Hawthorne, Julian, Ed. "The History of Washington: The Evergreen State from  
Early  Dawn to Daylight." New York, American Historical Publishing Co., 1893. 
p.  483.

ACTOR, CHARLES, farmer of Dixie, Walla Walla County, Wash., was born in 1834 
at Cincinnati, O.  His parents were Prussians, born on the "classic Rhine."  
Young Actor, who had the misfortune to lose both father and mother while still 
an infant, was cared for by a cousin.  Receiving his early education in 
Cincinnati, he went to St. Louis, and after years of wandering and different 
pursuits came to Washington Territory with Governor Stevens in 1855, in the 
Government employ.  In 1859 he took up a claim on the present site of Dixie.  
He was a volunteer in the Indian War and received several wounds.  He now owns 
eight hundred acres of productive soil.  Mr. Actor was married in 1863 to Miss 
Sarah Davidson.  Six children are the result of this union, one of whom, 
Margaret, married George Lane, the Treasurer of Whitman County; another, Mary, 
is united to Lincoln Cantonwine, a farmer; Louisa has become Mrs. Bowman; 
Frank sells real estate in Colfax, and Arthur is a student in a Dixie school.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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