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. 910.
 
MANLEY CROMWELL CURRIER

     who resides in Paisley, Oregon, was bom on July 6, 1856, in Benton county,
Oregon. His father, Jacob Manley Currier, was born in Vermont, February 12,
1827, and crossed the plains from the state of Missouri in 1846 to Oregon,
taking a donation claim near where Corvallis is now located. He served among the
volunteers in the Cayuse Indian war and of the Rogue river war and is still
living on the old donation claim near Corvallis, in his seventy-ninth year. He
married Maria Foster, who came across the plains in 1845 to what is now Benton
county. She is now deceased. Our subject has one brother, William A., of this
county and one sister, Mrs. Laurena Belknap of King county, California. Our
subject grew to manhood in Benton county and there secured his education. In the
fall of 1880, he came to Summer Lake in this county and engaged in the stock
business. In 1896, he sold out and located in Paisley and two years later opened
up a retail liquor store. He has a prosperous business and owns a good residence
in town.
     Fraternally, Mr. Currier is affiliated with the I.O.O.F.
     On November 11, 1903, Mr. Currier married Kittie Bell Hanan, who was born
in Lake county, Oregon, near Summer, Lake valley. Her father was John C. Hanan
and her mother Margaret E. (Hadley) Hanan.  John C. was born on February 29,
1844, at Oregon City and as far as is known, was the first white child born in
the territory now embraced in the state of Oregon. His father, George W. Hanan,
had come to the Willamette valley in the employ of the Hudson's Bay Company as a
shoemaker. John C. Hanan came to Lake county in 1875 and was married in the
Chewaucan valley to Margaret E. Hadley, who died in 1902. They were the parents
of eight children, George, Mrs. Emma Kelsay, Mrs. Currier, Charles M., Henry E.,
Andrew, John and Waymen.
     Mr. and Mrs. Currier are well known as are also Mr. and Mrs. Hanan, having
been pioneers in this county.


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Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in February 2011 by Diana Smith.
Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned
above.