Hawthorne, Julian, Ed.  History of Washington the Evergreen State: From Early 
Dawn to Daylight.  Vol. 2.  New York: American Historical Publishing Co., 
1893.  p. 671.

WOOTON, DAVID W., farmer, of Dixie, Walla Walla County, Wash., was born in 
Kentucky in 1832, his parents being natives of the same State.  He received 
his early education in the public schools of Wisconsin, farmed for a time in 
Missouri, and came out to California in 1854, where he devoted himself to 
agricultural pursuits.  In 1861 he removed to Washington Territory, and took 
up a homestead claim about five miles southeast of Dixie in 1872, where he now 
owns and cultivates four hundred acres of land, which will average thirty 
bushels to the acre.  Mr. Wooton was married in 1876 to Miss Hannie Mathena, 
whose parents were thriving farmers of Walla Walla County.  They have a family 
of six children.  Mr. Wooton belongs to a class who grow, in the course of 
nature, fewer and more valuable as time rolls on-one of the honored old 
pioneers who have borne the burden and heat of the day and find their reward, 
as such veterans should, in the unfeigned regard of their fellow-citizens, who 
respect them for the many privations and trials the wilderness inflicts upon 
all those who first settle amid its unbroken solitudes.

Submitted by: Jenny Tenlen

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