Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Gulliford, Jasper S. April 6, 1866 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 399, 400

JASPER S. GULLIFORD 
	One of the most prominent and successful of the younger agriculturists 
and stockmen of Umatilla county, the subject of this sketch has wrought with 
assiduity and energy that have brought their sure reward, while his intrinsic 
moral worth and uprightness are in no whit behind.
	He was born in Klickitat county, Washington, on April 6, 1866, and 
when but an infant was taken by his parents to Lane county, Oregon.  When 
seven years of age he came with his parents to this county, who settled on the 
place where he now resides, five miles west from Ridge post office in Grass 
Hollow, a tributary of Butter creek.  He received a fine education in the 
public and high schools of Pendleton, and completed it in a private 
institution, superintended by John Arnold.  At twenty years of age he 
commenced in the sheep business for himself, but later was occupied for two 
years in operating the “Elephant” feed yard in Pendleton, ultimately returning 
to wool growing.  He now owns over one thousand, five hundred sheep and one-
quarter section of land, where he raises hay for fattening the market stock.
	On December 1, 1887, at Pendleton, he was married to Miss Mable 
McFarland, a native of Crawfordsville, Indiana.  To them have been born two 
children, Harrison C. and Ivan Pearl.  Mrs. Gulliford is a great-greatniece of 
Robert E. Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, whose son, Robert 
E. Lee, was the commander in chief of the Confederate forces in the late Civil 
strife. Her parents, Thomas and Amanda McFarland, were pioneers of this county 
of 1880, having been in the Pike’s Peak rush of 1859 and later in California, 
where they participated in the “Mussel Slough” difficulty between the settlers 
of Tulare county and the Southern Pacific Railroad.  The railroad had received 
grant of some fine land on condition of building their line to a certain point 
within a given time; failing to do this, their charter lapsed and the land was 
taken by the settlers.  Later the charter was renewed and difficulty arose 
between the settlers and the company that came to a crisis when the United 
States marshal attempted to take charge of the land in the absence of the 
settlers at a picnic.  In the battle that ensued two railroad men and five 
settlers were killed.  The trouble continued until Cleveland’s administration, 
when the railroad was ousted and the settlers given title to their land direct 
from the government.
	Mr. Gulliford is affiliated with the Knights of Kadosh, Council No. 
250, and the K. O. T. M., both of Pendleton.  He is the recipient of the 
confidence and esteem of all who know him, while his industry and ability have 
stamped him as leader and one of the most substantial citizens of the county.


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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