Haring, Amos
From Lane Co Oregon
AMOS HARING deceased, was for many years one of the most successful farmers in Lane County, this state. His highly developed property, consisting of one hundred and sixty acres upon which he established his home, is located eight miles northeast of Florence, up the north fork of the Siuslaw River, where he was engaged in the successful conduct of a modern dairy farm at the time of his death, which occurred February 25, 1909. He was a native of New Jersey, having been born in that state, April 2, 1846, and was a son of David and Rachel (Bozeth) Haring, in whose family were ten children: Tillie, deceased; Eliza P., of Cambridge, Maryland; Benjamin, deceased; Annie, the wife of John Johnson, of Seaside, New Jersey; Ella, deceased; George, a resident of Seaside, New Jersey; Julia, who is the widow of Joseph Reed and also resides in Seaside, New Jersey; Amanda, deceased; Tyler, who became a volunteer soldier in the Civil war and who in the midst of his duties met his death in one of the battles of that struggle, in 1864; and Amos, of this review, who died at his beautiful home on the Siuslaw river, February 25, 1909.
Mr. Haring started in life for himself at the early age of nine years. His hither was by trade and occupation a carpenter and was employed as a ship carpenter on a merchantman plying between the West Indies, America and European seaports. The birth of Mr. Haring occurred on board the ship on which his father was employed during one of its trips from the West Indies to the states. At the age of nine years he went to sea as a sailor boy with his uncle, with whom he continued until he was nineteen years of age. At that time he made the passage around Cape Horn and the ship upon which he sailed docked at San Francisco. On reaching that city he decided to discontinue seafaring life and spent his first year on the Pacific coast in and about, the vicinity of San Francisco and then removed to Coos bay, where he continued to reside for five years following, after which he changed his residence to the north fork of the Siuslaw river, where he filed upon a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, upon which he established his home and engaged in farming, making a specialty of high-grade dairy products. In addition to farming and dairying he successfully engaged in fishing and while thus occupied with these diversified interests, in the very midst of a promising and successful career he passed away on February 25, 1909, leaving to mourn his loss a widow and eight children.
At Coos bay, this state, in 1874, Mr. Harring was united in marriage to Miss Clara Gamble, a daughter of William and Emma (Hanman) Gamble, both of whom were natives of England. The parents emigrated to America when their daughter Clara was a child of eight years. On reaching the new world they made their first location in the state of Iowa, where they continued to live for four years, during which time the father was engaged in general farming. He afterwards removed with his family to Missouri and in that state was engaged in farming for a period of seven years, settling in Coos bay in 1873. In the year 1893 he removed to the north fork of the Siuslaw river and there resided until his death, which occurred in 1896. Mrs. Haring has the distinction of being the first white woman to have lived on the north fork of the Siuslaw river and her daughter was the first white child born in that locality. To Mr. and Mrs. Gamble were born eight children: Clara, who married Amos Haring, of this review; Katie and Annie, both deceased; Francis Joseph, of Astoria, Oregon, who is married and has two children, George and Ella; William, who married and died leaving a family of three children, Sherman, Frank and Emma, all of San Francisco; and Sherman, Charlotte and George, all of whom are deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Haring became the parents of the following, children: Walter, of Astoria, who is married and has five children, Nora, Alice, Evelyn, Diehless and Walter L.; Clara, who is the wife of Elmer Johnson, of Idaho; and the mother of one child, Ralph; Emma, who married Charles Russell, of Portland, Oregon, and died, leaving one child, Alberta; Iona and Bennie, both deceased; Albert, who resides with his mother and is engaged in operating the home farm; Josephine, who is the wife of Eugene McCornick, of Florence, and the mother of two children, Edna and Emily; and Loretta and Agnes, both at home.
Mr. Haring was a loyal and devoted member of the republican party. He was a man universally esteemed for his integrity in all business transactions with the people among whom he associated and was characterized for his devotion to the interests of his home and family. His beautiful estate of one hundred and sixty acres, located eight miles from Florence up the north fork of the Siuslaw river, is a monument to his industry and economy. He left for the support and protection of his family a highly developed farm upon which his widow resides. The farm is now cared for and operated by Albert, her youngest son, whose training under his father's supervision has equipped him for the responsibilities and successful conduct of the beautiful property, to whose development he had given many years of devoted service, so that his family might have a comfortable home and a competence.
Gaston, Joseph. "The Centennial History of Oregon, 1811-1912." Vol. 4. Chicago, Clarke Publishing Co., 1912. p. 767.
