"An Illustrated history of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties : with a brief outline of the early history of the state of Oregon." Chicago?: Western Historical Pub. Co., 1902. p. 505. Grant Co. McCLELLAN STOCKDALE and ROBERT J. STOCKDALE To swell the army of stockmen and tillers of the soil in Grant county, there have come from every portion of our great Republic, men and women of intrinsic worth and stanch integrity who had capabilities to form from the wilds of the fields of nature domains and estates that smile beneath the harvests of plenty since their wise husbandry has been brought to bear. The esteemed citizens and capable gentlemen, whose names are at the head of this article, are two among that number, whose efforts for development and progress have met with proper reward in the prosperity that has followed and in the esteem and encomiums that have been theirs from appreciative fellows. They are the sons of Allen and Nancy (Price) Stockdale, natives of Pennsylvania, who removed from the Keystone state and settled in Missouri and then later migrated to California, settling in the San Joaquin valley, where they are living at the present time, eight miles east from Fresno, and are occupied with fruit raising. McClellan was born on November 22, 1862, in Washington county, Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty-three years came to John Day and engaged in ranch work until he bought, in company with his brother, their present place, one-fourth of a mile east from Mt. Vernon. Here they own in partnership a fine ranch of one hundred and sixty-seven acres and are occupied in raising stock, cattle and horses, and in tilling the soil. He was married on October 4, 1896, to Miss Arba daughter of H. M. and Martha (Webb) Moore, and to them has been born one child, Alva B. Robert J. was born on November 18, 1864, in Pennsylvania, and at the age of twenty-two years came to Oregon and took a homestead seven miles north of Daysville, which he sold later, that he might purchase, in company with his brother, the farm where they now live. In 1894, the marriage of Robert J. and Miss Ellen, daughter of R. and Anna (Cardwell) Damon, was solemnized and the fruit of the union has been one child, Elbert. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in December 2005 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.