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. 795.

JOSEPH H. DEEN

     a native Oregonian, resides two and one-half miles north from Suplee. The
date and place of his birth was Wasco county, January 27, 1871. Jacob Deen, his
father, was born in Missouri and crossed the plains in 1841, to where Portland
now stands. For five years he remained there, then came to Wasco county and took
government land and engaged in farming and stock raising. He continued the same
until 188o in which year he removed to Lewiston, Idaho. Four years were spent
there and he returned to Wasco county, where he remained until 1905. He had
fought in the Rogue River, Modoc and the Paiute Indian Wars and showed bravery
and faithfulness in these trying and dangerous times. He married Frances
Kingston, a native of Missouri, who crossed the plains with her parents to
Oregon in 1848. Our subject was educated and reared in Wasco county and in 1893
came to his present location and took a homestead. He engaged in farming and
stock raising and has continued the same ever since, with reasonable success.
     In 1899, Mr. Deen married Miss Bertha Bush, who was born in Missouri and
they now have two children, Velva and Lowel. Mrs. Deen's father, James F. Bush,
was born in Missouri and became a well-to-do farmer. He married Sirena Thompson,
a native of Putnam county, Indiana. She was brought to Missouri by her parents
when three years of age and in 1847 came with them across the plains to the
Willamette valley. The father took a donation claim near Salem and in 1852
removed to Portland. From thence they journeyed to San Francisco and started for
Cuba by ship, but instead of stopping there they went on to New York then to
Pennsylvania and finally back to Missouri. There Mr. Bush remained until 1897,
when they came hack to Oregon. She was a pioneer in the true sense of the word
and always lived on the frontier and never saw a cook stove until after she was
sixteen years of age.


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