An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 234-235.

JACOB A. GULLIFORD, a pioneer of Oregon in its territorial days, and a prominent
farmer and stock raiser of Wasco county, resides at Dufur. He was born in
Sangamon county, Illinois, near Springfield, September 7, 1834. the son of
William and Eliza (Shoup) Gulliford. The father was a native of Pennsylvania;
the latter of Ohio. The mother, descended from a prominent Dutch family,
accompanied her husband to Oregon, coming across the plains with ox teams. They
settled in Lane county, secured a donation claim and remained there all their
lives, the father dying in 1865, the mother in 1857.      

Jacob A. Gulliford, the subject of this sketch, was educated in the public
schools, and in 1859 went to Klickitat county, Washington, and there engaged in
stock-raising, continuing the same with good success until 1864. That year he
and his brother went to Oak Grove, with a band of three hundred cattle. The
spring of 1867 he drove the second band of cattle into the Prineville country,
Oregon, and squatted on land eight miles north of the present site of
Prineville. The country at the time was just beginning to be settled. In 1878 he
removed with his family to a point near Dufur, and purchased a farm two miles
west of the present site of Dufur, on Fifteen Mile Creek. Later he disposed of
his Prineville property interests. Six years afterward he bought land six miles
below Dufur which he still owns eight hundred and forty acres in all. Mr.
Gulliford owns a handsome house in Dufur in which his family reside. In 1899 he
purchased a flouring mill at Boyd, of twenty-five barrel capacity.      

In 1855 our subject was for six months in the Rogue River Indian war. He has one
brother and four sisters: Jasper N., a merchant at Pendleton, Oregon; Sarah,
wife of William R. Cooper, of Whitman county, Washington; Emma, married to
William M. Allen, a capitalist of Halsey, Linn county; Anne, widow of J.M.
Probst, late of Whitman county; and Mary M., wife of J.D. Butler, of Portland,
Oregon.      

June 16, 1872, Mr. Gulliford was married to Martha E. Vanderpool, born in
Missouri. The ceremony was solemnized at Prineville. She is the daughter of
Kinman and Dulcina (Tomlinson) Vanderpool, both natives of Missouri. They
crossed the plains in 1852, enduring many hardships and encountering many
dangers. The same year the father died in Oregon. The mother still lives at
Dufur. Mrs. Gulliford has one brother, three half brothers and two half sisters:
Meadows Vanderpool, a Prineville farmer; Silas, Alec and Sherman Hodges, of
Prineville; Ollie, wife of Horace Dillard; and Mary, married to Charles H.
Stoughton, of Dufur. Our subject has one child, William C., aged nineteen, a
student of Hill's Academy, Portland.      

Mr. Gulliford is a member of the I.O.O.F., and his wife of the Rebekahs and the
Women of Woodcraft. Both are members of the Christian church.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.