Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 4. 
Chicago, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 51.

	GEORGE APPLEGATE is one of the successful farmers and stock-raisers 
who reside near Yoncalla, Douglas county.  He is a native of Oregon, his birth 
having occurred in Douglas county, August 17, 1852.  He is a son of Charles 
and Melinda (Miller) Applegate, the former a native of Kentucky and the latter 
of Tennessee.  The parents migrated to Oregon with the Applegate Emigrant 
Company and settled in Yamhill county in 1843.  Jesse Applegate was the 
captain of the company and an uncle of the subject of this sketch.  More 
extended metnion is made of the parents in the sketch of the Applegate family 
published in another part of this work.  In 1847 Jesse, Charles and Lindsay, 
three brothers, took up donation claims in Yoncalla Valley and there 
established their pioneer homes.
	George Applegate was reared at home and received his education in the 
public schools.  In 1873 he purchased the R. M. Kelly donation claim and 
engaged in farming.  he lived on that property until 1888 at which time he 
sold out and in 1890 bought his father's old homestead to which he removed and 
where he has since lived.  He and his children own five hundred acres of land, 
including the old homestead.
	George Applegate was united in marriage in 1878 to Miss Flora McKee in 
Scotts Valley.  She came to Oregon from Nebraska where she had been engaged in 
teaching school.  To Mr. and Mrs. Applegate five children have been born: 
Rachael L, the wife of E. A. Tulley of Wallowa, Oregon; Paul, who is operating 
the home farm; Eve L. and Eva L., twins who are engaged in teaching school at 
The Dalles; and Vincent L., in his senior year in the Yoncalla high school.
	George Applegate is affiliated with the republican party but has never 
sought political preferment.  He is one of the enterprising citizens of his 
county and a man whose integrity in business matters has always been above 
suspicion.  He enjoys the confidence and steem of all his associates and is in 
every way entitled to be numbered among the influential and useful men of his 
part of the state.
	
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