The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 1004 JAMES GUY LONGMIRE. James Guy Longmire is the owner of one hundred and twenty acres of excellent land near Selah, which he is carefully and systematically cultivating. He is operating altogether one hundred and sixty acres, for he cultivates forty acres of the old home place. He is one of the native sons of Washington, his birth having occurred in the Wenas valley of Yakima county, on the 6th of November, 1888, his father being David Longmire. His education was acquired in the public schools and when a youth of sixteen years he and his brother George rented the father's farm. Since that time he has been continuously connected with the agricultural development of this region. When he had reached the age of eighteen years he received forty acres of the old homestead as a gift and began farming on his own account. He also rented another part of the old home place and subsequently he bought sixty acres of land, while in 1917 he made an additional purchase of twenty acres, so that he now has one hundred and twenty acres in all. This does not indicate the entire extent of his labors, however, for he also cultivates forty acres of the old homestead and he has an interest in twenty-four hundred acres of pasture land with his brothers. He is a progressive agriculturist and stock raiser, carrying on his work along modern lines of development and improvement. His labors have been productive of excellent results. There now stand as monuments to his effort, enterprise and laudable ambition an attractive farm residence and substantial barns upon his place. An air of neatness and thrift pervades the ranch and he is successfully enraged in the cultivation of hay and grain and in the raising of sheep. On January 19, 1916, Mr. Longmire was married to Miss Pearl Hansen, a native of California, and he has one child, Evelyn. He has spent his entire life in this section of the state and from early youth has been identified with its agricultural development and interests. His early thorough training well qualified him to undertake farming on his own account when he attained his majority and as the years have passed his enterprise and laudable ambition have brought to him growing success. ******************************** Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in January 2008 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.