Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Killgore, J. R. November 8, 1873 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 397, 398

J. R. KILLGORE
	This prominent and gifted young business man, although but just 
beginning the years of life, has already achieved a success that speaks in the 
highest terms of his ability, both in the executive and the financial line, 
having thus early demonstrated his fitness to take rank with the leading 
business men of this part of the state.
	He was born in Missouri on November 8, 1873, to J. F. and Mary J. 
Killgore, but was removed when a child to this county by his parents, and 
received here his educational training and business discipline, thus being, 
practically, a product of Umatilla county and a son of which she may well be 
proud.  After finishing his scholastic training he entered the Farmers’ Bank 
of Weston as assistant cashier, in which capacity he showed such marked 
industry and insight into the intricate details of financiering, together with 
sterling worth and integrity, that he soon made himself indispensable to the 
institution and was installed as cashier, which position he now fills with 
efficiency and faithfulness, displaying an acumen and keen foresight 
accompanied with a fine practical judgment, that basis of all genuine 
financiering.  He is also stockholder in the bank and owns three hundred and 
twenty acres of fine land close to town. 
	His marriage occurred on October 10, 1900, when Miss Elsie M., 
daughter of Adelbert and Roxie Hopson, became his bride.  Mr. Killgore 
affiliates with the I. O. O. F., and the Woodmen of the World of Weston. He is 
popular among his fellows and has frequently been urged to enter politics, but 
thus far has positively refused to allow his name to be used in that 
capacity.  If intrinsic worth and past success, achieved by wisely directed 
effort, are sufficient to prognosticate the future of a business man, then we 
predict a brilliant career for this rising and worthy representative 
financier. 


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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