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A  VOLUME  OF  MEMOIRS  AND  GENEALOGY 


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REPRESENTATIVE  CITIZENS 


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THE  CITY  OF  SEATTLE  AND  COUNTY  OF  KING 


WASHINGTON 


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'jI^UT  of  the  depths  of  his  mature  wisdom  Carlyle  wrote, 
"History  is  the  essence  of  innumerable  biographies." 
Beheving  this  to  be  the  fact,  there  is  no  necessity  of 
advancing  any  further  reason  for  the  compilation  of 
such  a  work  as  this,  if  reliable  history  is  to  be  the 
ultimate    object. 

The  section  of  Washington  embraced  by  this  volume  has  sustained 
within  its  confines  men  who  have  been  prominent  in  the  history  of  the 
state  and  even  of  the  nation.  The  annals  teem  with  the  records  of 
strong  and  noble  manhood,  and,  as  Sumner  has  said,  "the  true  grand- 
eur of  nations  is  in  those  qualities  which  constitute  the  greatness  of  the 
individual."  The  final  causes  which  shape  the  fortunes  of  individuals  and 
the  destinies  of  states  are  often  the  same.  They  are  usually  remote  and 
obscure,  and  their  influence  scarcely  perceived  until  manifestly  declared  by 
results.  That  nation  is  the  greatest  which  produces  the  greatest  and  most 
manly  men  and  faithful  women;  and  the  intrinsic  safety  of  a  community 
depends  riot  so  much  upon  methods  as  upon  that  normal  development  from 
the  deep  resources  of  which  proceeds  all  that  is  precious  and  perma- 
nent in  life.  But  such  a  result  may  not  consciously  be  contemplated  by 
the  actors  in  the  great  social  drama.  Pursuing  each  his  personal  good  by 
exalted  means,    they  work  out  a  logical  result. 

The  elements  of  success  in  life  consist  in  both  innate  capacity  and  deter- 
mination to  excel.  Where  either  is  wanting,  failure  is  almost  certain  in  the 
outcome.  The  study  of  a  successful  life,  therefore,  serves  both  as  a  source 
of  information  and  as  a  stimulus  and  encouragement  to  those  who  have  the 
capacity.     As  an  important  lesson  in  this  connection  we  may  appropriately 


4  PREFACE. 

quote  Longfellow,  who  said:  "We  judge  ourselves  by  what  we  feel  capa- 
ble of  doing,  while  we  judge  others  by  what  they  have  already  done."  A 
faithful  personal  history  is  an  illustration  of  the  truth  of  this  observation. 

In  this  biographical  history  the  editorial  staff,  as  well  as  the  publishers, 
have  fully  realized  the  magnitude  of  the  task.  In  the  collection  of  the  ma- 
terial there  has  been  a  constant  aim  to  discriminate  carefully  in  regard  to 
the  selection  of  subjects.  Those  who  have  been  prominent  factors  in  the 
public,  social  and  industrial  development  of  the  county  have  been  given  due 
recognition  as  far  as  it  has  been  possible  to  secure  the  requisite  data. 
Names  worthy  of  perpetuation  here,  it  is  true,  have  in  several  instances  been 
omitted,  either  on  account  of  the  apathy  of  those  concerned  or  the  inability 
of  the  compilers  to  secure  the  information  necessary  for  a  symmetrical 
sketch;  but  even  more  pains  have  been  taken  to  secure  accuracy  than  were 
promised  in  the  prospectus.  Works  of  this  nature,  therefore,  are  more  reli- 
able and  complete  than  are  the  "  standard  "  histories  of  a  country. 

THE  PUBLISHERS. 


INDEX. 


Abrams,   Robert,  248 
Adams,  Frank  E.,  712 
Ainsworth,  Elton  E.,  240 
Albertson,  Robert   B.,   13 
Allen,  John  B.,  207 
Allmond,  Charles  H.,  367 
Alvord,  Irving  T.,  484 
Alvord,   Thomas   M.,   537 
Anderson,  Alexander  J.,  561 
Anderson,  Charles  M.,  557 
Anderson,  John  L.,  449 
Andrews,   Lyman   B.,  281 
Ankeny,  Rollin  V.,  74 
Arney,  William,  273 
Arthur,  John,  304 
Austin,  Charles  G.,  53 


Breece,  Enoch  E.,  473 
Bremer,  William,  27S 
Briggs,   Benjamin  F.,  690 
Brinker,   William  H.,  471 
Brooke,  George  A.,  706 
Brookes,  Albert  M.,  214 
Brown,  Amos,  476 
Brown,  D.  McL.,  757 
Brown,  Dana  W.,   104 
Bryan,   Edgar,   189 
Buck,  Franklin  A.,  38 
B-uhtz,  Albert,  312 
Bunce,  James  A.,  633 
Burnett,   Hiram,   195 
Btirwell,  Austin  P.,  274 
Byers,  Alphius,  611 


Backus,  Manon  F.,  19 
Bagley,  Herman  B.,  56 
Baker,  Charles,  80 
Ballard,  William  R.,  234 
Battle,  Alfred,  259 
Beach,  Abijah  I.,   100 
Beattie,  William,  664 
Bebb,  Charles  H.,  672 
Beers,  Alexander,  654 
Bell.  Orvill  J.,  24 
Benjamin.  Amos  O.,  336 
Bigelow,  Harry  A.,  392 
Bigelow,  Isaac  N.,  244 
Bissell,  Edwin  R.,  314 
Blaine,  Elbert  F.,  300 
Blekum,  Harald,  365 
Blethen,  Alden  J.,  294 
Bode,  Henry  A.,  498 
Bogart,  Mrs.  S.  J.,  416 
Boone,  William  E.,  2.30 
Bothwell,  James,  441 
Bowden,  Edmund,  675 
Bowmen,  David  W.,  366 
Bowman,  Alonzo  C,  120 
Brace,  John  S.,  310 
Brawley,  Dewitt  C.  512 
Brawley,  William  R.,  742 


Caine,  Elmer  E.,  87 
Calderhead,  Samuel  C.  700 
Calhoun,  Isaac  P.,  430 
Cann,  Thomas  H.,  237 
Carkeek,  Mtorgan  J.,  644 
Carman,  George  C,  567 
Carroll.  Francis  M.,  692 
Carroll,  James,  638 
Carter,  Robert  E.,  684 
Chesbro,  Horace  H..  143 
Chilberg,  Andrew,  82 
Chilberg,  Nelson,  640 
Clark,  Seth  W..  29 
Claussen,  Hans  J.,  358 
Clise,  James  W.,  171 
Closson,  John  H.,  6s 
Cochrane,  William,  646 
Colkett,  William  J.,  485 
Collier,  William  H.,  620 
Collins,  Charles  R.,  320 
Collins,  John,  605 
Colman,  James  M.,  178 
Colvin.  Oliver  D.,  751 
Compton,  John  R.,  623 
Condon,  John  T.,  616 
Cook,  Ralph,  339 
Cooper,  Isaac,  511 


INDEX. 


Corson,  H.  R.,  424 
Cotterill,  George  F.,  538 
Coulter.  Clarence  W.,  736 
Crawford,  Ronald  C,  528 
Crawford,   Samuel  L.,  460 
Cudihee,  Edward,  112 
Curtiss,  William  M.,  584 

Davis,  J.  W.,  510 
Dawson,  Lewis  R-,  614 
DeBruler,  Ellis,  357 
DeCurtin,  William,  583 
De  Long,  Willard  W.,  348 
Denny,  Arthur  A.,  9 
Denny,  D.   T.,  432 
Densmore,  Milton,  482 
Dickson,  E.  C.   599 
Dilling,  George  W.,  436 
Dorman,  John  W.,  378 
Dow,  Matthew,  228 
Drew,  Edward  L.,  19 
Drew,  Michael   S.,   17 
Duggan,  Frank  M.,  481 
Duhamel,  Edward  J.,  698 
Dyer,  Luther  A.,   137 

Eckliart,  W.  F.,  425 
Edsen,  Eduard  P.,  41 
Emmons,  Ralph  W.,  321 

Fafara,  Michael,  429 
Fay,  John  P.,  192 
Field,  John,  271 
Fisher,  Fred  F.,  580 
Fisher,  Thomais  M.,  696 
Folsom,  Frank  H.,  406 
Ford,  Charles  B.,  324 
Fowler,  Charles  E.,  182 
Frink,  John  M.,  132 
Frye,  George  F,,  26 
Fuhrman,  Henry,  487 
Fulton,  Walter  S.,  84 
Furth,  Jacob,  184 

Gabriel,  George  W.,  595 
Gasch,  Fred  A.,  285 
Geske,  Charles,  395 
Gibson,  W,  E.,  518 
Gillespy,  Sherwood,  158 
Gilson,  George  N.,  588 
Goddard,  Albert  J.,  509 
Godwin,  J,  W.,  302 


Goodrich,  Sylvester,  414 
Gormley,  Matt  H.,  642 
Gowen,  Herbert  H.,  374 
Graham,  Richard  J.,  760 
Graves,  Edward  O.,  603 
Gray,  John  G.,  327 
Gray,  Louis  H.,  91 
Guye,  Francis  M.,  126 

Haller,  Granville  O.,  200 
Haller,  Theodore  N.,  200 
Hallock,  George  E.,  398 
Hanford,  Frank,  454 
Harkins.  Fred  H.,  648 
Hart,  James,  505 
Hart,  Volly  P.,  73 
Hartman,  John  P.,  421 
Hartranft.  William  G.,  71 
Hawkins,   Erastus   C,    108 
Hayden.  James  R.,  76 
Hayes,  Patrick  C.  547 
Hemer,  J.  Henry,  150 
Hemrich,  Alvin  M.,  493 
Hemrich,  Andrew,  419 
Hemrich,  Louis,  686 
Herren.  Archibald  L.,  468 
Hickmgbottom,  Robert,  719 
Hicks,   Sylvester  B.,   129 
Hight,  Albert  W.,  390 
Hill,   Frank  A.,  488 
Hill,  George  A.,  140 
Hillman,  Clarence  D.,  439 
Hinckley,  Timothy  D.,  i6g 
Hoffman.  Carl,  95 
Hofmeister,  Christian,  371 
Hoge,  James  D..  Jr.,  220 
Hopkins,  Paul,  568 
Horton,   Dexter,   172 
Horton,  Elwood,  729 
Horton,  George  M.,  333 
Horton,  Julius,  724 
Houghton.  Edwun  W.,  608 
Howe,  John  P.,  292 
Howley,  Timothj^  J.,  708 
Hughes,  Elwood  C,  523 
Hughes,  Patrick  D.,  388 
Hull,  Alonzo,  403 
Hurd,  Frederick  H.,  155 
Hussey,  Ernest  B.,   289 
Hutton,  John,  600 
Hyman,   Frank  V.,  726 


INDEX. 


Irving,  John   H.,  535 

Jackson,  Daniel  B.,  577 
Jacobs,  Harry  R.,  486 
Jacobs,  Orange,  210 
James.  George,  669 
James,  William,  305 
Janson,  Ivar,  376 
Jeflfs,  Alexander  S.,  695 
Jeffs,  Richard,  714 
Jenner,  Charles  K.,  187 
Jenott,  Joseph  L.,  739 
Johnson,  C.   E.,  671 
Johnston,  Richard  C,  157 
Jones,  Daniel,  263 
Jones,  R.  A.,  369 
Jones,  Richard  S.,  368 
Jones,  Thomas  E.,  495 
Josenhans,  Timotheus,  93 
Jnlien,  Jacob,  596 

Kellogg,  Jay  A.,  609 
Kelsall,  Albert  L.,  270 
Kemp,  G.  Ward,  658 
Kerry,  Albert  S.,  52 
Kilbourne,  Edward  C,  33 
Kindred,   Christian  A.,  591 
Kirschner,   Frederick,   549 
Kleinschmidt,    Carl,    744 
Knapp,  Lyman  E.,  246 
Koepfli,   Charles  A.,  307 
Kumnrer,  George  W.,  252 

LaFarge.   Oliver   H.   P.,   125 
Lafromboise,   Samuel.   501 
Lamping,  George  B.,  89 
Langston,  John,  687 
Lee,  James,  86 
Levy,  Benjamin  C,  663 
Lilly,  Charles  H.,  49 
Llwyd,  J.  P.  D.,  531 
Lohse,  Henry,  701 
Lord,  William  H.,  66r 
Lucas,  John  B.,  379 
Lyon,  John  M.,  217 

Haddocks,  Moses  R.,  68 
Markey,  Henry  W.,  32 
Mason,  James  R.,  762 
McCabe,  Kearin  H.,  709 
McClintock,  James,  749 


McConnaughey,  John  W.,  322 

McDermott,   Mrs.    Josephine    P.,    325 

McEachern,  John  A.,  512 

McGilvra,  John  J.,  720 

McGraw,  John  H.,  225 

Mclntyre,  J.  D.,  328 

MtLachlan,  William,  679 

McNatt,   William  F.,   514 

McVay,  David,  717 

Miegrath,  John,  637 

Mehlhorn,   August,    198 

Metcalfe,  James  B.,  572 

Miller,   Christian,  351 

Mitchell,  Frank  W.,  256 

Mitchell,  Mrs.  J.  F.  f.,  631 

Moore,  James  A.,  747 

Morgan,  Frank  V.,  145 

Morrison,    Ellis,    589 

Muchmore,  Augustus,  458 

Mueller,  John,  417 

Muldoon,   Frank  M.,   15 

Nadeau,  Ira  A.,  758 
Nagle,  John  H.,  438 
Nettleton,  Clark  M.,  704 
Neville,  L.  Charles,  765 
Newell,  James  H.,  626 
Noble,  H.  A.,  462 
Nugent,  James,  764 

O'Brien,  Charles  V.,  676 
Osgood,  Frank  H.,  408 
Osner,  Charles,  451 

Palmer,  Alfred  L.,  204 
Parker,  Isaac,   164 
Payne,  J.  H.,  743 
Pells,   Frank  E.,  372 
Peter,  John  W.,  502 
Peterson,   John   C,   550 
Peterson,  Neil  S.,  36 
Piper,  George  U.,  571 
Poison,  Perry,  316 
Powles,  John  B.,  533 
Prefontaine,   Francis  X.,   360 
Preston,   Harold,    163 
Preston,    Simon  M.,    ir8 
Prosser,   William   F.,  552 

Raser,  Harry  A.,  411 
Ratcliffe,  Edward   M.,  345 


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INDEX. 


Rathbun,    Samuel  F.,  652 
Rawson,  Zephaniah   B.,  465 
Reed,  Thomas  C,  383 
Remsberg,  Charles  E.,  680 
Renick,    Frank  H.,   61 
Riplinger,  John,  559 
Robinson,  Alver,  318 
Roohister,  Junius  617 
Ronald,  James  T.,  121 
Root,  Milo  A.,  363 
Rounds,   Edgar  J.,  597 
Rowe,   Lewis    S.,    152 
Row  ell.  Fired  R.,  46 
Rude,  Hans   P.,  233 
Runkel,  Philip  L.,  443 
Russell,  William   M.,  341 
Rutter,  Washington  C,  334 

Sackett,  George  E.,  656 
Sandahl,  Christian  N.,  343 
Sander,  Fred  E.,  78 
Sanders,   Thomas,   288 
Sands,  Alva  C,  66 
Schertzer,  John  F.,  621 
Schmid,   Vitus,  308 
Schwagerl,  Edward   O.,  353 
Scott,   Eustace   B..   593 
Scott,  William  T.,  754 
Seagrave,  Arthur  A.,  148 
Shorrock,  Ebenezer,  546 
Shuey,   Henry   O.,    146 
Sizer,  Henry  L.,  40 
Smalley,  Byron  D.,  381 
Smith,  Charles  J.,  22 
Smith,  Henry  A.,  264 
Smith,  John  D.,  682 
Smith,  Robert  O.,  678 
Smithers,  Erasmus  M.,  96 
Soelberg,  Axel  H.,  453 
Spear,  Frank  W.,  222 
Stanley,  William,  496 
Stedman,    Livingston    B.,    396 
Stewart,   Alexander   B..   579 
Stewart,  George  M.,  297 
Stone,    Corliss   P.,    167 
Strout,   Edwin  A.,  734 
Struve.  Frederick  K.,  400 

Taylor,  John,   59 
Taylor,  John   S.,  48 
Taylor,  William  H.,  520 


Terry,  M.  Frank,  344 
Thomsen,    Moritz,   565 
Thomson,  Reginald  H.,  767 
Tibbetts,  George  W.,  666 
Titus,  James  H.,  276 
Tonkin,  James,   138 
Trenholm,  James  D.,  582 
Turner,  Frank,  630 
Twitchell,  Frank  A.,   64 

Upper,  Herbert  S.,  '/2'] 

Van  De  Vanter,  Aaron  T.,  730 
Verd,  Charles,  516 
Vernon,   William   H.,   592 
Vilas,   Calvin   E.,  79 

Wallingford,  John  N.,  267 
Ward,  Dillis  B.,  445 
Ward,  George  W.,  286 
Waring,   Isaac,  347 
Wayland,  Confucius  L.,  490 
Webster,    George   E.,   613 
Weeks,  W.  C,  741 
Weir,  James,  716 
Weitzel,  Irvin  K.,  710 
Wenzler,  John,  401 
Westerman,  Robert  G.,  242 
Wheeler,  Frank  L.,  756 
White,  Harry,  763 
White,  William  H.,  44 
Whitmore,  Jesse  K.,  504 
Whitney,  Eleazer  P.,  409 
Whittlesey.  Charles  F.,  586 
Wilhelm.  Fridolin,  88 
Willard,   Rufus,  624 
Williams,  James,  628 
Williams,  Sidney  J.,  629 
Williamson,  John  R.,  161 
Willis,  Stephen  P.,  527 
Wilson,  Michael,  525 
Winsor,  Richard.  113 
Wold,  Ingebright  A.,  521 
Wood,  Robert,  479 
Wood,  W.  D.,  261 
Wooding.  John,  703 
Wyckoff,   Ambrose  B.,  385 
Wyckoff,   Ursula,  160 

Yandell,  Henry.  770 
Young,  M.  H.,  426 


REPRESENTATIVE  CITIZENS 

OF 

SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY 


ARTHUR  A.  DENNY. 


In  the  year  1898  Arthur  Armstrong  Denny  departed  this  Hfe,  but  while 
Seattle  stands  his  memory  will  be  revered  and  his  name  will  find  an  hon- 
ored place  on  the  pages  of  its  history,  for  he  was  its  founder  and  for  al- 
most a  half  century  was  connected  with  the  majority  of  the  interests  which 
contributed  to  its  welfare  and  progress.  The  dangers  and  privations  of 
pioneer  life  were  known  to  him  through  experience,  but  with  brave  heart 
and  determined  purpose  he  met  these  and  persevered  in  his  determination 
to  establish  a  home  in  the  western  district.  More  enduring  than  a  monu- 
ment of  stone  is  the  work  which  he  has  accomplished  in  the  founding  of  this 
valuable  commonwealth  in  the  Sunset  state. 

Mr.  Denny  was  born  on  the  20th  of  June,  1822,  near  Salem,  Wash- 
ington county,  Indiana,  and  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent,  his  ancestors  hav- 
ing originally  removed  from  Scotland  to  Ireland  and  thence  to  America  at 
a  very  early  epoch  in  the  history  of  Pennsylvania.  David  and  Margaret 
were  the  progenitors  of  the  family  in  the  United  States.  Their  son,  Robert 
Denny,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  1753  and  served  in 
Washington's  command  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  In  1787  he  removed  to 
Frederick  county,  Virginia,  and  about  the  year  1790  was  married  to  Miss 
Rachel  Thomas,  who  was  a  daughter  of  one  of  the  Revolutionary  heroes.  Not 
long  after  their  nuptials  were  celebrated  they  removed  to  Mercer  county, 
Kentucky,  where  John  Denny,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  on  the 
4th  of  May,  1793.     He  was  reared  amid  the  wild  scenes  of  pioneer  life,  and 

when  in  his  twentieth  year  he  served  his  country  in  the  war  of  j8i2,  being 
1 


10  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

a  Kentucky  volunteer  in  the  regiment  commanded  by  Richard  M.  John- 
son. He  was  an  ensign  in  Captain  McAfee's  company  and  fought  under 
General  Harrison,  being  present  at  the  defeat  of  General  Proctor  and  at  the 
death  of  the  noted  Indian  Tecumseh,  who  is  said  to  have  been  killed  by 
Colonel  Johnson.  In  1816  he  removed  from  Kentucky  to  Indiana  and  later 
took  up  his  abode  in  Illinois,  becoming  one  of  the  distinguished  men  of  that 
state  and  a  representative  in  the  legislature  of  1840-41,  being  a  colleague 
of  Lincoln,  Yates  and  Baker.  He  was  originally  a  Whig,  and  his  opposi- 
tion to  slavery  led  to  his  identification  with  the  Republican  party,  which 
was  formed  to  prevent  the  further  extension  of  slavery  into  new  territory. 
In  185 1  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Oregon  and  was  the  first  candidate  of  his 
party  for  governor  of  the  state  in  1858.  He  was  a  most  able  speaker,  strong, 
in  argument  and  logical  in  his  deductions  and  he  kept  thoroughly  informed 
on  all  questions  concerning  the  welfare  of  city,  state  and  nation.  He  pos- 
sessed an  even  temperament  and  a  genial  disposition  and  was  well  fitted 
for  leadership.  On  the  25th  of  August,  1814,  Mr.  Denny  was  married  to 
Miss  Sarah  Wilson,  a  native  of  Bladensburg,  near  Washington,  born  on 
the  3rd  of  February,  1797.  She  was  of  Scotch  lineage,  although  her  peo- 
ple were  among  the  early  settlers  of  America.  She  departed  this  life  March 
25,  1841,  and  the  honorable  and  useful  career  of  John  Denny  was  terminated 
in  death  on  the  28th  of  July,  1875,  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  his  age.  He 
located  in  Seattle  in  1859  and  there  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

It  was  while  the  family  were  residing  in  Washington  county,  Indi- 
ana, that  Arthur  Armstrong  Denny  was  born,  and  his  education  was  ob- 
tained in  a  little  log  schoolhouse  in  Illinois.  He  also  pursued  an  academic 
course  and  learned  surveying,  a  knowledge  of  which  was  of  much  value 
to  him  in  the  days  of  his  early  residence  on  Puget  Sound.  He  was  married 
on  the  23rd  of  November,  1843,  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Boren,  and  two  chil- 
dren were  bom  to  them  in  Illinois :  Cathrine  Louisa,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  George  Frederick  Frye,  of  Seattle;  and  Margaret  Lenora,  who  is  residing 
in  a  beautiful  home  with  her  mother  in  Seattle.  It  is  to  the  latter  that  we 
are  indebted  for  the  material  from  which  we  have  compiled  the  sketch  of  her 
honored  father. 

In  185 1  Mr.  Denny  crossed  the  plains  to  Oregon,  accompanied  by  his 
family.  The  party  started  from  Illinois  on  the  loth  of  April,  making  the 
hazardous  journey  across  the  plains  with  horse  teams.  They  were  attacked 
by  Indians  near  the  American  Falls,  but  succeeded  in  escaping  and  keeping 
the  red  men  at  bay,  although  they  were  fired  upon  many  times  by  the  sav- 
ages.     Perilous  incidents   were  met   and  hardships   endured,  but  at  length 


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the  journey  was  safely  accomplished.     For  a  time  the  party  had  no  flour, 
and  other  trials  were  endured  on  the  long  journey,  but  at  length  they  reached 
Portland,   Oregon,  on   the  22nd   of  August,    1851.      Malaria   attacked   the 
party,  and  learning  that  the  health  conditions  around  Puget   Sound  were 
very  much  better  and  desiring  to  locate  near  salt  water,  Mr.  Denny  decided 
to  go  to  the  coast,  expecting  to  be  more  immune  from  malarial  fever.     Ac- 
cordingly he  took  passage  on  the  vessel  Exact,  and  on  the  13th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1 85 1,  was  landed  on  the  bank  of  Elliott  bay.     It  was  raining  and  the 
ladies  of  the  party  took  shelter  in  the  bushes.     It  was  a  dreary  prospect 
with  the  lowering  clouds  above  and  a  wild  new  country  all  around  inhab- 
ited by  savages  and   wild  beasts.      Dangers   threatened,   but   these  pioneer 
people  had  great  courage  and  determination  and  resolved  to  make  the  best 
of  the  situation.     The  members  of  the  party,  in  addition  to  the  Denny  fam- 
ily, were  John  N.  Low  and  his  family,  C.  D.  Boren  and  family,  William  N. 
Bell  and  family,  and  Charles  C.  Terry.     There  was  also  David  T.  Denny, 
a  brother  of  Arthur  Denny,  and  Lee  Terry,  making  in  all  twelve  adults 
and  twelve  children.     The  landing  was   made  at   Alki   Point,   Avhere   they 
built  log  houses.     At  least  fifteen  hundred  Indians  spent  the  winter  in  that 
vicinity,  some  of  them  occupying  part  of  the  ground  which  the  pioneers 
had  cleared,  but  the  latter  thought  it  unwise  to  antagonize  the  red  men  by 
refusing  the  privilege  of  camping  in  this  district.     In  the  spring  Mr.  Denny 
and  some  of  his  friends  began  to  seek  more  favorable  locations  for  claims, 
and  he  accordingly  located  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land,  upon  which 
D  portion  of  the  city  of  Seattle  now  stands.     The  party  arrived  just  too  late 
to  receive  the  benefit  of  the  six   hundred-and-forty-acre   donation   act,   the 
amount  of  a  claim  having  been  reduced  one  half  only  a  short  time  before. 
On  this  property  his  first  log  house  was  built  on  the  bluff  at  the  mouth  of 
the  gulch,  which  extends  to  the  bay  in  front  of  where  Bell  Hotel  was  after- 
ward built.     This   proved  an   inconvenient   place   for   the   little  home  and 
shortly  afterward  Mr.  Denny  built  a  residence  where  Frye's  Opera  House  is 
now  located. 

Pioneer  conditions  existed;  the  mail  was  brought  to  the  little  colony 
by  express  at  a  cost  of  twenty-five  cents  per  letter,  and  the  last  mail  that 
was  delivered  in  that  way  contained  twenty-two  letters  and  fourteen  news- 
papers. A  postofiice  was  then  established.  Mr.  Denny  was  appointed  post- 
master and  cared  for  the  mail  in  his  little  log  cabin  for  several  years.  His 
next  residence  was  a  frame  house  of  six  rooms  and  for  3^ears  this  was 
headquarters  for  all  new  comers.  As  the  city  grew  he  subdivided  his  land, 
made  several  additions  to  the  town  and  as  the  property  increased  in  value 


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his  wealth  hkewise  proportionately  grew,  and  he  became  one  of  the  most 
substantial  residents  of  Seattle.  He  made  judicious  investments  in  prop- 
erty, and  his  careful  management  and  keen  business  sagacity  resulted  in 
the  acquirement  of  a  handsome  estate.  It  was  in  Oregon  that  Mr.  Denny's 
eldest  son  Roland  was  born  on  the  2nd  of  September,  1851,  only  a  short 
time  after  the  arrival  of  the  family,  and  he  was  but  an  infant  when  they 
came  to  Seattle.  In  the  city  schools  he  was  educated  and  has  been  identi- 
fied with  the  growth  and  development  of  the  city,  and  now  has  charge  of 
his  father's  large  estate.  The  second  son,  Orion,  was  born  :n  Seattle  and  is 
now  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  vitrified  brick  and  tile. 
Another  son,  Arthur  Wilson,  was  born  in  Seattle  and  is  a  book  and  sta- 
tionery merchant,  while  the  youngest  son,  Charles,  is  a  member  of  the 
Denny  Blaine  Land  Company,  doing  a  large  real-estate  business.  The  fam- 
ily has  ever  been  one  of  the  most  honored,  respected  and  prominent  in 
Seattle,  the  sons  sharing  in  the  work  of  the  father  and  continuing  it  since 
his  death. 

Mr.  Denny  was  a  life-long  Republican  and  from  the  time  of  "his  ar- 
rival in  Washington  took  an  active  part  in  political  affairs.  He  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  first  legislature  of  the  territory  and  was  also  elected  a 
delegate  to  the  United  States  congress,  where  he  did  much  for  the  terri- 
tory in  promoting  its  interests  and  welfare.  During  the  early  years  of  his 
residence  he  was  identified  with  business  affairs  of  the  city  as  a  merchant 
and  later  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Dexter,  Horton  &  Company, 
bankers,  owners  of  the  first  bank  of  Seattle.  This  institution  did  a  large 
and  successful  business,  but  it  did  not  claim  all  of  Mr.  Denny's  attention, 
for  he  was  known  as  an  active  factor  in  nearly  every  enterprise  that  contrib- 
uted to  the  growth,  progress  and  prosperity  of  the  city.  He  gave  all  of  his 
time,  means  and  influence  for  its  promotion.  He  assisted  in  organizing 
the  First  Methodist  church,  and  for  years  was  an  active  member  of  that 
denomination,  but  in  his  later  days  was  more  closely  identified  with  the 
Congregational  church.  He  always  took  a  deep  interest  in  all  religious 
work  and  was  ever  ready  to  assist  in  Christian  and  educational  enterprises. 
At  this  point  it  would  be  almost  tautological  to  enter  into  any  series  of 
statements  as  showing  Mr.  Denny  to  have  been  a  man  of  broad  intelli- 
gence and  genuine  public  spirit,  for  these  have  been  shadowed  forth  between 
the  lines  of  this  review.  Strong  in  his  individuality,  he  never  lacked  the 
courage  of  his  convictions,  but  there  existed  as  dominating  elements  in  this 
individuality  a  lively  human  sympathy  and  an  abiding  charity,  which,  as 
taken  in  connection  with  the  sterling  integrity  and  honor  of  his  character, 
have  naturally  gained  to  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of  men. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  13 

ROBERT    BROOKE    ALBERTSON. 

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i 

Earnest  offort,  close  application  and  the  exercise  of  his  native  talents 
have  won  Robert  B.  Albertson  prestige  as  a  Seattle  lawyer,  a  fact  which  is 
highly  complimentary,  for  no  bar  has  numbered  more  eminent  and  prominent 
men.  He  is  to-day  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Lewis  Haj-din  and  Albertson, 
his  partners  being  Colonel  James  Hamilton  Lewis  and  Thomas  B.  Hardin. 

Mr.  Albertson  was  born  in  Hertford,  North  Carolina,  December  21, 
1859.  His  ancestors  emigrated  from  Amsterdam  more  than  two  hundred 
years  ago  and  for  several  generations  the  family  has  been  represented  in  the 
old  North  state.  Elias  Albertson,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was 
born  in  that  state  on  the  24th  of  September,  1763,  and  became  an  influential 
and  leading  citizen,  who  served  as  inspector  of  revenues  under  the  first  admin- 
istration, being  appointed  by  President  George  Washington  in  1792.  His 
son,  Anthony  Albertson,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native  of 
North  Carolina  and  became  a  prominent  citizen  and  planter,  who  died  about 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  war,  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age.  Jonathan 
White  Albertson,  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Per- 
quimans county,  North  Carolina,  September  5,  1826.  On  the  eighth  day  of 
January,  1854,  he  married  Miss  Catherine  Fauntleroy  Pescud,  of  Petersburg, 
Virginia.  Her  maternal  grandfather  was  Peter  Francisco,  who  won  fame 
in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  possessed  phenomenal  strength  and  was  an 
expert  swordsman.  Enlisting  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  he  distinguished 
himself  for  valor  and  ability  as  a  fighter,  and  his  efforts  proved  greatly  detri- 
mental to  the  enemy.  li:  is  known  that  in  a  certain  charge  he  engaged  six 
British  soldiers  at  one  time  and  succeeded  in  slaying  all  of  them.  He  said 
he  could  rest  better  after  he  had  killed  a  number  of  the  enemies  of  his  country. 
He  was  such  a  valiant  and  brave  soldier  and  accomplished  so  much  for  the 
colonial  cause  that  the  legislature  of  his  state  rendered  thanks  to  him  by  reso- 
lution. In  the  early  history  of  the  Albertson  family  all  were  identified  with 
the  Society  of  Friends.  In  ante-bellum  days  Jonathan  W.  Albertson  opposed 
the  secession  movement  urged  by  the  south,  but  after  the  war  was  inaugurated 
he  endorsed  the  course  of  his  native  section,  although  he  did  not  enter  the 
army.  In  religious  faith  he  became  an  Episcopalian,  although  reared  as  a 
member  of  the  Society  of  Friends.  A  lawyer  of  marked  ability,  he  was  con- 
nected with  much  of  the  important  litigation  tried  in  the  courts  of  this  dis- 
trict and  won  eminence  as  a  member  of  the  bar.  He  served  as  prosecuting 
attorney  of  his  district,  was  judge  of  the-  Superior  court  and  was  United 
States  attorney  under  President  Hayes.     He  also  was  a  member  of  the  legis- 


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lature,  and  of  the  constiUitional  convention  of  North  CaroHna,  and  he  left 
the  impress  of  his  individuahty  upo'n  the  organic  law  of  his  state.  Unto  the 
parents  of  our  subject  were  born  six  children,  of  whom  five  are  yet  living. 
One  of  the  sons  is  Jonathan  W.,  telegraph  editor  of  the  Post  Intelligencer 
of  Seattle,  and  Thomas  E.  is  a  soldier  in  the  Philippines.  The  father  of  this 
family  died  in  1898  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years,  but  the  mother  is  yet 
living  in  North  Carolina  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years. 

Robert  Brooke  Albertson  was  educated  in  the  University  of  North  Caro- 
lina, being  graduated  in  1881  with  the  degree  of  Ph.  B.  He  studied  law 
in  the  same  university  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  supreme  court  of 
North  Carolina  on  the  6th  of  February,  1883.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
admitted  to  practice  in  all  of  the  courts  of  the  United  States.  In  the  fall 
succeeding  his  admission  he  came  to  Seattle.  He  had  no  means,  and  in  order 
to  provide  for  his  support  he  accepted  employment  at  piling  lumber  for  the 
Seattle  and  Commercial  Mill  Company,  later  spending  six  months  as  city 
editor  of  the  Seattle  Morning  Chronicle,  and  for  two  years  he  was  a  law 
clerk,  first  employed  in  that  capacity  in  the  office  of  Burke  &  Raisin,  and 
afterward  in  the  office  of  Struve,  Haines  &  McMicken.  In  1885  he  entered 
into  a  law  partnership  with  George  Hyde  Preston  and  later  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Lewis,  Flardin  &  Albertson.  Mr.  Albertson  is  widely 
known  as  a  talented  and  reliable  attorney.  His  practice  is  extensive  and  of  an 
important  character.  Pie  is  remarkable  among  lawyers  for  the  wide  re- 
search and  provident  care  vvdth  which  he  prepares  his  cases. 

On  the  24th  of  August,  1892,  Mr.  Albertson  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy 
De  Wolfe,  a  native  of  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  and  a  daughter  of  Captain 
F.  S.  De  Wolfe,  who  was  formerly  a  ma}-or  of  that  city  and  is  now  a  resident 
of  Seattle.  Our  subject  and  his  wife  hold  membership  in  the  Episcopal 
church  and  are  very  highly  esteemed  by  a  host  of  warm  friends.  Mr.  Albert- 
son  is  acknowledged  to  be  one  of  the  most  active,  influential  and  prominent 
members  of  the  Republican  party  in  the  city.  He  has  served  w4th  mucli 
ability  as  chairman  of  the  King  county  Republican  central  committee,  filling 
the  office  until  1889.  In  that  year  he  was  elected  corporation  counsel  of 
Seattle,  was  elected  a  representative  from  the  Forty-second  district  of  the 
state  legislature  in  1895  and  re-elected  in  1900.  He  was  nominated  by  his 
party  while  absent  at  Nome,  Alaska,  the  nomination  being  made  without  his 
solicitation  or  knowledge.  He  was  unanimously  endorsed  by  the  King 
county  delegation  for  speaker  of  the  house,  to  winch  position  he  was  elected, 
and  in  that  place  of  high  lionor  and  responsibility  he  displayed  such  executive 
force  and  thorough  knowledge  of  pariiamentnry  usage  as  to  win  the  com- 


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mendation  not  only  of  his  own  party,  but  of  tlie  opposition  as  well.  He  was 
also  speaker  at  the  special  session  held  in  June,  1901.  Mr.  Albertson  is  a 
member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  having  first  been  identified 
with  the  Maryland  chapter  and  now  with  the  Washington  chapter,  of  which 
he  is  the  historian.  He  belonged  to  the  old  hook  and  ladder  company  of  the 
city  up  to  the  time  when  a  paid  hrc  company  was  installed.  For  five  years  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Washington  state  m.ilitia  and  served  with  ability  during 
the  Chinese  riots  in  1887.  He  is  the  present  chancellor  commander  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  and  is  one  of  the  honored  citizens  of  the  city 
'.vhere  he  has  won  prominence  at  the  bar  and  as  a  statesman, 

FRANK  M.  MULDOON. 

Frank  M.  Muldoon,  an  ex-member  of  the  city  council  of  Seattle,  is  a 
progressive  and  well  known  business  man  of  the  city,  where  he  has  made 
his  home  for  the  past  fourteen  years,  and  during  all  this  time  he  has  been 
prominently  identified  with  the  real-estate  interests,  both  on  his  own  account 
and  for  eastern  capitalists.  He  was  born  in  Montpelier,  Vermont,  on  the 
6th  of  December,  1848.  His  great-grandfather  in  the  paternal  line  came  to 
this  country  from  Ireland,  and  was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  on  American 
soil.  He  took  up  his  abode  on  a  farm  in  Keysville,  New  York,  there  spending 
the  remainder  of  his  life.  His  son,  John  Muldoon,  was  born  in  that  city,  and 
he,  too,  became  an  industrious  and  respected  agriculturist,  spending  his  en- 
tire life  in  the  town  in  which  he  was  born,  his  death  occurring  at  the  age  of 
eighty-four  years.  His  son,  Thomas  B.  Muldoon,  became  the  father  of  our 
subject,  and  he  also  claimed  Keysville  as  the  place  of  his  nativity,  being  there 
born  in  1820.  He  subsequently  removed  to  Montpelier,  Vermont,  where  he 
learned  the  carriage  manufacturer's  trade,  and  was  there  married  to  Miss 
Maria  Daggett,  a  native  of  that  city.  She  was  of  Scotch  and  English 
ancestry,  and  for  many  generations  her  ancestors  had  resided  in  the  Green 
Mountain  state.  In  1854  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Muldoon  took  up  their  abode  in 
Madison,  Wisconsin,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  carriages  and 
farm  implements,  in  parmership  with  Daniel  JM.  Thurston,  the  father  of 
United  States  Senator  Thurston,  where  he  remained  ten  years,  afterward 
removing  to  Hammond,  that  state,  there  ijecoming  one  of  the  most  extensive 
farmers  and  land  owners  in  that  section  of  the  state.  He  gave  close  attention 
to  his  business  interests,  and  the  measure  of  his  influence  upon  the  best  devel- 
opment of  his  locality  was  widely  felt.  For  m.any  years  he  held  the  ofiice 
of  alderman  of  his  city.      He  was  called  to  his  final  rest  in  1870,  at  the  age 


i6  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

of  fifty  years,  passing  away  in  the  faith  of  the  Episcopal  church,  of  which  he 
was  long  a  worthy  and  consistent  rnen.iber.  His  wife  died  in  Minneapolis, 
Minnesota,  in  1885,  when  she  had  reached  the  age  of  sixty-one  years.  Unto 
this  worthy  couple  were  born  six  children,  of  whom  three  still  survive. 

Frank  M.  Muldoon,  the  only  representative  of  the  above  described  family 
on  the  Pacific  coast,  received  his  education  n^  the  State  University  at  Madi- 
son, Wisconsin,  and  after  leaving  that  institution  assisted  his  father  in  his 
extensive  farming  operations  until  1870.  In  that  year,  in  Hammond,  Wis- 
consin, he  embarked  in  the  hardware  and  machinery'  business,  later  continu- 
ing the  same  occupation  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  and  his  business  rela- 
tions were  carried  on  in  partnership  with  his  brother,  James  D.  Muldoon. 
In  the  latter  city  our  subject  was  also  engaged  in  the  real-estate  business,  and 
he  was  in  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  before  the  advent  of  the  railroads  into  that 
section.  Owing  to  the  ill  health  of  his  family  he  thought  it  advisable  to  seek 
a  change  of  climate,  and  accordingly,  in  1888,  he  came  to  Seattle.  Washing- 
ton, where  he  has  ever  since  been  actively  and  deeply  interested  in  the  growth 
and  development  of  the  city.  Throughout  his  residence  here  he  has  been 
numbered  among  the  leading  real-estate  dealers  of  the  northwest,  and  in  this 
line  of  business  his  services  have  been  of  incalculable  value  to  Seattle  and  the 
surrounding  country.  After  a  residence  here  of  only  one  year  he  was  hon- 
ored by  his  fellow  citizens  by  being  made  a  member  of  the  city  council,  and 
he  has  since  been  the  incumbent  of  that  important  position,  which  proves  that 
his  services  therein  have  been  trustworthy  and  capable.  He  was  prominent 
in  advocating  the  cutting  down  of  the  great  Denny  Hill  and  using  the  con- 
tents to  fill  in  the  water  front  and  also  in  opening  the  streets  through  it  to 
the  north.  As  chairman  of  the  street  committee  this  proposition  was  his, 
and  he  is  entitled  to  the  full  credit  of  this  great  improvement.  At  his  own 
expense  he  has  recently  made  a  trip  to  the  eastern  cities,  gathering  valuable 
data  in  regard  to  the  methods  of  street  improvement,  bridge  building,  sewer 
construction,  the  care  of  garbage  and  all  such  subjects,  and  this  service  has 
been  of  great  value  in  improving  the  streets  of  Seattle.  To  him  is  accorded 
the  honor  of  having  platted  and  placed  on  sale  the  ]\larket  street  addition  to 
the  city,  which  has  been  largely  sold  and  improved,  and  he  is  now  entrusted 
with  the  business  of  various  eastern  capitalists,  making  investments  for  them 
and  caring  for  their  real  estate. 

In  1874  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  ]\Iuldoon  and  ^liss  Sarah 
L.  Ducolon,  a  native  of  the  Empire  state.  Two  children  have  come  to 
brighten  and  bless  their  home — Jay  F.  and  AJlie  B.  The  family  reside  in  a 
beautiful  home  in  Seattle  and  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church.      ]\Ir.  Mul- 


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doon  is  a  member  of  belli  branches  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, and  has  retained  his  membership  in  his  lodge  in  the  east,  with  which 
he  has  been  identified  for  (.hirty  years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  order  of 
Ben  Hur,  and  in  politics  is  a  life-long-  Republican.  He  has  earned  for  him- 
self an  enviable  reputation  as  a  careful  man  of  business,  always  known  for 
his  prompt  and  honorable  methods  of  dealing,  which  have  won  him  the 
deserved  and  unbounded  confidence  of  his  fellow  men. 

MICHAEL  S.  DREW. 

Michael    S.    Drew,    one   of    the    highly    esteemed    pioneer    citizens    of 
Seattle,  is  numbered  among  the  native  sons  of  the  Pine  Tree  state,  his  birth 
having  occurred  in  Machias,  Maine,  on  the  5th  of  January,  1827.      His  par- 
ents were  Alexander  and  Zylpha  (Small)  Drew,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  Maine  and  Congregationalists  in  religious  faith.      The  father  was  a  car- 
penter and  farmer,  whose  life  was  characterized  by  industry  and  uprightness. 
He  died  in  1833  at  the  age  of  forty-five  years,  and  of  the  ten  children  born 
of  his  marriage  only  three  are  now  living,  although  all  attained  to  a  good  old 
age.  As  the  family  was  large  and  the  financial  resources  were  limited,  Michael 
S.  Drew  had  little  opportunity  to  secure  an  education,  but  as  the  years  passed 
he  gained  much  general  information,  constantly  adding  to  his  knowledge  in 
the  school  of  experience.      He  earned  his  own  living  from  a  very  early  age. 
He  remained  in  Machias,  Maine,  until  he  attained  the  age  of  fifteen,  and 
at  that  time  he  had  depended  upon  his  own  resources  for  nine  years.     He  first 
worked  in  a  lathe  mill,  receiving  twenty-five  cents  per  day,  and  continued 
in  the  lumber  business  until  as  he  grew  in  size  and  capability  he  acquired 
a  complete  knowledge  of  the  lumber  business  in  all  its  departments.       In 
1848,  having  attained  his  majority,  he  came  to  the  west  upon  the  tide  of 
emigration,  which  was  still  flowing  toward  the  setting  sun.     On  reaching 
Minnesota  he  was  pleased  with  that  state  and  took  up  his  abode  at  St.  An- 
thony Falls,  then  a  new  town,  having  just  been  established  upon  the  western 
frontier.      He  had  made  the  journey  part  of  the  way  overland  and  part  of 
the  way  by  means  of  the  rivers  and  lakes,  as  no  railroads  extended  in  the  west- 
ern district  at  that  time.     While  enroute  he  camped  at  Chicago,  which  was 
then  but  a  small  town,  a  tract  of  swamp  land  constituting  the  site  of  what  is 
now  he  second  city  of  the  Union. 

In  Minnesota  Mr.  Drew  engaged  in  lumbering,  but  the  discovery  of  gold 
in  California  attracted  him  to  the  far  west,  and  he  resolved  to  seek  the  Eldo- 
rado of  the  west,  hoping  that  he  might  readily  gain  a  fortune  upon  the  Pacific 


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coast.  In  order  to  reach  that  country  he  made  his  way  to  New  York  city 
where  he  took  passage  in  a  ship  to  San  Francisco,  going  by  way  of  Panama. 
He  reached  his  destination  in  safety  on  the  26th  of  October,  1852,  and  had 
about  five  cents  left  when  he  landed.  For  fourteen  months  he  was  engaged 
in  placer-mining  in  Nevada,  meetrng  with  success  and  making  considerable 
money.  He  also  worked  in  a  sav/mill  in  Grass  Valley,  being  paid  four 
hundred  dollars  per  month  in  conjpensation  for  his  services.  He  continued 
in  that  position  for  two  years  and  then  spent  a  year  in  the  Red  Woods,  near 
Redwood  city,  California.  At  one  time  he  had  eighteen  hundred  dollars  in 
California  slugs,  worth  fifty  dollars  each.  Later  he  went  to  the  middle  and 
more  southerly  mining  districts  of  California  and  there  spent  what  he  had 
previously  saved.  In  1855  he  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  secured  a 
passage  on  the  bark  Live  Yankees,  in  which  he  sailed  to  Port  Gamble,  arriv- 
ing on  the  22nd  of  September,  1855.  There  he  obtained  work  with  the 
Puget  Mill  Company  as  saw-liler,  and  after  two  years  was  promoted  to  the 
position  of  assistant  foreman  under  Cyrus  Walker,  now  a  wealthy  and  re- 
spected pioneer  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Drew  continued  in  that  capacity  until  1871,  at  which  time  he  was 
appointed  collector  of  customs  of  the  Puget  Sound  district  by  President 
Grant,  filling  the  position  capably  for  two  years,  during  which  time  he  resided 
at  Port  Townsend.  He  then  resigned  and  returned  to  Port  Gamble,  again 
resuming  his  position  w^ith  the  mill  company,  with  which  he  continued  until 
J  890,  when  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  state  legislature  of  Wash- 
ington. He  removed  to  Seattle,  taking  up  his  abode  in  the  comfortable 
and  commodious  residence  in  which  he  has  ever  since  lived.  When  in  the 
legislature  he  was  an  active  and  valued  member,  doing  all  in  his  power  to 
promote  the  best  interest-i  of  the  state.  At  the  close  of  his  term  of  service 
he  returned  to  Seattle,  where  he  has  largely,  lived  a  retired  life,  although  he 
has  dealt  to  some  extent  on  his  own  account  in  city  property  and  has  engaged 
in  loaning  money. 

Mr.  Drew  was  married  on  the  13th  of  October,  1864,  to  Miss  Susan 
Isabella  Biles,  a  native  of  Yazoo  county,  Mississippi,  and  a  daughter  of  James 
Biles,  a  planter  belonging  to  an  old  Virginian  family.  He  brought  a  large 
emigrant  train  to  Washington  in  1853,  Olympia  being  their  destination. 
He  had  married  Miss  Nancy  Carter,  a  southern  lady,  and  was  accompanied 
by  his  wife  and  their  seven  children  on  the  journey  to  the  northwest  in  1853. 
Mr.  Biles  was  a  strong  temperance  man  and  a  devoted  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist Church.  He  was  also  a  prominent  Mason  and  took  a  very  active  part 
in  organizing  the  first  Masonic  lodge  in  the  territory  of  Washington,  travel- 


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ing  over  this  portion  of  the  country  and  installing  lodges  at  various  places. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years  and  was  buried  at  Olympia,  his 
good  wife  surviving  for  some  time  and  passing  away  in  the  eighty-fourth 
year  of  her  age.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Drew  have  been  bom  seven  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living.  Fred,  a  practicing  dentist,  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-five  years,  leaving  a  wife  and  one  child.  He  was  prominent  in  his 
profession,  was  highly  esteemed  and  his  loss  was  very  deeply  felt  by  his 
family  and  many  friends.  One  daughter,  Abbie,  is  a  musician  of  note, 
having  studied  in  Europe  and  Boston.  Edward  L.  is  a  partner  in  the  man- 
agement of  the  Third  Avenue  Theater  of  Seattle.  Cyrus  Walker  is  in  the 
Seattle  Hardware  store,  one  of  the  large  wholesale  and  retail  establishments 
of  this  city. 

Mr.  Drew  received  the  sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason  in  1858  at 
Port  Gamble,  and  is  past  master  of  his  lodge,  still  retaining  active  member- 
ship there.  He  has  remained  upon  the  Pacific  coast  for  more  than  half  a 
century,  being  a  pioneer  of  California  and  Washington.  He  has  contributed 
in  a  large  measure  to  the  development  of  the  mining  and  industrial  interests 
of  the  northwest  and  through  legitimate  channels  of  business  has  attained 
very  creditable  success. 

Edward  L.  Drew,  to  whom  we  are  largely  indebted  for  the  facts  con- 
tained in  this  biographical  sketch,  was  born  at  Port  Townsend  September 
2,  1 87 1.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  State  University 
of  Washington,  and  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  until  1893,  at  which 
time  he  became  a  partner  in  the  management  of  the  Third  Avenue  Theater, 
being  associated  with  Mr.  Russell  in  this  enterprise  in  which  they  are  meet- 
ing with  marked  success.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Woodman  of  the  World  and 
of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  and  is  a  young  man  of  excellent  busi- 
ness and  executive  ability,  popular  and  esteemed  in  Seattle. 

MANSON  F.  BACKUS,. 

Manson  F.  Backus,  president  of  the  Washington  National  Bank,  is  one 
of  the  most  enterprising  and  successful  business  men  of  Seattle.  He  was 
bom  in  South  Livonia,  Livingston  county,  New  York,  on  the  nth  of  May, 
1853,  and  is  of  old  English  ancestry,  the  family  having  been  established  in 
Saybrook,  Connecticut,  in  1635.  They  became  prominent  in  the  early  his- 
tory of  New  England,  and  from  that  section  of  the  country  representatives 
of  the  name  removed  to  New  York.  John  Backus,  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject,   was  born   in  Washington  county,   in   tliat   state,   whence  he  early 


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removed  to  Livingston  county.  Here  be  followed  the  life  of  a  frugal,  indu«?- 
trious  farmer,  and  attained  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-eight  years.  His 
son,  Clinton  T.  Backus,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  South  Livonia, 
Livingston  county,  and  became  a  stock  raiser,  raising  and  dealing  in  fine 
horses  and  cattle.  In  1S59  he  removed  to  Union  Springs,  New  York,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  the  milling  business  until  1863,  at  which  time  he  pur- 
chased a  large  interest  in  a  gA-psum  mine.  He  was  engaged  in  that  line  of 
work  throughout  the  remainder  of  his  life,  and  under  his  management  the 
various  g}^psum  mines  and  mills  were  consolidated  under  the  name  of  the 
Cayuga  Plaster  Company.  In  1865  he  was  associated  with  Gen.  William 
H.  Seward,  Jr.,  Gen.  Henry  W.  Slocum,  E.  P.  Ross,  J.  N.  Napp  and  others, 
m  the  organization  of  the  Merchants  Union  Express  Company,  which  was 
subsequently  consolidated  with  the  American  Express  Company,  and  of  the 
latter  Mr.  Backus  was  a  director  for  many  years.  In  1866  he  became  a 
stockholder  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Union  Springs,  New  York,  and 
was  president  of  the  institution  until  1890,  at  v/hich  time  he  liquidated  the 
bank  and  continued  the  business  as  a  private  banking  house.  Although 
extensively  connected  with  manufacturing  and  financial  affairs,  he  always 
maintained  his  interest  in  farming  and  stock  raising,  and  continued  business 
along  that  line  until  the  time  of  his  death.  At  his  death  he  was  the  largest 
land  owner  in  his  town,  and  his  chief  pleasure  consisted  of  visiting  his  vari- 
ous farms  and  inspecting  the  fine  stock  raised  thereon.  He  was  a  gentleman 
of  superior  executive  ability  and  keen  discrimination,  and  his  business  judg- 
ment was  rarely  at  fault.  He  carried  forward  to  successful  completion 
whatever  he  undertook,  and  his  wise  counsel  proved  a  potent  element  in  the 
conduct  of  many  profitable  concerns.  He  departed  this  life  September  5, 
1897,  at  the  age  of  seventy  years,  and  over  the  record  of  his  career  there  falls 
no  shadow  of  wrong  or  suspicion  of  evil.  He  left  to  his  family  not  only  a 
handsome  competence,  bur  an  untarnished  name. 

In  185 1  yi.  Backus  v.-as  united  in  marriage  to  Aliss  Harriet  N.  Groes- 
beck,  a  native  of  Rensselaer  county,  New  York,  born  in  1828.  They  had 
two  children,  a  daughter  and  a  son;  the  mother  died  in  1854. 

Manson  Franklin  Backus  pursued  his  education  in  Oakwood  Seminary, 
at  Union  Springs,  and  graduated  from  that  institution  with  the  class  of  1871. 
He  then  attended  the  Cetitral  New  York  Conference  Seminar}-  at  Cazenovia, 
New  York,  and  is  one  of  its  graduates  of  the  class  of  1872.  Upon  the  com- 
pletion of  his  literary  course  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Union  Springs.  In  1874  he  was  appointed  teller  and  the  following 
year  became  cashier,  a  position  which  he  filled  acceptably  and  continuously 


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until  1888,  when  he  determined  to  improve  the  excellent  opportunities  offered 
by  the  northwest  and  ally  himself  with  the  business  interests  of  Washington. 
Accordingly,  he  came  to  Seattle  in  1889,  and  in  connection  with  others  or- 
ganized the  Washington  National  Bank,  of  which  he  served  as  the  cashier 
and  chief  executive  officer  until  1897,  when  he  was  chosen  vice-president.     In 
1900  he  was  elected  president.     The  bank  has  always  been  conducted  along 
most  conservative  lines,  and  its  growth  and  success  are  quite  remarkable,  its 
deposits  now  aggregating  three  and  one-half  million  dollars,  while  its  sur- 
plus and  undivided  profits  are  equal  to  three  times  its  capital.      This  result 
has  largely  been  attained  through  the  personality  and  energy  of  Mr.  Backus. 
Other  business  interests  have  also  profited  by  his  managerial  ability;  while 
in  Union  Springs  he  had  ihe  management  of  the  plaster  company  from  1879 
to    1888,  during  which  tmie  its   business  increased   tenfold.      Mr.   Backus 
studied  law  as  an  accomplishment,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Buffalo, 
New  York.      He  was  appointed  postmaster  at  Union  Springs  by  President 
Garfield  in  188 1,      In   1893  he  was  appointed  by  the  United  States  Court 
receiver  of  the  Seattle  Consolidated  Street  Railway  Company,  and  also  of  the 
Rainier  Power  and  Railway  Company,  two  of  the  largest  corporations  in  the 
state  of  Wasliington.      He  is  now  (1902;  president  of  the  Seattle  Clearing 
House  Association,   and  was   a   member  of   the  clearing  house  committee 
\vhich  was  instrumental  in  carrying  the  Seattle  banks  through  the  panic  of 
1893  without  a  failure  among  its  members.     In   November,    1896,  in  con- 
nection with  Mr.  E.  O.  Graves,  he  organized  the  banking  house  of  Graves 
&  Backus,  the  firm  afterward  becoming  Graves,   Backus  &  Purdy.      This 
institution  is  located  at  \Vhatconi,  Washington,  and  has   been  remarkably 
successful.      Mr.  Backus  is  also  a  director  of  the  Columbia  &  Puget  Sound 
Railway  Company.      It  will  thus  be  seen  that  his  business  connections  are 
of  a  comprehensive  and  important  cliaracter. 

In  April,  1873,  Mr.  Backus  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  C. 
Yawger,  who  died  in  18S4,  leaving  two  children,  Irene,  now  the  wife  of  Dr. 
R.  M.  Harlan,  of  New  York;  and  Leroy  M.,  a  graduate  of  Harvard  Uni- 
versity, class  of  1902.  In  1886  Mr.  Backus  was  again  married,  his  second 
union  being  with  Miss  Lue  Adams,  of  King  Ferry,  New  York,  who  died 
in  February,  1901.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  the  Rainier  and  several 
other  clubs.  In  his  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but  aside  from  exercising 
his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men  and  measures  in  which  he  be- 
lieves, he  has  taken  no  active  part  in  political  affairs  since  coming  to  Wash- 
ington. He  is  a  liberal  contributor  to  local  charities  and  public  enterprises, 
and  has  done  his  full  share  toward  promoting  the  prosperity  of  his  adopted 


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city.  Honored  and  respected,  few  men  in  Seattle  occupy  a  more  enviable 
position  than  Manson  F.  Backus  in  mercantile  and  financial  circles,  not  alone 
on  account  of  the  success  he  has  achieved,  but  also  on  account  of  the  hon- 
orable, straightforward  business  policy  he  has  followed.  He  possesses  un- 
tiring energ}',  is  quick  of  perception,  forms  his  plans  readily,  is  determined 
in  their  execution,  and  his  close  application  to  business  and  his  excellent  man- 
agement have  brought  him  the  high  degree  of  prosperity  which  he  at  present 
enjoys.  He  has  demonstrated  that  success  is  not  the  result  of  genius,  but 
the  outcome  of  judgment,  vigilance  and  hard  work. 

CHARLES  J.  SMITH. 

Charles  Jackson  Smith  belongs  to  the  little  group  of  distinctively  rep- 
resentative business  men  who  have  been  the  pioneers  in  inaugurating  and 
building  up  the  chief  industries  of  this  section  of  the  country.  He  early  had 
the  sagacity  and  prescience  to  discern  the  affluence  which  the  future  had  in 
store  for  this  great  and  growing  countr}%  and,  acting  in  accordance  with 
the  dictates  of  his  faith  and  judgment,  he  has  garnered,  in  the  fullness  of 
time,  the  generous  harvest  which  is  the  just  recompence  of  industry,  integ- 
rity and  enterprise.  He  is  now  connected  with  many  extensive  and  import- 
ant business  interests  of  a  private  nature  and  has  earned  the  proud  Ameri- 
can title  of  a  self-made  man,  for  all  that  he  has  is  the  reward  of  his  own 
enterprise  and  industry. 

Charles  Jackson  Smith  was  born  in  Nicholasville,  Jessamine  county, 
Kentucky,  on  the  13th  of  ]\Iarch,  1854,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage.  His 
paternal  grandfather  emigrated  to  New  York  in  1795,  while  the  maternal 
grandfather  became  a  resident  of  North  Carolina,  whence  he  removed  to 
Kentucky,  settling  in  the  Blue  Grass  state  during  its  pioneer  days.  Charles 
F.  Smith,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Easton,  Delaware  county, 
New  York,  in  the  year  181 3,  and  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  O.  A. 
Jackson,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Kentucky  in  1826.  The  wedding  took  place 
in  the  Empire  state,  whither  the  bride  had  removed  with  her  parents.  Mr. 
and  ]\Irs.  Smith  remained  in  New  York  until  1857,  when  they  took  up  their 
abode  in  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  they  passed  the  residue  of  their  days, 
the  father  dying  in  1877  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years.  He  was  a  mer- 
chant and  for  a  time  served  as  internal  revenue  collector.  Four  of  the  five 
children  are  yet  living  and  Mrs.  Smith  still  survives  in  her  seventy-fifth 
year,  her  home  being  at  Portland,  Oregan.  Like  her  husband,  she  holds 
membership  in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  since  coming  to  the  northwest 


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has  made  many  warm  friends,  who  esteem  her  highly  for  her  lovable  traits 
of  character.    Two  of  her  sons,  L.  E.  and  Charles  J.,  are  residents  of  Seattle. 

The  latter  pursued  his  education  in  private  schools  of  Kansas  City  and 
is  a  graduate  of  Blackburn  University  of  Carlinville,  Illinois.  Soon  after 
the  completion  of  his  literary  course,  he  became  connected  with  railroad  serv- 
ice as  a  clerk  in  the  motive  power  department  of  the  Kansas  City,  Missouri 
River,  Fort  Scott  &  Gulf  Railroad  Company.  He  was  promoted  to  the  audit- 
ing department  and  did  the  auditing  of  the  Leavenworth,  Lawrence  &  Gal- 
veston Railroad.  In  1878  he  became  auditor  for  both  roads  and  soon  after- 
ward the  auditing  departments  of  those  roads  and  of  the  Kansas  City,  St. 
Joseph  &  Council  Bluffs  and  the  Atchison,  Nebraska  Railroads  were  removed 
to  Kansas  City  and  consolidated  in  one  office — Mr.  Smith  being  made  assist- 
ant auditor  of  the  consolidated  department. 

It  was  in  the  year  1880  that  our  subject  became  a  resident  of  the  north- 
west, at  which  time  he  removed  to  Portland,  Oregon,  and  accepted  the 
position  of  assistant  comptroller  of  the  Oregon  Railroad  &  Navigation  Com- 
pany. The  following  year  he  was  made  comptroller  of  the  company  and 
of  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company,  and  in  1886  he  went  to  New  York 
city  as  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Oregon  Railway  &  Navigation  Com- 
pany, the  Oregon  Improvement  Company,  and  the  Oregon  &  Transconti- 
nental Company.  Soon  after  this  the  Oregon  Railroad  was  leased  to  the 
Union  Pacific  and  the  Oregon  &  Transcontinental  Company  had  a  change  of 
management.  Mr.  Smith  then  left  New  York  for  Omaha  to  become  gen- 
eral land  commissioner  for  the  Union  Pacific  Company,  continuing  in  that 
capacity  until  1889,  at  which  time  he  returned  to  Portland,  Oregon,  as  gen- 
eral manager  of  the  Oregon  Railway  &  Navigation  Company.  There  he 
remained  until  1890,  when  he  came  to  Seattle  and  was  made  vice-president 
and  general  manager  of  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company,  which  posi- 
tion he  filled  continuously  until  1895,  when  he  was  appointed  receiver  of 
the  company,  acting  in  that  capacity  until  1897.  He  was  then  appointed 
general  manager  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Company,  the  successor  of  the  Oregon 
Improvement  Company,  but  in  January,  1899,  he  left  the  company  and  has 
since  given  his  attention  to  the  supervision  of  his  private  interests.  He  is  con- 
nected with  a  wholesale  mercantile  house  in  Portland,  is  also  interested  in 
milling  and  coal  mining  and  has  various  other  enterprises  of  importance. 
He  is  a  gentleman  of  wide  experience  and  marked  executive  ability  and  his 
business  career  proves  conclusively  what  a  power  in  the  industrial  world  are 
enterprise,  resolution  and  straight-forward  business  methods. 

In  1880  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Smith  and  Miss  Elizabeth 


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McMullen,  a  native  of  Bloomington,  Illinois,  and  unto  them  have  been  born 
five  children,  Myra,  Elizabeth,  Katharine,  Charles  Howard  and  Prescott 
Kirkland.  The  family  are  Presbyterians  in  religious  faith  and  are  held  in 
high  esteem,  while  their  home  is  the  center  of  a  cultured  society  circle.  As 
a  Republican  Mr.  Smith  takes  a  deep  and  abiding  interest  in  the  growth  and 
success  of  his  party  and  does  everything  in  his  power  to  secure  reform  in 
municipal  government.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
is  a  most  public-spirited  citizen,  co-operating  in  all  measures  for  the  general 
good. 

ORVILL  J.  BELL. 

One  of  the  prominent  and  respected  citizens  of  Seattle  is  Orvill  J  Bell, 
a  man  whose  history  furnishes  a  splendid  example  of  what  may  be  accom- 
plished through  determined  purpose,  laudable  ambition  and  well  directed 
efforts.  Starting  at  the  very  bottom  round  of  the  ladder,  he  has  steadily 
worked  his  way  upword,  gaining  success  and  winning  the  public  confidence. 

Mr.  Bell  was  born  in  Calhoun  county,  Michigan,  on  the  12th  of  Febru- 
ary, 1847,  and  is  of  Scotch  and  Irish  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  Andrew 
Bell,  was  bom  in  Scotland  and  came  with  his  father  to  America,  they  be- 
coming early  pioneers  of  Calhoun  county,  Michigan,  where  they  secured 
twelve  hundred  acres  of  land.  They  became  well  and  favorably  known 
among  the  early  settlers  of  that  part  of  the  state,  and  were  prominent  mem- 
bers of  the  Baptist  church.  The  grandfather  filled  many  positions  of  honor 
and  trust  in  his  locality.  The  father  of  our  subject,  Allison  A.  Bell,  was 
born  in  Erie  county,  New  York,  in  1820,  and  as  a  life  occupation  he  fol- 
lowed farming  and  merchandising.  For  some  years  he  made  his  home  at 
Olivet,  Michigan,  where  he  was  connected  with  the  college  of  that  place,  and 
was  an  active  Republican  in  the  early  history  of  that  party.  He  married 
Miss  Mary  Fish,  also  of  Erie  county,  New  York,  and  their  union  was  blessed 
with  two  sons, — Merton  A.,  now  deceased;  and  Orvill  J.  The  father  was 
called  from  this  life  in  the  forty-fifth  year  of  his  age,  and  his  loving  wife 
passed  away  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-seven  years. 

Or\'ill  J.  Bell  received  an  excellent  education  in  Olivet  College,  and 
when  the  time  came  for  him  to  assume  the  duties  of  life  on  his  own  re- 
sponsibility he  engaged  in  the  tilling  of  the  soil.  In  1863,  when  the  great 
Civil  war  was  at  its  height  and  the  demand  for  volunteers  became  urgent, 
this  lad  of  seventeen  years  offered  his  services  to  his  country,  and  in  the 
Sixth  Michigan  Artillery  he  rendered  valuable  aid  in  the  preservation  of 


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ihe  Union.  He  participated  in  the  engagements  in  the  vicinity  of  Mobile, 
at  Fort  Morgan  and  Fort  Gains.  While  engaged  in  service  he  received  a  sun- 
stroke, from  the  effects  of  which  he  has  ne\'er  fully  recovered,  but  he  con- 
tinued at  his  post  of  duty  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  received  an  honorable 
discharge.  He  served  his  country  faithfully  and  well,  and  his  war  record  is 
one  of  which  he  has  every  reason  to  be  proud.  Since  the  war  liis  business 
interests  have  been  varied,  and  for  the  first  few  years  after  its  close  he  fol- 
lowed the  life  of -an  agriculturist,  while  for  a  time  thereafter  he  was  engaged 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business.  While  a  resident  of  Crawford  county  he  was 
elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  to  the  office  of  county  clerk  and  register 
of  deeds,  thus  serving  for  six  years,  and  during  that  time  be  also  read  law 
under  the  preceptorship  of  Judge  J.  B.  Tuttle.  Admitted  to  "he  i^ar  in  1889, 
be  then  began  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  and  a  short  time  after- 
ward was  elected  by  his  fellow  townsmen  to  the  position  of  prosecuting 
attorney  of  Crawford  county.  On  account  of  impaired  health,  however, 
he  was  obliged  to  seek  a  change  of  climate,  ajid  he  accordingly  came  to  Se- 
attle, casting  in  his  lot  with  the  citizens  of  this  favored  section  in  1893. 
He  was  thus  obliged  to  resign  the  office  he  was  so  ably  filling,  and  he  arrived 
in  this  city  entirely  without  means,  but  by  indomitable  perseverance  he  has 
worked  his  way  upward  from  comparative  obscurity  to  a  position  of  afflu- 
ence. His  first  work  here  was  in  preparing  kindling  wood,  for  which  he 
received  ten  cents  a  basket,  and  in  a  short  time  he  was  able  to  carry  on  this 
business  in  a  wholesale  way,  supplying  the  grocery  houses  of  the  city.  In 
1895,  however,  his  business  was  destroyed  by  fire,  and  he  was  again  obliged 
to  begin  at  the  bottom  round  of  the  ladder,  this  time  embarking  m  the  cigar 
and  tobacco  business.  In  the  same  year  he  also  engaged  ni  the  manufac- 
ture of  apple  cider  and  vinegar  at  601  First  avenue,  south,  beginning  the 
business  with  a  small  hand  press,  but  he  now  does  both  a  wholesale  and 
retail  business.  His  success  is  largely  due  to  his  capable  management,  ex- 
ecutive ability,  untiring  efforts  and  firm  purpose,  and  as  the  architect  of  his 
own  fortune  he  has  builded  wisely  and  well. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bell  was  celebrated  in  1869,  when  Miss  Sarah 
E.  Porter  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Jackson  county,  Michigan, 
and  is  of  Scotch  and  Pennsylvania  Dutch  ancestiy.  Three  children  have 
been  born  unto  this  union, — Frank  A.,  the  prosecuting-  attorney  of  j\Iar- 
quette  county,  Michigan;  E.  W.,  an  insurance  man  in  the  same  county; 
and  Harry  P.,  who  is  engaged  in  business  with  his  father.  Mr.  Bell  is 
independent  in  his  political  views,  voting  for  the  men  whom  he  regards  as 
best  qualified  to  fill  positions  of  honor  and  trust,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the 


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Masonic  fraternity,  holding  membership  in  both  the  blue  lodge  and  chapter. 
He  is  also  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Foresters,  the  Star 
of  Bethlehem  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 

GEORGE    FREDERICK    FRYE. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  pioneer  settlers  who  has  long 
been  connected  with  Seattle  and  her  history  is  George  Frederick  Frye,  who 
arrived  on  the  site  of  this  beautiful  and  progressive  city  in  1853.  He  is 
a  native  of  Germany,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Weiser,  Hanover,  on  the 
15th  of  June,  1833.  Fie  represents  an  old  German  family.  His  father, 
Otto  Frye,.  was  born  in  that  country  and  passed  his  entire  life  there.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  served  as  burgomaster  of  his  town  and  was  a  promi- 
nent and  respected  citizen.  He  married  Sophia  Pranga,  also  a  native  of 
the  same  locality.  They  were  members  of  the  Lutheran  church,  faithful 
to  its  teachings  and  were  recognized  as  people  of  the  highest  respectability 
and  moral  worth.  The  father  lived  to  be  sixty-nine  years  of  age,  and  the 
mother  passed  away  in  1857.      In  their  family  were  ten  children. 

George  Frederick  Frye  was  their  seventh  son,  and  in  his  native  land 
he  pursued  his  education  until  he  had  attained  the  age  of  sixteen  years,  when 
he  emigrated  to  the  new  world.  This  was  in  1849,  ^'^'^^  ^'^^  made  his  way  to 
the  United  States  that  he  might  have  l^etter  business  opportunities  in  this 
land.  He  located  in  Lafayette,  Missouri,  where  his  sister  was  then  living, 
and  iDcgan  work  as  a  farn:  hand  at  eight  dollars  per  month.  He  was  indus- 
trious, honest  and  frugal  and  was  willing  to  perform  any  service  that  would 
yield  him  an  honest  living.  He  became  an  expert  driver  of  oxen,  and  this 
rendered  his  services  peculiarly  valuable  in  tlie  new  country  where  he  lived. 
He  was  but  nineteen  years  of  age  when,  ni  1852,  he  engaged  to  drive  four 
yoke  of  oxen  across  the  plains  to  Oregon  in  order  to  pay  his  passage.  ^Ihere 
were  nine  deaths  in  the  party  ere  they  reached  their  destination,  for  it  was 
the  year  of  the  great  cholera  scourge,  and  along  the  line  of  travel  were  many 
newly-made  graves.  The  part}^  suffei'ed  the  usual  hardships  and  trials  inci- 
dent to  the  trip.  Their  stock  was  at  one  time  stampeded  but  they  succeeded 
in  recovering  them,  and  in  September  the  party  arrived  safely  in  Dallas,  Ore- 
gon. Mr.  Frye  spent  the  winter  there  in  charge  of  the  stock  belonging  to 
Mr.  Hayes,  with  whom  he  had  made  the  journey,  but  most  of  the  cattle  died. 
In  January,  1853,  he  r'eached  Portland.  Oregon.  It  was  his  intention  at  the 
cutset  of  the  journey  to  go  to  the  gold  fields  of  California,  but,  like  other 
members  of  the  party,  he  was  induced  to  make  Oregon  his  destination.      He 


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spent  three  months  in  Portland,  and  during  that  time  he  used  np  tlie  capital 
which  he  had  hrought  with  him.  He  then  secured  work  in  a  livery  stable 
at  twenty-five  dollars  per  month  and  board.  It  was  small  wages  but  much 
better  than  being  idle,  and  as  lie  did  not  have  to  pay  his  living  expenses  he  was 
enabled  to  save  some  money.  In  the  spring,  in  company  with  A.  H.  Butler, 
who  had  crossed  the  plains  with  him,  he  made  his  way  to  Olympia,  Wash- 
ington. They  took  with  them  oxen  with  v.-hich  to  engage  in  getting  out 
piles.  They  were  accompanied  by  J.  Enn.is  and  E.  M.  Smithers,  and,  having 
no  trouble  with  the  Indians,  they  arrived  safeh^  at  Alki  Point,  where  Mr. 
Frye  secured  work  at  three  dollars  per  day. 

In  1855,  however,  the  Indians  began  to  threaten  war  and  he  was  one 
of  the  volunteers  who  offered  to  protect  the  white  settlers.  At  the  time 
of  the  Indian  attack  on  Seattle  he  was  stationed  at  that  place.  He  had 
assisted  in  building  the  tort  there  and  in  sav/ing  the  lumber  in  the  sawmill 
which  was  used  in  the  construction  of  this  house  of  defense.  He  was  very 
active  and  helpful  all  during  the  time  when  great  danger  threatened  the 
little  settlement.  After  the  vvar  he  operated  the  Yesler  sawmill  for  almost 
ten  years,  and  during  six  years  of  that  time  was  in  partnership  with  Arthur 
A.  Denny  as  proprietor  of  the  mill,  the  firm  name  being  Denny  &  Company. 

On  the  25th  of  October,  i860,  Mr.  Frye  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Louisa  C.  Denny,  a  daughter  of  A.  A.  Denny.  He  was  one  of  Seattle's  first 
settlers  and  a  citizen  of  very  high  reputation  and  influence  who  rightfully 
acquired  the  name  of  "father  of  the  town."  After  their  marriage  Mr.  Frye 
built  a  small  house  on  the  present  site  of  the  Stevens  hotel.  He  had  a 
tract  of  land  there,  forty  feet  square,  for  which  he  paid  two  hundred  dollars. 
Their  first  home  in  Seattle  was  not  a  pretentious  one,  as  it  contained  only 
three  small  rooms,  but  it  was  a  pioneer  period  when  luxuries  and  con- 
veniences were  almost  unknown  and  other  buildings  of  the  town  were  scarcely 
any  better,  while  many  were  not  so  commodious.  Mr.  Frye  opened  a  meat 
market  and  in  his  new  enterprise  met  with  a  high  degree  of  prosperity.  He 
also  established  a  bakery,  and  in  this  enterprise  Mr.  Denny  was  his  partner. 
He  applied  himself  so  closelv  to  his  work,  howe\'er.  that  his  health  failed  and 
he  was  obliged  to  dispose  of  his  bakery  and  abandon  business  for  a  long 
time  in  order  to  regain  his  lost  sirength.  ^'Vhen  he  was  once  more  able  to 
become  an  active'  factor  in  industrial  circles  lie  engaged  in  steam-boating  on 
the  J.  B.  Libby.  His  first  position  was  that  of  purser,  but  finally  he  became 
captain  and  commanded  the  boat  for  four  years,  during  which  time  he  was 
also  mail  agent,  carrying  the  mail  from  Seattle  to  Whatcom  and  Sameyami, 
making  one  trip  a  week.      During  a  period   of  very  high  water  he  almost 


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lost  liis  boat,  which  ran  aground,  and  the  expense  of  getting  the  vessel  off 
amounted  to  ten  thousand  dollars. 

Some  time  after  this  Mr.  rrve  obtained  three  hundred  acres  of  land 
on  White  river  and  was  engaged  \\\  raising  h^iy  and  stock,  also  devoting 
considerable  attention  to  the  making  of  butter.  Later,  however,  he  sold 
the  farm  for  seven  thousand  dollars  and  returned  to  Seattle,  where,  in  com- 
pany with  Z^Ir.  Denny,  he  conductea  a  tiiisiiop.  When  he  retired  from  that 
business  he  became  a  stockholder  in  a  co-operation  store  of  which  he  was 
placed  in  charge,  conducting  the  business  for  about  four  years.  He  was  then 
again  taken  ill  and  for  a  long  time  was  in  poor  health.  In  1884  he  erected 
the  Frye  Opera  Hall,  a  large  building  one  hundred  and  twenty  by  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  feet.  It  was  built  of  brick  and  was  the  first  opera  house  in 
the  town,  but  in  the  great  five  of  iSSq  it  was  destroyed,  causing  him  a  loss 
of  about  eighty  thousand  dollars.  He  Avas  ill  at  the  time  of  the  conflagra- 
tion but  recovered  so  soon  afterward  that  his  friends  often  laughingly  claim 
that  the  fire  cured  him.  In  the  work  of  reclaiming  Seattle  after  its  destruc- 
tion he  built  the  hotel  Stevens,  one  of  the  finest  blocks  in  the  city,  and  is  still 
its  owner.  He  is  also  one-fourth  OAvner  of  the  Northern  Hotel,  which  is  a 
splendid  business  structure,  and  in  addition  he  has  a  number  of  buildings  on 
Yesler  way,  one  of  the  best  business  and  residence  avenues  of  the  city.  With 
this  fortunate  pioneer  the  day  of  small  things  has  passed  away,  and  his  large 
investments  and  business  ability  have  made  him.  one  of  the  capitalists  of  the 
fair  city  which  he  has  aided  in  building.  He  is  now  living  retired,  merely 
superintending  his  property  interests.  He  was  the  pioneer  meat-market 
man  and  baker  of  the  city  and  also  erected  the  first  opera  house  here.  His 
loA'e  of  music  led  him  to  establish  the  first  brass  band  of  the  city,  he  per- 
forming upon  the  E  flat  horn. 

The  home  of  Mr.  a.nd  ]\Irs.  Frye  has  been  blessed  with  six  children, 
namely :  J-  JMarion,  who  is  married  and  has  two  children ;  Mary  Louisa, 
now  the  widow  of  Captain  George  H.  Fortson,  who  was  killed  in  the  service 
of  his  country  in  Manila;  Sophia  S.,  who  is  living  at  home;  George  Arthur, 
who  passed  av/ay  when  twenty- four  years  of  age;  Roberta  G.  and  Elizabeth, 
both  at  home.  In  politics  Mr.  Fr}^e  is  a  Republican  and  has  served  as  a 
member  of  the  city  council.  He  and  his  family  have  a  ver)'-  pleasant  home  on 
Pike  street,  where  they  hnve  resided  for  tliirty-five  years:  No  resident  of 
Seattle  enjoys  in  a  higher  degree  the  good  will,  respect  and  esteem  of  his 
fellowmen,  or  is  more  worthy  of  their  regard  than  this  honored  pioneer,  who 
for  a  half  century  has  been  an  important  factor  in  the  improvement  and  up- 
building of  Seattle. 


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SETH  \V.   CEARK. 

The  late  trouble  between  the  United  States  and  Spain  has  given  the 
younger  generation  of  Americans  a  faint  idea  of  the  horrors  and  anxieties  of 
war,  but  the  great  Civil  conflict  waged  fiercely  for  four  years  between  broth- 
ers of  the  north  and  south,  people  of  one  blood,  similar  aims  and  manners, 
essentially  of  one  family,  was  a  contest  so  terrible  that  the  whole  world 
looked  on  and  shuddered,  as  the  contestants  were  much  more  equally  matched 
and  the  outcome  of  such  vast  moment.  To  the  brave  boys  who  wore  the 
blue  and  fought  for  the  Union,  that  their  opponents  are  now  glad  was  pre- 
served, tributes  of  praise  are  freely  given  by  a  grateful  people,  and  none  who 
went  forth  in  defense  of  the  countr}^  deserves  them  more  than  the  subject  of 
this  biography, 

Seth  William  Clark  was  born  in  Eller}-,  Ch.autauqua  county,  New  York, 
on  the  22nd  of  February.  1832,  and  is  of  English  ancestry  on  the  paternal 
side  and  of  Scotcii  lineage  on  the  maternal  side,  his  ancestors  having  come  to 
the  United  States  at  a  very  early  period  in  American  history,  the  date  of  their 
arrival  being  about  1680.  A  settlement  was  first  made  in  New  England,  and 
later  on  the  Hudson  river,  in  New  York.  Abijah  Clark,  the  grandfather  of 
cur  subject,  was  born  in  1754  and  became  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  war, 
being  with  General  Washington  during  the  trying  and  ever  memorable  wi'.i- 
ter  at  Valley  Forge.  He  was  a  great  admirer  of  the  commander,  who  justly 
came  to  be  known  as  the  father  of  his  country.  After  the  war  Abijah  Clark 
settled  near  Peekskill,  New  York,  and  when  the  subject  of  this  review  was 
a  little  lad  of  six  years  he  often  sat  upon  his  grandfather's  knee  and  listened 
to  his  stories  of  the  Revolution.  At  that  time  his  grandfather  gave  him 
three  pieces  of  Continental  script  which  are  still  in  his  possession  and  are 
a  treasured  heirloom.  The  grandfather  removed  to  Ballston,  Saratoga 
county,  New  York,  and  it  was  there  that  his  son,  Seth  Clark,  the  father  of  our 
subject  was  born  on  the  20th  of  March,  1795.  Very  early  in  the  history  of 
Michigan  the  grandfather  removed  to  that  state  and  died  at  Ann  Arbor 
in  March,  1838.  A  part  of  the  city  of  Rochester,  New  York,  is  built  upon 
a  farm  which  he  once  owned.  Seth  Clark  was  married,  in  Cayuga  county. 
New  York,  to  Miss  Content  Ingraham,  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  born  of 
Scotch  parentage.  Her  father  was  a  giant  in  stature,  being  almost  seven  feet 
high.  He  settled  with  his  family  in  Schenectady  county.  New  York,  and 
served  as  an  ensign  in  the  war  of  1812,  participating-  in  the  defense  of  Buffalo. 
After  the  close  of  hostilities  he  tinned  his  attention  to  farming.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  a  Baptist  and  was  an  extensive  reader  and  a  broad-minded  man. 


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His  life  was  a  splendid  example  of  morality  to  his  children  and  at  his  death, 
which  occurred  three  days  prior  to  the  eightieth  anniversary  of  his  birth, 
he  left  to  his  family  the  priceless  heritage  of  an  untarnished  name.  His 
v.'ife  died  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  sixty -six  years.  In  their  family  were  five 
children,  but  only  three  ai^e  now  living. 

Seth  William  Clark  was  reared  \ipon  the  home  farm,  working  out 
through  the  summer  mouLlis,  as  he  aided  m  tilling  the  soil  and  harvesting  the 
crops.  In  the  winter  he  pursued  his  educarion  in  the  little  red  school  house, 
and  later  was  graduated  in.  a  first-class  academy  and  collegiate  institute.  Not 
desiring  to  follow  the  plow  as  a  lite  work,  hut  Avishing  to  devote  his  energies 
to  a  profession,  he  took  up  the  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  just 
a  short  time  before  the  great  Civil  war  broke  upon  this  country.  In  answer 
to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers  he  at  once  enrolled  himself  as  a 
private  in  Company  C,  Ninth  Regiment,  New  York  Cavalry,  and  was  with 
liis  regiment  throughout  the  ^^•ar.  I]e  participated  in  the  great  battle  of 
Gettysburg  and  went  through  that  fearful  ordeal  without  receiving  a  scratch. 
The  regiment  now  has  a  g'ranite  monument  on  the  battle  field.  He  was 
wounded  on  the  31st  of  August,  1862,  at  the  battle  of  Chantilla,  being  struck 
by  a  bullet  in  the  right  leg.  He  was  off  duty  for  a  time,  but  remained  with 
his  regiment.  On  the  2nd  of  February,  1863,  at  Rappahannock  Station, 
he  sustained  a  gun-shot  wound  in  the  rigiit  shoulder  which  caused  him  to 
carry  his  arm  in  a  sling,  but  he  remained  with  his  company  and  was. on  the 
skirmish  line,  using  his  sabre  with  his  left  hamd.  In  a  charge  at  Brandy 
Station  on  the  9th  of  June,  1863,  he  received  a  sabre  wound  on  his  chin, 
which  was  cut  to  the  bone,  and  again  he  had  to  retire  from  active  field  serv- 
ice, but  he  declined  to  leave  his  regiment,  and  as  soon  as  possible  returned 
to  active  duty.  \Adiile  on  the  march  in  1863  he  was  shot  in  the  side  by  a 
bushwhacker,  the  ball  lodging  in  his  vest  pocket.  On  the  1 1  th  of  June, 
J864,  at  the  battle  of  Trevillian  Station,  he  was  again  wounded,  and  his  right 
hip  joint  dislocated.  He  still  carries  this  ball,  and  the  wound  has  never 
healed.  He  laid  on  the  battle  field  under  an  apple  tree  for  five  days  and  for 
some  time  was  supposed  to  be  dead  but  at  last  was  carried  to  the  old  tobacco 
warehouse  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  by  the  enemy,  after  which  he  was  put  in 
Eibby  prison  and  remained  there  until  fall.  His  ]jed  was  but  the  hard  floor 
and  his  rations  consisted  of  a  small  piece  of  corn  bread  once  each  day.  Late 
in  the  fall  of  1864  he  was  exchanged,  and  when  he  left  the  prison  he  was 
hardly  more  than  skin  and  bones,  so  emaciated  had  he  become  through  the 
hardships  of  southern  prison  life.  He  was  exchanged  for  a  man  who  had 
been  well  kept  and  could  fight.      In  December,  1864,  Mr.  Clark  was  paroled 


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and  sent  to  the  hospital  ar,  Annapohs,  whiere  he  remained  until  the  following 
spring-.  After  entering  the  service  he  had  only  stood  guard  for  two  hours 
until  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  corporal,  and  when  mustered  out  he 
was  first  lieutenant.  He  vvoald  have  been  captain,  but  his  commission  was 
given  to  another  man  when  he  was  reported  dead,  but  in  the  spring  of  1865 
the  governor  of  New  York  commissioned  him  a  major.  When  the  war 
was  ended  Mr.  Clark  went  to  Washington  to  settle  his  accounts  with  the 
government.  He  had  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  worth  of  quarter- 
master's stores  to  account  for,  and  up  to  the  time  that  he  was  disabled  by  his 
last  wound  his  accounts  were  found  to  be  exact,  and  he  was  highly  compli- 
mented upon  his  records,  but  after  he  was  wounded  so  severely  and  held  as 
a  prisoner  other  officers'  statements  were  taken  and  he  had  no  trouble  in  the 
settlement.  At  Washington  he  was  appointed  to  a  clerkship  in  the  govern- 
ment land  office  on  December  23,  1865,  and  underwent  a  civil  service  examin- 
ation as  a  technical  civil  engineer  and  draftsman.  He  was  ifirst  given  a  salary 
of  twelve  hundred  dollars,  after  which  he  was  promoted  to  sixteen  hundred 
dollars,  while  subsequently  his  salary  was  raised  to  eighteen  hundred  dol- 
lars. He  was  chief  clerk'  of  preemption  claims,  chief  clerk  of  the  division 
of  railroad  lands  and  chief  of  the  military  boundary  lands  division,  and  was 
jnade  recorder  of  the  government  land  office  in  JMay,  1876.  He  served  in  that 
position  for  ten  years  and  at  times  acted  as  commissioner.  He  had  from 
fifty  to  one  hundred  and  fifty  clerks  under  his  supervision  and  signed  from 
seventy-five  to  one  hundred  thousand  patents  per  year,  but  when  a  change 
came  in  the  presidential  administration  his  offixe  was  given  to  another.  Sec- 
retary Lamar,  however,  appointed  him  to  a  clerkship  in  the  pension  office, 
in  wliich  he  served  until  1890,  when  his  health  failed  and  he  resigned  in 
order  to  come  to  the  ^^  est,  hoping  that  a  change  of  climate  would  prove  bene- 
ficial. Mr.  Clark  then  opened  a  law  office  in  Seattle  as  land  and  pension 
attorney  and  is  now  engaged  in  that  department  of  practice. 

On  the  25h  of  December,  1866.  Mr.  Clark  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Nelhe  Maude  Hall,  a  native  of  Maine,  and  unto  them  have  been  born 
two  daughters,  Cora  Annetta,  the  wife  of  J,  Albert  Jackson,  a  resident  of 
Dawson,  and  Gertrude  Ingram,  now  the  wife  of  Ernest  Inglee  Foster,  also 
of  Dawson.  Mr.  and  IvTrs.  Clark  are  well  known  people  of  Seattle,  and  the 
hospitality  of  their  pleasant  home  has  made  it  a  favorite  resort  with  their 
many  friends.  They  are  valued  members  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  take 
a  deep  interest  in  its  work.  Mr.  Clark  cast  his  first  presidential  vote  for 
Abraham  Lincoln,  and  since  that  time  has  been  a  stanch  adherent  to  the 
Republican  party,  believing  firmly  in  its  principles.      He  has  been  an  active 


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and  highly  esteemed  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repubhc  and  served 
as  commander  of  Stevens  Post,  No.  i.  of  Seattle.  He  also  served  as  assistant 
adjutant-general  for  the  department  of  Washington  and  Alaska.  For  seven 
years  he  was  president  of  the  Kings  County  Emigrant  Society,  and  during 
his  residence  in  this  city  he  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  its  welfare  and  growth, 
doing  all  in  his  power  for  its  material  advancement  and  substantial  upbuild- 
ing. His  has  been  an  honorable  career  largely  devoted  to  his  country's 
ser\  ice,  either  in  military  or  civil  oltice,  and  his  loyalty  and  fidelity  are  among 
his  most  marked  characteristics.  No  trust  reposed  in  him  has  ever  been 
betrayed  in  the  slightest  degree,  and  his  fidelity  stands  as  an  unquestioned 
fact  in  his  life.  As  long  as  memory  remains  to  the  American  people  they  will 
hold  in  grateful  recognition  the  work  accomplished  by  the  boys  in  blue,  and 
among  the  number  who  went  in  defense  of  the  Union  there  was  no  truer 
or  braver  soldier  than  Seth  William  Clark. 

HENRY  W.   MARKEY. 

Henry  W.  j\Iarkey  is  the  owner  and  manager  of  the  Commercial  Street 
Boiler  Works  of  Seattle  and  now  stands  at  the  head  of  one  of  the  excellent 
industrial  concerns  of  the  city,  being  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufac- 
ture of  steam  boilers  of  even,^  description,  from  the  smallest  in  size  to  the 
■<ery  largest.  Desiring  to  make  Seattle  the  base  of  his  business  operations 
he  arrived  in  this  city  in  1887,  when  it  was  comparatively  a  small  place,  but 
it  then  gave  promise  of  reaching  its  present  metropolitan  proportions.  i\Ir. 
J\Iarkey  arrived  here  and  began  working  at  his  trade  of  boiler  making  for 
Air.  Penny,  being  thus  employed  for  a  year  and  a  half  and  then  recogniz- 
ing the  splendid  business  openings  in  the  Queen  city  of  the  northwest  he 
established  a  business  of  his  own  on  King  street  and  had  entered  upon  a 
prosperous  career  when  the  great  fire  swept  over  the  city  on  the  6th  of 
June,  1889.  He  thereby  met  with  very  heavy  losses  and  to  a  man  of  less 
resolute  purpose  such  a  disaster  would  have  been  utterly  discouraging,  but 
Mr.  JMarkey  did  not  give  way  to  discouragement  or  let  misfortune  triumph 
over  him.  He  purchased  his  present  location,  erected  his  shops  and  soon 
had  all  the  business  he  could  attend  to,  his  trade  taxing  the  capacity  of  his 
plant  to  the  utmost.  He  manufactures  all  kinds  of  marine  and  mill  boilers, 
also  sheet  iron  work  of  e^'ery  description.  He  is  a  thorough  and  practical 
mechanic  himself  and  is  therefore  capable  of  superintending  the  labors  of 
the  men  whom  he  employs.  He  gives  close  attention  to  the  work  and  the 
fullest  satisfaction  is  guaranteed,  so  that  his  liberal  and  honorable  business 


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methods  have  secured  for  him  a  well  earned  success  and  a  wide  and  favor- 
able acquaintance  in  Seattle. 

This  enterprising  citizen  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  on  the 
loth  of  September,  1855,  and  is  of  Scotch  and  Irish  ancestiy.  His  par- 
ents were  Patrick  and  ]Mary  (jNlcKensie)  Markey,  who  when  young  people 
came  to  Canada  and  were  there  married.  Unto  them  were  born  eight  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  reside  upon  the  Pacific  coast :  James,  a  contractor  and 
builder  of  Seattle;  John,  a  mason,  residing  in  San  Francisco,  and  Henry  W. 
The  parents  have  both  passed  away. 

Henry  Markey  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Milwau- 
kee, Wisconsin,  and  after  putting  aside  his  text  books  he  learned  the  trade 
of  boiler  making  there.  After  mastering  the  business  and  gaining  a  good 
practical  knowledge  of  the  work  in  all  its  departments  he  removed  to  Grand 
Forks,  South  Dakota,  where  he  opened  a  shop,  conducting  it  for  three  years 
prior  to  his  arrival  in  Seattle.  From  the  time  he  came  to  this  city  his  ad- 
vancement in  business  affairs  has  been  continuous  and  the  passing  years 
have  credited  to  his  account  a  splendid  success. 

In  1 89 1  Mr.  Markey  w^as  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Bertha  Cahill,  a 
native  of  Wisconsin,  and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  four  children : 
Francis,  Joseph,  Henry  and  Helen.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Markey  is 
a  Republican,  but  has  neither  sought  nor  desired  political  preferment,  his 
attention  being  full  occupied  by  his  business  interests  and  the  enjoyments 
of  social  life.  His  history  is  an  illustration  of  what  may  be  accomplished 
through  determined  purpose,  indefatigable  energy  and  straightforward  busi- 
ness methods. 

EDWARD   C.    KILBOURNE. 

Prominent  among  the  energetic,  far-seeing  and  successful  business  men 
of  western  Washington  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  His  life  history  most 
happily  illustrates  what  may  be  attained  by  faithful  and  continued  effort  in 
carrying  out  an  honest  purpose.  Integrity,  activity  and  energy  have  been 
the  croAvning  points  of  his  success  and  his  connection  with  various  business 
enterprises  and  industries  has  been  a  decided  advantage  to  this  section  of  the 
state,  promoting  its  material  welfare  in  no  uncertain  manner.  Seattle  owes 
much  to  his  efforts,  for  his  varied  business  interests  have  been  of  such  a 
character  as  to  promote  the  general  growth,  upbuilding  and  prosperity  while 
leading  to  individual  success. 

Dr.   Kilbourne  is  a   native  of  Vermont,  his  birth   having  occurred  at 


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St.  Johnsbury  on  the  I3tli  of  January,  1856.  Far  back  into  the  early  annals 
of  England  can  his  family  history  be  traced,  for  there  are  records  con- 
cerning the  Kilbournes  as  early  as  1000  A.  D.,  while  the  connection  of  the 
family  with  America  dates  from  1640,  at  which  time  representatives  of  the 
name  became  residents  of  Boston.  Everet  Horatio  Kilbourne,  the  father  of 
the  Doctor,  was  born  in  Berkshire,  Vermont,  in  1S23,  and  became  a  very 
prominent  member  of  the  dental  profession,  his  superior  skill  and  ability 
winning  him  marked  prestige  which  made  him  known  throughout  the  coun- 
try. After  his  removal  westward  he  served  as  president  of  the  Illinois 
Dental  Society  and  of  the  Anierican  Dental  Association.  It  was  in  1858  that 
he  took  up  his  abode  in  Aurora,  Illinois,  ^vhere  he  spent  his  remaining  days, 
his  research  and  investigation  in  the  line  of  his  profession  enabling  him  to 
advance  its  interests  and  promote  the  efficiency  of  the  labors  of  its  repre- 
sentatives throughout  the  country.  Dr.  Kilbourne  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Frances  A.  Stone,  a  native  of  Chelsea,  Vermont,  and  a  daughter 
of  Colonel  Stone,  who  commanded  a  regiment  in  the  Revolutionary  war, 
liis  loyalty  to  the  cause  making  him  a  valued  soldier.  Unto  Dr.  E.  H.  Kil- 
bourne and  his  wife  were  born  live  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

Dr.  Edward  Corliss  Kilbourne  was  the  third  in  order  of  birth.  Fie 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Aurora,  Illinois,  and  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  father  he  studied  dentistry,  which  he  practiced  for  ten  years 
before  his  removal  to  tlic  west.  He  vvas  fortunate  in  having  a  preceptor 
whose  knowledge  was  so  broad  and  accurate  and  thus  he  laid  the  foundation 
for  a  successful  career  in  his  chosen  profession:  In  1883  he  arrived  in 
Seattle,  and  for  five  years  continued  the  practice  of  dentistry,  winning  an 
extensive  patronage.  He  also  organized  the  State  Dental  Society,  was 
elected  its  first  secretary,  and  jvas  instrumental  in  securing  the  passage  of  the 
fi^'st  law  in  the  territory  regulating  the  practice  of  dentistry,  which  was  the 
means  of  maintaining  a  high  standard  in  the  profession  and  preventing  char- 
latanism from  gaining  a  hold  here.  Fie  had  the  honor  of  being  the  presi- 
dent of  the  first  territorial  board  of  dental  examiners,  and  during  his  active 
connection  with  the  profession  he  was  one  of  its  most  interested  and  able 
representatives. 

Becoming  deeply  impressed  with  the  great  future  before  Seattle,  in  1888 
he  retired  from  the  practice  of  dentistry  in  order  to  give  his  attention  to  the 
promotion  of  vafious  enterprises  intended  to  advance  the  city's  growth  and 
progress.  Fortunate  has  it  been  for  the  city  that  he  took  this  step,  for  his 
sagacity,  prescience,  enterprising  and  unconcjuerable  energy  have  proven  a 
most  potent  element  in  the  upbuilding  of  Seattle — so  aptly  termed  the  "queen  of 


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the  Avest."  He  became  extensively  interested  in  city  real  estate  and  lias  handled 
much  valuable  property.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  first  success- 
ful electric  railway  system  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  in  the  United  States,  and 
was  thus  largely  instrumental  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  prosperous  town  of 
Freemont,  suburb  of  this  city.  The  new  company  formed  was  consolidated 
with  the  Seattle  Street  Railway  Company,  which  was  then  operating  its  line 
with  horses,  and  took  the  name  of  the  Seattle  Electric  Railway  &  Power  Com- 
pany. The  line  was  constructed  from  Main  street  on  Commercial,  on  James 
to  Second  avenue  and  to  Pike,  with  a  branch  to  Lake  Union  and  another  to 
the  foot  of  Queen  Ann  hill,  north.  Dr.  Kilbourne  was  first  made  secretary 
of  the  company,  later  its  president  and  subsequently  treasurer.  He  was  also 
general  manager  of  the  Green  Lake  Electric  Railway  Company,  and  became 
a  director  and  stockholder  of  the  Freemont  IMilling  Company,  the  Lake  Union 
Transportation  Company  and  the  Standard  Electric  Time  Company.  In 
1890  he  became  interested  in  another  enterprise  of  much  importance  to  the 
city,  organizing  the  Pacific  Electric  Liglit  Company,  which  soon  absorbed 
the  Commercial  Light  Company  and  later  absorbed  the  Seattle  General 
Electric  Company,  which  was  the  original  one.  The  company  as  thus 
formed  became  the  Union  Electric  Company,  with  a  capital  of  one  million 
dollars,  and  having  practically  all  the  lighting  of  the  city.  Recently  the 
Union  Company  united  with  the  various  street  railway  companies,  form- 
ing the  Seattle  Electric  Company,  with  a  capital  of  eight  million  dol- 
lars, the  Doctor  being  manager  of  the  light  and  power  department.  The 
Doctor  was  also  one  of  the  original  organizers  of  the  company  which  is 
now  the  Denny  Clay  Company,  extensive  manufacturers  of  brick,  terra  cotta 
and  other  products.  His  business  interests  have  been  of  so  important  and 
varied  a  character  that  they  have  been  closely  associated  with  the  material 
development  and  progress  of  Seattle,  and  he  seems  to  have  realized  at  any 
one  point  of  his  career  the  full  measure  of  success  possible  at  that  time.  He 
forms  his  plans  readily  and  is  determined  in  their  execution  and  always  his 
labors  have  been  in  strict  conformity  to  the  highest  standard  of  commercial 
ethics. 

In  1886  Dr.  Kilbourne  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Leilla  Shorey, 
who  was  born  at  Steilacoom,  Pierce  county,  Washington,  and  has  lived  at 
Seattle  since  early  childhood.  Ihey  are  active  and  consistent  members  of 
the  Plymouth  Congregational  church  and  are  interested  and  valued  workers 
in  the  Sunday-school.  He  was  a  trustee  when  the  new  church  was  built  and 
was  chairman  of  the  committee  that  recently  raised  the  thirty  thousand  dollars 
to  clear  the  church  property  from  del^t.      Both  he  and  his  wife  enjoy  the  high 


36  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

regard  of  all  who  have  the  pleasuie  of  their  acquaintance  and  the  hospitality 
of  their  pleasant  home  renders  it  a  lav^orite  resort.  Mr.  Kilbourne  is  one  of 
the  active  members  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  does  all 
in  his  power  to  promote  its  growth  and  welfare.  In  1890  he  was  honored 
with  an  election  to  its  presidency,  ^^•as  continued  in  that  office  for  six  years 
and  is  still  a  trustee,  the  society  makmg  satisfactory  advancement  during  that 
time.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  start  the  movement  among  the  young  men 
of  the  city  to  raise  a  fund  of  twelve  thousand  dollars  with  which  to  purchase  a 
lot,  on  which  they  now  have  a  fine  and  commodious  home,  the  property  having 
since  largely  increased  in  value,  owing  to  the  growth  of  the  city.  The  Doctor 
was  likewise  interested  in  militar}^  affairs  and  became  a  charter  member  of 
the  Seattle  Rifles.  His  success  in  life  can  be  unquestionably  attributed  to 
his  untiring  industry,  energy  and  enterprise,  as  well  as  to  his  high  integrity 
of  character.  He  has  never  selfishly  hoarded  his  means,  but  has  always  been 
a  generous,  contributor  to  the  support  of  all  movements  intended  to  advance 
the  welfare  of  the  city.  "The  liberal  man  deviseth  liberal  things  and  by 
liberal  things  he  shall  stand."  No  wonder  that  Seattle  has  become  the  queen 
city  of  the  northwest  when  so  many  of  her  representatives  have  shown  untir- 
ing devotion  to  her  interests  and  have  put  forth  every  effort  for  her  upbuild- 
ing. Moral,  intellectual  nnd  material  progress  have  all  received  encourage- 
ment from  Dr.  Kilbourne,  and  his  worth  to  the  community  ranks  him  among 
ner  most  honored  and  respected  men. 

NEIL   S.    PETERSON. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  born  on  the  sixteenth  day  of  January, 
1852,  on  the  Island  of  Zealand,  Denm.ark.  He  passed  his  early  boyhood  on  a 
farm.  Pie  attended  the  public  schools  of  Denmark,  from  which  he  was 
graduated,  after  which  he  took  a  course  of  instruction  under  private  tutors 
in  the  city  of  Copenhagen.  This  course  included  natural  history  studies 
and  languages,  and  the  English  tongue  and  literature  formed  one  of  the 
principal  features. 

In  1870,  ]\Ir.  Peterson  left  Denmark  on  a  vessel  bound  via  Cape  of  Good 
Hope  for  Australia,  where  he  arrived  in  the  spring  of  1871,  first  landing  at 
Brisbane,  Colony  of  Queensland.  He  resided  some  years  on  the  Island  Con- 
tinent, which  he  left  in  1878  for  San  Francisco.  In  August,  1878,  he  went 
from  San  Francisco  to  Salt  I  ake  City  and  joined  his  brother,  J.  C.  Peterson, 
who  had  preceded  him  to  America.  The  brothers  thereafter  engaged  in  a 
general  merchandise  business  at  Dillon,   Montana,   from  which  point  their 


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business  followed  the  construction  of  the  Utah  &  Northern  Railway  to  Silver 
Bov,  Junction.  They  afterwards  settled  in  Shoshone,  Idaho,  which  was 
then  the  western  terminus  of  the  Oregon  Short  Erne.  Here  they  carried  on 
Tt  mercantile  business  until  1886,  when  they  disposed  of  all  their  interests  and 
removed  to  Seattle,  where  they  entered  into  a  general  investment  business. 
After  the  great  fire  of  June  6,  1889,  they  dissolved  pa.rtnership. 

Neil  S.  Peterson  took  to  the  study  of  law  and  was  in  due  time  admitted 
to  the  bar.  During  his  student  days  he  served  as  clerk  in  charge  of  the  pro- 
bate business  in  the  office  of  the  clerk  of  the  superior  court  at  Seattle.  This 
service  gave  him  close  familiarity  with  probate  practice,  and  a  larg-e  propor- 
tion of  his  business  since  he  entered  upon  independent  practice  has  consisted 
in  the  settlement  of  estates.  He  is  of  a  highly  cautious  temperament,  a  close 
and  critical  reader  of  statutes  and  decisions,  and  therefore  particularly  adapted 
to  the  conduct  of  a  branch  of  practice  requiring  the  utmost  care  and  particu- 
larity. He  is  a  most  conscientious  and  trustworthy  member  of  the  bar,  and 
commands  in  an  eminent  degree  the  respect  of  his  professional  brethren  and 
of  his  clients. 

Mr.  Peterson  was  married  in  the  year  1890.  His  wdfe  died  in  1896, 
leaving  a  son  and  daughter,  respectively  John  Franklin  and  Eva  Marion. 
He  has  not  remarried. 

Mr.  Peterson  was  made  a  Freemason  on  March  27,  1878,  in  Australia, 
in  Leinster  Marine  Eodge,  No.  266  on  the  registry  of  the  Grand  Eodge  of 
Ireland.  From  this  lodge  he  took  a  demit  and  affiliated  with  Argenta  Lodge, 
No.  3,  Salt  Lake  City,  from  which  in  time  he  demitted  to  become  a  charter 
member  of  Bethany  Lodge,  No.  21,  at  Shoshone,  Idaho.  From  this  latter 
lodge  he  took  a  demit  and  affiliated  on  May  25,  1889,  with  St.  John's  Lodge, 
No.  9,  Seattle,  and  ever  since  that  time  he  has  been  closely  identified  with  the 
work  and  history  of  that  lodge.  He  served  as  its  master  in  1893,  and  has 
since  1897  continuously  served  as  its  secretary.  His  well  known  carefulness, 
accuracy  and  love  of  system  have  made  him  the  model  lodge  secretary  of  the 
state  of  Washington.  He  has  taken  all  the  degrees  of  the  York  rite.  On 
May  23d,  1888,  he  was  exalted  to  the  August  degree  of  the  Royal  Arch  in 
Seattle  Chapter,  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.  Here,  too,  he  went  to  the  lop  by  sheer  force 
of  ability  and  character,  and  in  1894  presided  over  this  chapter  as  M.  E.  High 
Priest.  Since  1897  he  has  served  continuously  as  secretary  of  this  chapter. 
He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  Seattle  Council,  No.  6,  Royal  and  Se- 
lect Masters,  organized  in  1894,  and  attained  the  highest  position  in  it,  that 
of  Thrice  Illustrious  Master.  In  this  section  of  Masonry  he  became  the 
head  of  the  organization  in  the  state.     In  due  time  he  was  created  a  Knight 


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Templar  in  Seattle  Commandery,  No.  2,  of  which  he  is  still  a  member.  Be- 
sides being  a  member  of  Lorraine  Chapter,  No.  6,  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star, 
Mr.  Peterson  joined  the  Ancient  Arabic  Order  Nobles  of  the  Mystic  Shrine 
in  Afifi  Temple  at  Tacoma,  and  he  still  retains  his  membership  there.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  The  char- 
acteristic of  his  mind  in  lodge  as  well  as  in  other  work  which  he  nndertakes 
is  thoroughness.  He  does  nothing  by  halves ;  he  hesitates  at  no  labor  neces- 
sary to  render  himself  perfect  in  any  part  or  position  which  he  assumes. 
He  is  very  highly  esteemed  among  his  brethren  of  the  Mystic  Tie,  as  he  is 
in  the  community  at  large. 

FRANKLIN   A.    BUCK. 

When  the  discovery  of  gold  in  California  attracted  to  the  Pacific  coast 
men  from  all  sections  of  the  country  Franklin  A.  Buck  made  his  way  with 
others  to  the  mming  regions,  ana  tliC  liistory  of  t'lose  days  in  the  early  annals 
of  the  state  which  now  read  almost  like  a  fairy  tale  is  familiar  to  him  through 
practical  experience.  Since  1889  he  has  been  identified  with  business  inter- 
ests in  Seattle,  and  as  the  years  have  passed  prosperity  has  attended  his  efforts 
and  he  is  now  a  citizen  of  affluence. 

Mr.  Buck  was  born  m  1826  at  Bncksport,  Maine,  a  town  named  in  honor 
of  his  great-grandfather,  Jonathan  Buck,  who  \vas  the  first  settler  there  and 
owned  the  land  on  which  the  village  was  built.  He  had  removed  from 
Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  to  the  Pine  Tree  state,  and  was  of  English  descent, 
his  ancestors  having  arrived  in  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in  1636,  William  Buck 
having  been  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  the  new  world.  Jonathan  Buck 
served  as  a  colonel  in  the  Continental  arm.y  during  the  Revolutionary  war 
and  his  house  was  burned  by  the  British,  but  his  efforts  were  not  in  vain,  the 
glorious  victory  of  the  American  arms  giving  rise  to  the  greatest  republic  on 
the  face  of  the  2-lobe.  All  of  the  early  members  of  the  Buck  family  were 
Puritans  in  their  religious  faith.  Daniel  Buck,  the  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  born  in  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  and  wedded  Mary  Sewall,  a 
daughter  of  Colonel  Dummer  Sewall.  a  prominent  ship  builder  who  also 
owned  a  number  of  vessels.  Daniel  Buck  carried  on  merchandising  and 
farming.  He  had  inherited  one  hundred  acres  of  land,  an  equal  share  going 
to  each  of  the  children  of  the  great-grandfather's  household.  Daniel  Buck 
died  in  the  seventieth  year  of  his  age. 

Rufus  Buck,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  also  born  in  Bucksport,  in 
1797,      He  became  a  proniinent  business  man  and  liad  a  sawmill  and  store. 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  39 

He  married  Sarah  Somerby  and  they  spent  the  entire  period  of  their  married 
hves  in  Bucksport.  The  father  was  a  very  prominent  and  influential  citizen 
and  was  honored  with  pubHc  office,  serving  as  cohector  of  customs  and  as  a 
member  of  the  state  legislature.  He  died  in  1878,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two. 
years,  and  his  wife  passed  away  at  the  age  of  seventy  years.  They  were 
members  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  in  their  family  were  three  children, 
of  whom  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  survivor. 

Franklin  A.  Buck  spent  his  early  life  in  the  town  of  his  nativity  and 
after  attending  the  common  schools  became  a  student  in  Phillips  Academy, 
at  Andover,  Massachusetts.  At  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  left  home  and 
started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world,  going  to  New  York  city, 
where  he  remained  until  January,  1849.  In  the  previous  fall  gold  had  been 
discovered  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  in  the  hope  of  readily  acquiring  a  for- 
tune men  were  making  their  wav  to  that  district  from  all  sections  of  the 
country.  Mr.  Buck  joined  the  California  argonauts  and  also  sailed  in  search 
of  the  golden  fleece  on  the  brig  George  Emery  for  San  Francisco.  He 
went  as  supercargo.  They  made  the  long  passage  around  the  Horn  in 
safety,  arriving  in  San  Francisco,  on  the  6th  of  August,  1849.  ^^r-  Buck 
then  left  the  ship  and  went  to  Weaverville  and  Downeyville,  being  engaged 
in  placer  mining  in  1850,  1851  and  1852,  but  he  only  met  with  ordinary 
success,  and  resolved  that  he  would  seek  a  fortune  in  some  other  way. 

In  1855  Mr.  Buck  built  a  sawmill  in  Trinity  county,  on  the  north 
fork  of  the  Trinity  river,  and  his  lumber  sold  for  fifty  dollars  per  thousand 
feet  at  the  mill.  He  continued  to  prosper  in  this  undertaking  until  1858, 
at  which  time  he  returned  to  the  east  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 
He  remained  in  the  east  for  a  year,  during  which  time  he  was  married 
at  Bucksport,  to  Miss  Jennie  M.  Pierce,  a  native  of  that  town.  He  brought 
his  bride  with  him  on  his  second  trip  to  California,  and  for  seven  years  re- 
mained at  Weaverville,  during  which  time  two  children  were  born  to  them : 
Arthur,  now  in  business  in  Seattle,  and  Emma  Louise,  the  wife  of  Homer 
F.  Norton,  of  Seattle.  Two  other  children  were  afterward  added  to  the 
family :  Mary  Sewall,  who  was  born  in  Red  Bluff,  California,  and  is  now  the 
wife  of  B.  T.  Carr,  of  Seattle;  and  Rufus,  born  in  Pioche,  Nevada. 

In  1866  Mr.  Buck  removed  with  his  family  from  Weaverville,  Cali- 
fornia, and  spent  three  years  in  Chico  and  Red  Bluff,  that  state,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  buying  and  selling  stock.  In  1869  they  removed  to  Pioche, 
Nevada,  where  he  continued  his  stock  business  for  ten  years.  He  had  a 
cattle  ranch  and  was  also  interested  in  mining  enterprises  and  in  lumber- 
ing.    His  next  place  of  residence  was  at  Napa  Valley,  California,  where  he 


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had  charge  of  a  large  ranch  of  live  hundred  acres  and  did  all  kinds  of  farm- 
ing. He  also  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  wine  there.  In  1889  he  came 
to  Seattle,  bringing  with  him  a  stock  of  California  wine,  and  engaged  in 
the  sale  of  that  product,  his  business  ultimately  developing  into  an  exten- 
sive wholesale  liquor  business.  It  is  now  incorporated  and  his  son  Arthur 
is  the  president  and  manager,  while  Mr.  Buck  is  the  vice  president.  Since 
1898,  however,  he  has  been  practically  retired  from  active  business,  save 
that  he  is  engaged  in  loaning  money  and  in  the  supervision  of  his  private 
interests. 

In  1899  Mr.  Buck  was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife.  She 
was  devoted  to  her  family  and  her  place  in  the  household  is  one  wdiich  can 
never  be  filled,  while  many  friends  outside  of  the  family  also  miss  the  com- 
panionship of  Mrs.  Buck.  Mr.  Buck  is  a  member  of  the  Society  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  in  politics  he  has  been  a  Republican 
from  the  organization  of  that  party.  He  has  built  several  residences  in 
Seattle,  and  has  great  faith  in  the  future  of  the  city.  Coming  to  the  Pacific 
coast  among  the  '49ers  he  is  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  of  this  portion 
of  the  country  and  is  ver}'  widely  known  and  honored. 

HENRY  L.  SIZER. 

Henry  L.  Sizer,  one  of  Seattle's  thoroughly  reliable  business  men,  act- 
ively engaged  in  the  real-estate  and  insurance  business,  was  born  in  Fonda, 
Montgomei-y  county.  New  York,  on  the  14th  of  February,  1853,  and  was 
descended  from  Holland  ancestry  who  settled  in  central  New  York  at  a 
very  early  day,  becoming  pioneers  of  that  part  of  the  state.  Edwin  Sizer, 
father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Montgomery  county,  and  through  his 
business  career  carried  on  merchandising  and  farming.  He  was  a  devoted 
member  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  and  a  man  of  sterling  worth,  reli- 
able in  business  and  trustworthy  in  all  life's  relations.  He  married  Miss 
Anna  Mariah  Loucks,  who  was  born  in  his  own  country  and  was  also  of  good 
old  Holland  stock,  which  became  so  prominent  in  the  settlement  of  tlu 
Empire  state.  Both  the  Sizer  and  Loucks  families  were  represented  in  the 
Revolutionaiy  war  by  those  of  the  name  who  espoused  the  cause  of  the  col- 
onies and  fought  for  American  independence.  The  mother  of  our  subject 
departed  this  life  in  the  fiftieth  year  of  her  age,  while  Air.  Sizer  reached  the 
age  of  sixty-seven  years.  They  were  quiet,  industrious  people,  who  had 
many  friends  and  no  enemies  and. their  meinory  is  still  enshrined  in  the 
hearts  of  many  who  knew  them.     They  were  the  parents  of  three  children, 


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two  of  whom  are  living.  The  daughter,  Mrs.  James  M.  Cole,  resides  at  the  old 
home  in  Fonda,  New  York. 

Henry  L.  Sizer  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town 
and  in  academies  at  Poughkeepsie  and  Geneva,  New  York,  and  began  his 
business  career  as  a  representative  of  mercantile  interests.  He  continued 
in  that  business  for  a  number  of  years  in  the  east  and  in  the  fall  of  1890 
he  came  to  Seattle  and  established  a  fire  insurance  agency,  to  which  a  little 
later  he  added  the  life  insurance  business  and  subsequently  extended  the  field 
of  his  labors  by  adding  a  real-estate  department.  By  persistent  and  hon- 
orable effort  he  has  gradually  assumed  a  paying  business.  He  has  become 
an  investor  and  handles  real  estate  both  on  his  own  occount  and  for  others. 
He  is  also  general  agent  for  a  number  of  strong  insurance  companies,  includ- 
ing the  Pennsylvania  Mutual  Life  and  the  old  Quaker  Company.  As  a 
business  man  and  citizen  he  has  earned  an  enviable  reputation. 

Mr.  Sizer  was  happily  married,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1878,  to  Miss 
Ida  May  Manning,  a  native  of  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  a  daughter  of 
Edward  Manning  of  that  state.  The  union  has  been  blessed  with  four  sons : 
Glen  Dumont,  Harry  Edward,  Burton  DeBaun  and  Lawrence  Manning. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sizer  are  valued  members  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational 
church,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  deacons  and  superintendent  of  Sunday- 
school.  He  has  also  served  as  state  secretary  of  the  Young  People's  Soci- 
ety of  Christian  Endeavor,  of  the  State  Sunday-school  Association  and  of 
the  Washington  Bible  Society.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Law  and  Order 
League  of  Seattle  and  the  Anti-Saloon  League,  taking  an  active  interest  in 
everything  tending  to  promote  moral  development  and  uplift  humanity. 
During  the  twelve  years  of  his  residence  in  Seattle  he  has  become  widely 
known  in  connection  with  such  work,  and  as  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  he  is  brought  in  touch  with  the  business  interests  of  the  city. 

In  national  politics  Mr.  Sizer  is  an  active,  earnest  Republican,  support- 
ing the  policies  of  his  party  at  home  and  on  the  stump.  Though  never  ac- 
cepting office,  he  has  acted  as  campaign  chairman  of  Republican  organiza- 
tions at  his  old  home  in  New  York  state  and  in  Seattle.  Locally  Mr.  Sizer 
votes  independently  for  those  whom  he  believes  to  be  the  best  men. 

EDUARD  P.  EDSEN. 

A  man  of  distinction  in  political,  professional  and  literary  circles,  and 

equally  prominent  socially,   Eduard  Polonius   Edsen  well  deserves   mention 

in  this  volume,   for  he  has  left  the  impress   of  his   individuality  upon  the 
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42  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

progress  and  upbuilding  of  Seattle  in  many  lines.  He  has  accomplished 
much  in  the  period  of  his  earthly  pilgrimage,  having  become  a  celebrated 
lawyer  of  the  northwest,  a  writer  of  considerable  ability,  while  in  political 
circles  he  wields  a  wide  influence,  although  he  has  never  been  connected  with 
political  work  for  the  rewards  of  office,  in  fact  has  steadfastly  refused  to  be- 
come a  candidate  for  any  political  preferment. 

Mr.  Edsen  is  a  native  of  Husum,  Schleswig-Holstein,  Germany,  his 
birth  having  there  occurred  on  the  29th  of  April,  1856.  He  is  a  representative 
of  one  of  the  old  families  of  his  native  land.  EIis  father,  Hinrich  J.  Edsen. 
was  born  near  the  same  town  in  1825,  and  Avas  a  civil  engineer  and  an  officer 
in  the  German  army,  serving  in  the  war  of  1848-50  that  shaped  the  destiny 
of  the  German  empire.  He  married  ]\Iiss  Lucie  J.  Peterson,  who  was  a  na- 
tive of  his  own  town,  born  in  1831,  and  descended  from  a  long  line  of  mili- 
tary officers.  H^e  died  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  forty-one  years,  and  his  wife 
passed  a\A'ay  in  1900,  in  the  se\-entieth  year  of  her  age.  They  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Lutheran  church  and  so  lived  as  to  gain  the  esteem  and  good  will 
of  a  large  circle  of  friends.  They  had  five  children,  three  sons  and  two 
daughters,  four  of  whom  are  living,  Eduard  and  his  sister,  ]\Irs.  H.  F.  Nom- 
mensen,  being  the  only  members  of  the  family  in  Washington. 

Eduard  P.  Edsen  was  educated  in  the  schools  and  colleges  of  his  home. 
After  completing  his  education  he  spent  four  years  in  travel  and  arrived  in 
Portland,  Oregon,  on  the  i8th  of  November,  1876.  He  had  received  a 
classical  and  military  education  in  his  native  land,  but  being  unfamiliar  with 
the  English  language  in  his  countr}^  he  accepted  a  position  on  the  farm  of 
William  Freels  near  Sandy  postoffice,  Oregon,  where  he  remained  until 
March,  1877,  and  as  far  as  possible  in  that  time  gained  a  knowledge  of  the 
English  tongue.  At  the  date  just  mentioned  he  turned  his  attention  to  sal- 
mon fishing,  which  he  followed  for  a  year,  at  Brookfield,  ^^^ashington,  and 
then  pursued  a  course  in  a  business  college  in  Portland,  perfecting  himself 
in  English  under  private  tutors.  Subsequently  he  worked  as  a  deck  hand  on 
the  Columbia  river,  followed  by  six  months  spent  at  lumbering  and  in  filling 
contracts  for  wood  at  Walla  Walla.  In  the  spring  of  1879  he  found  employ- 
ment in  Stahl's  brewery  and  wholesale  liquor  business  in  Walla  W^alla,  where 
by  reason  of  his  faithful  attention  to  business  he  was  rapidly  advanced  to 
the  position  of  general  manager.  About  this  time  he  made  an  unfortuiiate 
investment  of  the  greater  part  of  his  savings. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Edsen  began  conducting  a  real-estate  and  insurance  agency 
at  Walla  Walla,  in  partnership  with  V.  D.  Lambert.  In  the  summer  of  1883 
he  visited  the  Sound,  finally  locating  at  Seattle  in  December.      In  the  fol- 


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lowing  January  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  supreme  court  at  Olympia, 
and  on  April  4,  1894,  was  admitted  to  the  supreme  court  of  the  United 
States  at  Washington,  D.  C.  His  mastery  of  no  less  than  seven  languages 
soon  secured  him  the  major  portion  of  the  foreign  law  business  of  the  city. 
'He  readily  gained  recognition  as  a  leading  member  of  the  bar  and  his  busi- 
ness affairs  prospered  while  his  popularity  grew  with  his  wide  circle  of 
acquaintances.  In  November,  1889,  Mr.  Edsen  formed  a  lav,-  partnership 
with  the  Hon.  Will  H.  Thompson  and  the  Hon.  John  E.  Humphries,  under 
the  style  of  Thompson,  Edsen  &  Humphries,  which  partnership  continued  for 
eight  years  and  the  firm  became  recognized  as  a  leading  one  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  The  partnership  terminated  vvhen  Mr.  Thompson  became  attorney 
for  the  Great  Northern  Railway  Company,  and  Mr.  Edsen  is  now  practicing 
his  profession  alone,  with  offices  in  the  Hotel  Seattle  block. 

He  has  taken  a  deep  interest  and  has  been  an  important  factor  in  pro- 
moting the  military  organizations  of  the  state  of  Washington.  In  1884  he 
was  the  organizer  of  Company  D,  First  Regiment  of  the  National  Guard  of 
Washington,  and  became  its  first  captain.  Being  an  expert  drill  master,  his 
company,  as  well  as  Rainier  Division,  No.  18,  Uniformed  Rank  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  organized  by  him  in  1892,  ranked  among  the  best  in  the 
many  competitive  drills  held  at  Seattle,  Tacoma  and  New  Westminster,  B. 
C,  carrying  off  prizes  at  each  meet.  He  has  held  the  ofiice  of  assistant  judge 
advocate  general  of  the  Washington  brigade,  filling  the  position  with  dis- 
tinction since  1892,  and  was  aide  de  camp  on  the  staff  of  Governor  William 
A.  Newell,  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  It  should  also  be  stated  that  in  1878  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Walla  Walla  Artillery,  which  is  now  the  old- 
est military  company  in  the  state,  under  the  name  of  Company  A,  Second 
Regiment,  N.  G.  W. 

His  membership  in  social  and  fraternal  organizations  is  extensive  and 
includes  the  Knights  of  Pythias ;  Knights  of  ]\Ialta ;  Knights  of  the  Golden 
Eagle;  Ancient  Order  of  Druids;  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen; 
the  Royal  Arcanum ;  the  Order  of  Chosen  Friends ;  the  four  branches  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  of  which  order  he  is  now  serving  his 
tenth  term  as  president  of  the  general  relief  committee ;  and  the  Fraternal  Order 
of  Eagles,  for  which  order  he  wrote  the  rituals  for  the  Grand  Aerie  and  Sub- 
ordinate Aeries,  complete  with  all  its  additional  ceremonies,  etc.,  as  well  as 
the  complete  code  of  laws  for  the  government  of  the  order  named.  In  the 
last  named  order  he  holds  the  highest  ofiice,  that  of  chief  justice,  with  rank  of 
past  grand  worthy  president.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Seattle 
Turn  Verein  and  since  1889  has  been  president  of  the  George  Washington 


44  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

Branch  of  the  Irish  National  League.  In  1894.  Colonel  Edsen  was  the  ac- 
credited representative  from  the  state  of  Washington  at  the  World's  Fair 
at  Antwerp,  Belgium,  being  present  at  its  formal  opening  by  King  Leopold 
II,  on  May  5th.  The  Colonel  has  also  made  numerous  creditable  contribu- 
tions to  periodical  literature  in  both  prose  and  verse,  having  shown  particular 
ability  in  the  latter  in  his  mastery  of  the  frontier  and  miner  dialects.  In 
politics  he  has  ever  been  a  stanch  Republican,  but  though  a  recognized  party 
leader  and  frequently  urged  to  accept  nomination  for  office  he  has  steadfastly 
refused  to  become  a  candidate.  For  several  years,  however,  he  has  been 
president  of  the  German  American  Republican  Club  of  the  state  of  Washing- 
ton, as  well  as  of  the  local  branch  at  Seattle. 

Colonel  Edsen  was  happily  married,  on  the  ist  of  Jnly,  1901,  to  ]\Iiss 
Blanche  Marie  Clark,  and  thev  now  reside  at  his  countrv  residence,  Eden- 
wild,  in  Kitsap  county,  Washington,  whence  he  each  day  goes  to  his  office  in 
the  city.  Mrs.  Edsen  is  a  daughter  of  Charles  Clark,  a  native  of  England 
and  a  resident  of  Youngstown,  Ohio.  Mrs.  Edson's  mother  was  formerly 
Miss  Elizabeth  Sutton,  also  a  native  of  England.  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Edsen 
are  members  of  the  Lutheran  church  and  stand  ven,-  high  in  the  social  circles 
of  the  city  in  which  the  Colonel  has  made  such  an  enviable  record.  On  April 
13,  1902,  a  bouncing  boy  was  born  to  them,  who  received  the  imposing  name 
of  Edward  Clark  McKinley  Edsen.  Colonel  Edsen  is  a  man  of  powerful 
physique  and  commanding  presence  and  is  what  he  appears  to  be — a  man  of 
integrity,  energy  and  resourcefulness. 

WILLIA^I   HARBAUGH  WHITE. 

William  Harbaugh  ^^'hite  is  one  of  the  ablest  lawyers  practicing  at  the 
Seattle  bar.  A  man  of  sound  judgment,  he  manages  his  cases  with  masterly 
skill  and  tact,  is  a  logical  reasoner  and  has  a  ready  command  of  English. 
He  was  born  in  Sewickley,  Allegheny  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  nth 
of  November,  1859,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  He  is  a  lineal  descend- 
ant of  Hughey  White,  who  came  to  this  country  from  the  north  of  Ireland 
at  a  very  early  day  in  its  history  and  settled  in  Virginia  near  Jamestown. 
Our  subject's  maternal  great-great-grandfather  Hoey  was  also  a  representa- 
tive of  an  old  Virginian  family,  and  on  both  sides  his  ancestors  participated 
in  the  Revolutionary  war.  His  great-grandfather  White  was  a  native  of 
the  Old  Dominion,  as  was  also  his  grandfather,  John  White,  but  his  father, 
J.  W.  I.  White,  was  born  in  Washington  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  spent 
his  entire  life  in  that  state.     He  served  as  justice  of  the  common  pleas  court 


SEATTLE  AXD  KING  COUNTY.  45 

of  Alleghen\'  county  for  many  years,  and  was  still  on  the  bench  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  Xovember  6,  1900,  when  he  v\-as  eighty  years 
of  age.  Religiously  he  was  an  active  and  prominent  member  of  the  ^leth- 
odist  Episcopal  church,  and  was  an  official  member  of  the  same.  He  attended 
the  first  Republican  convention,  and  assisted  in  organizing  the  party  in  his 
section  of  the  state,  where  he  was  a  recognized  leader  in  public  affairs.  In 
early  life  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  ]\Iary  Thorn,  also  a  native  of  Penn- 
sylvania, ^^■ho  is  now  in  her  seventy-fifth  year,  and  is  still  living  at  the  old 
home  in  Sewickley,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of 
her  acquaintance.  They  were  the  parents  of  six  children,  five  sons  and  one 
daughter,  of  whom  live  are  still  living. 

William  Harbaugh  \Miite  passed  his  boyhood  and  youth  in  his  native 
state  and  was  educated  at  Allegheny  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in 
1880.  He  read  law  with  his  father,  Judge  White,  and  for  two  years  was 
also  a  student  in  the  office  of  Slagle  &  Wiley  of  Pittsburg.  After  his  admis- 
sion to  the  bar  in  1882,  he  engaged  in  practice  in  that  city  for  a  time,  and 
in  1888  was  elected  to  the  Pennsylvania  legislature,  in  which  he  served  one 
term. 

Shortly  afterward  ^Ir.  \\'hite  came  to  Seattle  and  from  1893  until  1895 
was  a  member  of  the  law  hrm  of  Pratt  &  White,  but  since  that  time  has 
been  alone  in  practice.  Coming  here  a  stranger  it  was  some  time  before 
he  became  well  acquainted,  but  his  ability  in  his  chosen  profession  is  now 
widely  recognized  and  he  is  at  the  head  of  a  large  civil  law  practice,  being 
attorney  for  a  number  of  prominent  corporations.  He  is  not  only  a  good 
lawyer  but  is  a  good  business  man  as  well,  in  fact  possesses  unusual  abil- 
ity in  that  direction,  and  is  to-day  a  stockholder  in  a  number  of  corporations 
and  business  enterprises,  which  have  not  only  promoted  individual  prosperity, 
but  have  materially  advanced  the  interests  of  his  adopted  city.  He  was  one 
of  the  organizers  and  builders  of  the  Seattle  Central  Railroad. 

In  1887  Air.  \\'hite  married  ]Miss  Kate  Erwin,  a  native  of  his  own  birth- 
place, and  to  them  ha\-e  been  born  three  daughters,  Kathryn,  Esther  and 
Emma.  The  family  ha^-e  a  delightful  home,  where  hospitality  reigns  su- 
preme. 'Mr.  and  Airs.  White  are  active  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  of 
which  he  is  one  of  the  trustees,  and  he  is  also  connected  with  a  number  of 
fraternal  societies,  including  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  the  \\'ood- 
men  of  the  World,  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  the  Benevolent  Pro- 
tective Order  of  Elks  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  Politically  he  is  an  ardent 
Republican,  and  in  1900  was  a  candidate  of  his  party  for  prosecuting  attor- 
ney of  the  city.     Public-spirited  and  progressive,  he  takes  an  active  interest 


46  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

in  public  affairs,  and  withholds  his  support  from  no  enterprise  calculated 
to  advance  the  general  welfare.  His  genial,  pleasant  manner  makes  him 
quite  popular  in  both  business  and  social  circles,  and  he  is  recognized  as  a 
valued  citizen  of  the  community. 

FRED  RICE  ROWELL. 

Fred  Rice  Rowell  is  actively  connected  with  a  profession  ^vhich  has  im- 
portant bearing  upon  the  progress  and  stable  prosperity  of  any  section  or 
community,  and  one  which  has  long  been  considered  as  promoting  the  public 
welfare  by  furthering  the  ends  of  justice  and  maintaining  mdividual  rights. 
His  reputation  as  a  lawyer  has  been  won  through  earnest,  honest  labor,  and 
his  standing  at  the  bar  is  a  merited  tribute  to  his  ability.  He  now  has  a  very 
large  practice  and  is  particularly  well  known  in  connection  with  the  depart- 
ment of  mining  law. 

Although  the  extreme  northwestern  portion  of  the  country  is  now  his 
place  of  residence,  the  birth  of  ■Mr.  Rowell  occurred  in  the  extreme  north- 
eastern section  of  this  fair  land,  for  he  first  opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of 
day  in  South  Thomaston,  Knox  county,  j\Iaine,  on  the  29th  of  December, 
1856.  He  is  descended  from  English  ancestors  who  were  early  settlers  of 
Nottingham,  New  Hampshire.  His  great-grandfather,  William  Rowell,  was 
born  in  1755,  and  removed  to  Thomaston,  Maine,  where  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  He  volunteered  for  service  in  the  Revolutionary  war 
and  became  a  private  in  the  company  which  was  commanded  by  Captain 
Henry  Dearborn  and  was  attached  to  the  regiment  under  command  of  Col- 
onel John  Stark.  He  participated  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  in  other 
engagements  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  cause  of  liberty.  He  departed 
this  life  on  the  30th  of  September,  181 1.  His  son.  Rice  Rowell,  the  grand- 
father of  our  subject,  became  one  of  the  early  business  men  of  South  Thomas- 
ton, Maine,  Vv^here  he  owned  a  sawmill  and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lum- 
ber. He  owned  a  farm  upon  which  he  resided  and  where  he  died  when  about 
seventy  years  of  age. 

His  son,  Luther  H.  Rowell,  the  father  of  Fred  Rice,  was  born  on  the 
farm  at  South  Thomaston  and  our  subject  was  the  representative  in  the 
fourth  generation  of  the  family  born  in  the  same  room.  Such  a  fact  is  quite 
unusual  among  the  migratory  people  of  this  country  and  shows  that  the 
Rowells  believed  in  letting  well  enough  alone.  The  property  is  still  in  pos- 
session of  a  member  of  the  family  and  thus  for  more  than  a  century  it  has 
been  known  as  the  Rowell  homestead.     Luther  Rowell  was  united  in  mar- 


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riage  to  Sarah  W.  Matthews  and  they  continued  to  reside  upon  the  farm 
until  the  time  of  her  death,  which  occurred  when  she  was  forty-nine  years 
of  age.  She  left  five  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living.  The  father  is 
now  retired  from  active  business  and  is  living  in  Seattle,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight  years,  respected  and  honored  by  all  who  know  him.  He  has  been  a 
life-long  Democrat  and  in  his  early  life  served  as  selectman  of  his  town,  was 
also  town  clerk  and  held  other  local  offices,  filling  every  position  to  which  he 
was  called  with  ability  and  integrity  and  enjoying  the  fullest  confidence  of 
his  fellow  men.     All  of  his  family  now  reside  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

Fred  Rice  Rowell,  the  eldest  member  of  his  father's  family,  obtained 
his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  later  went  through  the  work  of  the 
senior  year  in  the  Cobern  Classical  Institute,  at  Waterville,  Maine,  and  is  a 
graduate  of  Colby  College,  in  the  class  of  1881.  Wishing  to  engage  in  the 
practice  of  law^  as  a  life  work,  he  then  began  reading  in  the  office  of  the  Hon. 
A.  P.  Gould,  in  Thomaston,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  For  five  years 
thereafter  he  practiced  law  with  success  in  Rockland,  Maine,  and  wdiile  resid- 
ing in  South  Thomaston  was  elected  town  clerk  and  school  superintendent. 

In  May,  1888,  Mr.  Rowell  arrived  in  Seattle  and  was  first  associated 
with  Judge  I.  M.  Hall,  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Later  he  was  alone 
in  business  and  then  entered  into  partnership  with  Judge  John  O.  Robin- 
son, the  relationship  being  maintained  for  a  number  of  years,  while  the  firm 
enjoyed  a  satisfactory  and  lucrative  general  practice.  Mr.  Rowell,  how- 
ever, is  now  again  alone  in  business,  and  for  the  past  two  years  he  has 
delivered  lectures  to  the  class  in  mining  at  the  state  university.  His 
clientage  is  large  and  his  ability  as  a  prominent  lawyer  is  widely  acknowd- 
edged. 

On  the  1 6th  of  January,  1884,  Mr.  Rowell  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Mary  Florence  Stetson,  a  native  of  the  town  in  which  his  birth  occurred,  and 
a  daughter  of  Emory  L.  Stetson.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rowell  hold  member- 
ship in  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Brother- 
hood of  St.  Andrew  and  a  member  of  its  council  in  the  United  States.  He 
takes  an  active  part  in  church  work  and  does  much  for  the  upbuilding  of  the 
cause.  Like  his  father  he  has  adhered  to  the  Democratic  party  and  is  a 
strong  believer  in  its  principles  as  advocated  by  the  Hon.  W.  J.  Bryan.  He 
has  done  much  effective  campaign  work  for  the  party  and  has  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  the  affairs  of  his  city,  doing  all  in  his  power  for  its  substantial  im- 
provement. He  belongs  to  the  Washington  State  Historical  Society  and  is 
a  gentleman  of  broad  general  information  and  scholarly  attainments,  wdiose 
courtesy  is  unfailing  and  whose  integrity  is  above  question. 


4«  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

JOHN   SANFORD   TAYLOR. 

Prior  to  the  g-reat  fire  of  1889  which  destroyed  the  cit}-  of  Seattle  and 
yet  gave  rise  to  the  growth  of  a  new  center  in  the  northwest,  John  San- 
ford  Taylor  took  up  his  abode  here.  He  is  one  of  the  upright  and  pro- 
gressive men  that  Scotland  has  supplied  to  the  United  States.  He  was 
born  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather  on  the  i8th  of  February,  1830,  and  was 
brought  to  America  by  his  parents  when  he  was  but  a  baby,  \\lien  he  was 
a  youth  of  only  nine  years  both  his  father  and  his  mother  died,  lea\ing  a  fam- 
ily of  five  children,  of  which  he  is  now  the  only  survivor.  When  left  an 
orphan  he  went  to  live  at  the  home  of  Allen  McDermit,  with  whom  he  re- 
mained until  his  twenty-first  year,  residing  most  of  that  time  in  Canada. 
The  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed  were  very  limited  and  he  can 
be  said  to  be  a  self-educated  man,  but  is  now  a  citizen  of  broad  general 
knowledge  because  of  his  reading  and  his  wide  thought  and  research,  as 
well  as  his  observation.  He  began  life  on  his  own  account  in  the  lumber 
w^oods  as  a  chopper  and  by  the  time  he  had  attained  the  age  of  twenty- 
six  years  he  was  a  superintendent  of  a  sawmill.  Thus  he  had  steadily 
worked  his  way  upward.  His  mechanical  skill  in  the  work,  his  abil- 
ity in  controlling  business  affairs  and  his  marked  enterprise  won  for 
him  steady  advancement,  ^^'hen  twenty-six  years  of  age  he  embarked 
in  the  manufacture  of  lumber,  on  his  own  account,  at  Saginaw,  Mich- 
igan, and  was  thus  employed  for  thirty  years.  From  that  place  he  removed 
to  Duluth.  Minnesota,  where  he  built  a  large  sawmill  and  was  there  en- 
gaged in  lumlDcr  manufacturing  for  eight  years. 

On  the  expiration  of  that  time  ]\Ir.  Taylor  came  on  a  pleasure  trip 
to  Seattle  and  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  country,  its  natural  resources 
and  its  advantages  that  he  returned  to  his  former  home,  sold  his  property 
there  and  immediately  afterward  came  to  Seattle  to  reside,  arriving  here 
in  1889.  He  invested  sixty-thousand  dollars  in  property  in  this  place,  build- 
ing one  sawmill  and  a  planing  mill,  and  purchased  a  portable  sawmill,  to- 
gether with  the  other  necessary  buildings  and  secured  all  the  equipments 
needed  for  the  construction  of  a  large  lumber  business,  but  in  1895  there 
came  a  land  slide,  seventy-five  acres  of  land  moved  down  to  the  lake  in  one 
body  and  washed  away  his  large  plant,  together  with  sixteen  dwelling 
houses.  By  this  disaster  he  met  with  a  very  serious  loss,  but  he  still  owns 
land  and  considerable  other  property.  At  present  he  is  building  a  saw- 
mill at  Rainier  Beach,  with  a  capacity  of  forty  thousand  feet  of  lumber  per 
day.     It  is  fully  ecjuipped  with  a  lath  mill,  shingle  mill,  etc.     At  the  present 


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time  he  is  living  in  a  pleasant  and  commodious  home,  wliere  he  is  sur- 
rounded with  all  of  the  comforts  and  many  of  the  luxuries  that  go  to  make 
life  worth  living. 

In  1853  Mr.  Taylor  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jeanettc  Louthian, 
a  native  of  Canada  who,  like  her  husband,  was  of  Scotch  ancestry.  Their 
union  has  been  blessed  with  four  children:  William  D.,  who  is  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Seattle;  David  P.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  at  Daw- 
son; Margaret,  now  the  wife  of  M.  R.  Metcalf  and  a  resident  of  St.  Paul, 
Minnesota,  and  John  S.,  who  makes  his  home  in  Seattle.  There  are  also 
eight  grandchildren.  For  many  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Taylor  have  been  lead- 
ing and  influential  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  of  which 
he  is  now  a  trustee,  while  for  thirty-two  years  he  has  been  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school  and  has  also  taken  an  active  part  in  the  important 
Avork  of  training  the  young  to  meet  the  moral  obligations  of  life.  Pie  be- 
came a  charter  member  of  a  council  of  the  Royal  Arcanum  upon  its  or- 
ganization at  Saginaw,  Michigan,  and  has  since  changed  his  membership  to 
Rainier  Council,  No.  1399,  in  Seattle,  of  which  he  served  as  chaplain.  He 
lias  made  an  excellent  record  as  an  honorable  business  man  and  he  and  his 
estimable  wife  enjoy  the  good  will  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  they 
have  been  associated.  From  early  boyhood  he  has  had  few  advantages  given 
to  him.  All  that  he  is  and  all  that  he  has  acquired  are  the  result  of  his  own 
efforts,  his  remarkable  ambition  and  his  determination  to  progress  in  life, 
along  moral,  material  and  intellectual  lines.  His  is  a  strong  manhood, 
strong  in  its  honor  and  good  name  and  his  life  record  may  well  serve  as  a 
source  of  inspiration  and  encouragement  to  others. 

CHARLES  H.  LILLY. 

The  name  of  Lilly  figures  conspicuously  in  connection  with  the  com- 
mercial history  of  Seattle,  for  our  subject  is  the  president  and  traesurer  of 
the  firm  of  Lilly,  Bogardus  &  Company,  incorporated,  doing  the  largest 
wholesale  business  in  the  northwest  in  the  purchase  and  sale  of  all  kinds  of 
cereals,  flour,  feed,  seeds,  poultry  supplies  and  fertilizers.  The  business, 
which  has  now  reached  mammoth  proportions,  is  largely  the  outcome  of 
the  enterprise  and  executive  power  of  our  subject,  who  began  life  amid  un- 
favoring  circumstances  upon  an  Illinois  farm,  but  through  his  own  unaided 
efforts  has  advanced  to  a  position  prominent  among  the  leading  representa- 
tives of  commerce  in  this  section  of  the  country.  Of  America  is  the  self- 
made  man  a  product,  and  the  record  of  accomplishments  in  this  individual 


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sense  is  the  record  which  the  true  and  loyal  American  holds  in  deepest  regard 
and  highest  honor.  In  tracing  the  career  of  the  subject  of  this  review  we 
are  enabled  to  gain  a  recognition  of  this  sort  of  a  record  and  for  this  reason 
there  is  particular  interest  attaching  to  the  points  which  mark  his  progress 
in  life. 

Charles  Hervey  Lilly  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  his  birth  having  occurred 
in  Champaign  county,  on  the  20th  of  January,  i860.  He  is  of  Scotch  an- 
cestry on  the  paternal  side  and  of  Irish  lineage  on  the  maternal.  His  father, 
Robert  Hervey  Lilly,  was  born  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  and  married  Miss 
Valeria  Gordon,  of  Oswego,  New  York.  He  was  an  ordained  minister  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  and  an  owner  of  farm  lands  in  Illinois,  where  he 
had  settled  in  1842,  becoming  one  of  the  well  known  and  highly  esteemed 
early  residents  of  Champaign  county.  He  departed  this  life  in  1873,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-three  years,  leaving  his  widow  and  six  children,  of  whom  Charles 
H.  Lilly,  the  eldest,  was  then  but  thirteen  years  of  age.  His  large  farm  was 
heavily  mortgaged  and  the  vridow  and  her  son  Charles  made  herculean  ef- 
forts to  pay  for  and  save  the  property.  Mr.  Lilly  assumed  the  management 
of  the  farm  and  from  early  morning  until  dewy  eve  worked  in  the  fields, 
aided  by  the  good  counsel  of  his  mother,  who  was  a  woman  of  superior  busi- 
ness judgment.  They  struggled  on  under  the  debt  for  five  years,  the  crops 
sometimes  suffering  from  frosts,  sometimes  from  excessive  rains  and  again 
from  drouth,  but  they  succeeded  in  selling  some  of  the  farm  and  thus  sav- 
ing one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  it.  It  was  a  discouraging  experience 
for  a  boy  to  undergo,  for  all  this  happened  between  his  thirteenth  and  eight- 
eenth years,  but  perhaps  it  worked  for  his  good  after  all,  developing  in  him 
a  strength  of  character,  self-reliance  and  manliness  which  have  proved  the 
foundations  upon  which  he  has  builded  the  success  of  his  later  life.  He  suc- 
ceeded in  paying  the  interest  upon  the  farm  mortgage  and  at  the  same  time 
enabling  the  younger  children  to  continue  in  school,  and  at  length  gained 
a  clear  title  to  one  hundred  and  sixty-four  acres  of  land  and  the  farm  build- 
ings, which  the  family  continued  to  own  until  1890,  when  the  property  was 
sold. 

Mr,  Lilly  also  eventually  managed  to  acquire  a  good  education  for 
himself  by  entering  the  State  University  of  Illinois,  in  which  he  was  grad- 
uated with  the  class  of  1884,  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Science  being  con- 
ferred upon  him.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  merchandising  in  Thom- 
asboro,  his  partner  being  Mr.  Bogardus,  with  whom  he  is  still  associated  in 
business.  In  the  winter  of  1885-6  he  purchased  his  partner's  interest  and 
continued  the  business  alone  there  for  two  years.     During  his  residence  there 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  51- 

he  was  made  postmaster  of  the  httle  town,  but  in  1889  he  disposed  of  his 
interests  in  the  east  and  came  to  Seattle. 

Since  that  time  Mr.  Lihy  has  been  closely  associated  with  the  interests 
of  this  city  and  his  labors  have  placed  him  in  the  front  ranks  of  business 
circles.     From  March  until  November  he  was  engaged  in  street  contracting 
and  in  hauling  building  materials.     Mr.  Bogardus,  his  former  partner,  had 
gone  to  California  after  selling  his  property  in  Illinois,  but  came  from  the 
Golden  state  to  visit  Mr.  Lilly  in  Seattle.    They  looked  the  city  over  together, 
agreed  that  its  possibilities  were  good,  its  future  promising,  and  then  formed 
a  partnership,  which  has  since  been  maintained.     They  first  did  teaming,  and 
in   1889  established  their  present  business  in  a  small  store  with  a  paid-up 
capital  of  three  thousand  dollars.     They  gave  their  business  the  closest  at- 
tention and  it  grew  rapidly  so  that  they  were  soon  obliged  to  secure  additional 
buildings   in   order  to   increase  their  warehouse   room,   until   they   had  the 
largest  grain  and  feed  business  of  the  northwest.     In  1894  the  firm  was  in- 
corporated, each  member  still  owning  a  half  interest.     At  the  same  time  they 
opened  a  branch  house  at  Whatcom  and  the  business  was  incorporated  under' 
the  name  of  Lilly,  Bogardus  &  Bacon,  continuing  under  that  style  for  four 
years.    At  the  end  of  that  time  the  branch  at  Whatcom  was  discontinued,  the 
partners  deeming  it  best  to  concentrate  their  efforts  at  Seattle.   In  1897,  owing 
to  the  discovery  of  gold  in  the  Klondike,  the  business  received  a  fresh  im- 
petus and  increased  still  more  rapidly,  and  in  1900  Judd  M.  Elliott,  who  had 
formerly  been  in  the  employ  of  the  firm  and  had  gone  to  Alaska,  where  he 
had  been  very  successful  in  his  search  for  gold,  returned  to  Seattle  and  pur- 
chased one  half  of  Mr.  Bogardus'  interest — the  style  of  Lilly,  Bogardus  & 
Company,  incorporated,  being  then  assumed.     Their  efforts  have  not  been 
confined  alone  to  dealing  in  cereals,  seeds,  etc.,  for  they  are  also  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  new  North  Coast  Flouring  Mills,  of  Seattle,  and  they  have 
the  largest  and  best  arranged  storehouses  and  warehouses  and  mill,  all  under 
one  roof,  to  be  found  in  the  west.     The  dock  which  adjoins  the  large  ware- 
house is  one  hundred  and  five  by  four  hundred  and  sixty  feet,  and  the  wharf 
building  is  eighty  by  four  hundred  and  sixty  feet,  and  the  largest  building 
under  a  single  roof  in  the  city.    The  main  brick  edifice,  which  has  been  erected 
especially  for  their  business,  is  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  by  two  hundred 
an4  six  feet,  is  three  stories  in  height  and  is  supplied  with  all  modern  appli- 
ances and   apparatus   to   accommodate  and   expedite  business.     Their  new 
roller  process  flouring  mill  has  a  capacity  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  barrels 
per  day  and  can  be  increased  to  five  hundred  barrels.     The  company  are 
also  agents  for  thirteen  steamers  called  the  Mosquito  Fleet  of  Puget  sound. 


52  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Thus  the  efforts  of  the  firm  liave  been  extended  into  broader  fields  of  labor. 
The  partners  are  all  men  of  good  business  ability  and  carry  forward  to  suc- 
cessful completion  whatever  they  undertake. 

In  1885  Mr.  Lilly  was  happily  married  to  Julia  Putnam,  of  Champaign, 
Illinois,  and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  four  children,  as  follows : 
Henry  Wilmot,  Farwell  Piatt,  Phebe  E.  and  Marion  F.  The  parents  are 
members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  Mr.  Lilly  is  a  Knight  Templar 
Mason  and  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Modern  Woodmen  Camp,  the  National  Union,  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  Merchants'  Association.  He  has  attained  a  distinguished  position  in 
connection  with  the  great  industrial  and  commercial  interests  of  the  state 
and  his  efforts  have  been  so  discerningly  directed  along  well  defined  lines 
that  he  seems  to  have  realized  at  any  one  point  of  progress  the  full  meas- 
ure of  his  possibilities  for  accomplishment  at  that  point.  A  man  of  distinct 
and  forceful  individuality,  of  broad  mentality  and  mature  judgment,  he 
has  left  and  is  leaving  his  impress  upon  the  business  world  of  Seattle  and 
his  enterprises  add  not  alone  to  his  individual  prosperity,  but  also  advance 
the  general  welfare  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  in  which  he  makes  his  home. 

ALBERT  S.  KERRY. 

The  prosperity  of  any  community  depends  upon  its  business  activity,  and 
the  enterprise  manifest  in  commercial  circles  is  the  foundation  upon  which 
is  builded  the  material  welfare  of  town,  state  and  nation.  The  most  im- 
portant factors  in  public  life  at  the  present  day  are  therefore  the  men  who 
are  in  control  of  successful  business  interests  and  such  a  one  is  Albert  S. 
Kerry,  the  well-known  president  of  the  Kerry  Mill  Company  of  Seattle  and 
one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  business  men  of  that  city. 

Mr.  Kerry  was  born  in  Kingston,  Canada,  on  the  15th  of  April,  1865, 
and  is  a  worthy  representative  of  a  good  old  English  family  that  for  many 
years  has  been  engaged  in  the  milling  business.  His  father,  Aaron  Kerry, 
emigrated  from  England  to  Canada  in  1846,  but  for  the  past  thirty-three 
years  has  made  his  home  in  Port  Huron,  Michigan.  Throughout  his  active 
business  life  he  was  a  carriage  manufacturer,  but  now,  at  the  age  of  sev- 
venty-four  years,  is  living  retired.  He  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem  by  a 
large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances,  who  appreciate  his  sterling  worth. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious  faith  is  a  Methodist.  When  a 
young  man  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Matilda  Wilson,  who  was 
horn  in  the  city  of  Toronto,  Canada,  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  and  was  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  53 

daughter  of  George  D.  Wilson.  She  departed  this  Hfe  in  1873.  Of  her 
eleven  children  nine  are  still  living,  and  four  of  that  number  make  their  home 
in  Washington,  these  being  J.  W.,  Almond,  Arthur  and  Albert  S. 

In  the  public  schools  of  jMichigan  Albert  S.  Kerry  acquired  a  good  prac- 
'  tical  education  during  his  boyhood  and  youth,  and  since  attaining  his  ma- 
'  jority  has  devoted  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  the  lumber  business.  In 
1886  he  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  and  found  employment  in  the  sawmill 
of  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company  as  tallyman,  and  from  1887  until 
1894  had  charge  of  their  large  sawmill.  Tvlr.  Kerry  embarked  in  his  pres- 
ent business  in  1895,  and  two  years  later  the  Kerry  Mill  Company  was  in- 
corporated with  him  as  president,  in  which  official  capacity  he  has  since 
served.  They  have  met  with  some  misfortunes,  their  mill  property  being 
burned  in  1897,  at  a  loss  of  sixty-five  thousand  dollars,  and  although  they 
at  once  rebuilt  fire  again  destroyed  their  mill  in  July,  1901,  this  time  their 
loss  amounting  to  fifty-two  thousand  dollars,  but  they  carried  thirty-nine 
thousand  dollars  worth  of  insurance.  Notwithstanding  these  disastrous 
events  the  company  has  steadily  prospered  and  now  has  assets  and  timber 
lands  amounting  to  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars.  At  the 
present  writing  they  are  building  a  larger  and  better  mill  in  every  respect. 
Aluch  of  the  success  of  the  enterprise  is  due  to  ]\Ir.  Kerry,  who  is  a  wide-awake, 
energetic  and  reliable  business  man,  who  i§  not  discouraged  by  adversity  and 
is  very  progressive. 

In  1889  he  was  happily  united  in  marriage  with  ^liss  Aviary  Monroe, 
who  was  born  in  Saginaw,  Michigan,  and  this  union  was  blessed  by  a  charm- 
ing little  daughter,  but  at  the  birth  of  her  baby  Mrs.  Kerry  died,  leaving 
a  loving  husband  and  many  friends  to  mourn  her  loss,  for  she  was  a  lady  of 
many  admirable  qualities  and  was  very  popular  socially. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Kerry  is  a  stalwart  Republican.  He  is  a 
prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  taken  all  of  the  Scottish 
lite  degrees  up  to  and  including  the  thirty-second.  A  man  of  keen  perception, 
of  unbounded  enterprise,  his  success  in  life  is  due  entirely  to  his  own  efforts, 
and  he  deserves  prominent  mention  among  the  leading  and  representative 
business  men  of  his  adopted  city. 

CHARLES  G.  AUSTIN. 

Well  known  as  an  attorney  of  Seattle  and  ex-police  justice  of  the  city, 
Judge  Austin  has  been  prominently  connected  with  the  substantial  improve- 
ment and  upbuilding  of  the  northwest  along  many  lines  that  have  contrib- 


54  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Lited  to  the  general  good.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  in  the  grain  trade 
of  this  section  of  the  country,  but  is  now  giving  his  attention  ahiiost  exclu- 
sively to  the  demands  of  a  constantl}-  increasing  law  practice.  A  native  of 
Ohio,  he  was  born  in  Avon,  Lorraine  county,  on  the  i8th  of  ]\Iarch,  1846, 
and  is  of  English  and  German  descent.  His  great-grandfather,  Lewis  Aus- 
tin, when  a  young  man  emigrated  from  England  and  settled  in  the  state  of 
New  York,  becoming  one  of  the  early  residents  of  Auburn.  His  son,  Lewis 
Austin,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  that  city  and  was  a  soldier 
of  the  Revolutionary  war,  who  fought  for  /Vmerican  independence.  He 
afterward  became  an  early  settler  of  Avon,  Ohio,  where  Jerome  A.  Austin, 
the  father  of  the  Judge  was  born,  being  the  youngest  of  a  family  of  eleven 
children.  The  grandfather  and  his  family  formed  a  part  of  the  Black  River 
colony  that  settled  in  Ohio  about  fifteen  miles  from  Cleveland,  first  reclaiming 
the  wild  tract  for  the  use  of  the  white  man. 

After  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  Jerome  A.  Austin  was  married  to 
Miss  Electa  Teachout,  a  native  of  Germany,  ^vho  ^vas  brought  by  her  parents 
to  the  new  world  when  but  two  years  old,  the  family  joining  the  Black  River 
colony.  The  father  was  a  minister  of  the  Lutheran  church  and  was  sent 
as  a  missionary  to  the  colony  and  became  one  of  the  pioneer  preachers  of 
that  faith  in  Ohio.  Unto  the  parents  of  Judge  Austin  were  born  six  chil- 
dren. The  father  died  on  the  21st  of  ^lay,  1898,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two 
years,  while  his  wife  departed  this  life  in  her  sixty-seventh  year.  One  of 
the  daughters  is  ]\Irs.  E.  A.  Dodge,  of  Seattle,  while  Mrs.  Alec  M.  Smith, 
another  daughter,  resides  in  Springer,  Washington.  Arthur  A.  is  in  ]\Ionte- 
video,  Minnesota,  and  Mrs.  Ada  George  is  also  living  in  that  state. 

Judge  Austin  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Ohio  and  Wiscon- 
sin, but  in  answer  to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers  to  put  down 
the  spirit  of  rebellion  in  the  south  that  threatened  the  destruction  of  the 
Union,  he  put  aside  his  books,  and  in  September,  1864,  although  only  eight- 
een years  of  age,  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Eirst  Minnesota  Heavy  Artillery. 
With  his  regiment  he  participated  in  the  battles  of  Nashville,  Chattanooga, 
Missionary  Ridge  and  Lookout  Mountain,  and  was  afterward  in  the  infantry 
service.  Following  the  engagement  at  Dalton  he  was  detailed  to  the  ord- 
nance department  of  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  as  clerk  and  served  in  that 
capacity  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged  at 
Nashville  and  was  paid  off  at  St.  Paul,  Minnesota.  After  his  return  home 
Judge  Austin  worked  in  a  grain  elevator  and  also  took  up  the  study  of  law 
under  the  direction  of  his  uncle,  William  Teachout,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1869.     He  had  learned  the  milling  business  with  his  father,  who  was  a 


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mill  owner,  and  ^^•as  in  the  grain  and  milling  business  in  Minnesota  until  1877, 
which  was  the  year  of  Judge  Austin's  arrival  in  Washington.  He  first  lo- 
cated in  Walla  Walla,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  grain  trade  for  a  short 
time  and  then  removed  to  Almota,  on  Snake  river,  when  he  entered  the  flour 
and  milling  business.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Colfax  and  had  charge 
of  the  collections  of  the  Frank  Brothers  Implement  Company  for  all  the 
district  east  of  the  mountains.  This  brought  him  continually  into  the  courts 
in  the  trial  of  cases  in  which  the  company  was  involved.  In  1883  he  removed 
to  Pomeroy,  Garfield  county,  w^iere  he  was  engaged  in  the  grain  business 
and  also  served  as  clerk  of  the  courts  for  the  first  judicial  district,  filling 
that  position  until  Grover  Cleveland  became  president  of  the  United  States. 
He  continued  in  the  grain  trade  at  that  place  until  1889,  during  which  time 
he  built  up  a  very  extensive  business,  having  thirteen  warehouses  on  the  line 
of  the  Oregon  Railway  &  Navigation  Company,  and  handling  most  of  the 
grain  raised  in  that  part  of  the  country.  He  has  the  honor  of  being  the  first 
wheat  buyer  in  the  county. 

In  the  fall  of  1889  jMr.  Austin  was  elected  a  member  of  the  first  state 
senate  of  Washington,  representing  Garfield,  Columbia  and  Asotin  coun- 
ties. He  was  a  member  through  two  sessions  and  was  chairman  of  the  im- 
portant committee  on  tide  lands.  In  1890  Judge  Austin  came  to  Seattle  and 
organized  the  Seattle  &  Terminal  Railway  Company  and  built  the  elevator 
in  West  Seattle,  of  which  he  was  the  manager.  He  shipped  the  first  cargo 
of  grain  from  Seattle,  sending  it  on  the  Mary  L.  Burrell.  This  brought 
the  railroad  to  terms  and  gave  to  the  city  equal  opportunities  with  Tacoma 
in  the  export  business.  Mr.  Austin  continued  in  the  grain  business  until 
1896  and  was  the  owner  of  a  mill  in  Moscow.  He  thus  becamiC  a  promi- 
nent factor  in  the  commercial  interests  of  the  northwest  and  contributed 
largely  to  the  commercial  prosperity  upon  which  the  growth  and  improve- 
ment of  any  sections  largely  depends.  In  the  latter  year,  however,  he  was 
again  called  to  public  office,  being  nominated  and  elected  police  judge 
of  Seattle.  He  served  for  a  term  of  two  years  and  was  also  justice  for  a 
year  and  a  half,  capably  discharging  his  duties,  his  impartiality  and  knowl- 
edge of  the  law  rendering  him  an  efficient  officer.  In  January.  1901,  he 
opened  his  law  practice  in  partnership  with  F.  M.  Jeffrey  and  is  now  prac- 
ticing, his  clientage  increasing  constantly.  His  first  presidential  vote  was 
cast  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 

Judge  Austin  was  married  on  the  25th  of  December,  1873,  to  Miss 
Emma  L.  Grow,  a  native  of  East  Randolph,  Vermont,  and  a  daughter  of 
Mason  B.  Grow,  who  was  descended  from  an  old  family  of  the  Green  Moun- 


56  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

lain  state,  prominent  in  its  affairs.  They  now  have  four  children :  Ward 
C,  Jennie  L.,  the  wife  of  V.  J.  Hahn,  Herbert  A.  and  Jay  C.  The  family 
have  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  1323  Third  avenue,  west,  and  are  members 
of  the  Episcopalian  church,  of  which  Judge  Austin  is  serving  as  a  vestry- 
man, while  his  wife  also  takes  an  active  and  helpful  interest  in  church  work. 
Socially  the  Judge  is  a  Mason,  having  become  a  member  of  the  fraternity  in 
Minnesota,  and  is  a  past  master.  He  received  the  Ro3^al  Arch  degree  in 
Pomeroy  Chapter,  No.  10,  R.  A.  'SI.,  and  became  a  Sir  Knight  in  Seattle 
Commandery,  No.  2,  K.  T.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Alfifi  Temple  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  in  Tacoma.  His  life  history  is  in  some  respects  not  unlike 
that  of  many  other  citizens  of  this  land,  where  opportunity  is  not  hampered 
by  caste  or  class.  Quick  to  note  and  utilize  an  opportunity,  earnest  and  dis- 
criminating in  carrying  out  his  plans,  he  has  succeeded  in  the  lines  of  work 
to  which  he  has  directed  his  energies  and  in  the  practice  of  law  is  also  win- 
ning distinction. 

HERMAN  B.  BAGLEY,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Herman  Beardsly  Bagley,  now  deceased,  was  one  of  the  fir? 
homeopathic  physicians  and  surgeons  in  the  western  part  of  the  territor}^  of 
Washington — having  come  to  this  section  of  the  country  long  before  the 
admission  of  the  state  into  the  Union.  He  was  a  graduate  of  the  homeo- 
pathic college  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  and  of  the  Bellevue  Hospital  of  New  York 
and  was  elected  professor  of  the  principles  and  practices  of  surgery  in  the 
Michigan  IMedical  College  at  Lansing,  Michigan.  He  and  his  father,  who 
was  also  an  eminent  member  of  the  medical  fraternit}',  were  instrumental  in 
continuing  the  great  struggle  to  obtain  a  chair  of  homeopathy  in  the  Michi- 
gan State  University  at  i\nn  Arbor  and  it  was  largely  throagh  their  efforts 
rhat  this  desired  result  was  at  last  obtained.  Well  equipped  for  the  import- 
ant life  work  which  he  chose  Dr.  Bagley  came  to  the  northwest,  a  gradu- 
ate of  both  schools  of  medicine,  thoroughly  understood  the  great  laws  gov- 
erning the  science  and  made  a  record  as  an  eminent  physician. 

The  Doctor  was  born  at  Auburn,  New  York,  on  the  12th  of  March, 
1845,  ^^^  "^vas  of  English  and  Dutch  ancestry.  His  grandfather,  Herman 
Van  Valkenberg,  was  descended  from  one  of  the  noted  Dutch  families  that 
first  settled  in  New  York,  and  was  in  his  honor  that  Dr.  Bagley  was  given  his 
first  name,  Herman.  The  Doctor's  father.  Dr.  Alvin  Bagley,  was  born  in 
the  Catskill  mountains  of  New  York  and  was  a  member  of  the  same  family 
to  which  Governor  Bagley  of  IMichigan  belonged.     He  became  well  known 


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as  a  medical  practitioner  in  New  York,  Ohio  and  Michigan,  and  in  the  year 
1872  arrived  in  Seattle,  where  he  resided  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
in  1885,  when  he  was  eighty-four  years  of  age.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Jane  Van  Valkenberg. 

When  Dr.  Herman  Beardsley  Bagley  was  only  five  years  of  age  the 
family  removed  to  Marshall,  Michigan,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood. 
He  began  his  medical  studies  under  the  direction  and  guidance  of  his  father 
and  was  graduated  in  the  Homeopathic  Medical  College  of  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
with  the  class  of  1868.  The  following  year  he  took  a  post-graduate  course 
in  the  Bellevue  Hospital  of  New  York  and  in  1872  was  elected  to  the  pro- 
fessorship of  the  principles  and  practices  of  surgery  in  the  Michigan  Med- 
ical College  at  Lansing,  which  position  he  acceptably  filled  until  1874.  In 
that  year  he  resigned  because  of  ill  health  and  desire  to  join  his  father  at 
Seattle. 

Soon  after  his  arrival  Dr.  Bagley  became  sufficiently  well  to  resume  the 
practice  of  his  profession  and  almost  immediately  took  high  rank  as  a  member 
of  the  medical  fraternity  and  during  the  remainder  of  his  active  life  he  stood 
at  the  head  of  his  school  of  medicine  in  what  was  then  the  territory  and  later 
the  state  of  Washington.  In  1889  he  was  elected  president  of  the  King 
County  Homeopathic  Medical  Society  and  in  1890  was  chosen  president  of 
the  Homeopathic  Medical  Society  of  the  state  of  Washington.  In  '  May, 
1890,  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  state  board  of  medical  examiners 
and  throughout  his  career  here  he  was  regarded  by  the  profession  and  the 
public  as  one  of  the  most  eminent  representatives  of  the- homeopathic  school 
in  the  northwest.  In  addition  to  his  high  attainments  as  a  physician  and 
surgeon  the  Doctor  also  possessed  marked  business  ability  and  good  judg- 
ment, so  that  he  was  very  successful  in  his  real-estate  investments  in  the 
growing  city,  being  one  of  the  city's  most  active  promoters.  He  was  pos- 
sessed of  generous  and  liberal  impulses  and  was  a  ready  contributor  to 
every  public  enterprise  that  had  for  its  object  the  improvement  and  advance- 
ment of  the  best  interests  of  this  place.  He  was  the  friend  and  was  in 
touch  with  the  best  and  most  prominent  men  in  Seattle — the  men  who 
shaped  her  destiny.  He  was  associated  with  D.  T.  Denny,  George  Kinnear 
and  E.  M.  Smithers  in  organizing  an  enterprise  for  connecting  Lake  Wash- 
ington with  Lake  Union  by  a  canal  and  for  some  time  he  was  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Seattle  Improvement  Company.  In  1888  when  the  Washington 
National  Bank  was  organized  he  was  made  one  of  its  directors  and  at  one 
time  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  city  council.  His  influence  was  felt  in 
many  important  public  movements  that  contributed  to  the  substantial  de- 
velopment and  progress  here. 
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In  politics  the  Doctor  was  an  ardent  Republican,  a  lover  of  liberty  and 
a  despiser  of  oppression  of  any  form.  While  in  Ohio,  before  the  great 
Civil  war,  his  father's  home  was  one  of  the  stations  on  the  famous  under- 
ground railroad,  whereby  many  a  negro  was  befriended  and  aided  as  he 
was  making  his  way  to  Canada,  where  he  might  obtain  freedom  from  bond- 
age. In  the  practice  of  his  profession  Dr.  Bagley  showed  forth  his  real 
nature,  for  he  was  exceedingly  kind  and  devoted  to  the  poor  and  needy  and 
by  his  many  acts  of  helpfulness  and  kindness  he  endeared  himself  to  both 
rich  and  poor,  and  thus  as  citizen  and  professional  man  he  enjoyed  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact. 

