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. 1014.

THOMAS W. GARRETT

     is a stock raiser residing three fourths of a mile northwest from Bly,
Oregon. He was reared on a farm in St. Francis, county, Missouri, in which
county and state he was born October 24, 1861. In May, 1884, he came west to the
San Joaquin valley, California. Here he worked on a salary until the fall or
1886, when he came to Goose lake valley, Oregon, and procured employment on a
stock ranch. In 1889 he took a homestead near Goose lake and afterwards
purchased a quarter section more of land adjoining.  He sold his homestead in
1895, but still owns his remaining one hundred and sixty acres. He came to Bly
in the fall of 1895, and for two years thereafter managed the Pioneer hotel at
this place, after which he purchased his present home. He has all two hundred
and eighty acres of land, a good portion of which is valuable for agricultural
purposes and well improved. Mr. Garrett also owns an interest in the irrigation
ditch which runs through that section and can irrigate a great portion of his
land. He is engaged extensively in raising hay for his large herd of cattle. Mr.
Garrett was married October 27, 1889, to May Millis, who passed away September
16, 1903, leaving no children.
     Mr. Garrett's parents, William and Susan C. (Grider) Garrett, were both
reared in the same county and state as was he. The mother died there in the
month of April, 1900. The father made his home in that county until the fall of
1903, when he sold out and came to Bly. He is now sixty-eight years of age and
makes his home with the subject of this sketch.
     Thomas W. Garrett is now serving his third term as constable for the
Sprague river precinct. He is a man of wide acquaintance and of great prestige
in Lake county.


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