Biography of James P. Denney, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Denney, Llewellyn, Jones, Caudel, Whelock, Cann ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access and not to be removed separately without written permission. ************************************************************************ Transcribed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: W. David Samuelsen - November 2001 ************************************************************************ An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 333 James P. Denney Our subject was born in Illinois on November 17, 1832 his parents being John and Martha (Llewellyn) Denney, natives of Tennessee. He accompanied them to Arkansas when quite young, and in that commonwealth he grew to manhood and received his educational discipline. When twenty-three years old he began the battle of life independently of parental guidance, and in 1856 he set out over the untrammeled highway of the prairie, and through the fastness of the mountains, to the Pacific coast. He came to a halt at a mining camp called Jamieson creek, in California, and in 1857 he went thence to the Sacramento valley, where the ensuing twenty-one years of his life were passed, his principal occupation being farming. At the end of that extended period he emigrated to southern Oregon, but not finding conditions there exactly to his liking, he soon came to Pine valley, arriving in 1880. Locating on a homestead about seven and a quarter miles northeast of Pine post office, he engaged in farming here, and to the cultivation and improvement of his land he has given his best energies ever since, compelling it by judicious tillage to yield the abundant harvests of which it is capable. He is a man who stands well in his community, being of unquestioned integrity and unusual force of character. On October 6, 1852, our subject married Miss Sarah Ann, daughter of John W. and Katie (Caudel) Jones, natives of Kentucky, and to this union seven children have been born, as follows: John; Martha L., wife of J. B. Whelock; George W.; Catherine, wife of James W. Cann, of Melrose, Oregon; Charles; Mary F., who died in 1897; and Zeno.