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. 800.
 
JAMES S. McMEEN 

     is a stock raiser and farmer residing three miles northwest from Lamonta.
He was born in Ohio on February 25, 1832. His father, John McMeen, was born in
Pennsylvania and was a veteran of the Civil War, having enlisted in Company J,
Thirty-seventh Ohio Cavalry, in which he served until 1863, when he was thrown
from his horse in Louisville, Kentucky, from the effects of which he died that
same year. Our subject was educated in the common schools of Ohio and remained
on the old home place until twenty-one years of age. Then he went to
Philadelphia, later visited Chicago and then went back to the old home place in
Ohio from which he started on September 8, 1883, for the west. He came direct to
his present location and took a homestead. At that time, he had a capital of one
hundred dollars. He began raising sheep and horses and has continued in that
business together with fanning. He is increasing his property holdings so that
he now owns eight hundred and eighty acres which is well improved and
productive. He has a beautiful home, one hundred head of cattle and other
property.
     In November, 1884, Mr. McMeen married Emma F. Williams, a native of
Illinois and the daughter of William Williams. Three children are the fruit of
this union, Charles, Lloyd and Bruce. Our subject has one brother, David, in
Ohio.
     Fraternally, he is a member of the W. W. and is a man well known as
substantial and industrious.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in June 2010 by Diana Smith.  Submitter
has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.