Umatilla County OR Archives Biographies.....Stanton, Elihu R. January 20, 1847 - 
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

Page 510, 511

Elihu R. Stanton
	It is very sure that the prosperity of the country depends upon the 
character of its agricultural support and the efficiency of its corps of 
tillers of the soil. While Morrow county is so favored with representative men 
in all of the other departments of industry, it is not one whit behind the 
best regions of the west in its agricultural population, and among this number 
we are constrained to make mention of the man whose name initiates this 
paragraph as a leader and one of the prominent agriculturists.
	The old Buckeye state is the place of his birth, and January 20, 1847, 
the date, his parents being Charles and Alkmedia (Williams), Stanton, natives, 
respectively, of Ohio and Virginia. When Elihu B. had attained the age of 
eight years his parents removed to Jefferson and Pottawattamie counties, Iowa, 
where he received a public school education and remained until 1883. His 
occupation in that place was farming excepting the time when he was serving in 
the United States army, which was from January 25, 1865, until June of the 
same year. He was in Company A, Second Iowa Cavalry, which was officered by 
Captain Brunton and Colonel Henton. During his service he was clerk of his 
company most of the time. In 1883 he came to this county and took up a 
homestead and timber culture claims twenty miles south from Ione and three 
miles south from Eightmile postoffice. He lives in this place now and owns six 
hundred and forty acres of good land, all of which he farms to wheat, raising 
some years as high as forty bushels per acre, but the average yield is less 
than that. His thrift and good management are manifest in every part of his 
estate, which is embellished with some valuable buildings, as a two-story 
house of modern architecture, containing ten rooms, and is a handsome 
residence, a commodious barn, a good orchard and many other substantial 
improvements. He is always active in the politics of the county and state, 
having served at many of the county and some of the state conventions, and has 
also been in the field as candidate for county commissioner, county clerk and 
representative to the state legislature. At first he was with the Republican 
party but later has taken his stand with the People's party.
	Mr. Stanton was married to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Asbury and 
Sydney I. (Gamble) Fuqua, and to them have been born the following children: 
Harlan, Cora M., Charles A., John E., Benjamin, Omar, Clyde and Henry, the 
latter deceased. Mr. Stanton's father was a prominent man in Iowa, having 
taken a leading part in the politics there and served in the state legislature 
while the capital was at Iowa City. Our subject is no less prominent in the 
affairs of his chosen state and is secure in the esteem and respect of his 
fellows, having so demeaned himself here that the confidence of the people is 
reposed in him, which is fully merited by his integrity and intrinsic moral 
worth.

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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