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From History of North Washington, published 1903, now in public domain. 
Submitted by Candy L. Grubb March 5, 1997. Both above notices must remain 
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GEORGE H. BOBIER

	George H. Bobier, engaged in general farming in Stevens county, 
living five miles northwest of Newport, was born in Chat-ham, Canada, May 
28, 1840. He is the son of Gregory and Sarah (Dockerill) Bobier, natives of 
Ireland, his ancestors having emigrated to France and from France to Ireland 
in the twelfth century. The parents of our subject went to Canada in 1820, 
where they died. They were the parents of eleven children, Elizabeth, Joseph 
and Joshua, twins, Wellington, Gregory, Thomas, William, John, Edmond, 
George and Sarah.
	The education of our subject was received in a log school house in 
Canada, and when seventeen years of age he went west to Missouri. He crossed 
the plains in 1860 with ox teams, during which trip he met with a number of 
surprising  adventures, many of them exciting and sensational. He followed 
mining in Nevada twenty years with fair success. In 1867 he made a big 
winning with the Tuscarora, the pioneer placer mine of that period. 
Subsequently he lost all his property through the incompetency of a smelter 
man, and he then went to Custer, Idaho, where he engaged in hotel business 
and mining. Later he conducted a hotel in Oregon five or six years, going 
thence to the Blue Mountains in the business of logging. Two years after 
that he was taken ill, and was laid up six months, losing again all he was 
worth. At Wood river he burned charcoal for a smelting furnace, producing 
two thousand bushels per day, and clearing up five thousand dollars in one 
year.
	Mr. Bobier then drove a band of cattle from the Blue mountains of 
Oregon to Newport. In 1891 he left some of the cattle at this point, went 
back to Oregon, and was gone two years. On his return he secured a 
homestead, one hundred and sixty acres, where he now lives. In 1897 he 
purchased eighty acres of railroad land for the purpose of securing title to 
the Cedar Glen Mine. Fifty acres of the homestead are cleared, all of it 
fenced and he has one million feet of saw timber and cellar poles. He raises 
seventy-five head of cattle, conducts a dairy, has twenty-five milch cows, 
and finds a ready sale for his products.
	Mr. Bobier was married in 1876 to Miss Roxie Thompson, daughter of 
A. J. Thompson, of North Carolina. The ceremony occurred at Elko, Nevada. 
Her parents crossed the plains from Illinois to Ruby Valley, Nevada, in 
1865, later settling at Cheney, Washington, where they died. They were the 
parents of seven children. When a young man our subject was a Republican. 
Later he became a Democrat. He was the first road supervisor in, the town of 
his adoption. In 1902 he was the nominee of his party for county 
commissioner, but was defeated owing to his party being in the minority. 
While he resided in Oregon he was a member of the school board. Fraternally 
he is a member of the I. O. O. F. and past master.