Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....McCullough, Benjamin F. June 27, 1865 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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BENJAMIN F. McCULLOUGH
	The face of nature had been but very little disturbed by man’s works 
here when the subject of this sketch was born in this county,.  He enjoys the 
distinction of being among the first white children that were born here.  The 
date of his birth was June 27, 1865, and his parents were Madison and Lucinda 
(Johnson) McCullough.  From childhood the scenes of the county have been those 
of his nativity, and he is acquainted with every part of it and all the old 
settlers.  To him Umatilla county is both birthplace and home, and here he 
received a good common school education from the early schools.  To make one 
full in experience it is necessary that their life should be broadened some by 
traveling.  There is a depth and acquaintance thus acquired that it is 
impossible to so well achieve in any other way.  And accordingly at the age of 
twenty-two, Mr. McCullough began to view the different portions of this and 
adjoining states.  He became convinced that the stock business was the right 
thing for him and soon he embarked in that enterprise.  Adams county in 
Washington was the place of his first efforts in that line and he has 
prospered, for in ten years from the time that he left home he was back again 
and with sufficient money to buy a valuable farm where he now lives, one and 
one-half miles west from Echo.  He selected this place especially with 
reference to the stock business.  He is enabled to irrigate his land from the 
Umatilla river, thus making it doubly valuable.  Upon this irrigated land he 
raises alfalfa and feeds beef cattle, fitting them for the best market.  He 
has handled about fifty to sixty beeves each year, but this year he will 
handle one hundred head and when he gets his whole land into alfalfa he will 
then be able to feed two hundred and more each year.  This is a very 
profitable business in this wheat country, as stock has been somewhat 
neglected in the great industry of producing the staff of life.  He owns a 
number of excellent registered short-horn bulls and is grading up a fine herd, 
which will in time to come be of great value to the county at large.  He has 
improved his farm in a substantial and tasty manner, having good buildings and 
a costly ditch, etc.
  	He is a member of the Pioneers of the Pacific, being one of the few 
native born members.  
Local affairs and school matters find a part in his time and attention, 
believing that it is necessary to use the same care in their adjustment as in 
personal matters of business.
	On December 25, 1884, he was married to Miss Ella, the daughter of 
John Mitchell.  They have five children: Orville, Glen, Irene, Stella and 
Carl.  On July 7, 1900, the great misfortune of standing by the death bed of 
his wife was his to bear, but though the ordeal was almost beyond flesh and 
blood, he has borne up manfully and is going forward with his flock of little 
ones in a manner becoming one possessed of a brave heart and a courageous 
spirit.


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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