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. 486. ROBERT W. PINKERTON one of the leading agriculturists and prominent land-holders of Sherman county, resides in a handsome and eligibly located home three and one-half miles north of Moro. He is a native of the Hawkeye State, having been born in Page county, Iowa, April 25. 1858. His parents are Samuel and Margaret (Smith) Pinkerton, natives of Ireland, both of County Antrim, where the father was a farmer. At present they live in Page county, Iowa. with a daughter Clarinda. Samuel Pinkerton came to the United States in the '40's, settling in the state of New York, near the Vermont line. Later the family moved to Wisconsin where he bought a farm, going thence to Iowa about 1856 or 1857, where he purchased more land. On this farm our subject was reared, and from which he attended the public schools in his vicinity, remaining there until he had attained his majority. He then worked a portion of the old home place until he came to Sherman county in March, 1886. For three years he rented land, and then filed on a claim near Kent, which he later abandoned. In June, 1892, he purchased a quarter section, a timber-culture, and now owns a half section. He has built a story and a half house on the timber culture claim and this is surrounded with a fine small orchard and handsome shade trees. Mr. Pinkerton was married in Page county, Iowa, to Carrie J. Bennett, born in that state. Her parents were James and Sarah (Daugherty) Bennett, the father a native of Pennsylvania, and the mother of Ohio, and both deceased. Our subject has two brothers and three sisters living: Samuel J., at Kent, King county, Washington; William A., a Presbyterian minister of Sumner, Beaver county, Iowa; Martha, wife of William J. Bayles, a farmer in Page county Iowa; Margaret J., wife of James McKeown, of Page county; Rachel, wife of Alexander Duncan, of the same county. Mrs. Pinkerton has one sister and three brothers; Emma, widow of Thomas Young, of Taylor county, Iowa; Ellsworth, a farmer in Oklahoma territory; William, in Colorado; and James, of Clarinda, page county, Iowa. Four children have blessed the union of Mr. and Mrs. Pinkerton; Wilma, wife of Charles Poole, a farmer of Morrow county, Oregon; Emma, aged nineteen; Margaret, aged fifteen; and Harry, a boy of nine. Mr. Pinkerton and his wife are members of the Reformed Presbyterian church. During the past two years the family have made their home in Seattle in winters, where Mr. Pinkerton owns a residence at the corner of Federal and Harrison avenues. During a portion of the past ten years Mr. Pinkerton has cultivated about eight hundred acres in Sherman county, which he rents. In 1902 he purchased one thousand six hundred acres in Morrow county, Oregon, one mile from the town of Douglas. This place is conducted by his son-in-law, Charles Poole, with whom he is a partner. Socially and financially Mr. Pinkerton has scored a pronounced success and he and his estimable wife are highly esteemed in the community in which they reside. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in March 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.