Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . dance in one of the old-time log schoolhouses ofIowa with its puncheon floor and slab benches, the methods of instruction beingas primitive as were the furnishings. Upon his arrival in Oregon he began workas a farm hand and continued to work for wages until his removal to Washing-ton in 1875. At that date he purchased a tract of railroad land in Columbiacounty, near Dayton, and four years later he disposed of that property andremoved into what is now Garfield county, where he took up a pr
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Lyman's history of old Walla Walla County, embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties . dance in one of the old-time log schoolhouses ofIowa with its puncheon floor and slab benches, the methods of instruction beingas primitive as were the furnishings. Upon his arrival in Oregon he began workas a farm hand and continued to work for wages until his removal to Washing-ton in 1875. At that date he purchased a tract of railroad land in Columbiacounty, near Dayton, and four years later he disposed of that property andremoved into what is now Garfield county, where he took up a preemption of onehundred and sixty-five acres eight miles east of Pomeroy. He resided upon thattract for a quarter of a century and his labors wrought a marked transformationin the appearance of the place, for he brought his land under high cultivation anddivided it into fields of convenient size, annually gathering good crops. Year byyear he carefully tilled the soil and became recognized as one of the representa-tive farmers of his part of the state. In 1904 he left the farm and removed m 1-4 o Q OQ H. OLD WALLA WALLA COUNTY 619 to Pomeroy, where he has since made his home, enjoying the fruits of formertoil in a well earned rest. On the 1st of July, 1877, Mr. Swinney was united in marriage to Miss Cath-erine Smith, a daughter of Joseph Smith, who left his Ohio home as a boy ofseventeen years, and after spending a short time in Iowa, he crossed the plainsin 1846. On the journey he contracted mountain fever and when the train withwhich he was traveling reached Walla Walla, he was left with Dr. Whitman, who nursed him back to health. He spent the following winter and the nextspring with Dr. Whitman, for whom he worked at splitting rails and also plantedsome small tracts to grain. In the summer of 1847, prior to Dr. Whitmansmurder, he went to Oregon, settling in Lane county, where he was afterwardmarried. There he lived until 1861, when he came to Washington and spent thesummer in t