In  the  year  1864  the  Doctor  was  happily  married  to  ]\Iiss  Catherine 
Minerva  Sweet,  a  native  of  Battle  Creek,  ]\Iichigan,  and  a  daughter  of 
Daniel  Sweet  of  that  city,  who  was  of  English  ancestry  and  belonged  to 
an  old  New  York  family.  In  addition  to  his  other  investments  the  Doctor 
had  become  the  owner  of  a  fine  farm  of  over  six  hundred  acres  of  rich  land 
at  Renton,  and  there  on  an  eminence  overlooking  the  town  of  Renton  and 
the  Black  River  Valley  he  built  a  beautiful  residence  and  there  he  and  his 
wife  lived  ver\'  happily,  surrounded  by  beautiful  scenery  and  enjoying  all 
the  comforts  that  go  to  make  life  worth  the  living;  but  death  entered  this 
peaceful  home,  the  Doctor  being  suddenly  called  to  his  final  rest  on  the  8th 
of  February,  1889.  His  loss  was  a  sad  bereavement  to  his  devoted  wife 
and  to  the  whole  community.  ]\Irs.  Bagley  had  entered  heartily  and  with 
deep  sympathy  into  all  her  husband's  plans  and  had  been  a  valued  help- 
meet to  him.  Both  were  Episcopalians  in  religious  faith,  holding  member- 
ship in  the  Trinity  church  of  Seattle.  Such  had  been  the  Doctor's  suc- 
cess in  business  that  he  left  his  wife  in  possession  of  a  very  good  fortune, 
but  in   1892  a  disastrous  fire  burned  the  beautiful  residence  to  the  ground. 

Mrs.  Bagley  in  1901  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  her  present  husband. 
Colonel  Mitchell  Glenn,  a  native  of  Newark,  New  Jersey,  and  a  veteran  of 
the  Civil  war,  having  volunteered  on  the  17th  of  April,  1861,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  Company  I,  Eighth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry,  with  which  com- 
mand he  served  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  and  one  of  his  brothers 
were  in  the  Union  army  and  they  had  three  brothers  in  the  Confederate 
army.  B}^  an  act  of  great  bravery  Colonel  Glenn  recaptured  the  flag  of  his 
regiment,  but  in  so  doing  sustained  a  very  severe  wound  in  his  hand,  the  scar 
of  which  he  still  carries,  and  for  this  and  other  acts  of  valor  he  was  from 
time  to  time  promoted  until  he  rose  from  the  ranks  to  become  the  colonel 
of  his  regiment.  His  war  record  is  a  brilliant  one,  but  like  many  of  the  truly 
brave  men  who  fought  for  the  Union,  he  is  very  reticent  concerning  his  army 


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life  and  his  achievements  during  the  period  of  his  mihtary  service.  After 
the  war  he  became  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  engines  and  boilers  in 
Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where  he  continued  until  his  removal  to  the  Pacific 
coast.  He  has  always  been  a  stanch  believer  in  the  principles  of  Democracy 
and  while  a  resident  of  Minneapolis  he  held  various  offices  of  honor  and 
trust.  He  came  within  one  hundred  and  thirty-seven  votes  of  being  elected 
mayor  of  the  city  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  although  it  is  well  known  that 
Minneapolis  is  a  Republican  stronghold. 

Colonel  Glenn  and  his  wife  have  just  completed  the  erection  of  a  splen- 
did home  on  the  site  of  the  one  destroyed  by  fire,  and  in  planning  this  have 
exhibited  much  taste,  both  in  the  exterior  adornment  and  interior  finish.  It 
is  one  of  the  most  delightful  homes  in  the  whole  northwest  country,  not 
only  because  of  the  introduction  of  a  cultured  and  refined  taste,  but  also  on 
account  of  the  generous  hospitality  which  is  ever  extended  to  their  many 
friends. 

JOHN  TAYLOR. 

John  Taylor,  an  honored  veteran  of  the  Civil  war,  who  is  now  so  effi- 
ciently serving  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Seattle,  Washington,  was 
bom  in  Adams  county,  Ohio,  on  the  22nd  of  August,  1836.  His  ancestors 
came  to  America  from  England  at  an  early  day  in  the  development  of  this 
country  and  settled  in  Virginia,  and  his  great-grandfather  Taylor  was  one 
of  the  men  who  fought  so  bravely  for  the  freedom  of  the  colonies  in  the 
Revolutionary  war.  Jesse  Taylor,  our  subject's  grandfather,  was  born  in 
Frederick  county,  Virginia,  and  in  pioneer  days  removed  to  Adams  county, 
Ohio,  becoming  one  of  the  prominent  and  wealthy  farmers  of  that  locality. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years,  leaving  to  each  of  his  three  chil- 
dren five  hundred  acres  of  land. 

His  son,  James  W.  Taylor,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native 
of  Frederick  county,  Virginia,  born  in  181 5,  and  at  an  early  day  accom- 
panied his  father's  family  on  their  removal  to  Adams  county,  Ohio,  where 
he  grew  to  manhood.  There  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Cather- 
ine Laney,  who  was  from  his  native  county,  her  father  having  also  removed 
to  Ohio  with  his  family  at  an  early  day.  Throughout  his  active  life  James 
W.  Taylor  followed  farming,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  His 
wife  had  passed  away  in  middle  life.  Both  were  devout  Christians,  hold- 
ing membership  in  the  Methodist  church,  and  assisted  in  building  the  Eben- 
ezer  Methodist  church  near  their  old  home  in  Ohio.  In  the  family  of  this 
worthy  couple  were  five  children,  three  of  whom  are  still  living. 


60  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

John  Taylor,  oldest  of  the  surviving  members  of  the  family,  was  reared 
in  his  native  county,  educated  in  its  public  schools  and  engaged  in  stock- 
farming  until  after  the  Civil  war  broke  out.  Prompted  by  a  spirit  of  patriot- 
ism, he  enlisted  on  the  24th  of  October,  1861,  as  a  private  of  Company  H, 
Seventieth  Regiment,  Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  but  was  afterward  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  second  lieutenant.  During  the  hard  fought  battle  of 
Shiloh  he  received  a  gunshot  wound,  which  took  from  him  his  good  right 
arm.  Being  unfitted  for  further  service  he  was  then  honorably  discharged 
on  the  1st  of  November,  1862,  after  having  served  his  country  faithfully  and 
well  for  over  a  year. 

Returning  to  his  home  in  Adams  county,  Ohio,  Mr.  Taylor  was  elected 
sheriff  of  the  county  on  the  Republican  ticket  in  1863,  and  creditably  filled 
that  office  for  four  years,  after  which  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  West  Union,  the  county  seat  of  Adams  county,  until  1873,  when  he  was 
again  elected  sheriff.  He  also  served  as  master  commissioner  and  deputy 
United  States  marshal,  and  acquired  a  wide  and  favorable  reputation 
throughout  his  section  of  the  state.  He  entered  upon  the  duties  of  his  office 
as  sheriff  in  January,  1874,  and  this  time  served  most  acceptably  for  two 
years. 

In  1875  Mr.  Taylor  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Clara  S.  Mullon, 
who  was  also  born  in  Adams  county  and  is  a  daughter  of  T.  J.  Mullon,  a 
member  of  the  bar  of  Brown  county,  Ohio.  Unto  them  were  bom  three 
children,  namely :     Anna  S.,  John  L.  and  Louis  Hicks. 

At  the  close  of  his  second  term  as  sheriff,  Mr.  Taylor  resumed  mer- 
chandising at  West  Union,  and  also  served  as  postmaster  of  that  place  dur- 
ing President  Arthur's  administration.  He  continued  in  business  there  until 
1890,  when  he  sold  out  and  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  arriving  here  on 
the  6th  of  January,  that  year.  He  at  once  became  connected  with  James  H, 
Wilson  in  the  pension  agency,  but  has  now  been  alone  in  that  business  for 
some  years.  In  1894  he  was  appointed  license  inspector  for  the  city  and 
elected  a  member  of  the  city  council,  to  which  office  he  has  since  been  re- 
elected on  three  different  occasions.  He  is  now  filling  a  four  years'  term, 
and  is  very  active  in  promoting  the  best  interests  of  the  city  of  his  adop- 
tion. He  took  a  very  prominent  part  in  securing  the  municipal  ownership 
of  the  splendid  water  system  of  Seattle,  whereby  the  city  now  has  an  inex- 
haustible supply  of  pure  mountain  water,  there  being  no  better  system  in 
any  city  in  the  Union.  For  the  past  seven  years  Mr.  Taylor  has  been  actively 
identified  with  all  the  improvements  that  have  made  Seattle  the  delightful 
city  which  we  to-day  see.     Politically  he  has  been  a  life-long  and  ardent  Re- 


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publican,  and  fraternally  is  an  honored  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Loyal  Legion,  and  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic. 
He  has  been  a  very  prominent  and  influential  member  of  the  post  at  Seattle 
since  its  organization,  has  taken  an  active  part  in  all  of  its  work  and  for  the 
past  five  years  has  been  chairman  of  the  relief  committee.  Public-spirited 
and  enterprising,  he  is  recognized  as  a  valued  citizen  of  the  community,  and 
vv^ell  merits  the  high  regard  in  which  he  is  universally  held. 

FRANK   H.   RENICK. 

The  rapid  growth  of  Seattle  in  recent  years,  the  introduction  of  vast 
and  undaunted.  John  Hamilton  Renick,  the  grandfather,  removed  from 
made  a  great  demand  for  property  and  has  enlisted  in  the  real-estate  field 
many  business  men  of  marked  ability  and  keen  discrimination.  As  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  F.  H.  Renick  &  Company,  his  partner  being  John  C.  Wat- 
rous,  Frank  Hamilton  Renick  is  successfully  conducting  real-estate  opera- 
tions, placing  investments  and  selling  property.  He  is  also  doing  a  loan 
and  insurance  business  and  his  efforts  are  bringing  to  him  creditable  pros- 
perity. 

A  native  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  he  was  born  August  4.  1864,  and 
is  of  English  and  Welsh  ancestry,  the  family  having  been  established  in 
Pennsylvania  at  a  very  early  period.  Robert  Renick,  the  great-grandfather, 
was  a  soldier  in  the  war  for  independence  and  served  through  the  Mad  River 
campaign,  in  which  he  won  the  reputation  of  being  an  intrepid  fighter,  brave 
and  undaunteid.  John  Hamilton  Renick,  thei  grandfather,  removed  from 
the  Keystone  state  to  Springfield,  Ohio,  and  there  took  up  government  land, 
becoming  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  that  portion  of  the  state.  Subsequently 
he  removed  to  Bellefontaine,  Logan  county,  where  he  reared  his  family  of 
seven  children.  He  was  a  Presbyterian  in  his  religious  belief  and  a  Whig 
in  political  faith  in  early  life,  but  when  that  party  ceased  to  have  an  exist- 
ence he  joined  the  ranks  of  the  new  Republican  party.  His  death  occurred 
when  he  was  seventy-four  years  of  age. 

James  Henry  Renick,  his  son  and  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
in  Huntsville,  Ohio,  in  1832,  and  when  he  had  reached  adult  age  he  married 
Josephine  Sophia  Dunklee,  a  native  of  Plymouth,  New  Llampshire.  She 
was  of  English  descent,  her  ancestors  having  come  to  America  during  the 
colonial  epoch  in  our  country's  history.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Renick  removed  to 
Hartford,  Connecticut,  and  later  to  Brooklyn,  New  York,  where  they  re- 
mained until  our  subject  was  eight  years  of  age,  when  they  went  to  Port 


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Huron,  Michigan.  Some  years  afterward  they  removed  to  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
where  the  father  died  in  1874.  He  had  for  many  years  been  prominently 
engaged  in  lumbering  and  had  sold  large  amounts  of  lumber  to  the  govern- 
ment, doing  an  extensive  and  prosperous  business.  In  religious  faith  he  was 
a  Presbyterian,  was  an  excellent  citizen  and  an  upright,  reliable  business  man. 
His  wife  still  survives  and  is  now  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  her  age.  She 
resides  in  Detroit,  Michigan.  In  the  family  were  four  children,  three  of 
whom  are  living :  Grace  is  the  wife  of  S.  T.  McGraw,  of  Detroit,  Mich- 
igan, a  member  of  a  very  prominent  family  of  that  city.  Carrie  has  become 
the  wife  of  Frank  W.  Osborne,  a  prominent  citizen  of  Detroit  and  descended 
from  one  of  its  oldest  families. 

In  the  schools  of  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and  Buffalo,  New  York, 
Mr.  Renick  of  this  review  pursued  his  education.  For  her  second  husband 
his  mother  married  Egbert  C.  Bradford,  the  partner  of  her  first  husband. 
There  was  one  child  by  that  marriage,  Walter  G.  Bradford.  The  family 
resided  in  Detroit  and  our  subject  attended  the  Bryant  &  Stratton  Business 
College  of  that  city,  after  which  he  became  very  active  in  the  manufacture  of 
lumber,  also  acquiring  a  practical  and  intimate  knowledge  of  the  business  in 
all  its  departments  from  the  purchase  of  the  logs  to  the  operation  of  the  mills, 
the  bookkeeping  and  the  sales  made. 

On  the  13th  of  April,  1888,  Mr.  Renick  arrived  in  Seattle  with  the 
intention  of  continuing  in  the  lumber  business,  but  an  outlook  over  the  busi- 
ness opportunities  of  the  city  decided  him  to  turn  his  attention  to  real-estate 
dealing,  in  which  he  has  since  been  successfully  engaged.  He  was  here 
during  the  great  fire  of  1889  and  since  that  time  has  been  an  active  factor 
in  the  rapid  and  substantial  growth  of  the  city,  which  emerged  from  the 
ashes  to  take  its  place  as  the  queen  city  of  the  northwest.  He  passed  through 
the  financial  panic  successfully  and  has  platted  and  sold  several  additions  to 
the  city.  The  business  of  the  firm  has  grown  constantly  since  its  organize- 
tion  and  they  have  become  investors  for  prominent  eastern  business  men  and 
have  acquired  a  high  reputation  for  ability  and  trustworthiness. 

In  1889  Mr.  Renick  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Caldwell,  a  native  of 
California  and  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Robert  G.  Caldwell,  now  deceased.  This 
union  has  been  blessed  with  two  children :  Josephine  Bradford  and  Grace 
Frances.  The  parents  are  valued  and  helpful  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 
In  politics  Mr.  Renick  takes  quite  an  active  and  influential  part  and  is  now 
treasurer  of  the  Republican  city  central  committee.  He  belongs  to  St.  John 
Lodge,  No.  9,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Seattle  Chapter,  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Order  of  Foresters.     While  an  enterprising  and  active  business 


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man,  he  is  also  interested  in  scientific  research  and  investigation,  especially 
along  the  line  of  ornithology,  and  has  made  a  large  collection  of  the  eggs 
of  Washington  birds.  His  study  in  this  direction  has  resulted  in  furnishing 
to  the  United  States  valuable  information  on  the  subject  and  lie  was  the 
means  of  correcting  a  mistake  made  in  the  Smithsonian  Institute,  proving 
to  them  that  the  eggs  which  were  labeled  those  of  the  black  swift  were  the 
eggs  of  the  purple  martin.  His  varied  interests  have  made  Mr.  Renick  a 
well  rounded  character.  He  is  not  so  abnormally  developed  in  any  one  direc- 
tion as  to  be  called  a  genius,  but  his  business  life,  supplemented  by  study 
and  research,  by  political  work  and  the  pleasures  of  social  life,  have  made 
his  a  strong  manhood.  Elis  business  reputation  is  unassailable  and  among 
his  many  friends  he  is  popular  because  of  his  genial  and  courteous  manner. 

JOHN  H.  CLOSSON. 

John  H.  Closson,  of  the  drug  firm  of  Closson  &  Kelly,  of  Seattle,  has 
been  a  resident  of  this  city  since  April,  1889,  and  during  all  this  time  he  has 
held  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  He 
claims  Vermont  as  the  state  of  his  nativity,  his  birth  there  occurring  on  the 
14th  of  August,  1866,  and  he  is  descended  from  English  ancestry,  who  for 
about  six  generations  have  resided  in  the  United  States.  His  fatlier's  mater- 
nal grandfather,  Ichabod  Safford,  served  as  a  member  of  the  Vermont  mili- 
tia during  the  Revolutionary  war.  His  great-grandfather  Closson  was  a 
prominent  divine,  while  his  paternal  grandfather  followed  the  legal  profes- 
sion as  a  life  occupation,  and  his  granduncle,  H.  W.  Closson,  was  a  graduate  of 
West  Point  and  rendered  his  country  valiant  services  as  a  soldier  during  the 
great  Civil  war.  For  generations  the  family  have  been  identified  with  the  Con- 
gregational church,  and  they  have  ever  been  people  of  the  higliest  respectability 
and  worth.  The  father  of  our  subject,  Gershom  Closson,  has  for  many 
years  been  numbered  among  the  leading  business  men  of  Springfield,  Ver- 
mont, and  he  has  now  reached  the  age  of  sixty-three  years.  He  married  Miss 
Lina  Loveland,  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  and  also  a  member  of  an  old 
English  family,  wdio  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Connecticut.  Her  fa- 
ther was  a  prominent  manufacturer.  She  had  now  reached  the  age  of  sixty 
years,  and  is  the  mother  of  two  sons,  the  elder  being  Gershom,  who  is  now 
preparing  for  the  medical  profession, 

John  H.  Closson  received  his  primary  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Springfield  and  Hartford,  and  when  the  time  came  for  him  to  choose 
a  life  occupation  he  began  learning  the  drug  business  in  West  Lebanon,  New 


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Hampshire,  while  for  four  years  he  was  in  Boston,  two  years  of  the  time 
being  spent  in  the  city  hospital  and  in  the  College  of  Pharmacy.  After  his 
arrival  in  Seattle  he  was  employed  by  the  large  drug  house  of  Stewart  & 
Holmes  until  the  15th  of  December,  1890,  when  he  opened  business  at  his 
present  location  and  with  his  present  partner.  His  store  is  located  at  the 
corner  of  Occidental  and  Washington  streets,  where  they  carry  a  complete 
line  of  everything  to  be  found  in  a  first-class  drug  store.  The  business  ca- 
reer of  Mr.  Closson  is  indeed  creditable.  Strong  determination,  persistence 
in  the  pursuit  of  an  honorable  purpose,  unflagging  energy  and  careful  man- 
agement,— these  are  the  salient  features  in  his  career,  and  his  life  stands  in 
unmistakable  evidence  that  success  is  not  a  matter  of  genius,  as  held  by  some, 
but  the  outcome  of  earnest  and  well  directed  effort.  In  his  political  views 
he  is  an  unswerving  Republican,  and  socially  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Closson  was  celebrated  in  1894,  when  Miss  >\Iil- 
dred  Blair  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Wisconsin.  They  reside  in  a 
delightful  home  on  Queen  Ann  Hill,  and  the  household  is  noted  for  its 
charming  hospitality,  while  its  inmates  have  the  warm  regard  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends. 

FRANK  A.  TWICHELL. 

In  1885  Frank  A.  Twichell  became  a  resident  of  Seattle  and  by  his 
life  exemplifies  the  true  western  spirit  of  enterprise  and  progress.  He  was 
born  in  Washington  county,  Minnesota,  on  the  15th  of  November,  i860. 
A  family  of  English  lineage  of  the  name  of  Twichell  was  early  established 
in  New  England  and  to  that  line  our  subject  traces  his  ancestry.  Soin 
Twichell,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  New  Hampshire 
in  1775,  the  opening  year  of  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  became  a  well 
known  and  respected  farmer  of  the  "Old  Granite  State."  His  Jion,  Ebene- 
zer  C.  Twichell,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  at  Pulaski,  Oswego 
county.  New  York,  in  181 8  aiid  after  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  he 
married  Miss  Polly  Twichell,  a  native  of  his  own  county  and  descended 
from  another  branch  of  the  family,  so  that  she  was  a  very  distant  relative. 
In  1850  they  removed  to  Illinois  and  in  1854  became  residents  of  Wash- 
ington county,  Minnesota,  where  the  father  acquired  the  owaiership  of  a 
large  farm.  He  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  there  as  an  industrious  and 
honorable  citizen — one  whose  well  spent  life  commanded  for  him  the  con- 
fidence and  good  will  of  many  friends.     An  earnest  Republican  in  politics 


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!ie  ne\'er  wavered  in  his  allegiance  to  the  party,  yet  he  never  sought  or 
desired  office  for  himself.  He  departed  this  life  in  1887,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
nine  years.  His  good  wife  survives  him  and  now  resides  with  her  sons 
at  Seattle,  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  her  age,  honored  and  respected 
by  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  her  acquaintance.  The  family  numbered 
eight  children,  five  of  whom  reached  years  of  maturity.  The  eldest  son, 
Newton  Twichell,  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  volunteered  for  service  in 
the  Union  army  and  was  in  numerous  hard-fought  battles.  On  one  oc- 
casion he  was  wounded  and  as  a  result  of  his  injury  he  died  in  1864. 

Frank  A.  Twichell  attended  school  in  his  native  town  and  was  also 
a  student  in  the  high  school  at  Hastings,  Minnesota.  During  the  months 
of  vacation  he  knew  what  it  was  to  work  hard  upon  the  farm.  He  began 
earning  his  own  livelihood  as  a  teacher  in  the  district  schools  and  in  early 
manhood  also  engaged  in  clerking  in  stores  and  to  some  degree  mastered 
the  carpenter's  trade.  For  three  years  he  was  employed  as  a  salesman  in 
a  grocery  store,  after  wdiich  he  accepted  a  similar  position  in  a  wall  paper 
and  notion  store.  Later  he  learned  the  trade  of  paper-hanging  and  decor- 
ating. 

Believing  that  the  far  west  offered  excellent  opportunities  because  of 
its  rapid  growth,  he  determined  to  establish  his  home  in  Seattle  and  arrived 
in  this  city  in  1885.  For  two  years  he  engaged  in  the  wall-paper  busi- 
ness and  was  then,  in  1887,  appointed  deputy  county  auditor  under  Lyman 
Wood  and  was  continued  in  the  same  position  under  W.  R.  Forest.  On 
his  retirement  from  the  office  in  the  fall  of  1890  he  received  the  unanimous 
nomination  of  the  Republican  county  convention  and  was  elected  county 
auditor  by  a  good  majority.  The  duties  of  the  office  then  included  those 
v/hich  are  now  performed  by  both  recorder  and  clerk  of  the  board  of  King 
county  commissioners;  also  those  of  the  purchasing  agent  for  King  county 
public  institutions.  The  clerical  work  of  the  office  was  so  great  that  it 
demanded  a  force  of  from  fifteen  to  forty  men.  He  performed  the  various 
duties  with  such  ability,  superintending  the  work  of  the  office  wath  such 
fidelity  that  in  1892  he  was  again  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for 
re-election  and  received  the  largest  majority  of  an)^  candidate  on  the  county 
ticket.  He  was  also  elected  and  for  two  terms  served  as  a  member  of  the 
city  council  of  Seattle,  filling  the  office  during  the  period  of  the  re-organiza- 
tion of  the  city  after  the  great  fire.  From  1894  until  1896  he  was  manager 
and  part  owner  of  the  Cedar  Mountain  Coal  Company.  He  then  sold  out 
and  in  1897  went  to  Skagway,  Alaska,  as  agent  for  the  Oregon  Improve- 
ment Company.     In  January,   1899,  he  became  the  general  storekeeper  for 


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the  Pacific  Contract  Company  which  constructed  the  White  Pass  Railway 
and  upon  the  completion  of  the  road  he  returned  to  Seattle.  At  that  time 
he  was  given  charge  of  the  government  work  at  Everett  Harbor  in  the 
employ  of  the  Seattle  Bridge  Company,  this  work  being  completed  in  April, 
1902. 

In  Hastings,  Minnesota,  in  1884,  Mr.  Twichell  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Estella  M.  Stanley,  a  daughter  of  William  P.  Stanley,  and  their 
marriage  was  blessed  with  one  child,  Marjorie  A.,  who  is  now  the  wife  of 
Walter  Cuir.  After  fourteen  years  of  happy  married  life  Mrs.  Twichell 
was  taken  from  her  home  by  death  in  1898.  Three  years  later  in  April, 
1901,  Air.  Twitchell  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Mrs. 
Nellie  Johnson,  a  native  of  Petersboro,  Ottawa,  Canada.  They  have  a  pleas- 
ant home  which  Mr.  Twichell  erected  at  No.  513  Thirtieth  avenue  south. 
He  was  a  valued  representative  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
in  all  of  its  branches  and  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He 
is  a  past  master  workman  and  past  grand  master  workman  of  the  state 
of  Washington  and  also  past  supreme  representative.  He  belongs  to  the 
Degree  of  Honor,  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  in 
these  various  societies  is  a  popular  member  because  of  his  good  fellowship 
and  his  fidelity  to  the  teachings  and  principles  of  the  fraternities.  Pie  was 
one  of  the  delegates  from  Seattle  to  the  Republican  state  convention  held 
at  Tacoma  in  1902,  and  his  influence  is  widely  felt  in  political  circles,  as 
well  as  in  various  fraternities  and  in  business  life.  He  is  a  man  of  much 
knowledge,  of  high  ability  and  of  unquestioned  integrity  and  he  and  his 
family  have  a  warm  circle  of  friends  among  the  best  citizens  of  Seattle. 
Many  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility  have  been  conferred  upon  him 
and  in  all  he  has  discharged  his  duties  in  a  manner  that  has  gained  him 
commendation,  respect  and  confidence. 

ALVA  C.   SANDS. 

Alva  C.  Sands  is  the  district  manager  of  the  Sunset  Telephone  and 
Telegraph  Company,  with  headquarters  at  Seattle.  He  has  resided  in  Wash- 
ington for  the  past  eighteen  years,  having  come  here  when  it  was  still  a  ter- 
ritory, the  year  of  his  arrival  being  1883.  Mr.  Sands  is  a  native  of  Ohio, 
his  birth  having  occurred  on  a  farm  near  Cadiz,  in  Harrison  county,  on  the 
:ist  of  January,  1851.  He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side 
and  Scotch  on  the  maternal  side.  His  paternal  grandfather  emigrated  from 
county  Kildare,  Ireland,  and  settled  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia  at  a  very 


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early  date  in  the  development  of  that  place.  He  was  the  progenitor  of  the 
family  in  America.  His  son,  Robert  Sands,  the  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  and  became  a  farmer,  following  agricultural 
pursuits  throughout  his  life.  He  was  an  old-school  Presbyterian  of  the 
strictest  kind  and  his  life  was  ever  in  harmony  with  his  religious  belief.  He 
died  in  1879,  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years.  In  his  family  were  two  sons 
and  a  daughter  and  one  son  is  still  living,  namely,  Jolin  Sands,  a  resident  of 
Fairfield,  Iowa,  who  is  now  eighty-one  years  of  age. 

Edmund  Thomas  Sands,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1822.  Pie  married  Miss  Mary  A.  McFad- 
den,  who  was  born  in  Cadiz,  Ohio.  They  were  members  of  the  United 
Presbyterian  church  and  the  father  was  a  successful  agriculturist,  devoting 
his  attention  to  the  work  of  farming  through  many  years.  He  was  also  very 
prominent  and  influential  in  public  affairs  and  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Republican  party  in  his  part  of  the  county.  He  loved  liberty  and  de- 
spised oppression  and  in  ante-bellum  days  was  strongly  opposed  to  the  intro- 
duction of  slavery  into  the  land  of  the  free.  An  upright,  useful  and  influ- 
ential citizen,  he  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he 
came  in  contact.  He  died  in  1880,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  years,  and  his 
wife,  long  surviving  him,  departed  this  life  in  April,  1900,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years,  being  then  a  resident  of  Tacoma,  Washington,  making 
her  home  with  the  subject  of  this  review.  By  her  marriage  she  had  four 
children,  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  and  the  sons  are  yet  living,  namely :  R. 
G.,  who  resides  in  Whitmore  county,  Washington;  B.  M.,  a  resident  of  Ta- 
coma, Washington ;    and  Alva  C. 

The  last  named  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Iowa,  whither  the 
family  had  removed  in  1855,  the  father  having  developed  and  unproved  a 
farm  in  that  locality.  During  the  summer  months  our  subject  aided  in 
the  work  of  the  field  and  meadow,  laboriously  attending  to  the  duties  of 
farm  life,  while  in  the  winter  season  he  pursued  his  education  in  the  common 
schools  during  a  term  of  three  months.  He  was  also  for  one  year  a  student 
in  a  school  of  De  Witt,  Iowa.  He  remained  at  home  until  he  attained  his 
majority,  after  which  he  became  connected  with  the  theater  business  as  a 
manager,  and  in  that  capacity  traveled  all  over  the  country,  spending  six 
years  in  that  way.  Returning  then  to  the  old  farm  in  Iowa  he  made  it  his 
home  until.  1883,  when  he  came  to  Washington,  settling  in  Tacoma.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  continuously  connected  with  the  telephone  business 
and  has  held  various  positions,  being  promoted  from  time  to  time  until  he 
is  now  the  manager  of  the  largest  telegraph  office  in  the  state,  it  being  head- 


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quarters  for  the  whole  Puget  Sound  district,  which  includes  all  west  of  the 
mountains  and  Yakima  and  Kittitas  counties  east  of  the  mountains.  Five 
hundred  employes  are  found  in  the  offices  and  Mr.  Sands  has  entire  super- 
vision, being  in  charge  of  the  work  in  all  of  the  counties  of  the  state.  In 
the  control  of  the  extensive  business  which  this  implies  he  has  developed 
excellent  executive  force,  keen  discernment  and  superior  powers  of  man- 
agement. 

Mr.  Sands  has  been  twice  married.  In  1879  he  wedded  Miss  Mary 
King,  a  native  of  Syracuse,  New  York,  but  after  nine  years  of  happy  mar- 
ried life  she  was  called  to  the  home  beyond,  in  1886.  In  1890  Mr.  Sands 
was  again  married,  his  present  wife  having  borne  the  maiden  name  of  Miss 
Nellie  Clayton.  She  was  a  native  of  Evansville,  Indiana,  and  like  her  hus- 
band attends  the  Unitarian  church.  Mr.  Sands  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen  and  in  his  political  affiliations  is  a  Republican.  Dur- 
ing his  residence  in  the  northwest  he  has  built  several  homes  in  Tacoma  and 
owns  property  in  different  places  in  Washington,  thus  judiciously  investing 
his  capital  so  that  it  returns  to  him  a  good  income.  He  has  the  entire  confi- 
dence of  the  corporation  which  he  serves  and  is  regarded  as  the  right  man 
in  the  right  place  in  the  position  which  he  is  so  capably  filling. 

MIOSES  REDOUT  MADDOCKS. 

Moses  Redout  Maddocks,  a  representative  pioneer  settler  of  the  state 
of  Washington,  came  to  this  territory  in  1858.  He  was  born  in  Bucksport, 
Maine,  on  the  13th  of  November,  1833,  and  is  of  Welsh  ancestry.  His 
grandfather,  Ezekiel  Maddocks,  was  born  in  Whales  and  on  crossing  the  At- 
lantic to  the  new  world  took  up  his  abode  in  Massachusetts,  but  later  came  to 
the  Pine  Tree  state,  where  his  son,  Ezekiel  Maddocks,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1789. 
Later  he  married  Esther  Blood,  of  English  and  Puritan  ancestn^,  her  people 
having  located  in  New  England  at  an  early  epoch  in  colonial  history.  The 
grandparents  of  our  subject  were  members  of  the  Congregational  church. 
The  grandfather  died  in  the  fifty-third  year  of  his  age,  leaving  a  widow 
with  four  children,  but  she  only  survived  him  seven  year  and  was  laid  to 
rest  by  his  side  in  the  cemetery  at  Bucksport,  Maine.  The  old  homestead 
there  is  still  in  the  possession  of  their  descendants.  After  the  death  of  the 
parents,  Abigail  Maddocks,  the  eldest  daughter,  performed  the  duties  of  the 
iiousehold  and  made  a  home  for  the  younger  members  of  the  family,  the 
sons  operating  the  farm.  Mr.  Maddocks'  father  was  the  youngest  member 
of  the  family.     He  was  only  seven  years  of  age  when  his  father  died,  while 


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at  the  age  of  fourteen  he  was  left  an  orphan.  After  the  death  of  his  mother 
he  spent  two  years  with  his  uncle,  John  Boyd  Blood,  continuing  to  work  on 
the  farm  in  the  summer,  while  in  the  winter  months  he  attended  the  dis- 
trict school.  Desiring  to  attain  a  more  advanced  education  he  went  to  Bucks- 
port  and  for  two  years  was  a  student  in  the  seminary,  working  for  his  board 
in  the  Bucksport  Hotel,  attending  the  stock  and  also  acting  as  chore  boy  on 
the  place.  In  1851  he  joined  his  brother,  M.  B.  Maddocks,  and  engaged  in 
farming  and  lumbering  near  the  town  of  Brewer,  where  he  continued  until 
the  fall  of  1856,  when  he  became  imbued  with  the  desire  to  go  west  and  see 
more  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Maddocks  then  started  for  Minnesota,  traveling  by  rail  from  Port- 
land, Maine,  to  Fond  du  Lac,  Wisconsin.  There  he  met  two  men  by  the 
name  of  Smith,  who  had  formerly  lived  in  ]\Iaine  and  who  had  come  to  the 
west  on  an  errand  similar  to  his  own.  They  traveled  together  up  Wolf 
river  to  Gill's  Landing,  where  they  purchased  a  team  and  then  crossed  the 
divide  to  the  Mississippi  river,  proceeding  on  to  St.  Paul,  and  to  St.  An- 
thony, where  Mr.  Maddocks  secured  work  in  the  timber  and  logging  camps. 
In  the  spring  of  1857,  in  partnership  with  two  others,  he  purchased  a  port- 
able sawmill  at  the  mouth  of  Rum  river,  where  every  prospect  seemed  pro- 
pitious, but  shortly  afterward  the  grasshopper  plague  swept  through  Minne- 
sota and  destroyed  crops  and  crippled  their  line  of  business.  Mr.  Maddocks 
continued  his  business  under  adverse  circumstances  until  August  and  then 
came  to  the  conclusion  that  he  had  not  profited  by  his  removal  to  the  west, 
Therefore  he  decided  to  sell  out  and  return  to  his  native  state.  He  sold  his 
business  for  what  he  could  get  and  took  his  pay  in  western  money,  which  he 
disposed  of  at  a  heavy  discount.  He  then  returned  to  Portland,  Maine,  after 
one  year,  though  he  had  left  with  the  intention  of  remaining  for  five  years, 
i^reading  the  ridicule  of  his  accpaintances  he  turned  about  and  went  to  New 
York  city  to  take  passage  for  California.  After  writing  a  letter  to  his  sis- 
ter, he  started  as  a  steerage  passenger  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama 
and  landed  safely  in  San  Francisco  on  the  ist  of  October,  1857.  He  thence 
proceeded  by  steamer  up  the  Sacramento  river  to  the  city  of  Sacramento  and 
on  by  stage  to  Oroville,  where  he  engaged  in  placer  mining  at  eight  dollars 
per  day  and  board,  sleeping  on  a  rude  bunk  in  the  open  air.  He  there  con- 
tinued to  work  until  the  fall  rains  and  high  water  made  further  mining  im- 
possible. In  partnership  with  two  others  he  then  purchased  a  claim  and 
one  mile  of  ditch,  and  there  mined  for  several  months,  but  meeting  with  poor 
success  they  sold  out  their  ditch  for  irrigation  purposes  and  abandoned  the 
claim.     He  then  decided  to  try  some  lumbering  country  and  returned  by  way 


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of  Sacramento  to  San  Francisco,  proceeding  thence  to  Humboldt  Bay,  where 
he  accepted  a  position  in  a  sa^^"mill  at  forty  dollars  per  month,  but  hard  times 
came  on  and  lumber  brought  but  little  price,  so  that  the  mill  was  shut  down 
after  ]\Ir.  Maddocks  had  remained  there  but  three  months. 

Our  subject  again  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  and  took  passage  on 
the  steamer  Columbia  for  Puget  Sound,  landing  at  Port  Gamble  in  March, 
1858.  There  he  found  employment  at  good  wages  and  after  working  for 
a  short  time  received  a  contract  for  cutting  logs  to  cover  a  period  of  one  year, 
after  which  he  purchased  an  ox  team  and  continued  logging  for  the  company 
for  six  years.  He  not  only  made  and  saved  money,  but  became  one  of  the 
prominent  and  reliable  citizens  of  the  community.  In  the  fall  of  1863  he 
was  nominated  by  the  Democratic  party  for  the  legislature  and  ^^'as  elected. 
He  then  sold  out  his  logging  business  to  Amos  Brown  and  served  in  the 
territorial  legislature  in  the  winter  of  1863-4,  being  very  active  and  zeal- 
ous in  doing  what  he  could  to  promote  the  best  interests  of  the  territory. 
He  made  a  gratifying  record  as  a  valued  member. 

In  the  spring  of  1864  Mr.  Maddocks  came  to  Seattle,  and  in  partner- 
ship with  Amos  Brown  and  John  Condon,  he  built  the  Occidental  Hotel, 
where  the  Seattle  Hotel  now  stands.  He  owned  a  third  interest  and  took 
charge  of  the  erection  of  the  building.  They  purchased  Ihe  location  for 
fifteen  hundred  dollars  and  for  about  a  year  conducted  the  hotel  together, 
after  which  Mr.  Maddocks  sold  his  interest  to  John  Collins,  and  purchased  an 
interest  in  a  drug  business,  in  connection  with  Gordon  Kellogg.  This  part- 
nership continued  for  about  eighteen  months,  when  Mr.  Maddocks  became 
sole  proprietor  and  successfully  conducted  the  enterprise  for  seventeen  years, 
selling  out  in  1882,  since  which  time  he  has  been  engaged  only  in  caring  for 
and  superintending  his  property  interests,  having  invested  quite  extensively 
in  city  and  country  real  estate.  He  lost  quite  heavily  in  the  great  fire  of  June, 
1889,  but  before  the  smoking  embers  had  died  down,  at  the  corner  of  Madi- 
son and  Front  streets,  he  had  begun  the  erection  of  a  new  brick  building,  and 
thirty  days  later  it  was  leased  for  a  term  of  years,  the  rents  for  the  first 
year  paying  for  the  building.  He  has  been  very  fortunate  in  his  investments. 
At  one  time  he  purchased  a  lot  for  five  hundred  dollars  which  recently  sold 
for  $70,000,  and  from  the  property  he  had  received  forty  thousand  dollars 
in  rents.  The  lots  on  which  he  built  his  commodious  residence,  at  the  cor- 
ner of  Fourth  avenue  and  Cherry  street,  cost  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 
The  property  is  now  worth  forty  thousand  dollars.  He  purchased  four  hun- 
dred acres  of  land -on  the  While  river  bottom  and  all  of  this  property  he  has 
sold  at  a  good  profit  with  the  exception  of  a  tract  of  seventy  acres  on  which  he 


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has  built  a  nice  summer  residence,  and  is  now  conducting  a  dairy,  having 
twenty  Durham  and  Jersey  cows,  with  several  good  horses.  The  product 
of  the  dairy  is  sold  to  the  Condensed  Milk  Factory  and  he  finds  relaxation 
there  in  superintending  his  fine  ranch  and  splendid  stock,  Mr.  Maddocks 
was  married  at  Seattle,  in  1866,  to  Miss  Susie  Williamson,  of  New  York. 
She  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Episcopal  church  and  Mr.  Maddocks  be- 
longs to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  been  made  a  Mason  in  Franklin 
lodge  at  Port  Gamble,  in  1862.  His  life  has  been  one  of  untiring  industry 
and  activity,  characterized  by  honorable  dealings  with  his  fellow  men. 
Splendid  success  has  crowned  his  efforts,  yet  his  prosperity  has  been  so 
justly  w^on  and  so  worthily  used  that  the  most  envious  cannot  grudge  him 
the  same.  He  is  to-day  one  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  the  northwest 
and  Seattle's  history  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record  of  his  life. 

WILLIAM   GRANT   HARTRANFT. 

It  is  a  widely  acknowledged  fact  that  one  of  the  most  important  works  to 
which  man  can  devote  his  energies  is  that  of  teaching,  whether  it  be  from 
the  lecture  platform,  from  the  pulpit  or  from  the  school  room.  Such  work 
tends  to  the  elevation  of  man,  prepares  him  for  the  duties  and  responsibili- 
ties of  life  and  causes  him  to  look  upon  life  from  a  broader  standpoint.  Pro- 
fessor Hartranft  has  gained  a  prominent  position  in  educational  circles  as  a 
man  of  marked  ability  and  to-day  is  serving  as  superintendent  of  schools 
in  King  county.  He  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Michigan,  his  birth  having 
occurred  in  the  city  of  Battle  Creek,  on  the  ist  of  December,  1866.  Pie 
comes  of  German  Quaker  ancestry.  His  great-grandfather,  Tobias  Hartranft, 
emigrated  to  Pennsylvania  in  1734  and  was  identified  with  the  Society  of 
Schwenkeld,  a  branch  of  the  Quaker  society  having  come  to  America  in 
order  to  enjoy  religious  liberty.  John  F.  Hartranft,  a  cousin  of  Professor 
Hartranft,  served  with  much  distinction  in  the  great  war  of  the  Rebellion 
and  for  gallant  and  meritorious  conduct  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  brig- 
adier general,  while  later  he  was  elected  governor  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the 
legislature  of  that  state  has  erected  a  statue  to  his  memory.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  prominent  and  influential  citizens  of  the  commonwealth  and  left 
the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  its  public  policy  and  its  substantial  de- 
velopment. Daniel  Hartranft,  the  father  of  Professor  Hartranft.  Avas  born 
in  Pennsylvania  and  is  now  sixty  years  of  age.  He  makes  his  home  in  Min- 
neapolis, Minnesota,  retired  from  active  business.  He  has  been  a  life-long 
Republican  and  has  exercised  considerable  influence  in  political  affairs.     He 


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married  Miss  Effie  Stetler,  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  a  representative  of  an  old 
eastern  family  that  early  established  a  home  in  the  Buckeye  state.  Four  sons 
and  three  daughters  were  born  of  this  marriage  and  the  mother  departed  this 
life  in  the  thirty-eighth  year  of  her  age.  Two  of  the  daughters,  Mattie  and 
Ethel,  are  now  residents  of  Seattle,  making  their  home  with  him  whose  name  ' 
introduces  this  review. 

Professor  Hartranft  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Wisconsin. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  years  he  entered  upon  what  he  has  made  his  life 
work,  the  profession  of  teaching,  being  employed  in  the  public  schools  of 
bis  native  state  until  1889,  when  he  came  to  Washington.  Here  he  accepted 
the  position  of  principal  of  the  school  at  Bucoda  and  was  appointed  on  the 
board  of  teachers'  examiners  at  Olympia.  He  taught  at  Port  Orchard,  while 
in  1893  ^^^  became  principal  of  one  of  the  city  schools  of  Seattle.  Under 
his  careful  guidance  the  school  made  rapid  and  satisfactory  progress,  many 
improvements  being  introduced.  The  people  of  King  county  manifested  their 
confidence  in  him  by  electing  him  to  the  office  of  county  superintendent  of 
schools.  He  was  a  candidate  for  the  position  in  1898,  but  in  that  year  was  de- 
feated by  a  majority  of  ninety-seven  out  of  a  vote  of  thirteen  thousand.  Nearly 
the  entire  ticket  suffered  defeat,  but  he  polled  a  much  larger  vote  than  was 
given  to  many  of  the  candidates.  Professor  Hartranft  was  later  appointed 
principal  of  the  Queen  Ann  School  in  Seattle  and  in  1900  was  again  unani- 
mously nominated  for  the  position  of  superintendent  of  schools  of  the  county. 
He  made  a  successful  canvass  throughout  the  county  and  at  different 
places  displayed  the  text  books  which  had  been  adopted  by  the  state 
board  of  education  and  which  he  believed  were  totally  inadequate  to  the  needs 
of  a  first-class  educational  system.  The  people  recognized  the  correctness 
of  his  views  and  gave  their  endorsement  thereto  by  electing  him  to 
the  office  by  one  of  the  largest  majorities  given  to  any  candidate  on  the 
ticket.  Professor  Hartranft  at  once  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  office  and 
with  much  energy  undertook  the  work  of  improving  the  schools  of  the 
county.  He  visited  the  different  schools  and  organized  the  county  into 
five  districts,  in  which  teachers'  associations  are  held  once  a  month.  There 
r)apers  are  read  and  addresses  are  delivered  on  methods  of  leaching  and  this 
plan  is  proving  both  beneficial  and  interesting  and  has  contributed  in  a  large 
measure  to  the  progress  of  the  schools.  The  Professor  deserves  the  credit 
of  having  introduced  this  system  into  the  west.  His  efforts  against  the  text 
books  have  prevailed  and  those  which  were  in  use  when  he  began  his  cam- 
paign have  been  discarded  throughout  the  whole  state.     Only  words  of  com- 


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inendation  are  heard  concerning  the  work  of  Professor  Hartranft,  whose  zeal 
and  interest  in  his  work  inspires  those  who  labor  under  him. 

In  1890  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  the  Professor  and  Miss  Mary 
Adams,  an  accomplished  teacher  and  lady  of  superior  intelligence  and  re- 
finement. She  was  born  in  Wisconsin  and  is  a  daughter  of  James  N.  Adams, 
wdio  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  the  nearest  living  relative  of  John  Quincy 
Adams.  Mrs.  Hartranft  was  a  teacher  in  the  Ellsworth  public  schools,  and 
both  the  Professor  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional church.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  has  taken  all 
of  the  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  up  to  and  including  the  thirty-second.  He 
is  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  has  been  a  stanch  Repub- 
lican since  attaining  his  majority.  Both  he  and  his  wife  occupy  a  very  en- 
viable position  in  social  circles  where  true  worth  and  intelligence  are  received 
as  the  passports  into  good  society.  It  would  be  almost  tautological  in  this 
connection  to  enter  into  any  series  of  statements  as  showing  our  subject  to 
be  a  man  of  broad  knowledge  and  scholarly  attainments,  for  these  have 
been  shadowed  forth  between  the  lines  of  this  review.  Though  a  man  of 
strong  convictions  and  fearless  in  their  defense,  he  is  always  gracious  and 
considerate  in  advancing  his  views.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  individuality, 
keen  mentality  and  of  broad  humanitarian  spirit,  whose  interest  in  his  fel- 
low men  is  sincere,  while  his  work  is  ever  permeated  by  a  desire  to  advance 
the  cause  of  education,  which  is  the  bulwark  and  strength  of  this  nation. 
During  the  year  1902  Professor  Hartranft  attracted  attention  as  one  of  the 
leading-  instructors  in  the  teachers'  institutes  of  the  state. 


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VOLLY  P.   HART. 

Volly  P.  Hart,  to  whose  life  history  we  now  direct  attention,  has  by 
earnest  endeavor  attained  a  marked  success  in  business  affairs,  has  gained 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  men  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  distinctivel}- 
representative  citizens  of  Seattle.  He  is  the  general  manager  of  the  New 
York  Life  Insurance  Company  in  Washington,  and  has  that  keen  discrimina- 
tion and  sagacity  in  business  affairs  which  when  coml^ined  with  energy  and 
industry  lead  to  success. 

Mr.  Hart  is  a  native  son  of  the  Blue  Grass  state,  his  birth  occurring  at 
Hartford,  Ohio  county,  Kentucky,  in  December,  1855,  and  he  is  of  Englisli 
and  Scotch  descent.  His  ancestors  were  among  the  early  pioneers  of  \^ir- 
ginia,  and  in  a  very  early  day  the  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  located 
in  Kentucky,  where  the  father.   John   K.   Hart,   was  born.       He  was   there 


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married  to  Elizabeth  Woodward,  whose  ancestors  were  also  from  Virginia 
and  Kentucky.  When  our  subject  was  but  two  years  of  age  his  father  was 
shot,  being' mistaken  for  another  rnan,  and  thus  a  truly  noble  life  was  sacri- 
ficed and  a  wife  and  t\\'0  little  sons  were  bereft  of  a  loving  husband  and 
father.  His  widow  survived  until  the  age  of  fifty-three  years  and  the  eldest 
son,  John  K.,  died  in  Los  Angeles,  California. 

Volly  P.  Hart  was  reared  and  received  his  education  in  his  southern 
home,  and  when  the  time  came  for  him  to  engage  in  the  active  battle  of  life 
on  his  own  responsibility  he  entered  the  employ  of  a  railroad  company, 
eventually  attaining  to  the  position  of  conductor.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  was  with  the  Chicago  o:  Northwestern  Railroad,  and  for  a  few  years  there- 
after was  an  employe  of  the  Missouri  Pacific  Company,  at  the  expiration  of 
which  period  he  was  caught  in  a  wreck,  thus  being  incapacitated  from  further 
railroad  service.  Since  arriving*  at  mature  years  he  had  given  a  stanch  sup- 
port to  Democratic  principles,  and  was  elected  by  his  party  comptroller  of  the 
city  of  Sedalia,  Missouri.  On  the  expiration  of  his  second  term  in  that 
office  he  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  as  postmaster  of  that  city, 
and  served  during  the  remainder  of  the  latter's  administration.  The  year 
1898  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Hart  at  Seattle,  and  since  that  time  he 
has  filled  the  position  of  general  manager  of  the  New  York  Life  Insurance 
Company,  his  territory  covering  the  state  of  Washington.  His  systematic 
business  methods,  his  sound  judgment,  his  enterprise  and  his  laudable  ambi- 
tion have  all  contributed  to  make  his  business  career  a  prosperous  one,  and 
since  assuming  his  present  relations  the  business  of  the  company  has  in- 
creased threefold. 

The  marriag'e  of  Mr.  Hart  occurred  in  1880,  when  Miss  Kate  R.  Varey 
became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa,  and  a  descendant 
of  one  of  America's  most  distinguished  families,  being  a  relative  of  ex-United 
States  Senator  Charles  Sumner  and  of  Chief  Justice  Salmon  P.  Chase.  The 
union  has  been  blessed  with  four  children, — Lela,  Marion,  jvate  and  Payton. 
Mr.  Hart  is  a  member  of  the  order  of  Railway  Conductors  and  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias.  He  enjoys  the  high  regard  of  his  fello^^•  men  in  all  the  walks 
of  life,  and  is  widely  and  favorably  known  in  Seattle  and  King  county. 

ROLLIN   VALENTINE  ANKENY. 

In  financial  circles  of  Seattle,  Rollin  Valentine  Ankeny  is  well  known, 
for  he  is  now  acceptably  filling  the  position  of  cashier  in  the  Puget  Sound 
National  Bank.      He  was  born  in  Freeport,  Illinois,  on  the   ist  of  Septem- 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  75 

ber,  1865,  and  comes  of  French  and  German  ancestr)-.  The  Ankeny  family- 
was  early  established  in  Washington  county,  Maryland,  and  representa- 
tives of  the  name  were  conspicuous  in  connection  with  events  which  mark 
the  history  of  Maryland  in  pioneer  times  and  during  the  period  of  the  Rev- 
olution. Ewalt  Ankeny,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  joined 
the  Colonial  forces  at  the  time  when  the  Colonies  threw  off  the  yoke  of 
British  oppression  and  became  captain  of  the  Fifth  Company  of  the  Bedford 
county,  Virginia,  militia.  He  served  throughout  the  war  and  his  efforts 
were  of  value  in  promoting  the  cause  of  his  country.  Peler  Ankeny,  the 
great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  citizen  of  Maryland  in  early  life 
but  became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Ohio,  while  Joseph,  the  grand- 
father, was  born  in  the  Buckeye  state  and  later  became  a  factor  in  its  busi- 
ness affairs,  carrying  on  merchandising  there.  His  son,  Rollin  V.  Ankeny. 
Sr.,  was  born  in  Somerset  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1830,  and  for  many 
years  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business  but  is  now  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness "and  makes  his  home  in  Des  Moines,  lov^'a.  He  married  Sarah  Irving, 
a  lady  of  Scotch  ancestry,  and  unto  them  were  born  five  children  but  only 
two  are  now  living,  and  the  mother  has  also  passed  away. 

Mr.  Ankeny  of  this  review  was  educated  in  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  where 
his  parents  removed  during  his  early  youth.  He  also  entered  upon  his  busi- 
ness career  there  as  collection  clerk  in  the  Citizens  National  Bank  and  was 
associated  with  that  financial  institution  for  five  years,  during  which  time 
his  close  application,  his  ability  and  his  fidelity  won  him  promotion  and 
when  he  severed  his  connection  with  the  bank  he  was  filling  the  position  of 
bookkeeper.  In  1888  he  came  to  Seattle  to  accept  a  position  in  the  Puget 
Sound  National  Bank,  and  since  that  time  he  has  assisted  in  the  conduct  of 
the  affairs  of  this  institution,  filling  all  positions  up  to  anrl  including  that 
of  cashier.  He  is  now  acceptably  serving  in  the  last  named  capacity,  his 
incumbency  continuing  for  more  than  six  years.  In  1895  the  bank  was  cap- 
italized for  six  hundred  thousand  dollars  and  it  does  a  very  large  business. 
All  of  the  officers,  from  Jacob  Furth,  the  president,  down,  are  considered 
people  of  the  highest  ability,  known  as  financiers  of  worth  and  regarded  as 
reliable  business  men  throughout  the  city.  Mr.  Ankeny  devotes  his  entire 
energies  to  the  duties  of  the  office.  Always  courteous  and  considerate  with 
patrons  of  the  bank,  he  is  at  the  same  time  ever  alive  to  the  interests  of  the 
institution  which  he  represents  and  his  labors  have  contributed  not  a  little  to 
its  splendid  reputation. 

In  1890  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Ankeny  and  Miss  Eleanor 
Randolph,  a  native  of  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Ran- 


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dolph  of  that  city.  They  now  ha\e  one  son,  Irvine.  Their  attractive  home 
is  situated  at  No.  812  Second  avenue,  west,  and  its  characteristic  hospi- 
tahty  is  enjoyed  by  their  large  circle  of  friends.  Mr.  Ankeny  votes  with 
the  Republican  party  and  socially  is  connected  with  the  Elks  and  the  Ma- 
sonic fraternities.  Throughout  his  entire  business  career  he  has  been  iden- 
tified with  banking  and  is  thoroughly  familiar  with  this  important  depart- 
ment of  business  in  every  particular.  He  occupies  an  unassailable  position 
in  financial  circles  at  Seattle  and  the  city  numbers  him  among  the  valued 
additions  to  its  business   ranks. 

ja:\ies  r.  hayden. 

James  Rudolph  Hayden,  cashier  of  the  People's  Savings  Bank,  is  one 
of  the  state's  best  known  and  highly  esteemed  citizens.  He  has  resided  in 
Seattle  for  more  than  twenty  years,  making  a  most  creditable  record  as  a 
thoroughly  reliable  and  successful  business  man.  His  course  has  ever  been 
deserving  of  comniendaioii,  for  not  only  is  he  trustworthy  in  business,  but 
as  a  public  official  he  has  manifested  his  fidelity  to  the  public  trusts  and  when 
his  country  was  involved  in  civil  war  he  was  found  among  the  loyal  defenders 
of  the  Union  upon  southern  battle-fields. 

]\Ir.  Hayden  was  born  in  Oswego  county.  New  York,  February  22, 
1837,  and  is  of  Irish  lineage.  His  father,  Jarnes  R.  Hayden,  was  born  in 
Dublin,  and  in  his  native  city  was  married  to  Miss  Alesia  Connoly.  In  the 
year  1835  ^^  severed  the  ties  that  bound  him  to  his  native  land  and  sailed  for 
the  new  world,  locating  first  in  Canada,  but  after  a  short  time  taking  up  his 
residence  in  Oswego  county,  New  York.  The  mother  of  our  subjecr  died 
when  he  was  only  three  years  old,  and  it  was  also  his  misfortune  to  lose  his 
father  bv  death  when  he  was  but  six  vears  old.  He  was  then  reared  until  his 
fourteenth  year  by  a  family  named  Fagan,  who  removed  to  Chicago,  Illinois, 
in  1850.  There  he  was  sent  to  school  and  afterward  was  employed  in  *^he 
gallery  of  Mr.  Straw,  a  celebrated  photographer  of  that  city,  in  whose  studio 
lie  was  working  \\'hen  the  great  Civil  \A"ar  burst  upon  the  country.  In  answer 
to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers  to  put  down  the  great  rebellion 
he  enlisted  on  the  14th  of  April,  and  served  in  the  state  forces  until  the  i6th 
of  June,  when  he  joined  Company  A,  Nineteenth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
with  which  he  served  in  ^Missouri,  Kentucky,  Alabama,  Georgia  and  Ten- 
nessee. The  first  important  battle  in  which  he  participated  was  at  Stone 
river,  and  later  he  met  the  enemy  in  the  engagements  at  Chattanooga,  Resaca, 
Missionary  Ridge  and  Kenesaw  jMountain.      He  was  with  General  Sherman 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  ^7 

in  the  Atlanta  campaign  and  at  all  times  was  tound  at  his  post  of  duty,  faith- 
ful to  the  cause  which  he  espoused.  In  the  engagement  at  Missionary  Ridge 
he  was  hit  in  the  belt  by  a  ball  which  knocked  the  breath  out  of  him,  and  he 
had  other  very  narrow  escapes,  but  was  never  seriously  injured.  While  in 
service  in  Chicago  he  was  a  member  of  Colonel  Ellsworth's  Zouaves  and  was 
recommended  by  many  of  the  members  of  his  regiment  for  the  office  of 
colonel,  but  served  instead  as  a  staff  and  ordnance  officer.  In  March,  1870, 
he  v\^as  presented  w:ith  a  magnificent  watch  by  the  Chicago  Zouaves. 

After  being  mustered  out  Mr.  Hayden  returned  to  Chicago  and  filled 
the  position  of  supervisor  of  West  Chicago  for  two  years,  while  for  several 
years  he  was  deputy  sheriff.  In  1870  he  was  appointed  by  President  Grant 
to  the  position  of  assessor  of  internal  revenue  for  Washington  and  served  in 
that  capacity  from  1876  until  1884.  He  was  afterward  appointed  receiver 
in  the  Washington  land  office,  with  headquarters  at  Olympia,  and  filled  that 
position  for  three  years,  alter  which  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  insurance  and 
real-estate  business.  In  1885  he  was  appointed  receiver  of  the  land  office  at 
Seattle,  and  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  position  just  six  days  before  the 
great  fire  which  devastated  the  city.  His  teniu"e  of  that  office  continued  until 
August.  1890,  and  then  on  his  retirement  from  that  position  he  aided  in  or- 
ganizing the  People's  ^Savings  Bank,  of  Seattle,  since  which  time  he  has  been 
its  cashier  and  manager.  Under  his  able  conduct  the  business  of  the  bank  has 
continually  increased  and  each  year  the  institution  has  been  able  to  declare 
good  dividends,  showing  that  the  business  is  conducted  profitably.  It  is 
now  numbered  among  the  solid  financial  institutions  in  this  part  of  the  state. 

In  1863  Mr.  Hayden  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Amelia  Daul.  a 
natives  of  New  York  city,  and  unto  them  have  been  l^orn  seven  children,  of 
whom  four  are  yet  living  The  elder  son,  John  L.,  is  a  graduate  of  the 
West  Point  Military  Academy,  and  is  now  a  captain  of  United  States  Ar- 
tillery. James  Rudolph  is  now  in  Alaska.  The  elder  daughter  is  Mrs. 
Wellington  Park,  of  Walla  Walla,  and  the  }'ounger  daughter,  Alesia  Ada- 
line  Louisa,  is  at  home  with  her  parents.  Mr.  Hayden  has  erected  a  de- 
lightful residence  on  one  of  the  beautiful  sites  of  Seattle,  and  the  family 
enjoy  the  highest  regard  of  all  with  whom  they  have  been  associated.  He 
is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  was  senior 
vice  commander  in  Chicago,  and  in  Olympia  past  commander  of  George 
H.  Thomas  Post.  He  is  also  a  past  commander  of  the  military  order  of 
the  Loyal  Legion  for  the  strife  of  Washington,  and  takes  an  active  interest 
in  everything  pertaining  to  military  affairs.  He  was  made  a  Master  Mason 
in  Chicago,  in  1868,  was  past  master  of  Olympia  Lodge  and  deputy  grand 


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master  in  1874,  also  grand  master  of  the  territory  of  Washington  in  1875, 
He  is  a  past  higli  priest  of  Olympia  Chapter,  No.  7,  R.  A.  M.,  and  has 
attained  the  thirty-third  degree  of  the  Scottish  rite,  being  the  only  active  thir- 
ty-third brother  in  the  state  of  Washington  and  Alaska.  He  has.  been  the  active 
thirty-third  of  the  Southern  jurisdiction  of  the  United  States  since  1883. 
He  is  undoubtedly  the  most  eminent  representative  of  the  order  in  this  state, 
thoroughly  familiar  with  the  work  of  the  craft  in  all  its  departments  and 
promotes  the  cause  materially  througli  his  well  directed  efforts  in  its  behalf. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  W^orkmen  and  has  been 
a  lifelong  Republican,  never  swerving  in  his  allegiance  to  the  party  v.hich 
he  believes  contains  the  best  elements  of  good  government.  From  189 1  to 
1895  he  was  a  member  and  the  president  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  State 
University  and  it  was  during  his  incumbency  that  the  buildings  were  erected. 
His  life  has  been  varied  in  service,  constant  in  honor,  fearless  in  conduct  and 
stainless  in  reputation,  and  his  career  lias  been  one  of  activity,  full  of  incidents 
and  results. 

FRED  E.  SANDER. 

Mr.  Sander  has  been  actively  and  extensively  connected  with  railroad 
building  in  the  northwest.  Through  this  means  he  lias  assisted  in  opening 
up  to  civilization  a  vast  region  with  unlimited  resources,  providing  for  every 
kind  of  labor,  giving  homes  to  the  miner,  the  farmer  and  the  commercial 
man.  The  advent  of  railroads  has  marked  advancing  civilization  in  all  coun- 
tries,  and  has  been  the  means  of  uniting  the  different  portions  of  America, 
making  it  an  inseparable  union.  The  labors  of  Mr.  Sanders  have  therefore 
been  of  such  a  character  that  his  efforts  have  benefited  the  public  as  well  as 
advanced  his  individual  prosperity. 

From  his  boyhood  up  to  the  time  he  came  to  Seattle  he  was  a  sailor. 
'  The  year  1880  witnessed  his  arrival  in  this  city,  where  he  first  engag'ed  in 
bookkeeping.  In  the  meantime  he  read  law  under  the  direction  of  the  Hon. 
William  H.  White,  now  supreme  judge  of  the  state.  He  also  began  to 
invest  in  city  real  estate  and  a  little  later  became  interested  in  the  building 
of  street  railroads.  He  built  the  Yessler  avenue  cable  line,  which  he  owned  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  also  constructed  the  Grant  street  electric  line.  He  was 
one  of  ten  v.dio  built  the  Front  street  line,  and  one  of  those  who  built  tlie 
James  street  lines,  and  was  the  original  mover  in  tlie  enterprise  of  building 
a  line  between  Seattle  and  Tacoma.  He  is  still  extensively  engaged  in  rail- 
road enterprises.      Since  1883  ^""^s  office  has  been  located  at  the  southeast  cor- 


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ner  of  Yessler  Way  and  First  avenue  south.  Here  he  was  burned  out  in 
the  great  conflagration  of  1889  and  met  with  a  large  loss,  but  immediately 
he  resumed  business  at  the  old  place.  He  has  made  a  numbei"  of  additions  to 
the  city  of  Seattle,  and  in  connection  with  others  has  done  much  building. 
He  is  still  engaged  in  the  erection  of  public  buildings  and  private  residences, 
also  in  otherwise  improving-  the  city.  For  years  his  attention  has  been 
chiefly  devoted  to  real-estate  dealing  and  to  railroad  construction,  and  his 
efforts  along  these  lines  ha\-e  become  of  great  volume  and  importance. 

CALVIN  E.  VILAS. 

Among  the  best  citizens  of  Seattle,  esteemed  alike  for  his  sterling-  worth 
of  character  and  his  activity  in  the  business  world,  is  Calvin  E.  Vilas,  the 
vice-president  and  manager  of  the  Washington  National  Building,  Loan  & 
Investment  Association,  of  Seattle.  He  is  a  native  of  Ogdensburg,  New 
York,  where  he  was  born  on  the  4th  of  November.  1856,  and  is  of  old  English 
ancestry.  His  descendants  w^ere  among  the  early  settlers  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  there  his  grandfather,  Nathaniel  Vilas,  was  born.  He  served  as  a  sol- 
dier in  the  war  of  1812,  and  was  afterward  a  pensioner  of  that  war.  He 
was  a  prominent  manufacturer  and  also  postmaster  of  his  town,  where  he 
attained  to  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-three  years. 

Erastus  Vilas,  his  son  and  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Ant- 
werp, Jefferson  county,  New  York,  in  1824,  and  now  resides  in  Ogdensburg, 
that  state,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  He  married  Miss  Emma  Lake, 
a  native  of  Chautauqua  county,  New  York.  Throughout  his  active  business 
career  he  has  been  a  manufacturer  of  and  dealer  in  leather,  and  has  long  been 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  his  town,  in  which  he  has  held 
many  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  For  many  years  he  was  a.  member  of  the 
board  of  education,  was  at  one  time  a  water  commissioner,  and  has  been  the 
recipient  of  many  other  honors  within  the  gift  of  his  fellow  townsmen.  He 
is  a  prominent  and  worthy  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  since  the  form- 
ation of  the  Republican  party  has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks.  Mrs. 
Vilas  w^as  called  to  the  home  beyond  in  1883,  at  the  age  of  fifty-one  years, 
and  she,  too,  was  a  devoted  Christian,  and  was  a  faithful  and  devoted  wife 
and  mother.  Two  sons  were  born  unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vilas,  the  brother  of 
our  subject  being  George  B.,  now  a  freight  ngent  for  the  Northwestern  Rail- 
road at  Milwaukee. 

Calvin  E.  Vilas  received  his  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  place,  and  later  supplemented  the  knowledge  there  gained  by 


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a  course  in  the  State  Normal  School,  in  St.  Lawrence  county,  New  York. 
His  business  training  was  received  under  the  careful  direction  of  his  father, 
and  he  continued  to  devote  his  attentjon  to  the  leather  business  until  1890, 
in  which  year  he  came  to  Seattle,  and  has  since  been  identified  with  the  best 
interests  of  this  city.  He  is  engaged  principally  in  loaning  money  and  is  also 
the  vice-president  and  manager  of  the  Washington  National  Building,  Loan 
&  Investment  Association.  Throughout  his  residence  here  he  has  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  of  the  community,  and  is 
a  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizen  who  gives  a  loyal  support  to  all 
measures  for  the  public  good. 

Mr.  Vilas  was  happily  married  in  1882,  when  Miss  Jennie  L.  Vilas,  his 
third  cousin,  became  his  wife,  and  they  have  had  two  children,  but  the  little 
son  died  at  the  age  of  se\  en  and  a  half  years.  The  sur\'iving  child  is  Helen 
L.  The  family  reside  in  a  beautiful  home  in  Seattle,  where  they  extend 
a  gracious  hospitality  to  their  many  friends.  Throughout  the  years  of  his 
manhood  Mr.  Vilas  has  given  his  political  support  to  the  Republican  party, 
and  while  a  resident  of  St.  Lawrence  county,  New  York,  he  held  the  office  of 
supervisor,  and  was  also  city  clerk  of  Ogdensburg,  the  place  of  his  birth. 
He  is  an  active  and  valued  memljer  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church  and  in  all 
the  relations  of  life  he  has  won  the  high  regard  of  his  fellow  citizens. 

CHARLES   BAKER. 

Forty  years  have  passed  since  Charles  Baker  took  up  his  residence  in 
Seattle.  When  he  arrived  here  he  found  a  very  small  town,  giving  little  prom- 
ise of  rapid  future  development,  yet  it  had  natural  advantages  \Ahich  Mr. 
Baker  recognized  and  he  tlierefore  believed  that  he  would  take  3  wise  step 
by  casting  in  his  fortunes  with  the  new^  and  growing  town.  Through  all 
these  years  he  has  been  interested  in  eveiT  measure  for  the  general  good 
and  has  been  a  wide  awake  and  progressive  citizen,  who  from  pioneer  times 
down  to  the  present  has  labored  earnestly  and  effectively  for  the  advance- 
ment of  the  northwest. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  native  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  his  birth  having  occurred 
there  on  the  i8th  of  November,  1840.  He  is  of  English  ancestry  and  his 
parents  were  John  O.  and  Charlotte  Helen  (Hopewell)  Baker,  the  former 
a  native  of  Portsmouth  and  the  latter  of  London,  England.  They  emi- 
grated to  the  Lmited  States  when  young  people  and  located  at  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  wdiere  they  were  married.  He  devoted  his  energies  to  the  practice  of 
medicine   and    surgery,    as    a    representative    of    the    regular    school,    being 


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first  located  at  St.  Stephens,  New  Brunswick,  and  later  a  member  of  the 
medical  profession  at  Collis,  Robbinston  and  East  Machias,  Maine.  In  1875 
he  came  to  the  northwest,  locating  in  Seattle  and  for  tw^elve  years  was  a 
prominent  member  of  the  medical  fraternity  of  this  place,  continuing  as 
an  active  practitioner  up  to  tjie  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Octo- 
ber, 1887.  He  was  in  the  sixty-seventh  year  of  his  age.  He  w"as  very 
devoted  to  his  profession  and  attained  eminence  in  his  chosen  calling,  both 
because  of  his  remarkable  ability  in  the  diagnosing  of  diseases,  and  also  because 
of  his  skill  in  applying"  correct  remedies  and  in  the  use  of  surgical  imple- 
ments. He  was  a  gentleman  of  broad  humanitarian  principles  and  his  deep 
human  sympathy  made  it  a  pleasure  to  him  to  carry  on  his  professional 
work  and  alleviate  the  suffering  of  his  fellow  men.  He  never  stopped  to 
consider  whether  his  patients  were  poor  or  rich  but  gave  his  services  to 
the  former  as  to  the  latter  and  many  a  family  had  reason  to  bless  him  for 
his  helpfulness  in  the  hour  of  need.  His  wife  departed  this  life  some  time 
previous  to  the  death  of  her  husband,  being  forty-three  years  of  age  when 
called  to  her  final  rest.  Both  were  members  of  the  Episcopal  church  and 
their  Christian  faith  w^as  exemplified  in  their  noble  and  helpful  lives.  They 
were  the  parents  of  a  son  and  daughter,  but  Charles  is  now  the  only  sur- 
viving member  of  the  family.  He  was  called  Charles  John  Frederick 
Beverly,  in  honor  of  friends  wdio  bore  those  names,  but  Mr.  Baker  says  he 
never  finds  time  to  write  all  of  the  lengthy  name  and  has  dropped  each  one 
of  the  Christian  names  except  that  of  Charles.  He  obtained  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  Washington  Academy  of  jMarine  and  when  fourteen  years 
of  age  went  to  sea.  follow'ing  the  life  of  a  sailor  for  nearly  seven  years, 
during  which  time  he  visited  many  of  the  ports  of  the  civilized  world  and 
gained  broad  and  interesting  knowledge  concerning  foreign  lands  and  the 
manners  and  customs  of  various  peoples. 

In  December,  1862,  wdien  not  quite  twenty-one  years  of  age,  Mr.  Baker 
arrived  at  Seattle,  becoming  engaged  in  the  luml3er  business,  getting  out 
logs  for  various  sa\v  mills.  He  afterward  went  to  Cariboo,  British 
Columbia,  at  the  time  of  the  mining  excitement  there,  but  has  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  since  attaining  to  his  majority  in  tl:.e  Puget  Sound 
country.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  grocery  business 
ar  Lowell  in  Snohomish  county,  successfully  conducting  his  enterprise 
until  1880,  when  he  sold  his  business  there  and  established  a  grocery  store 
in  north  Seattle.  Here  he  prospered  from  the  beginning  and  continued 
in  the  business  for  fourteen  years  or  until  1894,  when  he  sold  out  and  re- 
tired from  active  business.      He  is  now  enjoying  a  well  merited  and   well 


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earned  rest.  In  later  5^ears  he  has  built  a  commodious  dwelHng  at  2344 
East  Lake  avenue  and  had  made  other  investments  in  Seattle  city  property 
which  have  returned  him  a  good  income. 

On  the  8th  of  February,  1871,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  ]Mr. 
Baker  and  Miss  Emma  Seavey,  of  East  Machias,  ]\Iaine,  a  daughter  of 
S^dvanus  and  Cynthia  Seavey,  both  of  whom  were  of  English  ancestry, 
but  several  generations  have  resided  in  this  country  and  representatives  of 
the  family  were  participants  in  events  which  form  the  early  history  of  Amer- 
ica and  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  Her  father  attained  to  the  ripe  old  age 
of  eighty-five  years  and  his  wife  reached  the  extreme  old  age  of  ninety- 
one  years.  They  were  honest  and  industrious  farming  people  and  followers 
of  the  Christian  religion.  ^Ir.  and  jMrs.  Baker  have  had  six  children :  Ed- 
v.-ard  H.,  who  was  born  in  Seattle;  Charlotte  H.,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Snohomish;  Cynthia  Elma,  Avho  was  bom  in  the  same  place  and  is  now 
the  wife  of  R.  G.  ]McCausland;  and  Julia,  Avho  is  attending  the  city  high 
school.  Two  sons  are  now  deceased:  Charles,  born  February  8.  1873, 
died  March  25,  1877;  Albert,  who  died  December  9,  1879.  The  family 
attend  ser\nces  at  the  Congregational  church  and  members  of  the  house- 
hold have  the  highest  respect  of  the  iDCst  citizens  of  Seattle.  Air.  Baker 
has  been  a  life-long  and  stanch  Republican  and  in  1902  was  the  candidate 
of  his  party  for  the  ofhce  of  supervisor  of  King  count3^  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  received  the  sublime  degree  of  a  Master 
Mason  of  Warren  Lodge,  No.  2,  F.  and  A.  i\I.,  of  East  Machias,  Maine. 
He  now  holds  membership  with  the  Eureka  Lodge,  No.  20,  F.  and  A.  M. 
of  Seattle.  His  record  is  that  of  a  man  who  through  earnest  and  honor- 
able endeavor  in  business  life  attains  success  and  also  achieves  a  character 
that  is  above  reproach. 

ANDREW   CHILBERG. 

Andrew  Chilberg,  president  of  the  Scandinavian- American  Bank  of  Se- 
attle, AVashin.gton,  is  one  of  the  leading  bankers  of  the  city  and  rapidly  work- 
ing his  way  to  a  foremost  position  among  the  prominent  financiers  of  the 
state.  He  has  made  an  enviable  reputation  in  business  circles  and  occupies 
a  position  of  no  little  prominence  in  connection  with  public  affairs,  although 
he  has  never  sought  political  preferment.  Llis  life  demonstrates  what  may  be 
accomplished  through  energy,  careful  management,  keen  foresight,  and  the 
utilization  of  the  powers  ^^■ith  which  nature  has  endowed  one.  and  the  oppor- 
tunities with  which  the  times  surround  him. 


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Mr.  Chilberg  was  born  in  Sweden  March  29,  1845,  ^^^^^  "^'^'^s  only  a  year 
old  when  brought  to  America  by  his  parents,  Charles  John  and  Hannah 
(Johnson)  Chilberg,  who  were  also  born  in  that  country  of  Swedish  ancestry. 
They  were  farming  people  and  members  of  the  Lutheran  church.  In  1846 
the  parents,  accompanied  by  their  four  children,  James  P.,  Nelson,  Isaac  and 
Andrew,  took  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  bound  for  the  new  world  and  were 
eleven  weeks  in  crossing  ihe  Atlantic.  They  located  on  a  farm  southwest 
of  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  where  the  father  pre-empted  and  homesteaded  lands,  and 
there  he  successfully  engaged  in  farming  for  many  years.  Other  children 
were  added  to  the  family,  these  being  Benja)iiin  A.,  Joseph,  Charles  F.  and 
John  H.,  but  Charles  F.  died  in  the  thirty-second  year  of  his  age.  Tlie 
father  is  now  ninety  years  of  age  and  the  motlier  died  Jul}'  3,  1902.  In  1882 
this  worthy  couple  celebrated  their  golden  wedding,  and  they  traveled 
life's  journey  together  for  the  remarkable  period  of  seventy  years,  sharing 
with  each  other  its  joys  and  sorrows,  its  adversity  and  prospeity.  In  1872 
they  came  to  Seattle  r^nd  the  father  now  resides  at  La  Conner,  honored  an'd 
respected   by  all   who   know   him. 

Andrew  Chilberg  was  principally  reared  near  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  and  is 
indebted  to  the  schools  of  that  city  for  his  educational  privileges.  In  i860, 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  years,  he  went  with  iiis*  father  and  brother  Nelson,  to 
Pike's  Peak  during  the  gold  excitement  in  that  locality.  There  our  subject 
worked  on  a  farm  while  his  father  and  brother  engaged  in  prospecting  and 
mining  until  the  winter  of  1863,  when  they  returned  to  Iowa. 

The  following  spring  Andrew  Chilberg  crossed  the  plains  to  California, 
driving  horses,  for  which  service  he  was  boarded  and  permitted  to  go  with 
the  company.  During  that  arduous  journey  he  acquired  indigestion  from 
the  poor  food  he  was  given,  and  from  its  effects  he  has  never  fully  recovered. 
His  fine  constitution  is  all  that  has  carried  hirii  through.  The  company 
"with  which  he  traveled  was  four  months  on  the  road  from  Omaha  to  Sacra- 
mento. His  brother  James  P.  had  preceded  him  to  California  and  was  farm- 
ing in  Yolo  county,  and  for  some  time  our  subject  worked  for  him  and  other 
farmers,  at  twenty-five  dollars  per  month.  He  subsequently  went  to  Stock- 
ton, wdiere  he  worked  in  a  large  nursery  for  sometime,  and  also  attended 
school  at  that  place. 

Owing  to  ill  health  Mr.  Chilberg  fmall}'  returned  to  Iowa  by  way  of  tlie 
Nicaragua  route  and  New  York  city,  and  again  attended  school  in  Ottumwa. 
Subsequently  he  eng-aged  in  teaching-  school  for  three  years,  and  also  clerked 
in  a  wholesale  and  retail  dry  goods  house  in  Ottumwa  for  four  years.  In 
1874,  at  Ottumwa,  he  Avas  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary,  daughter  of 


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John  and  Hannah  (Swenson)  Nelson,  now  both  deceased,  and  born  at  Bishop 
Hill,  Illinois.  The  following  year  they  came  to  Seattle,  Washington.  In 
the  fall  of  1875  ^'^^  embarked  in  the  grocer)^  business  with  his  brothers,  James 
P.  and  Nelson,  and  together  they  conducted  the  store  until  1882,  when  he 
sold  his  interest  to  his  brothers,  having  been  elected  assessor  of  King  county 
on  the  Democratic  ticket. 

Mr.  Chilberg  creditably  filled  that  office  for  two  years.  While  ejigaged 
in  the  grocery  business  lie  has  been  appointed  by  the  Swedish  government 
vice-consul  for  Sweden  and  Norway,  and  has  since  satisfactorily  filled  that 
position.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  city  council  two  years,  and  in  1884 
was  appointed  city  treasurer,  in  Avhich  capacity  he  also  served  two  years. 
In  1885  he  was  appointed  city  passenger  and  ticket  agent  for  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railway,  and  held  that  position  until  1802,  when  he  resigned  to  accept 
the  presidency  of  the  Scandinavian  American  Bank,  of  which  he  was  one  of 
the  organizers.  This  bank  was  opened  for  business  on  the  ist  of  May,  1892,, 
with  a  paid-up  capital  of  forty-five  thousand  dollars,  which  was  increased 
in  1 901  to  one  hundred  thousand  dollars,  while  its  deposits  now  amount  to 
over  two  million  dollars.  In  the  past  nine  years  it  has  had  an  unparalleled 
growth  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  sound  financial  institutions  of  the  state. 
Aluch  of  its  success  is  due  to  Mr.  Chilberg,  the  safe  and  conservative  policy 
which  he  inaugurated  having  commended  itself  to  the  judgment  of  all,  and 
secured  a  patronage  which  makes  the  volume  of  business  transacted  over  its 
counters  of  great  importance  and  magnitude.  In  1895  he  was  elected  a  school 
director,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  three  years,  and  was  president  of 
the  school  board  one  term.  Socially  he  is  a  charter  member  of  Columbia 
Lodge,  A.  O.  U.  ^^^.  and  politically  has  always  been  a  stanch  supporter  of  the 
Democratic  party.  He  is  a  man  of  prominence  in  the  business  world,  his 
upright,  honorable  life  having  g'ained  for  him  the  confidence  and  high  regard 
of  his  fellow  citizens,  and  his  popularity  is  justly  deserved.  He  has  one 
son,  Eugene  Chilberg,  who  was  born  October  29,  1875,  who  has  been  in 
Nome  for  three  or  four  years  and  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Pioneer 
Mining  Company,  also  interested  ni  the  Hot  Air  Mining  Company. 

WALTER  SHEPARD  FULTON. 

The  name  of  Fulton  has  long  figured  conspicuously  on  the  pages  of 
American  history,  and  he  of  whom  we  write  has  become  an  eminent  citizen  of 
Seattle.  Although  but  a  young  man  he  has  already  attained  distinction  at 
the  l^ar  and  is  now  serving  as  prosecuting  attorney  of  King  county,  making 


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his  home  in  Seattle.  He  was  born  in  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  loth 
of  August,  1873,  his  ancestors  having  come  to  this  country  from  the  north 
of  Ireland.  Robert  Fulton,  the  first  of  the  name  here,  took  up  his  abode  in 
Westmoreland  county,  Pennsylvania,  at  a  very  early  epoch  in  its  history.  Pie 
was  the  great-grandfather  of  our  sul^ject,  and  fought  in  the  Revolutionary 
war  on  the.  side  of  the  colonists.  William  P.  Fulton,  the  father 
of  Walter  S.,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1840,  and  after  arriving  at  vears 
of  maturity  married  Martha  ^^^^ite,  a  native  of  Wellsburg,  Virginia. 
Throughout  the  greater  part  of  his  business  career  he  carried  on  merchandis- 
ing but  is  now  living  retired,  his  home  being  in  Akron,  Ohio.  He  has  always 
been  a  stanch  advocate  of  the  Republican  party  and  in  religious  faith  is  a 
Presbyterian. 

Since  the  age  of  eight  years  Walter  Shepard  Fulton  has  resided  with  his 
uncle,  Judge  William  H.  White,  now  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Wash- 
ington. He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  this  city  and 
afterward  attended  the  University  of  Washmgton.  In  one  year's  time  he 
completed  a  two  years'  course  in  the  University  of  Michigan  at  xA.nn  Arbor, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  before  the  supreme  court  of  that  state  in  1894. 
He  then  returned  to  Seattle  and  began  his  law  practice.  He  has  succeeded 
because  his  equipment  was  unusually  good,  because  he  has  applied  himself 
closely,  because  he  has  been  most  diligent  in  his  work  and  devoted  to  the 
interests  of  his  clients.  For  three  years  lie  served  as  deputy  prosecuting 
attorney  under  Mr.  McElroy  and  was  then  nominated  by  the  Democratic 
party  for  the  office  which  he  is  now  filling.  He  made  a  brilliant  campaign, 
delivered  many  stirring  campaign  addresses  and  was  triumphantly  elected. 
He  ran  far  ahead  of  his  party  ticket  and  the  signal  victory  which  he  won  indi- 
cates his  great  popularity  :n  the  county  in  which  he  vras  reared  and  educated, 
and  was  also  a  tribute  to  his  professional  skill.  Since  entering  upon  the 
duties  of  the  office  he  has  tried  a  number  of  very  noted  criminal  cases  which 
he  has  prosecuted  successfully,  among  those  being  the  Nordstrom  murder 
case,  which  resulted  in  the  punishment  of  the  criminal,  notwithstanding  the 
very  able  defense  and  untiring-  efYorts  of  the  opposing  counsel. 

In  November,  1898,  Mr.  Fulton  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Etta 
Nugent,  of  Port  Blakely,  Washington,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Joseph  Nugent,- 
now  of  Seattle.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution  and 
of  the  legal  Phi  Delta  Phi  fraternity  of  the  University  of  Michigan.  Both 
our  subject  and  his  wdfe  have  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  are  held  in  the 
highest  regard  in  the  city  and  state  in  which  they  have  so  long'  made  their 
home,  spending  almost  their  entire  fives  here.      The  hospitality  of  the  best 


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homes  of  Seattle  is  cordially  extended  them.  In  professional  ranks  Mr. 
Fulton  is  also  widely  known  and  his  strong  mentality,  laudable  ambition  and 
force  of  character  indicate  that  his  will  l^e  a  successful  future. 

JAMES  LEE. 

For  u  number  of  years  an  active  factor  in  the  industrial  interests  of 
Seattle,  James  Lee,  through  his  diligence,  perseverance  and  business  ability, 
has  acquired  a  handsome  competence  and  has  also  contributed  to  the  general 
prosprity  through  the  conduct  of  an  enterprise  which  has  furnished  employ- 
ment to  others.  Reliability  in  all  trade  transactions,  loyalty  to  all  duties  of 
citizenship,  fidelity  in  the  discharge  of  every  duty  reposed  in  him — these  are 
his  chief  characteristics  and  through  the  passing  years  have  gained  for  hin-i 
the  imqualified  confidence  and  respect  of  his  fellow  men. 

Mr.  Lee  is  a  native  of  Canada,  being  l;orn  in  Woodstock,  Ontario,  on 
the  25th  of  August,  1865,  and  he  is  of  English  ancestry.  His  father,  James 
Lee,  emigrated  to  this  country  from  England  in  1840,  and  after  his  arrival 
took  up  his  abode  on  a  farm  in  Ontario.  .  He  was  accompanied  on  the  jour- 
ney by  his  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Emma  Cholcraft.  They 
were  members  of  the  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  was  an  active  Avorker  for 
many  years,  and  his  death  occurred  in  Canada  in  1884,  his  wife  joining  hiin 
in  the  spirit  world  in  1898.  They  l^ecame  the  parents  of  eight  children,  seven 
of  whom  are  still  living. 

James  Lee,  the  only  representative  of  the  above  family  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  received  his  literary  education  in  the  schools  of  Woodstock,  Canada, 
while  his  business  training  was  received  in  the  Ontario  College  of  Pharmacy, 
,in  Toronto,  in  which  he  was  graduated  in  1886.  For  a  year  thereafter  he 
served  as  a  clerk  in  a  drug  store  in  that  city,  and  then  came  to  Seattle,  where 
a  similar  period  was  spent  as  a  drug  clerk.  In  i8go  he  embarked  in  the  drug 
business  on  his  own  account,  at  his  present  location,  at  the  corner  of  Second 
avenue  and  Columbia  street,  where  he  has  a  storeroom  twenty-four  by  one 
hundred  feet,  filled  with  a  complete  stock  of  such  goods  as  are  usually  kept 
in  a  first-class  city  drug  store,  ife  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most  straight- 
forward, energetic  and  successful  business  mien  of  Seattle,  and  in  trade  cir- 
cles he  is  an  important  factor.  He  is  public  spirited  and  thoroughly  inter- 
ested in  whatever  tends  to  promote  the  moral,  intellectual  and  material  wel- 
fare of  the  city,  and  is  numbered  among  its  valued  and  honored  citizens. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Lee  was  celebrated  on  the  24th  of  February.  1896, 
when  Miss  Elizabeth  Paddock  became  his  wife.      She  is  a  native  of  the  Golden 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  By 

slate,  her  Ijirth  occurring  in  San  t  rancisco,  where  her  mother,  Mrs.  Nathaniel 
C.  Paddock,  is  now  residing.  Two  children  have  Ijeen  born  of  this  union, — • 
IJeatrice  E.  and  Edith  C.  Mr.  and  2\'irs.  Lee  are  members  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  and  he  is  also  idenlified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  exemplifying  its 
beneficent  principles  in  his  every  day  life.  He  also  holds  membership  relations 
with  the  National  Union  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  LTnited  Workmen.  Li  po- 
litical matters  he  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  been  a 
seeker  for  political  preferment,  choosing  rather  to  give  his  undivided  time  to 
lis  business  interests. 

ELMER  E.  CAINE. 

Prominently  connected  with  the  shipj)ing  interests  of  the  great  north- 
west, Elmer  E.  Caine  makes  his  home  in  Seattle,  where  he  superintends  his 
extensive  business  interests  as  the  president  of  the  Pacific  Clipper  Line.  Na- 
ture has  made  this  portion  of  America  rich  in  resources,  l)ut  it  remains  for 
man  to  utilize  these,  and  one  of  the  most  important  elements  in  the  business 
development  of  any  section  is  transportation  facilities,  whereby  products  and 
manufactures  niay  be  sent  to  markets.  The  gold  fields  of  Alaska,  which  are 
being*  so  largely  worked  at  the  present  time,  have  made  a  demand  for  means 
of  transporting  passengers  and  freight  to  and  from  that  country,  and  it  is 
to  this  enterprise  that  Mr.  Caine  is  now  giving  his  attention,  his  splendid 
business  ability  and  executive  force  being  manifest  in  his  capable  control  of 
the  vessels  Avhich  now  constitute  tlie  Pacific  Clipper  Line. 

]Mr.  Caine  is  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  h.is  Ijirth  having  occurred  at  White 
Lake,  near  Muskegon,  on  the  31st  of  May,  1863.  He  is  a  son  of  Alfred  A. 
Caine,  who  was  descended  in  the  maternal  line  from  one  of  the  Harpers  of 
rlie  famous  family  of  that  name  at  Harpersburg,  New  York.  The  father 
was  a  man  of  considerable  means.  After  leaving  school  Elmer  E.  Caine 
v/ent  to  Chicago,  Illinois,  where  he  was  employed  in  a  notion  house  for  four 
years.  He  afterward  went  with  the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroad  Company, 
accepting  the  position  of  passenger  agent  at  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  and 
spending  three  years  in  that  city.  In  1889  he  arrived  at  Seattle,  where  he 
became  connected  with  the  steamboat  business  on  his  own  account  as  the 
senior  member  of  the  firm  of  E.  E.  Caine  &  Company,  operating  freight  and 
lug  boats  on  the  Sound.  He  carried  this  on  until  he  organized  the  Pacific 
Clipper  Line  in  1898,  for  the  Alaska  trade.  The  company  owns  some  of  its 
own  vessels,  but  is  mostly  acting  as  agent  for  other  owners.  They  reach 
Skagway,  Cape  Nome  and  other  Alaska  points  during  the  summer  season. 


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In  1890  they  built  the  steamer  G.  A\'.  Dickinson,  with  a  capacity  of  sixteen 
hundred  tons,  which  has  since  been  sold  to  the  g-o\-ernment  for  one  hundred 
and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The  company  has  also  built  two  sailing  vessels, 
of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  ^■alue,  -which  were  completed  in  1901.  They 
now  operate  ten  vessels  in  the  Alaska  trade  and  receive  a  liberal  patronage, 
so  that  the  business,  while  provmg  a  profitable  source  of  income  to  the  stock- 
holders, is  also  of  the  g'reatest  value  as  a  means  of  advancing"  the  develop- 
ment and  progress  of  the  extreme  northwest. 

Captain  Caine  is  a  man  of  resourceful  business  ability,  enterprising  and 
far-sighted,  and  in  addition  to  controlling  his  navigation  interests,  he  has 
made  judicious  investments  in  real  estate  in  Seattle.  He  has  erected  a  num- 
ber of  residences,  now  owning'  nine  or  ten  good  properties  of  that  class,  and 
in  addition  has  other  city  realty. 

The  Captain  was  married  in  ^Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  to  Miss  Minnie 
A.  Roberts,  and  they  ha\'e  an  attractive  home  in  Seattle,  ^^hicll  is  celebrated 
for  its  gracious  hospitality.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  as  one  of  its  life  members.  A  man  of  great 
natural  ability,  his  success  in  business  from  the  beginning  of  his  residence 
in  Seattle  has  been  uniform  and  rapid.  He  possesses  untiring  energy,  forms 
his  plans  readil}'^  and  is  determined  in  their  execution,  and  has  demonstrated 
the  truth  of  the  saying  that  success  is  !iot  a  matter  of  genius,  but  the  outcome 
of  clear  judgment  and  experience. 

FRIDOLIN   \\TLHELM. 

More  than  a  third  of  a  century  has  passed  since  Mr.  \\'ilhelm  came  to 
what  was  then  the  .erritory  of  Washington,  arriving  here  in  the  year  1866. 
The  previous  year  he  had  made  his  way  to  California  by  the  Isthmus  of 
Panama  route.  He  was  bora  in  Germany  on  the  14th  of  September,  1841, 
and  came  of  good  German  Catholic  parentage,  his  father  being  Nathan 
Wilhelm.  He  w^as  a  farmer,  following  that  occupation  throughout  his 
entire  life.  He  reared  a  family  of  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters. 
He  lived  to  be  eighty-four  years  of  age.  His  wife,  however,  had  passed 
away  'ten  years  prior  to  his  death. 

Mr.  Wilhelm  was  educated  in  b.is  native  country  and  there  learned  the 
cabinet  maker's  trade.  In  1858,  when  he  had  attained  his  eighteenth  year, 
he  left  the  land  of  his  birth  for  he  had  heard  favorable  reports  concerning 
America,  its  opportunities  for  improvements  and  for  progress.  He  sailed 
for  New  Orleans,  his  father  furnishing  him  the  money  to  pay  his  passage 


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west,  enabling  him  to  make  a  start  in  the  land  of  the  free.  Proceeding 
northward  he  traveled  to  Kentucky  and  there  worked  at  the  cabinet  maker's 
trade.  He  then  went  to  Cincinnati  and  went  to  public  school  one  winter. 
On  the  I  St  of  July,  1863,  the  great  need  of  the  country  for  volunteers  caused 
him  to  enlist  in  Battery  E  of  the  United  States  army,  becoming  a  member 
of  the  Ninth  Army  Corps.  He  was  in  the  three  days'  battle  of  the  Wil- 
derness and  was  in  many  engagements,  including  the  assault  on  Fort  Sand- 
ers and  in  Campbell's  station  in  east  Tennessee.  After  Lee's  surrender  he 
proceeded  with  his  command  to  Washington  and  participated  in  the  grand 
review  in  that  city  when  the  victorious  Union  troops  marched  before  the 
stand  upon  which  the  President  of  the  United  States  watched  his  returning 
army.  He  never  received  a  wound  but  had  suffered  with  disease,  having 
been  afflicted  with  yellow  fever.  A  part  of  the  time  he  acted  as  a  wagoner 
and  was  in  the  quartermaster's  employ.  At  length  he  received  an  hon- 
orable discharge  from  the  regular  army  in  1868  at  San  Juan  Island,  near 
Washington  territory. 

As  stated,  Mr.  Wilhelm  made  his  way  to  the  Pacific  coast  in  the  year 
1865,  and  in  1866  came  to  the  territory.  After  receiving  his  discharge  from 
military  service  he  settled  at  Seattle  and  began  working  at  the  carpenter  and 
builder's  trade.  In  1876  he  built  his  first  home  in  the  city,  on  the  lot  where 
he  now  has  an  attractive  residence.  No.  622  Fifth  avenue.  It  was  in  the 
same  year  that  he  was  united  in  marriage*  to  IVliss  Regina  Bolhert,  a  native 
of  Germany.  Their  family  comprises  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of 
whom  were  born  in  Seattle.  These  are:  John  H.,  Frank  Joseph,  Frita 
A.,  and  Ann  Regina.  Mrs.  Wilhelm  is  a  member  of  the  Catholic  church. 
Mr.  Wilhelm  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  to 
the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  and  in  his  political  views  is  a  Republi- 
can, having  firm  faith  in  the  principles  and  tenets  of  the  party.  He  has 
taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  building  of  Seattle  and  has  here  a  good  brick 
store  and  other  property.  He  has  wisely  invested  his  means  and  the 
judicious  placing  of  his  money  has  brought  him  a  good  financial  return. 
He  is  a  man  of  intelligence  and  ability  and  one  of  the  valued  citizens  that 
Germany  has  furnished  to  Washington. 

GEORGE  B.  LAMPING. 

A  new  chapter  has  been  written  and  added  to  the  history  of  the  United 
States  within  the  past  few  years  and  it  is  one  which  reflects  credit  upon  the 
country  and  her  annals.      It  shows  her  military  and  naval  strength  and  has 

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gained  her  a  prominent  place  among  tlie  great  powers  of  the  world.  His- 
tory is  never  the  work  of  one  or  even  a  few  men,  but  is  the  aggregate  en- 
deavor of  many  who  work  in  unison  with  a  single  purpose  and  aim.  George 
B.  Lamping"  is  among  the  number  contributing  to  the  new  record,  for  he 
>vas  a  loyal  soldier  during"  the  Spanish-American  war  and  in  the  Philippines 
faithfully  upheld  the  honor  of  the  starry  banner  that  had  been  planted  on 
foreign  soil. 

A  native  of  Spencer  county,  Indiana,  he  was  born  on  the  20th  of  ]\Iarch, 
1875,  and  is  of  German,  English  and  Scotch  lineage.  At  an  early  date  in 
the  development  of  this  land  the  Lamping  family  was  established  in  Penn- 
sylvania, our  subject  being  of  the  fourth  generation  born  in  this  country. 
His  father,  Samuel  W.  Lamping,  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  whence  he  re- 
moved to  southern  Indiana  and  was  there  married  to  Miss  IVIary  E.  Butler, 
a  native  of  Grandview,  that  state.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged 
in  business  as  a  commission  merchant  and  in  1890  he  came  to  Seattle  as  special 
agent  for  the  United  States  land  department.  In  politics  he  was  a  stalwart 
Republican  and  was  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  war  who  served  the  Union  as  a 
lieutenant-colonel  in  the  Fifty-second  Indiana  Regiment  at  the  time  the  coun- 
try was  imperilled  by  the  spirit  of  secession  in  the  south.  He  was  with  Gen- 
eral Sherman  on  the  celebrated  march,  to  the  sea  which  showed  that  the  mili- 
tary force  of  the  Confederacy  was  almost  exhausted.  He  escaped  injury, 
returning  in  safety  to  his  liome  a'fter  rendering  his  country  valuable  service, 
in  his  religious  views  he  was  a  Methodist  and  departed  this  life  in  that  faith 
in  1893.  His  wife  now  resides  in  Seattle,  respected  by  all  who  know  her. 
Six  children  were  born  unto  them  and  all  are  living  upon  the  Pacific  coast; 
Evart,  who  is  the  cashier  of  the  German  Insurance  agency  in  San  Francisco; 
L.  F.,  a  special  insurance  agent  at  Portland,  Oregon;  Clifton,  a  teller  in  the 
Boston  National  Bank  of  Seattle;  Samuel,  who  is  deputy  auditor  of  King 
county  under  his  brother,  George;  Frederick,  who  is  attending  school  in 
Seattle;  and  Anna,  also  a  student. 

George  B.  Lamping  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  state  and  at  the  age  of  fifteen  accompanied  his  parents  to  W^ashing- 
ton,  where  he  completed  his  literary  course  in  the  university  of  the  state.' 
For  a  time  he  occupied  the  position  of  bookkeeper  in  the  Puget  Sound  Na- 
tional Bank  of  Seattle,  but  when  the  war  with  Spain  was  declared  he  put 
aside  business  and  personal  interests,  offering  his  services  to  the  govern- 
ment. He  was  appointed  second  lieutenant  of  Company  D,  First  Washing- 
ton Volunteer  Infantry,  and  served  throughout  the  war  with  Spain  and  in  the 
Philippines.      He  ^^•as  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  Eleventh  United 


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States 'Cavalry,  and  because  of  meritorious  conduct  was  commended  by  Gen- 
eral Otis  and  General  L.awton.  He  also  served  on  the  staff  of  the  latter. 
Since  returning  from  the  v;ar  he  has  been  appointed  liteutenant-colonel  of 
the  First  Regiment  of  the  Washington  National  Guard,  since  which  time  he 
has  been  promoted  to  colonel,  with  headquarters  at  Seattle.  In  November, 
1900,  he  was  elected  to  his  present  office  as  county  auditor  and  recorder  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  receiving  the  largest  majority  ever  given  to  any  candidate 
for  an  office  in  the  county,  running  fifteen  hundred  votes  ahead  of  his  ticket. 
He  is  the  youngest  man  that  has  ever  held  a  county  or  state  office  in  Wash- 
ington, now  having  charge  of  the  business  connected  with  the  position  in  a 
county  containing  one  hundred  and  eighty  thousand  inhabitants.  He  has 
under  his  direction  thirty  clerks.  He  was  not  long  in  demonstrating  that  the 
trust  reposed  in  him  was  well  placed,  for  his  ability,  keen  discrimination, 
sound  judgment  and  executive  force  would  do  credit  to  the  administration 
of  a  man  many  years  his  senior.  Colonel  Lamping  is  connected  with  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  as  a  citizen  and  a  soldier  he  has 
made  a  most  praiseworthy  record,  his  life  work  well  deserving  a  place  in  the 
histoi*y  of  his  adopted  county. 

LOUIS  HENRY  GRAY. 

The  above  named,  who  is  no\v  actively  engaged  as  traffic  agent  of  the 
Pollard  Steamship  Company  and  in  the  shipping  and  commission  business  at 
Seattle,  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania  and  of  Scotch  and  German  ancestry. 
Plis  paternal  great-grandfather  emigrated  from  Scotland  to  the  new  world, 
settling  on  the  Hudson  not  far  from  Tro}^,  New^  York.  Henry  Gray, 
the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  there  and  was  one  of  the 
first  men  connected  with  the  operating"  and  mechanical  departments  of 
the  old  New  York  &  New  Haven  Railroad  in  the  days  wdien  wooden  rails 
were  used.  In  his  religious  belief  he  was  a  Presbyterian,  and  living-  an  up- 
right life  he  attained  the  age  of  seventy  years.  His  son,  Theodore  Gray,  the 
father  of  our  subject,  was  bcrn  in  Troy,  New  York,  in  1832,  and  married 
Miss  Anna  Sourbeck,  whose  birth  occurred  in  Mechan.icsburg,  Pennsylvania, 
and  who  was  of  German  ancestry,  although  for  generations  her  people  had 
been  residents  of  this  country.  Her  father,  George  W.  Sourbeck,  was  on  the 
engineer  corps  in  the  construction  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  in  the  bridge 
department.  After  his  marriage  Theodore  Gray  resided  in  Allegheny  city 
for  about  twenty  years  and  was  employed  in  the  operating  department  of  the 


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Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company.  He  was  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school 
and  a  personal  friend  of  the  late  President  William  McKinley.  Removing 
to  Chicago.  Illinois,  Mr.  Gray  there  continued  in  the  mechanical  department 
of  railroading  and  as  an  expert  on  ice  making  machinery  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  died  at  East  Brewster,  Cape  Cod,  Massachusetts,  August  i,  1902. 
His  good  wife  survives  and  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church. 
They  had  but  two  children,  the  daughter  being  the  wife  of  Captain  E.  G. 
Brooks,  of  the  United  States  Regular  service. 

The  son,  Louis  Henry  Gray,  was  born  at  Allegheny  city,  October  4, 
J  859,  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Newell  Institute  in  the  class  of  1878.  He  then  left  home  for  Wyoming, 
where  for  three  years  he  was  actively  engaged  in  stock-raising.  He  made 
money  rapidly  there  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period  sold  out  and  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  where  he  opened  a  men's  furnishing  goods  store  and  did 
a  successful  business  for  two  years.  He  then  disposed  of  his  store  and 
became  a  resident  of  New  York  city,  where  he  accepted  a  position  as- special 
agent  with  the  Trunk  Line  Association,  and  after  a  year  was  transferred  to 
tlie  Central  Traffic  Association  at  Chicago.  His  connection  with  that  busi- 
ness lasted  seven  years,  and  he  w-as  then  given  the  position  of  contracting 
agent  of  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  Company  at  Seattle,  arriving  in  this 
state  in  1894.  After  nine  months  he  was  promoted  to  the  general  agency  of 
the  company  at  Seattle,  \\'hich  position  he  later  resigned  to  accept  that  of 
general  traffic  manager  of  the  famous  White  Pass  and  Yukon  Railroad 
Company.  After  continuing  in  that  capacity  for  a  year,  according  to  the 
terms  of  his  contract,  he  severed  his  connection  in  order  to  engage  in  an  in- 
dependent venture,  turning  his  attention  to  the  shipping'  and  commission 
business,  in  which  he  is  meeting  with  marked  success.  His  business  activity 
in  the  northwest  has  extended  to  other  lines  and  he  is  now  a  stockholder  in 
several  steamships  and  sailing  vessels. 

In  1893  ^'^^'-  Gray  was  united  in  marriage  with  ]\Iiss  Halcon,  daughter 
of  John  Robertson,  of  Jamestown,  New  York.  The  latter  was  formerly  one 
of  the  most  prominent  oil  operators  in  Pennsylvania,  also  served  as  sheriff 
of  Chautauqua  county.  New  York,  for  a  number  of  years,  and  died  in  1891. 
The  Robertson  family  was  of  Scotch  lineage,  but  through  many  generations 
its  representatives  have  been  connected  with  this  country.  Mrs.  Gray  is  an 
active  and  valued  member  of  the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Ladies'  Relief  So- 
ciety of  Seattle  and  is  now  serving  as  its  chairman.  She  is  also  chairman  of 
the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Charity  Organization  Society  of  this  city  and  oi 
the  Advisory  Board  of  the  Seattle  Day  Nursery,  taking  a  deep  interest  in  the 


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little  orphan  children.  Her  philanthropy  and  her  benevolences  have  made 
her  a  valued  friend  to  many  unfortunate  people.  She  belongs  to  St.  Mark's 
Episcopal  church  and  in  her  life  exemplifies  the  true  spirit  of  Christianity. 
Mr.  Gray  has  attained  a  high  rank  in  Masonic  circles,  having  taken  the 
Knights  Templar  degree  and  the  Scottish  Rite,  up  to  and  including  the  thirty - 
second  degree.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  and  in  politics  is  a 
Republican.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gray  have  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  Seattle 
and  the  hospitality  of  the  best  homes  is  extended  to  them.  In  business  Mr. 
Gray  has  attained  very  creditable  and  honorable  success,  and  those  who  have 
been  associated  with  him  and  are  fully  conversant  with  his  life  and  his  business 
niethods  speak  of  him  in  terms  of  highest  praise,  considering  him  as  one  of  the 
best  posted  traffic  men  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

TIMOTHEUS  JOSENHANS. 

Among  the  leading  business  men  of  .Seattle  who  have  been  prominently 
identified  with  the  upbuilding  of  that  city  is  numbered  Timotheus  Josenhans, 
the  senior  member  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Josenhans  &  Allan,  architects, 
with  office  at  74  and  75  Hinckley  Block.  Here  he  has  made  his  home  since 
1888.  He  was  born  near  Stuttgart,  in  the  province  of  Wurtemberg,  Ger- 
many, on  the  nth  of  October,  1853,  and  is  a  son  of  Jonathan  Josenhans, 
who  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  that  country  until  1855,  when 
he  brought  his  family  to  the  United  States  and  settled  on  a  farm  that  is  no\\' 
within  the  corporate  limits  of  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan.  There  he  continues 
to  make  his  home,  being  now  eighty-six  years  of  age,  while  his  wife,  who 
bore  the  maiden  name  of  Charlotte  Weigle,  is  about  eighty  years  old.  Unto 
them  were  born  twelve  children,  seven  sons  and  five  daughters. 

The  early  education  of  our  subject,  acquired  in  the  public  schools  of 
Michigan,  was  supplemented  by  a  course  at  Ann  Arbor  University,  where 
he  was  graduated  in  the  civil  engineering  department  in  1878.  He  also 
took  up  the  study  of  architecture  under  W.  L.  B.  Jenny,  now  of  Chicago. 
On  the  completion  of  his  education  he  taught  German  in  the  public  schools 
of  McGregor,  Iowa,  for  a  year,  and  then  went  to  New  Mexico,  becoming 
connected  with  the  engineering  corps  in  the  construction  of  the  Atlantic  & 
Pacific  Railroad.  After  a  year  and  a  half  he  was  forced  to  leave  the  territory 
on  account  of  ill  health  and  went  to  San  Diego,  California,  where  he  became 
interested  in  the  construction  of  the  California  Southern  Railwav,  from  that 
place  to  San  Bernardino,  and  was  with  that  company  until  the  completion 
of  the  road.     Riverside  was  just  being  laid  out  at  that  time. 


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On  leaving  California  Mr.  Josenhans  went  to  Portland,  Oregon,  and 
entered  upon  his  career  as  an  architect  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Sherwin,  an 
English  architect,  with  whom  he  remained  until  the  latter's  death.  He  was 
next  with  \V,  H.  Williams,  the  most  prominent  architect  of  the  city,  and 
since  then  he  has  been  connected  with  architectural  work  rather  than  engi- 
neering except  when  he  had  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  West  Point 
light  house  in  King  county.  Being  pleased  with  this  section  of  the  country, 
lie  located  at  Seattle  in  the  spring  of  1888,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  as 
foreman  by  H.  Steinman.  Three  years  later  he  started  in  business  on  his 
own  account,  and  at  the  end  of  two  years  entered  into  partnership  with 
James  Stephen,  a  connection  which  continued  until  the  latter  went  to  Alaska 
in  1895.  During  the  following  two  years  Mr.  Josenhans  was  again  alone  in 
business,  but  in  1897  formed  his  present  partnership  with  Norris  B.  Allan. 
Among  the  many  important  public  buildings  and  residences  he  has  erected 
may  be  mentioned  the  administration  building  and  dormitory  of  the  Agri- 
cultural College,  and  he  is  now  putting  up  two  other  buildings  for  the  samie 
institution — one  the  gymnasium  and  armory,  the  other  the  chemistry  build- 
ing. He  also  erected  two  dormitories  for  the  State  University  and  is  now 
building  the  science  hall  and  power  house  for  that  college.  He  built  the  fine 
residences  of  Alden  J.  Blethen,  Jr.,  at  the  corner  of  Highland  Drive  and 
Fifth  avenue  west;  that  of  Rev.  Wallace  Nutting,  now  owned  by  Mary  M. 
Miller;  the  homes  of  A.  M.  Cadien  and  P.  L.  Runkle;  and  a  double  house 
for  A.  Hancock.  While  with  Mr.  Steinman  he  also  designed  many  of  the 
warehouses  of  Seattle,  the  power  houses  for  the  cable  and  electric  railways, 
and  many  blocks  that  are  now  standing,  besides  numerous  buildings  that 
were  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  that  swept  over  the  city  in  1889. 

On  the  15th  of  May,  1889,  Mr.  Josenhans  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Emma  L.  Parsons,  who  was  born  in  Sivas,  Asia  Minor,  where  her 
parents  were  missionaries  at  the  time,  but  she  was  educated  at  Ann  Arbor, 
?\Iichigan.  Her  father.  Rev.  Benjamin  Parsons,  was  a  native  of  New  Jersey. 
His  son,  Henr}^  Parsons,  who  was  also  born  in  Sivas,  became  a  noted  chem- 
ist and  was  connected  with  the  agricultural  department  at  Washington,  D.  C. 
Later  he  was  a  professor  at  Ann  Arbor  University.  Charles  Parsons,  an- 
other son,  is  editor  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Era  of  New  York,  published  by 
D.  O.  Haynes,  of  the  Commercial  Advertiser,  who  was  a  classmate  of  our 
subject  while  in  college.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Josenhans  have  two  children:  Sarah 
Charlotte  and  Margaret  Parsons.  The  family  have  a  pleasant  home  in 
Seattle  which  has  been  remodeled  and  greatly  improved  since  it  came  into 
possession  of  our  subject.     They  hold  membership  in  the  Plymouth  Con- 


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gregational  church  and  have  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  in 
their  adopted  city. 

Politically  Mr.  Josenhans  generally  affiliates  with  the  Republican  party, 
but  at  local  elections  votes  independently  of  party  lines,  supporting  the  men 
whom  he  believes  best  qualified  for  office.  He  served  as  building  inspector 
for  a  year  and  a  half  and  then  resigned.  He  occupies  an  enviable  position  in 
business  circles,  Avhere  his  true  worth  is  widely  recognized.  He  is  a  man  of 
strong  force  of  character,  purposeful  and  energetic,  and  keen  discrimination 
and  sound  judgment  are  shown  in  the  capable  management  of  his  business 
affairs. 

CARL  HOFFMAN,  M.  D. 

Dr.  Carl  Hoffman  is  one  of  the  younger  men  of  Seattle  who  has  be- 
come firmly  established  in  the  medical  profession  here  as  one  of  its  ablest 
representatives  and  is  also  well  known  in  the  musical  circles  of  the  city,  his 
talent  in  this  regard  rendering  him  a  favorite  among  the  music  lovers.  The 
Doctor  is  a  native  of  Illinois,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Washington,  near 
the  city  of  Peoria,  in  1872.  His  father,  A.  G.  Hoffman,  who  is  now  re- 
siding in  Omaha,  Nebraska,  was  born  in  Germany  and  when  twenty  years 
of  age  came  to  America.  He  has  been  engaged  in  business  in  Illinois  and  in 
Florida  and  for  fifteen  years  has  been  connected  with  the  business  interests 
of  Omaha.  He  was  married  in  Illinois  to  Miss  Sarah  Kelso,  who  is  of  Scotch 
descent,  members  of  the  family  having  come  from  Scotland  to  this  country 
prior  to  1700.  The  Doctor  is  the  elder  of  two  sons  born  unto  his  parents, 
his  brother  being  now  a  resident  of  St.  Louis. 

In  the  schools  of  his  native  state  Dr.  Hoffman  began  his  education, 
which  was  continued  in  Florida,  to  which  state  he  accompanied  his  parents 
when  fourteen  years  of  age.  As  there  were  no  good  pul)lic  schools  there  he 
was  instructed  by  private  tutors  while  in  the  south,  afterward  attended 
Creighton  University,  in  Omaha,  and  subsequently  took  up  the  study  of  medi- 
cine there,  having  formed  a  desire  to  make  its  practice  his  life  work.  That 
this  step  was  wisely  taken  is  proven  by  the  success  which  has  since  attended 
his  efforts  in  the  medical  field.  He  was  graduated  in  the  John  A.  Creighton 
Medical  College  with  the  class  of  1896,  and  subsequently  opened  an  office  in 
Omaha,  beginning  practice  alone.  After  a  year  he  removed  to  Moscow, 
Idaho,  from  which  place  he  came  to  this  city.  He  was  called  here  in  con- 
sultation and  was  so  pleased  with  the  city  and  its  prospects  that  he  deter- 
mined to  locate  here.     Accordingly  he  returned  to  Moscow,  closed  out  his 


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business  there  and  in  the  course  of  six  weeks  was  estabHshed  in  his  office 
here.  From  the  beginning  he  has  enjoyed  a  good  practice  in  both  medicine 
and  surgery.  He  is  continuahy  reading  in  order  to  broaden  his  understand- 
ing of  the  human  system  and  its  needs  in  health  and  disease,  and  the  profes- 
sion as  well  as  the  public  accords  to  him  a  prominent  place  in  the  calling 
which  he  has  chosen  as  a  life  worl^.  He  is  now  the  physician  for  the  county 
jail,  and  in  addition,  to  this  he  has  a  large  private  practice. 

Dr.  Hoffman  was  married  in  Omaha,  in  November,  1896,  to  Aliss 
Ina,  a  daughter  of  H.  B.  Kennedy,  of  that  city,  and  they  have  one  son,  Carl. 
The  Doctor  is  a  Republican  in  politics  but  takes  no  active  part  in  political 
work.  He  belongs  to  the  Bene\'olent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  in 
the  line  of  his  profession  is  identified  vrith  the  King  County  Medical  Asso- 
ciation, the  Washington  State  Medical  Association  and  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association.  Both  the  Doctor  and  his  wife  are  prominent  and  popular 
in  musical  circles  and  both  possess  considerable  ability  in  the  art.  The  Doc- 
tor possesses  a  fine  bass  voice  and  has  studied  in  Omaha  and  Seattle  and  also 
under  W.  H.  Niedlinge,  a  successful  composer  and  teacher.  He  and  his  wife, 
together  with  Professor  F.  W.  Zimmerman  and  Aliss  Alamie  Grove,  have 
given  some  very  delightful  and  successful  concerts  here  and  have  rendered 
some  of  the  finest  operas  in  a  manner  superior  to  anything  ever  given  in 
Seattle.  The  Doctor  has  also  done  considerable  in  church  choir  work.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Trinity  Parish  church  choir  and  has  also  sung  in  St. 
Mark's  church.  Aside  from  music,  fishing  is  his  chief  source  of  recreation 
from  the  arduous  demands  of  a  profession,  which  is  making  greater  and 
greater  claims  upon  his  time,  but  whose  successful  practice  has  given  him 
standing  among  the  foremost  representatives  of  medical  science  in  the  city. 

ERASMUS  M.  SMITHERS. 

The  gentleman  whose  life  history  we  now  take  briefly  under  re\"iew 
has  the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  of  the  Pacific  coast 
and  the  founder  of  the  attractive  and  thriving  little  city  of  Renton,  King 
county,  Washington,  since  he  settled  on  the  land  where  the  town  is  now 
located  in  1853,  his  farm  being  fifteen  miles  distant  from  what  is  now  the 
great  city  of  Seattle,  while  at  the  time  of  his  location  here  there  was  not 
a  white  settler  other  than  himself  at  a  point  nearer  than  the  city  mentioned, 
which  was  then  a  mere  frontier  settlement.  In  a  retrospecti\'e  way  those 
of  the  present  generation  may  gain  from  the  narratives  and  reminiscences 
of  Mr.  Smithers  an  idea  of  the  wonderful  transitions  that  have  taken  place 


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since  he  first  located  in  what  is  now  a  great  and  opulent  state,  and  it  is  a 
satisfaction  to  here  enter  a  perpetual  record  concerning  the  life  and  labors 
of  this  honored  pioner,  though  the  limitations  of  this  publication  will  not 
justify  the  entering  into  the  manifold  details  of  his  experiences,  though  the 
record  could  not  fail  to  prove  of  interest. 

Erasmus  M.  Smithers  is  a  native  of  Virginia,  where  he  was  born  on 
the  17th  of  February,  1830,  the  family  being  of  English  origin  and  rep- 
resentatives of  the  name  having  been  numbered  among  the  early  settlers 
in  Virginia  and  North  Carolina.  His  father,  Samuel  Smithers,  was  like- 
wise born  in  Virginia,  and  there  he  married  a  Miss  Hale,  also  a  represen- 
tative of  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  great  commonwealth,  where  was 
cradled  so  much  of  our  national  history.  The  father  was  a  planter  and 
was  a  man  of  strong  mentality  and  sterling  character,  both  he  and  his 
estimable  wife  having  passed  their  entire  lives  in  Virginia.  Erasmus  M. 
was  reared  to  maturity  in  Virginia  and  his  early  education  was. very  limited 
in  scope.  He  has,  however,  gained  the  valuable  lessons  of  experience 
through  personal  application  and  through  active  association  with  the  prac- 
tical affairs  of  life,  being  thus  self-educated,  even  as  he  is  the  architect  of 
his  own  fortunes.  When  nineteen  years  of  age  he  left  the  old  home  and 
set  forth  to  l3ecome  one  of  the  venturesome  and  intrepid  pioneers  of  the 
great  west.  It  may  be  said  that  he  had  no  intention  of  coming  through  to 
Oregon,  his  starting  forth  on  the  long  journey  being  largely  a  matter  of 
accident,  as  a  friend  had  informed  him  that  two  young  ladies  were  about 
to-  start  for  this  section  with  a  company,  and  that  one  of  the  members  of 
the  party  desired  to  secure  the  services  of  a  young  man  to  aid  him  during 
the  journey  across  the  plains.  The  information  thus,  conveyed  indirectly 
led  Mr.  Smithers  to  have  an  interview  with  the  man  mentioned,  Green 
Olds,  who  was  a  brother  of  the  captain  of  the  company.  Our  subject  was 
at  that  time  a  slender  youth,  his  appearance  not  indicating  that  he  could 
endure  much  hardship,  and  after  looking  him  over  Mr.  Olds  stated  that 
he  did  not  want  him.  Mr.'  Smithers  then  asked  what  he  would  charge  to. 
take  him  along  with  the  company,  and  upon  a  price  of  fifty  dollars  being 
set  he  immediately  accepted  the  proposition.  On  the  8th  of  May,  1852, 
the  company,  with  twenty  wagons  drawn  by  ox  teams,  started  on  the  long 
and  perilous  journey,  Mr.  Smithers  doing  no  active  work  on  the  start,  as 
he  had  paid  for  his  passage,  but  he  soon  grew  weary  of  his  inactivity  and 
began  to  assist  in  the  work  incidental  to  the  trip  and  proved  not  only  his 
endurance  but  his  marked  facility  in  discharging  the  duties  which  he  vol- 
untarily  assumed.      While  enroute   they   encountered    many   vast   herds    of 


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buffalo,  and  our  subject  killed  a  number  of  these  noble  beasts  and  other 
game,  with  which  to  supply  the  larder  of  the  party.  That  was  a  year  of 
extensive  emigration,  and  many  died  of  cholera  while  making  their  way 
to  the  far  west,  but  the  company  of  which  Mr.  Smithers  was  a  member 
fortunately  escaped  the  ravages  of  this  scourge.  When  ■  fifteen  miles  west 
of  Omaha,  Nebraska,  a  large  band  of  Indians  met  them  at  a  bridge  and 
demanded  a  payment  of  one  dollar  a  wagon  before  they  passed  on.  The 
captain  refused  to  pay,  and  drove  his  team  across  the  bridge,  and  as  Mr. 
Olds  hesitated,  fearing  results,  our  subject  took  the  whip  and  drove  the 
wagon  across,  this  having  been  the  second  to  make  the  attempt,  and  the 
oxen  in  the  lead  was  seized  by  one  of  the  Indians,  who  held  it  by  the  horn 
until  he  was  felled  with  a  whip.  The  savages  gave  the  war  cry,  greatly 
frightening  the  women  of  the  party,  but  the  men  showed  their  determina- 
tion to  fight  and  the  Indians  finally  withdrew,  though  they  continued  to 
follow  the  party  for  three  or  four  days,  rendering  it  necessary  to  main- 
tain a  guard  every  night.  During  the  last  of  the  trip  Mr.  Olds  was  ill, 
and  Mr.  Smithers  made  himself  very  useful  and  helpful,  a  strong  friend- 
ship being  thus  cemented.  Our  subject  has  lost  trace  of  his  old-time  friend, 
whom  he  pronounces  one  of  the  best  men  he  has  ever  known,  and  he  ex- 
presses the  wish  that  this  tribute  be  incorporated  in  this  article,  hoping 
that  Mr.  Olds  is  still  living  and  that  this  acknowledgment  of  his  kindness 
may  come  to  his  vision.  Six  months  were  consumed  in  making  the  trip 
from  Iowa  City  to  The  Dalles,  Oregon,  from  which  point  they  continued 
their  way  to  Portland,  where  Mr.  Smithers  secured  employment  in  con- 
nection with  the  building  of  a  mill.  In  April,  1853,  he  came  to  Seattle, 
and  here  secured  employment  in  getting  out  piles,  which  were  shipped  to 
San  Francisco.  He  brought  with  him  from  Portland  three  yoke  of  cattle, 
and  with  these  he  hauled  the  first  logs  that  were  used  in  the  building  of 
Fort  Madison  mill.  When  the  Indian  war  of  1855  broke  out  he  volunteered 
for  service,  and  continued  a  member  of  the  volunteer  militia  until  1856, 
having  rendered  valuable  assistance  in  the  protection  of  the  lives  and  prop- 
erty of  the  pioneer  settlers. 

In  November,  1857,  Mr.  Smithers  was  united  in  marriag-e  to  Mrs. 
Diana  Tobin,  a  native  of  Maine,  and  shortly  after  this  important  event  in 
his  life  he  came  to  his  present  location,  taking  up  homestead  and  donation 
claims  and  securing  a  total  of  four  hundred  and  eighty  acres.  At  the  time 
he  came  here  five  hundred  or  more  Indians  were  encamped  near,  engaged 
in  fishing.  The  land  was  a  veritable  wilderness,  and  the  nearest  white 
neighbors  were  at  Seattle,  fifteen  miles  distant,  as  has  already  been  noted. 


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He  and  his  young  wife  were  without  a  dollar  when  they  established  their 
home  in  the  primitive  wilds,  the  land  being  covered  with  a  dense  growth  of 
trees  and  vines.  They  built  a  little  shack,  which  constituted  their  home 
during  the  first  years  of  their  happy  married  life,  and  there  their  children 
were  born.  Their  son,  Edward  M.,  is  now  the  superintendent  of  the  shoe 
department  of  the  company  store  at  Roslyn,  and  the  daughter,  Ada,  who 
]S  the  widow  of  Robert  L.  Thorn,  is  living  at  the  parental  home,  as  are 
also  her  four  children, — Robert  Maxwell,  Herbert  E.,  Jeanette  and  Vivian. 
Mr.  Smithers  is  now  passing  the  evening  of  his  useful  and  honorable  life 
in  an  attractive  and  commodious  residence  which  he  erected  in  1875,  and 
is  enjoying  that  independence  and  freedom  from  care  which  is  the  just 
reward  for  his  earnest  and  indefatigable  industry  during  a  long,  active  and 
worthy  life.  The  city  of  Renton  is  located  on  a  portion  of  the  land  which 
he  secured  from  the  government  in  the  early  days  and  which  he  has  brought 
under  a  fine  state  of  improvement.  He  platted  the  town  and  placed  the 
lots  on  the  market,  and  it  has  been  a  great  pleasure  and  satisfaction  to 
him  to  witness  the  development  and  progress  of  the  city  of  which  he  was 
the  founder  and  in  whose  affairs  he  has  maintained  a  lively  interest.  He 
also  discovered  the  deposit  of  coal  here  and  inaugurated  the  w^ork  of  de- 
velopment, finally  disposing  of  the  mine  at  a  figure  which  insures  him  in- 
dependence for  the  residue  of  his  life. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  Mr.  Smithers  began  life  in  the  woods 
of  Washington  as  a  poor  man,  such  was  his  reputation  for  honor  and  in- 
tegrity that  he  received  necessary  accommodations  from  merchants  who 
refused  credit  to  others,  and  his  life  has  been  ever  directed  upon  a  high 
plane  of  rectitude,  so  that  he  commands  unqualified  confidence  and  esteem 
in  the  state  of  which  he  is  a  worthy  pioneer  and  representative  citizen.  He 
has  given  his  allegiance  to  the  Democratic  party  from  the  time  of  attaining 
his  majority,  his  first  vote  having  been  cast  in  support  of  Hon.  Isaac  I. 
Stevens  for  governor  of  the  territory.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Washington 
Pioneer  Society  and  during  the  war  of  the  rebellion  he  was  initiated  into 
the  mysteries  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  being  one  of  the  first  members  of 
St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  9,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Seattle,  one  of  the  first  lodges 
instituted  in  the  territory.  He  is  a  stockholder  and  one  of  the  board  of  trustees  of 
ihe  South  Prairie  Coal  Mining  Company,  and  has  other  important  capital- 
istic interests.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  Terry  and  once  b}^  Governor 
Solomon  a  trustee  of  the  State  University  and  was  elected  president  of  the 
board  of  regents.  Mr.  Smithers  was  appointed  one  of  the  administrators 
of  the  estate  of  his  friend  C.  C.  Terry,  of  Seattle,  wdiich  at  the  time  of  his 


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death  was  involved  to  the  amount  of  nineteen  thousand  dollars,  the  prop- 
erty owned  extending  from  Yessler  Way  to  Madison  street,  in  the  city  of 
Seattle,  and  being  a  large  and  very  valuable  tract.  *  The  administrators  paid 
off  the  indebtedness,  kept  the  family  in  the  meanwhile  and  finally  turned 
over  to  the  five  children  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  each,  the 
fidelity  shown  in  handling  the  affairs  of  the  estate  causing  the  judge  who 
discharged  the  administrators  to  say  that  it  had  been  managed  with  eminent 
ability  and  honor. 

ABIJAH  I.  BEACH,    M.  D. 

The  medical  fraternity  in  Washington  has  an  able  representative  in 
the  person  of  Dr.  Beach,  whose  is  the  distinction  of  being  the  pioneer  phy- 
sician and  surgeon  of  the  thriving  little  city  of  Renton.  wlrile  the  high  es- 
timation in  which  he  is  held  in  the  community  is  signalized  by  the  prefer- 
ment which  is  his  at  the  time  of  this  writing,  since  he  is  mayor  of  the  city  and 
has  gained  uncjualified  endorsement  for  his  able  and  discriminating  admin- 
istration of  municipal  affairs.  His  life  has  been  one  of  marked  devotion 
to  the  work  of  his  noble  profession,  in  which  he  has  attained  distinctive 
prestige,  and  his  career  is  properly  taken  under  review  in  a  compilation  of 
this  nature. 

Abijah  Ives  Beach  is  a  representative  of  families  which  have  been  long 
identified  with  the  annals  of  American  history,  and  he  is  a  native  of  the 
Buckeye  state,  having  been  born  in  New  Haven,  Huron  county,  Ohio,  on 
the  8th  of  February,  1836,  his  lineage  on  the  paternal  line  tracing  back  to 
stanch  English  progenitors,  while  it  is  a  matter  of  record  that  the  original 
American  ancestors  settled  on  Long  Island  during  the  colonial  epoch.  There 
the  great-grandfather  of  the  Doctor  passed  the  closing  years  of  his  life 
and  thence  two  of  his  sons  removed  to  the  state  of  Connecticut  and  three 
to  New  Jersey,  one  of  the  Connecticut  brothers  being  Samuel  Beach,  the 
grandfather  of  our  subject.  He  was  a  civil  engineer  by  profession  and  be- 
came the  pioneer  surveyor  of  the  Connecticut  Western  Reserve  in  Ohio. 
The  maidai  name  of  his  wife  was  Lois  Ives  and  she  was  a  member  of  one 
of  the  old  and  prominent  families  of  Connecticut.  Their  son  Asahel.  the 
father  of  the  Doctor,  was  born  in  Wallingford,  New  Haven  county,  Con- 
necticut, whence  he  accompanied  the  family  on  their  removal  to  Ohio,  where 
he  passed  the  residue  of  his  life,  having  been  engaged  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness for  many  years  and  having  been  one  of  the  honored  and  influential 
men  of  that  locality.     He  married  Miss  Hannah  Clum,  a  native  cf  Holland, 


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who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  years,  leaving  three  children,  of  whom 
two  survive,  the  Doctor,  and  Hannah  E.,  who  is  the  widow  of  Benjamin  O. 
Smith  and  who  maintains  her  home  in  Bellville,  Richland  county,  Ohio. 
The  father  was  summoned .  into  eternal  rest  at  the  age  of  fifty-four  years. 
Moses  Y.  Beach,  an  uncle  of  the  Doctor,  was  at  one  time  owner  of  the 
New  York  Sun  and  his  son,  Alfred  E.,  was  one  of  the  founders  of  tlie  Scien- 
tific American. 

Dr.  Abijah  I.  Beach  enjoyed  exceptional  educational  advantages  in  his 
youth,  having  completed  a  preliminai-y  course  of  study  in  the  academy  at 
Ashland,  Ohio,  after  which  he  went  to  Europe  and  entered  the  preparatory 
department  of  the  celebrated  University  of  France,  taking  the  course  in  the 
school  of  arts  and  trades  and  passing  all  the  examinations  in  connection  with 
these  important  departments.  He  was  later  in  the  Ecole  de  Medicine  of 
the  city  of  Paris,  where  he  continued  his  studies  for  some  time  and  then 
returned  to  Ohio  and  entered  the  Western  Reserve  Medical  College,  in  the 
city  of  Cleveland,  where  he  was  graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1856, 
being  but  little  more  than  twenty  years  of  age  at  the  time.  This  fact  is 
significant,  as  showing  that  he  had  thoroughly  improved  the  advantages 
which  had  been  afforded  him,  and  he  was  particularly  well  equipped  for 
the  active  work  of  his  profession  while  still  a  youth,  and  his  judgment  and 
wisdom  had  been  singularly  matured  by  the  discipline  which  had  been  his 
and  by  his  devotion  to  study.  After  receiving  his  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  he  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Pleasantville, 
Hancock  county,  Ohio,  where  he  continued  about  a  year,  removing  to  Kan- 
sas in  1857  and  becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  physicians  of  that  state,  which 
was  at  that  time  the  scene  of  much  excitement  and  turbulence,  owing  to 
the  protest  against  the  extension  of  slavery  into  the  territory, — a  protest 
which  had  much  to  do  with  precipitating  the  war  of  the  rebellion.  The 
Doctor  was  engaged  in  practice  at  Waterloo,  Lyons  county,  for  a  time  and 
afterward  removed  to  what  is  now  Rice  county,  which  was  then  practically 
in  its  primitive  condition,  having  few  settlers  and  being  on  the  very  fron- 
tier of  civilization.  The  Doctor  constructed  a  bridge  over  the  Little  Ar- 
kansas river,  on  the  old  Santa  Fe  trail,  and  also  constructed  the  stone  corral, 
and  there  he  was  associated  with  William  Wheeler  in  conducting  a  trading 
post,  bartering  with  the  Indians  and  travelers  on  the  Santa  Fe  trail,  and 
it  is  hardly  necessary  to  state  that  the  Doctor  met  with  many  thrilling  ex- 
periences and  narrow  escapes  while  thus  living  on  the  border.  After  a  year 
had  elapsed  he  sold  his  interests  and  removed  to  Cow  Creek,  a  point  about 
twentv  miles  west,  and  that  much  farther  removed  him   from  civilization. 


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There  he  improved  a  ranch,  constructed  two  bridges  and  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  among  the  Indians  and  the  white  settlers  who 
began  to  come  in  and  take  up  the  excellent  land.  In  1858,  soon  after  locat- 
ing there,  the  Doctor  had  two  desperate  encounters  w^th  the  Indians,  and 
in  each  of  these  instances  he  showed  almost  incredible  bravery,  while  his 
escapes  from  death  at  the  hands  of  the  savages  seem  almost  phenomenal. 
On  the  occasion  of  their  first  attack  Dr.  Beach  was  absent  from  his  ranch, 
which  he  had  left  in  charge  of  two  men.  The  savages  succeeded  in  captur- 
ing the  ranch,  but  the  two  men  escaped  and  met  the  Doctor  as  he  v\-as  re- 
turning in  the  night,  being  about  five  miles  distant  from  the  ranch  when 
he  thus  learned  of  the  treachery  of  the  Indians,  wdiom  he  had  ahvays  treated 
with  utmost  fairness  and  kindness.  He  took  the  two  men  into  his  w^agon 
and  proceeded  on  his  way  to  the  ranch.  He  approached  and  made  a  care- 
ful reconnoisance,  and  discovered  that  the  Indians  had  found  the  whisky 
on  the  premises  and  had  partaken  so  liberally  of  the  "fire-w"ater''  as  to  be 
in  a  state  of  absolute  intoxication.  He  entered  the  house  in  the  darkness, 
secured  all  their  arms  and  ammunition,  and  the  entire  band,  comprising 
about  twenty  in  number,  were  then  driven  from  the  ranch  by  the  Doctor  and 
his  tw^o  employes.  Knowing  well  the  character  of  the  savages,  the  Doctor 
felt  sure  that  they  would  return  and  attempt  to  obtain  revenge,  and  he 
and  his  men  prepared  themselves  for  the  attack  as  best  they  could.  Three 
Aveeks  later  the  Indians  returned,  surprising  John  Burr  in  the  yard  and  captur- 
ing him.  The  Doctor  w-ent  to  his  rescue  and  succeeded  in  getting  him  into 
the  house,  but  a  number  of  the  Indians  also  effected  an  entrance  at  the  same 
time,  and  there  followed  a  desperate  hand-to-hand  fight.  The  chief  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  behind  the  Doctor  and  then  garroted  him  with  his  arm, 
while  the  other  savages  proceeded  to  cut  and  slash  at  him  with  their  knives. 
The  arm  wath  which  he  endeavored  to  w^ard  off  the  blows  was  cut  in  many 
places  bet\\'een  elbow^  and  wrist,  the  sleeves  of  his  garments  being  literally 
cut  to  pieces.  Finally  he  received  a  blow  on  the  head  which  caused  him 
to  fall  to  the  floor,  with  his  head  covered  with  blood.  He  fell  face  for- 
ward into  a  sack  of  flour,  and  when  he  regained  his  feet  and  turned  his 
face,  made  ghastly  wnth  the  combined  blood  and  flour,  the  savages  fled  from 
the  house  wath  his  companions,  the  Doctor  pursuing  them,  notwithstand- 
ing his  severe  injuries.  In  the  yard  he  picked  up  a  pole  which  he  had  cut 
for  a  sled  runner,  and  threw  it  at  one  of  his  dusky  foes  wdth  such  force 
and  precision  as  to  break  his  leg  and  they  fled  in  dismay,  evidently  believ- 
ing the  Doctor  bore  a  charmed  life  and  that  they  could  not  compass  his 
death.     The   encounter   was   one  which   left   our   subject    incapacitated   for 


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many  days,  his  injuries  having  been  severe,  and  to-day  he  bears  on  his 
arms  and  other  parts  of  his  body  scars  which  perpetually  mark  the  wounds 
received  in  that  desperate  struggle.  After  the  fight  a  party  of  men  return- 
ing from  Pike's  Peak  came  along  and  took  the  Doctor  and  his  man  Burr, 
who  was  also  badly  cut,  to  the  stone  corral  on  the  Little  Arkansas,  and 
it  was  many  months  before  the  Doctor  recovered  from  his  injuries.  He 
soon  afterward  disposed  of  his  ranch  property  and  removed  to  Council 
Grove,  Morris  county,  where  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession, 
while  from  1862  until  January,  1864,  he  held  the  office  of  acting  assistant 
surgeon  with  the  government  troops,  during-  the  Civil  war,  and  from  Jan- 
uary, 1864,  to  the  end  of  the  war  as  assistant  surgeon  in  the  Ninth  Kansas 
Cavalry  and  serving  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  department,  in  Kansas,  Mis- 
souri, Arkansas  and  Indian  Territory,  his  command  being  a  part  of  the 
Seventh  Army  Corps.  After  the  close  of  the  war  Dr.  Beach  returned  to 
Council  Grove,  where  he  was  successfully  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  until  1878,  when  he  came  to  Washington,  first  locating  in  Fort 
Madison  and  thence  coming  to  Seattle.  He  held  for  two  years  the  appoint- 
ment as  physician  at  the  Tulalip  Indian  agency,  in  Snohomish  county;  was 
later  engaged  in  professional  work  at  Port  Blakely  for  a  few  months,  and 
then  came  to  Renton,  where  he  became  physician  for  the  Renton  Mining 
Company  and  also  held  for  a  time  a  similar  connection  with  the  Black  Dia- 
mond mine,  while  he  soon  succeeded  in  building  up  a  representative  private 
practice  as  the  pioneer  physician  and  surgeon  of  the  town.  His  prestige  is 
unmistakable  and  his  semces  have  been  enlisted  by  the  greater  portion  of 
the  people  of  this  locality,  where  he  is  well  known  and  held  in  the  highest 
esteem  as  a  citizen  and  as  one  of  the  able  members  of  his  profession.  The 
Doctor  has  ever  been  a  close  student  and  during  his  long  residence  in  the 
w^est  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  advances  made  in  the  sciences  of  medicine 
and  surgery,  so  that  he  holds  rank  with  the  leading  members  of  his  pro- 
fession in  the  state,  while  his  experience  in  practice  has  been  of  exception- 
ally wide  and  varied  character.  During  his  early  residence  in  Rice  county. 
Kansas,  he  conducted  the  Cow  Creek  post,  and  the  valley  wdiere  he  resided 
was  then  known  as  Beach  valley,  having  been  named  in  liis  honor,  as  its 
pioneer  settler.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  county  and  one  of 
its  first  commissioners,  while  later  he  also  held  the  position  of  superintend- 
ent of  public  instruction  and  county  commissioner  of  jMorris  county  for 
a  number  of  years. 

Since  the  war  Dr.  Beach  has  been  unfaltering  in  his  allegiance  to  the 
Republican  party,   and  has  ever  been  known  as  a  progressive  and  public- 


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spirited  citizen,  giving  his  influence  and  practical  aid  in  support  of  all  meas- 
ures for  the  general  good  and  thus  contributing  to  the  material  prosperity 
of  the  communities  in  which  he  has  maintained  his  residence.  The  city 
of  Renton  was  incorporated  on  the  31st  of  August,  1901,  and  to  Dr.  Beach 
cam.e  the  distinction  of  having  been  elected  its  first  mayor,  in  which  ca- 
pacity he  is  still  serving,  bringing  to  bear  his  progressive  ideas,  mature 
judgment  and  marked  business  acumen  in  the  administration  of  municipal 
cift'airs  and  taking  a  deep  interest  in  all  that  prohiotes  the  advancement 
and  substantial  upbuilding  of  his  home  city.  The  cause  of  education  has 
found  in  him  a  stanch  supporter,  and  he  has  served  his  district  as  school 
director  for  the  past  nine  years.  In  1871  Dr.  Beach  was  raised  to  the  mas- 
ter's degree  in  Council  Grove  Lodge,  No.  36,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  is  past  master 
of  his  lodge,  while  he  is  also  prominently  identified  with  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  His  history 
has  been  one  exceptionally  interesting  and  varied,  and  to  enter  nito  details 
concerning  his  experiences  in  connection  with  pioneer  life  in  the  west  would 
be  to  write  a  narrative  which  would  constitute  a  volume  in  itself.  His 
life  has  been  one  of  signal  usefulness  and  honor,  and  it  is  a  pleasure  to 
ofifer  even  this  brief  resume  and  tribute. 

On  the  20th  of  October,  i860.  Dr.  Beach  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Rachel  P.  Vanderpool,  a  native  of  Kentucky  and  daughter  of  Hon. 
William  Vanderpool,  who  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  Missouri  and 
became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  in  Kansas.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Beach  have  two 
children :  William,  who  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  at  Sheldon, 
Mason  county,  Washington;  and  Ellen  E.,  who  is  the  wife  of  Fred  G. 
Smithers,  of  Renton. 

DANA   W.    BROWN. 

There  are  few  men  of  Mr.  Brow^n's  years  who  have  an  intimate  per- 
sonal knowledge  of  the  early  history  of  California,  but  in  early  boyhood 
he  made  the  long  journey  across  the  plains  and  from  that  time  forward 
has  been  an  interested  witness  of  the  remarkable  development  of  the  west- 
ern country  and  at  the  present  time  he  is  a  most  important  factor  in  the 
growth  of  a  city  which  is  rapidly  rising  to  prominence  on  the  northern 
Pacific  slope — West  Seattle.  He  has  noted  the  methods  which  have  led  to 
the  growth  of  California,  has  kept  in  touch  with  the  times  along  the  various 
lines  promoting  material  progress,  and  is  well  qualified  to  have  in  charge 


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a  business  looking  to  the  growth  and  upbuilding  of  this  portion  of  Wash- 
ington. 

Mr.  Brown  was  born  in  the  historic  city  of  Baltimore,  Alaryland,  on 
the  28th  of  April,  1852,  a  son  of  Smith  and  Chloe  (Thayer)  Brown,  both 
representatives  of  old  New  England  families  and  of  English  descent.  The 
father  was  born  in  Rhode  Island,  the  mother  in  Massachusetts,  and  after  their 
marriage,  which  was  celebrated  in  New  England,  they  removed  to  Balti- 
more, and  in  1852  crossed  the  plains  to  California.  The  father  was  a  foun- 
dryman  and  owned  quite  a  large  foundry  in  Baltimore.  Air.  Bucks,  the 
patentee  of  the  Bucks  stove,  was  a  foreman  in  his  foundry,  and  there  manu- 
factured his  first  stove.  Mr.  Brown  had  made  arrangements  to  sell  his 
foundry  at  a  good  price,  but  before  the  transfer  had  been  effected  the  plant 
was  destroyed  by  fire  and  the  father  was  left  almost  bankrupt.  This  was 
the  second  time  he  had  suffered  heavy  losses  by  fire,  and  too  discouraged 
to  make  another  attempt  in  business  in  the  east,  he  decided  to  go  west. 
He  stopped  at  St.  Joseph,  Missouri,  looking'  for  a  location,  and  while  there 
became  infected  with  a  strong  attack  of  the  gold  fever,  in  consequence  of 
which  he  purchased  some  fine  teams  and  organized  a  company  of  eight  or 
ten  men  with  whom  he  started  across  the  plains  for  California.  When  he 
reached  Salt  Lake  City  the  men  who  had  agreed  to  drive  his  teams  for 
their  transportation  made  a  claim  for  wages.  A  trial  was  held  and  they 
were  put  in  the  chain  gang.  Mr.  Brown  then  secured  other  drivers  and 
proceeded  on  his  way.  There  w'as  much  stock  along  the  trail  that  had 
!)een  abandoned  by  previous  emigrants  wdien  the  animals  had  become  foot- 
sore and  worn  out,  but  after  resting  for  a  time  these  horses  had  become 
as  good  as  ever  and  were  quite  valuable.  This  abandoned  stock  Mr.  Brown 
collected  and  upon  reaching  San  Bernardino  he  had  one  hundred  head. 
He  proceeded  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  opened  a  livery  stable.  He  also 
located  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  government  land  at  the  Presidio, 
which  he  afterward  sold.  In  1858  he  located  at  Napa,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  livery  business,  conducted  a  hotel  and  established  a  stage  line,  being 
one  of  the  first  owners  of  the  early  stage  lines  of  the  state.  He  played  a 
prominent  part  in  the  frontier  development  of  his  portion  of  California  and 
was  active  in  public  and  official  life.  He  served  on  the  state  board  of  equal- 
ization and  in  various  other  offices,  and  his  efforts  were  of  benefit  to  the 
commonwealth  in  many  .ways,  both  in  the  material  development  and  in 
establishing  the  legal  and  moral  status  of  the  state.  He  died  November 
28,  1901.  He  had  been  an  honored  pioneer  settler  who  had  aided  in  laying 
broad  and  deep  the  foundation  upon  which  the  present  progress  and  pros- 


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perity  of  the  state  rest.  His  widow  still  survives  him  and  is  now  living 
in  Napa,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  five 
children,  two  of  whom  died  in  Baltimore.  Frances  B.  became  the  wife  of 
Henry  Edgerton  but  both  are  now  deceased.  The  surviving  sister  of  our 
subject  is  Summit,  the  wife  of  Homer  S.  King,  a  banker  of  San  Francisco. 
She  was  born  during  the  journey  to  California  on  the  summit  of  the  Sierras, 
hence  her  name. 

Dana  W.  Brown  was  only  a  few  months  old  when  his  parents  left 
Baltimore  and  started  westward  on  a  journey  that  eventually  brought  them 
to  the  Pacific  coast.  He  was  reared  in  San  Francisco  and  Napa,  acquiring 
a  common  school  education.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  accepted  the 
position  of  express  messenger  for  the  Wells-Fargo  Express  Company,  his 
route  being  between  San  Francisco  and  Calistoga — at  that  time  a  much 
more  responsible  and  dangerous  position  than  it  is  to-day  under  the  present 
organized  system.  The  distance  was  eighty  miles  by  rail  and  boat  and 
the  trip  was  made  daily.  'Mr.  Brown  continued  to  fill  the  position  for 
two  years  and  then  entered  the  Pacific  Business  College,  at  San  Francisco, 
in  which  institution  he  was  graduated  on  the  completion  of  the  course.  He 
ihen  received  a  government  position  as  inspector  of  revenue  along  the  line 
between  Alexico  and  the  United  States,  from  San  Diego  eastward  to  Fort 
Yuma,  a  distance  of  three  hundred  miles.  This  was  an  arduous  and  hazard- 
ous position  in  a  desert  country  where  smugglers  were  numerous  and  were 
often  of  a  desperate  character.  For  a  year  Mr.  Brown  acted  in  that  ca- 
pacity and  then  resigned  to  become  manager  and  overseer  of  a  large  ranch 
near  Napa.  He  had  spent  a  year  there  when  his  father  purchased  the  La 
Jota  ranch,  near  St.  Helena,  a  tract  of  forty-four  hundred  acres,  of  which 
our  subject  purchased  two  hundred  acres  of  rich  meadow  land,  to  \Ahich 
he  gave  his  attention  for  three  years.  This  place  has  since  become  a  popular 
resort  on  account  of  its  fine  scenic  location  and  the  village  of  Anquin  is 
now  located  there. 

Mr.  Brown  next  turned  his  attention  to  the  lumber  business,  in  which 
he  embarked  at  St.  Helena,  in  1873,  there  remaining  for  two  years,  but 
the  enterprise  proved  a  failure.  He  next  associated  himself  with  G.  A. 
Meiggs  in  the  lumber  business  in  San  Francisco,  having  charge  of  the  red- 
wood branch  of  that  gentleman's  enormous  business,  and  he  filled  that  place 
successfully  for  four  years,  when  the  business  was  merged  into  that  of 
the  jMeiggs  Lumber  &  Ship  Building  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Brown  be- 
came a  stockholder.  This,  however,  ended  in  failure  and  ]\Ir.  Brown  thereby 
lost  all  that  he  had  saved.     Turning  his  attention  to  prospecting  and  min- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  107 

ing  in  the  vicinity  of  Tombstone,  Arizona,  after  a  year  lie  was  taken  ill 
with  fever  and  returned  to  California.  When  he  had  reco\ered  his  health 
he  accepted  a  position  as  express  messenger  and  baggage  agent  on  a  new 
railroad  which  was  being  builded  southward  from  Mound  House,  its  ulti- 
mate destination  being  Majave.  The  road  had  then  been  completed  for  only 
one  hundred  miles  and  was  known  as  the  Carson  &  Colorado  Road,  being 
now  a  part  of  the  Southern  Pacific  system.  Mr.  Brown  remained  in  the 
employ  of  the  road  for  six  years,  and  during  the  last  four  years  of  that  time 
served  as  a  conductor.  He  next  received  a  government  appointment  as 
weigher  in  the  refining  department  of  the  United  States  mint,  at  Carson 
City,  remaining  there  for  three  years,  after  which  he  came  to  Seattle. 

Mr.  Brown  arrived  in  this  city  in  1893  ^^^^^  spent  one  season  on  the 
Sound,  engaged  in  shipping  and  towing,  owning  an  interest  in  the  tug 
Volga.  He  then  returned  to  California  and  again  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Wells-Fargo  Express  Company  as  local  agent  at  Napa,  filling  that  posi- 
tion for  three  years  and  in  1896  he  came  to  Seattle.  This  was  an  arrange- 
ment whereby  he  was  to  temporarily  relieve  the  agent  in  charge  of  the 
Seattle  Land  &  Lnprovement  Company,  but  the  result  was  that  he  was  elected 
to  his  present  office,  that  of  manager  of  the  business  of  the  company.  He 
is  also  the  secretary  of  the  company.  This  company  was  formed  and  in- 
corporated in  1888  by  Thomas  Ewing,  of  San  Francisco,  who  at  that  time 
purchased  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  and  later  interested  other 
California  capitalists.  Other  lands  were  purchased  till  their  holdings  com- 
prised five  hundred  acres,  now  known  as  the  first,  second  and  third  additions. 
The  old  site  of  the  town  was  known  as  Freeport  and  upon  it  was  one  of 
the  largest  lumber  mills  on  the  Sound,  owned  by  Mr.  Marshall.  When  the 
town  plat  was  made  the  name  was  changed  from  Freeport  to  West  Seattle. 
The  first  and  second  additions  have  been  almost  entirely  sold  out.  The  site 
includes  most  of  the  water  front  and  extends  from  the  elevator  of  the  Seattle 
&  San  Francisco  Railroad  &  Navigation  Company  to  the  Haller  estate  on 
the  west  side  of  the  peninsula.  The  business  of  the  company  was  first  under 
the  management  of  James  H.  Ewing,  later  of  James  H.  Watson  and  in  1897 
Mr.  Brown  assumed  the  management.  West  Seattle  is  without  question  des- 
tinued  at  no  distant  day  to  become  one  of  the  most  desirable  and  popular  resi- 
dence portions  of  the  city.  Its  site  is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  and  picturesque 
locations  on  the  Sound,  situated  as  it  is  on  a  peninsula,  surrounded  on  three 
sides  by  water,  and  the  land  rising  to  a  height  sufficient  to  give  an  unob- 
structed and  commanding  view  of  land  and  water — a  beautiful  expanse  of 
bay,  forest  and  mountain,  together  with  a  panoramic  view  of  Seattle,  sit- 


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iiated  like  Rome  of  old  upon  seven  hills.  Since  ]\Ir.  Brown  has  been  in 
charge  of  the  property  interests  he  has  taken  measures  to  bring  this  desirable 
realty  to  the  notice  of  the  public  and  has  disposed  of  a  great  deal  of  it.  The 
company  also  owns  the  West  Seattle  ferrs',  which  plies  between  this  place 
and  Seattle,  and  in  his  capacity  of  manager  Mr.  Brown  also  controls  this. 
A  cable  road  was  built  up  the  hill  from  the  w^ater  front  to  the  residence  por- 
tion of  West  Seattle  and  arrangements  made  for  cable  car  service  across 
the  railroad  trestle  to  the  city,  but  complications  arose  and  the  work  was 
discontinued.  Under  the  supervision,  enterprise  and  untiring  activity  of  Mr. 
Brown  the  business  of  the  company  has  grown  in  volume  and  importance, 
and  his  efforts  have  contributed  to  the  benefit  of  the  city  in  marked  degree. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1885,  Mr.  Brown  was  united  in  marriage,  in 
Carson  City,  to  Jeanette  Sutherland,  wdio  was.  born  in  jMarkleyville,  Nevada, 
but  her  parents  were  natives  of  Edinboro,  Scotland.  They  have  one  son, 
Stuart  S.,  now  a  student  in  the  high  school.  Mrs.  Brown  is  a  member  of 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church,  at  Seattle.  Fraternally  ]\Ir.  Brown  is  con- 
nected with  the  Order  of  Railway  Conductors  and  with  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen,  of  wdiich  he  is  a  past  master.  In  politics  he  is  an  un- 
swerving Republican  and  during  his  residence  in  Nevada  took  an  acti\-e 
part  in  political  w'ork  and  since  coming  to  this  place  he  has  served  as  a  dele- 
gate  to  A^arious  Republican  conventions.  Capable  of  controlling  extensive 
business  interests,  he  is  accounted  one  of  the  representative  business  men  of 
the  northwest. 

ERASTUS  C.  HAWKINS. 

The  name  of  Erastus  Corning  Hawkins  is  a  familiar  one  throughout 
engineering  circles  in  this  country  and  the  fame  of  Mr.  Hawkins  in  the  line 
of  his  chosen  profession  has  also  extended  to  Europe.  The  man  that  has 
bridged  over  space  and  practically  annihilated  time  by  his  inventive  genius 
deserves  to  be  numbered  among  the  benefactors  of  the  race.  This  is  an  age 
of  progress,  wdien  vast  commercial  transactions,  involving  millions  of  dol- 
lars, depend  upon  rapid  transportation.  The  revolution  in  business  that  the 
past  half  centurv^  has  witnessed  has  been  brought  about  by  means  of  the  rail- 
roads. Through  this  means  there  has  been  opened  to  civilization  a  vast 
region  wdth  unlimited  resources,  and  now  Alaska  is  being  reclaimed  for  the 
uses  of  the  English-speaking  race.  No  man  engaged  in  the  work  of  develop- 
ing this  distant  territory  is  more  deserving  of  gratitude  than  Erastus  Corn- 
ing Haw'kins,  the  engineer  having  in  charge  the  construction  of  the  railroad,. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  109 

one  of  the  most  difficult  pieces  of  mechanical  engineering  that  has  ever  been 
executed  in  the  history  of  the  world.  It  is  no  wonder,  therefore,  that  he  has 
gained  a  national  reputation  or  that  Seattle  is  glad  to  number  him  among 
lier  business  men  and  valued  citizens. 

Mr.  Hawkins  arrived  in  this  city  in  March,  1898,  and  has  since  made 
it  his  headquarters  while  performing*  his  important  work.  He  was  born  in 
South  Haven,  Suffolk  count}^.  New  York,  September  8,  i860.  His  father, 
Bartlett  Tuttle  Hawkins,  was  also  a  native  of  that  state,  where  the  family 
had  resided  from  an  early  period  in  its  development,  the  original  American 
ancestors  having  come  from  Devonshire,  England,  in  1628.  The  family  was 
represented  in  the  Revolutionar}-  war  and  also  in  the  war  of  181 2.  Early  in 
life  the  father  was  a  seafaring  man  in  the  merchant  marine  service,  sailing 
from  Boston  to  South  America.  He  married  Clarissa  Barteau,  also  a  mem- 
ber of  an  old  family,  descended  from  the  Dutch  settlers  on  Long  Island. 
They  had  four  children,  but  Erastus  C.  Hawkins  is  the  only  member  of  the 
family  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  public 
schools,  and  soon  after  the  death  of  his  father,  which  occurred  when  the  son 
was  nineteen  years  of  age,  he  entered  the  engineering  oflice  of  Smith  & 
^Veston  in  Jersey  City,  having  studied  under  noted  histructors  of  the  day. 
In  January,  1880,  he  entered  the  office  of  Smith  &  Weston,  of  New  York 
city  and  Jersey  City,  and  was  engaged  in  street  improvements  and  harbor 
work  in  the  vicinity  of  New  York  until  the  spring  of  1883,  when  he  suffered 
from  malarial  fever  and  went  west  to  Denver  on  a  two  months'  vacation. 

Mr.  Hawkins  was  so  well  pleased  with  the  country  that  he  decided  to 
remain  and  became  connected  with  railroad  engineering  in  the  mountains  of 
Colorado.  He  was  ^vith  the  first  train  that  reached  Leadville  from  Breck- 
inridg'e,  on  the  South  Park  system,  being  with  that  company  from  the  time 
when  the  preliminary  work  was  begun  in  the  spring  of  1883  until  the  road 
was  completed  and  in  operation  to  Leadville.  The  first  camp  was  eleven 
thousand  three  hundred  and  eighty-three  feet  high,  on  Fremont  Pass.  ]\Ir. 
Plawkins  was  afterward  engaged  in  other  sur\  e}'s  in  the  vicinity  of  Monte- 
zuma, Graymont  and  Keystone.  In  the  summer  of  1S84  he  was  in  the  San 
Luis  valley  as  a  civil  engineer  on  the  large  irrigation  works,  having  charge 
of  the  construction  of  the  Citizens'  canal,  under  the  famous  T.  C.  Henry. 
This  was  an  irrigation  enterprise  extending  from  Del  Norte,  and  covering 
the  western  portion  of  the  San  Luis  valley  to  the  Mexican  line.  He  was 
connected  with  that  work  for  a  year  and  had  some  rough  experience  in  that 
country,  having  ridden  as  many  as  eighty  miles  in  a  sing'le  day.  Walter  H. 
Graves,  now  in  the  government  service,  an  expert  irrigation  engineer,  had 


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the  supervision  of  the  work.  He  is  a  man  unequahed  in  that  Hne,  says  Mr. 
Hawkins,  and  our  subject  appreciated  the  opportunity  offered  of  being  con- 
nected with  such  an  experienced  man  during  his  first  experience  with  irri- 
gation work  of  that  character.  This  irrigation  system  is  now  owned  by  the 
Travelers'  Insurance  Company. 

From  there  Mr.  Hawkins  went  to  Wyoming,  in  January,  1885,  and 
had  charge  of  much  irrigation  work  in  the  southern  and  central  part  of  the 
state  until  the  financial  panic  was  felt  in  that  country,  when,  in  1887,  all  of 
the  companies  making  improvements  there  went  into  bankruptcy,  causing 
the  suspension  of  all  that  kind  of  work.  In  March,  1887,  Mr.  Hawkins  re- 
turned to  Denver  and  made  that  city  his  headcjuarters  until  his  arrival  in 
Seattle.  Under  the  appointment  of  Governor  Alvah  Adams  he  served  as 
assistant  state  engineer  and  had  charge  of  all  irrigation  investigation  and 
hydrographic  work  under  J.  S.  Greene,  state  engineer,  also  the  compiling 
of  all  the  reports  and  statistics  on  irrigation  and  the  sources  and  extent  of 
the  water  supply.  Later  Mr.  Hawkins  was  engaged  in  making  the  United 
States  geological  survey  under  Major  Powell  from  Texas  north  in  the  arid 
region,  studying  up  possibilities  for  an  extensive  reservoir  system  for  the 
reclamation  of  the  entire  arid  Avest.  This  gave  him  an  exceptional  oppor- 
tunity to  inform  himself  concerning  all  the  possibilities  of  that  region. 
When  the  appropriation  was  exhausted  he  returned  to  Denver  and  was  con- 
nected with  various  irrigation  works  in  Idaho  and  with  public  works  there. 
In  1890  he  was  again  connected  with  railroad  work  in  the  neighborhood  of 
Golden,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  use  seventy-five-pound  rails  for  the  high- 
est roads.  In  1891,  in  Idaho,  he  served  as  chief  engineer  for  the  Payette 
Valley  Canal  Company,  and  in  a  similar  capacity  was  connected  with  the 
construction  of  a  canal  in  the  Boise  valley.  In  the  spring  of  1893  the  coun- 
try again  suffered  from  a  financial  panic  and  improvements  were  at  a  stand- 
still in  that  locality. 

Mr.  Hawkins  then  took  up  the  Amity  canal  enterprise,  in  the  Arkansas 
valley  of  Colorado,  which  was  backed  by  the  strongest  financiers  of  New 
York.  In  July,  1893,  he  started  upon  this  work  and  planned  the  entire  con- 
struction of  what  is  now  one  of  the  greatest  systems  in  the  country.  There 
are  five  large  reservoirs,  having  a  capacity  of  four  hundred  and  eighty-three 
thousand  square  feet  of  v-atcr.  The  building  of  this  system  was  a  work 
requiring  an  immense  amount  of  study  and  inventive  genius  to  cope  with 
all  the  various  hindrances  arising  from  floods,  waterspouts,  quicksands  and 
other  material  causes.  The  system  is  now  known  as  the  Arkansas  Valley 
Sugar  Beet  &  Irrigated  Land  Company.     It  begins  four  miles  west  of  La 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  iii 

Junta  and  extends  thirty  miles  east  of  the  state  Hne  into  Kansas.  It  includes 
the  Amity,  the  Buffalo  and  the  Fort  Lyons  canals.  Mr.  Hawkins  was  con- 
nected with  the  work  until  its  completion,  except  during  the  construction  of 
some  minor  laterals.  He  finished  the  work  in  the  spring  of  1898  and  was 
then  called  to  New  York  on  a  cable  message  from  London. 

Arriving  in  the  eastern  metropolis  Mr.  Hawkins  was  asked  to  under- 
take the  construction  of  the  railroad  into  the  Klondike  and  assumed  charge 
of  the  work  on  the  15th  of  March  of  that  year.  After  consulting  with  the 
originators  of  the  project  he  at  once  started  west,  and  was  directed  to  Port- 
land, but  after  making  a  thorough  investigation  as  far  north  as  Vancouver 
he  decided  to  make  Seattle  his  headquarters.  On  the  5th  of  April  he  em- 
barked on  the  Queen  to  make  personal  investigation  of  the  ground,  as  no 
reliable  information  could  be  obtained  on  which  he  could  base  the  possibilities* 
of  the  work,  other  than  the  wild  tales  of  prospectors.  His  report  was  favor- 
able, and  at  10:30  p.  m.  on  the  night  of  May  17th  he  received  word  that  the 
construction  would  be  undertaken.  At  that  time  the  company  had  not  a 
dollar's  worth  of  property  here,  but  he  began  making  the  necessary  pur- 
chases of  materials  the  following  morning-,  as  his  authority  was  unlimited. 
The  money  was  furnished  and  deposited  here  in  his  ovsai  name  without  bond 
of  any  kind,  and  his  written  authority  consisted  of  but  four  lines,  giving 
him  power  to  do  all  the  work  necessary  for  the  completion  of  the  road. 
0\\'ing  to  the  danger  and  uncertainty  no  contractor  would  engage  in  the 
undertaking,  and  so  the  work  in  all  its  phases  was  carried  on  by  the  com- 
pany, a  subsidiary  company  being-  formed  for  the  purpose,  known  as  the 
Pacific  Contract  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Hawkins  held  the  position  of  chief 
engineer  and  was  also  chief  engineer  of  the  railroad  company  and  engineer 
for  the  trustees. 

On  the  28th  of  May,  1898,  actual  work  was  begun  at  Skagway,  and 
in  August,  1900,  the  road  Avas  completed  into  White  Horse.  The  most 
difficult  part  of  the  work  was  from  Skagway  up  to  the  summit  of  White  Pass, 
which  was  reached  February  18,  1899.  The  engineers  and  workmen  were 
often  suspended  by  ropes  while  performing  their  labor,  nearly  all  of  which 
was  heavy  rock  work  and  much  of  which  had  to  be  done  in  places  that  were 
absolutely  inaccessible  except  by  the  means  mentioned.  By  the  6th  of  ]u\\ 
the  track  w-as  laid  and  trains  were  in  operation  to  Lake  Bennett,  where  over 
one  thousand  dollars'  worth  of  tickets  were  sold  before  rails  or  locomotive 
were  in  sight.  From  the  start  the  work  progressed  continuously  night  and 
day,  notwithstanding  a  stampede  of  eight  hundred  men  at  the  time  of  the 
Atlin  excitement,  until  Bennett  was  reached,  in  July,  1899.     From  there  on 


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the  work  was  let  to  M.  J.  Heney,  who  had  previously  been  connected  with 
the  work  of  constructing  the  line,  and  then  completed  it  to  White  Horse. 
Mr.  Hawkins  was  chief  engineer  and  general  manager  until  the  road  w^as 
completed  and  in  good  working  order,  and  in  the  purchase  of  materials  and 
supplies  handled  millions  of  dollars  for  the  company.  Being  impressed  with 
the  natural  resources  of  Seattle  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  future  of  the  city, 
he  abandoned  the  idea  of  returning  to  Denver  and  has  cast  in  his  lot  with 
the  residents  of  this  city.  He  purchased  the  E.  O.  Graves  place,  at  No.  1120 
Jefferson  avenue,  and  has  since  remodeled  the  house,  making  it  an  attractive 
residence. 

In  Denver,  in  1885,  Mr.  Hawkins  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Emma,  daughter  of  Charles  Sullivan,  of  New  York,  and  they  have  five  chil- 
'  dren,  three  sons  and  tw^o  daughters :  Gilberta,  Mason,  Clarissa,  Ruf us  and 
Howard.  The  family  attend  St.  Mark's  church,  of  which  Mrs.  Hawkins  is 
a  member.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hawkins  is  a  Republican.  Comment 
on  his  life  work  would  be  superfluous.  It  speaks  for  itself.  His  labors  in 
many  sections  of  the  country  are  matters  of  record  and  of  history  and  much 
Jias  been  written  about  the  construction  of  the  railroad  in  Alaska  under  his 
supervision.  He  has  certainly  attained  well  merited  fame  and  deserves  praise 
and  honor  for  what  lie  has  accomplislied  in  a  Avork  of  ^'ast  benefit  to  the 
world. 

EDWARD  CUDIHEE. 

Edward  Cudihee,  of  Seattle,  is  an  honored  citizen  in  whom  the  people 
hiave  manifested  their  confidence  by  electing  him  to  the  position  of  sheriff  of 
King  county.  He  is  now  discharging  the  duties  of  that  office  with  marked 
promptness  and  fidelity,  and  with  such  men  at  the  head  of  public  affairs  a 
community  may  feel  assured  that  its  interests  will  be  administered  with  the 
strictest  honesty  and  after  the  most  approved  business  methods. 

A  native  of  the  Empire  state,  Mr.  Cudihee  was  born  in  Rochester  on 
the  26th  of  Janual*}^  1853.  and  is  of  Irish  ancestry.  His  father,  Daniel 
Cudihee,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Callan.  county  of  Kilkenny,  Ireland,  but 
in  1826,  when  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  emigrated  to  America,  taking  up 
his  abode  in  Rochester,  New  York.  In  that  city  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Anna  Comeford,  also  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  During  the  early  years 
of  his  life  Mr.  Cudihee  followed  the  stone-mason's  trade,  but  later  became 
a  farmer,  and  is  now  living  in  quiet  retirement  at  his  home  in  Jackson,  Mich- 
igan.   His  wife  was  called  to  her  final  rest  in  1900,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four. 


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years.  This  worthy  couple  became  the  parents  of  ten  children,  six  of  whom 
are  now  living,  and  one  son,  John  Cudihee,  has  recently  removed  from  Seattle 
to  Alaska. 

Edward  Cudihee  received  his  education  in  the  public  school  of  Orleans 
county,  New  York,  and  in  early  life  learned  the  stone-mason's  trade  of  his 
father.  After  following  that  occupation  for  a  time  he  turned  his  attention 
to  agricultural  pursuits,  and  later  embarked  in  the  mercantile  business.  In 
March,  1889,  he  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  and  soon  aftenvard  became 
an  active  and  valued  member  of  the  police  force.  He  discharged  the  duties 
of  that  office  without  fear  or  favor,  and  was  instrumental  in  ridding  the 
county  of  many  of  its  notorious  law  breakers,  but  at  the  same  time  he  is  n 
kind-hearted  man  and  no  prisoner  in  his  charge  has  ever  had  reason  to  com- 
plain of  ill  treatment.  In  the  year  1900  he  was  the  choice  of  his  party  for 
the  office  of  sheriff  of  King  county,  and  on  the  6th  of  November,  following", 
was  elected  to  that  position  by  a  majority  of  two  thousand  six  hundred  and 
five  votes,  running  far  ahead  of  his  ticket,  and  only  one  other  Democrat  was 
^iuccessful  at  that  election.  In  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  this  important 
office  he  has  manifested  the  same  loyal  spirit  which  has  characterized  his 
entire  life,  and  he  commands  the  respect  of  his  fellow  men  by  his  sterling 
worth.  Prior  to  his  removal  to  Seattle  he  was  for  six  years  a  member  of  the 
police  force  in  Colorado,  and  for  a  portion  of  that  time  was  also  chief  of 
police,  having  been  elected  to  that  position  by  the  vote  of  the  people. 

Mr.  Cudihee  is  a  member  of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks  and  also  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He  is  a  man  of 
strong  mentality,  keen  discernment,  great  tact  and  resolute  purpose,  and  is 
therefore  well  fitted  for  the  position  which  he  now  so  ably  fills. 

RICHARD  WINSOR. 

