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. 510.
 
HARRY ORNDUFF

     one of the prosperous and energetic agriculturists of Sherman county,
residing four miles east and two and one-half miles north of Wasco, was born in
Missouri, September 16, 1879. His parents were Samuel and Nancy M. (Everett)
Ornduff, both natives of Ohio.
     When our subject was three years of age his parents removed to Iowa where
they remained nearly three years. Thence, in 1885, they came to Sherman county,
and the father filed on a homestead and purchased another quarter section of
land. On this place he died in February, 1900, aged sixty-four years. The mother
is now the wife of John Medler, elsewhere mentioned in this work. Young Harry
attended the Bigelow district school and worked on the farm with his parents
until the fall of 1902. He then went to McCook, Nebraska, where he remained
about one year, returning and renting the old home place, one-half section, from
his mother.
     March 25, 1903, at McCook, Nebraska, Mr. Ornduff was united in marriage to
Miss Eva L. Carson, a native of Iowa, and the daughter of William and Annie T.
(Everett) Carson. Her father is dead ; her mother lives at Ione, Oregon, with
her sons. Mr. Ornduff has three brothers and one sister ; Joseph, a Sherman
county farmer, at Emigrant Springs, eight miles from Wasco; Pearl, on his
uncle's place, Sherman county; Ross, clerk for the Wasco Commercial Company, at
Wasco ; and Addie, wife of Charles Harper, a farmer in Wasco.
     Mr. and Mrs. Ornduff have one child, Augusta, born June 26, 1904.
Politically, he is independent. The mother of our subject is a sister of S. J.
Everett, popularly known as "Vene" Everett, proprietor of the hotel and livery
stable at Dufur, mentioned elsewhere. Mr. Ornduff is young man of progressive
views and of excellent business ability.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2007 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.