Biography of Stephen S. Pindell, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Pindell.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 362

Stephen S. Pindell, deceased

Mr. Pindell was born near Marathon, Clermont county, Ohio, in February, 1834,
and there passed his boyhood days. In 1852 he came to the coast, via the
isthmus, and immediately took up mining in Yreka and at Scott's Bar until
1860, and after that date he was in most of the prominent camps of the entire
northwest, having spent two years in the Kootenai district with his brother,
Reason Pindell, and there he owned a large ditch and did much active mining on
good claims. In 1871 he wintered in Walla Walla, being occupied in the
commercial establishment of the Adams Brothers, and the following year he came
to Sparta, Union county, now Baker county, and after mining for several years
in Maiden Gulch he formed a partnership with Edward Wilkinson, and for four
years thereafter they conducted a general store at Sparta. In the spring of
1883 the firm sold their entire interests at Sparta and Mr. Pindell moved to
Pine valley, and there started the first general store in the place. Later he
took as partner Robert A. Wilkinson, and soon thereafter he also took into the
firm Edward Wilkinson, brother of Robert, and the three operated the
establishment for ten years, and then the firm dissolved. They had one of the
best trades in that part of the county and were generally esteemed and
confided in by the people. Soon after this event Mr. Pindell repaired to a
place that is now named Carson and there opened a general mercantile house and
in the operation of the interests of this business he was constantly found
thereafter. He did a good business, and best of all he had the love and
confidence of every one in the community. His patrons were only limited by the
population.

On February 12, 1900, the messenger of death came to Mr. Pindell and summoned
him from the scenes of his home and cares of his business to the realities of
another than this. No man in the community was more esteemed and beloved than
was this worthy character. Upon the day of the funeral the weather was
exceedingly inclement, and at that time there had been a smallpox scare that
had scattered every public meeting for some time, but these things could not
hold back the throng of loving and mourning friends from assembling in a great
concourse and paying their respects to the memory of the deceased. Surely no
man of the county was ever followed to his tomb by more or sincerer friends.