"Biography,"  said  Carlyle,  "is  the  most  universally  profitable  and  in- 
teresting of  all  studies."  The  purpose  of  biography  is  not  merely  to  preserve 
a  written  record  of  individuals ;  it  has  a  higher  purpose,  in  furnishing  to  the 
young  of  this  and  future  generations  examples  worthy  of  emulation,  to  set 
before  them  lessons  for  guidance,  to  awaken  in  them  desire  for  honorable 
success,  and  to  inspire  them  with  the  thought  that  man  controls  his  own 
destiny  and  makes  of  his  life  what  he  will.  For  this  reason  biography  should 
treat  of  the  lives  of  those  whose  worth,  socially,  morally  and  intellectually, 
commands  the  unequivocal  respect  of  the  public,  which  is  a  discriminating  fac- 
tor and  invariably  distinguishes  the  ring  of  the  true  metal  from  the  disson- 


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ance  of  the  baser.  In  the  possession  of  admirable  quaHties  of  mind  and  heart, 
in  holding  marked  precedence  as  a  distingxiished  member  of  the  legal  profes- 
sion, and  in  being  a  man  of  high  attainments  and  distinct  executive  ability, 
Mr.  Winsor  challenges  attention  as  one  distinctively  eligible  for  representa- 
tion in  this  compilation,  while  his  earnest  and  upright  career,  his  fine  geneal- 
ogical record  and  his  position  as  a  man  of  affairs,  but  serve  to  render  the  more 
consonant  an  epitome  of  his  life  histors'  in  this  connection. 

Judge  Winsor  comes  of  fine  old  English  stock  and  is  himself  a  native  of 
the  dominion  of  Canada,  having  been  born  in  Middlesex  county,  province  of 
Ontario,  on  the  25th  of  April,  1839,  the  son  of  Richard  Winsor,  Sr.,  who 
was  born  in  London,  England,  and  who  was  a  contractor  and  builder  by 
vocation.  He  was  the  first  of  the  family  to  come  to  America,  and  after  lo- 
cating in  Canada  he  erected  many  buildings  of  pretentious  order,  notably  in 
the  little  city  of  London,  Ontario.  He  married  Elizabeth  Longworth,  and 
of  their  nine  children  the  subject  of  this  review  was  the  eldest  and  is  one 
of  the  seven  who  are  living  at  the  present  time.  In  1856  the  family  re- 
moved to  Huron  county,  Michigan,  where  the  father  became  a  pioneer,  tak- 
ing up  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  on  Lighthouse  bay. 
There  he  erected  a  dwelling  of  hewed  logs,  and  this  primitive  domicile  be- 
came the  family  home.  During  the  summer  seasons  Richard  Winsor,  Sr., 
gave  his  attention  to  his  trade  in  the  city  of  Detroit,  while  in  the  vrinters 
he  worked  assiduously  in  the  clearing  and  improving  of  his  land.  While 
going  from  Huron  City  to  his  home,  on  the  13th  of  April,  i860,  the  boat 
in  which  he  was  making  the  trip  was  capsized  and  both  he  and  his  son  John 
were  drowned.  The  subject  of  this  sketch  had  not  attained  his  legal  ma- 
jority at  the  time,  but  this  sad  fatality  rendered  it  necessary  for  him  to  as- 
5;ume  to  a  very  large  extent  the  responsibility  of  managing  the  affairs  of 
the  farm  and  providing  for  the  maintainance  of  the  family.  Judge  Winsor 
has  never  been  known  to  flinch  from  an  ordeal  or  to  neglect  the  calls  of  duty, 
and  the  mettle  of  the  man  was  clearly  shown  when  the  grave  responsibilities 
were  thus  forced  upon  him  when  but  twenty  years  of  age.  Before  proceed- 
ing farther  in  narration  of  the  personal  career  of  our  subject,  it  may  be  well 
to  advert  somewhat  in  detail  to  his  ancestral  history.  His  grandfather,  who 
likewise  bore  the  name  of  Richard  Winsor,  was  a  native  of  Devonshire,  Eng- 
land, and  was  an  architect  by  profession.  He  had  charge  of  the  building 
operations  of  the  Duke  of  Kent,  father  of  the  late  lamented  Queen  Victoria, 
and  was  a  man  of  no  slight  distinction.  The  maternal  grandfather  was 
Captain  John  Longworth,  of  the  British  army,  and  it  is  a  matter  of  record 
that  he  served  under  the  Duke  of  Wellington  in  the  Peiiinsular  war,  his 


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record  for  gallantry  being  such  that  he  was  made  the  recipient  of  several 
medals  in  token  and  recognition  of  his  valiant  services.  He  emigrated  to 
Canada  in  1830  and  was  there  engaged  in  the  construction  of  many  public 
buildings  and  works,  passing  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  the  dominion  and 
living  to  attain  the  patriarchal  age  of  nearly  ninety-four  years.  His  death 
occurred  on  the  17th  of  January,  1883.  His  first  wife,  the  grandmother 
of  our  subject,  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Bruce,  and  her  paternal 
lineage  is  traced  in  a  most  definite  way  over  a  period  of  five  centuries  in 
Scotland,  the  family  being  the  same  as  that  of  the  renowned  patriot,  Robert 
Bruce. 

Richard  Winsor,  of  this  sketch,  was  seventeen  years  of  age  at  the  time 
when  the  family  removed  from  Ontario  to  the  state  of  Michigan,  and  his 
early  education  had  been  secured  in  the  excellent  schools  of  his  native 
province.  In  1859  the  family  home  was  destroyed  by  fire,  while  he  was 
absent  in  Huron  City,  where  he  had  employment,  and  after  this  disaster, 
which  was  followed  by  the  still  greater  one,  in  the  loss  of  the  husband  and 
father,  the  family  removed  to  Huron  City,  and  our  subject  purchased  in  that 
vicinity  a  tract  of  land,  which  he  cleared  and  improved,  placing  the  same 
under  cultivation  and  thus  managing  to  keep  the  family  together  until  the 
younger  children  were  able  to  care  for  themselves.  In  the  midst  of  all  the 
responsibilities  and  labors  which  thus  fell  to  his  portion,  Judge  Winsor  found 
time  to  continue  his  technical  study  and  reading,  having  determined  to  pre- 
pare himself  for  the  legal  profession  and  holding  no  obstacle  as  insuperable. 
He  prosecuted  his  legal  studies  under  the  preceptorship  of  John  Divine,  of 
Lexington,  Michigan,  and  in  1867  he  was  admitted  to  practice  before  the 
state  courts,  having  been  previously  in  practice  in  the  circuit  courts.  In 
December  of  the  year  mentioned  he  removed  to  Port  Austin,  where  the 
county-seat  of  Huron  county  was  then  established,  and  there  he  entered  vig- 
orously upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  in  which  he  soon  attained  an 
excellent  reputation  and  a  representative  clientage,  his  abilities  and  fidelity 
to  the  cause  of  his  clients  gaining  him  deserved  recognition.  He  was  one 
of  the  most  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizens  of  his  county  and  was 
one  of  the  prime  factors  in  securing  the  entrance  of  railroad  and  telegraph 
lines  in  that  section  of  the  state.  He  eventually  admitted  to  partnership  in  his 
legal  business  Horace  G.  Snover,  ex-member  of  congress  from  the  tenth  dis- 
trict of  Michigan,  and  the  two  gentlemen  erected  a  fine  building  in  Port  Austin 
and  there  established  a  successful  banking  business,  also  carrying  on  an 
extensive  insurance  business  and  controlling  the  largest  law  pratice  in  that 
section  of  the  Peninsular  state.     Judge  Winsor  also  made  quite  extensive 


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investments  in  land,  engaging  in  farming  operations  and  the  raising  of  live 
stock,  and  becoming  also  heavily  interested  in  the  lumbering  industry  and 
in  the  salt  business,  his  interests  in  these  lines  becoming  of  wide  scope  and 
importance,  and  all  being  wisely  handled,  since  his  executive  ability  and 
infinite  capacity  for  details  proved  equal  to  all  emergencies.  Judge  Winsor 
naturally  took  a  deep  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  his  prominence  in  po- 
litical circles  indicated  his  strength  as  an  advocate  of  the  cause  which  he 
espoused,  that  of  the  Republican,  party.  In  1862,  when  but  twenty-three 
years  ol  age,  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the  lower  house  of 
the  state  legislature,  was  re-elected  in  1864,  dclining  the  renomination  in 
1866.  In  the  following  year  he  was  elected  a  member  of  constitutional  con- 
vention of  Michigan,  this  being  one  of  the  most  notable  assemblies  of  talented 
men  ever  called  together  in  that  commonwealth  and  the  work  accomplished 
being  one  that  reflects  perpetual  credit  upon  those  participating  and  also 
upon  the  state  itself.  In  the  fall  of  1868  Judge  Winsor  was  given  a  still  high- 
er mark  of  popular  confidence  and  esteem,  being  elected  to  the  state  senate, 
in  which  he  served  during  the  sessions  of  the  two  ensuing  winters.  In  1880 
the  senatorial  honors  were  again  conferred  upon  him,  his  election  being  com- 
passed by  a  majority  of  three  thousand  three  hundred  votes.  In  the  session 
of  1882  he  introduced  the  bill  for  the  organization  of  the  twenty-sixth  judi- 
cial circuit  and  was  also  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  securing  the  extra  session 
of  the  legislature  in  order  to  devise  ways  and  means  for  the  relief  of  the 
suffers  from  the  great  fire  in  Huron,  Sanilac  and  Tuscola  counties,  the  need 
for  prompt  assistance  being  imperative.  For  twenty-five  consecutive  years 
Judge  Winsor  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  county  central  committee  of 
Huron  county,  and  no  man  has  ever  wielded  a  more  potent  or  beneficial  influ- 
ence in  the  political  affairs  of  that  locality  than  he,  while  for  many  years  he 
was  also  a  member  of  the  state  central  committee,  though  he  often  ser^'ed  in 
this  capacity  at  a  sacrifice  of  his  personal  interests. 

In  the  year  1889  Judge  Winsor  made  a  change  of  location,  leaving  the 
.'■tate  which  had  so  long  been  his  home  and  in  which  he  had  attained  dis- 
tinguished honors,  and  came  to  Seattle,  the  change  being  prompted  by  the 
fact  that  his  health  had  become  much  impaired,  making  it  necessary  for  him 
to  seek  different  climatic  environment.  His  son  had  previously  located  in 
Seattle,  and  this  fact  determined  his  choice  to  a  degree  also.  He  has  made 
extensive  investments  in  this  locality,  but  still  retained  valuable  property 
interests  in  Michigan  until  1901,  when  he  disposed  of  the  major  portion  of  his 
holdings  there.  The  Judge  has  become  thoroughly  identified  with  the  indus- 
trial and  professional  life  of  Seattle  and  has  shown  his  confidence  in  the  future 


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of  the  state  by  investing  in  real  estate  upon  a  quite  extensive  scale.  For  about 
two  years  after  his  arrival  he  gave  his  attention  principally  to  looking  after 
his  investments,  in  the  meanwhile  thoroughly  recuperating  his  physical  ener- 
gies upder  the  influences  of  the  gracious  climate  of  the  state,  and  he  then 
entered  upon  the  general  pratice  of  his  profession  and  has  attained  prece- 
dence as  one  of  the  leading  members  of  the  bar  of  his  adopted  state.  He 
has  one  of  the  few  law  libraries  that  escaped  in  its  entirety  from  destruction 
by  the  great  fire  which  swept  the  city  in  1889,  and  the  same  is  one  of  the 
best  private  collections  of  the  sort  in  this  section  of  the  Union.  The  Judge 
has  avoided  as  far  as  possible  practice  in  the  criminal  courts,  but  his  powers 
in  this  line  have  become  so  well  known  that  he  has  occasionally  been  drawn 
into  such  cases,  his  sympathy  for  and  willing  defense  of  the  oppressed  and 
<lowntrodden  leading  him  to  spare  neither  time  nor  personal  interests  when 
he  could  aid  those  thus  afflicted  and  insure  the  ends  of  justice.  Though  he 
was  counsel  and  advocate  in  many  of  the  most  important  criminal  cases  in 
Michigan  during  the  long  years  of  his  residence  there,  he  is  enlisted  in  this 
service  in  Seattle  only  when  strongly  importuned  or  wdien  his  sympathies 
are  appealed  to  in  the  righting  of  wrongs.  Since  locating  in  Seattle  Judge 
Winsor  has  continued  to  maintain  a  lively  interest  in  public  affairs,  and 
keenly  discerning  the  drift  of  political  matters,  he  could  not  but  appreciate 
ihe  trend  toward  the  development  of  political  favoritism  in  permitting  the 
accumulation  of  large  property  interests  in  the  hands  of  a  favored  few,  and 
thus,  in  the  fall  of  1892,  he  engaged  actively  in  the  campaign  work  as  an 
advocate  of  the  principles  of  the  People's  party,  also  taking  part  in  the  cam- 
paign in  Oregon  at  the  time  of  the  candidacy  of  Governor  Penoyer.  He 
entered  into  a  joint  debate  with  Congressman  Tong  in  the  city  of  Hills- 
boro,  and  his  able  and  forcible  marshalling  of  facts  and  arguments  made 
his  speech  one  of  the  most  potent  in  results  in  all  that  were  delivered  dur- 
ing that  campaign.  He  is  a  ready,  forceful  and  eloquent  speaker,  his  ut- 
terances bearing  the  marks  of  absolute  sincerity  and  honesty,  c.nd  he  has 
done  most  effective  service  on  the  political  rostrum  and  also  through  able 
contributions  to  the  newspaper  press  and  through  the  circulation  of  cam- 
paign documents  written  by  him.  Thirty  thousand  copies  of  a  pamphlet 
written  by  him  on  the  financial  question  were  published  and  circulated  in 
1892,  and  proved  most  effective  in  result  by  reason  of  his  masterful  sum- 
ming up  of  the  case.  He  has  been  importuned  to  accept  nomination  for 
offices  of  distinct  trust  and  responsibility  in  the  state,  among  the  most  not- 
able overtures  being  that  made  in  1896,  when  he  was  urged  to  accept  nomina- 
tion for  the  office  of  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  state,  an 


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Iionor  which  he  felt  obho-ed  to  dechne  bv  reason  of  the  condition  of  his 
health  at  the  time.  In  the  winter  of  1897,  unknown  to  himself,  his  name 
was  prominently  brought  forward  in  connection  with  nomination  for  the 
United  States  senate.  He  was  a  member  of  the  committee  which  framed 
the  present  municipal  charter  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  and  his  interest  in  all 
that  concerns  the  welfare  of  his  home  city  and  state  is  vital  and  insistent. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  state  university  since 
1897,  and  the  cause  of  education  finds  in  him  a  warm  friend.  When  twen- 
ty-three years  of  age  the  Judge  was  initiated  into  the  mysteries  of  the  time- 
honored  Masonic  fraternity,  and  has  advanced  to  the  degree  of  the  Scottish 
Rite.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the  Unitarian  church,  and  he  has  served 
as  a  member  of  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  church  in  Seattle.  In  Seattle 
cur  subject  has  acquired  valuable  residence  properties,  including  his  own 
dttractive  home,  at  the  corner  of  Sixth  avenue  and  Lenora  street,  and  his 
summer  home  is  located  across  the  Sound,  in  Kitsap  county,  where  he  has 
acquired  a  large  tract  of  land. 

In  the  city  of  Lansing,  Michigan,  on  the  23d  of  June,  1863,  Judge 
Winsor  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Turner,  w^ho  was  born  in 
Ingham  county,  that  state,  the  daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Hayner) 
Turner,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  namely : 
Richard,  Jr.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in  Kitsap  county; 
Amos  T.,  who  is  superintendent  of  construction  at  the  state  university; 
Irwin  B.,  who  is  engaged  in  the  steamship  supply  business  in  Seattle;  Bessie 
L.,  who  has  been  secretary  of  the  Federation  of  Women's  Clubs  in  the  state 
from  the  time  of  its  organization;  and  Horace  G..  who  is  attending  the  state 
university. 

GENERAL  SIMON  M.  PRESTON. 

Far  removed  from  the  place  of  his  birth  is  the  home  of  General  Simon 
Manly  Preston.  He  is  a  native  of  Vermont,  his  birth  having  occurred  in 
Strafford  on  the  14th  of  April,  182 1,  and  he  comes  of  English  ancestry. 
His  Grandfather,  Alexander  Preston,  settled  at  Strafford,  in  1780,  married 
Mary  Durgan  and  died  in  18 16,  but  she  long  survived  him  and  reached  a 
very  advanced  age.  By  profession  he  was  a  teacher  and  kept  a  private 
school,  W'hich  he  capably  conducted,  being  a  man  of  intelligence  and  abilitv. 
His  wife  was  identified  with  the  Society  of  Friends.  Warner  Preston,  the 
father  of  General  Preston,  was  born  at  Strafford,  Vermont,  in  1799.  and  mar- 
ried Esther  Brown,  a  native  of  his  own  town  and  a  daughter  of  Absalom  and 
Abigal   (Bean)   Browm.     The  father  w^as  a  valued  member  of  the  Freewill 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  119 

Baptist  church,  being  a  charter  member  of  the  congregation  at  Strafford. 
They  had  nine  children  and  reared  to  maturity  seven  of  this  number,  of 
whom  four  are  yet  hving.  The  father  departed  this  hfe  in  1871  at  the  age 
of  seventy-two  years  and  his  good  wife  passed  away  in  1855. 

General  Preston  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  living  in  Washing- 
ton. He  was  educated  in  Norwich  Universit}-,  a  military  school  in  which 
he  was  graduated  in  1845  and  in  addition  to  his  other  studies  he  acquired 
c.  thorough  knowledge  of  military  tactics  and  drill.  Subsequently  he  was 
for  two  years  professor  of  military  drill  and  tactics  in  that  school  and  his 
teaching  also  included  seven  years  elsewhere  spent.  On  the  expiration  of 
that  period  he  engaged  in  civil  engineering  in  Illinois.  In  1850  he  removed 
to  Chicago  and  later  to  Rockford,  that  state,  where  he  resided  for  fifteen 
years,  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession — surveying  for  the  location 
of  railroads  and  engineering  their  construction. 

In    1861,  in  answer  to  President  Lincoln's   call   for  volunteers   to  put 
down  the  rebellion  of  the  slaveholders  in  the  south,  he  tendered  his  services 
to  his  country^  and  was  mustered  in  as  a  member  of  the  Fifteenth  Regi- 
ment, Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.     He  became  a  first  lieutenant  and  served 
as  quartermaster.     After  thirty  days  with  his  regiment  he  was  appointed 
by  the  president  assistant  adjutant  general  of  volunteers,  with  the  rank  of 
captain,  and  served  on  the  staffs  of  Generals  Hulbert,  Halleck  and  Wright. 
In    1864  he   received  a   commission  as   colonel   of   the  Fifty-eighth   United 
States  Colored  troops,  which  was  a  new  regiment,  and  Colonel  Preston  took 
just  pride  in  making  them  proficient  in  drill,  as  a  result  of  which  the  com- 
mand  won  considerable  renown.      Such   are  the  eminent  services   that   our 
subject  rendered  his  country,  in  reward  for  which  he  was  breveted  brigadier- 
general,  and  as  such  was  mustered  out  of  service  on  the  30th  of  i\pril,  1866. 
After  the  close  of  the  war  General  Preston  settled  at  Natchez,  Missis 
sippi,  and  resumed  his  profession  of  civil  engineering.     He  was  appointed 
by  President  Grant  collector  of  internal  revenue,  which  office  he  very  satis- 
factorily filled   for  four  j^ears.      Having  resided  eight  years   in  Mississippi 
he  decided  to  return  north,  and  for  some  time  thereafter  was  engaged  in 
building  railroads  in  Iowa  and  Kansas.      He  had  charge  of  the  construc- 
tion of  the  eastern  branch  of  the  Iowa  Central  Railway  and  that  position 
claimed  his  attention  until   1890,  in  which  year  he  came  to   Seattle  to  re- 
side.    He  had  charge  of  the  Seattle  National  Bank  building  and  has  been 
otherwise  identified   with   business  affairs   here.      He  was   receiver   for  the 
Hopkins  property  and  was  auditor  in  the  reconstruction  of  the  Yeslerway  and 
Jackson  Street  railroads. 


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On  the  1 2th  of  December,  1848,  occurred  the  marriage  of  General  Pres- 
ton to  Miss  Martha  Harriet  Sargent,  a  native  of  New  Hampshire  and  a 
daughter  of  Captain  Jacob  and  Pattie  (Webster)  Sargent.  They  were  of 
Enghsh  ancestry  and  were  early  settlers  in  Massachusetts.  Mrs.  Preston, 
the  only  daughter  in  a  family  of  eight  children,  was  educated  in  a  female 
seminai-y  of  her  native  state  and  for  three  years  prior  to  her  marriage  was 
a  successful  teacher  in  North  Carolina.  General  Preston  and  wife  have  the 
following  named  children :  Edward  L.,  .who  is  a  civil  engineer  on  the  Chi- 
cago, Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad  and  resides  in  the  state  of  Missouri; 
Harold,  who  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  bar  of  Washington  and  candi- 
date of  his  party  for  the  office  of  United  States  senator;  Clarence  S.,  who 
is  a  practicing  attorney  of  Seattle:  and  Alice  Pauline,  the  only  daughter, 
who  is  the  wife  of  General  E.  M.  Carr,  an  eminent  member  of  the  Seattle 
bar. 

Mrs.  Preston  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Congregational  church.  She 
says  that  her  part  in  the  great  Civil  war  was  in  the  care  of  their  children 
through  that  period  of  excitement  and  danger  and  a  part  of  the  time  she 
was  in  camp  with  her  husband.  That  she  performed  her  part  well  is  evi- 
denced by  the  notable  family  she  has  reared,  her  children  all  being  an  honor 
to  her  name.  The  General  is  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
and  has  been  a  lifelong  Republican,  unfaltering  in  his  advocacy  of  the  party 
platform.  His  three  sons  have  also  followed  in  the  political  footsteps  of 
their  father.  Both  the  General  and  his  wife  enjoy  the  esteem  of  all  who 
know  them  and  the  respect  of  a  large  number  of  friends.  They  have  a 
beautiful  home  in  which  to  spend  the  evening  of  their  days  and  are  most 
worthy  representatives  of  Seattle.  The  General  is  as  true  and  loyal  to  his 
country  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  her  welfare  and  protection  as  he  was  in 
rhe  dark  hours  of  peril  when  he  followed  the  starry  banner  of  the  nation  upon 
the  battle  fields  of  the  south. 

ALONZO  COSTILLO  BOWMAN. 

The  gentleman  above  mentioned  is  serving  as  United  States  commis- 
sioner for  the  district  of  AVashington.  He  was  born  in  Cass  county,  Mis- 
souri, March  24,  1859,  and  is  of  English  ancestry.  His  father,  James  Har- 
vey Bowman,  was  born  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania  and  now  resides  in  Seat- 
tle in  the  seventy-sixth  year  of  his  age.  He  married  Miss  Amanda  Fuller, 
a  lady  of  French  lineage,  although  the  family  has  been  represented  in  Amer- 
ica through  many  generations.     The  father  of  our  subject  served  his  country 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  121 

valiantly  in  the  Civil  war  as  a  defender  of  the  Union,  for  three  and  a 
half  years,  becoming  a  member  of  the  Eleventh  Kansas  Cavalry,  but 
notwithstanding  the  fact  that  he  was  in  many  battles  and  often  in  the  thickest 
of  the  fight  he  escaped  wounds  and  capture  and  at  the  cessation  of  hostilities 
received  an  honorable  discharge.  In  the  family  were  three  children :  C.  E.. 
Bowman,  a  prominent  member  of  the  Seattle  bar;  Laura,  the  wife  of  A. 
Furry,  also  of  this  city,  and  Alonzo  C. 

During  his  early  boyhood  our  subject  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Kan- 
sas and  in  the  public  schools  of  that  state  pursued  his  education  and  entered 
upon  his  business  career  in  the  newspaper  field,  in  Burton.  He  also  became 
the  official  stenographer  for  that  district,  filling  the  position  for  three  and 
a  half  years,  during  which  time  he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  using  his  leisure 
hours  for  the  mastery  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence.  He  was  there  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar,  but  believing  the  business  opportunities  of  the  Mississippi 
valley  did  not  equal  those  of  the  Pacific  coast  he  came  to  the  northwest,  set- 
tling in  Seattle,  on  the  15th  of  January,  1882,  since  which  time  he  has  been 
largely  engaged  in  stenographic  work,  being  an  expert  in  that  Inie,  having 
remarkable  speed,  facility  and  accuracy.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Bowman,  Bolster  &  Eaton,  law  stenographers,  doing  the  principal  busi- 
ness in  their  line  in  Seattle. 

In  1880  Mr.  Bowman  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Georgia  Mat^ 
thews,  who  was  born  in  the  state  of  Mississippi  and  is  descended  from  an 
old  New  England  family.  Unto  them  have  been  born  two  children :  Otha 
C.  and  Fleta  C.  Theirs  is  one  of  the  delightful  homes  of  Seattle,  celebrated 
for  its  gracious  hospitality  and  a  favorite  resort  with  their  many  friends. 
Mr.  Bowman  is  a  Republican  in  his  political  views  and  is  a  very  prominent 
Mason,  having  taken  all  of  the  degrees  of  the  York  Rite  and  all  of  the 
Scottish  Rite  up  to  and  including  the  thirty-second.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  is  grand  chancellor  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Wash- 
ington of  the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  likewise  identified  with  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  is  accounted  a  valued  representative 
of  these  various  oro-anizations. 


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JAMES  THEODORE  RONALD. 

One  of  the  prominent  attorneys  of  Seattle  and  member  of  the  firm 
of  Ballinger,  Ronald  &  Battle,  has  attained  to  a  position  of  distinction  as  a 
representative  of  the  legal  fraternity  and  his  reputation  extends  through- 
out the  state  of  Washington.      He  was  born    at    Caledonia,    Washington 

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122  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

county,  Missouri,  on  the  8th  of  April,  1855,  and  is  descended  from  Lord 
Ronald,  the  Scottish  chieftain  who  fought  under  Bruce  and  was  prominent 
in  regaining  the  liberty  of  Scotland.  The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject 
was  Andrew  Ronald,  who  was  born  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather,  and  is 
a  son  of  the  last  Lord  Ronald.  He  emigrated  to  Virginia  and  became  a 
noted  lawyer,  for  a  time  serving  as  counsel  for  the  crown  prior  to  the  Revo- 
lutionary war.  He  was  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  country  and 
in  his  profession  gained  marked  prominence.  He  was  associated  with  Pat- 
rick Henry  in  a  number  of  cases  and  was  also  his  opponent  in  cases  of  great 
imoortance.  The  various  venerations  of  the  family  have  been  born  in  Vir- 
ginia  up  to  the  time  of  Onslow  G.  Ronald,  our  subject's  father.  Andrew 
Ronald,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  a  devout  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  and  an  educated  Christian  gentleman  of  the  most  admirable 
•character.  He  had  great  love  for  liberty  and  although  reared  amid  slavery 
he  was  never  a  slave  owner,  his  love  for  the  whole  human  race  being  too 
^reat  for  that.  He  attained  the  age  of  seventy-five  years  and  died  in  Wash- 
ington county,  Missouri,  where  he  had  emigrated  with  his  family  a  few 
years  before.  His  son,  Onslow  Gemmel  Ronald,  was  born  in  Virginia  on 
the  22nd  of  February,  1822,  and  was  educated  in  Missouri.  He  married 
Miss  Amanda  Carson,  of  Virginia,  who  was  descended  from  the  same  an- 
cestry as  Kit  Carson,  the  renowned  mountain  guide  and  Indian  fighter. 
Mr.  Ronald  acquired  a  farm  in  W^ashington  county,  where  he  led  an  indus- 
trious and  honorable  life  and  there  his  children  were  born  and  reared.  His 
farm  comprised  two  hundred  and  sixty-six  acres  of  land  and  is  still  owned 
by  our  subject  and  his  brothers  and  sisters.  The  mother  died  there  at  the 
age  of  forty-six  years,  while  the  father  passed  away  at  the  age  of  seventy. 
He  was  one  of  the  substantial  pioneer  citizens  of  that  portion  of  Missouri, 
and  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  devout  members  of 
the  Methodist  church.  In  their  family  were  nine  children  and  by  a  sec- 
ond marriage  the  father,  had  five  more  children. 

James  T.  Ronald  was  reared  upon  the  old  homestead  and  attended  the 
public  schools,  also  pursuing  his  studies  in  the  seminary  of  his  native  town. 
In  1873  he  entered  the  State  Normal  School  at  Kirksville,  vrhere  he  com- 
pleted a  three  years'  course  in  two  years,  being  graduated  in  Ji^ine.  1875. 
Immediatel)-  afterward  he  started  for  the  Pacific  coast,  arriving  in  Sacra- 
Inento,  California,  on  the  26lh  of  July,  with  just  ten  cents  in  his  pocket. 
\Vilh  this  he  bought  three  postage  stamps,  for  which  he  then  paid  three 
cents  each.  One  was  used  on  a  letter  to  his  father,  another  on  a  letter  to  his 
sweetheart,  the  third  he  saved  to  write  to  her  again.    A  week  later  he  secured 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  123 

a  small  school  in  the  valley,  but  on  account  of  his  inexperience  he  was  con- 
sidered incapable,  and  after  one  term  was  not  again  employed.  He  then 
removed  to  Plumas  county  and  tliere  was  more  successful  in  his  educational 
work  and  demonstrated  his  ability  to  impart  clearly  and  concisely  to  others 
the  knowledge  he  had  acquired.  He  taught  the  Snake  Lake  Valley  school, 
later  was  employed  as  principal  of  the  Greenville  school,  and  acceptably 
filled  that  position  for  three  years,  so  that  his  efforts  at  pedagogy 
proved  successful.  On  the  4th  of  July,  1876,  he  borrowed  a  copy  of 
Blackstone  from  Judge  E.  T.  Hogan,  of  Quincy,  California,  and  earnestly 
began  the  study  of  law,  improving  every  leisure  moment  before  and  after 
school,  ev^en  studying  well  into  the  night.  He  continued  his  teaching  and 
the  study  of  law  until  1880,  when  he  was  called  to  take  charge  as  principal 
of  the  Lincoln  Grammar  School,  at  Lincoln,  California,  remaining  at  that 
place  for  two  years.  During  his  vacation  in  the  summer  of  1881  he  spent 
five  weeks  in  the  law  office  of  Judge  Cheney  and  Honorable  Edward  Bruner 
at  Sacramento.  On  the  27th  of  May,  1882,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by 
the  superior  court  of  Placer  county,  California. 

On  the  26th  of  February,  1877,  Mr.  Ronald  had  been  happily  married 
to  Miss  Rhoda  M.  Coe.     She  was  born  in  Knox  county,  Missouri,  the  daugh- 
ter of   Jamison   Coe,   a   repiesentative  of  an   old   Virginia   iamiiy  of   great 
vorth.     She  was  the  girl  he  had  left  in  Missouri  when  he  came  to  California, 
and  tlie  marriage  was  a  very  happy  one,  in  every  w^ay  congenial.     She  had 
been  his  schoolmate  in  childhood  and  came  to  California  to  become  his  wife. 
The  eldest  daughter,  Norma  Vane,  now  a  beautiful  young  lady,  was  born 
at   Greenville,    Plumas   county,   California,    and   two   other   daughters,    Eva 
i'.nd  Mabel,  have  been  added  to  the  family  in  Seattle.     While  pursuing  his 
law  studies  Mr.  Ronald  had  been  studying  the  several  places  on  the  Pacific 
coast  in  search  of  a  new  field  in  which  to  engage  in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, and  finally  gave  Seattle  the  preference,  a  choice  which  he  has  since 
iiad  no  cause  to   regret,   notwithstanding  that   the  beginning   was   anything 
I'Ut  auspicious.     He  arrived  in   Seattle  on  the  26th  of  July,    1882,  accom- 
panied by  his  wdfe  and  little  daughter,  and  bringing  with  him  his  household 
effects  and  four  hundred  and  eighty  dollars  in  money.     The  city  then  con- 
tained a  population  of  about  five  thousand,  including  a  large  number  of  law- 
yers.     Mr.    Ronald   had   no   experience,   but   he   hung   ou.t   his   shingle  and 
awaited  business,  but  two  months  passed  before  any  came.     In  that  time  his 
funds  had  become  largely  exhausted,  but  he  sold  some  real  estate  on  com- 
mission  in   order   to   provide  his   family   with   the  necessaries   of   life.      He 
contracted  for  two  lots  in  the  woods  back  of  Lake  Union,  on  wlr'ch  he  l)uilt 


124  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

a  three-room  house.  He  was  to  pay  for  this  land  and  house  by  instahments 
of  twenty  dollars  per  month,  and  a  grocer  of  the  city  allowed  him  to  pur- 
chase some  necessary  supplies  on  credit.  He  cleared  the  lots,  painted  and  pa- 
pered his  little  home,  dug  his  own  well  and  in  this  honorable  and  praiseworthy 
way  provided  for  his  wife  and  family.  Mr.  Ronald  has  ever  since  remem- 
bered with  the  greatest  gratitude  the  gentleman  who  trusted  him  for  the 
few  groceries  that  they  so  much  needed  and  when  the  panic  came  on  in  which 
so  many  of  the  business  men  of  Seattle  were  forced  to  the  wall  Mr.  Ronald 
proffered  his  services  to  his  kind  friend,  piloted  his  benefactor  through  the 
trying  time  in  safety  and  has  ever  since  cheerfully  given  him  his  legal  advice 
free  and  they  have  ever  been  the  warmest  of  friends  since  those  early  days 
when  ]Mr.  Ronald  was  attempting  to  get  a  start  here.  In  August,  1883,  Mr. 
Ronald  was  appointed  deputy  prosecuting  attorney  of  King  county  at  a  salary 
of  twenty  dollars  per  month.  The  town  was  then  over-run  with  criminal  char- 
acters and  a  lamentable  state  of  affairs  prevailed.  Feeling  that  this  was 
his  opportunity  to  lay  the  foundation  for  his  future  success,  Mr.  Ronald 
applied  himself  to  gaining  a  thorough  understanding  of  the  criminal  code  of 
Washington  and  began  such  a  campaign  against  law-breakers  as  had  not 
been  before  experienced  in  the  county,  with  the  result  that  the  city  was  great- 
ly benefited  and  fines  to  the  amount  of  five  thousand  dollars  were  col- 
lected during  his  first  year  and  put  into  the  school  funds.  In  this  suc- 
cessful work  Mr.  Ronald  laid  the  foundation  of  his  reputation  as  a  suc- 
cessful and  capable  lawyer  and  in  the  fall  of  1884  he  was  the  nominee  of 
the  Democratic  party  for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney  for  the  district 
comprising  the  counties  of  King,  Kitsap  and  Snohomish  and  was  elected 
with  a  majority  of  one  thousand  one  hundred  and  fifty-three  votes  in  a 
district  formerly  giving  a  Republican  majority  of  twelve  hundred.  He  com- 
pleted his  term  of  two  years  in  such  a  satisfactory  manner  that  he  was  re- 
elected in  1886  with  an  increased  majority  of  one  thousand  seven  hundred 
and  ninety-three.  He  filled  the  position  until  March  4,  1889,  when  he  re- 
tired from  office,  having  discharged  its  duties  with  honor  and  distinction. 
In  1886  he  took  in  as  a  partner  Mr.  S.  H.  Piles  and  the  firm  of  Ronald  & 
Piles  conducted  a  general  practice  in  all  the  courts  of  the  state,  meeting 
with  the  most  flattering  success.  In  1892  Mr.  Ronald's  Democratic  friends 
prevailed  on  him  to  permit  his  name  to  be  used  in  connection  with  the  can- 
didacy for  mayor  of  the  city.  To  this  he  reluctantly  consented  and  was 
elected  by  a  very  large  majority  and  while  chief  executive  of  the  city  he 
put  forth  every  effort  to  make  his  administration  one  that  would  be  bene- 
ficial and  satisfactory  to  all  law-abiding  citizens.     Along  many  lines  he  ad- 


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vanced  the  interests  of  Seattle.  The  city's  debt  was  reduced  fifty-eight  thou- 
sand dollars  and  the  city's  credit  greatly  improved.  In  1894  his  term  ex- 
pired. In  1900  he  was  requested  by  his  party  to  accept  the  nomination  as 
a  candidate  for  the  United  States  congress,  and  although  he  did  not  desire 
this  position,  and  it  was  only  at  the  solicitation  of  prominent  members  of 
the  party  that  he  accepted,  he  made  a  vigorous  canvass  and  ran  far  ahead  of 
his  ticket,  receiving  twenty-five  hundred  more  votes  than  Mr.  Bryan  and 
carried  his  own  city  and  county.  While  Mr.  Ronald  has  never  desired  office, 
he  has  ahvays  taken  an  active  part  in  politics,  his  influence  carrying  weight 
in  the  councils  of  his  party  wdiile  his  efforts  have  been  effective  in  promoting 
its  growth  and  success.  As  the  years  have  passed  Mr,  Ronald  has  made 
judicious  investments  in  property,  acquiring  much  valuable  realty.  He  is 
president  of  the  Una  Mining  Company,  president  of  the  North  Star  Min- 
ing Company  and  also  of  the  Hester  Mining  Company,  the  properties  of  all 
of  wdiich  are  now  being  rapidly  developed  with  prospects  of  soon  returning 
a  good  income  to  the  owners.  Mr.  Ronald  has  affiliated  with  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  for  about  twenty  years,  during  which  time  he 
has  filled  all  of  the  offices  in  its  branches.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  An- 
cient Order  of  United  Workmen  and  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  while 
his  wife  and  daughters  are  valued  members  of  the  Grace  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church,  and  with  them  he  attends  its  services.  They  now  have  a  beauti- 
ful home  in  Seattle  and  are  most  highly  respected  there,  having  a  large 
circle  of  friends. 

OLIVER  H.  P.  LaFARGE. 

The  ancestry  of  Oliver  H.  P.  LaFarge  as  far  back  as  their  history  can 
be  traced  in  the  annals  of  America  are  noted  for  the  sterling  traits  of  char- 
acter wdiich  mark  the  valuable  citizen  of  this  great  republic.  At  all  times 
they  have  been  ready  to  uphold  rig-hteous  and  just  laws,  to  promote  the 
Avelfare  of  the  land  of  their  nativity,  and,  if  needful,  to  lay  down  their  li\-es 
on  the  altar  of  her  liberty  and  maintenance. 

Mr.  LaFarge  was  born  in  Rhode  Island,  on  the  loth  of  July,  1869,  and 
is  of  French  and  English  ancestry,  who  were  among  the  early  settlers  of 
JMassachusetts  and  were  active  participants  in  all  the  early  history  of  the 
country.  His  paternal  grandfather,  John  LaFarge,  was  born  in  France,  but 
in  1806  eimgrated  to  the  new  world,  taking  up  his  abode  in  New  York  city, 
where  he  became  well  and  prominently  known  as  a  merchant  and  banker. 
His  death  occurred  in  that  city  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.     His  son. 


126  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

John  LaFarge,  claimed  the  Empire  city  as  the  place  of  his  nativity  and  he 
became  an  eminent  artist,  standing  at  the  head  of  the  profession  in  America. 
His  brother,  Alphonse  LaFarge,  served  as  colonel  of  a  New  York  regiment  of 
volunteers  during  the  Civil  war.  The  mother  of  our  subject  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Margaret  Perry,  and  she  is  a  native  of  Newport,  Rhode  Island.  Her 
ancestors  came  to  America  as  early  as  1634,  and  her  great-grandfather,  Chris- 
topher Raymond  Perry,  was  an  active  participant  in  the  colonial  struggle  for 
independence.  She  is  a  granddaughter  of  Commodore  Perry,  of  the  United 
States  navy,  whose  fame  goes  down  in  history  as  the  hero  of  Perry's  victory, 
while  her  granduncle,  Commodore  Matthew  C.  Perry,  opened  by  treaty  the 
ports  of  Japan  to  this  country.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  LaFarge,  the  parents 
of  our  subject,  are  still  living  in  New  York  city,  the  father  having  attained 
the  age  of  sixty-five  years,  while  the  mother  is  sixty-one.  He  has  the  honor 
of  being  president  of  the  Academy  of  Designe  and  is  an  officer  in  the  Legion 
of  Honor,  of  France.  They  became  the  parents  of  nine  children,  seven  of 
whom  are  still  living. 

Oliver  H.  P.  LaFarge,  the  immediate  subject  of  this  review,  is  a  grad- 
uate of  the  School  of  Mines  of  Columbia  University,  of  New  York,  of  the 
class  of  1 89 1,  and,  and  after  completing  his  studies  he  engaged  in  the 
profession  of  engineering,  in  the  employ  of  the  Metropolitan  Street  Rail- 
way Company,  of  New  York  city,  and  expert  on  fire  proof  construc- 
tion for  the  New  York  Fire  Underwriters'  Tariff  Association.  In  1898 
he  made  a  business  trip  to  Alaska,  during  which  he  visited  Seattle,  and  be- 
coming convinced  of  the  great  future  which  lay  before  this  city  he  decided 
to  make  it  his  future  place  of  abode.  In  1900  the  present  firm  of  Bond  & 
LaFarge  was  organized  for  the  purpose  of  doing  a  general  real-estate  and 
insurance  business.  They  have  made  many  investments  in  both  city  and  coun- 
try property,  and  this  enterprising  firm  now  occupy  a  leading  position  in  the 
"business  circles  of  Seattle.  Mr.  LaFarge  is  a  man  of  business  capacity  and 
resourceful  ability,  his  resolute  purpose  and  keen  discrimination  enabling 
him  to  carry  forward  to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes,  and 
he  has  gained  for  himself  an  enviable  reputation  in  social  and  business  cir- 
cles.    He  is  a  Republican  in  his  political  preferences. 

FRANCIS  M.   GUYE. 

From  an  early  period  Francis  M.  Guye  has  been  identified  with  the 
history  of  the  Pacific  coast,  being  a  pioneer  of  California,  Oregon  and  Wash- 
ington, and  he  has  done  efficient  service  in  developing  the  mineral  resources 


FRAHCIS    M.  GUYE 


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of  this  commonwealth.  His  birth  occurred  in  Greene  comity,  Indiana,  on  the 
7th  of  January,  1833,  and  he  is  of  Scotcli  and  EngHsh  descent.  His  ancestors 
were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Virginia  and  Tennessee,  and  were  active 
participants  in  the  early  histor}'  of  the  colonies  and  in  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Samuel  Guye,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Tennessee,  and 
was  there  married  to  Miss  Susanna  Bidwell,  a  native  of  Virginia  and  a 
member  of  a  prominent  old  family  of  that  state.  The  mother  was  called 
to  her  final  rest  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  forty  years,  and  Mr.  Guye 
was  a  second  time  married,  becoming  the  father  of  ten  children,  five  sons 
and  five  daughters,  .of  whom  but  three  of  the  sons  and  one  daughter  sur- 
vive.    He  reached  the  psalmist's  limit  of  three  score  and  ten. 

Francis  M.  Guye,  the  only  representative  of  the  family  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  was  reared  to  years  of  maturity  on  the  farms  which  his  father  owned 
in  Indiana,  Missouri  and  Iowa,  and  in  the  public  schools  of  the  three  states 
he  received  his  education,  attending  school  during  the  winter  months,  while 
in  the  summer  seasons  he  assisted  his  father  in  the  work  of  the  fields.  Re- 
maining at  home  until  his  twentieth  year  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California 
in  1853,  his  party  consisting  of  about  a  dozen  people,  and  in  order  to  .defray 
the  expenses  of  the  trip  he  drove  a  large  herd  of  cattle.  At  that  time  the 
trail  was  lined  with  emigrants  as  far  as  the  eye  could  see,  and  they  made 
a  safe  journey,  arriving  at  Hangtown,  now  Placerville,  California,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1853.  For  a  time  after  his  arrival  there  he  received  sixty-five  dol- 
lars a  month  and  his  board  in  compensation  for  his  services,  but  he  left  his 
money  with  the  firm  by  whom  he  was  employed  and  on  account  of  their  fail- 
ure he  lost  his  entire  earnings.  For  some  time  afterward  he  was  profitably 
engaged  in  freighting  from  Sacramento  to  the  mines  and  was  also  engaged 
in  placer  mining.  In  1858  he  went  to  the  Frazier  river  gold  fields,  but  his 
mining  venture  there  was  not  crowned  with  success,  and  after  a  year  thus 
spent  he  came  to  Seattle,  arriving  here  in  June,  1859.  For  a  short  time 
thereafter  he  worked  on  the  military  road  then  being  constructed  to  Belling- 
ham  Bay,  after  which  he  was  successfully  engaged  for  a  number  of  years  in 
lumbering,  cutting,  selling  and  delivering  logs  at  Salmon  Bay.  The  money 
which  he  thus  made  was  invested  in  Seattle  property,  on  Yesler  way,  Com- 
mercial street  and  Washington  avenue,  and  he  also  built  several  bridges  at 
these  places,  but  when  the  great  fire  of  1889  swq^t  over  the  city  he  was  a 
heavy  loser.  Since  that  time  i\Ir.  Guye  has  devoted  the  greater  part  of  his 
time  and  attention  to  prospecting,  and  has  discovered  large  quantities  of 
iron  and  coal.  He  has  developed  much  mining  property  in  different  parts 
of  the  state,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  one  thousand  acres  of  valuable  mining 


128  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

land.  Among  his  rich  mines  is  the  Industry,  located  on  Guy's  Mountain,  at 
the  head  of  the  south  fork  of  the  Snoquahnie  river,  near  Snoquahiiie  Pass, 
in  the  Cascade  mountains,  which  covers  an  area  of  two  hundred  and  forty 
acres  and  contains  bodies  of  magnetic  iron  ore  from  fifty  to  one  hundred 
feet  in  depth.  On  the  same  property  is  found  large  quantities  of  white  and 
mottled  marble  of  great  beauty  and  value.  His  Bessemer  mine,  on  the  middle 
and  north  forks  of  the  Snocjualmie  river,  covers  an  area  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  and  contains  large  deposits  of  the  very  best  magnetic  and  red 
liematite  iron  ore.  At  the  Bald  Hornet  mine  he  owns  sixty  acres  of  land,  on 
which  is  located  rich  deposits  of  gold  and  silver,  and  this  property  is  located 
in  the  vicinity  of  the  Bessemer  mine.  His  Washington  coal  mine,  in  the 
Squak  mountains,  about  eighteen  miles  southeast  of  Seattle,  extends  over 
an  area  of  six  hundred  and  forty  acres  and  contains  large  deposits  of  semi- 
anthracite,  cannel  and  bituminous  coal.  In  the  development  of  these  prop- 
erties he  has  discovered  several  veins  from  three  to  nine  feet  in  thickness  and 
extending  to  a  great  depth,  at  an  angle  of  forty  degrees.  Mr.  Guye  has  made 
a  close  study  of  geology  and  mineralogy,  and  his  opinions  are  considered  as 
authority  on  the  subject. 

In  the  year  1872  Mr.  Guye  was  happily  married  to  Mrs.  Eliza  (Dunn) 
Plympton.  She  is  a  native  of  Maine  and  a  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  ( Jor- 
don)  Dunn,  of  Oxford,  Oxford  county,  that  state,  and  of  Scotch  and  English 
descent.  Her  grandfather,  Joshua  Dunn,  arrived  in  America  at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  although  but  eighteen  years  of  age 
he  joined  the  colonial  forces  and  espoused  the  cause  of  the  colonies.  He  lived 
to  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years.  Josiah  Dunn  removed  to  Massachusetts 
in  1840,  and  died  in  Maine  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years.  Mrs.  Guye  was 
first  married  in  Boston,  when  a  young  girl,  to  Josiah  Ingalls  Plympton,  by 
whom  she  had  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  but  only  one  of 
the  number,  Charles  Edward  Plympton,  is  living.  He  was  reared  by  Mr. 
Guye,  and  still  lives  in  Seattle.  During  the  Civil  war  Mr.  Plympton  en- 
tered the  Union  service  as  a  captain,  but  on  account  of  meritorious  service 
on  the  field  of  battle  he  was  soon  promoted  to  the  rank  of  colonel  and  was 
soon  to  have  been  made  a  general.  He  had  expected  to  return  home  on  a 
furlough  in  a  few  days,  when  with  his  regiment  he  was  ordered  into  battle 
at  Deep  Bottom,  and  in  that  engagement,  on  the  i6th  of  August,  1864, 
Vvdiile  in  command  of  his  regiment,  he  laid  down  his  life  on  the  altar  of  his 
country.  He  was  a  brave  and  loyal  soldier,  and  his  loss  was  deeply  felt  by 
his  little  family  and  friends.  ]\Irs.  Guye  is  a  lady  of  culture  and  refinement, 
and  she,  too,  has  made  a  close  study  of  minerals.     When  sixty  years  of  age 


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she  took  the  Chautauqua  course  of  study  with  a  large  class  of  ministers  and 
teachers,  and  at  the  close  of  the  course  she  stood  at  the  head  of  the  class,  with 
an  average  of  ninety-five  in  each  study.  She  has  a  large  and  well  assorted 
library,  and  spends  many  happy  hours  among  her  books.  Mr.  Guye  is  a  life- 
long Republican,  and,  although  at  all  times  a  public-spirited  and  progressive 
citizen,  he  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  political  preferment,  preferring  to 
Q-ive  his  entire  attention  to  his  business  interests.  He  is  an  enthusiast  on 
the  mineral  wealth  of  the  state,  and  during  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago  he 
shipped  at  his  own  expense  three  thousand  pounds  of  mineral  exhibits,  in- 
cluding marble,  iron,  coal,  fine  clay  and  moulding  sand,  to  the  Exposition. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Guye  reside  in  a  pleasant  home  at  No.  1627  17th  avenue, 
south,  where  they  extend  a  gracious  hospitality  to  their  many  friends. 

SYLVESTER   B.    HICKS. 

As  one  of  the  representative  business  men  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  where 
he  has  maintained  his  home  for  nearly  a  decade  and  a  half,  contributing  in  no 
small  measure  to  its  development  and  material  prosperity  through  his  well 
directed  enterprise  and  public  spirit,  and  as  one  whose  ancestral  record  be- 
speaks long  and  prominent  identification  with  the  annals  of  Am.erican  his- 
tory, there  are  many  points  which  render  particularly  consonant  a  specific 
and  prominent  mention  of  Mr.  Hicks  in  this  compilation,  and  it  is  a  work 
of  satisfaction  to  thus  perpetuate  a  record  of  worthy  and  useful  life. 

Mr.  Hicks  was  born  on  a  farm  near  the  city  of  Rochester,  in  Monroe 
county.  New  York,  on  the  i8th  of  June.  1846,  and  is  a  descendant  of  dis- 
ringuished  English  stock,  the  ancestry  being  traced  back  in  direct  line,  from 
records  still  extant,  to  Sir  Ellis  Hicks  and  to  the  date  of  September  9,  1356. 
This  ancestor  was  knighted  by  Edward,  the  "Black  Prince,"  of  England, 
for  great  bravery  and  gallantry  displayed  in  capturing  the  colors  of  the 
French  in  the  battle  of  Poictiers.  His  lineal  descendant,  and  the  progenitor 
of  the  American,  sailed  from  England  in  the  good  ship  "Fortune"  and  landed 
at  Plymouth,  in  the  Massachusetts  colony,  on  the  nth  of  November,  1621, 
one  year  after  the  arrival  of  the  "Mayflower."  Our  subject's  ancestors  in 
the  direct  line  continued  to  reside  in  the  state  of  Massachusetts  until  his 
great-grandfather,  Samuel  Hicks,  removed  to  Parma,  Monroe  county.  New 
York,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  section.  His  son  and  namesake, 
Samuel,  Jr.,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  had  located  in  that 
county  about  two  years  previous  to  the  arrival  of  his  father  and  had  the 
distinction  of  being  the  first  white  settler  in  Monroe  county,  and  two  years 


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elapsed  before  any  other  white  person  made  settlement  there.  Samuel  Hicks, 
Sr.,  was  a  valiant  soldier  of  the  Continental  line  during  the  war  of  the  Rev- 
olution, and  the  same  intrinsic  loyalty  was  manifested  by  his  son  Samuel, 
who  was  an  active  participant  in  the  war  of  1812,  in  which  he  held  the  im- 
portant office  of  commissary.  His  grandson,  to  whom  this  sketch  is  dedi- 
cated, has  in  his  possession  the  gun  carried  by  this  honored  patriot,  together 
v;ith  a  pewter  plate  which  had  been  used  in  his  household,  while  he  also 
owns  eighty-nine  acres  of  the  extensive  farm  on  which  his  grandfather  re- 
sided for  so  many  years  and  which  was  owned  by  him  during  the  long  period 
of  his  residence  in  Alonroe  county,  New  York,  where  he  became  one  of 
the  prominent  and  influential  farmers  of  the  state.  He  departed  this  life  in 
1849,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years.  In  his  early  life,  amid  the  pioneer  wilds 
of  that  section  of  the  state  of  New  York,  he  devoted  his  attention  largely 
to  hunting  and  trapping,  and  later  he  reclaimed  the  farm  previously  mentioned 
and  placed  it  under  effective  cultivation.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  w'as 
Sherwood,  was  likewise  of  English  lineage,  and  the  second  white  woman  to 
cross  the  Genesee  river,  the  first  having  been  Aneka  Janes,  and  the  two  were 
well  acquainted.  She  attained  the  age  of  eighty-four  years.  Grandfather 
Hicks  left  his  fine  farm  to  his  two  youngest  sons,  and  in  course  of  time  their 
affairs  became  involved  and  the  property  passed  out  of  their  hands,  with  the 
exception  of  eighty-nine  acres  which  was  bequeathed  to  an  aunt  of  our  sub- 
ject, this,  too,  being  incumbered.  In  1899  Sylvester  B.  Hicks,  our  subject, 
[)urchased  this  portion  of  the  old  farm  and  cleared  off  the  obligations,  and 
he  finds  satisfaction  in  there  providing  a  home  for  his  venerable  aunt,  to 
whom  the  property  had  been  given,  but  who  had  no  means  of  freeing  the 
place  from  the  mortgage  resting  upon  it.  The  property  near  the  city  of 
Rochester,  which  had  l^een  purchased  by  Grandfather  Hicks  for  se\-en  York 
shillings  per  acre,  is  likewise  still  owned  by  members  of  the  family. 

John  Hicks,  father  of  him  whose  name  initiates  this  article,  was  born 
on  the  old  homestead  farm  in  ^Monroe  county.  New  York,  in  the  year  181 1, 
and  was  there  reared  to  maturity.  He  married  Miss  Elsie  Olmsted,  who 
was  born  at  Burnt  Hill,  Saratoga  county.  New  York,  in  181 3.  and  they 
became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  only  three  are  now  living. 
John  Hicks  passed  away  in  1866,  in  the  fifty-fifth  year  of  his  age,  his  death 
being  the  result  of  an  organic  disease  of  the  heart.  He  had  been  a  successful 
merchant  in  the  citv  of  Rochester  for  manv  vears  and  was  a  man  of  sterline 
character  and  marked  ability.  His  widow^  long  survived  him,  passing  away 
at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-three  years.     Both  were  devoted  members  of 


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the  Baptist  church  and  to  them  was  ever  accorded  unequivocal  respect  and 
esteem  by  all  who  knew  them. 

Sylvester  B.  Hicks  was  the  seventh  in  order  of  birth  of  the  eight  chil- 
dren of  John  and  Elsie  (Olmsted)  Hicks,  and  he  received  his  early  education 
in  the  excellent  public  schools  of  the  city  of  Rochester.  In  1864  he  took 
the  position  of  accountant  in  the  service  of  the  government,  and  as  such  con- 
tinued to  be  employed,  in  Tennessee,  for  a  period  of  two  years.  He  then 
accepted  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  for  a  manufacturing  house  in  the 
city  of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  and  in  this  capacity  visited  all  the  larger 
cities  in  the  Union,  continuing  to  remain  in  the  employ  of  this  concern 
until  1883,  thus  gaining  a  valuable  business  experience  and  an  exceptionally 
wide  circle  of  acquaintances.  After  leaving  his  position  as  a  traveling  rep- 
resentative Mr.  Hicks  engaged  in  tlie  hardware  business  in  Aberdeen,  South 
Dakota,  this  line  of  enterprise  being  that  with  which  he  had  familiarized 
himself  as  a  commercial  traveler,  and  he  continued  at  the  point  noted  for  a 
period  of  about  five  years,  his  efforts  having  been  attended  with  a  due 
measure  of  success.  He  disposed  of  his  interests  there  in  1889  and  came  to 
Seattle,  where  he  arrived  on  the  ist  day  of  July.  For  a  few  months  he  was 
in  the  employ  of  the  hardware  firm  of  Campbell  &  Atkinson,  and  was  then 
tendered  a  position  and  a  stock  interest  in  the  Schwabacher  Hardware  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  became  vice-president  and  also  acted  as  manager  until 
1899,  at  which  time  he  resigned,  for  the  purpose  of  engaging  in  business  on 
his  own  responsibility,  inaugurating  the  new  enterprise  by  organizing  the 
firm  of  S.  B.  Hicks  &  Sons.  The  establishment  of  the  firm  is  one  of  the 
most  important  of  the  sort  in  the  northwest,  the  stock  handled  comprising 
all  lines  usually  carried  in  a  metropolitan  house  of  the  kind,  and  a  branch 
store  is  also  maintained  by  the  firm  in  the  city  of  Portland,  Oregon.  Mr. 
Hicks  is  familiar  with  every  detail  of  the  business  and  his  long  experience 
makes  him  a  particularly  careful  and  discriminating  buyer,  so  that  he  is 
able  to  handle  his  business  with  great  facility  and  to  offer  the  best  service  to 
his  patrons.  The  house  of  which  he  is  the  head  has  gained  a  high  reputa- 
tion and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  business  concerns  of  the  city, 
a  specially  extensive  trade  being  handled  in  the  line  of  heavy  hardware.  Mr. 
Hicks  is  also  a  large  stockholder  in  the  Z.  C.  Miles-Piper  Company,  a 
prominent  hardware  and  house-furnishing  concern  of  this  city.  Our  sub- 
ject is  thoroughly  public-spirited  and  progressive  and  has  ever  taken  a  deep 
interest  in  all  imdertakings  and  enterprises  projected  for  the  benefit  of  the 
city  and  its  people.  He  came  here  at  the  time  when  the  ever  memorable 
fire  of  1889  had  left  the  major  portion  of  the  city  in  smoldering  ruins,  and 


132  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

he  has  not  only  been  a  witness  of  the  splendid  rehabilitation  of  the  place, 
but  has  also  contributed  a  due  quota  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  to 
insuring  its  advancement  along  normal  and  legitimate  lines  of  industrial  en- 
terprise. His  political  support  has  ever  been  given  to  the  Republican  party 
and  he  and  his  wife  hold  membership  in  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  they 
are  liberal  supporters. 

April  21,  1868,  Mr.  Hicks  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Henrietta 
West,  who  was  born  in  New  York  city,  the  daughter  of  Beer  West,  a  prom- 
inent jeweler  of  the  national  metropolis  at  that  time.  Of  this  union  three 
children  have  been  born,  namely:  Adelbert  M.  and  Frederick  W.,  both 
of  whom  are  associated  with  their  father  in  the  hardware  business,  while 
the  latter  of  the  two  is  also  a  member  of  the  directorate  of  the  Z.  C.  Miles- 
Piper  Company;  and  Elizabeth  Alice,  who  is  the  wife  of  Arthur  L.  Piper, 
one  of  the  interested  principals  in  the  company  just  mentioned. 

JOHN  M.  FRINK. 

The  industrial  activities  which  have  given  the  city  of  Seattle  such  marked 
prestige  and  precedence  within  the  lapse  of  comparatively  few  years,  have 
been  fostered  and  pushed  forward  by  men  of  business  capacity,  sterling  char- 
acter and  progressive  spirit, — men  who  have  had  appreciation  of  the  natural 
advantages  here  afforded  and  prescience  as  to  what  the  future  would  bring 
forth.  Among  the  honored  and  representative  business  men  of  Seattle  is  Mr. 
Frink,  president  and  manager  of  the  Washington  Iron  Works,  one  of  the 
leading  industrial  concerns  of  the  Evergreen  state. 

Mr.  Frink  claims  the  old  Keystone  state  of  the  Union  as  the  place  of 
his  nativity,  having  been  born  in  Montrose,  Susquehanna  county,  Pennsyl- 
vania, on  the  2 1  St  of  January,  1845,  the  family  being  of  stanch  Norman 
French  ancestry  and  having  been  established  on  American  £oil  in  the  early 
colonial  epoch.  The  original  American  progenitors  located  in  the  Carolinas 
in  1667,  and  later  the  family  became  one  of  prominence  in  Connecticut,  New 
York  and  Pennsylvania,  while  in  each  successive  generation  have  been  found 
men  of  ability  and  honor  and  women  of  refinement.  Rev.  Prentiss  Frink, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  review,  was  born  in  Madison  county.  New 
York,  in  the  year  181 5,  and  was  a  clergyman  of  the  Baptist  church,  devot- 
ing his  life  to  the  work  of  his  noble  calling  and  being  a  man  of  high  intel- 
lectuality and  lofty  ideals.  He  married  Miss  Deidamia  Millard,  who  was 
about  his  own  age  and  who  was  born  in  Schenectady  county.  New  York. 
In  their  early  married  life  they  lived  for  a  number  of  years  in  Pennsylvania, 


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thence  returning  to  New  York,  where  they  remained  until  1858,  when  they 
removed  to  Kansas,  of  which  state  the  father  of  our  subject  became  one  of 
the  pioneer  clergymen,  and  there  he  passed  the  residue  of  his  life,  passing 
away  in  1861,  at  the  age  of  forty-six  years,  and  leaving  his  widow  and  eight 
children,  of  whom  six  survive  at  the  present  time.  The  devoted  wife  and 
mother  long  survived  her  husband,  being  summoned  into  eternal  rest  at  the 
old  home  in  Fairview,  Kansas,  in  1897,  at  the  venerable  age  of  seventy-six 
years. 

John  M.  Frink,  who  was  the  eldest  son,  was  but  sixteen  years  of  age 
at  the  time  of  his  father's  death,  and  thus  the  care  and  maintenance  of  the 
family  devolved  upon  him  to  a  very  large  extent  while  he  was  still  a  mere 
youth.  The  texture  of  his  character  was  shown  at  that  time,  for  he  valiantly 
assumed  the  responsibilities  which  were  placed  upon  his  shoulders,  contin- 
uing to  work  the  homestead  farm  and  to  care  for  his  mother  and  the  younger 
children  until  all  became  able  to  assume  personal  responsibilities  and  provide 
for  their  own  maintenance.  He  thus  continued  at  the  homestead  for  a  period 
of  ten  years,  and  has  never  regretted  his  devotion  to  the  welfare  of  those 
near  and  dear  to  him,  considering  his  labors  at  the  time  as  haA'ing  consti- 
tuted a  privilege  rather  than  a  burden.  His  father  had  been  in  ill  health  for 
a  number  of  years  prior  to  his  death,  and  this  necessitated  our  subject's  with- 
drawal from  school  at  the  immature  age  of  twelve  years,  in  order  that  he 
might  take  up  the  work  which  he  so  ably  continued  after  the  demise  of  his 
father,  and  from  that  early  age  he  received  no  farther  specific  scholastic  train- 
ing save  for  two  terms  of  study  in  the  preparatory  department  of  Washing- 
ton College,  at  Topeka,  Kansas.  That  to  one  of  such  alert  and  receptive 
mentality  this  technical  deprivation  practically  constituted  only  a  slight  handi- 
cap, needs  scarcely  be  said,  and  he  effectively  supplemented  his  school  disci- 
pline by  personal  reading  and  study  in  the  evenings,  at  the  noon  hour  and 
on  Sundays,  making  each  moment  of  leisure  count  for  definite  development. 
Though  he  may  thus  be  said  to  be  self-educated,  it  can  not  be  gainsaid  that 
the  subjective  proved  an  able  instructor,  for  Mr.  Frink  is  a  man  of  broad 
and  exact  knowledge  and  is  keenly  appreciative  of  the  intellectual  elements, 
while  his  powers  of  absorption  have  ever  been  of  pronounced  type. 

In  1870  Mr.  Frink  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Hannah  Phillips, 
who  was  born  in  Westchester,  Pennsylvania,  and  shortly  after  this  import- 
ant event  in  his  career  he  removed  to  southern  Kansas,  where  he  secured  a 
farm  of  his  own,  and  there  continued  to  devote  his  attention  to  agricultural 
pursuits  for  a  period  of  eight  years,  his  energy  and  discriminating  methods 
being  so  directed  as  to  result  in  a  gratifying  and  unec|uivocal  success.     While 


134  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

residing  in  the  Sunflower  state  Mr.  Frink  enlisted  in  the  Twenty-second 
Kansas  Home  Guards,  at  the  time  of  the  Indian  massacre  of  1863,  and  he 
also  served  in  defending  the  country  against  the  invasion  of  the  Confederate 
General  Price  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  and  also  in  repelling  Ouant- 
rell  at  the  time  of  the  burning  of  the  city  of  Lawrence,  in  that  troublous 
epoch  in  our  national  history,  when  the  state  of  which  he  was  a  resident  con- 
sistently gained  the  sobriquet  of  ''bleeding  Kansas." 

Mr.  Frink  was  reared  in  the  west,  and  is  typically  western  in  spirit  and 
sentiment,  being  dominated  by  that  progressive  energy  which  has  brought 
about  the  magnificent  development  of  the  great  western  section  of  our  na- 
tional commonw'ealth.  In  the  year  1875  he  disposed  of  his  interests  in 
Kansas  and  removed  to  San  Francisco,  California,  where  he  remained  but 
a  short  interval,  coming  thence  to  Seattle  and  casting  in  his  lot  with  this 
city  of  destiny.  He  began  his  career  here  in  a  most  obscure  capacity,  and  his 
progress  has  indeed  kept  pace  with  that  of  the  beautiful  metropolis  of  Wash- 
ington, and  the  one  is  to  be  viewed  with  as  great  satisfaction  as  the  other. 
He  secured  work  by  the  day  on  the  streets  of  the  ambitious  little  western 
town,  which  at  that  time  gave  slight  evidence  of  its  future  prestige,  and  also 
worked  in  the  coal  bunkers,  later  turned  his  attention  to  carpentry  and  finally 
entered  upon  a  notably  different  sphere  of  endeavor,  becoming  a  successful 
t^chool  teacher.  He  has  ever  had  the  deepest  appreciation  of  the  dignity  of 
honest  toil  and  is  signally  free  from  that  false  pride  which  has  proved  the 
undoing  of  many  a  man.  In  his  pedagogic  work  Mr.  Frink  served  as  prin- 
cipal of  the  Belltown  school  and  later  was  similarly  incumbent  in  the  public 
schools  of  Port  Gamble,  Kitsap  county,  where  he  remained  two  years.  In 
188 1  he  engaged  in  the  foundry  business  in  Seattle,  beginning  operations 
upon  a  most  modest  scale,  but  giving  inception  to  an  enterprise  which  was 
to  develop  into  one  of  the  leading  industries  of  the  city  and  state.  He  en- 
tered into  partnership  w-ith  L.  H.  Tenny,  under  the  firm  name  of  Tenny  & 
Frink,  and  they  equipped  their  plant  in  such  a  way  as  to  meet  the  demands 
placed  upon  it  at  the  time.  In  the  year  1882,  such  had  been  the  success  at- 
tending the  first  year's  operations,  it  was  deemed  expedient  to  augment  the 
scope  of  operations  by  the  enlargement  of  the  facilities  of  the  enterprise,  and 
this  was  duly  accomplished  by  the  organization  of  the  Washington  Iron 
Works  Company,  which  was  duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  terri- 
tory of  Washington.  Mr.  Frink  was  at  once  made  president  and  manager 
of  the  company,  and  in  this  capacity  he  has  served  to  the  present  time,  his 
fine  executive  and  administrative  powers,  his  marked  business  discrimination 
and  his  indefatigable  energy  having  been  the  factors  in  accomplishing  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  135 

success  which  has  attended  the  enterprise  and  brought  it  into  a  place  of 
prominence  and  to  the  controUing  of  a  business  of  wide  scope  and  import- 
ance. To  the  original  foundry  was  added  a  machine  shop,  and  later  a  black- 
smith and  boiler  shop,  and  the  plant  was  well  equipped  at  the  time  of  the 
great  fire  which  devastated  the  city  in  1889.  This  memorable  conflagration 
practically  wiped  out  the  property  of  the  company,  as  it  did  many  other  of  the 
most  prominent  and  important  business  concerns  in  the  city,  and  the  loss  entailed 
to  the  Washington  Iron  Works  Company  reached  the  aggregate  of  about  eigh- 
ty-five thousand  dollars,  over  and  above  the  insurance  indemnity.  At  the  time 
of  the  fire  the  company  controlled  a  large  business  and  gave  employment  to 
a  corps  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  workmen.  With  that  indomitable 
spirit  and  courage  which  animated  the  business  men  of  the  city  after  this 
disaster  and  which  eventuated  in  the  more  substantial  upbuilding  of  its  ma- 
terial resources,  the  company  forthwith  began  the  construction  of  a  new 
plant,  and  the  same  now  covers  two  blocks,  while  its  equipment  and  access- 
ories are  of  the  most  modern  and  improved  type.  The  business  has  con- 
stantly increased  in  scope  and  represents  today  one  of  the  important 
industries  of  the  state,  while  employment  is  afforded  to  two  hundred  work- 
men, so  that  the  enterprise  has  distinct  bearing  upon  the  public  welfare  of 
the  community,  while  furthering  the  individual  prosperity  of  the  interested 
principals. 

Mr.  Frink  has  ever  stood  as  one  of  the  loyal  and  public-spirited  citi- 
zens of  the  great  state  of  Washington,  to  whose  material  development  and 
civic  progress  he  has  contributed  in  no  small  measure,  and  he  is  honored 
as  one  of  the  sterling  pioneers  of  the  commonwealth.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  first  electric  light  companies  in  Seattle,  in  :886,  but  event- 
ually disposed  of  his  interests  in  the  same.  Other  public  enterprises  of  the 
greatest  importance  have  received  his  co-operation,  notably  that  involving 
the  construction  of  street  railways,  in  which  he  has  taken  a  very  prominent 
part,  being  at  the  present  time  president  and  manager  of  the  Seattle  City 
Railway  Company,  in  whose  stock  he  has  a  controlling  interest.  He  has  also 
been  conspicuously  identified  with  the  building  interests  of  the  city,  having 
erected  a  large  number  of  business  and  residence  structures  and  being  the 
owner  of  property  in  all  divisions  of  the  city:  He  erected  what  is  known  as 
the  Washington  Iron  Works  Block,  at  the  corner  of  Occidental  and  Jack- 
son streets,  the  original  site  of  the  iron  works,  and  he  has  built  a  number 
of  fine  residences,  including  his  own  beautiful  and  distinctively  modern 
home,  at  the  corner  of  Weller  street  and  Thirtieth  avenue,  south,  the  same 


136  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

being  of  attractive  architectural  design  and  equipment  and  standing  as  one 
of  the  handsomest  places  in  the  city,  its  erection  having  been  completed  in 
1882.      In  politics   ]\Ir.   Frink  gives   a  stanch  allegiance  to   the  Republican 
party,  and  has  been  prominent  in  its  councils  in  the  state  of  his  adoption.     He 
was  a  member  of  the  board  of  aldermen  of  Seattle  at  the  time  when  the  first 
cable  and  electric  street  railways  were  installed,  and  he  did  all  in  his  power 
to  facilitate  the  construction  of  this  important  municipal  improvement,  while 
at  all  times  his  aid  and  influence  have  been  given  in  support  of  every  enter- 
prise and  project  for  the  general  good.     In  1891  he  was  elected  to  represent 
iiis  district  in  the  senate  of  the  state  legislature,  was  chosen  as  his  own  suc- 
cessor, and  thus  served  for  a  period  of  eight  years,  proving  a  capable  and 
loyal  legislator  and  being  ver}^  active  in  guarding  and  protecting  the  inter- 
ests of  his  district,  and  those  of  the  state  at  large.     His  prominence  in  the 
ranks  of  the  Republican  party  in  the  state,   and  the  appreciative  estimate 
placed   upon  his  abilities  and  character  led   to  his  nomination  for  the  dis- 
tinguished office  of  governor  of  the  state  in  1900,  but  his  defeat  was  com- 
passed through  a  split  in  the  ranks  of  the  party,  owing  to  a  disaffection  on 
the  part  of  a  certain  faction.     j\Ir.  Frink  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  most 
active  and  zealous  member  of  the  board  of  education  in  his  home  city,  having 
been  president  of  the  body  for  two  out  of  the  five  years  of  sen^ice  in  this  ca- 
pacity.    During  his  tenii  of  service  all  save  two  of  the  fine  school  buildings 
of  the  city  were  erected.     He  has  ever  stood  as  one  of  the  progressive  busi- 
ness men  and  public-spirited  citizens  of  the  state  of  Washington,  and  his 
course  has  been  such  as  to  command  unequivocal  confidence  ?nd  esteem.     He 
has  attained  a  high  degree  of  success  in  his  business  operations,  being  dis- 
tinctively a  man  of  affairs,  and  this  is  the  more  to  his  credit  since  it  represents 
the  results  of  his  own  efforts,  which  have  been  directed  on  a  high  plane  of 
honor  and  integrity.    He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
church,  with  which  his  family  are  also  identified. 

Mrs.  Hannah  (Phillips)  Frink  entered  into  eternal  rest  in  1875,  five 
years  subsequently  to  her  marriage,  and  in  1877  Mr.  Frink  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Abby  Hawkins,  who  was  born  in  the  state  of  Illinois,  be- 
ing a  daughter  of  Almon  Hawkins.  They  have  five  children :  Egbert  I. 
is  treasurer  of  the  Washington  Iron  Works  Company;  Gerald  is  assistant 
superintendent  and  master  mechanic  of  the  works;  and  Francis  Guy  is  secre- 
tary of  the  company;  the  two  daughters,  Helena  and  Ethena  remain  at  the 
parental  home,  which  is  a  center  of  gracious  and  refined  hospitality,  the  fam- 
ily taking  a  prominent  part  in  the  social  life  of  the  city. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  137 

LUTHER   A.   DYER. 

Though  no  land  is  richer  in  opportunities  or  offers  greater  advantages 
to  its  citizens  than  America,  success  is  not  to  be  obtained  through  desire, 
but  must  be  persistently  sought.  In  America  "labor  is  king"  and  the  man 
who  resolutely  sets  to  work  to  accomplish  a  purpose  is  certain  of  success 
if  he  but  has  the  qualities  of  perseverance,  untiring  energy  and  practical 
common  sense.  Captain  Luther  A.  Dyer,  president  of  the  Forty-fifth  Con- 
solidated Mining  Company,  through  his  diligence  and  persistent  purpose, 
has  won  a  leading  place  in  the  financial  circles  of  King  county. 

A  native  of  Maine,  he  was  born  at  Addison  Point,  Washington  county; 
on  the  27th  of  February,  1840,  and  is  a  member  of  a  prominent  old  family 
of  that  commonwealth.  The  progenitor  of  the  family  on  American  soil  was 
Lemuel  Dyer,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  who  came  to  this 
country  from  old  England.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  also  named 
Lemuel  Dyer,  was  born  in  Maine,  and  became  a  ship  builder  and  sea  captain, 
the  Dyers  for  many  generations  having  follow- ed  a  sea-faring  life.  Captain 
Luther  Dyer,  the  father  of  him  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  also 
claimed  the  Pine  Tree  state  as  the  place  of  his  nativity,  and  he,  too,  fol- 
lowed the  sea,  his  career  as  a  sailor  covering  a  period  of  fifty-five  years. 
In  1863  his  ship,  the  Fannie  W.  Bailey,  was  wrecked  outside  the  bar  at  San 
Francisco,  and  with  the  exception  of  two  all  on  board  were  lost,  the  brave 
captain  going  down  with  his  ship.  He  had  married  Miss  Delana  A.  Look, 
who  was  born  at  Martha's  Vineyard,  Massachusetts,  and  was  descended 
from  an  old  American  family.  They  became  the  parents  of  two  sons,  the 
brother  of  our  subject  being  G.  C.  Dyer,  an  employe  of  the  American  Rub- 
ber Company  at  Boston. 

Captain  Luther  A.  Dyer  received  his  primary  education  in  the  public 

schools  of  his  native  locality,  and  later  became  a  student  in  the  Washington 

Academy,   there  receiving   superior   advantages.      When   fourteen   years    of 

age,  following  the  footsteps  of  his  ancestors,  he  went  before  the  mast,  his 

first  voyage  being  from  New^  York  to  Australia,  and  during  his  career  of 

fifteen  years  as  a  sailor  he  visited  all  parts  of  the  world  and  was  in  many 

shipwrecks.     For  the  subseciuent  fifteen  years  he  was  the  master  and  owner 

of  ships,  and  after  a  sea-faring  life  of  thirty  years  he  sold  his  ships  at  Boston 

and  in  1887  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  where  he  has  since  been  interested 

in  the  discovery  of  the  rich  mineral  deposits  of  this  locality.    The  company  of 

which  he  is  now  president  own  property  in  the  Sultan  district,  in  the  Cascade 

Mountains,  where  they  have  taken  out  one  hundred  and  ninety  thousand 
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138  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

dollars  worth  of  ore,  the  ore  running  from  fifteen  to  one  hundred  and 
twenty-six  dollars  a  ton  in  silver  and  gold.  The  mine  which  they  are  now 
operating  is  a  very  valuable  one,  and  in  addition  they  have  thirty-two  claims. 
Mr.  Dyer  is  one  of  the  leading  miners  of  the  locality,  and  in  both  business 
and  social  circles  he  is  well  known.  His  political  support  is  given  to  the 
Democracy,  but  he  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  public  honors. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  was  celebrated  in  1867,  when  Miss  Direxa 
J.  Leighton  became  his  wife,  but  after  a  happy  married  life  of  nine  years 
this  union  was  dissolved  by  the  hand  of  death,  the  wife  bemg  called  to  her 
final  rest  in  1875,  leaving  one  son,  Luther  H.,  who  is  now  at  sea.  From 
early  life  Mr.  Dyer  has  been  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and 
he  is  also  a  member  of  the  Red  Men. 

JAMES    TONKIN. 

As  the  progress  and  prosperity  of  the  nation  and  of  any  community 
represents  the  aggregate  result  of  the  endeavors  of  the  individual  citizens, 
so  the  history  of  the  nation  is  the  record  of  the  composite  achievements  of 
its  people.  Biography  thus  becomes  the  very  foundation  on  which  must 
rest  the  general  history  of  mankind.  The  importance  of  making  a  per- 
manent record  of  the  life-work  of  men  who  are  worthy  such  distinction, 
can  not  be  overestimated.  The  subject  of  this  re\'iew  stands  forward  as  one  of 
of  the  honored  and  representative  citizens  of  the  thriving  little  city  of  Renton, 
with  whose  progress  and  development  he  has  been  intimately  identifi.ed,  having 
been  the  pioneer  merchant  of  the  place  and  having  gained  a  high  position 
in  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  the  people  of  the  community.  The  busi- 
ness which  he  established  so  many  years  ago  is  now  carried  successfully  for- 
ward by  his  sons,  who  conduct  a  well  equipped  general  merchandise  estab- 
lishment, under  the  firm  name  of  Tonkin  Brothers. 

Mr.  Tonkin  is  a  native  of  Cornwall,  England,  and  in  his  makeup  have 
Ijeen  signally  manifested  those  sterling  characteristics  for  which  the  Cor- 
nishman  has  ever  been  recognized  and  honored.  He  was  born  en  the  29th 
of  September,  1834,  the  son  of  William  and  Phoebe  (Knight)  Tonkin, 
both  representatives  of  stanch  old  English  families.  The  father  w^as  iden- 
tified with  the  great  mining  industry  in  Cornwall  and  passed  his  entire  life 
in  his  native 'land,  passing  away  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  He  was 
a  man  of  upright  character  and  sterling  worth,  and  both  he  and  his  wife 
were  devoted  members  of,  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  she  having  sur- 
vived him  a  few  years.     They  became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  and  the 


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subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  in  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington. 

James  Tonkin  was  reared  to  maturity  in  liis  native  land,  where  he  re- 
ceived a  good  English  education,  after  which  he  became  identified  with 
quartz  mining  in  Cornwall.  In  the  year  1865  he  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Mary  Ann  Stanton,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three  sons  and 
one  daughter.  The  daughter,  Amelia,  is  the  wife  of  Thomas  Tonkin,  of 
Cornwall.  Of  the  sons  we  enter  the  following  record :  Wilham  is  identi- 
fied with  the  operation  of  the  Renton  mine;  Edwin  is  an  attache  of  the 
office  of  the  Great  Northern  Railroad,  in  Seattle;  and  Josiah  is  associated 
with  his  father  in  conducting-  the  mercantile  business,  in  which  the  other 
sons  are  also  interested.  The  children  are  all  married,  and  our  subject  has 
twelve  grandchildren. 

In  April,  1866,  Mr.  Tonkin  made  a  trip  to  South  Africa,  and  there 
passed  a  year,  being  employed  in  the  mines  at  Capetown.  He  then  returned 
to  England,  and  in  1867,  in  company  with  his  young  wife,  he  started  for 
America,  landing  at  Castle  Garden  on  the  ist  of  May,  and  thence  proceed- 
ing to  Colchester,  McDonough  county,  Illinois,  where  he  was  employed  in 
the  coal  mines,  and  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  1882,  in  November 
of  which  year  he  came  to  Washington  and  secured  employment  in  the  Ren- 
ton mine,  being  thus  engaged  until  1884,  when  he  opened  a  grocery  in  the 
town,  which  was  then  scarcely  more  than  a  hamlet  of  a  few  houses,  and  he 
inaugurated  operations  in  a  very  modest  way,  carrying  a  small  stock  of 
groceries  and  provisions.  With  the  growth  of  the  town  his  business  enter- 
prise increased  in  scope  and  importance,  and  the  establishment  ihiw  has  a 
select  and  comprehensive  line  of  general  merchandise  and  controls  a  trade 
of  representative  order,  the  fair  dealing  and  honorable  methods  ever  brought 
to  bear  in  the  conducting  of  the  enterprise  having  brought  a  popular  ap- 
preciation and  confidence  and  insured  the  steady  expansion  of  the  business. 
Mr.  Tonkin's  success  has  been  due  to  his  close  attention  to  business,  to  his 
unvarying  courtesy  and  to  his  absolute  integrity  of  purpose,  and  he  retains 
the  unequivocal  confidence  and  esteem  of  the  people  of  the  community,  being 
known  as  a  progressive  and  public-spirited  citizen  and  as  one  who  has 
done  his  part  in  furthering  the  advancement  and  material  upbuilding  of 
the  little  city  with  whose  history  he  has  been  identified  for  a  score  of  years. 

In  politics  Mr.  Tonkin  formerly  gave  his  support  to  the  Republican 
party  without  reservation,  but  he  now  maintains  an  independent  position, 
exercising  his  franchise  in  support  of  those  men  and  measures  meeting  the 
approval  of  his  judgment.     He  has  never  sought  or  held  office,  preferring 


140  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

to  devote  his  entire  time  and  attention  to  his  personal  business.  Fraternally 
he  is  an  honored  member  of  the  Masonic  order,  having  been  raised  to  the 
master's  degree  in  St.  Andrew's  Lodge,  No.  35,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Renton, 
of  which  he  has  held  the  office  of  treasurer  for  years.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  auxiliary  branch,  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star,  and  he  was  one  of 
the  charter  members  of  Colchester  Lodge,  No.  30,  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  in  Illinois.  His  life  has  been  one  of  signal  usefulness  and  honor 
and  the  success  which  is  his  has  come  as  the  result  of  his  own  efforts.  He 
and  his  wife  have  a  pleasant  home  in  Renton,  and  their  children  are  all 
established  in  homes  of  their  own,  the  family  having  ever  been  prominent 
in  the  social  and  business  life  of  the  city  and  well  meriting  the  esteem  in 
which  the  various  members  are  held. 

GEORGE   ALFRED   HILL. 

George  Alfred  Hill  has  for  eighteen  years  been  a  member  of  the  Seattle 
bar  and, the  distinction  which  comes  through  merit  and  ability  has  been  won 
by  him.  He  was  born  near  Nashville,  Tennessee,  on  the  24th  of  Decem- 
ber, 1842,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage.  His  ancestors  emigrated  to  Vir- 
ginia prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  and  later  became  residents  of  Ten- 
nessee and  Kentucky.  The  subject  of  this  review  was  also  connected  with 
the  Hanks  family,  equally  prominent  and  well  known  in  Virginia.  George 
Hill,  the  great-grandfather,  and  George  Fair  Flill,  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject  were  both  heroes  of  the  Revolution,  who  valiantly  aided  in  the  strug- 
gle for  independence,  and  the  latter  became  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Ken- 
tucky. Reuben  C.  Hill,  the  father  of  him  whose  name  introduces  this  review, 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  Tennessee. 
He  studied  medicine  and  for  many  years  successfully  practiced  his  profes- 
sion. In  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  to  California  and  earned  a  large  amount 
of  money.  He  was  a  skilled  physician  of  generous  impulses  and  humani- 
tarian principles  and  his  aid  was  never  solicited  by  the  poor  and  needy  in 
vain.  Every  movement  for  the  general  good  received  his  support  and  co- 
operation and  for  many  years  he  was  a  much  beloved  and  zealous  minister  of 
the  Baptist  church.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  educational  matters  and  en- 
dowed the  McMinville  Baptist  College,  in  McMinnville,  Oregon.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Lair  of  Kentucky,  who  was  associated  with  him  in  much 
of  his  work  in  behalf  of  humanity.  The  journey  across  the  plains  to  Cali- 
fornia was  made  with  oxen  and  for  two  years  he  remained  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  meeting  with  excellent  success  in  his  labors.     In  1852  he  returned  to 


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his  wife  and  children  and  the  following  year  brought  them  with  him  across 
the  plains,  this  time  taking  up  his  abode  in  Benton  county,  Oregon.  Sub- 
sequently he  removed  to  Albany,  where  the  remainder  of  his  days  were  passed 
in  the  active  practice  of  the  medical  profession  and  in  preaching  the  gospel 
of  peace  and  good  will  to  men.  He  was  thus  closely  identified  with  two  of 
the  most  important  callings  to  which  man  can  devote  his  energies — the  al- 
leviation of  human  suffering,  and  the  work  of  preparing  men,  not  only  for 
the  duties  of  this  life,  but  also  for  the  glories  of  the  life  to  come.  He  died  in 
Albany  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-four  years,  but  his  memory  remains  as 
a  blessed  benediction  to  all  who  knew  him  and  his  example  is  yet  a  potent 
influence  in  the  lives  of  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  He  was  so- 
licited by  his  fellow  citizens  to  represent  them  in  the  legislature  of  Oregon 
and  held  that  position  of  honor  and  trust  for  a  number  of  terms,  always 
putting  forth  his  best  efforts  for  the  good  of  the  young  state.  He  left  the 
impress  of  his  individuality  upon  many  lines  of  life,  promoting  lasting  prog- 
ress and  improvement,  and  high  on  the  roll  of  honored  pioneers  of  the  Pa- 
cific coast  is  his  name  enshrined.  His  wife  was  a  brave  pioneer  woman,  who 
met  courageously  the  conditions  of  frontier  life  and  shared  with  her  husband 
in  the  good  work  which  he  accomplished  and  the  influence  which  he  exercised. 
She  departed  this  life  at  the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  Nine  children  were 
born  unto  them,  three  daughters  and  six  sons,  of  whom  two  of  the  sons  and 
one  daughter  have  passed  to  the  great  beyond.  The  surviving  sons  of  the 
family  are :  W.  Lair,  an  eminent  attorney  of  San  Francisco ;  J.  L.,  a  physi- 
cian of  Alban}^  Oregon;  Taylor,  a  capitalist  residing  in  Prineviile,  Oregon; 
and  George  Alfred. 

George  Alfred  Hill  Avas  a  vouth  of  onlv  eleven  vears  when,  with  his 
parents,  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Oregon  in  1853.  Lie  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  the  Sunset  state  and  was  reared  upon  the  home  farm, 
assisting  his  father  and  continuing  his  education  until  nineteen  years  of  age, 
when  he  became  a  school  teacher.  He  was  twenty  years  of  age  when  the 
country  became  excited  over  the  discovery  of  gold  at  Boise,  Idaho,  and  mak- 
ing, his  way  to  that  place  he  there  engaged  in  placer  mining  for  three  years, 
also  in  prospecting  and  digging,  enduring  all  the  hardships,  dangers  and  ex- 
posures that  come  to  the  miner  who  invaded  a  new  region,  where  the  com- 
forts of  an  older  civilization  were  unknown.  Like  all  miners  he  met  with 
success  and  reverses  and  after  these  experiences  he  returned  to  his  home  in 
Albany,  Oregon,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug  business.  He  also  read 
medicine,  acquired  a  knowledge  of  chemistry,  and  successfully  continued  in 
the  drug  business  for  six  years.     While  living  in    Albany  he  also  served  as  a 


142  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

member  of  the  city  council  for  two  years  and  was  recognized  as  one  of  the 
leading  and  influential  men  of  the  community.  In  1874  he  was  elected 
county  clerk  of  Linn  county,  which  office  he  satisfactorily  filled  for  two 
years. 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Hill  began  reading  law  and  acquired  a  taste  for 
iJie  profession,  but  his  health  becoming  impaired  he  was  advised  by  his 
physician  to  seek  outdoor  employment  and  he  removed  to  eastern  Oregon, 
where  he  engaged  in  stock  raising,  which  proved  a  very  profitable  source 
of  income,  as  well  as  giving  him  the  necessary  outdoor  exercise,  which  soon 
restored  his  health.  For  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  that  pursuit,  but  re- 
reverses  overtook  him  and  Indian  depredations  also  robbed  him  of  his  profits, 
so  that  he  abandoned  the  business  after  losing  nearly  everything  that  he  had 
saved  from  his  former  business  undertakings.  In  the  fall  of  1880  he  passed 
an  examination  before  Judges  Hanford,  White  and  Jacobs,  whereby  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  He  then  actively  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession and  soon  secured  a  good  clientage.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was 
in  partnership  with  Harold  Preston,  of  whose  ability  Mr.  Hill  speaks  in  the 
very  highest  terms.  This  partnership  was  terminated  in  1884,  at  which  time 
Mr.  Hill  was  elected  police  magistrate.  He  proved  a  most  capable  official 
and  at  the  close  of  his  term  resumed  the  private  practice  of  law,  in  which  he 
has  gained  distinction,  owing  to  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  jurisprudence  and  the  clearness  with  which  he  applies  his  learning 
to  the  points  in  litigation.  He  has  likewise  become  largely  interested  in 
real-estate  transactions  and  has  done  much  for  the  improvement  of  the  city 
along  building  lines.  He  has  platted  several  additions  to  the  town,  which  his 
foresight  told  him  would  be  in  time  a  good  source  of  income,  for  he  be- 
lieved that  the  future  would  witness  the  rapid  development  and  substantial 
growth  of  the  west  and  time  has  proven  the  wisdom  of  his  opinions. 

In  1870  was  celebrated  the  marriage,  in  Albany,  Oregon,  of  Mr.  Hill 
and  Miss  Julia  A.  Driggs,  a  daughter  of  Jeremiah  Driggs,  a  brave  Oregon 
pioneer  of  1847.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hill  have  been  born  three  children,  two 
of  whom  are  living:  Victor,  who  is  clerk  in  a  drug  store  in  Seattle,  and 
Donald  V.  S.,  who  is  yet  in  school.  Recently  Mr.  Hill  has  erected  a  nice 
residence  in  the  southern  part  of  town  on  a  five-acre  tract  of  land,  and  has 
made  it  a  valuable  and  pleasant  home.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  widely 
and  favorably  known,  and  their  home  is  celebrated  for  its  courteous  hos- 
pitality. As  the  years  have  passed  Mr.  Hill  has  taken  a  very  active  and  influ- 
ential part  in  many  lines  of  activity  that  have  contributed  to  the  progress, 
improvement  and  prosperity  of  Oregon  and  of  Washington.     While  in  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  143 

former  state  he  was  a  member  of  the  Albany  Volunteer  Fire  Department, 
from  1872  until  his  removal  from  the  city,  and  on  coming  to  Seattle  he  en- 
tered that  service  here,  remaining  with  it  up  to  the  time  that  it  became  a 
paid  fire  department.  During  the  great  fire  which  destroyed  the  city  in  1889, 
he  rendered  valuable  service  in  saving  the  building  in  which  his  office  and 
books  were  located,  his  previous  experiences  as  a  fireman  enabling  him  to 
take  up  the  work  on  the  spur  of  the  moment.  Of  the  Masonic  fraternity 
Mr.  Hill  is  a  representative,  having  been  made  a  Master  Mason  in  Corinthian 
Lodge,  No.  17,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Albany,  in  1869.  He  is  a  past  master  of  Ionic 
Lodge,  No.  90,  and  became  a  member  of  Bailey  Chapter,  No.  8,  R.  A.  M., 
while  at  the  present  time  he  belongs  to  Seattle  Chapter,  No.  3.  He  like- 
wise holds  membership  relations  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
the  Improved  Order  of  Red  Men,  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men. He  is  an  agreeable  and  cordial  gentleman  and  is  a  worthy  and  esteemed 
citizen  and  pioneer.  To  the  soldier  who,  upon  the  field  of  battle  has  risked 
life  in  defense  of  his  country,  the  United  States  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude 
which  can  never  be  repaid,  but  she  is  equally  indebted  to  the  brave  pioneers 
who  faced  the  dangers,  hardships  and  trials  of  the  west  in  carrying  civiliza- 
tion into  frontier  regions.  Their  tasks  demanded  courage  and  resolution, 
and  their  work  has  been  a  benefit,  not  alone  to  themselves,  but  will  be  en- 
joyed by  generations  to  come,  and  it  is  fitting  that  their  name  should  be 
found  upon  the  pages  of  history. 

HORACE  H.  CHESBRO. 

Among  the  successful  and  popular  young  business  men  of  the  city  of 
Seattle  is  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  who  is  senior  member  of  the  firm  of 
H.  &;  LI.  Chesbro,  here  engaged  in  the  handling  of  all  kinds  of  musical  instru- 
ments and  merchandise,  while  both  members  of  the  firm  are  skillful  musicians 
and  have  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  development  of  the  interests  of  the 
"divine  art"  in  the  community,  being  held  in  high  estimation  in  both  busi- 
ness and  social  circles. 

The  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a  representative  in  the  agnatic  line 
is  one  which  has  been  long  identified  with  the  annals  of  American  historv,  the 
original  ancestor  in  the  new  world  having  come  hither  from  England  and 
taken  up  his  residence  in  the  colony  of  Massachusetts  in  the  early  part  of  the 
seventeenth  century,  while  he  later  became  the  founder  and  first  white  settler 
of  Killingly,  Connecticut.  Representatives  of  the  name,  which  has  been 
variously  spelled  by  different  branches  of  the  family, — Cheesebrough,  Chese- 


144  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

hroiigh,  Chesbro,  etc., — became  prominent  in  the  history  of  New  England, 
while  from  a  comprehensive  genealogical  ^^•ork  to  be  published  within  the 
present  year  by  a  descend ent  of  the  line  in  New  York  city,  it  is  shown  that 
the  family  now  has  representatives  in  nearly  all  sections  of  the  Union,  while 
on  the  list  are  many  in  the  various  generations  who  have  become  distin- 
guished in  connection  with  the  political,  professional  and  civic  affairs  of  the 
nation.  (For  the  benefit  of  Mr.  Chesbro,  the  writer  would  say  that  he  is 
in  the  maternal  line  of  tliis  same  family  and  knows  these  facts  to  be  true, 
the  work  mentioned  having  been  compiled  in  extenso  by  Mrs.  Cheesebrough- 
Wildey,  of  New  York,  and  being  very  comprehensive. — Editor). 

Horace  Hastings  Chesbro  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Connecticut,  hav- 
ing been  born  on  the  21st  of  May,  1875,  the  son  of  Dr.  George  Edward  and 
Delia  (Cook)  Chesbro,  who  now  maintain  their  home  in  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia, the  father  having  devoted  his  entire  business  life  to  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  surgery  and  being  an  able  and  honored  member  of  his  pro- 
fession. His  wife  was  born  in  the  state  of  IMaine  and  is  a  representative  of 
one  of  the  old  and  distinguished  families  of  that  commonwealth.  Of  the 
seven  children  of  Dr.  and  JN'Irs.  Chesbro  five  are  living  at  the  present  time, 
the  subject  of  this  review  having  been  the  second  in  order  of  birth.  Florace 
H.  received  his  early  educational  discipline  in  the  public  schools  of  Portland, 
Oregon,  and  he  completed  the  scientific  course  in  Valparaiso,  Indiana,  being 
graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1897,  while  he  also  received  a  very  thor- 
ough musical  education  in  Valparaiso,  Indiana,  having  a  comprehensive  the- 
oretical and  technical  knovvledge  and  showing  marked  facility  and  talent  in 
his  interpretations.  He  became  a  successful  teacher  of  pianoforte  music  and 
his  interest  in  all  that  touches  this  great  art,  which  embellishes  all  phases 
of  life,  is  insistent  and  enthusiastic.  J\Ir.  Chesbro  arrived  in  Seattle  in  INlay, 
1S89,  two  weeks  prior  to  the  ever  memorable  fire  which  so  nearly  obliterated 
the  business  section  of  the  city,  and  he  was  for  a  time  in  the  employ  of  the 
firm  of  Venen  &  Vaughan  and  later  in  that  of  ^Vinter  &  Harper,  both  promi- 
nent music  firms  of  this  city.  In  1897  he  entered  into  business  on  his  own 
responsibility,  becoming  associated  with  Charles  H.  Harper  in  the  establish- 
ing of  the  same,  and  this  alliance  continued  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Harper, 
in  1890,  the  relations  having  been  most  harmonious  and  the  strongest  mutual 
confidence  and  friendship  having  existed  between  the  interested  principals. 
Upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Harper  our  subject  admitted  to  partnership  his 
brother,  Harry  N.  Chesbro,  who  is  also  a  talented  musician,  and  they  have 
built  up  a  successful  business  in  the  handling  of  pianos,  organs  and  other 
musical    instruments    and    merchandise,     having    an    eligibly    located,   well 


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equipped  and  attractive  establishment  at  1207  Second  avenue,  and  receiving 
a  supporting  patronage  of  representative  order,  the  personal  popularity  of  the 
two  principals  contributing  not  a  little  to  the  advancement  of  the  business. 
They  handle  the  Weber,  tlie  Henry  F.  Miller,  the  Kurtzman  and  the  Kohler 
and  Campbell  pianos,  of  New  York,  being  exclusive  piano  and  organ  dealers. 
In  politics  Mr.  Chesbro  maintains  an  independent  attitude,  giving  his  support 
to  those  candidates  whom  he  considers  most  eligible  and  best  fitted  for  prefer- 
ment, and  fraternally  he  is  identified  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  The 
firm  has  gained  an  excellent  reputation  in  the  city  and  the  business  is  con- 
ducted with  that  ability  and  fairness  that  insures  a  continuous  expansion  in 
its  scope  and  importance. 

On  the  T6th  of  February,  1901,  Mr.  Chesbro  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Ella  Holm,  who  was  born  in  the  state  of  Minnesota,  the  daughter  of 
Charles  Flolm,  one  of  the  well  known  citizens  of  Seattle. 

FRANK  V.  MORGAN. 

One  of  the  prominent  and  representative  business  men  of  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, is  Frank  V.  Morgan,  the  present  manager  and  one  of  the  stockhold- 
ers of  the  Seattle  Ice  Company,  which  was  established  in  that  city  in  1882 
by  W.  B,  Bushnell  and  was  purchased  by  the  present  corporation  in  1897. 
Their  plant  is  located  on  the  corner  of  First  a\'enue  south  and  Charles  street, 
and  the}^  also  have  a  factory  in  Tacoma.  I'hey  manufacture  distilled  water 
ice,  and  in  connection  with  that  business  conduct  a  cold  storage-  and  are 
largely  engaged  in  fish  freezing.  Their  ice  is  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  Sound, 
and  so  large  is  their  trade  that  they  can  hardly  manufacture  ice  enough  to  sup- 
ply the  demand. 

Mr.  Morgan,  the  experienced  manager  of  this  enterprise,  was  born  in 
Newton,  Massachusetts,  on  the  7th  of  April,  1867,  and  is  of  Welsh  descent. 
The  progenitor  of  the  family  in  America  first  located  in  Connecticut,  but 
shortly  afterward  removed  to  New  Hampshire,  in  which  state  our  subject's 
father,  Henry  B.  Morgan,  was  born  in  1828.  His  maternal  ancestors  were 
members  of  th.e  Avery  family,  which  can  be  traced  back  to  the  fourteenth 
century.  They  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Massachusetts  and  were 
quite  prominently  identified  with  the  early  history  of  that  state,  many  of  the 
family  being  distinguished  ministers.  Our  subject's  father  was  for  many 
years  engaged  in  the  express  business,  and  was  a  stanch  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, being  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  party  in  his  locality.  He  married  Miss 
Martha  Ann  Jones,  also  a  native  of  the  old  Granite  state,  who  departed  this 


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life  when  in  her  thirty-fourth  year,  while  he  lived  to  be  sixty-six  years  of  age. 
They  w^ere  the  parents  of  six  children,  four  of  wdiom  are  still  living. 

During  his  boyhood  and  youth  Frank  V.  I\lorgan  attended  the  public 
schools,  completing  his  education,  how^ever,  at  Oberlin  College,  Oberlin,  Ohio. 
On  coming  west  he  first  located  at  Sacramento,  California,  where  he  was  en- 
p-a2:ed  in  the  ice  business  for  six  vears,  wdiile  his  brother,  Fred,  who  is  now 
bookkeeper  of  the  Seattle  Ice  Company,  was  engaged  in  the  same  business  in 
Sacramento  for  nine  years.  At  that  time  they  shipped  ice  from  Tincker, 
Colorado,  as  there  were  then  no  ice  plants  in  successful  operation.  Together 
our  subject  and  his  brother  came  to  Seattle  and  purchased  their  present  busi- 
ness, and  being  men  of  experience  and  ability  in  that  line  they  are  now  meet- 
ing with  marked  success.  They  are  members  of  the  Manufacturers'  Asso- 
ciation, and  occupy  a  foremost  position  in  the  business  circles  of  the  city  with 
W'hich  their  lot  is  now  cast. 

In  1895  Mr.  Frank  Y .  jNIorgan  was  united  in  marriage  with  ]\Iiss  Ger- 
trude Holt,  and  this  union  has  been  blessed  by  a  little  son,  to  whom  they  have 
given  the  name  of  Percy  Avery.  In  his  social  relations  Mr.  Morgan  is  a 
member  of  the  Knights  of  P3l;hias  fraternity,  and  in  politics  is  identified '  with 
the  Republican  party.  Public-spirited  and  progressive,  he  takes  a  deep  inter- 
est in  the  affairs  of  his  adopted  city,  county  and  state,  and  does  all  in  his  power 
to  advance  the  public  welfare,  but  he  has  never  cared  for  political  honors. 
He  applies  himself  closely  to  his  business,  and  has  made  for  himself  an  envia- 
ble record  as  an  upright,  honorable  business  man. 

HENRY  OWEN  SHUEY. 

In  financial  circles  the  name  of  Henry  O.  Shuey  is  an  honored  one  and 
stands  as  a  synonym  for  integrity.  This  gentleman  is  proprietor  of  the  H. 
O.  Shuey  &  Company  Bank  of  Seattle,  and  also  the  Bank  of  Ballard.  He  is 
likewise  the  manager  of  the .  Equitable  Building,  Loan  &  Investment  Asso- 
ciation of  Seattle,  and  his  labors  have  ever  been  of  a  character  that  has  con- 
tributed to  public  progress  and  improvement  and  to  the  general  prosperity  as 
well  as  to  his  individual  success. 

Mr.  Shuey  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Indiana,  where  his  birth  occurred 
on  the  29th  of  April,  1861.  His  father,  Daniel  Shuey,  was  a  native  of  Vir- 
ginia, and  in  1827  removed  to  Indiana,  where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy 
Owen,  whose  birth  occurred  on  May  5,  182 1,  in  the  state  of  North  Carolina. 
In  the  Hoosier  state  they  became  prominent  farming  people,  the  father  own- 
ing large  tracts  of  land  and  in  addition  to  its  cultivation  he  w^as  extensively 


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engaged  in  stockraising.  His  wife  was  a  valued  member  of  the  Methodist 
church  for  twenty  years,  but  later  in  life  she  became  a  member  of  the  Chris- 
tian church  and  remained  one  of  its  adherents  until  called  to  the  home  pre- 
pared for  the  righteous.  She  died  in  1899  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years, 
having  long  survived  her  husband,  who  departed  this  life  in  1868,  at  the 
age  of  fifty-nine.  The  three  sons  of  their  family  are  as  follows :  Rev. 
Thomas  J.  Shuey,  a  minister  of  the  Christian  church  located  in  Rock  Island, 
Illinois;  James  B.,  a  prominent  and  influential  farmer  living  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Indiana;  and  Henry  Owen. 

After  his  father's  death  the  last  named  remained  with  his  mother  upon 
the  home  farm  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  attended  the  schools  and  on  leav- 
ing home  went  to  Valparaiso,  Indiana,  where  he  worked  his  way  through 
the  Northern  Indiana  Normal  School,  providing  for  the  expenses  of  the 
course  by  sawing  wood  and  by  following  any  honest  pursuit  that  would  en- 
able him  to  acquire  an  education.  He  was  graduated  in  1885.  and  soon 
afterward  was  married  to  Miss  Hessie  Sherrill,  who  was  born  in  his  own 
county  and  was  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  James  W.  Sherrill,  a  Baptist  minister 
of  Indiana. 

]\Ir.  Shuey  engaged  in  farming  in  the  east  for  two  years  and  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1888,  arrived  in  Seattle,  where  he  embarked  in  the  insurance  and 
loan  business,  in  which  he  met  with  a  splendid  degree  of  success.  As  his 
financial  resources  increased  and  his  opportunities  broadened  he  became  iden- 
tified with  the  various  interests  of  the  city  and  state  and  acquired  a  wide 
and  favorable  acquaintance  throughout  Washington.  He  has  made  hosts  of 
friends  among  all  the  people  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact  and  with' 
whom  he  has  transacted  business,  and  his  record  is  a  most  creditable  one, 
for  no  one  has  ever  sustained  a  loss  through  him  on  account  of  poor  loans. 
His  reliability  and  integrity  are  beyond  question  and  his  efliorts  while  bring- 
ing to  him  prosperity  have  also  been  of  great  benefit  to  his  fellow  men,  he 
having  assisted  hundreds  of  people  to  acquire  homes  or  enable  them  to  en- 
gage in  business  for  themselves.  He  has  worked  his  way  up  through  the 
most  honorable  methods  and  he  is  now  one  of  Seattle's  most  highly  respected 
citizens,  having  acquired  wealth,  which  returns  to  him  an  annual  income  of 
over  twenty-five  thousand  dollars.  He  is  now  the  heaviest  stockholder  in  the 
two  successful  banking  houses  previously  mentioned.  He  takes  great  de- 
light in  his  business,  possesses  unflagging  energy  and  keen  discrimination 
and  is  notably  prompt  and  reliable.  His  business  policies  have  been  perfect 
system,  careful  economy,  and  the  strictest  punctuality,  and  to  such  a  course 
his  success  can  be  justly  attributed. 


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In  his  political  views  Mr.  Shuey  is  a  Republican,  but  is  not  an  office- 
seeker.  He  is  an  active  and  earnest  member  of  the  Christian  church,  in  which 
lie  is  serving  as  elder  and  has  been  largely  instrumental  in  the  building  of 
the  several  mission  churches  of  the  city,  while  he  deserves  the  credit  of  hav- 
ing built  one  of  the  best  churches  of  his  denomination  in  the  state  at  Everett. 
He  has  also  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  work  of  the  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association  and  of  the  different  religious  societies  of  the  state.  His  influ- 
ence is  ever  on  the  side  of  the  right,  the  true  and  the  beautiful. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Shuey  have  had  two  sons :  Charles  E.,  who  died  when 
six  years  and  nine  months  of  age,  and  Clyde  S.,  who  was  born  April  i, 
1897.  They  have  a  beautiful  home  in  Seattle  and  a  host  of  warm  friends  in 
the  city  of  their  adoption,  where  Mr.  Shuey  has  won  such  brilliant  success 
that  is  so  worthily  earned. 

ARTHUR   A.    SEAGRAVE. 

Arthur  Amasa  Seagrave,  the  proprietor  of  the  Occidental  Hotel,  at  the 
corner  of  Third  avenue  and  Cherry  street,  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city 
since  1887.  He  was  born  in  Uxbridge,  Massachusetts,  on  the  25th  of  July, 
j'841,  and  he  traces  his  descendants  back  to  Lord  Seagrave,  of  England.  His 
ancestors  were  among  the  brave  and  heroic  band  of  Pilgrims  who  landed  on 
the  rock-bound  shores  of  Massachusetts  from  the  Mayflower,  coming  to  this 
country  in  search  of  that  religious  liberty  which  was  denied  them  in  the 
mother  country.  They  were  participants  in  all  the  early  history  of  the  col- 
onies, and  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  John  Seagrave,  was  a  mem- 
ber of  that  noble  band  of  patriots  who  fought  so  valiantly  for  the  liberty 
of  the  colonies.  The  father  of  Arthur  Seagrave  was  born  in  Uxbridge, 
Massachusetts,  on  the  20th  of  January,  1808,  and  he  was  there  married  to 
Miss  Almena  Ross,  who  w^as  born  in  Connecticut  in  1812.  Her  father,  Ziba 
Ross,  served  his  country  as  a  drummer  in  the  War  of  1812.  During  the  early 
years  of  his  life  Mr.  Seagrave  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  but  later 
he  became  a  contractor  and  manufacturer  of  building  stone.  He  had  also 
followed  the  profession  of  teaching,  and  was  a  surveyor  of  much  ability. 
At  the  organization  of  the  Republican  part}^  he  joined  its  ranks,  and  ever 
afterward  remained  a  loyal  supporter  of  its  principles.  He  departed  this  life 
on  the  8th  of  March,  1880,  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  Two  of  his 
sons,  Austin  and  Orville,  served  in  the  United  States  navy  during  the  Civil 
war,  the  former  as  paymaster  and  the  latter  as  assistant  in  that  capacity. 

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native  town  for  the  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed  in  his  youth. 
The  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  were  spent  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
during  the  period  of  the  Civil  war  he  was  employed  in  the  Burnside  Rifle 
Manufactory,  where  they  were  engaged  in  making  guns  for  the  government, 
they  having  manufactured  several  hundred  thousand  rifles  while  he  w^as  there 
employed.  He  was  drafted  for  service  during  the  struggle,  but  the 
company  rather  than  spare  him  from  their  shops  paid  three  hundred  dol- 
lars for  a  substitute,  which  amount  the  state  of  Rhode  Island  afterward  re- 
turned to  the  company,  for  it  was  believed  he  performed  better  service  for 
the  government  in  manufacturing  guns  than  he  could  have  possibly  done 
in  the  field.  After  the  close  of  the  struggle  Mr.  Seagrave  engaged  in  the 
sale  of  woolen  goods  which  had  been  manufactured  by  his  relati\^es,  many 
of  the  Seagraves  being  prominent  woolen  manufacturers,  and  later  he  re- 
moved to  Omaha,  arriving  in  that  city  on  the  21st  of  May,  1868.  In  con- 
nection with  his  brother  and  a  cousin  he  there  established  a  private  school, 
wdiich  he  conducted  for  a  number  of  years,  and  then  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Union  Pacific  Railway  Company,  first  as  an  express  messenger  and  was 
later  placed  in  charge  of  the  construction  department.  He  v/as  subsequently 
transferred  by  that  company  to  the  Oregon  Short  Line,  where  he  had  charge 
of  the  material  department  and  construction  train,  and  to  him  is  accorded 
the  honor  of  being  the  first  conductor  on  that  division.  Removing  to  Port- 
land, Oregan,  in  1882,  he  issisted  in  the  establishment  of  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific Express  Company,  in  which  he  was  associated  with  Superintend- 
ent Browning.  After  two  years  spent  in  that  connection  Mr.  Seagrave  re- 
moved to  Olympia,  Washington,  where  he  organized  a  company  for  the 
manufacture  of  wooden  pipes,  of  which  he  was  made  the  president,  and  he 
was  also  one  of  the  leading  stockholders  of  the  company,  remaining  with 
it  for  a  number  of  years.  Since  1887  he  has  made  his  home  in  Seattle  and 
immediately  after  his  arrival  here  he  began  investing  in  city  property,  but 
during  the  great  fire  of  1889  he  suffered  a  loss  of  several  thousand  dollars. 
He  had  previously  built  and  was  the  owner  of  the  Seagrave  block,  at  the 
corner  of  Virginia  and  Third  avenues,  and  after  the  destruction  of  the  city 
by  fire  he  was  urgently  requested  by  the  mayor  and  the  councilmen  to  con- 
vert this  into  a  hotel,  which  he  did,  and  thus  became  the  proprietor  of  the 
Seagrave  Hotel.  He  subsequently  removed  into  a  large  brick  building, 
erected  by  Jesse  W.  George,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Occidental  avenues, 
and  there  he  conducted  his  hotel  for  about  seven  years,  but  about  this  time, 
owing  to  reports  published  in  the  newspapers,  the  building  was  considered 
unsafe,  and  Mr.  Seagrave  thus  lost  many  thousands  of  dollars.     In  1894  he 


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came  to  his  present  location,  where  he  is  the  proprietor  of  the  Occidental 
Hotel.  He  is  a  kind-hearted  and  obliging  host,  and  his  hotel  enjoys  a  large 
and  lucrative  patronage.  He  is  also  the  owner  of  a  ranch  just  outside  the 
city  limits,  where  he  raises  a  large  variety  ot  small  fruits  and  vegetables  and, 
also  poultry  and  hogs,  and  thus  he  not  only  furnishes  his  table  with  many 
of  the  delicacies  of  the  season  but  gains  that  healthful  exercise  which  he 
so  much  needs  and  enjoys.  In  addition  to  supplying  his  own  table  with 
meat  he  lias  also  sold  as  high  as  fifty  swine  in  a  single  year. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Seagrave  was  celebrated  in  1874,  when  Miss 
Selina  S.  Glass  became  his  wife.  Several  children  came  to  bless  their  union, 
but  only  one  daughter,  Mabel  A.,  now  survives,  and  she  is  now  a  student  at 
\\'ellesley  College,  of  Alassachusetts.  She  graduated  in  the  Seattle  high 
school  as  the  valedictorian  of  her  class,  and  she  is  also  a  fine  equestrian  and 
a  member  of  the  Seattle  Equestrian  Club.  Mounted  on  her  black  horse, 
Frank,  she  has  ^^"on  many  prizes  for  fine  riding.  She  is  also  an  active  and 
valued  member  of  the  ]\[ethodist  church,  and  she  has  hosts  of  warm  and 
admiring  friends  in  this  city.  After  eleven  years  of  happy  married  .life  the 
union  of  I\Ir.  and  Mrs.  Seagrave  was  dissolved  by  the  hand  of  death,  the 
wife  and  mother  being  called  to  the  spirit  world.  On  the  19th  of  May,  .1888, 
Mr.  Seagrave  married  Sarah  Chattam,  a  descendant  of  Lord  Chattam,  of 
England.  For  ten  years  prior  to  her  marriage  she  had  been  a  popular  and 
successful  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Seattle,  and  religiously  she  is  a 
charter  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  this  city.  In  his  fra- 
ternal relations  ]\Ir.  Seagrave  is  a  i\Iason  and  a  member  of  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  while  in  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a  stanch 
and  unwavering  Republican. 

J.  HENRY  HEMER. 

Few  men  of  Seattle  are  more  widely  known  throughout  the  state  of 
Washington  and  the  northwest  than  J.  Henry  Hemer,  the  grand  recorder  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United' Workmen  of  this  state.  He  maintains  his 
residence  and  office  at  Seattle,  where  he  is  known  as  a  citizen  of  integrity  and 
a  man  of  sterling  worth,  having  many  friends  in  this  state.  As  his  name  im- 
plies, !Mr.  Hemer  is  of  German  lineage,  and  was  born  in  the  fatherland  No- 
vember 29,  1857,  his  parents  being  Conrad  and  Catherine  (Goebel)  Hemer. 
Both  were  natives  of  Germany  and  the  father  served  throughout  his  entire 
life  there  as  a  revenue  officer.  He  and  his  wife  held  membership  in  the  Luth- 
eran church  and  were  people  of  the  highest  respectability.    His  death  occurred 


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in  1884,  when  he  was  seventy  years  of  age,  and  his  wife  departed  this  hfe  in 
1897,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years.  They  never  left  Germany,  but  con- 
tinued to  be  residents  of  the  land  of  their  nativity  until  called  to  the  home 
beyond.     In  their  family  were  eight  children,  of  whom  seven  are  yet  living. 

J.  Henry  Hemer  acquired  a  college  education  in  his  native  land  and  also 
mastered  the  business  of  bookkeeping  there,  but  to  a  young  man  of  an  ambi- 
tious nature,  strong  purpose  and  a  keen  outlook  for  future  possibilities,  the 
new  W'Orld  was  more  attractive  tlian  the  old,  and  in  1872  he  sailed  for  the 
American  metropolis.  For  eight  years  he  remained  a  resident  of  New 
York  city,  being  employed  there  in  various  occupations  but  spending  most 
of  the  time  as  a  stationary  engineer.  In  1882  he  removed  to  Denver,  Colo- 
rado, and  first  secured  a  position  in  the  Windsor  hotel.  Later  he  was  en- 
gaged in  business  on  his  own  account  and  met  with  gratifying  success.  In 
1889  he  disposed  of  his  business  interests  there  and  made  a  trip  to  his  native 
country,  taking  with  him  his  ^^■ife  and  daughter.  He  spent  seven  months 
abroad,  visiting  his  relatives  and  numerous  friends  and  also  looking  upon 
many  scenes  of  historic  interest  in  the  old  world. 

Through  the  advice  of  J.  W.  Clise  Mr.  Hemer,  upon  his  return  to  Amer- 
ica, came  to  Seattle,  arriving  in  this  city  in  November,  1889.  He  then  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Mr.  Clise,  having  supervision  of  the  men's  work  under 
that  gentleman.  He  received  the  appointment  to  the  position  of  deputy  as- 
sessor of  King  county,  filling  the  position  very  acceptably  for  two  years. 
He  then  turned  his  atterition  to  the  barber  business  and  for  six  years  was  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Hemer  &  Noyes.  During  this  period  he  saved  his 
money  and  successfully  passed  through  the  financial  panic  which  this  city 
underwent  after  the  great  fire,  being  able  to  retain  possession  of  his  prop- 
erty during  that  epoch.  Mr.  Hemer  had  joined  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  in  Colorado,  and,  transferring  his  membership  to  Seattle,  he  took 
a  ^-ery  active  part  in  the  W'Ork  of  the  order  here  and  became  thoroughly  posted 
in  all  departments  connected  with  the  organization.  He  became  one  of  its  most 
acti^-e  representatives  and  Avas  appointed  deputy  by  Grand  Master  Jones,  after 
which  he  traveled  extensively  over  the  whole  of  the  western  part  of  the  state 
in  behalf  of  the  fraternity,  visiting  every  town  and  nieeting  with  great  suc- 
cess in  his  undertakings,  and  doing  much  for  the  good  of  the  order,  adding 
many,  members  thereto.  So  effective  were  his  efforts  that  in  April,  1890,  he 
was  elected  grand  recorder,  filling  that  office  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  con- 
cerned. In  1 89 1  he  was  re-elected  on  the  first  ballot,  and  in  1902  he  re- 
ceived the  unanimous  "vote  of  the  grand  lodge,  a  fact  which  indicated  how 
hiighly  his  services  were  appreciated  and  how  valuable  were  his  eft"orts  in 


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behalf  of  the  society.  He  is  hkewise  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  ^lacca- 
bees  and  the  Degree  of  Honor.  In  pohtics  he  athhates  with  the  Democracy. 
Mr.  Hemer  is  ever  zealous  and  earnest  in  his  advocacy  of  what  he  believes  to 
be  right,  and  the  same  devoted  loyalty  is  manifest  in  his  connection  with  the 
political  party  of  his  choice.  He  has  been  endorsed  by  the  Democratic  Cluh 
for  office,  but  has  not  cared  to  seek  public  preferment  in  recognition  of  his 
party  fealty. 

Mr.  Hemer  was  happily  married  in  18S.3  to  3^Iiss  Robina  Gumming,  a 
native  of  Scotland,  and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  one  daughter,  Anna, 
now  a  beautiful  young  lady.  She  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Episcopal  church 
and  with  her  parents  enjoys  the  confidence  and  high  esteem  of  all  who  have 
the  pleasure  of  their  acquaintance.  They  have  a  ^'ery  attractive  home  on 
Queen  Ann  Hill,  one  of  the  most  beautiful  residence  portions  of  the  city,  and 
Mr.  Hemer  also  has  valuable  property  in  Ballard.  Mr.  Hemer  has  made 
good  use  of  his  opportunities.  He  has  prospered  from  year  to  year,  has  con- 
ducted all  business  matters  carefully  and  successfully,  and  in  all  his  acts  dis- 
plays an  aptitude  for  successful  management.  He  has  not  permitted  the 
accumulation  of  a  competence  to  affect  in  any  way  his  actions  toward  those 
less  successful  than  he,  and  has  always  a  cheerful  word  and  pleasant  smile 
for  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact. 

LEWIS  S.  ROWE. 

Lewis  Solomon  Rowe  is  a  pioneer  settler  of  the  Pacific  coast,  having 
established  his  home  in  California  in  1854,  and  now  he  is  the  treasurer  of 
the  pioneer  society  of  Washington.  A  wealthy  and  respected  citizen  of 
Seattle,  there  is  much  in  his  life  histor}-  01  interest  to  his  many  friends 
throughout  this  part  of  the  countr}^  He  was  born  in  IMadison,  ^Maine,  on 
the  31st  of  August,  1834.  and  is  of  English  and  Scotch  ancestry,  the  fam- 
ily having  been  founded  in  New  Hampshire  at  an  early  period  in  its  his- 
tory. Solomon  Rowe,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  the  old  Granite 
state,  and  married  ^liss  Betsey  Richardson,,  of  Maine,  a  lady  of  Revolu- 
tionary ancestry.  Their  union  was -blessed  with  nine  children,  but  only  four 
are  now  living.  The  father  was  an-  industrious  farmer,  and  had  large  tracts 
of  land,  which  were  largely  operated  by  his  sons,  while  he  devoted  his  time 
to  the  work  of  the  ministry  as  a  preacher  of  the  Baptist  denomination,  leav- 
\ng  his  home  in  order  to  pronoimce  a  wedding  ceremony  or  perform  the  last 
sad  rites  over  the  departed.  His  life  was  an  honorable  and  helpful  one  and 
he  made  many  friends,  who  deeply  mourned  his  loss  when  at  the  age  of  sixty 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  153. 

years  he  was  called  to  his  final  home.     His  wife  passed  away  at  the  age  of 
sixty-seven  years. 

Mr.  Rowe  of  this  review  was  the  youngest  of  the  family.  He  attended 
the  public  schools  and  when  about  fourteen  years  of  age  left  home  to  make 
his  own  way  in  the  world,  walking  fifty  miles  alone  to  Bangor,  Maine,  where 
he  bound  himself  for  three  years  to  John  Wingate  to  learn  the  carriage 
makers'  trade,  being  paid  thirty  dollars  for  the  first  year  and  sixty  for  the 
second,  but  during  the  third  year  he  concluded  that  his  employer  was  not 
treating  him  fairly  and  left  him.  He  then  went  to  work  in  a  locomotive  fac- 
tory, in  which  he  was  paid  a  dollar  and  a  half  per  day.  After  remaining 
tliere  for  two  years  he  took  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel  for  San  Francisco. 
The  ship  was  the  Orizaba.  He  had  gone  aboard  as  a  stowaway,  intending 
to  work  his  passage,  and  washed  dishes  during  the  voyage.  When  he  ar- 
rived in  San  Francisco  he  blacked  boots,  for  which  he  was  sometimes  paid 
a  dollar,  but  soon  he  got  employment  which  offered  better  opportunities. 

In  1856  Mr.  Rowe  returned  to  New  Hampshire  and  entered  the  employ 
of  Abbott  &  Downmg,  carriage  manufacturers,  and  remained  there  five  years, 
and  in  April,  1861,  again  went  to  California,  sailing  on  the  steamer  North; 
Star  from  New   York.     The  vessel  encountered  a  severe  storm,   in  which" 
it  lost  a  mast  and  was  then  obliged  to  put  into  port  for  repairs.     Upon  his- 
return  to  San  Francisco  Mr.   Rowe  secured  employment  with  Kilbourne  & 
Bent,  carriage  manufacturers,  at  the  corner  of  Third  and   Market  streets. 
At  first  he  was  paid  five  dollars  per  day  and  was  then  put  in  charge  of  the 
shop,  working  by  the  piece.     In  this  vvay  he  made  from  sixty  to  seventy  dol- 
lars per  week.     In  1862  he  went  to  Honolulu  to  take  charge  of  a  carriage 
shop  there,  but  did  not  like  the  place  and  after  three  months  returned  to 
vSan  Francisco.     Afterward  he  went  east  to  Topeka,  Kansas,  and  remained 
there  one  year,  then  going  to  Newton,  Kansas,  and  started  the  first  store  in 
that  town,  hauling  the  lumber  for  thirty  miles  with  which  to  build  his  store. 
There  he  secured  an  extensive  business  and  when  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  was. 
built  he  shipped  his  goods  by  the  carload,  but  Newton  became  a  very  hard 
town.     Drunken  Texas  cowboys  and  railroad  men,  engaged  in  building  the 
Santa  Fe,  were  continually  fighting  and  while  Mr.   Rowe  was  in   Newton 
thirty-seven  men  and  one  woman  were  killed.     A  ball  crashed  through  his 
store  window,  passed  over  his  head  and  lodged  on  the  shelves  behind  him. 
Soon  afterward  he  closed  out  his  business  there  and  went  to  Pueblo,  Colo- 
rado, and  was  in  business  there  for  two  years,  after  which  he  returned  to 
California,  where  he  was  ill  for  some  time. 

In  1875  Mr.  Rowe  came  to  Seattle  and  started  a  small  store  on  Front 
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avenue,  at  the  foot  of  Cherry  street,  having  a  small  stock  of  groceries  worth 
two  hundred  and  thiry  dollars.  He  had  lost  almost  everything  he  had  made 
and  on  account  of  his  illness  had  been  reduced  in  weight  to  one  hundred  and 
fifteen  pounds.  He  sold  his  goods  at  a  small  profit  and  soon  built  up  a  fine 
trade.  Mr.  Yesler  built  a  store  for  him  and  he  continued  the  business  with 
success  for  nine  years.  In  the  meantime  he  had  invested  in  city  property 
when  realty  was  very  cheap  and  it  was  considered  very  foolish  to  put  one's 
money  in  property  here.  Mr.  Rowe  sold  out  his  business  and  was  very  ill 
for  two  years,  but  his  health  improved  and  he  turned  his  attention  to  his  prop- 
■erty  interests.  Where  his  fine  residence  now  stands  in  the  midst  of  a  beauti- 
ful and  populous  city,  there  was  a  timber  tract.  He  obtained  five  acres  for 
four  hundred  dollars,  has  a  splendid  residence  thereon  now  and  the  property 
is  very  valuable.  On  Front  street  he  built  six  stores,  which  brought  him 
good  rental.  He  also  became  engaged  in  the  carriage  business  and  had  a 
large  repository  and  sold  many  carriages.  He  has  lately  built  fifteen  flats 
•on  Union  street,  at  a  cost  of  over  twenty  thousand  dollars.  In  this  enterprise 
lie  was  associated  with  the  Hon.  C.  P.  Stone,  and  they  were  very  success- 
ful, purchasing  their  carriages  in  car  lots.  They  had  control  of  the  goods 
of  the  Cortland,  New  York,  factory  and  other  factories  and  did  a  large  busi- 
ness. He  bought  bis  partner's  interest  in  the  business  and  gradually  closed 
■out  the  stock,  retiring  from  active  business  except  for  the  supervision  of 
Jiis  city  propery.  He  has  property  which  he  purchased  for  six 
hundred  dollars,  which  is  now  worth  forty  thousand.  He  now  has  at  Port 
Orchard  a  town  site  of  forty  acres,  which  he  has  platted  and  is  selling,  having 
named  it  Veneta,  in  honor  of  his  daughter  of  that  name.  The  place  joins 
Bremerton,  the  government  navy  yard,  and  the  property  is  selling  rapidly  at 
good  figures.  In  1893  he  went  to  the  Colville  reservation  and  located  the 
Veneta  gold  mine.  It  is  capitalized  for  $700,000  and  is  a  fine  property.  Mr. 
Rowe  is  the  president  and  treasurer  of  the  company  and  has  a  controlling  in- 
terest in  the  stock. 

Mr.  Rowe  has  been  twice  married.  In  1856  he  wedded  Miss  Cynthia 
Clifford,  and  they  had  one  daughter,  Lizzie  Ella,  the  wife  of  C.  F.  Dean; 
jMr.  Rowe  afterward  married  Miss  Miranda  F.  Hummel  and  they  have  a 
daughter,  Veneta,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Edward  Maxwell. 

Mr.  Rowe  has  always  had  firm  faith  in  Seattle,  believing  that  it  would  be- 
come a  great  city  and  time  has  proven  the  wisdom  of  his  opinions.  He  has 
made  the  golden  rule  the  leading  principle  of  his  life  and  has  risen  from  a 
jOwly  position  to  one  of  affluence  in  financial  and  social  circles. 


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■     FREDERICK  H.  HURD. 

Frederick  Henry  Hurd,  of  Seattle,  is  one  of  the  representative  bnsiness 
men  of  the  city,  where  he  is  engaged  in  deahng  in  hay,  grain,  flour  and  feed. 
He  has  made  his  home  here  since  1S87,  coming  from  Missouri.  He  was 
born  in  Chnton,  Middlesex  county,  Connecticut,  on  the  /th  of  October,  1843, 
and  is  of  English  lineage,  his  ancestors  having  emigrated  from  England  to 
America  at  a  very  early  epoch  in  our  colonial  history.  There  were  three 
brothers  who  came  together,  and  one  of  them,  Nathaniel  Hurd,  the  great- 
grandfather of  our  subject,  became  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania.  His  son, 
Nathaniel  Hiu'd,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  captain  of  a  brig  en- 
gaged in  trade  with  the  West  Indies,  and  at  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary 
war  he  and  his  vessel  were  captured  by  the  English.  Fie  lost  the  brig  and 
was  himself  held  as  a  prisoner  at  Calais  until  the  close  of  hostilities,  after 
which  he  continued  the  life  of  a  sea  captain.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a 
Universalist,  was  a  man  of  upright  character  and  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy- 
nine  years, 

Nathaniel  Albert  Flurd,  the  father  of  Frederick  H,  Hurd,  was  born  in 
Clinton,  Connecticut,  and  after  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  married  Miss 
Mary  Wright,  who  was  born  in  the  same  county — Middlesex.  They  became 
the  parents  of  seven  children.  The  eldest  son,  Edwin  Albert,  was  a  volunteer 
in  the  Union  Army,  was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Fort  Henry  and  died  in 
the  hospital  at  Quincy,  Illinois.  Another  son,  Alva  A.,  is  a  Presbyterian  min- 
ister, now  acting  as  pastor  of  a  church  in  Portland,  Oregon.  One  of  the 
daughters,  Mrs.  Mary  Dudley,  is  county  superintendent  of  schools  in  Iowa, 
while  her  brother,  George  Benjamin  Hurd,  has  been  principal  of  the  schools 
-of  New  Haven,  Connecticut,  for  fifteen  years,  and  for  nine  years  filled  a 
similar  position  in  Bridgeport,  Massachusetts.  He  is  also  connected  with  a 
boot  and  shoe  business  in  New  Haven. 

Frederick  Henry  Hurd  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  and 
the  academy  of  his  native  city  and  put  aside  his  text  books  in  order  to  enter 
the  Union  army  in  answer  to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  troops.  He  be- 
came a  member  of  Company  G,  Fourteenth  Connecticut  Infantry,  in  July, 
r862,  participated  in  the  battle  of  Antietam,  in  several  skirmishes  and  in  the 
battle  of  Fredericksburg.  He  was  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  until  after 
the  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  fought  under  command  of  General  Hooker, 
when  his  health  failed  him  and  he  was  forced  to  remain  in  the  hospital  for  a 
short  time.  He  was  once  slightly  wounded  by  a,  shot  that  killed  two  and 
wounded  five  others  and  on  another  occasion  his  canteen  was  pierced  by  a 


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bullet.  At  the  close  of  the  war  it  was  his  good  fortune  to  participate  in  the 
grand  review,  a  memorable  occasion,  as  it  was  the  most  celebrated  military 
pageant  ever  seen  on  the  western  hemisphere.  In  June,  1865,  he  was  mus- 
tered out  and  gladly  returned  to  his  home,  for  though  he  had  been  a  brave 
and  loyal  soldier,  like  others  throughout  the  north  and  south  he  felt  great 
relief  when  the  long  contest  was  over. 

^Ir.  Hurd  remained  in  his  native  town  for  about  eight  months  after  the 
war  and  then  went  to  ]\Iichigan,  but  soon  afterward  located  in  Quincy,  Illi- 
nois, where  he  learned  the  miller's  trade  and  was  for  some  time  engaged  in 
the  milling  business,  rising  to  the  position  of  head  miller  in  a  mill  having  a 
capacity  of  one  hundred  barrels  of  flour  per  day.  Subsequently  he  removed 
to  Clarksville,  Alissouri,  where  he  successfully  engaged  in  milling  on  his 
own  account  for  eight  years,  but  his  mill  was  then  destroyed  by  fire  and  he 
lost  all  that  he  had  made.  He  then  established  another  mill,  of  which  he  was 
superintendent,  but  being  troubled  with  malaria  he  determined  to  seek 
another  climate  and  removed  to  Lewis  county,  \Vashington,  in  1884.  Three 
years  later  he  came  to  Seattle,  arriving  in  the  month  of  August.  He  has  since 
conducted  a  good  business  here  in  grain,  flour,  feed  and  hay,  securing  a  good 
patronage  and  winning  public  confidence  by  honorable  methods  and  dealing. 

In  1868  I\Ir.  Hurd  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Julia  Catherine  Lit- 
tlejohn,  a  member  of  the  prominent  family  of  that  name.  Bishop  Littlejohn, 
the  renowned  divine,  being  her  uncle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurd  were  accom- 
panied on  their  removal  to  the  west  by  their  three  children:  Jessie  Emmal, 
who  is  now  the  wife  of  R.  G.  Holly,  of  Seattle;  Mary  Grace,  who  is  now 
acting  as  her  father's  bookkeeper;  and  Leroy,  who  is  also  associated  with  his 
father  in  business.  The  family  have  many  friends  in  the  community,  the 
members  of  the  household  occupying  an  enviable  position  in  social  circles. 

Mr.  Hurd  has  been  a  life-long  Republican,  having  firm  faith  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  party  as  conserving  the  best  interests  of  the  national  govern- 
ment as  well  as  local  welfare.  From  1894  to  1898  he  was  a  member  of  the 
city  council  of  Seattle,  and  was  re-elected  for  a  term  of  two  years,  which 
indicates  his  personal  popularity  and  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his 
fellow  townsmen.  He  was  chairman  of  the  important  committee  on  finance, 
also  of  the  committee  on  fire  and  water,  and  has  been  instrumental  in  pro- 
moting many  measures  of  value  to  the  city.  He  assisted  in  securing  the 
splendid  water  system,  unsurpassed  in  any  city  of  the  size  in  the  country, 
and  was  also  active  in  securing  the  paving  of  Pike  street,  which  is  in  his  own 
ward.  He  and  his  family  are  valued  members  of  the  Plymouth  Congrega- 
tional church,  in  whicli  he  has  serxed  as  deacon,  while  now  he  is  a  trustee. 


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He  is  also  a  prominent  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  RepubHc,  and  was 
inspector  general  for  the  department  of  Washington  and  Alaska.  He  also 
served  as  district  deputy  and  aided  in  organizing  a  number  of  posts  in  Mis- 
souri. As  the  years  have  passed  Mr.  Hurd  has  invested  in  city  property  and 
now  has  some  very  valuable  realty  in  Seattle.  His  trade  relations,  too,  have 
been  an  excellent  source  of  income,  and  from  the  time  of  his  return  from  the 
war  Mr.  Hurd  has  steadily  advanced  in  the  business  world,  overcoming  diffi- 
culties and  obstacles  and  working  his  way  upward  to  a  position  of  affluence 
and  honor. 

RICHARD  C.  JOHNSTON. 

Nature  has  seemed  to  designate  the  kind  of  business  which  shall  be  the 
dominant  industry  of  different  localities.  The  great  forests  provide  occupa- 
tion for  the  lumbermen,  the  broad  plains  and  rich  prairies  make  agriculture 
the  logical  occupation  of  the  settlers  and  the  mineral  resources  of 
still  other  divisions  of  the  country  seem  to  indicate  that  mining  shall 
be  the  chief  labor  of  the  people  there.  The  rich  ore  deposits,  of  central 
Washington  leave  no  question  as  to  the  principal  pursuit  of  those  who  inhabit 
this  section  of  the  state,  and  one  of  the  leading  representatives  of  mining 
interests  here  is  Richard  C.  Johnston,  of  Seattle. 

A  native  of  the  state  of  Iowa,  he  was  there  born  in  Dubuque  on  the  1 3th 
of  January,  1847,  and  is  of  old  English  ancestry,  who  were  among  the  early 
settlers  of  New  England.  His  paternal  grandfather  became  a  prominent 
factor  in  the  early  history  of  Ohio,  and  in  that  commonwealth  his  son,  Charles 
B.  Johnston,  was  born.  The  latter  was  married  in  the  state  of  his  nativity 
to  Miss  Catherine  Smith,  also  a  native  of  the  Buckeye  state,  and  they  be- 
came prominent  farming  people  and  the  parents  of  seven  children.  From 
Ohio  they  removed  to  Iowa,  and  in  1852,  with  his  wife  and  seven  children, 
Mr.  Johnston  set  out  on  the  long  and  arduous  journey  across  the  plains  to 
California,  with  two  ox  and  two  horse  teams,  five  months  being  spent  on  the 
way.  As  the  father  had  previously  fought  in  the  Black  Hawk  war  he  was 
able  to  protect  himself  and  family  from  the  Indians,  and  the  journey  was 
therefore  made  in  safety.  On  their  arrival  in  the  Golden  state  they  took 
up  their  abode  at  Lakeport,  Sierra  county,  and  in  that  commonwealth  the 
parents  continued  to  reside  until  their  labors  were  ended  in  death,  the  father 
passing  away  in  1883,  in  his  seventy-third  year,  while  his  wife  survived  him 
many  years,  dying  in  1901,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six  years.  Six  of  their  seven 
children  are  now  living. 


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Richard  C.  Johnston  was  but  five  years  of  age  when  he  was  taken  by  his 
parents  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and  in  the  pubUc  schools  of  the  Golden  state  he 
received  his  educational  training.  At  the  early  age  of  eighteen  years  he 
engaged  in  mining  pursuits,  while  later  his  attention  was  claimed  by  the  livery 
and  stock  business,  and  in  both  lines  of  endeavor  he  met  with  success.  In 
1880  he  visited  the  state  of  Washington,  and  in  1897  he  took  up  his  perma- 
nent abode  in  Seattle.  In  addition  to  his  extensive  holdings  in  this  state  he 
is  also  interested  in  oil  and  coal  mines  in  Alaska,  the  property  being  bonded  to 
an  English  company  for  two  million  and  a  half  dollars,  and  they  are  now 
developing  the  claims.  [Mr.  Johnston  is  interested  in  a  copper,  gold  and  silver 
mine  at  Darrington,  Snohomish  county,  \\''ashington,  where  the  ore  yields 
an  average  of  twenty  dollars  a  ton,  and  this  is  considered  a  very  valuable 
property. 

The  marriage  of  Air.  Johnston  was  celebrated  in  Humboldt  county,  Cali- 
fornia, when  Miss  Clara  C.  Runvon  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Wis- 
consin,  and  this  union  has  been  blessed  with  four  children, — Frank  P.,  Ray 
C,  Pearl  J.  and  Carrie  Ann.  Religiously  'Sir.  and  Mrs.  Johnston  are  Chris- 
tian Scientists.  Politically  our  subject  afiiliates  with  the  Republican  party, 
in  the  councils  and  work  of  which  he  is  active  and  influential,  and  while  re7 
siding  in  California  he  served  for  some  years  as  a  deputy  sheriff.  He  has  filled 
all  the  offices  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity  and  is  also  a  member  of 
the  order  of  Foresters.  As  a  citizen  he  is  esteemed  for  his  public  spirit  and 
his  helpfulness  toward  all  worthy  measures. 

SHERWOOD  GILLESPY. 

Sherwood  Gillespy,  the  general  agent  of  the  Alutual  Life  Insurance 
Company  of  New  York,  came  to  Seattle  in  his  present  capacity  in  1896  and 
has  since  had  jurisdiction  over  the  territory  of  Washington,  Oregon,  Idaho, 
British  Columbia  and  Alaska.  He  is  a  man  of  excellent  business  and  ex- 
ecutive ability  and  the  company  which  he  represents  finds  him  a  valued  factor 
in  the  control  of  their  business  in  the  northwest. 

Mr.  Gillespy  was  born  in  Saugerties,  New  York,  on  the  4th  of  Novem- 
ber, 1853,  ^^*i  is  of  Scotch  lineage,  although  at  an  early  day  in  the  history 
of  Ulster  countv.  New  York,  the  familv  was  established  in  Saugferties.  The 
great-grandfather,  John  I.  Gillespy.  the  grandfather.  John  Gillespy, 
and  the  father.  Peter  Gillespy,  as  well  as  the  subject  of  this  review,  were  all 
bom  on  the  old  family  homestead  there,  and  there  Peter  Gillespy  is  still 
living  in  the  ninety-third  year  of  his  age.     This  property  has  been  in  pos- 


THE  NETV^^  YOKK'' 

PliBUGUBRARY 


T<t»«*»  "wj^of  r-<^.H». 


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session  of  the  family  for  two  hundred  and  fifty  years.  John  I.  Gillespy,  the 
great-grandfather,  joined  the  American  army  at  the  time  of  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  and  served  with  the  rank  of  captain  in  the  struggle  for  inde- 
pendence, while  John  Gillespy,  the  grandfather,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of 
1 81 2.  Peter  Gillespy  was  for  many  years  engaged  in  merchandising  in  New- 
York  city,  and  later  turned  his  attention  to  the  banking  business, 
but  is  now  living  a  retired  life.  He  married  Miss  Caroline  Nering, 
of  Catskill,  New  York.  They  w^ere  valued  members  of  the  Dutch  Reformed 
Presbyterian  church  and  very  prominent  people  in  Saugerties.  In  their  fam- 
ily were  four  sons  and  a  daughter,  of  whom  three  are  still  living. 

Mr.  Gillespy  of  this  review  is  the  only  one  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town,  after  which  he  was 
engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  in  Albany,  New  York,  for  five  years, 
with  John  G.  Meyers.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  the  life  insurance 
business,  becoming  connected  with  the  Northwestern  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany, of  Milwaukee,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  five  years.  Since  that 
lime  he  has  been  with  the  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company,  of  New  York, 
covering  twenty  years.  As  their  general  agent  he  came  to  Seattle  in  1896, 
taking  charge  of  their  extensive  business  in  the  northwest,  with  headquarters 
at  Seattle,  and  has  met  with  very  gratifying  success  here,  his  service  being 
highly  satisfactory  to  the  company  and  profitable  to  both  the  company  and 
himself.  When  he  came  to  Seattle  he  purchased  for  the  company  the  Mutual 
Life  Building,  which  he  had  remodeled  and  fitted  up  with  all  the  latest  im- 
provements, making  it  one  of  the  most  elegantly  equipped  office  buildings  in 
the  northwest.  He  recently  purchased  the  adjoining  property  for  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars  and  will  erect  a  seventy-thousand-dollar  building.  It  has  proved 
for  the  company  a  paying  investment.  Mr.  Gillespy  is  regarded  by  the  com- 
pany as  one  of  its  best  and  most  capable  general  agents  and  he  also  enjoys 
the  confidence,  good  will  and  esteem  of  the  business  public  of  Seattle. 

In  1885  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Gillespy  and  Miss  Maria 
Z.  Simpson,  a  native  of  New  York  city  and  a  daughter  of  Wilson  Simp- 
son, of  that  place.  They  now  have  three  children:  Ella  L.,  Robert  S.  and 
Carrie  N.  He  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Episcopalian  church  and 
are  people  of  prominence  in  the  community,  the  hospitality  of  many  of 
the  best  homes  of  Seattle  being  extended  to  them.  Mr.  Gillespy  has  become 
deeply  interested  in  Seattle  and  its  welfare  since  becoming  identified  with  the 
city  and  has  contributed  to  its  upbuilding.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Independent  Telephone  Company,  a  long-distance  line  of  this  city,  and 
is  found  as  the  champion  of  many  movements  for  the  general  good. 


1 60  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

URSULA   WYCKOFF. 

Mrs.  Ursula  Wyckoff,  who  has  made  her  home  in  Seattle  during  the 
past  fifty  years,  has  the  credit  of  being  the  first  white  woman  to  locate  in  what 
is  now  South  Seattle.  Slie  nobly  bore  the  trials  and  hardships  incident  to  a 
life  on  the  frontier,  and  now  in  her  declining  years  is  blessed  with  the  love 
and  respect  of  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  her  acquaintance.  She  was  born 
in  Clarksville,  Missouri,  on  the  25th  of  June,  1827,  and  is  the  daughter  of 
John  Hughes.  He  was  of  North  Carolina  nativity  but  became  an  early  set- 
tler of  both  Kentucky  and  Missouri,  where  he  reared  a  large  family  of  eight 
children,  two  sons  and  six  daughters.  He  departed  this  life  in  the  fifty-fifth 
year  of  his  age,  passing  away  in  the  faith  of  the  Methodist  church,  of  which 
he  was  long  a  worthy  and  consistent  member. 

Mrs.  \\'yckoft',  the  only  survivor  of  this  once  large  family,  was  reared 
to  young  womanhood  in  Missouri,  and  on  the  nth  of  June,  1846,  she  there 
gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  George  N.  McConaha,  a  native  of  Ohio.  In 
1850  they  crossed  the  plains  to  Sacramento,  California,  and  during  the  long 
journey  their  second  child  was  born,  its  place  of  nativity  being  near  Fort 
Henry,  and  they  gave  her  her  mother's  name  of  Ursula.  The  journey  was 
accomplished  in  safety,  and  after  their  arrival  in  the  Golden  state  they  set- 
tled in  the  then  new  town  of  Sacramento,  where  Mr.  McConaha  resumed  the 
practice  of  law.  His  ability  as  a  leader  soon  became  recognized,  and  he  was 
made  a  member  of  the  state  legislature.  In  1852,  with  his  wife  and  little 
family,  he  started  for  Portland,  Oregon,  going  by  way  of  Seattle,  where  his 
wife  and  children  remained  while  he  continued  on  his  journey.  He  had 
previously  been  promised  the  high  office  of  judge  on  his  removal  to  Portland, 
but  from  some  cause  did  not  receive  the  appointment  and  he  accordingly  re- 
turned to  his  family  in  Seattle,  where  he  again  took  up  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. During  the  following  winter  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  ter- 
ritorial council,  of  Avhich  he  was  made  president,  and  while  returning  to  his 
home  after  the  close  of  the  session  he,  with  Captain  Boston  and  two  Indians 
that  were  with  them  in  the  boat,  were  drowned,  and  Mr.  jNIcConaha's  body 
was  never  recovered.  His  Avidow  and  her  three  little  children  suffered  a 
sad  bereavement,  but  after  partially  recovering  from  the  terrible  shock  of  her 
loss  she  took  up  the  battle  of  life  with  the  courage  and  fortitude  which  has 
ever  characterized  her  course.  She  worked  at  any  occupation  that  presented 
itself  in  order  to  support  lier  little  family,  thus  laboring  in  their  behalf  for 
seven  years.  On  the  29th  of  August,  1859,  she  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Lewis  V.  Wyckoff,  a  native  of  New  York,  and  at  the  time  of  their  marriage 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  i6i 

he  was  serving  as  head  sawyer  in  a  large  mill.  After  a  time,  however,  he 
was  elected  sheriff  of  King  county,  in  which  position  he  continuously  served 
for  twenty-two  years,  and  the  efficiency  with  which  he  discharged  the  duties 
incumbent  upon  him  in  this  important  office  is  attested  by  his  long  continu- 
ance therein.  During  the  riot  of  1882  his  duties  were  very  exciting  and  dan- 
gerous, and  from  the  effect  of  his  arduous  service  he  died  suddenly  of  heart 
disease  on  the  20th  of  February,  1882.  He  was  a  trustworty  and  reliable 
official,  a  loving  and  indulgent  husband  and  father  and  a  kind  and  considerate 
neighbor,  and  his  loss  was  felt  by  the  entire  community.  He  left  to  his  widow 
a  good  property,  which  has  increased  in  value  as  the  years  have  passed  by, 
until  she  is  now  able  to  enjoy  all  the  comforts  and  many  of  the  luxuries  of  life. 
Mrs.  Wyckoff's  eldest  son,  George  M.  McConaha,  was  born  in  1848, 
and  his  education  w^as  received  in  the  schools  of  New  York  city  and  in  the 
Washington  University.  After  completing  his  literary  education  he  began 
the  study  of  law  under  the  preceptorage  of  Ifon.  John  J.  McGilvery,  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  when  but  twenty-one  years  of  age.  In  the  same  fall  he 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  territorial  legislature,  and  on  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  service  he  was  made  the  prosecuting  attorney  of  King  county.  While 
thus  serving  Judge  Hanford  read  law  in  his  office.  Mrs.  Wychoff's  second 
son,  John  Vandyne  Wyckoff,  was  born  in  1862,  and  on  attaining  to  mature 
years  he  was  made  deputy  sheriff  under  Hon.  John  H.  McGraw,  and  he  also 
served  in  that  capacity  under  Sheriff  Cochran.  He  was  later  appointed  and 
served  as  custom  house  officer,  but  has  also  been  a  member  of  the  city  fire  de- 
partment and  now  resides  with  his  mother.  Her  daughters  have  passed  away. 
Eugene  McConaha  resided  with  her  mother  until  the  21st  of  March,  1890, 
when  she  was  called  to  her  final  rest,  passing  away  at  the  age  of  forty-four 
years.  Mrs.  Wyckoff  became  converted  to  the  Christian  faith  very  early  in 
life,  and  is  now  the  only  surviving  member  who  joined  the  first  Presbyterian 
church  at  its  organization,  and  in  which  she  has  ever  been  a  faithful  and  val- 
ued member.  Her  life  has  been  filled  with  many  privations  and  hardships, 
but  through  all  her  Christian  fortitude  has  sustained  her,  and  she  is  now  one 
of  the  loved  and  esteemed  pioneers  of  Seattle. 

JOHN  R.  WILLIAMSON. 

John  R.  Williamson,  a  worthy  pioneer  of  Seattle,  who  crossed  the  plains 
in  1852  and  has  since  made  his  home  on  the  Pacific  slope,  is  a  native  of  Al- 
bany county,  New  York,  born  February  14,  1826,  and  is  descended  from 
good  old  Revolutionary  stock,   his  paternal  grandfather,  John  Williamson, 


1 62  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

having  fought  through  the  entire  war  for  independence.  He  was  one  of  the 
fifteen  hundred  men  who  volunteered  lo  attack  the  Enghsh  in  their  camp- 
at  twelve  o'clock  at  night.  They  were  at  first  repulsed,  but  the  army  soon 
afterward  landed  and  wei'e  victorious.  It  was  in  this  engagement  that  Ar- 
nold lost  his  leg.  Air.  Williamson  was  present  at  the  surrender  of  Lord  Corn- 
wallis  and  his  army.  He  was  of  Quaker  ancestry  and  lived  to  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety  years. 

Peter  Williamson,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  within  sixteen 
miles  of  Albany,  New  York,  and  on  reaching  manhood  married  Miss  Sarah 
Olin,  who  was  a  native  of  Montgomery  county.  New  York,  and  was  also  a 
Quaker  by  birthright.  By  occupation  he  was  a  merchant.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  sixty-six  years  and  his  wife  was  seventy-eight  at  the  time  of  her  death. 
In  the  family  of  this  worthy  couple  were  five  children,  three  of  whom  are 
still  living,  namely:  John  R.,  of  this  review;  Mary,  now  the  widow  of  James 
Visher;  and  Susan,  wife  of  j\I.  R.  Maddox.     All  make  their  home  in  Seattle. 

After  the  death  of  his  father  John  R.  Williamson  went  to  live  with  his 
grandfather.  He  had  little  opportunity  to  attend  school,  but,  possessing  a 
genius  for  mechanics,  he  soon  mastered  the  blacksmith's  trade.  In  early  life 
he  became  a  subscriber  for  the  Scientific  Am.erican  and  has  since  been  a  con- 
stant reader  of  that  magazine.  He  is  thoroughly  posted  on  steam  engines 
and  engineering,  of  which  he  has  made  somewhat  of  a  hobby,  and  is  consid- 
ered authority  on  everything  pertaining  to  steam  engines  and  combustion. 
Because  of  his  great  knowledge  of  these  subjects  he  is  familiarly  called  "Old 
Combustion,"'  at  which  title  he  takes  no  offense,  and  it  is  believed  that  on 
the  laws  of  combustion  he  has  no  equal  in  the  great  northwest.  To  the  Scien- 
tific American  he  gives  the  credit  for  his  extensive  knowledge  on  these  sub- 
jects. 

As  before  stated,  Mr,  Williamson  came  overland  to  the  Pacific  coast  in 
1852,  and  went  direct  to  the  mines  in  Yuba  county,  California,  but  met  with 
but  small  success  in  his  mining  operations.  A\'e  next  find  him  in  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  worked  at  his  trade  of  blacksmithing,  but  after  spending  two 
years  in  California  he  removed  to  Port  Gamble,  Washington,  where  he  found 
employment  with  the  firm  of  Pope  &  Talbert,  now  the  Puget  Mill  Company,. 
with  whom  he  remained  two  years  and  a  half  as  a  general  mechanic  and 
machinist,  receiving  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month  and  board  in 
compensation  for  his  labors.  On  leaving  liie  firm  he  was  asked  if  he  had 
kept  an  account  of  his  extra  work,  and  on  replying  that  he  had  not  he  was 
presented  with  a  check  for  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  above  his  monthly 
wages,  so  highly  were  his  services  appreciated  l)y  the  company. 


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Mr.  Williamson  then  turned  his  attention  to  lumbering  and  the  sawmill 
business,  building  a  good  mill  at  Seabeck,  which  he  operated  for  four  years 
with  good  success.  He  sold  out  in  1863  ^^'^^^-  removed  to  West  .Seattle,  where 
he  opened  a  sawmill  and  machine  shop,  doing  all  kinds  of  machine  work  and 
repairing.  The  machinist  tools  were  subsequently  sold  to  the  Moran  Broth- 
ers, who  have  made  it  one  of  the  most  important  enterprises  of  the  kind  in  the 
state.  Subsequently  Mr.  Williamson  engaged  in  building  and  running  steam- 
boats, among  which  were  the  Etta  White,  the  Celilo  and  the  Mary  Woodruf, 
which  he  finally  sold  and  retired  from  that  business.  Smce  then  his  services 
have  been  in  great  demand  as  an  expert  machinist  in  setting  up  and  putting 
in  operation  machinery  of  all  kinds  and  making  expert  reports.  Although 
now  well  advanced  in  years  he  still  takes  great  delight  in  the  business  on  which 
he  has  so  thoroughly  posted  himself. 

In  1857  Mr.  Williamson  married  Miss  Julia  Finn,  a  native  of  Ireland, 
and  two  children  blessed  this  union.  William,  now  captain  of  the  Floyer  ply- 
ing between  Seattle  and  Tacoma,  was  born  at  Seabeck,  Washington,  and  was 
practically  reared  at  sea.  He  could  sail  a  ship  and  had  a  captain's  license 
when  only  fifteen  years  of  age.  Although  the  law  prohibited  so  young  a 
man  from  commanding  a  boat,  he  was  so  thoroughly  skilled  in  the  art  that 
he  was  made  an  exception  to  the  rule,  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  most  popular 
and  experienced  captains  on  the  Sound.  In  1899  he  married  Mary  Ann 
Fagin,  and  has  two  children.  Mary,  the  daughter  of  our  subject,  is  now  the 
wife  of  Mat  McElroy,  of  Seattle,  who  is  engaged  in  the  logging  business. 
The  wife  and  mother  departed  this  life  in  1894.  She  was  a  noble  woman 
and  too  much  cannot  be  said  in  her  praise. 

Mr.  Williamson  has  never  joined  any  religious  or  secret  societies,  but  is 
a  believer  in  the  Great  Architect  of  the  Universe,  and  his  upright,  honorable 
life  has  gained  for  him  th.e  confidence  and  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he 
has  been  brought  ni  contact.      Politically  he  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat. 

HAROLD    PRESTON. 

Harold  Preston  was  born  at  Rockford,  Illinois,  on  the  29th  of  September, 
3858,  and  comes  of  a  family  which  for  several  generations  had  been  estab- 
lished in  the  east.  His  father,  Simon  M.  Preston,  was  born  in  Vermont  and 
married  Alartha  H.  Sargent.  Prior  to  the  Civil  war  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  and  when  the  slavery  question  brought  on  the  great  Rebellion  he 
offered  his  services  to  the  government  to  aid  in  the  preservation  of  the  Union. 
He  held  the  rank  of  captain  and  served  on  the  staff  of  General  Hallock,  later 


i64  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

becoming  colonel  of  the  Fifty-second  Mississippi  Colored  Regiment,  and  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  services  was  bre\"etted  by  President  Lincoln  a  briga- 
dier-general. After  the  war  was  over  he  remained  in  the  sonth,  as  president 
of  the  first  freedmen's  bureau  and  was  also  internal  revenue  collctor  for  the 
first  district  of  Mississippi,  which  appointment  he  received  from  President 
Grant.  During  his  residence  in  the  south  he  was  also  chief  engineer  of  the 
Natchez,  Jackson  &  Columbus  Railroad.  In  1874  he  removed  to  Iowa,  was 
engaged  in  railroad  building  and  became  chief  engineer  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Pacific  Railroad  Conipany.  In  1891  he  came  to  Seattle  and  at 
the  age  of  seventy-nine  years  is  now  living  retired  from  active  business.  He 
has  been  a  stalwart  Republican  from  the  organization  of  the  party  and  enjoys 
the  high  respect  which  is  ever  given  to  an  honorable  and  worthy  life.  Unto 
him  and  his  wife  were  born  three  sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  now 
residents  of  Seattle. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Natchez,  Mississippi,  Harold  Preston  obtained 
his  elementary  education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  Iowa  College, 
and  by  a  course  in  Cornell  University.  He  read  law  in  Iowa, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  there  in  1883  and  immediately  afterward  came  to 
Seattle,  where  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1885  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  E.  M.  Carr,  which  has  since  been  continued,  in 
1897  ^^^-  Gilman  became  a  member  of  the  firm  under  the  style  of  Preston, 
Carr  &  Gilman,  and  they  are  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law. 

Since  acquiring  the  right  of  franchise  Mr.  Preston  has  been  an  earnest 
Republican,  and  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  party  have  not  been  without  re- 
sult. In  1898  he  was  elected  to  the  state  senate,  in  which  body  he  was  made 
chairman  of  the  railroad  committee  and  member  of  the  judiciary  committee. 
He  is  the  author  of  the  railroad  commission  bill,  which  unfortunately  was 
defeated. 

In  1887  ^Iv.  Preston  was  married  to  Miss  Augusta  Morgenstern,  a  na- 
tive of  San  Francisco,  and  they  have  two  children,  Theresa  and  Frank.  Mr. 
Preston  belongs  to  the  Rainier  and  the  Athletic  Clubs. 

ISAAC  PARKER. 

Almost  a  half  century  has  passed  since  Isaac  Parker  came  to  the  terri- 
tory of  Washington  and  since  the  2nd  of  January.  1851,  he  has  resided  upon 
the  Pacific  coast,  for  on  that  day  he  arrived  at  San  Francisco.  Time  and 
man  have  wrought  many  changes  in  the  western  district  of  ihe  country  dur- 
ing its  decades,  and  no  one  has  taken  a  more  commendable  pride  and  interest 


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in  the  public  welfare  and  progress  than  Isaac  Parker,  who  as  a  loyal  and 
progressive  citizen  has  contributed  his  full  share  to  the  general  good.  A 
native  of  Massachusetts,  he  was  born  in  Waltham  on  the  4th  of  March,  1829, 
the  day  on  which  President  Jackson  was  first  inaugurated  as  the  chief  execu- 
tive of  the  nation.  The  family  is  of  English  lineage  and  the  first  of  the  name 
to  seek  a  home  in  America  was  Thomas  Parker,  who  left  his  native  England 
in  1635  and  became  a  resident  of  New  England.  He  traced  his  ancestry 
back  in  England  to  the  twelfth  century  and  the  family  has  been  one  of  prom- 
inence, both  in  the  mother  country  and  in  the  new  world.  Many  of  its  rep- 
resentatives gained  eminence  and  distinction  in  various  walks  of  professional 
life.  Among  the  number  is  Theodore  Parker,  so  widely  known  throughout 
this  land.  The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject  removed  to  Ohio  and  be- 
came one  of  its  first  settlers,  while  Isaac  Parker,  the  grandfather,  was  there 
born  and  reared.  His  son,  who  also  bore  the  name  of  Isaac,  and  who  be- 
came the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Watertown,  Massachusetts,  Jan- 
uary 19,  1802.  Pie  married  Miss  Lucy  Dinsmore,  a  nativeof  Lunenburg, 
?vlassachusetts,  and  devoted  the  greater  part  of  his  life  to  agricultural  pur- 
suits. He  made  his  home  in  Waltham,  where  he  occupied  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  public  regard.  For  forty  years  he  served  as  a  deacon  in  the  Uni- 
tarian church  and  died  on  the  ist  of  October,  1875,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
three  years,  respected  by  all  who  knew  him.  His  wife  survived  him  and 
passed  away  in  her  eighty-sixth  year.  He  had  been  very  prominent  in  edu- 
cational affairs  and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Rumfort  Institute,  in 
connection  with  which  was  a  very  costly  and  extensive  library.  Mrs.  Parker 
was  a  lady  of  superior  culture  and  refinement,  who  left  the  impress  of  her 
individuality  upon  the  minds  and  characters  of  her  children.  Five  of  her 
nine  children  are  yet  living,  one  of  the  daughters — Mrs.  Mary  H.  Lewis — 
being  now  a  resident  of  San  Francisco.  The  others  are  in  Lowell  and  Walt- 
ham, Massachusetts. 

Isaac  Parker  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth  in  the  family  and  was 
reared  and  educated  in  Waltham.  He  learned  the  machinist's  trade  in  Bos- 
ton and  followed  that  pursuit  for  three  years.  During  the  close  of  that  period 
he  assisted  in  building  the  first  locomotive  sent  to  California.  He  came  with 
it,  making  the  voyage  around  Cape  Horn,  for  to  him  was  assigned  the  duty 
of  putting  the  engine  together  and  seeing  that  it  was  in  successful  operation. 
He  secured  a  position  in  what  afterward  became  the  Union  Iron  Works, 
where  he  remained  until  the  9th  of  February,  1853,  when  he  came  to  Puget 
Sound  to  build  a  sawmill  at  what  was  then  Apple  Tree  Cove,  but  is  now 
the  city  of  Kingston.     He  continued  as  master  mechanic  for  the  company  for 


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about  four  years,  receiving  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month  and  his 
expenses.  He  also  worked  at  Utsaladdy  in  the  same  capacity  until  Novem- 
ber, i860,  at  which  time  he  accepted  a  cargo  of  lumber  for  his  work,  char- 
tered the  ship  Leonidas  and  with  his  lumber  proceeded  to  China,  where  he 
found  a  ready  sale  for  the  cargo  at  remunerative  prices.  After  visiting  Yoko- 
hama and  other  points  in  Japan,  he  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  thence  to 
Puget  Sound,  where  he  once  more  entered  the  service  of  the  company  by 
which  he  had  formerly  been  employed.  Soon  afterward  he  became  inter- 
ested in  a  company  carr}dng  lumber  and  machinery  to  Shanghai,  China, 
and  there  engaged  in  the  construction  of  a  steamer  to  sail  on  one  of 
the  large  rivers  of  that  country.  Intent  on  that  enterprise  he  set  sail  on 
the  Jeff  Davis,  but  on  arriving  at  San  Francisco  he  sold  his  interest  in  the 
enterprise  and  in  1864  went  to  lower  California  to  superintend  the  erection 
of  a  quartz  mill,  where  he  remained  as  master  mechanic  for  three  years. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  mechanical  work  on  Puget  Sound, 
and  at  the  first  establishment  of  a  local  board  of  inspectors  of  steam  vessels 
for  Washington  territory  in  1872  he  was  appointed  inspector  of  steam  boilers, 
being  the  first  to  fill  that  position  on  the  sound.  He  early  became  interested 
in  Seattle  city  property  and  has  the  credit  of  erecting  the  first  brick  house 
built  in  the  city  for  rental  purposes.  He  also  erected  a  frame  dwelling,  but 
lost  both  in  the  great  fire  of  1889.  Like  many  other  enterprising  men  he 
then  built  two  brick  blocks  known  as  the  Parker  blocks,  also  a  handsome 
residence  which  he  occupies.  His  home  is  a  beautiful  and  attractive  resi- 
dence on  a  lawn  which  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  by  one  hundred  and  twenty 
feet.  The  lot  is  valued  at  twelve  thousand  dollars  and  the  residence  was 
erected  at  a  cost  of  seventeen  thousand  dollars,  its  location  being  No.  1120 
Eighth  avenue.  From  this  handsome  abode  Mr.  Parker  can  look  out  over 
the  city  which  he  has  helped  to  build  and  whose  interests  have  been  materially 
advanced  through  his  efforts. 

On  the  9th  of  September,  1867,  Mr.  Parker  was  united  in  marriage  in 
Seattle  to  I\Iiss  Lydia  G.  Rowell,  a  native  of  Brewer,  Maine.  Three  sons 
have  been  born  unto  them:  George  F.,  who  is  an  electrician  and  engineer; 
Benjamin  S.,  a  marine  engineer;  and  Isaac  C,  who  is  at  home  with  his  par- 
ents. The  family  have  a  wide  acquaintance  in  Seattle  and  their  circle  of 
friends  is  almost  coextensive.  Mr.  Parker  is  an  exemplary  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  having  received  the  sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason 
in  Mission  Lodge,  No.  169,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  San  Francisco.  He  is  a  past 
master  of  the  blue  lodge,  and  past  junior  grand  warden  of  the  grand  lodge 
of  Washington.     He  also  belongs  to  Seattle  Chapter,  No.   i,  R.  A.  M.,  and 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  167 

Seattle  Commandery,  No.  2,  K.  T.,  while  in  the  Scottish  Rite  he  is  a  shriner  and 
has  attained  the  Thirty-second  degree  of  the  consistory.  He  is  also  a  valued 
member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  past  noble  grand  and 
has  been  sent  as  a  representative  to  the  grand  commandery  of  his  state.  He 
exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men  and  measures  of  the 
Republican  party  and  in  1888  he  was  chosen  by  his  fellow  citizens  to  the 
position  of  treasurer  of  Seattle.  In  all  the  relations  of  life  this  brave  pio- 
neer of  185 1  has  shown  himself  to  be  an  upright  citizen,  enterprising  and 
competent  in  business  and  at  all  times  worthy  of  the  esteem  which  is  uni- 
formly extended  to  him.  Coming  to  the  west  in  its  pioneer  days,  his  labors 
have  been  of  the  greatest  benefit  in  the  line  of  mechanical  construction  upon 
the  Pacific  coast  and  his  efforts  have  ever  been  directed  along  the  lines  of  the 
greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number. 

CORLISS  P.  STONE. 

Forty  years  have  passed  since  Corliss  P.  Stone  became  a  resident  of 
Seattle  and  in  this  period  he  has  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  exten- 
sion and  improvement  of  the  city  through  his  real-estate  operations,  while 
his  business  activity  along  other  lines  has  promoted  commercial  prosperity. 
He  arrived  here  in  February,  1862,  and  through  the  intervening  period  has 
steadily  advanced  until  he  now  occupies  a  leading  position  among  the  men 
of  prominence  here. 

Mr.  Stone  was  born  in  Franklin  county,  Vermont,  on  the  20th  of  March, 
1838,  and  is  of  English  lineage,  although  for  many  generations  representa- 
tives of  the  family  have  been  residents  of  America,  the  great-great-great- 
grandfather having  been  one  of  the  early  colonial  settlers  of  Connecticut,  while 
Benjamin  Stone,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  served  in  the  Colonial  army 
during  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  He  was  identified  with  the  Congregational 
church  in  religious  faith  and  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six  years. 
He  married  a  Miss  Corliss,  a  member  of  the  family  that  became  famous  as 
the  manufacturers  of  the  Corliss  steam  engines.  James  Corliss  Stone,  the 
father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Connecticut  and  married  Miss  Charlotte 
Lathrope,  a  native  of  Chelsea,  Vermont,  and  she,  too,  was  of  English  lineage 
mid  a  representative  of  an  old  Vermont  family.  She  attained  the  age  of 
sixty-six  years,  while  Mr.  Stone  reached  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-four 
years.  For  a  number  of  years  he  held  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace,  and 
his  decisions  were  rendered  without  partiality  or  bias.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stone  were  active  and  devout  members  of  the  Congregational  church  and 


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their  labors  contributed  to  its  upbuilding.      Their  family  consisted  of  three 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

Corliss   P.   Stone  was  educated  in  St.   Johnsbury,  Vermont,  attending 
the  public  schools  and  the  academy  there,  and  entered  upon  his  business  career 
as  a  clerk  in  a  dry-goods  store.      Later  he  engaged  in  business  on  his  own 
account  for  three  years  before  coming  to  the  Pacific  coast.      He  made  the 
voyage  around  the  Horn  in  the  Archer,  a  clipper  ship,  which  in  a  gale  lost 
a  mast  and  was  in  imminent  peril,  but  she  stopped  for  repairs  and  afterward 
continued  the  voyage  in  safety,  casting  anchor  in  the  harbor  of  San  Fran- 
cisco after  one  hundred  and  ten  days.      Mr.   Stone  had   followed   Horace 
Greeley's  advice  to  young  men  and  had  come  to  the  west,  hoping  to  find  good 
business  opportunities  in  this  section  of  the  country.      He  possessed  a  strong 
body,  willing  hands  and  a  clear  head,  but  little  else  to  serve  him  as  capital. 
His  first  work  in  Washington  was  at  Port  Madison,  where  he  was  employed 
as  a  salesman  in  a  store  for  f'xe  years.      In  1867  he  established  a  store  of  his 
own  in  Seattle  and  conducted  a  successful  business  until  1884,  when  he  sold 
out  and  became  interested  in  city  real  estate.      Many  other  enterprises  have 
also  claimed  his  attention  and  he  is  widely  known  as  a  man  of  resourceful 
business  ability,  who  not  only  has  the  talent  for  planning  successful  enter- 
prises but  also  the  ability  to  put  them  into  good  working  order.      He  became 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Union  Electric  Company,  furnishing  light  and 
power  for  the  city,  and  is  now  the  president  of  the  Cascade  Laundry  Com- 
pany, which  is  doing  a  large  business  in  the  city.     He  also  continues  his  opera- 
tions in   Seattle  real   estate  and   has   platted  several  additions   to  the  city, 
the   first   being   in    1884.      This   was    the   Lake   Union    addition,    including 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land,  on  which  great  improvements  have 
been  made.      His  next  was  the  Edgewater  addition  of  thirty  acres,  which  is 
also  all  built  up  at  the  present  time.     He  then  platted  Stone's  extension  to  the 
same  addition,  which  has  also  been  improved,  many  fine  buildings  having  been 
erected  there.      He  is  now  handling  the  C.  P.  Stone  home  addition,  of  twenty 
acres,  adjoining  Lake  Union.      It  will  thus  be  seen  that  he  has  been  a  promi- 
nent factor  in  the  improvement  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  and  has  done  his 
full  share  toward  the  promotion  of  many  movements  which  have  contrii:uted 
to  the  public  welfare  aside  from  his  individual  interests. 

