Biography of Richard M. Garrett, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Garrett, Hart.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 360

Richard M. Garrett

Born in Sheridan county, Missouri, on June 10, 1834, he grew to early manhood
there, acquiring a common school education. When he became nineteen he yielded
to the promptings of his ambitious and daring spirit, which were summoning him
westward, and came out to Oregon. The next year he journeyed southward to
California, where he was engaged in freighting and packing into various mining
camps in the mountains for the ensuing eleven years, and during that time he
participated in the Modoc war, serving under General Crosby as a member of
Captain Ballard's company. In 1864 he returned to Oregon and engaged in
packing from Umatilla landing to various points in Idaho and Montana. In 1868
he settled on Powder river, where for a period of two years he followed
trapping and hunting, afterward taking a quarter section of land about ten
miles south of Baker City, and engaged in farming and stock raising. To this
dual occupation he has devoted his energies assiduously ever since, though his
present home consists of a quarter section other than that on which he first
settled, but close to it. He carries hay and vegetables, and keeps about forty
head of cattle and sixty heads of horses.

In Baker county, on April 2, 1876, our subject married Miss Louisa Hart, a
native of England.

During the Modoc war, above referred to, Mr. Garrett endured many hardships,
and his company sustained severe losses in several of the engagements in which
it participated.