Gaston, Joseph.  "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912."  Vol. 3. 
Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 461.
 
J. H. McCUBBIN

     who passed away at his home in Lostine on January 31, 1910, was well known
in that town and throughout the surrounding county and his qualities were such
as gained for him the respect and friendship of all with whom he came into
contact. In his business career he won success and was honored by reason of the
straightforward methods which he always followed. He was born in Miller county,
Missouri, on October 25, 1845, the son of William R. and Nancy (Bilyen)
McCubbin, who came from Miller county, Missouri, to Oregon, locating in
Clackamas county, twelve miles east of Oregon city. There they took up a
donation land claim of three hundred and twenty acres each and resided thereupon
until their deaths.
     J. H. McCubbin was reared on his father's farm and acquired his education
in the common schools. When a young man he apprenticed himself in the blacksmith
trade to his brother-in-law, J. H. Brown, with whom he later entered into
partnership in that business. For about one year after his marriage in 1872 he
resided in Clackamas county, but in 1873, removed to Wasco county where he
engaged in farming and did such blacksmithing as his few neighbors wished done.
In 1877 he came to Wallowa valley where he purchased two hundred acres of school
land adjoining the town of Lostine where he spent the remaining years of his
life in retirement.
     On the 4th of September, 1872, Mr. McCubbin was united in marriage to Miss
Marietta Young, who is a native of Clackamas county and a daughter of Joseph and
Emily (Barnes) Young. Her parents moved from Missouri to Oregon in 1847,
locating in Clackamas county, where they took up a donation land claim and
resided on the same until the mother's death, when the father went to Wasco
county and there made his home with his son Jerry until his death. To Mr. and
Mrs. McCubbin were born six children of whom four survive: Rebecca, the wife of
James T. Johnson of Morrow county; Bertha J., who is Mrs. H. A. Kuhn of Wallowa
county; Dolly E., who is Mrs. F. L. Pearce of Bellingham, Washington; and Violet
W., the wife of W. W. Kuhn of Lostine. The deceased were: Andrew J., who died in
infancy; and Mary A., who passed away when twenty-two years of age. The demise
of Mr. McCubbin, the husband and father, was deeply deplored by a wide circle of
friends and acquaintances.
     In politics Mr. McCubbin was a Jackson democrat and took an active interest
in local party work. He served as county assessor of Union county when Wallowa
county was yet a part of the same, and in 1880 while in that office, was census
taker of this county. After the division of Union and Wallowa counties, Mr.
McCubbin was for two terms assessor of Wallowa county. Fraternally he was a
member of the Lostine Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and of the Anthony Chapter No. 88,
of the Order of the Eastern Star, of which chapter Mrs. McCubbin is also a
member. Mr. McCubbin was one of the foremost citizens of Wallowa county and was
highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was quick to recognize the rights of
others and he looked at life from a rational standpoint that brought him a clear
understanding of the conditions of the world, its possibilities, and the
obligations that rested upon him in his relation to his fellowmen and in
citizenship. Mrs. McCubbin resides in Lostine and has a wide circle of friends
and acquaintances there who hold her in the highest esteem.

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