In  1864  Mr.  Stone  was  married  to  Clara  Boyd,  and  unto  them  were 
born  two  children,  but  only  one  is  now  living — Corliss  L.,  who  is  now  in  the 
office  of  his  father,  and  is  a  young  man  of  excellent  business  ability.  In 
1874  Mr.  Stone  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Almira  L. 
Crossman,  a  native  of  Montreal,  Canada.     In  politics  he  has  been  a  lifelong 


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Republican  and  had  the  honor  of  being  elected  mayor  of  the  city  in  1872. 
He  exercised  his  official  prerogatives  for  the  improvement  and  substantial 
progress  of  Seattle  and  has  labored  earnestly  for  the  advancement  of  this  part 
of  the  state.  Regarded  as  a  citizen  and  in  his  social  relations,  he  belongs 
to  that  public-spirited,  useful  and  helpful  class  of  men  whose  ambitions  and 
desires  are  centered  and  directed  in  those  channels  through  which  flow  the 
greatest  and  most  permanent  good  to  the  greatest  number. 

TIMOTHY   D.   HINCKLEY. 

For  more  than  a  half  century  Timothy  Duane  Hinckley  has  resided  on  the 
Pacific  coast  and  for  forty-nine  years  has  been  a  resident  of  Seattle,  which  he 
has  seen  emerge  from  villagehood  to  take  rank  with  the  most  important 
cities  of  the  great  north->vest.'  No  man  has  felt  a  keener  interest  in  the 
progress  and  development  of  the  place  or  labored  more  earnestly  and  inde- 
fatigably  for  its  improvement.  The  fine  brick  block  on  Second  street  which 
bears  his  name  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  business  thrift  and  enterprise 
and  he  also  owns  a  fine  farm  in  the  suburbs. 

Mr.  Hinckley  is  a  native  of  St.  Claire  county,  Illinois,  born  on  the  30th 
of  June,  1827,  and  is  a  descendant  of  the  Hinckleys  who  were  pioneer  settlers 
of  Hamilton  county,  Ohio.  His  father,  Timothy  Hinckley,  was  born  in 
Maine,  and  followed  the  ship  carpenter's  trade  in  Bath  until  1816,  when  he 
removed  to  Ohio.  He  was  married  to  Hannah  Smith,  a  native  of  his 
own  town  in  Maine,  and  after  making  their  home  in  Ohio  for  a  time  they 
removed  to  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois.  Mr.  Hinckley  owned  a  farm  there 
and  also  worked  at  the  builder's  trade  in  St.  Louis,  Missouri.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Whig  and  for  a  number  of  years  acceptably  filled  the  office  of  justice  of 
the  peace.  He  and  his  wife  were  valued  members  of  the  Baptist  church. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years  and  his  wife  survived  him  for  some 
time,  passing  away  at  about  the  same  age.  They  had  eleven  children,  of 
whom  but  three  are  living.  One  of  the  daughters  is  Maria  Louise,  the 
wife  of  the  Hon.  John  B.  Hay,  of  Belleville,  Illinois.  Pauline  is  now  a  widow 
and  resides  in  Middletown,  Virginia. 

Timothy    D.    Hinckley,    the    only    living    son,    acquired    his    education 

in  the  public  schools  and  afterward  learned  engineering,  which  he  followed 

during  the  greater  part  of  his  early  life.      In  1850  he  crossed  the  plains  from 

Missouri  with  a  mule  team,  in  company  with  a  party  that  started  on  the  30th 

of  April  and  included  his  brothers,  Samuel  and  Jacob.      They  met  with  no 

thrilling  incidents  on  the  trip,  but  had  plenty  of  buft'alo  meat  and  the  time 
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passed  pleasantly.  While  in  the  Snake  river  country  they  met  with  two  In- 
dians who  had  a  fine  mule  for  which  one  of  the  company  traded  an  old  horse 
and  some  blankets.  Soon  after,  however,  they  were  overtaken  by  the  real 
owner  of  the  mule,  and  the  man  who  had  made  the  trade  was  afraid  to  go 
back  for  his  horse  and  blankets.  But  Mr.  Hinckley  said  he  would  accom- 
pany the  man  who  owned  the  mule,  and  they  were  out  all  night  on  the  expe- 
dition, but  succeeded  in  regaining  possession  of  the  horse  and  blankets.  Af- 
ter traveling  for  three  months  the  party  reached  Hangtown,  now  Placerville, 
California,  where  Mr.  Hinckley  and  his  brothers  separated  and  the  former 
engaged  in  placer  mining  at  Cold  Springs,  meeting  with  only  moderate  suc- 
cess. He  afterward  went  to  the  middle  fork  of  the  American  river,  and 
engaged  in  mining  near  Georgetown,  but  was  not  successful.  He  proceeded 
thence  to  Volcano  and  on  to  the  Trinity  country,  mining  at  Weaverville, 
where  he  met  with  much  better  success. 

In  March,  1853,  Mr.  Hinckley  came  to  Seattle  and  took  up  a  ranch  on 
Lake  Washington,  but  soon  abandoned  the  farm,  as  there  was  no  market  for 
the  products.  He  then  remo\'ed  to  Port  Madison,  where  he  ran  an  engine  for 
three  years,  after  which  he  went  to  Port  Orchard,  where  he  also  secured  a 
position  as  engineer.  Subsequently  he  erected  a  nmnber  of  buildings  in  Se- 
attle on  the  site  of  the  Phoenix  Hotel  and  land  adjoining  it,  but  lost  them 
in  the  great  fire  a  little  later.  Mr.  Hinckley  then  sold  that  property  and 
bought  nine  acres  of  land  on  Lake  Union,  where  he  has  built  a  fine  home,  a 
fitting  place  for  the  brave  pioneer  to  spend  the  evening  of  a  busy,  eventful 
and  useful  life.  He  built  the  Hinckley  block  in  1889,  just  after  the  great  fire. 
It  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  by  one  hundred  and  eight  feet  and  is  five  stories 
and  a  basement  in  height.  Substantially  built  of  brick,  the  first  floor  is  used 
for  storage  and  the  upper  floors  for  office  purposes.  It  is  a  valuable  and 
paying  property.  Mr.  Hinckley  still  retains  four  acres  at  Lake  L^nion,  in 
connection  with  his  residence. 

In  1867  Avas  celebrated  the  marriage  of  our  subject  and  Mrs.  jMargaret 
E.  Hinckley,  the  widow  of  his  brother.  She  is  a  native  of  Ireland  and  by  her 
former  husband  had  five  children:  Kate,  now  the  wife  of  Perry  Poison,  a 
prominent  merchant  of  Seattle;  Ferdinand,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
six  years;  Walter  H.,  who  has  charge  of  Mr.  Hinckley's  business  and  is  one 
of  the  representative  men  of  the  city ;  Ira  and  Lyman,  at  home.  Mrs.  Hinck- 
ley has  been  a  resident  of  this  section  of  the  country  since  1854,  and  has  lived 
in  both  California  and  Washington  in  poineer  times. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hinckley  has  been  a  lifelong  Democrat  and  for  many 
years  filled  the  office  of  justice  of  the  peace,  his  even-handed  justice  "winning 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  171 

golden  opinions  from  all  sorts  of  people."  For  three  terms  he  served  in  the 
territorial  legislature  of  Washington  and  was  active  in  promoting  many  use- 
ful measures.  He  was  largely  influential  in  securing  the  passage  of  a  liquor 
license  law  obliging  the  payment  of  five  hundred  dollars  annually  as  a  license, 
and  he  was  also  the  author  of  the  bill  creating  and  organizing  the  county  of 
Kitsap.  He  worked  diligently  for  all  measures  which  he  deemed  of  value 
to  the  territory,  his  course  reflecting  credit  upon  himself  and  proving  of  value 
to  the  district  which  he  represented.  He  has  seen  the  whole  of  the  phe- 
nomenal growth  of  Seattle  and  takes  great  pride  in  the  wonderful  develop- 
ment of  the  city. 

JAMES  W.   CLISE. 

James  W.  Clise,  the  well  known  president  of  the  Seattle  chamber  of 
commerce,  and  one  of  the  most  active  and  successful  business  men  of  the  city, 
has  through  a  long  period  been  closely  associated  with  its  progress  and 
material  upbuilding.  In  the  edition  of  the  Trade  Register,  published  on  the 
13th  of  July,  1901,  appears  the  following:  "James  W.  Clise,  who  so  ably 
fills  the  important  office  of  president  of  the  Seattle  chamber  of  commerce, 
and  has,  as  an  active  business  man  of  the  Queen  city,  invested  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  dollars  in  realty  and  buildings  in  this  city  and  the  Evergreen 
state,  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Wisconsin,  in  1855.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Lancaster  schools  and  when  twenty  years  of  age  went  to  Stockton,  California, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business  until  1879.  He  then  located  in 
Denver,  Colorado,  where  he  was  in  the  lumber  business  until  1889.  The  year 
of  the  Seattle  fire  he  came  to  Seattle  and  organized  the  Clise  Investment  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  has  since  been  president  and  general  manager.  Besides 
handling  real  estate  and  other  investments,  Mr.  Clise  has  been  agent  for  a 
number  of  prominent  eastern  capitalists  who  have  purchased  and  erected  a 
large  number  of  business  blocks  in  Seattle.  Mr.  Clise  is  also  manager  of  the 
Globe  Navigation  Company  recently  organized  which  has  purchased  three 
large  steamships  and  is  building  a  large  sailing  fleet  to  take  part  in  the  com- 
merce of  the  Pacific,  which  farsighted  business  men  realize  will  rapidly  de- 
velope  into  enormous  proportions  and  make  Seattle  the  American  Pacific 
Gateway  for  the  far  eastern  trade  with  the  continent.  Mr.  Clise  promoted 
and  built  the  Selah  &  Moxel  irrigation  canal  in  Yakima  county  and  is  in- 
terested in  other  stock  business  projects.  Since  1890  he  has  been  an  active 
member  of  the  Seattle  chamber  of  commerce,  serving  as  trustee,  vice-pres- 
ident and  has  been  elected  president  for  two  successive  terms  by  the  unani- 


172  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

mous  vote  of  the  board  of  trustees.  Mr,  Clise  has  always  been  an  enthusi- 
astic worker  in  all  matters  affecting  Seattle's  interests  and  this  cit}*  is  greatly- 
indebted  to  him  for  the  success  of  many  projects,  especially  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  Fort  Lawton  army  post  and  the  quartermaster's  office  at  this 
point." 

The  ancestors  of  our  subject  came  form  Holland  in  1700  and  settled  in 
Virginia,  the  home  of  the  family  being  known  as  Whitehall.  Samuel  Frank 
Clise,  the  father  of  our  subject,  removed  from  the  Old  Dominion  to  Wiscon- 
sin, where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Nancy  McKenzie,  who  removed  to  that 
state  from  Glasgow,  Kentucky.  After  their  marriage  they  continued  to  reside 
in  Lancaster,  Wisconsin,  and  reared  their  family  there.  The  father  became 
a  man  of  marked  influence  and  prominence,  holding  various  offices  of  honor 
and  trust  in  his  county.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church 
and  departed  this  life  when  comparatively  a  young  man,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
two.     His  wife  still  survives  him  and  is  now  in  her  seventieth  year. 

Mr.  Clise  was  married  in  1886  to  Miss  Anna  Herr,  a  native  of  the  same 
town  in  which  his  birth  occurred.  They  have  three  children,  Ruth,  Charles 
Francis  and  James  William,  Jr.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  'Episcopal 
church  and  their  home  is  one  of  the  beautiful  residences  that  adorn  Queen 
Ann  hill. 

DEXTER   HORTON. 

Dexter  Horton  is  one  of  the  honored  and  prominent  pioneer  business 
men  of  Seattle  and  his  history  is  closely  linked  with  the  development  of  the 
pioneer  west.  People  of  the  present  period  can  scarcely  realize  the  struggles 
and  dangers  which  attended  the  early  settlers,  the  heroism  and  self- 
sacrifice  of  lives  passed  upon  the  borders  of  civilization,  the  hardships 
endured,  the  difficulties  overcome.  These  tales  of  the  early  days  read  almost 
like  a  romance  to  those  who  have  known  only  the  modern  prosperity  and 
conveniences.  To  the  pioneer  of  the  early  days,  far  removed  from  the 
privileges  and  conveniences  of  city  or  town,  the  struggle  for  existence  was 
a  stern  and  hard  one,  and  these  men  and  women  must  have  possessed  indomit- 
able energies  and  sterling  worth  of  character,  as  well  as  marked  physical 
courage,  when  they  thus  voluntarily  selected  such  a  life  and  successfully 
fought  its  battles  under  such  circumstances  as  prevailed  in  the  northwest. 

Mr.  Horton  was  born  in  what  is  now  Schuyler  county,  New  York,  near 
the  head  of  Seneca  Lake  on  the  15th  of  November,  1825,  and  is  of  English 
lineage,  the  family,  however,  having  been  established  in  New  England  at 


PUBUCUBHARYj 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  173 

a  very  early  epoch  in  the  history  of  that  section.  The  paternal  grand- 
father of  our  subject  was  a  resident  of  Massachusetts,  while  his  son,  Darius 
Horton,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Massachusetts  January  23, 
1790.  He  removed  to  the  Empire  state  and  was  married  there  to  Miss 
Hannah  Olmstead,  whose  birth  occurred  February  4,  1790.  In  1840  Darius 
Horton  removed  with  his  family  to  De  Kalb  county,  Illinois,  his  new  home 
being  seventy  miles  west  of  Chicago.  There  he  entered  land  from  the  gov- 
ernment and  transformed  the  wild  prairie  into  a  richly  improved  farm  on 
which  he  resided  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1847,  when  he  had  at- 
tained the  age  of  fifty-four  years.  He  was  a  very  industrious  and  thor- 
oughly honest  man,  a  kind  and  obliging  neighbor,  and  a  devoted  husband 
and  father.  His  widow  continued  to  reside  in  Illinois  until  after  the  Civil 
war,  when  she  came  to  Seattle,  spending  her  remaining  days  in  the  home 
of  her  son,  where  she  died  in  her  seventy-sixth  year.  She  was  the  mother 
of  six  children,  of  whom  three  are  now  living,  namely :  Mrs.  Harriet  Mar- 
tin, who  is  now  in  her  eighty-first  year;  Julius,  a  resident  of  Georgetown; 
and  Dexter. 

The  last  named  had  but  limited  school  privileges.  For  about  three 
months  in  a  year  he  was  a  student  in  a  little  school  house  in  a  small  district 
in  New  York,  but  during  the  remainder  of  the  year  his  time  was  occupied 
with  the  work  of  the  farm.  When  a  youth  of  fifteen  he  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Illinois  and  as  he  was  then  as  large  and  strong  as  a  man  he  did 
a  man's  work  in  the  fields,  attending  school  only  through  two  months  of 
the  year,  the  remainder  of  the  time  being  devoted  to  the  arduous  task  of 
reclaiming  the  wild  land  for  the  purposes  of  civilization.  His  school  books 
were  a  Cobb  speller,  and  a  Daboll's  arithmetic,  in  which  he  advanced  no 
further  than  the  rule  of  three,  but  in  the  school  of  experience  Mr.  Horton 
has  learned  many  valuable  lessons  and  through  reading  and  observation  he 
has  become  a  well  informed  man  of  practical  ideas  in  business  and  broad 
in  his  views  concerning  the  world  and  the  great  questions  which  affect 
humanity.  While  residing  in  Illinois  he  took  up  a  claim  of  eighty  acres 
near  his  father's  home  and  when  he  could  obtain  any  leisure  from  assist- 
ing in  the  improvement  of  his  father's  farm,  he  devoted  the  time  to  the 
cultivation  of  his  own  land.  When  but  sixteen  years  of  age  he  became  an 
expert  with  the  axe,  cutting  and  splitting  in  oak,  ash  and  black  walnut 
timber  two  hundred  rails  a  day.  With  these  he  fenced  all  of  the  land.  In 
1847,  when  about  nineteen  years  of  age,  Mr.  Horton  was  happily  married 
to  Miss  Hannah  E.  Shondy  and  unto  them  were  born  three  children  while 
they  were  residents  of  Illinois,  but  they  lost  two  in  infancy.     In  1852  Mr. 


174  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Horton,  accompanied  by  his  wife  and  little  daughter  Rebecca,  started  across 
the  plains  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Five  families  traveled  together,  taking  with 
them  sixty  horses.  There  were  in  the  company,  eight  men,  six  v/omen,  and 
six  children,  -and  a  little  one  was  born  on  the  plains.  They  arrived  at  The 
Dalles  in  safety  on  the  6th  of  SeptemlDcr,  although  they  had  encountered 
many  hardships  and  trials  when  on  the  way.  The  Indians  at  one  time  attempt- 
ed to  steal  their  horses,  but  failed.  The  year  of  their  emigration  was  the  one 
in  which  so  many  settlers  suffered  from  the  cholera  and  newly-made  graves 
along  the  way  marked  the  route  of  the  wagon  trains.  IMr.  Horton  was 
stricken  with  the  dread  disease  and  when  very  ill  was  providentially  saved 
by  a  heavy  dose  of  morphine.  A  lady  said  to  his  wife,  'Tf  that  was  my 
husband  I  would  give  him  a  large  dose  of  blue  mass,"  which  advice  was 
rejected.  Mr.  Horton  recovered,  but  the  lady  took  the  dread  disease,  and 
although  she  took  the  remedy  which  she  had  recommended,  she  died  in  less  than 
twenty-four  hours.  j\Ir.  Thomas  Mercer  also  lost  his  wife  at  the  Cascades, 
but  the  remainder  of  the  party  reached  their  destination  in  safety.  Mr. 
Horton  and  his  family  spent  the  winter  at  Salem,  Oregon.  During  that 
Avinter  the  territory  of  Washington  was  formed,  the  country  lying  to  the 
north  of  the  Columbia  river  benig  included  within  its  borders.  In  the  spring 
of  1853  our  subject  and  several  others  walked  to  Olympia,  thence  proceed- 
ing to  Seattle,  where  Mr.  Horton  secured  work  with  Mr,  Bell,  chopping 
piles  at  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  day.  He  also  went  to  Port  Town- 
send,  where  he  cleared  two  lots  for  a  man  and  was  paid  ten  dollars  per  day 
for  his  work.  On  the  first  of  July  he  returned  to  Salem,  expecting  to 
secure  work  at  han^esting,  but  the  great  emigration  of  that  year  had  brought 
many  unemployed  men  to  thi?  portion  of  the  country  and  he  was  only  able 
to  get  one  day's  work.  On  the  first  of  September  of  that  year  Mr.  Mercer 
and  his  four  daughters  and  Mr.  Horton  and  his  family  started  with  a 
team  for  Seattle.  They  came  by  the  way  of  Portland,  ferried  their  horses 
across  the  river  and  the  family  proceeded  in  a  scow  to  Monticello  and  then 
in  canoes  to  the  upper  landing  on  the  Cowlitz.  There  Mr.  Horton  met 
his  family  and  the  ladies  of  the  party  with  the  horses,  and  putting  the 
wagon  together  brought  them  to  Olympia,  where  he  left  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ter while  he  returned  after  their  household  effects.  They  arrived  in  Seattle 
on  the  15th  of  September,  1853,  at  which  date  he  had  not  a  dollar  in  his 
pocket  and  worse  than  that  was  indebted  to  Mr.  Mercer  in  the  sum  of  fifty 
dollars  for  bringing  him  to  this  country  with  his  team.  They  were  met 
on  the  beach  by  parties  from  Port  Gamble  and  Mr.  Horton  and  his  wife 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  175 

were  offered  one  hundred  and  thirty  dollars  per  month  with  board  to  go 
there  and  cook  for  a  camp  of  men.  He  and  his  faithful  pioneer  wife  worked 
in  that  way  for  nine  months  and  then  gave  up  the  position  for  the  camp 
had  increased  to  sixty  men  and  the  work  was  too  heavy  for  them.  When 
they  went  to  Port  Gamble  Mr.  Horton  had  a  pair  of  overhauls,  a  jumper, 
a  hat  and  old  boots,  and  his  wife  was  as  poorly  clad,  but  while  there  they 
managed  to  pay  off  their  indebtedness,  to  acquire  a  good  wardrobe  and  to 
save  eleven  hundred  and  sixty  dollars  in  gold.  Our  subject  afterward  worked 
in  a  mill  owned  by  Mr.  Yesler,  while  his  wife  did  the  cooking  for  four- 
teen men  for  five  months.  He  began  work  at  one  o'clock  at  noon  and  was 
released  at  twelve  o'clock  at  night.  He  had  purchased  some  lots  and  after 
obtaining  rest  in  sleep  he  would  devote  the  remainder  of  his  time  before  one 
o'clock. to  clearing  his  lots.  All  the  money  possible  was  saved  and  stored 
in  an  old  trunk.  About  this  time  our  subject  became  interested  in  mer- 
chandising. A.  A.  Denny  had  purchased  a  small  stock  of  goods  on  com- 
mission and  Mr.  Horton  became  his  partner  in  the  new  enterprise.  They 
were  also  joined  by  David  Phillips,  who  had  some  experience  as  a  merchant 
and  uniting  their  capital  they  purchased  more  goods  and  thus  became  iden- 
tified with  early  commission  interests  in  this  section  of  the  country.  During 
the  first  year  they  managed  to  pay  all  expenses  and  made  three  hundred 
dollars  each.  At  the  end  of  the  year  Mr.  Denny  was  called  to  the  upper 
house  of  the  territorial  legislature  and  Mr.  Phillips  to  the  lower  house,  so 
Mr.  Horton  purchased  his  partners'  interests,  giving  them  credit  for  their 
share  of  the  business  and  he  traded  on  this.  Mr.  Horton  went  on  a  sailing 
vessel  to  San  Frascisco  to  purchase  more  goods,  but  a  severe  storm  over- 
took the  ship  and  it  was  two  months  before  he  was  able  to  return  with  his 
merchandise,  making  the  voyage  on  the  same  vessel  on  which  he  had  gone 
to  San  Francisco.  At  twelve  o'clock  at  night  they  passed  Port  Townsend. 
An  hour  before  they  had  heard  a  cannon  and  knew  there  must  be  trouble 
with  the  Indians  at  Seattle.  Captain  Boyd  decided  to  land  in  the  darkness 
at  Port  Madison,  and  while  approaching  the  shore  he  fired  a  pistol.  His 
boat  was  then  hailed  and  he  was  told  that  if  he  did  not  answer  they  would 
be  blown  out  of  the  water.  It  proved  to  be  the  mill  hands  who  made  this 
speech  and  who  told  them  that  they  had  been  fighting  at  Seattle  all  day. 
This  occasioned  Mr.  Horton  great  anxiety  concerning  the  safety  of  his 
family.  In  the  morning  he  asked  an  Indian  to  take  him  in  his  canoe  to 
his  home,  but  the  Indian  refused  until  Mr.  Horton  insisted  strongly  and 
they  started.    When  they  reached  the  other  side  of  the  bay  the  Indian  stopped 


176  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

and  looked  for  canoes,  but  seeing  none  they  re-crossed  and  were  hailed  by 
the  Decatur,  on  board  of  which  Mr.  Horton  found  his  wife  safe.  The 
Indians  in  great  numbers  had  attacked  the  settlers  in  the  town  but  the  De- 
catur had  shelled  the  Indian  camp  and  succeeded  in  making  them  retire 
after  a  day's  fighting.  The  ship  on  which  Mr.  Horton  had  returned  from 
San  Francisco  did  not  unload  his  goods  for  thirty  days  more,  having  to 
stop  at  other  points  in  the  meantime.  The  news  of  the  Indian  outbreak 
brought  a  number  of  United  States  ships  to  the  sound  and  thus  a  market 
was  created  so  that  within  six  weeks  he  had  sold  the  greater  part  of  his 
stock.  He  paid  off  his  indebtedness,  but  later  Mr.  Phillips  again  formed  a 
partnership  with  him,  the  new  relation  being  maintained  for  five  years, 
during  which  time  they  established  a  store  at  Olympia.  Mr.  Horton  con- 
tinued merchandising  for  sixteen  years  and  became  a  very  popular  and  suc- 
cessful merchant,  enjoying  the  good  will  and  confidence  of  a  large  patron- 
age because  of  his  reasonable  prices,  his  honorable  dealing  and  his  unfail- 
ing courtesy  toward  his  customers.  He  was  in  business  all  through  the 
time  of  the  Civil  war  and  was  greatly  benefited  by  the  advance  in  prices. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  he  had  the  business  sagacity  to  sell  out  and 
became  the  founder  of  the  Dexter  Horton  Bank,  the  first  bank  established 
in  the  territory  of  Washington.  He  was  made  its  president  and  for  eigh- 
teen years  continued  in  the  banking  business,  profiting  largely  by  the  same 
honorable  business  methods  which  he  employed  in  merchandising  and  which 
actuated  all  his  transactions  in  commercial  life.  When  he  had  been  in  active 
business  for  thirty-four  years,  he  sold  his  bank  to  W.  S.  Ladd,  of  Portland, 
Oregon,  but  the  old  name  was  continued  and  the  institution  is  still  one  of 
the  most  reliable  and  best  patronized  in  this  portion  of  the  country.  A. 
A.  Denny,  the  friend  and  first  partner  of  Mr.  Horton  was  also  in  the  bank- 
ing business  with  him  for  sixteen  years  and  both  sold  out  at  the  same  time, 
reserving,  however,  some  of  their  bank  stock.  All  this  occurred  before  the 
great  fire  of  1889,  which  swept  over  the  city,  almost  wiping  Seattle  out  of 
existence.  At  once,  however,  Mr.  Horton  began  to  rebuild  and  completed 
the  Seattle  block  in  three  months,  it  being  the  first  new  block  occupied  after 
the  fire.  It  has  a  frontage  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  on  third  street 
and  one  hundred  and  twenty-six  feet  on  Cherry  street  and  is  four  stories 
high  on  the  street  and  five  on  the  alley.  A  year  later  Mr.  Horton  erected 
the  New  York  building,  which  is  one  hundred  and  twenty  by  one  hundred 
and  twelve  feet  and  seven  stories  in  height.  It  is  a  modern  structure, 
equipped  with  all  the  latest  accessories   and  improvements  and  is  a  credit 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  177 

to  the  city.  These  buildings  stand  as  monuments  of  Mr.  Horton's  industry 
and  business  enterprise. 

In  1873  he  erected  a  nice  residence  at  No.  1206  Third  avenue.  It 
stands  on  a  sHght  eminence  overlooking  the  bay  and  is  one  of  the  attractive 
homes  of  Seattle.  There  with  his  good  wife  and  accomplished  daughter 
he  is  spending  the  evening  of  life  enjoying  a  well  merited  rest  and  the 
comforts  which  his  years  of  former  toil  have  brought  to  him.  He  is  en- 
tirely without  ostentation  or  display  but  his  history  is  so  well  known  in 
Seattle  that  all  accord  him  the  respect  and  honor  which  is  his  just  due. 
After  the  family  arrived  in  this  city  a  little  son,  Alfred,  was  born,  but  his 
death  occurred  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  twenty  months.  A  daugh- 
ter, Nettie,  is  now  the  wife  of  the  Reverend  W.  G.  Jones,  of  Everett.  Mrs. 
Horton  departed  this  life  on  the  30th  of  December,  1871.  She  was  a  brave 
pioneer  helpmate,  the  wife  of  his  youth,  and  her  loss  was  very  deeply  felt  by 
her  devoted  husband  and  by  all  who  knew  her.  On  the  30th  of  September, 
1873,  ^^-  Horton  married  Miss  Caroline  E.  Parsons  and  this  union  was 
blessed  with  a  daughter,  Caroline  E.,  now  a  young  lady  who  is  the  light  and 
life  of  the  household.  She  has  just  graduated  from  the  state  university. 
Her  mother  was  only  spared  to  Mr.  Horton  for  five  years,  passing  away 
on  the  4th  of  March,  1878.  Four  years  later  he  made  a  trip  to  the  east 
and  on  the  14th  of  September,  1882,  he  married  Miss  Arabella  C.  Agard, 
a  daughter  of  Eaton  Agard,  of  Mr.  Horton's  native  county.  They  had 
been  schoolmates  in  their  childhood  days  and  the  marriage  has  proved  a 
very  happy  one. 

Mr.  Horton  has  long  been  an  active  and  acceptable  member  of  the 
Protestant  Methodist  church,  with  which  he  became  identified  in  1849.  He 
has  served  as  an  officer  and  has  always  been  most  active  and  liberal  in  ad- 
vancing the  interests  of  religion  and  church  building  in  his  city.  He  has 
taken  special  interest  and  pleasure  in  Sunday-school  work  and  for  ten  years 
he  filled  the  office  of  Sunday-school  superintendent.  In  his  early  manhood 
he  had  no  sympathy  with  the  oppression  of  the  slave  holders,  and  therefore 
became  a  Freeholder.  Later,  when  the  Republican  party  was  formed  to 
prevent  the  further  extension  of  slavery,  he  joined  its  ranks  and  has  since 
remained  one  of  its  advocates,  but  has  never  desired  or  sought  office.  The 
secret  of  his  success  in  business  is  found  in  his  persistency  of  purpose  and 
in  the  untainted  honor  and  unswerving  integrity  which  have  ever  marked 
his  career.  He  stands  to-day  strong  in  his  good  name,  commanding  re- 
spect and  enjoying  the  unqualified  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated  through  the  long  years  of  his  residence  on  the  Pacific  coast. 


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JAMES   MURRY   COLMAN. 

The  days  of  chivalry  and  knighthood  in  Europe  cannot  furnish  more 
interesting  or  romantic  tales  than  our  own  western  history.  Into  the  wild 
mountain  fastnesses  of  the  unexplored  west  went  brave  men,  whose  cour- 
age was  often  called  forth  in  encounters  with  hostile  savages.  The  land 
was  rich  in  all  natural  resources,  in  gold  and  silver,  in  agricultural  and 
commercial  possibilities,  and  awaited  the  demands  of  man  to  yield  up  its 
treasures,  but  its  mountain  heights  were  hard  to  climb,  its  forests  difficult 
to  penetrate,  and  the  magnificent  trees,  the  dense  bushes  or  the  jagged  rocks 
often  sheltered  the  skulking  foe,  who  resented  the  encroachment  of 
pale  faces  upon  their  hunting  grounds.  The  establishment  of  homes 
in  this  beautiful  region  therefore  meant  sacrifices,  hardships  and  oftimes 
death,  but  there  were  some  men  brave  enough  to  meet  the  red  man  in  his 
own  familiar  haunts  and  untertake  the  task  of  reclaiming  the  district  for 
purposes  of  civilization.  The  rich  mineral  stores  of  this  vast  region  were 
thus  added  to  the  wealth  of  the  nation;  its  magnificent  forests  contributed 
to  the  lumber  industries  and  its  fertile  valleys  added  to  the  opportunities 
of  the  farmer  and  stockraiser,  and  to-day  the  northwest  is  one  of  the  most 
productive  sections  of  the  entire  country'.  That  this  is  so  is  due  to  such 
men  as  James  M,  Colman,  whose  name  is  inseparably  interwoven  with  the 
history  of  the  region.  No  story  of  fiction  contains  more  exciting  chapters 
than  may  be  found  in  his  life  record,  but  space  forbids  an  extended  ac- 
count of  these.  He  who  was  to  become  such  an  improtant  factor  in  the 
development  of  the  northwest  first  came  to  Seattle  in  1861.  He  is  a  native 
of  Dumfermline,  Fifeshire,  Scotland,  born  on  the  17th  of  June,  1832.  His 
ancestors  lived  in  the  highlands  many  generations  remote,  but  later 
removed  to  the  lowlands.  His  father,  Bartholomew  Colman,  married  Miss 
Isabelle  Z^Iurray.  He  and  his  wife  were  people  of  the  highest  integrity  and 
respectability  and  were  devout  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  The 
father  departed  this  life  in  his  forty-fifth  year  and  the  mother  passed  away 
in  her  sixty-second  year.  They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children,  of  whom 
three  sons  and  a  daughter  still  sundve, 

James  M.  Colman,  their  second  child,  after  acquiring  his  education,  learned 
the  machinist's  trade  and  also  mastered  the  principles  of  engineering  in  his 
native  land.  In  1854  he  took  passage  on  a  sailing  vessel.  The  Bogart,  bound 
for  the  United  States.  They  had  not  been  long  at  sea  before  they  encountered  a 
severe  storm  which  so  badly  damaged  the  ship  that  she  was  obliged  to  put 
back  to  Liverpool.     Nothing  daunted  by  this  misfortune,  our  subject  sailed 


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from  the  latter  port  and  after  a  voyage  of  six  weeks  reached  the  harbor  of 
New  York.  He  did  not  tarry  long  in  the  eastern  metropolis  but  proceeded 
at  once  across  the  country  to  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  where  he  had  a  cousin 
living.  Mr.  Colman  was  then  a  young  man  of  twenty-two  years.  He  en- 
joyed excellent  health,  had  mastered  a  good  trade,  and  had  a  cash  capital 
of  one  hundred  dollars.  Thus  he  started  out  in  the  land  of  the  free.  He 
knew  that  he  could  earn  a  good  living  but  determined  to  do  something  more. 
He  accepted  work  in  a  machine  shop  and  was  soon  found  to  be  such  a  cap- 
able and  intelligent  workman  that  he  was  made  foreman  of  the  enterprise 
and  held  that  position  for  seven  years,  but  believing  that  diere  were  better 
business  oportunities  for  him  on  the  Pacific  coast,  he  severed  his  connec- 
tion with  the  firm  which  he  had  so  long  represented  and  in  1861  sailed  for 
San  Francisco,  proceeding  to  California  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama. 
Upon  his  arrival  at  his  destination  he  entered  into  an  engagement  to  take 
charge  of  a  large  sawmill  at  Port  Madison  and  for  three  years  successfully 
conducted  that  enterprise.  He  entered  upon  an  agreement  to  work  for  one 
hundred  and  thirty  dollars  per  month,  but  after  noting  his  efficiency  his  em- 
ployers gave  him  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  month.  He  remodeled 
and  rebuilt  the  mill  and  after  a  year  his  wages  were  increased  to  five  hun- 
dred dollars  per  month.  In  1864  he  embarked  in  business  on  his  own  ac- 
count, purchasing  a  mill  at  Port  Orchard,  but  the  building  was  in  rather 
dilapidated  condition  so  he  rebuilt  it,  securing  new  equipments  and  con- 
tinued its  operation  until  1869,  when  the  plant  was  utterly  destroyed  by  fire 
and  he  lost  everything,  he  had  in  a  material  way.  His  reputation  as  a  ma- 
chinist and  millwright  and  as  an  honest  man  still  remained  to  him,  how- 
ever, and  were  the  means  of  securing  him  a  good  position  within  a  very 
short  time.  The  firm  of  Hanson,  Ackerman  &  Company  desired  to  rebuild 
the  mill  at  Tacoma  and  increase  its  capacity  and  they  paid  Mr.  Colman  six 
hundred  dollars  a  month  to  do  the  work.  Well  may  he  be  proud  of  the  fact 
that  he  was  given  higher  wages  than  any  other  man  for  such  work  on  the 
Pacific  coast.  When  the  mill  was  completed  and  in  good  running  condi- 
tion he  supposed  his  work  was  at  an  end,  but  the  firm  desired  him  to  con- 
tinue its  operation  at  the  same  wages  which  he  was  receiving  and  he  re- 
mained with  them  for  two  years  altogether.  Anxious,  however,  to  again 
engage  in  business  on  his  own  account,  he  accordingly  leased  the  Yesler 
sawmill  at  Seattle,  which  was  then  standing  idle.  This  he  successfully  con- 
tinued until  it  was  also  destroyed  by  fire,  having  caught  from  a  conflagra- 
tion in  adjoining  buildings.  Once  more  he  met  with  heavy  losses,  large 
quantities  of  his  lumber  being  destroyed  by  the  flames.     He  had,  however, 


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been  most  prosperous  in  the  operation  of  his  mill  and  had  accumulated  about 
forty  thousand  dollars.  ■  ■ 

Up  to  this  time  no  railroad  had  reached  Seattle,  notwithstanding  the 
citizens  had  made  great  efforts  to  secure  the  terminus  of  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific.    The  company,  however  decided  in  favor  of  Tacoma,  and  Seattle  was 
thus  left. without  railroad  communication  with  the  outside  world.     To  offset 
this  the  citizens  tried,  but  unavailingly,  to  secure  eastern  capital  in  order  to 
build  a  road  to  Walla  Walla,  but  Mr.  Colman  saw  that  whatever  was  ac- 
complished must  be  done  by  Seattle's  men  themselves,  and  with  a  most  pro- 
gressive and  enterprising  spirit  he  proposed  that  they  build  a  road  to  Renton, 
a  distance  of  thirteen  miles,  where  there  was  a  coal  mine  being  operated. 
Eventually  he  made  the  proposition  to  put  in  twenty  thousand  dollars  if 
other   citizens   of    Seattle   would   raise   forty   thousand    dollars.      This    was 
agreed  upon  and  Mr.  Colman  went  to  San  Francisco,  wdiere  he  purchased 
with  his  own  money  tw^enty-seven  thousand  dollars  worth  of  rails,  and  re- 
turning at  once  engaged  in  the  construction  of  the  road.     There  was  much 
enthusiasm  over  the  project  at  first  and  even  the  citizens  w'orked  to  some 
extent  on  the  road,  but  interest  lagged  after  a  time  and  he  never  received 
but   twenty-five   hundred   dollars    of   the   forty   thousand   dollars   promised. 
However,  his  good  name  and  credit  enabled  him  to  keep  on  with  the  work, 
but  the  miners  at  Renton  decided  to  remove  their  works  to  New  Castle  and 
this  obliged  him  to  continue  the  road  to  the  latter  place,  notwithstanding  it 
was  a  much  harder  task.     However,  with  an  indomitable  spirit  the  work 
was  accomplished  by  this  remarkable  man  of  genius -at  a  total  cost  of  three 
hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.     He  did  his  own  engineering,  superin- 
tending the  work,  purchased  the  material  and  ultimately  received  a  dollar's 
w^orth  for  every  dollar  which  he  had  expended.     It  was  a  magnificent  achieve- 
ment,  showing  the  greatest   determination  and   splendid   business   and   ex- 
ecutive ability,  and  for  this  accomplishment  Mr.  Colman  deserv^es  the  great- 
est credit  and  praise.     He  conducted  the  road  for  a  year  and  a  half  most 
successfully.     It  was  contemplated  that  the  road  would  be  ultimately  ex- 
tended to  Walla  Walla  across  the  Cascades   by  way  of   Snoqualmie  Pass 
and  thus  reaching  the  vast  wheat  fields  of  eastern  Oregon.     With  this  end 
in  view  Mr.  Villard  purchased  the  road  and  Mr.  Colman  not  only  obtained 
what  he  had  invested,  but  also  made  some  profit. 

All  this  time  our  subject  had  been  operating  his  sawmill  in  Seattle  and 
w^as  anxious  to  be  relieved  of  the  arduous  duties  attending  on  that  work,  but  the 
new  company  would  not  hear  to  his  severing  his  connection.  He  argued  that  he 
was  overworked  and  needed  rest  but  they  insisted  that  he  needed  work  and 


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that  they  would  reheve  him  of  much  of  the  task  devolving  upon  him.  They 
offered  to  give  him  railroad  passes  to  go  wherever  he  liked  if  he  would  only 
direct  the  operations  of  the  enterprise.  Finally  he  consented  and  remained 
with  them  for  two  and  one-half  years,  receiving  good  remuneration  for  his 
work  but  he  had  no  use  for  the  railroad  passes.  All  his  labors  brought 
about  one  very  important  result — the  checkmating  of  the  Northern  Pacific 
and  in  making  Seattle  the  greatest  shipping  and  commercial  city  of  the  Sound 
which  we  find  it  to-day.  On  severing  his  connection  with  the  business  in- 
terests before  mentioned,  Mr.  Colman  made  a  trip  to  Europe,  accompanied 
by  his  wife  and  two  sons,  in  order  to  visit  many  points  of  modern  and  his- 
toric interest  in  the  old  world  and  also  to  see  again  Scotland,  his  native 
land.  After  his  return  he  engaged  in  coal  mining,  but  soon  abandoned  that 
enterprise  in  order  to  give  his  attention  to  the  improvement  of  his  Seattle 
property.  He  was  the  builder  of  the  Colman  block  which  extended  from 
Front  street  to  the  water  and  of  which  he  was  the  sole  owner,  but  all  this 
was  swept  away  in  the  great  fire  which  cost  him  a  loss  of  two  hundred  thou- 
sand dollars,  on  which  he  only  had  forty  thousand  dollars  insurance.  He  also 
lost  a  brick  block  at  the  same  time.  Before  the  fire  he  had  an  income  of 
three  thousand  dollars  per  month  from  his  property  and  it  was  reduced  to 
one  hundred  dollars.  Again  his  indomitable  energy,  resolution  and  strong 
force  of  character  were  manifest.  He  did  not  repine  but  with  resolute  pur- 
pose started  to  work  to  obliterate  the  traces  of  the  fire  and  built  a  fine  three 
story  and  basement  brick  block,  one  hundred  and  eleven  by  two  hundred 
and  forty  feet.  He  also  erected  a  block  of  buildings  where  the  Union  depot 
now  stands  and  built  the  court  building,  also  a  fine  business  structure  on 
Main  street.  In  1884  he  erected  his  splendid  residence  on  Fourth  street, 
located  on  a  beautiful  hill  surrounded  by  tasteful  grounds  upon  which  has 
been  lavished  the  art  of  the  landscape  gardener.  There  he  is  now  residing 
with  his  family;  a  fit  home  in  which  to  spend  the  evening  of  a  life  of  great 
activity  and  usefulness.  He  is  still  one  of  the  extensive  property  owners  of 
the  city,  and  though  he  has  met  with  many  reverses  and  discouragements, 
he  has  to-day  valuable  realty  holdings  which  make  him  one  of  Seattle's  most 
substantial  residents. 

Mr.  Colman  was  happily  married  in  Waukesha,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss 
Agnes  Henderson,  a  native  of  Glasgow,  Scotland.  They  had  but  two  sons, 
Lawrence  J.,  who  is  married  and  resides  in  the  family  residence  above  men- 
tioned, and  George  A.,  who  is  also  at  home.  The  sons  are  now  managing 
the  business.  The  father  has  taught  them  the  trade  which  he  mastered  in 
early  youth  and  in  which  he  still  retains  great  interest,  having  a  shop  of  his 


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own.  He  built  a  number  of  steam  yachts  for  his  own  pleasure  and  is  now 
building-  a  very  splendid  one,  eighty  feet  in  length.  He  began  his  yacht 
building  when  his  boys  were  approaching  manhood  in  order  to  find  some- 
thing to  interest  them  and  to  induce  them  to  stay  with  him.  In  this  he  has 
succeeded  and  father  and  sons  have  together  continued  their  work  in  yacht 
building  and  in  superintending  his  investments.  He  has  the  strong  filial 
love  and  devotion  of  his  "boys''  to  whom  he  has  been  not  only  a  father,  but 
companion  and  friend  as  well. 

Mr.  Colman  has  been  a  life-long  Republican,  casting  his  first  presidential 
vote  for  John  C.  Fremont,  the  first  standard  bearer  of  the  party.  He  has 
never  been  an  office  seeker,  but  sen-ed  for  five  years  on  the  civil  service  com- 
mission. He  belongs  to  the  Plymouth  Congregational  church  and  for  many 
years  was  one  of  its  trustees,  while  to  its  support  he  has  been  a  most  liberal 
contributor.  Nor  has  his  aid  been  confined  alone  to  this  one  organization, 
but  has  benefited  many  church  societies  and  benevolent  institutions.  His 
has  been  a  practical  life  in  which  his  business  career  has  been  marked  by 
nothing  visionary.  Endowed  by  nature  with  excellent  mechanical  genius, 
he  has  improved  his  talents  and  by  his  unfaltering  industry  he  has  advanced 
to  a  conspicuous  position  in  the  business  world.  Few  men  connected  with 
the  northwest  have  been  more  important  factors  in  the  development  of  this 
section  of  the  country  and  the  work  which  Mr.  Colman  accomplished  in  con- 
nection with  railroad  building  is  of  itself  sufficient  to  class  him  among  those 
whose  enterprise  has  been  the  foundation  of  the  prosperity  and  the  prog- 
ress of  Seattle. 

CHARLES  E.  FOWLER. 

Charles  Evan  Fowler,  president  of  the  Puget  Sound  Bridge  &  Dredg- 
ing Company,  has  a  wdde  reputation  as  a  bridge  builder  in  the  United  States. 
His  knowledge  of  the  scientific  principles  which  underlie  the  work,  together 
with  a  thorough  imderstanding  of  the  practical  construction,  has  enabled 
him  to  advance  to  a  position  prominent  in  civil  engineering  circles,  particu- 
larly in  the  line  of  his  specialization,  that  of  bridge  building  and  engineering 
construction. 

Mr.  Fowler  is  a  native  of  Washington  county,  Ohio,  having  been  born 
near  the  city  of  Marietta,  on  the  loth  of  February,  1S67.  The  family  is  of 
English  origin,  and  was  established  in  America  at  an  early  day  in  the  history 
of  the  colonies  where  representatives  of  the  name  took  up  their  abode.  Ben- 
jamin Fowler,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  lived  in  IMaryland,  and 
subsequently  his  descendants  took  up  their  abode  in  northeastern  Ohio  in  the 


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early  part  of  the  nineteentli  century.  Caleb  Fowler,  his  grandfather,  settled 
in  Washington  county  in  1838,  being  one  "of  the  first  settlers  of  that  part 
of  the  Buckeye  state,  and  there  impro\Td  a  farm  in  the  midst  of  the  forest, 
thus  reclaiming  the  old  hunting  ground  of  the  Indians  for  purposes  of  civili- 
zation. He  and  his  ancestors  were  identified  with  the  Society  of  Friends, 
or  Quakers,  and  were  people  of  the  highest  moral  character. 

C.  T.  Fowler,  his  son,  and  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Ohio 
in  1840,  and  in  1872  removed  to  Marietta,  that  state,  near  which  place  he 
was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber  and  in  bridge  building.  He  con- 
tinued in  business  in  Ohio  until  his  removal  to  the  Pacific  coast,  since  which 
time  he  has  been  connected  with  the  lumber  trade  in  Seattle.  He  married 
Miss  Phebe  Hobson,  a  native  of  Jefferson  county,  Ohio,  who  is  also  living, 
and  the  members  of  the  household  enjoy  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom 
they  are  associated  in  their  western  home.  In  the  family  were  four  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living:  J.  Ernest  Fowler,  who  is  deputy  county  auditor 
of  Chillicothe,  Ohio;  Ella  M.,  a  successful  teacher,  of  Seattle;  and  Charles 
Evan. 

The  last  named  was  reared  in  the  state  of  his  nativity,  and  after  acquir- 
ing his  preliminary  education  in  the  common  schools  completed  his  course 
in  the  Ohio  State  University,  where  he  mastered  civil  engineering  as  taught 
in  that  institution.  After  leaving  college  he  accepted  a  position  with  the 
Hocking  Valley  Railroad  Company  as  bridge  engineer,  and  during  his  con- 
nection with  that  company  he  completed  several  large  bridges.  He  was 
afterward  with  the  Indiana  Bridge  Company  as  engineer  of  construction. 
In  1890  he  went  to  Los  Angeles,  California,  where  he  engaged  in  civil  engi- 
neering and  contracting  along  that  line.  While  residing  there  he  was  mar- 
ried, and  after  his  marriage  he  removed  wath  his  young  bride  to  Youngs - 
town,  Ohio,  where  he  accepted  the  position  of  chief  engineer  with  the 
Youngstawn  Bridge  Company,  and  for  several  years  had  charge  of  their 
work.  While  thus  engaged  he  constructed '  a  large  number  of  bridges  for 
highways  and  for  railroad  companies.  He  did  work  in  every  state  and  terri- 
tory in  the  Union,  and  superintended  the  construction  of  several  very  large 
bridges,  including  one  at  Youngstown  and  one  over  the  Tennessee  river  at 
Knoxville,  Tennessee,  one  third  of  a  mile  in  length  and  one  hundred  and  ten 
feet  above  the  water.  He  resigned  his  position  at  Youngstown  because  the 
company  went  into  a  trust. 

Mr.  Fowler  then  removed  to  New  York  city,  where  he  opened  an  office 
as  consulting  engineer,  and  there  he  made  numerous  plans,  including  those 
for  the  erection  of  the  Manhattan  portion  of  the  new  East  River  bridge,  be- 


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tween  New  York  and  Brooklyn.  In  1900  he  came  to  Seattle  to  take  charge 
of  the  work  and  business  of  the  Puget  Sound  Bridge  &  Dredging  Company, 
and  is  now  engaged  in  executing  numerous  large  works  of  public  improve- 
ment. He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Society  of  Civil  Engineers;  is  a 
member  of  the  Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  one  of  its  trustees  and 
chairman  of  its  committee  on  railroads,  and  a  member  of  the  committee  on 
Lake  Washington  canal;  is  first  vice-president  of  the  Pacific  Northwest  So- 
ciety of  Engineers ;  and  an  active  member  of  the  Seattle  Park  Commission. 

On  the  4th  of  December,  1890,  Mr.  Fowler  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Lucille  H.  Doyle,  a  native  of  Chillicothe,  Ohio,  and  a  daughter  of 
R.  J.  Doyle,  then  a  resident  of  Los  Angeles,  California.  She  is  also  a  niece 
of  General  Samuel  LI.  LJ.urst,  of  Chillicothe,  who  served  with  distinction  in 
the  great  Civil  war.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fowler  have  two  sons  and  two  daugh- 
ters, Harold  D.,  Robert  C,  Louise  and  Margaret  E.  They  reside  on  Ma- 
drona  Heights,  one  of  Seattle's  most  beautiful  suburbs. 

Mr.  Fowler  has  written  extensively  for  the  technical  journals  and  maga- 
zines, among  his  contributions  being  "The  Cofferdam  Process  for  Piers/* 
a  treatise  on  ordinary  foundations,  published  by  John  Wiley  &  Sons,  of  New 
York  city.  He  is  also  the  author  of  "Engineering  Studies,"  a  work  in  twelve 
parts,  giving  views  of  notable  masonry  engineering  structures,  and  "Gen- 
eral Specifications  for  Steel  Roofs  and  Buildings,"  both  published  by  the 
Engineering  News  of  New  York  city. 

JACOB    FURTH. 

Among  those  who  have  come  from  foreign  lands  to  become  prominent 
in  business  circles  in  Washington  is  Jacob  Furth,  the  president  of  the  Puget 
Sound  National  Bank,  of  Seattle,  and  a  man  whose  varied  business  interests 
have  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  substantial  upbuilding  of  the  city 
wdth  which  he  .has  allied  his  interests.  His  success  in  all  his  undertakings 
has  been  so  marked  that  his  methods  are  of  interest  to  the  commercial  world. 
He  has  based  his  business  principles  and  actions  upon  strict  adherence  to 
the  rules  which  govern  industry,  economy  and  strict  and  unswerving  in- 
tegrity. His  enterprise  and  progressive  spirit  have  made  him  a  typical  Amer- 
ican in  every  sense  of  the  word  and  he  well  deserves  mention  in  this  volume. 
What  he  is  to-day  he  has  made  himself,  for  he  began  in  the  world  with  noth- 
ing but  his  own  energy  and  willing  hands  to  aid  him.  By  constant  exertion, 
associated  with  good  judgment,  he  has  raised  himself  to  the  prominent  posi- 
tion which  he  now  holds,  having  the  friendship  of  many  and  the  respect  of 


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all.  He  has  been  identified  with  business  interests  on  the  Pacific  coast  since 
1858  and  his  enterprises  are  of  mammoth  size  and  of  a  very  important  char- 
acter. 

Mr.  Furth  was  born  in  Schwihau,  Bohemia,  Austria,  on  the  14th  of 
November,  1840,  a  son  of  Lazar  and  Anna  (Popper)  Furth,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  that  land  and  were  of  the  Hebrew  faith.  The  father  was  a 
merchant,  successfully  following  that  line  of  business  throughout  the  years 
of  his  manhood.  Both  he  and  his  wife  spent  their  entire  lives  in  that  coun- 
try and  he  attained  to  the  very  advanced  age  of  ninety-six  years.  They 
were  the  parents  of  ten  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  eight  of  the  number 
came  to  the  United  States.  The  eldest  son  served  as  a  captain  in  tlie  Austrian 
army  for  fourteen  years  and  afterward  held  an  important  government  posi- 
tion in  Vienna. 

In  the  schools  of  his  native  land  Jacob  Furth  pursued  his  education 
and  when  eighteen  years  of  age  he  bade  adieu  to  home  and  friends  in  order 
to  try  his  fortune  in  California — the  Golden  state,  where  he  arrived  in 
1858.  He  had  only  ten  dollars  in  his  pocket  when  he  reached  Nevada  City, 
but  scorning  no  employment  which  w^ould  yield  him  an  honest  living  he  ac- 
cepted a  clerkship  in  a  store  and  soon  gained  a  good  knowledge  of  Amer- 
ican business  methods.  His  industry  and  economy  enabled  him  soon  to 
engage  in  business  on  his  own  account  and  he  established  a  store  at  North 
San  Juan,  where  he  conducted  a  successful  business  until  1870,  at  which 
time  he  removed  to  Colusa,  California.  There  he  conducted  a  general  mer- 
cantile store  for  twelve  years,  his  business  constantly  growing  in  volume 
and  yearly  adding  to  his  income.  He  prospered  greatly  but  his  health  be- 
came impaired  and  hoping  that  he  might  be  benefitted  by  a  change  of  climate 
he  came  to  Seattle  in  1882. 

Here  Mr.  Furth  established  the  Puget  Sound  National  Bank  and  acted 
as  its  cashier  until  1893,  vv^hen  he  was  elected  its  president.  The  bank  has 
always  been  managed  by  him  and  its  almost  unparalleled  success  is  attributa- 
ble almost  entirely  to  his  financial  ability  and  keen  discernment,  he  being 
recognized  as  one  of  the  ablest  fi.nanciers  not  only  of  the  city  but  of  the  state. 
He  is  a  gentleman  of  marked  executive  force,  sagacity  and  unfaltering  deter- 
mination and  his  aid  and  counsel  have  been  of  the  greatest  value  in  the  suc- 
cessful conduct  of  many  other  enterprises  of  magnitude  and  importance.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  extensive  street  railway  system  of  Seattle, 
controlling  one  hundred  miles  of  street  railway  now  in  operation  here  and 
doing  a  paying  business.  He  is  president  of  the  company  which  is  now  build- 
ing an  electric  line  to  Tacoma  and  is  also  president  of  the  Vulcan  Iron  Works, 
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now  a  very  extensive  enterprise  which  has  grown  from  a  small  beginning. 
He  is  likewise  president  of  the  California  Land  &  Stock  Company,  owning 
thirteen  thousand  acres  of  choice  farming  land  in  Lincoln  county,  Washing- 
ton, where  they  are  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising  on  a  mammoth 
scale.  Mr.  Furth  is  also  quite  extensively  interested  in  real-estate  in  Se- 
attle and  in  the  erection  of  buildings  has  contributed  to  the  improvement  of 
the  city.  He  stands  ver}^  high  in  the  esteem  and  confidence  of  business  peo- 
ple tliroughout  the  state. 

In  1865  Mr.  Furth  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lucy  A.  Dunton,  a 
native  of  Indiana  and  a  representative  of  an  old  xA.merican  family.  Her 
grandfather  was  a  veteran  of  the  Mexican  war  and  her  father  was  a  mer- 
chant of  Indiana.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Furth  has  been  blessed 
with  three  daughters*  Jane  E.,  now  the  wife  of  E.  L.  Terry,  of  Seattle; 
Anna  F.,  who  married  Frederick  K.  Sturve,  of  Seattle;  and  Sidonia,  who 
is  at  home  with  her  parents. 

Mr.  Furth  arrived  in  the  United  States  just  before  the  organization 
of  the  Republican  party  and  from  its  formation  has  given  to  it  an  unwaver- 
ing support,  although  he  has  taken  no  part  in  its  work  as  an  office  seeker. 
Everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  and  improvement  of  Seattle,  however, 
elicits  his  interest  and  co-operation,  and  for  several  terms  he  rendered  effec- 
tive service  to  the  city  as  a  member  of  its  council.  He  has  also  had  the  honor 
of  serving  as  president  of  its  chamber  of  commerce  for  two  terms.  He  still 
holds  to  the  religious  faith  of  his  ancestors  but  is  broad  minded  and  liberal 
?.nd  has  been  most  generous  in  his  contribution  to  various  church  and  benev- 
olent enterprises.  He  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  Colusa  county,  Cali- 
fornia, in  1870,  and  became  so  interested  and  proficient  in  the  work  that 
he  was  elected  and  served  as  master  of  his  lodge.  Lie  is  also  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason  and  in  his  life  exemplifies  the  teachings  of  the  craft  which  is  founded 
upon  the  principles  of  the  brotherhood  of  mankind.  In  many  respects  his 
has  been  a  remarkable  career.  Coming  to  this  country  a  young  man  of 
eighteen  years,  without  capital,  without  knowledge  of  the  language  or  of  the 
customs  of  the  people,  he  has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward  until  he  has 
few  peers  in  the  business  circles  of  the  state.  What  he  has  accomplished 
in  the  world  of  commerce  and  industry  cannot  be  told  in  words.  It  is  cer- 
tainly not  asserting  too  much  to  say  of  one  who  can  direct  and  control  busi- 
ness interests  of  such  magnitude  as  those  with  which  he  is  connected  that 
his  must  be  a  master  mind,  that  he  must  possess,  aside  from  commercial  fore- 
sight and  sagacity,  the  happy  faculty  of  reading  and  judging  men,  com- 
bined with  unusual  powers  of  organization  and  executive  ability.      And  yet 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  187 

if  one  will  seek  in  his  career  the  causes  of  his  success  they  will  be  found  along 
the  lines  of  well  tried  and  old-time  maxims.  Honesty  and  fair-dealing, 
promptness,  truthfulness  and  fidelity — all  these  are  strictly  enforced  and  ad- 
hered to,  and  thus  he  has  advanced  to  a  position  prominent  in  the  business  and 
financial  world. 

CHARLES  K.  JENNER. 

Charles  Kirkham  Jenner  is  one  of  the  distinguished  representatives  of 
the  legal  fraternity  in  Seattle,  making  a  specialty  of  the  department  of  land 
and  mining  law.  Professional  advancement  in  the  law  is  proverbially  slow. 
The  first  element  of  success  is,  perhaps,  a  persistency  of  purpose  and  effort 
as  enduring  as  the  force  of  gravity.  But,  as  in  any  other  calling,  aptitude, 
character  and  individuality  are  the  qualities  which  differentiate  the  usual  from 
the  unusual;  the  vocation  from  the  career  of  the  lawyer.  For  twenty-five 
years  he  has  been  a  representative  of  the  legal  fraternity  of  this  city,  and 
the  qualities  which  insure  success  are  his  and  have  met  their  just  reward. 
He  is  likewise  extensively  engaged  in  real-estate  dealing  and  has  prospered 
in  this  department  of  activity. 

Mr.  Jenner  was  born  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  on  the  15th  of  September, 
1846,  and  is  descended  from  English  ancestors  who  became  early  settlers  of 
Connecticut.  His  grandfather,  Edward  H.  Jenner,  was  born  in  Rutland,  Ver- 
mont, and  served  in  the  war  of  181 2.  He  was  a  distinguished  mathematician 
and  successful  teacher,  and  among  his  pupils  who  have  attained  marked  promi- 
nence was  Stephen  A.  Douglas  "the  little  giant  of  Illinois.''  In  1850  Mr. 
Jenner's  father  crossed  the  plains  to  CaHfornia,  where  he  engaged  in  mining. 
He  also  possessed  remarkable  inventive  genius  and  when  searching  for  gold 
on  the  Pacific  coast  in  pioneer  times  he  invented  a  pump  to  force  water  up  to 
the  mine,  one  hundred  and  ten  feet.  He  made  a  model  of  his  invention  in 
pure  gold,  the  first  and  only  one  of  its  kind  ever  sent  to  the  patent  office  in 
Washington.  As  soon  as  he  had  completed  one  invention  he  started  to  work 
upon  another,  his  mind  being  completely  occupied  with  such  work.  About 
T854  he  invented  the  system  of  Browning  gun  barrels,  and  many  other  evi- 
dences of  his  genius  in  this  direction  were  found  upon  the  market,  but  he 
did  not  possess  ability  as  a  business  manager  and  therefore  never  secured 
the  financial  returns  which  he  deserved  for  his  labors.  For  some  years  he 
was  also  a  successful  dentist  in  San  Francisco.  He  spent  the  greater  part 
of  his  life  in  that  city  but  also  resided  for  a  time  in  Sonoma  county,  Cali- 
fornia. Prior  to  the  Civil  war  he  gave  his  political  support  to  the  Democ- 
racy, but  at  the  time  the  south  attempted  to  overthrow  the  Union  he  joined 


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the  Republican  party.  He  was  united  in  marriage  to  Ann  Jane  Wilby,  of 
Rochester,  New  York,  and  with  her  famil}^  of  four  children  she  accompanied 
her  husband  to  San  Francisco  in  1850.  Three  years  later  she  departed  this 
life  at  the  age  of  thirty-three  years,  while  the  father  of  our  subject  was  called 
to  his  final  rest  on  the  14th  of  January,  1879,  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven  years. 
All  their  four  children  are  yet  living.  Sylvester,  who  learned  the  printer's 
trade  in  California,  is  now  on  the  force  of  the  San  Francisco  Examiner. 

Charles  K.  Jenner  was  only  four  years  of  age  when  he  arrived  in  Cali- 
fornia with  his  parents.  He  pursued  his  studies  in  San  Francisco  and  at 
the  Sotoyome  Institute  in  Sonoma  county,  read  law  with  Colonel  L.  A.  Nor- 
ton, in  Healdsburg,  and  was  admitted  to  the  practice  on  February  21,  1871. 
Since  that  time  he  has  been  admitted  to  all  the  courts  of  the  United  States 
and  has  had  a  large  number  of  cases  tried  in  the  supreme  court  of  this  coun- 
try. He  practiced  law  in  Flealdsburg,  California,  until  1876,  at  which  time 
he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  has  resided  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century. 
For  a  short  time  he  was  employed  in  the  office  of  Judge  Orange  Jacobs,  and 
then  entered  into  partnership  with  him — an  association  that  was  maintained 
for  fourteen  years,  during  which  time  they  enjoyed  a  large  and  lucrative  legal 
business.  Subsequently  Mr.  Jenner  was  for  some  years  in  partnership  with 
his  son-in-law,  Louis  Henry  Legg,  and  Solon  T.  Williams,  but  is  now  alone 
in  business.  His  clientage  is  of  a  distinctively  representative  character  and 
he  has  been  associated  with  some  of  the  most  important  litigation  tried  in  the 
courts  of  this  district  and  state,  and  also  in  the  United  States  courts.  During 
his  residence  in  Seattle  he  has  had  much  to  do  with  real-estate  interests  and 
has  been  a  partner  in  the  platting  of  a  number  of  additions  to  the  city.  The 
first  ten  acres  was  called  the  Brawley  addition,  after  which  he  was  associated 
in  the  platting  of  forty  acres  on  Queen  Ann  Hill,  which  is  now  one  of  the 
finest  residence  portions  of  the  city.  The  Comstock  addition,  containing 
forty  acres,  was  named  in  honor  of  his  wife's  mother,  a  lady  whom  he  held  in 
very  high  esteem  because  of  her  amiable  disposition  and  beautiful  character. 
He  has  handled  much  city  property  and  has  done  his  full  share  in  the  up- 
building and  improvement  of  this  splendid  metropolis  of  the  northwest  which, 
almost  as  if  by  magic,  has  grown  to  its  present  extensive  proportions.  One  of 
the  most  notable  works  with  which  Mr.  Jenner  has  been  connected  was  the 
entering  of  the  school  section  through  which  the  New  Castle  coal  veins  now 
run.  He  had  the  honor  of  establishing  the  precedent  of  securing  that  kind  of 
land  from  the  government  and  subsequently  he  sold  it  to  the  New  Castle 
Company,  which  has  operated  its  coal  mines  thereon  for  many  years.  In 
the  legal  points  concerned  in  this  matter  he  differed  from  the  opinions  of 


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eminent  jurists  and  displayed  a  profound  and  deep  knowledge  of  the  land 
laws  of  the  United  State^  carrying  his  point  and  establishing  an  important 
precedent.  He  is  counsel  for  the  Forty-five  Consolidated  Mining  Company, 
which  owns  a  valuable  mine  that  has  already  produced  twenty  thousand  dol- 
lars. He  was  also  at  one  time  the  manager  of  the  Denny  iron  mine,  but  has 
sold  his  interest.  That  was  the  hrst  mineral  entry  made  on  Puget  Sound 
and  proved  to  be  a  very  valuable  mine,  containing  the  finest  Bessemer  steel 
ore  in  the  United  States.      This  mine  will  ultimately  prove  of  great  value. 

On  the  9th  of  June,  1870,  Mr.  Jenner  was  joined  in  wedlock  to  Cornelia 
E.  Comstock,  a  native  of  Tioga  county,  New  York,  born  near  the  city  of 
Oswego.  They  became  the  parents  of  five  sons  and  a  daughter,  namely: 
Helen,  the  wife  of  Louis  Henry  Legg;  Earl  Robinson,  who  has  charge  of 
the  court  work  for  the  Boothe  Whittlesey  Abstracting  Company;  Ernest 
Comstock,  who  is  the  twin  brother  of  Earl,  and  is  a  sketch  artist  for  the  Post 
Litelligencer ;  Theodore,  who  is  a  clerk  with  the  Osborn,  Tremper  Abstract 
Company;  Herbert  and  L.  G.,  wdio  are  both  in  Seattle.  Ernest  served  in 
the  war  with  Spain  and  Vv^as  for  two  years  in  the  art  room  of  the  San  Fran- 
cisco Chronicle.  November  4,  1891,  the  mother  of  this  family,  a  most  estima- 
ble lady  of  broad  charily  and  humanitarian  principles,  was  called  to  her  final 
rest.  She  served  as  president  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps  and  was  chairman 
of  the  Advisory  committee  to  investigate  needy  cases  and  furnish  them  with 
supplies.  In  her  home  she  was  a  devoted  wife  and  mother  and  was  a  con- 
sistent Christian  woman  whose  loss  was  deeply  felt.  November  14,  1892, 
Mr.  Jenner  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Clara  J.  Hough, 
a  native  of  Wayne  county,  Ohio,  and  they  have  a  son  and  a  daughter,  Cor- 
nelia E.  and  Edward  Hough.  In  politics  Mr.  Jenner  was  long  an  active 
Republican,  but  differing  from  his  party  on  the  money  question  he  is  now 
independent,  for  he  believes  that  both  gold  and  silver  should  be  used  as  the 
money  standard  of  the  country.  While  he  is  one  of  the  distinguished  mem- 
bers of  the  bar  of  this  city  he  is  entirely  free  from  ostentation  or  self-laudation 
and  this  fact  has  made  him  one  of  the  most  popular  citizens  of  Seattle,  with 
whose  history  he  has  been  long  and  prominently  identified. 

EDGAR  BRYAN. 

Edgar  Bryan,  who  is  secretary  and  ex-president  of  the  Pioneer  Associ- 
ation of  the  state  of  Washington-  and  makes  his  home  in  Seattle,  was  born  in 
Lawrence  county,  Illinois,  on  the  24th  of  P'ebruary,  1841.      His  father,  Eli 


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Bryan,  was  a  native  of  North  Carolina  and  after  arriving  at  years  of  maturity 
married  Nancy  Laws,  a  native  of  Illinois.  The  former  died  when  our  subject 
was  only  seven  years  of  age  and  the  mother  married  again  and  reached  the 
advanced  age  of  seventy-three  years.  By  her  first  marriage  she  had  six 
children,  and  her  second  marriage  was  to  a  gentleman  who  had  nine  chil- 
dren. Our  subject  and  his  eldest  sister,  Mrs.  Esther  Perkins,  now  of  British 
Columbia,  are  the  only  survivors  of  the  first  family. 

After  the  mother's  second  marriage  it  seemed  that  the  family  was  too 
large  for  one  household,  and  when  he  was  only  eleven  years  of  age  he,  with 
a  younger  brother  and  two  sisters,  left  home  and  went  with  their  grandfather, 
John  Laws,  across  the  plains,  with  ox  teams,  to  Oregon,  his  grandfather  be- 
ing captain  of  a  company  which  made  the  long  and  wearisome  journey  across 
the  wide  deserts  of  sand  and  through  the  mountain  passes.  The  year  was 
1852  and  they  were  seven  months  and  one  week  upon  the  way.  Amos 
Pettys  was  the  only  man  out  of  twenty-one  who  died  during  the  entire  trip, 
but  difficulties  and  hardships  were  endured,  such  as  cannot  be  imagined  by 
the  traveler  of  today  who  speeds  across  the  country  in  a  palace  car.  The 
stock  was  stampeded  by  Indians  on  several  occasions,  but  the  emigrants  al- 
ways succeeded  in  recovering  their  horses  and  cattl^.  While  near  Snake 
river  Mr.  Laws  went  on  ahead  of  the  company  to  look  for  a  good  place  to 
encamp  for  the  noon  hour  and  was  attacked  by  an  Indian  on  horseback  but 
managed  to  escape.  The  company  settled  in  what  was  then  Oregon,  near 
Vancouver,  remaining  there  through  the  first  and  very  hard  winter,  and  in 
the  spring  went  to  the  beautiful  Turlitin  plains  in  Oregon.  There  Mr.  Laws 
and  his  family  remained  during  the  harvesting  season,  after  which  they  pro- 
ceeded to  Lynn  City,  opposite  Oregon  City.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  removed 
with  his  family  to  Olympia,  Washington  Territory,  where  he  conducted  a 
hotel  during  the  v.-inter  of  1853-54.  In  the  succeeding  spring  he  secured  a 
government  land  claim  of  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  on  the  Miami 
Prairie,  which  property  he  improved,  transforming  it  into  a  rich  farm  and 
made  his  home  thereon  for  many  years.  Energetic,  industrious  and  hon- 
orable, his  was  a  successful  busmess  career.  He  held  membership  in  the 
Baptist  church  and  died  in  Chehalis  county  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years. 
His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  Goen,  attained  the  very  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-three  years.  She  was  a  typical  pioneer  woman,  courage- 
ously braving  the  trials  and  dangers  of  frontier  life  and  on  the  journey  to 
the  Pacific  coast  she  drove  her  own  team  the  greater  part  of  the  distance 
across  the  plains,  and  for  fifteen  years  after  arrival  did  her  own  housework 


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on  the  farm,  and  was  never  known  to  get  angry  enough  to  quarrel  with  any 
person. 

Edgar  Bryan  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  Olympia  and  at 
the  Washington  State  University,  the  first  term  of  which  he  attended,  and 
he  also  attended  the  Puget  Sound  Wesleyan  Institute  at  Olympia  in  early 
days.  He  first  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  and  afterward  engaged  in 
teaching  school  for  several  terms.  Subsequently  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk 
and  filled  the  position  of  bookkeeper  for  the  Washington  Mill  Company  at 
Seabeck.     The  plant  was  a  large  one  and  an  extensive  business  was  carried  on. 

In  1865  Mr.  Bryan  was  united  in  marriage,  at  Seattle,  to  Edna  Ann 
Whipple,  a  descendant  of  the  old  Puritan  family  of  Whipples.  After  their 
marriage  the  young  couple  took  up  their  abode  in  Seattle,  which  was  then 
a  small  town,  and  he  followed  contracting  and  building  for  ten  years.  He 
then  suffered  from  paralysis  and  was  obliged  to  retire  from  his  business 
operations.  Removing  to  Coupeville,  Island  county,  he  took  charge  of  a 
large  store,  but  subsequently  returned  to  Seattle  and  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  deputy  assessor  of  the  county.  He  was  also  clerk  of  the  Seattle 
school  district  for  many  years,  and  after  serving  as  deputy  assessor  he  was 
elected  assessor  of  King  county,  serving  a  term  of  two  years,  during  which 
time  he  manifested  such  ability  that  he  was  again  elected  and  continued  in 
the  office  through  the  second  term,  but  declined  to  serve  a  third.  Since  his 
retirement  he  has  been  engaged  in  dealing  in  real  estate,  besides  conducting 
otlier  interests,  and  is  now  controlling  the  white  bronze  monument  business. 
He  is  a  gentleman  of  keen  sagacity  and  marked  enterprise  and  carries  forward 
to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes.  The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Bryan  has  been  brightened  by  the  appearance  of  seven  children :  Albert 
W.,  who  is  now  in  Manila;  Alberta,  at  home;  Jessie,  who  became  the  wife 
of  E.  H.  Crowe;  Hugh  L.,  who  is  a  clerk  in  the  postoffice  at  Seattle;  Minnie, 
the  wife  of  Samuel  I.  Robeson,  of  Seattle;  Arthur  A.,  at  present  a  resident  of 
Dawson,  Northwest  Territory;  and  C.  Ernest,  who  is  living  at  home.  In 
1893  Mr.  Bryan  was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife,  who  de- 
parted this  life  on  the  15th  of  December  of  that  year.  She  was  a  devoted 
wife  and  mother  and  a  valued  member  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  church, 
so  that  her  loss  was  deeply  felt,  not  only  in  the  family  circle  but  also  in  the 
church  organization  and  by  her  many  friends.  Mr.  Bryan's  daugliter,  Al- 
berta, is  now  acting  as  his  housekeeper,  their  pleasant  home  being  located  at 
No.  330  Fourth  avenue  north.  In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Bryan  has 
been  an  active  Republican  since  casting  his  first  presidential  vote.  He  was 
assistant  United  States  marshal  in  1870  and  was  postmaster  while  in  Coupe- 


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ville  in  1875-76.  For  several  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  is  a  gentleman  of  high  character,  of  strong 
purpose  and  sterling  worth.  Few  men  of  his  years  have  spent  so  long  a 
time  upon  the  Pacific  coast  as  has  Mr.  Bryan.  The  history  of  the  won- 
derful development  of  this  section  of  the  country  is  familiar  to  him.  A  half 
centurj'  has  passed  since  he  came  ^vith  his  grandparents  to  the  northwest, 
which  was  then  largely  the  domain  of  the  red  race.  The  forests  stood  in  their 
primeval  strength,  the  ri^'ers  were  unbridged  and  the  land  uncultivated.  He 
has  taken  a  just  and  commendable  pride  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  ad- 
vancement and  progress  of  this  section  of  the  country  and  has  borne  his 
part  in  the  work  of  improvement  in  the  city  in  which  he  has  so  long  made 
his  home.  Well  does  he  deserve  the  honor  which  Avas  conferred  upon  him 
by  his  election  to  the  position  of  secretary  of  the  Pioneer  Association  of  the 
state  for  five  consecutive  terms  after  having  served  as  its  president.  Mr. 
Bryan  could  give  many  interesting  reminiscences  of  the  Indian  war  of  1855-56 
in  Oregon,  Washington  and  Idaho,  l^ut  was  not  then  old  enough  to  join 
the  Volunteers.  He  was  made  useful  in  looking  after  the  interests  of  the 
farm,  which  was  about  five  miles  from  the  fort  where  all  families  of  the  neigh- 
borhood had  assembled  for  mutual  protection,  and  members  were  accus- 
tomed to  visit  the  farms  occasionallv  to  look  after  stock  and  other  matters. 
On  one  of  those  trips  he  vras  detained  over  night  and  of  course  supposed  to 
be  murdered,  but  tin^ned  up  all  right  and  found  a  posse  ready  to  go  and  search 
for  him. 

JOHN   P.   FAY. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  Hon.  John  P.  Fay,  has  long  been  promi- 
nent in  the  legal  profession  of  the  state  and  as  a  citizen  is  honored  and  re- 
spected by  all.  In  his  public  utterances,  always  governed  by  his  convic- 
tions, he  has  been  a  leader  in  thought  and  action  in  the  public  life  of  the 
state.  His  name  is  a  familiar  one  in  political  and  professional  circles 
throughout  the  northwest. 

The  "Fay  Family"  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  ^Massachusetts.  The  pro- 
genitor, John  Fay,  emigrated  to  the  Llassachusetts  colony  in  1660  from 
England.  His  eldest  son,  John  Fay,  with  two  younger  brothers,  in  the  early 
years  of  1700  acquired  from  the  Indians  a  large  tract  of  land,  the  greater 
portion  of  which  is  now  divided  into  many  beautiful  homes  that  make  the 
towns  of  Westborough  and  Southborough  in  the  east  central  part  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Here  a  home  w^as  established  which  has  since  been  known  as  the 
"Old  Homestead"  of  the  Fay  family. 


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PU^UCUBRARY 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  193 

Deep  religious  traits  characterized  the  family  and  the  church  records 
throughout  New  England  give  evidence  of  the  large  number  of  descendants, 
bearing  the  family  name,  who  as  ministers  did  splendid  service  in  Chris- 
tian work.  Almost  with  the  first  settlement  came  the  Congregational  church 
of  Westborough.  Of  this  John  Fay  was  the  first  deacon  and  for  more 
than  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  years  afterwards  some  member  of  the 
Fay  family  was  a  deacon  in  this  church.  Though  the  family  is  rapidly 
diminishing  in  numbers,  there  are  many  local  landmarks  that  bear  the  name 
which,  with  the  Fay  Public  Library  at  Southborough,  will  keep  the  family 
name  for  many  years  to  come  in  honored  remembrance.  One  place  in  par- 
ticular, carved  out  of  the  Fay  homestead,  will  always  be  shown  with  pride 
by  the  townsfolks.  It  is  the  birthplace  of  Eli  Whitney,  the  famous  inventor 
of  the  cotton  gin.  His  mother  was  the  daughter  of  Benjamin  Fay,  son 
of  John  Fay.  Although  not  buried  in  Westborough,  a  substantial  monu- 
ment on  the  old  burial  ground  in  the  center  of  Westborough  evidences  the 
respect  of  the  community  for  the  talents  of  Eli  Whitney. 

Joseph  Brigham  Fay,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  West- 
borough July  3,  1816.  He  was  a  descendant  on  his  grandmother's  side  from 
the  Brigham  family,  an  old  and  honored  family  in  New  England,  the  most 
distinguished  member  of  which  was  a  cousin,  the  late  Chief  Justice  Brigham, 
of  the  supreme  court  of  Massachusetts.  In  middle  life  he  was  married 
to  Sarah  Houghton  Purinton,  a  woman  of  singular  beaut3^  grace  and  no- 
bility of  character.  The  early  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in  New  York 
city,  where  he  was  clerk  in  a  bank  and  later  served  in  the  then  well  known 
house  of  Temple  Fay  &  Company,  bankers  and  brokers.  Subsequently,  tired 
from  the  bustling  activities  of  metropolitan  life,  he  returned  to  the  old 
homestead  of  the  Fay  family,  which  he  bought  and  where  he  died  at  the 
age  of  sixty-seven,  a  few  years  after  the  death  of  his  beloved  wife,  who  was 
called  to  her  final  rest  in  1877,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two  years.  They  were 
life-long  attendants  of  the  Congregational  church  and  were  honored  and 
respected  by  all  who  had  the  pleasure  of  their  acquaintance.  To  this  wor- 
thy couple  two  children  were  born,  Charles  Brigham  Fay,  the  elder,  and 
John  Purinton  Fay,  the  subject  of  this  review. 

The  last  named  was  born  in  Westboro,  Massachusetts,  August,  i, 
1 86 1.  He  was  educated  at  the  Westboro  high  school  and  graduated  in 
1881  from  Phillips  Exeter  Academy,  of  New  Hampshire,  one  of  the  old- 
est institutions  of  learning  in  the  east.  After  two  years'  special  study  in 
the  academic  course  of  Harvard  University  and  at  the  Harvard  Law  School 
Mr.   Fay  removed  to  Eureka,    Nevada,   where  he  commenced   the  practice 


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of  law.  While  there  he  served  as  superintendent  and  principal  of  the  Eureka 
high  school.  In  the  winter  of  1889  he  was  clerk  of  the  Nevada  senate.  The 
following  spring  Mr.  Fay  came  to  Seattle  and  immediatel}''  entered  into  a 
law  partnership  with  Mr.  John  P.  Gale;  but  two  years  later  this  partner- 
ship was  ended  by  the  death  of  Mr.  Gale,  after  which  the  firm  of  Fay,  Gest 
&  Henderson  was  organized.  This  relationship  continued  until  1895,  but 
two  years  of  this  time  were  spent  by  Mr.  Fay  in  Oregon,  as  attorney  for 
the  eastern  bondholders  in  their  litigation  with  the  Oregon  Pacific  and 
Willamette  Valley  Railroad  Companies,  and  subsequently  he  was  made  at- 
torney for  the  receiver  of  the  roads.  The  litigation  with  which  he  has  been 
connected  has  embraced  many  of  the  most  important  cases,  involving  large 
sums  of  money  and  property,  tried  in  the  courts  of  this  state  and  Oregon. 
Among  them  might  be  mentioned  the  Farmers'  Loan  &  Trust  Company  of 
New  York  vs.  Oregon  Pacific  Railroad;  the  same  vs.  the  Willamette  Valley 
Railroad;  trustees  vs.  Oregon  Development  Company;  Deschutes  Military 
Wagon  Road  Land  Grant,  involving  three  hundred  thousand  acres  in  east- 
ern and  central  Oregon;  the  famous  Valentine  Scrip  cases,  involving  the 
business  water  front  of  Seattle,  Tacoma  and  Port  Townsend,  besides  fill- 
mg  the  position  of  arbitrator  in  several  important  mining  controversies.  In 
all  these  cases  Mr.  Fay  won  from  his  opponents  of  marked  ability  the  com- 
pliment of  sound  judgment,  keen  analysis  and  a  broad  knowledge  of  legal 
principles. 

In  1889  Mr.  Fay  was  married  to  Miss  Alice  Ober,  of  Beverly,  Massa- 
chusetts, a  young  lady  of  rare  intellectual  endowments,  the  sister  of  the  dis- 
tinguished author,  Fred  A.  Ober,  and  herself  the  valedictorian  of  her  class, 
though  its  youngest  member,  at  the  commencement  exercises  in  1881  of 
Wheaton  Seminary,  the  oldest  college  for  the  education  of  young  ladies  in 
Massachusetts.  Unto  this  union  have  been  born  five  children,  three  sons 
and  two  daughters,  namely :  Dorothy  Wheaton,  Alice  Ober,  Temple 
Sedgwick,  John   Bradford  and  Winthrop  Herrick. 

Until  1896  Mr.  Fay  gave  his  political  support  to  the  Republican  party, 
but  in  that  year,  his  views  on  the  money  question  not  being  in  harmony  with 
the  party,  he  joined  the  Fusion  forces  and  became  an  earnest  and  aggressive 
leader  in  the  ranks  of  that  political  organization,  delivering  many  schol- 
arly and  effective  speeches  in  its  behalf  during  the  following  campaign.  In 
conipany  with  Judge  Richard  Winsor,  he  was  chosen  by  the  Fusion  state 
central  committee  to  hold  a  joint  debate  on  the  money  cjuestion.  The  Re- 
publicans selected  as  •  his  opponent  Hon.  Andrew  F.  Burleigh,  a  prominent 
attorney  and   at  that   time  receiver  of   the  Northern   Pacific  railroad,   and 


SEATTLE   AND   KING   COUNTY.  195 

Hon.  Frank  W.  Cushman,  now  a  member  of  congress  from  this  state. 
The  debate  was  held  at  Yakima,  Washington,  October  i,  1896.  and  more 
than  ten  thousand  people  were  present.  In  his  speech  Mr.  Fay  evinced  a 
thorough  knowledge,  wide  study  and  complete  mastery  of  his  subject.  Flis 
peroration  will  always  take  high  rank  in  choice  literature  for  elegance  of 
expression  and  diction.  Mr.  Fay  left  the  platform  a  victor,  with  a  reputa- 
tion as  a  speaker  that  brought  him  immediate  and  earnest  solicitation  to 
the  platform  from  many  different  states.  The  success  of  the  Fusion  forces 
in  Washington  that  year  was  largely  due  to  his  able  efforts  and  in  the 
Fusion  legislature  that  followed  his  name  was  frequently  mentioned  in  con- 
nection with  the  United  States  senatorship,  although  at  no  time  did  he  place 
himself  on  record  as  a  candidate.  Mr.  Fay's  political  work  had  been  freely 
given  in  deference  to  a  sense  of  duty  to  deep  convictions  upon  the  great 
financial  questions  of  the  hour.  He  sought  no  reward,  but  later  he  had  the 
honor  of  accepting  an  appointment  by  the  governor  to  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  University  of  the  state  of  Washington.  There  his  experience  and 
knowledge  of  educational  work  and  methods  of  teaching  were  quickly  recog- 
nized and  he  was  soon  made  president  of  the  board  of  regents.  This  posi- 
tion he  held  until  a  difference  of  views  arose  in  the  board  as  to  the  propriety 
of  eliminating  the  subjects  of  "Ethics"  and  "Moral  Philosophy"  from  the 
university  curriculum  of  studies.  Mr.  Fay  insisted  upon  the  retention  of 
these  subjects  in  the  course  of  study  and  a  fierce  controversy  arose.  Un- 
willing to  yield  to  executive  pressure,  after  seeing  the  subjects  firmly  rein- 
stated in  the  college  course  of  studies,  Mr.  Fay  in  deference  to  his  own 
deep  convictions  retired  from  the  board.  His  honesty  and  integrity  in  po- 
litical matters  has  never  been  the  subject  of  question,  even  among  his  po- 
litical enemies,  while  as  a  polished  and  educated  gentleman  his  social  posi- 
tion is  and  always  has  been  of  the  highest  standard.  Mr.  Fay  is  just  in  his 
prime  and  there  is  no  position  of  honor  that  he  might  attain  that  would 
cause  surprise  to  any  one. 

HIRAM    BURNETT. 

More  than  a  half  century  has  passed  since  this  gentleman  arrived  on  the 
Pacific  coast  and  he  is  justly  numbered  among  the  honored  pioneers  and 
leading  citizen  of  this  portion  of  the  country.  He  has  been  prominentl}'j 
identified  with  business  interests  in  many  ways.  liis  is  the  honorable  rec- 
ord of  a  conscientious  man  who  by  his  upright  life  has  won  the  confidence 
of  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact.      He  has  reached  the  age  of  eighty- 


I9&  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

five  years,  and  although  the  snows  of  many  winters  have  whitened  his  hair  he 
has  the  vigor  of  a  much  younger  man.  and  in  spirit  seems  yet  in  his  prime. 
Old  age  is  not  necessarily  a  synonym  of  weakness  or  inactivity,  nor  need 
it  suggest,  as  a  matter  of  course,  want  of  occupation  or  helplessness.  There  is 
an  old  age  that  is  a  benediction  to  all  that  comes  in  contact  with  itj  that 
gives  out  of  its  rich  stores  of  learning  and  experience  and  grows  stronger 
intellectually  and  spiritually  as  the  years  pass.  Such  is  the  life  of  Mr.  Bur- 
nett; an  encouragement  to  his  associates  and  an  example  well  worthy  of  emu- 
lation by  the  young. 

Hiram  Burnett  is  a  native  of  Massachusetts,  his  birth  having  occurred 
in  Southboro,  Worcester  county,  on  the  5th  of  July,  181 7.  He  is  descended 
from  English  and  French  ancestors  who  were  early  settlers  of  New  England 
and  representatives  of  the  family  were  active  participants  in  the  events  which 
form  the  early  history  of  this  country.  Charles  R.  Burnett,  his  grandfather, 
joined  the  colonial  army  that  sought  to  throw  off  the  British  yoke  of  op- 
pression and  at  length  won  the  victory  which  ended  the  English  rule  in  the 
American  colonies.  He  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  a  worthy  member  of  the 
Congregational  church,  and  lived  and  died  at  Southboro,  Massachusetts.' 
Brazella  Pond,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native  of 
ulasschusetts  and  he,  too,  was  a  member  of  the  patriotic  army  of  the  Revolu- 
tionry  war.  His  religious  faith  was  also  that  of  the  Congregational  church 
and  he  was  a  citizen  of  the  highest  respectability. 

Charles  Burnett,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Southboro,  Mas- 
sachusetts, on  the  1 2th  of  March,  178S,  and  married  Keziah  Pond,  a  native 
of  Franklin,  that  state.  They  were  industrious  and  respected  farming  peo- 
ple, holding  to  the  faith  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  in  their  family 
were  five  children,  of  whom  only  two  are  now  living:  Hiram  and  a  sister, 
who  is  eightv-six  vears  of  age  and  resides  with  her  brother.  The  father  died 
in  the  sixty-eighth  year  of  his  age,  while  his  wife  was  taken  from  him  by  death 
in  her  forty-sixth  year. 

Hiram  Burnett  obtained  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Massachu- 
setts and  in  his  youth  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade.  Ultimately  he  became 
the  owner  of  a  planing  mill  and  was  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  sash, 
doors  and  blinds.  Attracted  by  the  opportunities  of  the  golden  west  he 
resolved  to  seek  his  fortune  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  in  1852  sailed  from 
New  York  for  San  Francisco  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  reaching 
his  destination  in  February.  He  remained  in  San  Francisco  for  four  years, 
at  the  expiration  of  which  time  he  returned  to  the  east  for  his  family,  having 
been  married  on  the  loth  of  April,  1845,  ^^  Elizabeth  JNI.  Gibbs,  of  Farming- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  197 

ham,  Middlesex  comity,  Massachusetts.  She  was  born  March  3,  1824,  and 
while  residing  in  the  east  they  became  the  parents  of  two  children :  Charles 
H.  and  Nellie  M.  With  his  wife  and  children  Mr.  Burnett  again  made  his 
way  to  San  Francisco  and  after  a  year's  residence  there  came  to  Washington 
Territory  in  1859,  settling  at  Port  Gamble,  wdiere  he  remained  for  four  years, 
engaged  in  the  operation  of  a  planing  mill.  In  this  enterprise  he  met  with 
success  and  in  1863  came  to  Seattle,  erecting  the  first  house  on  Fourth  street, 
between  Fourth  and  Fifth  avenues  and  Marion  and  Columbia.  He  engaged 
in  the  operation  of  a  planing  mill  in  West  Seattle,  in  Port  Madison,  and  in 
Port  Ludlow.  His  affairs  were  conducted  with  strict  regard  to  commercial 
ethics  and  as  a  result  of  his  enterprise,  combined  with  integrity  in  all  trade 
transactions,  he  not  only  won  prosperity,  but  also  secured  the  confidence  and 
good  will  of  all  with  whom  he  had  business  relations.  His  reputation  in 
industrial  circles  is  above  question  and  the  policy  which  he  has  ever  followed 
serves  as  an  example  well  worthy  of  emulation. 

Of  the  two  children  who  accompanied  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burnett  to  the  west, 
Charles  H.  is  now  superintendent  of  the  Southprairie  Coal  Mine  at  Burnett, 
Pierce  county,  Washington,  a  town  which  was  named  in  honor  of  his  family. 
The  daughter  became  the  wife  of  Stephen  P.  Andrews,  by  whom  she  had 
three  children. 

In  his  political  affiliations  in  early  manhood  Mr.  Burnett  was  a  Whig 
and  voted  for  General  Scott  for  president.  When  the  Republican  party  was 
formed  he  endorsed  its  principles  and  has  since  remained  in  its  ranks.  After 
returning  from  San  Francisco  the  first  time  he  went  to  Kansas  and  did  what 
he  could  to  make  that  a  free  state,  being  there  throughout  all  the  exciting 
period  when  the  border  ruffians  were  determined  to  introduce  slavery.  While 
in  Kitsap  county  he  was  elected  and  served  as  judge  of  the  probate  court, 
and  in  1866  he  was  elected  county  commissioner  of  King  county,  evincing 
in  the  conduct  of  that  office  the  same  good  judgment  and  conscientiousness 
that  have  always  characterized  the  conduct  of  his  private  business.  In  1890 
he  removed  to  Edgewater,  where  he  had  built  for  himself  a  commodious 
home,  and  there  he  is  spending  the  evening  of  his  life  in  contentment  and 
peace.  In  his  youth  he  was  a  Congregationalist,  but  in  1865,  at  Seattle,  he 
aided  in  the  establishment  and  building  of  the  Episcopal  church.  He  was 
also  prominent  in  building  the  first  Trinity  church.  When  in  Port  Ludlow, 
as  there  was  no  minister  there,  he  read  the  church  services  for  four  years  in 
a  most  acceptable  manner.  He  aided  in  organizing  the  first  Episcopal  Sun- 
day-school in  Seattle  and  was  its  superintendent  for  many  years,  and  his 
efforts  in  behalf  of  Christianity  have  been  highly  appreciated.     He  and  his 


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good  wife  have  passed  the  fifty-seventh  anniversary  of  their  wedding  day 
and  are  greatly  beloved  by  a  wide  circle  of  friends.  Mr.  Burnett  has  attained 
his  eighty-fifth  year,  his  wife  being  now  in  her  seventy-eighth  year,  and  this 
venerable  couple  received  in  high  measure  the  honor  and  respect  from  all 
with  whom  they  have  been  brought  in  contact. 

AUGUST  MEHLHORN. 

August  ]\Iehlhorn,  one  of  Seattle's  prominent  old  residents,  was  born 
in  Saxony,  Germany,  on  the  20th  of  March,  1842,  his  parents  being  Fred- 
erick and  ]\Iaria  (Cupp)  ]\Iehlhorn,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Saxony. 
The  father,  who  was  engaged  in  the  luitchering  business,  died  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eight}^-four  years,  while  his  wife  passed  away  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
eight  years.  They  were  industrious  and  upright  people  and  highly  respected 
in  their  native  land.  They  were  members  of  the  Lutheran  church,  and  be- 
came the  parents  of  three  children,  all  of  whom  are  living. 

August  Mehlhorn  was  educated  in  his  native  country  and  learned  the 
brick  mason's  trade  and  also  that  of  a  weaver.  In  1867  he  crossed  the  At- 
lantic to  the  new  world,  believing  there  were  better  business  opportunities 
to  be  found  in  America,  and  upon  arrival  made  his  way  to  Chicago  with 
the  firm  purpose  of  achieving  success.  Although  he  was  unfamiliar  with  the 
language  of  the  country,  and  was  a  poor  young  man,  he  possessed  a  vigorous 
constitution,  a  bright  and  active  mind  and  honesty  and  industry  were  num- 
bered among  his  chief  characteristics.  His  first  work  was  on  a  farm  in 
Indiana,  for  which  he  was  paid  sixteen  dollars  per  month,  and  this  he  con- 
tinued for  eleven  months.  He  then  returned  to  Chicago  and  worked  at 
brick  laying  at  three  dollars  per  day,  but  did  not  have  a  steady  business. 
However,  he  was  pleased  with  his  prospects,  for  in  his  own  country  he  could 
not  have  earned  over  fifty  cents  per  day.  After  this  he  worked  for  about  a 
year  in  an  oil  and  lead  works,  and  in  1870  he  came  to  Washington  territory, 
going  first  to  Steilacoom,  where  there  was  a  colony  being  established,  but 
which  afterward  was  abandoned,  and  Mr.  IMehlhorn  went  to  Gray's  Harbor 
to  look  for  land  for  the  colony,  but  they  could  not  find  as  large  a  district  as 
they  wanted  in  that  locality.  In  connection  with  ]\Ir.  Rupp  he  there  cut 
one  hundred  and  fifty  cords  of  wood  for  a  brewery,  for  which  they  were  paid 
one  dollar  and  fifty  cents  per  cord.  ]Mr.  Alehlhorn  saved  his  money  and  took 
up  his  abode  on  Hangman's  Prairie.  The  land  had  not  been  surveyed  and 
it  was  seven  miles  to  any  habitation  from  his  home.  Henr}'  Rupp  and  Charles 
Greger  were  his  nearest  neighbors,  but  they  left  the  locality  and  ]\Ir.  ]\Iehl- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  199 

horn  remained  for  only  nine  months,  for  the  country  was  then  very  wild  and 
rough  and  gave  little  promise  of  a  speedy  development.  In  1873  ^^  came  to 
Seattle,  and  for  twenty-two  months  worked  for  Mr.  John  J.  McGilvra  upon 
his  farm  on  Lake  Washington.  He  drove  piles  with  the  horse-power  pile 
driver  and  in  that  way  built  the  first  wharf  on  the  lake.  He  next  came  to 
Seattle,  where  he  secured  a  position  as  driver  on  a  beer  wagon  for  the  firm 
of  Smiech  &  Brown,  and  during  the  year  thus  engaged  he  saved  his  money. 
Mr.  Brown  sold  his  interest  to  Mr.  Smiech,  whose  wife  afterward  died,  and 
desiring  to  dispose  of  the  business  Mr.  Mehlhorn  purchased  it  and  thus  be- 
came the  owner  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Brewery,  which  was  located  on  a 
lot  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  square  and  is  the  ground  on  which  the  Mc- 
Dougal  &:  Southwick  store  now  stands.  He  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
steamed  beer  for  eight  years,  meeting  with  excellent  success.  He  also  became 
the  owner  of  a  lot  of  thirty-five  feet  front  on  which  the  Union  Block  now 
stands,  and  at  one  time  he  could  not  sell  this  at  any  price.  He  built  three 
buildings  on  his  lots,  and  these  were  occupied  by  a  wholesale  liquor  house,  a 
barber  shop  and  a  restaurant.  However,  the  buildings  were  destroyed  by 
fire  and  he  suffered  a  very  heavy  loss,  but  the  era  of  prosperity  later  dawned 
upon  him  and  he  became  connected  with  the  saloon  business  as  a  partner  of 
George  Brobst,  a  relation  that  was  maintained  until  1886.  As  the  city  grew 
his  property  also  increased  in  value  and  he  sold  a  portion  of  his  land,  eighty 
feet  front,  for  forty-eight  thousand  dollars.  In  J  876  he  had  been  united  in 
marriage  to  Julia  Wilhelmina  Wild,  who  was  born  near  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, the  daughter  of  Emil  Wild,  of  German  ancestry  and  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  war.  In  1888  Mr.  Mehlhorn  and  his  familv  returned  to  the  old  conn- 
try,  remained  in  Germany  for  six  months,  visiting  relatives  and  friends,  and 
then  returned  to  Seattle.  The  children  who  accompanied  them  were  August 
F.  and  Ann  Gertrude,  their  daughter  Louisa  having  died  when  only  eleven 
months  old.  Mr.  Mehlhorn  has  been  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  for  the  past  quarter  of  a  century  and  has  filled  all  of  the 
chairs  in  both  branches,  not  only  once,  but  twice.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican. He  still  holds  considerable  property,  including  part  of  the  Union 
Block;  on  Second  street  he  has  a  building  with  a  sixty-feet  front,  and  also 
owns  a  German  hotel  on  Sixth  and  James  streets.  In  1889  he  built  his  pleas- 
ant and  attractive  residence  at  No.  813  Ninth  avenue,  where  he  now  resides, 
retired  from  active  business,  giving  his  attention  to  the  improvement  of  his 
grounds.  The  home  is  an  attractive  one  and  a  fitting  place  for  this  worthy 
old  couple  to  spend  the  evening  of  their  days  enjoying  the  fruits  of  their 
industrious  lives.     July  17,   1901,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mehlhorn  celebrated  their 


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silver  wedding,  on  which  occasion  a  large  party  of  friends  were  present, 
wishing  them  many  happy  returns  of  the  day.  The  Reverend  j\Ir.  Damon, 
who  had  performed  the  marriage  ceremony  for  them  twenty-five  years  before, 
was  present  and  the  occasion  was  a  most  delightful  one,  long  to  be  remem- 
bered by  all  who  participated. 

THEODORE  NEWELL  HALLER. 

Among  Seattle's  most  prominent  and  influential  business  men  is  num- 
bered Theodore  N.  Haller,  who  is  a  pioneer  of  this  state,  being  but  six  months 
old  wdien  he  came  to  the  territory  with  his  parents.  He  was  born  on  the  4th 
of  January,  1864,  in  Pennsylvania,  where  his  ancestors  have  made  their  home 
for  several  generations.  The  family  came  originally  from  Germany.  George 
Haller,  our  subject's  grandfather,  was.  a  native  of  York,  Pennsylvania,  as 
was  also  his  father,  the  distinguished  soldier,  citizen  and  pioneer,  Colonel 
Granville  Owen  Haller,  who  was  born  at  that  place,  January  31,  18 19.  The 
Colonel  was  only  two  years  old  when  his  father  died  leaving  the  mother  with 
four  small  children,  but  notwithstanding  her  limited  means  she  succeeded  in 
giving  them  all  a  good  education.  He  attended  the  schools  of  his  native 
town.  Early  in  life  he  chose  a  military  career,  and  being  examined  by  a 
board  of  military  officers  at  Washington,  D.  C,  in  1839,  he  was  commis- 
sioned second  lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Regiment,  United  States  Infantry, 
although  only  twenty  years  of  age.  In  184 1-2  he  participated  in  the  Florida 
war,  taking  part  in  the  battle  of  Big  Cypress  Swamp  and  the  engagement 
which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  Halleck  Tushnugger's  band  and  ended  the 
struggle.  He  was  adjutant  of  the  Fourth  Infantry  from  the  ist  of  Janu- 
ary, 1843,  until  he  resigned  September  10,.  1845.  .He  was  brigade  major 
of  the  Third  Brigade,  United  States  Regulars,  under  General  Taylor  in 
Texas  in  1845,  and  during  the  war  with  Mexico  had  command  of  his  com- 
pany from  the  siege  of  Vera  Cruz  until  the  capture  of  the  city  of  Mexico, 
participating  in  all  the  battles  in  the  valley  of  Mexico,  the  attack  upon  the 
fortification  of  San  Antonio  and  the  storming  of  El  Molino  del  Rey.  For 
his  valiant  service  on  the  last  named  occasion  he  was  breveted  major.  He 
took  part  in  the  capture  of  the  city  of  Mexico  and  the  skirmishing  within  itSi 
walls  on  the  following  day,  and  was  reported  for  his  distinguished  gallantry. 
On  the  I  St  of  Januarys  1848,  he  was  promoted  to  captain  in  the  Fourth  In- 
fantry, after  which  he  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  recruiting  duty. 

In  1852  Majors  Sanders  and  Haller,  with  their  respective  commands,  were 
ordered  to  the  department  of  the  Pacific.     They  sailed  on  the  United  States 


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store-ship  Fredonia,  by  way  of  Cape  Horn,  and  arrived  at  San  Francisco  in 
June,  1853,  havmg  spent  se\'en  months  on  the  voyage.  Major  Haher  and 
his  company  proceeded  at  once  to  Fort  Vancouver,  Washington  Territory, 
and  soon  after  to  Fort  Dallas,  Oregon,  after  which  he  was  in  active  service, 
punishing  the  Indians  for  atrocities  and  murders  inflicted  by  them  on  the 
settlers.  He  was  all  through  the  Indian  war  of  the  northwest  and  rendered 
valuable  service  to  the  government  and  to  the  brave  pioneers  who  were 
peopling  this  district  and  laying  the  foundation  for  the  present  development 
and  progress.  In  the  fall  of  1856  Major  Haller  received  orders  to  establish 
a  fort  near  Port  Townsend,  and  this  work,  notwithstanding  many  formidable 
difficulties,  was  satisfactorily  accomplished,  since  which  time  the  fort  has 
been  garrisoned.  While  there  the  Major  and  his  men  were  a  most  efficient 
force  in  protecting  the  settlers,  and  well  does  Major  Haller  deserve  mention 
in  the  history  of  the  northwest,  for  his  efforts  contributed  in  larger  measure 
than  the  vast  majority  to  the  development  of  this  region,  for  had  it  not  been 
for  the  protection  which  he  gave  to  the  settlers  the  Indians  would  have  ren- 
dered impossible  the  labors  of  the  pioneers  in  the  work  of  reclaiming  the 
wild  land  for  purposes  of  civilization  and  planting  the  industries  which  have 
led  to  the  material  upbuilding  of  this  portion  of  the  country. 

For  some  time  Major  Haller  was  with  his  command  on  board  the  United 
States  ship  patrolling  the  waters  of  the  Sound  and  removed  all  foreign  Indians 
from  the  district.  While  thus  engaged  he  also  participated  in  the  occupa- 
tion of  San  Juan  island  until  the  boundary  question  was  settled.  In  i860 
he  was  assigned  to  Fort  Mojave,  in  Arizona,  and  while  stationed  there  he 
treated  the  Indians  with  such  consideration  and  justice  that  when  his  com- 
mand had  withdrawn  he  had  so  gained  the  good  will  of  the  red  race  that  the 
miners  had  no  hesitation  about  continuing  their  operations  there,  and  did 
so  without  molestation.  In  1861  came  orders  for  Major  Haller  to  proceed 
with  his  command  to  San  Diego,  California,  and  afterward  to  New  York 
city  to  join  the  army  then  being  organized  by  General  McClellan.  He  had 
previously  been  brevet  major,  but  on  the  25th  of  September,  1861,  was  pro- 
moted to  major  of  the  Seventh  Infantry,  but  the  members  of  the  regiment 
were  being  held  as  prisoners  of  war  in  Texas  and  Major  Flaller  reported 
to  General  McClellan  and  shortly  afterward  was  appointed  commandant  gen- 
eral at  the  general  headquarters  on  the  staff  of  McClellan  and  the  Ninety- 
third  Regiment  of  New  York  Volunteers  was  placed  under  his  command 
as  guard  of  the  headquarters.  Major  Haller  was  thus  employed  under  Gen- 
eral McClellan  throughout  the  Virginia  and  Maryland  campaign  and  the 
subsequent  campaign  of  General  Burnside  and  also  for  a  short  time  under 

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202  J'       REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF      ""^  • 

General  Hooker.  He  was  then  designated  pro\ost  marshal  general  of  ]Mar}'- 
land  and  later  was  detached  and  sent  to  York  and  Gettysburg  to  muster  in 
volunteers  and  to  get  all  the  information  possible  of  the  movements  of  the 
■enemy,  also  to  order  the  citizens  to  remove  the  stock  and  property  across  the 
Susquehanna  out  of  the  v/ay  of  the  Rebel  army. 

While  thus  busily  engaged  in  the  service  of  his  country  Major  Haller 
was  wrongfully  reported  for  disloyalty  to  the  government,  and  in  the  latter 
part  of  July,  1863,  he  was  dismissed  from  the  service  without  a  hearing. 
Astonished  beyond  measure,  he  demanded  a  hearing,  which  was  refused.  Not 
satisfied  to  submit  to  such  a  great  wrong,  after  sixteen  years  of  waiting  he 
secured  a  hearing  and  was  fully  exonerated.  His  honor  was  fully  vindicated 
and  he  was  reinstated  in  the  army  and  commissioned  colonel  of  infantry  in 
the  United  States  Regulars.  His  command  was  the  Twenty-third  Infantry, 
and  he  continued  as  its  colonel  from  December  11,  1879,  to  February  6,  1882, 
at  which  time  he  was  retired,  being  over  sixty-three  years  of  age. 

During  the  time  of  his  dismissal  from  the  service  he  had  resided  in  the 
territory  of  W^ashington  and  improved  a  fme  farm  on  Whidbey  island,  in 
Avhich  he  clearly  demonstrated  the  possibilities  Washington  for  the  produc- 
tion of  products  of  nearly  every  description.  He  was  also  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  lumber  and  in  merchandising  to  quite  a  large  extent  and  his 
business  interests  greatly  facilitated  the  settlement  and  improvement  of  the 
<;ountry,  for  lie  was  very  liberal  in  giving  credit  to  the  settlers  who  wished 
to  buy  provisions  and  implements  and  thus  enabled  many  to  gain  a  good  start, 
thus  carrying  on  the  great  work  of  upbuilding  the  commonwealth.  \Miile 
he  was  engaged  in  business  he  also  acquired  large  grants  of  land,  which  were 
at  first  of  little  value,  but  as  the  state  became  more  thickly  settled  and  land  was 
in  demand  it  rose  in  value  and  improvements  also  increased  its  selling  price, 
so  that  it  became  a  large  source  of  income  to  Colonel  Flaller  and  his  family. 
Upon  his  retirement  from  the  service  he  returned  to  the  state  to  which  he 
had  become  warmly  attached  during  his  former  periods  of  residence  here,  and 
with  his  family  located  in  Seattle  in  1882. 

The  Colonel  had  been  happily  married  on  the  21st  of  June,  1849,  ^^e 
lady  of  his  choice  being  Miss  Henrietta  Maria  Cox,  a  representative  of  a  dis- 
tinguished Irish  family  descended  from  Sir  Richard  Cox,  who  was  her  great- 
grandfather and  who  served  as  lord  chancellor  of  Ireland.  Her  people  lo- 
-cated  in  Pennsylvania,  where  she  was  reared,  educated  and  married.  The 
union  was  blessed  with  li\'e  children :  Morris,  the  eldest  son,  had  settled  in 
:Seattle  before  the  parents  took  up  their  abode  here  and  had  become  promi- 
•nent  as  an  attorney.     He  was  the  organizer  of  extensive  business  enterprises 


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\vhich  have  proven  of  the  greatest  value  and  benefit  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
material  interests  of  the  state.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Seattle, 
Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railroad  Company  and  various  other  business  affairs 
of  great  magnitude  which  contributed  not  alone  to  the  success  of  the  indi- 
vidual owners  and  stockholders  but  also  to  the  general  prosperity.  In  1889 
he  was  accidentally  drowaied •while  he  was  on  a  hunting  and  fishing  trip  in 
company  with  T.  T.  Minor  and  E.  Louis  Cox.  His  loss  was  deeply  felt 
throughout  the  state,  for  his  genial  nature  and  sterling  worth  had  gained  him 
many  friends  and  his  prominence  in  business  affairs  had  made  him  a  most 
valued  factor  in  public  life.  Alice  Mai  Haller,  the  eldest  daughter,  became 
the  wife  of  Lieutenant  William  A.  Nichols  and  departed  this  life,  leaving 
two  children.  Charlotte  Eleanor,  the  surviving  daughter,  is  at  home,  as  is 
the  son,  Theodore  Newell,,  who  has  so  kindly  furnished  us  with  the  material 
for  the  sketch  of  his  honored  and  distinguished  father.  Colonel  Haller  de- 
parted this  life  on  the  2d  of  May,  1897,  ^^'^^  thus  ended  a  most  honorable 
career.  He  was  the  president  of  the  State  Pioneer  Society  and  had  attained 
to  a  distinguished  position  in  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  was  hon- 
ored with  the  office  of  grand  master  of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state.  He 
was  also  a  Scottish  Rite  Mason  and  had  attained  the  thirtv-second  degree  of 
the  consistory.  He  was  considered  authority  on  Masonic  usages,  tenets 
and  rites  and  in  his  life  exemplified  the  beneficent  spirit  of  the  craft.  He  was 
also  the  commander  of  the  military  order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  Washing- 
ton. From  the  advance  in  realty  values  and  from  other  sources  he  had  ac- 
cumulated considerable  wealth  and  w-as  enabled  to  leave  his  family  in  very 
comfortable  circumstances.  The  greater  part  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  his 
country's  service,  to  which  he  was  ever  most  loyal.  He  performed  a  work 
for  the  northwest  in  protecting  the  settlers  and  in  establishing  business  inter- 
ests here  that  is  of  incalculable  benefit  and  cannot  be  measured  by  any  of  the 
known  standards  of  time.  His  influence  was  ever  on  the  side  of  right,  of 
progress  and  advancement,  and  the  social  qualities  of  his  nature  made  him 
a  favorite  in  all  communities  with  which  he  was  for  any  length  of  time  con- 
nected. 

His  life  was  noble  and  the  elements 

So  mixed  in  him  that  Nature  might  stand  up 

And  say  to  all  the  w^orld,  "This  w^as  a  man." 

Theodore  Newell  Haller  js  now  the  manager  and  largely  the  owner  of 
the  extensive  property  interests  left  by  his  father.  The  estate  includes  the 
splendid  Haller  block  and  numerous  other  buildings  in  the  city,  among  which 


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is  a  very  fine  residence.  There  are  also  extensive  tracts  of  valuable  farming 
land,  and  the  careful  manner  in  which  T.  N.  Haller  controls  his  affairs  makes 
them  a  source  of  profitable  income.  As  before  stated,  he  was  only  six  months 
old  when  brought  to  Washington,  where  he  lias  since  resided.  He  acquired 
his  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools  on  the  Sound,  later  continued 
his  studies  in  Portland,  Oregon,  at  Peekskill  "on  the  Hudson  and  then  en- 
tered Yale  College.  He  studied  law  with  the  firm  of  Burke  &  Haller,  the 
latter  being  his  elder  brother.  His  attention  is  now  largely  occupied  with 
his  extensive  business  afrairs.  tie  is  a  Republican  in  his  political  views  but 
has  never  aspired  to  political  honors.  He  enjoys  in  high  degree  the  con- 
fidence and  esteem  of  a  large  circle  of  friends  and  he  is  numbered  among  the 
leading  representatives  of  invested  interests  here,  in  the  control  of  which  he 
manifests  superior  business  ability  and  executive  force. 

ALFRED  L.  PALMER. 

One  of  the  finest  business  blocks  of  Seattle,  the  York  Hotel,  stands  as 
a  monument  to  the  enterprise  and  business  ability  of  Alfred  Lee  Palmer, 
who  has  resided  in  this  city  since  1882  and  has  taken  a  deep  and  active  inter- 
est in  the  growth  and  development  of  the  municipality.  He  is  a  native  of 
Mayyille,  Chautauqua  county.  New  York,  born  on  the  nth  of  June,  1835, 
and  is  descended  from  English  ancestors,  who  emigrated  to  that  state  prior 
to  the  Revolutionary  war.  Plis  grandfather,  David  Palmer,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  owned  a  farm  upon  which  a  part  of  the  city  of  Rochester,  New  York, 
has  since  been  built.  Joseph  Palmer,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born 
on  the  old  family  homestead  and  after  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  he  wed- 
ded Miss  Mary  Hill,  a  native  of  Vermont.  •  In  the  year  1839  they  removed 
to  Iowa.  The  territory  had  been  organized  only  the  year  prior  and  they 
became  prominent  families  of  the  locality.  The  father,  a  leading  and  influ- 
ential citizen,  filled  the  ofiice  of  probate  judge  and  also  served  as  superin- 
tendent of  public  instruction.  They  were  members  of  the  Baptist  church 
and  people  of  the  highest  respectability,  leaving  a  deep  impress  for  good  upon 
the  moral,  intellectual  and  material  advancement  of  the  state  with  which 
they  became  connected  in  pioneer  times.  The  father  departed  this  life  in  the 
seventieth  year  of  his  age,  while  his  wife  passed  aw^ay  in  her  fifty-sixth  year, 
and  of  their  four  children  the  subject  of  this  review  is  now  the  only  survivor. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  Alfred  L.  Palmer  began  his  edu- 
c:ition,  which  was  continued  in  ]\It.  Morris,  Illinois,  and  also  in  Oberlin 
College,  of  Oberlin,  Ohio.     With  a  broad  general  knowledg-e  to  serve  as  a 


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foundation  upon  which  to  rear  the  superstructure  of  professional  learning, 
he  entered  the  Albany  I>aw  School,  and  after  graduation  was  admitted  to 
practice  by  the  supreme  court  of  New  York.  He  then  opened  an  office  and 
engaged  in  the  prosecution  of  his  profession  in  Jackson  county,  Iowa,  where 
we  find  him  at  the  time  Fort  Sumter  was  fired  upon.  In  the  fall  of  1861  he 
closed  his  law  office,  sold  his  books  and  joined  his  country's  service,  enlist- 
ing in  Company  I,  Twelfth  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry.  He  was  sworn  in  as 
z  private  but  his  company  elected  him  second  lieutenant.  The  regiment  was 
formed  at  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  thence  ordered  to  St.  Louis,  where  it  re- 
mained during  the  fall  and  part  of  the  winter.  Their  barracks  were  made 
of  green  lumber  of  logs  which  floated  down  the  Mississippi  river  and  dur- 
ing the  winter  the  ice  froze  right  on  the  logs  and  thus  offered  but  little  pro- 
lection  from  the  cold  winds,  so  that  many  of  the  soldiers  were  made  ill.  Mr. 
Palmer  was  detached  to  do  recruiting  service  and  secured  one  hundred  men 
for  the  army.  At  the  battle  of  Shiloh  his  regiment  was  captured,  and  he, 
with  other  recruiting  officers,  was  ordered  to  bring  up  his  men  in  order  to 
fill  up  the  ranks.  He  reported  near  Corinth,  Mississippi,  to  General  Grant 
and  was  assigned  to  the  Eighth  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry,  being  made  captain 
of  his  company.  This  regiment,  together  with  other  recruits,  was  formed 
into  a  union  brigade.  At  the  battle  of  Corinth  he  was  shot  through  the 
right  lung,  and  being  thus  unfitted  for  further  duty  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged, but  the  wound  did  not  heal  for  years.  The  ball  was  taken  from 
his  shoulder  blade  and  weighs  one  and  one-fourth  ounces. 

Being  mustered  out  at  St.  Louis  in  1863,  Captain  Palmer  returned  to 
his  home  and  as  soon  as  he  had  sufficiently  recovered  his  health  resumed 
the  practice  of  his  profession.  He  was  elected  county  judge  of  Jackson 
county  and  held  that  office  for  four  years.  Hearing  that  the  capital  of  Ne- 
braska was  to  be  located  at  Lincoln,  he  attended  the  sale  of  lots  there, 
for  the  town  had  just  been  platted  by  commissioners  appointed  by  the  state 
legislature,  and  made  several  investments.  The  money  received  by  the  com- 
missioners for  these  lots  was  used  in  the  erection  of  its  public  buildings,  and 
enough  lots  were  disposed  of  to  pay  for  the  entire  number  of  public  structures 
erected,  consisting  of  the  capitol  building,  the  state  universities,  insane 
asylum  and  state  penitentiary.  Mr.  Palmer  was  quite  fortunate  in  his  in- 
vestments there  and  made  money  by  his  real-estate  dealings.  For  fourteen 
years  he  remained  a  resident  of  Lincoln  and  also  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law,  winning  a  desirable  clientage,  vvhile  for  two  terms  he  acceptably  served 
as  county  judge. 


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The  year  1882  witnessed  j\ir.  Palmer's  arrival  in  Seattle,  where  he 
purchased  property  and  at  once  became  identilied  with  the  progress  and  up- 
building of  the  city.  He  also  made  some  investments  in  Tacoma,  and  in 
addition  to  the  care  of  his  property  interests  he  practiced  his  profession. 
He  built  the  Palmer  house  and  in  1889  erected  the  fine  brick  York  hotel. 
He  has  also  built  a  residence  on  Lake  Washington,  where  he  now  resides. 
The  York  hotel  occupies  a  very  desirable  site  on  First  avenue  and  is  one  of 
the  finest  buildings  of  the  northwest.  It  is  sixty  by  eighty  feet  and  five  stories 
and  basement  in  height  and  is  composed  entirely  of  brick.  Its  owner  has 
prospered  in  all  his  undertakings,  for  he  is  a  man  of  keen  foresight,  unfalter- 
ing determination  and  strong  purpose.  To-day  he  stands  among  the  most 
successful  business  men  of  his  adopted  city  and  well  does  he  deserve  his 
prosperity,  for  it  has  been  attained  by  the  most  honorable  business  methods. 

In  i860  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  our  subject  and  Miss  Lydia 
Butterworth,  but  she  was  only  spared  to  him  for  a  few  years  and  at  her  death 
left  two  children,  both  of  whom  are  now  deceased.  One  of  the  daughters 
married  John  Denny  and  died,  leaving  two  children,  Harold  and  Annie  Denny, 
For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Palmer  chose  Miss  Rocelia  A.  Chase,  a  native  of  Ver- 
mont, and  their  union  has  been  blessed  with  seven  children,  five  sons  and  two 
daughters,  all  of  whom  are  still  living:  Frank,  who  is  now  in  the  real-estate 
business;  Hattie,  the  wife  of  Donald  B.  Olson,  of  Dawson;  Don  H.,  who  is 
now  a  student  in  his  third  year  at  the  Rush  Medical  College  in  Chicago ;  Leet 
R.,  who  is  in  college;  Lee  Chase,  a  student  in  the  high  school ;  Ben  B.,  also  at 
school ;  and  Esther,  also  attending  school. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Palmer  was  formerly  a  Douglas  Democrat  but 
when  he  became  a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  he  joined  the 
Republican  party  and  was  one  of  its  active  and  earnest  supporters  until  the 
money  question  became  the  dominant  issue  before  the  people.  Believing  that 
gold  and  silver  should  both  be  established  as  a  standard  and  the  Republicans 
acknowledging  only  the  gold  standard,  he  withdrew  his  support  and  is  now 
independent  in  his  political  views.  Mr.  Palmer  was  made  a  Mason  in 
Bellevue,  Iowa,  and  had  just  received  an  entered  apprentice  degree  when  he 
went  into  the  army.  When  lying  wounded  and  almost  dying  of  thirst  the 
kind  offices  of  a  brother  Mason  were  the  means  of  saving  his  life.  In  1888 
he  was  honored  with  the  office  of  eminent  grand  commander  of  Knights 
Templar  of  the  state  of  Washington.  He  has  now  retired  from  active  practice 
of  his  profession,  his  attention  being  fully  occupied  with  the  supervision  of 
his  investments.  His  has  been  a  career  worthy  emulation  and  deserving  the 
highest  commendation.     The  promptness  with  which  he  responded  to  what 


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he  believed  to  be  his  duty  m  the  Civil  war  has  always  been  a  characteristic  of 
his  life  and  to-day  he  stands  among  the  honored,  respected  and  successful 
men  of  his  adopted  state. 

JOHN  BEARD  ALLEN.     ^'  '^^    \^:^ 

The  above  named  gentleman  has  been  a  conspicuous  figure  in  the  legis- 
lative and  judicial  history  of  the  state.  The  public  life  of  few  other  illus- 
trious citizens  of  Washington  has  extended  over  a  longer  period  and  cer- 
tainly the  life  of  none  has  been  more  varied  in  service,  more  fearless  in  con- 
duct or  more  stainless  in  reputation.  His  career  has  been  one  of  activity, 
full  of  incidents  and  results.  In  every  sphere  of  life  in  which  he  has  been 
called  upon  to  move  he  has  made  an  indelible  impression  and  by  his  excel- 
lent public  service  and  upright  life  he  has  honored  the  state  which  has  hon- 
ored him  with  high  official  preferment.  He  is  now  giving  his  entire  atten- 
tion to  the  practice  of  law  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Struve,  Allen,  Hughes 
&  McMicken,  of  Seattle,  which  occupies  a  leading  position  at  the  bar  of  this 
commonw^ealth. 

Mr.  Allen  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  his  birth*having  occurred  in  Craw- 
fordsville,  that  state,  on  the  i8th  of  May,  1845.  He  is  descended  from  En- 
glish ancestors  who  at  an  early  epoch  in  the  history  of  Pennsylvania  took 
up  their  abode  in  that  state.  They  were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends, 
or  Quakers,  and  were  noted  for  their  uprightness  of  character.  Joseph  Allen, 
the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  became  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Indiana 
and  w^as  a  mill-owner  and  manufacturer  in  the  early  history  of  that  state. 
His  son,  Joseph  Allen,  Jr.,  the  grandfather  of  John  B.  Allen,  was  born  in 
Pennsylvania  and  with  his  father  removed  to  Indiana.  He  became  a  well 
educated  man,  was  an  expert  civil  engineer  and  surveyed  many  of  the 
national  roads  in  that  state  before  the  rails  had  marked  the  path  of  travel 
with  steam  as  the  motive  power  of  transportation.  His  son,  the  third  to 
bear  the  name  of  Joseph  Allen,  was  born  in  Indiana,  in  1814,  and  was  a 
physician  and  surgeon.  When  the  country  became  .involved  in  Civil  war  he 
offered  his  aid  to  the  government  in  caring  for  the  sick  and  wounded  and 
was  commissioned  surgeon  of  the  Tenth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry.  A 
part  of  the  time  he  was  attached  to  the  Fourth  Brigade  under  General 
Thomas.  After  the  war  he  settled  in  Rochester,  Minnesota,  where  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  for  a  number  of  years,  and  then  removed  to  Washington. 
Later  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis,  which  incapacitated  him  for  the  further 
performance  of  professional  duties,  and  he  departed  this  life  in  1874,  at  the 


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age  of  sixty  years.  He  was  a  well  informed  and  faithful  medical  practitioner 
and  his  skill  and  ability  were  recognized  in  the  liberal  patronage  accorded 
him.  He  held  membership  in  the  Presbyterian  church  and  was  a  most  worthy 
citizen  and  honorable  man. 

In  the  years  of  his  early  manhood  Dr.  Joseph  Allen  had  chosen  for  his 
Avife  Miss  Hannah  Cloud  Beard,  a  native  of  Indiana  and  a  daughter  of  Hon. 
John  Beard,  a  gentleman  who  was  closely  identified  with  the  organization 
and  promotion  of  nearly  all  of  the  public  institutions  of  the  state  of  Indiana. 
For  a  period  of  thirty  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  serving 
continuously  either  in  the  house  or  senate.  He  took  a  special  interest  in  the 
building  of  the  institution  for  the  deaf  and  blind  of  his  state  and  he  left  the 
impress  of  his  individuality  for  good  upon  many  measures  which  have  been 
of  the  greatest  benefit  to  that  commonwealth.  Unto  Dr.  x\llen  and  his  wife 
were  born  eight  children,  of  whom  only  three  are  now  living.  The  wife  and 
mother  died  in  the  forty-ninth  year  of  her  age.  She  was  a  devout  Christian, 
whose  life  was  in  harmony  with  her  professed  belief  as  a  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church.  She  was  devoted  to  her  family,  was  of  most  amiable 
manner  and  kindly  disposition  and  was  beloved  by  all  who  had  the  pleasure 
of  her  acquaintance. 

John  Beard  Allen,  who  was  the  fourth  member  of  Dr.  Allen's  family, 
obtained  his  literary  education  in  Wabash  College,  and  then  determining  to 
make  the  practice  of  law  his  life  work  he  began  studying  in  the  ofhce  and 
under  the  direction  of  the  Hon.  Charles  C.  \Vilson,  of  Rochester,  IMinnesota, 
after  which  he  took  the  law  course  in  the  Michigan  Imiversity  at  Ann  Arbor, 
and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the  fall  of  t868.  Opening  an  ofiice  in  Ro- 
chester, ^Minnesota,  he  was  engaged  in  practice  at  that  place  for  a  year,  and 
in  the  spring  of  1870  came  to  \\^ashington,  locating  at  Olympia,  where  he 
prosecuted  his  profession  for  a  year.  The  district  was  then  a  new  country 
and  it  was  dif^cult  to  get  along  for  some  time,  but  gradually  his  patronage 
grew  into  a  large  and  paying  business. 

While  residing  in  Olympia  ]\Ir.  Allen  was  appointed  by  President  Grant 
to  the  position  of  United  States  attorney  for  the  territory  and  was  re» 
appointed  by  both  Presidents  Hayes  and  Garfield.  During  his  ten  years  in- 
cumbency in  that  ofiice  he  was  practically  a  circuit  rider,  for  it  was  the  era 
preceding  the  advent  of  railroads,  when  travel  was  by  stage  over  the  rough 
mountain  roads.  He  proved  a  most  capable  official,  faithfully  defending  the 
legal  interests  of  the  state  and  gaining  prominence  by  his  masterly  handling 
of  intricate  legal  problems.  While  residing  in  Olympia  Mr.  Allen  also  edited 
volumes  one  and  two  of  the  reports  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  territory, 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  209 

from  the  time  of  its  establishment  until  1883.  In  18S1  he  removed  to  Walla 
Walla  and  continued  practice  in  eastern  Washington  and  in  the  supreme 
court.  In  1888  he  made  the  canvass  for  the  position  of  delegate  to  congress 
on  the  Republican  ticket.  This  was  one  of  the  most  exciting  and  arduous 
campaigns  ever  made  in  the  history  of  Washington.  His  party  had  been 
defeated  at  the  two  preceding  elections,  but  he  was  elected  by  a  very  large 
popular  vote,  receiving  a  larger  majority  than  had  ever  been  given  to  any 
previous  candidate.  Before  he  took  his  seat  Washington  was  admitted  to 
the  Union  and  he  was  then  elected  United  States  senator  by  the  first  state 
legislature.  Three  states  were  admitted  to  the  Union  during  that  session 
of  congress,  the  two  Dakotas  and  Washington.  The  members  of  the  sen- 
ate were  divided  into  tliree  classes,  the  term  of  one-third  expiring  every  two 
years,  thus  constituting  the  senate  a  continuous  body.  As  a  new  state  is 
admitted  its  senators  take  places  for  the  terms  of  office  in  the  uncompleted 
classes.  In  order  to  conform  to  this  rule  the  three  states  just  admitted  were 
required  to  draw  lots  for  their  class  position  and  after  that  the  senators  from 
each  state  had  to  draw  lots  between  themselves  to  determine  the  length  of 
their  respective  terms.  Mr.  Allen  drew  the  four-years  term,  which  expired 
March  4,  1893,  and  was  again  a  candidate  before  the  legislature  for  the 
ofiice.  In  the  legislature  of  one  hundred  and  twelve  members,  seventy-five 
were  Republicans,  the  balance  being  Populists  and  Democrats.  In  a  Repub- 
lican caucus  thirty-eight  would  have  constituted  a  majority  sufficient  for  a 
nomination,  but  a  minority  of  the  party  refused  to  caucus  and  fifty  members 
went  into  caucus,  of  whom  forty-nine  cast  their  ballots  for  -Mr.  Allen.  While 
he  had  a  continuous  support  of  fifty-two  or  fifty-three  members  throughout 
the  session,  the  legislature  failed  to' elect  and  his  supporters  declined  to  as- 
sent to  his  withdrawal,  so  that  the  legislature  adjourned  without  choosing 
a  United  States  senator.  He  was  then  appointed  to  the  position  by  Governor 
John  H.  McGraw.  A  like  failure  occurred  in  Montana  and  in  Wyoming, 
but  the  senate  declined  to  seat  the  appointed  senator  on  account  of  a 
precedent  in  similar  cases,  and  that  precedent  has  since  been  followed. 

After  Mr.  Allen's  retirement  from  the  senate  the  present  law  firm  of 
Struve,  Allen,  Hughes  &  McMicken  was  formed  in  Seattle.  Its  members 
are  all  men  of  superior  education  and  broad  experience,  standing  high  in  the 
profession,  and  their  practice  embraces  much  of  the  most  important  litiga- 
tion of  the  state.  Mr.  Allen  now  devotes  his  entire  attention  to  his  practice. 
He  has  a  keenly  analytical  mind  and  determines  with  accuracy  the  strong 
points  in  a  suit  without  losing  sight  of  the  details.  He  is  exacting  in  the 
research  and  care  with  which  he  prepares  his  cases  and  in  argument  he  is 


2IO  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

strong.  His  ability  has  drawn  to  him  a  large  practice,  and  his  success  indi- 
cates his  mastery  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence. 

In  1 87 1  Mr.  Allen  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Cecelia  M.  Bateman, 
a  native  of  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,  and  a  daughter  of  the  Hon. 
Hiram  Bateman,  a  man  of  prominence  and  influence  in  his  state,  who  has 
served  as  a  member  of  the  legislature  and  has  been  acti\'e  in  molding  public 
policy.  He  and  two  of  his  sons  served  their  country  in  the  Union  army 
throughout  the  Civil  war,  strong  in  their  love  for  the  Union  and  their  loy- 
alty to  the  flag.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allen  have  been  born  five  children,  two 
sons  and  three  daughters.  Mrs.  Allen  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  and  has  served  for  two  terms  as  president  of  the  Red  Cross  Societ}'' 
of  the  state  of  Washington. 

Not  only  in  positions  of  pc^litical  preferment  has  Mr.  Allen  served  his 
country,  for  he,  too,  at  the  time  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  joined  the  boys 
in  blue.  He  enlisted  in  Company  H,  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-fifth  Regi- 
ment, Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry,  in  1864.  His  service  was  in  eastern  Ten- 
nessee and  Alabama  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  he  received  an  honorable 
discharge.  He  was  but  nineteen  years  of  age  when  he  volunteered  and  it 
was  at  the  time  when  the  great  war  had  become  a  tremendous  struggle. 
Many  thousands  of  the  brave  men  from  both  north  and  south  had  been  killed 
and  vast  numbers  maimed  for  life,  and  at  no  time  in  the  history  of  the  san- 
guinary struggle  did  it  require  more  devoted  love  of  country  or  rriore  bravery 
to  enlist.  The  same  fearless  devotion  to  duty  has  ever  marked  the  career  of 
Mr.  Allen  and  has  "won  for  him  the  highest  respect  and  admiration.  In  man- 
ner he  is  quiet  and  unassuming,  yet  is  of  the  highest  type  of  our  American 
manhood,  a  fine  representative  of  our  citizenship,  a  lawyer  of  broad  learning 
and  at  all  times  a  man  of  the  very  highest  honor  and  integrity,  whose  record 
reflects  credit  upon  the  city  in  which  he  makes  his  home  and  upon  the  bar  of 
the  state. 

ORANGE    JACOBS. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  part  of  this  history  of  more  general  interest  than  the 
record  of  the  bar.  It  is  well  known  that  the  peace,  prosperity  and  well-being 
of  every  community  depend  upon  the  wise  interpretation  of  the  laws,  as  well 
as  upon  their  judicious  framing,  and  therefore  the  records  of  the  various  per- 
sons who  have  at  various  times  made  up  the  bar  will  form  an  important  part 
of  this  work.  A  well  known  jurist  of  Illinois  said :  "In  the  American  state 
the  great  and  good  lawyer  must  always  be  prominent,  for  he  is  one  of  the 


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forces  that  move  and  control  society.  Public  confidence  has  generally  been 
reposed  in  the  legal  profession.  It  has  ever  been  the  defender  of  popular 
rights,  the  champion  of  freedom  regulated  by  law,  the  firm  supporter  of  good 
government.  In  the  times  of  danger  it  has  stood  like  a  rock  and  breasted 
the  mad  passions  of  the  hour  and  finally  resisted  tumult  and  fraction.  No 
Political  preferment,  no  mere  place,  can  add  to  the  power  or  increase  the 
honor  which  belongs  to  the  pure  and  educated  lawyer."  Orange  Jacobs,  of 
Seattle,  is  one  who  has  been  honored  by  and  is  an  honor  to  the  legal  fraternity 
of  Washington.  He  stands  to-day  prominent  among  the  leading  members  of 
the  bar  of  the  state,  a  position  which  he  has  attained  through  marked  ability. 
He  has  moreover  been  honored  with  the  highest  judicial  office  within  the  gift 
of  the  state  and  upon  the  bench  sustained  the  dignity  of  the  law  which  stands 
as  a  conservator  of  human  rights,  liberties,  life  and  justice. 

Judge  Jacobs  is  a  native  of  Geneseo,  Livingston  county.  New  York,  born 
on  the  2nd  of  May,  1829,  and  is  of  English  ancestry,  the  family,  however, 
having  been  founded  in  ^Massachusetts  at  an  early  epoch  in  colonial  history. 
Captain  Hiram  Jacobs,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  New  Hamp- 
shire and  won  his  title  by  service  in  the  Black  Hawk  war.  Pie  married  Aliss 
Phebe  Jinkins,  a  native  of  Massachusetts.  They  removed  to  Sturgis,  Michi- 
gan, in  1830,  and  became  pioneer  farming  people  of  that  portion  of  the  ter- 
ritory. Captain  Jacobs  was  an  earnest  Christian  man  who  served  as  a  class 
leader  in  the  Methodist  church  and  was  active  in  promoting  the  cause  of 
Christianity  in  every  possible  way.  He  was  also  a  leader  in  public  affairs 
and  in  the  early  history  of  his  county  filled  the  office  of  deputy  sheriff,  while 
for  many  years  he  was  overseer  of  the  poor.  In  1849  ^e  crossed  the  plains 
to  California,  meeting  with  excellent  success  in  his  undertakings,  where  he 
remained  for  three  years.  He  was  a  man  of  the  highest  probity  of  character 
and  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  ninety  years,  departing  this  life  in  1897.  His 
wife  also  lived  to  an  advanced  age  and  shared  with  him  in  his  Christian  work 
and  in  rearing  their  family  of  noble  children.  They  had  six  sons  and  three 
daughters,  and  with  one  exception  all  are  living. 

Judge  Jacobs,  who  is  the  second  in  order  of  birth,  pursued  his  education 
in  the  primitive  log  school  house  that  was  founded  on  the  frontier  and  in 
Albion  Seminary,  while  later  he  was  a  student  in  the  State  University  of 
AJichigan  at  Ann  Arbor.  When  a  young  man  he  engaged  in  teaching  school 
and  also  took  up  the  study  of  law,  intending  to  make  its  practice  his  life  work. 
In  1852  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  believing  that  he  might  have  better 
opportunity  in  the  new  and  growing  west  he  crossed  the  plains  to  Oregon, 
locating  first  in  Marion  county,  near  Salem.     In  1857  he  removed  to  Jackson 


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county,  where  for  several  years  he  had  a  large  law  practice.  He  was  also  an 
important  factor  in  shaping  public  sentiment  in  favor  of  the  Union  and 
against  secession,  and  in  order  to  promote  opposition  to  slavery  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  edited  and  published  the  Jacksonville  Sentinel.  Through  its 
columns  he  took  a  strong  position  against  oppression  and  the  secession  move- 
ment of  the  south.  When  the  Republican  party  was  formed  to  prevent  the 
further  extension  of  slavery,  he  joined  its  ranks,  and  such  was  his  ability  and 
his  prominence  in  the  party  that  he  lacked  but  one  vote  of  becoming  its  can- 
didate for  the  United  States  senate.  At  last,  however,  the  good  work  that 
he  had  done  for  the  party  and  for  the  government  during  the  dark  days  of  the 
great  Civil  war  was  recognized  by  President  Grant,  and  in  1867  he  received 
the  appointment  of  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Washington 
territory,  while  in  less  than  a  year,  without  solicitation  on  his  part,  the  legis- 
lature of  the  territory  asked  the  president  to  give  him  the  appointment  of 
chief  justice  of  Washington.  President  Grant  immediately  complied  and  for 
six  years  Judge  Jacobs  continued  on  the  bench,  filling  that  high  and  honor- 
able office  in  a  manner  that  showed  forth  his  good  judgment  and  great  legal 
ability  and  reflected  credit  upon  the  judicial  history  of  the  state.  In  1879  he 
resigned  the  office  after  being  nominated  as  the  Republican  candidate  for  the 
office  of  delegate  to  the  United  States  congress.  He  made  an  efficient  can- 
vass and  was  elected,  serving  his  territory  in  a  distinguished  manner  in  the 
Fifty-fourth  and  Fifty-fifth  congresses.  He  was  ver}'  active  in  trying  to 
secure  its  admission  into  the  Union,  also  in  gaining  increased  postal  facilities 
for  the  territory  and  in  the  passage  of  the  light  house  bill.  It  was  also  ow- 
ing to  his  efforts  that  the  law  was  enacted  for  the  relief  of  the  settlers  who 
had  taken  up  their  residence  along  the  original  survey  of  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific railroad.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  passage  of  this  bill  many  of  those 
settlers  would  have  lost  their  land  and  homes,  for  they  had  taken  possession 
thereof  in  good  faith  and  had  probably  invested  their  all  in  obtaining  the 
property.  After  serving  for  two  terms  in  congress  Judge  Jacobs  declined 
a  re-nomination  and  returned  to  Seattle,  where  he  resumed  the  practice  of 
his  profession. 

While  his  efforts  in  behalf  of  the  state  have  been  recognized  as  of  great 
value,  his  labors  in  Seattle  have  been  of  much  benefit  to  the  city.  In  1880 
he  was  elected  mayor  and  while  serving  in  that  capacity  did  all  in  his  power 
to  secure  reforms  in  the  financial  management  of  the  city  and  in  the  police 
force.  His  administration  was  one  of  progress  and  improvement  and  re- 
ceived the  endorsement  of  the  majority  of  the  best  citizens  of  Seattle.  At 
the  close  of  his  term  he  declined  a  re-election,  but  in  1884  he  was  again  called 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  213 

to  public  life,  being  elected  a  member  of  the  territorial  council,  in  which  he 
served  as  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  and  of  the  committee  on  edu- 
cation. He  became  very  active  in  securing  the  appropriations  for  the  peni- 
tentiary, the  insane  asylum  and  the  university  and  for  many  years  he  took 
a  very  deep  and  active  interest  in  promoting  the  welfare  of  the  university. 
He  served  for  many  years  on  its  board  of  regents  and  for  ten  years  acted 
as  treasurer  of  the  board.  He  is  certainly  entitled  to  much  credit  for  placing 
the  university  in  its  present  high  position  among  the  institutions  of  learning 
in  this  country.  In  1899  Judge  Jacobs  was  elected  a  member  of  the  com- 
mission to  form  a  new  charter  for  the  city  of  Seattle  and  here  his  signal 
ability  and  knowledge  of  law  proved  of  great  value  in  securing  the  paper 
which  gives  a  legal  existence  to  the  city.  This  charter  was  adopted  by  the 
people  in  1890  and  under  the  new  charter  he  had  the  honor  of  being  elected 
corporation  counsel.  In  1896  he  was  elected  one  of  the  supreme  judges 
of  King  county,  in  which  position  he  most  ably  served  for  four  years,  hav- 
ing charge  of  the  criminal  department  most  of  the  time.  During  the  whole 
of  his  long  service  on  the  bench  very  few  of  the  cases  decided  by  him  were 
carried  to  the  stipreme  court  and  he  had  but  three  criminal  cases  reversed. 
Judge  Jacobs  is  still  in  the  active  practice  of  law  under  the  firm  name  of  Jacobs 
&  Jacobs,  his  sons,  Hiram  J.  and  A.  L.,  being  his  efficient  partners.  His 
law  practice  is  large  and  remunerative,  and  has  connected  him  with  the  most 
important  litigation  heard  in  the  courts  of  his  district  through  the  past  two 
decades.  He  has  won  for  himself  very  favorable  criticism  for  the  careful  and 
systematic  methods  which  he  has  followed.  He  has  remarkable  powers  of 
concentration  and  application,  and  his  retentive  mind  has  often  excited  the 
surprise  of  his  professional  colleagues.  As  an  orator  he  stands  high,  es- 
pecially in  the  discussion  of  legal  matters  before  the  court,  where  his  com- 
prehensive knowledge  of  the  law  is  manifest  and  his  application  of  legal 
principles  demonstrates  the  wide  range  of  his  professional  acquirements.  The 
utmost  care  and  precision  characterize  his  preparation  of  a  case  and  have 
made  him  one  of  the  most  successful  attorneys  in  Seattle. 

On  the  I  St  of  January,  1857,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Judge 
Jacobs  and  Miss  Lucinda  Davenport,  a  native  of  Ohio  and  a  daughter  of 
Doctor  Benjamin  Davenport,  of  the  Buckeye  state,  who  became  an  Oregon 
pioneer  of  1850.  Seven  children  have  been  born  unto  the  Judge  and  his 
wnfe,  all  of  whom  have  been  reared  to  maturity  and  the  family  circle  yet  re- 
mains unbroken.  In  order  of  birth  they  are  as  follows:  Hiram  J.;  Abra- 
ham Lincoln;  Harry  Edwin;  Orange;  Estella,  now  the  wife  of  A.  L.  Clark, 
of  Seattle;  and  Donna  and  Jessie,  who  are  at  home  with  their  parents.      The 


2  14  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Judge  has  been  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fehows  since 
1848  and  has  filled  all  of  the  offices  in  the  subordinate  lodge.  He  is  one  of 
the  oldest  representatives  of  the  fraternity  in  the  state  and  he  is  also  identi- 
fied with  the  Masons,  having  reached  the  sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason 
in  Sturgis,  Michigan,  in  1852.  He  is  a  man  of  unimpeachable  character, 
of  unusual  intellectual  endowments  and  stands  as  one  of  the  ablest  repre- 
sentatives of  his  profession  in  the  state,  but  while  his  legal  practice  has  gained 
him  distinction,  his  work  in  behalf  of  the  commonwealth  and  of  humanity 
has  made  him  loved  and  respected  throughout  Washington.  He  has  con- 
tributed to  the  intellectual  development,  has  aided  in  forming  the  policy  of 
the  state,  as  manifest  along  many  lines  of  progress,  and  his  ability  and  keen 
discrimination  have  resulted  to  the  general  good. 

ALBERT  M.  BROOKES. 

In  a  history  of  the  men  whose  business  activity  has  won  Seattle  com- 
mercial prominence,  Albert  Marsdon  Brookes  deserves  honorable  and  promi- 
nent mention.  His  business  career  has  been  one  of  continual  advancement, 
and  from  a  position  of  little  importance  he  has  worked  his  way  upward  until 
he  stands  to-day  among  the  wealthy  men  of  the  city,  respected  and  honored 
by  all  on  account  of  the  straightforward  methods  which  he  has  ever  fol- 
lowed. His  residence  here  dates  from  March,  1877,  his  early  life  having 
been  passed  in  the  middle  west. 

Mr.  Brookes  is  a  native  of  Galena,  Illinois,  his  birth  having  occurred  on 
the  2d  of  September,  1843.  The  family  is  of  English  origin.  His  grand- 
father, Samuel  Brookes,  was  a  distinguished  botanist  of  England  and  im- 
ported into  that  country  the  first  chrysanthemums,  which  were  brought  from 
Japan.  Joshua  Brookes,  a  great-uncle  of  our  subject,  was  a  celebrated  sur- 
geon and  at  one  time  a  director  of  the  Zoological  Gardens.  Samuel  Mars- 
don Brookes,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  England  and  attained 
great  skill  and  renown  as  an  artist.  His  specialty  was  the  painting  of  still 
life,  and  many  valuable  works  from  his  brush  are  scattered  over  the  world. 
His  pictures  sold  for  very  high  prices  and  his  work  commanded  great  praise 
from  the  critics.  Leaving  his  native  country  he  emigrated  to  Chicago  in 
1834,  when  it  contained  only  about  six  hundred  inhabitants,  including  the 
garrison.  Mr.  Brookes  was  a  pioneer  of  Milwaukee,  and  remained  there 
until  i860,  when  he  removed  to  San  Francisco,  where  he  continued  his 
painting.  One  of  his  canvases,  life-size  portrait,  sold  to  Mrs.  Hopkins  for 
twenty-five  hundred  dollars.     A  rather  humorous  incident  is  told  concerning 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  215 

one  of  his  paintings,  but  it  illustrates  how  remarkably  true  and  life-like  was 
his  work.  On  one  occasion  he  had  completed  a  painting  of  a  full-sized  salmon 
which  had  just  been  caught,  the  water  still  dripping  from  its  tail.  A  gen- 
tleman greatly  admired  it  and  wished  to  buy  it,  the  price  being  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars,  but  before  deciding  to  take  the  picture  he  brought  his  wife  to 
see  it.  She  objected  to  his  making  the  purchase,  saying  she  wouldn't  like  it 
because  it  was  so  real  and  she  felt  just  as  if  she  could  smell  fish.  Samuel  M. 
Brookes  had  great  enthusiasm  and  zeal  in  his  work  and  his  art  won  high 
praise.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  strict  Presbyterian.  He  departed  this 
life  in  San  Francisco,  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years,  while  his  good  wife, 
who  was  about  five  years  his  junior,  survived  him  for  about  that  period. 
She  was  the  mother  of  fourteen  children,  of  whom  five  died  in  infancy,  while 
nine  reached  mature  years. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Milwaukee  Albert  M.  Brookes  began  his  edu- 
cation, which  was  continued  in  the  academy  there.  When  he  was  only 
eighteen  years  of  age  the  great  Civil  war  burst  upon  the  country.  He  was 
too  young  to  enlist  at  the  first  call,  but  when  President  Lincoln  asked  for 
three  hundred  thousand  men  the  following  year  he  responded,  enlisting  on 
the  1st  of  August,  1862,  as  a  member  of  Company  K,  Twenty-fourth  Regi- 
ment, Wisconsin  Infantry.  The  regiment  was  sent  to  the  front  under  com- 
mand of  Colonel  Larrabee,  and  the  division  was  first  under  General  Nelson 
and  later  under  General  Phil  Sheridan,  who  remained  in  command  until 
transferred  to  Virginia.  The  first  battle  in  which  Mr.  Brookes  participated 
was  at  Perryville,  and  later  he  took  part  in  the  engagements  at  Murfreesboro, 
Stone  River,  Tullahoma,  Chattanooga  and  Missionary  Ridge,  where  the 
Union  forces  covered  themselves  with  glory,  winning  a  splendid  victory 
against  great  odds.  He  was  afterward  in  the  battles  of  Rocky  Face  Gap. 
Resaca,  Dallas  Court  House,  Kennesaw  Mountain  and  the  siege  of  Atlanta, 
besides  many  intermediate  engagements.  He  then  returned  with  General 
Thomas  and  participated  in  the  battles  of  Franklin  and  Nashville.  His  regi- 
ment went  out  with  eleven  hundred  and  fifty  men  and  returned  after  three 
years'  service  with  only  two  hundred  and  fifty.  Mr.  Brookes  was  mustered 
out  at  the  close  of  the  war,  having  served  his  country  most  faithfully.  He 
never  lost  a  single  day  and  seemed  to  be  possessed  of  a  charmed  life,  for 
neither  wounds  nor  ill  health  prevented  his  response  to  roll-call  or  the  valor- 
ous performance  of  duty  upon  the  field  of  battle.  He  returned  to  the  north  at 
the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  a  victor  and  a  veteran,  and  his  is  a  grand  mili- 
tary record  equalled  by  few  of  the  brave  volunteers  who  went  forth  in  de- 
fense of  countrv. 


2i6  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

In  the  meantime  Mr.  Brookes'  parents  had  removed  to  San  Francisco 
and  he  joined  them  on  the  Pacific  coast  early  in  September,  1865.  Ahnost 
immediately  thereafter  he  received  an  appointment  as  clerk  in  the  San  Fran- 
cisco postoffice,  General  Randall,  the  postmaster-general,  being  a  friend  of 
his  father's.  He  filled  various  positions  in  the  postoffice,  discharging  hi^ 
duties  so  satisfactorily  that  he  was  three  times  promoted  during  the  twelve 
years  of  his  connection  with  the  mail  service  of  San  Francisco,  beginning  in 
a  humble  capacity  and  terminating  his  service  in  the  position  next  to  assist- 
ant postmaster.  In  1877,  however,  he  resigned  m  order  to  come  to  Seattle — 
a  step  which  he  has  never  had  occasion  to  regret. 

Upon  his  arrival  he  became  a  partner  with  his  brother-in-law  in  the 
wholesale  liquor  and  cigar  business.  In  1885  he  became  interested  in  a  gen- 
eral mercantile  store  at  Black  Diamond  and  remained  there  for  two  years, 
after  which  he  returned  tc  Seattle  and  purchased  an  interest  in  the  cracker 
factory,  being  made  president  of  the  company  which  owned  it.  The  business 
met  with  very  gratifying  success  and  j\Ir.  Brookes  is  still  a  large  stockholder 
in  the  enterprise.  In  1889  he  had  the  honor  of  being  appointed  postmaster 
of  Seattle  by  President  Benjamin  Harrison,  his  long  connection  with  the 
postoffice  in  San  Francisco  eminently  fitting  him  for  the  work.  He  had  been 
in  charge  only  a  short  time  when  the  great  fire  swept  over  the  city  and  the 
postoffice  was  the  only  brick  building  which  escaped,  but  great  efforts  were 
put  forth  to  save  it  and  the  task  was  at  length  accomplished.  WHien  Mr. 
Brookes  took  charge  of  the  office  he  at  once  set  to  work  to  systematize  it  and 
succeeded  in  making  it  one  of  the  best  in  the  entire  country  and  a  credit  to 
the  city.  His  arrangements  made  it  possible  to  conduct  the  business  with 
great  accuracy  and  dispatch,  and  for  this  he  received  very  high  commenda- 
tion. After  two  years'  service  he  resigned  to  accept  the  position  of  cashier 
in  the  Boston  National  Bank,  which  was  organized  by  him  and  other  promi- 
nent business  men,  and  of  this  institution  he  has  been  a  stockholder  and 
director  from  the  beginning.  The  duties  of  the  cashiership  he  has  dis- 
charged to  the  fullest  satisfaction  of  all  concerned,  and  it  is  owing  to  his 
efforts,  in  a  large  measure,  that  the  bank  has  won  its  creditable  position 
among  the  financial  enterprises  of  the  state.  The  bank  is  capitalized  for  one 
hundred  and  eighty  thousand  dollars  and  from  its  opening  has  enjoyed  a 
constantly  growing  business.  ]Mr.  Brookes  is  also  a  director  and  stockholder 
in  the  Diamond  Ice  Company  and  has  acquired  a  large  amount  of  city  real 
estate. 

^Ir.  Brookes  has  built  a  beautiful  home,  adorned  with  all  that  wealth 
can  secure  and  refined  taste  suggest  and  standing  in  the  midst  of  magnificent 


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grounds,  showing  the  art  of  the  landscape  gardener.  In  1873  ^^^'-  Brookes 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Laura  Hannath,  a  native  of  Toronto,  Canada. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Ehse.  They  are  all  members  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  Mr.  Brookes  having  aided  in  building  the  first  church  of  that  denomi- 
nation in  the  city  and  also  the  present  St.  Mark's  church.  He  is  an  active 
and  valued  member  of  the  Grand  Army  post,  being  one  of  the  first  repre- 
sentatives of  the  order  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  in  1886  he  had  the  honor  of 
being  elected  department  commander.  His  life  has  been  an  upright  and 
straightforward  one,  his  success  has  been  achieved  along  the  lines  of  legiti- 
mate activity  and  unfaltering  energy  and  he  has  well  earned  the  uniform 
regard  that  is  extended  to  him  by  the  business  men  of  the  state. 

JOHN  M.  LYON. 

The  days  of  chivalry  and  knighthood  in  Europe  cannot  furnish  more 
interesting  or  romantic  tales  than  oiir  own  western  history.  Into  the  wild 
mountain  fastness  of  the  unexplored  west  went  brave  men,  whose  courage 
was  often  called  forth  in  encounters  with  hostile  savages.  The  land  was 
rich  in  all  natural  resources,  in  gold  and  silver,  in  agricultural  and  commer- 
cial possibilities,  and  awaited  the  demands  of  man  to  yield  up  its  treasures ; 
but  its  mountain  heights  were  hard  to  climb,  its  forests  were  difficult  to  pene- 
trate, and  the  magnificent  trees,  the  dense  bushes  or  the  jagged  rocks  often 
sheltered  the  skulking  foe,  who  resented  the  encroachment  of  the  pale  faces 
upon  their  hunting  grounds.  The  establishment  of  homes  in  this  beautiful 
region  therefore  meant  sacrifices,  hardships  and  oft  times  death,  but  there  were 
some  men,  however,  brave  enough  to  meet  the  red  man  in  his  own  familiar 
haunts  and  undertake  the  task  of  reclaiming  the  district  for  purposes  of  civi- 
lization. The  rich  mineral  stores  of  this  vast  region  were  thus  added  to  the 
wealth  of  the  nation;  its  magnificent  forests  contributed  to  the  lumber  indus- 
tries and  its  fertile  valleys  added  to  the  opportunities  of  the  farmer  and  stock 
raiser,  and  today  the  northwest  is  one  of  the  most  productive  sections  of  the 
entire  country,  That  this  is  so  is  due  to  such  men  as  John  M.  Lyon,  whose 
name  is  inseparably  interwoven  with  the  history  of  the  region. 

John  Miron  Lyon  was  born  in  the  city  of  Jackson,  Michigan,  March 
73,  1840,  and  is  of  Scotch  and  German  ancestry.  His  father,  John  Lyon, 
was  born  in  Rochester,  New  York,  and  there  married  Miss  Charlotte  C. 
Cramer,  of  the  same  place.  Her  father  was  born  in  Germany  and  her  mother 
was  a  member  of  the  noted  Sherman  family  of  the  United  States.  Soon 
after  their  marriage  the  parents  of  our  subject  removed  to  Michigan,  which 

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was  then  a  A\'estern  district,  in  which  the  work  of  progress  and  civiHzation 
had  scarcely  been  begun.  Mr.  Lyon  secured  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres 
of  land,  on  part  of  which  the  city  of  Jackson  now  stands.  He  w-as  the 
founder  of  the  city,  he  and  others  building  a  number  of  the  first  houses  in 
the  place.  Being  taken  ill  with  brain  fever  he  died,  leaving  to  his  wife  the 
care  of  their  three  children.  She  was  afterward  married  again.  The  estate 
which  ]\Ir.  Lyon  left  was  badly  managed  but  the  w4dow  retained  eighty  acres, 
which  is  now  within  the  corporation  limits  of  Jackson.  By  her  second  mar- 
riage she  had  five  children,  of  w^hom  three  are  living.  She  was  born  in  1810 
and  departed  this  life  in  1865,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five.  Of  the  first  marriage 
only  two  are  living,  D.  B.  Lyon,  of  Red  Bluff,  who  was  a  pioneer  on  the 
Pacific  coast  in  1852;  and  John  M. 

The  latter  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and 
pursued  a  preparatory  course  in  Ann  Arbor.  Two  of  his  brothers  were  upon 
the  Pacific  coast,  and  in  1S60,  when  in  his  twentieth  year,  he  took  passage  at 
New  York  for  San  Francisco,  where  he  arrived  safely  after  a  voyage  of 
twenty-two  days.  The  ship  upon  which  he  made  the  voyage  upon  the  Pacific 
w-as  the  well  known  John  L.  Stevens.  Upon  his  arrival  Mr.  Lyon  proceeded 
up  the  Sacramento  river  to  Red  Bluft  and  engaged  in  clerking  for  his  brother, 
who  was  in  the  book  and  jewelry  business  there.  His  other  brother  con- 
ducted the  telegraph  and  express  office  in  the  same  building  and  John  M. 
Lyon  remained  in  their  employ  for  a  year  and  a  half.  During  that  time  he 
acquired  a  knowledge  of  telegraphy  and  he  also  read  law  for  some  time  in 
the  office  of  Earl  &  Myrich,  but  having  quickly  acquired  a  knowledge  of 
telegraphy  he  was  offered  a  position  in  Portland,  Oregon,  and  became  man- 
ager of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  office  at  that  place.  A  year  later  he 
was  sent  through  Oregon  and  Washington  to  establish  offices  for  the  com- 
pany and  give  instruction  to  the  operators.  He  also  put  the  instruments  in 
order  and  upon  the  completion  of  the  line  to  New  Westminster,  in  British 
Columbia,  connecting  with  the  Western  Union  extension,  Mr.  Lyon  was 
given  charge  of  the  office  at  that  place,  but  soon  afterward  the  Atlantic  cable 
was  laid  and  this  caused  the  extension  of  the  Russian  line  to  be  abandoned. 
However,  six  hundred  miles  had  been  constructed  at  a  loss  of  one  million 
one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  While  Mr,  Lyon  w^as  at  Westminster  the 
queen's  potlatch  was  gi^^en  to  the  Indians,  who  were  invited  from  all  along 
the  coast.  They  came  in  such  large  numbers  that  the  supply  of  presents  was 
exhausted  and  trouble  was  only  avoided  by  the  agents  buying  out  a  hard- 
ware and  grocer}?-  store  and  presenting  the  goods  to  the  red  men.  Great 
excitement  prevailed,  but  the  arrival  of  three  gunboats  prevented  the  outbreak 


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and  no  doubt  saved  the  lives  of  many  white  settlers.  In  the  fall  of  1865  jMr. 
Lyon  came  to  Seattle,  which  city  had  been  made  the  headquarters  of  the  tele- 
graph company.  He  received  the  appointment  of  circuit  manager  of  all  the 
lines  north  of  Portland,  and  continued  in  that  capacity  until  1882,  at  which 
time  he  resigned  and  severed  his  connection  with  the  company,  which,  how- 
ever, was  very  loath  to  dispense  with  his  services.  He  had  also  been  agent 
of  the  Puget  Sound  Telegraph  Company,  in  control  of  their  lines  connect- 
ing Seattle  with  Port  Townsend. 

Mr.  Lyon,  on  abandonmg  telegraphic  work,  opened  a  book  and  station- 
ery store  in  this  city,  successfully  carrying  on  operations  in  that  department 
of  mercantile  activity  until  1887,  when  he  closed  out  his  store,  having  been 
appointed  by  President  Cleveland  to  the  position  of  postmaster  of  Seattle. 
He  filled  that  position  most  capably  until  a  change  occurred  in  the  presidential 
administration.  During  his  term  of  office  he  established  the  letter  carrier 
system  in  the  city  and  the  receipts  of  the  office  increased  from  twelve  to  fifty- 
five  thousand  dollars  per  year.  Mr.  Lyon  also  served  three  terms  in  the  city 
council  and  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  streets  and  finance.  On  his 
retirement  he  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  the  supervision  of  his  real-estate 
and  other  business  interests,  and  later  he  purchased  the  store  which  is  ownd 
and  controlled  by  himself  and  his  son,  F.  A.  Lyon.  It  is  a  well-appointed 
book  and  stationery  store  located  at  No.  207  Pike  avenue  and  the  firm  re- 
ceives a  large  patronage,  owing  to  their  excellent  business  ability,  capable 
management,  reasonable  prices  and  straightforward  policy. 

In  1865,  at  Claquato,  Lewis  county,  Washington,  Mr.  Lyon  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Livonia  Huntington,  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Huntington, 
a  pioneer  of  1852,  who  crossed  the  plains  with  a  band  of  cattle  in  that  year, 
also  bringing  his  family  with  him.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Lyon  have  been 
born  four  children :  Callie,  the  wife  of  Benjamin  F.  Cobb ;  Charlotte,  who 
is  the  wife  of  A.  L.  Washburn  and  resides  with  her  parents ;  F.  Arthur,  who 
is  with  his  father  in  business;  and  Susan  Gertrude,  at  home.  The  family 
are  members  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church.  They  have  a  very  pleasant 
home,  their  lawn  being  adorned  with  flowers  and  shrubs  of  their  own  plant- 
ing. The  family  is  widely  and  favorably  known  in  this  state  and  they  are 
members  of  the  Pioneer  Society.  The  work  which  has  engrossed  the  greater 
part  of  Mr.  Lyon's  life  has  been  of  a  most  important  character,  proving  not 
only  a  source  of  livelihood  for  himself,  but  of  the  greatest  possible  benefit 
to  his  fellow-men  in  the  northwest,  for  the  establishment  of  telegraphic  com- 
munication has  had  marked  influence  upon  the  commercial  history  of  this 
section  of  the  country.      Mr.  Lyon  thoroughly  enjoys  home  life  and  takes 


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great  pleasure  in  the  society  of  his  family  and  friends.  He  is  always  cour- 
teous, kindly  and  affable,  and  those  who  know  him  personally  have  for  him' 
warm  regard.  A  man  of  great  natural  ability,  his  success  in  business,  from 
the  beginning  of  his  residence  in  Seattle,  was  uniform  and  rapid.  As  has 
been  truly  remarked,  after  all  that  may  be  done  for  a  man  in  the  way  of  giv- 
ing him  early  opportunities  for  obtaining  the  requirements  which  are  sought 
in  the  schools  and  in  books,  he  must  essentially  formulate,  determine  and 
give  shape  to  his  own  character;  and  this  is  what  Mr.  Lyon  has  done.  He 
has  persevered  in  the  pursuit  of  a  persistent  purpose  and  gained  the  most 
satisfactory  reward.  His  life  is  exemplary  in  all  respects  and  he  has  ever 
supported  those  interests  w^hich  are  calculated  to  uplift  and  benefit  humanity, 
while  his  own  moral  worth  is  deserving  of  the  highest  commendation. 

JAMES  DOSTER  HOGE,  Jr. 

The  president  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Seattle  is  the  youngest 
national  bank  president  in  the  entire  United  States,  but  his  ability  as  a  finan- 
cier, his  keen  discrimination  and  his  executive  power  do  not  seem  to  be  lim- 
ited by  his  years.  He  is  a  native  of  Zanesville,  Ohio,  born  on  the  21st  of  Sep- 
tember, 1 87 1,  and  is  of  Scotch  lineage,  his  ancestors  having  left  the  land  of 
hills  and  heather  to  establish  a  home  in  Virginia  when  that  state  was  num- 
bered among  the  colonial  possessions  of  the  English.  They  were  people  of 
the  highest  respectability  and  were  widely  and  favorably  known  in  connec- 
tion with  the  early  histor}^  of  the  Old  Dominion.  Israel,  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  was  born  at  AA^inchester,  Virginia,  in  1802,  aiid  was  there  mar- 
ried to  Betsey  Doster,  who  also  represented  an  old  Virginia  family  connected 
with  the  Society  of  Friends.  In  1840  the  grandparents  removed  to  Ohio, 
becoming  pioneer  settlers  of  Zanesville,  where  the  grandfather  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  matches,  being  one  of  the  first  representatives  of  that  line 
of  business  in  the  entire  country.  He  was  also  a  chemist  and  druggist  and 
his  business  interests  were  important  and  lucrative.  His  political  support 
was  given  the  Democracy  and  he  had  the  honor  of  being  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent James  Buchanan  to  the  position  of  postmaster  at  Zanesville.  He  was 
in  manner  most  cordial,  courteous  and  hospitable,  a  representative  of  the  old 
type  of  true  southern  gentlemen.  He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years, 
his  death  resulting  from  injuries  caused  by  a  fall.  His  wife  had  departed 
this  life  in  her  fortieth  vear. 

Their  son,  James  D.  Hoge,  Sr.,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Zanesville  in    1836,  obtained   his  education  there  and  became  a  prominent 


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electrician.  For  many  years  he  was  manager  of  the  local  Western  Union 
telegraph  office  aiid  had  the  reputation  of  being  the  champion  telegrapher 
of  the  world  at  that  early  day  in  the  development  of  the  science.  He  was 
opposed  to  slavery  and  to  the  secession  sentiment  which  was  growing  in  the 
south,  and  therefore  joined  the  Republican  party,  which  was  formed  to  pre- 
vent the  further  extension  of  slavery.  He  still  strongly  endorses  its  prin- 
ciples and  yet  makes  his  home  in  Zanesville,  where  he  is  very  highly  re- 
spected. He  married  Miss  Anna  Slack,  a  native  of  his  own  county,  and  a 
daughter  of  John  B.  Slack,  an  Ohio  pioneer  of  prominence.  Her  father  was 
an  earnest  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  equally  strong  in  his  political 
faith,  which  was  that  of  the  Democracy.  His  life  was  so  honored  and  up- 
right that  he  commanded  the  esteem  and  respect  of  all  who  knew  him.  Unto 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hoge  were  born  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The  latter  became  the 
wife  of  Hon.  Frederick  James  Grant,  a  gentleman  of  marked  literary  promise 
who  resided  in  Seattle,  but  who  lost  his  life  in  a  shipwreck  at  sea. 

James  Doster  Hoge,  Jr.,  obtained  his  preliminary  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  his  native  state  and  also  attended  the  high  school,  while  later  he 
pursued  a  commercial  course  in  a  business  college.  Thinking  the  west  would 
offer  better  opportunities  for  young  men  just  starting  out  in  business,  he 
came  to  Seattle  when  eighteen  years  of  age  and  accepted  a  position  as  stenog- 
rapher with  ex-governor  John  H.  McGraw.  The  following  fall  he  was  given 
a  position  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  this  city,  serving  first  as  messenger 
boy  and  stenographer,  but  his  ability,  willingness  and  ready  mastery  of  the 
duties  intrusted  to  him  soon  won  recognition  and  he  was  promoted  from  time 
to  time  until  he  was  finally  given  charge  of  the  notes,  discounts  and  collections. 
In  1894,  in  partnership  with  his  brother-in-law,  Frederic  J.  Grant,  he  pur- 
chased the  Post  Intelligencer  from  L.  S.  J.  Hunt.  Mr.  Hoge  then  spent 
a  few  months  in  the  east  acquainting  himself  with  the  workings  of  daily 
papers,  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  he  assumed  the  business  management  of 
the  journal,  of  which  he  became  general  manager  a  year  later,  continuing  in 
that  capacity  with  marked  ability  until  September,  1897,  at  which  time  he 
sold  the  paper  to  the  Piper  Brothers.  He  had  applied  himself  to  his  work  so 
strenuously  that  rest  for  recuperation  became  necessary,  and  to  gain  this  he 
made  a  tour  around  the  world,  nine  months  later  returning  to  Seattle.  He 
purchased  an  interest  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Seattle,  and  in  September, 
1898,  was  elected  its  president,  which  position  he  has  since  filled  in  a  manner 
reflecting  credit  upon  the  institution  and  upon  himself.  He  has  also  been 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Bank  of  Cape  Nome,  in  Alaska,  and  is  to-day  its 
president.     He  has  various  other  business  interests,  but  devotes  his  atten- 


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tion  almost  exclusively  to  the  management  of  the  First  National  Bank,  of 
which  he  is  the  popular  president.  A  prompt,  energetic  business  man,  a 
capable  and  careful  financier,  merit  has  secured  his  advancement  to  the  posi- 
tion which  he  now  occupies.  He  is  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the 
business  interests  of  the  city  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  the  patrons  of  the 
bank  and  by  the  business  men  of  Seattle. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hoge  is  an  active  Republican,  and  is  treasurer 
of  the  Republican  state  central  committee,  using  his  influence  and  aid  to  ad- 
vance the  cause  in  which  he  so  firmly  believes  and  which  he  feels  sure  will 
best  promote  the  welfare  of  state  and  nation. 

