Hines, H. K. "An Illustrated History of the State of Oregon." Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1893. p. 984. SAMUEL HEIPLE a prominent farmer of Clackamas county, and an Oregon pioneer of 1852, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, September 1, 1828, and is of German descent. Great-grandfather Heiple, a native of Germany, came to America and settled in Pennsylvania previous to the Revolution. His son, David Heiple, lived to be ninety years of age, and his son, also named David, was born in Somerset county, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1796. The younger David Heiple, father of our subject, was married in his native State to Miss Tenney Swanck, a daughter of Jacob Swanck, their marriage occurring June 29, 1824. In 1829 they removed to Ohio, and in 1841 from there to Missouri, settling in Cedarville township, Rockford county, where his death occurred September 24, 1857. They had ten children, of whom Samuel, the third born, is now the only survivor. Mr. Heiple went with his parents to Ohio, where he resided thirteen years. He then returned to Pennsylvania, and subsequently came from there to Oregon, driving an ox team to pay for his board during the journey. That year, 1852, is noted in the annals of history as the cholera year, and the train with which our young friend traveled did not escape the epidemic. While on the Platte he was taken with the cholera one morning, and before getting up his team some of the Ohio boys gave him alcohol to drink. He waded the river six times in securing the teams, a part of the way the water being neck deep. He has always attributed his recovery to the alcohol and the water. Many were the emigrants he helped to bury on that memorable journey, and he recalls the scenes at those new-made graves as among the saddest he ever witnessed. Mr. Heiple arrived in East Portland early in December. He camped there in the heavy timber and cut logs and made rails. He remembers having split 2,600 rails for fifty pounds of flour. It was a hard winter and, not withstanding he worked right along regardless of the rain and snow, he ran behind in his expenses $20, and then only had salt pork, coffee, bread and molasses. In the spring he went to Puget sound, where he worked till the 4th of July, 1853. Then after living in Marion county, two years, returned to Portland. He was engaged in cutting cord-wood there, two years and after that took contracts to furnish the steamboats with wood, remaining there, thus engaged sixteen years. In 1883 he purchased 673 acres of land in Clackamas county, to which property he removed in 1888, and on which he has since made extensive improvements. He purchased ten acres of land in East Portland, from which he cut the steamboat wood before mentioned and a part of the land he afterward sold for $26,000. The remaining portion is now worth $45,000. November 1, 1865, he was married to Miss Mary Jones, a native of Missouri and a daughter of George Jones, a native of the State of Ohio. The Jones family came to Oregon in 1861, and Mr. Jones became one of the prominent citizens of the State. At the time of his death he was the owner of three valuable farms. He died August 22, 1888, and his wife passed away about eight months before. They had twelve children, of whom nine are now living, Mrs. Heiple being the sixth born. At her father's death she inherited a fourth interest in 290 acres of land, located three miles east of the city of Salem. Mr. and Mrs. Heiple have had eight children, as follows: Noah F.; George S., who died in his fourth year; Simon E.; Edgar R.; Harlan L., who died at the age of sixteen months; Henry 0., Cleveland G., and Clara J. Mr. Heiple is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and is Vice-President of the order in Clackamas county. He is a good farmer and a reliable and worthy citizen, who by his own honest efforts, has risen to be one of the most prosperous men of his county. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in December 2007 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.