[or-roots] Hershberger

[Robert Casebeer]

I no longer have an atlas that shows the donation land claims in Douglas
County  (lumber companies used to use them to scout out timber)  I suspect
Hershberger is the man after whom the mountain is named....conjecture on my
part too. Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: [or-roots] Hershberger


> Bob;
>
> Before I become immortalized for misinformation, all of those connections
> were conjecture on my part, mostly I deduced from the name associations
that
> they came from the Tiller area, (surprising there isn't a Tiller in the
> roster) because I recognized those names from the geographic names and
made
> the above conjecture about Hershberger because I had never run across that
> surname in Census. I feel pretty confident about the other names in that
> list as I have found them in Census in the correct area. Along with some
> other names from the area. The only one I can think of other than those
was
> Dompier which was a name I had always wondered about until I saw the
family
> in the Census.
>
> Oregon Geographic names doesn't contradict me, but then it doesn't have
the
> name Hersheberger in it to my suprise.
>
> USGLO is still unavailable, or I could check to see if Hershberger owned
> land in that neck of the woods. Want to wager anything on that?
>
> Les C
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