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. 522.
 
HIBBARD S. McDANEL

     one of the prominent farmers and influential citizens of Sherman county,
resides at Moro. He is a native of Delaware, having been born at Stanton,
January 22, 1858. His father, Thomas McDanel, was a native of Pennsylvania, as
were his ancestors, descendants of an old and distinguished American family. The
father of our subject died in California, January 1, 1869. The mother, Margaret
(Haring) McDanel, was born in New York city. Her parents came from Holland. At
the present writing she resides at Oakland, California.
     When our subject was but six months of age his family removed to Butte
county, California, where the father was engaged in mining and the mercantile
business. Until 1873 he lived with the family, at which period they removed to
Oakland. He received a four years' course in the excellent public schools in his
neighborhood ; was subsequently in the graded schools of Oakland, and also
profited by a course in the Oakland Business College. During three years he
served in the capacity of clerk in a large business house in that city. It was
in January, 1882, that he came to Sherman county where he secured land four and
one-half miles from Moro. To this holding he has since added until he now owns
five hundred sixty acres which he rents out.
     Mr. McDanel was married at a short distance from Moro, February 15, 1891,
to Mary Cushman, a native of California. Her father, Obed Cushman, was a native
of Pennsylvania, and an early pioneer in California. Ike came to Sherman county
in 1882, dying at Moro in 1901. The mother, Elizabeth (Hufford) Cushman, was
born in Iowa and at present resides at Moro. Our subject has one sister, Kate,
single, living at Oakland. Mrs. McDanel has one brother, Eugene A., a farmer
living six miles south of Moro; and three sisters ; Laura H., wife of Walter H.
Moore, a Moro merchant ; America, wife of Henry A. Moore, of Moro ; and Cora,
wife of David Vintin, a farmer living near Grass Valley.
     The fraternal affiliations of Mr. McDanel include Eureka Lodge, No. 121, A.
F. & A. M., of which he is secretary, at Moro ; Moro Lodge, No. 113, I. O. O.
F., of which he is past grand, and he has, also, been delegate to the Grand
Lodge. He is a member of the A. O. U. W., past master workman, and he has served
as delegate to the grand lodge. Politically he is a Republican, and frequently a
delegate to county conventions ; once a delegate to the state convention. At
present he is serving his third term as clerk of Sherman' county, and has, been
deputy clerk six years. Mrs. McDanel is a member of the Presbyterian church.
Both socially and in a business way our subject is a popular, wide-awake and
progressive man, and both he and his wife are highly esteemed throughout the
community.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in May 2009 by Diana Smith.  Submitter has
no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.