Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Hargett, James D June 10, 1853 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons


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JAMES D. HARGETT
	Not a few have found their way from the South Atlantic seaboard to the 
fertile regions of the west, and among this number may be placed the name of 
the well-known and highly respected citizen of whom we have the pleasure to 
speak, setting forth a few of the leading events in his busy career. In North 
Carolina he first saw the light, being born to Harris and Martha (Hall) 
Hargett, on June 10, 1853. There also he spent the youth of his life, 
acquiring a good common-school education and those habits of industry and 
thrift that have so well served him in later years. His first move was to 
Tennessee, where he spent five years in tilling the soil, afterward going to 
the Golden state. There in San Joaquin county he followed farming until 1883, 
when he sought the state of Oregon, finally coming to Umatilla county. At that 
time he took up a pre-emption on Juniper, about three miles west from where he 
now lives. He has been constantly adding to this by purchase until his realty 
holding aggregate the magnificent sum of fifteen hundred acres. All of this 
vast estate he farms to wheat, with the exception of two hundred acres of 
pasture. He follows the plan of summer fallowing, and finds that his land will 
yield him, when thus handled, twenty-five bushels per acre annually. After 
experiments he believes the red chaff wheat is best adapted to this region.
	On December 18, 1898, occurred the marriage of Mrs. Emma (Cyfield) 
Chapman and J. L. Hargett. Mrs. Hargett has four children, Edith, Ethel, Etna, 
and Arthur.
	Besides the management of his large farms, Mr. Hargett has always 
taken the time to attend to the local and school matters, as well as being 
interested in politics generally. The Democratic party most nearly sets forth 
the principles he holds, and therefore he is ranked within its fold. In social 
circles he is popular, and affiliates with the Maccabees and Woodmen of the 
World. Being now at the meridian of life, he can take a pardonable pride in 
the success that his efforts have justly been crowned with, while he enjoys 
the good will of his neighbors and the respect and confidence of all who know 
him.


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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