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. 918.
 
WARREN M. DUNCAN

     the senior member of the firm of Duncan & Company, is managing a livery and
feed business at Silver Lake. He was born on July 31, 1854, where the town of
Vale now stands, in eastern Oregon, while his parents were crossing the plains
to Oregon. His father, George C. Duncan, was a native of Tennessee and came to
Iowa at the age of sixteen. He located near Des Moines and there married Louise
Rinehart. They started across the plains in the spring of 1854 and arrived in
Lane county, Oregon, September 17th of the same year. Mr. Duncan took a donation
claim in Lane county .and for four years was assessor of that county. As early
as 1873, he came to the Silver Lake country, locating on the west bank of Silver
Lake, and engaging in the stock business. He is now living a retired life in
Harney county, this state, being nearly eighty years of age, his birth occurring
on October 12, 1825. The mother is a relative of the Rinehart family of Union
county, this state, and her mother, Isabel Rinehart, died in 1903, in her
ninety-seventh year. Mrs. Duncan died in 1882. The children born to this
venerable couple are Mrs. Sarilda Comegys of Burns, Oregon; Mrs. Emma Bunyard of
Harney county, Oregon: Warren M., who is our subject; Felix D., of Silver Lake;
and George W., of Lakeview. Our subject located on a farm with his parents in
Lane county and came with them to Silver Lake in September, 1876. He engaged in
the stock business and took a preemption and a homestead in the Silver Lake
valley. Later, he sold this property and came to the village of Silver Lake
where he built a large livery stable. Since that time, he has been engaged in
the livery business, his son being his partner. He has some good rigs and plenty
of horses and does, a general livery, feed and sale business. Mr. Duncan also
has a good six-room residence in Silver Lake and one hundred head of cattle.
     On December 31, 1880, Mr. Duncan married Ida Vanderpool, who was born in
Marion county, Oregon. Her father, James Vanderpool, was a pioneer of Oregon in
1856 and also was one of the earliest settlers of Crook county, coming there in
1871. He died in Prineville in 1898. Her mother, Mary (Moore) Vanderpool, is now
living at Prineville, Mr. and Mrs. Duncan have one child, Leslie Willard, who is
actively engaged with his father in the livery business.
     Mr. Duncan is a member of the W. W. and as a very active and stirring man. 


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