The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 593

JOHN H. RAMSEY.

While John H. Ramsey is of southern birth he has spent the greater part of his
life in the west and since 1901 has made his home in Yakima county, where he is
the owner of sixty acres of valuable ranch property. He was born in Knox county,
Tennessee, March 29, 1868, a son of John B. and Emma (Huffacker) Ramsey, who
were also natives of Tennessee, where the father followed the occupation of
farming. In 1872 he removed with the family to Kansas, settling near Fort
Scott, and later he became a resident of Missouri. At a subsequent date he went
to Texas, where he passed away in the year 1916, having for four decades
survived his wife, who died in 1876.

John H. Ramsey acquired a public school education and was largely reared in
Kansas, having been but four years of age when his parents removed with their
family to that state. He was a young man of nineteen years when he made his way
to Lewis and Clark county, Montana, where he worked for wages and also engaged
in the cultivation of rented farms until 1905, when he came to Washington.
Making Yakima county his destination, he purchased forty acres of land near
Grandview and in 1918 he purchased twenty acres more, so that his holdings now
comprise sixty acres. He is engaged in raising hay, corn and other crops well
adapted to soil and climatic conditions here. Upon his place he has put many
substantial improvements. He built a comfortable residence and a good barn and
is constantly striving to enhance the value of his place through further
cultivation and development. He is an energetic man, never stopping short of
the successful accomplishment of his purpose if obstacles and difficulties can
be overcome by persistent and honorable effort.

On November 16, 1894, Mr. Ramsey was united in marriage to Miss Minnie Mills,
who was born near St. Joseph, Missouri, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ann
(Boston) Mills, who made their way up the Missouri river to Montana, where they
cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers, becoming ranchers near Cascade,
Montana. To Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey have been born nine children: Ralph, who died at
the age of thirteen years; Henry, now a member of the United States army;
Charles; Alice; Annabelle; Eva; Frederick; Mabel; and Raymond.

The family are members of the Presbyterian church, and in his political faith
Mr. Ramsey is a democrat. He has served on the school board and is interested in
the advancement of educational interests, recognizing the worth of the schools
as a preparation of the young for life's practical responsibilities and duties.
His own life has been an active and useful one and through individual effort and
persistency of purpose he has come to rank with the successful ranchmen of his
part of the state.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.