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. a21.

JOHN F.  KIRBY

	was born in Jennings county, Indiana, September 1, 1840.  His parents were
David and Frankie (Brown) Kirby.  In 1851 he started overland with his uncle,
stopping for the winter in Missouri and arriving in Oregon in 1852.  They
settled in Washington county, where he lived until 1856, when he went to work on
a farm for wages.  July 14, 1859, he was married in Yamhill county to Mary H.
Teel, a native of Illinois.  She is a daughter of Joseph and Mary S.
(Alexander), Teel and came to Oregon in 1853.  In March, 1860, he took a land
claim five miles south-east of Walla Walla, and lived there until 1877.  He then
sold out and bought his present ranch on the Touchet, five miles below Dayton.
It contains 564 acres of deeded land and 480 acres of railroad land.  He is
engaged chiefly in grain farming and raising horses.  Mr. Kirby is one of those
energetic farmers who have been eminently successful in their struggles with the
trials of pioneer life.  A view of his comfortable home is presented on another
page.  He has a family of three daughters: Anna, born February 22, 1863; Eva,
March 12, 1865; Abby, March 14, 1867.


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

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