The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 967 

LEE POLLARD.

Lee Pollard, whose identification with the agricultural development of Yakima
county has been of considerable worth, makes his home in the vicinity of
Grandview. He was born in Rockingham county, Virginia, March 12, 1865, and in
1900 came to Washington, settling at Roslyn, where he engaged in mining coal. In
1901 he took up a homestead of eighty acres near where Grandview now stands. The
tract was all covered with sagebrush. It was wild land just as it had come from
the hand of nature. He brought his family to this place and at once began its
development and improvement. He has since sold ten acres but retains the
ownership of seventy acres, which is devoted to the raising of corn, potatoes
and hay. He also engages in raising hogs to some extent and he likewise
conducts a dairy business. In addition to the improvement of his own property he
cleared, grubbed and fenced eighty acres belonging to Dr. P. B. Wing, now a
resident of California, and erected thereon good buildings such as are necessary
in the equipment of a modern ranch property. This place adjoins his own.

In 1888 Mr. Pollard was married to Miss Jennie Jenkins, who was born in Page
county, Virginia, October 30, 1865. They have become the parents of eight
children. Henry, who has a wife and three children, is now engaged in mining at
Roslyn, Washington. Arthur, who has a wife and seven children, is a miner and
motor driver at Roslyn. Mary Magdalene is the wife of James Brooks, a resident
of Tacoma, and they have seven children. Charles Edward is the next of the
family. Sarah Elizabeth is the wife of Thomas Blalock, a resident of Yakima.
Harry, Isaiah and Douglas are all at home. The family circle yet remains
unbroken by the hand of death. All of the children have been given good public
school education. The son Harry took up three hundred and twenty acres of
government land on Squaw creek and is improving it, doing dry farming. The
daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, also has a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres
adjoining her brother's property.

The family attend the Baptist church and Mr. Pollard gives his political
endorsement to the republican party. He is a successful pioneer rancher and has
won substantial prosperity in his farming operations. he has contributed in
substantial measure to the upbuilding of the valley as well as to the upbuilding
of his individual fortunes. He started here with a cash capital of a dollar and
a half and had a family of wife and eight children. His industry and
determination have enabled him to steadily advance and his record shows what a
man can do through persistency of purpose and undaunted energy. he is always
dependable and reliable, a man of his word, and those with whom he has had
business associations know that he is straightforward in all dealings. He is now
pleasantly situated and enabled to enjoy all of the comforts of life.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.