Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....McLeod, John S. 1844 - 
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Author:  Colonel William Parsons 

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John S. McLeod
	An influential and prominent citizen of our county, whose career of 
exploration and business enterprises has been one of marked success, is the 
man named at the heading of this article, while his moral worth and ability 
are recognized by all.
	Born among the rugged hills of Scotland on a farm in the county of 
Caithness in the year 1844, he there acquired a good education and spent the 
first eighteen years of his life. At that time he turned toward the colonies, 
selecting New Zealand, and went thither. His young blood wrought well in the 
placer mines on the Mollineux river for three years, and then he turned toward 
the sheep industry, the station where he was employed handling one hundred 
thousand sheep. For two years he operated there and then undertook the butcher 
business, where he was engaged in Teviot for two years more. Succeeding this 
he went to Melbourne and then Sidney, with the intention of shipping for 
Africa, but finding that he would have to go via Liverpool he abandoned that 
and, by the aid of the American consul, was received on board a freighting 
ship bound for San Francisco. He arrived in that city in February, 1869, and 
after one month's stay repaired to Los Alamos and engaged on a stock ranch for 
eighteen months, after which he turned to the north and landed in Umatilla 
county in May, 1871. Here he commenced operations on a sheep ranch, shearing 
during the season, until 1872, and then purchased a band of one thousand sheep 
and settled down to sheep raising on a ranch he had taken near Adams, this 
county. For sixteen years he followed this, devoting his whole time and 
energies to it, with the result of a most prosperous business, with very 
flattering returns in finances. He then sold out his entire interests in that 
part of the county with all of his stock and purchased a fine residence in the 
city of Pendleton, where he still resides.
	On July 26, 1888, in Pendleton, he was married to Miss Annie 
McLaughlin, a native of Illinois. To them have been born Lottie J., March 31, 
1889; Johnnie S., September 5, 1896; Wm. S., January 17, 1893, died May 20, 
1894. During the war of 1878 Mr. McLeod was out with the volunteers in the 
mountains looking after his stock. Among his possessions may be mentioned one-
half section of fine land beside his residence in the city and numerous other 
holdings. Our subject has always been a man noted for his reliability, 
integrity and uprightness, and he is signally favored with the confidence of 
his acquaintances, which is thoroughly merited.


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.

	Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Oregon Biographies 
Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the
individual featured in the biographies. 


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