Biography of William E. Grace, 1898, Harney Co., Oregon
Surnames: Grace
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Morning Democrat, 20 May 1898 Illustrated Souvenir Edition, Baker City,
Baker Co., OR; Bowen & Small, Publishers

WILLIAM E. GRACE

It is perfectly natural to admire pluck and ambition in a man and this, no
doubt, is one reason why he whose name heads this sketch has won so many
friends during his residence in this state. He was born in jasper county,
Missouri, in 1856. Besides getting a public school education, he attended the
Rolla School of Mines and Metallurgy, at Rolla, Missouri. In 1880 he located
Oregon City, Oregon, where he was engaged for some time in a drug store.
Removing to Prineville, Crook county, he was appointed deputy sheriff under
Geo. Churchill and later was appointed deputy county clerk, and went to The
Dalles and made a complete transcript of all records effecting the realty of
Crook county, which was formed from Wasco in 1881. Returning he worked a year
for Howard & Baldwin, druggists, and in May, 1885, moved to Burns, Harney
county, then a portion of Grant, where he remained in the drug business until
December 1893. Having previously taken the junior course of pharmacy at the
California College of Pharmacy, during 1893 he took the senior course at the
Chicago College, graduating April 13. In 1889, at the time of the formation of
Harney county, he was appointed county clerk by Governor Pennoyer, and at the
first election held in that county in 1891, he was elected to fill the same
position. Shortly after locating here, which he did in December, 1893, he
built his present place of business, a handsome two-story brick, on Main
street, in which he conducts what is probably the neatest drug store in
Eastern Oregon. At the convention lately held int his city, he was nominated
by the union forces as their candidate for state representative. He has been a
life-long democrat, and as an evidence of his fitness for pubic office, we
will simply state that he was Eastern Oregon's candidate for state treasurer
at the democratic state convention held in Portland, but was defeated for
geographical reasons. Mr. Grace is a member of the Elks and Masons, in the
latter having taken the Knight Templar degree and the Mystic Shrine.