Shaver, F. A., Arthur P. Rose, R. F. Steele, and A. E. Adams, compilers.  "An
Illustrated History of Central Oregon." ("Embracing Wasco, Sherman, Gilliam,
Wheeler, Crook, Lake, & Klamath Counties")  Spokane, WA: Western Historical
Publishing Co., 1905.  p. 762.
 
CHARLES CLYDE HON

     was born in Linn county, Oregon, on July 8, 1871 and now lives about
twenty-three miles east from Prineville, where he owns three-quarters of a
section of land and is engaged in stock raising. His father, John Wesley Hon,
was born in Iowa and crossed the plains to Oregon in company with his mother in
the early fifties. She took a donation claim in Linn county and he wrought on
the farm until grown to manhood. The mother had crossed the plains with four
children, the oldest being but a small boy. The elder Hon married Olive Coyle, a
native of California, who came to Oregon with her parents in pioneer days. She
died when our subject was two years old. Charles Clyde was educated in the
Willamette valley and as early as 1886, came to Crook county and settled on a
ranch. Since then, he has given almost his entire attention to stock raising and
has gained very good success in his labors. Mr. Hon has identified himself with
the interests of Crook county and this portion of Oregon in a decided manner and
has always displayed an industry and progressiveness that stamp him one of the
substantial men of the county. PL's ranch is a good one, well improved and
fitted for stock raising and he has a good many animals on the range. He
selected a choice location when coming here and has made it much more valuable
by carefully improving it and in addition to doing stock raising, his place is
admirably fitted for general farming and dairying.
     In 1894, Mr. Hon married Miss Daisy Zevely, who was born in Union county,
Oregon.  She came to Crook county with her parents, James and Elizabeth (Boyle)
Zevely, in 1886.  Her father was born in Missouri and crossed the plains to
Oregon with his parents when a child.  Her mother was born in California and
came to Oregon in pioneer days.  To our subject and his wife one child has been
born, Olive.  Mr. Hon is a member of the M.W.A. and a man of good standing in
the community.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in August 2011 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.