The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 135 ED J. AUMILLER. For a quarter of a century Ed J. Aumiller has lived in the Yakima valley, where he is successfully engaged in farming, his attention being divided between the production of fruit and the raising of alfalfa and corn. He was born in LaSalle county, Illinois, on the 28th of April, 1872, a son of William and Anna (Markell) Aumiller. The father was a carpenter, came to Yakima in the year 1894 and now follows farming near the city. His wife passed away in 1912. After completing a high school education in Illinois, Ed J. Aumiller learned the carpenter's trade and was employed along that line in connection with the buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. In the latter part of that year he made his way to Yakima and has since been identified with the northwest. In 1896 he purchased twenty acres of land three miles southwest of the city of Yakima and at once began its improvement. In the intervening years he has steadily carried forward the work of development, but after a time he sold ten acres of his land. He now has five acres planted to apples, pears and cherries and his orchards are in excellent bearing condition. The remainder of his land is devoted to the raising of alfalfa and corn. On the 2Sth of December, 1900, Mr. Aumiller was married to Miss Laura Wright, a native of London, England, and a daughter of Mathew and Emily Wright, who crossed the Atlantic to Canada during the girlhood days of Mrs. Aumiller, who some years afterward came to Washington. To this marriage have been born seven children. Mabel, Esther, Florence, Clarence, Lucille, Grace and Robert. Mrs. Aumiller is a member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Aumiller votes with the republican party but has never been an aspirant for office. During the twenty-five years of his residence in the Yakima valley he has witnessed much of its development, growth and progress. He has seen its arid lands, on which nothing grew but sagebrush, transformed into rich fields and productive orchards and has long borne his share in the agricultural development of the district. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.