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. 881.
 
WILLIAM L. POPE

     is a native of Yreka, California, born September 18, 1864, and is now a
cattle raiser residing five miles south from Warner Lake postoffce on Twenty-
Mile creek. His ranch is known all over southern Oregon as the "20-Mile Ranch"
and is a noted way station on the Fort Bidwell-Plush road.
     Mr. Pope is the son of Charles W. and Medora (Combs) Pope, California
pioneers. The father was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, and crossed the plains to
California in 1849, settling at Yreka, where he was engaged in mining and the
stoke business until 1868. He then removed to Little Shasta, where he resided
until his death, which occurred in May, 1889.  He was sixty-eight years of age
when he died. The mother was a native of West Bend, Indiana, born in 1842, and
crossed the plains to Yreka, California, at the age of ten years. She died in
1880.
     Our subject grew to manhood at the home of his parents, and received a good
public school education. In June, 1884, he came to Lakeview and engaged in the
sheep business with D. V. Cleland, Jr., under the firm style of Pope & Cleland.
Three years later the firm dissolved, and Mr. Pope engaged in the business of
buying and selling sheep, which business he followed until 1901, when he
abandoned the sheep business and engaged in raising cattle. He now devotes
himself exclusively to the raising of cattle and the management of his ranch. He
purchased his present home in 1895, but has lived upon it only since 1901. He
has three hundred and twenty acres, about forty acres of, which is is alfalfa
meadow, thirty in grain and one and one-half acres in orchard. He has three
miles of irrigation ditch and flume, receiving an abundance of water from
Twenty-mile creek. His land will produce any variety of fruit or vegetable
adapted to the temperate zone.
     On November 27, 1896, Mr. Pope was married to Mary L.Clark, a native of
Lake City, situated in Surprise valley, California.   Her father, John A.Clark,
was a native of Arkansas, who came to Oregon in 1856, and a short time later
removed to Surprise valley. He was one of the pioneer settlers of that valley,
and served during the Piute Indian war as a volunteer soldier. He has been
engaged in the stock business the greater part of his life since coming west,
and is now living on Twenty-mile creek, Lake county, Oregon. Mrs. Pope's mother
was Jane A. (Ford) Clark, born at Yreka, California, and died at Pluish, Oregon,
on March 12, 1893.


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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.