Biography of Dow F. Shepardson, 1902, Baker Co., Oregon: Surnames: Shepardson, Wilson, Horfield, Swift.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 
1902 by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 325

Dow F. Shepardson

Born on October 4, 1857, at Mongo, Indiana, to Edmund G. and Catherine
(Wilson) Shepardson, he was there educated in the public schools, and also
received a fine training from his father in the commercial establishment that
he owned. At the age of twenty-three he came, by way of Kelton, Utah, to Baker
City, and there was engaged in various enterprises until June, 1901, when he
saw an opening at Unity for a general store, and he immediately put in a stock
of goods, and is now operating a good concern there, having in the meantime,
by careful attention to business and uniform geniality and uprightness,
secured a fine patronage, which is steadily increasing. He is already
increasing his stock, and the outlook is that in the near future he will have
to enlarge his capacities for the transaction of business.

Mr. Shepardson and Miss Lillie Horfield, the daughter of Mrs. A. B. Swift,
were married on October 12, 1898, and to them have been born two children: Iva
and Roy.