, and worked on the Steve Low ranch four years before acquiring his homestead. Since the day that he first broke the soil an his own land, Mr. Kirkpatrick has grown crops of alfalfa, clover seed and grain but, about 1928, started raising potatoes. Having purchased 92 acres in addition to the original 120, he now has it all under irrigation. Water for most of the land is provided through his own pumping plant which he installed more than 20 years ago. When he needs relaxation from ranch work, he goes fishing, a sport in which he is always interested. He is a Republican, and a member of the Malin Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Kirkpatrick was married October 9, 1907, in Klamath Falls to Lyda Turner who was born in this city, October 9, 1888, a daughter of Abraham Turner, born in London, England, March 29, 1837, and came to the United States while a small boy, crossing the continent to settle in California. He and his wife, Elizabeth (Webb) Turner, born in Stockton, California, in 1861, moved to Klamath Falls in 1888. Mr. Turner died at his home here in 1919, and Mrs. Turner passed away in Klamath Falls in 1938. Mrs. Kirkpatrick is primarily a homemaker and mother, is a member of the Klamath Falls Classmates Club, and past president and secretary of the Helping Hand Society of Malin. Five children were born to the Kirkpatrick's : Elizabeth Bell (Mrs. Matt Obenchain), born in Klamath Falls, March 2, 1910; Elizia Kiziah (Mrs. Archie McDonald), born in Malin, November 27, 1912; Orville Abraham, born June 5, 1918, married at Klamath Falls, November 7, 1937, to Emma Gwendolyn Enloe who was born at Marshfield, Oregon, November 13, 1919; George Walter, born on ranch December 23, 1920, died February 26, 1935; Clarence Marion, born in Klamath Falls, May 25, 1923.

The Kirkpatrick's, sincere, friendly people, highly regarded by their neighbors, attribute a large portion of their success and contentment to the good-will and help of Klamath County neighbors, as well as to their years of work.

LESTER F. KIRKPATRICK

It would be hard to find a man more closely identified with the business life and growth of Klamath Falls than Lester F. Kirkpatrick, who came here as a young man when the city was in its infancy. Born in Mono County, California, April 26, 1883, he is the son of Abe and Belle (Barnes) Kirkpatrick, the father a native of Keokuk, Iowa, and a blacksmith by trade, who in the early Eighties brought his family to Mono County, California, where he worked at his trade for a few years and at the same time took up mining for a year or two during the boom days of Bodie, California. In 1885, he moved with his family to Lake County, Oregon, locating about twenty miles south of Lakeview on the Willow Ranch, and there opened a blacksmith shop. In 1890, he returned to Iowa, to be followed later by his family, and remained there until his death, in 1895. Belle Barnes Kirkpatrick was born in Van Buren County, Iowa, the daughter of Hiram Barnes, whose birth occurred in 1818 in Ohio. In 1850, he crossed the plains via the overland route to Sacramento in the same train of emigrants with L. V. Loomis, a well known journalist who kept an accurate log of the trip that was printed in book form for historical record. Hiram Barnes crossed the plains for one purpose to make $2,000 to pay off a mortgage on his farm. He was successful in this and safely made the return trip. Belle Barnes and Abe Kirkpatrick were married in Iowa, and of their family four sons and one daughter are living, four in Klamath County ; Clarence M., of Malin ; Harry B., and Lester F., in Klamath Falls, and Alma (Mrs. William Layman) of Merrill. In 1910 the mother came to Klamath Falls and resided here until her death, in January, 1937.

Lester F. Kirkpatrick received his education in the grade and high schools of Van Buren County, Iowa, and his first job was with the E. H. Skinner firm of Birmingham, Iowa, where he worked for five years, learning the dry goods business. In 1903, he came to Cottage Grove, Oregon, and worked for Ben Larch and Company, dry-goods and merchandise. On January 20, 1904, he came to Klamath Falls with a brother, Claude, now deceased, and on that trip they were the only two passengers for it was the last stage trip between Ashland and Keno, the railroad between Thrall and Pokegama having been just completed.

The next year, in 1905, the young pioneer bought a couple of town lots in Klamath Falls, to take care of the horses owned by L. F., Clarence and Claude Kirkpatrick, who had entered the freight business, hauling freight to the new railroad terminal at Pokegama for two years. In 1906 the three Kirkpatrick brothers hauled the first rails for the horsecar street railway in Klamath Falls. During this period they graded the streets in the Hot Springs district for the Klamath Development Company. About this time Lester F. worked in the old Schallock and Daggett Grocery Store, and later with Levi F. Willits for a couple of years. In 1907 he bought the lot and building where now is located the Castleberry Drug Store. He worked for the George R. Hurn Hardware Company in 1911. The next few years were varied ; he moved to Medford and was employed in the Medford Hardware Company, and later with the Medford Furniture and Hardware Company; then lived for a short time in San Jose, California, where his son was born. In 1914 he purchased an interest in the Dunsmuir Mercantile Company at Dunsmuir, California ; in 1916 he was connected with Shulers General Merchandise firm at Mt. Shasta City, California.

On January 1, 1917, Mr. Kirkpatrick again centered his interests in Oregon after a six-year interval of gaining wide experience in the mercantile business and purchased the Fort Klamath Hotel, in Fort Klamath. The following year he bought an interest in the Merrill Mercantile Company at Merrill, living there three years. From 1920 to 1926, he was employed by the Klamath Clothing Company at Klamath Falls, and from 1928 to 1929, was employed with the old Brownsville Woolen Store of Klamath Falls. In 1930 he took over the lease of this company and opened a store under the name of Kirkpatrick and Kennett, operating it with Webb Kennett until 1933, when he purchased the Kennett interest to operate as Kirkpatrick and Reeder, sold out his interest in the establishment in 1939 to Dick Reeder, thus ending an active career as one of Klamath Falls' leading merchants during the years when this growing city needed men of vision and enterprise. Another of his successful enterprises was the purchasing of old houses that he moved to his own lots, remodeled into apartments and sold.

The marriage of Mr. Kirkpatrick, in Klamath Falls, December 10, 1907, united him with Lola Nelson, born in Spangle, Washington, April 19, 1882, the daughter of John R. and Mary S. Nelson, pioneer settlers in Oregon who located in Langell Valley in 1900, on what is now the Campbell Ranch. Mrs. Kirkpatrick received her schooling in Spangle and later in the Sacred Heart Academy in Medford. She has been notably active in P.T. A. work, is a Rebekah, and a member of the Oregon Mothers. One son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Donald C., in San Jose, California, January 1, 1918, now attending the University of Oregon, Class of 1941.

Fraternally, Mr. Kirkpatrick is a charter member of both the Knights of Pythias and the Woodmen of the World in Klamath Falls, and is a member of the B.P.O. Elks, and of the Chamber of Commerce. During the World War he was chairman of the local Red Cross drive. In politics he is a Republican. He enjoys recreation in hunting and outdoor sports, and he recalls with amusement and pleasure the fun of the townspeople on early day boat excursions on Upper Klamath Lake. Mr. Kirkpatrick is known as one of Klamath Falls' most public-spirited men, with the interest of his home community coming first in his heart, and he has done his full share in the upbuilding of his city.

Good, Rachel Applegate: History of Klamath County, Oregon : its resources and its people, illustrated

Klamath Falls, Or.: unknown, 1941, Page 438 440- Kirkpatrick, Clarence & Lester

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