There were also Irish sheep men on the Steens, such as TIM O'KEEFFE who came to the United States as a single man in 1927 from Canada to Buffalo, New York by railroad.  He was born in County Cork, Ireland on September 2, 1902 and worked first for Folly Farm, in the east side of Steens area, and on January 10, 1941, at the age of 38 applied for American citizenship in Burns, Oregon. His brother BEN was a major sheep owner on the south side of the Steens Mountain.  In the carving example shown here, the "O" is placed closer to the first name making it harder to distinguish the letters as a first and last name.

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