Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Drumheller, Samuel August 23, 1864 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 372, 373

SAMUEL DRUMHELLER
	Possessed of fine executive ability and wisdom commensurate therewith, 
the man whose name heads this article has demonstrated by practical operations 
in this county his capabilities to handle large enterprises as well as his 
shrewd financiering in obtaining his vast holdings in this and adjoining 
counties.  
	He is a native of the occident, being born in Walla Walla, on August 
23, 1864, in which city he received a fine educational training, the primary 
part in the public schools and the completion in Whitman College.  His 
parents, Jesse and Martha A. (Maxson) Drumheller, are old pioneers of this 
valley: his father coming here as early as 1855, locating permanently in 1857.
	Samuel started for himself as a farmer and stock raiser, having 
followed that continuously since, although not to the exclusion of handling 
other large enterprises.  He first bought a farm on the Touchet and later came 
to this county, about 1890, and bought the farm where he now lives, at first 
one quarter section, but now increased to two hundred and sixty-five acres, 
eight miles southeast from Walla Walla.  In addition to this fine holding he 
has a mammoth estate of two thousand and two hundred acres north of Walla 
Walla, all excellent wheat land.  He tills one thousand acres where he lives.  
His home place is a model of good taste and thrift, being laid out with wisdom 
and improved in the most excellent manner, with an elegant residence, fine 
barns, and other substantial buildings and essentials for the operation of a 
first class farm.  
	The marriage of Mr. Drumheller and Miss Annie L. Reeser, daughter of 
Hon. William P. Reeser, occurred on July 2, 1895.  To them has been born one 
child, Lee R.  Mr. Drumheller devotes much attention to well bred stock, 
having some as fine specimens as are to be found in the county.  Although but 
just entering on the prime of life he has already made a brilliant success in 
the financial world that would do credit to one who had wrought for a 
lifetime, and if past achievements, wrought out by pure energy, skill and 
ability, coupled with sterling integrity, are sufficient grounds for presaging 
the future, we predict for this representative citizen triumphs in the days to 
come of such a nature and magnitude as will place him among the leading 
financiers of the west.


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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