Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Despain, Charles A. March 22, 1867 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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CHARLES A. DESPAIN
	A young business man of prominence among Umatilla’s force of gifted 
men, the man whose name is at the head of this article has already achieved a 
success in the management of one of the leading enterprises of the county, 
that presages a future career of brilliancy for him in the commercial world. 
Gifted and industrious, with a genial nature, while he is governed by the 
strictest moral integrity, he commands the respect and has won the confidence 
of all who have had to do with him, either in a social or business capacity.
	He was born in Lane county, to James T. and Lucinda Despain, on March 
22, 1867, and taken when but an infant to Visalia, California, with his 
mother, who sought her health in that place.  He remained there until her 
death, which occurred in 1872, and then was brought by his father to this 
county, where he was educated in the public schools until fourteen years of 
age.  After this he went to the Big Bend country with his father, continuing 
for one year, and then engaged with his uncle, Jerry Despain, to herd sheep.  
Two years were spent in this work, when he started to raising horses for 
himself, following it for five years, and then turned his attention to buying 
and selling cattle, with Spokane and Seattle as his headquarters, operating in 
this business for six years. At the end of this time he went to Montana, 
engaging in mining and freighting, and two years later accepted a position in 
Spokane on the fire department under Chief Mayer. From this position he came 
to Ukiah to take an interest in the shingle mill and hay baler owned by his 
brother. The following year he became partner in the entire business, the firm 
being known as Despain Brothers. 
	He was married in Ritzville, Washington, on December 4, 1890, to Miss 
Nellie Johnson, a native of Nevada, whose parents were pioneers to that state 
in a very early day. This union has been blessed by the advent of two 
children, Ethel A. and Jerry H., both in school in Ukiah. Mr. Despain 
affiliates with the I.O.O.F., Tribe No. 9, of Spokane. 


Additional Comments:
 An Illustrated History of Umatilla County by Colonel William Parsons and of 
Morrow County by W. S. Shiach with a brief outline of the early history of the 
State of Oregon.  W. H. Lever, Publisher  1902.


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