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. 885.
 
NEHEMIAH FINE

     Born Mardi 20, 1858, in Petaluma, Sonoma county, California. Nehemiah Fine
is now a wealthy stock raiser residing ten miles east from Plush, Lake county,
Oregon.  His father was Fred E. Fine, a native of Missouri, and one of the
earliest pioneers of California, he having crossed the plains to where San
Francisco now stands prior to the advent of that great city. During the latter
part of his life he was engaged in the stock business in Sonoma county, and died
in Marion county in 1894. The mother was Jane (Cushenburg) Fine, a native of
California.
     Our subject was reared on a stock ranch, and during his early life lived in
different sections of the state of California. While residing in Merced, San
Joaquin county, he was married to Rose Hageland, a native of Illinois, who came
to California while a child. Her parents were Walker and Jane Hageland.
     In 1878 Mr. Fine brought his family to Lake county, Oregon. This was during
the time that the Bannock and Pinto Indians were on the war path, and many were
the hardships and dangers that the early settlers of Warner valley were
compelled to undergo on account of this fact. Upon first coming here Mr. Fine
filed a preemption and homestead claim on the land where he now makes his home,
and engaged in the stock business. He now has a large herd of cattle and an
equal number of horses, and his realty holdings consist in fourteen hundred and
forty acres of land, the greater part of which is suitable to the culture of hay
and grain. He came to the county without a dollar, but was an industrious,
hard-working man and a skillful manager of business and stock, and is now, as
was stated at the beginning of this sketch, one of the well-to-do citizens of
Warner Lake valley.      
     Mr. and Mrs. Fine have been parents of two children, a son and a daughter.
The son, Joseph Walker, is married to Maud Sweet, has one child, Charlotte, by
name, and is a stock raiser of Warner valley. Their daughter, Maud, lives at
home with her parents. Both the children have been well educated by their
parents.
     Mr. Fine is a member of the A.O.U.W. fraternity of Lakeview.


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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.