LEROY FURGESON

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      LEROY FURGESON is a farmer residing two miles east of Larene, and eight miles north of Davenport.  He is a native of Putnam county, Indiana, born October 15, 1848.  His father, also Leroy by christian name, was a native of North Carolina, and his mother, Lavina (Condray) Furgeson, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. Mr. Furgeson has one brother, Thomas T., residing at Sweet Home, Linn county, Oregon, and he served twenty-two months in the Union army during - the Civil War, and was wounded in the battle of Pea Ridge. Later he was honorably discharged and returned to the duties of the civilian.

      When a child, our subject removed with his parents to Marion county, Iowa, during the early days of that commonwealth, was brought up there on a farm, and married, October 11, 1868, to Sarah A. Pope, a native of Oskaloosa, Iowa.

      Mrs. Ferguson's father, William Pope, was a native of the state of new York, and died in California at the age of seventy-seven.  His father, Benjamin, was a soldier of the Revolution, and died in Iowa at the advanced age of ninety-four.  The mother of Mrs. Furgeson, Dorcas (Lathors) Pope, was born in Adams county, Ohio, and is now living with her daughter in her eighty-fourth year.

      In 1873 Mr. and Mrs. Furgeson came to Santa Clara county, California, and five years later they drove overland to Linn county, Oregon, where Mr. Furgeson engaged in fanning.  They came in a wagon to their present home in 1888. Having brought from Oregon with them a small herd of stock, they took land and engaged at once in farming and stock raising.  They now own a section of land, about 500 acres of which are choice tillable soil.  They have good buildings; improvements, et cetera, plenty of line water, and a quantity of timber.  Mr. Furgeson now makes a specialty of raising grain.

      Both Mr. Furgeson and his wife are active members of the Methodist Episcopal church at Larene.

      Mr. and Mrs. Furgeson have been parents of seven children, two of whom, Amy M. and Bertie M., have departed this life.  Those living are: William T., married to Mollie Ledgerwood; James Edmund, married to Myrtle Hubler; Floyd, married to Ella Howard; Frances, wife of W. L. Slater, of Douglas county, and Mildred.  Mrs. Furgeson's three brothers. George James, and Edmond, served in the Union army during the Civil War, the last two in the Seventeenth Iowa.

      Mr. Furgeson is one of the substantial, well-to-do and influential citizens of his locality.