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. 771.
 
MRS. L. ROSE LAWSON

     resides some ten miles out from Prineville on the Ochoco, making her home
with her children who own considerable property and are occupied in general
farming and stock raising. She was born in Marion county, Oregon, the daughter
of James Miller, a native of Missouri. He crossed the plains by teams with his
father in 1847 and settled where Silverton now stands. Then he went to
California, where he received his education and later returned to Silverton,
Oregon, and became a prominent and well to do man. His father, Charles Miller,
owned the first drug store at Silverton. Mrs. Lawson's mother, Julia ( Smith)
Miller, was born in Arkansas and came to Oregon with her parents in 1847, being
then but two years of age. Mrs. Lawson was educated at Silverton, Oregon, and in
1873, married J. J. C. Lawson. The following year, they came to Crook county
where Mr. Lawson taught school and later did stock raising. He spent twenty-five
years of his life as an active educator and was very successful in that calling.
For two years, he was superintendent of schools for Crook county and was a well
known and prominent man. To Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, four children have been born,
Una, Douglas, Gilbert and Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Lawson were pioneers in Crook
county and have done a great deal to assist in its development.


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