"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 482.
 
JOHN B. FERGUESON
     This veritable pioneer of Lane county was born in Richland county, Ohio,
June 29, 1825, but when a year old he was taken to Adams county, Illinois, by
his parents, with whom he once more removed in 1842 to Andrew county, Missouri,
where he engaged in farming until 1847.  He then crossed the plains to Oregon,
arriving in November and joining his brother in what is now Washington county,
there passed the winter.  In September, 1848, he came to Lane county and took up
the tract of land on which he now resides, situated six miles from Junction
City, and was the first man to drive a wagon up to the Long Tom creek.  In 1849
Mr. Fergueson took a turn in the gold mines of California, working on Feather
river during one summer, at the end of which he returned to his claim.  In 1851
he once more tried his luck in the mines, this time at Yreka, but as a trader,
returning to his home on Long Tom at the end of one summer, where he was the
first to engage to any extent in farming.  In 1862 Mr. Fergueson again tempted
fortune at the gold mines.  For two years he followed mining in the John Day
country, and at the expiration of that term went into the stock business, he
having a band of cattle in Eastern Oregon, to attend to which he has crossed the
mountains as many as fourteen times.  In 1878 he was elected a county
commissioner and served two years.  Mr. Fergueson owns six hundred and sixty
acres on which he resides, besides two quarter-sections situated to the east of
that property.  It will thus be seen that by his energetic and upright life this
pioneer has surrounded himself with a fine estate, while the beauty of its
location will be readily recognized from the sketch of it which appears in this
volume.  He has been twice married.  By his first wife there have been seven
children, viz:  John S., James M. (deceased), Sarah J., Joseph H., Mary Ann,
Martha E., Thomas J.; while by his second marriage there is one daughter, named
Josephine.
 
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