Gilbert, Frank T.  "Historic Sketches of Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia and
Garfield Counties, Washington Territory; and Umatilla County, Oregon."
Portland, OR: Print & Lithographing House of A. G. Walling, 1882. p. a18.
 
E. L. HEMINGWAY

     the son of Ezra and Phil era Hemingway, was born on the banks of Lake
Champlain, in Washington Co., N. Y., in the year 1843. At the age of fourteen he
went to Dodge Co., Wisconsin, and soon after to Dalles, Oregon, where he built a
toll road and engaged in merchandising for ten years. He then engaged in the
stock business for seven years on John Day river. He has recently established
Hemingway's Landing on Snake river, in Garfield Co., where he has a large
warehouse and store, and has embarked largely in the fruit business. In 1866 he
married Rose Doyle, and has a family of three sons, Franklin, Thomas and
Bertram. In 1860 Mr. Hemingway visited the Carriboo mines. In 1878 he had a
narrow escape from the Indians at Cayuse Station, during the war with the
Bannocks, when that place was burned and several people
were killed near by.
 
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HEMINGWAY'S LANDING, OR ILLIA.
     This place is situated on Snake river, two miles below Almota, which stands
on the opposite side of the stream. In March, 1879, E. L. Hemingway secured a
title to the bar containing about fifty acres, and erected thereon a spacious
warehouse. This point being the only accessible one for teams on the south side
for a distance of 20 miles. Mr. Hemingway realized its importance as a place for
receiving and forwarding freight, especially as it has an excellent boat
landing. In connection with his warehouse he opened a small store, which he soon
found inadequate to demands of the locality. A more commodious store-building
was erected and a large stock of goods laid in. Soon after his advent upon the
bar he planted an orchard of peach, apricot and other fruit trees not adapted to
the uplands back from the river. These have thrived beyond expectation and are
now bearing fruit in great abundance. A post-office has been established by the
name of Illia, Mr. Hemingway being the postmaster, and mail arrives daily by
stage from Dayton and Colfax.
     THE MAYVIEW post-office four miles south of Illia, is in charge of Mrs. V.
L. Cox, and was established in 1879. The county surrounding it bears the same
name as the office, is a fine grain region, and Joseph Cox is the pioneer grain
producer within it.

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Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in February 2007 by Diana Smith.

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