The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 974 
A portrait of George B. Longmire appears in this publication.

GEORGE B. LONGMIRE.

The name of Longmire has long been honorably connected with successful
agricultural accomplishments in the Yakima valley and George B. Longmire of
this review is among the younger farmers who are carrying on this high
reputation in his neighborhood. A thoroughly western man of western ideas,
imbued with western energy and western purpose, Mr. Longmire was born in Yakima
county March 8, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. David Longmire, who are more
extensively mentioned on other pages of this work.

George B. Longmire was reared under the parental roof and the first lessons of
life were carefully instilled by his loving parents during his early boyhood. In
the acquirement of his education he attended the public schools near his
father's farm and when old enough took up farm labor, continuing with his father
upon the ranch until 1906. There he acquired a good fundamental knowledge of the
methods of agriculture, becoming theoretically as well as practically acquainted
with the best way of handling a farming enterprise. In that year some land was
left to him by his mother, to the cultivation of which he gave his immediate and
resultant attention, winning success through his industry, energy and
foresight. So well did he succeed that he was enabled to buy additional land and
now owns one hundred and twenty acres, all of which is under cultivation, while
he also holds title to three sections of land in partnership with his brothers.
This property is largely used as range. He raises hay and also grain to some
extent and has been especially successful in the cattle business, specializing
in full blooded Shorthorns and Hereford sires. He now runs over one hundred head
of cattle, his herd representing a snug little fortune.

On the l8th of March, 1908, at the age of twenty-two George B. Longmire and
Goldie Shepherd were united in marriage. She is a native of Washington and a
daughter of Asbury Shepherd, who came to Yakima county about 1903 and now
resides at Selah. Mr. and Mrs. Longmire have two children: Dorothy, aged eight;
and Marjorie, seven years of age.

In his political affiliations Mr. Longmire is a democrat but does not consider
himself bound by party ties, preferring to exercise his own judgment by
supporting the candidate whom he regards as best fitted for the office to which
he aspires. He has not only prospered individually and built up a substantial
competence for himself, which is evident from his fine ranch, his excellent
home, the modern buildings and all other improvements upon his property, but he
has ever given of his time, effort and means toward the support of movements of
a public nature, discharging his duties as an American citizen appreciatively
and conscientiously. Many are the friends whom he has made in Selah and all who
know him esteem him as a reliable, trustworthy young man who has seriously set
himself the task of making an honorable career.

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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.