Biography of Thomas Roach, 1902, Baker Co. Oregon: Surnames: Roach, Lynch, Neymeyer, Foesterling.

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An Illustrated History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, pub. 1902
by Western Historical Pub. Co. of Chicago. page 290

Thomas Roach

Mr. Roach was born on January 5, 1867, near the town of Chilton, Calumet
county, Wisconsin, his parents being Edmund and Bridget (Lynch) Roach. He
continued to reside under the parental roof until twenty years old, attending
school most of the time until his fifteenth year had been completed. About the
year 1887 he moved to the northern part of the state and engaged in the
lumbering industry there, continuing in the same for two years, after which he
went to Santa Clara valley, in California. Conditions there seem to have been
not exactly to his liking for soon he moved north to Puget sound, and thence
to Baker county, where he arrived int he spring of 1890. Since his arrival
here he has followed mining some, but has given the major part of his
attention to farming and merchandising. At the present time he is proprietor
of a fine well stocked mercantile establishment at Weatherby, where he also
has a good two-hundred-and-forty acre farm, a part, at least, of which has
been brought to a high state of cultivation and has been well improved, its
products being fruit, hay and vegetables. Mr. Roach is justly regarded as one
of the leading and most progressive and enterprising citizens of Weatherby.

On March 28, 1892, our subject married Miss Henrietta, daughter of E. F. and
Mary E. (Neymeyer) Foesterling, and they have three children, Emmett, Ralph
and Lenora. For the seven years prior to the spring of 1901 Mrs. Roach served
as postmistress in her neighborhood.