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. 463.

EUGENE S. CATTRON

     representative of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company for Sherman county,
and mayor of Wasco, Sherman county, was born in Monmouth, Oregon, July 14, 1864,
the son of Jonathan and Alvira (Shelton) Cattron. The father was a native of
Kentucky, a member of an old family of Holland descent. His parents moved to
Missouri while he was a small boy. The mother of our subject, a native of
Missouri, resides in Portland, Oregon. It was in 1850 that the father of our
subject came to Oregon, overland with ox teams to California, and by boat to
Oregon from San Francisco. The mother, with her parents, had preceded him in
1846, locating in Yamhill county, where she remained five years and where she
was married to the father of our subject. Following this he removed to Polk
county where he died in 1872. He was a stanch Republican, active in campaigns,
but never sought office. He was, also, one of the promoters of the old Monmouth
University, of which he was secretary. This institution was later known as
Christian College, and at present the State Normal school.
     Our subject continued to live in Monmouth until 1897 when he came to
Sherman county, having previously been graduated from Christian College and the
Monmouth State Normal school.  In 1885 he taught school six months and then
engaged in the grain business, conducting a warehouse eight years. This
enterprise he disposed of and took a trip east to attend the World's Fair at
Chicago. Returning he again engaged in the warehouse business two years, sold
out and came to Sherman county, August, 1897, as the county representative of
the Pacific Coast Elevator Company. In 1899 he was elected mayor of Wasco on a
citizen's ticket and is now serving his third term.
     At the city of Wallace, Idaho, October 6, 1899, Mr. Cattron was united in
marriage to Miss Verne Lytle, a native of Missouri, the daughter of Walter S.
and Helen Lytle. Her father, a native of Pennsylvania, is assistant auditor of
the steamship lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Seattle. Mrs.
Cattron has two sisters, Bertha, single, living with her father at Seattle, and
Helen, wife of Captain Charles Smithers, instructor at the military college of
West Point. Our subject has one brother and three sisters living; Edgar, of the
hardware firm of Jensen, King, Byrd Company, Spokane, Washington; Laura, single,
residing at Eugene; Alice, wife of T. J. Craig, of Portland, a druggist; and
Bertha, wife of C. E, Clodfelter, of the Brownsville Woolen Company, of
Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Cattron have one child, Helen, aged four years. The
fraternal affiliations of our subject are with the B. P. 0. E., No. 303, The
Dalles, and the Knights of Pythias, of Wasco, of which he is chancellor
commander. He is a Republican and quite frequently is called upon to serve as
delegate to county conventions and several times he has acted in a like capacity
at state conventions. Mr. Cattron is a gentleman of pleasing address and marked
executive and financial ability, one who has won a host of friends in a wide
circle of acquaintances.


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