Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 1028.
 
EUGENE R. HANAN

     resides four miles west of Fort Klamath and is one of the leading stock
raisers of Klamath county. He was born on January 10, 1857 in Douglas county,
Oregon. George Hanan, his father, was born in Ireland and came to New York with
his parents in 1844. They crossed the plains with ox teams in the second train
that ever made the trip. They landed in Oregon City and he there followed
shoemaking. Afterward, he came to Garden valley on the Umpqua in Douglas county
and secured a donation claim. That was his home until his death in 1876, being
then aged sixty-five years, He was a very active and progressive man and did
very much to open and build up this thriving country. He served as treasurer of
Douglas county and was a leading man there. He married Miss Eliza Evans, a
native of New York city. The wedding occurred in that city and she accompanied
her husband across the plains. She is now living at Lewiston, Idaho, aged
eighty-one. Our subject grew up on a farm in Douglas county and received his
education from the early schools. He continued on the farm until eighteen years
of age and then took up stock raising. He has handled both cattle and sheep and
at the present time is raising cattle almost exclusively.
     On October 14, 1875, Mr. Hanan married Miss Harriet C. Gilliland, a native
of Putnam county, Illinois.  Alexander B. Gilliland, her father, was born in
Brown county, Ohio, of Scotch ancestry. He married Man T. Willis and in the
spring of 1853, with a family of three children they started across the plains
to Oregon. Mrs. Hanan was then four years old. It took them nine months to reach
Douglas county and the trip was arduous and trying. Mr. Gilliland took a
donation claim and was one of the sturdy pioneers to build up that county. A few
years before his death, which occurred in 1884, he retired from the farm to
Roseburg. He was aged sixty-four at the time of his departure. The mother died
in 1896.  In 1901, Mr. Hanan brought all his cattle from west of the Cascades to
Klamath county. He has an estate of one thousand three hundred and twenty acres,
where he now lives, which produces abundance of hay for his large herds. He has
over four hundred head of cattle with horses enough to handle the enterprise.
     Mr. Hanan is a member of the A.O.U.W.  lodge and is a progressive and good
man. They have four children, George Mar, Ariel, deceased; Myrtle and Wren. Mr.
Hanan is the fifth in his family and his brothers and sisters are named as
follows: John C., William J. and Henry, deceased ; Mrs. Ella, widow of A. C.
Marks; Jefferson D., deceased; Mrs. Belle Fenton; and Richard E.  Mrs. Hanan's
brothers and sisters are Lyle W., Mrs. Margaret Smith, Cyrus B., Robert 0. and
Cassius C. deceased; Inez, the wife of T. B. Foster and Lillie, the wife of John
Jamison, both of Portland. Mr. Foster is with the First National Bank there.
Mrs. Hanan was the second child of her father's family.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.