Union County OR Archives Biographies.....Gulliford, John L.  July 2, 1836 - February 7, 1899
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Author: Colonel William Parsons 

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JOHN L. GULLIFORD
	A prominent citizen and worthy pioneer who wrought with industry and 
faithfulness for the development and upbuilding of Umatilla county, the man 
whose name heads this paragraph is accorded this memorial in our volume with 
pleasure, while we cheerfully add our mite to perpetuate the memory of his 
noble character and life of sterling moral worth.
	His birth occurred near Athens, Logan county, Illinois, on July 2, 
1836, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age, receiving a good 
education from the common schools.  At the age mentioned he came with his 
parents to Lane county, in this state, and engaged in tilling the soil for 
wages on his father’s and adjacent farms until he attained his majority.  The 
Rogue river Indian war broke out at this time and he joined Captain William 
Blakeley’s Company of Oregon Mounted Volunteer Infantry, in which he fought as 
a private until the close of the war, doing brave and faithful service in 
battle, skirmish and scout duties.  After being mustered out of the war he 
spent several years in buying and selling stock in Klickitat county, 
Washington, and then purchased a farm in Lane county, this state, and devoted 
his energies to the cultivation of the same for seven years, when he came to 
this county and homesteaded a quarter-section where his sons now reside on 
Butter creek.  On this place he embarked in the stock business, handling sheep 
principally, for twenty years, and then removed to a fruit farm near Milton, 
where, five years later, on February 7, 1899, he passed to his reward in 
another world.  Mr. Gulliford was a brave and patriotic citizen, a noble and 
upright man, gifted and enterprising, who has left behind him a most enduring 
legacy of an untarnished reputation, a beautiful character and the memory of 
wisely spent days, to be cherished by his children and widow and followed by 
the generations to come.
	Mrs. Gulliford, who survives her husband, removed to Pendleton and 
erected a fine residence on Bluff street, where she now lives, and also three 
other houses, which she rents.  They had nine children: Claud F. and twins 
deceased in infancy; Arthur V.; William H.; Clarence J.; Jasper S.; Lillie B., 
now the wife of Dr. C. J. Smith; John F.  In addition to these they raised an 
orphan child, Blanche Smith Gulliford, now a school teacher in this county.
	Mr. Gulliford affiliated with the I. O. O. F., Integrity Lodge, of 
Pendleton.


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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