In  December,  1894,  Mr.  Hoge  was  married  to  Aliss  Ethel  Hanna,  a 
native  of  Mattoon,  Illinois,  and  a  daughter  of  John  W.  Hanna,  of  Seattle. 
Their  union  has  been  blessed  by  the  birth  of  two  daughters,  ]\Iary  Louise  and 
Anna  Roberta.  The  parents  are  members  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church,  in 
which  Mr.  Hoge  is  serving  as  one  of  the  vestrymen.  The  first  chapter  of  an 
eventful,  prosperous  and  honorable  business  career  has  been  written,  but  it 
is  not  difficult  to  imagine  what  his  future  history  will  be,  for  his  salient  char- 
acteristics are  well  known.  He  possesses  the  enterprising  and  indomitable 
spirit  of  the  west,  combined  with  good  judgment  and  foresight,  and,  more- 
over, his  business  principles  and  conduct  will  bear  the  closest  investigation. 

FRANK  W.  SPEAR. 

No  compendium  such  as  the  province  of  this  work  defines  in  its  essen- 
tial limitations  will  serve  to  offer  fit  memorial  to  the  life  and  accomplish- 
ments of  the  honored  subject  of  this  sketch — a  man  remarkable  in  the 
breadth  of  his  wisdom,  in  his  indomitable  perseverance,  his  strong  individu- 
ality, and  yet  one  whose  entire  life  has  not  one  esoteric  phase,  being  an  open 
scroll,  inviting  the  closest  scrutiny.  True,  his  have  been  "massive  deeds  and 
great"  in  one  sense,  and  yet  his  entire  life  accomplishment  but  represents  the 
result  of  the  fit  utilization  of  the  innate  talent  which  is  his,  and  the  directing 
of  his  efforts  in  those  lines  where  mature  judgment  and  rare  discrimination 
lead  the  way.  There  is  in  Frank  W.  Spear  a  weight  of  character,  a  native 
sagacity,  a  far-seeing  judgment  and  a  fidelity  of  purpose  that  commands  the 
respect  of  all.  A  man  of  indefatigable  enterprise  and  fertility  of  recourse,  he 
has  carved  his  name  deeply  on  the  record  of  the  commercial,  industrial  and 
philanthropical  history  of  the  state  which  owes  much  of  its  advancement  to 
his  efforts. 

Mr.  Spear  was  born  in  Plymouth,  Wisconsin,  in  1849,  ^^'^^  is  a  son  of 


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Eleazar  Parmley  Spear  and  Gulie  Elma  Marie  (Chase)  Spear,  On  the  pater- 
nal side  he  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  the  family  having  been  founded  in  Amer- 
ica prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war.  On  the  maternal  side  he  is  of  English  and 
Dutch  descent  and  the  maternal  ancestors  were  among  the  first  of  the  Puritans 
to  settle  in  New  England.  Two  genealogies  of  the  Chase  family  have  been 
published,  tracing  their  origin  back  to  the  time  of  Henry  the  Eighth.  His 
forefathers  on  both  sides  bore  arms  as  followers  of  Cromwell  at  the  time  the 
"Iron  Chancellor"  attempted  to  establish  a  Republican  rule  in  England, 
Through  five  generations  the  family  has  been  represented  in  the  military 
service  of  the  country  when  the  United  States  has  become  involved  in  war. 
This  history  for  patriotism  and  loyalty  is  one  that  the  family  have  every 
reason  to  be  proud  of. 

In  early  manhood  Mr.  Spear  determined  to  make  the  practice  of  law  his 
life  work,  and  after  completing  his  literary  education  began  studying  for  the 
bar  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  Ellsworth,  Wisconsin,  in  1873.  Be- 
lieving that  he  would  have  better  opportunities  in  the  west,  he  sought  a  home 
in  Dakota  in  1880,  and  there  resided  for  seven  years,  after  which  time  he 
came  to  Seattle  in  1887.  Time  has  proved  the  wisdom  of  this  step,  for  here 
he  has  found  business  opportunities  and  has  molded  conditions  until  they  have 
served  his  ends.  He  has  been  largely  engaged  in  commercial  pursuits  and 
in  mining,  and  through  the  development  of  the  rich  mineral  resources  of  this 
portion  of  the  country  he  has  attained  a  splendid  fortune.  He  has,  moreover, 
gained  a  business  reputation  that  is  unassailable — one  which  any  man  might 
be  proud  to  possess.  He  has  ever  made  it  a  rule  to  meet  an  engagement  and 
fulfill  the  terms  of  a  contract  and  to  conduct  all  of  his  transactions  along 
the  strictest  lines  of  commercial  ethics. 

For  many  years  Mr.  Spear  served  in  the  National  Guards  of  Wash- 
ington, rising  to  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Independent  Battalion  of  Washington  Volunteers  during  the  Spanish- 
American  war.  A  man  of  broad  humanitarian  principles,  with  deep  interest 
in  the  race,  he  has  ever  felt  attracted  to  any  movement  for  the  benefit  of  man- 
kind, especially  along  educational  lines  which  augment  the  powers  of  the 
individual.  Since  the  late  war  with  Spain  and  the  acquirement  of  colonial 
possessions,  Mr.  Spear's  attention  has  been  directed  toward  the  people  of 
the  Philippines  with  deep  interest  and  sympathy.  He  now  has  in  contempla- 
tion the  founding  of  an  industrial  school  on  the  island  of  Luzon,  patterning 
it  somewhat  after  the  school  established  by  Booker  T.  Washington,  at  Tuske- 
gee,  Alabama,  and  if  the  conditions  are  favorable  he  intends  to  secure  a  site 
about  the  beginning  of  the  year  1905,  so  that  the  buildings  may  be  erected  and 


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the  school  in  operation  by  the  year  1910.  In  the  Post  InteUigencer,  of  Seat- 
tle, appeared  an  article  which  explains  his  project.  It  was  headed:  "Cash 
award  of  twenty-five  dollars  offered  to  State  University  students;"  and  it 
read  as  follows :  "A  wealthy  philanthropist  who  is  interested  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  an  industrial  school  on  the  Island  of  Luzon,  Philippine  Islands, 
has  deposited  with  Rev.  T.  C.  Wiswell  twenty-five  dollars,  to  be  paid  as  a. 
cash  prize  to  the  student  of  the  State  University  who  shall  write  the  best 
essay  or  article  upon  the  establishment  of  an  industrial  school  in  the  Philip- 
pines, the  name  of  the  school  to  be  'Luzon  Industrial  School.'  The  subject 
to  be  divided  into  five  subdivisions,  as  follows :  First. — Location  and  site. 
Second. — Buildings,  Apparatus  and  Machinery.  Third. — Faculty  and  Cur- 
riculum. Fourth. — Government  and  Control.  Fifth. — Support.  The  pro- 
moters of  the  school  are  considering  the  matter  of  having  it  under  the  con- 
trol of  some  religious  denomination  for  the  present,  and  eventually  turning 
it  over  to  the  future  state  of  Luzon.  The  site  and  building  fund  are  to  be 
provided  by  the  promoters,  but  the  permanent  support  of  the  school  must  be 
provided  in  some  other  way.  The  following  have  been  asked  to  act  as  a 
committee  to  pass  upon  the  articles  written  and  award  the  prize :  Griffith 
Davis,  Chairman;  Michael  Philips,  John  W.  Pratt,  Z.  B.  Rawson  and  T.  C. 
Wiswell.  All  students  of  the  University  of  Washington  are  eligible  to  com- 
pete for  the  prize.  The  articles  when  prepared  should  be  mailed  to  Rev. 
T.  C.  Wiswell,  University  Station,  Seattle,  on  or  before  June  i,  1902." 

Mr.  Spear  has  been  twice  married,  and  has  three  children :  '  Leonard 
P.,  the  eldest  soil,  served  with  distinction  in  the  First  Regiment  of  Wash- 
ington Volunteers,  in  the  Spanish-American  war  and  in  the  Philippine  insur* 
rection,  and  upon  his  return  from  the  Philippines  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank 
of  first  lieutenant  in  the  National  Guard  of  Wahsington.  He  is  married 
and  is  now  twenty-two  years  of  age.  Blanche  E.,  aged  twenty- four,  and 
Frank  W.,  a  little  lad  of  nine  years,  complete  the  family.  The  two  eldest 
children,  Henry  P.  and  Maude  Marie,  both  died  when  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
The  Luzon  Industrial  School  will  be  erected  as  a  memorial  to  them,  for  both 
were  intensely  interested  in  educational  and  reform  work  of  all  kinds  in- 
tended to  better  the  condition  of  mankind.  The  family  home  is  a  beautiful 
one,  erected  in  Ravenna,  a  northern  suburb  of  Seattle.  In  national  politics 
Mr.  Spear  has  always  been  Republican,  and,  although  not  taking  any  active 
part  in  political  affairs,  has  always  favored  reform  measures.  Among  the 
reforms  favored  by  him  may  be  mentioned :  First. — The  Australian  Bal- 
lot. Second. — Primary  Election  Law.  Third. — Torren's  Land  System  of 
Registration.       Fourth. — Merit   System   in   Civil   Service.       Fifth. — Munici- 


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pal  ownership  of  Lights  and  Telephones,  and  Government  ownership  of  Tele- 
graph Lines,  Railways  and  Mines.  Sixth. — Old  Age  Pensions  to  all  em- 
ployes of  government  and  corporation.  Seventh. — Army  reform  and  the 
complete  breaking  down  of  the  social  distinction  between  commissioned  of- 
ficers and  enlisted  men;  the  employment  of  the  military  forces  of  the  United 
States  in  internal  improvements;  the  building  of  roads,  canals,  etc.  Last, 
but  not  least,  Mr.  Spear  favors  the  settlemicnt  of  international  disputes  by 
arbitration,  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  everything  tending  to  that  end. 

While  Mr,  Spear  has  attained  a  fortune  which  classes  him  among  the 
most  wealthy  residents  of  the  northwest,  his  success  has  been  so  w^orthily 
won  and  used  that  the  most  envious  could  hardly  envy  him  his  prosperity. 
Charitable  and  benevolent,  he  has  given  freely  of  his  means  in  support  of 
worthy  charity,  but  one  of  his  great  qualities  lies  in  his  encouragement  and 
material  assistance  to  those  who  were  willing  to  help  themselves.  Indis- 
criminate giving  often  fosters  idleness  and  vagrancy  on  the  part  of  the  re- 
cipients, but  aid  given  to  those  who  are  anxious  to  make  the  most  of  their 
opportunities  will  develop  self-reliance  and  honorable  business  men  who  be- 
come the  bulwarks  of  the  nation. 

JOHN    HARTE    McGRAW. 

An  enumeration  of  the  men  of  the  present  generation  who  have  won  pub- 
lic recognition  for  themselves  and  at  the  same  time  have  honored  the  state  to 
which  they  belong  would  be  incomplete  were  there  failure  to  make  promi- 
nent reference  to  the  gentleman  whose  name  is  mentioned  above.  He  holds, 
precedence  as  a  most  capable  and  far-sighted  business  man,  as  a  statesman  of 
broad  understanding  of  the  issues  of  the  day  and  as  one  who  occupied  a  most 
unique  and  trying  position  during  one  of  the  most  exciting  periods  in  the 
history  of  Seattle,  in  which  connection  he  bore  himself  wnth  such  dignity  as 
to  gain  the  respect  of  all  true-minded  men.  He  has  been  and  is  distinctively 
a  man  of  affairs  and  one  who  has  wielded  a  wide  influence.  A  strong  men- 
tality, an  invincible  courage,  a  most  determined  individuality  have  so  en- 
tered into  his  character  as  to  render  him  a  natural  leader  of  men  and  a  direc- 
tor of  public  opinion.  The  highest  official  honors  within  the  gift  of  the 
people  of  his  state  have  been  conferred  upon  him  and  his  career  illustrates 
clearly  the  recognition  that  America  accords  to  true  worth. 

The  width  of  the  continent  separates  Governor  McGraw  from  his  birth- 
place, for  he  is  a  native  of  Penobscot  county,  Maine,  born  October  4.  1850. 
He  is  descended  from  Irish  ancestry,  and  his  parents,  Daniel  and  Catherine 


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(Harte)  McGraw,  were  both  natives  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  whence  they 
crossed  the  Atlantic  to  New  York  in  1848.  They  took  up  their  abode,  how- 
ever, in  Penobscot  county,  Maine,  and  there  the  father  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  until  1851,  when  he  was  accidentally  drowned.  He  was  a  man  of 
industry  and  marked  probity  of  character,  and  his  loss  to  his  wife  and  three 
children  was  very  great.  His  widow  afterward  married  again  and  in  1890 
departed  this  life.  Our  subject  and  a  brother  in  Maine  are  now  the  only 
surviving  members  of  the  family. 

In  the  schools  of  the  Pine  Tree  state  John  H.  I\.IcGraw  obtained  but  a 
limited  education,  for  not  wishing  to  remain  at  home  with  his  mother  and 
stepfather,  he  obtained  the  former's  consent  and  left  home,  from  which  time 
forward  he  was  dependent  upon  his  own  resources  for  a  livelihood.  As  soon 
as  he  was  large  enough  he  obtained  a  position  in  a  store  and  rapidly  acquired 
a  knowledge  of  merchandising,  becoming  a  most  successful  salesman  as  the 
result  of  his  obliging  manner  and  his  reliability.  He  saved  his  earnings,  and, 
at  length,  as  the  result  of  his  industry  and  economy,  he  started  in  business  on 
his  own  account. 

Attracted  by  the  opportunities  of  the  west,  in  1876  he  crossed  the  con- 
tinent to  San  Francisco,  where  he  arrived  in  July,  and  a  little  later  in  the 
same  year  he  came  to  Seattle,  reaching  his  destination  on  the  28th  of  De- 
cember, 1876,  so  tha.t  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  has  reside^ 
here.  The  first  business  position  which  he  occupied  here  was  a  clerkship  in 
the  Occidental  Hotel,  and  later  he  conducted  a  small  hotel  on  his  own  ac- 
count, which  some  time  afterward  was  destroyed  by  fire.  Thus  he  was  not 
only  deprived  of  his  business  but  of  all  he  had  saved  through  former  toil. 
Many  misfortunes  had  he  encountered  up  to  this  time  in  spite  of  his  reso- 
lution and  perseverance,  and  now,  in  order  to  make  a  living,  he  sought  a 
position  on  the  police  force,  which  then  numbered  four  members.  This 
seemed  to  him  a  very  dark  hour  in  his  history,  but  it  proved  to  be  the  hour 
before  the  dawning  of  a  brighter  day.  It  has  ever  been  his  habit  to  do  well 
whatever  he  undertakes  and  his  efficiency  as  a  police  officer  attracted  the 
attention  of  his  fellow  citizens,  who,  recognizing  his  ability,  elected  him  city 
marshal  after  he  had  served  on  the  police  force  for  three  years.  He  was 
elected  on  the  Republican  ticket  and  the  city  council  also  made  him  chief  of 
police.  In  these  positions  his  popularity  as  a  citizen  and  officer  continued 
to  grow,  and  a  year  later  he  was  nominated  by  his  party  as  its  candidate  for 
sheriff  of  the  county  of  King  to  fill  an  unexpired  term.  He  was  elected  and 
twice  re-elected  to  the  sam.e  office,  and  it  was  during  his  third  term  that  the 
anti-Chinese  trouble  began.     A  serious  conflict  was  threatened  between  the 


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law-abiding  and  law-defying  citizens,  but  it  soon  became  known  that  Sheriff 
McGraw  would  uphold  law  and  order,  no  matter  what  it  might  cost  him 
personally,  and  by  his  tact  and  capable  management  the  trouble  and  conflict 
were  averted,  but  notwithstanding  the  commendable  course  taken  by  him,  it 
seriously  detracted  from  his  popularity,  arousing  the  opposition  of  those  who 
sympathized  with  the  lawless  element  and  when  he  was  nominated  for  re- 
election in  1886  he  was  defeated,  together  with  the  others  on  the  ticket. 

While  serving  as  policeman,  marshal  and  sheriff  Mr.  McGraw  had  be- 
come largely  conversant  with  law,  and  after  his  retirement  from  office  began 
its  study,  successfully  passed  an  examination  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
Soon  afterward  he  became  a  partner  of  Judge  Roger  S.  Green  and  Judge 
C.  H.  Hanford,  both  eminent  jurists,  and  not  long  afterward  Joseph  Mc- 
Naught  was  taken  into  the  firm,  which  then  became  Green,  Hanford,  Mc- 
Naught  &  McGraw.  Its  reputation  was  that  of  being  one  of  the  strongest 
law  firms  in  the  entire  state,  and  thus  Governor  McGraw  entered  upon  a 
successful  and  enviable  professional  career,  but  his  popularity  with  his  party 
was  not  at  an  end,  and  in  1888  he  was  prevailed  upon  to  again  become  a 
candidate  for  sheriff,  his  supporters  urging  that  it  would  be  well  for  him  to 
accept  the  nomination  in  order  that  the  people  of  the  county  might  have  the 
chance  to  show  that  in  the  opportunity  for  calm  judgment  which  had  come 
they  approved  his  course  in  connection  with  the  anti-Chinese  riots,  which  by 
his  former  defeat  they  had  seemed  to  condemn.  Thus  it  was  that  he  again 
became  a  candidate  and  was  elected  by  an  overwhelming  majority.  He  filled 
the  office  with  marked  ability  and  to  the  fullest  satisfaction  of  all  concerned, 
but  in  1890  positively  declined  to  accept  the  nomination  again,  retiring  from 
the  office  in  order  to  give  his  attention  to  the  business  of  the  First  National 
Bank,  of  which  he  had  been  elected  president  some  time  before  and  in  which 
capacity  he  served  for  seven  years. 

Mr.  McGraw  was  then  chosen  by  his  party  to  be  its  standard  bearer  in 
the  state  and  by  popular  ballot  was  elected  to  the  high  office  of  governor,  in 
which  he  served  most  faithfully  from  January,  1893,  until  Januar}^,  1897, 
reflecting  credit  upon  the  state  of  his  adoption  and  adding  an  untarnished 
page  to  its  political  history.  At  the  close  of  his  administration  the  notices  of 
the  press  were  most  favorable  and  commendatory  concerning  the  work  he 
had  accomplished  in  the  gubernatorial  chair  and  the  dignity  and  ability  with 
which  he  sustained  the  honors  of  the  office.  One  journal,  said :  "It  is  to  the 
lasting  credit  of  the  ex-governor  that  general  public  sentiment  approves  his 
administration  as  honest,  faithful,  zealous  and  conspicuously  business-like. 
He  has  been  the  tool  of  no  combination,  but  has  preserved  clear-sighted  mas- 


228  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

tery  of  his  own  convictions  at  all  times.  Bis  state  papers  have  been  models 
of  clearness  and  directness  and  show  a  mind  well  stocked  and  well  balanced. 
American  'gumption'  pervades  these  papers  and  no  lover  of  the  state  will 
ever  turn  from  their  perusal  with  lessened  respect  for  their  distinguished 
author."  A  paper  of  the  opposition  party  said:  "He  is  a  growing  man; 
has  studied  and  worked  hard  to  make  himself  competent  to  discharge  the 
duties  devolving  upon  him,  and  his  administration  has  been  creditable  to 
himself  and  party."  Since  his  retirement  from  office  he  has  been  interested 
in  mining  on  the  Yukon  river  in  Alaska,  and  is  very  extensively  engaged  in 
real-estate  transactions  in  that  distant  territory. 

In  1874  Mr.  McGraw  was  married  in  Maine  to  Miss  May  L.  Kelly,  a 
native  of  the  Pine  Tree  state  and  a  representative  of  an  old  New  England 
family.  Two  children  have  been  bom  to  them:  Kate  Edna,  now  the  wife 
of  Fred  H.  Baxter,  of  Seattle,  and  Mark  Thomas,  who  is  now  engaged,  in 
mining  in  Alaska. 

The  Governor  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  in  which  he  has 
taken  the  degrees  of  both  the  York  and  Scottish  rites,  attaining  the  thirty- 
second  degree  of  the  latter.  His  is  in  many  respects  a  remarkable  history. 
With  very  limited  advantages  in  his  boyhood  he  started  out  in  his  early  youth 
to  fight  life's  battles,  and  has  certainly  come  off  conqueror  in  the  strife.  He 
is  a  gifted  man  who  has  developed  his  latent  powers  by  the  faithful  and  con- 
scientious performance  of  every  duty,  whether  humble  or  great.  In  manner 
he  is  courteous,  kindly  and  approachable  and  his  friendship,  which  is  highly 
prized  by  all  who  know  him,  can  be  won  by  true  merit.  Fearless  in  conduct 
and  stainless  in  reputation,  he  stands  out  conspicuously  as  one  of  the  strong- 
est and  most  distinguihed  residents  of  the  state. 

MATTHEW  DOW. 

MattJiew  Dow,  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  contractors  and 
builders  of  Seattle,  with  office  at  No.  45  Colman  Block,  is  a  worthy  repre- 
sentative of  the  land  to  which  he  owes  his  birth — Scotland.  Thoroughly 
imbued  with  the  strong  religious  ideas  as  held  by  the  Scottish  people,  he  is 
a  man  not  to  be  swerved  from  principles  which  he  believes  to  be  right,  and 
in  all  his  dealings  of  both  a  business  and  political  nature  he  has  strictly  ad- 
hered to  those  principles,  even  when  they -have  worked  to  his  immediate  per- 
sonal detriment.  In  the  long  run  this  characteristic  has  made  him  thor- 
oughly appreciated  by  those  Avho  at  the  time  were  thwarted  by  his  rugged 
honesty.      His  life  has  been  a  very  eventful  one,  but  even  when  threatened 


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by  death  he  was  not  to  be  moved  from  the  path  which  he  beheved  to  be  right. 

Mr.  Dow  was  born  on  the  29th  of  July,  1849,  seven  miles  south  of 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  and  is  the  oldest  of  the  thirteen  children  in  the  family  of 
Andrew  and  Maggie  (Steel)  Dow.  In  his  native  land  the  father  followed 
farming,  and  contmued  to  follow  that  occupation  to  some  extent  after  com- 
ing to  America,  having  emigrated  to  this  country  about  four  years  after  our 
subject  sought  a  home  here.  He  was  the  hrst  man  to  raise  Irish  potatoes 
in  Texas.  During  his  residence  m  the  United  States  he  practically  lived  re- 
tired most  of  the  time,  and  spent  his  last  days  in  Seattle,  Washington,  where 
he  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-three  years.  He  was  a  strong  adherent 
of  the  Presbyterian  church,  in  which  his  father,  Andrew  Dow,  Sr.,  had  served 
as  a  ruling  elder  for  many  years. 

In  the  schools  of  his  native  land  Matthew  Dow  acquired  his  literary  educa- 
tion, and  in  that  country  also  learned  the  builder's  trade,  which  he  followed 
there  until  twenty-four  years  of  age.  At  that  time  he  came  to  the  new  world, 
and  after  spending  about  two  years  and  a  half  in  Lexington,  Kentucky,  went 
to  Fort  Worth,  Texas,  where  he  did  considerable  building.  There  he  was 
joined  by  his  brother  a  year  later,  and  together  they  went  to  Belton,  Bell 
county,  Texas,  which  was  then  about  forty  miles  from  any  railroad.  They 
soon  secured  a  good  trade  in  their  line  of  business  and  erected  buildings  for 
the  most  prominent  people  in  the  place.  When  the  Santa  Fe  Railroad  reached 
the  place  an  era  of  progress  was  inaugurated.  Mr.  Dow  built  the  court 
house,  jail  and  most  all  of  the  better  buildings  and  residences  there.  He 
leased  the  city  water  works  and  operated  them  at  a  good  profit  for  three  and 
a  half  years.  An  offer  was  made  the  city  that  if  they  would  donate  ten  acres 
of  land  within  the  corporate  limits  and  give  thirty  thousand  dollars  the  Boyler 
Female  College  would  be  moved  there.  Mr.  Dow  was  chosen  to  draw  up  the 
plans,  and  after  visiting  the  different  institutions  in  the  state  he  made  suitable 
plans  which  were  accepted  and  the  college  built  there.  He  accepted  no  pay 
for  this  work,  but  the  corner  stone,  which  has  his  name  as  architect  and 
superintendent  inscribed  upon  it,  is  a  lasting  monument  to  the  good  work  he 
did.  To  show  their  appreciation  the  institute  offered  him  five  scholarships 
for  his  two  daughters,  but  he  would  not  accept  that,  though  they  attended 
the  college  while  residing  there.  After  thirteen  and  a  half  years  spent  at 
Belton,  and  having  earned  the  esteem  of  all  citizens,  he  decided  to  come 
north,  and  in  1889,  realizing  the  splendid  building  prospects  in  Seattle,  he 
came  to  this  place  and  since  that  time  has  been  a  prominent  factor  in  thQ 
development  of  the  city.  He  erected  the  Pacific  building,  the  Victoria  Ho- 
tel, the  Seattle  Athletic  Club  house,  the  one-story  block  opposite  the  Rialto, 


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and  has  done  all  the  work  for  the  Great  Northern  in  the  building  line,  includ- 
ing the  stores  on  Jackson  street  and  many  other  buildings  of  a  business 
character.  In  Ballard,  where  he  made  his  home  until  1902,  Mr.  Dow  erected 
the  Methodist  and  Baptist  churches,  his  own  building  at  the  corner  of  Second 
and  Broadway  and  other  brick  business  blocks  there.  In  1901  he  built  his 
fine  residence  on  Pontius  avenue,  Seattle,  where  he  is  now  living. 

]\Ir.  Dow  has  been  twice  married,  having  before  leaving  Scotland  wedded 
Miss  Maggie  ]\IacGregor,  and  to  them  were  born  four  children,  two  sons 
and  two  daughters,  but  the  eldest  died  at  the  age  of  eight  months.  Those 
living  are:  Jeanie,  now  the  wife  of  John  Kyle,  a  grocer  of  Ballard;  Alex, 
who  married  Mamie  Alford  and  resides  in  Interbay;  and  IMaggie,  wife  of 
Fritz  Herbert  Leather,  who  is  the  promoter  of  newspapers  published  in  Japan 
and  America.  The  mother  of  these  children  died  after  the  removal  of  the 
family  to  Seattle,  and  in  January,  1901,  j\lr.  Dow  married  her  half  sister, 
Agnes  Smith. 

Mr.  Dow  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  is  connected  with 
with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  The  Republican  party  usually 
finds  in  him  a  stanch  supporter  of  its  principles,  but  he  is  somewhat  inde- 
pendent in  politics,  preferring  to  give  his  support  to  the  men  whom  he  be- 
lieves best  qualified  for  office,  regardless  of  party  lines.  While  a  resident 
of  Ballard  he  served  as  mayor  of  the  city  one  term  and  refused  a  re-election. 
During  his  term  a  special  election  was  held  and  the  town  bonded  for  forty- 
five  thousand  dollars.  The  water  works  were  also  put  in  and  he  vetoed  a 
bill  for  the  purchase  of  a  plant,  by  which  the  city  was  saved  a  large  sum  of 
money.  Never  were  the  reins  of  city  government  in  more  capable  hands, 
for  he  is  a  progressive  man,  pre-eminently  public-spirited,  and  all  that  per- 
tains to  the  public  welfare  receives  his  hearty  endorsement.  He  also  served 
as  a  member  of  the  city  council,  and  his  various  official  duties  have  been  dis- 
charged with  a  promptness  and  fidelity  worthy  of  the  highest  commendation. 

WILLIAM    E.    BOONE. 

In  past  ages  the  history  of  a  country  was  the  record  of  wars  and  con- 
quests ;  to-day  it  is  the  record  of  commercial  activity,  and  those  whose  names 
are  foremost  in  its  annals  are  the  leaders  in  business  circles.  The  con- 
quests now  made  are  those  of  mind  over  matter,  not  man  over  man,  and  the 
victor  is  he  who  can  successfully  establish,  control  and  operate  extensive 
commercial  interests.  William  E.  Boone  is  one  of  the  strong  and  influential 
men  whose  lives   have  become  an  essential  part  of  the  history  of   Seattle 


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and  of  the  northwest.  Tireless '  energy,  keen  perception,  honesty  of  pur- 
pose, genius  for  devising  and  executing  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time, 
joined  to  every-day  common  sense,  guided  by  great  will  power,  are  the 
chief  characteristics  of  the  man.  Connected  with  building  niterests  he  has 
contributed  in  very  large  measure  to  the  substantial  improvement  of  Seattle, 
is  numbered  among  its  pioneer  architects  and  builders  and  in  many  of  the 
finest  structures  of  the  city  are  seen  the  evidences  of  his  handiwork. 

In  a  little  log  school  house  in  his  native  state  Mr.  Boone  pursued  his 
education.  He  remained  at  home  until  his  eighteenth  ,year  and  devoted 
three  years  to  mastering  the  carpenter's  trade.  He  then  went  west  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  entered  the  service  of  the  Central  Railway  Company, 
whose  line  was  in  process  of  construction.  He  was  soon  given  charge 
of  the  erection  of  its  buildings  all  along  the  road  and  had  at  times  as  many 
as  one  hundred  and  fifty  mechanics  working  under  his  direction.  He  con- 
tinued with  the  company  until  the  road  was  completed  and  afterward  resided 
for  three  years  in  Minneapolis,  Minnesota,  where  he  engaged  in  business 
as  both  an  architect  and  builder,  having  recently  pursued  the  study  of  archi- 
tecture. Through  his  own  efforts  he  became  very  proficient  in  that  line  and 
while  in  Minneapolis  he  erected  many  of  the  buildings  in  that  then  rapidly 
growing  city.  The  year  1859  witnessed  his  arrival  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
He  made  his  way  to  San  Francisco  and  thence  to  the  Cariboo  mines.  He 
became  a  mine  owner  and  operator,  his  possessions  at  times  comprising  five 
different  mines.  It  was  the  time  of  the  great  mine  excitement  in  California, 
and  Mr.  Boone  made  money  rapidly  but  lost  it  just  as  rapidly.  Returning 
to  San  Francisco,  he  there  resumed  work  at  his  chosen  vocation  and  was 
engaged  in  contracting  and  building  for  a  number  of  years,  becoming  very 
prominent  in  that  direction.  He  had  under  contract  in  one  year  over  one 
million  dollars  worth  of  work.  He  was  acknowledged  the  leading  repre- 
sentative of  his  line  of  business  in  the  city  and  many  of  the  finest  structures 
there  stand  as  monuments  to  his  skill  and  handiwork.  Among  the  costly 
buildings  which  he  erected  was  the  Institution  for  the  Deaf,  Dumb  and 
Bhnd. 

During  the  Dennis  Kearney  excitement  and  the  trouble  which  arose 
concerning  the  change  in  the  state  constitution,  fully  forty  thousand  people 
left  San  Francisco  in  a  single  year  and  Mr.  Boone  was  among  the  number. 
He  chose  Seattle  as  the  scene  of  his  future  business  operations,  arriving  in 
what  was  then  a  city  of  about  thirty-five  hundred  people.  He  has  been 
connected  with  this  place  during  the  whole  of  its  magnificent  growth  and 
has  been  deeply  interested  in  its  progress  and  prosperity.     In  the  line  of 


232  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

his  business  he  has  been  a  most  important  factor  in  its  improvement  and 
a  large  majority  of  its  fine  business  houses  and  residences  have  been  erected 
under  his  supervision.  One  of  these  is  tlie  New  York  building  and  no  finer 
business  block  can  be  found  on  the  northwest  Pacific  coast.  He  also  ex- 
ecuted the  plans  for  the  building  of  the  magnificent  high  school  which  is 
alike  a  credit  to  Seattle  and  to  its  designer.  During  his  residence  in  Seattle 
all  of  its  fine  structures  have  been  built  and  to  his  skill  and  enterprise  are 
largely  due  the  attractive  appearance  of  the  city  to-day.  He  has  the  honor 
of  being  the  president  of  the  Washington  State  American  Institute  of  Arch- 
itects. Mr,  Boone  sustains  an  unassailable  reputation  as  a  business  man. 
Probably  in  no  line  of  industrial  activity  is  there  better  opportunity  for 
fraud  and  dishonesty  than  in  building,  and  the  unqualified  confidence  of  his 
fellow  townsmen,  which  Mr.  Boone  enjoys,  is  an  unmistakable  evidence  of 
his  integrity  and  honesty  in  all  business  transactions. 

In  1 87 1  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Boone  and  Miss  Mercy 
Slocuni,  of  Syracuse,  New  York,  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  Ameri- 
can families,  and  a  niece  of  the  distinguished  General  Slocum.  Both  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Boone  are  highly  respected  by  all  who  have  the  pleasure  of  their 
acquaintance.  From  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party  he  has  been 
one  of  its  stalwart  advocates,  but  has  never  desired  or  held  office,  content 
to  give  his  support  to  the  party  without  hope  of  reward.  He^  has  been  a 
worthy  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  for  many  years 
and  has  filled  all  the  offices  in  both  the  subordinate  lodge  and  encampment. 
While  residing  in  Minneapolis  in  1857  he  joined  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
Avas  exalted  to  the  sublime  degree  of  a  Master  Mason,  since  which  time  he 
has  filled  nearly  all  of  the  offices  in  the  blue  lodge  and  is  a  past  master.  He 
has  taken  all  of  the  York  rite  degrees,  becoming  a  Sir  Knight  Templar,  and 
in  the  Scottish  rite  he  has  attained  the  thirty-second  degree,  being  pro- 
claimed a  sublime  prince  of  the  royal  secret.  He  has  thoroughly  studied 
the  tenets  of  the  craft  and  in  his  life  has  exemplified  its  beneficent  principles. 
He.  has  not  only  been  a  good  Mason,  but  a  good  citizen  as  well.  After  the 
great  fire  of  Seattle,  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  committee  of  five  ap- 
pointed to  straighten  and  widen  the  streets  and  the  present  beautiful  city 
attests  how  well  the  work  was  accomplished.  ]\Ir.  Boone  stands  to-day 
among  the  strong  men  of  the  northwest.  Strong  in  his  citizenship,  strong 
in  his  honor  and  good  name,  the  work  which  he  has  accomplished  in  behalf 
of  the  city  of  his  adoption  is  of  such  a  character  that  his  fellow  towns- 
men owe  to  him  a  debt  of  gratitude  and  extend  to  him  their  unqualified 
regard. 


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HANS   P.    RUDE. 

Hans  P.  Rude,  a  member  of  the  Seattle  city  council  and  a  prominent 
merchant  tailor  of  the  city,  is  a  native  of  the  land  of  the  Midnight  Sun, 
his, birth  occurring  in  Norway  on  the  4th  of  March,  1861,  and  he  is  of  Nor- 
wegian ancestry.  His  parents,  Hans  and  Agnete  (Pedersen)  Rude,  were 
also  born  in  Norway,  and  were  there  reared  and  married.  Four  children 
were  born  to  them  in  their  native  land,  and  there  the  mother  died  at  the 
age  of  thirty  years.  In  1884  the  father  came  to  America,  settling  in  Pierce 
county,  Wisconsin,  where  he  is  still  residing.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Lutheran  church,  and  was  honorable  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings.  Three 
of  his  children  are  residents  of  the  Pacific  coast,  two  of  whom,  Hans  P. 
and  Mathias,  make  their  home  in  Seattle,  and  Martenas  is  a  resident  of 
San  Francisco,  while  the  daughter.  Miss   Augusta,  resides   in  Minneapolis. 

Hans  Peter  Rude  received  his  education  and  learned  the  tailor's  trade 
in  the  land  of  his  nativity,  and  when  but  fifteen  years  of  age  he  left  the 
parental  roof  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world.  He  learned  his  trade  in 
Christiana,  and  in  1881  came  by  way  of  Quebec  to  the  United  States,  locat- 
ing first  in  Chicago,  from  wdience  he  continued  his  westward  journey  to 
Red  Wing,  Minnesota,  where  he  lived  three  years,  engaged  part  of  the  time 
in  work  at  his  trade,  after  which  he  went  to  Minneapolis.  He  came  to  this 
country  a  poor  boy,  a  stranger  in  a  strange  land,  and  he  was  obliged  to 
earn  the  money  to  pay  for  his  passage  after  his  arrival  here.  He  soon  began 
attending  a  night  school,  and  in  a  short  time  became  well  informed  con- 
cerning the  laws  and  business  customs  of  this  country.  Coming  to  Seattle 
in  February,  1891,  he  was  here  employed  as  a  cutter  until  1894,  when  he 
opened  business  on  his  own  account,  and  since  that  time  has  been  numbered 
among  the  leading  business  men  of  the  city,  progressive,  enterprising  and 
persevering.  Such  qualities  always  win  success,  sooner  or  later,  and  to 
])dr.  Rude  they  have  brought  a  handsome  competence  as  a  reward  of  his 
well  directed  efforts.  Since  becoming  a  citizen  of  the  United  States  he  has 
studied  closely  the  issues  and  questions  of  the  day,  and  as  a  result  he  has 
allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party,  to  which  he  gives  an  intelligent 
and  loyal  support.  He  had  been  a  resident  of  Seattle  but  five  years  when, 
in  1896,  he  became  the  choice  of  his  party  for  the  ofiice  of  city  councilman, 
to  wdiich  he  was  re-elected  two  years  later,  running  against  a  strong  fusion 
of  the  opposing  parties.  His  second  election  demonstrates  the  fact  that  he 
had  proved  himself  a  useful  and  honorable  member  of  the  Ijoard  of  coun- 
cilmen. 

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2  34  REPRESEXTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

Such  has  been  the  uprightness  of  his  character  and  bus'ness  career  that 
he  was  deemed  ehgible  to  become  a  member  of  the  ]\Iasonic  fraternity,  and 
he  received  the  subhme  degree  of  a  ^Master  Mason  in  Doric  Lodge,  No.  92, 
of  Seattle,  thereafter  being  advanced  until  he  is  now  a  Royal  Arch  Alason, 
a  Sir  Knight  Templar  and  a  member  of  the  ]\Iystic  Shrine.  He  is  also 
affiliated  with  the  Elks,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  other  fraternities.  ]\Ir. 
Rude  is  a  life  member  of  the  Alaska  Geographical  Society.  In  1882  Mr. 
Rude  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lena  Sophia  Martenson,  also  a  native 
of  Norway,  and  the  children  resulting  from  their  union  are  Henry  ]Mc- 
Clair,  George  Albert,  Lillie  Palma  and  Alorris  Oscar.  The  family  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Lutheran  church,  and  they  share  in  the  high  regard  of  a  large 
circle  of  friends. 

WILLIAAI    R.    BALLARD. 

i 

It  is  a  well  attested  maxim  that  the  greatness  of  the  state  lies  not  in 
its  machinery  of  government,  nor  even  in  its  institutions,  but  in  the  sterling 
qualities  of  its  individual  citizens,  in  their  capacity  for  high  and  unselfish 
effort  and  their  devotion  to  the  public  good.  Rising  above  the  heads  of  the 
mass  there  has  always  been  a  series  of  individuals,  distinguished  beyond 
■others,  who  by  reason  of  their  pronounced  ability  and  forceful  personality 
have  always  commanded  the  respect  of  their  fellow  men  and  who  have 
revealed  to  the  world  those  two  resplendent  virtues  of  a  lordly  race,  per- 
severance in  purpose  and  a  directing  spirit  which  never  fails.  Of  this  class 
William  Rankin  Ballard  stands  as  an  excellent  illustration.  The  goal  to- 
ward which  he  has  hastened  during  his  manv  vears  of  toil  and  endeavor  is 
that  which  is  attained  only  by  such  as  have  by  patriotism  ?nd  wise  counsel 
given  the  world  an  impetus  toward  the  good,  such  have  gained  the  right 
and  title  to  have  their  names  enduringly  inscribed  on  the  bright  pages  of 
history. 

William  R.  Ballard  has  been  a  resident  of  Washington  for  thirty-seven 
years  and  while  he  has  not  sought  prominence  in  the  line  of  political  pre- 
ferment no  man  in  Seattle  has  done  more  to  advance  the  city's  welfare 
through  the  establishment  of  important  industrial  and  commercial  interests 
that  have  contributed  largely  to  the  public  good  than  'Mr.  Ballard.  He 
was  born  in  Richland  county.  Ohio,  on  the  12th  of  August,  1847,  ^^'^^^  ^^ 
descended  from  English  ancestry  who  became  early  settlers  of  New  Eng- 
land and  for  many  years  were  respected  and  influential  residents  of  New 
Hampshire.     In  that  state  his  father.  Dr.  Levi  Ballard,  was  born,  his  birth- 


SEATTLE    AND    KIXG    COUNTY.  235 

place  being  the  town  of  Hillsboro.  Hillsboro  county,  and  the  date  Decem- 
ber 21,  181 5.  Removing  from  the  old  Granite  state  to  New  Jersey  he  there 
began  reading  medicine  and  later  was  graduated  in  the  Cleveland  Medical 
College,  of  Cleveland.  Ohio,  with  the  class  of  1844.  He  was  married  that 
year  in  Richland  county,  Ohio,  to  IMiss  Phoebe  A.  McConnell  and  there  they 
began  their  domestic  life,  the  Doctor  engaging  in  the  practice  of  medicine.  In 
1850  he  was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife,  who  died  leaving 
two  sons,  Irving,  who  became  an  attorney  of  King  county,  Washington, 
and  died  in   1880,  and  William  Rankin. 

In  1852  the  father  crossed  the  plains  to  California,  where  he  remained 
for  only  a  few  months  and  then  returned  to  the  east  by  way  of  the  Isthmus 
route.     In   1855  he  once  more  crossed  the  plains,  locating  in  Oregon,  and 
was  the  surgeon  of  a   regiment  of  volunteers  during  the  Indian  war.     In 
1857  he  again  returned  to  the  east  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and 
was  married  to  Miss  Mary  E.  Condit.     Accompanied  by  his  wife  and  two 
sons,    in    1858   he   made   his   way   to   Oregon   and   practiced   his   profession 
in    Roseburg   until    1865,    at   which    time   he   removed   to    Auburn,    W'ash- 
ington,  where  he  retired  from  his  profession,  spending  his  last  days  in  the 
enjoyment  of  a  well  earned  rest.     He  departed  this  life  on  the  12th  of  Jan- 
uary,   1897,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years,  and  thus  closed  a  career  that 
w^as  marked  by  honor,  integrity  and  usefulness.     In  politics  he  was  a  Re- 
publican and  in  religious  faith  a  Presbyterian.     He  was  a  conscientious  and 
faithful  practitioner  and  would  always  respond  to  the  call  of  the  sick  and 
suffering  at  no  matter  wdiat  personal  sacrifices,  never  stopping  to  question 
whether  his  labors  would  ever  be  recompensed  by  pecuniary  remuneration. 
There  were  five  children  by  his  second  marriage  and  his  widow  still   sur- 
vives him. 

William  Rankin  Ballard  was  a  youth  of  eleven  years  when  his  father 
crossed  the  plains  with  his  family  and  since  that  time  he  has  been  identified 
with  the  development  of  the  northwest.  His  preliminary  education  was 
supplemented  by  study  in  the  academy  at  Wilber,  Oregon,  and  in  the  Wash- 
ington State  University.  He  acquired  a  good  knowledge  of  civil  engineer- 
ing and  began  life  on  his  own  account  in  that  line  of  activity.  He  secured 
various  government  contracts  for  surveying  public  lands,  among  which  was 
the  Yakima  Indian  reservation,  the  largest  government  surveying  contract 
in  the  state,  requiring  three  years  for  its  completion.  Some  complications 
arose  in  regard  to  receiving  his  pay  and  in  1875  he  found  it  necessary  to 
go  to  Washington  to  attend  to  that  and  other  business.  In  the  summer 
of    1876  he  accepted   the   position   of   mate  on   the  steamer   Zephyr,   wliich 


236  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

was  owned  by  his  brother  and  pHed  between  Olympia  and  Seattle.  In  1877 
he  was  made  captain  and  in  i88i  became  part  owner  of  the  vessel,  his  part- 
ners being  George  Harris  and  John  Leary.  In  1886  he  became  sole  owner 
and  continued  in  command  until  1887,  when  he  sold  his  ship.  Under  Cap- 
tain Ballard's  management  she  was  very  popular  and  made  larger  earnings 
than  any  other  local  steamer  then  plying  on  the  Sound. 

While  engaged  in  conducting  the  trips  of  this  steamer  Captain  Ballard 
became  convinced  that  Seattle  had  a  brilliant  future  before  it  and  began  to 
invest  in  city  property.  In  1883,  in  partnership  with  Judge  Thomas  Burk 
and  John  Leary,  he  purchased  seven  hundred  acres  of  land  on  Salmon  Bay, 
upon  which  is  now  located  the  prosperous  city  of  Ballard,  a  suburb  of  Seattle, 
containing  five  thousand  and  four  hundred  inhabitants.  His  property  there 
has  been  subdivided  and  from  lime  to  time  he  has  sold  lots  on  which  he  has 
realized  very  largely,  as  the  land  was  purchased  for  only  a  few  dollars  per 
acre  and  is  now  worth  as  many  thousands.  Captain  Ballard  had  the  man- 
agement of  his  company's  affairs  in  the  handling  of  the  property  and  to 
him  belongs  great  credit  for  the  success  which  has  attended  the  enterprise 
and  for  the  large  fortunes  resulting  therefrom.  He  has' also  been  closely 
associated  with  the  financial  circles  of  the  city,  being  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Seattle  National  Bank,  which  was  established  in  1890  with  a  capital 
stock  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  He  was  elected  its  vice- 
president  and  his  business  ability  and  wise  counsel  were  important  factors 
m  its  success.  The  company  erected  a  six-story  bank  building,  one  of  the 
finest  of  its  kind  in  the  entire  northwest.  For  three  years  he  was  manager  of 
the  bank,  during  which  time  it  was  attended  with  most  gratifying  success. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Seattle  Savings  Bank,  of  which  he 
remained  president  until  1897,  and  also  president  of  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Waterville,  Washington,  and  one  of  the  directors  of  the  North 
End  Bank  of  Seattle  and  the  Fairhaven  National  Bank.  In  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  West  Street  and  North  End  Electric  Railway  Company  he  was 
prominent,  becoming  one  of  the  heavy  stockholders  of  the  company  and 
also  its  vice-president.  He  was  also  a  large  stockholder  and  director  in 
ihe  Terminal  Railway  &  Elevator  Company  and  thus  it  can  be  seen  that 
he  has  done  his  full  share  in  the  improvement  and  upbuilding  of  the  city 
through  the  establishment  of  many  extensive  business  concerns  which  have 
been  of  the  greatest  value  in  promoting  material  progress  and  prosperity. 
He  has  always  had  great  faith  in  the  future  of  Seattle  and  believes  it  is 
destined  to  attain  still  greater  prominence  as  a  metropolis  of  the  northwest. 
He  is  now  president  of  the  Mutual  Land  Company  of  the  city  and  is  push- 


SEATTLE    AXD    KING    COUNTY.  237 

ing  its  interests.  He  is  likewise  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  Lake  Washington  canal  committee  and  a  trustee  of  Whitworth  College 
of  Tacoma.  The  influence  of  such  a  life  cannot  be  measured  but  all  familiar 
with  the  history  of  Seattle  acknowledge  the  city's  indebtedness  to  his  efforts. 
Li  1882  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Captain  Ballard  and  Miss  Es- 
telle  Thorndyke,  a  native  of  Rockland,  Maine,  and  they  knd  five  children, 
but  four  died  in  infancy,  the  surviving  son  being  Stanley.  The  best  homes 
of  the  city  are  open  for  their  reception  and  they  are  leading  representati-.  es 
of  the  social  circles  of  Seattle.  Mr.  Ballard  belongs  to  the  First  Presby- 
terian church  of  Seattle,  and  for  many  years  has  been  one  of  its  elders.  He 
was  made  a  Mason  in  St.  John's  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Seattle,  in  1871, 
and  has  always  been  a  worthy  exemplar  of  the  teachings  of  the  craft.  His 
is  a  well  rounded  character  in  which  due  attention  has  been  given  to  phy- 
sical, mental  and  moral  development,  as  well  as  to  business,  social  and  public 
affairs.  He  stands  out  conspicuously  among  the  leading  spirits  to  whom 
Seattle  owes  her  upbuilding,  her  progress  and  substantial  improvement  and 
his  name  is  inseparably  linked  with  her  history. 

THOMAS    H.    CANN. 

The  name  of  Judge  Thomas  H.  Cann  ranks  high  among  his  profes- 
sional brethren  of  the  King  county  bar  and  we  are  pleased  to  present  to 
his  numerous  friends  and  acquaintances  this  sketch  of  his  useful  life.  The 
Judge  is  a  native  of  the  Prairie  state,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  St.  Clair 
county,  Illinois,  on  the  i8th  of  July,  1833,  ^'^'^^  ^^^  is  of  Scotch-Irish  descent. 
His  ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Virginia,  and  his  grandfather, 
William  Cann,  served  under  General  Washington  throughout  the  struggle 
for  independence.  He  was  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Kentucky,  and  lived 
to  the  extreme  old  age  of  one  hundred  and  six  years,  but  during  the  last 
seven  years  of  his  life  he  was  totally  Ijlind.  The  father  of  our  subject, 
James  Cann,  was  born  in  Hart  county,  Kentucky,  in  1792,  and  was  there 
married  to  Nancy  Miller,  a-  native  also  of  that  commonwealth,  where  her 
people  were  among  the  early  pioneers.  Unto  this  worthy  couple  were  born 
nine  children,  six  sons  and  three  daug"hters,  but  of  this  family  only  t^vo 
sons  are  now^  living,  the  brother  of  our  subject  being  John  B.  Cann. 

After  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cann  removed  to  Indiana,  settling 
on  the  Wabash  river,  where  they  were  among  the  early  settlers,  i:)ul:  in  1820 
they  left  that  state  for  St.  Clair  county,  Illinois,  taking  up  their  abode  near 
where  Belleville  now  stands.     In  that  early  day  Chicago,  now  the  second  city 


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in  size  in  the  United  States,  had  not  even  been  begun.  During  the  period  of 
the  Civil  war  their  son,  John  B.,  enhsted  for  service  in  the  Union  Army, 
joining  the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps,  and  he  served  under  General  A.  J.  Smith 
and  General  Buell.  During  his  services  he  was  promoted  from  the  ranks 
to  a  •  captaincy,  and  during  the  battle  of  Shiloh  he  was  wounded.  His 
younger  brother,  Elias  Cann,  was  also  a  vokmteer  in  the  service  of  his 
country,  and  lost  his  life  at  the  battle  of  Wilson  Creek.  The  father  of  this 
family  was  called  to  his  final  rest  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years,  his  death  result- 
ing from  an  accident,  passing  away  in  the  faith  of  the  ^Methodist  church,  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  early  members  and  for  a  time  a  local  minister.  By 
his  teachings  and  example  he  led  many  to  the  higher  life,  and  as  a  minister  he 
was  ranked  with  the  Rev.  Peter  Cartwright  and  other  noted  divines  of  that 
day. 

Thomas  H.  Cann  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  locality.     In  1854,  after  reaching  his  twentieth  year,  he  crossed  the 
plains  to  California,  and  after  his  arrival  on  the  Pacific  coast  he  mined  at 
Ha:ngtown,  now  Placerville,  Coloma,  Shasta  and  Yreka,  goipg  from  one  min- 
ing excitement  to  another,  and  in  1861  he  went  to  Orofino,  now  in  Idaho,  but 
during  his  mining  experience  he  met  with  only  moderate  success.     At  the  last 
named  place  he  was  made  a  deputy  sheriff,  but  after  a  year's  service  therein 
he  resigned  the  position  to  enter  the  employ  of  Wells,  Fargo  &  Company,  car- 
rying their  express  from  the  mines  to  Lewiston,  making  the  journey  princi- 
pally on  horseback,  but  when  the  snow  was  very  deep  he  packed  the  express 
on  snow-shoes.     While  thus  engaged  the  exposure  during  the  winter  was 
very  severe,  the  danger  from  road  agents  was  imminent  and  it  was  a  position 
which  only  a  man  of  heroism  would  have  undertaken.     Continuing  in  that 
capacity  for  a  year,  he  w^as  then  employed  on  the  company's  steamboats  on  the 
Snake  and  Columbia  rivers,  for  which  he  received  an  excellent  salary  and 
thus  continued  until   1870.     In  that  year  he  received  from  the  governor  the 
appointment  of  Oregon  State  land  commissioner,  which  office  he  filled  with 
credit  for  eight  years.     During  this  time  he  also  read  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar,  beginning  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession  at  Salem,  Oregon. 
After  a  residence  in  that  city  of  ten  years  he  removed  to  Seattle.     In  1864, 
he  had  been  married  at  Portland,   Oregon,   to  ^liss  Louisa  A.   Gephart,   a 
native  of  Hamburg,  Germany.     On  his  arrival  in  this  city  Mr.  Cann's  family 
consisted  of  his  wife  and  three  children:     Adoline,  at  home;    Thomas  H.,  a 
lawyer  by  profession  and  now  employed  as  master  of  a  steamship ;  and  Louisa, 
the  wife  of  Professor  Raunam,  professor  of  mathematics  in  the  Washington 
State  University. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  239 

When  the  family  took  up  their  abode  in  Seattle  this  new  thriving  city 
was  but  a  mere  hamlet,  but  Mr.  Cann  immediaely  opened  an  office  for  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  in  which  he  continued  'with  steadily  increasing  suc- 
cess for  a  year.  He  was  then  appointed  to  the  important  office  of  police 
judge,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  four  years,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that 
period  he  again  resumed  the  private  practice  of  the  law.  In  1898  he  was 
again  called  to  public  life,  this  time  being  elected  to  the  office  of  justice 
of  the  peace  and  shortly  afterward  he  was  appointed  police  judge  by 
Mayor  Humes.  Since  1892  he  has  served  as  police  judge,  which  position  he 
has  filled  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  He  is  recognized  as  a 
man  of  exceptional  attainments,  and  in  all  the  positions  which  he  has  been 
called  upon  to  fill  he  has  been  true  to  himself  and  to  the  duties  and  obligations 
resting  upon  him. 

To  Air.  Cann  is  accorded  the  honor  of  being  one  of  the  oldest  Alasons  on 
the  Pacific  coast,  having  been  made  a  Master  Mason  at  The  Dalles,  in  1863, 
and  in  the  same  year  he  received  the  Royal  Arch  degree.  He  was  a  charter 
member  of  the  first  Scottish  Rite  body  that  met  in  the  west,  and  he  has  re- 
ceived all  the  degrees  in  Scottish  Rite  Masonry  up  to  and  inclading  the  thirty- 
second  degree.  In  1877  ^^^  became  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  at  Salem,  Oregon,  and  he  is  a  charter  member  of  the  second  body 
of  that  fraternity  organized  in  the  state,  while  at  the  present  time  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  on  laws  in  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  of  Washington. 
Since  the  organization  of  the  Republican  party  he  has  been  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  its  principles,  his  first  presidential  vote  being  cast  for  John  C.  Fre- 
mont in  1856,  and  he  has  ever  been  an  active  and  efficient  worker  in  the  ranks. 
In  1884  Mr.  Cann  erected  his  present  beautiful  and  commodious  home,  where 
his  attractive  lawn,  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  square,  is  cared  for  by  him- 
self and  family,  and  they  have  planted  many  beautiful  flowers,  shrubs  and  fruit 
trees.  '  In  this  charming  home  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cann  expect  to  spend  the  re- 
mainder of  their  days,  surrounded  by  the  comforts  and  luxuries  which  former 
labor  has  brought  to  them.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  while  his  wife  and  daughter  are  members  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
church.  The  parents  are  also  members  of  the  Pioneer  Society.  He  is  always 
ready  to  assist  in  any  movement  which  has  for  its  object  the  rmprovement  and 
upbuilding  of  the  city  of  his  choice,  and  he  is  justly  called  the  "father  of  the 
police  court  of  Seattle." 

A  leading  member  of  the  bar  in  speaking  of  Judge  Cann  said :  "  I  con- 
sider him  one  of  the  most  active,  thorough  and  successful  members  of  the 
profession.     During  his  term  of  service  on  the  bench  here  he  made  himself  a 


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terror  to  the  evil  doers,  and  did  much  to  improve  the  moral  tone  of  the  com- 
munity. He  had  to  a  remarkable  degree  that  rare  ability  for  detecting  truth 
from  falsehood,  for  unearthing  fraud  and  hypocrisy,  which  is  so  necessary 
in  a  committing  magistrate.  In  his  practice  he  has  received  a  large  clientage, 
and  is  intrusted  with  many  important  interests.  He  has  the  unbounded  con- 
fidence of  his  clients,  and  is,  I  believe,  in  the  enjoyment  of  as  remunerative 
practice  as  any  lawyer  in  Seattle." 

ELTON    E.    AINSWORTH. 

Elton  E.  Ainsworth,  general  manager  of  the  Pacific  Packing  &  Navig'a- 
tion  Company,  of  Seattle,  is  a  striking  example  of  what  may  be  accomplished 
in  the  rapidly  developing  section  of  the  country  when  determined  perseverance 
is  seconded  by  native  ability.  His  rise  in  about  twelve  years  to  the  position 
which  he  now  occupies  is  indicative  of  his  especial  fitness  for  the  work  to  which 
he  is  devoting  his  energies.  Under  his  capable  direction  the  business  of  the 
company  has  grown  to  mammoth  proportions,  so  that  the  enterprise  is  one 
of  the  most  important  contributing  to  the  commercial  activity  and  conse- 
quent prosperity  of  the  northwest. 

Mr.  Ainsvrorth  is  a  native  of  New  York,  his  birth  having  occurred  at 
Cape  Vincent,  Jefferson  county,  on  the  24th  of  May,  1865.  He  is  of  English 
ancestry.  His  father,  Willard  Ainsworth,  was  born  in  Cape  Vincent,  and 
in  early  life  followed  agricultural  pursuits,  but  later  turned  his  attention  to 
merchandising,  carrying  on  business  successfully  along  that  line  until  about 
fifteen  years  ago,  since  which  time  he  has  lived  retired.  He  was  also  identi- 
fied with  the  fishing  industries  of  the  country,  having  been  president  of  the 
Lake  Ontario  Fish  Company.  Politically  he  has  been  interested  in  the  suc- 
cess of  the  Republican  party  from  its  organization,  but  the  honors  and  emolu- 
ments of  office  have  had  no  attraction  for  liim.  .\n  active  member  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  he  has  filled  offices  in  the  organization  with  which  he 
is  identified,  and  his  influence  has  ever  been  on  the  side  of  the  right,  the  true 
.and  the  beautiful.  He  wedded  Mary  Llerrick  and  they  are  the  parents  of  six 
children,  but  our  subject  is  the  only  one  living  in  the  west. 

During  the  summer  months,  while  not  attending  school,  Elton  Ains- 
worth gained  a  knowledge  of  the  fish  business  under  his  father's  direction, 
and  this  practical  experience  acquired  in  his  youth  well  qualified  him  for  the 
work  which  he  undertook  in  later  years.  AVhen  he  reached  the  age  of  twenty 
years  he  went  to  Detroit.  Michigan,  and  for  a  year  and  a  half  was  con- 
nected with  the  Ixobinson  Brothers  Lumber  Company,  but  on  the  expiration 


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of  that  period  he  determined  to  go  to  the  Pacific  coast.  He  first  made  his 
way  to  San  Diego,  Cahfornia,  but  finding  that  business  was  not  very  active 
at  that  point  he  decided  to  make  his  way  to  the  Puget  Sound  country,  and 
purchased  a  ticket  to  Tacoma,  but  when  the  boat  upon  which  he  had  taken 
passage  stopped  at  Seattle  he  went  ashore  and  was  so  pleased  with  the  city 
and  its  prospects  that  he  immediately  determined  to  remain,  and  lost  no  time 
in  having  his  baggage  transferred  from  the  boat  to  the  town,  and  thus,  in 
August,  1888,  took  up  his  residence  here. 

It  was  then  the  custom  for  nearly  everyone  who  came  to  this  locality  to 
take  a  claim,  and  Mr.  Ainsworth  went  to  the  Olympic  Mountains  and  secured 
a  tract  of  land  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Lake  Cushman,  where  he 
remained  for  six  months.  He  then  sold  his  claim  and  returned  to  the  city, 
where,  in  connection  with  Arthur  G.  Dunn,  he  became  engaged  in  the  fish 
business  at  the  corner  of  Second  avenue  and  Pike  street.  Since  that  time 
the  partnership  has  existed  and  the  business  has  constantly  increased.  They 
soon  extended  the  field  of  their  operations  to  the  wholesale  canning  busi- 
ness. In  1896  they  built  a  cannery  at  the  foot  of  Pike  street,  and  in  1898 
another  at  Blaine,  Washington.  In  1901  the  consolidation  of  a  number  of  the 
canneries  on  Puget  Sound  and  in  Alaska  was  consummated  and  the  Pacific 
Packing  &  Navigation  Company  was  formed,  ]\lr.  Ainsworth  taking  charge 
of  the  affairs  of  the  company  as  its  general  manager.  The  company  owns 
and  operates  seventy-five  steamers,  tugs  and  other  vessels  and  has  several 
very  large  canneries  on  Puget  Sound  and  twenty  in  Alaska,  the  pack  averag- 
ing from  one  million  and  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  to  fifteen  hundred 
thousand  cases  annually,  tlie  product  being  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  world. 
That  Mr.  Ainsworth  is  a  man  of  exceptional  business  ability  and  executive 
force  is  indicated  by  his  capable  control  of  the  mammoth  business  of  the 
company,  requiring  keen  discernment,  marked  foresight  and  a  genius  for 
dispatch  in  business  and  for  planning  and  executing  the  right  thing  at  the 
right  time. 

In  August,  1894,  in  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  Mr.  Ainsworth  was 
tmited  in  marriage  to  Miss  Helen  Schroeder.  They  lost  their  only  son,  Wil- 
lard,  who  died  in  April,  1900,  at  the  age  of  three  years.  Their  beautiful 
home,  at  the  corner  of  Minor  avenue  and  University  street,  was  erected  in 
1901,  and  is  the  center  of  many  brilliant  and  pleasing  social  functions,  par- 
ticipated in  by  many  of  the  leading  residents  of  Seattle.  Mr.  Ainsworth 
votes  with  the  Republican  party,  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
of  the  Ranier  Culb  and  the  Seattle  Golf  Club.  He  belongs  to  the  group 
of  distinctively  representative  business  men  who  have  been  active  in  promot- 


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ing  and  building  up  the  chief  industries  of  this  section  of  the  country.  He 
had  the  sagacity  and  prescience  to  discern  the  eminence  which  the  future  had 
m  store  for  this  great  and  growing  city,  and  acting  in  accordance  with  the 
dictates  of  his  faith  and  judgment,  he  has  garnered,  in  the  fulhiess  of  time, 
the  generous  harvest  which  is  the  just  recompense  of  industry,  integrity  and 
enterprise. 

ROBERT    G.  WESTERMAN. 

There  is  no  rule  for  achieving  success,  and  yet  in  the  life  of  the  successful 
man  there  are  always  lessons  which  might  well  be  followed.  The  man  who 
gains  prosperity  is  he  who  can  see  and  utilize  the  opportunities  that  come  in 
his  path.  The  essential  conditions  of  human  life  are  ever  the  same,  the  sur- 
roundings of  individuals  differ  but  little,  and  when  one  man  passes  another  on 
the  highway  of  life,  reaching  the  goal  of  prosperity  in  advance  of  others  who 
perhaps  started  out  before  him,  it  is  because  he  has  the  power  to  use  advan- 
tages which  probably  eiicompass  the  whole  human  race.  To-day  among  the 
leading  residents  of  Seattle  stands  Robert  G.  Westerman,  who  is  prominently 
known  throughout  this  locality  as  the  president  and  manager  of  the  Wester- 
man Iron  Works. 

;Mr. Westerman  was  born  in  the  city  of  Coldwater,  ^lichigan,  in  1843,  and 
is  of  Swedish  ancestr}'-,  his  parents,  Peter  and  Peternella  (Nystrom)  Wester- 
man, having  both  been  natives  of  that  country.  In  1841,  however,  they  left  the 
land  of  their  birth  and  came  to  the  United  States,  taking  up  their  abode  in 
^Michigan.  Three  of  their  children  remained  for  a  time  in  their  native  land^ 
but  subsequently  joined  their  parents  in  this  country.  Whi]e  a  resident  of 
Michigan  the  father  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  but  in  1849  he 
crossed  the  plains  to  California  and  there  followed  placer  mining'.  In  1855, 
on  account  of  the  ill  health  of  his  wife,  he  returned  with  his  family  to  Europe, 
and  there  she  died  at  the  age  of  forty-six  years,  but  her  husband  reached  the 
age  of  seventy-two  years.  He  was  reared  in  the  Lutheran  faith,  but  during 
his  residence  in  America  was  identified  with  the  Prebyterian  church.  This 
worthy  couple  became  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  but  only  two  are  now 
living,  the  brother  of  our  subject  being  Charles  Westerman,  the  manager  of  a 
railroad  in  Caritiba,  Brazil. 

Robert  G.  Westerman  received  his  early  education  under  his  mother's 
careful  guidance,  he  having  been  permitted  to  attend  school  only  four  months 
in  Sacramento.  California,  but  by  constant  reading,  observation  and  experi- 
ence he  has  greatly  added  to  his  knowledge  and  is  now  a  well  informed  man. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  243 

When  but  ten  years  of  age  he  began  learning  the  blacksmith's  trade  under  the 
direction  of  his  uncle.  In  1867  he  removed  to  Chicago,  Illinois,  where  for 
eleven  months  he  was  employed  in  the  shops  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad, 
and  later  worked  for  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad  Company  in  California  and 
Nevada.  He  was  also  chief  engineer  and  blacksmith  for  the  consolidated 
Virginia  Mine  and  was  connected  with  other  prominent  mining  interests. 
Subsequently  Mr.  Westerman  went  to  Arizona  on  a  mining  expedition,  and 
after  working  for  a  time  with  the  Contention  Mining  &  Mill  Company  he  en- 
gaged in  mining  on  his  own  account  at  Tombstone,  that  state,  there  remaining 
for  a  year  and  a  half.  Selling  his  possessions  there,  he  went  to  Mexico  in  the 
interest  of  a  prominent  mining  company,  where  he  was  engaged  in  erecting 
mining  machinery  in  different  places,  but  subsequently  left  that  state  with  the 
intention  of  going  to  Alaska.  He  changed  his  plans,  however,  and  instead 
went  to  the  Idaho  mines,  at  Eagle  City,  where  he  mined  with  excellent  success 
for  three  years,  but  before  leaving  that  place  he  lost  his  eiitire  earnings. 
Coming  thence  to  Seattle  in  1886,  he  worked  for  wages  for  a  year  and  a  half, 
and  in  1888,  with  only  one  forge,  engaged  in  business  for  himself  at  the  foot 
of  Marion  street.  Under  his  able  management  the  business  grew  rapidly, 
and  in  January,  1889,  it  being  necessary  for  him  to  secure  larger  c[uarters, 
he  removed  to  Western  avenue,  where  he  erected  a  commodious  and  substan- 
tial building,  containing  seven  forges.  This  building  was  completed  on  the 
20th  of  May,  and  on  the  6th  of  June  was  entirely  destroyed  by  the  terrible  fire 
which  visited  the  city,  thus  sweeping  away  in  a  few  moments  the  savings  of 
many  years.  With  undaunted  energy,  however,  he  set  about  to  retrieve  his 
lost  possessions  and  erected  a  shop  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Main  streets. 
In  a  short  time  he  was  enabled  to  rebuild  his  shop  on  Western  avenue,  and 
thus  he  has  the  credit  of  erecting  three  shops  in  one  year.  As  lime  passed 
business  grew  to  such  proportions  under  his  skillful  direction  that  it  again  be- 
came necessary  to  secure  larger  quarters  and  he  accordingly  purchased  the 
buildings  which  he  now  occupies.  In  1898  the  business  was  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  the  Westerman  Iron  Works,  with  Mr.  Westerman  as 
president  and  A.  T.  Timmerman  as  secretary.  The  latter  is  a  business  man 
of  ability  and  worth,  and  the  two  gentlemen  own  the  entire  plant.  Their  re- 
putation for  reliability  in  business  circles  is  unassailable  and  in  all  life's  rela- 
tions they  command  the  respect  of  those  with  whom  they  have  been  brought 
in  contact. 

The  marriage  of  ]\Ir.  Westerman  was  celebrated  in  1883,  when  Mrs. 
Hattie  (Ray)  Compton  became  his  wife.  She  has  one  son  by  her  former 
marriage,  John  Ray  Compton,  who  was  reared  by  Mr.  Westerman  and  is  still 


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n  member  of  his  household.  The  union  of  our  subject  and  wife  has  also  been 
blessed  with  one  son,  Frank,  who  is  now  in  school.  The  family  ccupy  a 
beautiful  home  at  1521  Twelfth  avenue,  south,  on  Beacon  Hill.  'Mv.  Wester- 
man  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason  and  a  stanch  supporter  of  Republican  principles. 
The  most  honorable  business  methods  have  ever  characterized  his  dealings, 
his  duties  of  citizenship  are  faithfully  discharged,  and  in  private  life  he  is 
known  as  a  loyal  husband,  father  and  friend. 

ISAAC  N.   BIGELOW. 

Isaac  N.  Bigelow,  one  of  the  builders  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  is  a  native  of 
King  county,  Nova  Scotia,  born  on  the  15th  of  May,  1838.  He  represents 
one  of  the  oldest  families  of  this  country,  tracing  his  ancestry  back  to  John 
Bigelow,  who  emigrated  from  Essex  county,  England,  to  Massachusetts,  in 
1630.  He  was  a  freeholder  and  a  select  man  of  Watertown,  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church  and  died  on  the  14th  of  July,  1703,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-six  years.  His  son,  Samuel  Bigelow,  born  in  Watertown,  in  1653, 
was  proprietor  of  an  inn  and  one  of  the  influential  men  of  the  community.  He 
serv'ed  as  a  sergeant  in  the  militia  and  represented  his  town  in  the  general 
court.  His  will  bears  date  1720.  His  son,  Isaac  Bigelow,  born  in  Water- 
town  in  1 691,  held  a  commission  from  the  governor  as  sergeant  of  the  colonial 
militia  and  his  death  occurred  in  1744.  His  son,  Isaac  Bigelow,  Jr.,  the  next 
in  line  of  succession,  was  born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut,  on  the  4th  of  May, 
1 71 3,  and  removed  to  Nova  Scotia,  where  he  received  land  grants  from  the 
government  for  settling  there,  but  later  he  returned  to  Colchester,  Connecti- 
cut, and  reared  his  family  there.  He  died  in  1792.  His  son,  Amasa  Bigelow, 
the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Colchester,  Connecticut, 
in  1755,  was  a  ship  carpenter  and  lost  his  life  by  accident  in  1799.  He  mar- 
ried Roxana  Cone  and  their  son,  Ebenezer  Bigelow,  was  born  in  Cornwall, 
Nova  Scotia,  about  the  year  1779.  The  latter  married  Nancy  Rand  in  1804 
and  died  in  i860.  He  was  also  a  ship  builder  and  became  a  very  prominent 
representative  of  that  department  of  industrial  activity.  His  son,  David 
Bigelow,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  1813,  married  Martha  Jane 
Weaver,  and  died  in  1847,  ^^  the  age  of  thirty-four  years.  He  had  learned 
the  ship-builder's  trade  under  the  direction  of  his  father,  carried  on  a  large 
and  successful  business  and  was  highly  esteemed  by  all  who  knew  him.  His 
wife  departed  this  life  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  her  age.  She  was  the  mother  of 
seven  children,  of  whom  four  are  living,  three  being  residents  of  the  Pacific 


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coast,  namely:  H.  Allen  of  Oakland,  California;  Rebecca,  who  is  living  in 
Seattle;   and  the  subject  of  this  review. 

Isaac  N.  Bigelow  obtained  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  in  early  life  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  Lor  a  number  of 
years  he  was  engaged  with  his  brother  Benjamin  in  ship-building  and  re- 
mained in  the  east  until  1875,  at  which  time  he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  be- 
came identified  with  the  business  interests  of  the  city  as  a  contractor  and 
builder.  His  marked  skill  in  that  vocation  and  his  honorable  business  meth- 
ods soon  secured  him  an  extensive  patronage,  whereby  his  labors  became  very 
profitable.  As  his  financial  resources  increased  he  made  extensive  invest- 
ments in  real  estate  and  purchased  and  platted  what  is  known  as  Bigelow's 
addition  to  the  city.  He  also  platted  Bigelow's  second  addition  and  the 
Lake  Union  addition,  all  of  which  have  become  greatly  improved,  being  trans- 
formed into  residence  districts  of  the  city.  Both  before  and  since  the  great 
fire  in  Seattle  in  1889  Mr.  Bigelow  has  been  extensively  engaged  in  building 
in  this  city,  his  labor  in  this  direction,  however,  being  largely  the  improvement 
of  his  own  property.  He  built  and  owned  one  of  the  largest  sawmills  north 
of  San  Francisco  but  later,  selling  his  interest  in  the  property  for  thirty 
thousand  dollars,  he  invested  that  amount  in  the  Seattle  Dime  Savings  Bank, 
of  which  he  was  the  president  and  principal  stockholder  for  four  years.  At 
the  expiration  of  that  time  he  was  obliged  to  suspend,  but  he  has  the  gratifi- 
cation of  having  paid  one  hundred  cents  on  the  dollar.  Honesty  has  ever 
been  one  of  the  salient  features  of  his  character  and  no  one  can  say  aught  that 
is  detrimental  concerning  his  business  life.  He  has  erected  many  residences 
on  his  property  and  also  built  the  Bigelow  block  on  Pike  street  and  another 
large  building  on  Second  avenue  and  Union  streets.  He  is  now  living  retired 
with  a  good  competency  and  makes  his  home  in  a  nice  residence  at  No.  912 
Queen  Ann  avenue.  He  is  an  active  and  valued  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  a  trustee  and  deacon  and  also  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Sunday-school.  He  takes  an  active  and  acceptable  part  in  all 
church  work  and  his  labors  in  that  behalf  have  been  very  effective.  He  has 
also  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  improvement  and  progress  of  Seattle 
and  obtained  the  first  street  railway  franchise.  He  also  secured  the  paving 
of  Pike  street  with  brick  and  in  many  ways  has  contributed  to  the  substantial 
improvement  of  the  city.  He  is  a  Master  Mason,  having  been  made  a  mem- 
ber of  the  craft  in  Nova  Scotia  in  1863. 

Li  the  same  year  Mr.  Bigelow  was  married  to  Miss  Emeline  Davidson, 
also  a  native  of  King  county,  with  wdiom  in  youth  he  attended  the  same 
school.     Their  union  has  been  blessed  with  two  sons  and  a  claugliter :    David 


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E.,  a  mineral  expert  and  assayer  now  in  Cedoras  Island,  Mexico;  E.  Victor, 
a  Congregational  minister,  now  serving  as  pastor  of  Elliott  church,  in  Lowell, 
Massachusetts ;  and  Clara  M.,  who  is  at  home  with  her  parents.  Rev.  Bige- 
low  is  a  graduate  of  Washington  University  and  also  of  Yale  College  and  has 
taken  a  post-graduate  course  in  Harvard  College.  Mrs.  Bigelow,  like  her 
husband,  is  actively  engaged  in  church  work,  and  both  are  most  highly  res- 
pected by  a  host  of  friends  in  Seattle.  His  purpose  has  ever  been  commend- 
able, his  actions  manly,  his  conduct  sincere  and  above  all  his  life  has  been  in- 
fluenced by  a  sense  of  conscientious  obligation  concerning  his  relations  to  his 
fellow  men  and  his  duties  of  citizenship. 

LYMAN  E.   KNAPP. 

The  profession  of  law,  when  clothed  with  its  true  dignity  and  purity  and 
strength,  must  rank  first  among  the  callings  of  men,  for  law  rules  the  uni- 
verse. The  work  of  the  legal  profession  is  to  formulate,  to  harmonize,  to 
regulate,  to  adjust,  to  administer  those  rules  and  principles  that  underlie  and 
permeate  all  government  and  society  and  to  control  the  varied  relations  of 
man.  As  thus  viewed  there  attaches  to  the  legal  profession  a  nobleness  that 
cannot  but  be  reflected  in  the  life  of  the  true  lawyer,  who,  conscious  of  the 
greatness  of  his  profession  and  honest  in  the  pursuit  of  his  purpose,  embraces 
the  richness  of  learning,  the  profoundness  of  wisdom  and  the  firm.ness  of  in- 
tegritv.  A  prominent  representative  of  the  Washington  bar  is  Lyman  Enos 
Knapp,  and  he  also  has  the  honor  of  being  the  third  American  governor  of 
Alaska. 

Air.  Knapp  was  born  in  Somerset,  Windham  county,  \^ermont,  Novem- 
ber 5,  1837,  and  is  a  representative  of  a  prominent  old  English  family.  The 
founder  of  the  family  on  American  soil  emigrated  to  this  country  from  York- 
shire, England,  in  1640,  and  located  in  Brighton,  Massachusetts,  but  later  re- 
moved to  Taunton,  that  state,  and  subsequently  settled  in  Douglass,  Massachu- 
setts. The  great-great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Joseph  Knapp.  resided  in 
Taunton,  and  his  son.  Job  Knapp,  fought  throughout  the  Revolutionary  war, 
serving  as  lieutenant  of  a  company  in  Colonel  Reid's  regiment  from  Doug- 
lass, Massachusetts.  When  the  war  was  over  he  married  his  colonel's  daught- 
ter,  Ruth  Reid.  Their  son,  Cyrus  Knapp,  removed  to  Dover,  Vermont,  and 
there  married  Thankful  Sterns.  Their  son  Hiram  was  born  in  Dover,  A'^'er- 
mont,  in  1803.  He  married  Elvira  Stearns,  and  they  continued  to  reside  in 
Dover  until  just  previous  to  our  subject's  birth,  when  they  removed  to  Somer- 
set, Vermont.     Hiram   Knapp  was  an  ofiicer  in  the  state  militia.     By  his 


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marriage  he  became  the  father  of  nine  children,  of  whom  seven  are  still  living-, 
lie  passed  away  in  1858,  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years,  but  his  widow  survived 
him  many  years.  They  were  members  of  the  Congregational  church  and 
were  people  of  the  highest  respectability.  Their  son  Velosco  J.  Knapp  is  a 
resident  of  Anacortes,  Washington,  where  he  is  serving  as  the  postmaster,  and 
he  and  our  subject  are  the  only  representatives  of  the  family  on  the  Pacific 
coast. 

Lyman  Enos  Knapp  received  his  literary  education  in  the  Burr  &  Burton 
Seminary  and  in  the  Middlebury  College,  of  Vermont,  graduating  in  the  latter 
nistitution  in  1862,  and  within  a  week  after  leaving  school  he  offered  his  serv- 
ices to  his  country,  becoming  captain  of  Company  I,  Sixteenth  Regiment, 
Vermont  Volunteer  Infantry.  His  regiment  was  first  engaged  in  defending 
the  city  of  Washington,  after  which  it  was  attached  to  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac, and  his  first  battle  was  the  memorable  engagement  at  Gettysburg,  in 
which  he  received  a  flesh  wound  in  the  shoulder.  He  participated  in  all  the 
battles  in  which  the  glorious  Army  of  the  Potomac  took  part  until  the  sur- 
render of  General  Lee,  when  the  war  was  over  and  he  marched  with  his  regi- 
ment in  the  grand  review  at  Washington.  At  the  battle  of  Spottylsvania 
Court  House  Mr.  Knapp  was  a  second  time  wounded,  being  struck  with  a 
bullet  in  the  head  on  May  9,  1864,  the  ball  cutting  a  furrow  in  his  scalp,  but 
the  second  day  thereafter  he  was  able  to  return  to  duty.  At  the  battle  of 
Petersburg  on  the  •21st  of  April,  1865,  while  storming  Fort  Mahone,  a  shell 
exploded  above  him  and  a  portion  of  it  struck  him  just  below  the  shoulder, 
causing  a  severe  bruise  and  disabling  him  for  a  long  time  thereafter.  Al- 
though disabled  he  continued  with  his  command,  and  in  acknowledgement 
of  his  distinguished  service  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  major,  was  later 
breveted  lieutenant  colonel  and  afterward  received  the  full  command.  Dur- 
ing his  army  career  Mr.  Knapp  participated  in  many  of  the  important  and 
hard-fought  battles  of  the  war,  and  was  ever  at  his  post  of  duty,  faithfully  and 
cheerfully  performing  the  tasks  assigned  to  him. 

When  the  war  was  over  and  the  country  no  longer  needed  his  services 
he  returned  to  his  home  in  Vincent,  where  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1876.  In  the  meantime  he  had  served  as  editor  and  publisher 
of  the  Middlebury  Register,  was  also  a  justice  of  the  peace,  was  judge  of  the 
municipal  court  of  the  city  for  twenty  years,  and  from  1879  until  1889  was 
judge  of  the  probate  and  insolvency  courts.  While  filling  the  latter  position  he 
received  a  telegram  from  the  president  offering  him  the  governorship  of 
Alaska.  He  received  the  appointment  under  the  administration  of  President 
Harrison,  and,  resigning  his  judgeship  in  Vermont,  he  served  for  four  years 


248  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

and  six  months  as  governor  of  Alaska.  During  that  period  he  did  all  in  his 
power  to  advance  the  interests  of  that  territory,  having  organized  local  mili- 
tia companies,  opened  new  postal  routes,  established  a  territorial  library 
and  instituted  many  other  valuable  improvements,  filling  the  position  with  the 
most  marked  ability  and  fidelity.  On  retiring  from  that  position  he  was  left 
free  to  return  to  Seattle,  a  course  which  he  had  long  before  contemplated. 
Accordingly  he  arrived  in  this  city  in  September,  1893,  and  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  law,  his  abilty  soon  winning  him  a  distinctively  representative 
clientage.  He  devotes  his  attention  principally  to  civil  practice,  and  is  the 
attorney  for  several  banks  and  many  large  corporations.  He  has  also  invested 
largely  in  city  property,  has  erected  several  residences  and  is  one  of  Seattle's 
most  public-spirited  and  progressive  citizens. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Knapp  was  celebrated  on  the  23d  of  January,  1865, 
when  Misss  Martha  A.  Severaner  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Mid- 
dlebury,  Vermont.  Unto  this  union  have  been  born  four  children,  two  sons 
and  two  daughters:  George  E.,  a  graduate  of  the  Middlebury  College; 
Frances  A.,  the  wife  of  Everett  R.  Morgan,  of  Seattle;  Edwin  L.,  who  for 
the  past  four  years  has  been  an  employe  in  the  Puget  Sound  National  Bank; 
and  Mary  A.,  at  home.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Knapp  are  valued  members  of  the 
Plymouth  Congregational  church,  of  which  he  is  one  of  the  leaders.  He  is 
also  a  member  and  past  commander  of  Miller  Post,  G.  A.  R.  He  ranks  high 
at  the  bar  and  in  political  circles,  and  Seattle  numbers  him  among  her  leading 
and  influential  citizens. 

ROBERT  ABRAMS. 

Among  those  honored  citizens  of  Seattle  who  are  entitled  to  considera- 
tion as  pioneers  of  Washington  and  as  founders  and  builders  of  our  great 
and  beautiful  commonwealth,  a  place  of  no  secondary  rank  must  be  accorded 
the  gentleman  whose  name  initiates  this  paragraph,  for  he  has  maintained 
his  residence  in  Washington  for  more  than  forty-five  years,  having  come 
hither  in  1857,  when  the  work  of  development  and  progress  had  scarcely  been 
inaugurated  in  even  an  incipient  way,  when  the  locality  was  isolated  to  a 
large  extent,  having  no  railroad  facilities,  and  when  it  remained  on  the  very 
frontier  of  civilization,  the  red  men,  in  their  motley  garb,  still  disputing  do- 
minion with  the  few  and  scattered  white  settlers  and  with  the  beasts  of  the 
field.  Mr.  Abrams  has  been  a  witness  of  the  transitions  which  have  marked 
the  development  of  the  Evergreen  state,  has  been  an  active  participant  in  the 
work  of  advancement  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  sterling  and  highly  honored: 


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pioneer  citizens  of  Seattle,  where  he  is  engaged  in  the  hvery  business,  hav- 
ing his  place  of  business  at  2107"  Western  avenue.  As  before  stated,  he 
came  to  the  territory  of  Washington  in  1857,  ^^^^  Seattle  has  been  continu- 
ously his  home  from  the  year  1869,  when  it  was  a  straggling  village  of  the 
most  primitive  sort,  and  he  still  owns  land  here  which  he  purchased  thirty-six 
years  ago.  The  brave,  energetic  and  loyal  old  pioneers  are  fast  passing 
away,  and  it  is  a  pleasure  to  yet  be  able  to  meet  one  of  the  hardy  band  of  the 
former  days,  to  listen  to  the  tales  of  adventure  and  privation  bonie  without 
flinching,  and  it  is  a  duty  to  perpetuate  their  records  insofar  as  possible,  that 
future  generations  may  have  appreciation  of  their  lives  and  labors  when  all 
shall  ha\e  l)ccn  summoned  to  that  "undiscovered  country  from  whose  bourne 
no  traveler  returns." 

Robert  Abrams  comes  of  stanch  New  England  stock  of  Scotcii-lrish 
type,  and  he  claims  the  old  Ray  state  as  the  place  of  his  nativity,  having  been 
born  in  Berkshire  county.  Massachusetts,  on  the  10th  of  December.  1836. 
His  lather,  Richard  Abrams.  was  a  native  son  oi  the  fair  Emerald  Isle,  where 
he  was  reared  and  educated  and  whore  he  became  prominently  identified  with 
the  ni.inur.icturing  df  the  justly  famed  Irish  linen,  with  whivh  line  of  indus- 
try the  family  had  boon  conconied  \ov  a  number  of  generations.  The  products 
of  Ihc  Inoiiis  found  their  way  to  the  I  iiitod  States,  and  the  trade  thus  .built 
lip  was  ill  a  l.ir<;o  <K'-riv  responsible  for  the  cniigtatibn  of  Richard  Abrams 
to  this  rouiitiv.  I  lis  home  was  in  the  north  oi  Ireland,  near  the  line  of  Scot- 
land, and  in  the  latiei'  eouiitr\  was  born  the  estimable  ami  gentle  woman  who 
beeanu-  his  wife,  hor  maiden  name  having  Ikvu  l*!li:''abeih  "Ovnes.  Shortlv 
after  tiieir  m.iiiiage  they  came  to  America  and  located  in  Massachusetts,  but 
n  few  years  Liter  they  e.nne  westward  .md  became  numbereii  among 
the  pioneers  o\  the  state  i^\  Wiscinisin.  being  .among  the  early  settlers 
in  \\\c  \ieimiy  ^^\  the  piesent  city  of  CVhkosh,  where  they  located  in 
the  ye.ir  iS|t).  .it  whieh  lime  the  settlors  in  the  locality  wore  few  and  the 
land  practically  iinieelaiiiKd  fiiMU  the  virgin  forests.  There  the  father  of 
our  suh'jeei  developed  a  good  farm,  prospering  in  his  eflforts  with  the  lapse  of 
years  ancl  beonming  one  of  (ho  prominent  .ami  honored  citizens  of  the  Badger 
f-taie,  wlien'  hoili  he  and  his  wife  passed  the  remainder  of  their  days,  each 
livinu  to  a  venerable  ai^e  The  father  died  .u  the  age  of  ninetv-two  vears, 
his  cherished  and  (Kwoted  wife  lia\  ing  passed  away  at  the  age  of  eighty-one. 
Kieliard  Aluams  w.is  ;i  man  of  strong  nientality.  was,  prominent  in  religious 
woik  and  in  ilie  establishment  and  maim. lining  of  .schools,  and  both  he  and 
his  wiU'  wcMc  .ealous  witrkers  in  the  Episcopal  ohiuTh.  with  which  they  be- 

e.iiiu>  i.lciitilic.l    :'f(er   their   renio\al   to   Wisconsin,   there  having  boon   in   the 
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vicinity  of  their  iiome  no  organization  of  the  Presbyterian  faith,  to  which 
they  had  previously  held.  In  politics  Mr.  Abrams  was  a  stanch  advocate  of 
the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party.  in  his  family  were  six  sons  and 
five  daughters,  and  of  the  number  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  the  only  rep- 
resentative on  the  Pacific  coast.  Three  of  the  sons  sacrificed  their  lives  while 
defending  the  Union  during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  William  was  wounded 
in  the  engagement  at  Pittsburg  Landing  and  died  from  the  effects  of  his 
injuries.  He  was  a  graduate  of  Appleton  College,  in  Wisconsin,  and  had  been 
a  successful  teacher  prior  to  entering  the  army.  John  Abrams  still  maintains 
his  home  in  Wisconsin;  George  was  killed  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  having 
been  on  the  "Mound  City"  at  the  time  when  the  vessel  was  blown  up  by  the 
Confederate  soldiers ;  Henry  met  his  death  in  the  foundering  of  the  "Brother 
Jonathan"  off  the  coast  of  California;  and  Richard  is  engaged  in  mining  in 
New  Zealand.      Of  the  five  sisters,  three  are  living  at  the  present  time. 

Robert  Abrams  was  but  ten  years  of  age  at  the  time  when  the  family 
removed  from  Massachusetts  to  Wisconsin,  and  there  he  was  reared  under  the 
sturdy  and  invigorating  disciphne  of  the  farm,  his  early  educational  training 
having  been  secured  in  a  log  school-house  of  the  primitive  type,  but  improve- 
ments were  soon  made  in  the  facilities  afforded,  his  father  having  been  an 
earnest  worker  in  behalf  of  the  cause  of  education,  as  has  been  already  stated. 
Robert  remained  on  the  old  homestead  farm,  assisting  in  its  development  and 
cultivation,  until  he  had  attained  the  age  of  nearly  twenty-one  years,  ^A'hen 
he  set  forth  to  face  the  problems  of  life  on  his  own  responsibility,  his  equip- 
ment consisting  of  a  sturdy  physique,  a  self-reliant  nature,  a  good  common- 
school  education  and  a  determination  to  make  the  best  of  the  opportunities 
presented,  while  his  integrity  of  purpose  was  unbending  and  insistent.  He 
started  forth  at  the  age  mentioned  and  made  his  way  to  California,  via  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama.  After  passing  a  few  months  in  California  he  came  by 
boat  to  Oregon,  where  he  remained  about  a  year  and  then  came  to  W^ashington 
territory,  where  he  became  identified  with  the  lumbering  business,  getting  out 
spars  and  masts  for  vessels.  At  the  time  when  he  located  here  there  were 
no  steamboats  on  Puget  Sound.  In  company  with  two  companions  he  came 
to  the  Sound  country  and  they  camped  near  where  Dexter  Horton  had  his 
trading  post,  the  triumvirate  harmoniously  dividing  their  labors,  Mr.  Abrams 
acting  as  the  Nimrod  of  the  party  and  supplying  the  larder  with  game,  while 
one  of  his  companions  was  the  fisherman  and  the  other  acted  as  cook,  so  that 
they  found  themseh'es  well  placed,  even  in  the  wilds  of  the  new  country. 
At  that  time  Mr.  Abrams  prophesied,  basing  his  ideas  upon  the  topography 
and  natural  advantages   and  upon  information  gathered  from  the  Indians, 


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that  there  would  eventually  be  a  great  city  on  the  Sound  and  that  in  all  prob- 
ability the  site  would  be  that  of  the  present  city  of  Seattle.  The  total  num- 
ber of  buildings  on  the  site  at  that  time  was  but  twenty-five.  Mr.  Abrams 
continued  to  devote  his  attention  to  the  lumbering  business  in  the  line  noted  for 
a  period  of  five  years,  and  then  established  the  first  livery  business  in  Seattle, 
bringing  in  the  first  carriage  used  in  this  section.  He  continued  this  enter- 
prise successfully  for  a  period  of  sixteen  years,  and  simultaneously  carried 
on  successful  operations  as  a  dealer  in  live  stock,  raising  the  same  quite  ex- 
tensively, as  he  became  the  owner  of  a  tract  of  land  soon  after  his  arrival  and 
has  ever  since  been  the  owner  of  farm  property.  His  present  farm,  located 
four  miles  south  of  the  city,  has  been  in  his  possession  for  twenty  years,  and 
he  has  been  the  owner  of  other  valuable  farm  properties  in  the  state,  but  his 
present  real-estate  investments  are  principally  in  city  property,  of  which  he 
has  extensive  and  valuable  holdings.  He  has  platted  ten  acres  of  land  which 
is  known  as  Abrams'  addition  to  South  Seattle,  and  he  has  given  his  atten- 
tion to  building  and  improving  his  realty  in  the  city  and  its  environs,  erect- 
ing many  residences  and  business  buildings  and  placing  the  property  on  the 
market  at  terms  in  harmony  with  intrinsic  values,  his  dealings  having  been 
conducted  upon  that  high  plane  of  integrity  and  fidelity  which  implies  popular 
confidence  and  co-operation.  He  is  one  of  the  most  progressive  and  public- 
spirited  men  of  the  city  and  state  to  whose  upbuilding  he  has  so  largely  con- 
tributed, and  his  success  cannot  but  be  viewed  with  pleasure  by  all  w4io  have 
cognizance  of  his  earnest  efforts  and  worthy  career  as  a  capable  business 
man.  He  erected  his  present  beautiful  residence  on  Lake  Union  about  twelve 
years  ago,  and  every  house  in  which  the  family  had  previously  lived  was  also 
erected  by  him. 

Ever  true  to  the  duties  of  citizenship,  taking  a  lively  interest  in  all  that 
affected  the  welfare  of  his  city  and  state  and  standing  as  a  stalwart  sup- 
porter of  the  principles  and  policies  of  the  Republican  party,  it  is  but  natural 
that  Mr.  Abrams  should  have  been  called  upon  to  serve  in  positions  of  dis- 
tinctive public  trust  and  responsibility.  In  1875  he  was  elected  to  represent 
King  county  in  the  territorial  legislature,  where  he  proved  a  valuable  and 
zealous  worker.  He  was  one  of  the  principal  factors  in  securing  the  passage 
of  the  bill  providing  for  the  closing  of  all  saloons  on  election  days ;  was  instru- 
mental in  securing  the  legislation  providing  for  the  opening  of  the  Snoqual- 
mie  road,  connecting  the  eastern  and  western  parts  of  the  state,  and  he  did 
most  effective  and  timely  service  in  securing  appropriations  for  the  state  uni- 
versity. In  connection  with  these  bills  he  was  specially  active  and  inde- 
tatigable,  and  through  his  efforts  was  brought  about  their  enactment.      He 


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served  several  terms  as  a  member  of  the  city  council,  and  here  his  mature 
judgment  and  business  sagacity  were  again  brought  into  valuable  play  for 
the  promotion  of  the  best  interests  of  the  people.  He  held  the  office  of  county 
commissioner  for  a  period  of  four  years,  though  he  did  not  make  any  personal 
canvass  at  the  time  of  his  nomination  and  had  no  desire  for  the  office,  his  own 
personal  business  demanding  his  attention,  but  he  was  elected  by  a  large 
majority  and  did  his  best  to  discharge  his  duties  faithfully,  and  that  he  did 
thus  discharge  them  is  evident  when  it  is  recalled  that  such  was  the  popular 
appreciation  of  his  services  that  he  was  chosen  as  his  own  successor,  serving 
for  a  second  term.  He  and  his  family  are  attendants  of  the  Congregational 
church,  and  fraternally  he  is  identified  with  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  9,  F.  &. 
A.  M.,  in  the  administration  of  whose  fiscal  affairs  he  has  been  prominent. 

In  what  is  now  the  town  of  Renton,  on  the  i8th  of  June,  1872,  Mr. 
Abrams  was  united  in  marriage  to  Aliss  Mary  H.  Brown,  daughter  of  Captain 
Robert  and  Charlotte  (Heppingstone)  Brown,  of  New  London,  Connecticut. 
She  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth  of  a  family  of  ten  children.  Both  father 
and  mother  are  deceased.  Her  brothers  and  sisters  are  all  in  Seattle  with  the 
exception  of  one  brother,  who  resides  in  San  Francisco.  Eight  of  the  chil- 
dren are  living.  Richard  H.  married  Martha  Anderson,  of  Skagit  county, 
Washington,  and  they  have  three  children.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abrams  are  the 
parents  of  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  namely:  Richard  H.,  who  is  a 
contractor  and  builder  in  this  city,  as  is  also  Robert  W. ;  Norman  B.,  who  is 
engaged  in  the  real-estate  business  with  his  father;  Mary,  the  wife  of 
Arthur  Lawley,  a  resident  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  where  he  is  engaged  in 
the  ship  building  business ;  and  Violet  and  Mildred,  who  remain  at  the  parental 
home,  where  a  gracious  hospitality  is  ever  in  evidence  and  where  is  found  a 
favorite  rendezvous  for  the  wide  circle  of  friends  which  the  family  have  gath- 
ered about  them. 

GEORGE  W.   KUMMER. 

The  student  of  the  history  of  Seattle  has  marvelled  at  the  rapid  growth 
and  advancement  of  the  city  in  recent  years,  especially  since  the  work  of  build- 
ing had  to  be  begun  anew  after  the  great  fire  of  1889.  But  although  much 
has  been  accomplished,  there  is  much  still  to  be  done  and  the  opportunities 
and  possibilities  of  this  metropolis  of  Washington  are  attracting  men  of 
marked  business  ability  from  all  sections  of  the  country.  Among  this  number 
is  George  W.  Kummer,  a  stockholder  and  the  general  manager  and  secretary 
of  the  Denny  Clay  Company  of  Seattle,  which  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture 


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of  sewer  pipe,  drain  pipe  and  all  kinds  of  brick  and  ornamentations  for  de- 
corating the  outside  of  brick  buildings. 

A  native  of  Pennsylvania,  George  W.  Kummer  was  born  in  Allentown, 
July,  6,  1 85 1,  and  is  of  French,  Spanish  and  German  ancestry.  The  Kum- 
mers  are  of  German  lineage,  but  John  Kummer  the  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  born  in  Madrid,  Spain,  whence  he  emigrated  to  Philadelphia,  rear- 
ing his  family  in  that  city,  where  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  woolen  and 
linen  goods,  becoming  a  prominent  representative  of  its  commercial  interests. 
He  lived  to  be  eighty  years  of  age,  but  he  lost  his  wife  when  they  were  on 
shipboard  coming  to  America.  They  were  bringing  with  them  their  entire 
family  of  twelve  children,  but  the  vessel  encountered  storms  and  adverse 
winds  and  every  member  of  the  family  died  with  the  exception  of  the  father 
and  one  son,  Jacob  Kummer,  who  became  the  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
review.  Jacob  Kummer  was  born  in  181 6  and  pursued  his  education  in  Phil- 
adelphia. He  became  extensively  engaged  in  merchandising  there  and  in 
partnership  with  another  man,  brought  his  goods  form  the  New  York  market 
to  Philadelphia  in  large  wagons.  For  some  time  they  enjoyed  a  very  suc- 
cessful trade  and  Mr.  Kummer  had  acquired  eighty  thousand  dollars,  when 
his  partner  absconded  and  left  him  with  very  little.  However,  he  managed 
to  continue  in  business  and  later  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  bed  spreads 
and  other  such  articles.  This  enterprise  also  proved  profitable  and  in  course 
of  time  he  largely  retrieved  his  lost  possessions  and  became  a  successful  man. 
He  married  Rebecca  Huntsberger,  a  representative  of  an  old  Virginian  fami- 
ly of  planters  and  slave-owners.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kummer  removed  to  Aliens- 
town,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  continued  to  carry  on  his  business.  They  were 
members  of  the  German  Reformed  church,  living  in  consistent  harmony  with 
their  professions,  doing  naught  that  would  reflect  discredit  upon  the  church 
of  tlieir  choice.  Mr.  Kummer  departed  this  life  in  1885.  His  widow,  how- 
ever, still  survives  and  is  now  living  in  her  eighty-second  year  at  Loyal  Oak, 
Ohio,  where  her  husband  passed  away.  They  were  the  parents  of  twelve 
children,  but  only  three  are  now  living:  Alfred,  who  is  pastor  01  the  First 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  San  Jose,  California;  Anna  M.,  who  became 
the  wife  of  George  Hanson  and  resides  with  her  mother  in  Loyal  Oak,  Ohio; 
and  George  W. 

George  W.  Kummer  was  reared  in  the  Buckeye  state  and  pursued  his 
education  in  the  public  schools.  He  was  only  eight  years  of  age  when  he 
earned  nine  dollars  and  a  half  by  carrying  water  to  the  men  who  were 
working  on  the  construction  of  the  Atlantic  and  Great  Western  Railroad. 
When  a  youth  of  ten  years  he  left  home  to  work  on  a  farm  and  for  the  first 


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two  years  his  pay  was  a  wagon-load  of  corn.  As  he  grew  older  and  was 
able  to  perform  more  service,  he  was  given  wages  proportionately  high, 
yet  most  of  the  time  he  had  to  take  his  pay  in  corn,  for  there  was  but 
little  money  in  circulation  in  the  country.  He  continued  farm  work  until 
his  nineteenth  year.  When  he  left  home  nine  years  before,  his  mother  had 
given  him  a  half  dollar,  which  was  the  only  money  he  handled  during  all 
of  that  period.  That  fifty  cents  he  has  kept  through  all  life's  vicissitudes 
and  when  a  little  daughter  came  to  bless  his  home,  a  hole  was  made  in  the 
coin  and  a  ribbon  put  through  it  and  it  was  hung  about  the  little  one's 
neck.     Mr.  Kummer  still  has  this  coin  which  he  prizes  very  highly. 

When  nineteen  years  of  age  Mr.  Kummer,  not  content  with  his  lot, 
ran  away  from  the  farm  on  which  he  was  employed  and  made  his  way  to 
Akron,  Ohio.  He  was  without  money  but  he  went  to  a  hotel  and  the  people 
of  the  place  being  pleased  by  his  appearance  gave  him  work  at  fifty  cents 
per  day,  but  he  did  not  like  the  associations  there  and  at  the  end  of  the 
week  he  left  the  hotel  and  secured  a  position  in  a  printing  office  in  the 
capacity  of  printer's  devil  at  two  dollars  and  a  half  per  week.  He  was 
thus  employed  for  a  year.  Board  in  the  place  was  three  dollars  per  week 
but  he  got  an  old  colored  man  to  furnish  him  meals  for  two  dollars  and  a 
half  per  week  and  he  slept  on  the  book-binder's  table  in  the  office.  The 
rats  ran  around  the  room  in  search  of  the  paste  used  in  the  establishment 
and  his  quarters  were  certainly  not  luxurious,  but  he  made  the  best  of  his 
surroundings,  eagerly  watching,  however,  to  improve  his  condition.  The 
first  day  of  his  service  in  the  printing  office  he  told  one  of  the  editors  that 
he  could  scarcely  read  or  write,  but  that  he  desired  to  learn,  and  the  man 
furnished  him  with  reading  matter.  The  second  year  he  was  paid  three 
dollars  per  week,  and  the  third  he  was  given  the  position  of  city  reporter 
at  ten  dollars  per  week.  For  three  years  he  was  in  the  editorial  room  and 
became  correspondent  for  the  Cincinnati  Inquirer  and  for  newspapers  of 
Chicago,  Boston,  Pittsburg  and  other  cities.  He  spent  two  years  in  the 
composing  room  as  foreman  and  when  the  bookkeeper  defaulted,  Mr.  Kum- 
mer assisted  in  straightening  out  the  books  and  became  bookkeeper  and 
manager's  assistant.  During  this  time  he  attended  night  school,  taking  up 
a  college  course.  He  was  retained  in  the  business  department  of  the  paper 
for  three  years  and  then  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  city  editor,  in 
which  capacity  he  served  for  six  years.  He  was  with  the  Akron  Daily 
Beacon  for  eighteen  years  in  all  and  in  that  period  rose  from  the  most 
humble  position  in  the  office  to  the  highest.  This  brief  account,  however, 
gives  one  little  knowledge  of  the  hardships  which  he  had  to  endure  in  gain- 


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ing  his  start.  His  health  broke  under  the  arduous  stress  of  business  and 
study  and  when  he  left  the  office  he  only  weighed  one  hundred  and  two 
pounds.  His  strength  had  completely  given  way  and  one  day  he  fell  faint- 
ing upon  the  street  and  was  picked  up  for  dead. 

It  was  then  that  Mr.  Kummer  decided  to  seek  a  change  of  climate  by 
establishing  his  home  upon  the  Pacific  coast.  He  arrived  in  Seattle  one 
week  after  the  great  fire,  coming  to  this  place  in  order  to  write  up  the  sit- 
uation for  eastern  papers.  He  remained  for  three  months,  during  which  time 
he  wrote  many  articles  about  the  country  and  its  prospects.  He  then  re- 
turned to  the  east,  sold  out  his  interests  there,  gave  up  his  newspaper  cor- 
respondence, and  accepted  a  position  on  the  Pacific  Christian  Advocate  in 
Portland,  in  September,  1889,  having  charge  of  the  business  management 
of  that  paper.  Subsequently  the  Puget  Sound  Fire  Clay  Company  made 
him  a  proposition  to  take  stock  in  it  and  doing  so  he  was  elected  secretary 
and  treasurer  of  the  company,  entering  upon  the  duties  of  his  new  office  in 
February,  1890.  That  company  sold  out  to  the  Denny  Clay  Company  and 
he  was  elected  to  his  present  position  as  general  manager  and  secretary,  in 
which  capacity  he  has  since  served,  giving  the  highest  satisfaction  to  all 
concerned  by  his  faithful  performance  of  duty,  his  capable  supervision  and 
his  effective  labors  in  increasing  the  business.  The  plant  represents  the  in- 
vestment of  four  million  dollars  and  is  operated  to  its  full  capacity.  All 
kinds  of  sewer  and  drain  pipe  are  manufactured,  together  with  brick  and 
ornamental  work  for  decorating  the  outside  of  brick  buildings.  The  pro- 
duct is  sold  in  Alaska,  British  Columbia,  South  Africa  and  all  over  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  a  very  extensive  business  is  being  done,  a  fact  which  is 
largely  due  to  the  efforts  and  capable  management  of  Mr.  Kummer.  Our 
subject  has  the  honor  of  being  the  president  of  the  Manufacturers  As- 
ciation  of  Seattle,  but  devotes  the  greater  part  of  his  attention  to  the  large 
business  which  he  is  controlling  so  successfully. 

In  1872  Mr.  Kummer  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jennie  N.  Robin- 
son, of  Wisconsin,  and  unto  them  have  been  born  three  children,  but  they 
had  the  misfortune  to  lose  their  eldest  daughter,  Ruby  Grace,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  twenty-two  years.  She  had  just  been  married  to  W.  L.  Blackett 
and  was  a  most  accomplished  and  brilliant  young  woman  who  had  a  host 
of  friends  in  the  city,  so  that  her  death  was  deeply  mourned.  The  elder  son, 
John  Alfred,  is  now  a  student  in  Vashon  College,  and  George  W.  is  pur- 
suing his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Seattle.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kummer 
are  valued  members  of  the  Methodist  church  and  he  belongs  to  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd   Fellows,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen, 


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and  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Seattle  Chamber 
of  Commerce,  of  which  he  was  formerly  the  vice-president.  His  political 
support  is  given  to  the  Republican  party,  but  aside  from  supporting  the  men 
and  measures  in  which  he  believes  he  takes  no  active  part  in  politics.  He 
indeed  deser\^es  mention  among  the  most  prominent  of  Seattle's  merchants 
and  among  her  representative  citizens,  and  should  find  a  place  in  the  history 
of  the  men  of  business  and  enterprise  in  the  great  northwest  whose  force 
of  character,  sterling  integrity,  control  of  circumstances  and  whose  marked 
success  in  establishing  great  industries  have  contributed  in  such  an  eminent 
degree  to  the  solidity  and  progress  of  the  entire  country.  His  life  has  been 
manly,  his  actions  sincere,  his  manner  unaffected  and  his  example  is  well 
worthy  of  emulation. 

FRANK  W.  MITCHELL. 

Frank  W.  Mitchell  occupies  a  commanding  position  in  the  business  cir- 
cles of  Seattle,  being  the  vice-president  and  manager  of  the  store  belonging 
to  the  Mitchell,  Lewis  &  Staver  Company,  extensive  dealers  in  mining  and 
milling  machinery,  wagons  and  carriages.  It  is  true  that  he  entered  upon 
a  business  already  established,  but  many  a  man  of  less  resolute  principles 
could  not  have  carried  on  the  work,  increasing  the  business  of  the  house  as  he 
has  done,  and  in  his  labors  he  has  shown  marked  enterprise,  keen  discernment 
and  strong  purpose.  Mr.  'Mitchell  is  a  native  of  Washington  and  his  family 
is  of  Scotch  lineage.  The  grandfather,  Henry  Mitchell,  was  born  in  Scot- 
land on  the  nth  of  March,  1810,  and  in  1833  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the 
new  world,  taking  up  his  abode  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  the  INIitchell  wagon.  In  1856  he  removed  to  Kenosha,  Wis- 
consin, where  he  established  the  Bain  J\Ianufactory,  which  he  afterward  sold 
to  E.  Bain.  His  next  place  of  residence  was  Racine,  and  there  he  became 
the  founder  of  the  Mitchell  &  Lewis  Company,  which  carried  on  a  very  ex- 
tensive business  there,  manufacturing  thirty  thousand  wagons  yearly.  Mr. 
Mitchell  died  on  the  23d  of  October,  1893,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty- 
three  years. 

William  Henry  Mitchell,  the  eldest  son,  and  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  born  in  Chicago  in  1S34  and  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal 
to  Kenosha.  The  year  1853  witnessed  his  arrival  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He 
crossed  the  plains  with  oxen,  leaving  his  Wisconsin  home  in  April  and  arriv- 
ing in  Olympia,  Washington  territory,  in  the  following  October.  He  was 
a  single  man  at  that  time,  but  while  enroute  met  the  lady  who  afterward  be- 


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came  his  wife,  for  she  traveled  in  the  same  wagon  train  and  the  acquaintance 
thus  formed  ripened  into  love  that  was  consummated  by  marriage.  She  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Martha  T.  Johns  and  was  a  native  of  Tennessee.  Her 
father  was  Bennett  L.  Johns,  who  came  direct  from  Missouri  to  the  north- 
west and  located  in  Seattle  in  1853,  becoming  a  pioneer  resident  of  the  town. 
At  Olympia  William  Henry  Mitchell  was  lirst  engaged  in  cutting  cord  wood, 
but  soon  turned  his  attention  to  blacksmithing  and  later  to  the  butcher  busi- 
ness. As  he  prospered  he  enlarged  the  field  of  his  activity  until  he  became 
actively  engaged  in  the  wholesale  cattle  business  and  for  a  short  time  was 
also  in  the  grocery  business.  He  likewise  conducted  a  bakery  and  became 
interested  in  a  saw  mill  at  Tumwater,  near  Olympia,  as  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Ward  &  Mitchell.  He  afterward  owned  a  mill  in  Olympia,  there  carrying 
on  business  for  a  number  of  years.  His  enterprise  grew  in  volume  and  im- 
portance and  he  became  one  of  the  builders  of  a  railroad  extending  from 
Olympia  to  Tenino,  of  which  line  he  had  the  entire  control.  In  1882  he  sold 
this  and  in  that  year  he  made  his  first  visit  back  to  his  old  home  in  Racine, 
from  which  he  had  been  absent  twenty-nine  years.  Later  he  returned  to 
Portland,  Oregon,  for  the  purpose  of  representing  the  Michell  &  Lewis  Com- 
pany on  the  Pacific  and  introducing  their  wagons  into  this  part  of  the  coun- 
try. He  found  a  good  market  for  the  products  of  the  factory  which  his 
father  had  established,  and  continued  in  the  business  until  1892,  at  which 
time  the  present  Mitchell,  Lewis  &  Staver  Company  was  formed,  of  the  Mich- 
ell &  Lewis  Company  general  agency  and  the  Staver  &  Walker  Company. 
The  new  company  was  incorporated  in  Portland  in  February,  1892,  and  Mr. 
Mitchell,  the  father  of  our  subject,  became  its  president.  He  retired  from 
active  participation  in  the  business,  however,  in  1897  and  is  now  spending 
the  evening  of  life  in  a  well  earned  rest  at  Tumwater,  near  Olympia.  He 
is,  however,  the  nominal  head  of  the  company.  He  has  a  most  beautiful 
property  and  well  he  merits  an  honorable  retirement  from  labor.  His  career 
has  certainly  been  one  of  remarkable  success,  deserving  of  the  admiration 
and  respect  of  all.  His  efforts,  too,  have  been  such  as  command  uniform 
confidence  and  his  career  has  ever  been  characterized  by  sterling  integrity, 
by  keen  foresight  and  managing  ability  that  far  exceeded  that  of  the  average 
person.  The  lady  who  shared  with  him  in  all  the  pioneer  experiences  of  life 
in  the  northwest  was  called  to  her  final  rest  in  1896  when  fifty-six  years  of 
age.  Mr.  Mitchell  has  been  a  lifelong  Democrat,  but  is  not  a  bitter  partisan. 
He  has  filled  various  offices,  including  that  of  sheriff  of  Thurston  county,  in 
which  he  was  an  incumbent  in  1857.  He  was  likewise  a  member  of  the  Wash- 
ington territory  legislature,  being  widely  recognized  as  a  leader  of  public 


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thought  and  opinion  as  well  as  in  industrial  and  commercial  circles.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mitchell  were  the  parents  of  five  children,  four  of  whom  are  yet 
living :  H.  W.,  who  is  now  manager  of  the  business  of  the  Mitchell,  Lewis 
&  Staver  Company  in  Portland,  and  is  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  corpora- 
tion ;  Edith,  the  wife  of  A.  McCoquadale,  an  employe  of  the  Oregon  Railroad 
and  Navigation  Company,  at  Portland;  and  Albert  B.,  who  is  with  his  father 
at  Tumwater. 

Frank  W.  Mitchell  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city  and 
in  a  business  college  in  San  Francisco,  California.  In  1882  he  became  con- 
nected with  his  father's  business  as  a  bookkeeper,  also  performing  other  of- 
fice duties,  and  the  latter  went  upon  the  road  as  a  traveling  salesman  through 
the  northwest,  selling  the  products  carried  by  the  house.  He  also  opened  a 
branch  hodse  in  Walla  Walla,  conducting  it  for  a  year,  at  the  end  of  which 
time  he  again  went  upon  the  road.  In  1887  he  returned  to  the  office  and 
continued  his  connection  with  the  business  in  Portland  until  1894,  at  which 
time  he  came  to  Seattle  to  assume  the  management  of  the  extensive  trade 
which  is  controlled  from  this  point,  the  house  having  been  established  here 
at  the  time  of  the  incorporation  of  the  company  in  1892.  They  deal  on  an 
extensive  scale  in  mining  and  milling  machinery,  wagons  and  carriages,  their 
goods  being  shipped  to  many  parts  of  the  United  States.  His  business  abil- 
ity, executive  force  and  keen  insight  have  been  largely  instrumental  in  pro- 
moting the  business  in  the  northwest,  bringing  to  the  corporation  a  high  de- 
gree of  prosperity. 

In  1887  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Mitchell  and  Miss  Georgie 
May  Riggen,  of  Portland,  who  was  born  in  California.  They  became  the 
parents  of  one  daughter,  Mildred  May,  who  was  left  motherless  in  1897  by 
the  death  of  Mrs.  Mitchell.  On  the  ist  of  January,  1900,  Mr.  Mitchell  was 
again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Miss  Marie  Histermann,  a  native 
of  Germany,  who  in  her  childhood  was  brought  to  America  by  her  parents, 
who  located  in  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin.  Later  she  returned  to  the  father- 
land and  was  educated  in  some  of  its  best  schools.  In  1889  she  came  to 
Seattle,  just  after  the  great  fire  here.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mitchell  have 
a  host  of  warm  friends  in  this  city,  the  hospitality  of  many  of  its  best  homes 
being  accorded  them.  Mr.  Mitchell  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Washing- 
ton, having  always  been  identified  with  the  interests  of  this  state.  He  votes 
with  the  Republican  party  and  is  deeply  interested  in  all  that  pertains  to  the 
progress  and  improvement  of  the  northwest.  He  is  thoroughly  informed 
concerning  his  business,  Jiaving  made  a  close  study  of  it  in  principle  and  de- 


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tail.  He  stands  to-day,  strong  in  his  manhood  and  strong  in  his  honor  and 
good  name,  a  most  prominent  and  active  factor  in  the  commercial  hfe  of 
the  northwest. 

ALFRED   BATTLE. 

The  history  of  the  Seattle  bar  shows  that  Alfred  Battle  has  been  con- 
nected with  almost  every  case  of  importance,  especially  in  the  branches  of 
civil  law,  that  has  been  tried  in  the  courts  of  this  district  during  the  past 
fifteen  years.  He  has  attained  to  a  position  of  distinction  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  legal  fraternity  and  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Ballingery 
Ronald  &  Battle,  one  of  the  most  celebrated  law  firms  in  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington. Our  subject  is  a_  native  of  Texas,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Mc- 
Lennan county  on  the  22d  of  March,  1858.  The  family  is  of  French  line- 
age and  at  an  early  period  of  American  history  was  established  in  North 
Carolina  and  Virginia.  It  was  well  represented  by  valiant  soldiers  in  the 
Revolution,  and  members  of  the  family  largely  aided  in  establishing  the 
policy  and  course  of  the  old  Dominion  during  an  early  period  in  their  set- 
tlement. Thomas  E.  Battle,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Virginia,  whence  he  removed  to  Georgia  and  was  there  married  and  reared 
his  family.  He  held  membership  in  the  Methodist  church  and  became  one 
of  the  early  representatives  of  that  denomination  in  the  south.  He  took 
a  very  active  part  in  church  work  and  was  a  man  of  great  usefulness  and 
influence.  "His  days  were  long  upon  the  land"  for  he  attained  the  ripe 
old  age  of  ninety-six  years,  leaving  behind  him  a  memory  that  was  long 
enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  knew  him. 

Nicholas  William  Battle,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Georgia, 
and  pursued  his  education  in  Virginia.  He  married  Miss  Ann  Cabanass, 
also  a  native  of  Georgia,  and  when  the  country  became  involved  in  Civil 
war,  true  to  his  love  for  the  land  of  the  south  he  joined  the  Confederate 
army  and  served  his  country  with  the  rank  of  colonel.  After  the  close  of 
hostilities  he  removed  to  Waco,  Texas,  where  he  practiced  law  during  the 
remainder  of  his  business  career.  He  is  now  residing  in  Seattle  at  the  ven- 
erable age  of  eighty-one  years,  but  the  lady  of  his  choice,  who  so  long 
traveled  life's  journey  with  him,  sharing  in  its  joys  and  sorrows,  its  adver- 
sities and  prosperity,  was  called  from  his  side  on  the  3d  of  February,  1900, 
departing  this  life  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  Like  her  husband  she 
was  a  devoted  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  enjoyed  the  respect  and 
warm  regard  of  many  friends.     Unto  this  worthy  couple  were  born  eight 


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children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  Hving,  Thomas  E.  and  Mrs.  L.  W.  Goodrich 
being  still  residents  of  Texas,  while  Edgar  and  Alfred  make  their  home  in 
the  city  of  Seattle. 

Alfred  Battle  pursued  his  education  in  Waco  University,  now  the  Bay- 
lor University,  in  which  institution  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1878, 
winning  the  first  honors  of  that  class  and  becoming  its  valedictorian.  He 
acquired  his  legal  education  in  his  father's  law  office  and  in  the  Vanderbilt 
University  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Marlin, 
Texas,  entering  upon  practice  in  connection  with  his  father,  in  Waco,  Texas, 
where  he  remained  until  March,  1887.  The  following  year  he  came  to 
Seattle  and  opened  an  office,  practicing  alone  until  1889,  when  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  S.  M.  Shipley,  this  association  being  maintained  until 
1897,  when  Mr.  Battle  became  the  junior  member  ;n  the  present  well  known 
and  prominent  firm  of  Ballinger,  Ronald  &  Battle. 

In  the  great  fire  which  swept  over  the  city  on  the  6th  of  June,  1889, 
Mr.  Battle  lost  his  fine  library  and  all  of  his  nice  furniture,  which  w^as  un- 
insured. After  the  fire,  at  the  time  the  streets  were  remodeled  and  re- 
graded,  there  arose  much  heavy  litigation  in  which  the  city  was  involved  and 
Mr.  Battle  was  employed  by  Seattle  to  assist  the  corporation  counsel.  One 
of  the  first  cases  of  this  kind  was  that  brought  by  the  Seattle  Gas  and  Elec- 
tric Light  Company  against  the  city  to  recover  one  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars for  damages  alleged  to  have  been  sustained  by  reason  of  the  change 
in  street  grading.  Mr.  Battle  won  this  suit  for  the  city  and  afterward  won 
the  suit  brought  by  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company,  involving  the  right 
and  title  to  a  portion  of  certain  street  property.  Other  cases  came  up  in 
rapid  succession  in  which  he  took  such  a  conspicuous  part  and  so  demon- 
strated his  superior  ability  that  he  became  a  candidate  of  his  party  for  cor- 
poration counsel.  He  had  not  sought  the  office,  but  made  the  race,  running 
several  hundred  votes  ahead  of  the  Democratic  ticket,  but  the  entire  Re- 
publican ticket  was  elected.  The  large  vote  which  he  polled,  however,  proved 
his  present  popularity  and  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  many  of  the 
opposition  as  well  as  those  of  his  own  party.  Mr.  Battle  has  since  been  re- 
tained as  counsel,  either  for  the  plaintiff  or  defendant  in  almost  every  nota- 
h\e  suit  that  has  arisen  in  this  district  since  that  time.  Among  these  may 
l3e  mentioned  the  suit  of  Dexter,  Horton  &  Company,  versus  Sayward, 
involving  the  Port  Madison  Mill  property  and  the  franchises  of  the  Con- 
solidated Street  Railways  in  Seattle.  In  this  case  be  was  employed  by  the 
petitioners.  Beginning  with  the  month  of  Februar}',  1896,  he  has  repre- 
sented possibly   four-fifths   of  the  litigated   cases   and   proceedings   relating 


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to  the  Seattle  tide  lands;  and  in  fact  has  made  a  specialty  of  tide  land  liti- 
gation, which,  together  with  corporate  and  municipal  litigation,  has  con- 
stituted a  large  part  of  his  practice.  He  has  acquired  the  reputation  of 
being  one  of  the  ablest  land  lawyers  in  the  state.  He  has  a  most  compre- 
hensive and  accurate  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  bearing 
upon  these  departments  of  litigation  and  there  is  added  to  his  superior  talent 
in  the  line  of  his  chosen  calling  a  keen  mentality,  a  strong  determination,  a 
logical  turn  of  mind  that  cause  his  arguments  to  follow  a  regular  sequence. 
Mr.  Battle  was  united  in  marriage  in  June,  1900,  to  Miss  Ma'dge  Fow- 
ler, a  native  of  Newton,  Kansas,  and  a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  B. 
Fowler,  of  Brighton  Beach,  Washington,  near  Seattle.  Our  subject  has 
always  been  an  advocate  of  the  Democracy  and  is  a  recognized  leader  in  the 
ranks  of  his  party  in  Washington,  although  he  has  never  been  a  politician 
in  the  sense  of  an  aspirant  to  office.  He  belongs  to  the  Bar  x\ssociation 
and  the  Ranier  Club,  also  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club  and  in  social  circles  is 
very  prominent,  while  at  the  bar  he  has  made  a  most  brilliant  record.  He 
has  ever  occupied  a  prominent  position  in  the  legal  ranks  of  the  practitioners 
of  Seattle.  His  life  has  been  one  of  untiring  activity  and  crowned  with 
a  high  degree  of  success,  yet  he  is  not  less  esteemed  as  a  citizen  than  as  a 
lawyer,  and  his  kindly  impulses  and  charming  cordiality  of  manner  have 
rendered  him  exceedingly  popular  among  all  classes.  The  favorable  judg- 
ment which  the  world  passed  upon  him  in  his  early  years  has  never  been 
set  aside  nor  in  any  degree  modified.  It  has,  on  the  contrary,  been  em- 
phasized by  his  careful  conduct  of  important  litigation,  his  candor  and  fair- 
ness in  the  presentation  of  cases,  his  zeal  and  earnestness  as  an  advocate, 
and  the  generous  commendation  he  has  received  from  his  contemporaries, 
who  unite  in  bearing  testimony  as  to  his  high  character  and  superior  mind. 

W.  D.  WOOD. 

On  the  Pacific  coast  W.  D.  Wood  has  spent  his  entire  life  and  to-day 
he  is  numbered  among  Seattle's  leading  and  influential  citizens.  His  birth 
occurred  in  Tomales,  California,  on  the  ist  of  December,  1858.  He  comes 
of  English  ancestry.  His  father,  Guy  M.  Wood,  was  born  in  Canada  and 
in  1852  came  to  the  new  world,  taking  up  his  abode  in  California,  so  that 
he  was  the  progenitor  of  this  branch  of  the  Wood  family  in  the  United 
States.  He  married  Miss  Sarah  J.  Bell,  a  native  of  Canada,  and  in  order 
to  provide  for  his  family  devoted  his  attention  to  farming  and  daii7ing, 
following  the  dual  pursuit  in  the  Golden  state  for  many  years.     In  1891, 


262  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

however,  he  left  Cahfornia  and  with  his  wife  came  to  Seattle,  where  they 
are  now  esteemed  residents  of  the  city,  the  former  being:  ni  his  seventieth 
year,  while  Mrs.  Wood  is  sixty-three  years  of  age.  Both  are  ^•alued  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  church.  Unto  them  were  born  se^•en  sons  and  a 
daughter. 

Of  this  family  W.  D.  Wood  is  the  eldest.  In  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  state  he  acquired  his  preliminary  education  and  later  became  a 
student  in  Napa  College,  after  which  he  pursued  a  two  years'  course  in  the 
law  departm.ent  of  the  University  of  California  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  of  that  state  in  1882.  He  immediately  selected  Seattle  as  a  city  in 
which  to  begin  his  professional  career,  believing  that  he  might  here  achieve 
success.  He  became  a  partner  of  the  Hon.  J.  T.  Ronald  and  they  prac- 
ticed together  for  about  two  years.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  Mr. 
Wood  entered  into  partnership  with  Judge  I.  M.  Hall.  He  had  previously 
learned  shorthand  reporting  and  in  addition  to  his  practice  did  court  re- 
porting for  some  time.  In  1885  he  was  elected  probate  judge  of  King 
county,  sendng  with  ability  in  that  office  for  two  years  and  in  1888  he  be- 
came associated  with  Eben  S.  Osborne  in  the  title  and  abstract  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  Wood  &  Osborne.  This  was  the  beginning  of  the 
business  now  conducted  by  the  Osborne  Temper  Company. 

In  1889  Mr.  Wood  withdrew  from  the  firm  to  become  connected  with 
a  large  real  estate  investment  and  improvement  company.  He  secured  an 
extensive  amount  of  property  in  the  vicinity  of  Green  Lake  and  with  others 
constructed  the  Green  Lake  Electric  Street  Railway  with  the  result  that 
extensive  improvements  were  carried  on  in  that  part  of  the  city,  greatly 
benefitting  Seattle  thereby.  In  1889  ]\Ir.  Wood  was  elected  by  popular 
ballot  as  a  member  of  the  first  state  senate  of  Washington,  representing 
King  county  for  a  term  of  one  year.  In  1893  he  was  appointed  a  member 
of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  University  of  Washington,  in  which  office 
he  sen'^ed  for  two  years,  and  in  1895  ^^  "^'^'^^  appointed  mayor  of  Seattle 
to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  the  Hon.  Frank  D.  Black. 
During  his  incumbency  as  the  chief  executive  of  the  city  Mr.  Wood  ex- 
ercised his  highest  powers  to  advance  Seattle's  interests  along  every  line 
of  substantial  improvement  and  progress.  He  made  an  excellent  record 
in  office,  winning  the  high  commendation  of  the  general  public.  In  1897, 
at  the  time  of  the  Klondike  excitement,  he  went  north  to  engage  in  the 
work  of  transportation  and  in  merchandising  in  the  Yukon  country,  and 
with  others  organized  the  Seattle- Yukon  Transportation  Company.  Since 
that  time  Mr.  Wood  has  given  his  entire  attention  to  that  work,  having  the  sue- 


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cessful  management  of  the  business  in  the  north,  while  Mr.  A,  L.  Hawley 
had  the  management  of  the  business  in  Seattle.  Mr.  Wood  spent  more 
than  half  of  his  time  in  the  Yukon  country  during  this  period,,  the  enter- 
prise having  grown  to  a  gross  business  of  one  million  dollars  per  annum. 
At  the  termination  of  four  years  the  Seattle- Yukon  Transportation  Com- 
pany sold  out  to  the  consolidated  company  and  Mr.  Wood  spent  the  season 
of  1 90 1  in  closing  up  his  business  affairs  in  the  north,  having  recently  re- 
turned to  Seattle  to  remain  permanently  here. 

In  1883  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Wood  and  Miss  Emma  J.  Wall- 
ingford,  a  native  of  the  state  of  Minnesota,  and  a  daughter  of  Captain  John 
N.  Wallingford,  of  Seattle.  Four  children  have  been  born  to  them,  but 
only  one  is  now  living,  Paul,  who  is  with  his  parents.  Our  subject  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  church  and  occupy  an 
enviable  position  in  social  circles.  Mr.  Wood  has  been  a  life-long  Republi- 
can and  is  a  citizen  of  the  highest  integrity  and  respectability,  having  made 
for  himself  a  creditable  record  in  every  position  which  he  has  filled,  whether 
of  a  public  or  private  nature. 

DANIEL  JONES. 

Daniel  Jones,  who  for  the  past  twelve  years  has  been  extensively  en- 
gaged in  real  estate  dealing  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  is  a  native  of  Blossburg, 
Pennsylvania,  where  his  birth  occurred  on  the  4th  of  March,   1856. 

Daniel  Jones  was  only  about  four  years  of  age  when  the  family  re- 
moved to  Iowa  and  therefore  he  was  reared  in  the  west,  becoming  imbued 
with  its  progressive,  enterprising  spirit.  He  pursued  his  education  in 
Grinnell  College  of  that  state,  in  which  he  was  graduated  in  1881. 
He  engaged  in  teaching  school  for  several  terms  and  then  wishing  to  make 
the  practice  of  law  his  life  work  entered  upon  a  course  of  study  in  Colum- 
bia College  of  New  York  city,  where  he  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1883. 
In  that  year  he  removed  to  Fargo,  North  Dakota,  where  he  opened  an  office 
and  engaged  in  practice,  but  afterward  took  up  his  residence  in  Minne- 
apolis, Minnesota.  There  he  became  interested  in  real  estate,  and  his  new 
venture  so  occupied  his  time  and  attention  that  he  abandoned  the  practice  of 
law.  In  1888,  he  arrived  in  Seattle,  where  he  began  dealing  in  real  estate 
and  in  June,  1889,  after  the  great  fire,  he  became  associated  with  G.  C.  Phin- 
ney  in  leasing  the  ground  where  the  Butler  Hotel  now  stands  and  erecting 
the  block  that  is  now  upon  that  site.  In  the  fall  of  1891  Mr.  Jones  sold 
his  interest  in  the  property  to  his  partner.     Mr.  Phinney  died  in  1893  and 


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since  that  time  our  subject  has  had  charge  of  his  estate.  He  is  now  handhng 
real  estate  on  his  own  account  and  for  others  does  a  loaning,  renting  and 
insurance  business.  He  is  thoroughly  informed  concerning  the  value  of  city 
property,  and  is  a  most  reliable  business  man.  It  was  Mr.  Jones  who  sold 
Woodland  park  to  the  city,  and  through  his  efforts  in  that  direction  met 
with  great  opposition  at  the  time,  all  give  him  credit  now,  for  at  this  day 
the  property  is  worth  at  least  fifty  thousand  dollars  more  than  it  cost  the 
city. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  stanch  Republican,  unswerving  in  his  advocacy  of  the  prin- 
ciples of  the  party,  but  he  has  never  sought  or  desired  office.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks. 

HENRY  A.   SMITH,  M.  D. 

The  subject  of  this  review  is  one  whose  history  touches  the  pioneer  epoch 
in  the  annals  of  the  Pacific  coast  and  whose  days  form  an  integral  part  of 
that  indissoluble  chain  which  links  the  early  formative  period  with  that  of 
latter-day  progress  and  prosperity.  When  Washington  was  cut  off  from 
the  comforts  and  advantages  of  the  east  by  the  long,  hot  stretches  of  sand 
and  the  high  mountains  he  made  his  way  across  the  plains,  braving  all  the 
trials  and  hardships  of  pioneer  life  in  order  to  make  a  home  in  the  north- 
west— rich  in  its  resources,  yet  unclaimed  from  the  dominion  of  the  red  man. 
For  a  half  century  he  has  resided  in  this  section  of  the  country  and  was  the 
first  physician  to  locate  in  the  little  settlement  which  has  developed  into  the 
beautiful  city  of  Seattle. 

Dr.  Smith  was  born  near  Wooster,  Wayne  county,  Ohio,  on  the  nth 
of  April,  1830,  and  is  of  German  lineage  on  the  paternal  side,  while  on  the 
maternal  he  is  of  English  ancestr}',  the  two  families  being  founded  in  America 
during  an  early  epoch  in  her  history.  His  great-grandfather,  Copleton 
Smith,  served  his  country  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  He  owned  one  thous- 
and acres  of  land,  over  which  the  city  of  Philadelphia  has  since  spread  and 
from  which  he  was  driven  by  the  Indians,  who  murdered  his  wife.  Later, 
when  he  returned  to  his  property,  he  found  that  it  had  been  taken  by  others, 
who  met  him  with  rifles  and  would  have  killed  him  had  he  pressed  his  claim. 
He  was  a  man  of  wonderful  physical  endurance  and  lived  to  the  very  advanced 
age  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  years.  When  one  hundred  years  old  he  cut 
ten  new  teeth. 

Nicholas  Smith,  the  father  of  the  doctor,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania 
in  1799.      He  married  Abigail  Teaff,  a  native  of  Virginia,  and  they  removed 


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to  Wooster,  Ohio.  He  was  a  minister  of  the  Christian  church  and  engaged 
in  preaching  during  the  greater  part  of  his  Hfe.  He  died  in  his  fiftieth  year, 
but  his  wife,  long  surviving  him,  passed  away  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty 
years.  She  came  west  with  her  son,  the  Doctor,  and  acted  as  his  housekeeper 
throughout  the  pioneer  period  in  Seattle's  development.  A  most  earnest  and 
devoted  Christian  woman,  she  belonged  to  the  church  in  wdiich  her  husband 
was  a  minister  and  her  influence  was  widely  felt  for  good  aiid  left  an  indeli- 
ble impression  upon  the  lives  and  characters  of  her  children.  She  was  the 
mother  of  nine  children.  The  only  surviving  one,  with  the  exception  of  the 
Doctor,  is  Samuel  T.  Smith,  who  resides  in  Horida. 

Dr.  Smith  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  Alleghany  College 
at  Meadville,  Pennsylvania.  He  also  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  last 
named  place  and  continued  it  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  For  some  time  he  en- 
gaged in  practice  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  then  resolved  to  make  his  home  on 
the  Pacific  coast,  which  was  then  being  rapidly  developed,  although  pioneer 
conditions  yet  largely  existed.  In  1852  he  crossed  the  plains  with  oxen  and 
mules,  California  being  his  objective  point.  He  traveled  with  a  large  com- 
pany and  fortunately  took  with  him  a  big  supply  of  medicine,  which  came 
into  good  play,  for  it  was  the  year  of  the  cholera  scourge,  when  so  many 
emigrants  suffered  from  that  dread  disease.  Dr.  Smith  was  instrumental  in 
saving  the  lives  of  many  and  also  made  considerable  money  by  the  exercise 
of  his  professional  skill. 

When  he  arrived  at  the  Nevada  mountains  he  decided  to  go  to  Oregon, 
and  arrived  at  Portland  on  the  26th  of  October,  1852, 'the  place  being  then 
a  logging  camp  containing  a  few  hundred  people.  General  Stevens  was  en- 
gaged in  surveying  a  road  to  the  Sound  and  the  Doctor  concluded  that  was 
a  very  favorable  outlook  for  the  development  of  the  country,  so  he  decided 
to  go  on.  Leaving  his  mother  and  sister  at  Portland  he  followed  the  road  up 
the  Cowlitz  river,  reached  Olympia  in  safety  and  on  shipboard  proceeded 
down  Puget  Sound.  He  became  enamored  with  the  beauty  of  the  scenery/ 
and  resolved  to  make  a  home  in  this  portion  of  the  country.  He  made  a 
claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  one  of  the  little  bays  which  jut 
inland  from  the  Sound,  and  the  place  naturally  took  his  name,  being  called 
Smith's  cove.  To  the  south  of  his  location  there  was  a  large  bay,  beside 
which  was  a  sawmill  and  a  few  log  cabins.  He  became  the  physician  of  the 
little  settlement,  which  is  now  the  magnificent  city  of  Seattle.  There  was 
little  sickness  in  the  camp  and  therefore  but  slight  opportunity  for  Dr.  Smith 
to  earn  a  living  at  his  profession,  so  he  planted  potatoes  and  these  largely  sup- 
plied him  with  the  necessaries  of  life  at  an  early  day,  but  gradually  the  set- 

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tlement  grew,  his  professional  services  were  more  and  more  in  demand  and 
in  course  of  time  he  had  a  large  and  lucrative  practice.  After  some  years 
had  passed  he  built  a  hospital  and  patients  were  brought  to  him  on  boats  from 
other  places  and  his  business  became  a  great  success.  For  many  years  he 
practiced  in  King  and  adjoining  counties,  doing  much  to  alleviate  human 
suffering  and  to  restore  health,  and  distinction  came  to  him  by  reason  of  his 
professional  skill.  Flis  property  also  grew  in  value.  He  became  possessed 
of  eight  hundred  acres  of  land  and  sold  a  portion  of  this  for  $75,000,  retain- 
ing, however,  fifty  acres.  Subsequently  this  became  worth  more  than  the 
part  which  he  had  sold.  He  built  a  wharf  at  the  foot  of  Pike  street  and  a, 
brick  block  at  the  corner  of  James  and  Second  avenues.  After  the  fire  he 
also  erected  a  number  of  tenement  houses.  His  real  estate  investments 
brought  to  him  a  handsome  fortune,  owing  to  the  increase  in  the  value  of 
property.      He  was  likewise  a  stockholder  in  the  IMerchants  National  Bank. 

But  many  years  had  passed  and  it  required  the  combined  efforts  of  many 
enterprising  citizens  to  make  Seattle  the  beautiful  city  which  we  to-day  find 
it.  Dr.  Smith  recalls  many  incidents  of  pioneer  days,  when  life  was  fraught 
with  hardships  and  ofttimes  with  danger.  During  the  time  of  the  Indian 
war  he  was  obliged  to  lep.ve  his  claim  and  take  refuge  in  the  town  and  his 
home  and  others  outside  the  town  were  destroyed.  The  Doctor  volunteered 
and  was  surgeon  of  Company  A  and  Company  H  of  the  Sixth  Regiment, 
receiving  his  commission  from  Governor  Stevens.  Their  duty  was  to  guard 
the  town  and  scour  the  surrounding  country  while  the  families  remained  in 
safety  within  the  stockade.  In  December,  1856,  the  Indians  attacked  the 
town,  the  fight  lasting  all  da}'.  The  government  ship  Decatur  had  just  en- 
tered the  bay  and  took  a  part  in  the  battle  which  saved  the  town.  The  ship 
shelled  the  Indians,  who  were  filled  with  great  consternation  at  the  balls 
which  shot  twice.  An  Indian  saw  a  ball  from  the  ship  fall,  and,  thinking 
that  he  had  found  a  prize,  ran  and  picked  it  up.  Just  then  it  exploded  and 
killed  him  and  several  others.  Only  two  white  men  lost  their  lives  in  that 
struggle. 

In  1862  Dr.  Smith  was  happily  married  to  IMiss  ]\Iary  A.  Phalen,  a 
native  of  Wisconsin,  and  unto  them  liave  been  born  a  son  and  seven  daughters, 
and  with  one  exception  all  are  yet  living.  Lula  became  the  wife  of  J.  R.  H. 
Pennefather,  an  attorney  of  Seattle;  Luma  married  George  Linder,  Jr..  of 
Boston,  who  is  now  a  resident  of  this  city;  Maude  became  the  wife  of  Charles 
Teaff,  of  San  Francisco,  and'  died  from  the  effects  of  a  surgical  operation  in 
J 899;  Laurine  is  at  home;  Ralph  W.  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Alaska;  May 


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is  with  lier  parents;  Lillian  married  \Villiani  Tompkins;  and  lone  married 
C.  H.  Graff,  a  professor  in  the  University  of  Wisconsin. 

The  Doctor  has  been  a  Repubhcan  since  the  organization  of  the  party 
and  has  four  times  been  elected  by  his  fellow  citizens  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
legislature,  where  he  served  with  honor  and  credit,  leaving  the  impress  of 
his  strong  and  upright  nature  upon  the  legislation  enacted  during  that  period. 
He  never  sought  office,  never  asked  for  a  vote  and  never  was  defeated  in  an 
election,  and  while  he  was  presiding  officer  in  the  council  there  was  never 
an  appeal  taken  from  his  rulings.  His  political  record  in  these  regards  is 
almost  without  a  parallel,  and  indicates  in  unmistakable  terms  not  only  his 
personal  popularity  but  also  the  unqualified  confidence  reposed  in  his  ability, 
loyalty  and  trustworthiness.  Dr.  Smith  has  written  a  number  of  valuable 
reminiscent  articles  concerning  the  early  times,  which  have  been  published 
by  the  press  and  are  of  much  historical  mterest  and  value.  One  of  these  was 
a  description  of  the  Indian  chief  Seattle,  for  whom  the  town  was  named,  and 
also  gave  an  account  of  one  of  the  chief's  oratorical  efforts,  of  which  the 
Doctor  had  taken  notes.  The  measure  of  good  which  Dr.  Smith  has  ac- 
complished in  the  world  cannot  be  estimated,  but  all  who  know  aught  of  his 
history  acknowledge  his  worth,  first  in  his  professional  capacity,  then  as  a 
citizen  who  has  contributed  to  the  material  upbuilding  of  the  city  which  he 
has  chosen  as  his  home  and  again  as  a  public  official,  over  whose  record  there 
falls  no  shadow  of  wrong  or  suspicion  of  evil. 

JOHN   N.    WALLINGFORD. 

It  has  been  truly  said  that  the  real-estate  dealer  may  make  or  mar  a 
city.  If  he  has  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  and  improvement,  not  only 
because  of  the  prosperity  which  may  accrue  to  him,  but  also  because  of  a 
loyal  and  progressive  public  spirit,  he  will  so  conduct  his  transaction  that 
die  beauty  of  the  city  will  be  enhanced  and  the  improvements  carried  on 
along  those  lines  which  bring  substantial  upbuilding  and  material  progress. 
In  this  respect  ]\Ir.  W^allingford  is  an  ideal  citizen  and  his  labors  have  been 
of  much  benefit  to  Seattle.  He  is  both  widely  and  favorably  known  here 
and  his  life  history  therefore  cannot  fail  to  prove  of  interest  to  many  of 
our  readers. 

The  width  of  the  continent  separates  Mr.  Wallingford  from  his  birth- 
place, for  he  is  a  native  of  Athens,  Somerset  county,  Maine,  where  he  first 
opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of  day  on  the  4th  of  July,  1833.  The  family 
is  of  English   lineage.     The  grandfather,  Jacob  Wallingford,   was  born  in 


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England  and  on  crossing  the  broad  Atlantic  took  up  his  abode  in  Rochester^ 
New  Hampshire,  where  he  reared  his  family,  among  whom  was  Jonathan 
Wallingford,  the  father  of  our  subject,  who  was  born  in  Rochester,  on  the 
7th  of  Jnly,  1762.  In  1780,  when  but  eighteen  years  of  age  he  volunteered 
for  service  -in  the  Revolutionaiy  war  and  was  stationed  at  West  Point,  where 
at  the  close  of  the  long  struggle  which  brought  independence  to  the  nation 
he  received  an  honorable  discharge.  He  married  Miss  Betsey  Bunker,  a 
native  of  Pittsfield,  New  Hampshire,  and  they  removed  to  the  Pine  Tree 
state,  where  he  cleared  and  developed  a  farm  upon  which  he  spent  his  re- 
maining days,  his  death  occurring  when  he  had  attained  the  age  of  eighty- 
five  years.  His  wife  survived  him  and  lived  to  the  very  advanced  age  of 
ninety-three  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children,  of  whom  Mr, 
Wallingford  and  his  sister,  !Mrs.  Betsey  Durkee,  of  Minnesota,  are  now  the 
only  survivors. 

John  N.  Wallingford  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town.  When  fourteen  years  of  age  he  lost  his  father,  after  whi(;h  he  re- 
moved to  the  western  part  of  Maine  and  later  to  the  western  part  of  Mas- 
sachusetts. Subsequently  he  sought  a  home  in  western  Minnesota,  and  in 
April,  1861,  in  response  to  President  Lincoln's  call  for  aid  to  crush  out  the 
Rebellion,  he  enlisted  in  Company  H,  Second  Regiment,  Minnesota  Volun- 
teer Infantry.  He  had  watched  with  growing  interest  the  progress  of  events 
in  the  south,  noticed  the  attitude  brought  about  by  the  slavery  question  and 
resolved  that  if  the  southern  states  attempted  to  secede  and  thus  overthrow 
the  Union  he  would  strike  a  blow  in  its  defense.  His  regiment  was  as- 
signed to  the  Western  Army  under  General  Thomas  and  the  first  engagement 
in  which  he  participated  was  at  Mill  Springs,  after,  which  he  took  part  in 
the  hard-fought  battles  of  Pittsburg  Landing,  Perryville,  Stone  River  and 
various  skirmishes.  The  regiment  made  a  splendid  record,  never  suffering 
defeat  in  a  single  engagement.  Mr.  Wallingford  joined  the  army  as  a 
private  but  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  orderly  sergeant  and  afterward 
to  second  lieutenant.  Taken  ill,  because  of  his  disability,  he  was  honorably 
discharged,  but  when  he  had  sufficiently  recovered  his  health  he  raised  a 
company,  which  filled  up  the  depleted  ranks  of  the  First  Minnesota  Infantry, 
and  of  which  he  was  made  captain.  With  his  company  he  proceeded  to 
the  front  and  served  on  the  Potomac  until  General  Sherman  had  made  his 
way  to  the  sea  and  General  Lee  had  surrendered  his  forces  to  General  Grant, 
thus  practically  ending  the  great  sanguinary  struggle,  which  had  been  car- 
ried on  with  such  sacrifice  of  the  brave  boys  of  both  the  north  and  the  south, 
but  which   resulted   in   the  perpetuation   of   the  Union   that   stands   to-day 


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stronger  than  ever  before.  Mr.  Wallingford  had  the  honor  of  being  one  of 
the  participants  in  the  grand  review  which  passed  through  the  streets  of 
Washington  and  before  the  stand  upon  which  the  President  cheered  the  boys 
in  bkie  who  had  so  vahantly  fought  for  their  country — the  most  celebrated 
mihtary  pageant  ever  seen  on  the  western  hemisphere.  In  the  fall  of  1865 
Mr.  Wallingford  was  mustered  out  and  returned  to  his  home  a  veteran 
and  a  victor. 

Again  taking  up  the  peaceful  pursuits  of  civil  life  he  established  a  gen- 
eral mercantile  store  in  Rochester,  Minnesota,  conducting  the  enterprise  for 
some  time  with  signal  success.  He  also  became  the  owner  of  a  farm,  to  the 
operation  of  which  he  gave  his  personal  supervision,  but  having  become  tired 
of  the  cold  winters  of  Minnesota  he  removed  to  California  in  1873.  Locat- 
ing in  Napa  City,  he  there  established  a  lumber  business  and  was  foreman 
of  the  yard  for  fourteen  years. 

In  1888  Mr.  Wallingford  arrived  in  Seattle  and  here  began  dealing  in 
real  estate.  He  has  principally  handled  his  own  property  at  Green  Lake, 
where  he  has  platted  eighty  acres,  a  part  of  it  in  Wallingford  Park  and  the 
remainder  in  Wallingford  division  to  Green  Lake.  The  land  there  is  being 
rapidly  built  upon  and  improved  and  recently  there  has  been  erected  a  fine 
school  at  a  cost  of  thirty-five  thousand  dollars.  The  Green  Lake  car  line 
extends  to  his  property,  making  only  a  twenty  minute  ride  to  the  business 
portion  of  the  city.  Mr.  Wallingford  has  made  judicious  investments 
and  closely  watching  market  values  he  has  so  handled  his  prosperity  that 
it  has  brought  him  an  excellent  return  upon  his  investment. 

In  1857  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Wallingford  and  Miss  Arabelle 
J.  De  Groot,  a  native  -of  New  York  city  and  unto  them  have  been  born  a 
son  and  a  daughter.  Noble,  whose  home  is  in  Seattle,  is  now  engaged  in 
mining  in  Alaska,  while  the  daughter,  Emma  J.,  is  now  the  wife  of  the 
Hon.  William  D.  Wood,  ex-mayor  of  Seattle  and  ex- judge  of  the  probate 
court  of  King  county.  Mrs.  Wallingford  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  and  our  subject  attends  its  services  and  contributes  to  its  sup- 
port. In  Seattle  he  built  a  family  residence,  which  he  afterward  sold  for 
twenty-seven  thousand  dollars  and  with  his  family  he  is  now  living  in  the 
beautiful  suburb  of  Green  Lake. 

In  politics  Mr.  Wallingford  has  ever  been  a  faithful  adherent  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  firm  in  his  belief  that  its  platform  contains  the  best  elements 
of  good  government.  While  residing  in  Minnesota  he  served  for  two  years 
as  deputy  sheriff  and  in  Seattle  has  twice  been  a  member  of  the  city  council 
and  for  two  terms  was  police  commissioner.     He  belongs  to  the  Society  of 


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Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  aided  in  organizing  the  Giand  Army  Post 
in  Napa  City,  Cahfornia,  and  since  the  formation  of  that  society  has  been 
one  of  its  worthy  supporters.  For  more  than  twenty  years  he  has  been  an 
exemplary  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  at  all 
times  is  faithful  to  its  teachings  which  inculcate  a  fraternal  spirit.  A  man 
of  strong  indivduality  and  indubitable  probity,  one  who  has  attained  to  a 
due  measure  of  success  in  the  affairs  of  life,  and  whose  influence  has  ever 
been  exerted  in  the  direction  of  the  good,  the  true  and  the  beautiful,  this 
honored  veteran  of  the  Civil  war  assuredly  demands  representation  in  this 
volume. 

ALBERT   L.   KELSALL. 

Albert  L.  Kelsall  is  president  and  manager  of  the  Northwestern  Iron 
Works,  doing  business  at  the  foot  of  University  street,  in  Seattle,  and  his 
enterprise  is  one  of  the  paying  industrial  concerns  of  the  city.  A  native  of 
New  Jersey,  ]\Ir.  Kensall  was  born  in  Newark,  February  lo,  1859.  His 
great-grandfather  'on  the  maternal  side  was  Elias  Hall,  who  was  a  scholar 
and  literary  gentleman  of  note  in  his  day.  He  was  the  author  of  several 
works  on  geological  subjects,  one  of  which  ]\Ir.  Kelsall  now  has  in  his  pos- 
session and  prizes  very  highly.  His  father,  Henry  Kelsall,  was  born  in 
England  and  came  to  the  United  States  in  1840.  He  was  a  hatter  by  trade 
and  engaged  in  business  along  that  line  in  the  east  until  the  Civil  war  began, 
when  he  volunteered  in  defense  of  the  government  of  his  adopted  country, 
enlisting  in  the  Twenty-ninth  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Infantry,  for  nine 
months'  service,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  enlisted  in  the 
Thirty-third  Regiment,  New  Jersey  Zouaves,  serving  as  a  valiant  defender 
of  the  Union  cause  until  the  close  of  the  war,  but  he  died  from  effects  of  his 
arduous  army  life,  passing  away  at  his  home  in  Newark,  New  Jersey.  He 
had  married  Aliss  Ann  Vernon,  a  lady  of  English  ancestry,  and  unto  them 
were  born  eight  children.  After  the  death  of  her  first  husband,  she  married 
again  and  had  three  children  by  the  second  marriage.  Of  the  first  family, 
Theodore  E.,  is  secretar}-  and  treasurer  of  the  Northwestern  Iron  Works. 

Albert  L.  Kelsall  was  educated  in  the  public  schools,  learned  the  ma- 
chinist's trade  in  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  and  has  since  made  that  his  life  work. 
He  was  for  several  years  in  Chicago  and  other  important  cities  and  in  1888 
came  to  Seattle.  After  remaining  in  the  city  and  watching  business  condi- 
tions and  opportunities  for  six  months  he  engaged  in  business  with  the 
Charles  Hicks  Company,  and  in    1897  bought  out  3>Ir.  Hicks'  interest  and 


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incorporated  the  Northwestern  Iron  Works,  being  associated  with  his 
brother,  previously  mentioned,  Ole  Stanwick  and  M.  A.  Kelsall.  The  firm 
manufactvires  all  kind  of  marine,  mill  and  mining  machinery,  and  has  se- 
cured a  large  and  successful  business. 

In  1885,  Mr.  Kelsall  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  May  A.  Perry,  a 
native  of  Ohio,  and  they  have  three  children  :  Harry  Cadwallader  Kelsall, 
who  was  born  in  Oskaloosa,  Iowa,  Ray  Roland  Kelsall  and  Lillian  Altheo 
Kelsall,  who  are  natives  of  Seattle.  Mrs.  Kelsall  is  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church,  but  Mr.  Kelsall  gives  his  preference  to  the  Congregational 
church.  He  is  a  very  prominent  Mason,  having  been  initiated  into  the  mys- 
teries of  the  Order  in  Tri  Luminar  Lodge,  No.  18,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Oskaloosa, 
Iowa.  He  now  affiliates  with  Eureka  Lodge,  No.  20,  of  Seattle,  and  of  this 
lodge  he  is  a  past  master.  He  belongs  to  Oriental  Chapter,  No.  19,  R.  A. 
M.,  and  to  Seattle  Commandery,  No.  2,  K.  T.,  and  in  all  of  these  he  is  a 
valued  working  member.  In  the  Scottish  Rite  he  has  attained  the  thir- 
tieth degree,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Arabic  Order  of  Nobles 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine,  his  membership  being  in  Afifi  Temple,  at  Tacoma. 
Thus  he  has  gained  a  knowledge  of  almost  all  that  is  to  be  learned  in  con- 
nection with  the  great  fraternity  and  the  teachings  of  the  craft  which  pro- 
mote all  that  is  uplifting,  ennobling  and  helpful  in  life.  In  politics  he  has 
always  voted  with  the  Democracy  but  is  not  bitterly  partisan  and  desires  the 
best  interest  of  the  country,  no  matter  along  what  avenue  the  advancement 
is  secured  and  promoted. 

JOHN   FIELD. 

Among  the  citizens  of  Kent  to  whom  is  vouchsafed  an  honored  retire- 
ment from  labor,  as  the  reward  of  a  long,  active  and  useful  business  career, 
is  John  Field,  who  through  an  extended  period  has  been  connected  with  the 
hiterests  of  King  county.  He  was  born  in  Kent,  England,  on  the  20th  of 
November,  1837,  a  son  of  Peter  and  Betsy  (Sullow)  Field,  both  also  natives 
of  that  place,  the  father  born  in  1802  and  the  mother  in  181 7,  and  there  they 
spent  their  entire  lives,  the  father  being  called  to  his  final  rest  in  1870,  while 
the  mother  survived  until  1885. 

John  Field  received  his  early  education  in  the  parish  schools  of  his  native 
place,  and  later  attended  a  private  boarding  school  in  that  city  Fie  remained 
on  the  old  home  farm  with  his  parents  until  i860,  and  in  October  of  that 
year  came  to  America,  spending  the  first  year  here  on  a  farm  in  New  Jersey. 
In  the  spring  of  1862  he  removed  to  Sussex,  Waukesha  county,  Wisconsin, 


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where  in  the  following  August  he  enlisted  for  the  Civil  war,  joining  the 
Twenty-eighth  Regiment,  Wisconsin  Infantry,  with  \\hich  he  served  for  three 
years,  being  mustered  out  at  Brownsville,  Texas,  in  August,  1865,  while  his 
discharge  was  received  at  Madison,  Wisconsin,  shortly  afterward.  After  a 
.short  visit  at  his  former  home  in  Sussex,  Wisconsin,  ]\Ir.  Field  located  at 
Pine  Bluff,  on  the  Arkansas  river,  where  he  was  employed  as  overseer  of  a 
large  force  of  negroes  on  a  cotton  plantation  during  the  winter  of  1865-6. 
For  the  succeeding  five  years  he  worked  in  the  lumber  camps  of  Eau  Claire, 
Wisconsin,  and  for  three  months  during  the  year  of  1874  he  found  employ- 
ment in  the  vineyards  of  Santa  Cruz  and  San  Jose,  California.  His  next 
place  of  residence  was  at  Port  Gamble,  \\'ashington,  to  which  place  he  re- 
moved in  the  fall  of  1874,  and  for  the  following  six  months  was  engaged  as 
a  watchman  in  the  sawmills  there.  In  ^lay,  1875,  he  took  up  his  abode  in 
Seattle,  and  in  the  fall  of  the  same  year  rented  a  farm  in  the  Wliite  river  val- 
ley, four  miles  from  the  present  town  of  Kent,  where  he  followed  agricultural 
pursuits  until  1890,  and  during  this  time  also  secured  residence  lots  in  Kent 
and  Seattle  and  a  small  farm  in  Lewis  county,  but  in  1891,  on  account  of  ill 
health,  he  sold  his  entire  possessions  and  for  the  following  two  years  was  an 
inmate  of  the  Soldier's  Home  at  Orting.  Since  1893,  however,  he  has  made 
his  home  in  the  l^eautiful  little  town  of  Kent,  where  he  owns  a  pleasant  and 
attractive  home.  His  energy  and  enterprise,  capable  management  and  honor- 
aDle  dealings  brought  to  him  a  comfortable  competence,  and  therefore  he  is 
able  to  put  aside  all  business  cares  and  rest  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of 
former  toil. 

At  Sussex,  Wisconsin,  in  April,  1867,  J\Ir.  Field  was  united  in  marriage 
iO  Aliss  Mar}^  Ann  Greenland,  who  was  born  in  Vermont  in  1837,  and  was 
of  English  descent.  Her  death  occurred  at  Eau  Claire,  Wisconsin,  in  1872, 
leaving  one  child,  William  T.  Sherman  Field,  who  is  now  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural pursuits  in  Waukesha  county,  that  state.  At  Kent,  Washington,  in 
T896,  our  subject  was  again  married,  Mrs.  Georgiana  Ziegler  becoming  his 
wife.  She  was  born  at  Paducah,  Kentucky,  on  the  12th  of  May,  1849,  ^^^ 
when  a  child  was  taken  to  Indiana  and  afterward  to  Illinois,  where,  in  Gal- 
latin county,  in  1866,  she  was  married  to  John  N.  B.  Coombs,  a  farmer.  He 
was  called  to  his  final  rest  in  1872,  and  at  Harrisburg,  Illinois,  his  widow  was 
married  to  Eli  Ziegler.  who  departed  this  life  on  the  3d  of  January,  1894.  In 
die  following  year  she  came  to  Kent,  \\"ashington,  and  in  this  city,  in  1896, 
she  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  Mr.  Field.  By  her  first  marriage  she  be- 
came the  mother  of  two  children :  Lillie,  the  wife  of  Ed  Richardson,  of 
Kent,  and  William,  also  of  thi?  citv.   Unto  the  union  of  ^Ir.  and  ^Irs.  Ziegler 


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five  children  were  born,  namely:  Eva,  who  became  the  wife  of  Edward 
Zeeum,  of  Kent;  Anna,  the  wife  of  Oliver  Cavanaugh,  of  this  city;  and 
Stella,  Lulu  and  James  R.,  at  home.  In  his  political  affiliations  jMr.  Field  is 
allied  with  the  Democracy,  but  during  Lincoln's  second  race  for  the  presidency 
he  supported  the  Republican  party,  his  vote  being  cast  at  Little  Rock,  Ar- 
kansas, where  he  balloted  with  one  hand  while  with  the  other  he  held  his 
musket.  During  his  residence  in  the  White  river  valley  he  served  for  twelve 
years  as  constable.  In  his  fraternal  relations  he  is  a  member  of  Hiram  Ver- 
non Post,  No.  76,  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  in  which  he  is  serving  as 
senior  vice  commander.  His  reputation  in  business  has  ever  been  unassailable, 
and  in  all  the  walks  of  life  he  is  found  true  to  duty  and  to  the  trusts  reposed 
in  him. 

WILLIAM   ARNEY. 

William  Arney  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Arney  Brothers, 
dealers  in  general  merchandise  and  also  extensively  interested  in  dairy  farm- 
ing and  other  enterprises  at  Kent  and  Blaine,  Washington.  He  was  born  in 
Somersetshire,  England,  on  the  nth  of  April,  1862.  His  father,  Jesse 
Arney,  was  born  in  the  same  locality  in  181 9,  and  his  death  there  occurred  in 
1886.  He,  too,  followed  the  vocation  of  farming,  and  he  obtained  an  honor- 
able position  in  the  business  of  the  community.  The  mother  of  our  sub- 
ject, who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Sarah  Duckett,  was  also  born  in  Somerset- 
shire, in  1838,  and  in  1888  she  came  with  her  family  to  America,  locating  at 
Forest,  Livingston  county,  Illinois,  where  she  made  her  home  until  1890.  In 
that  year  the  family  came  to  Kent,  Washington,  and  she  now  resides  on  the 
farm  owned  by  her  son  William. 

William  Arney  went  to  New  South  Wales,  Australia,  in  1880,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  for  four  years  and  after  his  return  home  he 
accompanied  the  family  on  their  removal  to  the  new  world.  In  1890,  with 
the  other  members  of  the  family,  he  came  to  Washington  where  during  the 
first  year  he  was  employed  on  the  Hewett  farm,  one  mile  south  of  Kent,  and 
during  the  following  two  years  he  farmed  that  place  as  a  renter.  In  1902  he 
became  the  owner  of  one  hundred  and  forty-five  acres  of  land  one  mile  south 
of  Kent,  where  he  and  his  mother  still  make  their  home.  Forty  acres  of  the 
place  have  since  been  sold  in  small  tracts,  and  until  May,  1902,  the  remainder 
of  the  place  was  devoted  to  dairying  purposes,  but  since  that  time  they  have 
carried  on  general  farming.  This  is  one  of  the  banner  farms  of  the  valley. 
In   1 90 1   three  of  the  Arney  brothers,  William,  John  and  Frank,  purchased 


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a  dairy  farm  of  two  hundred  and  seventy  acres  near  Blaine,  W^ashington, 
where  they  keep  one  hundred  milch  cows  and  also  carry  on  general  farming, 
the  place  being  under  the  management  of  John  Amey.  William  and  Frank, 
as  partners,  have  a  forty-acre  farm  on  Suise  creek,  three  ir.iles  from  Kent, 
on  which  is  a  large  cheese  factory,  established  in  1901,  and  they  there  handle 
from  four  to  five  thousand  pounds  of  milk  daily.  In  1896  the  two  brothers 
also  established  a  general  mercantile  store  on  Front  street,  in  Kent,  and  in 
1901  they  purchased  their  present  handsome  and  commodious  store  building 
on  that  street,  this  being  one  of  the  most  important  mercantile  establishments 
in  the  White  river  valley.  W' ith  the  exception  of  a  prospecting  tour  to  Alas- 
ka in  1900,  \\'illiam  Arney  has  resided  in  Kent  continuously  for  twelve  years, 
and  during  all  this  time  he  has  so  lived  as  to  win  and  retain  Lhe  friendship  and 
esteem  of  all  with  whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  His  political  support  is 
given  to  the  Republican  party,  and  in  his  fraternal  relations  he  is  a  member  of 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  \\^orkmen,  of  Kent. 

Frank  Arney,  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Arney  Brothers,  was 
born  near  Bristol,  England,  on  the  14th  of  ^lay,  1872,  and  he  was  there 
reared  and  educated.  Removing  with  the  family  to  the  new  world  in  1888, 
he  resumed  his  studies  in  Illinois  for  a  time,  and  after  completing  his  educa- 
tion he  was  employed  at  farm  labor  until  he  became  established  in  business 
with  his  brother  William.  He  was  married  at  Kent,  in  1896,  to  Carrie  Reed, 
and  they  have  two  children,  ^lay  and  William  Rodney. 

The  other  members  of  the  Arney  family  are :  John,  the  manager  of  the 
dairy  farm  at  Blaine;  Rodney  Jesse,  an  Episcopal  minister  at  Seattle; 
Edward,  a  civil  engineer  at  Perth,  Australia ;  and  George,  a  minister  in  the 
Methodist  church  and  now  located  at  Bremerton,  Washington. 

AUSTIN    P.    BURWELL. 

Austin  Peck  Burwell,  \\ho  for  se\'eral  years  has  been  the  president  of 
the  Seattle  Cracker  &  Candy  Company,  occupies  a  foremost  position  in  com- 
mercial circles  in  this  city,  having  achieved  splendid  success  through  business 
methods  that  will  bear  the  closest  investigation  and  scrutiny.  He  is  a  na- 
tive of  Pennsylvania,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  the  city  of  fiercer,  in 
]\lercer  county,  January  31,  1848.  He  is  of  English  ancestry  and  the  line 
of  descent  in  this  country  can  be  traced  back  to  John  Burwell,  who  came  to 
^Massachusetts  when  the  ]\laviiower  made  its  second  vovasfe.  He  located 
near  ^Nliddletown,  Connecticut,  and  Eiias  Burwell.  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  was  born  in  New  Haven,  Connecticut.      When  he  had  arrived  at 


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man's  estate  he  married  Miss  Amy  Piatt,  of  Milford,  Connecticut,  In  the 
Charter  Oak  state  lie  engaged  in  business  as  a  manufacturer  of  clocks.  He 
held  membership  in  the  Congregational  church  and  lived  an  upright  life,  but 
was  called  to  his  final  rest  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-three  years,  dying  of 
pneumonia.  His  wife  long  survived  him  and  attained  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-two  years.  Their  son,  Austin  Smith  Burwell,  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  born  on  the  12th  of  February,  18 14,  and  married  Miss  Susan  Peck, 
of  Orange,  Connecticut.  He,  too,  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  clocks  and 
also  conducted  a  cabinet-making  business  in  Allegheny,  Pennsylvania.  In 
1847  li^  remoN^ed  to  Mercer,  that  state,  where  he  opened  a  large  general  mer- 
cantile establishment,  continuing  in  business  there  until  1871,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  his  two  eldest  sons,  A.  P.  and  A.  S.  Burwell.  In  1885  ^^  came 
to  Seattle,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on  the  23d  of 
March,  1901,  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  eighty-seven  years.  He  was  a 
most  public  spirited  gentleman,  taking  a  deep  interest  in  every  measure  and 
movement  calculated  to  .advance  the  general  welfare.  For  two  terms  he 
served  as  mayor  of  the  city  and  wa-s  a  most  honorable  and  upright  officer. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  were  consistent  Christians  and  the  influence  of  their 
characters  is  seen  in  the  lives  of  their  children.  They  had  -four  sons  and 
three  daughters,  all  of  whom  became  identified  with  Christian  work  at  an 
early  age.     They  lost  one  son,  Harvey,  when  only  seven  years  of  ag-e. 

Austin  Peck  Burwell  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  supplemented  it  by  a  five  years  course  in  Oberlin 
College,  where  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1870.  He  then  engaged 
with  his  brother  in  the  conduct  of  the  business  which  their  father  had  estab- 
lished and  in  which  they  met  with  gratifying  success.  After  conducting  the 
enterprise  for  eighteen  years  they  sold  the  store,  and  in  1885  came  to  Seattle, 
which  was  then  a  city  of  about  ten  thousand  population.  Here  the  three 
brothers,  Austin  P.,  Anson  S.  and  Edward,  became  identified  with  business 
affairs.  They  organized  the  Seattle  Hardware  Company,  carrying  on  a  whole- 
sale and  retail  business  which  grew  to  very  large  proportions.  In  fact,  this 
is  now  the  most  extensive  enterprise  of  the  kind  in  the  state  of  Washington. 
Mr.  Burwell  remained  in  the  firm  for  nine  years  and  then  sold  his  interest 
to  his  brothers  who  still  continue  the  store.  In  1894  he  aided  in  organizing 
the  Seattle  Cracker  &  Candy  Company  and  was  elected  its  president  and  man- 
ager, continuing  in  control  of  its  affairs  with  marked  success  until  1899,  when 
the  business  was  sold  to  the  Pacific  Biscuit  Company,  a  large  corporation 
which  now  controls  the  greater  part  of  the  business  in  this  line  for  the  state, 
Mr.  Burwell  being  retained  as  manager  of  the  branch  in  Seattle  and  also  of 


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the  business  throughout  rhe  state  of  Washington  to  western  Idaho  and  to 
Alaska.  They  manufacture  all  their  own  goods,  including  a  very  large  line 
of  confectionery  of  every  description.  ^Ir.  Burwell  gives  his  entire  atten- 
tion to  the  management  and  operation  of  the  important  and  extensive  busi- 
ness which  is  under  his  control,  yet  has  various  other  investments  which  ma- 
terially increase  his  annual  income.  He  is  a  member  of  the  chamber  of  com- 
merce of  the  city  and  for  two  terms  sen-ed  as  one  of  its  trustees. 

On  the  3d  of  August,   1871,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Austin  P. 
Burwell  and  ]\[iss  Anna  Nourse,  who  had  been  one  of  his  classmates  at  Ober- 
lin  College.     They  have  two  daughters,  ]\Iary  Elizabeth,  now  the  wife  of 
G.  F.  Waterhouse,  of  Honolulu,  and  Susan  B.,  who  is  with  her  parents.    All 
are  valued  members  of  the  Congregational  church,  of  which  IMr.  Burwell  is 
a  deacon.     He  is  also  active  in  the  work  of  the  Sunday-school,  teaching  one 
of  the  adult  Bible  classes  and  for  several  terms  has  served  most  acceptably  as 
Sunday-school  superintendent.     He  contributes  liberally  to  the  support  of  the 
church  and  does  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  moral  progress  of  the  com- 
munity with  which  he  has  allied  his  interests.     Plis  political  support  is  given 
the  Republican  party  but  he  has  never  been  an  office  seeker.     The  cause  of 
education  finds  in  him  a  warm  friend,  and  for  a  number  of  terms  he  has  , 
served  as  one  of  the  school  directors,  several  of  the  fine  school  buildings  of 
the  city  having  been  erected  during  his  official  connection  with  educational 
interests  here.     He  has  never  neglected  an  opportunity  to  do  his  city  a  good 
service.      Mr.   Burwell  and  each  of  his  brothers  have   built  expensive  and 
beautiful  homes  which  stand  side  by  side,  their  lawns  being  undivided  by 
fences.     The  business   relations  between  them   have  ever  been  of  the  most 
harmonious  character  and  all  are  regarded  as  upright  and  honorable  men 
who  have  deservedly  won  a  score  of  friends  in  the  city  of  their  adoption. 
Surrounded  at  his  home  by  a  large  circle  of  friends  who  appreciate  his  true 
worth,  and  admired  and  esteemed  by  the  citizens  of  the  community,  the  name 
of  Austin  P.  Burwell  will  be  honored  for  many  generations  as  that  of  one  of 
the  most  enterprising  business  men  of  Seattle — a  man  who  has  acted  well 
his  part  and  who  has  lived  a  worthy  and  honorable  life. 

