"An Illustrated history of Union and Wallowa Counties : with a brief outline of 
the early history of the state of Oregon." Western Historical Pub. Co., 1902.
Page 353.  Union County. 


ANDREW J. SHELTON.---Any one who has seen the finely kept and skillfully handled
farms of the Grande Ronde valley, can have no debt of the progressiveness and
enterprise of the farmers of this section, and largely the credit is due this
class of our residents for the wealth and high commercial standing that the
county enjoys to-day.  Among this class of capable and substantial citizens must
be placed the name of the gentleman, whose lifeís career is now our pleasant
privilege to epitomize, and surely he enjoys an enviable standing in this
respect since he is a man of sagacity, energy, and stability, coupled with which
are his integrity and uprightness which place him in the front ranks of the
representative citizens of the county.
	Andrew J. was born in Dallas county, Iowa on February 20, 1851, being the
son of Chelsy and Mary (MORRISON) SHELTON, natives of Illinois.  In 1862 the
family came across the dreary plains to the Willamette valley, and thence they
came to this county.  Our subject received his education from the schools of the
sections where his boyhood days were spent, and soon after the parents came to
Union county, he followed from the Willamette valley, where he had been farming
for himself for a period.  He at once homesteaded a quarter section northwest
from Elgin and gave his attention to farming and stock raising.  In 1880 he sold
this property to Mr. Otto OHMS, who now resides there.  He then purchased his
present farm of two hundred acres, one and three-fourths miles north from Elgin.
This is now the family home and Mr. SHELTON has devoted his attention here to
farming and raising stock, gaining the meed of the industrious and thrifty.
	At Vancouver, Washington, Mr. SHELTON married Miss Mary GRANT on November
27, 1872, and they became the parents of the following children:  John, Frank,
and Linsey, who died on April 7, 1901, being aged twenty-one years and one
month, and his remains sleep in the Summerville cemetery.  Mrs. SHELTONís
parents, Robert and Rachel (WILLIAMS) GRANT, were natives of Missouri and were
among the first pioneers to the Willamette valley. Mrs. SHELTON was called from
the scenes of life to the world beyond, on June 3, 1889, and she is buried at
the Summerville cemetery.
	On January 29, 1893, Mrs. SHELTON married a second time, and the lady of his
choice on this occasion was Anna (LONG) GENT, a daughter of James and Caroline
(PERKINS) LONG, natives respectively of England and Indiana. They were farmers
in Missouri, and there the father died on March 9, 1874, but the mother lives
with a son in South Dakota.  Mrs. SHELTON is a native of Missouri.  One child
has been born to bless this union, Minnie.

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