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. 469. WILLIAM CURRIE resides about three and one-halt miles northeast from Rutledge Sherman county, and is well known here having been a pioneer of 1884. He was born in Scotland, on March 19, 1844, the son of William and Jeanette (Bosomwaith) Currie, natives of the same country. The father died in Scotland and the mother died in Canada. Our subject came to Canada when five years old, with his mother and other relatives and settlement was made in Huron county, Ontario. There Mr. Currie was educated and reared until twenty years of age. His mother had taken land there and he assisted her to improve it and make a home. When twenty years of age, he came, to Port Huron. Michigan and enlisted in Company B, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry, under Captain Balles and Colonel Johnson, and was busy at guard duty until the close of the war, receiving his honorable discharge in June, 1865. After being mustered out he came via Panama to San Francisco, and a short time later went thence to Santa Cruz where he labored two years getting out redwood bolts to make powder kegs. Afterward, we find him in Nevada, where he was variously engaged for a year, then he went to Montana and did packing. Later, he operated a threshing machine there, after which he went down the river to Kansas City. Not finding anything there to suit him, he journeyed on west to Arizona, and was variously employed in that territory, Utah and Idaho until 1884, when he came to this part of Oregon. A year later, he took up land, then bought railroad land and since has been giving his attention to farming. His wife also took land before her marriage and they now own nine hundred and sixty acres. Mr. Currie has a threshing outfit, operated by a gasoline engine. In 1886, Mr. Currie married Mrs. Louisa Turner, who was born in New York, the daughter of William and Ellen (Morse) Seeley, natives of New York and descended from old American families. The father died in New York, and he was blind from forty until 1871, the; time of his death. Mr. Currie has no brothers living, but has two half brothers, John and Robert Boswaith, in Canada. He also has one half sister, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Main, in Ontario. Mrs. Currie has two brothers, Felix E., in San Francisco, and William H., who died from cholera in the Civil war, and one sister, Diadama, in New York. Politically, Mr. Currie is independent, not being trammeled by any party ties. Mrs. Currie is a member of the Methodist church, while her husband belongs to the Presbyterian denomination. They are good substantial people and are well and favorably known. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in November 2010 by Diana Smith. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.