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. 783.
 
CHARLES WILLIAM PALMEHN

     who is one of the pioneers of the Pacific coast, now resides one mile west
from Grizzly. He was born in Washington county, Minnesota, on March 2, 1858, the
son of Peter and Helen Christeen (Lund) Palmehn. In 1866, the family left,
Minnesota and came via the Isthmus to Polk county, where the father bought an
interest in a sawmill. He operated the same until his death and our subject
received his education at the home place in Polk county. Until 1881 he remained
there, then came to Eastern Oregon, taking a homestead where Madras now stands.
He and his brother are engaged in the sheep business there and as they
prospered, bought more land until they owned the entire basin. In 1892 they
bought the place where our subject now resides, which consists of four hundred
acres. Mr. Palmehn gives his attention to general farming and also raises stock.
He has shown industry and thrift in this occupation and is reaping a good reward
for his labors. He has one brother, John, and one half brother, Walter Waymire.
The latter lives in Whitman county, Washington.
     He also has the following sisters and half sisters : Mrs. F. J. Waymire, in
Wilcox, Washington ; Mrs. Clark Randall, Pulman, Washington; Mrs. J. A. Waymire,
Mt. Idaho ; and Mrs. Clide Hale. The last named one is the half sister.
     Mr. Palmehn's father came from Northern Sweden in 1846, or thereabouts, and
worked in a sawmill somewhere on Lake Michigan until he became head sawyer. In
1856 he purchased a piece of land in Minnesota. His death occurred in 1873,
eight miles south from Dallas, Oregon. The mother came with her parents from
Southern Sweden about 1845 and settled in Illinois. A few years later they
removed to Minnesota and there she married Mr. Palmehn. After his death she
married Mr. Waymire, and is now dwelling at Wilcox, Washington.
     Our subject went to work in a sash, door and furniture factory and
continued at that business until 1879. Then he tried farming and in 1880 he was
teamster for the surveying party that was running the narrow gauge in the
Willamette valley.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.