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. 895.
 
GEORGE VINCENT

     is a farmer residing one and one-fourth miles north from New Pine Creek. He
was born June 17, 1843, in Scotland county, Missouri, the son of John and
Matilda (Moore) Vincent, both natives of Virginia. The father was born in 1803
and died at Pine Creek in 1886 at the age of eighty-six years. His father,
Josiah Vincent, was a participant in the battle of Waterloo. The present Vincent
family descended from two brothers who came originally from Scotland and settled
in Virginia early in the life of the American republic. Mr. Vincent's mother's
ancestors were of Revolutionary fame.
     Our subject remained in Missouri until attaining the age of seventeen
years, when the Civil War broke out and he went to Wapello county, Iowa. Here he
enlisted in the Seventeenth Iowa Cavalry as a member of Company C, and served
three years and three months in the federal army. Later he was sent west to
protect the frontier settlers from the ravages of the hostile Indian tribes and
while on this mission was engaged in many hot skirmishes in New Mexico, Colorado
and Kansas. Returning to Iowa he was married during March, 1868, to Maggie
Jackson, a native of Nodaway county, Missouri. In the spring of 1869 Mr. and
Mrs. Vincent came west to Jackson county, Oregon, and the spring following to
Goose Lake valley, where they have since lived, with the exception of a few
months spent in the Willamette valley in 1870.
     When Mr. and Mrs. Vincent first came to what is now Lake county there were
but few settlers here, and many hardships had to be endured in starting a home.
Mr. Vincent purchased his present home of eighty acres upon which now stands the
first log school house ever erected in the county, built in 1872.
     His home is well improved by a first class house, with barn and other
outbuildings to correspond, and contains four acres of thriving orchard. He
makes a specialty of raising grain, although he each year harvests a large
quantity of hay.
     Mr. and Mrs. Vincent have two children : William, married to Nora Smith,
and James, married to Cora Martin. The former has four children and the latter
two; both have homes adjoining that of their parents.
     Each member of the family belongs to the Baptist church.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2008 by Dave Vincent.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.