Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A.  G.  Walling, 1882.  p. a40.
 
PHILIP YENNEY

   is a native of Germany, and was born in Baden October 22, 1834.  His parents
were farmers, and he remained at home with them in the fatherland until he was
sixteen years of age, when he emigrated to America, landing in New York July 18,
1850.  He spent four years in Virginia and Maryland, and then went to Iowa.  It
had been his intention, if he did not like the country, to return to Germany;
but the years and the traveling combined, had given the New World an attraction
that caused him to determine to make of it his future home.  While in Iowa he
resided near Oskaloosa, in Mahaska county.  In October, 1857, while living in
Iowa, he was married to Rachel Wennett.  The father of Miss Wennett was one of
the pioneers of Iowa, and now lives near Dayton, W.  T.  In 1860 Mr. Yenney, in
company with Mr. Wennett crossed the plains with an ox team to Walla Walla, W.
T.  where he took up an eighty-acre homestead a little north of where he now
lives.  In July, 1871, he purchased the property where he now resides, of which
there is a view in this book.  Since that time, he has added to the original
farm, until at present it embraces 560 acres, To this is added an eighty-acre
school tract that he will have the first right to when the school land is in
market, making 640 acres, all of which he has inclosed with fences and all under
cultivation.  For the building improvements see the view in this work.  Since
coming to Walla Walla his business has been farming and stock-raising.  
   He has six children: Sarah M., the wife of James W.  McKee, resides in
Garfield county near Pomemy; John F., aged 24 years; Robert C., 13 years;
William H., 11 years; and Lewis O., 8 years; little Margaret O., 6 years.  There
are three orchards on the place, containing about 500 trees, apples, pears, etc.
There are eighty acres of timber land in the mountains belonging to Mr. Yenney.
He has been a school director since the first organization of the district in
which he lives.  John F.  owns 200 acres on Whiskey creek.

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Submitted to the WA.  Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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