Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Hemphill, Alfred C. 1874 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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ALFRED C. HEMPHILL
	Among those upon whom has fallen the mantle of the worthy pioneers 
that have begun to pass to their rewards in another scene, and who are in 
every way carrying on the noble work of the old veterans in developing and 
building up Umatilla county, stands high the man whose name initiates this 
paragraph as a leader among the ranks of our signally enterprising and capable 
rising business men. A native of this county, being born at the old home place 
on Birch creek, near Pilot Rock, he is one of whom Umatilla may well be proud, 
having received his education largely in the public schools and Pendleton 
Academy. He finished his business course at Monmouth State Normal, and then 
embarked in the wool growing and farming business, being well schooled in this 
industry during his boyhood days with his father. His father, brother and 
himself form a company, each holding equal interests. Their annual wool clip 
amounts to over forty-five thousand pounds, thus indicating that they have a 
fine holding in stock, while they have sufficient land and all necessary 
appliances to operate these large bands successfully, as they are doing.
	He was married, in Pilot Rock, on October 28. 1900, to Miss Myrtle J. 
Skelton, a native of Kansas, whose parents, George P. and Virginia R. Skelton, 
were early pioneers to this state. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., Eureka 
Lodge, No. 32, of Pendleton; Pioneers of the Pacific, Harry Miller Encampment, 
No. 7, of Pilot Rock, in which last he has passed all the chairs. It is worthy 
of note that Mr. Hemphill remembers the Indian scare of 1878, although then 
only four years of age. If careful investment and industrious watching all 
interests in hand with excellent wisdom will bring success to one, then is it 
sure that the future achievements of our subject will far overreach anything 
of the past, although that has been brilliant indeed. Mr. Hemphill has won and 
retains the confidence of all who have the pleasure to know him, while his 
moral integrity and straightforwardness command the respect of every one.


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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