The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 335 WESLEY E. GANG. Wesley E. Gano, who is engaged in general farming, was born in Hardin county, Ohio, August 25, 1881, a son of James H. Gano, mentioned elsewhere in this work in connection with the sketch of Ira J. Gano. Wesley E. Gano obtained a public school education in Yakima county, having removed with his father to the northwest in 1892. His youthful days were spent in the usual manner of the farmbred boy, his time being divided between the acquirement of a public school education, the pleasures of the playground and such duties as were assigned him by parental authority. After his textbooks were put aside he and his brother, Ira J. Gano, engaged in farming together until 1904, when Wesley E. Gano established a livery barn at Yakima. He was joined by his brother and father in the next year and they conducted the business in that way until 1908, when it was sold. They then purchased eighty acres of land on the Moxee and there resided for two years, after which they disposed of that property. Wesley E. Gano bought twenty acres of land independently and continued its cultivation for a year, when he disposed of it. His next purchase made him owner of sixty-two acres nine miles southwest of Yakima, of which he sold twenty-four acres in 1917. He now has thirty-eight acres of land, devoted to diversified farming, and he also rents forty acres on the Yakima Indian reservation. He is likewise one of the directors and stockholders of the Ahtanum Cooperative Store, is a director of the Ahtanum Irrigation District, which he helped to organize, and otherwise is prominently connected with the commercial and business development of this section of the state. On the 15th of November, 1905, Mr. Gano was united in marriage to Miss Minnie B. Patterson, of Fresno, California, a daughter of W. S. and Sarah (Hope) Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Gano now have two children: Leroy William and Jay Harrison. Fraternally Mr. Gano is connected with the Knights of Pythias. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he has served as special deputy sheriff for several years past and has been in charge of the policing of the fair grounds for the past three years, having twenty or more men, who report to him during the State Fair. He belongs to the Ahtanum Grange and also to the Knights of Pythias. He has been road foreman for the past three years and is interested in everything that pertains to the welfare and progress of the community in which he makes his home, and his cooperation can always be counted upon to further any plan or measure for the general good. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.