Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Gilfillin, Tom September 4, 1861 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 515, 516

Tom Gilfillin
	Among the leading and prosperous stockmen of Morrow county mention 
must be made of the gentleman whose name heads this article and whose life of 
quiet industry and enterprise has given him the competence that is the meed of 
honest effort, guided by sagacity and prosecuted with the energy and industry 
that has been exemplified in the career of this citizen.
	To the famous Emerald Isle we are indebted for many of our most 
substantial citizens, and among the number is to be chronicled Mr. Gilfillin, 
whose birth occurred in the land of Goldsmith and Emmett, on September 4, 
1861. His early boyhood was passed in that country and then he set out to seek 
his fortune in this land of freedom. He landed on Butter creek in Morrow 
county and for one year was engaged for wages, after which he entered the 
employ of Michael Kenny for a time and then bought his present place, twelve 
miles south and east from Heppner. Here he has a fine large estate of nine 
hundred and sixty acres of land and handles nearly two thousand head of sheep. 
His industry, thrift and good financiering are markedly manifest in the 
accumulation of these excellent holdings when we consider that he entered the 
county without capital except two good hands and an unbounded store of pluck.
	In fraternal affiliations he is associated with the K. of P.


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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