Biography of David Magill, 1902, Grant Co., Oregon
Surnames: Magill, Office

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 454

DAVID MAGILL

Brown county, Kansas, is the native place of David, and there he passed the
initial four years of his existence after his birth, which occured in 1860.
Then he was taken by his parents to Polk county across the plains with ox
teams - thus did the hardy pioneers of the last century brave the dangers and
endure the hardships and deprivations of a new country, far from civilization
and peopled with savages. His parents were Caleb W. and Nancy Magill, the
father living now in California, and the mother haing passed to the rewards of
another world, her remains being buried in the Willamette valley. At the age
of twenty, our subject came to this county, and soon thereafter took a
homestead where he still resides, one mile northwest of Izee. He has added to
the original holdings until his estate is now over five hundred acres. This is
well improved and he raises the ordinary products of the soil in this region,
but his attention is largely devoted to raising cattle. He has some fine herds
and prosperity has attended his faithful endeavors.

The marriage of Mr. Magill and Miss Lona, daughter of R. V. Office, was
solemnized in 1884, and they have become the parents of two children, Zella
and Arthur. Mr. Magill is a member of John Day Lodge, No. 103, A.O.U.W. He is
quite prominent in politics, being a potent factor at the conventions. He
allies himself with the Democrats, firming holding the stanch old principles
of Jefferson.