Lockley, Fred.  "History of the Columbia River Valley, From The Dalles to the
Sea." Vol. 2.  S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1928.  p. 397.

HOWARD EDWIN SUNDAY

Howard E. Sunday, who has back of him a long and successful record as a farmer,
is devoting his attention to the management of the ranch of his brother, "Billy"
Sunday, in the Hood River valley, and is thoroughly up-to-date and progressive
in his ideas and methods. He was born at Ames, Iowa, on the 24th of November,
1860, and is a son of William and Mary Jane (Corey) Sunday. His maternal
grandfather, "Squire" Corey, was one of the three men who founded Ames College.
William Sunday enlisted for service in the Civil war in August, 1862, and died
on December 22d of that year, leaving his widow with two small children, Howard
E. and William. She later became the wife of Matthew Heizer, and they had a son,
Leroy Heizer, who is now a fruit grower in the Hood River valley. The mother's
death occurred in 1917. After the death of their father, Howard and William
Sunday were put into an orphans' home, in which they remained until they were
sixteen and fourteen years of age respectively. Howard E. Sunday then went to
his grandfather Corey's farm at Ames, where he lived from 1876 to 1881, when,
having attained his majority, he went to Jamestown, North Dakota, and took up a
homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he built a sod house. He was
a pioneer of that locality, into which the railroads had not yet penetrated,
and his early years there were characterized by hard work and privations. Buying
a yoke of oxen, he broke the land and placed it under cultivation, after which
he preempted one hundred and sixty acres additional. He thus has three hundred
and twenty acres there, which he farmed, and also cultivated leased land, until
1920, when he turned the management of the place over to his son-in-law, B. S.
Bryan, and, coming to the Hood River valley, took charge of his brother's farm,
to the supervision of which he is still giving his attention. This land he had
bought for his brother in 1910, at which time he made a trip to the valley, and
it is now one of the show places of this locality, being highly improved. He
raises large crops of corn and hay and gives considerable attention to the
breeding and raising of thoroughbred Jersey cattle and Duroc and Chester White
hogs. The ranch is well irrigated and is numbers among the best farms in the
valley.

In 1883 Mr. Sunday was united in marriage to Miss Ellen McDonald, who was born
near Keokuk, Iowa, and is a daughter of Patrick and Susan Heggart) McDonald.
Her father served in the Union army during the Civil war and was killed on his
way home after the close of that conflict. Mr. and Mrs. Sunday have six
children, all of whom were born in North Dakota, as follows: Mrs. Irma May
McCurdy, who lives in North Dakota; Howard E., who died in North Dakota; William
A., who died in Colorado; Harry, who assists his father on the Hood River ranch
and is married and has a daughter, Harriet; Mrs. Ruth Bryan, who lives on her
father's homestead in North Dakota and is the mother of five children, Marjory,
Howard, Irma, Harold and Bertha; and McDonald, who lives in North Dakota. Mr.
Sunday is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Modern
Woodmen of America at Jamestown, North Dakota, and while living in that state
served as a member of the school board. Mr. Sunday enjoys a well-deserved
reputation for his kindness and generosity, whenever possible lending a hand to
help his neighbors, and practicing in his daily life the gospel of good cheer
and service. Though a quiet and unassuming man, his sterling character and
excellent personal traits are recognized and appreciated by his fellowmen,
among whom he is held in high esteem.



Submitted to the OR. Bios Project in September 2006 by Jeffrey L. Elmer

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