Biography of William G. Ayre, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Ayre, Garnsey

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 281

William G. Ayre

Mr. Ayre was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, England, on April 29, 1856, his
parents being Thomas and Mary E. Apperley (Garnsey) Ayre, the former a native
of Devonshire and the latter of Somerset. Tiverton is very notable on account
of its having been for many years represented in the house of Parliament by
Viscount Palmerston, the eminent English statesman, and from its being the
located of the celebrated Blundell's grammar school.

Our subject attended this institution seven or eight years, then wen to a
higher institution of learning and became a thorough Latin and Greek scholar.
In 1884 he crossed the ocean to America, but instead of trying to utilize his
education, he engaged in the very lucrative wool growing industry, with the
result that he is now the most extensive sheep man in the county, and one of
the largest in the state of Oregon. His residence and center of operations is
located one mile west of Express, where he has a very elegant home. He is
president of the Express Telegraph and Telephone Company.

In politics Mr. Ayre is a very strong Republican and a firm believer in
protection, but he is too independent a man to be firmly tied to any party and
always claims the right for himself to think independently on every
proposition affecting the public weal.

The father of our subject is dead, but his mother still lives near the hold
home in England, which has been established for some centuries.