Biography of Isac McClanahan, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: McClanahan, Bonett, Butt.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 342

Isaac McClanahan

The son of Isaac and Sarah McClanahan, born on March 4, 1833, near Munice,
Indiana, he spent his early years on the farm with his father, also attending
school a portion of each year. When he had attained the age of nineteen he was
allured by the tales of the fertile Willamette valley to cross the plains with
an ox team to Portland, this state. The following spring he went with pack
horses to Yreka, California, thence to Redding's diggings in Shasta county,
and took up mining there until 1858, when he went to the Fraser river region,
also in quest of nature's hidden treasures, but what success attended his
efforts we are not told; but soon afte rwe find him in Portland, and until
1862 he tilled the soil on a farm near that city. At that date he went to
Tillamook bay, and in the following summer he went to the Clark's creek mines
near Bridgeport, where he mined and kept hotel until 1867,then sold his
property. In 1871 he bought the property where he now lives, about one mile
southeast from Hereford, and his thrift and industry have enabled him to add
to its acreage until he has one section of fine hayland that is well watered
and forms one of the finest stock ranches in the whole county. He is very
skillful in handling it, having it well improved and gaining sufficient hay
therefrom to support a large herd of cattle.

The marriag eof Mr. McClanahan and Miss Annis, daughter of John and Catherine
(Bonett) Butt, was solemnized in Washington county, Oregon, November 13, 1859.

It is of note that in the Indian war of 1878 Mr. McClanahan, with some of his
friends, stood guard on a prominent point to keep the indians from stealing
their stock in the valley. The wily savages were too shrewd, however, for the
white men and succeeded in making quite a haul.