An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company,
Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 267-268.

KATHLEEN D. LINTON, who resides at 1107 Elm street, The Dalles, was born in
Ashtabula, Ohio, on November 28, 1844. Her father, Stephen Shuart, was a native
of New York and his ancestors were prominent and among the early colonial
families. The descendants have a reunion every year in August, and at the last
time one hundred and thirty-seven sat down at the table. He married Mary M.
Beckwith, a native of Vermont. The Beckwith family is one of the old colonial
families that dates their ancestry far back before the settlement of the
colonies. The Beckwiths were very prominent in the early history in the new
world and purnished many representatives to the colonial struggles and the wars
since. Of Mrs. Linton's family it is stated that every male representative who
was eligible was in the Civil war and fought for the stars and stripes. From
these families came many prominent educators both in the classics and
mathematics and many professional men. Mrs. Linton was well educated and
followed school teaching, as did her mother. September 28, 1861, at Girard,
Pennsylvania, she was married to George S. Roberts. He had served three months
in the Civil war and in 1864, enlisted again and died of a fever in New Orleans.
Mrs. Roberts had two small children, one six weeks old and the other less than
two years of age, when he enlisted the second time. Robert Calder was with Mr.
Roberts at the time of his death and later became acquainted with Mrs. Roberts,
the widow, and on May 22, 1866, they were married. They remained in Pennsylvania
seven years, when he was called away by death, leaving one son. He was a tanner
by occupation and had served through the entire Civil war in the Independent
Battery B, of the Ohio Volunteers, being in active service at Vicksburg, Shiloh,
Pea Ridge, and in other large battles. He was clerk for his company during the
war and was promoted to first lieutenant just before the war closed. After his
death Mrs. Calder taught school in Girard until 1875. On May 10, of that year,
she arrived in Nevada, in response to a telegram from her sister, who was sick.
Her two oldest children were left in the soldiers' orphan school in
Pennsylvania, and the youngest she brought with her. She attended her sister and
taught school and was there married to Joseph Kerr, a mining man and a native of
St. Johns, New Brunswick. To this union two children were born. On November 11,
1878, he was shot by an intoxicated man shooting into a crowd, and this resulted
in his death. After that, Mrs. Kerr taught school for five years and then
married Andrew J. Linton, on September 11, 1883, the nuptials occurring at Salt
Lake City. Andrew J. Linton was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on December 19,
1838. His parents were natives of Glasgow, Scotland, where they were married.
Their death occurred at Fort Wayne. Andrew J. was educated in the public schools
and then started to learn the machinists' trade, but owing to the death of his
father, which brought responsibility to him, he was obliged to take more
remunerative employment. At the time of the breaking out of the Civil war, he
promptly enlisted and served three years then was honorably discharged and
returned home. A relative offered him fifteen hundred dollars to enlist as a
substitute and he took the money and again faced the enemy. This nice sum of
money was sufficient to meet all the needs of his mother and the children, but
while Mr. Linton was serving this last time, his mother died. He was in Company
A, under Captain Kellogg, Sixteenth Army Corps, and was in the heat of the
fiercest battles throughout the entire war. After the surrender of Lee, he was
honorably discharged and came direct to Utah where he did mining. He later
operated in various places in the west and discovered the placer camp at
Osceola, White Pine county, Nevada. Owing to ill health, he sold his property
and came to Wasco county, purchasing a farm on Ten Mile creek. He made a
specialty of raising prunes and built the first dryer in the county. For twenty
years the farm was his home, and on November 27, 1903, he was called hence by
death. Mrs. Linton's children are named as follows: Ida M. Roberts, the wife of
Frank Jeanney, who is a blacksmith at Wells, Nevada; Wesley S. Roberts, a
stockman, whose death occurred at Baker City, Oregon, on November 5, 1902;
Gerald M. Calder, a popular mining man of Baker City; Florence J. Kerr, now the
wife of D.F. Cruise, in Seattle; Joseph Kerr, Jr., who lives at home with his
mother.      

Mrs. Linton has just rented her farm for five years and is living a retired life
in The Dalles. She has a goodly competence that is sufficient for all the needs
of life and is entitled to the enjoyment of the same owing to her faithful
labors in the years gone by. She is a highly esteemed and popular lady and
active in all labors of charity.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. 
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.