An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, page 262-263.

CHARLES W. WING, the popular proprietor of the Tygh valley hotel, in Tygh
valley, Wasco county, was born April 20, 1856, in Portland, Oregon, the son of
Martin and Margaret (Cleggett) Wing. The father is a native of Wisconsin, who
came to Oregon in 1852 with ox teams, striking first, The Dalles, after which he
went by boat to Portland. The mother of our subject was born in Missouri,
crossing the plains with her parents. At present she resides at Wamic, Wasco
county.      

Twelve miles east of Portland our subject, Charles W. Wing, was reared on a
farm, attending "district school" in a log building. When he was eighteen years
of age his family removed to the Wamic country, Oregon, and in 1885 he preempted
and homesteaded land, also purchasing other tracts until he now owns five
hundred acres, three hundred acres of which he cultivates. He winters from
thirty-five to forty bead of cattle, mainly graded stock. October 15, 1902, he
purchased the hotel from Samuel Broyles, which has a commodious feed barn in
connection. Mr. Wing has made this hotel a most popular resort for the traveling
public, and it is conducted in a highly satisfactory manner. Mr. Wing has seven
brothers and six sisters; Milton I.R., Alonzo, Stephen, Frank, Henry, Joseph,
and Edward, of Wamic: Ella, wife of Fred Chandler, of Yakima county, Washington;
Emma, married to Charles Hayward, of Hood River, Wasco county Mollie, wife of
Orrin Britton, a farmer living near Wamic; Hattie, widow of John Johnson, of
Wamic; Dollie, wife of Andrew Knissner, of North Yakima, Washington: and Martha.      

Mr. Wing was married January 18, 1886, at The Dalles, to Miss Perly Hayward,
born in Iowa, daughter of Horace and Susan (Russell) Hayward, natives of the
Empire State. The paternal grandparents were natives of Massachusetts, of an old
New England family. The mother was born in Livingston county, New York, as was
her father, who was a descendant of prominent New York and New England families,
the Russell family having been distinguished for many generations in political,
legal and commercial circles, one of whom has been governor of Massachusetts,
and prominently mentioned as a candidate for president of the United States. Her
mother was a Blanchard, another distinguished family in the New England states.
Mrs. Wing has two brothers and three sisters: Charles, of Hood River; Horace, of
Wamic: Amelia, deceased, the wife of William Magill; and Essie M., deceased. To
Mr. and Mrs. Wing four children have been born: Grace, wife of James Whitman,
with our subject; Ivy, Louis, and Martin, boys.      

Politically Mr. Wing is independent. Mrs. Wing is a devoted member of the United
Brethren church. Martha, a sister of Mr. Wing, was married to Timothy Brownhill,
a prominent attorney of The Dalles. She died in November, 1894, at Portland.

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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.