Deschutes Pioneers
- Dr. Cass A. Cline and wife Emily M. Cline - Cline Falls, 1888
- John Templeton Craig - built Mackenzie Pass, the road which went from Mackenzie Bridge to Camp Polk, near Sisters
- John Burr Fryrear and wife Elizabeth Beth Frances Berry - Squaw Creek near Sisters, 1880
- William Francis Fryrear (son of John) and wife Etta Bell Taylor - Sisters, before 1886
- Robert H. Krug - Black Butte, 1880's
- Alfred Munz and wife Gertrude Munz - Redmond, 1912
- Frank T. Redmond and wife Josephine D. Redmond - Redmond, 1904
- William H. Staats and wife Emma A. Turpin - Bend, 1881
- Joshua Jackson Vandevort and wife Grace Clark - Powell Butte
- Peter Jensen was the first individual owner of a particular farm property in Tumalo in 1914. Peter is on the first deed and on the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses. He was born in Denmark at about 1866 and was single at the time of all the censuses. He sold the property in June of 1943 and was dead and buried by September of 1943. He now rests in Greenwood Cemetery.
- Business card for Park Service Station, Bend, Oregon 24 Hour service on Highway 97 north.
Park Service Station was built by Ralph Wilson. Ralph and his brother Merle Wilson operated the station. Ralph died in the late 1940's. Ralph's wife was name Francis and they had two children Janice and Dixie, which we have lost between death and years. Ralph went by the nickname of Buster, as his father was also Ralph Wilson and Anna Susan Jay Wilson Brown. His father died when he was about 8yrs old and his brother was just born. Contributed by Rowena King - 10/26/2011 email not current so removed.
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