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Deschutes Pioneers Dr. Cass A. Cline and wife Emily M. Cline - Cline Falls, 1888 John Templeton Craig - built Mackenzie Pass, the road which went from Mackenzie Bridge to Camp Polk, near Sisters John Burr Fryrear and wife Elizabeth Beth Frances Berry - Squaw Creek near Sisters, 1880 William Francis Fryrear (son of John) and wife Etta Bell Taylor - Sisters, before 1886 Robert H. Krug - Black Butte, 1880's Alfred Munz and wife Gertrude Munz - Redmond, 1912 Frank T. Redmond and wife Josephine D. Redmond - Redmond, 1904 William H. Staats and wife Emma A. Turpin - Bend, 1881 Joshua Jackson Vandevort and wife Grace Clark - Powell Butte Peter Jensen was the first individual owner of a particular farm property in Tumalo in 1914. Peter is on the first deed and on the 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses. He was born in Denmark at about 1866 and was single at the time of all the censuses. He sold the property in June of 1943 and was dead and buried by September of 1943. He now rests in Greenwood Cemetery.