JAMES   H.  TITUS. 

The  name  of  James  H.  Titus  is  inscribed  high  on  the  roll  of  King  county's 
honored  pioneers  and  eminent  men,  and  the  part  which  he  took  in  founding 
and  developing  the  county  well  entitles  him  to  prominent  mention  in  this 
volume.     He  established  the  town  of  Kent,  in  which  he  has  long  made  his 


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home,  laboring  for  its  promotion  and  welfare.  He  is  honored  and  esteemed 
by  his  many  friends  and  acquaintances,  and  the  influence  of  his  life  upon  the 
community  has  been  most  beneficial. 

Mr.  Titus  was  born  in  Kennebec  county,  Maine,  on  the  26th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1823,  and  his  ancestors  settled  in  that  locality  when  the  territory  was 
known  as  Massachusetts.  They  are  of  English  descent.  His  father,  James 
Titus,  was  born  in  the  same  house  in  which  he  first  saw  the  light  of  day,  his 
birth  there  occurring  in  1792,  and  he  died  at  old  family  home  in  1880.  His 
wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Gould,  was  of  Scotch  and  Eng- 
lish descent,  and  was  born  in  Kennebec  county,  Maine,  March  3,  1799.  She 
passed  to  her  final  reward  in  1870. 

James  H.  Titus  received  his  education  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native 
county,  and  until  his  fourteenth  year  remained  under  the  paternal  roof,  after 
which  he  spent  one  year  as  a  shoemaker,  while  for  a  similar  period  he  was  em- 
ployed  in  an   oil-cloth   factory.     He  next  served   an   apprenticeship  at   the 
blacksmith's  trade  at  Augusta,  Maine.     In   1844  he  left  the  ancestral  home 
and  removed  to  Michigan,  where  for  a  year  he  worked  at  the  blacksmith's 
trade  in  Kalamazoo  and  Marshall,  and  for  the  suceeding  foui  years  made  his 
home  at   Springfield,  Massachusets.     Returning  to  Maine  in  1849,  he  pur- 
chased a  farm  in  Kennebeck  county,  but  in  that  year  the  gold  excitement  in 
California  attracted  him,  and  selling  his  possessions  in  the  old  Pine  Tree  state 
he  made  the  journey,  via  Cape  Horn,  to  the  Pacific  coast  in  the  fall  of  1849. 
During  the  first  four  years  in  the  Golden  state  he  worked  at  his  trade  in 
Marysville,  while  for  the  succeeding  ten  years  he  was  the  proprietor  of  a  hotel 
at  Oroville,  and  in   1872  he  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  purchasing  and 
making  his  home  on  a  farm  on  the  Dwamish  river  for  two  years.     In  1874 
he  took  up  his  abode  at  Maddoxville,  on  the  White  river,  where  he  followed 
the  dual  occupation  of  farming  and  blacksmithing  for  five  years,  on  the  ex- 
piration of  which  period  he  became  the  owner  of  one  hundred  acres  of  land, 
and  on  a  portion  of  this  place  the  town  of  Kent  was  afterward  built.     When 
the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  was  constructed  through  this  section,  in  1884, 
Mr.  Titus  disposed  of  a  part  of  the  farm  on  the  east  side  of  the  track  to 
parties  who  laid  it  out  into  town  lots,  but  he  has  since  held  the  remainder,  con- 
sisting of  about  thirty  lots,  on  which  he  has  erected  many  residences,  and  the 
property  is  situated  on  the  west  side  of  the  railroad  track.     He  is  practically 
the  founder  of  the  town  of  Kent,  which  stands  as  a  monument  to  his  enter- 
prising spirit.     In  its  infancy  this  place  was  given  the  name  of  Titusville,  but 
at  the  request  of  the  post  office  department  the  name  was  afterward  changed 
to  Kent.     His  political  support  has  ever  been  given  to  the  Republican  party 


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and  on  its  ticket  he  was  made  the  second  mayor  of  Kent,  being  elected  to  that 
position  in  1892.  While  a  resident  of  California  he  held  the  office  of  justice 
of  the  peace  for  a  number  of  years.  In  his  fraternal  relations  he  is  a  charter 
member  of  Titusville  Lodge.  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Feilows,  with  which 
he  has  been  identified  since  its  organization  in  1886. 

The  marriage  of  Air.  Titus  was  celebrated  in  Springfield,  Massachusetts, 
in  1846,  \\'hen  Miss  Sarah  Ketchum  became  his  wife.  She  was  born  in 
Brownhelm,  Lawrence  county,  Ohio,  on  the  26th  of  June,  1828,  and  in  the 
maternal  line  she  is  of  English  and  Irish  descent,  while  her  paternal  ancestors 
were  of  Dutch  descent  and  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Massachusetts. 
Eight  children  were  born  unto  the  union  of  Air.  and  Mrs.  Titus,  but  the  family 
circle  has  been  broken  by  the  hand  of  death,  George  Henry,  who  was  born  in 
1848,  having  died  in  California  at  the  age  af  twenty-two  years,  while  a 
daughter,  Carrie  L.,  born  in  1857,  died  in  Whatcom  county,  Washington,  in 
1893.  The  living  children  are:  James  Arthur,  a  resident  of  Kent;  Edward 
Everett,  a  farmer  near  that  city ;  Alelvin,  who  is  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits in  V/hatcom  county;  Edith  j\I.,  the  wife  of  James  G.  Jones,  also  of  Kent; 
Lillie  E..  the  wife  of  James  Shoff,  of  Ladner,  British  Columbia;  and  Leroy 
C,  at  home.  For  many  years  this  worthy  couple  has  lived  and  labored  to 
goodly  er.ds  among  the  people  of  King  county,  and  they  are  leaving  the  im- 
press of  their  individuality  upon  the  public  life,  the  substantial  growth  and 
material  development  of  the  region. 

« 

WILLIAM    BREAIER. 

So  composite  is  the  social  fabric  of  our  republic  that  we  can  as  yet 
scarcely  be  said  to  have  developed  a  national  type,  and  among  the  many  ele- 
ments that  have  entered  into  the  makeup  of  our  populace  there  is  none  which 
lias  been  of  more  vital  and  valuable  order  than  the  German,  from  which 
America  has  had  much  to  gain  and  nothing  to  lose.  From  the  great  German 
empire  have  come  many  of  our  most  progressive  citizens, — men  of  sterling 
worth  of  character  and  endowed  with  that  pragmatic  ability  which  has  pro- 
moted advancement  along  all  lines  of  material  industry  and  has  ever  stood 
for  social  stability.  Among  the  representative  young  men  of  German  birth 
who  have  attained  distinction  in  connection  with  the  industrial  life  of  the 
state  of  Washington  is  Mr.  Bremer,  who  has  maintained  his  home  in  the  Pu- 
get  Sound  district  for  the  past  fourteen  years  and  who  has  attained  marked 
precedence  as  an  able  and  enterprising  business  man, — one  who  has  con- 
tributed in  no  small  degree  to  the  work  of  development  and  improvement 


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through  legitimate  hnes  of  endeavor.  He  is  well  deserving  of  representation 
in  this  publication  as  one  of  that  progressive  type  of  men  who  ha\'e  made  the 
Evergreen  state  what  it  is  to-day.  He  is  the  owner  of  the  town  site  of  Bre- 
merton, was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  village  of  Sidnev  and  throueh  his 
real-estate  operations  and  well  directed  enterprise  has  done  much  to  forward 
the  material  development  of  this  section  of  the  state,  maintaining  his  home  and 
business  headquarters  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  where  he  commands  unequivocal 
confidence  and  esteem. 

William  Bremer  was  bom  in  the  town  of  Seesen,  duchy  of  Brunswick, 
Germany,  on  the  12th  of  June,  1863,  being  a  son  of  Edward  and  Matilda 
(Mader)  Bremer,  representatives  of  stanch  old  families  of  the  German  father- 
land. Edward  Bremer  was  a  man  of  prominence  in  his  locality,  having  been 
engaged  in  the  banking  business  and  having  attained  considerable  wealth  and 
exercised  notable  influence  in  local  affairs.  He  passed  his  entire  life  in  his 
native  land.  He  and  his  wife  became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom 
the  subject  of  this  review  was  the  fifth  in  older  of  birth.  He  received  his 
educational  discipline  in  his  native  land,  having  completed  a  course  in  the 
Jacobson  Institute,  at  Seesen,  the  same  being  an  institution  of  more  than 
national  reputation.  In  his  youth  Mr.  Bremer  became  identified  with  the 
banking  business,  which  he  learned  in  all  its  details,  this  training  having 
proved  of  inestimable  value  to  him  in  his  subsequent  business  career.  After 
serving  what  may  be  termed  an  apprenticeship  in  a  banking  house  in  his 
native  town  he  went  to  the  city  of  Hamburg,  where  he  was  identified  with  a 
similar  line  of  enterprise  for  a  period  of  two  years.  When  in  his  twentieth 
year  Mr.  Bremer  bade  adieu  to  home  and  native  land  and  came  to  America, 
whither  his  elder  brother,  Charles  E.,  had  preceded  him,  being  now  a  pro- 
minent capitalist  and  business  man  of  Aberdeen,  South  Dakota.  Our  subject 
passed  about  one  year  in  Minnesota  and  the  following  three  years  were  spent 
in  South  Dakota.  When  but  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  was  appointed  state 
agent  for  the  John  Gund  Brewing  Company,  of  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin,  and 
was  incumbent  of  this  responsible  position  for  a  term  of  two  years,  and  since 
that  time  he  has  never  worked  on  salary,  having  attained  a  position  of  inde- 
pendence and  conducted  operations  on  his  own  responsibility, — a  fact  that  is 
significant,  as  indecatory  of  his  exceptional  business  and  executive  ability, 
and  the  more  notable  by  reason  of  the  circumstance  that  w'hen  he  came  to  the 
United  States  he  had  but  slight  knowledge  of  the  English  language.  He  was 
for  a  year  engaged  in  agricultural  operations  in  South  Dakota,  and  at  the  ex- 
piration of  that  period,  in  January,  1888,  he  came  to  Washington.  Here, 
associated  with  three  others,  he  purchased  the  land  upon  which  the  town  of 


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Sidney,  Kitsap  county,  is  now  located,  and  they  became  the  founders  of  the 
town,  platting  the  same  and  placing  the  lots  upon  the  market.  The  village  is 
now  in  a  prosperous  and  thriving  condition  and  its  further  advancement  is 
assured.  It  should  be  noted  in  this  connection  that  Mr.  Bremer  has  bought 
and  sold  land  in  nearly  every  section  of  Kitsap  county,  being  one  of  the  prime 
factors  in  its  development  and  his  straightforward  and  honorable  course  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  he  has  never  been  compelled  to  enter  into  litigation 
with  any  person  to  whom  he  thus  sold  property.  Ever  since  his  arrival  in 
Washington  Mr.  Bremer's  principal  field  of  business  operations  has  been  in 
Kitsap  county,  which  is  on  the  w^estern  shore  of  the  Sound,  and  he  has  been 
conspicuously  identifijsd  with  the  development  of  its  resources,  the  building 
up  of  its  towns  and  the  advancing  of  its  material  interests.  It  is  a  recognized 
fact  that  in  his  real-estate  transactions  in  that  county  he  had  done  more  busi- 
ness than  that  representing  the  aggregate  of  all  other  operators  in  this  line, 
and  he  is  well  entitled  to  the  distinction  of  being  designated  as  one  of  the 
founders  and  builders  of  that  section  of  our  great  commonwealth,  while  the 
statement  made  affords  an  idea  of  the  great  scope  and  importance  of  his  work. 
In  1891  yir.  Bremer  platted  the  town  of  Bremerton,  in  the  county  men- 
tioned, and  through  his  energy,  discrimination  and  far-sighted  policy  the  de- 
\-elopment  of  this  attractive  village  was  brought  about,  while  the  town  has 
an  assuredly  bright  future  before  it,  since  he  continued  to  be  actively  identified 
with  its  interests.  At  that  point  he  sold  to  the  federal  government  eighty- 
six  acres  of  land  at  a  sacrifice  to  himself  of  fifty  dollars  an  acre,  in  order  to 
insure  the  location  of  the  naval  station  there,  thus  indicating  his  public  spirit 
and  showing  his  confidence  that  the  future  would  justify  his  course,  for  a 
more  eligible  location  for  the  navy  yard  on  Puget  Sound  could  not  be  found, 
and  while  he  lost  forty-three  hundred  dollars  on  the  immediate  transaction 
he  firmly  believed  that  his  action  was  politic  from  a  personal  as  well  as  general 
standpoint,  and  time  is  proving  the  wisdom  of  his  attitude.  This  station  has 
the  only  dry  dock  on  the  Pacific  coast  that  wnll  accomodate  the  largest  type  of 
war  vessels,  and  the  significance  of  this  statement  can  not  fail  of  appreciation 
even  at  a  cursory  glance.  ]\Ir.  Bremer  has  not  only  thus  brought  about  the 
development  of  town  property,  but  he  has  also  been  extensively  engaged  in 
the  handling  of  farming  and  timber  lands  in  the  county,  usually  buying  the 
property  outright  and  then  placing  it  upon  the  market,  while  in  numerous 
instances  he  has  made!  valuable  improvements  before  selling.  He  passes 
Wednesday  and  Saturday  of  each  week  in  Bremerton,  but  maintains  his  home 
in  the  city  of  Seattle  and  has  his  ofiice  headquarters  in  the  Bailey  building, 
suite  404.     In  politics  Mr.  Bremer  gives  a  stanch  support  to  the  Republican 


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part}^  but  he  has  never  had  personal  ambition  in  a  poHtical  way  and  has  taken 
no  active  part  in  pnbhc  affairs  of  this  nature.  His  success  has  been  of  pro- 
nounced type  and  he  is  known  as  one  of  the  representative  young  business 
men  of  the  state,  in  whose  future  and  greater  precedence  he  has  the  utmost 
confidence,  while  a  more  loyal  and  enthusiastic  citizen  of  the  commonwealth 
cannot  be  found. 

On  the  25th  of  March,  1891,  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  was  solemnized  the 
marriage  of  Mr.  Bremer  to  Miss  Sophia  Hensel,  who  was  born  in  Portage, 
Wisconsin,  a  daughter  of  William  Hensel,  a  well  known  business  man  of 
Seattle,  and  of  this  union  three  children  have  been  born,  namely :  Matilda, 
William  and  Edward. 

LYMAN   B.   ANDREWS. 

To  the  energetic  natures  and  strong  mentality  of  such  men  as  Lyman 
B.  Andrews,  is  due  the  success  and  ever  increasing  prosperity  of  the  Republi- 
can party  in  this  state,  and  in  the  hands  of  this  class  of  citizens  there  is  every 
assurance  that  the  best  interests  and  welfare  of  the  party  will  be  attended  to, 
resulting  in  a  culmination  of  the  highest  ambitions  and  expectations  enter- 
tained by  its  adherents.  Given  to  the  prosecution  of  active  measures  in 
political  afifairs,  possessing  the  earnest  purpose  of  placing  their  party  beyond 
the  pale  of  possible  diminution  of  power,  the  Republican  leaders  in  Washing- 
ion  are  ever  advancing,  carrying  everything  before  them  in  their  irriesistible 
onward  march.  Certainly  one  of  the  most  potent  elements  in  the  success  of  the 
Republican  movement  in  Washington  has  been  exhibited  in  rlie  personality  of 
Lyman  B.  Andrews,  who  throughout  his  life  has  been  a  loyal  citizen,  imbued 
with  patriotism  and  fearlessness  in  the  defense  of  his  honest  convictions.  He 
is  now  filling  the  position  of  receiver  in  the  land  office  at  Seattle.  Other 
positions  of  trust  have  been  filled  by  him  with  marked  capability.  Most 
loyally  he  has  advocated  the  cause  of  the  party  whose  principles  he  believes 
will  best  advance  the  welfare  of  the  Nation. 

Mr.  Andrews  was  born  in  Ontario  county.  New  York,  Februaiy  10, 
1829.  His  father,  William  Andrews,  was  a  native  of  Connecticut,  born 
April  17,  1804.  The  ancestral  line  can  be  traced  back  to  John  and  Mary 
Andrews,  who  emigrated  from  England  to  the  new  world,  settling  in  Connec- 
ticut in  1640.  The  line  comes  down  from  John  and  Mary  through  Daniel, 
Daniel,  Joseph,  Joseph,  George  and  William  to  our  subject.  George  An- 
drews, the  grandfather,  was  born  in  Connecticut  and  on  leaving  the  state  of 
his  nativity  took  up  his  abode  in  Rutland  county,  Vermont,  whence  he  after- 

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ward  went  to  western  New  York.  He  was  a  ship  carpenter,  and  also  a  house 
carpenter  and  joiner.  \\'ilham  Andrews,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  mar- 
ried in  the  Empire  state  and  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  there  but 
by  trade  was  a  brick  layer  and  plasterer.  He  wedded  Hannah  Pierson  Vvho 
was  descended  from  one  of  the  old  Holland  Dutch  families  of  New  Jersey, 
Vvhence  representatives  of  the  name  came  to  the  Empire  state  at  an  early  day. 
Henry  Pierson.  the  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  ^lay  i6. 
1752,  and  died  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-two  years,  on  the  fifteenth 
birthdav  of  his  grandson,  Lvman  B.  He  was  one  of  the  heroes  of  the  Revo- 
lutionary  war  who  fought  for  the  independence  of  the  nation  and  was  with 
Washington  when  he  crossed  the  Delaware  on  the  bitterly  cold  Christmas 
night,  surprising  the  troops  at  Trenton,  and  winning  one  of  the  glorious  vic- 
tories of  the  war.  William  Andrews  died  at  his  home  in  Seattle  in  1871, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years,  the  family  residence  standing  on  the  present 
site  of  the  Lincoln  apartment  building,  corner  Fourth  and  Aladison  streets, 
His  wife  survived  him  about  seven  years,  passing  aAvay  in  1878. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  later  in  an  academy  in  Mich- 
igan, Lyman  B.  Andrews  pursued  his  studies,  the  family  having  remo\'ed  to 
the  latter  state  in  1832,  but  in  1841  returned  to  New  York  in  order  to  care  for 
the  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject.  The  year  1844,  however,  again 
witnessed  their  arrival  in  ]Michigan.  ^Ir.  Andrews,  of  tiiis  review,  was 
reared  upon  the  home  farm  in  the  usual  manner  of  lads  of  the  period  and 
afterward  entered  a  machine  shop  where  he  learned  the  trade,  being  for  a 
number  of  years  thereafter  employed  as  a  machinist  and  railroad  engineer 
on  what  is  now  the  Lake  Shore  Railroad.  He  spent  four  or  five  years  in 
Minnesota  and  in  1859  the  entire  family  came  to  the  Pacific  cosat,  journeying 
by  way  of  New  York  and  thence  by  steamer  via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  to 
California. 

In  i860  ;Mr.  Andrews  decided  to  go  to  a  newer  country  and  made  his 
way  to  Seattle  where,  in  connection  with  another  man.  he  took  contracts  from 
the  government  for  the  surveys  of  public  lands.  He  did  considerable  Vv'ork 
of  this  character  at  a  time  when  it  was  verv  hard  to  do  survevins^  because  of 
the  dense  timber  growth.  In  1863  he  made  the  discovery  of  the  coal  prop- 
erty, now  in  possesion  of  the  Pacific  Coal  &  Iron  Company,  near  Oilman. 
"He  homesteaded  and  secured  four  hundred  acres  of  land  which  he  owned  and 
operated  for  several  years  and  then  sold  the  property  for  forty  thousand  dol- 
lars. His  work  in  this  direction  led  to  investigations  as  to  the  richness  of  the 
coal  deposits  in  this  section  of  the  countn'  and  subsequently  to  the  discovery 
.of  other  coal  mines  near  Oilman  and  Newcastle. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  283 

With  the  exception  of  the  time  spent  upon  the  homestead  at  Gihnan,  Mr. 
Andrews  has  maintained  his  residence  in  Seattle  and  has  seen  it  grow  from  a 
smah  place  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  white  persons  to  its  present  extensive 
metropolitan  proportions.  He  has  also  been  a  prominent  factor  in  its  indus- 
trial and  commercial  life  and  has  contributed  in  no  small  degree  to  its  im- 
provement and  upbuilding.  In  early  years  he  conducted  a  repair  shop,  his 
mechanical  ability  enabling  him  to  do  any  kind  of  repair  work,  from  that 
needed  to  repair  the  mechanism  of  a  clock,  up  to  that  in  demand  in  placing  in 
order  the  most  intricate  and  enlarged  machinery.  He  had  brought  with  him 
many  tools  which  he  used  in  the  conduct  of  his  shop  here.  Mr.  Andrews  also 
built  two  residences  in  the  city,  but  he  spent  twenty  years  at  the  corner  of 
Fourth  avenue  and  Madison  street,  the  present  site  of  the  Lincoln  apartment 
building.  In  1890-91  he  erected  a  fine  residence  on  Queen  Ann  Hill,  the 
grounds  and  house  together  costing  about  eighteen. thousand  dollars;  which 
after  four  or  five  years  he  sold.  He  has  purchased  and  sold  considerable 
vacant  and  also  improved  property,  both  for  himself  and  other  parties,  and 
in  his  real  estate  dealings  he  has  met  with  creditable  success. 

Mr.  Andrews  has  been  prominent  in  public  affairs  and  is  a  strong  sup- 
]3orter  of  the  principles  of  the  Repu1)lican  party.     He  advocated  such  prin- 
ciples even  before  the  formation  of  this  old  political  organization.     He  has 
always  been  active  in  party  work  and  his  services  have  been  recognized  in 
various  ways.     His  first  vote  for  president  was  cast  in   behalf  of  General 
Winfield  Scott,  the  Whig  candidate  in  1852.     He  was  elected  the  first  county 
clerk  of  Brooklyn  township,  Hennepin  county,  Minnesota,  •  after  the  admis- 
sion of  that  state  to  the  Union.     After  coming  to  the  territory  of  W^ashing- 
ton  he  was  continuouly  connected  with  public  aft'airs  and  was  sent  as  a  dele- 
gate to  the  national  convention  at  Philadelphia  when  General  Grant  received 
the  nomination  for  his  second  term.     He  also  attended  the  national  conven- 
tion  in  Cincinnati,   in    1876,  as  a   national  committeeman,   having  been  ap- 
pointed to  the  position  in   1872.     In  1878,  at  a  constitutional  convention  at 
Walla  Walla,  he  represented  the  county  of  King,  and  when  the  constitution 
was  framed  by  this  body,  it  was  submitted  to  the  people  and  ratified  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote,  but  congress  did  not  act  upon  it  and  the  work  had  to  be  gone  over 
again.    In  1864  Mr.  Andrews  received  the  appointment  of  clerk  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  and  held  the  office  for  ten  and  one  half  years,  acting 
under  five  different  judges.     In  the  territorial  legislature  he  served  as  chief 
clerk  for  one  term  and  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Seattle  for 
a  number  of  terms,  exercising  his  official  prerogatives  in  support  of  every 
measure  for  the  general  good.     For  two  years  he  was  police  judge.     After 


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the  formation  of  the  state  he  was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the  state 
legislature  in  189 1-3.  In  1898  he  was  elected  to  the  state  senate,  represent- 
ing the  twenty-eighth  district  comprising  the  sixth  and  eighth  wards  of  the 
city.  He  proved  an  active  working  member  of  the  senate,  leaving  the  impress 
of  his  individuality  upon  the  legislation  enacted  during  the  session  of  1899. 
He  secured  the  passage  of  an  appropriation  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars 
b}^  the  state  for  an  exhibit  at  the  Pan-American  Exposition,  at  Buffalo,  New 
York.  He  was  then  appointed  by  Governor  Rodgers  one  01  the  members  of 
the  state  commission  and  elected  by  the  other  members  to  attend  the  exhibi- 
tion and  throughout  nearly  the  entire  period  of  the  operation  of  the  fair  he  gave 
the  state  his  time  and  services  without  charge.  He  was  much  interested  in 
the  success  of  the  state  exhibit,  labored  earnestly  to  get  it  together  and  in 
seeing  that  it  was  properly  shown.  He  also  was  able  to  give  general  informa- 
tion to  visitors  concerning  the  state  and  his  work  was  of  great  benefit  to  the 
state.  In  1896  he  was  on  the  Republican  ticket  as  one  of  the  presidential 
electors,  and  although  it  was  the  year  of  the  Populist  success,  he  led  his  ticket 
by  several  hundred  votes.  On  the  29th  of  April,  1902,  his  name  was  sent  to 
the  senate  as  that  of  a  nominee  for  the  responsible  position  of  receiver  of 
public  moneys  in  Seattle  and  on  the  8th  of  May  following  the  appointment 
was  confirmed  by  the  senate.  He  took  charge  of  the  post  on  the  ist  of  July. 
In  addition  to  the  duties  which  devolved  upon  him  as  receiver  in  the  land  oftke, 
he  is  also  special  disbursing  agent  of  the  government,  having  been  nominated 
to  this  office  bv  the  secretarv  of  the  interior.  He  furnished  suretv  bonds  for 
both  positions.  Having  had  large  experience  in  local  departments  both  in 
Minnesota  and  Washington,  he  is  specially  well  fitted  to  act  as  receiver  of 
the  land  office  and  is  thoroughly  experienced  in  the  routine  of  the  work. 

Of  the  four  children  of  Mr.  Andrews,  all  are  yet  living  and  are  mar- 
ried. William  R.,  is  an  attorney  of  southern  California;  Mrs  Eva  Pat- 
terson resides  with  her  husband,  near  Oilman  upon  a  ranch  which  was  given 
jier  by  Mr.  Andrews.  Judge  R.,  a  printer  by  trade,  is  largely  interested  in 
Seattle  and  is  engaged  in  erecting  buildings  upon  his  property  on  Seventh 
avenue.     Lyman  Ralph  also  has  extensive  real  estate  interests  in  this  city. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  life  history  of  Mr.  Andrews.  He  has  taken  an 
active  part  in  the  business  that  he  has  transacted,  in  the  council  chambers 
of  his  state,  and  his  course  has  ever  been  above  suspicion.  The  good  of 
the  public  he  places  before  partisanship  and  the  welfare  of  his  constituents 
before  personal  aggrandizement.  He  commands  the  respect  of  the  mem- 
bers of  the  legislature,  and  at  home,  in  the  city  of  his  adoption  where  he  is 


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best  known,  he  inspires  personal  friendships  of  unusual  strength  and  all  who 
know  him  have  the  highest  admiration  for  his  good  qualifications  of  heart 
and  mind. 

FRED   A.    GASCH. 

A  man  who  has  served  the  public  long  and  well  and  been  a  highly  re- 
spected citizen  during  his  residence  in  Seattle  is  Mr.  Fred  A.  Gasch,  now 
retired  from  an  active  business  life. 

Mr.  Gasch  comes  of  a  noted  German  family  of  musicians.  His  grand- 
father and  his  father,  August  Gasch,  were  both  well  known  musicians, 
though  the  younger  member  of  the  family  has  not  elected  to  follow  in  their 
footsteps.  He  was  born  in  Hermstedt,  dukedom  of  Brunswick,  Germany, 
February  20th,  1843.  He  was  reared  and  received  his  education  in  Ger- 
many until  the  age  of  eighteen,  when  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way 
in  the  world.  He  chose  America  as  a  future  home,  and  having  some  rela- 
tives in  San  Francisco  went  directly  to  that  place,  where  he  immediately 
went  to  work  in  a  machine  shop,  which  trade  he  had  learned  in  Germany. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Sixth  California  Infantry  and  served  from  August,  1864, 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  During  this  time  he  was  detailed  for  special 
work  on  boats  from  San  Francisco  to  Panama,  guarding  mail  and  treasure. 

In  1870  he  settled  in  Seattle,  which  was  then  a  small  village  of  six 
or  seven  hundred  people.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  employed  in  dif- 
ferent mills  and  shops,  until  1875,  when  he  had  enough  capital  to  engage 
in  business  for  himself,  in  which  he  continued  until  1886.  Foreseeing  the 
future  of  Seattle  he  made  some  investments  in  real  estate  which  have  since 
proved  very  profitable.  He  believed  in  improving  his  property,  and  thereby 
showed  his  faith  in  its  value.  In  1889  he  was  elected  county  commissioner 
on  the  Republican  ticket,  which  office  he  held  for  eight  years,  two  years 
under  territorial  and  six  under  state  administration.  He  had  previously 
held  the  office  of  city  councilman  in  1883,  and  refused  to  be  re-elected. 
One  of  the  most  important  things  which  came  under  his  administration 
was  the  building  of  the  county  court  house,  which  was  started  in  1889  and 
completed  in  1901.  When  it  came  to  deciding  the  location  he  was  in  favor 
of  the  best  possible  location,  and  used  his  efforts  toward  purchasing  land 
where  it  would  be  convenient  for  the  general  public.  His  efforts  in  this 
direction  met  with  no  response,  and  it  was  finally  built  on  ground  owned 
by  the  county.  He  then  turned  his  attention  to  conducting  the  county  affairs, 
which  he  has  always  done  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  every  one,  and  has 
now    retired   from   office-holding.      The   next    important   work    which    came 


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under  his  supervision  was  the  reorganization  of  the  poor  farm.  There 
was  but  a  small  building,  insufficient  to  accommodate  the  patients,  and  the 
board  set  to  work  to  put  up  a  good  alms  house,  which  hai.l  rooms  for  one 
hundred  and  twenty-three  patients  with  proper  accommodations  for  both  sexes.- 
The  poor  farm  had  been  run  at  a  great  expense  to  the  county,  as  they  were 
buying  produce,  etc.,  which  should  have  been  made  on  the  place.  Mr.  Gasch 
set  to  work  to  inculcate  some  thrifty  German  principles  into  the  economic 
methods  of  the  farm,  and  very  soon  made  a  good  farm  of  it,  planting  an 
orchard  and  improving  it  in  many  ways.  There  was  some  dissatisfaction 
on  the  part  of  tax  payers,  as  every  one  did  not  consider  such  extensive  im- 
provements were  necessary.  Air.  Gasch  invited  an  inspection  of  the  build- 
ing and  the  working  methods.  A  thorough  examination  was  made  by  men 
of  standing  in  the  building  line,  and  it  was  pronounced  to  be  in  accordance 
with  the  plans  and  specifications,  and  later  the  movement  was  upheld  by 
everyone.  He  earned  the  respect  of  every  citizen  of  the  county,  and  it  was 
with  deep  regret  that  he  could  not  be  induced  to  continue  in  the  administra- 
tion of  its  affairs.     King  county  owes  a  great  debt  to  Mr.  Gasch. 

In  1890  he  erected  the  double  building,  608-10  Terry  avenue,  in  half 
of  which  he  makes  his  home.  He  fraternizes  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows,  and  is.  an  honored  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic. 

In  1869  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Anna  Landgrabe,  and  to  this 
couple  have  been  born  two  children  :  Haibee,  wife  of  Henry  Sheabe,  of 
Los  Angeles,  California ;  Fred,  who  has  spent  the  last  six  years  in  the  Klon- 
dike. 

GEORGE  W.  WARD. 

The  life  of  George  W.  Ward  is  closely  identified  wilh  the  history  of 
Seattle,  which  has  been  his  home  for  many  years.  He  began  his  career  here 
when  the  population  of  the  city  did  not  exceed  twelve  hundred  inhabitants, 
and  throughout  the  years  which  have  since  come  and  gone  he  has  been  closely 
allied  with  its  interests  and  upbuilding.  His  life  has  been  one  of  untiring- 
activity  and  has  been  crowned  with  a  degree  of  success  which  numbers  him 
among  the  substantial  residents  of  his  adopted  city. 

Mr.  Ward  is  a  native  son  of  the  Empire  state,  his  birth  there  occurring 
in  Cattaraugus.  Cattaraugus  county,  March  23,  1838,  and  he  is  of  English 
and  Irish  descent,  his  ancestors  having  settled  in  Nev.^  England  prior  to  the 
Revolutionary  war,  in  which  his  paternal  grandfather  was  a  participant.   The 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  2^7 

latter  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  as  was  also  his  son,  C.  H.  Ward,  the  father 
of  our  subject.  The  family  subsequently  removed  to  Cattaraugus  county, 
New  York,  where  the  latter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Hustetter, 
and  in  1854  they  removed  to  Illinois.  He  was  a  mechanic,  and  both  he  and 
nis  wife  were  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  death  occurred  in  Chi- 
cago when  he  had  reached  his  seventy-seventh  year,  and  his  wife  was  called  to 
j:er  final  rest  at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  forty-five  years.  They  were 
the  parents  of  four  children,  two  sons  and  two  daughters,  three  of  whom  are 
residents  of  Washington.  William  H.  is  a  resident  of  Snohomish  and  Mary 
J''.  is  the  wife  of  C.  E.  Brown,  of  Seattle. 

George  W.  Ward  recei\ed  his  education  principally  in  the  schools  of 
Illinois,  and  in  early  life  he  began  business  career  as  an  insurance  agent.  In 
the  Prairie  state  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Louise  Van  Doren,  a 
daughter  of  C.  M.  Van  Doren,  who  was  descended  from  an  old  American 
family.  Two  children  were  born  to  ]\Ir.  and  Mrs.  Ward  in  the  Prairie  state, 
Arthur  C.  and  Susan  E.,  both  of  Seattle,  and  the  daughter  is  the  wife  of 
Henry  D.  Temple.  With  his  family  Mr.  Ward  came  to  Seattle  in  1871. 
locating  on  a  farm  sixteen  miles  south  of  the  city,  where  they  resided  for  tvro 
and  a  half  years,  and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period,  in  order  to  give  their 
children  better  educational  advantages,  they  removed  to  the  city.  He  had 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Illinois,  and  he  then  engaged  in  contracting 
and  building  in  this  city  and  also  in  the  manufacture  of  sash  and  doors,  thus 
continuing  for  about  five  years.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
veal-estate,  insurance  and  loan  business  in  company  with  Mr.  Llewellyn.  Mr. 
Ward  is  a  man  of  splendid  business  and  executive  ability,  and  carries  forward 
to  successful  completion  whatever  he  undertakes.  Through  the  channels  of 
trade  he  has  greatly  promoted  the  interests  of  Seattle,  and  at  all  times  he  is 
alert  in  his  efforts  to  improve  the  conditions  of  all  lines  of  business  that  the 
country  may  thereby  become  more  prosperous  and  that  all  people  may  enjoy 
more  of  the  comforts  of  life. 

One  child  has  been  added  to  the  family  circle  in  Seattle,  Mabel  V.,  now 
the  wife  of  W.  M.  Olney,  of  this  city.  The  family  are  valued  members  of 
the  Baptist  church,  in  which  'Sir.  Ward  has  served  as  deacon  for  forty  years. 
In  political  matters  he  is  a  Republican  and  is  a  zealous  advocate  of  the  policy 
and  principles  of  his  part}-.  Since  his  removal  to  the  Pacific  coast  he  served 
as  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  a  number  of  years.  lie  is  emphatically  a  man 
of  enterprise,  indomitable  energy  and  liberal  views,  and  is  thoroughly  iden- 
tified in  feeling  with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  county  which  has  so 
long  been  his  home. 


288  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

THOMAS    SANDERS. 

Thomas  Sanders,  president  of  the  Bryant  Lumber  &  Shingle  Company, 
owning  a  mill  at  Bryant  and  one  at  Fremont,  has  attained  to  an  enviable 
position  in  industrial  circles  and  is  now  the  owner  of  an  extensive  business 
which  has  been  built  up  through  the  enterprise  and  ability  of  the  partners. 
Mr.  Sanders  is  a  native  of  England,  his  birth  having  there  occurred  in  1856. 
His  parents,  John  and  Mary  (Clements)  Sanders,  were  both  natives  of  the 
same  country  and  in  1870  they  emigrated  to  Petersburg,  Canada,  bringing 
with  them  their  eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living  in  Canada  with 
the  exception  of  the  subject  of  this  review.  The  father  was  a  farmer.  He 
belonged  to  the  Methodist  church  and  the  family  is  one  of  the  highest  re- 
spectability. 

Thomas  Sanders  attended  school  in  England  and  through  observation, 
experience  and  reading  has  constantly  broadened  his  knowledge,  keeping 
well  informed  on  all  matters  of  general  interest.  In  1875  he  went  to  Sagi- 
naw, Michigan,  where  he  engaged  in  lumbering,  and  in  October,  1879, 
he  arrived  on  the  Sound.  Here  he  was  first  employed  for  wages  and  later 
engaged  in  contracting.  In  1889  he  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Verd, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Verd  &  Sanders,  and  in  1891  they  incorporated  the 
Bryant  Lumber  &  Shingle  company.  They  own  the  entire  stock  and  in  the 
business  they  have  met  with  gratifying  success.  They  first  established  a 
shingle  mill  at  Bryant  and  in  the  new  enterprise  prospered,  their  output 
continually  increasing  to  meet  the  growing  demand  of  the  trade.  In  1894 
they  bought  their  large  plant  in  Fremont  and  placed  it  at  once  in  successful 
operation,  at  the  same  time  retaining  their  mills  at  Bryant.  After  their 
arrival  in  Fremont  they  continued  to  increase  their  facilities  until  the  mill 
now  has  a  capacity  of  one  hundred  thousand  feet  of  lumber  in  ten  hours. 
They  also  have  a  door  and  sash  factory  and  do  all  kinds  of  work  in  that 
line,  employing  one  hundred  and  ten  men  in  Fremont  and  one  hundred  men 
in  Bryant,  when  running  to  their  full  capacit^^  The  plant  at  the  former  place 
is  worth  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  and  at  the  latter  place  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  They  also  have  a  large  body  of  timber  land,  which  will  supply 
their  mill  for  many  years.  This  is  worth  fifty  thousand  dollars.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  firm  are  men  of  the  highest  honor  in  their  methods  of  busi- 
ness and  in  that  way  have  gained  their  splendid  success.  They  have  a 
large  local  demand  for  their  manufacture  and  also  ship  to  outside  markets. 

On  the  I  St  of  May,  1883,  Mr.  Sanders  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Mary   Woodin,   who   was   born   in   the   city   of    Seattle,   a   daughter   of   Ira 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  289 

Woodin,  a  resident  of  Woodinville,  Washington,  which  place  was  named 
in  his  honor.  He  came  to  the  Sound  in  1852,  soon  after  the  arrival 
of  the  Dennys  and  is  one  of  the  honored  and  valued  pioneers  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  country.  He  married  Susan  Campbell,  who  was  born  in  Port- 
land, Oregon,  one  of  the  first  white  people  born  in  that  district.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  •  Sanders  have  seven  children :  Guy  T.,  William,  Howard  W.,  Ellen, 
Allen  McKinley,  Ruth  and  Esther.  They  have  a  pleasant  home  in  Seattle 
and  the  family  attend  the  Congregational  church.  Mr.  Sanders  is  a  Re- 
publican in  his  political  affiliations  and  has  served  as  road  supervisor  and 
postmaster,  but  has  never  been  an  active  politician  in  the  sense  of  office 
seeking.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  Amer- 
ica. A  self-made  man  in  the  best  sense  of  the  term,  he  has  worked  his  way 
steadily  upward  in  the  business  world,  maintaining  a  reputation  for  honor 
.and  reliability  that  no  man  can  question. 

ERNEST    B.    HUSSEY. 

Ernest  Bertrand  Hussey  has  had  an  eventful  career,  in  which  he  has 
visited  many  sections  of  the  globe,  viewing  many  nations  in  their  own  lands 
and  gaining  broad  knowledge  of  their  ways  of  living.  He  has  sailed  twice 
around  Cape  Horn,  once  around  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope,  has  twice  crossed  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  four  times  crossed  the  United  States  and  has  been 
a  resident  of  every  continent,  excepting  Europe  and  Australia.  In  busi- 
ness, too,  he  has  had  a  noteworthy  career,  and  has  attained  to  a  position  of 
distinction  as  a  civil  engineer.  His  labors  in  this  direction  have  been  of 
great  benefit  and  value  to  Seattle  and  to-day  he  is  accounted  one  of  the 
prominent  men  of  the  city.  He  is  now  the  general  purchasing  agent  of 
the  White  Pass  &  Yukon  route  and  is  also  engaged  in  private  enterprises 
as  a  civil  engineer. 

Mr.  Hussey  was  born  January  10,  1865,  at  sea  off  the  coast  of  south 
China  at  the  mouth  of  the  Saigon  river,  on  the  ship  Lyemoon,  of  which  his 
father,  Peter  Hussey,  was  commander.  The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish  an- 
cestry, and  w?.s  founded  in  Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  in  1650,  William 
Hussey  being  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  America.  Benjamin  Franklin 
also  came  of  the  same  line.  Another  William  Hussey,  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject,  married  Phoebe  Folger,  of  Nantucket,  a  member  of  the  family 
to  which  the  distinguished  Judge  Folger  belonged.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hussey 
were  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends  or  Quakers  and  he  served  as  one  of 


290  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

the  selectmen  of  Nantucket.     He  went  to  California  at  an  early  day  and 
died  there  at  the  age  of  fifty  years. 

Peter  Hussey,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Nantucket  and 
early  in  life  went  to  sea,  where  he  was  rapidly  advanced  until  he  became  com- 
mander of  a  ship  and  in  that  capacity  he  was  in  the  merchant  marine  ser- 
vice during  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He  married  Miss  Lavina  Doane, 
a  native  of  West  Dennis,  Cape  Cod,  ^Massachusetts,  also  descended  from  an 
old  New  England  family,  of  English  ancestry.  Wlien  our  subject  was  but 
two  years  of  age  his  mother  died  at  sea,  while  the  vessel  was  on  a  trip  around 
Cape  Horn.  Both  parents  were  members  of  the  Episcopal  church.  Captain 
Peter  Hussey  died  in  Japan  during  the  fall  of  1894  at  the  age  of  sixty-six 
years. 

Ernest  B.  Hussey  was  only  three  years  of  age  when  on  a  voyage  with 
his  father  on  the  barque  "Nellie  Fogerty"  the  vessel  burned  at  sea  when- 
three  hundred  miles  off  the  South  American  coast,  but  they  took  to  the 
boats  and  landed  in  Pernambuco,  Brazil,  where  they  were  compelled  to  re- 
main for  six  months  before  they  could  get  means  of  returning.  At  length, 
how^ever,  thev  reached  New  York,  and  the  father  afterward  went  to  Cali- 
fornia,  taking  his  son  Ernest  with  him.  He  had  become  tired  of  the  sea 
and  they  settled  on  a  farm  in  the  San  Joaquin  valley,  l)ut  after  a  year  the 
father  again  entered  the  merchant  marine  service,  going  to  China  and  then 
to  Japan,  continuing  in  command  of  a  vessel  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in   1894. 

Ernest  B.  Hussey  returned  from  California  to  New  Bedford,  ]\Iassa- 
chusetts,  and  there  began  his  school  life,  crossing  the  continent  by  the  newly 
completed  E'nion  Pacific  Railroad.  After  a  year  at  school  he  returned  to 
San  Francisco  by  the  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  and  thence  went  to 
Japan,  joining  his  father.  He  attended  school  for  a  time  in  Yokohama, 
Kobe  and  Nagasaki,  after  which  he  made  various  extended  trips  to  Corea, 
Siberia,  China,  the  Philippine  islands  and  India  with  his  father.  He  was 
also  with  him  during  the  campaign  of  the  Satsuma  rebellion  in  Japan.  In 
1879  he  left  Yokohama  for  New  York,  going  by  way  of  the  Cape  of  Good 
Hope.  He  then  spent  four  years  in  acquiring  an  education  in  New  Bedford, 
Massachusetts,  and  later  took  up  the  study  of  civil  engineering  in  Boston,  in  the 
office  of  E.  S.  Philbrick,  the  engineer  who  built  the  Hoosac  tunnel.  After  this 
Mr.  Hussey  entered  the  employ  of  Charles  A.  Putnam,  a  civil  engineer  of 
Salem,  Massachusetts,  with  whom  he  remained  for  six  years.  Here  he  ad- 
vanced to  the  position  of  chief  associate,  acquiring  wide  experience  in  water 
works    and    sewerage    construction,    and    in    municipal    and    railroad    work 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  291 

throughout  New  England  and  also  in  various  extensive  harbor  improve- 
ments along  the  Massachusetts  coast. 

In  the  Spring  of  1889  Mr.  Hussey  started  for  the  Pacific  coast  with 
Tacoma,  Washington,  as  his  objective  point,  and  devoted  several  months  to 
visiting  all  of  the  Puget  Sound  ports,  finally  giving  his  preference  to 
Seattle  as  the  city  destined  to  become  the  greatest  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
He  had  just  become  a  resident  of  this  place  when  the  great  fire  of  1889 
swept  over  the  city.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  lentered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession  and  for  five  months  was  engaged  on  various  surveys, 
including  the  entire  harbor  frontage  of  Seattle  and  Elliott  Bay.  He  was 
also  engaged  in  various  land  surveys  throughout  the  western  part  of  the 
state,  and  in  the  spring  of  1890  he  opened  an  office  as  a  civil  engineer,  con- 
tinuing until  the  spring  of  1892,  at  which  time  he  accepted  the  office  of 
general  superintendent  of  the  Union  Trunk  Line,  constructing  several  of 
its  extensions.  He  resigned  that  position  in  the  spring  of  1895  to  again 
resume  the  private  practice  of  his  profession,  opening  his  office  in  the  Dexter 
Horton  office  building,  where  he  has  since  remained.  In  the  spring  of  1898 
the  White  Pass  &  Yukon  route,  with  E.  C.  Hawkins  as  chief  engineer,  es- 
tablished headquarters  in  Mr.  Hussey's  office,  and  he  immediately  became 
actively  connected  with  the  purchase  of  supplies  and  the  equipment  for  the 
entire  system,  and  has  since  remained  with  the  company  in  his  present  ca- 
pacity. To  him  can  credit  be  justly  given  for  being  instrumental  in  the 
establishment  of  Seattle  as  the  base  of  supplies  for  that  Company  in  the 
construction  of  its  railroad  in  the  far  north,  and  the  locating  of  their  Pacific 
coast  offices  here.  Mr.  Hussey  is  also  engaged  in  various  other  enterprises, 
in  all  of  which  it  is  his  design  to  make  Seattle  headquarters,  thus  promot- 
ing the  business  prosperity  of  the  city. 

Mr.  Hussey  has  taken  a  very  deep  interest  in  Freemasonry.  He  was 
made  a  Master  Mason  in  Star  King  Lodge,  of  Salem,  Massachusetts,  in 
1886,  and  was  senior  deacon  of  his  lodge  at  the  time  of  his  removal  from 
Salem.  He  attained  to  the  thirty-second  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  in 
Massachusetts  Consistory  of  Boston,  in  1887,  and  has  held  office  in  all 
of  the  branches  of  the  order.  He  affiliated  with  the  Scottish  Rite  branches 
in  Seattle  in  1894  and  was  elected  to  the  thirty-third  degree  in  the  fall  of 
1897,  but  could  not  take  the  degree  until  he  was  thirty-three  years  of  age, 
so  that  it  was  conferred  upon  him  in  1898.  He  was  one  of  the  youngest 
Masons  that  has  ever  received  this  degree,  it  being  conferred  upon  him  by 
special  dispensation  of  the  supreme  council.  He  received  the  decoration 
of  the  Grand  Cross  at  the  hands  of  the  Supreme  Council   in   1895,   there 


292  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

being  only  three  elected  every  two  years.  He  is  head  of  the  order  in  this 
section  and  is  deputy  inspector  general  of  the  state  of  Washington  and 
territory  of  Alaska.  In  politics  Mr.  Hussey  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat, 
but  is  not  an  office-seeker  or  office-holder. 

In  December,  1890,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Hussey  and 
Miss  Carrie  Louise  Brokaw,  a  native  of  Romulus,  New  York.  She  is  of 
English  and  French  Huguenot  stock,  and  by  her  marriage  she  has  become 
the  mother  of  three  sons :  Bertrand  Brokaw,  Kenneth  Peter  and  Wilfred 
Ernest.  Mrs.  Hussey  is  a  valued  member  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church, 
and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. Mr.  Hussey  received  Episcopalian  baptism  in  Japan  and  with  his 
family  attends  that  church.  His  record  in  all  his  undertakings  is  one  of 
high  honor  and  of  successful  accomplishment.  He  has  become  widely  known 
as  a  reliable  business  man. 

*      JOHN  P.  HOWE. 

Probably  no  name  is  more  widely  known  in  connection  with  the  the- 
atrical business  of  the  Pacific  coast  than  that  of  John  P.  Howe,  for  through 
thirty-one  years  it  has  appeared  upon  the  programs  of  different  theaters  of 
which  he  has  served  as  manager.  Mr.  Howe  was  born  in  Wayne  county, 
Ohio,  on  the  22d  of  August,  1849,  ^-^^  is  of  English  ancestry.  The  family 
was  founded  in  .Vmerica  during  the  colonial  epoch  in  its  history  and  repre- 
sentatives of  the  name  loyally  aided  in  the  long  war  which  brought  independ- 
ence to  the  nation.  His  grandfather,  Samuel  Howe,  was  born  in  Virginia, 
possessed  splendid  musical  talent  and  was  a  very  prominent  and  successful 
teacher  of  music.  In  181 8  he  left  the  south,  removing  to  Ohio.  He  was  a 
cousin  of  General  Robert  E.  Lee,  and  he  attained  the  age  of  seventy  years, 
while  his  wife  lived  to  be  about  the  same  age.  Their  son,  John  Hiram  Howe, 
the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Wayne  county,  Ohio,  in  1826,  and  was 
for  many  years  a  prominent  dry-goods  merchant,  his  careful  conduct  of  his 
business  bringing  to  him  splendid  success.  He  married  Miss  Matilda  Shel- 
ing.  of  Pennsylvania,  who  was  of  German  lineage,  her  ancestors  having  been 
early  settlers  of  Pennsylvania.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Howe  A'cre  members  of 
the  Presbyterian  church  and  shaped  their  lives  by  its  teaching.  His  death 
occurred  when  he  was  fifty-two  years  of  age,  while  his  wife,  long  surviving 
him,  reached  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-two  years.  They  were  the  parents 
of  three  children:  R.  N.,  a  resident  of  Portland,  Oregon;  Noble  P.  and 
John  P. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  293 

'  The  last  named  was  educated  in  the  pubhc  schools  of  Minneapolis  and 
in  Seabury  College,  and  has  been  continuously  connected  with  theatrical  busi- 
ness since  1869.  He  is  one  of  the  oldest  theater  managers  west  of  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  having  given  his  entire  attention  to  the  business  through  the  past 
thirty-one  years.  He  has  probably  controlled  more  theaters  than  any  other 
jTian  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Between  the  years  1884  and  1891  he  had  control 
of  the  Northern  Pacific  Theatrical  situation,  besides  all  the  first-class  the- 
atrical business  of  Portland,  Oregon,  Seattle,  Tacoma  and  Walla  Walla, 
Washington,  and  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  tog'ether  with  that  of  a  number 
of  smaller  cities.  He  was  lessee  and  proprietor  of  the  Columbia  and  Alcazar 
theaters  of  San  Francisco  during  the  years  1894-5.  He  has  also  owned  and 
controlled  M.  Quad's  funny  play,  Yoke,  which  Mr.  Howe  brought  to  the 
Pacific  coast  in  1880.  He  afterward  was  manager  of  W.  E.  Sheridan,  the 
great  tragedian,  in  King  Lear,  Louis  VH  and  a  repertoire  of  Shakespearean 
plays,  and  since  then  he  has  assumed  the  management  of  the  Seattle  theater. 
His  efforts  have  met  with  phenomenal  success.  The  theacer  was  built  in 
1892,  at  the  northwest  corner  of  Cherry  street  and  Third  avenue,  at  a  cost  of 
Si 50,000,  and  is  a  beautiful  structure.  It  is  strictly  a  Seattle  institution, 
being  a  product  of  the  city's  enterprise  and  capital.  Fire-proof  and  sub- 
stantially built,  as  well  as  being  of  a  pleasing  style  of  architecture,  it  is  the 
equal  of  any  first-class  theater  on  the  coast  in  both  design  and  interior  finish- 
ing and  decorating.  Mr.  Howe  assumed  the  management  in  1898,  since 
which  time  the  citizens  of  Seattle  have  taken  pride  as  well  as  pleasure  in  this 
excellent  place  of  amusement  and  the  play-loving,  people  are  to  be  congrat- 
ulated that  a  manager  of  such  ability  as  Mr.  Howe  is  in  charge  of  this 
attractive  house. 

In  1882  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Howe  and  Miss  Mary  Ella  Shef- 
field, who  was  born  in  Vancouver,  Washington,  and  is  a  daughter  of  A.  H. 
Sheffield,  a  pioneer  who  went  to  Vancouver  with  Captain  U.  S.  Grant  and 
was  also  well  acquainted  with  General  Sheridan,  who  was  then  lieutenant, 
while  the  future  president  was  only  commander  of  a  company,  both  he  and 
General  Sheridan  being  stationed  at  Vancouver.  Mr.  Sheffield  served  as 
sheriff  for  some  years  and  was  one  of  the  well  known  and  leading  pioneers  of 
the  state.  Unto  our  subject  and  his  wife  have  been  born  two  children : 
John  Pardee,  Jr.,  now  a  student  in  the  Washington  Military  College,  and 
Oueenie  Bessie,  at  school.  They  have  a  nice  home  on  Oueen  Ann  Hill,  and 
their  circle  of  friends  in  the  city  is  extensive.  Mr.  Howe  is  popular  in  busi- 
ness circles  and  is  widely  and  favorably  known  all  over  the  Pacific  coast. 


294  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

COLONEL   ALDEN   J.    BLETHEN. 

In  this  age  of  colossal  enterprise  and  marked  intellectual  energy,  the 
prominent  and  successful  men  are  those  whose  abilities,  persistence  and 
courage  lead  them  into  large  undertakings  and  assume  responsibilities  and 
labors  of  leaders  in  their  respective  vocations.  Success  is  methodical  and 
consecutive,  and  however  much  we  may  indulge  in  fantastic  theorizing  as 
to  its  elements  and  causation  in  any  isolated  instance,  yet  in  the  light  of 
sober  nivestigation  we  will  find  it  to  be  but  a  result  of  the  determined  appli- 
cation of  one's  abilities  and  powers  along  the  rigidly  defined  line  of  labor. 
America  owes  much  of  her  progress  and  ad\'ancement  to  a  position 
foremost  among  the  nations  of  the  world  to  her  newspapers,  and  in  no  line 
has  the  incidental  broadening  out  of  the  sphere  of  usefulness  been  more 
marked  than  in  this  same  line  of  journalism.  Seattle,  the  city  marveious, 
lias  enlisted  in  its  newspaper  field  some  of  the  strongest  intellects  in  the 
nation — men  of  broad  mental  grasp,  cosmopolitan  ideas  and  notable  busi- 
ness sagacity. 

Prcjminent  among  the  men  who  have  gi\'en  the  city  prestige  in  this 
direction  must  be  placed  Colonel  Alden  J.  Blethen,  the  subject  of  this  re- 
view. His  identification  with  the  "art  preservative  of  all  arts"  is  one  of 
personal  predilection,  and  though  he  has  intermittently  turned  his  attention 
to  enterprises'  of  a  different  nature,  still,  true  to  the  instincc  said  to  charac- 
terize every  newspaper  man,  he  inevitably  returned  to  the  work,  strengthened 
and  re-enforced  by  the  experiences  which  were  gained  outside. 

Colonel  Blethen  is  the  editor-in-chief  of  The  Seattle  Daily  and  Sunday 
Times  and  comes  of  one  of  the  oldest  families  of  this  country,  his  ancestry 
tracing  back  to  1680,  when  representatives  of  the  name  located  at  Ipswich, 
Massachusetts. 

As  a  rule  the  men  of  the  family  have  devoted  their  energies  to  either 
agricultural  or  sea-faring  pursuits.  The  paternal  grandmother  was  a  sec- 
ond cousin  of  Ethan  Allen,  the  gallant  Vermont  general,  who  led  the  Green 
Mountain  boys  to  victory  in  the  capture  of  Fort  Ticonderoga. 

Again  the  family  was  represented  by  loyal  service  in  the  Civil  'war, 
three  brothers  of  our  subject  joining  the  Union  army.  Allen  served  for 
three  years  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland  and  participated  in  the  notable 
battles  of  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain,  Missionary  Ridge  and  Frank- 
lin. 

Charles  Edward  died  from  the  result  of  injuries  sustained  at  the  battle 
of    Cedar    Creek    where    Early    surprised    Sheridan    "twenty    miles    away." 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  295 

James  L.  was  wounded  at  Gettysburg  and  served  his  country  till  the  close. 

Colonel  Blethen  is  a  native  of  Maine,  having  been  born  at  Knox,  Waldo 
county,  on  December  27,  1846,  his  parents  being  Alden  and  Abbie  L.  Blethen. 
After  acquiring  a  common-school  education  he  entered  Wesleyan  Seminary 
and  College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1868,  and  in  1872  he  won  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts,  at  Bowdoin  College.  He  then  took  up  the  profes- 
sion of  teaching  and  was  lessee  and  principal  of  the  Abbott  Familv  School 
from   1869  until   1873. 

At  the  same  time  he  carried  on  the  study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  of  the  state  of  Maine  in  the  latter  year,  establishing  an  office  in  Port- 
land. He  there  engaged  in  practice  until  1880,  when  on  account  of  ill 
health  he  removed  to  Kansas  City,  Missouri,  where  he  entered  upon  the 
vocation  for  which  he  is  so  admirably  fitted.  For  four  years  he  was  editor 
and  manager  of  the  well  known  Kansas  City  Journal,  at  the  conclusion  of 
which  time  he  removed  to  Minneapolis,  where  his  field  was  enlarged  by  pur- 
chasing an  interest  in  two  prominent  papers  there — The  Tribune  and  llie 
Journal.  He  served  as  editor  of  the  Tribune  and  manager  of  the  Journal 
until  1888,  when  he  sold  his  interest  in  those  papers  for  two  hundred  and 
fifty   thousand  dollars  spot   cash. 

Having  a  decided  liking  as  well  as  a  special  ability  for  newspaper  work, 
Colonel  Blethen  repurchased  the  Tribune  the  following  year,  but  fire  de- 
stroyed the  building  in  November  of  the  same  year  and  he  thus  suft'ered  a 
loss  of  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  Nothing  daunted,  he  set  to  work  to 
build  in  1890,  erecting  the  new  Tribune  building  at  a  cost  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  but  the  great  financial  panic  of  1893  followed  so  closely 
after  the  fire  that  it  brought  disaster  to  him  as  it  did  to  so  many  others  and 
he  lost  all  that  he  had  saved. 

While  there  he  took  an  active  interest  in  military  affairs  and  served  as 
colonel  on  the  staffs  of  both  Governor  Nelson  and  Governor  Clough.  He 
had  enlisted  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war,  but  as  he  was  the  youngest  of 
the  family  and  there  were  three  other  brothers  at  the  front,  his  mother — 
a  widow — induced  him  to  remain  at  home. 

After  his  financial  failure,  "desiring  to  begin  anew  in  the  newspaper 
field.  Colonel  Blethen  came  to  Seattle  and  in  1896  he  purchased  tlie  plant  of 
a  bankrupt  paper.  It  was  housed  on  Yesler  Way,  in  a  room  not  adapted 
or  adequate  for  the  publication  of  a  newspaper,  and  he  soon  removed  the 
plant  to  more  conspicuous  quarters  in  the  Boston  block,  with  a  circulation  of 
thirty-five  hundred  of  a  four-page  paper.  He  increased  this  over  fifty-six 
per  cent  in  the  first  vear  and  The  Times  has  since  steadily  grown  until  its 


296  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

circulation  is  about  thirty  thousand  of  a  twenty-paged  paper.  This  rapid 
and  steady  increase  again  demanded  more  commodious  C[uarters  and  in 
1 901  arrangements  were  made  for  the  construction  of  a  building  erected 
specially  for  The  Times.  Realizing  the  trend  of  business  northward,  Col- 
onel Blethen  decided  upon  the  corner  of  Second  avenue  and  Union  street. 

Many  of  his  friends  laughed  at  him  for  going  so  far  away  from  what 
Avas  then  considered  the  business  center,  but  even  the  brief  space  of  time 
which  has  since  elapsed  has  proven  the  wisdom  of  his  step.  Here  a  building 
was  erected  four  stories  in  height,  including  the  basement,  which  is  eigh- 
teen feet  in  the  clear.     The  building  is  sixty  by  one  hundred  feet. 

The  business  offices  and  mailing'  room  are  on  the  main  floor.  There 
are  twenty  offices  on  the  second  floor  and  the  entire  top  floor  is  occupied 
by  the  editorial,  news  and  reportorial  department  and  the  type-setting  room. 

In  the  last  named  are  ten  type-setting  machines  and  in  addition  many 
men  are  engaged  in  compiling  what  is  known  as  other  than  "straight  mat- 
ter." The  large  "Quad"  Hoe  press  in  the  basement  turns  out  a  folded 
paper  of  thirty-two  pages  in  a  single  run,  and  the  supplenientary  press  of 
twenty-four  pages  supply  the  additional  pages  of  the  great  Sunday  and 
magazine  paper  which  it  had  long  been  Colonel  Blethen's  dream  to  produce. 

The  first  copy  was  issued  February  9,  1902,  and  thus  he  put  into  work- 
ing force  the  idea  which  he  had  long  entertained  and  which  is  the  crowning 
glory  of  his  other  successes  in  building  up  such  a  splendid  paper  as  he  has 
made  of  The  Times.  Taking  the  month  of  j\Iay,  1902,  for  example,  some 
idea  of  the  magnitude  of  the  business  may  be  had  from  the  fact  that  the  ex- 
penses were  twenty-four  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty  dollars  and  over 
two  hundred  and  sixty  thousand  pounds  of  paper  were  used. 

Employment  is  given  to  one  hundred  and  fourteen  persons,  beside  the 
services  of  eighty-three  carriers  which  are  recjuired. 

It  would  be  a  work  of  supererogation  to  attempt  in  this  connection  to 
enter  into  details  concerning  the  history  of  The  Times  or  to  note  the  specific 
points  which  have  marked  the  growth  of  the  enterprise  and  the  brilliant  ac- 
complishment of  the  man  who  directed  its  destinies.  These  matters  stand 
forth  in  their  own  exemplification  and  further  comment  in  that  direction  is 
unnecessary.     A  local  publication  said : 

"With  matchless  energy  and  foresight  Colonel  Blethen  has  made  it  the 
greatest  CA-ening  daily  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  has  devoted  it  as  a  mighty 
instrument  for  the  upbuilding  of  Seattle.  There  is  not  at  this  time  a  better 
or  more  elegantly  equipped  newspaper  plant  west  of  Chicago  than  that  from 


298  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

ceptable  members  until  called  to  his  final  home  in  1897.  Prior  to  coming  to 
America  he  married  Miss  Jane  Bruce,  a  lady  of  Scotch  lineage,  who  was  born 
in  the  north  of  Ireland.  She  too  was  a  most  earnest  and  consistent  Christian 
and  by  her  marriage  she  became  the  mother  of  seven  sons  and  three  daughters. 
Her  death  occurred  in  1875  ^vl^en  she  was  sixty-four  years  of  age.  Three  of 
the  children  have  been  called  to  the  home  beyond  and  three  are  living  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  while  four  are  in  Canada.  One  of  the  sons,  Alexander  B. 
Stewart,  is  prominently  engaged  in  the  drug  business  in  Seattle.  A.  M. 
Stewart  is  a  druggist  in  Tacoma,  and  our  subject  is  interested  in  the  under- 
taking business  in  Seattle,  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Bonne\"  &  Stewart. 

In  the  public  schools,  George  M.  Stewart  obtained  his  education  and 
when  fourteen  years  of  age  came  to  tlie  Pacific  coast,  making  his  way  to  Cali- 
fornia, in  order  that  a  chang^e  of  climate  might  benefit  his  health.  He  was 
small  and  rather  delicate  at  that  time  and  the  change  did  prove  advantageous. 
He  developed  a  strong  and  robust  manhood  that  has  proved  an  excellent 
foundation  for  his  business  activity  in  recent  years.  He  attended  school  in 
San  Francisco  and  subsequently  engaged  in  clerking  in  a  store  there.  Later 
he  removed  to  Virginia  City,  Nevada,  wdiere  he  was  engaged  in  general  mer- 
chandising for  eight  years,  meeting  with  gratifying  success.  He  was  married 
there  in  1880  to  Miss  Mary  Klupfer,  but  the  wife  of  his  choice  and  of  his 
youth  was  only  spared  to  him  se\enteen  months  and  he  was  left  with  a  little 
daughter,  Mary  Veronica,  who  is  now  in  school  at  San  Mateo,  California. 
Two  years  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  Mr.  Stewart  wedded  Miss  Katie 
Parkinson,  a  native  of  San  Francisco.  Her  father,  R.  R.  Parkinson,  was  a 
California  pioneer  of  1849,  ^"^  ^o^"  thirty-six  years  was  the  editor  of  a 
newspaper  in  Carson  City.  He  was  a  native  of  England  and  in  religious 
faith  was  an  Episcopalian,  while  his  political  support  was  given  the  Repub- 
lican party.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stewart  now  have  two  daughters,  Helen  Mar- 
garet, and  Gladys  Mae. 

For  some  time  Mr.  Stewart  was  a  traveling  salesman,  representing  Hall, 
Luhrs  &  Company,  proprietors  of  a  wholesale  house  of  Sacremento,  for 
which  he  traveled  six  years  throughout  the  states  of  California,  Nevada, 
Utah  and  Oregon,  having  a  very  large  patronage  which  brought  to  the  house 
an  extensive  business.  In  1889  he  came  to  Seattle  and  purchased  the  interest 
of  Mr.  Shorey  in  the  firm  of  Shorey  &  Company,  undertakers,  at  which  time 
the  name  was  changed  to  Bonney  &  Stewart.  They  were  burned  out  in  the 
great  fire  in  1889,  since  which  time  they  have  erected  a  large  brick  building, 
planned  especially  for  their  business  at  the  corner  of  Third  avenue  and  Colum- 
bia street.     They  have  managed  their  business  with  great  r.uccess  and  now 


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stand  at  the  head  in  this  Hne  in  Seattle.  They  have  the  best  planned  and 
most  attractively  furnished  undertaking  parlors  in  the  west,  or  perhaps  in 
the  United  States.  They  are  men  of  much  public  enterprise,  taking-  an 
interest  in  every  laudable  movement  or  measure  in  the  city.  It  has  been  wise- 
ly said  that  "the  liberal  man  deviseth  liberal  things  and  by  liberal  things  he 
shall  stand"  and  this  has  been  verified  in  the  case  of  Mr.  Stewart  and  his 
partner.  He  is  a  man  of  resourceful  business  ability  and  his  efforts  have  not 
been  limited  to  one  line,  for  he  is  interested  in  various  other  business  enter- 
prises. He  is  now  the  president  of  the  Queen  Oil  Company  of  Kern  county, 
California,  and  with  the  firm  owns  considerable  stock  in  a  gold  mine  in 
Sonora,  w^iich  his  partner,  Mr.  Bonney,  is  operating  successfully. 

Mr.  Stewart  is  a  valued  member  of  several  fraternal  organizations,  in- 
cluding the  Knights  of  Pythias  Lodge  of  Seattle,  of  which  he  is  past  chan- 
cellor. He  has  filled  all  of  the  chairs  in  both  the  subordinate  lodge  and  en- 
campment of  the  Odd  Fellows  society  and  is  treasurer  of  the  Grand  Court 
of  Foresters  of  the  state  of  Washington.  He  also  holds  membership  rela- 
tions with  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men, and  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  owns  one  of  the  nice  homes  of  the  city, 
located  at  the  corner  of  Seventeenth  and  Madison  streets  and  he  and  his  fami- 
ly are  highly  respected  here,  enjoying  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the  best 
residents  of  Seattle.  Every  movement,  measure  or  interest  which  elicits  the 
approval  of  Mr.  Stewart  also  receives  from  him  earnest  support  and  it  is 
therefore  that  he  is  known  as  an  active  member  of  the  Republican  party,  his 
labors  making  him  a  leader  in  the  organization  in  the  state.  He  was  treas- 
urer of  the  Republican  state  central  committee  for  four  years  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  served  on  the  central  committee  of  the  city,  doing  all  in  his  power 
to  promote  the  growth  and  secure  the  success  of  Republican  principles.  In 
consideration  of  his  efforts  for  the  party  and  his  effective  labors  in  its  behalf, 
r;s  w^ell  as  his  fitness  for  the  office.  President  McKinley  appointed  him  to  the 
position  of  postmaster  of  .Seattle,  and  the  nomination  being  confirmed  by  the 
senate  he  took  charge  of  the  office  on  the  ist  of  Jantiary,  1900.  The  post- 
ofiice  is  well  arranged,  and  the  service  is  highly  satisfactory  to  the  citizens  of 
Seattle.  The  business  is  growing  rapidly;  in  the  year  previous  to  his  in- 
cumbency the  receipts  were  ninety-three  thousand  dollars,  and  in  the  year 
1901,  amounted  to  two  hundred  and  four  thousand  dollars,  making  an  in- 
crease of  more  than  double  in  two  years,  wdiich  is  an  excellent  showing  for  the 
growth  of  the  city,  and  also  indicates  that  the  duties  of  the  postmaster  are 
onerous.  In  his  official  course,  however,  Mr.  Stewart  is  indicating  that  the 
eonfidence  reposed  in  him  and  in  his  ability  was  not  misplaced,  for  no  more 


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capable  official  has  ever  been  in  charge  of  the  postoffice  at  Seattle.  As  a 
citizen  he  is  public  spirited  and  progressive  and  in  private  life  he  commands 
that  confidence  and  esteem  which  is  always  accorded  to  true  worth. 

ELBERT    F.    BLAINE. 

With  many  of  the  leading  measures  resulting  in  the  rapid  development 
of  the  city  of  Seattle  Mr.  Blaine  has  been  identified,  and  his  efforts  have 
been  such  that  they  have  not  only  won  him  a  place  among  the  prominent 
people  of  the  city,  but  have  also  contributed  in  a  large  measure  to  the  gen- 
eral improvement  and  development  of  the  city  along  lines  of  substantial 
advancement. 

At  the  bar  and  in  the  handling  of  business  interests,  Mr.  Blaine  has 
become  a  factor  in  the  life  of  Seattle,  where  he  has  made  his  home  since 
1885  ^i^d  where  he  is  now  a  member  of  the  Denny-Blaine  Land  Company. 

A  native  of  Romulus,  Seneca  county.  New  York,  Elbert  F.  Blaine  was 
born  on  the  26th  day  of  June,  1857,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  his  an- 
cestors on  his  father's  side  having  emigrated  from  the  old  world  to  the 
state  of  Pennsylvania  long  prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war.  Flis  great- 
grandfather lived  at  Milton,  Pennsylvania,  and  at  this  place  his  grandfather 
and  father  were  born.  His  grandfather  emigrated  to  the  state  of  New  York 
when  James  Blaine,  the  father  of  this  subject,  was  four  years  old.  James 
Blaine  was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  a  man  of  the  highest  respectability. 
He  filled  various  offices  of  honor  and  trust,  and  while  not  a  member  of  any 
church  he  was  always  an  active  worker  therein.  He  married  Amanda  De- 
Pue,  a  native  of  New  York,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  eleven  children, 
eight  of  whom  are  yet  living.  The  father  reached  the  venerable  age  of 
eighty-three  years,  passing  away  in  1893,  and  the  good  wife  lately  died  in 
her  eighty-third  year. 

Mr.  Blaine,  of  Seattle,  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  residing  on 
the  Sound.  He  completed  his  literary  education  in  the  Valparaiso  (Indiana) 
Normal  School,  and  afterwards  took  up  the  study  of  law  in  the  Union  Law 
School,  at  Albany,  New  York,  in  which  institution  he  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1882.  He  was  then  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York,  and 
removed  to  Huron,  Dakota,  and  subsequently  to  Minnesota.  He  arrived 
in  Washmgton  in  1884,  settling  in  Tacoma;  the  following  year  he  moved 
to  Seattle  and  took  charge  of  the  old  Michigan  sawmill  a'  Belltown.  On 
the  first  day  of  January,  1886,  he  took  up  the  practice  of  law,  entering  into 
partnership  with  the  Hon.  John  J.  McGilvra,  of  Seattle,  which  relationship 


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was  maintained  for  several  years,  during  which  time  the  firm  enjoyed  a 
large  and  important  business.  Lee  DeVries  became  a  member  of  the  firm 
and  some  time  afterwards  Mr.  McGalvra  retired  and  the  firm  name  was 
then  changed  to  Blaine  &  DeVries,  this  continuing  until  1899.  During  Mr. 
Blaine's  early  practice  of  law  no  case  was  too  small  or  unimportant  for  his 
consideration.  However  small  the  case  he  never  neglected  it,  his  motto 
being  that  whatever  one  undertakes  to  do,  do  well.  When  he  liad  determ- 
ined that  his  client  was  on  the  side  of  right,  he  would  never  give  up  until 
he  had  employed  every  honorable  means  in  his  power  to  establish  his  posi- 
tion. He  thus  won  a  ■  reputation  as  a  painstaking,  thorough  and  capable 
lawyer,  and  by  degrees  the  practice  of  the  firm  increased  until  the  time 
and  energy  of  its  members  were  taxed  to  the  utmost.  Through  the  influence 
of  the  late  Arthur  A.  Denny,  a  very  large  clientage  was  secured  from  the 
old  settlers  of  the  city  of  Seattle  and  it  fell  to  their  lot  to  administer  many 
of  their  estates.  In  the  practice  of  his  profession,  Mr.  Blame  says  he  was 
successful  in  a  degree  greater  than  he  ever  dreamed  he  would  be,  and  his 
ability  as  a  lawyer  is  indicated  by  the  fact  of  the  few  cases  lost  to  the  many 
won  for  his  clients,  and  the  legal  business  entrusted  to  his  care,  for  many 
years,  has  been  of  the  most  important  character. 

Owing  to  press  of  business,  Mr.  Blaine  has  given  very  little  time  to 
political  work.  In  national  and  state  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  but  in  munici- 
pal affairs  he  believes  that  there  should  not  be  too  much  partisanism.  In 
the  upbuilding  of  Seattle  he  has  ever  taken  an  active  part,  believing  from 
the  very  beginning  of  his  acquaintance  with  the  town  that  it  was  destined 
to  have  a  great  future.  In  1899  the  Denny-Blaine  Land  Company  was 
formed,  composed  of  Charles  L.  Denny  and  Elbert  F.  Blaine.  At  this 
time  the  health  of  the  Hon.  Arthur  A.  Denny  was  very  much  impaired  and 
the  new  firm  practically  took  charge  of  his  large  estate  and  since  his  death 
Mr.  Blaine  has  been  the  attorney  for  the  estate,  which  is  being  managed  in 
the  office  of  the  Denny-Blaine  Land  Company.  Through,  the  efforts  of 
our  subject  the  Yakima  Investment  Company  was  reorganized,  the  property 
being  acquired  by  the  Washington  Irrigation  Company,  and  since  that  time 
Mr.  Blaine  has  given  much  of  his  attention  and  energy  to  the  control  of  its 
affairs.  For  a  number  of  years  the  firm  operated  the  Grant  street  car  line. 
The  Denny-Blaine  Land  Company  has  purchased  and  improved  a  number 
of  tracts  of  land,  notably  one  which  is  now  the  Denny-Blaine  Lake  Park, 
one  of  the  very  finest  additions  to  the  city  of  Seattle,  and  they  are  inter- 
ested in  various  other  enterprises. 

Mr.  Blaine  was  married  in   1882,  to  Miss  Minerva  Stone,  a  native  of 


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Seneca,  New  York,  a  daughter  of  John  R.  Stone,  of  that  county,  and  a 
representative  of  one  of  tlie  old  American  famihes.  They  now  have  one 
son,  James  Arthur.  Theirs  is  one  of  Seattle's  beautiful  and  attractive  res- 
idences, located  in  tlie  Denny-Blaine  Lake  Park.  Mr.  Blaine  is  a  member 
of  several  secret  orders  and  his  wife  is  a  member  of  the  Trinity  Episcopal 
church.  For  a  number  of  years  Mr.  Blaine  has  taken  a  great  interest  in 
the  upbuilding  of  the  University  of  the  state  of  Washington.  Lately  he  has 
become  president  of  the  board  of  park  commissioners  of  the  city  of  Seattle 
and  he  and  his  associates  have  succeeded  in  creating  such  a  public  senti- 
ment in  favor  of  parks  that  a  large  sum  of  money  has  been  appropriated 
by  the  city  council  for  the  establishment  of  a  magnificent  park  and  boule\ard 
system  in  Seattle  and  the  commencement  of  work  thereon.  His  life  has 
been  one  of  untiring'  activity  and  has  been  crowned  with  a  high  measure  of 
success.  He  is  possessed  of  great  energy,  is  quick  of  perception  and  forms 
his  plans  readily.  He  has  the  will  power  and  the  courage  to  carry  them 
forward  to  successful  completion  and  to-day  he  ranks  among  the  leading 
business  men  of  the  northwest  and  capable  of  controlling  interests  of  great 
magnitude. 

J.  W.  GODWIN. 

In  past  ages  the  history  of  a  country  was  the  record  of  wars  and  con- 
quests; to-day  it  is  the  record  of  commercial  activity,  and  those  whose  names 
are  foremost  in  its  annals  are  the  leaders  in  business  circles.  The  conquests 
now  made  are  those  of  mind  over  matter,  not  man  over  man,  and  the  victor 
is  he  who  can  successfully  establish,  contrgl  and  operate  extensive  commer- 
cial interests.  J.  W.  Godwin  is  one  of  the  strong  and  influential  men  whose 
lives  have  become  an  essential  part  of  the  history  of  Seattle  and  the  west. 
Tireless  energy,  keen  perception,  honesty  of  purpose,  genius  for  devising 
and  executing  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time,  joined  to  every-day 
common  sense,  guided  by  great  will  power,  are  the  chief  character- 
istics of  the  man.  Connected  with  one  of  the  wholesale  commission 
liouses  of  Seattle,  the  place  that  he  occupies  in  business  circles  is  in  the 
front  rank.  He  is  president  and  manager  of  the  J.  W.  Godwin  Company, 
controlling  one  of  the  largest  commission  houses  of  this  city,  and  is  also 
president  of  the  Fisher's  Union  of  Alaska,  largely  engaged  in  the  canning 
of  salmon. 

Mr.  Godwin  is  a  native  of  the  Old  Dominion,  his  birth  having  occurred 
in  Bloxom,  Accomack  county,  Virginia,  on  the  23d  of  August,   i860.     He 


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i£  descended  from  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  state  of  English  lineage. 
Several  generations  of  the  family,  however,  have  resided  in  this  country 
and  were  well  known  as  planters  in  Virginia.  O.  W.  Godwin,  the  father  of 
our  subject,  was  there  reared  and  educated  and  after  attaining  to  man's  estate 
married  Miss  Elizabeth  Bloxom,  a  lady  of  Irish  descent,  also  belonging  to 
one  of  the  old  Virginian  families.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Godwin  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Baptist  church.  In  his  political  faith  he  was  a  Democrat  and 
a  gentleman  of  sterling  worth,  reliable  in  all  of  life's  relations.  He  was 
called  to  his  final  rest  in  his  seventy-fourth  year  and  his  wife  passed  awav  in 
her  sixty-fifth  year.  They  were  the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  of  whom 
seven  are  yet  living. 

J.  W.  Godwin,  who  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  in  Washington, 
was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city.  He  remained  with  his 
father  until  his  twentieth  year,  after  which  he  engaged  in  clerking  in  a  store 
for  two  years  and  then  went  to  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  became 
connected  with  the  commission  business,  familiarizing  himself  with  the  meth- 
ods of  carrying  on  operations  along  that  line.  He  had  been  associated  with 
trade  in  the  city  for  four  years  prior  to  his  arrival  in  Seattle.  Believing  that 
there  were  good  business  possibilities  in  the  northwest  he  resolved  to  become 
an  active  factor  in  trade  circles  in  this  state  and  removing  to  Washington  he 
established  a  wholesale  commission  business,  which  has  grown  in  volume 
and  importance  until  it  exceeds  that  of  any  other  house  in  the  city.  Mr.  God- 
win is  the  president  and  manager  of  the  company  and  its  splendid  success  is 
attributable  in  a  large  measure  to  his  efforts.  He  is  likewise  the  president  of 
the  fisher's  union  of  Alaska,  extensively  engaged  in  the  canning  of  salmon. 
He  has  made  large  investments  in  city  property  and  has  been  one  of  the  build- 
ers of  this  attractive  municipality  of  the  northwest.  He  was  alone  in  the 
commission  business  from  the  time  of  his  arrival  in  1890  until  1894,  at  which 
time  the  present  company  was  incorporated  and  since  that  time  he  has  been  at 
its  head.  The  firm  has  acquired  extended  popularity  as  well  as  a  large  busi- 
ness and  its  trade  covers  much  of  British  Columbia  and  Alaska,  as  well  as 
the  state  of  Washington.  The  company  largely  imports  bananas  from  cen- 
ral  America,  distributing  them  over  the  districts  mentioned.  His  realty  in- 
vestments have  been  judiciously  placed  and  he  has  bought  and  sold  consider- 
able city  property.  His  block  on  First  avenue  is  a  brick  one,  sixty  by  one 
hundred  and  twenty  feet,  which  was  built  for  stores  and  is  thus  occupied  on 
the  first  floor,  while  the  remainder  is  used  for  hotel  purposes.  Mr.  Godwin 
has  also  built  and  sold  a  number  of  residences  in  the  city  and  is  credited  with 


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having  done  his  share  toward  the  improvement  and  substantial  progress  of 
Seattle. 

In  1892  occurred  the  mariage  of  our  subject  and  Miss  Ella  Dickinson, 
the  wedding  being  celebrated  in  Philadelphia,  of  which  city  the  lady  is  a 
native.  Her  father,  Lea  L.  Dickinson,  belongs  to  the  celebrated  Dickinson 
family  of  the  Keystone  state.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Godwin  have  a  nice  residence 
in  Seattle  and  the  circle  of  their  friends  is  a  larg"e  one.  He  is  a  Royal  Arch 
Mason,  having  been  a  valued  member  of  the  craft  since  t88i  and  at  the 
present  time  he  is  a  past  master.  In  politics  he  is  Democrat  and  sands 
high  in  the  ranks  of  his  party,  but  has  never  been  an  office  seeker,  as  the 
claims  which  his  business  makes  upon  his  time  are  too  extensive  to  admit  of 
much  outside  work.  The  character  and  position  of  Mr.  Godwin  illustrates 
most  happily  for  the  purpose  of  this  work  the  fact  that  if  a  young  man  be 
possessed  of  the  proper  attributes  of  mind  and  heart  he  can  unaided  attain  to 
a  point  of  unmistakable  precedence  in  the  business  world.  His  career  proves 
that  the  only  true  success  in  life  is  that  which  is  accomplished  by  personal 
effort  and  constant  industry. 

JOHN    ARTHUR. 

For  a  number  of  years  a  distinguished  member  of  the  legal  profession, 
Mr.  Arthur  is  a  leader  in  thought  and  action  in  the  public  life  of  the  state. 
His  name  is  a  familiar  one  in  political  and  professional  circles  throughout 
Washington.  By  reason  of  his  marked  intellectual  activity  he  is  well  fitted 
to  aid  in  moulding  the  policy  of  a  new  state  and  forming  its  public  opinion. 

Mr.  Arthur  is  a  native  of  the  Green  Isle  of  Erin,  his  birth  having  oc- 
curred there  near  the  town  of  Ennis,  county  Clare,  on  the  20th  of  June, 
1849.  He  is  of  English  and  Irish  ancestry.  His  father,  Thomas  Arthur, 
was  also  born  in  Ireland,  and  was  descended  from  a  prominent  old  English 
family,  which,  with  the  ancestors  of  the  famous  General  Wolfe,  the  hero  of 
Quebec,  the  Whites,  Melvilles,  Stackpooles,  Martins,  and  others,  formed  a 
strong  colony  of  landholders  in  the  counties  of  Limerick  and  Clare.  Presi- 
dent Arthur  was  a  member  of  this  family.  Thomas  Arthur,  the  father  of 
him  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  removed  in  i860  to  England,  and 
in  1863  to  the  United  States.  With  his  wife  and  seven  children  he  settled 
in  McKean  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-five 
years ;  his  widow  is  still  living,  aged  eighty-seven  years. 

John  Arthur  received  his  education  in  Ireland,  England  and  the  United 
States.     He  l^egan  his  legal  studies   in  Erie,   Pennsylvania,   under  the  pre- 


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ceptorship  of  Hon.  John  P.  Vincent,  ex-Judge  of  the  Erie  judicial  district. 
Later  he  became  a  student  in  the  Columbian  University,  at  Washington,  D.  C, 
where  he  completed  both  the  regular  and  post-graduate  courses,  of  two  years 
each.     At  the  close  of  his  second  year  he  received  the  degree  of  Master  of 
Laws,  and  was  awarded  the  first  prize  for  producing  the  best  essay  upon 
a  legal  subject.     The  prize  was  delivered  to  him  in  the  presence  of  the  presi- 
dent of  the  United  States  and  his  cabinet  and  the  judges  of  the  supreme 
court;  the  presentation  being  made  by  the  solicitor-general,  in  behalf  of  the 
attorney-general,    who    complimented   Mr.    Arthur   on   his    able   and    schol- 
arly production,  and  soon  thereafter  moved  his  admission  to  practice  before 
the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States.     Mr.  Arthur  resigned  a  legal  posi- 
tion under  the  government  and  opened  a  law  office  in  Washington,  D.  C, 
where  he   continued  to   practice  until   March,    1883,    when  he   lemoved   to 
Puget  Sound   to  accept   the  attorneyship  for  the  Tacoma  Land   Company, 
with  headquarters  at  Tacoma,  but  passing  a  large  part  of  the  timeJn  Seattle, 
where  he. has  resided  continuously  since  April   18,  1887.     He  has  been  for 
over  fourteen  years  the  secretary  of  the  King  County  Bar  Association,  and 
has  been  president  of  the  Washington  State  Bar  Association.     In  Erie  he  was 
president  of  the  city  board  of  license  commissioners.     In  Seattle,  in   1891, 
he  was  elected  president  of  the  state  board  of  University  land  and  building 
commissioners.     In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  has  served  his  party  as 
chairman  of  the  King  county  central  committee. 

In  the  year  1880  Mr.  Arthur  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Amy  A. 
Lane,  a  native  of  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  but  at  that  time  a  resident  of 
Philadelphia.     Their  only  child,  Chester  W.,  died  in  the  city  of  Washington. 

In  Masonic  circles  Mr.  Arthur  has  borne  an  active  part.  He  was  made 
a  Master  Mason  in  St.  John's  Lodge,  No.  9,  of  Seattle,  and  soon  became  its 
master.  He  has  taken  all  the  degrees  in  the  York  and  Scottish  Rite,  and 
has  served  as  potentate  of  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Tacoma. 
He  is  Grand  Master  of  Masons  in  the  state  of  Washington. 

WILLIAM  JAMES. 

Practical  industry,  wisely  and  vigorously  applied,  never  fails  ni  secur- 
ing a  due  measure  of  success,  and  the  well  known  and  able  business  man  of 
M'hom  this  sketch  is  written  has  given  in  his  career  an  exemplification  of  the 
truth  of  the  statement,  and  he  is  now  incumbent  of  the  responsible  position  of 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Renton  coal  mines,  representing  one  of  the 
important  industrial   enterprises  of   King  county.     To  Mr.    James   1)elongs 


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the  distinction  of  being  one  of  the  sterHng  pioneers  of  the  Pacific  coast,  and 
in  this  section  of  the  Union  he  has  passed  practically  his  entire  life,  growing" 
np  under  the  invigorating  environments  and  scenes  of  the  pioneer  epoch  and 
developing  that  sturdy  self-reliance  and  self-respect  which  have  made  for  the 
attainment  of  success  and  which  have  gained  to  him  unequivocal  respect  and 
esteem  in  an  objective  way. 

Mr.  James  is  a  native  of  the  island  of  Scilly,  where  he  was  born  on  the 
i8th  of  August,  1845,  liJs  parents  dying  while  he  was  a  mere  child,  having 
been  of  stanch  old  Welsh  stock.  He  was  taken  into  the  home  of  relatives 
and  with  them,  when  but  nine  years  of  age,  in  1854,  he  came  to  California, 
the  trip  being  made  by  way"  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  they  settled  at 
Marysville,  where  he  received  limited  educationaj  advantages,  ,the  school 
system  in  that  locality  at  the  time  having  been  very  crude  and  primitive. 
Thus  he  may  be  said  to  be  self-educated,  even  as  he  has  been  distinctively  the 
architect  of  his  own  fortunes,  having  been  dependent  upon  his  own  resources 
from  his  boyhood.  He  became  identified  with  the  mining  industry  in  Marys- 
ville and  vicinity  and  there  remained  until  1862,  when  he  went  to  Nevada, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  a  similar  line  of  work  for  the  ensuing  six  years,  thus 
becoming  thoroughly  familiar  with  the  wild  life  of  the  minmg  camps  of  the 
frontier  during  the  early  clays  when  civilization  maintained  a  precarious  foot- 
hold in  this  isolated  section  of  the  Union.  During  the  greater  portion  of  his 
residence  in  Nevada  he  was  identified  with  quartz  mining,  but  he  later  passed 
two  years  in  the  coal  mines  of  Mount  Diablo,  California.  At  the  expiration 
of  this  period  Mr.  James  went  to  Illinois  and  was  for  a  time  identified  with 
coal  mining  in  La  Salle  county,  after  which  he  returned  to  the  west  and  was 
engaged  in  mining  in  different  sections  of  Wyoming  until  1876,  when  he 
came  to  the  Newcastle  coal  mines,  in  King  county,  Washington.  Here  he 
opened  the  Franklin  mine  and  was  also  employed  as  suprintendent  at  the 
Gilman  mine  for  about  two  years,  and  since  that  time  has  had  charge  of  the 
operation  of  the  Renton  mine,  which  is  now  a  very  large  producer,  and  he  has 
also  had  charge  of  the  development  of  other  important  coal  mines  in  this 
locality.  In  fact  it  may  be  said  without  fear  of  contradiction  that  no  man 
in  the  state  of  Washington  has  been  more  prominently  and  intimately  con- 
cerned in  the  developing  of  the  coal  mining  industry  than  has  Mr.  James, 
while  his  long  experience  and  thorough  technical  knowledge  have  gained  him 
a  high  reputation  as  one  of  the  best  mine  operators  in  this  section,  and  his 
able  and  faithful  services  have  won  for  him  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
those  in  whose  service  he  has  been  enlisted  and  also  of  those  over  whom  he 
has  been  placed  in  charge.     The  mine  which  he  opened  at  Adaville,  Wyom- 


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ing.  had  a  vein  of  coal  eighty-three  feet  thick,  and  this  was  one  of  the  import- 
ant coal  propositions  which  owed  its  development  to  his  effective  labors. 

In  politics  Mr.  James  is  a  stalwart  Republican,  and  fraternally  he  is 
identified  with  the  Masonic  order,  holding  membership  in  St.  John's  Lodge 
No.  9,  which  w^as  one  of  the  first  organized  in  the  city  of  Seattle.  In  1868, 
Mr.  James  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  James,  the  two  families  not 
being  related.  She  was  born  in  the  state  of  Michigan,  and  of  this  union 
two  children  have  been  born,  Richard  H.  and  James  W.,  both  of  whom  are 
able  and  popular  young  tradesmen  of  Reiiton,  where  the  family  have  a 
pleasant  home  and  where  Mr.  James  is  the  owner  of  several  other  residence 
properties,  taking  a  due  interest  in  all  that  makes  for  the  advancement  and  ma- 
terial prosperity  of  his  home  town,  where  he  has  lived  for  so  many  years  and 
where  he  is  accorded  the  highest  confidence  and  esteem.  Mrs.  James  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church  and  she  has  prov^ed  to  her  hus- 
band a  true  and  devoted  helpmeet  and  companion  during  the  happy  married 
life  of  nearly  thirty-five  years. 

CHARLES  A.  KOEPFLI. 

Charles  A.  Koepfli,  now  acceptably  serving  as  county  clerk  of  King 
county  and  ex-ofiicio'  clerk  of  the  superior  court  of  the  state  of  Washington 
for  the  county  of  King,  is  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  Republican  party  in  his 
section,  his  large  acquaintance  and  unbounded  popularity  giving  him  an  in- 
fluential following,  while  his  shrewd  judgment  of  men  and  affairs  makes  his 
counsel  of  value  in  all  important  movements.  In  business  circles  he  also 
takes  a  foremost  rank. 

A  native  of  Iowa,  Mr. .  Koepfli  was  born  in  Dubuque,  on  the  loth  of 
June,  1854,  his  parents  being  Theodore  F.  and  Mina  (Benson)  Koepfli,  who 
were  born  in  Germany  of  Swiss  ancestry.  On  his  emigration  to  America 
the  father  located  in  Dubuque,  Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  merchandising 
for  several  years.  He  departed  this  life  in  the  sixty-third  year  of  his  age, 
but  his  wife  still  survives  him  and  is  now  in  her  sixty-sixth  year.  Unto 
them  were  born  two  sons,  the  older  being  Adolph  H.,  a  resident  of  Dubuque. 

Charles  A.  Koepfli,  the  younger  son,  was  reared  and  educated  in  his 
native  town,  and  there  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  with  his  father  for 
some  years.  Coming  west  in  December,  1889,  he  located  in  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington, and  embarked  in  the  undertaking  business  under  the  name  of  the 
Seattle  Undertaking  Company,  of  which  he  is  still  a  stockholder,  president 
and  manager.     His  place  of  business  is  at  1012  and  1014  Third  avenue,  and 


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he  is  meeting;  with  good  success  in  that  venture,  being-  thoroughly  rehable 
and  honorable  in  all  things. 

The  Republican  party  has  always  found  in  Mr.  Koepfli  a  stanch  sup- 
porter of  its  principles,  and  he  has  taken  a  very  active  part  in  promoting  its 
interests.  In  1900  his  name  was  placed  on  the  ticket  as  candidate  for  coun- 
ty clerk  and  ex-officio  clerk  of  the  superior  court  of  the  state  of  Washington 
for  King  county,  and  when  the  votes  were  counted  it  was  found  that  he  had 
been  elected  by  a  large  majority,  receiving  the  support  of  his  many  friends 
in  both  political  parties.  He  is  now  filling  the  office  with  credit  to  himself 
and  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  his  fellow  citizens. 

Socially  Mr.  Koepfli  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters,  the  Iowa  Legion  of  Honor, 
the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  the  Bankers  Association  of  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  the  Sons  of  Herman,  the  Benevolent  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the 
Washington  Fraternal  Congress,  of  which  he  is  treasurer,  but  the  order  in 
which  he  takes  the  most  active  part  is  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  being  one 
of  the  head  managers  of  the  organization  for  the  nine  states  of  the  Pacific 
jurisdiction.  This  order  is  one  of  the  best  and  most  successful  fraternal 
insurance  societies  and  is  receiving  very  large  accessions  to  its  membership 
every  year,  its  management  and  methods  being  highly  approved  by  all  who 
iiave  investigated  the  subject. 

In  1876  Mr.  Koepfli  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Maria  Reynoldson 
©f  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three  sons,  namely :  Albert 
E.,  T.  Frank  and  Thomas  R.  The  family  are  quite  prominent  socially  and 
are  held  in  the  highest  esteem  by  a  host  of  friends  in  the  city  where  they  now 
make  their  home.  In  business,  social  and  political  circles  Mr.  Koepfli  stands 
deservedly  high,  and  is  entitled  to  honorable  mention  in  the  history  of  his 
adopted  state. 

VITUS  SCHMID. 

Vitus  Schmid  is  now  living  a  retired  life  on  Mercer  island,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers,  dating  his  residence  from  1887.  He  has  lived  in  the 
state  of  Washington,  however,  since  1870  and  has  therefore  been  a  witness 
of  much  of  its  growth  and  development  from  early  pioneer  times  when  this 
section  of  the  country  was  separated  from  the  older  east  by  almost  impass- 
able mountains  and  the  limitless  sand  stretches  of  the  plains.  There  was 
iittle  or  no  railroad  communication  to  bridge  over  time  and  space  and  the 
task  that  awaited  the  pioneers  was  a  severe  and  hard  one.     In  the  work  of 


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development  and  improvement  in  Seattle  and  the  surrounding  district  jNIr. 
Schmid  has  borne  an  active  and  helpful  part. 

A  native  of  Hohenzollern,  Germany,  Mr.  Schmid  was  born  December 
18,  1848,  and  is  a  son  of  Conrad  and  Theresa  Schmid,  the  former  a  farmer 
by  occupation.     In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  country  our  subject  pur- 
sued his  education  until  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  bade  adieu  to 
friends  in  his  native  land  and  sailed  for  America  in  company  with  his  brother. 
He  landed  in  New  York  and  shortly  afterward  made  his  way  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  served  an  apprenticeship  to  the  wagon-making  trade.     He  after- 
ward followed  that  trade,  gradually  making  his  way  westward.     He  crossed 
the  plains  as  the  railroad  was  built  and  assisted  in  constructing  the  snow 
sheds  near  Cheyenne,  Wyoming.     Eventually  he  reached  California,  but  re- 
mained in  that  state  for  only  two  months,  after  which  he  came  up  the  coast  to 
Portland  in  1869.     There  he  was  employed  until  April,   1870,  but  business 
was  dull  there,  and  he  determined  to  continue  his  northward  journey,  sending 
his  baggage  on  by  stage.     He  then  walked  to  Olympia  and  at  that  place  took 
a  boat  for  Seattle,  where  he  arrived  with  only  five  dollars  in  his  pocket.     He 
aided  in  building  the  Alida,  the  first  new  boat  built  here.     In  August  of  the 
same  year,  1870,  he  opened  a  wagon  shop  at  the  corner  of  Second  and  Wash- 
ington streets  and  there  built  the  first  express  wagon  and  also  the  first  lumber 
v,'agon  ever  constructed  here.     For  three  years  he  conducted  the  shop  and 
then  returned  to  the  east  in  order  to  marry  the  lady  to  whom  he  had  previous- 
ly become  affianced.     After  spending  four  years  in  the  east  he  again  came  to 
Seattle.     Finding  that  another  wagon  shop  had  been  established  in  the  mean- 
time, he  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade  and  also  dealt  to  some  extent  in  real 
estate,  purchasing  some  farm  land  on  Mercer  island.     He  has  erected  a  house 
at  the  corner  of  Ninth  and  Marion  streets  in  the  city,  also  his  shop  here.     He 
is  very  active  and  enterprising  in  his  real  estate  operations,  and  his  efforts 
in  this  direction  have  led  to  the  substantial  improvement  of  this  portion  of 
the  comity.     From  his  home  on  the  island  he  has  a  fine  view  of  Lake  Wash- 
ington and  Seattle. 

In  i^olitics  Mr.  Schmid  is  a  Republican  where  questions  of  national  im- 
portance are  involved,  but  at  local  elections  he  casts  his  ballot  independently 
of  party  ties.  He  has  served  as  road  supervisor  and  also  as  a  member  of  the 
school  board.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  In  pioneer 
days  he  belonged  to  the  German  Singing  Society,  but  since  he  removed  to 
the  island  he  has  not  been  associated  with  that  organization. 

Mr.  Schmid  has  been  twice  married.     On  the  6th  of  April,   1874,  he 


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wedded  Sarah  A.  Chase,  and  they  have  had  four  children :  Conrad  G. ;  Victor 
].;  Theresa,  who  became  the  wife  of  Edward  McMahon;  and  Carohne,  the 
wife  of  Frederick  Remich,  who  is  proprietor  of  a  newspaper  at  Wood- 
stock, Ihinois.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  McMahon  are  graduates  of  the  State 
University  and  are  now  successful  teachers ;  the  two  sons  were  also  students 
of  the  State  University,  and  in  the  summer  of  1897  they  went  north  in 
company  with  Professor  Ingraham  and  made  the  ascent  of  Mount  St.  Elias 
with  Count  Luigi ;  the  following  year  they  were  lost  with  the  Jane  Grey  while 
on  their  second  trip  to  Alaska.  The  mother  died  July  15,  1883,  and  on  the 
6th  of  August,  1888,  Mr.  Schmid  was  agani  married,  his  second  union  being 
Avith  Ida  Dryen.  Their  son,  George  Mercer  Schmid,  died  m  the  spring  of 
1899,  at  the  age  of  six  years.  Such  in  brief  is  the  life  history  of  our  subject. 
He  has  never  had  occasion  to  regret  his  determination  to  make  America  his 
home,  for  in  the  opportunities  of  this  land  he  has  found  the  business  open- 
ings he  desired,  and  with  appreciation  for  possibilities  and  with  unflagging 
enterprise  he  has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward. 

JOHN  STEWART  BRACE. 

John  Stewart  Brace  is  the  president  of  the  Brace  &  Hergert  Mill  Com- 
pany of  Seattle,  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber  and 
shingles.  Canada  has  furnished  to  the  United  States  many  bright,  enter- 
prising young  men,  who  have  left  the  Dominion  and  entered  the  business 
circles  of  this  country,  with  its  more  progressive  methods,  livelier  competi- 
tion and  advancement  more  quickly  secured.  Among  this  number  is  John 
Stewart  Brace.  He  has  some  of  the  strong,  rugged  and  persevering  charac- 
teristics developed  by  his  earlier  environments,  which,  coupled  with  the  im- 
pulses of  the  Celtic  blood  of  his  ancestors,  made  him  at  an  early  day  seek 
wider  fields  in  which  to  give  full  scope  to  his  ambition  and  industry.  He 
found  the  opportunity  he  sought  in  the  freedom  and  appreciation  of  the 
growing  western  portion  of  the  country.  Though  born  across  the  border  he 
is  thoroughly  American  in  thought  and  feeling  and  is  devoted  and  sincere  in 
his  love  for  the  stars  and  stripes.  His  career  is  identified  with  the  history 
of  Seattle,  where  he  has  acquired  a  competence  and  where  he  is  an  honored 
and  respected  citizen. 

Mr  Brace  was  born  in  Canada  on  the  19th  of  August,  1861,  being  of 
English  ancestry.  Harvey  Brace  lived  in  Vermont  when  the  Revolutionary 
war  broke  out,  and  he  was  a  captain  on  General  Washington's  staff  during  the 
war.     His  son  Bannister,  born  in  1764,  moved  to  Auburn,  New  York,  where 


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Jiarvey  Brace,  the  grandfather  of  John  Stewart,  was  born  in  1808.  This 
grandfather  Brace  moved  to  Toronto,  Canada,  in  1829,  where  lie  established 
an  edged  tool  factory,  later  removing  his  industry  to  Goodrich,  Canada.  He 
married  a  Miss  Fischer,  a  lady  of  German  ancestry,  and  in  his  later  life  went 
with  his  son  Lewis  John  Brace  to  Spokane,  Washington,  where  he  spent  his 
remaining  days,  passing  away  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-one  years.  By 
his  marriage  he  had  a  large  family,  and  the  children  were  reared  in  the  faith 
of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  as  there  was  no  church  of  that  denomination  in 
Ihe  neighborhood  in  which  they  lived  the  grandfather  of  our  subject  joined 
the  Presbyterian  church  and  remained  identified  therewith  until  his  death. 
He  was  a  man  of  sterling  worth  and  unquestioned  honesty. 

Lewis  John  Brace,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Goodrich, 
Ontario  county,  in  1838,  and  after  arriving  at  years  of  maturity  wedded 
Miss  Mary  Gibson,  a  native  of  Ireland,  who  w^ent  with  her  parents  to  Canada 
when  only  five  years  of  age.  Lewis  John  Brace  became  an  extensive  man- 
ufacturer of  lumber  and  was  also  engaged  in  contracting  for  and  construct- 
ing public  buildings,  bridges  and  roads.  During  a  large  portion  of  his  resi- 
dence in  Canada  he  held  the  office  of  Queen's  magistrate  in  the  town  of  Wing- 
ham,  this  being  an  office  very  similar  to  that  of  justice  of  the  peace  in  the 
United  States.  Removing  westward  to  Spokane,  Washington,  he  was  there 
largely  engaged  in  stock-raising  and  later  turned  his  attention  to  the  manu- 
facture of  lumber,  but  now  he  is  retired  from  active  business  and  with  his 
estimable  wife  resides  in  the  city  of  Seattle.  During  the  whole  of  his  busi- 
ness career  he  has  been  a  prominent  and  reliable  man,  honored  for  his  upright 
business  methods  as  well  as  for  his  public  spirited  citizenship.  He  and  his 
wife  have  had  seven  children,  four  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

Of  this  number  John  Stewart  Brace  is  the  eldest.  He  ] pursued  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Ontario  and  afterward  completed  a  course 
in  a  collegiate  institute  in  Gault.  When  seventeen  years  of  age  he  joined 
his  father  in  the  lumber  business  and  came  with  him  to  Spokane,  Washington, 
when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  in  1883,  and  since  that  time  lias  given  his  un- 
divided attention  to  the  lumber  business  in  the  state  of  his  adoption.  For 
five  years  he  was  connected  with  the  Spokane  Mill  Company  and  in  company 
with  his  father  was  associated  in  conducting  a  mill  outside  of  the  city.  In 
October.  1888.  he  came  to  Seattle  and  has  since  been  associated  closely  with 
the  city  and  her  interests.  Here  he  at  first  accepted  the  position  of  superin- 
tendent of  the  old  Western  Mills  Company,  with  which  he  remained  until  it 
was  absorbed  by  the  Rainier  Power  &  Railway  Company,  of  which  D.  T. 
Denny  was  the  largest  stockholder.     Later  this  l)usiness  went  into  the  hands 


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of  a  receiver  and  was  closed  out  by  him.  In  1895  ^^-  Brace  and  his  partner, 
Mr.  Hergert,  leased  the  property  and  met  with  such  excellent  success  in  the 
c:onduct  of  their  business  that  in  1899  they  purchased  the  property  and  have 
refitted  the  plant  with  the  latest  improved  machinery.  The  capacity  of  the 
plant  is  now  sixty-five  thousand  feet  of  lumber  in  ten  hours.  They  employ 
eighty  men  and  have  a  large  local  demand  for  their  product.  Under  their 
able  management  the  business  has  steadily  increased  and  the  building  is  now 
worth  seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Brace  is  a  man  of  superior  busi- 
ness ability  and  has  not  limited  his  efforts  to  one  line.  He  is  interested  in 
several  business  enterprises  and  he  has  large  logging  interests,  and  has  ac- 
quired considerable  city  property. 

Mr.  Brace  was  elected  alderman  of  Seattle  in  1892  and  served  for  two 
years.  In  1890  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Kate  Frankland,  a  native 
of  Providence,  Rhode  Island,  and  a  daughter  of  James  Frankland,  who  was 
of  English  ancestry.  They  now  have  five  children :  Sarah  Maude,  Mary 
Eveline,  Harry  Dominick,  John  Benjamin  and  Alice  Mildred.  The  parents 
hold  membership  in  the  Episcopal  church  and  Mr.  Brace  is  a  valued  member 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  They  have  a  fine  residence  in 
Seattle  and  are  very  highly  respected  citizens,  while  Mr.  Brace  is  known  as 
a  successful  business  man.  His  life  has  been  one  of  continuous  activity,  in 
which  he  has  been  accorded  his  due  share  of  labor,  and  to-day  he  is  numbered 
among  the  substantial  residents  of  Seattle.  His  interests  are  thoroughly 
identified  with  those  of  the  northwest,  and  at  all  times  he  is  ready  to  lend  his 
aid  and  co-operation  to  any  movement  calculated  to  benefit  this  section  of 
the  country  or  advance  its  wonderful  development. 

ALBERT   BUHTZ. 

A  reprensentative  of  the  industrial  interests  of  Seattle,  Albert  Buhtz  is 
the  president  of  the  Fremont  Barrel  Company  and  the  manager  of  the  busi- 
ness. A  native  of  Germany,  he  was  born  on  the  25th  of  September,  1846, 
his  parents  being  William  and  Christiana  (Pretzer)  Buhtz,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  the  same  country.  The  father  was  sea  captain  and  owned 
Ihe  ship  on  which  he  sailed.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Protestant  and  was 
n  man  of  sterling  integrity  who  made  many  friends  in  his  own  land  and  in 
the  ports  to  which  he  sailed.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years,  and  his 
wife  passed  away  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  years.  They  were  the  parents  of 
six  children,  of  whom  only  two  are  living,  a  younger  brother  of  our  subject 
being  still  a  resident  of  Prussia. 


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Albert  Buhtz  was  educated  and  learned  his  trade  in  his  native  land  and 
^vhen  fourteen  years  of  age  he  went  to  sea,  following  "a  life  on  the  ocean 
wave"  for  eight  years,  during  which  he  sailed  over  all  parts  of  the  Atlantic 
ocean  and  the  North  sea.  In  1868,  when  twenty-two  years  of  age,  he  came 
to  the  United  States  and  made  his  way  inland  to  Cleveland,  Ohio,  intending 
to  make  this  country  his  home.  At  the  time  of  his  arrival  in  the  Ohio  city  he 
had  but  little  knowledge  of  the  English  language,  but  he  was  determined  and 
resolute  and  his  self-reliance  and  energy  have  enabled  him  to  steadily  advance 
in  the  business  world.  He  learned  the  cooper's  trade  in  Cleveland  and  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  oil  barrels,  securing  a  good  market  for  his  pro- 
duct. He  remained  in  that  business  in  Cleveland  until  1888  when  he  deter- 
mined to  come  to  Seattle,  hoping  thereby  to  benefit  the  health  of  his  wife. 

In  1 87 1,  in  Cleveland,  Mr.  Buhtz  had  been  married  to  Miss  Susie  Gram- 
]ich,  who  was  bom  in  Germany  but  was  brought  by  her  parents  to  the  United 
States  when  she  was  but  two  years  of  age,  her  father  being  Jacob  Gramlich. 
Eight  children  were  born  unto  our  subject  and  his  wife  in  Cleveland  and  an- 
other child  was  added  to  the  family  in  Seattle.  All  are  yet  living  and  are 
respected  members  of  society  in  the  city  in  which  they  have  so  long  resided. 

After  arriving  in  this  city  Mr.  Buhtz  began  work  at  his  trade  and  being 
expert  and  capable  he  soon  found  that  his  services  were  in  constant  demand. 
In  1896  he  established  his  present  business  and  is  now  at  the  head  of  the 
Fremont  Barrel  Factory.  He  has  a  lot  two  hundred  by  two  hundred  feet,  on 
which  he  has  erected  a  building  eighty  by  sixty  feet  and  two  stories  in  height. 
He  has  also  built  another  building,  twenty  by  thirty-six  feet  and  a  story  and  a 
half  in  height.  In  connection  with  the  plant  there  is  also  a  dry  kiln  forty  by 
sixty  feet.  He  has  the  facilities,  tools  and  knowledge  to  enable  him  to  manu- 
facture the  best  cooperage  of  all  descriptions.  He- makes  a  specialty  of  fish, 
vinegar  and  meat  barrels,  and  the  fish  barrels  are  largely  sent  to  Alaska.  A 
large  business  is  successfully  conducted  and  the  factory  is  so  arranged  that  if 
exceptionally  large  orders  are  received  an  extra  number  of  workmen  can  be 
employed  to  hasten  the  filling  of  the  order.  In  the  conduct  and  ownership  of 
the  factory  Mr.  Buhtz  is  now  associated  with  his  son,  Albert  J.,  who  is  the 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company.  He  is  a  well  informed  and  capable 
young  business  man. 

Albert  J.  Buhtz  is  now  married  and  has  one  son.  The  other  members 
of  the  father's  family  are  William  F.,  Emil  R.,  Carl  F.,  Minnie,  Susan, 
Amelia,  Matilda  and  Gertrude.  Susan  is  now  the  wife  of  William  Wagner. 
The  family  have  a  good  home  which  Mr.  Buhtz  built  on  the  hillside,  over- 
looking his  factory  and  the  surrounding  country  and  the  beautiful  lake  near 
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by.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a  Republican,  having  supported  the 
party  since  casting  his  first  presidential  vote  for  James  A.  Garfield.  He  and 
his  family  are  members  of  the  German  Congregational  church.  The  hope 
'that  led  them  to  seek  a  home  on  the  coast  has  been  realized,  for  here  the  mother 
^regained  her  health  and  still  lives  to  bless  the  home  by  her  cheerful  presence. 
Ivlr.  Buhtz  is  a  man  of  strong  force  of  character,  purposeful  and  resolute. 
He  is  still  active  in  business  affairs  and  his  career  has  been  remarkably  suc- 
cessful chiefly  by  reason  of  his  natural  ability  and  his  thorough  insight  into 
the  business  in  which  as  a  young  tradesman  he  embarked.  His  word  is  as 
good  as  his  bond  and  the  better  one  knows  him  the  greater  the  respect  he 
entertains  for  him. 

EDWIN  R.  BISSELL. 

Edwin  R.  Bissell  is  engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Auburn,  his  mer- 
cantile affairs  being  a  prominent  factor  in  the  commercial  activity  and  pros- 
perity of  the  town.  He  was  born  near  Erie,  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  on 
the  2ist  of  February,  1855,  and  is  a  son  of  Gaylord  G.  Bissell,  whose  birth 
occurred  in  Litchfield  county,  Connecticut,  on  the  13th  of  February,  1825. 
When  a  young  man  the  father  left  the  Charter  Oak  state  and  removed  to 
jirie  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  subsequently  became  a  resident  of  Fort 
l^odge,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  for  about  five  years.  In  1860  he  removed 
to  Virginia  City,  Montana,  being  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  celebrated  min- 
ing camp.  He  was  chosen  the  first  mayor  of  Virginia  City  and  was  after- 
v/ard  the  first  police  judge  of  that  place,  filling  those  positions  at  a  tinie  when 
that  section  of  Montana  was  overrun  with  outlaws.  It  required  considerable 
personal  courage  and  determination  to  occupy  those  offices,  but  he  discharged 
his  duties  without  fear  or  favor,  and  his  son  Edwin  now  has  in  his  pos- 
session a  star  which  was  presented  to  his  father  while  he  was  acceptably  serv- 
ing as  police  judge,  and  which  the  son  prizes  very  highly.  Gaylord  G.  Bissell 
was  a  practicing  physician  and  had  also  been  admitted  to  the  bar  in  his 
younger  days,  but  never  followed  the  law  as  a  profession.  In  Montana, 
when  he  was  not  engaged  with  his  official  duties,  he  devoted  his  energies  to 
■mining.  In  1869  he  returned  to  the  east,  locating  at  Lovilia,  Iowa,  where 
he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended  in 
•death,  on  the  8th  of  July,  1879.  In  Litchfield  county,  Connecticut,  he  had 
v/edded  Emily  Talmadge,  who  was  born  in  Connecticut,  April  20,  1828,  and 
they  were  married  in  that  state  on  the  7th  of  November,  1849.  Mrs.  Bissell 
survived  her  husband  for  a  number  of  years,  passing  away  in  Lovilia,  Iowa, 
on  the  20th  of  April,  1898.     Both  the  parents  of  our  subject  were  of  French 


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Huguenot  extraction  and  their  respective  families  were  founded  in  America 
by  those  who  belonged  to  the  original  Plymouth  colony  of  New  England. 

In  the  schools  of  Torringford,  Connecticut,  and  Lovilia,  Iowa,  Edwin 
i^.  Bissell  pursued  his  education,  becoming  a  resident  of  the  latter  place  when 
thirteen  years  old.  He  continued  his  studies  until  he  reached  the  age  of  eight- 
een, after  which  he  engaged  in  teaching  for  two  or  three  years,  near  Avoca, 
Iowa.  He  followed  that  profession  through  the  winter  months  and  during 
the  summer  season  worked  as  a  farm  hand.  During  the  mining  excitement 
in  Colorado  he  went  to  Lead vi He  and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Little  Pitts- 
burg Mining  Company,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  a  year.  He  then 
turned  his  attention  to  the  cattle  business  in  San  Luis  valley,  in  Colorado, 
raising  cattle  on  the  range  for  about  four  years.  He  went  through  all  the 
experiences  of  a  cowboy  on  the  plains.  He  then  returned  to  Iowa  and  after 
his  marriage  took  his  bride  to  Colorado,  where  he  continued  to  make  his 
liome  until  1884,  when  he  sold  his  interests  there  and  became  a  resident  of 
Lovilia,  Iowa,  where  he  conducted  a  restaurant  for  a  year.  He  next  re- 
moved to  Vining  in  Clay  county,  Kansas,  where  he  accepted  a  position  as 
clerk  in  a  general  store,  acting  in  that  capacit}^  for  four  years. 

In  1889  Mr.  Bissell  came  to  Washington,  locating  at  Auburn,  where  in 
connection  with  his  uncle,  V.  R.  Bissell,  he  opened  a  drug  store  under  the 
firm  name  of  V.  R.  Bissell  &  Company.  The  uncle  died  in  1893,  since  which 
time  the  store  has  been  owned  and  conducted  by  Edwin  R.  Bissell.  He  car- 
ries a  large  and  well  selected  stock  of  drugs  and  other  commodities  usually 
found  in  first-class  drug  stores,  and  his  patronage  is  extensive  anad  brings  to 
him  a  good  profit. 

In  1 88 1  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Bissel  to  Miss  Alice  Roberts,  the 
wedding  taking  place  in  Lovilia,  Iowa,  where  the  lady  was  born  in  i860. 
She  died  in  Auburn  in  January,  1902,  leaving  one  son,  Gaylord  Nathan,  who 
:'s  now  thirteen  years  of  age.  Mr.  Bissell  belongs  to  King  Solomon  Lodge, 
E.  &  A.  M.,  Douglas  Lodge,  K.  P.,  Valley  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  E.,  the  Independ- 
ent Order  of  Eoresters  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  also  to 
the  National  Union  and  Oriental  Princes.  He  is  a  popular  representative  of 
those  fraternal  organizations  and  has  many  friends  among  the  brethren  in 
the  ranks.  His  political  support  is  given  with  unfaltering  purpose  to  the 
Republican  party,  and  upon  that  ticket  he  was  elected  treasurer  of  Auburn  in 
]  898,  and  has  since  been  continuously  in  the  office,  proving  loyal  and  faithful 
to  the  trust  reposed  in  him.  He  is  a  man  of  enterprising  and  progressive 
spirit  and  has  found  in  the  business  opportunities  of  the  west  the  advantages 
which  he  sought   for  the  purpose  of  acquiring  a  comfort-ible  competence. 


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PERRY  POLSON. 

"Through  struggles  to  success/'  has  been  the  Hfe  record  of  Perry  Pol- 
son.  Difficulties  and  obstacles  have  barred  his  path  to  the  goal  of  prosperity, 
but  by  determined  and  honorable  effort  he  has  worked  his  way  steadily  up- 
ward and  to-day  he  stands  in  an  enviable  position  on  the  plane  of  affluence, 
with  a  record  of  diligence,  perseverance  and  business  integrity  that  any  man 
might  envy.  A  native  of  Sweden,  he  was  born  in  Halmstad  on  the  8th  of 
July,  1854.  His  parents,  Olof  and  Gunilla  (Matson)  Poison,  were  bom, 
reared  and  married  in  Sweden  and  in  1868  came  to  the  United  States,  bring- 
ing with  them  their  seven  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters.  They 
settled  in  Iowa,  and  one  more  son  was  added  to  the  family  there,  while  one 
son  was  born  in  Washington  territory.  With  the  exception  of  two,  all  of  the 
children  are  yet  living  and  both  parents  survive  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight 
years.  They  are  respected  and  industrious  farming  people  and  are  faithful 
and  devout  members  of  the  Lutheran  church. 

Perry  Poison  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  residing  in  Seattle.  He 
received  a  common  school  education  in  his  native  land  and  was  a  lad  of  four- 
teen years  when  in  1868  he  arrived  with  his  father  and  the  family  in  Iowa 
and  began  to  earn  his  own  living  there  as  a  farm  boy.  After  three  years 
spent  in  the  Hawkeye  state  he  came  to  Washington  territory,  being  then  a 
youth  of  seventeen  years.  Here  he  continued  to  .work  as  a  farm  hand,  being 
paid  from  thirty  to  forty  dollars  per  month,  which  was  the  usual  wages  paid 
at  that  time.  During  the  Cariboo  excitement  in  British  Columbia  he  went 
there  and  was  employed  by  the  firm  of  Meacham  &  Nason  at  Barkerville  in 
the  lumbering  and  mining  business  at  seventy-five  dollars  per  month  and 
board.  He  had  charge  of  one  of  the  lumber  yards  and  the  accounts  in  con- 
nection with  the  business.  On  his  return  to  Washington  he  puchased  a  farm 
of  one  hundred  and  ninety  acres  in  Skagit  county,  for  which  he  was  to  pay 
five  thousand  dollars.  He  paid  one  thousand  dollars  down,  the  remainder  to 
be  afterward  paid,  leaving  a  debt  of  four  thousand,  and  at  the  end  of  the  first 
year  he  found  that  he  was  five  thousand  dollars  in  debt  and  was  paying  fifteen 
per  cent,  interest  on  the  same.  That  interest  he  continued  to  pay  for  six 
years. 

In  1 88 1  Mr.  Poison  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Kate  H.  Hinckley, 
who  was  born  in  the  old  town  of  Shasta,  California,  a  daughter  of  J.  C. 
Hinckley,  the  publisher  of  the  first  newspaper  in  the  then  flourishing  town 
and  mining  camp  of  Shasta.  For  three  years  after  his  marriage  Mr.  Poison 
continued  on  the  farm  and  reduced  his  indebtedness,  but  the  worry  and  anx- 


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iety  were  too  much  for  him.  His  health  failed  and  he  was  told  by  the  physi- 
cians that  he  could  not  live  unless  he  made  a  change.  He  then  rented  the  farm, 
reserving  a  small  piece  of  land,  on  which  he  intended  to  build  and  make  his 
home,  but  in  the  meantime  a  party  in  the  implement  business  induced  him  to 
engage  in  that  line  of  commercial  activity  as  a  partner  in  Laconner,  Skagit 
county,  under  the  firm  name  of  Pool  &  Poison.  They  did  business  together 
tor  a  little  more  than  a  year  and  then  Mr.  Poison  purchased  his  partner's  in- 
terest and  continued  the  business  alone  for  a  year.  On  the  expiration  of  that 
period  he  admitted  his  brother  Nels  Poison  to  a  partnership  and  after  two 
years  of  successful  business  a  third  brother,  John  Poison,  became  a  partner, 
and  the  Poison  Hardware  Company  was  organized.  The  business  grew  to 
large  proportions.  They  were  buying  their  goods  from  Portland  and  San 
Francisco  jobbers,  but  in  1889  Perry  Poison  went  east  and  purchased  goods, 
rifter  which  the  Portland  jobbers  refused  to  sell  them  goods  and  also  put  their 
traveling  men  in  Mr.  Poison's  territory  to  canvass  his  patrons  and  take  from 
him  his  customers.  This  caused  our  subject  to  conclude  that  he  would  either 
have  to  go  out  of  business  or  go  to  Seattle  and  open  business  there  in  com- 
petition with  the  Portland  people.  The  firm  incorporated  under  the  name  of 
the  Poison,  Wilton  Hardware  Company,  Mr.  A.  Wilton  joming  the  com- 
pany, and  a  branch  house  in  Seattle  was  opened  with  Mr.  Wilton  in  charge. 
They  were  then  in  direct  competition  with  their  old  friends  and  by  careful 
management  and  honorable  business  methods  they  secured  the  business  to 
such  an  extent  that  one  of  the  Portland  branches  at  Seattle  was  sold  to  them, 
and  they  were  in  control  of  the  whole  business.  They  became  large  whole- 
sale dealers  in  this  line  and  have  the  credit  of  being  the  pioneer  jobbers  of 
agricultural  implements  and  vehicles  from  Seattle.  They  also  have  a  store 
at  Wenatchee,  Chelan  county,  besides  their  store  at  Laconner  which  is  now 
a  branch  store,  their  Seattle  store  now  being  their  head  office.  After  the  last 
incorporation  of  the  firm,  Mr.  Poison's  brother,  Nels,  withdrew,  and  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1 90 1,  his  brother  John  died.  He  had  been  vice-president  and  secre- 
tary of  the  company.  In  1897  Mr.  Wilton  withdrew  and  the  following  year 
Mr.  Poison  changed  the  name  of  the  business  to  its  present  .^orm,  the  Poison 
Implement  &  Hardware  Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president  and  manager. 
Through  all  the  years  he  has  been  the  active  moving  spirit  in  the  enterprise 
and  to  his  business  talent  and  honorable  methods  ma,y  be  attributed  the 
splendid  success  he  has  achieved.  He  has  the  good  will  and  confidence  of 
all  with  whom  he  has  had  business  relations. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Poison  have  been  born  four  children :     Minnie,  who 
is  now   a   stenographer  in  her   father's  office;    Helen,   Olof   Hinckley,   and 


3i8  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Harold.  Mr.  Poison  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  was  secre- 
tary of  his  lodge  in  Laconner.  He  is  also  a  representative  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  and  in  politics  is  a  Republican.  While  on  his 
farm  he  served  as  road  supervisor  and  school  director,  but  has  never  been 
desirous  for  official  positions.  Such  is  the  life  record  of  Mr.  Poison,  and 
his  success  has  been  most  creditable.  Like  other  business  men  he  has  "not 
found  all  of  the  days  equally  bright.  Indeed  in  his  commercial  experience, 
he  has  seen  the  gathering  of  clouds  that  threatened  storms  and  disaster,  but 
his  rich  inheritance  of  energy  and  pluck  has  enabled  him  to  turn  defeat  into 
victories  and  promised  failures  into  brilliant  successes.  Whether  as  a  busi- 
man  or  in  private  life,  he  has  always  been  the  same  genial,  courteous  gentle- 
man, whose  ways  are  those  of  refinement,  and  whose  word  no  one  can 
question. 

ALVER  ROBINSON. 

Alver  Robinson,  who  for  the  past  ten  years  has  been  president  of  thQ 
Seattle  Land  Company  and  is  now  engaged  on  his  own  account  in  buying 
and  selling  real  estate  and  loaning  money,  has  been  a  very  active  factor  in  the 
improvement  and  upbuilding  of  the  city  in  which  he  makes  his  home.  He 
has  been  interested  in  a  number  of  additions  which  have  been  made  to  Seattle, 
including  Harrison  Heights  north  of  Lake  Union,  and  Latone  which  is  now 
well  improved.  He  has  also  been  interested  in  the  Brooklyn  addition,  com- 
prising one  hundred  and  seven  acres  adjoining  the  State  University,  and  in 
the  Coffman  addition,  between  Jackson  street  and  Yesler  Way,  comprising 
twenty-three  acres. 

Mr.  Robinson  is  a  native  of  Tennessee,  his  birth  having  occurred  near 
Knoxville,  on  the  4th  of  August,  1857.  The  family  is  of  Scotch  lineage  and 
was  early  founded  in  Virginia  by  ancestors  who  located  there  in  pioneer  days. 
Walter  Robinson,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  the  old  Domin- 
ion, and  became  a  planter  and  slave-owner  there,  but  did  not  believe  in  the 
system  of  holding  people  in  bondage  and  at  the  time  of  the  Civil  war  became 
a  staunch  Union  man  and  a  Republican.  When  a  young  man  he  left  Vir- 
ginia, removing  to  Tennessee,  where  he  was  married  and  in  that  state,  in 
1832,  his  son  John  C.  Robinson,  was  born.  After  arriving  at  years  of  matur- 
ity the  latter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Elizabeth  B.  Chisholm,  a  lady  of 
Scotch  lineage,  who  was  born  in  Tennessee.  He  inherited  his  father's  slaves, 
but  he,  too,  was  not  in  favor  of  the  system  of  slavery  as  it  existed  in  the 
south.     Removing  to  Arkansas  and  afterward  to  Kansas,   he  has  devoted 


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the  greater  part  of  his  attention  throughout  his  business  career  to  agri- 
cuhural  pursuits  and  is  now  hving  in  the  Sunflower  state  at  the  age  of 
sixty-nine  years.  He  and  his  wife  have  long  been  acceptable  and  faithful- 
members  of  the  Christian  church  and  are  worthy  and  esteemed  citizens  of 
the  community  in  which  they  make  their  home.  Mr.  Robinson  served  as 
assessor  of  his  county  and  was  a  candidate  of  his  party  for  the  state  legis- 
lature, but  as  his  county  has  a  Democratic  majority  he  was  defeated  by 
a  small  vote,  as  he  endorsed  the  Republican  party  and  its  principles.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Robinson  became  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  nine 
are  yet  living  and  three  of  the  sons  are  respected  and  worthy  citizens  of 
the  state  of  Washington;  namely,  A.  J.,  of  Seattle;  C.  D.,  of  Snohomish; 
and  Alver. 

In  taking  up  the  personal  history  of  Alver  Robinson  we  present  to 
our  readers  the  life  record  of  one  who  is  widely  and  favorably  known  in 
connection  with  business  interests  in  Seattle.  He  pursued  his  education  in 
Missouri  and  in  Kansas,  for  during  the  period  of  the  Civil  war  his  family 
resided  in  the  former  state.  Early  in  his  business  career  he  was  engaged 
in  farming  and  later  turned  his  attention  to  the  manufacture  of  carriages 
as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Cole  &  Robinson,  in  which  industry  he  was  in- 
terested from  1883  until  1887,  meeting  with  a  high  degree  of  success  in 
his  undertakings.  He  was  also  to  some  extent  engaged  in  real  estate  deal- 
ing and  his  experience  in  that  direction  proved  a  benefit  to  him  when  he 
began  his  real  estate  operations  on  the  Pacific  coast.  In  the  year  1887  Mr. 
Robinson  made  his  way  to  California  and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  arrived 
in  Seattle,  where  he  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Seattle  Land  Com- 
pany, of  which  he  was  president  for  ten  years.  He  has  been  very  prominent 
and  influential  in  promoting  the  growth  and  improvement  of  the  city,  doing 
all  in  his  power  to  advance  its  interests.  He  is  a  business  man  of  high 
integrity,  of  marked  enterprise  and  keen  discernment,  and  his  well  directed 
efforts  have  been  the  foundation  of  the  success  which  has  attended  him. 
He  is  now  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  a  body  composed  of  the 
most  prominent  and  enterprising  business  men  of  Seattle. 

In  1889,  Mr.  Robinson  was  happily  married  to  Miss  May  Randolph, 
a  native  of  Oregon  and  a  daughter  of  S.  P.  Randolph,  one  of  the  honored 
pioneer  settlers  of  the  Sunset  state,  who  later  came  to  Washington,  taking 
up  his  abode  in  Seattle  in  1873.  To  our  subject  and  his  wife  was  born  one 
son,  Walter  Randolph  Robinson,  who  is  now  in  school.  In  1893  Mr.  Robin- 
son was  called  upon  to  mourn  the  loss  of  his  wife,  who  died  on  the  12th 
of  March.     She  was  a  lady  of  amiable  disposition,  of  culture  and  refinement. 


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and  a  devoted  Christian  woman.  In  the. church  she  was  an  active  and 
earnest  worker,  and  her  loss  was  deeply  felt  there  as  well  as  in  her  home 
and  in  the  social  circles  in  which  she  moved.  On  October  7,  1902,  Mr. 
Robinson  was  married  to  Aliss  Anna  Campbell. 

Soon  after  coming  to  Seattle  Air.  Robinson  placed  his  membership  in 
the  First  Presbyterian  church  and  later  he  became  one  of  the  organizers  of 
Westminster  Presbyterian  church,  with  which  he  has  since  been  identified.  He 
is  now  one  of  its  most  active  and  influential  representatives,  is  serving  as  one 
of  its  deacons  and  is  a  trustee,  and  in  his  contributions  for  its  support  he  is 
most  liberal  and  generous.  His  life  has  been  honorable,  and  viewed  in  a 
personal  light  he  is  a  strong  man,  strong  in  his  good  name  and  in  the 
high  reputation  which  has  come  to  him  through  upright  dealing  in  business 
and  through  fidelity  to  duty  in  every  relation  in  which  he  has  been  placed. 

CHARLES  R.  COLLINS. 

Charles  R.  Collins  was  born  in  the  city  of  Philadelphia  on  the  3d  of 
January,  1863,  and  the  blood  of  English  and  Welsh  ancestry  flows  in  his 
veins.  The  family  of  which  he  is  a  representative  was  founded  in  Virginia  in 
colonial  days  and  among  its  numbers  were  those  who  were  active  particip- 
ants in  events  which  shaped  the  early  history  of  the  Old  Dominion  and  also 
of  New  Jersey.  In  religious  faith  they  adhered  to  the  Society  of  Friends. 
On  the  maternal  side  ]\Ir.  Collins  is  connected  with  the  Harrisons  of  Vir- 
ginia. Joseph  Harrison  Collins.  Uie  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Haddonfield,  New  Jersey,  in  181 3,  and  married  Martha  Ann  Judkins,  a  re- 
presentative of  an  old  family  of  Virginia,  but  later  established  in  Ohio.  Mr. 
Collins  removed  to  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  lumber  trade  and  in  the  building  business.  Under  the  old  city  govern- 
ment he  served  as  a  city  commissioner  and  was  a  man  prominent  in  public 
as  well  as  business  affairs.  He  adhered  to  the  faith  of  the  Presbyterian 
church  and  after  an  honorable  and  upright  career  departed  this  life  in  1888, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years.  His  wife  survives  him  and  is  now  in  the 
seventy-sixth  year  of  her  age,  and  she  still  resides  in  Philadelphia.  In  the 
family  were  six  children,  and  with  one  exception  all  are  yet  living. 

Charles  R.   Collins  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and 

received  his  instruction  and  training  as  a  mechanical  engineer  in  Stevens  In- 

.  stitute  of  Technolog}'.     After  completing  the  course  he  was  for  some  years 

connected  with  the  engineer  department  of   the  United   Gas    Improvement 

Company  of  Philadelphia,  where  he  remained  until   1896,  a  period  of  ten 


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years.  He  then  came  to  Seattle  to  accept  the  position  of  general  manager 
of  the  Seattle  Gas  &  Electric  Light  Company,  in  which  capacity  he  served 
most  acceptably  until  the  31st  of  December,  1900,  when  he  resigned  his  po- 
sition to  engage  in  business  for  himself.  He  is  now  connected  with  con- 
struction w^ork  on  the  Pacific  coast,  his  labors  covering  the  territory  of  Cali- 
fornia, Oregon  and  Washington.  He  assisted  in  laying  out  the  work  for 
the  new  gas  plant  of  Claus  Spreckles  of  San  Francisco,  and  is  also  building 
the  gas  works  at  Everett,  Washington.  He  likewise  has  charge  of  the  con- 
struction of  the  plant  of  the  Citizens'  Gas  Light  &  Power  Company  of  Seat- 
tle. He  is  an  expert  mechanical  engineer,  thoroughly  famiiliar  with  the 
great  scientific  principles  which  underlie  his  work,  having  acquired  a  practical 
knowledge  of  the  duties  which  devolve  upon  him  in  connection  with  the  exe- 
cution of  contracts  in  this  department  of  industrial  activity. 

Mr.  Collins  was  happily  married  in  1891  to  Miss  Anna  Chapin,  a 
daughter  of  William  Castner  Chapin,  of  Philadelphia.  They  have  three 
children,  Elma  C,  Charles  R.,  and  William  Chapin.  The  parents  hold  mem- 
bership in  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church,  in  which  Mr.  Collins  is  one  of  the 
vestrymen.  He  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men  and 
measures  of  the  Republican  party  and  is  well  informed  on  the  issues  of  the 
day,  yet  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  has  become  interested  in 
property  of  the  city,  owning  some  valuable  real  estate,  and  is  also  a  trustee 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Seattle.  This  is  a  utilitarian  age,  in  which 
liusiness  interests  are  predominant,  and  when  business  affairs  are  assuming 
extensive  proportions,  and  marked  progress  is  being  made  along  all  lines  of 
industrial  work.  Realizing  that  there  is  ever  room  at  the  top  and  that  op- 
portunity for  advancement  is  never  lacking,  Mr.  Collins  has  so  qualified  him- 
self for  his  w^ork  that  his  skill  and  ability  have  continuously  enabled  him  to 
progress  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  vocation,  and  he  stands  to-day  among  the 
leading  representatives  in  the  department  of  mechanical  engineering  on  the 

Pacific  coast. 

RALPH  W.  EMMONS. 

Twelve  years  have  passed  since  Ralph  W.  Emmons  became  identified 
with  the  interests  of  Seattle,  and  during  all  this  period  he  has  been  recog- 
nized as  one  of  its  leading  law  practitioners.  Time  has  but  brightened  his 
reputation  in  professional  circles  and  among  the  leading  men  of  the  city  has 
given  him  a  prestige  that  is  indeed  enviable.  His  birth  occurred  in  Orion, 
Oakland  county,  Michigan,  on  the  nth  of  December.  1854.  and  he  is  of 
English  descent.     The  progenitor  of  the  family  on  American  soil  was  Rev. 


322  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

\Villiam  Emmons,  an  Episcopal  minister,  who  came  to  this  country  in  an 
early  day  took  up  his  abode  in  Xew  Hampshire.  The  great-grandfather, 
William  Emmons,  served  in  a  Xew  York  regiment  during  the  Revolutionary 
war.  Elias  R.  Emmons,  the  father  of  him  whose  name  introduces  this  re- 
view, was  born  near  Sandy  Hill,  Xew  York,  and  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Sarah  Carpenter,  whose  ancestors  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  Ro- 
chester, Xew  York,  and  were  prominently  engaged  in  milling  pursuits  there. 
yir.  and  Mrs.  Emmons  became  the  parents  of  four  children,  of  whom  three 
are  still  living. 

Ralph  W.  Emmons  received  his  literary  training  in  the  schools  of  Mi- 
chigan, while  his  professional  studies  were  pursued  in  ^Milwaukee,  Wiscon- 
sin, and  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  Oregon  in  1882.  Forming  a  partner- 
ship with  his  brother,  A.  C.  Emmons,  he  then  embarked  in  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  calling  in  Portland,  Oregon,  where  they  have  maintained  an  office  for 
the  past  twenty  years,  and  for  the  past  twelve  years  they  have  also  practiced 
in  Seattle,  in  both  places  meeting  with  a  well  merited  degree  of  success. 

The  marriage  of  Ralph  W.  Emmons  and  Cornelia  Harris  was  cele- 
brated in  1890.  The  lady  is  of  English  descent,  and  her  ancestors  were 
among  the  early  American  settlers.  Her  father,  Joseph  Harris,  was  a  Union 
soldier  during  the  great  Civil  war.  Tjo  yir.  and  Mrs.  Emmons  were  born 
three  sons,  Ralph,  born  in  Portland,  Oregon,  and  Harris  and  Arthur,  born  in 
Seattle.  The  family  reside  in  a  beautiful  home  on  Beacon  Hill,  and  ]Mrs.  Em- 
mons is  a  valued  member  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church.  On  attaining  ma- 
ture years  ]\Ir.  Emmons  became  identified  with  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  he 
has  ever  since  retained  his  membership  therein,  and  he  is  also  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He  has  always  been  an  ardent  and  active  Re- 
publican, maintaining  a  high  standing  both  in  political  and  professional  circ- 
les, and  Seattle  numbers  him  among  her  leading  and  influential  citizens. 

JOHX    W.  IMcCOXXAUGHEY. 

King  county  is  fortunate  in  that  it  has  a  class  of  men  in  its  public  offices 
who  are  faithful  to  duty  and  have  the  best  interests  of  the  community  at 
heart,  placing  the  public  welfare  before  personal  aggrandizement  and  the 
good  of  the  community  before  partisanship.  On  the  list  of  public  officials 
appears  the  name  of  John  W.  McConnaughey  who  is  occupying  the  position  of 
county  treasurer.  He  is  also  well  known  in  commercial  circles,  being  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  paint  in  Seattle.  A  native  of  Ohio,  he 
was  born  in  the  city  of  Dayton  in  April,  i860,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry. 


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In  the  Keystone  state  David  McConnaughey,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
was  born  and  removing  westward  became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  where  he  secured  a  farm  from  the  government  and  placed  the 
land  under  a  high  state  of  cultivation.  To  its  development  and  improvement 
he  devoted  his  energies  up  to  the  time  of  his  death  which  occurred  in  his 
sixty-eighth  year.  John  C.  McConnaughey,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
born  on  the  homestead  farm  near  Dayton,  on  1824,  and  after  arriving  at 
years  of  maturity  married  Miss  Elizabeth  A.  Keplinger.  Her  father  also 
was  a  pioneer  of  Ohio  and  for  many  years  an  owner  of  a  flouring  mill  there. 
Mr.  McConnaughey  was  a  farmer  and  stock  raiser  who  spent  his  entire  life 
in  his  native  town  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years.  His  wife  still 
survives  him  and  is  now  sixty-nine  years  of  age,  her  home  being  in  Dayton, 
Ohio.  This  worthy  couple  were  the  parents  of  eleven  children,  all  of  whom 
are  still  living.  Three  of  the  sons  are  on  the  Pacific  coast,  C.  K.  McCon- 
naughey, being  the  cashier  in  the  treasurer's  ofifice  of  King  county,  while  D. 
F.  is  manager  of  the  Seattle  Paint  and  Varnish  Company,  the  stock  of  which 
is  owned  by  John  W.,  D.  F.  and  C.  K.  McConnaughey. 

To  the  public  school  system  of  Dayton,  Ohio,  John  McConnaughey  is 
indebted  for  the  educational  privileges  he  received.  In  1885  he  left  home  in 
order  to  enter  upon  an  independent  business  career  and  making  his  way  to  the 
west  was  engaged  in  the  brokerage  business  in  Wichita,  Kansas.  He  traveled 
all  over  the  western  part  of  that  state  and  at  length  sought  a  home  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  removing  to  Portland,  Oregon,  in  the  fall  of  1889.  The  month 
of  July,  1892,  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  where  he  continued  in  the 
brokerage  and  real  estate  business  until  April,  1898,  when  he  organized  the 
Seattle  Paint  and  Varnish  Company,  under  which  name  he  and  his  brother, 
D.  F.  McConnaughey,  are  conducting  a  wholesale  business,  manufacturing 
all  of  the  goods  which  they  handle.  They  make  everything  in  the  paint  line 
and  their  business  is  proving  a  very  satisfactory  one,  bringing  to  them  a  good 
income  annually.  The  product  of  their  factory  finds  a  ready  sale  upon  the 
market  owing  to  the  excellence  of  quality  as  well  as  reasonable  price  and  the 
reliability  of  the  house.  Our  subject  is  also  largely  interested  in  city  real 
estate,  including  both  business  and  residence  property,  his  investments  having 
been  so  judiciously  made  that  they  have  greatly  augmented  h.is  capital. 

Mr.  McConnaughey  is  identified  with  all  of  the  interests  of  Seattle  and 
is  well  known  not  only  because  of  his  real  estate  dealings  and  his  industrial 
and  commercial  interests,  but  also  because  of  the  active  part  which  he  takes 
in  promoting  movements  and  measures  calculated  to  advance  the  general 
good.     He  is  a  valued  meinber  of  the  Rainier  Club,  the  Athletic  Club  and  of 


324  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

the  Chamber  of  Commerce.  In  poHtics  he  has  been  a  Hfelong  Republican 
and  in  the  fall  of  1900  was  elected  to  his  present  office  by  a  good  majority 
and  is  filling  the  position  with  much  ability.  He  has  thirty  employes  in  his 
office  under  him  and  has  given  a  surety  bond  of  $233,000.  He  sustains  an 
unassailable  reputation  for  integrity  and  honesty  in  all  business  transactions 
and  the  choice  of  the  public  in  calling  Mr.  McConnaughey  to  office  was  cer- 
tainly a  wise  one.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  thorough  representative  business  man. 
his  standing  being  high  in  the  community  and  he  is  both  widely  and  favorably 
known  in  the  city  of  his  adoption, 

CHARLES  B.  FORD,  M.  D. 

Each  calling  or  business,  if  honorable,  has  its  place  in  the  scheme  of 
human  existence,  constituting  a  part  of  the  plan  whereb}'  life's  methods  are 
pursued  and  man  reaches  his  ultimate  destiny.  "All  are  needed  by  each 
one,"  wrote  Emerson.  The  importance  of  a  business,  however,  is  largely 
determined  by  its  usefulness.  So  dependent  is  man  upon  his  fellow  men 
that  the  worth  of  the  indi\-idual  is  largely  reckoned  by  what  he  has  done  for 
humanity.  There  is  no  class  to  whom  greater  gratitude  is  due  than  to  those 
self-sacrificing,  noble  minded  men  whose  life  work  has  been  the  alleviation 
of  the  burden  of  suffering  that  rests  upon  the  world,  thus  lengthening  the 
span  of  human  existence.  Their  influence  cannot  be  measured  by  any  known 
standard,  their  helpfulness  is  as  broad  as  the  universe  and  their  power  goes 
hand  in  hand  with  the  beneficent  laws  of  nature  that  come  from  the  source  of 
life  itself.  Some  one  has  said,  "he  serves  God  best  who  serves  humanity 
most."  The  skillful  physician  then,  by  the  exercise  of  his  native  talents  and 
acquired  ability,  is  not  only  performing  a  service  for  humaniU-.  but  is  follow- 
ing in  the  footsteps  of  the  Teacher  who  said,  "Inasmuch  as  ye  have  done  it 
unto  one  of  the  least  of  these,  ye  have  done  it  unto  me." 

A  name  that  stands  conspicuously  forth  in  connection  with  the  medical 
profession  of  Seattle  is  that  of  Dr.  Charles  Bickham  Ford,  one  of  the  young- 
er members  of  the  profession.  He  is  a  native  of  Shreveport,  Louisiana,  born 
August  17,  1873,  and  on  the  paternal  side  is  of  Scotch  and  English  ancestry, 
while  on  the  maternal  side  he  is  of  German  and  English  ancestry.  The 
Doctor's  paternal  great-grandfather  removed  to  North  Carolina  in  a  very 
early  day,  and  his  son  moved  from  that  state  to  Mississippi,  where  he  was  a 
planter  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the  Mississippi  state 
senate.     His  son.  \\^illiam  Pendleton  Ford,  was  born  in  iMississippi.  in  1847. 


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He  was  there  married  to  Miss  Clara  B.  Kline,  a  native  of  Shreveport,  Louisi- 
ana, and  a  daughter  of  John  Jackson,  also  of  that  state.  They  were  of  Ger- 
man ancestry,  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  this  country  having  been  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  Doctor's  ancestry  on  both  sides 
were  active  participants  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  William  Pendelton  Ford 
joined  the  Confederate  forces  when  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  was  a 
brave  and  valiant  soldier  until  the  close  of  the  great  sanguinary  struggle. 
He  was  wounded  in  battle,  and  his  death  occurred  at  the  age  of  forty-six 
years.  He  removed  from  Mississippi  to  Louisiana,  and  served  as  cashier  of 
the  Merchants  &  Farmers  Bank  of  Shreveport.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ford 
were  born  three  children,  two  sons  and  a  daughter,  and  of  these  Edward  G. 
now  resides  in  Baltimore,  Maryland,  The  daughter  died  in  infancy.  The 
mother  still  survives,  and  now  makes  her  home  with  her  son,  the  subject  of 
this  review,  in  Seattle.  The  family  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
Dr.  Charles  B.  Ford  received  his  literary  education  in  the  University  of 
South  Sewanee,  Tennessee,  and  his  professional  training  was  accjuired  in  the 
Bellevue  Medical  College,  in  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1895. 
In  order  to  still  further  perfect  himself  in  his  chosen  calling  he  spent  a  year 
and  a  half  in  the  Brooklyn  Hospital,  and  upon  the  expiration  of  that  period 
he  came  to  Seattle  and  entered  upon  his  professional  career.  He  soon  se- 
cured a  liberal  and  remunerative  practice  and  won  recognition  as  one  of  the 
leading  physicians  of  the  city.  He  has  given  special  attention  to  the  prac- 
tice of  surgery,  in  which  he  is  considered  an  expert,  and  in  addition  to  his 
large  private  practice  he  is  also  serving  as  assistant  surgeon  to  the  Marine 
Hospital.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  King  County  Medical  Society  and 
of  the  Washington  State  Medical  Society,  and  his  skill  and  experience  along 
the  line  of  his  chosen  calling  far  outreach  his  years.  He  is  a  genial  gentle- 
man, always  courteous  and  considerate,  of  broad  humanity,  sympathy  and 
tolerance,  and  possessed  of  that  sincere  love  for  his  fellow  men  without  which 
there  can  never  be  the  highest  success  in  the  medical  profession.  His  friends 
are  legion,  and  the  history  of  Seattle  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record 
of  his  life  and  work. 

MRS.  JOSEPHINE  P.  McDERMOTT. 

This  is  an  age  in  which  woman's  ability  in  many  departments  of  busi- 
ness life  has  been  widely  recognized,  because  she  has  successtully  entered  the 
ranks  of  commercial  and  professional  life  and  proved  that  her  skill  is  equal 
to  that  of  man.     Mrs.    McDermott   is   the  efficient  president  of   The   Bon 


326  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Marche,  Nordhoff  &  Company  incorporated  department  store,  which  is  one 
of  the  largest  and  most  popular  department  stores  in  the  northwest.  It  is 
located  at  1419-35  Second  avenue  and  1 15-123  Pike  street,  and  an  office  is 
maintained  in  New  York  city  for  the  purchase  of  the  goods.  Four  hundred 
employes  are  found  in  the  Seattle  establishment  and  there  are  twenty-five 
departments  in  the  store,  handling  all  such  goods  as  are  sold  in  the  large  de- 
partment stores  of  New  York  and  Chicago.  Edward  Nordhoff,  now  de- 
ceased, and  his  wife,  who  is  now  Mrs.  McDermott,  came  from  Chicago, 
where  they  had  been  employed  as  salespeople,  to  Seattle  in  1890,  and  started  a 
little  store  in  North  Seattle  with  quite  limited  means,  but  they  w'orked  to- 
gether and  their  straightforward  business  methods  and  liberal  policy,  to- 
gether with  courteous  treatment  of  their  customers,  brought  them  a  large 
patronage,  and  their  success  from  the  beginning  was  almost  phenomenal. 
The  business  increased  rapidly  each  year,  and  in  1897  still  larger  quarters 
w^ere  required  for  the  enterprise  and  they  removed  to  the  present  store  on 
Second  avenue.  But  when  ]\Ir.  Nordhoff  was  about  to  realize  his  highest 
dreams  of  success  death  claimed  him.  The  business  was  then  incorporated. 
R.  G.  H.  Nordhoff,  the  brother-in-law  of  Mrs.  McDermott,  became  her  part- 
ner. He  is  a  gentleman  of  exceptionally  fine  business  ability  and  became  the 
vice-president  of  the  new  company,  while  Mrs.  Nordhoff  was  made  president. 
They  are  conducting  the  business  along  the  lines  first  planned,  buying  goods 
for  cash,  selling  at  a  small  profit  and  therby  making  large  sales.  Absolute 
<:ourtesy  to  all  patrons  is  demanded  from  their  employes,  and  the  business  has 
grown  each  year  until  it  has  assumed  very  extensive  proportions.  Each 
Saturday  night  they  give  concerts  to  which  the  customers  are  welcome,  and 
the  generosity  and  liberality  with  wdiich  they  conduct  the  business  has 
brought  them  hosts  of  friends. 

Edward  L.  Nordoff,  who  was  the  founder  of  this  business,  was  born  in 
Germany,  pursued  his  education  there  and  in  that  country  became  familiar 
with  business  methods.  Emigrating  to  the  new  world  he  took  up  his  abode 
in  Chicago,  where  he  secured  a  clerkship  in  one  of  the  large  stores  of  that 
city.  His  capability,  keen  insight  and  untiring  energy^  continually  brought 
him  promotion  until  he  became  the  manager  of  a  large  mercantile  establish- 
ment there.  After  his  marriage  he  removed  from  Chicago  to  the  northwest 
to  engage  in  business  on  his  own  account  and  met  with  the  highest  success 
in  his  undertaking.  He  was  devoted  to  his  business,  was  continually  watch- 
ing for  opportunity  to  extend  its  scope,  and  yet  he  was  ever  found  as  a  genial, 
generous,  public-spirited  and  enterprising  citizen  and  was  highly  esteemed  by 
all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact  through  business  or  social  relations.   Shortly 


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before  his  death  he  induced  his  brother,  R.  G.  H.  Nordhoff  of  Buffalo,  New 
York,  who  had  been  a  successful  business  man  of  that  place,  to  become  identi- 
fied with  the  commercial  interests  of  Seattle,  thereby  adding  a  valued  addi- 
tion to  its  mercantile  circles. 

Mrs.  McDermott  was  born  and  educated  in  Chicago  and  there  gave  her 
hand  in  marriage  to  Edward  Nordhoff.  Since  their  removal  to  Seattle  she 
has  given  her  entire  attention  to  the  business  and  has  deservedly  earned  her 
position  as  the  most  popular  and  prominent  business  woman  of  the  city.  The 
policy  maintained  in  the  store  has  ever  been  a  most  liberal  one,  reflecting 
credit  upon  the  owners.  Mrs.  McDermott  has  an  individual  interest  in  those 
who  are  in  her  service,  and  all  know  that  fidelity  will  lead  to  promotion  as" 
opportunity  offers. 

On  the  4th  of  June,  1901,  Mrs.  Nordhoff  became  the  wife  of  Frank  ]\I. 
McDermott,  a  popular  and  prominent  business  man  of  Seattle,  numbered 
among  the  extensive  and  successful  merchants ;  both  are  widely  and  favor- 
ably known  in  this  city,  and  their  efforts  have  contributed  to  the  business 
prosperity  of  Seattle.  The  success  of  the  enterprise  of  which  Mrs.  McDer- 
mott is  the  head  has  been  gained  along  the  old  time  maxims  such  as,  "Hon- 
esty is  the  best  Policy,"  and  that,  "There  is  no  excellence  without  labor." 
The  large  department  store  of  Nordoft"  &  Company  is  to-day  one  of  the  lead- 
ing commercial  enterprises  of  the  city  and  its  representatives  have  been  a 
valued  addition  to  Seattle. 

JOHN   G.  GRAY. 

The  ancestry  of  this  Seattle  lawyer  is  English,  and  his  father  emigrated 
to  this  country  at  an  early  age  and  became  a  Congregational  minister.  While 
ni  the  service  of  the  church  he  was  pastor  of  churches  in  New  York,  Illinois, 
Iowa  and  Nebraska.  His  family  consisted  of  five  sons  and  three  daughters, 
all  of  whom  are  now  living. 

John  G.  Gray  was  born  in  1861.  He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools 
of  Whiteside  county,  Illinois,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen  years  began  teach- 
mg  in  Nebraska.  His  legal  education  was  acquired  in  the  law  office  of 
Abner  W.  Askwith.  Esq..  now  a  leading  lawyer  of  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa. 
In  1887  Mr.  Gray  was  admitted  to  the  supreme  court  of  Iowa,  and  in 
1888  he  moved  to  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah,  and  in  1890  became  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Booth,  Lee  &  Gray,  which  firm  enjoyed  a  good  practice.  In 
1898  he  removed  to  Mountain  Home.  Idaho,  and  was  engaged  in  business 
ventures  outside  of  his  profession.  In  September,  1899,  he  removed  to 
Seattle  and  resumed  the  practice  of  the  law. 


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July  I,  1901,  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  Hugh  A.  Tait,  form- 
erly of  Ogden,  Utah,  under  the  firm  name  of  Gray  &  Tait,  and  the  firm 
continued  until  January  i,  1903,  when  Mr.  Tait  accepted  the  appointment 
of  assistant  corporation  counsel  for  the  city  of  Seattle.  The  appointment 
was  unsolicited  upon  the  part  of  Mr.  Tait,  and  came  to  him  on  account  of 
his  reputation  as  a  careful  lawyer  acquired  in  the  trial  of  cases  confided 
to  the  firm  of  Gray  &  Tait.  Mr.  Gray  retains  the  business  of  the  firm,  has 
a  number  of  clients,  and  they  have  confidence  in  his  ability.  In  1893  Mr. 
Gray  married  Miss  Nellie  Strickley,  and  two  daughters  and  a  son  have  been 
born  to  them.     In  politics  Mr.  Gray  has  ever  been  a  Republican. 

GENERAL   J.    D.   McINTYRE. 

There  is  no  man  in  King  county  whose  life,  if  it  were  written  in  full 
here,  would  make  so  thrilling  a  romance  as'  that  of  Brigadier  General  J.  D. 
Mclntyre,  of  Seattle.  He  is  fifty-one  years  old,  by  profession  a  mining 
engineer,  and  until  1890  had  lived  almost  continuously  on  the  outskirts  of 
civilization.  His  life  has  been  a  part  of  the  history  of  many  of  our  western 
mining  camps.  He  is  a  crack  shot,  and  has  had  more  sanguinary  encoun- 
ters with  white  men,  Indians  and  wild  beasts  than  could  be  recounted  in 
a  volume.  It  may  be  said  of  him  that  he  does  not  know  the  sense  of  fear. 
For  the  past  eleven  years  he  has  settled  down  to  a  quite  home  life,  has  ac- 
quired a  large  fortune  and  lives  in  his  own  l^eautiful  home  overlooking  Lake 
Union,  in  Seattle.  A  visit  to  his  home  on  Lake  Union  is  well  worth  anvone's 
while.  The  originality  of  the  architecture  of  the  house  and  grounds  is  a 
reflex  of  the  character  of  the  man. 

Gen.  Mclntyre  was  born  at  Point  Fortune,  Canada,  on  December  4,  1851, 
of  Scotch  parents.  His  great-great-grandmother  was  a  daughter  of  a  brother 
of  the  Duke  of  Arg^de,  and  his  great-great-grandfather  was  a  real  admiral 
in  the  British  navy.  His  great-grandfather  was  a  lieutenant  in  the  British 
army,  and  distinguished  himself  at  the  battle  of  Quebec,  and  was  with  Gen. 
Wolff  when  he  fell.  The  family,  consisting  of  father,  mother  and  three 
children,  of  which  the  General  was  the  oldest,  emigrated  to  the  United  States 
in  1858,  and  in  1859  the  General's  father  (since  dead)  went  to  Pike's  Peak, 
afterwards  Denver,  Colorado,  but  then  a  part  of  Kansas.  He  engaged  in 
mining  and  took  out  a  great  deal  of  gold  in  Georgia  Gulch.  He  built  the 
first  toll  road  in  Colorado.  The  family  followed  in  i860,  taking  four  months 
to  make  the  journey  by  team.  It  was  on  this  trip  that  first  began  the  series 
of  exciting  adventures  that  has  followed  this  boy's  career  ever  since.     The 


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whole  route  was  infested  with  Indians.  Their  travels  were  often  impeded 
by  great  herds  of  buffalo.  Flocks  of  graceful  antelope  glided  by  them  con- 
tinually. This  boy,  naturally  of  a  martial  spirit,  here  got  his  first  lessons  in 
fighting  Indians  and  hunting.  The  train  consisted  of  one  hundred  wagons, 
and  young  Mclntyre  was  rated  as  good  a  shot  as  any  man  in  the  train. 
When  the  train  reached  Loup's  Fork,  of  the  Platte  river,  it  ran  into  five  thous- 
and Crow  Indians  on  the  war  path,  but  how  they  escaped  being  all  massacred 
is  too  long  a  tale  to  recount  here.  In  crossing  Loup's  Fork  a  great  cloud- 
burst occurred,  breaking  the  cable  on  which  the  ferry  boat  crossed  the  river, 
and  some  forty  on  board,  including  the  boy  Mclntyre,  were  carried  down  the 
mighty  flood  at  a  violent  speed,  but,  strange  as  it  may  seem,  all  were  saved 
from  this  danger  also. 

Denver,  at  this  time,  contained  only  seventy-five  houses  and  was  sur- 
rounded by  apparently  a  great  desert.  For  about  seven  years  young  Mc- 
lntyre never  knew  what  it  was  to  be  free  from  the  danger  of  an  attack  by 
Indians.  Gen.  Mclntyre  says  his  growth  was  stunted  by  the  strain  on  his 
nervous  system. 

A  public  school  was  started  in  1863  at  Denver  and  one  of  the  first  boys 
to  appear  at  this  school  was  young  Mclntyre.  In  1864  the  negroes  Vvere 
admitted  to  the  school,  where  many  southern  children  attended,  which  caused 
a  great  riot.  At  a  meeting  young  Mclntyre  was  chosen  captain,  not  because 
he  was  opposed  to  the  colored  children's  attendance,  but  because  he  had  the 
coolest  head  and  seemed  the  best  qualified  for  leadership,  3lthougli  he  was 
scarcely  fourteen  years  old,  and  many  boys  in  the  school  were  much  older. 
Within  an  hour  he  had  organized  the  whole  school  into  three  companies,  ap- 
pointed officers,  secured  a  drum  and  fife,  a  flag  and  was  marching  down  La- 
ramie street,  Denver,  to  the  school  board,  which  was  in  session.  He  told  no 
one  his  plan,  but  marshaled  the  three  noisy  companies  close  around  the  ofinces 
cf  the  school  board.  He  selected  two  other  boys  as  a  committee  to  see  the 
school  board  and  went  in,  when  he  made  the  following  speech : 

"Mr.  Chairman,  we  come  to  you  as  a  committee  of  the  Denver  public 
school  children,  to  say  that  owing  to  the  prejudice  growing  out  of  the  war 
many  of  our  school  boys  and  girls  are  opposed  to  occupying  the  same  seats. 
W'ith  the  colored  children,  and,  while  we  recognize  the  right  of  colored  chil- 
dren to  attend  our  school,  we  believe  it  would  be  wiser  to  put  the  colored  chil- 
dren in  a  room  by  themselves,  and  give  them  a  separate  teacher  for  a  while. 
When  the  prejudices,  growing  out  of  the  war,  have  had  time  to  die  out,  no 
doubt  we  will  all  look  on  this  thing  differently." 

A  hurried  consultation  was  held  by  the  school  board,  in  which  all  agreed 
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330  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

that  the  boy  was  right.  They  then  and  there  announced  that  they  would 
give  the  colored  children  a  separate  teacher,  until  further  notice. 

In  1870  young  Mclntyre,  then  nineteen  years  old,  was  elected  enrolling 
clerk  of  the  eighth  session  of  the  Colorado  legislature.  During  the  session  a 
concurrent  resolution  was  passed  almost  unanimously  through  both  Senate 
:and  House,  asking  the  delegates  in  congress  to  give  young  Mclntyre  the  first 
vacancy  at  West  Point.  This  was  done  because  of  his  special  fitness  and 
.ability,  and  for  certain  achievements  which  were  known  only  to  a  few.  He 
"went  immediately  to  the  Militar}-  Academy  at  West  Point,  but  soon  saw  that 
ihe  wild  frontier  life,  hunting  and  fighting  Indians,  had  not  given  him  the 
requisite  education  to  enable  him  to  pass  the  examinations,  and  he  must  re- 
turn home,  greatly  to  his  disappointment.  About  this  time  was  the  period 
of  the  worst  hazing  at  West  Point.  They  made  a  bronco  of  plebe  Mclntyre, 
and  had  another  cadet  ride  him,  greatly  to  the  amusement  of  the  first  and 
second  classes.  He  stood  this  hazing  like  a  stoic,  until  one  man  asked  to  see 
his  sweetheart's  picture.  This  infuriated  young  Mclntyre,  and  he  whipped 
two  men,  a  second  and  third  class  man  dreadfully,  before  he  could  be  over- 
powered and  taken  off.  A  number  engaged  in  the  melee,  and  pressed  him 
back  to  the  wall.  He  told  them  they  were  a  lot  of  cowards,  for  a  dozen  to 
jump  on  one,  and  that  he  could  whip  the  whole  academy  one  at  a  time. 
They  were  very  glad  to  let  the  young  bronco  go,  and  the  word  was  passed 
around  the  academy  that  no  man  should  haze  him  again,  and  they  never  did. 
It  is  a  custom  at  West  Point  that  a  good  fighter  shall  not  be  hazed.  He  then 
went  back  to  Denver  and  studied  for  several  years  with  civil  and  mining  en- 
gineers. 

In  1877  he  went  to  the  Black  Hills,  locating  at  Dead  wood.  This  was 
a  year  or  more  before  law  and  order  had  been  established  in  the  Black  Hills 
and  young  Mclntyre  soon  became  a  leader  in  the  vigilance  committee  which 
ruled  during  all  these  wild  times.  Deadwood  was  crowded  with  des- 
perate men  and  the  vigilance  committee  dealt  summary  justice  to  all  offend- 
ers. It  was  the  rule  of  the  committee  to  hang  the  offender  and  try  him  after- 
wards, and  Mclntyre  says  no  mistake  was  ever  made  in  hanging  the  right 
man. 

He  bought  the  Minnesota  mine,  near  the  Great  Homestead,  at  Lead 
City.  While  away  on  a  surveying  expedition  three  desperadoes,  led  by  Jim 
Levy,  jumped  his  mine.  When  he  returned,  being  informed  of  the  situation, 
lie  immediately  started  for  the  mine  alone,  with  nothing  but  his  trusty  re- 
volver. He  walked  into  the  tunnel  where  the  three  desperadoes  were  at 
Avork,  picked  up  all  their  guns  and  ammunition,  threw  them  over  his  should- 


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er  and  drawing  his  own  revolver  ordered  them  to  come  out.  They  were 
completely  cowed  by  the  boldness  of  this  move,  and  as  he  had  the  "dead  sure 
drop"  on  them,  and  knowing  that  he  was  a  dead  shot  and  a  bad  man  to  fool 
with,  they  came  meekly  out.  He  ordered  them  to  "hit  the  trail"  for  Lead 
City,  which  they  did.  The  whole  town  got  wind  of  the  trouble,  turned  out 
to  see  the  sight  and  young  McLityre  became  the  hero  of  the  camp.  Many 
tales  of  this  kind  could  be  told  of  him  if  space  would  permit. 

In  many  of  the  early  mining  camps  he  is  known  as  Lucky  Jack,  because 
of  his  wonderful  luck  in  mining  ventures.  He  was  for  many  years  the  lead- 
ing mining  engineer  of  the  Black  Hills.  He  was  chief  engineer  of  the  Great 
Homestead  mines,  before  he  was  twenty-seven  years  old  He  examined 
mines  in  company  with  the  greatest  mining  engineers  of  the  nation  at  that 
time.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the  knowledge  acquired  in  such  times  was  one 
of  the  sources  of  his  success  in  mining  ventures  in  Washington,  Alaska  and 
British  Columbia.  He  is  the  owner  of  or  interested  in  many  paying  mines, 
and  will  in  all  human  probability  become  one  of  the  bonanza  miners  of  the 
Pacific  coast  at  no  distant  day.  He  is  the  owner  or  part  owner  of  several 
gold  mines  that  had  been  wrecked  by  bad  management,  and  has  with  those  as- 
sociated with  him  made  them  pay  well. 

In  1890,  together  with  some  Tacoma  gentlemen,  he  formed  the  Mont- 
^uma  Mining  Company  which  owns  the  coking  coal  mines  at  Montzuma, 
now  paying  dividends.  He,  with  Henry  Hewitt,  Henry  H.  Sweeney  and 
Col.  C.  W.  Thompson,  of  Tacoma,  formed  also  the  Pacific  Coast  Steel  Com- 
|/any,  wdiich  was  a  consolidation  of  the  Tacoma  Steel  Company  and  the  Pa- 
cific Steel  Company,  combining  virtually  all  the  steel  and  iron  industries  on 
the  Pacific  coast.  He,  with  E.  M.  Shelton,  of  Seattle,  and  Charles  Richard- 
son, of  Tacoma,  formed  the  Bessie  Gold  Company,  wdiose  gold  mines  are 
near  Juneau,  Alaska,  which  company  is  now  paying  dividends.  He  formed 
the  La  Rica  Consolidated  and  bought  the  Peshastin  Gold  Mine  at  Blewett.  a 
rich  property.  He  has  raised  more  money  from  eastern  investors  than  any 
man  in  the  northwest.  There  are  over  six  thousand  stockholders  in  liis 
enterprises.  He  has  not  only  the  ability  to  conceive  great  enterprises,  like 
those  mentioned  above,  but  can  organize  them,  raise  money,  build  the  enter- 
prises and  run  them  economically  afterwards.  This  is  a  rare  gift  and  one 
that  finds  a  wide  field  in  the  development  of  the  vast  resources  of  the  Pacific 
Northwest.  He  makes  very  strong  friends  and  bitter  enemies.  No  one  ever 
accused  him  of  going  back  on  a  friend.  He  is  generous  to  a  fault,  and  many 
a  man  will  tell  you  how  he  helped  him  in  times  of  trouble.     He  ne\er  drinks, 


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smokes  or  swears;  a  cultured  gentleman  and  a  good  friend  as  well  as  a 
bitter  enemy. 

In  1882  he  went  from  the  Black  Hills  to  Montana,  and  within  eight 
years  he  had  organized  five  different  irrigation  companies,  raised  the  money 
and  built  over  four  hundred  miles  of  irrigating  canals.  He  built  the  great 
Gallatin  canal,  the  big  Muddy  Storage  reservoirs,  the  Chestnut  Valley  canal, 
the  vSun  river  canal,  the  Florence  canal  and  others,  making  a  large  amount  of 
money  out  of  them.  He  came  to  Washington  at  the  request  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  railroad  officials  and  organized  the  great  Sunnyside  Canal  Company 
at  North  Yakima,  and  sold  out  to  the  Northern  Pacific.  He  came  to  Seattle 
in  1 89 1,  and  the  following  year  surveyed  the  Okanogan  Indian  reservation 
for  the  United  States  government. 

Gen.  Mclntyre  has  always  taken  a  prominent  part  in  politics.  He  is 
one  of  the  immortal  thirteen  who  organized  the  People's  party  of  this  state, 
in  1894,  and  stumped  the  state  in  that  election.  The  People's  party  carried 
the  state  by  a  tremendous  majority,  electing  nearly  every  man  on  the  ticket. 
He  was  formerly  prominent  in  the  Prohibition  party,  and  stumped  the  state 
for  that  party.  He  is  a  reformer  in  politics  and,  w'hile  he  is  socialistic  in  his 
views,  can  scarcely  be  termed  a  socialist. 

General  Mclntyre  was  appointed  brigadier-general  commanding  the 
National  Guards  of  Washington,  in  1896.  The  state  force  consisted  of  the 
first  and  second  Washington  regiments,  two  troops  of  cavalry  and  one  bat- 
tery of  artillery.  He  served  all  during  the  Spanish  war.  The  splendid 
record  made  by  the  first  regiment  in  the  Philippines  was  largely  due  to  his 
training. 

