The gold rush of 1862 brought miners and stock raisers to the mountains and grasslands of Umatilla County.

From the 1880s until the 1950s Murphy served as a shipping point for area farmers and stock raisers.

He then moved to San Francisco in 1861 and became an importer, stock raiser, and farmer.

He also engaged in agricultural pursuits and as a stock raiser.

He was named for Briant Stringham, an early judge and stock raiser in Utah.

Silvester Mirabal (1864-1939) was a farmer, stock raiser, and notable statesman.

The house was the home of James Thomas Dixon, a farmer, stock raiser and local postmaster.

They were drovers and stock raisers, who had come from far states, and brokers and commission merchants, and buyers for all the big packing houses.

It was the age-old conflict between the farmer and the stock raiser that probably began when Cain killed Abel.

Mabry raised prized racehorses that competed in races across the South, and in 1860 he listed his occupation as "stock raiser."