Husband of America Jane (Warren) Crooks. Father of Effie, Minnie, Charles, Warren, and Beulah. Son of John Turley and DeMercy (Everman) Crooks who had come to Oregon by wagon train from Missouri in 1848. Brother of Aaron Harley Crooks, whose murder was the first incident in the Vigilante Wars of 1882-1883.
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An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905
JOSEPH H. CROOKS is one of the pioneers of Crook county and is well known all through this part of the state. At the present time, he is handling a fine butcher business in Prineville, having been occupied in this for the past nine years. He was born in Mercer county, Illinois, on May 6, 1844. Hon. John T. Crooks, his father, crossed the plains from Illinois to the Willamette valley with ox teams in 1848, bringing his family with him. They were six months on the road. He was a prominent man in the valley, being one of the very first settlers, and was a member of the first territorial legislature for two terms. He died in 1898, aged eighty-six. He married D. Everyman, who accompanied her husband in his pioneer journeys. There were no schools in the Willamette valley when our subject arrived there with his parents and he had little opportunity for education except what he could gain by his own personal efforts. He remained on the farm with his father until 1865, when he went to Helena, Montana, where he spent one summer. Returning to his old home, he continued there until 1872, then came to Prineville and engaged in stock raising. He followed that successfully until 1896, when he opened his present business which has occupied him since. He does a good business and stands well in this community.
In 1873 Mr. Crooks married Miss America Warren, who was born in the Willamette valley in 1855. Her father, Andrew J. Warren, crossed the plains from Missouri in 1855 and settled in the Willamette valley. He had married Eliza Spalding, who was born on the Nez Perce reservation in 1832, the daughter of Reverend H. H. Spalding. She was the first white child born west of the Rocky mountains so far as in known. However, there is a rumor that there was a white child born in 18 19 in the vicinity of Spokane Falls. Mrs. Warren was captured by the Indians during the Whitman massacre. She is now living at Wenatchee, Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Crooks five children have been born, Mrs. Robert E. Simpson, Mrs. Granville Clifton, Charles A., John Warren, and Beulah.
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An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905
JOSEPH H. CROOKS is one of the pioneers of Crook county and is well known all through this part of the state. At the present time, he is handling a fine butcher business in Prineville, having been occupied in this for the past nine years. He was born in Mercer county, Illinois, on May 6, 1844. Hon. John T. Crooks, his father, crossed the plains from Illinois to the Willamette valley with ox teams in 1848, bringing his family with him. They were six months on the road. He was a prominent man in the valley, being one of the very first settlers, and was a member of the first territorial legislature for two terms. He died in 1898, aged eighty-six. He married D. Everyman, who accompanied her husband in his pioneer journeys. There were no schools in the Willamette valley when our subject arrived there with his parents and he had little opportunity for education except what he could gain by his own personal efforts. He remained on the farm with his father until 1865, when he went to Helena, Montana, where he spent one summer. Returning to his old home, he continued there until 1872, then came to Prineville and engaged in stock raising. He followed that successfully until 1896, when he opened his present business which has occupied him since. He does a good business and stands well in this community.
In 1873 Mr. Crooks married Miss America Warren, who was born in the Willamette valley in 1855. Her father, Andrew J. Warren, crossed the plains from Missouri in 1855 and settled in the Willamette valley. He had married Eliza Spalding, who was born on the Nez Perce reservation in 1832, the daughter of Reverend H. H. Spalding. She was the first white child born west of the Rocky mountains so far as in known. However, there is a rumor that there was a white child born in 18 19 in the vicinity of Spokane Falls. Mrs. Warren was captured by the Indians during the Whitman massacre. She is now living at Wenatchee, Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Crooks five children have been born, Mrs. Robert E. Simpson, Mrs. Granville Clifton, Charles A., John Warren, and Beulah.
Husband of America Jane (Warren) Crooks. Father of Effie, Minnie, Charles, Warren, and Beulah. Son of John Turley and DeMercy (Everman) Crooks who had come to Oregon by wagon train from Missouri in 1848. Brother of Aaron Harley Crooks, whose murder was the first incident in the Vigilante Wars of 1882-1883.
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An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905
JOSEPH H. CROOKS is one of the pioneers of Crook county and is well known all through this part of the state. At the present time, he is handling a fine butcher business in Prineville, having been occupied in this for the past nine years. He was born in Mercer county, Illinois, on May 6, 1844. Hon. John T. Crooks, his father, crossed the plains from Illinois to the Willamette valley with ox teams in 1848, bringing his family with him. They were six months on the road. He was a prominent man in the valley, being one of the very first settlers, and was a member of the first territorial legislature for two terms. He died in 1898, aged eighty-six. He married D. Everyman, who accompanied her husband in his pioneer journeys. There were no schools in the Willamette valley when our subject arrived there with his parents and he had little opportunity for education except what he could gain by his own personal efforts. He remained on the farm with his father until 1865, when he went to Helena, Montana, where he spent one summer. Returning to his old home, he continued there until 1872, then came to Prineville and engaged in stock raising. He followed that successfully until 1896, when he opened his present business which has occupied him since. He does a good business and stands well in this community.
In 1873 Mr. Crooks married Miss America Warren, who was born in the Willamette valley in 1855. Her father, Andrew J. Warren, crossed the plains from Missouri in 1855 and settled in the Willamette valley. He had married Eliza Spalding, who was born on the Nez Perce reservation in 1832, the daughter of Reverend H. H. Spalding. She was the first white child born west of the Rocky mountains so far as in known. However, there is a rumor that there was a white child born in 18 19 in the vicinity of Spokane Falls. Mrs. Warren was captured by the Indians during the Whitman massacre. She is now living at Wenatchee, Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Crooks five children have been born, Mrs. Robert E. Simpson, Mrs. Granville Clifton, Charles A., John Warren, and Beulah.
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An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905
JOSEPH H. CROOKS is one of the pioneers of Crook county and is well known all through this part of the state. At the present time, he is handling a fine butcher business in Prineville, having been occupied in this for the past nine years. He was born in Mercer county, Illinois, on May 6, 1844. Hon. John T. Crooks, his father, crossed the plains from Illinois to the Willamette valley with ox teams in 1848, bringing his family with him. They were six months on the road. He was a prominent man in the valley, being one of the very first settlers, and was a member of the first territorial legislature for two terms. He died in 1898, aged eighty-six. He married D. Everyman, who accompanied her husband in his pioneer journeys. There were no schools in the Willamette valley when our subject arrived there with his parents and he had little opportunity for education except what he could gain by his own personal efforts. He remained on the farm with his father until 1865, when he went to Helena, Montana, where he spent one summer. Returning to his old home, he continued there until 1872, then came to Prineville and engaged in stock raising. He followed that successfully until 1896, when he opened his present business which has occupied him since. He does a good business and stands well in this community.
In 1873 Mr. Crooks married Miss America Warren, who was born in the Willamette valley in 1855. Her father, Andrew J. Warren, crossed the plains from Missouri in 1855 and settled in the Willamette valley. He had married Eliza Spalding, who was born on the Nez Perce reservation in 1832, the daughter of Reverend H. H. Spalding. She was the first white child born west of the Rocky mountains so far as in known. However, there is a rumor that there was a white child born in 18 19 in the vicinity of Spokane Falls. Mrs. Warren was captured by the Indians during the Whitman massacre. She is now living at Wenatchee, Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Crooks five children have been born, Mrs. Robert E. Simpson, Mrs. Granville Clifton, Charles A., John Warren, and Beulah.
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