F M Trout

F M Trout
F. M. TROUT. Industry, common sense and integrity are attributes to which F. M. Trout ascribes his success in life, and which he unhesitatingly recommends to young men starting out on their own resources. He has found his greatest pleasure and largest profit in tilling the soil, and at the present time is one of the foremost dairymen of the vicinity of Tillamook, where he owns a farm of one hundred and nine acres three-quarters of a mile from town. The buildings and improvements of the Trout farm bespeak the orderly and thrifty spirit of the owner, who raises a mixed breed of cows, and is milking thirtytwo for the maintenance of his model dairy. Besides his farm. Mr. Trout is interested in another favorite industry of this part of the country, and owns a half interest in a saw-mill doing a large business on the Trask river. Everything with which he has had to do in the west has borne the stamp of an enterprising and progressive mind, tempered with New England conservatism and practical judgment. Born in Delaware county, Ind., September 26, 1853, Mr. Trout is the sixth child of the two sons and seven daughters of Washington and Camilla (Christie) Trout, both of whom were born in Virginia, and who died in 1880 and 1895 respectively, at the ages of sixty-two and seventy-one. Washington Trout moved at an early day to Ohio, where he met and married his wife, and with her went to Delaware county, Ind., where they were among the earliest settlers. The neighbors were far apart, and facilities for housekeeping of a ver}' crude order, yet their cheerful spirits and capable hands brought order out of chaos, and made a comfortable and well ordered home. The children received a liberal education in the public schools, and F. M., ambitious and hopeful, left the farm in 1875, with the vigor and confidence of a boy of eighteen who had been taught that all things come to him who hustles while he waits. From San Francisco Mr. Trout came by water to Oregon, reaching Portland in the fall of 1875, soon afterward locating in Tillamook county, farming on rented land. In 1877 Mr. Trout was united in marriage with Ella Miller, who was born in Oregon in 1855, and whose father, George W. Miller, came across the plains in the days of the early gold excitement. Mr. and Airs. Trout lived on rented land until 1888, and then came to their present farm, valued because of the years of hard work and sacrifice which preceded its purchase. Six children have been born into an atmosphere of thrift and high-mindedness, four daughters and two sons : Ray, Bertie, Pearl, Lillie, Lena and Howard. Mr. Trout is a Republican in politics, but invariably votes for the man best qualified to serve the public welfare. He is a quiet, unostentatious man, unusually devoted to his immediate family, and wisely planning for the future of his interesting children
Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, 1904

F. M. TROUT. Industry, common sense and integrity are attributes to which F. M. Trout ascribes his success in life, and which he unhesitatingly recommends to young men starting out on their own resources. He has found his greatest pleasure and largest profit in tilling the soil, and at the present time is one of the foremost dairymen of the vicinity of Tillamook, where he owns a farm of one hundred and nine acres three-quarters of a mile from town. The buildings and improvements of the Trout farm bespeak the orderly and thrifty spirit of the owner, who raises a mixed breed of cows, and is milking thirtytwo for the maintenance of his model dairy. Besides his farm. Mr. Trout is interested in another favorite industry of this part of the country, and owns a half interest in a saw-mill doing a large business on the Trask river. Everything with which he has had to do in the west has borne the stamp of an enterprising and progressive mind, tempered with New England conservatism and practical judgment.

Born in Delaware county, Ind., September 26, 1853, Mr. Trout is the sixth child of the two sons and seven daughters of Washington and Camilla (Christie) Trout, both of whom were born in Virginia, and who died in 1880 and 1895 respectively, at the ages of sixty-two and seventy-one. Washington Trout moved at an early day to Ohio, where he met and married his wife, and with her went to Delaware county, Ind., where they were among the earliest settlers. The neighbors were far apart, and facilities for housekeeping of a ver}' crude order, yet their cheerful spirits and capable hands brought order out of chaos, and made a comfortable and well ordered home. The children received a liberal education in the public schools, and F. M., ambitious and hopeful, left the farm in 1875, with the vigor and confidence of a boy of eighteen who had been taught that all things come to him who hustles while he waits. From San Francisco Mr. Trout came by water to Oregon, reaching Portland in the fall of 1875, soon afterward locating in Tillamook county, farming on rented land.

In 1877 Mr. Trout was united in marriage with Ella Miller, who was born in Oregon in 1855, and whose father, George W. Miller, came across the plains in the days of the early gold excitement. Mr. and Airs. Trout lived on rented land until 1888, and then came to their present farm, valued because of the years of hard work and sacrifice which preceded its purchase. Six children have been born into an atmosphere of thrift and high-mindedness, four daughters and two sons : Ray, Bertie, Pearl, Lillie, Lena and Howard. Mr. Trout is a Republican in politics, but invariably votes for the man best qualified to serve the public welfare. He is a quiet, unostentatious man, unusually devoted to his immediate family, and wisely planning for the future of his interesting children

Portrait and Biographical Record of Western Oregon
Chapman Publishing Company, Chicago, 1904