Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Kramer, Jacob December 10, 1831 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons

Page 385, 386

JACOB KRAMER
	Among the sturdy pioneers that weathered the great rush just 
subsequent to “Forty-nine,” stands high the man whose name begins this article 
and who has made his home in Umatilla county after traversing the coast region 
from the Gulf of California to Puget Sound.  Here he maintains his position as 
one of the foremost men of this section, while his moral worth, striking 
enterprise and fine capabilities richly merit his well earned reputation.
	He was born in Meadville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on December 
10, 1831, and there grew to manhood, being educated in the district school 
meanwhile.  When twenty-four years of age he was led by the reports from the 
new opened region of the Golden state to try his fortunes there and so went 
thither via the Isthmus route.  For eleven years he operated in the placer 
fields near Nevada City, California, and then returned home for a short 
visit.  Again he came west via the same route and mined for about eleven 
years, and made a second visit to the old home place over the U. P. Railway.  
Later he went to Nevada and worked at the carpenter trade for a short time, 
when he came overland to Umatilla county in May, 1881.  Here he bought a 
squatter’s right where he now lives, four and one-half miles west from Nye, 
adding later three hundred and twenty acres more by purchase, all of which he 
is tilling to wheat, barley and potatoes, raising some cattle.  His whole 
place bears an air of thrift and industry which marks his activity and energy 
in matters of detail as well as in general affairs.  
	He was married in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 1870, 
to Miss Harriet M. Leighty, a native of the same place.  To them have been 
born the following children: Stella Z., now Mrs. Donald Ross, of Vincent; 
Henry E.; James M., the last two being at home with their parents.  Mr. Kramer 
has always maintained the most strict loyalty to our free institutions, being 
a member of the “Caucasians” when in California, the object of the order being 
to retain the places in our land for whites as against the Oriental, while his 
demeanor here has been always that which would command the respect of every 
lover of liberty.


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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