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. 603.
 
D. CANTWELL

     is a carpenter and farmer residing about three miles northwest from
Mayville. He was born in Oregon in 1855, the son of Mose and Mary (Fitzworth)
Cantwell, natives of Alabama and Arkansas respectively. The former was born in
1824 and the latter in 1825. The father died in 1889 and the mother in 1902. He
was a veteran of the Civil War. When our subject was five years of age the
family removed from Arkansas to Texas and seventeen years later returned to the
home state. In these two places this son was educated in the common schools, and
in 1875 came from the Mississippi valley to Oregon. Settlement was made in
Umatilla county and shortly thereafter our subject moved to the Willamette
valley.  There he learned the engineering trade with the Oregon Iron and Steel
Company and continued with them for five years. After this he bought an interest
in a saw mill which he operated for a year. Then he sold his part in that
property and came to Lost valley in Gilliam county where he erected a saw mill.
He continued the operation of that until 1893 when he sold the property. For the
past ten years he has been engaged in various occupations and is now doing
contracting and building.
     In 1879 Mr. Cantwell married Miss Martha (Pioneer) Southworth. She was born
on the Pioneer reservation in 1852 while her parents were crossing the plains.
Her father, James B. Southworth, was one of the early settler's in southern
Oregon. To Mr. and Mrs. Cantwell one child has been born, Robert M., on February
15, 1887.
     Mr. Cantwell is a member of the I. O. O. F. and a man who takes a keen
interest in political matters and whatever is for the building up of the
country.


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