The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 629

CARL STINSON.

Ranching interests near Sunnyside are taking up most of the time and attention
of Carl Stinson, who owns a valuable tract of forty acres and also rents eighty
acres which he is cultivating. He was born in Sweden, January 6, 1885, a son of
August and Christine Stinson, the latter deceased. The father, who is a butcher
by trade, yet resides in Sweden.

Carl Stinson passed his boyhood and early manhood in his native country, where
he attended the public schools and also the high school, thus acquiring sound
fundamental knowledge. At the age of twenty-one years, in 1906, he decided to
emigrate to the United States in order to profit by the greater opportunities
presented here and after his arrival settled in Minnesota, where he remained for
a year. In 1907 he made his way to Tacoma, where he followed the carpenter's
trade for two years.

The year 1908 marked his arrival in Yakima county and for the following three
years he worked in the employ of others, thus acquiring the means that enabled
him to purchase twenty acres of land four miles southwest of Sunnyside, which at
that time was all covered with sagebrush. The purchase of this property took
place in 1911 and Mr. Stinson was the first in his section to take up
agricultural pursuits. He has since bought twenty acres more and has now cleared
the forty acres, which are in a good state of cultivation and from which he
derives a gratifying income. He augments his annual profits by renting eighty
acres, which he has also largely cleared. He is progressive and enterprising and
by close attention and indefatigable industry has made his a valuable tract. He
has modern machinery and facilities upon his place and the buildings are in a
good state of preservation.

One the 1st of June, 1915, Mr. Stinson was married to Cynthia Graham, a native
of Ohio and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Graham, who are mentioned at
greater length on other pages of this work. To this union has been born a
daughter, Dora Christine, while there are also two children by a former marriage
of Mrs. Stinson, James and William McPherson.

Mr. Stinson is a member of the Hay Growers Association of Toppenish, where he
exchanges opinions and experiences with others who are interested in a similar
line of endeavor, his farm crop being largely alfalfa. In his political
affiliations he is a democrat and has ever loyally supported the principles and
candidates of that party. Since coming to this country he has become thoroughly
Americanized and steadfastly stands for the principles which this government
represents. Moreover, he is deeply interested in the progress of his district
and is ever ready to lend a helping hand toward its upbuilding.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
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