Morrow-Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Dutton, William Parsons November 23, 1853 - July 21, 1924
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Page 361
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     WILLIAM PARSONS DUTTON, a worthy pioneer whose efforts proved a valuable 
contributing factor in the redemption of eastern Oregon, was successfully 
identified with ranching and mercantile interests during his active business 
career. He had reached the Psalmist's allotted span of three score years and 
ten when he passed away in Portland on the 21st of July, 1924, having been 
born November 23, 1853, at Mclndoe's Falls, Vermont. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Azro Dutton, are also deceased. The father was a merchant.

     William P. Dutton attended the public schools in the acquirement of an 
education and remained under the parental roof to the age of sixteen, when he 
made his way westward to the Pacific coast, locating in San Francisco, where 
for three years he was employed by N. Gray & Company, funeral directors. It 
was in 1872 that he came to Portland and soon afterward he formed a 
partnership for the conduct of a grocery business with 0. E. Farnsworth, a man 
from his home town in Vermont. Their establishment, located at the corner of 
First and Taylor streets, was destroyed in the great conflagration of 1873 and 
during the two succeeding years Mr. Dutton was variously engaged. In 1875 Mr. 
Dutton and his partner, Mr. Farnsworth, removed to what is now Morrow county, 
Oregon, locating on a small ranch situated nine miles from the present site of 
Heppner. After a brief period he disposed of his property and took up his 
abode in Heppner, where he accepted a clerkship in the Morrow-Heppner store. 
Subsequently he bought a few sheep and again engaged in ranching. In 1890 Mr. 
Dutton left Heppner to settle on his ranch, for he had always been interested 
in sheep raising and he gradually increased his flocks. After sixteen years' 
residence on the ranch he returned to Heppner and in 1912 came to Portland, 
where he spent the remainder of his life in honorable retirement save for the 
supervision of his interests in eastern Oregon. His labors were attended with 
a gratifying measure of prosperity, enabling him to spend the evening of life 
in well earned ease.

     On the 17th of May, in 1883, Mr. Dutton was united in marriage to Ida May 
Hallock, daughter of Oliver H. Hallock, who opened the first drug store in 
Heppner. He also figured prominently in community affairs and was chosen the 
second postmaster of the town. Mr. Dutton gave his political allegiance to the 
republican party and fraternally was affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. 
A home-loving man, he found his greatest pleasure at his own fireside, and his 
death brought deep bereavement to his life companion. His splendid personal 
qualities endeared him to all with whom he came in contact and he enjoyed an 
enviable reputation as a prominent and highly respected citizen. His widow 
makes her home at 516 East Fifteenth street, north, in Portland.

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