Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Edwards, Morgan G. January 11, 1866 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 365, 366

MORGAN G. EDWARDS
	Among the leading wool growers mention must be made of the subject of 
this sketch, whose career of industrious enterprise has placed him in a 
commanding position and given him the reward of large bands of fine sheep and 
a generous allowance of real estate.
	He was born near Martintown in Green county, Wisconsin, on January 11, 
1866, remaining there until he was twenty years of age.  During this time he 
received a good education in the schools of that vicinity, occupying the rest 
of his time in clerking in his father’s general store.  At the age above 
mentioned he turned toward the west and commenced the battle of life for 
himself.  His first location was at Echo, this county, where he commenced to 
herd sheep, following it for eight years continuously, thus gaining a thorough 
and practical knowledge of the business in all of its details.  It is the wise 
and careful attention to the details of sheep raising that brings success, 
such as has attended Mr. Edwards from the outset.  At the close of this 
novitiate service he entered into partnership with his brother, Thomas P., and 
together they have continued in sheep raising until the present.  When coming 
to this state they were possessed of the capital of courage and willingness to 
work.  From this they have steadily arisen until they own three thousand acres 
of fine land, and nearly four thousand head of well bred sheep.  They handle 
Merinos principally, using grade Oxford bucks.  The annual wool clip amounts 
to nine pounds per head.  Our subject is the manager of the stock on the 
place, while the brother attends to the ranch, which is the old Brad Owens 
place on Owens creek, while they have additional land on Bear creek.  In every 
respect this is a model sheep ranch.  They have all buildings usually needed 
with the addition of a fine lambing camp shed, one hundred feet square, with 
eight covered catch pens on the range, where all needing attention can be 
accommodated, thus saving a large percentage of lambs that would otherwise be 
lost.  When the bands started for the mountains in the spring of 1900 they had 
in increase of one hundred and three per cent of lambs of the entire band, a 
remarkable record for range sheep.
	Mr. Edwards, though a young man yet, has demonstrated what can be done 
by wisely attending to business, while his integrity and uprightness have won 
him many friends and he receives the respect and esteem of all, which is 
richly merited.


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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