Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Padberg, Edward L. September 1, 1870 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 506, 507

Edward L. Padberg
	While the ranks of the worthy pioneers are being thinned by the 
inevitable attacks of time, there is rising up a class of younger men who are 
taking up the work laid down by them, prosecuting with willing hands and good 
ability the advancement of the material welfare of the county, thus themselves 
becoming the substantial and prominent citizens of the county. Notable among 
this class is the man whose name is at the head of this article, and who is a 
product of this county and has wrought right here the excellent success that 
he now enjoys. His birth occurred on September 1, 1870, three miles from where 
he now lives, which is seven miles southeast from Ione, on Rhea creek, his 
parents, Henry and Martha (Riggs) Padberg, natives respectively of Germany and 
Iowa, settling there in 1870. He was educated in the schools of the county, or 
what is now Morrow county, and upon arriving at the years of maturity engaged 
in stock raising, handling both sheep and cattle. He owns a fine estate of 
nineteen hundred and twenty acres, eight hundred of which is farmed to wheat 
and twenty to alfalfa, also thirty more that can be planted to this forage 
plant, which they irrigate from Rhea creek. He has a good two-story residence, 
a well selected orchard and other substantial improvements that make a 
comfortable and valuable home for his family.
	The marriage of Mr. Padberg and Miss Lana A., daughter of Albert T. 
and Sarah A. (Perkins) Wood, of this county, was soleminized on January 24, 
1897, and to them have been born two children, Opal May and Arla Lee. It is 
but right to say that in the mammoth estate and fine herds of our subject, all 
acquired by his own industrious and wise labors, we see the proofs of his 
ability, while his unsullied integrity and moral worth are manifest to all, 
thus demonstrating a noble manhood and worthy citizen, a son of whom the 
county may be justly proud. 


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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