Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory, and Umatilla County, Oregon." Portland,
OR: Print. and Lithographing House of A.G. Walling, 1882. p. a18.  Umatilla
County.

H. B. A. HALES

     Resides in Umatilla county, Oregon, five miles from Centerville and eight
from Weston.  His parents, Hugh and Elizabeth (Matthews) Hales, were born in
Virginia about the year 1800, and moved form there to Gallia county, Ohio, and
then to Henry county, Iowa.  They reared a family of four sons and four
daughters, the fourth son being the subject of this sketch.  H.B.A. Hales was
born in Henry county, Iowa, April 30, 1842.  He lived on the home farm and
attended the public school fitting himself for college.  The Rebellion broke out
before he entered upon a collegiate career, and he enlisted on the fifth of
October, 1861, in Co. K., 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry.  He served as a sergeant
four years and was in twenty-two engagements, having two horses shot under him
but escaping without a wound himself.  He was mustered out at Atlanta and
returned to Iowa, where he engaged in farming until 1875.  He then emigrated to
this coast and located the land he now farms in Umatilla county, Oregon.  He now
owns 1000 acres of that splendid land along the base of the Blue mountains, and
has the entire tract under cultivation.  In 1881 he raised over 12, 000 bushels
of wheat, besides oats and barley.  A view of this place is given among the
illustrations of this volume.  He uses two headers, a thresher, and two
six-horse gang plows, summer-fallowing half of his land each year.  On the sixth
of November, 1880, Mr. Hales married Miss Laura V. Rigby, of Goldendale, W.T.,
daughter of Rev. G. W. Rigby, of the M.E. church, who came to W. T. from Logan
county, Iowa.  She is the oldest of a family of two boys and two girls.  Mr.
Hales has been a member of the M. E. church since twelve years of age.  He is a
republican in politics and cast his first vot for Lincoln in 1864.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in September 2005 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.