Gen.  Mclntyre  is  a  born  leader  of  men  and  is  possessed  of  rare  executive 
ability  in  the  organization,  financiering  and  development  of  great  business 
enterprises,  especially  in  mining.  He  is  considered  one  of  our  ablest  political 
organizers,  but  as  he  is  a  reformer  in  politics  he  usually  starts  with  the 
minority. 

General  Mclntyre's  domestic  life  has  always  been  of  the  most  delightful 
and  inspiring  character,  as  he  was  possessed  of  those  greatest  of  earthly 
blessings,  a  good  wife  and  a  good  mother.  In  1883  he  married  Miss  Lizzie, 
daughter  of  Professor  A.  Hull,  one  of  the  most  learned  men  in  Iowa.  To 
the  wisdom  and  foresight  of  this  brave  and  accomplished  woman  her  husband 
admits  his  great  obligations,  and  never  wearies  of  saying  how  much  he  owes 
to  her  encouragement  for  all  the  successes  of  his  life.  Her  father  was  a. 
great-grandson  of  Commodore  Isaac  Hull,  who  commanded  the  frigate 
"Constitution"  in  her  famous  battle  with  the  British  ship  "Guerriere"  during 


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tiie  war  of  1812.  She  is  also  a  lineal  descendant  of  General  Hull  who  com- 
manded the  military  forces  of  the  United  States  in  the  same  war.  During 
their  early  married  life  Mrs.  Mclntyre  often  accompanied  her  adventurous 
husband  on  his  dangerous  mountain  trips,  and  looks  back  with  pleasure  to 
niuch  of  the  camp  life  and  other  outdoor  experiences.  They  have  six  chil- 
dren, all  at  home:  Lucile,  an  accomplished  musician;  Marie,  Cedric,  Ralph, 
Marguerite  and  Phillis  Yvonne.  Of  her  to  whom  he  owes  his  being  General 
Mclntyre  always  speaks  as  "my  beautiful  mother."  She  is  living  at  Spo- 
kane with  his  two  younger  brothers.  Laura  S.  Murphy,  the  portrait  artist, 
is  his  sister.  General  Mclntyre  joined  the  Masonic  order  while  living  in 
Montana,  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  and  his  wife 
are  members  of  the  Christian  church. 

GEORGE  M.  HORTON,  M.  D. 

Dr.  George  M.  Horton,  a  prominent  member  of  the  medical  profession 
of  Seattle,  whose  marked  ability  and  careful  preparation  have  gained  him 
distinction  in  tlie  line  of  his  chosen  life  work,  has  spent  almost  his  entire  life 
in  this  city,  for  he  was  only  five  years  of  age  when  his  parents  removed  to 
Seattle.  He  is  a  son  of  Julius  Horton  and  a  nephew  of  Dexter  Horton,  who 
are  mentioned  elsewhere  in  this  volume,  and  in  whose  sketch  appears  the  an- 
cestral history  of  the  family.  Julius  Horton  was  born  in  New  York  and 
after  arriving  at  man's  estate  he  married  Miss  Annie  E.  Big"elow,  a  native 
of  Michigan.  They  had  a  family  of  four  children,  three  of  whom  are  yet 
living.  The  father  now  resides  in  Georgetown,  Washington,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-seven  years.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Protestant  Methodist  church  and 
in  his  political  affiliations  is  a  Republican.  At  one  time  he  served  as  assessor 
of  King  county.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  among  the  well  known  and  high- 
ly esteemed  early  settlers  of  Washington,  having  located  here  at  an  early 
period  in  territorial  days. 

The  Doctor  was  bom  in  Shabbona  Grove,  De  Kalb  county,  Illinois,  on 
the  17th  of  March,  1865.  He  was  only  five  years  old  when  brought  by  his 
parents  to  the  west  and  has  since  been  a  resident  of  Seattle.  His  literary 
education  was  begun  in  the  public  schools  here  and  after  he  had  completed 
his  high  school  course  he  entered  the  territorial  university,  where  he  com- 
pleted his  general  studies.  He  then  began  preparations  for  professional 
duties  as  a  student  in  the  Bellevue  Hospital  and  Medical  College  in  New 
York  city,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1890.  He  then  returned  to  Seattle 
and  at  once  began  the  practice  of  the  profession  for  which  he  had  received 


334  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

excellent  training  in  one  of  the  best  schools  of  the  land.  He  entered  into 
partnership  with  Dr.  J.  S.  M.  Smart,  who  had  been  his  preceptor  before  he 
Avent  east  to  college,  but  soon  Dr.  Smart  died  and  Dr.  Horton  has  since  been 
alone,  gradually  acquiring  an  extensive  and  important  practice  among  Seat- 
tle's best  citizens.  As  a  physician  and  surgeon  he  ranks  among  the  most 
skilled  in  this  part  of  the  state  and  is  constantly  broadening  his  knowledge 
and  promoting  his  efficiency  as  a  practitioner  by  reading,  investigation  and 
experiment.  By  his  marked  skill  he  has  attained  celebrity  and  is  now  meet- 
ing with  excellent  financial  success  as  well. 

During  his  practice  here  Dr.  Horton  served  for  four  years  as  county 
coroner.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Master  Mason,  belonging  to  St.  John's  Lodge 
No.  9,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Seattle.  He  is  also  a  Knight  Templar  and  has  taken 
the  degree  of  the  Scottish  Rite  up  to  and  including  the  thirty-second.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  Tacoma,  and  he  holds 
membership  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Ancient  Order 
of  United  Workmen,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World.  In  the  line  of  his  profession  he  is  a  member  of  the  King  county 
Medical  Society,  in  which  he  has  been  honored  with  the  presidency,  the 
Washington  State  Medical  Society  and  the  American  Medical  Association, 
in  all  of  which  he  is  an  active  and  valued  representative. 

In  1 89 1  Dr.  Horton  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Ethel  G.  Benson,  a 
daughter  of  H.  A.  Benson,  of  Portland,  Oregon.  They  now  have  two  sons 
and  a  daughter,  George  M.,  Kenneth  and  Gertrude.  The  Doctor  has  a 
very  wide  and  favorable  acquaintance  throughout  Seattle,  both  profession- 
ally and  socially,  and  he  and  his  wife  enjoy  the  high  esteem  of  a  host  of 
warm  friends. 

WASHINGTON    C.    RUTTER. 

The  history  of  King  county  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record  of 
this  representative  citizen,  whose  career  has  ever  been  one  in  which  business 
activity  has  been  blended  with  unbending  honor  and  unflirxhing  integrity, 
and  his  course  is  well  worthy  of  emulation  by  him  who  would  justly  com- 
mand the  respect  of  his  fellow  men.  Mr.  Rutter  was  born  in  Tarentum, 
Pennsylvania,  on  the  i8th  of  May,  1854,  and  is  of  Puritan  ancestry.  His 
ancestors  landed  at  Plymouth  Rock  from  the  Mayflower,  and  later  his 
branch  of  the  Rutter  family  settled  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  and 
were  active  participants  in  the  subsequent  history  and  wars  of  the  country. 
Our  subject's  grandfather,  William  Rutter,  w^as  born  in  Lancaster  county, 
Pennsylvania,  but  wdien  a  young  man   removed  to  LawTence  county,   that 


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state,  where  he  was  married.     As  a  Hfe  occupation  he  followed  the  tilling  of 
the  soil,  and  he  lived  to  the  good  old  age  of  ninety-three  years. 

John  Rutter,  the  father  of  him  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  was 
born  in  Lawrence  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1826,  and  at  Tarentum,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1850,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Eliza  Jane  Llorton,  who  was 
born  in  Tarentum,  Pennsylvania,  in  1824.  He,  too,  followed  farming  as 
a  life  occupation,  and  became  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  his  locali- 
ty. During  the  dark  period  of  the  Civil  war  he  volunteered  as  a  one  hun- 
dred day  man  in  the  Union  army,  and  his  brother,  who  was  killed  at  Spotts- 
sylvania,  Virginia,  in  May  1864,  and  cousins  were  also  soldiers  in  that 
memorable  struggle,  all  loyally  aiding  in  the  preserv^ation  of  the  Union. 
One  family  sent  five  sons  to  fight  for  the  starry  banner,  and  three  of  the  num- 
ber laid  down  their  lives  on  the  altar  of  their  country.  John  Rutter  passed 
to  his  final  reward  in  1895,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years.  He  had  been  a 
staunch  Republican  since  the  formation  of  the  party,  and  was  an  upright, 
loyal  and  worthy  citizen.  His  wife  was  called  to  her  final  rest  on  the  3d  of 
March,  1898,  at  the  age  of  seventy- four  years.  In  their  family  were  three 
sons  and  a  daughter,  all  of  whom  are  still  living.  One  son,  Jesse  W.,  is  a 
mine  owner  and  resides  at  Nome,  Alaska,  while  the  son  James  A.  is  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business  in  West  Virginia.  The  daughter,  Mrs.  Tillie 
J.  Stoops,  makes  her  home  near  Dayton,  Pennsylvania. 

Washington  C.  Rutter  enjoyed  the  advantages  afforded  by  the  common 
schools  of  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio,  the  family  having  located  in  the  latter 
state  in  1856,  where  they  resided  for  ten  years,  and  then  returned  to  Kittann- 
ing,  Pennsylvania.  His  boyhood  days  were  spent  on  his  father's  farm,  and 
after  attaining  to  mature  years  he  was  engaged  in  coal  mining  in  western 
Pennsylvania  for  twelve  years.  Since  the  spring  of  1888  he  has  made  his 
home  in  Seattle,  and  during  his  first  year  in  this  state  he  w^orked  in  the  coal 
mines  at  Oilman,  and  while  thus  engaged,  in  1889,  he  was  nominated  on  the 
Republican  ticket  to  the  first  house  of  representatives  in  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington. He  was  successful  in  the  following  election,  and  while  thus  serving 
he  was  made  chairman  of  the  committee  on  mines  and  mining,  was  a  member 
of  the  committee  on  labor  and  labor  statistics,  and  also  served  on  the 
military  committee.  In  1890  Mr.  Rutter  was  elected  to  represent  the 
twenty-ninth  district  in  the  state  senate,  in  which  he  served  for  two  sessions, 
and  in  the  first  session  he  was  again  made  chairman  of  the  committee  on 
mines  and  mining,  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  labor  and  labor  statis- 
tics, and  also  on  the  committee  of  public  buildings  and  grounds.  In  1893 
he  was  appointed  by  the  executive  committee  of  the  Washington  World's 


336  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Fair  Commission  to  make  a  collection  of  the  different  minerals  of  the  state, 
which  exhibit  was  shipped  to  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago  and  exhibited  in 
the  Washing-ton  state  building  under  his  immediate  supervision.  In  this  col- 
lection was  a  mammoth  piece  of  bituminous  coal  weighing  twenty-five  tons, 
from  Roslyn,  Kittitas  county,  from  which  he  gave  away  ten  thousand 
small  pieces,  properly  labeled,  and  these  were  taken  all  over  the  world  and 
thus  they  proved  a  great  advertisement  for  the  coal  deposits  of  the  state. 
Thus  ]\Ir.  Rutter  rendered  a  most  valuable  service  to  this  commonwealth, 
and  his  efforts  were  highly  commended  in  the  final  report  of  the  executitve 
commissioner  from  this  state.  In  1897  he  was  appointed  clerk  of  the 
probate  court  of  King  county,  in  which  office  he  served  for  three  years,  and 
he  then  became  interested  in  mining  and  organized  the  Kittanning  Mining 
Company,  of  which  he  is  the  president.  Their  property  is  located  in  the 
Red  Boy  mining  district  of  eastern  Oregon,  and  the  mines  of  this  company 
are  proving  very  valuable  because  of  their  rich  deposits. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Rutter  was  celebrated  on  the  3d  of  September, 
1891,  when  Miss  Emma  Clow  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Buft'alo, 
New  York,  and  by  her  marriage  she  has  become  the  mother  of  two  sons, 
Fred  C.  and  George  J.  The  family  occupy  a  beautiful  home  at  South  Park, 
Seattle,  which  ]\Ir.  Rutter  erected  in  1892.  In  his  social  relations  he  is  a 
member  of  the  ^Masonic  order,  having  been  made  a  Master  Mason  in  Olive 
Branch  Lodge  No.  114,  at  Leesburg,  Virginia,  in  1882.  He  is  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  ^Vorkmen,  and  the  Seattle  Aerie  No.  i,  of  the  Fraternal  Order  of 
Eagles.  On  attaining  to  years  of  maturity  he  became  allied  with  Republi- 
can principles,  and  he  was  an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  that  party  until 
the  time  the  Republican  national  convention  convened  at  St.  Louis,  of  which 
he  was  made  a  member.  He  left  the  party  with  Senator  Teller  and  thou- 
sands of  others  and  has  since  been  independent  in  his  political  views.  Since 
the  year  1888  Mr.  Rutter  has  been  a  resident  of  the  Pacific  coast,  and  he  has 
nobly  performed  his  part  in  bringing  alx)ut  the  changes  which  have  contri- 
buted to  its  present  properous  condition.  As  one  of  the  public  spirited  and 
leading  citizens  he  is  held  in  high  esteem. 

AMOS  O.   BENJAMIN. 

The  day  of  small  undertakings,  especially  in  cities,  seems  to  have  passed 
and  the  era  of  gigantic  enterprises  is  upon  us.  In  control  of  mammoth  cour 
cerns  are  men  of  master  minds,  of  almost  limitless  ability  to  guide,  of  sound 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  337 

judgment  and  keen  discrimination.  Their  progressiveness  must  not  only 
reach  the  bounds  that  others  have  gained,  but  must  even  pass  beyond  into 
new  and  broader,  untried  fields  of  operation;  but  an  unerring  foresight 
and  sagacity  must  make  no  mistake  by  venturing  upon  uncertain  ground. 
Thus  continually  growing,  a  business  takes  leadership  in  its  special  line 
and  the  men  who  are  at  its  head  are  deservedly  eminent  in  the  industrial 
world,  occupying  a  position  that  commands  the  respect  while  it  excites  the 
admiration  of  all.  There  is  no  one  in  Seattle  who  has  done  a  larger  business 
in  the  line  of  raising  sunken  vessels  and  in  the  buying  and  selling  of  steam- 
boats than  Amos  Oscar  Benjamin,  who  is  president  of  the  Alaska  Com- 
pany. He  has  been  the  owner  of  not  less  than  thirty  steamers,  buying  many 
disabled  ones,  putting  them  in  repair,  then  sailing  them  for  a  time  and  after- 
ward disposing  of  them  at  a  profit.  He,  too,  has  been  a  successful  and 
practical  diver  for  many  years  and  the  splendid  degree  of  prosperity  which 
has  attended  his  efforts  is  well  merited. 

Captain  Benjamin  w-as  born  in  Rome,  Oneida  county.  New  York,  on 
the  22d  of  June,  1843,  and  is  descended  from  an  old  New  England  family 
that  was  early  established  in  the  colonies.  His  paternal  grandfather  was 
born  in  Vermont  and  emigrated  to  New  York,  rearing  his  family  in  Her- 
kimer county,  nine  miles  from  Little  Falls.  There  his  son,  Oscar  Benjamin, 
was  born  in  1819.  Later  he  married  Emaline  Cleveland,  of  Westerville, 
Oneida  county.  New  York,  and  followed  the  business  of  a  contractor  and 
builder,  meeting  with  creditable  success.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Method- 
ist and  in  politics  a  Whig.  He  died  at  the  early  age  of  twenty-seven  years, 
leaving  two  little  children  to  the  care  of  his  widow\  Mrs.  Benjamin  after- 
ward became  the  wife  of  Francis  P.  Graves  and  three  daughters  were  born 
of  that  union,  of  whom  two  are  yet  living.  The  mother  died  in  North 
Dakota  in  1888  at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years. 

In  the  public  schools  Captain  Benjamin  pursued  his  education.  He 
was  in  his  seventeenth  year  when  the  great  Civil  war  burst  upon  the  coun- 
try. At  once  he  endeavored  to  enlist  but  his  mother  objected  to  his  entering 
the  service  at  that  early  age  and  he  was  therefore  rejected.  In  the  follow- 
ing year,  however,  on  the  4th  of  January,  1862,  he  succeeded  in  becoming 
an  enlisted  member  of  Company  I,  Eighty-first  New  York  Infantry,  serving 
in  the  Peninsular  campaign  under  General  McClellan  in  Virginia.  He  was 
in  the  seven  days  battle  under  that  leader  at  Fair  Oaks  and  at  a  later  period 
was  in  the  engagements  at  Cold  Harbor,  Fort  Harrison  and  in  front  of 
Petersburg.  The  troops  then  proceeded  down  the  south  side  road  after  the 
army   of   General   Lee,   and   when  tJie   surrender   came;,   Captain   Benjamin 


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was  acting  as  orderly  under  General  Gibbons  and  prepared  the  room  in  which 
the  articles  of  surrender  were  drawn  up.  He  arranged  the  table  and  brought 
the  pen  and  ink  with  which  the  terms  of  agreement  were  written  and  signed 
and  he  now  has  in  his  possession  the  table  spread  which  was  then  used. 
His  command  was  the  first  to  enter  Richmond  and  set  at  liberty  the  pris- 
oners who  were  incarcerated  in  Libby.  At  one  occasion  in  the  battle  of 
White  Oak  Swamp  he  was  wounded  in  the  ankle.  He  had  re-enlisted  in 
his  old  regiment  in  January,  1864,  and  was  honorably  discharged  on  the 
226.  of  June,  1865.  Efficiently  and  well  had  he  served  his  country  and  to 
the  north  he  returned  as  a  veteran  and  victor. 

The  year  following  the  close  of  the  war,  Mr.  Benjamin  was  happily 
married  to  Misss  Ann  Wood,  of  Oswego,  New  York.  For  a  short  time 
he  was  engaged  in  the  shipping  and  commission  business  in  the  east  and  on 
the  6th  of  April,  1867,  he  followed  the  advice  of  Horace  Greeley  and  started 
westward,  going  by  way  of  the  Lakes  and  the  railroad  to  Cedar  Falls,  Iowa, 
and  on  to  South  Dakota.  He  finally  settled  at  Fremont,  Nebraska, 
where  he  became  engaged  in  the  business  of  removing  buildings.  Fie  was 
also  prominent  in  public  affairs  there  and  served  as  constable  and  deputy 
sheriff  for  three  years.  Removing  to  Dixon  county,  that  state,  he  secured 
a  homestead  claim  upon  which  he  resided  for  four  years,  becoming  the 
owner  of  six  hundred  acres  of  land  in  that  locality,  but  the  grass  hoppers 
destroyed  all  of  his  crops  and  he  abandoned  his  property.  After  two  years 
passed  in  Nevada  he  came  by  team  to  Seattle,  bringing  with  him  his  wife 
and  three  children.  They  started  on  the  3d  of  July,  and  arrived  on  the  3d  of 
September,  1878. 

Here  Captain  Benjamin  engaged  in  teaming  for  a  year  and  later  turned 
his  attention  to  the  work  of  moving  buildings.  In  1881  he  began  the  wreck- 
ing business  which  he  has  followed  continuously  for  the  past  twenty  years. 
He  succeeded  in  raising  a  locomotive  for  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad 
from  the  bay  at  Tacoma.  It  was  under  thirteen  feet  of  sand  and  several 
parties  had  attempted  the  work  without  success.  He  took  it  out  and  for  his 
work  received  a  clear  profit  of  ten  hundred  and  fifty  dollars.  In  1897  the 
present  Alaska  Company  was  incorporated  for  the  purpose  of  raising  sunken 
vessels.  Captain  Benjamin  became  president  and  in  the  enterprise  he  is 
associated  with  his  sons  and  his  sons-in-law.  They  have  taken  a  locomotive 
out  of  forty-eight  feet  of  water  and  have  raised  many  wrecked  steamers. 
For  the  past  eighteen  years  Captain  Benjamin  has  also  engaged  in  steam- 
boat traffic  and  is  now  the  owner  of  the  Nellie  Jenson  and  a  brig  which 
he  is  overhauling.    Few  men  are  more  familiar  with  the  waters  of  the  Sound 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  339 

than  he.  He  had  sailed  on  the  Atlantic  before  coming  west  and  since  his  ar- 
rival on  the  Pacific  coast  he  has  been  master  of  the  Evangel  and  the  Fern- 
dale,  together  with  other  vessels.  He  has  owned  as  many  as  thirty  steam- 
ers and  several  sailing  vessels  and  his  business  has  been  an  important  one, 
proving  of  value  to  the  public  and  at  the  same  time  bringing  to  him  a  good 
profit.     He  has  become  especially  prominent  as  a  diver  and  wrecker. 

In  his  business  Captain  Benjamin  is  associated  with  his  sons  William 
vS.,  Charles  A.  and  Paul  S.  His  daughter  Bertha  is  the  wife  of  D.  Van 
Dyke,  a  master  mechanic,  and  Annie  Gertrude  is  the  wife  of  A.  H.  Goes- 
well,  of  Seattle,  while  Martha  Emeline  resides  at  home.  The  sons-in-law 
are  trustees  in  the  corporation  and  Mr.  Cogswell  is  now  its  secretary. 

Captain  Benjamin  entered  the  war  as  a  believer  in  ihe  doctrines  of 
Democracy,  but  before  its  close  he  became  a  Republican  and  has  since 
stanchly  adhered  to  the  party.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  he 
and  his  wife  are  connected  in  membership  relations  with  the  Seattle  Taber- 
nacle church.  Captain  Benjamin  is  a  man  of  pleasing  address,  courteous 
manner,  unflinching  principle  and  unquestioned  integrity,  and  yet  with  all 
that  practical  common  sense  which  never  runs  to  extremes;  and  it  is  no 
wonder  that  wherever  he  goes  he  wins  friends.  His  life  has  been  well  spent 
and  his  honorable  and  useful  career  is  worthy  of  emulation. 

RALPH  COOK. 

Ralph  Cook,  chief  of  the  fire  department  of  Seattle,  with  headquarters 
at  station  No.  i,  on  the  corner  of  Seventh  avenue  and  Columbia  street,  was 
born  in  Sufifolkshire,  England,  on  the  i6th  of  October,  1865,  and  is  a  son  of 
Edward  and  Jemima  (Grif^th)  Cook,  both  natives  of  that  county.  Ralph 
is  the  eldest  of  their  nine  children,  the  others  being:  Daniel  A.,  lieutenant 
of  engine  company  No.  9;  Edward,  a  member  of  engine  company  No.  4, 
both  brothers  being  employed  as  plumbers ;  Joseph  and  Charles,  who  are  en- 
gaged in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Seattle;  Jemima,  the  wife  of  George  Over- 
ton, a  brick  layer  of  this  city;  Susanna,  the  wife  of  A.  Edwards,  also  of  Seat- 
tle; Martha,  the  wife  of  John  Prichards,  of  this  city;  one  son,  Edward,  died 
in  England  when  only  two  years  of  age. 

Ralph  Cook  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  this  country  when  only  five 
years  of  age,  the  family  locating  in  Mahanoy  City,  Pennsylvania,  where  the 
father  was  employed  as  inspector  of  mines.  There  the  son  Ralph  spent  the 
days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth,  and  to  the  public  school  system  of  the  city  he 


340  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

is  indebted  for  the  early  educational  ad\antages  which  he  received.  At  an 
early  age  he  engaged  in  carpenter  work,  and  was  associated  with  his  father 
in  the  work  of  the  mines.  In  1888  he  accompanied  the  family  on  their  re- 
moval to  Seattle,  Washington,  where  the  father  engaged  in  the  grocery  busi- 
ness at  the  corner  of  Fifteenth  and  Spruce  streets,  and  the  son  received  con- 
tract work  for  grading  and  excavating.  In  November,  1890,  the  season 
subsequent  to  the  disastrous  fire  which  swept  over  this  city,  the  Seattle  fire 
department  was  organized  into  a  paid  company,  and  our  subject  was  made 
deck  hand  on  the  fire  boat.  Previous  to  his  coming  to  Seattle  he  had  spent 
five  years  in  the  volunteer  fire  department  of  ^Mahanoy  City,  Pennsylvania, 
two  years  of  the  time  being  president  of  the  company,  and  after  fifteen  days  of 
service  on  the  fire  boat  his  efficiency  caused  him  to  be  transferred  to  company 
No.  I,  where  for  a  time  he  served  as  a  pipeman.  From  October,  1892,  until 
February,  1895,  ^^^  ^'^^^^  the  position  of  lieutenant,  was  then  promoted  to  the 
captaincy,  and  in  July,  1895,  was  made  the  chief  of  the  department.  On 
the  nth  of  June,  1896,  however,  he  resigned  that  position  to  engage  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  and  on  the  31st  of  September  of  the  same  year  he  was  ten- 
dered the  office  of  assistant  chief,  which  he  accepted  and  filled  until  February 
26,  1 90 1,  when  he  was  again  made  chief  of  the  department. 

Chief  Cook  is  without  exception  the  most  capable  and  efficient  fireman 
on  the  western  coast,  and  for  a  man  of  his  years  he  has  probably  seen  more 
active  service  than  falls  to  the  lot  of  those  who  engage  in  fighting  this  des- 
troying element.  He  has  been  engaged  in  almost  continuous  service  since 
his  eighteenth  year,  and  the  efficiency  of  the  fire  department  of  Seattle  re- 
flects great  credit  on  the  worthy  chief  as  well  as  to  the  brave  fire  laddies 
under  his  command.  The  headquarters  of  the  department  are  at  station  No. 
I,  on  the  corner  of  Columbia  street  and  Seventh  avenue,  where  three  com- 
panies and  eighteen  men  are  located;  engine  company  No.  2  is  stationed  at 
Pine  and  Third  avenue,  where  nine  men  are  employed;  company  No.  3  is 
stationed  between  Seventh  and  Eighth  avenue,  south;  company  No.  4  is 
located  at  Battery  and  Fourth  avenue,  with  eight  men;  company  No.  5  is 
the  fire  boat,  Snoqualmie,  at  the  foot  of  Madison  street,  with  eight  men; 
company  No.  6  is  stationed  at  Twenty-sixth  avenue,  south,  and  Yesler 
Way  with  six  men;  company  No.  7  is  at  Fifteenth  avenue  and  Harrison 
street,  with  six  men ;  chemical  engine  company  No.  i  is  stationed  at  Fremont 
street,  with  three  men;  chemical  engine  company  No.  2  is  stationed  at  Ter- 
race and  Broadw^ay,  with  three  men;  and  chemical  engine  company  No.  3  is 
at  Lee  and  First  avenue,  west.  The  company  have  seven  steam  fire  engines ; 
two  of  the  most  approved  modern  chemical  engines;    seven  hose  wagons, 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  341 

equipped  with  chemical  engines;  two  combination  chemical  engines  and  hose 
wagons;  one  fire  boat,  with  necessary  equipments;  three  hook  and  ladder 
wagons,  of  the  Arial  turn-table  patterns  and  a  sixty-five  foot  extension 
ladder;  seventeen  thousand  two  hundred  feet  of  hose  in  good  condition  and 
four  thousand  and  five  hundred  and  fifty  feet  in  an  inferior  condition,  kept 
for  extra  service.  In  the  year  1901  they  made  three  hundred  and  eighty 
runs,  eighty-eight  in  excess  of  the  previous  year  and  one  more  than  in  any 
year  since  the  company  was  organized.  The  department  was  organized  with 
paid  service  in  October,  1889,  immediately  after  the  great  fire.  It  has  ever 
been  the  aim  and  effort  of  Chief  Cook  to  increase  the  working  efficiency  of 
the  department  by  the  adoption  of  the  best  methods  and  appliances,  and 
through  his  exertions  many  improvements  have  been  made  and  other  im- 
portant ones  are  under  way.  With  the  exception  of  San  Francisco  the  com- 
pany has  not  a  superior  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

On  the  24th  of  January,  1893,  in  Seattle,  Chief  Cook  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Nellie  Meade,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Julia  Meade.  She 
was  born  in  the  city  of  London,  but  when  a  child  was  brought  by  her  parents 
to  Toronto,  Canada,  where  her  life  was  spent  until  1890,  and  in  that  year  she 
came  with  the  family  to  Seattle;  her  father  is  a  contract  plasterer  of  this 
city,  and  Mrs.  Cook  is  the  youngest  of  his  three  children,  the  others  being: 
Thomas,  Jr..  a  brickmason  of  Seattle;  and  Mary,  the  wife  of  Richard  Hays, 
also  of  this  city.  Four  children  have  been  born  to  the  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Cook,  but  two  have  passed  away,  Ralph,  the  first  born,  and  Grace, 
both  dying  in  infancy.  The  two  surviving  children  are  Mary  and  Elline. 
In  his  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Cook  is  a  charter  member  and  for  several 
years  was  treasurer  of  Evergreen  Lodge,  No.  33,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  and  is  also 
a  member  of  Seattle  Lodge,  No.  92,  B.  P.  O.  E.  He  attended  the  Fire 
Chiefs'  convention  in  New  York,  and  visited  the  fire  departments  of  all  the 
eastern  cities.  He  is  one  of  the  most  honored  and  highly  esteemed  citizens 
of  his  community,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  no  man  in  Seattle  has  a  wider 
circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  than  Ralph  Cook. 

WILLIAM  M.  RUSSELL. 

William  M.  Russell  is  the  popular  manager  of  the  Third  Avenue  The- 
ater of  Seattle.  He  was  born  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  on  the  22d  of  February, 
1849.  His  grandfather,  Peter  Russell,  came  from  France  with  Marquis 
De  Lafayette  and  fought  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  After  its  close  he  de- 
termined to  make  his  home  on  the  American  continent,  and  subsequently  re- 


342  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF. 

moved  to  Montreal,  Canada,  where  his  son,  Peter  Russell,  was  born  in  1819. 
Throughout  his  business  career  the  latter  was  engaged  in  contracting  and 
building.  In  1827  he  left  his  native  place,  removing  to  Wayne  county, 
Michigan,  and  settling  near  Detroit,  and  as  the  city  grew  his  place  was 
finally  included  within  the  corporation  limits.  There  he  built  the  Russell  saw- 
mill on  Grand  River  avenue.  He  married  Miss  Ellen  Quigley,  a  native  of 
Inverness,  Scotland.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  the  Emerald  Isle,  born  in 
Belfast,  and  her  mother  was  born  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Russell  continued  to  reside  in  Michigan,  and  he  died  in  Detroit  in  1878, 
at  the  age  of  seventy  years,  while  his  wife  had  passed  away  ten  years  before, 
and  both  were  laid  to  rest  in  Mount  Elliott  cemetery  of  that  city.  They  were 
members  of  the  Catholic  church.  In  their  family  were  thirteen  children 
and  five  of  the  sons  and  three  of  the  daughters  are  yet  living.  One  of  the 
sons,  Charles  Russell,  is  an  engineer  in  the  Third  Avenue  Theater  of  Seattle. 
William  M.  Russell  attended  school  in  Detroit  until  his  eighth  year, 
after  which  he  had  only  three  month's  mental  training  wilhin  the  school- 
room. In  the  school  of  experience,  however,  he  has  learned  many  valuable 
lessons  and  has  continually  obtained  knowledge  by  reading,  experience  and 
observation.  He  entered  upon  his  business  career  in  connection  with  the 
lumber  trade  in  Birmingham,  Michigan,  and  later  was  an  officer  in  the  De- 
troit House  of  Correction,  having  charge  of  fifty-  of  the  convicts  in  the  paint- 
ing department.  He  was  just  in  his  twentieth  year  and  he  displayed  such 
good  judgment  and  efficiency  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  that  after  three 
years  he  was  promoted  to  the  position  of  deputy  warden,  which  office  he 
filled  until  1871,  when  he  resigned  in  order  to  go  upon  the  road  as  collector 
for  the  firm  of  D.  Appleton  &  Company  of  New  York.  He  continued  in 
that  business  for  seven  years,  or  until  187S,  when  he  entered  the  theater 
business  as  a  manager  in  New  York  city.  He  first  was  manager  for  the 
scout,  Texas  Jack  (J  B.  Omohundro),  and  Daniel  McKay,  the  famous  Ore- 
gon scout.  Later  he  took  out  his  own  company  and  toured  through  Mich- 
igan until  1886.  He  not  only  managed  his  own  company,  but  also  spec-, 
ulated  in  various  other  theatrical  enterprises.  In  1887  and  1888  he  man- 
aged Dan  Morris  Sullivan,  "Mirror  of  Ireland,"  and  in  1889  he  organized 
a  dramatic  company  under  the  firm  name  of  the  Russell  and  Jewell  Dramatic 
Company.  This  company  he  brought  to  Seattle,  it  being  the  first  popular 
attraction  of  any  note  ever  in  the  city.  It  occupied  the  old  Turner  Hall  and 
proved  a  valued  addition  to  the  amusement  circles  of  the  west.  In  1890  he 
returned  to  Seattle  with  the  same  company  and  later  toured  Oregon,  Califor- 
nia,   Montana,    New    Mexico,    Colorado,    Texas    and    Arizona.      He   closed 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  343 

out  his  business  on  the  22d  of  February,  1893,  and  spent  some  months  in 
southern  Cahfornia.  On  the  15th  of  May,  1893  he  again  arrived  in  Seattle 
and  took  charge  of  the  Third  Avenue  Theater. 

Not  long  after  this  the  Merchants  National  Bank  acquired  the  owner- 
ship of  the  theater,  and  in  1894  Mr.  Russell  became  manager  for  the  owners, 
and  when  the  bank  failed  a  receiver  was  appointed,  Mr.  Russell  continuing 
in  his  position.  In  1897  he  formed  a  partnership  with  E.  L.  Drew  and 
purchased  the  bank's  interest  in  the  theater.  Since  then  they  have  been 
the  lessors  of  the  theater,  which  for  a  time  played  a  stock  company, 
but  in  1896  Mr.  Russell  began  placing  traveling  attractions  and  has 
brought  to  this  house  the  leading  popular  attractions  of  the  United  States. 
The  patronage  for  the  last  three  years  has  been  six  times  greater  than  that 
when  he  took  charge.  Attractions  are  all  booked  at  least  a  year  in  advance. 
The  house  is  represented  by  Stair  &  Havlin  of  New  York,  where  it  has  be- 
come as  well  known  to  theatrical  men  as  it  has  to  the  people  of  Seattle.  Mr. 
Russell  devotes  his  entire  time  to  the  management  of  the  opera  house  and 
has  made  a  marked  success  in  this  business. 

CHRISTIAN   N.    SANDAHL. 

Denmark  has  furnished  her  quota  of  good  citizens  to  this  country, 
and  not  the  least  enterprising  among  these  is  the  subject  of  this  review. 
Descended  from  a  line  of  successful  florists  and  seedgrowers,  it  is  not  won- 
derful that  C.  N.  Sandahl's  greenhouses  and  nursery  are  known  through- 
out Seattle  and  even  the  county.  He  was  born  in  Denmark  on  the  loth  of 
May,  1857.  His  father  was  an  extensive  land  proprietor  and  successful 
agriculturist,  using  his  lands  for  the  raising  of  flowers  and  seeds.  Being 
bred  in  this  atmosphere,  our  subject  could  do  nothing  else  than  engage 
in  the  business  he  now  follows  so  profitably.  He  remained  in  his  native 
country  until  he  reached  manhood,  receiving  a  good  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  which  he  supplemented  by  a  course  at  college.  When  he 
was  twenty-one  years  of  age  he  engaged  in  the  floral  business  in  Denmark, 
which  he  continued  with  profit  until  he  came  to  America  in  1881.  He 
located  in  Grand  Forks  county.  North  Dakota,  where  he  entered  some 
government  land,  and  remained  there  for  some  eight  years.  During  this 
time  he  was  not  idle,  and  at  the  end  of  this  period  found  himself  proprietor 
of  four  hundred  acres  of  land,  which  he  cultivated  in  an  agricultural  way 
imtil  1890,  when  he  disposed  of  his  land  interests  in  North  Dakota  and 
came   to  Seattle. 


344  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Here  he  rented  land  along  the  Columbia  car  line,  and  for  a  time  was 
successfully  engaged  in  market  gardening.  The  inherent  instincts  of  his 
race  cropped  out,  however,  and  this  business  was  gradually  merged  into 
floriculture.  In  1897  he  enlarged  this  business  considerably,  adding  the 
nursery  and  seeds.  This  has  grown  and  enlarged  from  year  to  year,  until 
it  has  finally  reached  its  present  extensive  dimensions.  Mr.  Sandahl  gives 
especial  attention  to  the  quality  of  his  flowers,  and  imports  bulbs  and  seeds 
from  France,  Holland,  Germany  and  Japan.  He  makes  a  specialty  of  im- 
ported ornamental  shrubs  from  France  and  Japan,  and  one  gains  a  knowl- 
edge of  almost  every  kind  of  plant,  bulb  or  seed,  in  going  through  his 
extensive  greenhouses.  He  is  proprietor  and  founder  of  the  Puget  Sound 
Nursery  and  Seed  Company,  whose  store  and  distributing  depot  is  at  1109 
Second  avenue.  Their  nursery  and  greenhouses  are  on  loii  Taylor  avenue, 
while  their  main  and  largest  nursery  is  at  Renton.  They  have  also  a  branch 
store  at  Tacoma,  and  supply  many  smaller  houses,  shipping  as  far  east  as 
New  York.  In  politics  Mr.  Sandahl  is  a  Democrat,  and  belongs  to  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  the  Danish  Brotherhood.  He  is  an 
industrious,  energetic  and  intelligent  citizen,  and  upholds  all  that  stands 
for  honesty  and  fair  dealing.  He  is  highly  respected  by  his  many  acquaint- 
ances, and  greatly  admired  and  loved  by  his  countless  friends, 

M.    FRANK   TERRY,    M.  D. 

Seattle,  the  city  wonderful,  has  enlisted  in  her  professional  ranks  the 
services  of  many  men  of  distinguished  ability  and  sterling  character,  and 
among  the  representative  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  metropolis  of  the 
great  northwest  stands  the  gentleman  whose  name  initiates  this  review,  and 
it  is  with  marked  satisfaction  that  we  here  incorporate  a  brief  review  of 
his  career.  Dr.  Terry  claims  the  old  Keystone  state  of  the  Union  as  the  place 
of  his  nativity,  having  been  born  in  Terry  township,  Bradford  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, on  the  loth  of  August,  1840,  and  being  a  son  of  Mynor  and  Susan 
(Lacy)  Terry,  both  of  whom  were  likewise  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  as 
was  also  the  paternal  grandfather  who  bore  the  name  of  Nathaniel  Terry, 
while  his  father  was  born  in  the  state  of  New  York,  thus  bearing  to  us 
the  assurance  that  the  family  has  been  identified  with  the  annals  of  Ameri- 
can history  from  the  early  colonial  epoch.  The  last  mentioned  was  one 
of  the  pioneers  of  Bradford  county,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  figured  as  the 
founder  of  Terrytown.  Mynor  Terry,  was  a  tanner  by  vocation,  and  he 
passed  his  entire  life  in  his  native  town. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  345 

M.  Frank  Terry  was  reared  to  the  invigorating-  discipline  of  the  farm, 
and  his  early  educational  privileges  were  such  as  were  afforded  in  the  public 
schools,  including  a  high  school  course..  At  the  age  of  twenty  years  he 
began  his  technical  study  of  medicine  and  surger)^  under  most  effective 
preceptorship,  and  after  fully  qualifying  himself  he  entered  into  practice 
in  his  native  town,  in  1864,  and  there  remained  for  a  quarter  of  a  century, 
securmg  a  representative  support  and  attaining  marked  success  in  his  pro- 
fessional work.  The  Doctor  may  well  be  considered  also  as  one  of  the 
pioneer  physicians  of  Seattle,  since  he  took  up  his  abode  here  in  the  year 
1889  and  has  ever  since  carried  on  a  successful  general  practice  in  medicine 
and  surgery,  gaining  marked  prestige  and  having  a  supporting  patronage 
of  representative  character.  He  has  thus  been  in  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession  for  nearly  two  score  years,  and  that  these  ha^■c  been  years  of 
devotion   and  much  self-abnegation   none  can  doubt. 

In  1897  Dr.  Teriy  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  state  board  of  health 
of  Washington  and  he  served  in  this  capacity  for  a  period  of  four  years. 
For  more  than  thirty  years  he  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  which  he  is  past  noble  grand  and 
has  been  a  representative  in  the  grand  lodge  of  this  fraternity  m  the  state. 
In  politics  he  has  ever  been  indq^endent.  He  has  not  been  denied  a  due 
measure  of  temporal  success  during  the  years  of  his  residence  in  Seattle, 
where  he  has  accumulated  valua1)le  real  estate,  while  he  is  also  the  owner  of 
mining  interests  in  the  state.  On  the  8th  of  June,  1865,  Dr.  Terry  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Maria  Sweeney,  w  ho  was  born  in  Vermont,  the 
daughter  of  Dr.  Daniel  Sweeney,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  one  daugh- 
ter, Mary,  who  is  the  wife  of  S.  J.   Stewart,  of  Seattle. 

EDWARD   M.    RATCLIFFE,   M.  D. 

There  is  no  field  of  endeavor  in  connection  with  the  countless  activities 
of  life  that  places  so  exacting  demands  upon  those  who  nerve  in  its  con- 
fines as  does  the  profession  of  medicine.  There  is  demanded  a  most 
careful  and  discriminating  preliminary  training  and  unremitting  and  consecu- 
tive study  and  application  through  all  the  succeeding  days,  and,  over  and 
above  this,  the  true  physician,  who  in  a  sense  holds  life  in  his  hands,  must 
be  imbued  with  that  deep  sympathy  and  true  humanitarian  sentiment  which 
will  bear  his  professional  labors  outside  the  mere  commercial  sphere.  He 
whose  name  introduces  this  review  is  known  and  honored  as  one  of  the 
representative  medical  practititioners  of  Seattle,  having  gained  distinctive 
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professional  prestige  and  the  confidence  and  respect  of  those  to  whom  he 
has  ministered,  as  well  as  of  the  community  at  large. 

Dr.  Ratcliffe,  who  has  his  office  at  115  Yesler  Way,  is  a  native  of  the 
fair  old  state  of  Kentuck)-.  having  been  born  in  Verona,  Boone  county,  on 
the  loth  of  June,  185 1,  and  being  the  second  in  a  family  of  nine  children. 
He  was  reared  to  the  sturdy  discipline  of  the  farm  and  continued  to  devote 
his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  in  his  native  state  until  he  had  at- 
tained the  age  of  twenty-six  years,  his  early  educational  training  having 
been  received  in  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  noted  he  began  reading 
medicine  under  the  preceptorship  of  Dr.  Findley  at  Crittenden,  Kentucky, 
making  very  satisfactory  progress  in  his  technical  study  and  finally  being 
matriculated  in  the  Ohio  Medical  College  at  Cincinnati,  in  1878.  He  was 
graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  188 1,  passing  the  intervals  between 
the  college  terms  in  study  and  practice  with  his  old  preceptor.  Shortly 
after  his  graduation  the  Doctor  located  in  Lawrenceburg,  Indiana,  where 
he  continued  in  the  active  practice  of  his  profession  until  1884,  when  he 
came  westward  as  far  as  Kansas  and  located  in  Cimarron,  which  was  then 
in  Finney  county,  now  Gray  county,  and  there  he  accepted  a  position  as  land 
agent  for  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  Company,  retaining 
his  incumbency  until  1887,  when  he  was  appointed  to  the  office  of  sheriff  of 
Gray  county  by  Governor  Martin,  but  resigned  the  office  at  the  end  of  one 
•year.  During  his  regime  the  county  seat  contest  was  at  its  height,  and  so 
bitter  was  the  feeling  engendered  in  the  connection  that  his  duties  proved 
not  only  insistent  and  onerous,  but  also  extremely  dangerous  at  times.  The 
Doctor  made  a  record  as  a  brave  and  discriminating  officer,  performing  his 
duties  with  that  distinctive  courage  and  self-reliance  which  were  so  nec- 
essary in  that  new  and  wild  section  of  the  state  at  that  time. 

In  1888  Dr.  Ratcliffe  came  to  Pierce  county,  Washington,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profession  untd  July  10,  1893, 
when  he  removed  to  Seattle,  where  he  has  ever  since  maintained  his  home 
and  where  he  has  attained  an  enviable  reputation  as  a  skilled  physician  and 
surgeon,  retaining  a  practice  of  representative  character.  During  his  resi- 
dence in  the  state  he  has  been  identified  with  many  business  enterprises  of 
importance,  both  in  the  city  of  Seattle  and  in  connection  with  mining  in- 
terests through  the  northwest,  and  he  is  known  as  an  able  and  progressive 
business  man  as  well  as  a  leading  member  of  the  medical  fraternity.  In 
politics  the  Doctor  gives  his  allegiance  to  the  Democratic  party,  and  he 
ever  gives  his  aid  and  influence  in  the  promotion  of  those  undertakings 
which  make  for  the  general  goorl  of  his  home  citv  and  state.     In  the  citv 


SEATTLE    AND    KING   COUNTY.  347 

of  Tacoma  on  the  29th  of  October,  1890,  Dr.  Ratcliffe  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Maude  Garlough,  who  was  born  in  the  state  of  Iowa,  and 
they  are  the  parents  of  two  sons,  Robert  G.  and  Charles  E. 

ISAAC    WARING. 

One  of  the  substantial  and  representative  business  men  of  Seattle  is 
Isaac  Waring,  the  agent  and  manager  of  the  Great  Northern  Express  Com- 
pany m  Seattle.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  identified  with  the 
industrial  development  and  public  life  of  this  section,  and  is  widely  and 
favorably  known.  A  native  son  of  England,  he  was  born  m  Yorkshire  on 
the  1 6th  of  August,  1867,  and  is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary  (Russell)  War- 
ing, both  natives  of  Yorkshire.  The  father,  who  was  a  prominent  farmer 
and  land  owner  in  his  native  land,  came  with  his  family  to  America  in 
1881.  a  location  being  made  at  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  where  he  entered 
government  land  and  engaged  in  general  farming  and  stock-raising.  He 
still  makes  his  home  at  that  place,  and  is  an  industrious  and  highly  es- 
teemed citizen. 

Isaac  Waring  is  one  of  eight  children  born  to  Isaac  and  Mary  (Russell) 
Waring,  and  is  the  only  one  of  the  family  residing  in  the  coast  country.  His 
primary  education  was  recci\-ed  in  a  private  boarding  school  in  England,  where 
he  remained  until  his  fourteenth  year,  at  which  time  he  was  apprenticed 
to  a  grocer,  but  shortly  afterward  accompanied  the  family  on  their  removal 
to  America.  His  first  occupation  in  this  country  was  in  a  clerical  capacity 
with  a  wood  and  coal  company  at  Sioux  Falls,  and  in  1885  he  entered  the 
employ  of  the  American  Express  Company.  During  his  seven  years"  con- 
nection therewith  he  passed  through  the  various  grades  of  promotion,  and 
for  one  year  was  the  company's  agent  at  Grand  Forks,  North  Dakota. 
^^'hile  stationed  there,  in  1892,  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  Company  or- 
gani.'jed  their  own  express  company,  and  Mr.  Waring  then  came  to  Spokane 
to  cissume  charge  of  it,  his  territory  extending  from  Havre,  Montana,  to 
the  roast,  and  since  1896  he  has  had  charge  of  the  local  office  in  Seattle. 
Throughout  the  period  of  his  residence  in  this  city  he  has  taken  an  actise 
interest  in  local  affairs,  and  in  his  political  affiliations  is  a  stalwart  Re- 
publican. Since  1900  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Seattle  General  Hospital, 
and  is  a  trustee  of  the  Co-operative  Mining  Syndicate,  having  been  in- 
terested in  mining  operations  for  the  past  five  years. 

On  the  1 2th  of  October,  1892,  at  Kasota,  Minnesota,  Mr.  Waring  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha   F.  Moses,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  and 


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Louise  (O'Dellj  Moses,  and  to  this  union  two  sons  ha\e  been  lx)rn,  Thomas 
G.  and  Earl  Russell.  The  family  reside  in  a  pleasant  and  comfortable  home 
at  970  Twentieth  avenue,  and  in  addition  Mr.  Waring  also  owns  property 
in  Minnesota  and  Wisconsin.  He  is  a  prominent  member  and  active  worker 
in  the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Seattle,  in  which  he  is  holding- 
the  office  of  treasurer,  and  for  the  past  five  years  has  been  a  member  of  its 
official  board.  His  excellent  business  ability,  tog'ether  with  his  affable  man- 
ner, strict  integrity  and  courteous  treatment  of  his  patrons,  have  advanced 
him  step  by  step  to  the  high  position  which  he  now  occupies  in  the  busi- 
ness world,  and  in  every  relation  of  life  he  has  lived  up  to  his  high  ideals. 

WILLARD   W.    DE   LONG. 

The  man  of  wealth  is  not  the  man  whom  the  American  citizens  hold  in 
highest  regard.  Ijut  he  who  can  plan  his  own  advancement  and  accomplish  it 
in  the  face  of  competition  and  obstacles  that  are  always  to  be  met  in  the  busi- 
ness world.  The  "captains  of  industry"  are  those  whose  business  foresight 
can  recognize  opportunity  and  whose  executive  force  can  utilize  advantages 
which  are  not  given  to  one  alone,  but  perhaps  encompass  the  w"hole  race. 
The  life  histor}^  of  Willard  W.  De  Long  is  simply  that  of  a  successful  busi- 
ness man  who  owes  his  advancement  to  close  application,  energy,  strong  de- 
termination and  executive  ability.  He  has  never  allowed  outside  pursuits 
to  interfere  with  the  performance  of  business  duties  or  the  meeting  of  any 
business  obligations  and  thus  he  stands  to-day,  one  of  the  prosperous  resi- 
d.ents  of  King  county,  strong  in  his  honor  and  his  good  name.  He  is  to-day 
president  of  the  Bank  of  Ballard,  with  which  he  has  been  .connected  since  its 
organization.  For  thirteen  years  he  has  been  a  resident  of  King  county  and 
for  more  than  eleven  years  has  made  his  home  in  this  town,  his  labors  prov- 
ing of  the  greatest  benefit  in  the  up-building  of  the  place. 

yir.  De  Long  was  born  in  Lake  City,  Wabasha  county,  ^Minnesota, 
July  25,  1861,  four  days  after  the  battle  of  Bull  Run  occurred.  His  paternal 
grandfather  was  a  French  refugee  at  the  time  of  the  Re\'olution.  In  his 
native  country  he  attained  great  w-ealth  but  his  estates  were  confiscated.  At 
that  time  the  name  was  spelled  Da  Longe.  Fleeing  to  America  the  grand- 
lather  located  in  eastern  New  York  and  became  connected  with  woolen  man- 
ufacturing there.  • 

James  W.  DeLong,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  a  native  of  Ohio,  but 
when  only  eleven  years  of  age  went  to  sea.  He  worked  his  way  steadily  up- 
ward in  a  seafaring  life  until  he  became  the  owner  of  a  sailing  packet,  the 


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Eagle  Wing,  which  he  operated  between  Cahfornia  and  Panama,  during 
the  years  1848,  1849  and  1850.  The  boat  was  lost  in  the  spring  of  1858, 
having  been  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade  with  the  Sandwich  Islands.  It 
met  destruction  while  rounding  Cape  Horn,  after  which  Captain  De  Long 
retired  from  the  sea  and  went  overland  to  Minnesota.  He  had  previously 
served  in  the  United  States  navy  as  a  machinist  and  he  took  up  the  same  line 
of  work  in  Minnesota  and  aftenvard  was  engaged  in  the  same  capacity  in 
Chicago.  In  the  early  seventies,  however,  he  returned  to  Minnesota,  but 
later  went  to  the  east  and  was  in  business  at  different  places;  coming  to  Se- 
attle on  a  visit,  he  died  here  on  the  31st  of  July,  1893.  While  in  Minnesota, 
Captain  James  De  Long  had  married  Miss  Matilda  A.  Phillips,  whose  father 
belonged  to  an  old  Vermont  family.  After  serving  for  four  years  in  the 
United  States  navy,  in  Pacific  waters  and  also  engaging  in  chasing  slave  ves- 
sels in  the  Atlantic,  Captain  De  Long  entered  the  army  and  was  wounded  at 
San  Francisco,  while  engaged  in  quelling  a  riot.  In  the  spring  of  1861  he 
enlisted  in  Company  I,  Thirteenth  Minnesota  Infantry,  and  was  afterward 
captain  of  a  Wisconsin  company.  With  the  Minnesota  regiment  he 
served  in  the  army  of  the  Tennessee  and  was  captured  but  xvas  later  paroled. 
Subsequently  he  was  again  in  military  service  under  the  command  of  General 
Sibley,  at  the  time  of  the  Indian  outbreak. 

In  the  public  schools  of  Chicago  and  of  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  Willard 
W.  De  Long  ])ursued  his  early  education  and  after  completing  a  high  school 
course  in  the  latter  city  he  entered  the  business  college  in  St.  Paul.  In  the 
meantime  he  had  learned  the  machinist's  trade  but  after  completing  the  course 
in  the  commercial  school  he  took  up  teaching  as  a  profession  and  for  twelve 
years  taught  in  the  public  schools.  Later  he  was  employed  as  an  instructor 
in  special  branches  in  different  schools  and  institutions.  In  1889  he  came  to 
Seattle  and  was  engaged  in  lecturing  on  educational  subjects,  just  prior  to 
the  great  fire.  Later  he  taught  school  and  then  became  president  of  the  Ac- 
me Collegiate  Institute  of  Seattle,  which  at  that  time  was  the  largest  school 
of  the  kind  north  of  San  Francisco.  There  were  fourteen  teachers  and  six 
hundred  pupils  in  the  institution.  With  the  school  Prof.  De  Long  was  con- 
nected until  1898,  although  he  had  given  up  teaching  personally  in  1896.  In 
the  year  first  mentioned  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  institution.  Trof.  De 
Long  left  the  office  of  county  clerk  in  February,  1901,  in  order  to  establish 
the  Bank  of  Ballard.  He  bought  the  lot  where  the  bank  is  located,  had  the 
building  erected  and  opened  the  institution  for  business  on  the  TOth  of  June, 
1901.  It  was  capitalized  for  twenty-five  thousand  dollars.  By  the  30th  the 
bank   had    deposits    of  thirty-two  hundred    dollars.     This    sum    was    nearly 


350  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

doubled  by  the  end  of  the  next  month  and  has  steadily  increased  every  month 
since  until  on  the  loth  of  April,  1902,  the  deposits  were  over  fifty  thousand 
dollars.  Owing  to  the  rapid  increase  of  business  it  was  found  necessan^  to 
increase  the  capital  stock,  which  was  doubled  just  four  months  after  the  es- 
tablishment of  the  bank.  Mr.  De  Long's  early  training  as  an  expert  account- 
ant and  bookkeeper  has  proved  of  great  service  to  him  in  his  banking  connec- 
tions and  his  extensive  accjuaintance  with  bankers  and  business  men  through- 
out the  west  has  been  an  important  feature  in  building  up  the  extensive  busi- 
ness which  is  now  enjoyed  by  the  institution  of  wdiich  he  is  at  the  head.  He 
has  served  as  cashier  of  the  bank  and  in  ]March,  1901,  he  purchased  the  con- 
trolling interest  in  the  stock  and  has  since  been  president  of  the  institution. 
The  bank  building  is  twenty-five  by  ninety  feet,  a  brick  structure,  two  stories 
in  height,  and  of  this  twenty-five  by  forty  feet  is  occupied  for  banking  pur- 
poses. Mr.  De  Long  is  also  agent  and  member  of  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  Equitable  Building-,  Loan  and  Investment  Association,  his  identification 
therewith  dating  form  its  organization. 

In  1882  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  De  Long  and  M'ss  Belle  Dakota 
Bridges,  the  wedding  being  celebrated  in  Minnesota.  The  lady  is  a  daughter 
of  Mark  M.  and  Eliza  Bridges,  and  was  the  first  white  girl  born  in  the  ter- 
ritory of  Dakota  that  lived  to  mature  years,  and  therefore  she  was  appro- 
priately named.  Her  father  was  engaged  in  fighting-  Indians  there  under 
the  command  of  General  Abercrombie  and  was  at  the  head  of  the  commissary 
department  at  the  time  of  her  birth.  ]\Tr.  and  Mrs.  De  Long  are  the  parents 
of  six  girls,  the  two  eldest  being  now  employed  in  the  bank,  one  as  a  book- 
keeper and  the  other  as  a  stenographer.  His  children  are  named  as  follovvs  : 
Cleo,  Alice,  Maude,  Beulah,  Goldie  and  Frances  Willard.  The  last  named 
was  so  called  in  honor  of  her  father  and  also  of  Frances  Willard,  who  was 
for  so  long  the  national  president  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union,  and  the  union  of  this  state  adopted  this  daughter  as  an  honoray  mem- 
ber of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union,  in  which  her  mother  is 
an  active  worker,  having-  served  as  treasurer  of  local  union  since  the  society 
was  established  here.  Mrs.  De  Long  has  also  served  as  ijresident  of  the 
Women  of  Woodraft  for  a  number  of  years,  and  is  a  loyal  and  devoted 
member. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  De  Long  is  a  Republican  and  labors  earnestly 
and  actively  for  the  growth  and  up-building  of  his  party.  He  has  served  as 
a  delegate  to  countv  and  state  conventions,  but  since  taking"  charsre  of  the 
bank  he  has  found  little  time  to  devote  to  active  political  work.  He  served 
as  deputy  clerk   for  four  years  and  three  months,  continuing  in  the  office 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  351 

through  the  changes  of  two  administrations.  He  had  charge  of  clerical 
work  in  connection  with  canal  construction,  in  the  purchasing  of  property  for 
the  government,  and  in  keeping  the  record  of  the  legal  work.  His  course 
was  extremely  noticeable  in  this  respect  and  when  the  report  was  truned  over 
to  the  government  the  work  was  all  checked  over  and  no  errors  found.  This 
required  a  vast  amount  of  labor,  as  it  demanded  over  ten  thousand  entries 
in  the  records  and  a  direct  expenditure  by  Mr.  De  Long  of  Uvo  hundred  and 
twenty-live  thousand  dollars.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Modern 
Woodmen,  with  the  Fraternal  Brotherhood  and  with  the  Knights  of  the 
Golden  Eagle.  He  has  erected  two  residences  in  Ballard,  and  his  own  home, 
which  was  built  in  1896,  is  a  fine  place  surrounded  by  an  acre  of  ground 
which  is  all  set  out  to  fruit  and  flowers  and  is  an  ornament  to  the  city. 
Splendid  success  has  attended  the  efforts  of  Mr.  De  Long,  whose  business 
interests  have  been  of  a  character  to  benefit  his  community  as  well  as  to  pro- 
mote individual  prosperity:  He  has  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality 
upon  intellectual  development  in  various  communities  and  is  now  a  represent- 
active  of  the  financial  interests  of  Ballard.  He  began  his  career  under  ad- 
verse circumstances,  being  compelled  to  make  his  own  way  and  his  success  in 
life  illustrates  most  forcibly  the  power  of  patient  and  persistent  effort  and 
self  reliance.  He  has  so  conducted  all  affairs,  whether  of  private  interests 
or  of  public  trusts,  as  to  merit  the  esteem  of  all  classes  of  citizens ;  and  no 
word  of  reproach  is  ever  uttered  against  him.  As  a  man  and  citizen  he  en- 
joys the  prosperity  which  comes  to  those  genial  spirits  who  have  a  hearty 
shake  of  the  hand  for  all  those  with  whom  they  come  in  contact  from  day  to 
day,  and  who  seem  to  throw  around  them  in  consequence  so  much  of  the 
sunshine  of  life. 

CHRISTIAN   MILLER. 

Few  men  are  more  prominent  or  widely  known  in  this  section  of  Wash- 
ington than  Christian  Miller,  where  for  many  years  he  has  been  an  active 
factor  in  the  building-  interests.  Through  his  diligence,  1  perseverance  and 
business  ability  he  has  acquired  a  handsome  competence  and  has  also  con- 
tributed to  the  general  prosperity  through  the  conduct  of  enterprises  which 
have  furnished  employment  to  many.  He  is  now  serving  as  president  of 
the  Miller  &  Geske  Construction  Company,  one  of  the  substantial  firms  of 
King  county.  A  native  of  Linfield,  Montgomery  county,  Pennsylvania,  Mr. 
Miller  was  born  on  the  14th  of  July,  1850.  His  maternal  grandparents 
came  to  America   as  early   as    1750,   and  his  paternal   ancestors   were  resi- 


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dents  of  this  country  prior  to  that  time,  although  no  records  have  been 
k-ept.  On  the  maternal  side  two  of  his  ancestors  fought  in  the  Revolution- 
ary war,  and  two  of  his  uncles  gallantly  defended  their  country  in  the  war 
of  the  Rebellion.  James  Miller,  his  father's  brother,  who  was  imprisoned 
at  Belle  Isle,  is  still  living,  while  his  mother's  brother,  John  Hause,  laid 
down  his  life  on  the  altar  of  his  country.  Jacob  Miller,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  offered  his  ser^'ices  to  his  countr}^  in  her  time  of  need,  but  was  re- 
fused on  account  of  a  defect  in  his  hearing.  For  over  fifty  years  he  served 
as  a  trackmaster  for  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Railroad  Company.  In 
the  Keystone  state  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Catherine  Hause.  by  whom 
he  had  five  children,  three  now  living,  namely:  Charles  F..  who  is  employed 
by  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Company  as  superintendent  of 
the  coal  docks  at  Salem,  Massachusetts ;  Christian,  whose  name  introduces 
this  review;  and  J.  W.,  who  resides  on  the  old  home  farm.  The  father  of  this 
iamily  was  called  to  his  final  rest  when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  seventy- 
four  years,  while  the  mother  still  lives  in  excellent  health  at  seventy-nine 
years  of  age. 

Christian  Miller  began  the  active  battle  of  life  for  himself  at  the  early 
age  of  thirteen  years,  at  which  time  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  ^vhile  later 
he  took  up  the  study  of  heavy  building.  When  but  twenty-four  years  of 
age  he  was  given  charge  of  the  heavy  work  for  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading 
Railroad  when  the  company  began  buying  coal  lands,  and  he  assisted  in 
establishing  their  coal  depots  on  the  Atlantic  coast,  while  later  he  held  a 
very  responsible  position  for  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading  Coal  &  Iron  Com- 
pany, ten  years  having  been  spent  in  charge  of  such  work.  Coming  to 
the  Pacific  coast  in  1881,  Mr.  Miller  entered  the  employ  of  the  Oregon 
Improvement  Company,  now  known  as  the  Pacific  Coast  Company,  having 
charge  of  the  establishment  of  their  coal  bunkers  in  San  Francisco  and 
later  in  Portland.  He  was  next  employed  by  the  Columbia  &  Puget  Sound 
Railroad  Company,  which  he  represented  for  many  years,  and  after  the 
great  fire  of  this  city  he  had  charge  of  the  rebuilding  of  all  their  works 
here,  including  coal  bunkers,  warehouses,  docks,  shops,  roundhouses.  On 
the  completion  of  this  work,  however,  he  resigned  his  position  in  order  to 
spend  some  time  in  travel,  and  after  his  return  four  months  later  resumed 
his  former  connections  and  took  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  company's 
buildings  at  Port  Townsend,  Anacortes  and  Olympia.  Severing  his  con- 
nection with  the  Columbia  &  Puget  Sound  Railroad'  Company,  Mr.  Miller 
then  began  the  arduous  task  of  clearing  a  tract  of  land  which  he  had  pm*- 
chased  near   Seattle,   and   as   time  passed  by   he  succeeded  in   removing  its 


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dense  growth  of  native  timber,  also  placed  the  land  under  an  excellent  state 
of  cultivation,  planted  an  orchard  and  in  many  ways  improved  the  farm. 
In  1897,  however,  he  returned  to  his  former  occupation,  and  in  1901  or- 
ganized the  Miller  &  Geske  Construction  Company,  of  which  he  was  made 
the  president.  Among  the  many  important  works  which  this  company  have 
constructed  may  be  mentioned  the  power  house  at  Leshi  Park,  the  rebuild- 
ing of  the  Schwabacker  dock  and  warehouse,  the  Broad  street  dock  and  the 
dock  for  the  Chlopeck  Fish  Company,  the  J.  B.  Agen  dock,  the  New  Col- 
man  dock,  the  fire-boat  slip  and  many  foundations  for  bridges  and  other 
pile  driving  work  in  and  around  Seattle.  They  also  erected  the  two  large 
coal  bunkers  in  this  city,  and  had  charge  of  all  bridge  work  on  the  water 
front  when  the  Seattle  &  International  Railroad  was  being  builded.  In 
1886  Mr.  Miller  had  suffered  the  loss  of  an  arm  and  he  then  purchased  the 
old  stand  of  John  Sullivan,  carrying  on  that  business  for  several  years, 
when  he  was  induced  by  the  Seattle  &  International  Railroad  Company 
to  return  and  resume  his  former  relations. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Miller  was  celebrated  in  Chester  county,  Penn- 
sylvania, on  the  9th  of  October,  1873,  when  Rebecca  Savage  became  his 
wife.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Davis  Savage,  who  for  many  years  served  as 
a  squire,  as  did  also  her  grandfather.  Seven  children  have  blessed  the 
union  of  our  subject  and  his  wife,  as  follows:  Davis  A.,  a  merchant  of 
Seattle;  Chanceford,  a  painter  by  occupation;  Edna  M.,  the  wife  of  A.  T. 
Schmidt,  of  Louisville,  Kentucky;  Ina  C.  and  Marguerette,  both  attending 
school;  two  of  the  children  have  passed  away,  Charles  Leroy,  the  first  born, 
and  J.  Harley,  both  of  whom  died  in  early  childhood.  The  political  sup- 
port of  Mr.  Miller  is  given  to  the  Democratic  party,  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Seattle. 

EDWARD   OTTO    SCHWAGERL. 

No  foreign  born  citizen  can  become  the  president  of  the  United  States, 
but  this  is  almost  the  only  limit  placed  upon  the  ambitions  and  efforts  of 
America's  adopted  sons.  The  field  of  business  is  limitless,  and  to-day  many 
of  the  leaders  of  commerce,  of  manufacture  and  in  professional  and  military 
life  are  those  who  have  had  their  nativity  in  foreign  lands  and  have  crossed 
the  Atlantic  to  ally  their  interests  with  this  great  and  growing  republic, 
where  the  path  to  public  honor  is  the  road  of  public  usefulness  and  ability. 
One  of  the  most  distinguished  landscape  gardeners  of  all  America  is  Ed- 
ward O.  Schwagerl.     The  beauty  of  the  new  world,  especially  in  the  cities, 


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has  been  largely  enhanced  and  augmented  by  his  efforts,  as  he  has  exer- 
cised his  art,  not  in  supplanting  nature,  but  in  supplementing  it  by  the  knowl- 
edge of  a  hig-her  civilization  and  by  directing  the  natural  forces  in  a  way 
that  will  present  the  most  pleasing  results  of  form,  color,  symmetry  and 
entire  harmony. 

Mr.  Schwagerl.  after  having  been  an  important  factor  in  the  develop- 
ment of  park  and  boulevard  systems  of  the  east  and  middle  states,  is  now 
devoting  his  energies  to  a  similar  work  of  a  very  important  character  in 
the  northwest,  and  Seattle  is  fortunate  to  have  secured  his  residence  and 
services  in  outlining  a  system  of  parks  and  driveways  which,  if  completed, 
will  be  unsurpassed  for  scenic  effects  and  natural  beauties.  A  native  of 
Wurtzburg,  Bavaria,  Mr.  Schwagerl  was  born  January  14,  1842.  his  parents  be- 
ing Leonard  and  Madaline  Schwagerl.  During  his  infancy  his  parents  removed 
across  the  border  to  Paris,  and  at  an  early  age  his  love  of  the  beautiful  in 
nature  and  art  was  strongly  manifest  and  was  gratified  in  many  of  the 
art  palaces  of  France.  It  has  been  the  dominant  influence  in  his  life,  and 
through  his  development  of  his  latent  powers  he  has  risen  to  a  position 
hardly  second  to  any  in  the  United  States.  His  early  education  was  ob- 
tained from  private  tutors,  and  his  leisure  time  not  demanded  by  his  text 
books  was  mostly  spent  in  visiting  the  art  halls  and  palaces  and  the  parks 
and  squares  of  the  cities.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years  he  came  alone  to 
New  York  city  to  join  his  brother,  with  the  purpose  of  accompanying"  him 
to  Costa  Rica,  but  his  brother  failed  to  meet  him  in  the  eastern  metropolis 
and  thus  he  found  himself  alone  and  penniless  in  the  great  city,  unable  to 
speak  a  word  of  English  and  with  no  friend  to  whom  he  could  go  for  as- 
sistance. Making  his  way  through  the  streets  of  the  city  he  chanced  upon 
a  French  restaurant  at  the  corner  of  Fulton  and  Broadway,  where  he  se- 
cured employment  at  nine  dollars  a  month.  While  there  he  met  Mr.  Clapp, 
proprietor  of  the  Everett  Flouse,  who  was  impressed  by  the  foreign  boy 
and  gave  him  employment,  making  him  a  member  of  the  family.  There 
he  remained  for  a  year,  when  he  became  the  protege  of  George  Dow,  with 
whom  he  made  his  home  until  nineteen  years  of  age,  meanwhile  being  em- 
ployed as  salesman  for  several  years  in  the  stores  of  A.  T.  Stewart  and 
vSchwechard  &  Kessel. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  Mr.  Schwagerl  entered  a  school  at  Tilton.  New 
Hampshire,  where  he  spent  several  years  in  pursuing  a  select  course  of  study. 
His  teachers  believed  he  had  a  decided  calling  for  the  ministrv,  and  used 
their  influence  to  induce  him  to  enter  that  calling,  but  after  mature  and 
conscientious  deliberation  he  gave  up  that  idea.      Soon  after  leaving  school 


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in  1865  he  went  to  Paris  with  Messrs.  Dows  &  Guild,  of  Boston,  and  while 
there  was  tendered  a  position  by  the  French  architect,  Mons  Mulat,  who 
was  laying  out  extensive  public  grounds  in  the  Paris  Universal  Exposition. 
He  remained  with  Mulat  lor  a  year  and  then  returned  to  America,  locating 
in  Hartford,  Connecticut,  where  he  accepted  a  position  with  Jacob  Weiden- 
mann,  a  noted  landscape  architect,  who  had  charge  of  the  city  parks  of 
Hartford.  He  also  prepared  a  treatise  on  landscape  gardening,  but  received 
no  credit  for  this  work,  as  it  was  published  under  his  employer's  name. 
After  remaining  in  Hartford  for  eighteen  months  he  concluded  to  try  the 
western  country  and  located  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  he  established  him- 
self in  business  and  remained  for  a  year.  He  was  then  called  to  St.  Louis 
to  take  charge  of  the  work  of  laying  out  and  improving  the  parks  and  boule- 
vards of  that  city.  Pie  laid  out  most  of  the  parks  there  and  was  the  or- 
ganizer of  the  board  of  park  commissioners.  Included  in  his  work  there 
are  the  noted  Lindell  boulevard,  Van  Deventer  Place  and  many  other  public  and 
private  parks  and  grounds,  and  in  connection  with  Mr.  Leffingwell  he  selected 
the  grounds  for  Forest  Park.  In  1872  his  services  were  solicited  by  H(-in. 
William  J.  Gordon,  of  Cleveland,  who  wished  him  to  assume  charge  of  his 
private  grounds  which  afterward  became  the  public  parks.  He  did  all  the 
engineering  and  artistic  work  for  the  Gordon  park,  since  given  to  the  city; 
also  has  since  formulated  the  plan  for  a  regular  system  of  parks  and  boule- 
vards in  that  city,  and  laid  out  the  Wayne,  Payne  and  Eels  parks  and 
Rockefeller  grounds,  all  being  evidences  of  his  superior  skill.  He  was  like- 
wise solicited  to  go  to  Chicago  to  assume  charge  of  the  park  system  there, 
but,  unwilling  to  supplant  its  incumbent,  he  remained  in  Ohio  until  about 
1888  or  1889,  when  he  was  chosen  by  Mr.  Henry  Failing,  of  Portland, 
Oregon,  who  has  been  searching  the  east  for  a  competent  and  skilled  archi- 
tect to  survey  and  make  complete  plans  for  the  Riverview  cemetery  of  Port- 
land. He  spent  some  six  months  in  making  plans  and  doing  topographical 
work  and  then  returned  to  the  east,  but  after  a  brief  period  he  again  came 
to  the  Pacific  coast,  arriving  in  Seattle  in  September,  1889,  stopping  in 
the  meantime  in  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  to  take  charge  of  some  city  work,  which 
claimed  his  attention  for  four  months. 

After  coming  to  the  coast  he  decided  to  establish  a  high  class  horticul- 
tural business,  and  procured  land  at  Kingston  for  that  purpose,  making  a 
fine  collection  of  foreign  and  domestic  plants,  trees  and  shrubs.  He  was 
called  to  Tacoma  to  take  charge  of  pul)lic  parks  and  make  the  i)lans  for 
Point  Defiance  Park  of  six  hundred  acres;  Wright  Park  of  thirty  acres; 
University    Place,    residence   park    of    twelve   hundred    acres;    and    Olympic 


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boulevard.  His  public  work  so  interfered  with  his  private  operations  that 
he  gave  up  his  horticultural  business,  and  many  of  his  choice  and  rare  plants 
and  shrubs  mav  now  be  found  in  Kinnear  Park,  which  is  one  of  the  choicest 
gems  in  Seattle's  crown.  Removing  to  the  city  of  Seattle,  Mr.  Schwagerl 
accepted  the  position  of  superintendent  and  engineer  of  the  park  and  laid 
out  Kinnear  Park,  made  the  plans  for  Denny  Park  and  laid  out  the  city 
park.  All  this  has  been  done  in  addition  to  much  landscape  gardening  at 
the  homes  of  many  of  the  most  prominent  and  wealthy  citizens  of  Seattle. 
Indeed  the  city  owes  much  of  its  adornment  to  the  efforts  of  Mr.  Schwagerl, 
who  has  devoted  his  entire  life  to  this  work,  until  it  seems  that  he  has  almost 
reached  perfection.  Not  only  has  he  a  most  comprehensive  and  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  great  principles  of  mechanical  science,  as  embodied  in 
civil  engineering  and  kindred  subjects,  but  has  a  love  of  beauty  and  apprecia- 
tion of  color,  form  and  harmony  without  which  no  one  can  hope  to  attain 
success  as  a  landscape  artist.  His  reputation  extends  throughout  the  entire 
country,  placing  hmi  among  the  most  prominent  and  original  representa- 
tives in  America. 

On  the  1 8th  of  July,  1894,  Mr.  Schwagerl  w^as  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Frances  McKay,  of  Tacoma.  In  his  political  views  he  is  a  Republi- 
can, but  as  may  be  inferred  he  has  no  time  or  inclination  to  take  an  active 
part  in  political  affairs.  In  addition  to  his  work  as  a  civil  engineer,  archi- 
tect and  landscape  gardener,  he  is  a  painter  of  landscape  plans  and  views 
and  has  a  fine  studio  in  his  home.  He  is  now  interested  in  a  work  which  for 
magnitude,  scope  and  beauty  will  eclipse  everything  that  he  has  already 
accomplished — the  construction  of  a  park  and  boulevard  system  for  Seattle 
that  will  not  only  connect  various  parks  of  the  city  but  will  also  embrace 
drives  along  the  shore  of  Lake  Washington  and  through  some  of  the  most 
scenic  and  beautiful  scenery  of  which  America  can  boast,  the  whole  boule- 
vard system  to  cover  thirty-five  miles.  Already  many  of  Seattle's  most 
prominent  and  public  spirited  citizens  are  deeply  interested  in  the  plan,  and 
Mr.  Schwagerl  seems  in  a  fair  way  to  realize  what  but  a  few  years  ago  was 
deemed  the  dream  of  an  idealist.  However,  there  is  nothing  of  the  dreamer 
about  him.  He  is  intensely  practical  as  well  as  a  lover  of  beauty  and  art, 
and  his  work  in  the  world  in  the  establishment  of  parks  has  benefited  thou- 
sands in  the  cities  and  will  be  a  monument  to  him  through  coming  ages, 
more  enduring  than  any  monument  of  marble  or  stone.  Mr.  Schwagerl 
claimed  H.  P.  Blavatsky  as  his  most  esteemed  and  honored  teacher  in  mat- 
ters of  ethics  and  philosophy,  closely  studying  for  sixteen  vears  her  inval- 
uable works,  such  as  "The  Key  to  Theosophy"  and  her  "Secret  Doctrines," 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  357 

linked  with  her  personal  papers  and  teachings.  He  insists  that  pure  the- 
osophy  is  the  proper  bond  between  ethics  and  philosophy,  the  only  solid 
basis    for  religion. 

ELLIS    DeBRULER. 

Ellis  DeBruler,  who  is  filling  the  office  of  city  attorney  of  Seattle  and 
has  long  been  an  active  member  of  the  bar  at  this  place,  was  born  in  DuBois 
county,  Indiana,  on  the  25th  of  August.  1863.  He  comes  of  an  old  Ameri- 
can family  of  French  ancestO"-  His  grandfather,  Wesley  DeBruler,  re- 
jnoved  from  North  Carolina  to  Indiana  in  the  year  1816,  and  became  one 
of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  DuBois  county,  identified  with  agricultural  work. 
There  he  cleared  and  developed  a  farm  and  became  a  leading  citizen  in 
his  community.  His  son,  John  H.  DeBruler,  also  carried  on  agricultural 
pursuits.  He  was  a  Republican  in  his  political  affiliations  and  had  firm 
faith  in  the  party  principles,  but  never  sought  office.  He  married  Eliza- 
beth Downey,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  L.  D.  Downey,  one  of  the  first  settlers 
of  DuBois  county,  Indiana,  and  of  this  union  five  children  were  born,  but 
the  subject  of  this  review  is  the  only  one  now  living  west  of  the  Mississippi 
river.  The  father  died  in  the  year  1891,  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years 
but  the  mother,  Elizabeth  A.  DeBruler,  is  still  living. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  county  Ellis  DeBruler  began  his 
education,  which  he  afterward  continued  in  the  Cumberland  University  at 
Lebanon,  Tennessee,  his  mother's  father  being  a  minister  of  the  Cumberland 
Presbyterian  church.  He  pursued  his  literary  education  vith  the  idea  of 
entering  the  law,  and  won  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  He  began  prac- 
tice in  Rockport,  Indiana,  in  1889,  remaining  a  member  of  the  bar  at  that 
place  for  four  years,  but  the  reports  he  had  heard  of  the  Puget  Sound 
country  attracted  him  to  the  northwest,  and  making  a  trip  here  he  was 
so  pleased  with  the  country  and  its  future  outlook  that  he  decided  to  re- 
main and  formed  a  partnership.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  Seattle  since 
1893  and  for  five  years  has  served  as  city  attorney.  His  practice  is  of  a  general 
character.  The  zeal  with  which  he  has  de\-oted  his  energies  to  his  pro- 
fession, the  careful  regard  evinced  fur  the  interests  of  his  clients,  and  an 
assiduous  and  unrelaxing  attention  to  all  tiie  details  of  his  cases,  have  brought 
him  a  large  business  and  made  him  very  successful  in  its  conduct.  His 
arguments  have  elicited  warm  commendation,  not  only  from  his  associates 
at  the  bar,  but  also  from  the  bench.  He  is  a  veiw  able  writer;  his  briefs 
always   show   wide  research,   careful    thought,   and    the  best   and    strongest 


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reasons   which  can    be  urged   for  his   contention,   presented   in    cogent   and 
logical  form,  and  illustrated  by  a  style  usually  lucid  and  clear. 

To  some  extent  Mr.  DeBruler  is  interested  in  property  in. the  west, 
believing  it  a  good  investment,  owing  to  the  growing  condition  of  this 
section  of  the  country.  He  owns  two  residences  in  the  city,  one  on  Twen- 
tieth avenue  and  one  at  Green  lake.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  active 
and  diligent  in  support  of  the  party  and  he  has  attended  many  conventions. 
While  in  Indiana  he  served  as  deputy  prosecuting  attorney.  His  long  ex- 
perience in  connection  with  the  city  offices  has  made  him  invaluable  in  the 
position  during  the  wonderful  growth  of  the  past  five  years.  A  large 
amount  of  legal  business  has  been  brought  to  the  office  and  one  not  well 
informed  concerning  such  duties  could  not  capably  attend  to  the  exten- 
sive legal  interests  of  which  Mr.  DeBruler  has  oversight.  His  ability  and 
skill  are  widely  acknowledged,  and  the  public  and  the  press  accord  to  him  a 
leading  place  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal  fraternity  of  Seattle.  Socially  he 
is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  with  the  Benevolent  and 
Protective  Order  of  Elks.  He  is  a  man  of  g'enial  and  pleasing  disposition 
and  wherever  he  s:oes  he  wins  friends. 


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HANS   J.    CLAUSSEN. 

It  will  assuredly  be  not  uninteresting  to  observe  in  the  series  of  biog- 
raphical sketches  appearing  in  this  volume  the  varying  national  origin  and 
early  environment  of  the  men  who  have  made  their  way  to  positions  of 
prominence  and  success  in  connection  with  the  professional  and  industrial 
activities  of  life.  In  no  1:)etter  way  can  we  gain  a  conception  of  the  diverse 
elements  which  have  entered  into  our  social,  professional  and  commercial 
fabric,  and  which  will  impart  to  the  future  American  type  features  which 
cannot  be  conjectured  at  the  present  time.  We  have  had  an  American  type 
in  the  past;  we  shall  have  a  distinctively  national  character  in  the  future, 
but  for  the  present,  amalgamation  of  the  varied  elements  is  proceeding  and 
ihe  final  result  is  yet  remote.  From  the  great  empire  of  Germany  have  come 
to  the  American  republic  a  class  of  citizens  from  which  our  nation  has  had 
much  to  gain  and  nothing  to  lose,  and  the  extraction  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  may  be  sought  for  among  the  vigorous  and  intellectual  natures  which 
have  made  Germany  what  it  is  to-day,  and  he  may  well  take  pride  in  his 
ancestral  record,  for  it  has  been  one  bespeaking  strong  and  worthy  man- 
hood and  gentle  and  earnest  womanhood,  as  one  generation  has  followed 
another.     Mr.   Claussen   holds  prestige  as  one  of  the  essentially  represents- 


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tive  business  men  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  being  prominent! 3-  concerned  in 
industrial  enterprises  of  marked  scope  and  importance  and  Ivdvmg  shown 
that  inflexible  integrity  and  honorable  business  policy  which  invariably  be- 
get objective  confidence  and  esteem.  Progressive,  wide-awake  and  discrim- 
inating in  his  methods,  he  has  achieved  a  notable  success  through  normal 
channels  of  industry,  and  to-day  is  president,  treasurer  and  manager  of  the 
Claussen  Brewing  Association  at  Interbay,  a  suburban  district  of  Seattle, 
and  also  vice-president  of  the  Diamond  Ice  &  Storage  Comp;..ny,  whose  busi- 
ness has  likewise  extensive  ramifications. 

Mr.  Claussen  is  a  native  of  the  province  of  Holstein,  Germany,  where 
he  was  born  on  the  13th  of  November,  1861,  being  a  son  of  Csecilia  M.  and 
Peter  Jacob  Claussen,  representative  of  stanch  old  German  stock.  Our 
subject  prosecuted  his  studies  in  the  schools  of  his  native  province  until  he 
had  attained  the  age  of  ten  years,  when  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their 
emigration  to  America,  the  family  locating  in  the  city  of  San  Francisco,  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  continued  his  educational  work,  as  did  he  later  in  Dixon, 
that  state,  the  family  home  having  been  on  a  farm  for  the  gi eater  portion  of 
his  youth.  After  completing  the  curriculum  of  the  high  school  he  entered  a 
business  college,  where  he  finished  a  thorough  commercial  course  and  thus 
amply  fortified  himself  for  taking  up  the  active  duties  of  life.  \n  1882  Mr. 
Claussen  took  a  position  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Fredericksburg  Brewing- 
Company  in  San  Jose,  California.  In  1884  he  began  learning  the  details  of 
the  brewing  business,  and  later  he  passed  about  two  years  in  the  employ  of 
the  National  Brewing  Company  of  San  Francisco,  gaining  a  thorough  ex- 
perience in  all  branches  of  the  industry  and  thus  equipping  himself  in  an  ad- 
mirable way  for  the  management  of  the  important  enterprise  in  which  he  is 
now  an  interested  principal.  In  1888,  in  company  with  E.  F.  Sw^eeney,  Mr. 
Claussen  effected  the  organization  of  the  Claussen,  Sweeney  Brewing  Com- 
pany in  Seattle,  and  business  was  conducted  under  that  title  until  1893,  when 
the  company  disposed  of  the  plant  and  business.  In  1892  Mr.  Claussen 
associated  himself  with  Messrs.  Charles  E.  Crane  and  Georee  E.  Sackett  in 
the  organization  of  the  Diamond  Ice  &  Storage  Company,  of  which  our  sul)- 
ject  became  vice-president  at  the  time  of  its  inception  and  in  (hat  office  he  has 
since  served,  the  enterprise  having  grown  to  be  one  of  inijX)rtance  and  ex- 
tensive operations.  In  March,  1901,  was  formed  a  stock  company  which 
was  incorporated  under  the  title  of  the  Claussen  Brewing  Association,  with 
a  capital  of  fifty  thousand  dollars,  which  was  later  increased  to  two  hundred 
and  fift}'  thousand,  and  the  company  erected  a  fine  brewing  plant  at  Interbay 
and  ha^'e  liere  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  a  very  superior  lager  beer,  the 


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excellence  of  the  product  and  the  effective  methods  of  introduction  having" 
gained  to  the  concern  high  reputation  and  a  most  gratifying  supporting  pat- 
lonage;  which  extends  throughout  Washington  and  contiguous  states.  The 
equipment  of  the  plant  is  of  the  most  modern  and  approved  type  and  in  every 
process  and  detail  of  manufacture  the  most  scrupulous  care  is  given,  insur- 
ing absolute  purity,  requisite  age  and  proper  flavor,  so  that  the  popularity 
of  the  brands  of  beer  manufactured  is  certain  to  increase.  The  annual  ca- 
pacity of  the  brewery  is  sixty  thousand  barrels,  and  the  plant  is  one  of  the 
best  in  the  northwest,  the  enterprise  being  a  credit  to  the  executive  ability 
and  progressive  ideas  of  the  gentleman  who  inaugurated  the  same. 

Mr.  Claussen  has  been  a  resident  of  Seattle  since  1888,  and  from  the 
start  he  has  maintained  a  lively  interest  in  all  that  concerns  the  progress  and 
material  prosperity  of  the  city,  being  known  as  an  alert  and  public  spirited 
citizen  and  able  business  man,  and  holding  unqualified  confidence  and  esteem 
in  the  community.  He  has  been  an  active  factor  in  the  councils  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  but  in  local  affairs  maintains  a  somewhat  independent  attitude, 
rather  than  manifesting  a  pronounced  partisan  spirit.  In  1901  he  was  the 
Democratic  nominee  for  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  state  legistlature, 
but  as  the  district  in  which  he  was  thus  placed  in  nomination  is  overwhelm- 
ingly Republican  in  its  political  complexion  he  met  defeat,  together  with  the 
other  candidates  on  the  ticket.  Fratenally  he  is  prominently  identified  with 
the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  the  Seattle  Turn\erein  society  and  the  Ger- 
man Benevolent  society,  in  each  of  which  he  has  held  office.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Mutual  Heat  &  Light  Company  in  1902,  and 
has  ever  stood  ready  to  lend  his  influence  and  definite  co-operation  in  support 
of  legitimate  business  undertakings  and  worthy  projects  for  the  general  good. 
In  1892  he  erected  his  fine  residence  on  Boren  a^•enue.  and  this  he  still  owns, 
though  he  now  makes  his  home  at  Interbay,  in  order  that  he  may  be  more 
accessible  to  the  brewery,  over  which  he  maintains  a  general  supervision. 
He  is  a  young  man  of  forceful  individuality  and  the  success  which  has  been 
his  indicates  most  clearly  his  facility  in  the  practical  application  of  the  talents 
and  powers  which  are  his.  In  the  city  of  Seattle,  on  October  10.  1891,  Mr. 
Claussen  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Emma  Meyer,  who  was  born  in 
Hamburg.  Germany. 

REV.     FRANCIS    X.    PREFONTAINE. 

The  tales  of  romance  and  adventure  do  not  contain  any  more  remark- 
able facts  than  does  the  history  of  the  men  who.  in  behalf  of  religious  prin- 
ciples, carried  their  work  into  the  wild  districts  of  the  west  to  reclaim  it  for 


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purposes  of  Christianity.  Rev.  Francis  X.  Prefontaine  established  the 
CathoHc  rehgion  in  Seattle  and  has  been  untiring  in  his  work  in  behalf  of  the 
church.  He  is  now  the  pastor  of  Our  Lady  of  Good  Hope,  at  Third  avenue 
south  and  Washington  street,  which  church  was  established  by  him  and  has 
been  developed  to  its  splendid  proportions  through  his  earnest  and  conse- 
crated efiforts. 

Father  Prefontaine  was  born  in  Montreal,  Canada,  in  1838,  and  his 
parents  were  natives  of  that  country.  He  pursued  his  literary  education  in 
Nicolett  College,  which  is  located  midv^ay  between  Quebec  and  AIontreaL 
He  finished  his  studies  there  in  1859  and  then  matriculated  in  the  LeGrand 
Seminary,  of  Montreal,  pursuing  a  theological  course,  and  was  one  of  three 
hundred  students.  On  the  20th  of  November,  1863,  he  was  ordained  at  the 
seminary  and  afterward  started  immediately  for  the  Pacific  coast  by  way  of 
the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  six  weeks  being  consumed  in  making  the  trip, 
iiowever,  he  arrived  safely  on  Puget  Sound  and  was  the  first  priest  ap- 
pointed to  labor  for  the  white  people  of  this  northwestern  district,  a  few  mis- 
sionaries having  previously  begun  their  labors  among  the  Indians.  Father 
Prefontaine  resided  first  in  Steilac(X)m,  where  a  military  i30st  had  been  es- 
tablished. After  ten  months  spent  at  that  point  he  removed  his  head-quarters 
to  Port  Townsend,  and  visited  the  entire  Sound  country  from  that  place, 
traveling  in  canoes  with  the  Indians  and  sleeping  on  the  shores  of  the  streams 
^vherever  night  overtook  them.  A  trip  of  this  kind  covered  three  of  four 
months.  In  1867  he  decided  that  there  was  no  brig-ht  future  for  Port  Town- 
send  and,  although  Seattle  comprised  only  about  five  hundred  inhabitants,  he 
lielieved  that  there  was  a  spirit  nf  Christian  development  here  that  was  bound 
to  conquer  in  the  end  and  he  decided  to  locate  at  this  place.  He  therefore 
rented  a  residence  on  Third  a\'enue  between  Jefferson  and  James  streets,  a 
building  containing  three  rooms,  and  he  converted  two  of  them  into  a  cha])el. 
.At  his  first  meeting  there  were  Ijut  three  peo])le  in  attendance,  but  through 
personal  effort  he  soon  secured  the  attendance  of  many  others  and  the  church 
graduallv  grew  ix)th  in  numerical  and  spiritual  strength. 

In  the  winter  of  1868-9  Father  Prefontaine  began  clearing  the  ground 
upon  which  his  church  now  stands.  It  was  all  covered  with  timber  and  it 
required  the  combined  labors  of  three  men  for  three  months  to  clear  the  lour 
lots.  One  tree  which  Father  Prefontaine  cut  down  himself  towered  to  the 
height  of  two  hundred  and  twenty  feet  and  he  used  it  in  the  foundation  of 
the  church.  It  required  him  two  days,  however,  to  fell  this  tree.  There  was. 
a  creek  crossing  the  place  and  this  fact  had  been  recognized  by  the  sailors  of 
the  Decatur,  when,  in  1856,  that  sloop  of  war  came  to  the  relief  of  the  settlers 
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who  were  in  sore  straits  because  of  the  Indian  attacks.  The  sailors  set  a 
barrel  to  catch  some  fresh  water  here,  and  when  clearing  the  land  Father 
Prefontaine  found  relics  of  their  visit;  not  only  the  barrel,  but  a  couple  of 
rusty  bayonets  and  a  large  key  ten  inches  in  length  which  he  holds  as  a  relic 
of  these  troublesome  times.  It  had  probably  been  the  key  to  the  storehouse 
aboard  the  boat.  Bullets  and  shells  were  also  found  on  the  land  showdng 
that  this  had  been  the  ground  where  serious  work  had  l^een  done  in  pioneer 
times.  In  March,  1869,  Father  Prefontaine  secured  the  material  here  from 
which  to  build  the  first  house  of  worship,  which  extended  thirty-six  feet  on 
Third  a\^enue  at  the  corner  of  Washington  and  extended  back  a  distance  of 
sixty  feet.  When  completed  the  house  had  a  seating  capacity  for  one  hun- 
dred people  and  had  been  erected  at  a  cost  of  three  thousand  dollars.  The 
building  is  now  the  center  of  the  present  church  of  Our  Lady  of  Good  Hope. 
This  building  was  a  large  one  for  the  time  and  was  entirely  finished  inside 
with  stucco  work.  In  the  erection  of  the  building  Father  Prefontaine  took 
a  very  active  part  as  a  carpenter,  as  a  painter  and  even  in  carving  the  stucco 
work.  There  is  some  carving  still  in  the  building  that  he  did  many  years 
ago.  The  building  completed  cost  four  thousand  dollars,  which  sum  was 
raised  by  fairs  up  and  down  the  Sound.  Father  Prefontaine  held  a  fair  in 
Seattle  at  which  he  raised  eight  hundred  dollars  and  other  fairs  were  held 
at  Port  Gamble,  Port  Ludlow  and  Utsaladdy,  and  within  about  four  months 
the  entire  sum  of  money  needed  was  raised  with  the  exception  of  about  one 
thousand  dollars.  In  1882  it  became  necessary  to  enlarge  the  edifice  and 
Father  Prefontaine  remodeled  and  rebuilt  it  as  it  now  appears,  executing  this 
work  at  an  outlay  of  sixteen  thousand  dollars.  He  retained  Lhe  former  build- 
mg  and  steeple,  however,  in  the  construction  of  the  new  house  of  w'orship. 
The  building  w^as  completed  in  1883.  A  pipe  organ  was  acquired  for  it  at 
a  cost  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars.  This  was  the  only  parish  in  Seattle 
until  1889,  when  a  new  parish  was  formed  and  the  church  of  the  Sacred 
Heart  was  established  and  the  building  erected.  In  1876  a  contract  to  take 
care  of  the  sick  w^as  secured  from  King  county  and  Father  Prefontaine  called 
the  Sisters  of  Providence  to  carry  on  the  w^ork.  He  then  purchased  a  house 
and  lot  for  the  sisters  and  aided  in  transforming  it  into  the  first  hospital,  do- 
ing considerable  work  on  the  building  himself. 

In  1880  he  persuaded  the  sisters  of  the  Holy  Name  to  come  and  take  up 
the  work  of  education,  having  in  the  meantime  purchased  a  half  block  of  land 
on  Second  avenue  for  sixty-eight  hundred  dollars.  He  then  put  up  a  build- 
ing between  Seneca  and  University  streets,  erecting  this  for  the  use  of  the 
teacl'.ers,  at  a  cost  of  three  thousand  dollars.     In    1883.  owing  to  the  en- 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  363 

croachment  of  the  business  district  upon  the  site  of  the  school,  it  was  sold 
for  thirty-five  thousand  dollars  and  a  block  was  purchased  at  Seventh  and 
Jackson  streets.  Parochial  schools  were  held  in  the  basement  of  the  church 
until  1890,  when  Father  Prefontaine  built  the  brick  building  on  Sixth  and 
Spring  streets  and  then  discontinued  the  holding  of  the  school  in  the  church 
basement.  Along  the  lines  of  church  work  he  has  labored  earnestly  and  his 
efforts  have  been  of  benefit  in  extending  Catholic  influence  and  work.  He 
built  the  first  church  in  La  Connor,  of  which  he  was  both  the  architect  and 
the  carpenter. 

Father  Prefontaine  has  a  fine  library,  possessing  liten.ry  tastes  which 
have  been  met  by  extensive  reading,  making  him  a  well  niformed  man.  In 
the  early  days  he  delighted  to  take  a  tramp  through  the  woods  with  his  gun 
and  had  not  a  little  reputation  as  a  successful  hunter.  It  has  been  through 
this  means  and  through  reading  that  he  has  sought  recreation  from  the  stren- 
uous duties  of  his  pastorate,  but  his  energies  have  been  given  in  an  almost  un- 
divided manner  to  his  church  work  and  the  parish  of  Our  Lady  of  Good 
Hope,  now  one  of  the  strongest  in  the  northwest,  is  the  result  of  his  energy 
and  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Christianity.  He  was  a  pioneer  in  introducing 
Catholicism  into  this  city  and  this  portion  of  the  state,  and  the  growth  of  the 
church  here  is  largely  due  to  liis  efforts. 

MILO    A.    ROOT. 

The  ancestors  of  this  gentleman  were  Englishmen  and  were  among  the 
early   settlers    of   the   Massachusetts    Bay   colony.      His    great-grandfather, 
Israel  Root,  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier;  he  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist 
church  and  lived  to  a  good  old  age.     His  son  Henry  was  a  soldier  in  the 
second  war  with  Great  Britain,  and  one  of  the  incidents  of  the  war  is  fam- 
ily history.     He  had  crossed  the  Niagara  river  with  twenty  companions  to 
procure  some  fruit,  but  they  were  surprised  by  British  cavalry  and  forced 
to  a  hasty  retreat,  tearing  up  the  bridge  to  prevent  pursuit ;  the  enemy  opened 
fire,  and  one  of  their  bullets  came  so  close  to  Mr.  Root  as  to  cut  off  a  por- 
tion of  his  beard,  but  the  Americans  with  the  aid  of  their  artillery  finally 
obliged  the  British  to  retire.     After  the  war  Mr.  Root  resided  in  Allegany 
county,  New  York,  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.     It  was  in  this  last  named 
county  that  William  H.   Root  was  born,  but  he  later  became  a  prominent 
farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  Barre  Center,  Orleans  county,  New  York.     He 
still  resides  there  in  his  sixty-ninth  year,  and  has  passed  a  life  of  consider- 
able influence  in  his  communitv.     His  wife  was  Miss  Cordelia  Halroyd.  a 


364  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

native  of  Cortland  county,  New  York,  and  daughter  of  Rew  William  Hal- 
royd,  a  minister  of  the  Baptist  church ;  this  gentleman  wat-  a  fine  scholar,, 
especially  well  versed  in  the  ancient  languages,  and  of  English  descent. 
His  wife  was  Amelia  Knickerbocker,  who  was  descended  from  one  of  the 
oldest  Knickerbocker  families  of  New  York.  There  were  seven  children 
bom  of  this  union,  and  five  are  now  living. 

The  only  member  of  the  family  residing  on  the  Pacific  coast  is  Milo 
A.  Root,  who  was  born  to  the  above  mentioned  parents  while  the}-  were 
residing  in  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  on  January  22,  1863.  He  accompanied 
the  family  on  their  removal  to  Orleans  county,  New  York,  in  1876,  and  it 
was  there  that  he  finished  his  literary  education,  being  a  graduate  of  the. 
Albion  high  school  in  1882.  He  at  once  took  up  the  study  of  the  law  with 
the  Hon.  John  H.  White,  a  prominent  jurist  of  western  New  York  and 
also  of  high  standing  in  the  grand  lodge  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  in  that  state.  Young  Root  also  graduated  from  the  Albany  Law 
School,  and  also  read  law  in  the  ofiice  of  the  present  attorney  general  of 
New  York,  and  in  the  fall  of  1883  came  to  Olympia.  Washington,  and  so 
thoroughly  had  he  mastered  his  studies  that  in  the  following  year,  upon 
the  report  of  the  committee  of  examination,  of  which  Judge  Hanford  was 
chairman,  he  was  admitted  to  practice  ])y  Judge  Hoyt.  During  the  thir- 
teen years  of  his  residence  as  a  practicing  attorney  in  Olympia  he  served, 
two  years  as  probate  judge  of  Thurston  county,  and  was  prosecuting  at- 
torney for  a  similar  period.  Judge  Root  came  to  Seattle  in  1897.  and 
during  the  following  year  was  in  partnership  with  Judge  Hoyt.  but  from 
then  till  January.  1900,  he  practiced  alone:  at  the  latter  date  the  firm  of 
Root,  Palmer  and  Brown  was  organized,  of  which  Judge  Root  is  th.e  senior 
member.  He  has  been  very  successful  in  his  law  practice  and  is  the  attorney 
for  many  large  corporations.  As  a  Rq^ublican  he  has  taken  an  active  part 
in  the  campaigns,  has  been  a  member  of  the  state  conventions  and  of  the 
Republican  state  central  committees.  He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Elks,  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
ihe   Royal   Arcanum. 

In  1890  Judge  Root  was  married  to  Miss  E.  Lansdale  of  Olympia; 
her  father  was  Dr.  R.  H.  Lansdale.  a  prominent  physician  and  one  of  the 
pioneer  settlers  of  Whidbey  Island,  \Yashington ;  he  was  a  warm  friend 
and  associate  of  General  Isaac  Stevens,  the  first  governor  of  the  territory,, 
and  assisted  in  negotiating  many  of  the  Indian  treaties.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Root  are  the  parents  of  four  children.  Bernice  C,  Hortense  M.,  Milouise 
and  An.na   E.     Judge  Root  is  the  owner  of  considerable  city  property,  and 


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IS  interested  in  several  companies,  and  has  invested  money  i'or  eastern  capi- 
talists. He  is  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  Revolution,  and  both  he  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Cong-regational  church.  He  is  an  enthusiastic 
Sunday-school  worker,  having-  for  some  years  taught  an  interesting  class 
numbering  over  one  hundred  young  ladies  and  gentlemen. 

HARALD  BLEKUM. 

The  rough  and  precipitous  land  of  Norway  has  ever  been  productive  of 
the  world's  best  seamen,  the  earliest  records  of  history  recounting  the  daring- 
adventures  of  the  hardy  Norsemen  in  their  viking  ships;  and  some  of  this 
blood  still  flows  in  the  veins  of  Captain  Blekum,  all  his  life  a  sailor  and  now 
manager  of  the  firm,  Stevenson  &  Blekum  Tug  Company,  proprietors  of  the 
tugs  Mystic,  Harry  S..  Doctor.  Oscar  B.  and  Magda,  and  doing  a  general 
towing  and  jobbing  business,  furnishing  ballots,  renting  skows  and  barges, 
of  which  they  have  a  large  number.  W.  H.  Stevenson  is  the  secretars^  and 
treasurer  of  the  company. 

Captain  Blekum  was  born  at  Horten,  Norway,  November  30,  1865;  the 
blood  of  his  ancestors  asserted  itself  early  in  life,  and  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
he  went  to  sea  as  a  deck  boy  on  a  deep  sea  voyage  lasting  about  thirty-five 
2nonths,  in  the  course  of  which  he  visited  Scotland,  England,  Russia,  the 
West  Indies  and  Panama,  and  returned  rated  as  a  seaman  before  the  mast. 
After  his  return  he  entered  the  school  of  navigation  at  Mandal,  Norway, 
Avhere  he  completed  a  thorough  technical  training  and  received  first  class 
papers.  He  then  became  mate  of  a  vessel  on  a  \  oyage  to  France  and  then  re- 
turned to  his  home  in  Norway.  His  father,  Olaus  Blekum.  had  meanwhile 
removed  to  Lindesnaes,  to  take  charge  of  the  government  lighthouse  there. 
And  here  it  may  be  well  to  speak  a  few  words  of  the  father  of  our  worthy 
subject.  He  had  started  in  the  navy  of  Norway  as  a  lad,  and  passing  through 
all  the  various  degrees  he  became  an  officer  when  King  Oscar  was  yet  a  boy ; 
he  was  afterwards  promoted  to  the  lighthouse  department  and  until  1878 
was  traveling  inspector  of  the  lighthouses;  he  was  then  placed  in  charge 
of  the  lighthouse  at  Lindesnaes,  one  of  the  largest  in  the  world,  which  posi- 
tion he  still  retains.  Our  subject,  after  the  event  last  mentioned,  served  as 
second  mate  of  three  different  vessels,  cruising  to  France  and  Spain  and  in 
the  Baltic;  he  was  soon  promoted  to  first  mate  and  engaged  in  navigation 
in  the  North  Sea  until  1884,  in  which  year  he  came  to  America.  From  here 
he  made  three  voyages  in  the  Brittanic  from  New  York  to  Liverpool.  In 
the  fall  of  1884  he  came  to  the  Pacific  coast  and  engaged  in  navigation  on 


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the  Pacific  until  1889.  In  that  year  Mr.  Blekum  took  out  his  full  naturaHzation 
papers,  since  which  time  he  has  been  on  the  Sound;  in  1890  he  became  mas- 
ter and  commander  of  various  vessels  in  the  Sound  coasting  trade,  among 
them  the  Michigan,  Vulga,  Chinook  and  the  Mystic;  and  lor  the  last  three 
years  he  has  been  harbor  pilot  for  all  the  large  naval  and  merchant  vessels. 
The  present  company  was  organized  in  1890  as  the  Stevenson  Tug  &  Barge 
Company,  and  Captain  Blekum  became  a  partner  in  1893. 

Mr.  Blekum  is  one  of  the  most  thorough  business  men  and  highly  re- 
spected citizens  of  Seattle;  he  bears  an  enviable  reputation  as  an  expert  navi- 
gator, and  his  long  and  successful  experience  as  a  seaman  makes  him  abso- 
lutely reliable.  His  marriage  occurred  on  the  8th  of  August,  1891,  Minnie 
Thomson  becoming  his  wife,  and  she  was  the  mother  of  four  children  :  Os- 
car, Clara,  Edna  and  Karen  Petrea.  In  the  same  year  he  erected  his  com- 
fortable and  sightly  residence  at  161 1  Tenth  avenue,  west,  where  he  lives 
in  the  happy  enjoyment  of  all  the  domestic  comforts.  Mr.  Blekum  was  con- 
firmed and  reared  in. the  Lutheran  church;  in  politics  he  has  maintained  an 
independent  position.  He  is  now  candidate  for  Norwegian  vice-consul  in 
Seattle. 

DAVID  W.  BOWEN. 

The  honored  subject  of  this  memoir  is  closely  identified  with  the  busi- 
ness interests  of  Seattle,  and  is  now  holding  the  important  position  of  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  Puget  Sound  Sheet  Metal  Works.     He  is  a  native 
of  the  state  of  Ohio,  born  on  the  8th  of  December,  1867,  and  is  a  son  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (James)  Bowen,  also  natives  of  the  Buckeye  state.     Of  their 
three  children  our  subject  is  the  only  one  who  grew  to  years  of  maturity,  and 
the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  were  spent  in  the  state  of  his  nativity, 
where  he  received  a  liberal  education  in  its  public  schools.     He  also  became 
a  student  in  Mount  Union  College,  in  which  institution  he  graduated  in  1887. 
During  the  two  years  succeeding  his  graduation  he  found  employment  with 
the  Lacock  Mill  Company  as  manager  of  their  sales  department.     The  year 
1889  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  and  during  his  first  eight  months  in  this 
city  he  occupied  the  position  of  bookkeeper.     Returning  thence  to  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  he  was  there  engaged  in  a  similar  capacity  for  seven  months,  and  since 
that  time  he  has  made  his  home  continuously  in  Seattle,  the  first  year  after 
his  return  being  spent  with  the  MacDougall  &  Sons  Company.     After  filling 
various  other  positions  he  was  made  deputy  collector  of  internal  revenues  for 
the  district  of  Oregon,  and  after  three  years  of  ser\ace  therein  he  resigned 


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his  position  to  establish  the  Puget  Sound  Sheet  Metal  Works,  which  was  or- 
ganized on  the  3d  of  March,  1901.  This  concern  sustains  an  unassailable 
reputation  in  business  circles  and  is  one  of  the  leading  establishments  of  its 
kind  in  the  city.  Their  large  and  well  arranged  factory  is  located  on  the 
water  front  at  1318-22  Western  avenue,  and  their  offices  are  at  the  same 
place.  Mr.  Bowen  is  a  young  man  of  exceptional  business  ability,  and  in 
trade  circles  he  enjoys  an  enviable  reputation. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Bowen  was  celebrated  in  Seattle  on  the  25th  of 
December,  1890,  Miss  Nettie  V.  Stevenson  becoming  his  wife.  She  is  a 
native  of  Pennsylvania.  One  son,  Harry  S.,  has  come  to  brighten  and  bless 
their  home.  In  his  fraternal  relations  Mr.  Bowen  is  a  member  of  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of.  the  Modem  Woodmen  of  the 
World  and  is  past  regent  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  His  political  support  is  given 
to  the  Republican  party,  and  although  since  attaining  to  mature  years  he  has 
been  an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  his  party  he  has  never  been  an  aspirant 
for  political  honors.  He  has  been  many  times  a  delegate  to  the  central 
committee.  His  life  thus  far  has  been  a  busy  and  useful  one,  characterized 
by  generosity  and  kindness,  by  honor  and  integrity. 

CHARLES  H.  ALLMOND. 

Throughout  life  Charles  H.  Allmond  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  interests  of  the  Pacific  coast  country,  and  is  to-day  one  of  the  lead- 
insf  business  men  of  Seattle.  A  native  son  of  the  Golden  state,  his  birth  00- 
curred  in  the  city  of  Sacramento  on  the  15th  of  August,  1857,  and  he  is  a 
son  of  John  G.  and  Lydia  (Douglas)  Allmond,  natives  respectively  of  Mich- 
igan and  New  York.  The  father  remained  in  his  native  state  until  his 
twenty-third  year  and  then  made  his  way  to  California,  sailing  on  the  first 
screw-steamer  which  rounded  the  Horn,  the  Sarah  Sands.  In  June,  1850, 
he  engaged  in  mining  and  prospecting,  which  he  carried  on  in  connection 
with  mercantile  pursuits  until  1852.  In  that  year  he  returned  to  the  east 
and  w^as  there  married,  returning  thence  with  his  bride  to  Ihe  Golden  state, 
where  he  followed  agricultural  pursuits  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended  in 
death,  in  1867.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Allmond  were  bom  five  children,  namely: 
George  D.,  a  prominent  rancher  in  California;  Mar>'  H.,  the  deceased  wife 
of  A.  C.  Snyder;  Charles  H.,  the  subject  of  this  review;  Katherine  D.,  the 
wife  of  Mr.  D.  Hurlburt,  of  Ne^v  York ;  and  Douglas,  editor  and  proprietor 
of  the  Anacortes  American  at  Anacortes,  Washington. 

Charles   H.   Allmond   remained  with    his  parents   on   their  ranch    until 


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1S67,  when  he  accompanied  the  family  on  its  removal  to  Sacramento, 
there  making  his  home  until  1880.  His  early  educational  training-  was  re- 
ceived in  the  city  schools  of  Sacramento,  and  when  fourteen  years  of  age  he 
entered  the  old  Sacramento  Union  office,  in  the  capacity  of  a  clerk,  thus  con- 
tinuing, for  the  following  three  years.  When  seventeen  years  of  age  he  was 
given  employment  in  the  shops  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad  at  Sacramento, 
Avhere  he  remained  for  five  years,  and  during  that  time  mastered  the  various 
branches  of  the  pattern  maker's  trade  and  became  a  proficient  workman. 
The  year  1880  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  his  first  work  in  this  city  be- 
ing in  the  Columbia  &  Puget  Sound  Railroad  shops,  under  J.  M.  Coleman, 
from  whence  he  entered  the  Washington  Iron  Works.  In  1882.  in  com- 
pany with  W.  R.  Philips,  he  established  a  foundry  and  machine  shop  on  Sec- 
ond and  Jackson  streets,  but  in  1889  Mr.  Allmond  disposed  of  his  interest 
there,  and  the  concern  afterward  became  known  as  the  Vulcan  Iron  Works. 
Returning  thence  to  his  native  state,  he  was  for  one  year  engaged  in  pros- 
pecting and  mining  in  the  Cascades,  and  in  1897  ^^^  went  to  Alaska,  where 
for  three  years  he  resumed  his  mining  operations.  Prior  to  his  removal  to 
Alaska  Mr.  Allmond  had  served  as  foreman  of  the  Moran  Brothers  pattern 
department  for  about  five  years,  and  after  returing  from  the  north  again 
entered  the  same  occupation,  thus  continuing  until  March.  1901.  At  that 
time  he  established  his  present  business  at  519  First  avenue,  south,  but  in 
January,  1902.  removed  to  his  present  location.  i\s  a  draughtsman  and 
pattern-maker  Mr.  Allmond  has  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  business,  and 
has  furnished  most  of  the  patterns  for  the  various  shops  and  foundries  of 
the  city.  By  his  ballot  he  supports  the  men  and  measures  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  has  ever  taken  an  active  interest  in  all  measures  and  movements 
pertaining  to  the  advancement  and  upbuilding"  of  the  city  of  his  choice,  while 
on  many  occasions  he  has  served  as  a  delegate  to  conventions.  He  is  widely 
and  favorably  known  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  rq^resentative  men  of  his 
community.  ♦ 

RICHARD  S.  JONES. 

Richard  S.  Jones  is  actively  connected  with  a  profession  which  has  im- 
portant bearing  upon  the  progress  and  stable  prosperity  of  any  section  or 
community,  and  one  which  has  long  been  considered  as  conserving  the  public 
welfare  by  furthering  the  ends  of  justice  and  maintaining  individual  rights. 
His  reputation  as  a  lawyer  has  been  w^on  through  earnest,  honest  labor  and 
his  standing  at  the  bar  is  a  merited  tribute  to  his  ability.  He  now  has  a 
very  large  i^ractice,  and  his  careful  preparation  of  cases  is  supplementerl  by 


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R  power  of  argument  and  forceful  presentation  of  his  points  in  the  court 
room,  so  that  he  never  fails  to  impress  court  or  juiy  and  seldom  fails  to  gain 
the  verdict  desired. 

Mr.  Jones  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Minnesota,  born  February  j.  1861, 
and  is  of  Welsh  ancestry,  the  family  having  been  founded  in  Virginia  in  1652. 
The  grandfather.  Rev.  S.  Jones,  was  a  leading  bishop  of  the  Methodist  I'ro- 
testant  church  and  was  born  in  Virginia  in  1803.  At  an  early  date  he  went 
to  Minnesota  as  a  missionary  bishop  there  and  was  a  prominent  and  active 
factor  in  establishing  the  churches  of  his  faith  m  that  new  coimtrv.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Isabel  Robinson,  a  member  of  the  noted  Robinson  family  of  VVis- 
consn,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  five  children,  of  whom  one,  Mrs.  Sam- 
uel Foress,  of  Minnesota,  is  still  living.  Richard  Asbury  Jones,,  the  father 
of  our  subject,  was  born  in  La  Fayette,  Indiana,  on  the  226.  of  October.  1831. 
He  married  Miss  Sarah  McClellan.  the  great-granddaughter  of  John  Har- 
ris, the  founder  of  the  city  of  Harrisburg.  Pennslyvania,  who  received  the 
property  there  as  a  grant  from  the  croxNu  and  was  a  pioneer  settler  of  that 
state.  At  one  time  he  was  captured  by  the  Indians,  tied  to  a  tree  and  a  fire 
was  kindled  around  him  but  fortunately  he  was  rescued  by  another  band  of 
Indians.  Mr.  Jones,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  educated  in  Wisconsin, 
and  in  1850  crossed  the  plains  to  California,  settling  in  San  Jose,  where  he 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1853.  He  practiced  his  profes- 
sion there  until  1858,  when  he  returned  to  the  east,  locating  in  Rochester, 
Minnesota.  He  became  an  eminent  member  of  the  profession  in  that  state, 
taking  an  active  part  also  in  political  work.  He  served  his  district  in  the 
state  legislature  of  Minnesota  and  in  1884  he  was  a  delegare  to  the  Demo- 
cratic National  convention  and  seconded  the  nomination  of  Grover  Cleveland 
for  the  presidency  of  the  United  States.  The  following  year  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Cleveland  to  the  position  of  chief  justice  of  the  territoiy 
of  Washington.  He  had  acquired  the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  ablest 
lawyers  in  the  state  of  Minnesota  and  in  the  discharg'e  of  his  official  duties 
in  Washington  lie  evinced  a  profound  knowledge  of  the  law.  taking  to  the 
bench  the  very  highest  qualifications  for  the  most  responsible  office  of  the 
state  government.  His  last  opinion,  given  just  before  his  death,  was  to  the 
effect  that  the  Woman's  Rights  Bill  which  had  been  j^assed  by  the  legislature 
was  in  conflict  with  the  United  States  Constitution.  Washington  then  being 
a  territory.  His  record  as  a  judge  was  in  harmony  with  his  record  as  a  man. 
the  same  being  distinguished  by  unswer\ing  integrity  and  a  masterful  grasp 
of  every  problem  which  presented  itself  for  solution.  Judge  Jones  departed 
this  life  Augtist  i  i,  1888,  dying  of  heart  (Hsease  at  the  age  of  fifty-six  years. 


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His  good  wife  passed  away  in  1879.  They  lived  and  died  in  the  faith  of  tiie 
Methodist  church  and  their  influence  was  ever  on  the  side  of  progress,  cul- 
ture and  intellectual  and  moral  advancement.  They  left  four  children,  of 
whom  three  are  yet  living.  M.  K.  Jones  is  the  superintendent  of  the  Great 
Northern  Road  at  Seattle.  Isabel  is  residing  in  Rochester,  Minnesota.  The 
other  daughter,  Mrs.  Edith  H.  Wheeler,  died  in  Yakima,  Washington,  in 
1898. 

Richard  Saxe  Jones,  the  subject  of  this  review,  pursued  his  literary  ed- 
ucation in  the  public  schools  and  in  the  University  of  Minnesota,  after  which 
he  read  law  in  his  father's  office  for  four  years  and  in  1883  was  admitted  to 
practice.  He  then  entered  upon  the  profession  in  South  Dakota  and  was 
elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  his  county  in  1884,  but  the  following  year  he 
resigned  and  returned  to  his  old  home  in  Rochester,  where  the  son  took  up 
the  father's  practice  and  remained  there  until  1892.  In  that  year  he  came  to 
Seattle  and  opened  a  law  office  here,  practicing  alone  until  1894,  at  which 
time  the  Brinker,  Jones  &  Richards  law  firm  was  formed.  The  senior  part- 
ner was  the  United  States  attorney  at  that  time.  This  business  relationship 
was  maintained  until  1900  when  Mr.  Brinker  and  Mr.  Richards  went  to  Alas- 
ka, Mr.  Jones  remaining  in  Seattle  in  the  enjoyment  of  a  large  practice.  This 
has  been  his  life  work  and  he  has  attained  a  distinguished  position  in  connec- 
tion with  his  chosen  calling.  He  is  now  the  attorney  of  numerous  corpora- 
tions and  makes  a  specialty  of  admiralty  law. 

In  1885  Mr.  Jones  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Helen  Maude  Taylor, 
of  Bethel,  Connecticut,  a  descendant  of  an  old  American  family.  This  union 
was  blessed  with  one  son,  Richard  S.,  who  is  now  a  student  in  the  high  school 
of  Seattle.  Mrs.  Jones  departed  this  life  in  1889  and  nine  years  later,  in 
1898.  Mr  Jones  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Miss  Mar- 
garet Barr,  who  was  born  in  Indiana  and  was  reared  in  Minnesota.  Her 
father  was  John  Barr,  a  banker  of  the  latter  state  and  one  of  her  brothers  is 
professor  of  mechanical  engineering  in  Cornell  University,  while  another 
brother  is  state  senator  in  Minnesota  and  a  member  of  the  board  of  regents 
of  the  state  normal  school.  He  is  also  engaged  in  the  banking  business. 
Mrs.  Jones  was  a  successful  teacher  in  the  kindergarten  department  of  the 
state  normal  school  prior  to  her  marriage.  She  has  becom.e  the  mother  of 
one  daughter,  Margaret  Isabel. 

Mr.  Jones  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat  and  a  prominent  worker  in  the 
ranks  of  his  party.  He  is  also  a  leading  Mason  of  the  state  of  Washington 
having  been  made  a  member  of  the  craft  in  Rochester  Lodge,  No.  21,  F.  & 
A.  IvL,  in  1885.     Since  then  he  has  received  all  of  the  degrees  in  both  the 


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York  and  Scottish  Rites,  the  thirty-third  degree  having  been  conferred  upon 
him  in  Seattle  in  1898.  He  has  filled  nearly  all  of  the  subordinate  offices  in 
all  the  branches  of  the  order  and  is  a  past  deputy  grand  chancellor  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  also  an  honorary  life  member  and  is  past  exalted 
mler  of  the  Elks.  Both  have  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  the  city  and  in  his 
profession  Mr.  Jones  has  attained  high  honor.  His  legal  learning,  his  ana- 
lytical mind,  the  readiness  with  which  he  grasps  the  points  in  an  argument, 
all  combine  to  make  him  a  very  successful  advocate  and  his  comprehensive 
knowledge  of  the  law  makes  him  a  wise  counselor. 

CHRISTIAN   HOFMEISTER. 

Throughout  the  history  of  our  country  the  German  element  in  its  popu- 
lation has  been  one  of  its  best  factors,  and  among  those  best  known  in  Seattle 
is  Christian  Hofmeister,  who  for  a  number  of  years  has  occupied  a  very  con- 
spicuous place  among  the  leading  business  men.  He  is  the  founder  and 
proprietor  of  the  Washington  Floral  Company,  whose  extensive  green- 
houses are  located  at  Fortieth  avenue  and  east  Madison  street.  In  Wurteni- 
berg,  Germany,  on  July  10.  1848,  Christian  Hofmeister  was  born  to  Mat- 
thew and  Frederica  (Kamerer)  Hofmeister,  both  also  natives  of  that  place. 
When  fourteen  years  of  age  the  son  Christian  was  apprenticed  to  a  florist  at 
Stuttgart,  with  whom  he  remained  for  three  years,  there  laying  the  founda- 
tion upon  which  he  has  built  the  superstructure  of  his  life  work.  In  1868, 
when  he  had  reached  the  age  of  twenty  years,  he  bade  adieu  to  the  home  and 
friends  of  his  youth  and  sailed  for  the  United  States,  and  after  his  arri\al  mi 
American  soil  he  made  his  way  to  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  secured 
employment  with  the  large  seed  and  floral  company  of  J.  R.  &  A.  Murdock. 
So  well  did  he  discharge  his  duties  which  devolved  upon  him  in  this  capacity 
that  on  the  expiration  of  three  years'  serxice  he  was  appointed  to  the  position 
of  foreman,  which  he  continued  to  fill  for  the  following  eight  years.  In  the 
A^ear  1889  he  made  his  way  to  Seattle,  where  he  soon  secured  a  tract  of  land 
and  established  his  present  business  which  has  grown  from  a  small  beginning 
to  its  present  large  proportions,  and  the  Washington  Floral  Company  now 
occupies  an  enviable  position  in  the  luisiness  circles  of  the  city.  They  make 
a  specialty  of  the  raising  of  choice  flowers  and  plants,  the  furnishing  of  cut 
flowers  being  one  of  the  principal  features  of  the  business.  Their  various 
greenhouses  require  a  covering  of  fifty  thousand  square  feet  of  glass  and  in 
addition  to  their  large  local  trade  they  also  ship  extensively  to  the  neighbor- 
ing states.     Mr.   Hofmeister  produces  only  the  choicest  varieties  of  plants. 


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carefully  selected  from  the  most  reliable  sources,  and  as  a  result  of  his  years 
of  experience  and  his  conscientious  dealings  with  his  patrons  he  has  estab- 
lished a  satisfactory  and  constantly  increasing  trade  both  at  home  and  in  the 
surrounding  towns. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  was  celebrated  in  Seattle  on  the  28th  of 
July,  1 89 1,  when  Miss  Anna  A.  Peterson  became  his  wife.  Three  children 
have  been  born  to  brighten  and  bless  their  home.  Annie  Marie.  Lillie  Mar- 
guerite and  Florence  Catherine.  The  family  reside  in  a  comfortable  and 
commodious  residence  in  this  city,  which  was  completed  in  1901.  Mr.  Hof- 
meister  gives  his  political  preference  to  the  Republican  party,  but  he  excer- 
cises  his  right  of  franchise  in  the  support  of  the  men  whom  he  regards  as  best 
qualified  to  fill  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility.  In  his  fraternal  rela- 
tions he  is  a  member  of  the  Ind<;pendent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  while  religiously  he  is  identified  with  tlie  English  Luth- 
eran church.  He  iias  a  wide  acquaintance  in  this  section  of  the  state,  and  his 
honesty  in  all  trade  transactions,  his  reliability  in  discharging  his  duties  of 
citizenship  and  his  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  private  life  have  won  him  marked 
esteem. 

FRANK  E.  PELLS. 

Frank  E.  Pells  is  the  efticient  postmaster  at  Ballard,  and  he  has  been  a 
factor  in  the  upbuilding,  advancement  and  improvement  of  the  town  almost 
from  the  establishment  of  the  place.  He  was  born  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  in 
.'869.  The  ancestral  history  can  be  traced  back  through  three  generations, 
the  first  representative  of  the  family  in  America  coming  from  Germany. 
The  grandmother  on  the  paternal  side  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Johnson  and 
^v•as  a  direct  descendant  of  Commodore  Johnson,  who  won  distinction  in  the 
war  of  181 2,  a  man  of  remarkable  size,  as  well  as  a  brilliant  naval  officer. 
Samuel  E.  Pells  was  born  in  Rockford,  Illinois,  and  became  superintendent 
of  the  tack  factory  of  that  place.  In  1888  he  removed  to  the  west  and  en- 
gaged in  ranching  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  November,  1900.  His 
wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Jennie  Hart,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Charles 
Hart,  who  was  born  in  Carlisle,  Scotland,  in  1818,  and  came  to  America 
when  about  twenty  years  of  age.  \Mien  passing  through  Chicago  he  w^as 
urged  to  locate  there,  but  the  town  was  so  unprepossessing"  that  he  said  he 
would  not  accept  the  location  as  a  gift;  instead,  he  took  up  his  abode  in 
Tanesville,  Wisconsm,  and  had  a  sheep  pasture  where  the  principal  hotel  and 
the  park  of  that  city  are  now  found.     He  took  a  claim  from  the  government. 


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and  his  patents  are  signed  by  James  K.  Poik,  then  president  of  the  United 
States.  Mr.  Hart  was  one  of  the  founders  of  both  Janesville  and  Monroe, 
Wisconsin,  and  an  honored  pioneer  settler  of  that  portion  of  the  state,  and 
he  died  in  1897.  %  the  marriage  of  the  parents  of  our  subject  they  had 
four  children :  Charles  H.,  who  is  now  manager  of  the  Pioneer  L.aundrv 
Company ;  Frank  E. ;  Mrs.  Cooper,  of  Ballard ;  and  Fred,  who  is  acting  as 
bookkeeper  for  the  Cedar  Lumber  Company  of  Seattle. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  Frank  E.  Pells  pursued  his  liter- 
ary education  and  afterward  took  a  course  in  a  business  college.  For  four 
years  he  was  connected  with  a  tea  company  in  Illinois  and  in  Iowa  and  in  the 
fall  of  1889  he  came  to  Ballard,  the  town  having  been  founded  in  that  year. 
He  decided  that  the  new  hamlet  was  favorably  located  and  that  a  good  future 
was  before  it  and  he  turned  his  attention  t(i  the  real  estate  business.  Later 
he  became  proprietor  of  a  mill,  which  was  afterward  burned.  Just  prior  to 
the  great  Klondike  rush  Mr.  Pells  took  a  trip  to  that  region  of  Alaska,  in 
1898,  and  ran  pack  trains  from  Skagway  to  Lake  Bennett.  In  1898,  how- 
ever, he  returned  to  Ballard  and  established  a  laundry  and  also  purchased  the 
store  adjoining  the  postoffice.  He  conducted  the  latter  enterprise  until  1901. 
when  he  sold  his  store  and  organized  the  Pioneer  Laundry  Company  and 
built  the  present  building  in  which  to  conduct  his  business.  He  gives  em- 
ployment to  fifteen  people  there  and  his  patronage  is  large  and  profita!)le. 

On  the  1st  oi  July.  1901,  Mr.  Pells  was  appointetd  postmaster  of  Bal- 
lard by  President  McKinley,  and  received  a  regular  appointement  on  the 
i6tli  of  January,  1902,  the  latter  being  signed  by  President  Roosevelt,  so  that 
he  holds  commissions  bearing  the  signature  of  our  late  martyred  [)resident  and 
of  the  present  chief  executive  of  the  nation.  During  his  incuml)ency  tlie 
business  of  the  office  has  increased  fully  one  third,  and  the  capacity  of  the 
office  has  been  doubled.  Mr.  Pells  is  a  very  efficient.  poj)ular  and  active 
postmaster,  having  systematized  the  work  of  the  office,  which  he  conducts 
nlong  practical  business  lines.  He  is  an  active  wc^rker  in  the  Republican 
ranks  and  was  one  of  the  nine  men  of  the  ])lace  who  claimed  to  be  a  Re])ublican 
when  the  Populist  excitement  of  1896  was  at  its  height.  He  has  served  as  a 
delegate  to  citv  and  countv  conventions  and  takes  much  interest  in  city  and 
county  affairs.  He  belongs  to  the  ccwnty  central  committee  and  has  labored 
earnestly  for  the  growth  and  success  of  his  party,  although  v,p  to  the  time  of 
his  appointment  as  postmaster  he  never  sought  or  desired  office  for  himsoll. 

Mr.  Pells  was  married  in  Ballard  to  Miss  Morence  French,  whose 
father,  George  W.  French,  is  one  of  the  honored  pioneer  settlers  of  thi-? 
place  and  now  a  resident  of  Seattle.     Their  union  has  been  blessed  w  itli  four 


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children,  as  follows:  Samuel,  Howell,  Vera,  and  Louise,  who  died  iVugust 
14,  1902.  Mrs.  Pells  is  connected  with  the  Ladies  of  the  Maccabees  and 
with  the  Ladies'  Relief  Corps.  Mr.  Pells  belongs  to  the  order  of  the  Knights 
of  Maccabees  and  to  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America.  During  the  years 
of  his  residence  in  Ballard  he  has  manifested  a  public  spirited  interest  in 
everything  pertaining  to  the  general  good.  He  has  put  forth  earnest  and 
discriminating  efforts  to  advance  the  welfare  of  the  town,  and  yet  his  policy 
has  been  conservative  and  never  favoring  anything  in  the  way  of  a  "mush- 
room" growth.  The  town  acknowledges  its  indebtedness  to  him  for  his 
efforts  in  its  behalf  and  regards  him  as  a  most  capable  officer,  worthy  the 
respect  and  confidence  of  his  fellow  men. 

REV.  HERBERT  H.  GOWEN,  F.  R.  G.  S. 

While  it  is  true  beyond  peradventure  that  it  is  not  an  easy  task  to  de- 
scribe adequately  a  man  who  has  led  an  eminently  active  and  busy  life  and 
who  has  attained  to  a  position  of  high  relative  distinction  in  the  more  import- 
ant and  exacting  spheres  of  human  endeavor;  yet  is  it  equally  true  that  bi- 
ography finds  its  most  perfect  justification  in  the  tracing  and  recording  of 
such  a  life  history.  It  is,  then,  with  a  full  appreciation  of  all  that  is  de- 
manded and  of  the  painstaking  scrutiny  that  must  be  accorded  each  state- 
jnent,  and  yet  with  a  feeling  of  significant  satisfaction,  that  the  writer  essays 
the  task  of  touching  briefly  upon  the  details  of  the  record  of  the  character  of 
the  able  and  devoted  rector  of  Trinity  church,  Protestant  Episcopal,  in  the 
city  of  Seattle.  He  has  been  an  indefatigable  and  zealous  worker  in  pro- 
moting both  the  temporal  and  spiritual  growth  of  the  parish  over  which  he  is 
placed  in  charge,  while  his  influence  in  diocesan  affairs  has  been  potent  for 
good.  A  man  of  high  intellectuality  and  unmistakable  consecration  to  the 
work  of  the  Divine  Master,  ever  devoted  to  the  mother  church  in  all  her 
gracious  and  beneficient  functions,  his  life  has  been  one  of  signal  usefulness 
as  a  clergyman  and  a  man,  and  this  resume  of  his  career  cannot  fail  to  be 
read  with  interest  to  church  people  and  to  all  others  who  have  had  cogniz- 
ance of  his  earnest  and  effective  endeavors. 

Herbert  Henry  Gowen  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born  at 
Runham,  Great  Yarmouth,  on  the  29th  of  May,  1864.  His  early  education 
was  secured  in  the  schools  of  his  native  place  and  effectively  supplemented  by 
a  three  years'  course  of  study  at  St.  Augustine's  College,  Canterbury.  His 
educational  work  was  directed  with  a  view  to  his  entering  upon  missionary 
work  in  India,  and  he  thus  devoted  special  attention  to  the  study  of  the  ori- 


SEATTLE    AND    KING   COUNTY.  375 

ental  languages,  becoming  proficient  in  Sanscrit  and  Arabic.     He  thereafter 
continued  his  studies  and  upon  being  examined  as  a  candidate  for  holy  or- 
ders, in   1886,  he  was  at  the  head  of  the  list  of  successful  competitors  on 
several  subjects,  including  Hebrew.     So  closely  did  Mr.  Gowen  apply  him- 
self to  study  that  his  health  became  much  impaired,  and  it  became  imperative 
that  he  should  abandon  his  plan  of  going  to  India,  but  in  July,    1886,   he 
went  to  the  city  of  Honolulu,  Hawaiian  islands,  and  ni  December  of  the  same 
year  he  was  ordained  to  the  priesthood  by  Rt.  Rev.  Alfred  Willis,  bishop  of 
the  diocese  of  Honolulu,  and  was  forthwith  made  curate  of  the  cathedral  in 
the  city  mentioned.     He  entered  vigorously  upon  the  work,  founded  a  mis- 
sion church  among  the  Chinese,  becoming  proficient  in  the  Chinese  language, 
and  in  his  earnest  endeavors  in  the  various  departments  of  the  church  work 
were  attended  with  most  gratifying  results.     Mr.  Gowen  returned  to  Eng- 
land in  1890  and  became  curate  in  Great  Yarmouth,  his  native  parish,  while 
he  also  entered  upon  effective  service  as  deputation  for  the  society  for  the 
propagation  of  the  Gospel,  in  which  connection  he  proceeded  to  British  Colum- 
bia in  1892.     He  was  there  appointed  curate  of  the  cathedral  of  New  West- 
minister, and  m  that  city  eventually  effected  the  organization  of  a  new  parish, 
that  of  St.  Barnabas.     In  May,   1894',  Mr.   Gowen  received  the  crown  ap- 
pointment as  chaplain  of  the  government  penitentiary  in  British  Columbia, 
and  this  incumbency  he  retained  until   1896,  when  he  resigned  the  same  to 
accept  his  present  charge,  as  rector  of  Trinity  church,  having  since  consecu- 
tively presided  over  the  parish  and  having  materially  vitalized  its  work  in 
all  departments,  extending  its  field  of  influence  and  usefulness,  augmenting 
the  list  of  communicants  and  ever  showing  himself  to  be  animated  by  that 
deep   human   sympathy  which   is  so  essential  in   the  makeup  of  those  wli^ 
minister  to  "all  sorts  and  conditions  of  men"  as  God's  chosen  ambassadors. 
Since  comingf  to  Seattle  Mr.  Gowen  has  founded  or  maintained  three  mis- 
sions  in  the  city  and  suburbs^ — the  church  of  the  Savior  at  Tenth  and  Dear- 
born streets;    St.  Luke's  mission  at  Renton ;   and  St.  John's  mission  in  West 
Seattle.     The  mother  Trinity  church  has  five  hundred  communicants,  and 
its  affairs   were  in   most  ])roperou.s  condition   when,   in  January,    1902,   the 
church  edifice  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire,  and  when  the  ruins  were  being 
razed  the  rector  nearly  lost  l.ls  life,  being  struck  011  the  head  by  a  falling 
timber.     As  soon  as  he  had  recovered  from  his  injuries  he  set  himself  vigor- 
ously to  the  task  of  raising  funds  for  the  erection  of  a  new  church,  and  he  has 
been  successful  to  such  an  extent  that  the  new  and  modern  building  has  now 
been  completed,  his  parishioners  and  the  citizens  in  general  showing  a  desire 
to  co-operate  as  far  as  possible  in  the  work. 


376  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Mr.  Gowen  is  a  man  of  recondite  attainments  and  high  literary  ability, 
and  his  published  works  and  articles  have  gained  distinctive  recognition  as 
valuable  contributions.  Of  his  more  important  works  may  be  mentioned 
the  following;  "Temperantia,"  a  volume  of  essays,  published  in  1891  ;  "Par- 
adise of  the  Pacific,"  1892;  "The  Kingdom  of  Man,"  and  ;i  volume  of  ser- 
mons. 1893;  and  a  series  of  articles  in  the  Clergyman's  Magazine  (Lon- 
don), entitled  "Palingenesia,  or  the  New  Heaven  and  Earth: Fhe  Revela- 
tion of  the  Things  that  are;"'  and  "The  Characteristic  Symbols  of  the  Apo- 
calypse." He  has  also  published  a  series  of  Hawaiian  stones  and  has  con- 
tributed various  articles  on  antiquarian  and  philological  subjects.  Since 
J  899  Mr.  Gowen  has  been  associate  editor  of  the  American  Antiquarian 
Journal,  published  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  From  1893  to  1896  he  was  presi- 
dent of  the  Royal  City  Art  and  Science  Asscjciation  of  New  ^^^estminster, 
and  while  residing  in  British  Columbia  he  gave  considerable  time  and  atten- 
tion to  the  exploration  of  Indian  mounds  and  to  investigating  the  botanical 
products  of  the  province.  In  1895  he  was  elected  a  fellow  of  the  Royal  (geo- 
graphical society.  For  the  past  two  years  Air.  Gowen  has  i)een  president  of 
the  standing  committee  of  the  missionary  district  of  Olympia  and  examining 
chaplain  to  the  l)ishop.  He  represented  the  district  of  Olyn'pia  at  the  gene- 
ral convention  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  at  San  Francisco  in  1901. 
While  in  British  Columbia  Mr.  Gowen  became  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity. Ijeing  initiated  in  King  Solomon's  Lodge,  and  he  now  affiliates  with 
Ionic  Lodge  No.  90,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Seattle,  and  has  held  the  office  of  chaplain 
of  the  same. 

On  the  /th  of  January,  1892,  Mr.  Gowen  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Annie  K.  Green,  who  was  born  in  Great  Yarmoutii.  England,  the 
daughter  of  George  E.  and  Mary  ( Burrag'e)  Green,  and  the  family  circle  of 
the  rectory  is  graced  by  two  fine  sons.  Vincent  H.  and  Launcelot  E.,  and  one 
daughter  Felicia  Joyce. 

IVAR  JANSON.  M.  D. 

As  his  name  indicates.  Dr.  Ivar  Janson  is  of  Norwegian  Ijirth.  and  his 
course  in  life  has  been  a  credit  to  the  land  of  his  nativity  and  to  the  land  of  his 
adoption,  for  he  has  gained  a  very  enviable  reputation  in  the  ranks  of  the 
medical  fraternity  in  Seattle,  where  his  marked  ability  and  close  adherence 
to  the  high  standard  of  professional  principals  have  won  for  him  the  respect, 
confidence  and  support  of  the  public  and  of  the  medical  fraternity. 

The  Doctor  was  1)orn  in  Bergen,  Norway,  March  i.  1869.  and  is  a  son 


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of  Christopher  and  Driide  (Krog)  Janson.  The  father  is  a  poet  and  author,, 
who  came  to  America  in  1882  and  resided  in  MinneapoHs,  where  he  engaged 
in  hterary  work.  He  became  interested  in  the  ministry  of  the  Unitarian 
church  and  was  made  a  minister  of  that  faith.  Becoming  desirous  of  re- 
turning to  his  native  land,  he  once  more  went  to  Norway  in  1893  ^^^^  is  now 
residing  there.  The  Doctor  is  one  of  a  family  of  six  children.  His  young- 
est brother,  Arne  K.,  is  a  dentist  of  Seattle.  Eiliv  came  to  this  city  in  1900 
and  is  now  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  partnership  with  Ivar. 

Dr.  Ivar  Janson  pursued  a  preliminary  education  in  Norway  and  was 
thirteen  years  of  age  when  the  family  crossed  the  broad  Atlantic  to  the  United 
States.  He  afterward  attended  school  in  Minnesota,  pursuing  an  academic 
and  a  university  course  with  the  intention  of  later  entering  the  medical  pro- 
fession. Accordingly  he  became  a  student  in  the  medical  department  of  the 
State  University  of  Minnesota  and  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1892.  He 
then  engaged  in  practice  in  Minnesota,  in  the  city  of  Minneapolis,  for  two 
years  and  for  a  few  months  was  located  in  Madison,  Wisconsin,  but  thinking 
that  the  opportunities  of  the  west  were  better  than  those  of  the  Mississippi 
valley  he  made  his  way  to  the  Pacific  coast,  locating  first  in  Portland,  Oregon, 
where  he  lived  for  eight  or  nine  months.  Believing  that  Seattle  had  before 
it  a  very  promising  future,  more  so  than  any  other  city  in  this  section  of  the 
country,  he  came  here  in  1895,  and  established  his  office.  He  started  in  here 
at  a  time  when  business  was  dull,  but  he  soon  gained  a  foothold  and  has  built 
up  a  splendid  practice.  He  has  not  made  a  specialty  of  any  particular  branch 
of  medicine,  but  has  given  his  attention  to  the  general  practice  of  medicine 
and  surgery.  In  order  to  attain  further  efficiency  in  his  chosen  calling  he 
has  read  and  studied  extensively.  His  brother,  after  spending  a  year  and  a 
half  in  study  in  Europe,  came  to  Seattle,  joining  our  subject  in  1900.  In 
the  fall  of  the  same  year  Dr.  Ivar  Janson  went  to  New  York  and  pursued 
a  post-graduate  course  in  the  New  York  Polyclinic,  also  donig  post-graduate 
work  in  the  hospitals  there.  He  also  spent  a  short  time  in  the  Johns  Hop- 
kins University  at  Baltimore.  He  has  been  on  the  staff  of  the  Seattle  gene- 
ral hospital  for  a  number  of  years  and  he  belongs  to  the  King  County  Medical 
Society  and  the  State  Medical  Association. 

The  home  life  of  Dr.  Janson  has  been  very  pleasant.  His  wife  was 
formerly  Miss  Mamie  E.  Helm,  a  daughter  of  Louis  Helm,  who  is  noAV  liv- 
ing a  retired  life  in  Seattle.  They  were  married  in  Madison,  Wisconsin, 
January  8,  1893.  They  have  two  daughters:  Ellen  Margaret  and  Marie 
Helen.  The  Doctor  is  a  member  of  the  Unitarian  church  and  is  serving  as 
one  of  its  trustees.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  In  1902  he  erected  his 
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jjresent  residence  on  Fifth  avenue  and  West  Galer  streets,  and  there  he  and 
his  wife  extend  the  hospitahty  of  their  home  to  their  many  friends.  Dr.  Jan- 
son  greatly  enjoys  yachting  and  fishing  and  in  those  hnes  he  finds  relaxation 
and  rest  from  his  arduous  professional  duties.  He  is  a  pleasant,  genial  and 
polished  gentleman  of  the  highest  social  qualities  and  is  very  popular,  having 
an  extensive  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  who  esteem  him  highly  for 
his  genuine  worth  as  well  as  professional  skill. 

JOHN   W.   DORMAN. 

Ballard,  the  lively  city  which  sprang  up  on  Puget  Sound  almost  in  a 
night,  like  Jonah's  gourd,  is  one  of  the  young  wonders  of  the  northwest. 
Almost  ten  years  ago  it  was  only  a  straggling  village  of  some  four  or  five 
hundred  inhabitants;  to-day  it  numbers  its  population  well  up  into  the  thou- 
sands and  has  all  the  appurtenances  of  a  well  ordered  city.  Nor  is  it  a  mere 
"boom"  town,  destined  to  strut  its  brief  hours  on  the  stage  like  a  poor  player 
and  then  be  heard  no  more.  Ballard  rests  on  a  sound  basis  of  established  in- 
dustries, has  fine  advantages  as  a  shipping  point,  and  much  capital  has  been 
invested  there.  At  the  present  time  it  is  the  largest  manufacturing  point 
for  shingles  in  the  world,  and  its  product  is  found  not  only  in  all  the  prin- 
cipal lumber  markets  of  the  Union  but  in  foreign  countries.  This  industry 
alone  would  be  sufficient  to  build  up  a  substantial  city,  but  Ballard  does 
not  rely  upon  it  alone.  The  place  has  been  especially  fortunate  in  the  class 
of  men  who  ha\-e  made  it  the  center  of  their  operations.  The  men  who  have 
built  up  Ballard  and  are  keeping  it  to  the  front  as  a  manufacturing  city 
include  some  of  the  most  progressive  lumber  men  in  the  northwest,  and 
they  are  backed  by  ample  capital.  Several  of  these  have  been  described  in 
this  volume,  and  now  John  W.  Dorman  is  to  be  added  to  the  list. 

John  Dorman,  who  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia  in  1818,  removed  to  Canada 
and  there  married  Susanna  Rosser,  a  native  of  Swansea,  Wales.  He  es- 
tablished the  first  flour  mill  at  Luken,  on  the  Grank  Trunk  Railroad,  was 
an  active  member  of  the  Baptist  church  and  a  useful  citizen  in  his  com- 
mimity.  At  present  he  is  residing  at  Muskegon,  Alichigan,  where  his  wife 
died  in  the  eighty-third  year  of  her  age.  John  W.  Dorman,  next  to  the 
youngest  of  their  six  children,  was  born  at  London,  Canada,  in  October, 
1851,  and  from  early  boyhood  has  been  connected  with  the  lumber  business. 
He  came  to  Michigan  in  1859  and  remained  in  the  eastern  part  of  that  state 
until  1870,  when  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Muskegon.  He  obtained 
■employment  at  that  point  with  the  Stimsons,  noted  lumber  dealers,  and  re- 


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mained  with  them  until  their  removal  to  Chicago,  when  he  went  to  Minne- 
apohs.  He  remained  in  the  Minnesota  metropohs  until  the  Stimsons  estah- 
lished  their  plant  at  Ballard,  when  Mr.  Dorman  rejoined  them  as  a  stock- 
holder in  their  mill  company,  and  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  work  as  su- 
perintendent. With  the  exception  of  the  shingle  mill,  which  was  put  up  hy 
the  Stears  Company  of  Pennsylvania,  all  the  buildings  of  the  Stimson  plant 
have  been  erected  under  the  supervision  of  Mr.  Dorman.  The  Stimson's  Mill 
Company  gives  employment  to  nearly  three  hundred  and  fifty  men,  and  in 
1901  the  output  of  their  manufactories  amounted  to  one  hundred  and  fifty- 
i-ix  million  shingles  and  forty-four  million  feet  of  other  lumber.  The  firm 
owns  a  large  amount  of  the  fine  timber  of  their  section,  and  have  spent  much 
money  in  improving  their  facilities  for  conducting  business  on  an  extensive 
scale.  The  company  manufacture  more  shingles  than  any  other  firm  in  the 
world,  and  thus  becomes  the  leader  in  the  industry  in  which  Ballard  excels 
all  other  cities.  Mr.  Dorman,  who  has  been  in  the  business  all  his  life  and 
understands  every  feature  of  it  from  the  ground  up,  has  entire  charge  of  the 
gigantic  operations  of  the  Stimson  Company,  and  it  is  needless  to  say  that 
it  is  a  place  of  great  responsibility. 

On  the  2 1  St  of  January,  1897,  Mr.  Dorman  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Clara  I.  Gonlet.  His  politics  are  Democratic,  and  his  only  fra- 
ternal connections  are  with  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  72,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  !Mr. 
Dorman  owns  two  residences,  one  on  Leary  avenue,  erected  in  1897,  which 
he  occupies,  and  the  other  adjoining  it  on  the  north,  which  he  put  up  in  1902. 

JOHN  B.  LUCAS. 

The  name  of  this  gentleman  is  closely  interwoven  with  the  history  of 
business  activity  in  Ballard,  where  he  is  now  extensively  and  successfully  en- 
gaged in  conducting  a  real  estate  and  insurance  business  as  the  senior  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  J.  B.  Lucas  &  Company.  He  has  lived  in  the  town  since 
it  was  a  place  of  about  two  hundred  population,  having  located  here  in  1890. 
Mr.  Lucas  was  born  west  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and  the  true  western  spirit 
of  progress  and  enterprise  has  dominated  his  career.  His  birth  occurred  in 
Wayland,  Clark  county,  Missouri,  in  1864.  His  father,  William  B.  Lucas, 
was  born  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  when  young  removed  with  the  family 
to  Missouri.  Li  1849  he  joined  a  company  that  crossed  the  plains  with  (^k 
teams  to  California,  being  attracted  by  the  discovery  of  gold  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  The  trip  consumed  six  months  and  there  were  about  three  hundred 
people  in  the  emigrant  train  when  they  started,  but  only  three  families  re- 


38o  REPRESENTATIVE    CmZENS   OE 

mained  together  until  the  completion  of  the  long  trip,  Mr.  Lucas  spent  ten 
years  in  California.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  returned  to  Mis- 
souri, where  he  was  engaged  in  farming  until  his  removal  to  Washington  in 
J  890.  His  death  occurred  here  six  years  later.  In  his  mining  operations 
he  met  with  a  fair  degree  of  success.  Upon  his  return  to  Missouri  from 
California  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Maria  Agnes  Brown  and  to  them 
were  born  five  children,  of  whom  three  are  yet  living,  two  brothers  being 
residents  on  the  coast. 

The  educational  privileges  which  John  B.  Lucas  enjoyed  comprised  a 
common  and  high  school  course.  He  was  reared  to  farm  life  until  he  was 
twenty-five  years  of  age  and  then  went  to  the  town,  where  he  was  employed 
in  different  branches  of  mechanical  work  until  his  removal  to  the  northwest 
in  1890.  Desiring  to  locate  in  a  new  country  with  its  broad  opportunities 
and  almost  limitless  possibilities  he  came  to  this  state  and  after  following 
carpentering  in  Seattle  for  six  months  decided  that  Ballard  offered  good  op- 
portunities to  its  citizens  because  it  promised  to  become  a  thriving  and  enter- 
prising place.  Accordingly  he  purchased  property  here  and  became  identi- 
fied with  the  building  interests  of  the  town.  He  erected  the  second  house 
east  of  Railroad  avenue  and  to  some  extent  engaged  in  contracting,  follow- 
ing that  pursuit  for  about  three  years.  Subsequently  he  conducted  a  furni- 
ture store  until  1896,  when  he  began  his  real  estate  operations,  which  have 
occupied  his  attention  continuously  since.  In  1900  he  also  extended  the  field 
of  his  labors  until  they  embraced  an  insurance  agency,  and  he  now  represents 
a  number  of  the  leading  companies  of  the  country,  including  the  Phoenix  of 
Brooklyn,  the  Connecticut  of  Hartford,  the  Springfield  Fire  &  Marine  In- 
surance Company  of  Massachusetts,  the  German-American  Insurance  Com- 
pany of  New  York,  and  the  Pennsylvania  Underwriters.  The  firm  of  J.  B. 
Lucas  &  Company  is  composed  of  our  subject,  E.  B.  Cox  and  T.  A.  A.  Sieg- 
friedt.  While  they  are  largely  engaged  in  handling  city  property  they  also 
control  some  farm  lands  as  well.  Their  office  is  located  in  the  fine  new  build- 
ing which  was  erected  by  Mr.  Lucas  and  J.  W.  Peter  in  the  spring  of  1902. 
This  building  is  two  stories  in  height  and  is  twenty-five  by  ninety-four  feet. 
Mr.  Lucas  has  erected  a  number  of  residences  in  the  city,  including  his  pre- 
sent home  at  12  State  street,  which  was  built  in  1900  and  is  one  of  the  attrac- 
tive dwellings  of  the  tow^n. 

As  a  companion  and  helpmeet  for  life's  journey  Mr.  Lucas  chose  Mrs. 
Lucy  L.  Lansing,  nee  Price,  the  w^edding  being  celebrated  May,  9,  1899. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Mildred,  and  by  her  former  marriage  Mrs.  Lucas 
had  two  sons,  Earl  and  Verne.     The  Democratic  party  receives  Mr.  Lucas's 


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political  endorsement  and  he  has  been  actively  interested  in  promoting-  its 
growth  and  success.  In  1896  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council 
and  was  one  of  those  who  favored  the  sinking  of  the  artesian  well  from 
which  the  water  supply  of  the  city  is  obtained.  He  is  now  serving  his  third 
term  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  in  his  decisions  manifests  strict  fairness  and 
impartiality.  At  the  last  election  the  city  gave  a  Republican  majority,  but 
he  was  elected  by  fifty-six  votes,  while  the  other  Democrats  on  the  ticket  were 
defeated.  This  is  an  indication  of  his  personal  popularity  and  of  the  con- 
fidence reposed  in  him  by  his  fellow  townsmen.  His  social  relations  connect 
him  with  the  Improved  Order  of  Foresters,  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees, 
the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Eagle  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 
He  possesses  the  spirit  of  business  enterprise  which  has  developed  and  is  de- 
veloping the  marvelous  resources  and  wealth  of  the  western  states,  and  Bal- 
lard claims  him  as  one  whose  efforts  in  its  behalf  have  been  of  great  benefit 
to  the  town. 

BRYON  D.  SMALLEY. 

The  ancestral  history  of  Bryon  D.  Smalley  traces  back  to  colonial  days. 
Prior  to  1700  two  brothers,  Benjamin  and  David  Smalley,  came  to  America, 
the  former  settling  in  New  England,  while  the  latter  established  his  home  in 
Virginia,  and  it  is  to  David  Smalley  that  the  subject  of  this  review  traces  his 
ancestry.  His  great-grandfather  removed  from  the  Old  Dominion  to  New 
Jersey  and  in  the  latter  state  Lewis  Smalley,  the  grandfather  of  our  subje«(t, 
was  bom.  Hiram  H.  Smalley,  the  father,  was  a  native  of  the  Empire  state, 
born  in  Friendship,  Allegany  county,  in  the  house  where  Bryon  D.  Smalley 
first  opened  his  eyes  to  the  light  of  day,  July  2,  1849.  ^^'^^  father  became  a 
niember  of  the  medical  profession  and  engaged  in  practice  in  New  York  until 
about  1852,  when  he  removed  to  Houston,  Texas.  Later  he  served  as  presi- 
dent of  the  medical  board  of  New  Orleans  for  a  number  of  years  and  was 
there  living  when  the  Civil  war  broke  out.  He  was  a  stanch  Abolitionist 
and  because  of  his  views  on  the  slavery  question  he  was  advised  lo  leave  the 
south.  Together  with  twenty-five  or  thirty  other  Union  men  he  was  smug- 
gled to  Galveston,  and  on  a  very  dark  night  arrangements  were  made  to  get 
them  aboard  a  man  of  war.  Two  boats  were  filled,  but  when  they  were  some 
distance  out  from  shore  lights  were  turned  upon  them  from  land,  cannons 
were  fired  and  all  were  killed.  Dr.  Smalley  was  married  in  New  York  to 
Miss  Lenora  A.  Cunningham,  whose  father  came  to  America  from  Ireland. 

Brvon  D.   Smalley  attended  private  schools  in   Texas,  but  at  the  time 


382  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

when  excitement  over  the  slavery  and  secession  questions  was  running  high 
in  the  south  he  and  his  mother  were  sent  back  to  New  York  and  he  then 
attended  Friendship  Academy.  In  1866  he  was  appointed  attorney  and 
general  agent  of  the  Clay  Fire  &  Marine  Insurance  Company  of  Newport, 
Kentucky,  although  bvit  seventeen  years  of  age  at  the  time.  He  studied 
law  with  his  uncle  in  Newport,  and  later  entered  the  Cincinnati  Law  School, 
in  which  he  was  graduated  in  1873.  He  then  opened  a  law  office  in  Newport, 
making  a  specialty  of  insurance  law,  and  as  a  representative  of  that  depart- 
ment of  jurisprudence  he  tried  cases  in  nearly  every  state  in  the  Union.  In 
1875  he  removed  to  Detroit,  Michigan,  as  general  agent  of  the  Cooper  Fire 
Sz  Marine  Insurance  Company  of  Dayton,  having  jurisdiction  over  Michigan, 
Illinois  and  Wisconsin,  and  in  1880  he  went  to  Chicago.  For  several  years 
he  was  superintendent  of  agencies  at  Chicago  of  the  Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Company  of  that  city,  but  his  health  broke  down  and  he  was  advised  to  go 
to  the  Pacific  coast. 

Acting  on  this  advice  Mr.  Smalley  arrived  in  Seattle  in  November,  1889. 
He  established  himself  here  as  an  independent  adjuster  of  insurance  losses 
and  has  done  business  over  all  parts  of  this  state,  Montana  and  Idaho,  as  well 
as  British  Columbia,  and  probably  has  a  more  thorough  knowledge  of  the 
state  than  any  other  man  residing  w^ithin  its  borders.  In  March,  1900,  he 
established  a  new  industry  here.  Entering  into  partnership  with  C.  M.  Coe 
he  organized  the  Puget  Sound  Paper  Box  Company,  of  which  he  has  since 
been  the  president.  This  is  the  only  industry  of  the  kind  on  the  Pacific  coast 
outside  of  San  Francisco.  They  manufacture  all  kinds  of  work  in  their 
line,  including  regular  and  folding  boxes,  and  use  the  latest  machinery  for 
this  work.  They  began  business  with  one  man  and  two  girls  in  the  factory, 
but  have  gradually  increased  the  number  of  their  employes  to  meet  the  grow- 
ing demands  of  their  trade  and  now  employ  five  men  and  twenty  girls  and 
occupy  the  two  floors  and  basement  of  a  building  one  hundred  by  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty  feet.  Their  trade  extends  through  Washitigton  and  Mon- 
tana and  also  into  British  Columbia.  They  do  all  kinds  of  embossing  and 
printing  in  their  own  plant  and  turn  out  the  finest  candy  boxes  known  to 
the  trade.  The  new  industry  is  fast  becoming  a  prominent  one,  and  though 
its  existence  hardly  covers  two  years  the  volume  of  business  has  increased 
manifold. 

On  the  6th  of  May,  1875,  Mr.  Smalley  was  married  in  Detroit,  Michi- 
gan, to  Miss  Lottie  Fisher,  a  daughter  of  A.  C.  Fisher,  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  that  city.  They  had  one  daughter,  Charlotte,  now  the  wife  of  Martin 
Chamberlain,  of  Detroit.     On  the  4th  of  July,  1882,  Mr.  Smalley  was  joined' 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  383 

in  wedlock  to  Mary  E.  Bell,  of  Howell,  Michigan,  and  they  have  four  sons, 
Royal  D.,  Bryon,  Jr.,  Robert  B.  and  George  H.  In  politics  Mr.  Smalley  is 
independent  with  Republican  tendencies  and  is  a  strong  advocate  of  temper- 
ance principles.  He  belongs  to  the  National  Union  and  the  Manufacturers' 
Exchange  and  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  in  which  he  has 
served  in  the  position  of  deacon,  while  for  many  years  he  has  been  president 
of  the  congregation.  His  influence  has  ever  been  exerted  in  behalf  of  in- 
tellectual and  moral  progress  as  well  as  for  the  material  improvements  of 
the  city,  and  in  his  life  he  has  manifested  a  strong  desire  for  the  betterment 
of  mankind. 

THOMAS    C.    REED. 

In  the  history  of  honorable  achievement  is  the  record  which  elicits  the 
earnest  attention  and  commendation  of  the  American  citizen.  Inheritance  or 
environment  count  for  little  in  the  estimate  of  character  in  this  country,  and 
it  is  the  man  and  his  accomplishments  upon  which  public  opinion  passes  its 
comment.  Thomas  C.  Reed  stands  as  a  worthy  representative  of  a  high 
type  of  American  manhood,  for  from  a  humble  financial  beginning  he  has 
worked  his  way  steadily  upward  until  he  now  stands  as  one  of  the  leaders 
in  the  great  ship-building  industry  of  the  northwest. 

A  resident  of  Ballard,  he  has  made  his  home  here  since  1890  and  has 
been  engaged  in  the  development  of  his  present  business  since  that  time. 
He  was  born  in  southern  Wales,  February  19,  1862.  His  father  was  a 
farmer  there,  but  Thomas  was  apprenticed  to  the  ship-building  trade  when 
fourteen  years  of  age  and  served  for  a  term  of  indenture  of  five  years.  On 
the  emigration  of  the  family  to  the  new  world  they  settled  at  Toronto,  Can- 
ada, and  the  father  continued  his  farming  operations.  Thomas  C.  Reed  re- 
mained at  home  until  1887,  when  he  decided  to  seek  his  fortune  in  the  west 
and  located  at  Port  Madison,  Washington,  because  of  the  ship  yards  there. 
He  was  employed  there  for  a  year  and  a  half  and  then  built  a  couple  of 
boats  at  Pasco,  after  which  he  went  to  Portland,  Oregon,  where  he  made  his 
home  until  his  removal  to  Ballard  in  1890. 

Mr.  Reed  was  engaged  in  building  a  ship  there  and  later  went  to  Gray's 
Harbor,  where  he  built  the  City  of  Aberdeen,  after  which  he  returned  to 
Ballard  and  was  engaged  in  repair  work  here  until  1893.  In  that  year  he 
returned  to  Gray's  Harbor  and  built  the  steamer  Josie  Burrows.  He  next 
came  back  to  Ballard  and  did  the  repair  work  for  the  Stimson  Mill  Com- 
pany for  three  or  four  years,  following  which  he  went  to  Shelton  and  built 


384  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

the.  vessel  City  of  Shelton,  in  1896.  Repair  work  again  claimed  his  at- 
tention in  Ballard  until  1898,  when  he  returned  to  Gray's  liarbor  and  built 
the  steamer  T.  C.  Reed,  now  owned  at  Seattle.  When  that  task  was  com- 
pleted Mr.  Reed  once  more  came  to  Ballard  and  established  his  ship  yard, 
in  which  he  has  built  the  largest  schooners  that  have  ever  been  constructed 
on  the  coast.  In  1897  he  built  seven  boats  for  the  Columbia  Navigation  Com- 
pany for  work  in  the  Yukon.  The  present  yards  were  established  in  1900 
;ind  are  equipped  so  completely  that  Mr.  Reed  can  build  a  boat  of  any  size 
desired.  He  was  the  builder  of  the  four  masted  schooner  Stimson,  tiie  four 
masted  schooner  Nottingham,  the  Tillicum  and  a  three  masted  schooner  now 
on  the  stocks.  Two  of  the  schooners  are  one  hundred  and  ninety-six  feet 
in  the  keel,  with  a  forty-two-foot  beam,  with  a  tonnage  of  one  thousand  and 
sixty-two,  and  have  a  carrying  capacity  of  a  million  and  a  half  feet  of  lum- 
ber, for  which  they  are  especially  designed,  being  built  particularly  strong 
for  this  purpose.  In  his  yards  Mr.  Reed  furnishes  employment  to  eighty 
men,  securing  the  best  skilled  labor  in  this  line,  and  he  has  ways  for  the 
construction  of  three  vessels  at  one  time.  His  plant  is  splendidly  located, 
not  only  because  of  its  proximity  to  the  sea,  but  also  because  of  the  near- 
ness of  the  great  forest,  which  enables  him  to  secure  timber  of  any  size  de- 
sired. In  the  boats  now  building  he  has  used  some  very  large  and  long  tim- 
bers, forty-four  by  fourteen  inches,  the  keel  eighteen  by  thirty  inches  and 
one  hundred  and  ten  feet  in  length. 

While  in  Portland  Mr.  Reed  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lizzie  I. 
Twigg,  a  daughter  of  William  Twigg,  a  merchant  of  that  city,  and  to  them 
ha\'e  been  born  two  children,  Ethel  and  Percy.  In  1894  Mr.  Reed  erected 
his  fine  home  on  C  street.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and 
in  politics  is  an  earnest  and  active  Republican.  In  November,  1901,  he 
U'as  nominated  and  elected  mayor  of  the  city-  and  is  now  serving  in  that 
office  in  a  most  commendable  manner,  discharging  his  duties  so  that  his  labors 
have  resulted  to  the  benefit  of  the  city  along  many  lines  of  usefulness  and 
improvement.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World 
and  with  Occidental  Lodge,  No.  '/2,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Seattle  Chapter,  No.  3, 
R.  A.  M.,  Seattle  Commandery,  No.  2,  K.  T.,  and  with  Washington  Lodge 
of  Perfection  of  the  Scottish  Rite  and  the  Order  of  the  Eastern  Star.  His 
is  a  well  rounded  character,  not  so  abnormally  developed  in  any  direction  as 
to  become  a  genius  but  due  attention  has  been  given  to  the  various  labors 
and  interests  of  life  that  result  in  a  well  balanced  mind;  he  looks  at  life 
from  a  reasonable  standpoint  and  while  caring  for  his  individual  interests 
is  also  mindful  of  his  duties  and  obligations  to  his  fellow  men. 


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AMBROSE  B.  WYCKOFF. 

Lieutenant  Ambrose  Barkley  VVyckoff,  who  will  long  be  remembered 
by  the  citizens  of  Seattle  and  King  county  for  his  services  in  connection  with 
the  starting  of  the  Puget  Sound  navy  yard  and  other  public  enterprises  in 
this  vicinity,  was  born  in  Delhi,  Illinois,  on  the  29th  of  April,  1848.  He  is 
the  ninth  in  descent  from  the  Holland  progenitor,  Cornelius  P.  Wyckoff, 
who  located  on  Long  Island  in  1636,  and  with  his  wife  now  lies  buried  under 
the  pulpit  of  the  Dutch  Reformed  church  in  a  suburb  of  Brooklyn.  The 
parents  of  our  subject,  Ambrose  Spencer  and  Sarah  (Gelder)  Wyckoff,  were 
natives,  respectively,  of  Scoharie  county,  New  York,  and  of  Yorkshire, 
England.  The  father  was  reared  in  the  city  of  New  York,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  a  wholesale  mercantile  business  until  about  1830.  In  that  year 
he  moved  westward  and  became  a  pioneer  of  Jersey  county,  Illinois,  where 
he  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  also  took  a  prominent  part  in  the 
early  history  of  that  county.  His  death  occurred  in  the  Prairie  state  in 
1872,  and  his  widow  survived  until  1899,  when  she.  too,  passed  into  eternal 
rest.     In  their  family  were  seven  children,  five  of  w'hom  still  survive. 

On  the  29th  of  September,  1864,  when  sixteen  years  of  age.  Lieutenant 
Wyckoff  entered  the  naval  academy  at  Annapolis,  Maryland,  from  which  he 
w^as  graduated  June  10,  1868,  ranking  twelfth  in  a  class  of  eighty-seven 
members.  On  the  19th  of  the  following  April  he  w-as  promoted  to  the  posi- 
tion of  ensign,  and  on  the  12th  of  July,  1870,  was  made  a  master,  while  two 
years  later,  October  25,  1872,  he  rose  to  the  position  of  lieutenant.  His  first 
service  was  on  board  the  Portsmouth,  while  later  he  sailed  to  the  island  of 
Hayti  on  the  Nantasket,  thus  continuing  until  1870,  when  his  health  became 
so  impaired  that  he  was  obliged  to  remain  at  home  on  a  sick  leave  for  two 
years.  From  1872  until  1874  he  served  on  the  Wyoming  and  Wachuset  in 
the  West  Indies  and  in  surveying  the  coast  of  Mexico,  while  from  1875  ^^"^^^ 
1876  he  was  on  the  training  ship  Portsmouth.  In  May,  1877,  he  was  or- 
dered to  the  United  States  coast  survey  schooner  Yukon,  at  Seattle.  Wash- 
ington, and  while  making  a  hydrographical  survey  of  Puget  Sound  he  became 
convinced  that  the  great  navy  yard  of  the  Pacific  coast  should  be  on  the 
shores  of  these  waters.  Accordingly  he  began  a  correspondence  with  tlie 
authorities  at  Washington  and  succeeded  in  impressing  Captain  E.  P.  Lull, 
hydrographic  inspector  of  the  coast  survey.  Commodore  Whiting,  chief  of 
the  bureau  of  navigation,  and  the  Hon.  R.  M.  Thompson,  secretary  of  the 
navy.  He  urged  that  two  hundred  thousand  acres  of  the  most  accessible 
timber  lands  should  be  selected  as  a  naval  reservation,  and  that  amount  of 


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selected  timber  would  now  be  worth  several  millions  of  dollars  and  the  finest 
equipped  navy  yard  in  the  country  could  be  developed  without  cost  to  the  gov- 
ernment. A  bill  was  actually  introduced  in  1880  for  a  commission  to  select  land 
on  Puget  Sound  for  naval  purposes  and  was  favorably  considered  by 
the  house  naval  committee,  but  Mr.  Wyckoff  was  then  ordered  to  China  and 
the  prevalent  ignorance  in  congress  and  among  the  naval  authorities  regard- 
ing the  resources  and  natural  advantages  of  Puget  Sound  was  so  great  that 
no  measure  was  passed.  However,  in  1880,  Lieutenant  Wyckoff  went  to 
Washington  at  his  own  expense  and  interviewed  the  naval  authorities,  but 
the  department  insisted  on  his  going  to  sea,  and  it  is  believed  that  had  he 
remained  in  Washington  the  naval  station  would  have  been  started  ten  years 
sooner  than  it  was.  During  the  subsequent  seven  years  he  kept  up  his  ap- 
peals, both  by  correspondence  and  personal  solicitation,  and  was  so  persistent 
that  he  became  known  in  the  service  as  the  "Puget  Sounder." 

Lieutenant  Wyckoff  was  a  member  of  the  commission  in  1890  to  select 
a  site  for  a  dry  dock  on  the  Pacific  coast  north  of  California,  and  in  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  was  ordered  by  Secretary  Tracy  to  select  a  tract  of  land  not 
exceeding  two  hundred  acres  in  extent  suitable  for  the  purposes  of  a  dry  dock. 
Under  that  order  he  selected  and  purchased  the  present  navy  yard  and  located 
and  started  the  construction  of  the  dry  dock.  On  the  i6th  of  September, 
1S91,  his  daughter,  Selah,  hoisted  the  flag  for  the  first  time,  and  Lieutenant 
Wyckoff  read  his  orders  to  take  command  of  the  Puget  Sound  Naval  Sta- 
tion, the  name  of  which  he  had  suggested  to  the  navy  department.  On  De- 
cember 19,  1892,  his  daughter  Stella  dug  the  first  shovel  full  of  earth  for  the 
dry  dock,  which  has  always  been  such  a  complete  success,  and  the  navy  yard 
is  generally  acknowledged  to  have  more  natural  advantages  than  any  other 
in  the  United  States. 

