Parsons, Col. William and Shiach, W. S.  "An Illustrated History of Umatilla
County and of Morrow County." Spokane, WA: W. H. Lever, 1902. p. 558.

MYRON J. SLAGHT

     The industrious and enterprising agriculturist whose name initiates this
paragraph is one of the younger men who is displaying energy and skill in the
pursuit of winning bread from the productive soil of Morrow county, coupled with
stock raising, wherein he is achieving a success quite commensurate with his
thrift and care.
     He was born in Schuyler county, New York, on March 16, 1880, being the son
of Asa B. and Melinda (Cronk) Slaght, who were both natives of New York and now
deceased.  He received the educational discipline to be obtained from the public
schools of his native place and remained there until he was nineteen years of
age, following the occupation of oil pumper for three years.  He came west in
1898, landing in Morrow county on December 3 of that year and located on his
present place of three hundred and twenty acres on Balm creek, six miles south
from Heppner, devoting his attention to farming, stock raising and teaming.  In
addition to his land he has fifteen head of stock cattle and twenty head of
horses.
     On November 6, 1898, in Andover, New York, he was married to Miss Mable C.,
daughter of David A. and Emily J. (Wallace) Herren, who were pioneers to this
state in an early day.  Mrs. Slaght's great-grandmother, on her father's side,
lived in the Willamette valley to the age of ninety-six years and when she was
ninety-two years of age she participated in a display for the Oregon state fair,
knitting fancy work with number one hundred cotton thread.  Mr. Slaght's
paternal grandfather was one of the pioneers of New York state, emigrating there
from Holland, while his maternal great-grandfather was a native of Poland.  The
capabilities of this sturdy young citizen of our county are manifested already
during the short stay in this his chosen home and he had demeaned himself in a
very commendable manner, displaying sterling moral qualities and principles of
worth.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in July 2005 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.