Gordon Granger Shepherd, son of, Homer and Emmeline (Chase) Shepherd.

Occupation: Logging Business and Agriculturist

Gordon Granger Shepherd siblings are:

Mary E. Shepherd b. 1865
Walter Shepherd b. 1866
Alma J. Shepherd b. 1869
Charles Shepherd b. 1870
Lillian Shepherd b. 1872
Bertram Shepherd b. 1874
Violet Shepherd b. 1880
Verna Shepherd b. 1882
Archie Morton Shepherd b. 1888

Gordon Granger Shepherd married Molly Ethel Sumerlin on 1906.

Gordon Granger Shepherd and Mollie Ethel Sumerlin children are:

Frances E. Shepherd b. 1907
Alvin Granger Shepherd b. 1909
Edith Lillian Shepherd b. 1910
Keith Vernon Shepherd b. 1912
Lois Hazel Shepherd b. 1913
Bertram W. Shepherd b. 1915
Alice Shepherd

GORDON GRANGER SHEPHERD

Gordon Granger Shepherd, one of the enterprising and seccessful young agriculturists of Coos county, has spent practicall his entire life within its borders. His birth occured 1885, his parents being Homer and Emeline (Chase) Shepherd, the former a native of Iowa, and the latter of Illinois. Homer Shepherd brought his family to Coos county, Oregon, in 1887, and purchased 120 acres of partially improved land near McKinley. Twenty acres thereof are now under cultivation and are devoted to general farming. Mr. Shepherd now looks after his property interests in California. They have ten children. As follows: Alma, who is the wife of M.J. Terry, of Oakland, California, and the mother of four children; Mary, the wife of Manuel Cordozo, of Grants Pass, Oregon; Charles, who is an agriculturists who is residing in McKinley, Oregon, and has six children; Lillian who likves with her brother Gordon; Burt, and Walter, both of whom are deceased; Violet, the wife of Fred Dorman, of Oakland, California; Verna, who is the wife of H.L. Hanson, of Oakland, California, and has three children; Gordon Granger, of this review; and Archie, who also lives with our subject. All of the children were educated in Coos county, this date.

Gordon Granger Shepherd started out in life for himself at the age of 21 and spent three years in the logging business. He was also employed at other occupations, working for wages until he purchased a tract of 80 acres near his mother's place. He cleared a part of his land and also made some improvements thereon but disposed of the property prior to this father's removal to California. At that time he purchased the farm of 80 acres which he has since operated in which he devotes to the raising of grain. He also raises hogs for the market and intends to enbark in the dairy business in the near future. His under taking as an agriculturist have been attended with excellent results in his continued success is assured.

In 1906, Mr. Shepherd was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Summerlin, a native of Tennessee and a daughter of A.C. Summerlin. Mrs. Shepherd is one of a family of eight children, the others being as follows; David, who is a resident of Roseburg, Oregon; Joseph, living in California; John resides at home and Lee, Oregon; Willie and Michael, who are also still at home with their parents and Lee; Chelsea, of Myrtle Point, Oregon; ad Arthur, who passed away in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd has four children, namely Francis Ethel, who was born in 1907; Alvin Granger, whose natal year was 1909; Edith Lillian, whose birth occured in 1910; and Vernon Keith, born in 1912. Mr. Shepherd is a Rebuplican in politics but has never sought or desired office as a reward for his party fealty. The circle of his friends is a wide one, for he has never displayed those sterling traits of character which in every land and clime wins confidence and regard.