13 Facts About Henry Heppner

In California, Henry Heppner clerked a store and eventually began his own mercantile business.

Henry Heppner eventually relocated from California to Oregon where he spent time in Corvallis and The Dalles.

Circa 1862, Henry Heppner joined hundreds seeking profits from recent gold discoveries in eastern Oregon and western Idaho.

Henry Heppner found opportunity and success in freighting supplies to the mining districts for over ten years.

Henry Heppner settled in eastern Oregon where he was involved in early merchant work in parts of the present-day towns of Arlington, Henry Heppner, La Grande, and Umatilla.

Henry Heppner found success in a variety of business ventures in eastern Oregon.

Heppner and his brother-in-law, Henry Blackman, were successful business partners in several early enterprises in and around Heppner.

Henry Heppner would go on to support several efforts to build the nascent town named after him.

Henry Heppner co-founded the Heppner Gazette newspaper with Henry Blackman and contributed relief and recovery funds to the town following the Flood of 1903.

Henry Heppner was a member of Heppner Masonic Order and at one point affectionately called "Uncle Henry" in local press.

Henry Heppner died on February 16,1905 in Henry Heppner following at least two years of complications from several illnesses.

Sources again conflict on the date, though one newspaper assures readers that Henry Heppner passed on the same day that the County of Morrow was founded.

Henry Heppner was buried in the Beth Israel Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.