"An Illustrated History of the Big Bend Country; Embracing Lincoln, Douglas, 
Adams  and Franklin Counties; State of Washington". Spokane, Western Historical
Publishing  Company, Publishers, 1904. p. 859.

CALVIN LONG, a farmer residing two miles north of Paha, is a native of Harden
county, Iowa, born April 4, 1976, and at the age of one year came to Washington
with his parents. His entire life since that time has been spent in this state,
and for the most part in Adams county. He received a thorough common school
education at Ritzville, and at the age of twenty he left school and home to
engage in riding the range. After two years of cow-boy life he filed a homestead
on a quarter-section of land, rented another quarter-section and engaged in the
business of farming. He has one hundred and sixty acres all well improved and
under cultivation, with good farm buildings, orchard, etcetera, and fifteen head
of work horses. Each year he has rented, in addition to his own land, from a
half-section to a section of land, and raises as high as six thousand bushels of
wheat in a season.
    Mr. Long is a Republican, and takes an active interest in the affairs of his
party. He is also a member of the M. W. A., and has been clerk of the Paha camp
of that order.
     Calvin Long is a son of Clark and Ara A. (Saint) Long, whose lives are
sketched on other pages of this volume. He is an honorable and industrious
farmer, enjoying the esteem and good-will and a wide circle of friends.


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