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. 921. WILLIAM H. McCALL is a wool grower residing two miles east and two miles north of Silver Lake. He was born on April 2, 1855, in Lane county, Oregon. His father, William McCall, was a native of Tennessee and journeyed to Illinois whence he crossed the plains with ox teams to Lane county, Oregon, being one of the earliest settlers in that section. He located a donation claim and remained on the same until his death. He was an elder in the Christian church and an exemplary man. His birth occurred in 1815 and his death in 1877. He was of Scotch-Irish extraction and married Matilda Markley, a native of Ohio, who accompanied her husband across the plains. She was born in 1820, and is now living in Eugene, Oregon, being of German ancestors. Our subject grew up in his native country and secured his education there. In 1873, he made the first trip to Silver Lake valley with stock. From that time until he came here to reside in 1877 he visited this country each year, but made his residence in Lane county. When he finally removed here, he took up land near his present home and at once went to riding the range. He had a family, a wife and five children and was practically without means, so that he knew well the hardships incident to pioneer life. For three years, Mr. McCall was foreman of the G. S. S. ranch. In 1897, he engaged in the sheep business and now has a fine band of sheep and twelve hundred acres of land, over half of which produces hay. He also has taken up ten acres under the Saline Act. On this tract, there is a lake of about five acres which is fed by salt springs that come up in and around the same. There is a very large percentage of salt in this water with a very little soda. It is located about ten miles northeast of Silver Lake postoffice in what is known as the desert and some years many tons of salt are formed by evaporation of the water. Mr. McCall expects to put in an evaporating plant and produce salt for the market shortly. On November 28, 1875, Mr. McCall married Cynthia I. Miller, a native of Yamhill county, Oregon. Her father, Alexious N. Miller, was a native of Missouri and crossed the plains in 1847 to this state. He settled in Yamhill county and afterwards, in Lane county, where he lived until his death at Pleasant Hill. The same occurred on November 11, 1902, he being then seventy-nine years of age. He married Jane Hutchinson, who was born in Missouri. Her parents came from Kentucky and she came west a few years after her husband, the marriage occurring in Oregon. She is now residing at Florence, being in her seventy-seventh year. Mrs. McCall has the following named brothers and sisters; R. N. of Okanogan county. Washington, W. M.. J. R., E. G., and D. J. of Eugene, Mrs. C. M. Hamilton, Mrs. Fred Wilhelm, Florence, Mrs. T. Elliott, Robert, and John. The last three are deceased. Mrs. McCall is the fourth from the youngest. Mr. McCall has the following named brothers and sisters, James, John A., Henry D., Lorenzo D., Adin J., deceased, Mrs. Elizabeth Rowland, Mrs. Martha Bristow, Mrs. Ella Bridges, Mrs. Emma Miller, and Catherine, deceased. Mrs. McCall's mother was a great niece of Chief Justice Marshall. The children born to Mr. and Mrs. McCall are named as follows: Olo J., the wife of Marion Conley of Paisley; Claude M., Adin N., Ira C., Virgil, Henry, Robert M. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2011 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.