The Ringsmyer Family

Henry Herman Ringsmyer was born in Prussia in 1863. To escape the obligatory German Military Service he fled from Germany to the United States when he was about 18 years old. He arrived in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1881. After two years he left Cleveland, and journeyed to the John Day Valley, arriving in May, 1885. For 6 years he worked as a freight carrier hauling from The Dalles to the John Day Valley. He then took up cattle-raising and did so well that two years later he purchased the ranch which now belongs to Wallace Johnson, two miles out of Dayville.

In 1891, he married Nancy Amelia LeBret in Canyon City, Oregon. Miss LeBret was the daughter of Jules LeBret, merchant and postmaster of Prairie City. They had eight children.

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