Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Geinger, Frederick January 16, 1851 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 476, 477

Frederick Geinger
	The worthy pioneer and prominent agriculturist whose name initiates 
this article is a man whose life of activity and enterprise on our western 
frontiers has been marked and faithful, and who has wrought for the 
development of the wilds of nature's domain with courage and assiduity. 
Acquiring, in his boyhood days, what education he might from the various 
schools where his lot was cast, he has since, by using with diligence the 
scraps of time between his arduous duties even in childhood, kept abreast of 
the times and made himself a potent factor in the world of progress.
	His birth occurred in Shelby county, Missouri, on January 16, 1851, 
where he remained for eleven years, and then crossed the plains with the rest 
of the family to the territory of Washington. They landed near Vancouver in 
November of the same year with their oxen in good shape, and finally settled 
at Shoalwater bay and commenced farming. Here the subject of this sketch 
learned the art of fishing for oysters and salmon, and followed it for four 
years and then went to logging for four years more. In 1871 he came to 
Umatilla county, settling near where Heppner now stands and commenced to raise 
stock, which occupation he followed for a decade. Since that time this 
territory has been included in Morrow county. After selling his stock he 
bought a threshing outfit and operated that for four years, when he settled 
down to farming until 1888. In this enterprise he was quite successful, 
operating several hundred acres, owning part and renting part. Selling out 
this place, he bought where he now lives, on Birch creek, three miles north of 
Pilot Rock and twelve south of Pendleton. Here he owns five hundred and sixty 
acres, upon which he raises grain hay, together with timothy and alfalfa for 
his stock. He owns over one hundred head of stock cattle, all fine Durham. He 
also buys beef cattle each fall and fattens them during the winter for the 
spring market. His fine ranch is embellished with the buildings necessary for 
carrying on this enterprise, in which his industry and wisdom are reaping 
flattering financial remuneration.
	He was married, at Pendleton, on July 10, 1882, to Miss Sarah J. Male, 
a native of New York, whose parents settled here in 1881. Three children have 
come to bless this union: Annie E., Arthur R., Flossie M., the two eldest one 
being in school. Mrs. Geinger was born September 22, 1866, receiving in the 
state of her nativity a good public-school education. Her parents, George and 
Martha Male, were agriculturists and came to California in 1881, and from 
there overland to this state, settling at Pettysville post office on Birch 
creek, near where Ione now stands, and are living there at the present time. 
Mr. Geinger is a member of Tent No. 27, K. O. T. M., in Pendleton. It is 
worthy of note that during the Bannock war he was freighting to The Dalles all 
of the time, and was never molested by the Indians once, the only night that 
he laid out on account of the redskins was that in which Pendleton was 
surrounded by them.


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.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 

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