From  1 88 1  to  1884  Lieutenant  Wyckoff  served  on  the  Swatara,  Ashue- 
lot,  Richmond  and  Monocacy  in  China,  Japan  and  Corea,  and  when  the 
Ashuelot  was  sunk  off  the  coast  of  China,  in  February,  1883,  he  left  his  own 
boat  and  took  the  Chinese  sick,  servants  and  other  idlers  out  of  three  boats 
into  a  small  unmanageable  steam  cutter,  which  was  adrift  without  a  boiler 
in  the  thick  fog  and  darkness,  and  sent  the  three  empty  boats  back  to  the 
sinking  ship  for  the  captain,  officers  and  men  remaining  on  board.  Thus 
thirty-three  men  were  with  difficulty  saved  in  the  steam  cutter.  During 
the  following  day  and  night  he  pulled  with  a  volunteer  crew  through  the  fog 
about  forty  miles  to  the  mainland  and  procured  assistance  for  the  survivors 
on  the  island.  During  the  years  1884-85-86  Lieutenant  Wyckoff  was  in 
charge  of  the  hydrographic  office  at  Philadelphia,  and  while  in  that  city  he 


SEATTLE    AND    KING   COUNTY.  387 

was  made  a  member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society  and  an  honorary- 
member  of  the  Franklin  Institute,  being  thus  honored  on  account  of  his  ser- 
vices rendered  as  judge  of  the  electrical  exhibition  and  in  the  competition 
tests  of  dynam.os  and  electrical  machinery.  In  1884  he  was  the  first  naval 
officer  to  propose  and  urge  the  use  of  oil  in  storms  at  sea,  and  although  this 
was  much  ridiculed  at  the  time  its  use  has  since  become  almost  universal  and 
has  saved  many  vessels  and  innumerable  lives.  In  1887-88  he  served  as 
flag  secretary  to  Rear  Admiral  Braine,  of  the  South  Atlantic  Station,  and  in 
1889  was  made  assistant  to  the  chief  of  the  bureau  of  yards  and  docks  in 
the  navy  department,  having  special  charge  of  the  installation  of  electric 
plants  in  the  navy  yards.  Under  the  law  of  March  2,  1 891,  he  was  ordered 
by  the  secretary  of  the  navy  to  proceed  to  Puget  Sound  and  select  and  pur- 
chase the  lands  for  the  Puget  Sound  na'val  station  and  locate  the  dry  dock, 
and  having  satisfactorily  performed  this  responsible  duty  he  was  ordered,  on 
the  15th  of  September,  1891,  as  the  first  commandant  of  the  new  station. 
In  1 89 1,  however,  soon  after  going  on  board  the  Yukon,  Lieutenant  Wyckofif 
had  been  stricken  with  rheumatism.  The  honor  and  responsibility  of  such 
an  assignment  to  a  junior  officer  was  unprecedented  in  the  navy  and  his  pro-' 
fessional  pride  made  him  remain  until  the  duty  was  fully  accomplished,  not- 
withstanding his  painful  illness.  As  soon,  however,  as  the  dry  dock  was 
begun  he  asked  for  detachment  and  was  relieved  in  January,  1893,  after  which 
he  went  at  once  to  the  army  and  navy  hospital  at  Hot  Springs,  Arkansas. 
His  promotion  became  due  June  26,  1893,  and  he  was  ordered  to  Washington. 
When  he  appeared  before  the  examining  board  it  was  thought  that  he  would 
never  again  be  fit  physically  for  duty  at  sea,  and  he  was  accordingly  placed 
on  the  retired  list  July  3,  1893.  So  while  he  eventually  saw  his  cherished 
project  of  a  naval  station  on  Puget  Sound  started  it  proved  the  means  of 
his  own  undoing  and  prevented  his  reaching  the  high  rank  which  is  every 
naval  officer's  ambition. 

After  his  retirement,  in  1893,  Lieutenant  Wyckoff  for  three  years  was 
interested  in  the  development  of  the  Yakima  valley  and  was  a  contributor  to 
numerous  eastern  magazines  in  favor  of  establishing  a  system  of  irrigation, 
which  has  proved  such  a  valuable  enterprise  for  that  section  of  the  state. 

In  the  family  of  Lieutenant  Wyckoff  are  three  children  :  Mary,  the 
v^^ife  of  George  E.  Wright,  a  prominent  attorney  of  Seattle;  Selah,  the  wife 
of  Myron  Westover,  an  attorney  of  St.  Louis;  and  Carrie  Wyckoff,  the 
adopted  daughter  of  Governor  E.  J.  OnTisl>ee,  of  Brandon,  Vermont.  Mr. 
Wyckoff's  reminiscences  of  his  services  on  Puget  Sound  are  contained  in 
'The  Washington  Historian  of  January,  1901."      He  has  written  numerous 


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articles  for  eastern  magazines  and  papers  regarding  the  state  of  Washing- 
ton and  has  been  an  enthusiastic  ••boomer"  of  Puget  Sound  in  many  parts 
of  the  world.  Perhaps  no  other  citizen  has  contributed  more  largely  to  the 
development  and  prosperity  of  the  state.  But  his  devotion  and  enthusiasm 
have  cost  him  dearly,  as  his  residence  for  nearly  two  years  on  an  old  rotten 
schooner  while  starting  the  navy  yard  caused  the  serious  disease  which  led 
to  his  retirement  and  loss  of  the  high  rank  which  he  would  have  attained  in 
the  naval  service.  Since  his  retirement  in  1893  he  has  been  a  resident  of 
Seattle.  He  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason,  a  member  of  the  American 
Philosophical  Society  and  an  honorary  member  of  the  Franklin  Institute  and 
Maritime  Exchange  of  Philadelphia  and  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Se- 
attle. In  all  local  affairs  the  Lieutenant  is  public-spirited  and  an  enthusiastic 
promoter  of  all  enterprises  for  the  advancement  of  Seattle  and  the  Sound 
country  and  is  an  ardent  Republican  in  politics. 

PATRICK   D.    HUGHES. 

A  practitioner  at  the  bar  of  Seattle,  Patrick  D.  Hughes  has  gained  prom- 
inence as  a  member  of  the  legal  profession,  and  his  advancement  reflects 
credit  upon  him,  for  without  outside  aid  or  influence  he  began  life  here  in 
the  west  and  without  previous  preparation  for  a  business  career;  he  had 
been  reared  in  the  lap  of  luxury  and  had  never  known  the  necessity  of  earn- 
ing a  dollar  until  he  was  twenty-three  years  of  age,  when  owing  to  finan- 
cial reverses  he  was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  and  that  he  has  worked 
his  way  upward  to  an  enviable  position  is  due  to  no  assistance,  but  to  a 
strong  determination  to  overcome  all  obstacles  and  win  success,  retrieving  his 
lost  position  in  financial  circles. 

Born  in  Toronto,  Canada,  August  5,  1863,  Mr.  Hughes  is  a  son  of 
Patrick  Hughes,  who  was  a  prominent  wholesale  merchant  there  and  a  man 
of  marked  influence  and  force  of  character,  known  throughout  the  entire 
dominion.  His  extensive  interests  in  important  business  concerns  were  no 
hindrance  to  his  activity  in  affairs  for  the  public  good,  and  he  took  a  prom- 
inent part  in  all  matters  intended  for  the  betterment  of  the  community  and 
country  in  which  he  lived.  He  was  a  director  in  the  Imperial  Bank  of  Can- 
ada, and  was  a  leader  for  many  years  in  financial  circles  of  that  country.  He 
married  in  Boston,  Massachusetts,  Miss  Mary  E.  Donoghue,  a  daughter  of 
Patrick  Donoghue,  of  the  Boston  Pilot,  and  to  them  were  born  six  children. 

Patrick  D.  Hughes,  the  only  representative  of  this  family  in  the  w^est, 
pursued  his  education  in  private  schools  of  his  native  country  and  attended 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  389 

the  Upper  Canada  College,  after  which  he  was  connected  with  his  father's 
business  until  1887.  Then  thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  owing  to  the 
financial  reverses  which  encumbered  his  father's  property,  he  determined  to 
begin  life  anew  in  the  far  west,  and  though  he  had  not  been  trained  to  meet 
hardships  and  adversity,  the  strength  of  a  manly  character  was  now  mani- 
fest, in  the  way  in  which  he  faced  new  conditions  and  set  to  work  to  gain  an 
honest,  if  humble,  living. 

He  arrived  in  the  west  in  1888  and  took  up  his  residence  in  Seattle.  He 
did  not  know  where  or  how  to  find  work,  but  -was  willing  to  perform  any 
labor  that  would  give  him  a  start,  and  was  first  employed  on  a  pile-driver 
for  Dunham  &  Collins.  Soon  afterward  he  obtained  a  position  in  the  post- 
office  under  J.  M.  Lyon,  and  later  secured  a  situation  in  a  grocery  store.  He 
began  there  in  a  very  humble  position,  but  it  was  not  long  before  he  gave 
proof  of  his  ability  for  higher  service,  and  he  was  promoted  to  bookkeeper 
and  later  was  given  charge  of  the  business.  When  he  severed  his  connec- 
tion with  that  house  he  became  connected  with  real  estate  dealing  as  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  firm  of  Crawford  &  Conover.  But  in  the  meantime  he  took 
up  the  study  of  law,  and  when  Thomas  Gordon  became  clerk  of  the  courts  he 
appointed  Mr.  Hughes  to  the  position  of  deputy,  and  the  latter  served  in  that 
capacity  through  the  entire  term  of  four  years,  at  the  same  time  keeping  up 
the  study  of  law,  which,  together  with  the  work  in  the  courts,  gave  him  an 
excellent  understanding  of  jurisprudence  and  the  methods  of  applying  legal 
principles  to  the  points  in  litigation.  He  passed  an  examination  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1897  and  since  that  time  has  been  engaged  in  general 
practice  in  Seattle.  He  has  won  considerable  prominence  as  a  criminal  law- 
yer, but  recently  has  given  up  most  of  his  practice  in  that  department.  His 
success  has  been  gratifying,  both  from  a  professional  and  financial  stand- 
point, and  already  he  has  gained  a  clientage  that  indicates  that  he  is  classed 
among  the  able  lawyers  of  the  Seattle  bar. 

In  1890  Mr.  Hughes  returned  to  his  former  home  and  married  Gertrude, 
a  daughter  of  Charles  Crookall,  of  the  Berlin  (Ontario)  branch  of  the  Mer- 
chants Bank  of  Canada,  and  they  have  three  children,  Ursula,  Harold  and 
Monica.  Mr.  Hughes  is  an  active  member  of  the  Republican  party  and  has 
attended  every  convention  here  during  the  past  ten  years.  He  was  appointed 
a  member  of  the  civil  service  board  in  1899.  from  which  he  resigned  in  1902, 
owing  to  the  press  of  his  private  business  affairs.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
the  Rice  rebellion  in  Canada,  Mr.  Hughes  entered  the  army  and  for  gallant 
conduct  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  captain.  He  had  command  of  a  half 
company  at  Cut  Knife  in  1885  and  was  awarded  the  queen's  medal  and  clasp 


390  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

in  recognition  of  his  meritorious  service  in  the  campaign.  Fraternally  he  is 
connected  with  the  Elks.  He  was  formerly  an  active  member  of  the  Athletic 
Club,  was  a  member  of  its  board  of  trustees  for  several  years  and  belonged 
to  the  four-oared  crew,  rowing  with  some  of  Yale's  former  oarsmen.  He 
is  still  interested  in  athletic  matters,  although  not  so  actively  as  he  was  former- 
ly because  of  lack  of  time.  Mr.  Hughes  is  a  man  of  strong  force  of  charac- 
ter and  sterling  worth,  as  is  indicated  by  the  way  in  which  he  bravely  met 
ihe  situation  when  financial  reverses  overtook  him.  Adversity  has  been 
called  the  character  test,  and  through  the  ordeal  Mr.  Hughes  came  out  tri- 
umphantly, his  course  winning  him  the  respect  and  honor  of  all  who  have 
regard  for  upright  manhood,  for  unfaltering  diligence  and  for  upright  prin- 
ciples. 

ALBERT   W.    HIGHT. 

In  all  communities  especial  honor  seems  to  be  accorded  him  or  her  who 
did  "first"  things.  The  first  arrival,  of  course,  becomes  perforce  a  historical 
celebrity,  the  first  builder  of  a  house  gets  honorable  mention  in  all  the  local 
history,  and  the  first  baby  born,  especially  if  it  were  a  girl,  is  made  the  fruit- 
ful theme  of  song  and  story.  Naturally,  therefore,  the  pioneer  of  a  place 
who  not  only  did  see  one  but  many  "first"  things  becomes  a  notable  and  is 
entitled  to  a  front  seat  at  all  old  settlers'  meetings.  This  subject  is  thus 
mentioned  for  the  purpose  of  entering  a  claim  to  the  last  mentioned  honor 
in  the  name  of  Albert  W.  Higlit,  the  genial  superintendent  of  the  Wash- 
ington Pulley  Company  at  Ballard.  A  simple  enumeration  will  show  that 
Mr.  Hight  has  so  many  "firsts"  to  his  credit  that  no  strain  will  be  put  upon 
words  to  call  him  No.  i  in  most  of  the  early  events  of  the  bustling  burg 
by  the  bay.  He  was  one  of  the  first  arrivals  in  the  town,  served  in  the  first 
two  councils,  received  the  first  car-load  of  freight  shipped  to  the  town,  built 
the  first  residence  in  the  place,  and  one  of  his  children  was  the  first  child 
born  at  Ballard.  Under  the  impression  that  an  interest  will  be  felt  in  a 
busy  life  of  this  kind  something  will  now  be  told  of  Mr.  Hight's  origin,  what 
he  did  before  coming,  and  more  specific  details  given  of  the  part  he  has  taken 
in  building  up  Ballard. 

The  Hights  were  settled  in  Pennsylvania  at  what  the  pioneer  historians 
call  a  "very  early  day,"  and  in  that  state,  October  24,  1820,  was  born  John 
R.  Hight,  father  of  the  Ballard  mechanic  whose  biography  is  being  traced. 
About  the  time  he  reached  manhood  a  great  tide  of  emigration  was  setting 
in  from  the  east  and  south  toward  the  rich  and  rising  state  of  Ohio,  and 


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young  Hight,  having  all  to  gain  and  nothing  to  lose,  abandoned  his  old  home 
and  joined  the  surging  throng.  Destiny  directed  him  toward  the  shores 
of  Lake  Erie,  and  eventually  he  found  a  location  in  Lucas  county,  not  far 
from  the  present  thriving  city  of  Toledo.  John  R.  Hight  was  a  carpenter' 
by  trade  and  possessed  considerable  mechanical  talent,  which  doubtless  has 
been  transmitted  to  his  more  successful  son.  He  seems  also  to  have  been 
of  some  consequence  in  his  community  as  a  leader  in  local  politics  on  the 
Republican  side,  and  he  served  for  sixteen  years  as  justice  of  the  peace  in 
liis  township.  After  coming  to  Ohio  he  married  Asenoth  Barkestoam, 
who  died  at  a  comparatively  early  age  after  giving  birth  to  two  children. 

Albert  W.  Hight,  the  younger  of  these,  was  born  in  Lucas  county,  near 
Toledo,  October  24,  1848,  and  was  one  of  the  boys  destined,  in  the  language 
of  the  farm,  to  have  "a  hard  row  to  hoe."  In  fact  it  was  a  case  of  hard 
struggling  almost  from  the  cradle,  and  he  has  made  his  own  living  ever  since 
he  was  eight  years  of  age.  His  father  was  a  soldier  in  the  Sixty-eighth 
Ohio  Regiment  until  incapacitated  from  service  by  a  wound,  and  Albert  W., 
though  less  than  fifteen  years  of  age,  joined  the  same  command  about  the 
middle  of  January,  1863,  in  time  to  see  some  very  lively  service  in  the  great 
campaigns  of  the  southwest.  He  was  one  of  the  mighty  multitude  that 
cut  loose  from  their  base  of  supplies  at  Atlanta  and  started  overland  under 
"Old  Tecumseh"  on  that  memorable  march  to  the  sea,  which  will  ever  shine 
in  history  as  one  of  the  supremest  achievements  of  military  genius.  Being 
honorably  discharged  at  Columbus,  Ohio,  after  the  close  of  hostilities,  young 
Hight  saw  the  urgent  necessity  of  doing  something  for  a  living  and  with  all 
the  wide  world  before  him  where  to  choose,  he  chose,  like  many  another  for- 
tune-hunter, to  go  west.  He  spent  four  years  in  Illinois  as  an  apprentice 
to  the  carpenter's  trade,  later  was  in  Iowa  for  awhile,  and  about  this  time, 
having  decided  to  take  Horace  Greeley's  advice  and  go  further  west,  he  re- 
turned to  Chicago  to  make  necessary  preparations  for  the  trip.  Taking 
passage  on  one  of  the  overland  lines  to  the  Pacific  coast,  he  arrived  in  a  few 
days  at  San  Francisco,  thence  decided  to  push  on  to  the  newer  sections  in  the 
northwest.  His  trip  up  the  coast,  always  a  refreshing  experience  for  a  land- 
lubber, was  taken  on  the  old  Tidal  Wave  to  Port  Madison,  and  from  there 
he  crossed  over  to  Seattle  on  a  tug.  When  Mr.  Hight  arrived  on  the  scene 
there  was  little  to  indicate  the  appearance  of  a  thriving  city  in  that  locality. 
Here  and  there  might  be  seen  some  scattered  buildings  and  a  few  humble 
shacks  occupied  by  fishermen  or  lumber  laborers.  Most  of  the  town  site, 
however,  was  covered  with  timber,  and  the  primeval  forest  stretched  in 
unbroken  magesty  in  all  directions  away  from  the  Sound.     The  manufacture 


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of  lumber  being  the  principal  industry  of  the  place  at  that  time,  Mr.  Hight 
naturally  drifted  into  the  same  channel  and  became  interested  in  sawmills. 
The  mill  he  erected  at  Ballard  was  the  nucleus  around  which  subsequently 
grew  the  present  thriving  city.    When  Mr.  Hight  came  no  town  was  in  sight 
or  anything  to  indicate  that  there  would  ever  be  one  on  that  particular  spot. 
A  few  brave  spirits,  however,  saw  the  possibilities  and  were  willing  to  risk 
their  money  on  the  prospects  of  eventually  building  up  a  thriving  community 
at  this  point.     After  the  pioneer  blazes  the  way  it  is  comparatively  easy  for 
others  to  follow,  and  in  the  course  of  time  lots  were  for  sale,  incipient  in- 
dustries got  under  way,  a  church,  schoolhouse  and  newspaper  gave  unmistak- 
able indications  that  a  town  was  growing  up  in  the  rapid  style  typical  of 
America.     In  1893  ^^^-  Hight  abandoned  the  manufacture  of  shingles  and 
other  kinds  of  lumber  to  devote  himself  to  making  pulleys.     He  met  with 
success,  and  by  degrees  built  up  a  trade  which  extended  as  far  away  as  San 
Francisco  and  Salt  Lake  Citv.    As  a  kind  of  side  line  he  manufactured  a  good 
many  floats  for  fishermen's  nets,  but  his  chief  energies  were  put  forth  in  pro- 
ducing the  split-wood  pulley,  which  has  the  reputation  of  l^eing  the  best  of  its 
kind  on  the  market.     April   i,   1902,  the  Washington  Pulley  Companv  was 
organized  to  conduct  the  business  more  energetically,  and  as  they  own  the 
patents  covering  their  output  they  enjoy  a  practical  monoply  in  this  particular 
product. 

Mr.  Hight  married  Clare  Blackstone,  of  Portland,  and  has  five  children : 
Martha,  wife  of  Charles  J.  Wicker;  Laura,  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools; 
John  R. ;  Albert;  and  William  Henry.  His  religious  belief  is  in  line  with 
the  Unitarians  and  his  politics  those  of  the  Bryan  Democracy,  though  he 
does  not  seem  to  have  wasted  any  time  seeking  office  from  any  party.  Mr. 
Hight  may  be  said  to  have  rocked  the  cradle  at  the  birth  of  Ballard,  and  when 
it  took  on  corporate  existence  he  acted  as  one  of  the  city  fathers  by  serving  in 
the  council  two  terms,  and  looked  carefully  after  the  embryo  metropolis.  He 
Avas  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  having  the  twevle-inch  pipe  line  laid,  through 
which  salt  water  may  be  pumped  in  large  quantities  when  needed  for  fire  pro- 
tection. 

HARRY  A.  BIGELOW. 

The  state  of  Washington,  with  its  pulsing  industrial  activities  and  rapid 
development,  has  attracted  within  its  confines  men  of  marked  ability  and  high 
character  in  the  various  lines  of  business,  and  in  this  way  progress  has  been 
conserved  and  social  stability  fostered.     He  whose  name  initiates  this  review 


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has  gained  recognition  as  one  of  the  able  and  succesful  business  men  of  Seat- 
tle, and  by  his  labors,  his  capability  and  his  sterling  characteristics  has  justi- 
fied the  respect  and  confidence  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  public  in  general  as 
well  as  by  his  friends  and  associates. 

Mr.  Bigelow  is  the  youngest  of  ten  children  born  to  Townsend  and 
Diana  H.  Bigelow,  November  i,  1848,  in  Hillsdale  county,  Michigan.  His 
early  life  was  spent  in  the  rural  district  where  school  advantages  were  few, 
and  possessing  a  desire  to  acquire  knowledge  and  see  more  of  the  world,  at 
the  early  age  of  sixteen  he  bade  farewell  to  the  home  of  his  youth  and  went 
to  Illinois.  This  was  the  year  1864,  when  the  nation  was  trembling  in  the 
balance  and  the  last  call  for  troops  so  filled  his  enthusiastic  heart  that  he 
offered  his  services  to  the  government  in  subduing  the  rebellion,  enlisting  in 
Company  M,  Ninth  Illinois  Cavalry.  His  service  was  with  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee  under  the  command  of  General  Thomas  until  he  was  discharged 
at  Montgomery,  Alabama.  Returning  to  Illinois  he  resumed  liis  studies; 
but  the  knowledge  he  had  gained  by  his  experience  in  the  south  imbued  with- 
in him  a  spirit  of  restlessness  and  a  determination  to  realize  the  posibilities  of 
the  far  west.  On  October,  1869,  in  company  with  his  sister,  Mrs.  Julius 
Horton  and  family,  he  came  by  way  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  to  San 
Francisco  thence  north  by  sailing  vessel  to  Seattle.  In  the  spring  of  1870 
he  engaged  in  merchandising  with  one  of  Seattle's  leading  firms  and  con- 
tinued with  that  firm  for  several  years. 

In  September,  1873,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Emma  K.  Hall,  only 
dauehter  of  W.  B.  and  S.  E.  Hall  and  three  children  were  born  to  them, 
Lillian  Floy,  Clair  Vivian  and  D.  Earl  Bigelow. 

He  was  connected  with  mercantile  interests  from  1870  until  1890,  when 
he  was  appointed  deputy  United  States  marshal  under  President  Harrison 
and  was  chief  deputy  of  the  state  for  three  years.  He  performed  his  duties 
as  deputy  in  an  efhcient  and  forcible  manner.  Retiring  from  the  marshal's 
office  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  brokerage  business,  with  which  he  was 
associated  until  July,  1897,  when  he  sailed  for  Dawson,  Alaska,  by  way  of 
St.  Michaels,  but  was  destined  not  to  reach  the  great  gold  metropolis  on  ac- 
count of  low  water  in  the  Yukon  river,  and  was  forced  to  try  his  fortune  in 
Rampart  City  on  Manook  Creek  in  American  territory.  After  a  year's  pros- 
pecting and  securing  an  interest  in  twenty-one  claims,  he  resolved  to  return 
to  Seattle,  and  in  company  with  his  son  and  three  others  embarked  in  a  row 
boat  and  by  traveling  day  and  night  made  the  one  thousand  miles  in  twelve 
days  to  St.   Michaels,   thence  by  steamer  to  Seattle.     In   November,   1898, 

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394  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

lie  again  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  and  carried  on  operations  along 
that  line  until  March  1901,  when  he  became  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the 
Queen  Oil  Company  with  valuable  landed  interests  in  Kern  county,  Cali- 
fornia. 

In  his  political  views  he  is  a  strong  Republican,  having  constantly 
supported  that  party  up  to  the  present  time.  He  is  truly  American  and 
reckons  nothing  that  concerns  Americans  to  be  unw^orthy  of  his  notice, 
Thrown  in  early  life  upon  his  own  resources  he  has  ever  followed  the 
dictates  of  his  mind  and  through  years  of  rugged  toil  has  earned  the  posi- 
tion among  men  he  now  holds. 

For  years  he  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic  and  is  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  first  post  formed  in  the 
state,  known  as  Stevens  Post  No.  i,  serving  three  terms  as  Commander  of 
liis  post  and  in  June,  1901,  he  was  elected  department  commander  of  the 
department  of  Washington  and  Alaska. 

He  has  attended  nearly  all  of  the  national  encampments  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  serving  on  many  of  its  very  important  committees,  and 
figures  prominently  in  the  relations  between  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic and  the  Sons  of  Veterans.  Since  1872  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic Order  and  now  belongs  to  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  9,  F.  and  A.  M.,  Seat- 
tle Chapter  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.,  Seattle  Council  No.  6,  R.  and  S.  M.,  Seattle  Com- 
mandery  No.  2,  K.  T.,  Lawson  Consistory  No.  i,  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine;  also  a  member  in  good  standing  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  Odd 
]''ellows.  In  1884  he  took  part  in  the  organization  of  the  grand  lodge  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  was  elected  sitting  past  grand  chancellor.  In  1885 
he  was  chosen  supreme  representative  of  the  state  of  Washington  to  the  Su- 
preme Lodge  and  has  attended  every  session  of  that  body  having  been  elected 
to  responsible  offices.  He  organized  the  military  branch  of  that  order  in  this 
state  and  was  elected  brigadier-general,  which  position  he  held  for  eight 
years. 

Few  men  have  a  more  intimate  knowledge  of  Seattle's  growth  and  up- 
building than  Harry  A.  Bigelow,  whose  identification  with  the  city  dates  from 
the  year  1869  and  throughout  the  intervening  years  he  has  labored  earnest- 
ly, not  only  for  his  own  financial  advancement,  but  for  the  city's  welfare  and 
progress,  and  his  efforts  have  been  an  important  factor  in  promoting  the  gene- 
ral good.  He  has  attained  an  enviable  position  in  business  as  well  as  fratern- 
ally, and  in  social  circles  he  commands  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he 
is  brought  in  contact,  and  enjoys  the  warm  esteem  of  hosts  of  friends. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  .     395 

CHARLES  GESKE. 

From  the  age  of  seventeen  years  Charles  Geske  has  been  dependent  upon 
his  own  labors  for  all  that  he  has  acquired  and  enjoyed  in  life,  and  as  the 
architect  of  his  own  fortunes  he  has  builded  wisely  and  well.  To-day  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Miller  &  Geske  Construction  Company,  incorjiorated,  of  Seat- 
tle, and  since  1885  has  been  connected  with  the  industrial  life  of  this  city. 
Mr.  Geske  was  born  in  Taylors  Falls,  Minnesota,  in  1856.  His  father,  Fred- 
erick Geske,  was  a  native  of  Germany,  and  after  obtaining  his  education  in 
that  country  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  In  1854  he  crossed  the  "briny 
deep"  to  the  new  world,  locating  in  Minnesota,  whence  he  afterward  removed 
to  Iowa,  and  there  followed  his  trade.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  In 
his  native  country  he  married  Gretchen  Kostman,  who  was  born  in  Berlin, 
and  they  became  the  parents  of  eight  children,  but  our  subject  is  the  only  one 
living  in  Seattle. 

In  the  schools  of  McGregor,  Iowa,  whither  the  family  had  removed 
when  Charles  Geske  was  only  five  years  of  age,  he  pursued  his  education,  and 
at  the  age  of  seventeen  he  started  out  to  make  his  own  way  in  the  world,  fol- 
lowing harvesting.  In  the  following-  winter  he  went  to  Minnesota,  working  in 
the  forests  there  and  in  the  succeeding  summer  he  was  employed  in  a  whole- 
sale house.  When  about  twenty  years  of  age  he  began  learning  the  carpen- 
ter's trade,  which  he  has  followed  in  one  or  more  of  its  branches  continuously 
since,  most  all  of  his  work  having  been  done  for  corporations.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  carpenters  who  crossed  the  Missouri  river  on  the  ice  at  Bismark, 
North  Dakota ;  working  for  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  when  they  began 
building  their  lines  west  from  Mandan.  He  was  with  the  road  until  after 
Henry  Villard,  President  U.  S.  Grant  and  Jay  Gould  drove  the  last  spike,  an 
act  which  he  w^itnessed.  Mr.  Geske  afterward  came  through  to  Oregon  and 
then  went  down  the  coast  to  California,  but  soon  returned  to  Portland  and 
entered  the  service  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company.  Subse- 
quently he  went  to  British  Columbia  and  worked  for  about  a  year  on  the  Es- 
quimauJt  &  Nanaimo  Railroad.  Later  he  returned  to  the  Northern  Pacific 
Company  and  was  employed  on  the  division  work  from  Tacoma  until  1885, 
when  he  came  to  Seattle.  Here  for  four  years  he  occupied  the  position  of 
foreman  for  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  Company,  working  out  from  this 
point.  He  afterward  entered  into  partnership  with  Mr.  Miller,  a  relation- 
ship which  has  since  been  maintained.  They  began  the  contracting  business, 
which  has  steadily  grown  in  volume  and  importance  until  it  has  reached 
mammoth  proportions.     They  have  two   scow  pile-drivers   and   three  land 


396  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

drivers  with  hammers  weighing  from  twent_v-eiglit  to  forty-five  hundred 
pounds.  Their  work  has  mostly  been  in  this  city  and  they  have  also  done 
some  work  at  Bremerton  and  other  places  on  the  Sound.  During  the  busy 
season  they  furnish  employment  to  one  hundred  men,  most  of  them  skilled 
workmen  commanding  high  prices,  none  receiving  less  than  three  dollars  per 
day  and  some  as  high  as  five  dollars  per  day. 

Mr.  Geske  has  invested  to  some  extent  in  property  here,  but  sold  all 
with  the  excq^tion  of  some  real  estate  in  West  Seattle  and  a  forty  acre  ranch 
between  this  city  and  Issaquah.  He  also  erected  his  own  residence  here  in 
the  fall  of  1889,  after  the  great  fire.  His  home  is  presided  over  by  a  most 
estimable  lady,  whom  he  married  in  1897,  and  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Catherine  Pluitt.  She  is  a  native  of  La  Crosse,  Wisconsin,  and  they  have 
one  son,  Frank.  Mr.  Geske  has  usually  voted  the  Democratic  ticket  at  state 
and  national  elections,  but  at  local  elections  casts  his  ballot  independently  of 
party  ties.  He  is  an  enterprising  man,  who,  in  his  life  displays  many  of  the 
sterling  characteristics  of  his  German  ancestry  and  though  he  started  out  up- 
on his  business  career  with  no  capital,  he  realized  that  success  could  he  earned 
ihrough  persistent  effort  and  honorable  dealing,  and  it  has  been  along  these 
lines  that  he  has  gained  his  standing  in  industrial  circles. 

LIVINGSTON  B.  STEDMAN. 

From  the  classic  walls  of  Harvard —  the  oldest  university  of  America — 
have  come  some  of  the  most  distinguished  men  of  the  nation,  and  it  has 
usually  been  found  that  her  graduates  have  by  upright  lives,  by  leadership  in 
business  and  activity  in  the  world's  affairs  reflected  credit  upon  their  alma 
mater.  Many  times  has  Mr.  Stedman  joined  in  giving  the  old  Harvard  yell, 
as  wnth  his  college  mates  he  has  taken  part  in  some  of  the  exercises  of  the  in- 
stitution. He  completed  his  law  course  there  and  to-day  is  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Hastings  &  Stedman,  lawyers  of  Seattle. 

Livingston  Boyd  Stedman  was  born  in  the  city  of  Boston,  Massachu- 
setts, February  2,  1864.  His  ancestral  line  traces  back  to  an  early  day  in  the 
history  of  this  country.  The  Stedman  family  is  of  Scotch  origin  and  was 
founded  in  America  in  1638.  Its  representatives  have  been  largely  found  in 
mercantile  life,  although  there  has  been  one  physician  and  one  lawyer.  Dan- 
iel B.  Stedman,  the  father  of  Livingston,  w^as  also  born  in  Boston,  where  the 
family  is  yet  represented,  and  he  is  still  actively  engaged  in  merchandising 
there  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years.  Throughout  his  entire  life  he  has  been 
identified  with  church  work  and  his  influence  and  efforts  in  that  regard  have 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  397 

been  very  beneficial.  He  married  Susan  L.  Boyd,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
George  Boyd  of  Philadelphia,  in  which  city  she  was  born.  She  too  came  of 
one  of  the  old  families  of  America,  her  ancestors  having  located  in  this  coun- 
try prior  to  the  Revolutionary  war.  Her  great-grandfather,  Robert  H.  Liv- 
ingston, was  a  lieutenant  in  Henry  Lamb's  Second  Regiment  of  Artillery  in 
the  Continental  army  from  1781  until  1783.  Her  father  was  a  minister  of 
the  Episcopalian  church. 

In  the  family  to  which  Livingston  Boyd  Stedman  belongs  there  were 
four  children,  but  he  is  the  only  one  upon  the  Pacific  coast.  In  early  boy- 
hood he  was  a  student  in  the  old  Mather  school  at  Dorchester,  which  was  the 
first  public  school  established  in  the  United  States.  Later  he  entered  the 
Roxbury  Latin  school  to  prepare  for  Harvard  and  subsequently  matriculated 
in  the  university,  in  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1887,  at  which 
time  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts  was  conferred  upon  him,  while  in  1890 
his  alma  mater  bestowed  on  him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

In  the  same  year  Mr.  Stedman  came  to  Seattle  and  entered  the  office  of 
C!olonel  Haines,  desiring  to  thus  gain  a  start  as  a  member  of  the  legal  pro- 
fession of  this  city.  He  remained  with  Colonel  Haines  r.ntil  the  latter's 
death  in  1892,  when  he  entered  into  partnership  with  E.  C.  Hughes  and  H. 
H.  A.  Hastings,  this  relation  between  them  being  maintained  for  about  eigh- 
teen months.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Hastings  and  Mr.  Stedman  have  been 
associated  in  practice  together  and  since  the  first  few  months  have  continu- 
ously occupied  the  same  offices  in  the  Haller  block.  They  largely  practice 
mortgage  and  corporation  law,  and  during  the  hard  times  through  which  the 
city  passed  they  had  more  business  in  those  lines  than  any  other  firm  of  at- 
torneys in  Seattle.  They  are  now  attorneys  for  the  Scottish- American 
Mortgage  Company  of  Oregon,  the  Port  Blakeley  Mill  Company  and  many 
others.  While  Mr.  Stedman  has  made  the  practice  of  law  his  real  life-work, 
he  has  also  extended  his  efforts  into  other  lines  and  is  one  of  the  organizers 
of  the  Snohomish  Logging  Company,  the  Snohomish  Investment  Company, 
the  American  Lumber  and  Shingle  Company,  the  Standard  Investment  Com- 
pany and  the  J.  T.  Steeb  Shipping  Company,  of  all  of  which  he  is  the  secre- 
tary. He  also  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  has  been  very  active 
in  promoting  enterprises  which  have  contributed  to  the  city's  good. 

In  April,  1891,  in  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  Mr.  Stedman  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Ann  B.  Leiper,  of  Chester,  Pennsylvania,  and  they  have  three 
sons:  Daniel  B.,  Lewis  L.,  and  Livingston  B.  In  the  fall  of  1891  Mr. 
Stedman  erected  his  present  residence.  The  summer  months  are  spent 
across  the  Sound,  near  Port  Blakely,  where  he  has  built  an  attractive  summer 


398  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

home.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repubhcan,  taking  an  active  interest  in  local  affairs 
as  well  as  the' important  issues  of  the  party.  He  has  served  as  a  delegate  to 
most  of  the  city  and  county  conventions.  While  not  a  politician  he  has  the 
welfare  of  the  party  at  heart  and  has  done  considerable  to  secure  its  success. 
He  belongs  to  the  Phi  Beta  Kappa  Society,  is  secretary  and  one  of  the  organ- 
izers of  the  University  Club,  and  is  also  identified  with  the  Firloch  Club,  the 
Country  Club,  the  Harvard  Club  and  the  Washington  Society  of  the  Sons  of 
the  American  Revolution.  He  was  one  of  the  charter  members  of  the  Seattle 
j\thletic  Club,  although  lie  is  not  now  identified  with  the  organization,  and  he 
is  a  member  of  the  Trinity  Parish  church,  of  which  he  formerly  served  as 
vestryman  for  a  number  of  years. 

GEORGE  E.  HALLOCK. 

George  E.  Hallock  is  the  general  agent  of  the  Union  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company  and  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Hallock  &  Smith,  real  estate 
and  investment  brokers,  doing  business  in  the  Boston  block  in  Seattle.  His 
life  history  began  on  the  26th  of  February,  1854,  when  he  first  opened  his 
eyes  to  the  light  of  day  in  Kent  county,  Michigan.  His  father,  Aaron  E. 
Hallock,  was  born  in  New  York  in  1827,  and  in  early  life  followed  the  mil- 
ler's trade.  About  1837  he  became  a  resident  of  Michigan  and  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  remaining  days  in  Montcalm  county,  that  state.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Wesleyan  Methodist  church  and  an  earnest  Christian  man, 
honored  for  his  fidelity  to  his  professions.  He  died  at  the  age  of  forty-seven 
years.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Harriet  Stevens,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  four  children,  George  E.,  being  the  only  son.  Abel  Hallock, 
the  paternal  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  New  York  and  at  an 
early  day  emigrated  westward,  locating  in  the  lower  peninsula  of  Michigan 
when  it  was  a  very  wild  and  unimproved  district.  There  he  eng^aged  in 
hunting  to  a  large  extent,  finding  it  a  source  of  pleasure  as  well  as  of  profit. 

A  public  school  education  was  accorded  George  E.  Hallock  in  Michigan. 
He  was  afterward  engaged  in  business  in  his  father's  mills  until  he  was 
twenty-four  years  of  age,  when  he  went  to  Hillsdale  county,  Michigan,  and 
took  a  course  in  electricity  and  telegraphy  in  Griffin  Hall.  He  afterward  re- 
moved to  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  railroad  work  with  the  Chicago  &  St. 
Paul  Railroad  Company,  acting  as  telegraph  operator  and  station  agent. 
Fifteen  years  of  his  life  were  thus  spent,  and  then  he  sought  a  home  in  the 
northwest,  which  has  proved  to  him  a  good  field  of  labor. 

On  coming  to  Seattle  in  1893,  Mr.  Hallock  asumed  the  general  agency 


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of-  the  Union  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  He  had  purchased  a  return 
trip  ticket  on  leaving  home,  intending  to  return,  but  after  a  couple  of  months 
spent  in  Seattle  he  resovled  to  remain.  The  company  with  \vhich  he  had  be- 
come connected  was  so  well  pleased  with  his  services  that  tiiey  made  him  an 
excellent  offer  and  he  has  since  remained  in  charge  of  the  business.  While 
the  company  has  since  offered  to  him  other  positions  probably  more  lucrative, 
lie  has  preferred  to  make  Seattle  his  permanent  home.  He  has,  however, 
taken  up  the  business  in  other  offices,  and  looks  after  the  heavy  interests  of 
the  company  here.  This  company  owns  all  of  the  sewer  and  water  bonds  of 
the  city,  and  this  item  alone  amounts  to  a  very  large  figure.  They  also  have 
in  risks  about  eight  hundred  thousand  dollars,  most  of  which  has  been  writ- 
ten since  Mr.  Hallock  located  here.  In  1900  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Mr.  Smith  and  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  as  a  meniber  of  the  well 
known  firm  of  Hallock  &  Smith.  He  has  built  and  sold  several  mills  in  the 
northwest ;  one  in  Whatcom,  another  in  Skagit  county  and  a  larger  one  in 
British  Columbia.  He  has  not  given  much  of  his  personal  attention  to  this, 
as  he  sold  the  controlling  interests  in  the  enterprises.  He  has  also  been  iden- 
tified with  the  building  interests  of  the  city  and  his  residence  at  1515  Summit 
avenue  is  an  attractive  home.  He  also  has  two  residences  on  Twenty-first 
avenue  and  one  on  Twentieth  avenue. 

In  Michigan,  on  the  25tli  of  February,  1878,  Mr.  Hallock  marired  Ame- 
lia D.  Oakley,  who  is  a  graduate  of  Hillsdale  college,  having  completed  the 
scientific  course.  She  was  also  an  expert  telegrapher  and  often  assisted  her 
husband  in  that  work.  They  now  have  two  sons  and  two  daughters :  Mat- 
tie  L..  who  for  five  years  has  been  a  successful  and  popular  teacher  in  the 
schools  of  Seattle;  Edna,  who  taught  for  two  years  in  this  city;  Raymond, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  the  high  school  of  Seattle  and  is  a  member  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association;  and  George  Oakley,  who  is  yet  in  school  here. 
All  of  the  family  are  members  of  the  Congregational  chmxh,  contributing 
liberally  to  its  support  and  taking  an  active  part  in  the  work.  In  politics 
Mr.  Hallock  is  a  strong  Republican  and  has  been  a  delegate  to  nearly  every 
city  convention  since  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  but  he  has  declined  to  accept  oflice 
because  it  would  demand  too  much  of  his  time  and  attention.  He  has,  how- 
e^^er,  served  as  notary  public  for  ten  years.  In  1894  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  but  has  never  practiced,  although  his  legal  knowledge  is  of  great  benefit 
to  him  in  his  business  affairs.  The  Masonic  fraternity  finds  in  him  a  pro- 
minent and  leading  member,  and  he  belongs  to  Sycamore  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
of  Sycamore,  Illinois.  He  is  also  a  Knight  of  Templar  and  holds  member- 
ship in  the  Oriental  Consistory  of  Chicago  and  in  Zurrah  Temple  of  the  Mys- 


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tic  Shrine  at  Minneapolis.  He  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows  and  to  the  Hoo-Hoos  No.  2420,  of  the  Lnmbermen's  Union.  He 
has  membership  relations  with  Tent  No.  8  of  the  Knights  of  Maccabees,  with 
the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  with  Loraine  Chapter  of  the  order  of 
the  Eastern  Star.  His  has  been  a  successful  career,  and  the  en^'iable  result 
that  he  has  attained  may  be  attributed  to  his  own  indomitable  energy  and  the 
close  and  assiduous  attention  he  has  paid  to  the  minute  portions  of  his  affairs. 

FREDERICK  K.  STRUVE. 

Frederick  K.  Struve  of  the  firm  of  John  Davis  &  Company,  real  estate 
and  loan  agents  of  Seattle,  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Washington,  his  birth 
having  occurred  at  Vancouver  on  the  17th  of  June,  1871.  He  is  a  son  of 
Judge  H.  G.  Struve,  one  of  the  prominent  pioneers  and  eminent  residents  of 
this  state,  having  located  here  at  a  very  early  day,  since  which  time  he  has 
been  an  active  factor  in  the  substantial  improvement  and  progress  of  this  por- 
tion of  the  state.  The  family  having  removed  to  Seattle,  the  subject  of  this 
review  attended  the  public  schools  here  and  afterward  spent  two  years  as  a 
student  in  the  University  of  Washington.  He  then  matriculated  in  the  liter- 
ary department  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  where  he  also 
remained  for  two  years.  In  November,  1889,  upon  the  organization  of  the 
Boston  National  Bank,  he  entered  that  institution  in  the  capacity  of  clerk, 
and  later  as  assistant  cashier  and  thus  served  until  April  i,  1898.  He  after- 
ward spent  two  years  in  the  First  National  Bank  and  in  1899  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  John  Davis  in  the  real  estate,  loan  and  innurance  business. 
The  firm  of  John  Davis  &  Company  is  now  one  of  the  best  known  in  the  city, 
and  the  volume  of  business  annually  transacted  by  them  has  reached  exten- 
sive proportions.  Since  1896  Mr.  Struve  has  represented  the  German  Sav- 
ings &  Loan  Society  of  San  Francisco,  which  does  the  largest  loaning  busi- 
ness in  Washington.  The  company  also  have  a  large  mortgage  loan  client- 
age and  their  operations  in  real  estate  annually  reach  a  high  figure.  They 
have  platted  the  Highland  addition,  and  Mr.  Stritve  himself  platted  the  Pettit 
addition,  while  the  firm  has  platted  the  Yesler  estate  addition  and  built  thereon 
the  residences  which  have  improved  that  section  of  the  city.  The  general 
business  of  the  firm,  however,  has  been  transacted  in  the  down-town  proper- 
ties, many  of  which  they  handle,  having  managed  important  sales  and  also 
attended  to  the  rental  of  many  of  the  leading  business  blocks.  The  renting 
department  has  become  an  important  part  of  their  business  and  requires 
eighteen  employes,  all  of  whom  are  employed  on  stated  salaries.     Each  de- 


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department  of  the  business  is  managed  by  a  competent  superintendent,  and 
all  is  systematized  and  in  splendid  working  condition.  Their  transactions 
involve  the  handling  of  many  thousands  of  dollars  within  the  course  of  a 
month-,  and  the  business  is  hardly  second  to  any  in  this  line  in  the  city. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Struve  is  a  Republican,  and  he  belongs  to  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  Seattle.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Chi  Psi  fra- 
ternity and  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  He 
was  chosen  the  first  captain  of  the  athletic  team  and  later  elected  the  vice- 
president  of  the  society.  He  belongs  to  Rainier  Club,  Firloch  Club,  and  the 
Golf  &  Country  Club,  being  the  secretary  of  the  last  named.  He  is  also 
treasurer  of  the  Assembly  Club. 

On  the  17th  of  November,  1897,  in  this  city,  Mr.  Stru\e  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Anna  Furth,  a  daughter  of  Jacob  Furth.  She  is  well 
known  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  social  world  of  Seattle,  her  home  be- 
ing celebrated  for  its  gracious  hospitality  and  for  its  pleasing  social  func- 
tions. She  belongs  to  the  ladies'  adjunct  of  the  Golf  Club,  to  some  of  the 
literary  clubs  of  the  city  and  is  a  member  of  the  executive  committee  of  the 
Assembly  Club.  She  is  also  a  member  of  Trinity  Parish  church.  From  the 
arduous  cares  of  an  extensive  business  Mr.  Struve  finds  pleasure  and  rest  in 
golf  and  in  travel  and  has  visited  all  sections  of  his  own  country  and  has  also 
gone  abroad  to  Europe  and  Cuba.  He  is  widely  known  as  a  young  man  of 
marked  executive  force.  Intricate  business  situations  he  readily  compre- 
hends, he  forms  his  plans  quickly  and  is  prompt  and  accurate  in  their  execu- 
tion.. Thus  he  has  gained  a  wide  reputation  as  a  capable  and  successful  man 
of  business,  a  typical  representative  of  the  enterprise  that  has  led  to  the 
marvelous  development  of  the  northwest.  • 

JOHN  WENZLER. 

Much  of  the  civilization  of  the  world  ha?  come  from  the  Teutonic  race. 
Continually  moving  westward,  they  have  taken  with  them  the  enterprise  and 
advancement  of  their  eastern  homes  and  have  become  valued  and  useful  citi- 
zens of  various  localities.  In  this  country  especially  have  they  demonstrated 
their  power  to  adapt  themselves  to  new  circumstances,  retaining  at  the  same 
time  their  progressiveness  and  energy,  and  have  become  loyal  and  devoted 
citizens,  true  to  the  institutions  of  the  "land  of  the  free"  and  untiring  in  pro- 
moting all  that  will  prove  of  benefit  to  their  adopted  country.  The  German 
element  in  America  forms  an  important  part  of  American  citizenship,  and 
while  they  cannot  attain  to  the  highest  civil  office  in  the  gift  of  the  people  of 


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this  land,  they  have  given  ample  evidence  of  their  power  to  sustain  and  up- 
hold the  government  of  the  republic  and  to  become  the  factors  in  various 
communities  to  whom  the  locality  owes  its  progress  and  prosperity. 

When  John  Wenzler  was  born  in  Wurtemburg,  Germany,  December 
27,  1842,  his  parents  may  have  hoped  that  a  brilliant  future  lay  before  their 
son,  but  they  did  not  dream  that  he  was  to  become  a  leading  and  influential 
citizen  of  a  large  city  of  the  American  republic,  and  that  iiis  labors  would 
i)ring  to  him  a  capital  sufficient  to  enable  him  to  put  aside  his  business  and 
live  retired  in  the  enjoyment  of  the  fruits  of  his  former  toil.  He  was  a  son 
of  Alois  and  Katrina  (Zeph)  Wenzler,  who  had  six  children.  He  was  ed- 
ucated in  the  schools  of  Germany  and  there  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker. 
He  afterward  spent  one  year  in  France  and  three  in  Switzerland,  and  in  1865 
came  to  America,  crossing  the  Atlantic  on  a  sailing  vessel  which  consumed 
rhirty-eight  days  in  making  the  voyage.  After  two  months  spent  in  New" 
York,  he  made  his  way  westward  to  Ohio  and  for  four  years  was  with  his 
brother-in-law  at  Troy,  Ohio,  but  because  he  suffered  with  fever  and  ague 
ihere  he  decided  to  leave  that  place. 

The  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  had  just  been  completed  across  the  coun- 
try and  he  determined  to  make  his  way  to  California.  He  located  in  Sacra- 
mento and  soon  afterward  entered  into  partnership  with  his  employers,  but 
being  again  troubled  with  fever  he  once  more  sold  out  and  went  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. Thinking  that  he  would  like  to  go  north  either  to  Oregon  or  Wash- 
ington, he  strolled  down  to  the  wharf  one  day,  and  seeing  a  boat  there  in- 
quired where  it  was  going.  On  being  informed  they  were  bound  for  Wash- 
ington, he  took  passage  on  the  vessel  and  was  landed  at  Yesler  wharf  in  Seat- 
tle, after  a  voyage  of  thirteen  days.  Part  of  the  passage  had  been  very 
stormy,  and  thinking  he  had  traveled  enough,  he  decided  to  locate  here. 

Seattle  was  then  a  town  of  about  seven  or  eight  hundred  inhabitants. 
Air.  Wenzler  determined  to  engage  in  business  for  himself  and  established 
a  shoe  store,  which  he  successfully  conducted  until  about  fifteen  years  ago, 
when  he  sold  out.  He  had  enjoyed  a  very  large  trade,  increasing  with  the 
growth  of  the  city,  and  had  acquired  a  handsome  capital.  On  disposing  of 
his  store  he  became  connected  with  real  estate  dealing.  He  platted  five  acres 
and  bought  and  sold  other  property.  In  1890  in  connection  with  three 
others  he  purchased  and  platted  one  hundred  and  fifty-five  acres,  known  as 
the  York  addition  to  Whatcom.  He  has  also  erected  a  number  of  residences 
in  Seattle.  In  October,  1890,  he  erected  his  present  home  on  Seventh  aven- 
ue, at  the  corner  of  Cherry  avenue,  and  in  1889  he  built  the  two  houses  in  the 
rear,  on  James,  w^hich  he  yet  owns,  besides  unimproved  property.     His  in- 


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vestments  have  been  carefully  made  and  have  resulted  successfully,  so  that  he 
is  to-day  one  of  the  men  of  affluence  of  the  city,  having  acquired  a  desirable 
capital  that  now  enables  him  to  live  retired. 

On  the  17th  of  October,  1878,  Mr.  Wenzler  was  married  to  Rosa  Boeh- 
ler,  who  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  and  came  to  America  in  1877.  Their 
union  was  blessed  with  eleven  children,  five  of  whom  are  yet  living,  while  two 
died  in  childhood.  Those  who  still  survive  are  Lena,  Julia,  Sophie,  John 
r.nd  Karl.  Socially  Mr.  Wenzler  is  connected  with  the  Independent  Order 
of  Odd  Fellows  and  is  the  oldest  German  representative  of  the  society  here. 
A  Republican  in  his  political  affiliations,  he  has  served  as  a  delegate  to  the 
conventions  of  his  party  and  has  aided  in  the  work  which  has  extended  the 
mfluence  and  promoted  the  success  of  the  organization.  As  a  citizen  his  in- 
terest in  and  loyalty  to  Seattle  has  been  manifest  in  many  ways.  He  came 
here  and  found  a  village;  he  has  lived  to  see  it  take  on  metropolitan  propor- 
tions, and  his  own  energy  and  enterprise  have  supplemented  the  progressive 
spirit  and  unfaltering  labor  which  have  wrought  this  splendid  result.  When 
he  came  to  America  he  readily  adapted  himself  to  the  changed  conditions  of 
the  new  world,  and  as  the  years  have  passed  he  has  prospered.  He  is  wholly 
worthy  the  respect  which  is  everywhere  tendered  him,  for  his  name  is  syn- 
onymous with  honorable  dealing  and  with  all  that  is  beneficial  to  the  city  of 
his  adoption. 

ALONZO  HULL. 

The  task  of  writing  the  biography  of  a  living  representative  man  is  a 
most  dit^cult  one,  because  the  prevailing  modesty  of  American  manhood 
i:hrinks  from  personal  prominence  and  invariably  discourages  even  the  most 
friendly  attempt  to  uncover' the  secret  of  his  success  or  popularity  in  life. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  is  a  typical  representative  of  the  fast-growing  class 
of  American  landed  proprietors,  deriving  his  income  from  that  safest  of  all 
investments,  real  estate.  He  is  now  quite  extensively  engaged  in  real  estate 
operations  in  Seattle,  which  he  has  made  his  home  since  1889.  He  has  been 
closely  identified  with  the  improvement  of  the  new  city,  since  it,  phenix-like, 
rose  from  its  own  ashes  in  the  year  of  the  great  conflagration. 

Mr.  Hull  was  born  in  Lackawanna  county,  Pennsylvania,  near  the  city 
of  Scranton,  January  12,  1844.  The  family  was  founded  in  America  by 
three  brothers  who  came  from  England,  settling  in  Rhode  Island,  at  an  early 
period  in  the  development  of  this  country.  John  Hull  ser^-ed  as  a  valiant 
soldier  in  the  American  army  during  the  Revolutionary  war.     William  Hull, 


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the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Massachusetts.  When  a  young  man, 
however,  he  removed  to  Pennsylvania  and  there  engaged  in  farming  and  in 
the  operation  of  a  sawmill,  and  owned  six  hundred  acres  of  good  farm  and 
coal  land  in  that  state.  He  also  engaged  in  the  mining  of  coal  in  the  Lacka- 
wanna valley  to  some  extent  before  the  railroad  was  built  in  that  locality, 
in  his  political  affiliations  he  was  a  Whig  and  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church.  He  married  Rebecca  Parker,  a  daughter  of  Stephen  Parker  of 
Rhode  Island.  Her  father  was  a  man  of  influence  in  his  community  and 
liighly  respected  for  his  sterling  worth.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hull  had  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  one  died  in  infancy.  George  M.,  the  oldest,  resides  in  Blakes- 
lee,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  is  extensively  engaged  in  farming  and  in  the  real 
estate  business,  having  large  landed  interests  and  owning  his  own  property. 
William  H.  is  now  living  a  retired  life  in  Scranton,  Pennsyhania;  he  served 
in  the  Thirteenth  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  during  the  Civil  war. 
John  L.,  for  three  years  a  member  of  the  Fifty-second  Pennsylvania  Infantry 
during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  is  now  engaged  in  merchandising.  Stephen 
P.,  who  was  also  a  member  of  the  Fifty-second  Regiment,  yet  makes  his  home 
in  Scranton;  Alonzo  is  the  next  younger;  Orestes  T.  follows  farming  nine 
miles  north  of  Carbondale,  Lackawanna  county;  he  was  in  the  signal  service 
of  the  armies  during  the  Civil  war. 

Alonzo  Hull  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  East  Hamp- 
ton, Massachusetts,  in  Williston  Seminary  and  in  the  Lewisburg  Laiiversity  at 
Lewisburg,  Pennsylvania.  He  served  in  the  Thirtieth  Regiment  of  Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers  during  the  Civil  war.  He  was  afterward  in  the  employ  of 
Jiis  brother  and  later  engaged  in  quar^ing  slate  in  Bangor,  Pennsylvania, 
and  was  engaged  in  the  slate-roofing  business  in  Scranton.  He  and  his 
brother  went  to  St.  Louis  in  1872,  and  there  engaged  in  the  slate-roofing 
business  for  thirteen  years,  conducting  a  very  extensive  -and  profitable  busi- 
ness. At  length,  however,  Mr.  Hull  met  with  an  accident  which  kept  him 
from  labor  with  his  brother  for  three  years.  He  was  obliged  to  sell  out  his 
business  interests  there,  after  which  he  spent  some  time  in  Arkansas,  but  he 
realized  that  the  chances  of  recovering  his  health  were  slight  in  that  state  and 
decided  to  try  the  far  west.  Having  heard  favorable  reports  of  the  Sound 
country,  he  came  to  Washington  and  after  viewing  the  district  he  was  so 
pleased  with  Seattle  and  its  prospects  that  he  decided  to  locate  here.  He 
then  returned  to  close  out  his  affairs  in  the  south,  selling  off  all  his  property 
with  the  exception  of  eight  hundred  acres  of  land  in  Arkansas. 

In  1889  Mr.  Hull  became  a  resident  of  Seattle.  He  purchased  a  lot  at 
rhe  corner  of  Battery  street  and  First  avenue  and  also  two  lots  on  Oueen  Ann 


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Hill.  He  had  just  let  the  contract  for  the  erection  of  the  Hull  block  at  the 
time  of  the  great  fire  in  1889.  The  contractor  was  not  able  to  complete  the 
building,  so  Mr.  Hull  personally  undertook  the  work  and  with  the  assistance 
of  builders  here  he  continued  the  work  until  the  building  was  ready  for  oc- 
cupancy. In  consequence  of  this  his  building  was  completed  much  sooner 
than  many  others  that  were  started  immediately  after  the  fire.  It  proved  a 
profitable  investment  because  business  property  was  so  much  needed,  and  he 
immediately  rented  it.  It  is  a  three  story  structure,  built  of  brick  and  is 
sixty  by  seventy  feet,  and  there  is  also  a  basement  under  the  entire  block. 
There  are  offices  and  living  rooms  above  while  the  first  floor  is  used  for  store 
purposes.  Mr.  Hull  has  invested  largely  in  real  estate  both  improved  and 
unimproved  and  has  done  considerable  work  in  remodling  his  property,  plac- 
ing it  in  marketable  condition.  He  has  also  charge  of  some  property  for 
others  and  his  attention  is  given  to  the  supervision  of  his  own  interests  as 
well.  His  real  estate  deals  are  now  quite  extensive  and  yiekl  to  him  a  good 
financial  return. 

Mr.  Hull  has  also  been  a  most  important  factor  in  public  affairs  in  the 
city  and  has  done  much  for  the  general  good.  He  votes  the  Republican 
ticket,  and  was  elected  by  his  party  member  of  the  city  council,  where  he  was 
prominent  in  the  fight  to  secure  the  water  works  system  for  the  city.  Later, 
when  he  was  not  on  the  council,  and  another  proposition  to  get  control  of  the 
water  supply  came  up,  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  contest  to  save  the  system 
to  the  city.  It  was  a  hard  and  bitter  fight,  requiring  much  time  as  well  as 
money,  to  awaken  the  people  to  the  danger;  but  notices  were  printed  on 
wagons  which  were  driven  through  the  streets,  meetings  were  held  at  various 
places,  Mr.  Hull  acting  as  chairman  at  some  of  these  meetings,  and  thus  the 
attention  of  the  public  was  awakened  to  what  it  would  mean  to  have  the 
water  system  pass  from  the  control  of  the  city.  He  also  took  an  active  part 
in  defeating  the  scheme  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  and  in  having  the 
streets  vacated  on  the  water  front,  and  thus  preserved  the  control  of  these  in 
the  citv,  and  his  efforts  have  been  untiring  in  behalf  of  any  measure  for  the 
public  good. 

While  at  St.  Louis  Mr.  Hull  .was  married  on  the  i6th  of  May,  1877,  to 
Miss  Miriam  F.,  a  daughter  of  Stephen  A.  Bemis,  a  member  of  the  largest 
bag  manufacturing  firm  in  the  world,  known  as  the  Bemis  Brothers  Bag 
Company  of  St.  Louis,  with  branches  in  Boston,  Chicago,  Omaha,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Minneapolis,  West  Superior,  New  Orleans  and  Indianapolis.  To  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hull  have  been  born  seven  children:  Stephen  A.,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Broadway  in  Seattle;    John  S. ;    Herbert,  who 


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attends  the  high  school  of  this  city ;  Miriam ;  Alonzo,  Jr ;  FarweU ;  and  Ruth. 
Mrs.  Hull  is  a  member  of  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union  and  is 
an  active  and  influential  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  She  also  belongs  to 
tlie  Oueen  Ann  Club  and  is  a  leader  in  social  circles.  Mr.  Hull  is  a  charter 
member  of  the  North  Seattle  Baptist  church  and  is  serving  as  one  of  its  deac- 
ons and  was  active  in  the  erection  of  the  house  of  worship,  contributing  liber- 
ally to  the  support  of  the  church  and  doing  everything  in  his  power  to  advance 
the  cause  of  Christianity.  Although  charitable  and  benevolent,  he  is  entirely 
without  ostentation  in  work  of  this  character.  Among  Seattle's  business 
men  none  are  more  closely  identified  with  the  growth  and  best  interests  of  the 
city  than  Mr.  Hull,  who  has  made  his  home  here  for  more  than  a  decade. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  known  for  his  sterling  qualities,  his  fearless 
loyalty  to  his  honest  convictions  and  his  clear-headedness,  discretion  and  tact 
as  manager  and  leader.  He  ever  places  the  general  good  before  personal 
aggrandizement,  and  Seattle  owes  not  a  little  to  his  efforts  in  her  behalf. 

« 

FRANK  H.  FOLSOM. 

It  is  given  to  but  few  men  to  say  that  in  their  line  of  busines  they  stand 
pre-eminent,  but  in  the  case  of  the  subject  of  this  memoir  it  can  readily  be 
done,  for,  as  a  shipper  of  telegraph  and  telephone  poles  and  piles,  his  busi- 
ness probably  more  than  doubles  that  of  any  other  person  in  the  state. 
Brought  up  in  the  logging  business,  he  has  made  it  his  life  work  and  the 
success  he  has  attained  is  the  result  of  untiring  industry  and  application.  A 
resident  of  the  Sound  country  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  he  has  had  his  share 
of  financial  trouble,  but  while  he  lost  heavily  in  the  great  panic,  he  made  a 
■  record  that  may  well  be  envied,  as  instead  of  settling  his  debts  at  a  discount 
he  began  working  with  unremitting  zeal  and  thus  labored  until  he  paid  off 
dollar  for  dollar  every  claim  there  was  against  him  when  the  crash  came, 
and  thus  to-day  his  credit  is  above  question. 

A  native  of  Maine,  Mr.  Folsom  was  born  in  Burlington,  December  4, 
1863,  in  the  same  house  in  which  his  father  had  been  born.  The  paternal 
grandfather,  Samuel  Folsom,  served  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  attained 
to  the  remarkable  age  of  one  hundred  nine  years.  John  Folsom  was  en- 
gaged in  logging  and  lumbering  and  died  when  his  son,  Frank  H.,  was  but 
three  years  of  age.  He  had  wedded  Mary  Sanborn  and  left  a  family  of  eight 
chidren,  of  whom  the  subject  of  this  review  is  the  seventh  in  order  of  birth. 

Frank  H.  Folsom  pursued  his  studies  in  the  public  schools,  but  at  that 
time  educational  institutions  were  very  limited  as  to  their  scope.     He  after- 


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ward  pursued  a  short  course  in  a  business  college  and  was  only  fifteen  years 
of  age  when  he  began  logging.  When  he  had  reached  the  age  of  nineteen 
lie  went  to  Boston,  where  he  had  many  relatives  and  after  two  years  spent  in 
business  there  he  made  his  way  westward  to  Minnesota,  where  through  the 
following  three  years  he  was  engaged  in  logging.  Looking  to  the  future  he 
realized  that  it  would  be  but  a  comparatively  short  time  when  timber  would 
be  scarce  in  that  country,  so  in  1887  he  decided  to  come  to  Washington.  He 
first  located  in  Tacoma  and  engaged  in  electric  construction  in  addition  to 
conducting  a  hotel.  His  operations  were  very  gratifying  from  a  financial 
standpoint  until  the  great  panic,  when  all  business  was  tied  up  and  he  could 
not  meet  his  obligations  for  the  time  being.  He  then  went  to  Everett  and  en- 
gaged in  outside  electric  construction  work  and  was  the  contractor  on  the 
street-car  lines  and  electric  light  lines,  and  in  fact  set  every  pole  that  was  put 
in  at  that  place  during  the  five  years  of  his  residence  there.  Believing  that 
Seattle  had  a  bright  future  in  store  for  it  he  decided  to  make  this  city  his  per- 
manent headquarters.  He  had  spent  considerable  time  here  before  and  in 
1897  he  took  up  his  permanent  abode  here.  While  in  Everett  he  began  con- 
struction work  in  Los  Angeles,  California,  but  soon  received  such  large 
orders  for  poles  that  he  gave  up  construction  work  and  began  shipping  tele- 
phone poles.  Since  that  time  he  has  devoted  the  most  of  his  attention  to 
shipping  poles  and  piles,  which  he  has  sent  as  far  east  as  Minnesota,  Wiscon- 
sin, Illinois  and  Michigan,  as  far  south  as  California,  as  far  westward  as  the 
Hawaiian  islands,  Australia  and  Japan,  having  built  up  a  business  in  this  line 
of  over  thirty  thousand  dollars  a  month.  He  now  has  an  order  on  hand  for 
filling  a  contract  that  will  amount  to  fifty  thousand  dollars,  first  cost  at  this 
end.  He  has  invested  largely  in  timber  land,  owning  over  four  thousand 
acres  in  Kitsap  county,  wdiere  he  maintains  a  number  of  logging  camps  and 
during  the  busy  season  gives  employment  to  four  hundred  men.  ]n  addition 
he  purchases  about  three-fourths  as  many  poles  and  piles  as  lie  is  able  to  get 
out  himself.  He  furnished  the  first  poles  for  building  the  roads  both  in 
Portland  and  Tacoma,  and  supplies  the  traps  for  the  salmon  fishers  as  far  as 
the  Gulf  of  Georgia.  He  keeps  two  tugs  employed  throughout  the  year,  and 
during  the  busy  season  four  or  five  tugs.  Mr.  Folsom  has  done  considerable 
work  for  telegraph  companies  and  took  a  contract  to  cut  the  right  of  way  and 
furnish  the  poles  for  the  Western  Union  line  from  Seattle  to  the  British  Co- 
lumbia line,  a  w^ork  that  he  completed  in  sixty  days,  although  most  of  the 
way  lay  through  a  heavy  timber  region. 

In  June,  1890,  at  Olympia,  Mr.  Folsom  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Nellie  Hays,  a  daughter  of  John  P.  Hays,  a  retired  ranchman  who  came  to  the 


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northwest  in  1852.  He  served  as  Indian  agent  in  the  early  days  and  took 
part  in  the  Indian  war  of  1857.  He  was  born  in  Missouri  and  made  the  trip 
to  Cahfornia  at  the  time  of  the  excitement  over  the  discovery  of  gold  in  1849. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Folsom  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  Hazel,  who  is  now  a 
student  in  the  public  schools  and  stands  at  the  head  in  singing,  and  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Junior  Christian  Endeavor  society;  John  Hays;  and  Irbe.  Mrs. 
Folsom 'is  a  member  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  church.  Their  home 
is  located  in  Eighth  avenue  between  Seneca  and  Spring  streets  and  Mr.  Fol- 
som intends  erecting  a  fine  residence  on  Madison  street  in  the  near  future. 
His  political  affiliations  are  with  the  Republican  party,  but  he  has  never  taken 
a  very  active  part  in  politics,  as  his  extensive  business  mterests  require  his 
close  attention,  and  therefore  he  has  refused  to  accept  a  nomination  to  any 
office.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  of  a  number  of  fra- 
ternal organizations,  chief  among  which  are  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World. 

Such  in  brief  is  the  life  history  of  one  of  a  class  of  men  who  have  been  ni- 
strumental  in  the  rapid  development  and  improvement  of  this  wonderful 
country.  He  stands  as  a  worthy  example  of  what  may  be  accomplished  here 
by  close  attention  and  energy  combined  with  laudable  ambition.  After  the 
financial  panic  he  was  left  with  a  large  indebtedness  on  his  hands,  and  the 
profits  which  accrued  from  his  work  at  Everett  were  all  used  in  meeting  his 
obligations  at  Tacoma,  so  that  when  he  began  business  in  Seattle  he  had  prac- 
tically no  capital.  He  has,  however,  built  up  an  enterprise  the  profits  of  which 
have  never  fallen  below  ten  thousand  dollars  any  year  and  have  reached  as 
high  as  fifteen  thousand  dollars.  The  greater  part  of  this  he  has  invested  in 
timber  land,  so  that  he  will  realize  more  largely  in  the  future  from  his  pro- 
perty. His  office  is  in  the  new  Colman  dock  building  and  consists  of  a  fine 
suite  of  rooms  which  are  conveniently  furnished  and  arranged  for  the  dis- 
charge of  his  business  duties.  Mr.  Folsom  is  to-day  one  of  the  most  prom- 
inent representative  business  men  of  the  northwest,  possessing  marked  enter- 
prise, keen  discernment  and  capability. 

FRANK  H.  OSGOOD. 

In  the  past  ages  the  history  of  a  country  was  the  record  of  wars  and 
conquests;  to-day  it  is  the  record  of  commercial  activity,  and  those  whose 
names  are  foremost  in  its  annals  are  the  leaders  in  business  circles.  The  con- 
quests now  made  are  those  of  mind  over  matter,  not  of  man  over  man,  and 
the  victor  is  he,  who  can  successfully  establish,  control  and  operate  exten- 


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sive  business  interests.  Frank  H.  Osgood  is  one  of  those  strong  and  influen- 
tial men  whose  hves  have  become  an  essential  part  in  the  history  of  Seattle. 
As  president  of  the  Seattle  &  Renton  Electric  Railway  he  occupies  a  front 
rank  in  business  circles. 

Mr.  Osgood  was  born  in  Charleston,  Sullivan  county,  New  Hampshire, 
on  the  2d  of  February,  1852,  and  belongs  to  an  old  New  England  family  of 
English  origin,  which  was  founded  in  this  country  in  colonial  days,  his  an- 
cestors having  fought  for  American  independence  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
He  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  the  Colby  Aca- 
demy. Throughout  his  active  business  life  he  has  been  a  railroad  builder 
and  has  built  a  number  of  electirc  railways  in  the  northwest.  He  has  the 
distinction  of  building  and  having  put  in  operation  one  of  the  first  successful 
electric  roads  in  the  United  States.  Since  1884  he  has  been  a  resident  of 
Seattle  and  is  today  the  owner  of  the  Seattle  &  Renton  Railway,  having  pur- 
chased the  road  in  1895.  At  present,  it  is  the  only  road  outside  of  the  com- 
bination, and  under  his  able  management  it  is -now  in  successful  operation, 
Mr.  Osgood  has  other  heavy  interests  in  the  northwest,  principally  in  min- 
ing, timber  lands,  etc.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  and  was  treasurer 
of  the  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railway,  a  line  originally  designed  to 
give  Seattle  a  connection  with  some  trans-continental  road  from  the  east. 
It  was  purchased  by  the  Northern  Pacific  and  is  now  being  operated  as  a 
])art  of  that  system.  He  was  president  of  the  Seattle  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany from  its  inception  to  the  organization  of  the  Seattle  Railway  &  Power 
Company,  and  was  president  of  the  latter  company  which  is  now  a  part  of 
the  Seattle  Electric  Railway  Company.  Mr.  Osgood's  railway  buildging 
marks  a  distinct  period  in  the  history  of  the  state  as  he  was  the  builder  of  the 
first  street  lailway  in  Washington  territory. 

Li  1877  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Georgina  Arquit,  of  Brook- 
lyn, New  York,  who  presides  with  gracious  dignity  over  their  elegant  home. 
They  are  members  of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  Mr.  Osgood  is  also  a  member 
of  the  leading  clubs  of  the  city.  He  is  prominent  in  social,  as  well  as  busi- 
ness circles,  being  a  pleasant,  genial  and  polished  gentleman,  of  high  social 
qualities,  and  has  an  extensive  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances  who  esteem 
liim  highly  for  his  genuine  worth. 

ELEAZER  P.  WHFfNEY. 

Eleazer  P.  Whitney  and  his  estimable  wife  are  widely  known  in  Black 
Diamond  and  throughout  the  surrounding  district.  He  was  born  in  Harri- 
son, Cumberland  county,  Maine,  on  the  15th  of  February,   1846.     His  an- 

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cestors  were  descendants  of  John  Whitney,  who  came  to  the  New  England 
eoast  in  1641.  Many  representatives  of  the  family  have  figr.red  jirominently 
in  the  industrial  or  political  history  of  this  great  country  since  that  period. 
Direct  ancestors  of  Eleazer  P.  were  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  his  great- 
grandfather, Daniel  F.,  was  one  of  the  twelve  who  drove  the  British  out  of 
Portland,  Maine,  in  18 12.  Eleazer  P.  Whitney  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  of  his  native  county,  and  in  the  academy  at  Bridgton,  Maine.  In 
J 873  he  went  to  Chicago  and  was  employed  in  the  offices  of  the  Pittsburg  & 
Fort  Wayne  Railroad  Company  for  two  years,  and  for  the  succeeding  two 
years  he  was  stationed  at  Fort  Wayne,  Indiana,  in  the  employment  of  the 
same  corporation.  In  1877  he  went  to  San  Francisco,  California,  where  he 
was  engaged  in  the  teaming  and  transfer  business  for  two  years. 

Mr.  Whitney  was  married  in  September  in  1875,  to  Mary  E.  Dwyer, 
and  in  1879  they  came  to  Washington,  setthng  on  a  section  of  school  land  at 
Stuck,  King  county,  where  they  lived  for  five  years.  On  the  expiration  of 
that  period  they  sold  their  property  and  removed  to  the  Green  river  valley  in 
1884,  taking  up  a  homestead  on  the  beautiful  farm  on  which  they  have  since 
lived.  By  purchase  they  have  added  to  the  original  tract  until  they  now  have 
a  very  valuable  and  extensive  farm  of  three  hundred  and  nine  acres  located 
on  Green  river  about  nine  miles  from  Auburn,  and  on  the  line  of  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad.  It  is  also  four  miles  from  the  gold  mining  town  of  Blacky 
Diamond.  This  farm  is  devoted  to  dairying  and  to  general  agriculture.  All 
of  its  products  find  a  ready  sale  on  the  market  of  Black  Diamond,  which  has  a 
population  of  about  five  hundred  people. 

Mr.  Whitney  votes  the  Republican  ticket  and  has  firm  faith  in  the  plat- 
form of  the  party.  He  belongs  to  Diamond  Lodge  No.  83,  F.  &  A.  M.,  and 
1.0  the  Eastern  Star  chapter  at  Black  Diamond.  He  has  met  with  success  in 
his  business  affairs  and  is  to-day  accounted  one  of  the  progressive  and  enter- 
prising agriculturists  of  this  locality. 

Mr.  Whitney  has  been  ably  assisted  by  his  estimable  wife,  who  has  had 
a  long  career  of  notable  activity  and  is  well  known  not  only  in  the  west  but  in 
the  eastern  and  middle  states.  She  was  born  in  Syracuse,  New  York,  Jan- 
uary 22,  1838,  and  received  her  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  Syra- 
cuse, and  the  Pompeii  Seminary,  and  Fayetteville  Academy,  near  there,  her 
education  being  completed  under  the  direction  of  her  father,  who  was  an  ac- 
complished scholar,  and  he  well  prepared  his  talented  daughter  for  the  battle 
of  life.  She  engag'ed  in  school  teaching  in  the  vicinity  of  her  girlhood  home 
for  about  twelve  years.  In  1873  she  went  to  Chicago  and  for  three  years 
was  employed  there  as  a  drygoods  clerk.     During  that  time  she  first  became 


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known  as  a  forcible  writer  of  much  ability,  being  a  contributor  to  the  old 
Chicago  Times,  then  edited  and  published  by  Story.  She  won  the  warm 
personal  friendship  of  that  gentleman,  who  remained  her  friend  until  his 
death.  From  Chicago  Mrs.  Whitney  went  to  San  Francisco,  California,  in 
1875,  and  there  engaged  in  dressmaking  for  three  years.  As  above  stated, 
she  came  with  her  husband  to  Washington  in  1879  and  has  since  been  identi- 
fied with  the  interests  of  King  county  and  of  this  state,  principally  as  an 
earnest  and  forcible  reform  writer  for  various  newspapers  and  periodicals, 
both  of  the  east  and  of  the  west.  For  many  years  her  home  has  been  visited 
by  prominent  people  throughout  the  country,  who  delig-ht  in  the  lavish  hos- 
pitality bestowed  by  herself  and  very  excellent  husband. 

HARRY  A.  RASER. 

Harry  A.  Raser  is  one  of  the  busy,  energetic  and  prominent  business 
men  of  Seattle,  representing  insurance  and  loan  interests,  with  an  office  at 
210  Pioneer  building.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  city  since  1889,  arriv- 
ing just  after  the  great  conflagration  which  swept  over  Seattle,  and  has  con- 
tributed in  no  small  manner  to  its  upbuilding  and  since  that  time  he  has  taken 
an  active  part  in  its  progress  and  improvement.  A  native  of  Pennsylvania, 
he  was  born  in  Lewisburg,  Union  county,  on  the  i6th  of  December,  1852. 
The  origin  of  the  family  in  this  country  is  not  distinctly  known,  but  the  rec- 
ords can  be  traced  back  in  an  unbroken  line  to  Baltus  Raser,  who,  on  the  6th 
of  February,  1743,  married  Mary  Lucken,  according  to  the  custom  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  Mr.  Raser  has  a  copy  of  the  original  certificate,  which  is 
attested  by  the  congregation  then  present,  fifty-five  signatures  being  appended 
in  addition  to  those  of  the  contracting  parties.  Their  son  Bernard  Raser 
was  married  in  1790  to  Mary  Heyl,  a  daughter  of  Phillip  Heyl,  who  served 
in  the  Revolutionary  w^ar  as  an  ensign  in  the  regiment  of  Philadelphia  As- 
sociates under  command  of  Colonel  John  Cadwallader.  Bernard  Raser 
joined  this  company  February  2,  1775,  and  was  a  noted  member  of  the  same. 
He  was  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject.  His  son,  Bernard  Raser, 
served  in  the  war  of  181 2,  holding  the  rank  of  captain.  Of  the  six  children 
born  to  him,  Thomas  Raser  was  the  second  in  order  of  birth.  The  youngest 
was  a  daughter,  Mary,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  H.  Vincent.  Their 
son,  Reverend  John  H.  Vincent,  of  Topeka,  a  bishop  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  divines,  not  only  of  that  de- 
nomination, but  of  the  entire  country.  He  is  a  leader  of  great  ability,  of 
strong  mentality,  and  moreover  an  earnest  Christian  gentleman,  who  stands 


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as  a  type  of  honorable  manhood,  developed  by  Christian  principles.  In  the 
summer  of  1899  he  visited  Seattle,  and  was  entertained  in  the  home  of 
Mr.  Raser  of  this  review. 

Thomas  Raser,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Philadelphia 
August  26.  1793,  and  at  Chillisquaque,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  30th  of  Sep- 
tember, 1 841,  he  married  Elizabeth  Knight  Brown,  who  was  born  in  Sun- 
iuiry,  Pennsylvania,  June  8,  18 19.  In  early  life  he  was  a  contractor  and  also 
engaged  in  carrying  on  a  grist  and  sawmill  at  Chillisquaque  as  well  as  con- 
ducting a  farm  there.  In  all  his  business  affairs  he  was  very  successful  and 
was  a  man  of  influence  in  his  community.  \Mien  he  closed  out  his  in- 
dustrial interests  there  in  1854  and  removed  to  Waterford,  Erie  county, 
Pennsvlvania,  the  communitv  in  which  he  had  lived  felt  that  it  had  lost  one 
of  its  most  valued  representative  men.  After  taking  up  his  abode  in  Water- 
ford  he  lived  a  retired  life  until  called  to  his  final  rest  on  the  8th  of  De- 
cember, 1857.  He  left  a  comfortable  estate,  but  the  trustee  appointed  by 
the  court,  after  paying  the  interest  on  the  principal  for  three  years,  failed 
and  left  the  widow  helpless  with  the  care  of  seven  children. 

Harr}'  A.  Raser  then  started  out  to  gain  his  own  education.  While 
the  family  was  at  Waterford  he  pursued  his  studies  in  the  public  schools 
and  the  Waterford  Academy,  paying  for  his  tuition  at  the  academy  by 
serving  as  janitor  and  performing  other  duties  in  the  school.  In  1866  the 
family  moved  to  Erie,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  attended  the  Erie  Academy 
for  two  terms  and  in  April,  1867,  he  started  out  to  earn  his  own  way,  be- 
coming messenger  boy  in  the  employ  of  the  Western  Union  Telegraph  Com- 
pany at  Erie,  at  a  salary  of  fifteen  dollars  per  month.  He  was  then  four- 
teen years  of  age.  While  thus  engaged  he  learned  telegraphy  and  after- 
ward accepted  a  clerkship,  becoming  shippmg  clerk  for  the  Erie  &  Pitts- 
Ivarg  Railroad  at  Newcastle,  Pennsylvania.  In  1869,  when  the  Pennsylvania 
Company  leased  the  Erie  &  Pittsburg  Railroad,  he  was  employed  by  the 
new  corporation  and  filled  various  positions,  such  as  telegraph  operator, 
ticket  and  freight  agent.  He  was  stationed  at  various  places  on  the  Erie 
■k  Ashtabula  divisions  of  the  Pennsylvania  Company's  system  and  remained 
with  that  corporation  continuously  until  1889,  with  the  exception  of  the 
years  1873  and  1874  spent  as  bookkeeper  in  the  employ  of  the  Shenango 
Furnace  Company  at  West  Middlesex,  Pennsylvania. 

In  1889  ;Mr.  Raser  took  a  vacation  of  two  months,  and  made  a  trip 
to  San  Francisco.  There  he  met  a  friend  who  gave  such  glowing  accounts 
of  business  opportunities  for  young  men  in  the  Puget  Sound  country  that 
r\Ir.   Raser  decided   to   sever   his   connection   with  the   Pennsylvania   Com- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  413 

pany,  go  north  and  locate  with  his  friend  in  Tacoma.  Going  to  Seattle 
a  few  days  later,  and  noting  its  great  business  activity,  he  concluded  "Seat- 
tle was  good  enough  for  him."  He  at  once  engaged  in  the  loan  and  gen- 
eral insurance  business,  a  little  later  becoming  a  partner  in  the  W.  L.  Gaggan 
Company.  The  business  was  afterwards  reorganized  under  the  firm  name 
of  Goodwin,  Raser  &  Fisken,  under  which  title  operations  were  continued 
until  1895,  when  Mr.  Goodwin  sold  his  interest  to  his  ]>artners.  They 
continued  the  business  under  the  firm  name  of  Raser  &  Fisken.  Since  1899 
Mr.  Raser  has  had  no  partner,  conducting  a  general  insurance  and  loan 
business  at  210  Pioneer  building.  The  insurance  department  embraces  fire, 
life,  marine,  accident,  burglar,  plate  glass,  surety  bonds,  liability  and  excess 
credit. 

On  the  25th  of  July,  1897,  Mr.  Raser  joined  the  first  rush  to  the  Klon- 
dike, taking  passage  on  the  steamship  "Mexico."  He  reached  Skagway  before 
the  White  Pass  trail  had  been  blazed  through.  Those  who  accomplished 
that  perilous  journey  that  year  know  only  too  well  the  hardships  endured  and 
difficulties  encountered  during  the  two  months  required  to  make  the  trip 
to  Bennett.  At  Bennett,  with  his  partner,  he  whip-sawed  lumber  and  built 
a  boat  in  which  they  made  the  trip  to  Da\'^on,  accomplishing  what,  at  that 
time,  was  considered  a  great  feat,  namely,  going  through  Miles  canyon  and 
shooting  the  White  Horse  rapids  without  a  pilot,  and  with  all  their  goods 
on  board.  On  the  morning  of  November  loth  they  found  themselves  op- 
posite Dawson  in  mid-stream,  their  boat  wedged  in  an  ice  gorge  which  was 
moving  rapidly  down  the  river.  Before  them  lay  the  objective  point  of 
those  weeks  of  toil  and  hardship,  but  they  were  powerless  to  reach  it.  No 
mortal  hand  could  stay  the  on-rushing  of  that  field  of  ice.  Anxiously  watch- 
ing the  shore,  they  noticed  a  lessening  of  their  speed  and  when  exactly 
opposite  the  sawmill  in  Dawson,  to  their  great  surprise  and  rejoicing  the 
gorge  stopped,  attracting  the  attention  of  those  on  shore;  boards  were  laid 
across  the  ice  to  them  and  their  goods  were  carried  to  land.  No  sooner  had 
they  reached  the  land  than  the  gorge  broke  away,  carrying  off  their  boat, 
and  it  seemed  that  the  temporary  stoppage  was  providential.  This  was  the 
last  boat  to  reach  Dawson  that  year.  Mr.  Raser  had  a  varied  experience 
in  the  Klondike.  He  secured  a  lay  claim  on  No.  7,  below  Bonanza,  and 
performed  all  the  various  duties  incumbent  upon  miners  on  those  days.  In 
August,  1889,  with  two  others,  he  started  down  the  Yukon  for  St.  ]\Iichaels 
in  a  double  end  scow,  making  two  thousand  miles  in  twenty  days,  reaching 
St.  Michaels  in  time  to  catch  the  Humboldt  on  her  last  trip  to  Seattle  that 
year. 


414  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

At  Greenfield,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  20th  of  October,  1875,  ^^-  Raser 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  May  W.  Iddings,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Warren 
Iddings,  of  Warren,  Trumbull  county,  Ohio,  and  a  granddaughter  of  Thomas 
Denny  Webb,  a  noted  attorney  of  the  western  reserve,  in  which  he  served 
as  a  circuit  judge.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Raser  have  three  children,  Carrie  Beth, 
Laura,  and  Charles  Iddings.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Raser  is  a  Republi- 
can and  has  served  as  a  delegate  to  party  conventions,  but  has  never  sought 
or  desired  office.  He  is  quite  prominent  in  social  and  fraternal  circles, 
and  his  wife  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Queen  Anne  Fortnightly  Club,  of  which 
she  is  now  serving  as  treasurer.  Mr.  Raser  belongs  to  St.  John's  Lodge 
No.  9,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  Masonic  work  and 
holds  membership  in  Seattle  Chapter  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.,  Seattle  Commandery 
No.  2,  K.  T.,  of  which  he  is  a  past  eminent  commander  and  is  a  member 
of  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Tacoma.  He  is  also  connected  with 
the  order  of  the  Sons  of  the  American  Revolution.  In  reli«-ious  views  he 
is  a  Presbyterian  and  has  been  an  active  and  energetic  member,  filling  various 
offices  in  the  past.  Since  coming  to  Seattle  Mr.  Raser  has  been  numbered 
among  the  representative  citizens,  taking  a  deep  interest  in  the  progress  and 
upbuilding  of  the  northwest,  prominent  and  reliable  in  business  and  pop- 
ular in-  social  circles,  he  well  deserves  mention  in  this  volume. 

SYLVESTER    GOODRICH. 

Sylvester  Goodrich  has  resided  upon  the  Pacific  coast  almost  continu- 
ously for  a  half  century,  having  taken  up  his  abode  in  California  in  1852. 
He  is  therefore  largely  familiar  with  the  history  of  -the  miprovement  and 
settlement  as  also  of  the  upbuilding  of  this  portion  of  the  country.-  The 
width  of  the  continent  separates  him  from  the  place  of  his  birth,  for  he 
was  born  in  Rome,  New  York,  on  the  i6th  of  November,  1831.  He  came 
of  an  old  New  England  family,  his  father,  Isaac  Goodrich,  having  been 
born  in  Connecticut,  where  he  was  reared  by  an  uncle,  his  father  having  died 
when  he  was  but  a  child.  When  seventeen  years  of  age,  Isaac  Goodrich 
removed  from  Connecticut  to  Oneida  county.  New  York,  where  he  became 
a  prosperous  farmer.  He  was  united  in  wedlock  to  Miss  Mary  Hollister,  a 
native  of  the  Empire  state,  and,  like  her  husband,  of  English  descent.  He 
died  on  the  old  farm  in  i860  and  she  continued  to  make  her  home  there 
until  called  to  her  final  rest  in   1870. 

To  the  public  school  system  of  Oneida  county.  New  York,  Sylvester 
Goodrich  is  indebted  for  the  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed  in  his 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  415 

youth.  At  an  early  age  he  was  trained  to  habits  of  industry,  economy  and 
honesty.  He  worked  in  field  and  meadow,  thus  assisting  his  father  until  he 
was  twenty  years  of  age,  when,  with  a  desire  to  see  some  of  the  world 
and  gain  a  fortune,  he  left  home  in  1852  and  went  by  way  of  the  Isthmus 
of  Panama  to  California,  attracted  by  the  discovery  of  gold  in  that  state. 
For  six  months  after  his  arrival  he  was  engaged  in  mining  at  Placerville, 
and  then  made  a  short  visit  to  Portland,  Oregon,  after  which  he  returned 
to  California  and  spent  three  years  in  the  various  placer  mining  districts 
of  that  state.  About  1872  we  went  to  Colorado  and  was  engaged  in  min- 
ing in  the  regions  of  Leadville  and  Denver,  Pueblo  and  Durango,  for  about 
ten  years.  In  1888  he  went  to  Seattle,  and  erected  a  business  house  on 
Jackson  street,  which,  however,  was  destroyed  in  the  great  fire  which  swept 
over  the  city  in  1889.  Mr.  Goodrich  then  came  to  Auburn,  which  has  since 
been  his  home.  He  and  his  two  step-sons,  Walter  and  Arthur,  keep  a  public 
house  in  this  town.  Mr.  Goodrich  has  also  accumulated  a  considerable 
amount  of  town  and  farm  property,  having  a  tract  of  thirteen  and  one-half 
acres  a  mile  and  a  half  from  Auburn,  together  with  a  valuable  farm  ad- 
joining the  town  and  lying  on  both  sides  of  White  river.  This  he  purchased 
in  1 90 1,  laid  it  off  in  town  lots  and  this  addition  to  Auburn  is  destined  to 
be  a  popular  building  district  of  this  growing  place. 

Mr.  Goodrich  has  been  twice  married.  In  Canajoharie,  Montgomery 
county,  New  York,  he  was  joined  in  wedlock  in  1856  to  Mary  E.  Thorp, 
v/ho  was  born  in  that  place  in  1831,  and  died  in  Duranga,  Colorado,  in  1884, 
after  traveling  life's  journey  with  him  for  twenty-eight  years.  In  Febru- 
ary, 1895,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Goodrich  and  Mrs.  Anna  Rummel, 
who  was  born  in  Germany  in  1858.  By  her  former  marriage  she  had  four 
children :     Walter,  Arthur,  George  and  Viola. 

Mr.  Goodrich  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men 
and  measures  of  the  Republican  party  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  local 
political  affairs,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  growth  and  insure 
the  success  of  the  principles  in  which  he  believes.  He  became  a  member  of 
the  Masonic  order  in  New  York,  and  since  locating  in  Aul)urn  he  has  be- 
come a  member  of  the  order  of  Red  Men.  The  story  of  mining  experiences 
in  the  west  from  the  early  days  of  the  development  of  the  gold  regions  of 
California  is  familiar  to  him  through  actual  experience.  He  has  witnessed 
much  of  the  substantial  upbuilding  and  progress  of  this  section  of  the  coun- 
try and  has  ever  been  deeply  interested  in  what  has  been  accomplished  here. 
In  his  own  career  he  has  shown  that  industry  and  determination  are  valuable 
requisites  in  winning  success. 


4i6  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

MRS.  S.  J.  BOGART. 

Deeply  engraved  on  the  pages  of  pioneer  history  of  King  county  is  the 
name  of  Mrs.  S.  J.  Bogart,  for  she  was  one  of  the  first  to  locate  m  the  Ever- 
green state.  Her  history  forms  a  connecting  link  between  the  primitive  past 
and  the  enterprising  present,  from  the  days  of  dugouts,  sod  houses  and  unim- 
proved farms  to  those  of  marked  prosperity,  and  during  all  these  years  she 
has  so  ordered  her  life  as  to  gain  the  love  and  esteem  of  all  who  have  had  the 
pleasure  of  her  acquaintance. 

Mrs.  Bogart  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Nancy  Matilda  Ilembree,  and  her 
birth  occurred  in  Springfield,  Missouri,  on  the  3d  of  May,  1837,  being  a 
daughter  of  Captain  A.  J.  and  Nancy  (Dodson)  Hembree,  who  were  well 
known  residents  of  Tennessee.  In  1843  the  family  started  on  the  long  and 
tiresome  journey  to  the  west,  being  piloted  across  the  plains  by  the  noted 
Marcus  Whitman,  and  their  objective  point  was  Oregon.  The  journey  was 
full  of  perilous  adventures  and  miraculas  escapes,  not  only  from  the  hostile 
savage,  but  by  loss  of  stock,  for  the  want  of  water  and  food,  as  they  slowly 
A\-ended  their  way  across  the  sandy  deserts.  Sometimes  there  would  come 
up  a  terrific  storm,  the  tents  would  be  torn  from  their  fastenings,  their  con- 
tents scattered  to  the  four  winds,  and  the  poor  women  and  children  would 
stand  huddled  together  or  crouched  beneath  the  wagons,  their  only  protec- 
tion from  the  pitiless  rain.  There  were  both  deaths  and  births  on  the  road. 
One  boy  was  run  over  by  a  wagon  and  killed.  The  dead  were  tenderly  laid 
away  in  rude  caskets,  made  of  boxes  or  whatever  could  be  procured,  and 
companies  following  would  find  the  graves  desecrated  by  the  Indians,  the 
bodies  being  left  to  the  mercy  of  the  prairie  wolf.  They  were  a  forlorn  and 
weary  crowd  wdien  they  arrived  on  the  Columbia  river,  where  Dalles  City 
now  stands.  Learning  that  they  could  go  no  farther  with  their  wagons, 
they  hired  Indians  to  take  them  down  the  river  in  boats.  Any  one  that  has 
e^•er  seen  the  rocks,  whirlpools,  and  cascades  for  which  the  Columbia  river 
is  noted  between  there  and  Portland  can  have  a  faint  idea  of  the  dangerous  un- 
dertaking before  them.  Often  the  water  would  dash  over  the  boat,  completely 
drenching  the  occupants,  when  they  would  land,  build  bonfires  and  dry  their 
clothes  and  bedding.  The  men  would  then  tow  the  boats  until  they  reached 
smoother  water,  while  the  women  would  climb  over  the  rocks  and  logs  along 
the  shore,  carrying  and  dragging  their  little  ones  with  them  until  they  could 
take  passage  again.  Six  months  were  consumed  ere  the  little  party  arrived  in 
Oregon  City,  then  a  trading  post  of  the  Hudson  Bay  Company.  During  the 
journey  down  the  river  a  young  girl  died  and  was  buried  on  the  present 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  417 

site  of  Portland,  then  a  dense  wilderness.  After  remaining  one  year  in  Ore- 
gon City,  Mr.  Hembree  secured  a  claim  in  Yamhill  county,  that  state,  and 
there  the  daughter,  Nancy  Matilda,  attended  the  district  schools,  her  instruc- 
tor being  the  well  known  Judge  Deady.  Her  father  served  as  captain  of  a 
company  during  the  Indian  war  of  1855  ^^'^^  ^^5^  ^^^d  was  killed  in  battle 
near  where  Yakima  now  stands.  His  mutilated  body  was  brought  home 
and  laid  to  rest  with  Masonic  and  military  honors  at  the  homestead,  which 
he  had  given  his  life  to  obtain.  His  widow  after  surviving  him  twenty 
years,  rejoined  her  beloved  husband  in  the  home  beyond.  In  Yamhill  coun- 
ty, Oregon,  Miss  Hembree  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  H.  H.  Snow,  a 
merchant,  and  in  1877  they  came  to  Renton,  King  county,  Washington, 
where  Mr.  Snow  established  a  mercantile  business,  thus  continuing  until  his 
death.  This  union  resulted  in  the  birth  of  ten  children,  of  whom  three  are 
living,  namely :  Algenora,  who  became  the  wife  of  F.  W.  Martin,  of  Ore- 
gon; Izella,  who  married  J.  A.  Morris,  of  Renton;  and  Willard  R.,  a  resi- 
dent of  Minnesota.  In  1891  Mrs.  Snow  was  united  in  marriage  to  S.  J. 
i^ogart,  and  they  now  reside  in  a  beautiful  home  in  Renton,  where  they  dis- 
pense a  gracious  hospitality  to  their  many  friends  and  acquaintances.  Mrs. 
Bogart  is  a  member  of  the  Pioneer  society  and  as  far  as  can  be  ascertained, 
there  are  none  in  Washington  and  but  few  in  Oregon  that  crossed  the  plains 
at  the  time  she  did.  The  emigrants  of  1843  were  the  first  to  cross  the  plains 
in  wagons.  She  is  well  known  as  a  writer  and  has  contributed  many  in- 
teresting articles  to  the  local  papers  and  magazines  of  early  reminiscences  of 
the  pioneer  days. 

JOHN    MUELLER. 

The  subject  of  this  review  has  well  earned  the  proud  American  title  of 
a  self-made  man,  for  in  the  active  world  of  business  he  has  overcome  dif- 
ficulties and  obstacles,  and  unaided  has  worked  his  way  upward  until  he 
is  now  numbered  among  the  most  prosperous  representatives  of  the  busi- 
ness interest  of  the  commonwealth.  With  signal  consistency  it  may  there- 
fore be  said  that  he  is  the  architect  of  his  own  fortune,  for  through  his  own 
exertions  he  has  attained  the  honorable  position  he  now  occupies  as  super- 
intendent of  the  Seattle  Brewing  and  Malting  Company.  Mr.  Mueller  was 
born  in  the  Rhine-Pfaltz  district  of  Germany  on  the  4th  of  November,  1 861, 
his  parents  being  Adam  and  Eliese  (Blaesi)  Mueller,  both  also  natives  of 
the  fatherland.  In  this  family  were  eight  children,  all  of  whom  came  to 
America,  and  seven  of  the  number  are  still  living,  namely :     Daniel,  Theo- 


41 8  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

dore,  John,  Adam,  Katie,  Lottie  and  Jacob.  Adam  Mueller,  the  father, 
was  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  toys  and  in  clay  work  in 
his  native  land. 

John  Mueller,  the  third  child  in  order  of  birth  in  the  above  family, 
left  the  parental  home  at  the  age  of  twelve  years  and  became  an  apprentice 
at  the  brewer's  trade,  at  which  he  served  for  two  years,  the  latter  part  of 
which  was  spent  in  the  city  of  Kaiserslautern.  About  this  time  Mr. 
Mueller  was  imbued  with  a  desire  to  seek  a  field  of  broader  opportunities 
for  his  labors  and  accordingly  came  to  America,  making  the  journey  alone, 
but  in  Chicago,  Illinois,  he  joined  two  of  his  brothers  who  had  preceded 
him  to  the  new  world.  After  his  arrival  here  he  found  employment  at 
the  brewer's  trade  in  Blue  Island,  Illinois,  where  he  remained  for  two 
years,  on  the  expiration  of  which  period  he  removed  to  Ottawa,  Illinois, 
being  at  that  time  eighteen  years  of  age.  In  the  latter  city  he  assumed  the 
position  of  foreman  of  a  brewery,  and  in  1880  he  went  to  New  York  to 
enter  the  bre^vers'  academy,  where  he  completed  a  year's  course  in  general 
studies,  together  with  the  technic  of  the  brewer's  trade.  Returning  thence 
to  Chicago,  Illinois,  Mr.  Mueller  was  employed  during  the  following  four 
years  as  foreman  for  the  Ernst  Brothers  brewing  house,  while  for  the  suc- 
ceeding three  and  a  half  years  he  was  foreman  for  the  firm  of  Lutz  &  Son 
at  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  and  in  1891  he  came  to  Seattle  and  assumed 
the  position  of  foreman  for  the  Claussen  &  Sweney  Brewing  Company,  soon 
securing  an  interest  in  that  industry.  In  1893,  however,  the  company  was 
consolidated  with  two  others,  and  the  Seattle  Brewing  and  Malting  Com- 
pany was  organized,  of  which  Mr.  Alueller  was  chosen  superintendent  in 
1893.  The  company  soon  began  remodeling  and  enlarging  their  old  plant 
at  Georgetown,  and  within  the  last  two  years  two  new  buildings  have  been 
erected,  which  occupy  about  five  acres  of  ground  and  represent  an  outlay 
of  four  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars.  This  is  the  largest  as  well  as 
the  most  modern  and  best  equipped  establishment  of  the  kind  west  of  the 
Mississippi  river.  In  addition  to  his  interest  in  this  valuable  establishment 
Mr.  Mueller  is  also  financially  connected  with  the  firm  of  I\Iueller  Brothers 
of  Chicago,  the  business  of  which  is  conducted  by  three  brothers,  Theo- 
dore, Daniel  and  Jacob.  Mr.  Mueller  of  this  review  is  interested  in  many 
local  improvements  in  Seattle,  and  for  four  years  has  served  as  a  member 
of  the  school  board.  The  application  of  his  thorough  business  methods 
has  resulted  in  the  removal  of  a  heavy  debt  from  this  district  and  has  re- 
sulted in  general  improvement. 

On  the  28th  of  May,  1889,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Mueller  and 


SEATTLE  AND  KING  COUNTY.  4^9 

Miss  Bertha  Diesing,  and  this  union  has  resulted  in  the  birth  of  three  chil- 
dren, Minnie,  Chester  and  Margery.  The  family  reside  in  a  pleasant  and 
commodious  residence  in  Georgetown,  which  was  erected  in  1892,  and  there 
hospitality  reigns  supreme.  Religiously  Mr.  Mueller  was  reared  in  the 
Lutheran  faith,  and  in  his  political  relations  he  is  allied  with  the  Republican 
party.  He  is  an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  Republicanism,  and  has  many 
times  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  county  and  state  conventions  of  his  party, 
but  he  has  never  been  an  aspirant  for  the  honors  or  emoluments  of  public 
office.  His  character  and  position  strongly  illustrates  the  fact  that  if  a  young 
man  but  possesses  the  high  attributes  of  mind  and  heart  he  can  readily  at- 
tain to  a  point  of  unmistakable  precedence  and  gain  for  himself  a  place  among 
the  leading  business  men  of  his  community,  and  it  proves  that  the  road  to 
success  is  open  for  all  young  men  who  have  the  courage  to  tread  its  path- 
way. His  life  record  should  serve  as  an  inspiration  to  the  young  of  this 
and  future  generations  and  teach  by  incontrovertible  facts  that  success  is 
ambition's  end. 

ANDREW   HEMRICH. 

With  a  deep  and  abiding  interest  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  in  its  progress 
and  improvement,  Andrew  Hemrich  has  done  much  for  its  advancement, 
laboring  earnestly  along  lines  that  have  contributed  to  its  material  upbuild- 
ing. He  is  therefore  known  as  one  of  its  valued  citizens.  He  is  further- 
more prominent  in  business  affairs  and  a  recognized  leader  in  the  ranks  of 
the  Republican  party,  on  whose  ticket  he  was  elected  to  the  office  of  state 
senator  in  1898,  so  that  he  is  now  serving. 

Mr.  Hemrich  was  born  in  Alma,  Wisconsin,  October  31,  1856,  and  is  a 
son  of  John  and  Catherine  (Koeppel)  Hemrich,  both  of  whom  were  natives 
of  Germany,  the  father  having  been  born  in  Baden,  while  the  mothers  birth 
occurred  in  Bavaria.  In  youth  they  came  to  America  and  the  father  traveled 
across  the  country  in  a  covered  wagon  from  Rochester,  New  York,  to  Iowa, 
stopping  for  a  while  at  Mount  Vernon,  Indiana,  thus  making  his  way  to  Keo- 
kuk, Iowa,  where  he  engaged  in  the  brewing  business.  He  followed  that  pursuit 
until  1852,  when  he  loaded  his  brewery  appliances  and  fixtures  upon  a  barge 
which  was  towed  to  Alma,  Wisconsin.  There  he  again  established  a  brewery, 
which  he  successfully  conducted  for  thirty  years.  In  1884  he  came  to  Seat- 
tle, where  his  son  Andrew  had  previously  located,  and  joined  him  in  the 
organization  and  incorporation  of  the  Bay  View  Brewing  Company,  which 
was  conducted  under  the  firm  name  until    1893,   when  it  became  the  Bay 


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View  branch  of  the  Seattle  Brewing  and  Making  Company.  About  1891 
John  Hemrich  retired  from  active  business  hfe,  enjoying  a  well  merited 
rest  until  called  to  his  final  home  in  1897.  His  wife  still  survives  him  and 
resides  at  the  old  home  in  Bay  View.  He  was  a  very  active  and  energetic 
business  man,  reliable  in  all  his  trade  transactions  and  his  industry  and 
capable  management  brought  to  him  splendid  success.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Democrat  and  during  the  war  of  the  rebellion  served  as  sheriff  of  Buffalo 
county,  Wisconsin.  To  him  and  his  wife  were  born  ten  children :  Edwin, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  six  years;  George,  who  passed  away  at  the  age  of 
eighteen;  Louise,  who  became  the  wife  of  John  Lick,  and  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty-four;  Matilda,  who  married  John  Lick,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-nine  years ;  Andrew,  whose  name  introduces  this  review ;  John,  who 
is  living  retired;  Emma,  the  widow  of  Frederick  Kirschner;  William,  who 
is  connected  with  the  Bay  View^  Brewer}^ ;  Alvin  and  Louis,  who  are  members 
of  the  firm  of  Hemrich  Brothers. 

During  his  boyhood  days  Andrew  Hemrich  pursued  his  education  in 
the  common  schools,  which  he  attended  until  fourteen  years  of  age.  He 
then  left  home  and  went  to  the  wild  mining  regions  of  the  west,  spending 
about  ten  or  twelve  years  on  the  prairies  of  Colorado,  NcA-ada,  Idaho  and 
Montana.  He  was  there  engaged  in  mining  and  was  also  connected  with 
brewing  interests,  establishing  a  brewery  at  Glendale,  Montana,  which  he 
conducted  for  several  years.  He  then  sold  his  plant  there  and  accepted  a 
position  as  manager  superintendent  of  the  Bozeman  Brewing  Company  of 
Bozeman,  Montana.  He  occupied  that  position  for  two  years  and  upon  re- 
signing he  came  to  Seattle  in  accordance  with  plans  perfected  to  establish  a 
brewery  business  in  company  with  John  Kopp. 

'Mr.  Hemrich  arrived  in  this  city  February  18,  1883,  and  has  since  been 
one  of  its  residents,  active  in  its  business  affairs  and  a  recognized  leader  in 
political  circles.  The  same  year  he  established  a  business  at  Bay  View  under 
the  firm  name  of  Kopp  &  Hemrich,  which  business  was  conducted  for  two 
years,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he  was  joined  by  his  father,  John  Hemrich, 
and  his  brother-in-law,  Frederick  Kirschner,  in  the  organization  and  in- 
corporation of  the  Bay  View  Brewing  Company,  which  was  conducted  under 
that  style  until  1893.  The  business  was  then  merged  into  the  Seattle  Brew- 
wing  and  Malting  Company,  whose  trade  has  grown  from  a  modest  beginn- 
ing to  mammoth  proportions,  and  it  is  now  the  largest  establishment  of  the 
kind  on  the  coast.  In  addition  to  the  plant  at  Bay  View,  there  has  been  a  col- 
lossal  new  brick  structure  erected  at  Georgetown.  It  required  three  years  in 
its  construction  and  has  just  been  completed.     It  now  has  a  capacity  of  three 


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hundred  thousand  barrels  per  year.  The  brand  "Ranier"'  is  as  famous  on 
the  coast  as  the  Pabst  and  Schhtz  brews  are  in  the  middle  and  eastern  section 
of  the  country.  Mr.  Hemrich  was  chosen  president  on  the  organization  of 
the  new  company  and  still  serves  in  that  capacity.  He  has  excellent  business 
ability  and  executive  force,  his  plans  are  readily  and  substantially  formed  and 
he  is  determined  in  their  execution  and  carries  forth  to  a  successful  conclu- 
sion whatever  he  commences,  brooking  no  ol^stacles  that  can  be  overcome  by 
persistent,  honorable  and  earnest  effort. 

Mr.  Hemrich  has  long  been  deeply  interested  in  important  measures  for 
the  improvement  and  upbuilding  of  Seattle.  He  was  one  or  the  organizers 
and  is  vice-president  of  the  Seattle  and  Lake  Washington  Water-way  Com- 
pany, and  many  other  interests  of  importance  owe  their  successful  existence 
to  his  wise  counsel  and  active  co-operation.  No  movement  or  measure  cal- 
culated to  prove  of  benefit  to  the  city  solicits  his  aid  in  vain,  for  he  has  ever 
been  a  generous  contributor  to  every  interest  for  the  general  good.  In  poli- 
tical affairs,  too,  he  is  well  known,  and  has  labored  earnestly  and  effectively 
for  the  improvement  and  growth  of  the  Republican  party,  of  which  he  has 
long  been  a  stalwart  and  earnest  supporter.  He  was  elected  in  1898  on  that 
licket  to  the  office  of  state  senator  and  is  still  occupying  this  position.  He 
has  given  due  consideration  to  all  matters  which  have  come  up  for  action  and 
has  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  legislation  enacted  during 
his  term. 

In  November,  1884,  Mr.  Hemrich  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  ]\Iaria 
Hucke,  a  native  of  Germany,  and  to  them  have  been  born  five  children :  John, 
Alvin,  Ernest,  Katie  G.  and  Charles.  The  family  have  a  fine  residence  at 
Bay  View,  which  was  erected  by  Mr.  Hemrich  in  1892.  He  has  been  and  is 
distinctively  a  man  of  affairs  and  one  who  has  wielded  wide  influence.  A 
strong  mentality,  an  invincible  courage  and  a  most  determined  individuality 
have  so  entered  into  his  makeup  as  to  render  him  a  natural  leader  of  men  and 
director  of  things. 

JOHN  P.  HARTMAN. 

The  profession  of  the  law,  wdien  clothed  with  its  true  dignity,  purity 
and  strength,  must  rank  first  among  the  callings  of  man,  for  law  rules  the 
universe.  The  work  of  the  legal  profession  is  to  formulate,  to  harmonize, 
to  regulate,  to  adjust,  to  administer  those  rules  and  principles  that  underlie 
and  permeate  all  government  and  society  and  control  the  varied  relations  of 
men.     As  thus  viewed  there  is  attached  to  the  legal  profession  a  nobleness 


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that  cannot  but  be  reflected  in  the  Hfe  of  the  true  lawyer,  who,  rising  to  the 
responsibihties  of  the  profession,  and  honest  in  the  pursuit  of  his  purpose, 
embraces  the  richness  of  learning  and  the  purity  of  morals,  together  with  the 
graces  and  modesty  and  the  general  amenities  of  life.  Of  such  a  type  John 
P.  Hartman  is  a  representative.  He  has  resided  in  the  Sound  country  for 
eleven  years  and  during  this  time  has  made  rapid  progress  in  his  chosen 
calling. 

Mr.  Hartman  was  born  in  Fountain  county,  Indiana,  July  3,  1857,  and 
comes  of  a  family  of  German  lineage  that  was  established  in  America  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  years  ago,  the  first  representatives  of  the  name  in  this  country 
being  among  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  Carolinas.  They  followed  agricultural 
pursuits.  George  Hartman,  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  and  one 
of  his-  brothers  were  soldiers  of  the  Revolutionary  war,  serving  under  Gene- 
ral Francis  Marion,  the  noted  "Swamp  Fox."  They  had  to  live  upon  acorns 
and  sweet  potatoes  and  when  visited  by  a  British  officer  the  latter  remarked 
that  men  who  lived  in  such  a  way  could  not  be  defeated.  John  P.  Hartman, 
the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Carolina  and  carried  on  agricul- 
tural pursuits  and  in  1822  removed  to  Indiana,  casting  in  his  lot  among  the 
first  settlers  of  the  part  of  the  state  in  which  he  located.  He  secured  land 
from  the  government  and  had  a  patent  which  bore  the  personal  signature  of 
President  Andrew  Jackson.  This  land  is  still  in  the  possession  of  his  de- 
scendants. The  father  of  our  subject  also  bore  the  name  of  John  P.  Hart- 
man and  was  born  upon  the  family  homestead  in  Fountain  county,  Indiana, 
and  reared  to  farm  life,  carrying  on  agricultural  pursuits  throughout  his  en- 
lire  business  career,  but  at  the  present  time  he  is  living  retired.  He  served  in 
the  Sixty-third  Indiana  Infantry  for  two  years  during  the  Civil  war.  He 
then  entered  the  regular  army  and  was  mustered  out  with  the  rank  of  colonel 
in  1865.  He  joined  the  army  as  a  private,  but  his  meritorious  conduct  and 
}ns  valor  won  him  promotion  until  he  became  the  commander  of  his  regi- 
ment. He  was  with  the  Army  of  the  Tennessee  for  two  years  and  afterward 
with  General  Sedgwick's  corps  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  took  part 
in  most  of  the  engagements  with  which  those  divisions  of  the  army  were  con- 
nected and  was  at  the  head  of  the  first  regiment  to  enter  Richmond.  He  was 
never  captured  or  seriously  wounded,  although  he  was  often  in  the  thickest 
of  the  fight  and  had  many  close  calls.  On  one  occasion  there  were  twelve  or 
fifteen  bullet  holes  in  his  clothing  and  in  his  hat.  In  the  year  1873  he  went 
to  Nebraska,  where  he  took  up  land  and  engaged  in  general  farmJng  and 
stock  business  for  a  number  of  years.  Later  he  sold  his  property  interests 
in  that  state  and  removed  to  Indiana  once  more.     He  is  a  very  active  and  in- 


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fluential  member  of  the  United  Brethren  church,  serving  as  one  of  its  officers, 
and  his  hfe  has  ever  been  in  harmony  with  its  teachings.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Mary  Sines,  and  imto  them  were  born  seven  children,  of 
whom  three  died  in  infancy,  while  only  two  are  yet  living,  the  sister  of  our 
subject  being  Mrs.  Mary  Torger.     The  mother  has  also  passed  away. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  John  P.  Hartman  gained  his 
early  education,  which  was  afterward  continued  in  the  state  university  of 
Nebraska.  He  went  to  that  state  with  his  father  in  the  year  1873.  It  was 
then  a  wild  district,  buffalo  ranged  over  the  prairies  and  Indians  were  num- 
erous. The  land  was  wild  and  uncultivated  and  the  work  of  development 
and  progress  had  scarcely  been  begun.  There  were  few  farms,  but  over  the 
broad  prairies  were  seen  large  herds  of  cattle  in  charge  of  cow-boys,  and  Mr. 
Hartman  became  one  of  their  number.  Later  he  attended  the  state  uni- 
versity and  subsequently  was  connected  with  the  aigineering  corps  of  the 
LTnion  Pacific  Railroad  for  a  year,  but  thinking  that  he  would  prefer  the  prac- 
tice of  law  as  a  life  work  he  began  studying  for  the  profession  in  Kearney, 
Nebraska,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1883.  He  then  practiced  in  that 
place  until  1891,  when  he  came  to  the  west,  settling  first  in  Tacoma,  and  in 
1896  he  removed  to  Seattle.  Since  his  arrival  upon  the  coast  he  has  been 
very  successful  in  the  practice  of  his  chosen  profession,  devoting  his  time  al- 
most exclusively  to  corporation  law.  He  has  a  well  selected  and  extensive 
libraiy  and  is  the  representative  of  many  of  the  large  firms  and  business 
houses  of  this  city.  He  has  studied  closely  and  carefully  the  great  questions 
of  jurisprudence,  and  in  the  handling  of  his  cases  demonstrates  his  superior 
skill  and  ability.  To  some  extent  Mr.  Hartman  has  been  engaged  in  real 
estate  dealing  and  has  erected  some  buildings  in  the  city,  both  residence  and 
business  property.  He  also  has  farming  interests  at  Kent.  He  was  reared 
upon  a  farm  and  has  always  had  a  liking  for  the  occupation.  His  invest- 
ments have  been  judiciously  and  carefully  made  and  haxe  brought  him  a 
good  financial  return. 

On  September  16,  1883,  Mr.  Hartman  was  married  at  New  Helena, 
Nebraska,  to  Miss  Caroline  E.  Dryden,  the  daughter  of  a  Wisconsin  pioneer, 
and  their  children  were:  Eva,  deceased;  Dwight,  aged  fourteen;  Harold, 
twelve;  and  Robert,  who  is  five.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Hartman  is  a 
stalwart  Republican,  active  in  the  ranks  of  the  party  and  has  attended  county, 
state  and  national  conventions.  He  is  also  a  campaign  worker  and  has  made 
a  wide  acquaintance  among  the  leaders  of  the  party  in  this  portion  of  the 
state  and  elsewhere,  but  has  never  sought  or  desired  official  preferment  for 
himself.     He  is  an  active  member  of  the  Westminster  Presbyterian  church, 


424  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

was  one  of  its  organizers  and  is  now  a  member  of  its  session.  Nature  be- 
stowed upon  him  good  gifts.  He  possesses  a  mind  of  broad  compass,  and 
the  industry  that  brings  forth  every  spark  of  talent  with  which  he  has  been 
endowed.  Few  lawyers  have  made  a  more  lasting  impression  upon  the  bar 
of  the  state  both  for  legal  ability  of  a  high  order  and  for  the  individuality  of 
the  personal  character  which  impresses  itself  upon  the  community. 

H.    R.    CORSON,   M.  D. 

Since  1888  Dr.  H.  R.  Corson  has  been  a  member  of  the  medical  fra- 
ternity of  King  county,  and  his  ability  has  enabled  him  to  advance  to  a 
position  among  the  successful  representatives  of  the  profession.  He  is  now 
located  in  Issaquah,  where  he  is  enjoying  a  large  private  practice,  in  addi- 
tion to  acting  as  physician  for  some  important  corporations. 

The  entire  width  of  the  American  continent  separates  Dr.  Corson  from 
the  place  of  his  birth,  he  being  a  native  of  Alton,  Maine,  born  November 
13,  1848.  His  parents  were  V.  R.  and  Angeline  (Rand)  Corson,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  the  Pine  Tree  state.  The  father,  who  was  born  in 
Canaan,  Maine,  in  181 2,  was  of  English  descent,  while  his  wife,  whose  birth 
occurred  in  Poland,  Maine,  in  1818,  was  of  Scotch  lineage.  A  farmer  by 
occupation,  he  followed  that  pursuit  in  order  to  provide  for  his  family,  and 
his  death  occurred  in  New  Brunswick  in  1887.  His  wife  had  passed  away 
some  time  before,  having  died  in  Alton,  Maine,  in  1868. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  H.  R.  Corson  acquired  his  pre- 
liminary education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  the  Maine  Central 
Institute  in  Pittsfield.  His  choice  of  a.  vocation  fell  upon  the  medical  pro- 
fession and  he  began  preparation  for  practice  as  a  student  in  Bowdoin  Col- 
lege at  Brunswick,  Maine.  He  applied  himself  closely  to  the  mastery  of  the 
branches  forming  the  curriculum  there  and  in  1876  was  graduated.  Well 
equipped  for  his  schosen  work,  he  then  opened  an  office  in  New  Sharon, 
Maine,  where  he  remained  for  twelve  years,  constantly  broadening  his  knowl- 
edge by  further  reading  and  by  practical  experience.  The  possibilities  of  the 
northwest,  however,  attracted  him,  and  in  1888  he  severed  the  ties  which 
bound  him  to  his  native  state  and  made  his  way  across  the  country  to  Seattle, 
where  he  opened  an  office  and  practiced  for  seven  years.  In  1895  he  came  to 
Issaquah  and  since  that  time  has  been  the  physician  and  surgeon  for  the 
Issaquah  Coal  Company,  which  in  its  mines  employs  a  large  force  of  men. 
Since  1899  he  has  also  been  the  surgeon  for  the  Seattle  division  of  the  North- 
ern Pacific  Railroad  Company,  and  in  addition  he  has  a  large  private  prac- 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  425 

tice,  which  is  accorded  him  in  recognition  of  his  thorough  understanding  of 
the  science  of  medicine  and  his  accuracy  in  applying  its  principles  to  the 
needs  of  those  to  whom  injur}^  or  disease  ha\e  made  the  aid  of  the  physician 
or  surgeon  essential. 

Dr.  Corson  was  married  in  Madison,  j\Iaine,  in  1874,  to  Miss  E.  S. 
Paine,  who  was  born  in  North  Anson,  Maine,  in  1853,  a  daughter  of  Hiram 
and  Mary  (Barton)  Paine,  who  were  early  settlers  of  New  England.  They 
became  the  parents  of  four  children :  The  oldest,  Warren  B.,  died  soon 
cifter  he  came  to  Seattle,  aged  thirteen;  W.  H.,  Eva  May  and  Kenneth  P. 
are  all  with  their  parents.  In  his  political  views  the  Doctor  is  a  stalwart  Re- 
publican, unswerving  in  his  support  of  the  party  and  its  principles  and  has 
taken  an  active  part  in  promoting-  its  work  and  success.  AMiile  in  the  Pine 
Tree  state  he  was  elected  to  represent  Franklin  county,  Maine,  in  the  general 
assembly,  serving  in  1886-87,  and  was  school  supervisor  for  about  ten  years 
in  New  Sharon,  Maine.  He  has  also  been  prominent  as  a  party  worker  in 
the  west  and  his  fellow  townsmen,  recognizing  his  worth  and  ability,  have 
called  him  to  public  office  here.  He  was  school  director  for  one  year  and 
in  1900  was  elected  mayor  of  Issaquah,  and  re-elected  for  two  years  more 
in  1902.  proving  himself  a  loyal  citizen  l)y  the  promptness  c-.nd  fidelity  with 
which  he  has  discharged  the  duties  of  these  various  positions.  For  almost 
a  quarter  of  a  century  Dr.  Corson  has  l)een  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, having  joined  the  order  in  New  Sharon,  j\Iaine.  in  1878.  He  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  Issaquah  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  and  he  also  belongs  to 
Seattle  Lodge,  No.  51,  K.  P.  Although  he  has  been  a  resident  of  the  north- 
west for  a  comparatively  brief  period,  he  is  fully  imbued  with  the  progres- 
sive spirit  which  dominates  this  section  of  the  country  and  has  labored  to' 
promote  the  welfare  and  advancement  of  this  locality,  while  at  the  same  time 
giving  close  attention  to  the  varied  and  important  duties  of  his  profession. 

W.  F.  ECKHART.  = 

W.  F.  Eckhart  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Webster-Eckhart- 
Sims  Companv.  dealers  in  general  merchandise  at  Enumclaw.  He  possesses 
marked  enterprise  and  determination,  qualities  which  would  make  him  an 
active  factor  and  valued  representative  of  the  business  interests  of  any  pro- 
gressive town.  He  is  a  native  of  Indiana,  his  birth  having  (Kcurred  in  Tip- 
pecanoe county  on  the  29th  of  January.  1865.  His  father,  Balser  Eckliart, 
was  born  in  Germany  in  1837,  and  when  twenty  years  of  .ige  came  to  this 
country,  locating  near  Lafayette,  Tippecanoe  county,  Indiana,  where  he  has 

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since  canied  on  extensive  farming  operations.  A'  few  years  after  arriving  in 
the  United  States,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Louise  Snyder,  who  was 
lx)rn  in  Wurtemberg,  Germany,  in  1842,  and  died  at  her  liome  in  Indiana  on 
the  6th  of  June,  1902. 

Under  the  parental  roof  \\'.  F.  Eckhari  was  reared  aid  in  the  pubhc 
schools  of  Tippecanoe  he  acquired  his  preliminary  education,  wdiich  was  sup- 
plemented by  study  in  the  Central  Normal  college  at  Danville,  Indiana,  where 
he  remained  as  a  student  for  two  years.  From  1883  until  1885  he  engaged 
in  teaching  school  in  Coburn,  Indiana,  and  in  the  fall  of  1886  he  went  to  St. 
Joseph,  Missouri,  where  he  was  engaged  in  general  merchandismg  for  three 
y-ears,  his  first  venture  in  this  direction.  In  1889  he  came  to  Washington, 
attracted  by  the  business  possibilities  of  the  rapidly  developing  northwest. 
For  two  years  he  w^as  identified  with  educational  work  here  as  a  teacher  near 
Kent,  and  for  five  years  he  taught  at  Wabash.  King  county.  In  January, 
1895,  he  came  to  Enumclaw,  and  accepted  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  general 
store  of  Webster  &  Nickerson,  remaining  with  the  house  for  two  years,  on 
the  expiration  of  which  period  the  firm  was  succeeded  by  Nickerson  Brothers, 
Air.  Eckhart  remaining  as  a  representative  of  the  new  firm  until  1901.  He 
then  became  superintendent  of  the  new  building  of  the  Webster-Eckhart- 
Sims  Company  and  has  since  been  a  member  of  the  firm  in  a  general  mercan- 
tile business,  holding  the  position  of  secretary  and  treasurer,  with  Mr.  Web- 
ster as  president  and  Mr.  Sims  as  vice-president. 

On  the  26th  of  July,  1890,  Mr.  Eckhart  was  happily  married  to  Miss 
May  Gra}'.  who  was  born  in  California,  and  they  now  have  two  interesting 
children.  Louisa  and  Robert.  Theirs  is  a  pleasant  home,  noted  for  its  hospi- 
tality, which  is  greatly  enjoyed  by  their  man}-  friends.  Mr.  Eckhart  was  a 
charter  member  of  Crescent  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Enumclaw  and  served  as 
master  during  the  year  1902,  and  also  belongs  to  the  Eastern  Star  chapter 
of  the  same  organization,  and  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Red  Men.  In  his 
j)olitical  affiliations  he  is  a  Republican,  and  while  he  is  strong  in  his  endorse- 
ment of  the  party,  he  has  no  time  for  pul^lic  ofiice,  nor  does  he  desire  poli- 
tical preferment. 

M.  HARWOOD  YOUNG. 

There  is  probably  no  man  in  Seattle  who  occupies  a  more  enviable  posi- 
tion in  mercantile  and  financial  circles  than  M.  Harvvood  Young-,  not  alone 
on  account  of  the  success  he  has  acliieved,  but  also  on  account  of  the  honor- 
able, straightforward  business  i>olicy  he  has  ever  followed.    He  possesses  untir- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  427 

ing  energy,  is  quick  of  perception,  forms  pians  readily  and  is  determined  in 
liieir  execution;  and  his  close  application  to  business  and  his  excellent  man- 
agement have  brought  to  him  the  high  degree  of  success  which  is  to-day  his. 

Mr.  Young  was  born  at  Groton,  Massachusetts,  on  the  21st  of  Septem- 
ber, 1846,  and  is  descended  from  a  good  old  New  England  family,  his  grand- 
father Young  being  a  respected  resident  of  Plymouth,  New  Hampshire,  and 
who  attained  a  ripe  old  age,  Lemuel  D.  Young,  his  son,  v.as  borp  in  Ply- 
mouth, as  was  also  his  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  Mars- 
ton.  He  lost  his  life  by  accident  at  the  age  of  forty-three  years.  By  occu- 
pation he  was  a  merchant,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  earnest  nnd  consist- 
ent members  of  the  Methodist  church,  exerting  a  wide  influence  for  good 
throughout  the  community  in  which  they  lived.  The  father  always  took  a 
deep  interest  in  his  town  and  county,  and  was  very  highly  esteemed  by  his 
fellow  citizens.  His  wife,  who  was  a  most  estimable  lady,  died  in  1865,  at 
the  age  of  thirty-nine  years.  In  their  family  were  three  sons,  namely :  Henry 
D.,  Edwin  and  M.  Harwood.  Henry  D.  was  drowned  with  ^he  wreck  of  the 
Portland,  in  November.  1899,  at  the  age  of  thirty-eight  years.  Edwin  is  a 
manufacturer  residing  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts. 

It  was  during  the  infancy  of  M.  Harwood  Young  tha!  the  family  re- 
moved to  Manchester,  New  Hampshire,  and  seven  years  later  to  Laconia,  in 
the  same  state.  In  1864  he  passed  his  examinations  to  Har'.ard  college,  but 
the  urgent  need  of  the  government  for  more  volunteers  to  assist  in  putting- 
down  rebellion  led  him  to  g•i^'e  up  the  course  and  lie  responded  to  President 
Lincoln's  call  in  August  of  that  year,  entering  the  ranks  of  the  Union  army. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  war  he  had  tried  to  enlist  but  was  rejected  on  account 
of  his  age,  being-  at  that  time  only  fifteen  years  old.  He  was  at  length  ac- 
cepted as  a  member  of  Company  I,  Eighth  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, but  liis  regiment  was  sul^sequently  n.iounted,  and  accompanied  Gene- 
ral Banks  on  his  famous  Red  river  expedition.  Mr.  Young  participated  in 
all-  the  engagements  in  which  his  company  took  part.  \\nn'le  in  Mississippi 
they  were  sent  to  l)reak  up  a  fcn'age  train,  anvl  wlicn  making  an  attack  he 
received  a  severe  sa1)er  wound  across  his  thigh  and  came  \ery  nearly  losing 
his  life,  being  in  the  hospital  for  four  months.  He  then  rejoined  his  regi- 
ment, and  for  some  time  before  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  regimental  clerk 
under   Lieutenant   Colonel    Fkuidcrs. 

On  receiving  his  discharge  from  the  service  Mr.  Young  retunicd  to  his 
old  home  in  the  north,  and  soon  afterward  accepted  a  clerkship  in  a  Pioston 
wholesale  dry  goods  house.  In  t868  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where 
he  and  a  friend  purchased  twelve  horses,  one  barouche,  three  prairie  schoon- 


428  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

crs  and  four  light  wagons,  and  then  started  across  the  plains.  At  Lea\en- 
worth,  Kansas,  they  secured  the  services  of  three  men  to  assist  them  on  their 
way  to  California  by  way  of  the  Smoky  Hill  route.  While  crossing  the 
plains  they  learned  that  the  Indians  were  troublesome  and  applied  to  General 
Custer  for  a  detail  of  soldiers  to  protect  them,  but  the  General  said  there 
would  be  no  trouble,  and  they  proceeded  on  their  way  alone,  but  had  gone  only 
a  short  distance  when  they  were  attacked  by  the  red  men,  who  either  killed 
or  captured  all  their  horses.  Going  to  a  watering  station  four  miles  away 
Mr.  Young  and  his  party  secured  a  guard  of  soldiers,  but  found  on  their 
return  that  the  Indians  had  burned  all  that  they  could  not  carry  away,  leaving 
the  little  party  in  a  very  bad  plight.  They  traveled  on.  however,  from  sta- 
tion to  station  until  reaching  Denver,  Colorado,  and  from  there  proceeded  on 
their  journey  bv  stage  and  rail,  at  length  reaching  San  Francisco,  ^^'hile  at 
Denver,  ?^Ir.  Young  was  taken  ill  with  mountain  fever,  and  was  advised  by  a 
physician  to  go  to  the  coast  if  he  hoped  to  recover.  On  regaming  his  health 
he  returned  to  Boston,  and  not  long  afterward  accepted  a  position  in  the 
auditing  department  of  the  Burlington  &  ^Missouri  River  Railroad  with  head- 
quarters at  Burlington,  Iowa. 

In  1872  Mr.  Young  went  back  to  Massachusetts  and  became  cashier  for 
the  Boston  Manufacturing  Company  located  at  ^Valtham,  his  employers  be- 
ing the  proprietors  of  the  first  complete  cotton  mill  erected  in  that  state.  He 
continued  with  them  as  their  cashier  and  confidental  man  for  eighteen  years, 
or  until  1890,  during  which  time  he  was  also  engaged  in  active  business  in 
Waltham  on  his  own  account,  being  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  W'altham 
Co-operative  Bank  and  its  first  secretary  and  treasurer.  .After  capably  fill- 
ing those  positions  for  two  years  he  resigned,  as  the  increasing  volume  of 
business  of  the  l^ank  demanded  more  of  his  time  tiian  he  could  spare,  and  he 
afterward  served  as  one  of  its  directors.  He  also  assisted  in  organizing  the 
electric  light  company,  of  which  he  was  elected  a  director,  and  after  its  con- 
r^olidation  with  the  Waltham  Gas  Light  Company  still  continued  in  that 
position.  On  the  incorporation  of  the  city  of  Waltham  in  1884  he  was  elect- 
ed a  member  of  its  first  board  of  alderman  for  a  term  of  two  years,  and  so 
satisfactorily  did  he  fill  the  office  that  he  was  elected  for  three  3'ears  to  the 
sinking  fund  commission,  of  which  commission  he  was  chairman. 

Visiting  Seattle  in  1889,  Mr.  Young  became  convinced  of  its  great  pos- 
sibilities for  profitable  investments  and  future  growth,  and  on  his  return  to 
Waltham  severed  his  connection  Axith  the  corporation  with  which  he  had 
been  for  so  many  years,  and  at  once  assisted  in  the  organization  of  the  New 
England-Northwestern  Investment  Company.     In  January,  1890,  he  located 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  429 

111  Seattle  as  the  western  manager  of  that  company  and  has  since  filled  that 
position  to  the  entire  satisfaction  of  all  concerned.  He  has  had  charee  of 
the  erection  of  many  residences  and  business  blocks  and  a  number  of  other  very 
paying  investments.  For  several  years  he  was  president  of  the  Union  Trunk 
line,  one  of  the  principal  street  railways  of  the  city,  and  became  a  large  stock- 
holders in  the  consolidated  roads  of  Seattle,  also  a  director  in  the  Seattle  Elec- 
tric Company  and  the  Puget  Sound  Electric  Company,  the  line  connecting- 
Seattle  and  Tacoma.  He  was  also  vice-president  of  the  gas  company  for  a  num- 
ber of  years;  is  a  director  of  the  National  Bank  of  Commerce;  and  manao-er 
of  the  Pacific  coast  interests  of  the  Planters  Compress  Company  of  Boston, 
large  manufacturers  of  presses  for  baling  in  round  compact  iiales  both  cotton 
and  hay.  Mr.  Young  has  shipped  large  quantities  of  hay  baled  in  this  way 
to  the  Philippine  islands  and  also  to  Alaska.  Among  the  property  of  Seattle 
improved  by  him  and  his  company  is  Beacon  Hill.  He  is  a  man  of  excellent 
business  and  executive  ability,  whose  sound  judgment,  unflagging-  enterprise 
and  capable  management  ha^•e  brought  to  him  a  well  merited  success. 

.Mr.  Young  was  married  in  1872  to  Miss  Josephine  Richardson  of  Bel- 
mont, Massachusetts,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Richard  Richardson.  Of  the 
five  children  born  of  this  union  the  two  sons  died  in  infancy.  The  daughters 
are  Edith  R.,  Ethel  D.  and  Josephine.  The  family  have  a  beautiful  home  on 
Beacon  Hill,  the  culture  and  artistic  taste  of  its  occupants  being  reflected  in 
its  appointments,  while  a  gracious  hospitality  adds  a  charm  to  its  material 
comforts.  Thev  are  connected  with  the  Episcopal  church,  and  Mr.  Young  is 
niso  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  been  initiated  into  the  mys- 
teries of  that  order  at  Revere  Podge,  Boston,  one  of  tlic  oklest  lodges  in  that 
state  if  not  in  the  United  Staes.  In  manner  he  is  ])leasant  and  cordial,  which, 
combined  with  his  sterling  worth,  makes  him  one  of  llie  most  popula'-  citizens 
of  his  adopted  city. 

REV.  MICHAEL  FAI'ARA. 

Rev.  Michael  Fafara  is  a  Avell  known  rei)resentalive  of  the  Catholic 
priesthood  of  King  county,  his  home  being  in  Enumclaw.  He  was  l)orn  in 
Krakow,  Austria,  on  the  25th  of  Septem1)cr,  1865.  His  i)arents,  Casper 
and  Frances  Fafara,  were  born  and  reared  in  that  country  and  the  father  has 
always  followed  the  occupation  of  farming.  The  mother  has  now  jxissed 
away,  having  died  at  her  home  in  her  native  country  in  1892.  Their  son. 
Rev.  Fafara,  was  splendidly  educated,  first  in  the  gymnasium  schools  of  his 
native  town,  where  he  remained  as  a  student  for  eight  years,  and  afterward 


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spending  four  years  in  the  theological  schools  of  Rome,  Italy.  When  he  had 
completed  his  preparation  for  the  priesthood  he  returned  to  his  home,  and  in 
a  few  months  was  appointed  by  the  propaganda  of  Rome  as  a  missionary  to 
the  state  of  Washington. 

On  his  arrival  here  he  spent  a  month  with  Bishop  Yunger  at  Vancouver, 
Washington,  and  received  instruction  from  him  concerning  methods  of  work 
as  conducted  in  this  country.  He  then  went  to  Tacoma,  where  he  arrived  in 
.'\pril,  1892,  remaining  at  that  place  for  nearly  six  years,  during  which  time 
he  was  chaplain  of  the  St.  Joseph  Hospital.  In  1898  he  located  at  Enum- 
claw,  King  county,  where  he  purchased  a  pleasant  cottage  home  and  has 
since  liad  charge  of  the  missions  of  Enumclaw,  Wilkinson,  Franklin,  Car- 
bonado and  Krain.  At  all  of  these  places  except  Enumclaw  he  has  built  new 
churches  and  in  this  town  he  has  remodeled  the  church  ed'fice,  which  was 
already  in  use  at  the  time  of  his  arrival.  This  work  has  requued  a  great  deal 
of  patient  labor,  but  through  his  energy  and  personal  popularity  and  the  co- 
<.)peration  of  the  good  people  of  his  missions,  he  has  been  able  to  command 
ample  means  to  place  all  in  a  prosperous  condition.  He  visits  each  one  of  the 
missions  monthly.  The  total  membership  of  the  five  missions  is  seven  hun- 
dred, and  in  his  influential  position  he  has  added  largely  to  the  development 
of  the  southern  portion  of  King  coutny. 

ISAAC  P.  CALFIOUN. 

Isaac  P.  Calhoun  is  one  of  the  leading  representatives  oi  the  lumber  in- 
dustry of  the  northwest.  The  dense  forests  of  great  trees  in  this  portion  of 
die  country  have  furnished  a  Avide  field  of  labor  for  the  logger  and  the  lumber 
manufacturer  and  the  business  has  become  one  of  the  most  important  sources 
of  income  to  the  residents  of  Washington.  Isaac  P.  Calhoun  entered  this 
field  of  activity  and  in  the  prosecution  of  his  business  affai'S  has  met  with 
splendid  success  and  has  become  one  of  the  recognized  leaders  in  his  line. 

Mr.  Calhoun  was  born  in  La  Grange,  Stanislaus  count)-,  California,  on 
the  nth  of  January,  1858,  and  has  spent  his  entire  life  upot\  the  coast.  His 
father,  Rufus  Calhoun,  was  born  in  New  Brunswick,  about  1827,  and  went 
to  the  Golden  state  in  1853,  making  the  trip  around  Cape  Horn  in  a  fishing- 
schooner.  The  family  remained  at  La  Grange  from  that  ye?..'  until  1866  and 
then  removed  to  Port  Townsend,  which  has  since  been  the  familv  home.  On 
coming-  to  Port  Townsend  he  built  a  schooner  there  in  1866-67,  and  un  its 
completion  he  operated  it  in  the  service  of  the  merchants  for  several  years. 
Later  he  Ijecame  part  owner  and  \\as  master  of  se\eral  vessels  employed  in 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  431 

the  Pnget  Sound  and  Pacific  coast  trade,  and  subsequently  he  was  employetl 
by  the  firm  of  Corbett  &  Maclay  of  Portland,  Oregon,  as  master  of  the  Spar- 
rowhawk,  running  to  Australia,  China  and  the  Philippines  ai)d  other  oriental 
countries.  He  was  thus  engaged  for  a  number  of  years  and  finally  sold  the 
vessel  in  Australia.  For  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  been  employed  as 
master  on  the  Spreckel  line  of  vessels  owned  in  San  Francisco  and  used  in  the 
sugar-carrying  trade  between  San  Francisco  and  Honolulu.  He  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Sarah  Filmore,  who  was  born  in  Lowell,  Massachusetts,  in  1827, 
and  is  yet  living  at  the  family  home  in  Port  Townsend.  To  this  worthy 
couple  were  born  five  sons  and  a  daughter. 

Isaac  P.  Calhoun  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Port  Townsend.  co 
which  place  he  went  with  his  parents  when  a  youth  of  eight  summers.  On 
leaving  home  he  became  an  active  factor  in  the  business  woild.  He  went  to 
Newcastle  on  Lake  Washington,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in  the 
store  of  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company  and  continued  to  fill  that  posi- 
tion for  seven  years;  a  fact  Avhich  indicates  his  fidelity  to  duty  and  the  con- 
fidence reposed  in  him  by  his  employers.  In  May,  1887,  he  went  to  Tacoma 
and  was  manager  (tf  the  stc^re  owned  by  the  Tacoma  Mill  Company  for  about 
two  years.  For  the  succee<ling  six  months  he  occupied  a  similar  position  with 
the  Seattle  Coal  &  Iron  Company  at  Issaquah.  He  then  received  the  appoint- 
ment under  Charles  M.  Bradshaw  as  special  deputy  collector  of  customs  for 
the  Puget  Sound  district  and  filled  that  position  for  a  year.  In  June,  1890, 
he  went  to  Black  Diamond,  Washington,  where  he  entered  into  partnership 
•.vith  J.  M.  E.  Atkinson  under  the  firm  name  of  Atkinson  &  Calhoun,  being 
there  engaged  in  general  merchandising  for  eleven  ^-ears.  The  enterprise 
was  attended  with  a  gratifying  degree  of  success  and  after  disposing  of  his  in- 
terests there  Mr.  Calhoun  went  to  Nome,  Alaska.  Later  he  returned  to 
jCent,  Washington,  in  October,  of  the  same  year,  and  in  company  with  Joseph 
Xraus,  he  purchased  the  sawmill  plant  of  the  Sousie  Creek  Lumber  Company. 
This  mill  has  a  capacity  of  twenty-five  thousand  feet  of  lumber  daily,  and  the 
demand  for  its  product  is  greater  than  can  be  supplied.  This  shows  a  very 
gratifying  condition  of  business  affairs  and  indicates  that  the  firm  is  enjoying 
a  well  merited  prosperity. 

Mr.  Calhoun  was  married  on  San  Juan  island,  Washin.gton.  September 
18,  1 88 1,  to  Lexie  Firth,  who  was  born  at  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  in 
1861,  and  is  of  Scotch  descent.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  with  eight  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Inez,  aged  twenty  years;  Fillmore,  aged  eighteen  years; 
Jessie,  aged  seventeen  years;  Millard,  aged  twelve  years;  Lenora,  aged  ten 
years;    Ruth,  aged  eight  years;    Sarah  and  Lexie.  aged  respectively  six  and 


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two  years.  Mr.  Calhoun  belongs  to  the  Benevolent  and  Protecti^'e  Order  of 
Elks  of  Seattle,  and  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  lodge  at  Black  Diamond.  He 
supported  the  Republican  part}-  in  early  life,  but  when  A\'illiam  Jennings 
Bryan  first  became  a  candidate  for  the  presidency,  he  ga\e  to  him  his  allegi- 
ance and  has  since  voted  the  Democratic  ticket.  Entering  upon  his  business 
career  without  capital,  but  with  a  strong  determination  to  succeed  and  a 
laudable  ambition,  he  has  steadily  advanced  in  the  business  world  until  he 
now  has  attained  an  enviable  standing  as  a  representative  of  the  industrial 
interests  of  the  northwest. 

DAVID  T.  DENNY. 

No  inhabitant  of  Seattle  has  so  long  resided  in  the  city  as  David  T. 
Denny.  He  has  witnessed  its  growth  from  the  beginning  and  more  than  that 
he  has  been  an  active  factor  in  its  development  and  progress,  his  efforts  pro\-- 
ing  of  great  value  in  the  substantial  upbuilding  of  the  beautiful  city  which  he 
aided  in  founding.  Seven  additions  have  been  platted  by  him  and  through 
his  business  activity  he  has  contributed  to  the  general  prosperity  and  im- 
provement. His  career  has  been  so  inseparably  interwoven  with  its  history 
iliat  to  give  a  detailed  account  of  his  worth  would  be  to  largely  compile  the 
annals  of  Seattle.  To  the  pioneer  settlers  who  have  braved  dangers,  hard- 
ships and  trials  to  reclaim  wild  land  for  purposes  of  civilization,  wdio  have 
sought  to  carr}-  progress  into  frontier  regions,  a  debt  of  gratitude  is  due 
w'hich  can  nexer  be  repaid  but  we  can  hold  in  grateful  remembrance  their 
li\es  and  works,  giving  them  the  honor  and  praise  which  is  their  just  due. 

More  than  half  a  century  has  passed  since  David  T.  Denny  came  to 
Washington.  He  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Indiana,  his  birth  having  oc- 
curred in  Putnam  county,  March  17.  1832.  The  family  is  of  Scotch-Irish 
lineage  and  is  a  \ery  ancient  one,  representatives  of  the  name  emigrating 
from  Scotland  to  Ireland  and  thence  to  England.  The  first  to  establish  a 
home  in  America  were  David  and  Margaret  Denu}',  who  settled  in  Berks 
county,  Pensyhania.  and  Robert,  their  sixth  child,  became  the  grandfather 
of  our  subject.  He  was  born  in  Berks  county  in  1753  and  at  a  very  early 
period  in  the  history  of  Kentucky  went  to  that  state,  being  a  contemporary 
of  Daniel  Boone  and  other  famous  pioneers  of  Kentucky  who  first  settled  on 
the  "dark  and  bloody  ground."  His  children  were  people  of  strong  religious 
convictions,  of  pronounced  anti-slavery  principles  and  of  Christian  faith  and 
practice. 

John  Denny,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Mercer  county,  Ken- 


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tucky,  May  4,  1793,  and  when  a  boy  he  enhsted  in  a  Kentucky  regiment  to 
provide  for  the  defense  of  the  frontier  against  the  Indians,  who  made  raids 
against  the  settlers  of  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Michigan.  He  thus  traversed  those 
states  before  much  settlement  had  been  made  and  a  little  later  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  Colonel  Richard  M.  Johnson's  regiment  of  mounted  volunteers,  ser^-- 
ing  through  the  war  of  1812.  He  was  also  with  General  Harrison  at  the 
battle  of  the  Thames  when  General  Proctor  and  the  noted  Indian  chief,  Tec- 
umseh,  were  killed.  John  Denny  afterward  married  Sally  Wilson,  who  was 
born  in  Greenbrier  county,  Virginia,  February  3,  1797.  the  wedding  taking 
place  August  25,  1814.  They  became  pioneer  settlers  of  Indiana,  where 
they  resided  for  a  number  of  years,  and  they  went  to  Knox  county,  Illinois,  in 
1835.  The  father  became  a  very  prominent  and  influential  citizen  there  and 
for  several  terms  represented  his  district  in  tlie  state  legislature  as  a  member 
of  the  Whig  party.  He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln  and  was 
also  well  acquainted  with  other  distinguished  men  of  that  time.  His  wife 
died  in  Illinois  March  21,  1841,  and  ten  years  later,  in  1851,  John  Denny 
crossed  the  plains  with  his  sons,  Arthur  A.,  James  N.,  Samuel  S..  David  T. 
and  Allen  W.,  but  our  subject  is  now  the  only  survivor.  They  left  their  old 
Iiome  on  the  loth  of  April,  and  were  ninty-seven  days  in  making  the  journey, 
ariving  at  Portland  on  the  22d  of  August.  They  accomplished  the  trip  in 
safety  but  were  almost  ambushed  by  the  Indians  near  the  American  Falls  of 
Snake  riA-er.  a  family  of  the  name  of  Clark  being  entirely  wiped  out  l)y  the 
Indians  at  that  place  only  a  little  while  after  the  Dennys  had  passed  there. 

John  Denny  located  in  Marion  county,  Oregon,  and  became  quite  active 
in  the  public  affairs  of  the  new  territory.  Fie  was  a  prominent  factor  in  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party  and  was  its  first  candidate  for  governor 
in  1858.  The  following-  year  he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  departed  this  life 
July  28,  1875.  He  was  a  typical  pioneer,  of  resolute  purpose,  unfaltering 
courage  and  with  the  ability  to  become  a  leader  in  molding  public  affairs  in 
a  new  locality.  He  was  also  a  man  of  high  moral  character  and  his  influence 
was  ever  on  the  side  of  progress,  improvement  of  justice  and  of  the  right. 
In  his  early  life  he  was  a  member  of  the  Methodist  church  but  later  joined 
the  United  Brethren  church,  and  continued  one  of  its  most  faithful  represent- 
atives until  his  death.  In  the  Denny  Genealogy,  page  235.  the  following 
estimate  of  his  character  is  cfiven :  "He  was  a  man  of  large  informa- 
tion  and  ready  wit,  served  with  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  legislature  of  Ill- 
inois and  their  friendship  and  mutual  respect  continued  throughout  life,  Mr. 
Denny  going  from  Washington  territory  to  visit  Presideni  Fincoln  at  the 
time  of  the  Civil  war.     He  li\ed  a  faithful  Christian  and  was  a  man  of  large 


434  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

iiiHnence  for  good  in  the  comiminity  in  which  he  hved.  By  his  first  marriage 
he  had  ten  children.  After  the  death  of  his  wife  he  was  married  in  Ihinois 
to  Sally  Boren,  who  crossed  the  plains  with  him  and  died  in  Seattle,  leaving 
a  daughter.  Sarah,  who  still  resides  in  this  city." 

David  T.  Denny  was  the  seventh  son  of  the  family.  He  acquired  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Illinois  and  was  nineteen  years  of  age  when 
he  accompanied  his  father  to  the  Pacific  coast.  He  drove  a  four  horse  team, 
hauling  their  provisions.  There  were  fourteen  in  the  family  and  after  they 
crossed  the  Missouri  river  they  joined  a  train  of  twenty-two  wagons.  Near 
Fort  I-Iall  they  were  fired  upon  by  the  Indians,  but  all  escaped  unhurt.  Had 
their  liorses  been  hit  and  thus  disabled,  probably  every  one  would  ha\e  been 
massacred.  The  party  suffered  from  mountain  fever  but  there  were  no 
dealiis.  l\n\ard  the  last  of  the  journey  their  supply  of  provisions  became 
exhausted,  but  fortunately  they  found  an  emigrant  who  sold  them  some. 
Mr.  Denny  of  this  review  drove  the  horses  across  the  mountains  and  after 
remaining  at  Portland  for  about  a  month  started  for  the  Sound  countrv.  on 
ihe  loth  of  September.  1851.  He  drove  the  stock,  accomplishing  the  entire 
journe)'  on  foot  to  Olympia.  which  was  then  a  hamlet,  containing  but  three 
small  houses.  ^Ir.  Denny  continued  on  across  the  country  to  the  present 
site  of  Seattle  and  then  wrote  to  his  brother.  Arthur  A.,  telling  him  what  he 
had  discovered  and  advising  him  to  come  to  this  region.  He  realized  that 
there  was  a  good  shipping  point  here  and  hoped  that  a  town  might  eventually 
spring  up.  His  foresight  has  been  proved  by  time.  ]Mr.  Denny  first  worked 
at  Alki  Point,  helping  to  load  a  ship  with  piles,  cutting  the  timber  at  the 
water's  edge,  for  which  he  was  paid  seven  cents  per  foot,  running  measure. 
The  c<Hintr\"  was  then  full  of  Indians,  but  they  were  friendly. 

In  the  spring  of  1852  Mr.  Denny  secured  a  claim  of  three  hundred  aiid 
twenty  acres  of  government  land,  where  the  city  of  Seattle  liow  stands.  On 
the  J3d  of  January.  1853.  he  was  married  to  Miss  Louisa  Boren.  a  sister  of 
iiis  brother  Arthur's  wife.  She  was  bom  in  ^^"hite  county.  Illinois,  and  was 
:i  daughter  of  a  Baptist  minister.  Her  mother  belonged  to  the  Latimer  fami- 
]\-.  ^fr.  Denny  built  a  log  house  in  North  Seattle,  at  the  foot  of  what  is 
now  Denny  way.  He  lived  there  less  than  a  year,  as  the  Indians  began  to  be 
troublesome,  and  feeling  unsafe  at  that  place  he  removed  to  a  new  house 
which  he  built  near  his  brother's  on  the  present  site  of  the  Stevens  Hotel.  In 
the  fall  of  1855  the  Indians,  noting  the  greatly  increased  emigration  to  this 
portion  of  the  country-,  detennined  to  destroy  the  settlers  who  were  coming 
into  what  they  regxirded  as  their  own  domain,  but  some  friendly  red  men 
warned  the  white  people  of  their  danger  and  thev  built  a  block  house,  for 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  435 

which  Air.  Denny  furnished  a  lot  of  hewn  timber.  Into  this  the  white  people 
moved  on  the  morning  of  the  24th  of  Januar}-.  1856.  The  Indians  came  on 
in  large  numbers  and  surrounded  the  settlement.  The  fight  continued  from 
nine  o'clock  in  the  morning  until  dark  ^^•hen  the  savages  withdrew.  There 
were  probal^ly  one  hundred  and  fift}-  white  men  and  the  ship  of  war  Decatur 
landed  its  blue  jackets,  who  shelled  the  Indians  and  thus  the  little  settlement 
w-as  saved.  A  :)and  of  the  Indians  were  afterward  captured  and  tried  and 
'Mr.  Denny  acted  as  the  interpreter  for  he  had  picked  up  some  knowledge  of 
their  language,  in  which  he  later  became  quite  proficient. 

For  a  number  of  years  ^h\  Denny  carried  on  farming  and  stock-raisnig 
and  prospered  in  this  work.  When  the  town  began  to  grow  and  the  land 
accordingly  rose,  in  value,  he  platted  portions  of  his  property  at  different 
times  and  thus  laid  out  seven  additions  to  the  city.  He  was  the  owner  of 
the  western  sawmill  and  was  also  very  extensively  engaged  in  real  estate 
dealings,  but  becoming  involved  in  some  financial  obligations,  when  the  great 
financial  panic  of  1892-3  came  on  it  was  impossible  for  him  to  raise  money 
and  with  conduct  in  harmony  with  the  honorable  business  methods  that  he  has 
always  folloAved  he  lost  quite  heavily,  but  now  he  is  retrieving  considerable 
of  his  lost  possessions  through  his  mining  operations.  He  is  one  of  the 
owners  of  the  Esther  gold  and  silver  mines  in  the.  Cascade  ^Mountains,  which 
assays  rich  ore.  He  is  also  one  of  the  owners  of  the  Gold  Creek  mine  in 
the  same  locality  and  is  the  president  of  both  companies.  At  smelter  test 
the  ore  has  yielded  ninety-three  dollars  to  the  ton  and  the  prcjspects  seem 
brieht  for  ]Mr.  Dennv  to  retrieve  much  of  his  lost  fortune — a  consummation 
which  his  many  friends  greatly  desire.  He  was  at  one  time  connected  with 
i>treet  railroad  interests  here. 

Mr.  and  ]^Irs.  Denny  have  had  a  family  of  seven  children,  all  born  in 
Seattle,  and  five  reached  mature  years,  as  follows:  John  B..  an  attorney  of 
Alaska:  David  T.,  Jr.,  who  resides  on  a  farm;  Victor  W.  S.,  who  is  asso- 
ciated with  his  father  in  mining  operations;  Emily  J.,  at  home:  and  Abby 
D.,  the  wife  of  Edward  L.  Lindsey.  There  are  also  thirteen  grandchildren. 
Almost  a  half  century-  has  passed  since  'Sir.  and  Mrs.  Denny  started  out  upon 
life's  journey  together  as  man  and  wife  and  as  the  years  have  passed  their 
mutual  love  and  confidence  have  increased  as  together  tliey  have  met  tlie  ad- 
versity and  pnjsperity.  the  sorrows  and  joys  which  checker  all  earthly  ])il- 
irrimaees.  !Mr.  Dennv  and  his  familv  are  most  worthv  and  consistent  mem- 
bers  of  the  Methodist  church,  in  the  work  of  which  he  has  taken  a  very  active 
part,  and  he  has  twice  been  a  lay  delegate  from  his  church  to  the  general  con- 
ference, attending  the  session  in  New  York  city  and  the  one  in  Omaha.     He 


436  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

has  taken  a  very  deep  interest  in  e\'erything  pertaining  to  the  advancement 
of  the  city  along  material,  social,  intellectual  and  moral  lines.  He  was  the 
first  treasurer  of  King  county,  appointed  to  complete  a  term  made  vacant  by 
a  resignation,  then  elected  to  the  office  on  the  Republican  ticlcet  and  re-elected 
by  the  Democratic  party,  filling  the  position  for  eight  years  in  a  manner 
which  reflected  credit  upon  himself  and  gave  satisfaction  to  his  constituents. 
For  two  terms  he  was  probate  judge  of  the  county  and  for  twelve  years  he 
was  a  school  director  in  division  No.  i.  He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the 
board  of  regents  of  the  Territorial  University  of  Regents  and  was  treasurer 
of  the  same.  For  a  number  of  years  he  was  an  advocate  of  the  Repulilican 
party  but  his  strong  temperance  views  have  led  him  to  ally  his  strength  with 
the  Prohibition  party  and  to  do  all  in  his  power  to  promote- iis  noble  work  of 
redeeming  men  from  1x)ndage  to  the  use  of  intoxicants.  In  1878  he  became 
a  charter  member  of  Good  Templars  Lodge  No.  6,  the  first  organized  in  Seat- 
tle. He  has  ever  been  fearless  in  defense  of  whatever  he  believes  to  be  riglit. 
It  requires  both  moral  and  physical  courage  to  face  the  conditions  of  pioneer 
life  but  this  Mr.  Denny  did  and  he  bore  all  the  hardships  of  the  frontier  with- 
out complaint.  His  strong  character  and  resolute  manhood  also  inspired 
others  and  his  efforts  contributed  in  marked  degree  not  only  to  the  material 
development  of  the  city  but  also  to  its  growth  along  those  lines  which  tend  to 
the  cultivation  of  the  noblest  manhood. 

GEORGE  W.  DILLING. 

There  is  need  ■  of  remarkable  confidence  and  clear  foresight  in  many 
realms  of  business;  it  is  the  men  who  have  possessed  these  qualities  in  large 
measure  who  have  amassed  fortunes  and  have  come  to  be  designated  as 
"captains  of  industry.''  The  career  of  Mr.  George  W.  Dilling  shows  occa- 
sions when  these  characteristics  were  valual3le  to  him.  Oiie  in  particular, 
when  in  the  midst  of  the  financial  depression  attendant  upon  tlie  panic  of  '93, 
when  industry  was  paralyzed,  when  values  v^"ere  at  their  lowest  ebb,  and  none 
had  the  courage  to  venture  in  the  work  of  upbuilding  and  development,  at 
this  time  Mr.  Dilling  started  the  pulsing  beat  of  real  estate  acti\ity  and  com- 
municated his  confidence  to  others  until  1)uilding  and  improveriient  soon  re- 
sumed their  n(jrmal  condition.  This  gentleman  has  been  identified  in  many 
ether  ways  with  the  progress  of  Seattle,  and  a  short  sketch  cif  his  life  Avould 
certainly  prove  of  interest  to  the  readers  of  this  volume. 

When  General  Lafayette  came  to  America  to  aid  in  the  cause  of  inde- 
pendence of  the  colonies,  there  accompanied  him  two  brothers  who  bore  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  457 

name  of  Dilling,  and  fruni  these  early  settlers  and  patriots  have  descended 
the  later  members  of  the  family.  Thus  on  the  paternal  side  the  family  is  of 
pure  French  stock.  George  Billing-,  the  father  of  George  W.,  \vas  the  first 
of  the  family  to  come  west  to  the  state  of  Illinois,  coming  through  to  that 
state  from  Indiana  by  wagon.  He  settled  on  a  farm  in  Champaign  county, 
at  a  time  when  there  was  only  one  building  in  the  present  thriving  intellec- 
tual city  of  Champaign;  this  was  in  1857.  He  was  a  prominent  citizen  of 
the  county  and  was  active  in  the  work  of  the  German  Baptist  church.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven  years.  His  wife,  whom  he  married  in  Indiana 
was  Margaret  Rhodes,  who,  though  born  in  France,  was  of  German  ancestry. 
She  was  but  seven  years  old  when  she  came  with  her  parents  to  America,  and 
she  lived  in  Baltimore  until  she  was  thirteen,  when  she  was  brought  by  her 
parents  to  Indiana,  the  trip  being  made  by  wagon.  They  had  eleven  children, 
and  the  youngest  of  these  was  George  \\^ 

His  birth  occurred  at  Urbana,  Champaign  county,  Illinois,  on  January 
25,  1869.  After  receiving  a  fair  education  in  the  public  scliools  and  in  the 
Decatur  Business  University,  he  started  out  for  himself  at  the  age  of  fourteen 
and  for  ten  years  carried  on  farming  on  a  place  of  one  hundred  acres.  He 
i;hen  moved  to  Cerrogordo,  Illinois,  and  engaged  in  the  retail  shoe  business. 
Three  years  later  he  sold  out  and  in  1898  came  to  Seattle,  having  been  called 
here  to  take  charge  of  the  estate  of  the  late  John  H.  Nagle,  and  he  then  de- 
cided to  make  this  his  permanent  home.  He  engaged  in  the  real  estate  busi- 
ness, and  within  two  months  after  his  arrixal  property  began  moving  and 
mvestments  became  free  and  confidence  restored.  The  properties  which  he 
has  had  control  of  have  been  improved  and  ha\e  increased  to  such  an  extent 
that  they  have  been  sold  four  or  five  times  with  profit  to  the  seller  each  time. 
Mr.  Dilling  has  become  interested  in  the  general  real  estate  business  and  has 
much  business  and  residence  property  in  the  city,  having  erected  a  number  of 
residences  since  coming  here. 

A  Republican  in  politics,  Mr.  Dilling  has  been  interested  in  the  advance- 
ment the  party,  and  served  as  a  member  of  the  county  central  committee  of 
Macon  county,  Illinois,  for  a  number  of  years.  He  possesses  special  adapt- 
ability to  work  in  the  political  field,  and  \vas  one  of  the  organizers  and  the 
first  president  of  the  Young  Men's  Republican  Club  of  King  county.  He 
was  also  a  delegate  to  the  state  convention  held  in  Tacoma  in  1902.  In  the 
fall  of  1902  Mr.  Dilling  received  the  nomination  for  representative  of  the 
Forty-fifth  district,  and  was  successful  in  the  election  wh'ch  followed  in 
November.  Mr.  Dilling  is  identified  with  other  affairs  of  the  city,  being  one 
of  the  directors  of  the  Seattle  Athletic  club.     He  became  a  Mason  in  Illinois 


438  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

and  is  the  high  priest  ui  Seattle  chapter  No.  3,  R.  A.  ^l. ;  he  belongs  to  the 
Seattle  Commandery  No.  2,  K.  T. ;  and  Afiii  Temple,  A.  A.  O.  N.  M.  S.,  of 
Tacoma. 

JOHN  H.  NAGLE. 

A  half-century  in  the  history  of  a  country  in  the  long  established  east 
and  the  much  more  ancient  lands  across  the  Atlantic  is  almost  an  inconsider- 
able point  of  time,  a  period  in  which  the  people  and  the  development  of  their 
material  resources  would  seem,  even  to  the  keen  observer,  to  ha\-e  made  little 
progress;  but  how  different  we  find  conditions  in  the  new  states  along  the 
Pacific  coast,  where  communities,  cities  and  larger  political  divisions  have 
sprung  up  with  the  suddenness  of  the  mushroom  but  with  greater  promise  of 
permanence  and  stability.  To  whom  must  most  credit  be  given  for  this 
phenomenal  growth  and  upbuilding,  such  as  all  the  centuries  have  never  wit- 
nessed? Surelv  all  the  honor  is  due  to  those  who  first  came  and  blazed  the 
way  for  others,  who  laid  the  foiuidations  upon  which  others  should  build,  and 
who  assumed  the  risks  and  responsibilities,  and  incidentally  the  rewards, 
'>vhich  ah\ays  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  pioneer.  The  gentleman  of  whom  we  now 
write  was  one  of  these  early  settlers,  and  came  to  the  vicinity  of  Seattle  in  the 
fifties  and  was  very  prominent  in  the  subsequent  impro^■ement  of  that  pros- 
perous city. 

John  H.  Nag'le  w^as  the  son  of  German  parents  and  was  brought  by  them 
to  this  country  in  1833,  '^vhen  four  years  old.  The  family  li\ed  in  Maryland 
for  a  few  }'ears,  then  moved  to  Indiana,  where  John  was  reared  and  recei\'ed 
his  education.  He  learned  the  trade  of  paper  making  and  followed  it  in  Indi- 
ana for  some  time.  In  the  latter  half  of  the  fifties  he  joined  a  colony  of  emi- 
grants who  were  preparing  to  cross  the  plains.  When  he  arrived  at  Seattle 
he  decided  to  locate  there,  although  at  that  time  there  was  little  prophecy  of 
the  city  which  was  eventually  to  grow  up  there,  and  the  inhabitants  could 
have  been  kept  in  mind  b}-  one  person.  He  was  a  very  industrious  man  and 
cleared  and  improved  much  property  that  is  now  within  the  corporate  limits 
of  the  city.  He  took  up  a  section  upon  which  the  high  school  and  the  low- 
service  reservoir  are  now  situated,  and  when  the  city  l)egan  to  expand  in  his 
tlirection  he  laid  out  two  additions  to  the  city.  The  first  was  platted  in  1884 
and  the  second  in    1890.  each  containing  eighty  acres. 

Mr.  Nagle  never  took  an  active  part  in  political  matters,  but  was  an 
active  worker  in  church  affairs  and  devoted  much  time  to  helping  along  the 
cause  of  religion.     He  aided  in  the  establishment  of  several  churches  in  this 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  439 

city,  and  is  remembered  as  a  man  of  unimpeachable  integTity  of  character 
and  a  thoroughly  good  man.  His  death  occurred  Avhen  he  had  passed  the 
sixty-seventh  milestone  of  life's  journey,  on  February  12,  1896.  His  mem- 
ory will  always  be  revered  as  one  of  the  founders  of  the  cit)-  of  Seattle,  and 
sucli  a  man  should  receive  due  consideration  in  this  historical  volume. 

CLARENCE  D.  HILL:^LVX. 

Clarence  D.  Hillman  is  known  througLout  Seattle  and  the  northwest  as 
a  promoter  and  capitalist.  The  development  of  business  interests  has  given 
him  the  first  denomination.  Men  of  marked  ability  and  breadth  of  business 
scope  have  taken  hold  of  the  existing  conditions  in  various  towns  and  local- 
ities and  have  been  the  instigators  of  many  enterprises  Avhich  have  develo])ed 
the  natural  resources  of  the  country  and  materialh-  promoted  its  growth  and 
development  along  the  line  of  substantial  and  lasting  improvement.  No 
name  is  better  known  in  connection  with  real  estate  transactions  in  vSeattle 
than  that  of  Clarence  D.  Hillman,  nor  is  there  another  man  in  the  city  or 
county  who  has  been  more  largely  instrumental  in  platting  land,  in  disposing 
of  city  lots,  or  in  founding  homes  than  he.  With  firm  belief  in  his  fellow 
men,  with  firm  faith  in  the  future,  he  has  worked  with  and  for  his  fellow  citi- 
zens, and  at  the  same  time  has  promoted  his  individual  interests  until  to-day 
he  stands  among  the  successful  few.  having  long  since  left  the  ranks  of  the 
many. 

Mr.  Hillman  was  born  in  Pontiac,  Michigan,  August  12,  1870.  and  is  a 
son  of  Erastus  D.  and  Adella  Hillman,  the  former  a  nati\e  of  New  "S'ork 
and  the  latter  of  the  Wolverine  state.  The  father  was  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural  pursuits  and  in  the  live  stock  business.  His  death  occurred  in  1875  and 
his  wife,  surviving"  him  for  a  few  years,  passed  away  in  1870.  Clarence  is 
the  eldest  of  their  three  living  children,  the  others  being  Lillie  AL,  and  Homer 
L.  Only  common  school  privileges  were  afforded  to  Clarence  D.  Hillman. 
but  though  fortune  did  not  seem  to  favor  him  particul.nrly  in  iiis  youth,  his 
was  an  energy  and  determination  that  wcnild  Ijrook  no  obstacles  or  opposition 
that  could  be  overcome  l)y  honorable  and  persistent  effort.  At  the  age  of 
twenty-one  he  engaged  in  real  estate  operations  and  speculations.  In  1896  he 
came  to  Seattle  and  here  continued  in  the  same  business.  He  had  taken  note  of 
the  business  situation  lierc.  recognizing  that  Seattle  was  destined  to  become 
the  metropolis  of  the  northwest,  and  that  its  rapid  growth  offered  an  excel- 
lent field  for  the  real  estate  dealer.  In  1898,  realizing  advantages  which  the 
Green  Lake  property  possessed  as  a  resident  location  and  also  foreseeing  its 


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future  possibilities,  he  began  operations  there  with  his  usual  energy,  and 
(luring-  the  past  four  years  has  given  to  the  Green  Lake  district  his  undivided 
attention.  In  the  meantime  he  has  demonstrated  what  can  be  accomplished 
by  indefatigable  energy  intelligently  directed.  He  has  platted  and  sold  land 
which  extends  almost  entirely  around  the  lake.  Among  the  tracts  of  which 
he  has  disposed  may  be  mentioned  Hillman's  school-house  addition,  Hillman's 
division  of  the  Green  Lake  addition  and  Hillman's  Lake  Front  addition, 
comprising  ninety  acres.  He  also  owns  the  Kilbourne  addition,  the 
South  Shore  addition,  the  supplemental  plat  of  Woodland  Park  addi- 
tion, and  the  Stinsons  &  Exans  additions,  comprising  seven  thousand  lots 
in  all.  .As  a  result  of  his  enterprise  Mr.  Hillman  has  assisted  more  than  four 
thousand  people  to  secure  homes  of  their  own,  selling  them  property  on  terms 
that  enabled  wage  earners  to  become  property  holders.  He  has  built  over 
seven  hundred  houses,  which  have  been  sold  upon  easy  payments  and  he  has 
vouched  for  the  payment  of  lumber  sold  to  those  wishing  to  build  homes.  In 
fact  he  has  rendered  all  assistance  possible  to  people  of  limited  means  who 
were  deserving,  to  enable  them  to  secure  and  pay  for  homes  of  their  own.  He 
deserves  great  credit  for  this  and  many  of  the  residents  of  this  section  of  the 
county  entertain  for  him  gratitude  for  what  he  has  done.  The  Green  Lake 
district  is  one  so  well  known  as  a  residence  portion  that  it  needs  little  com- 
ment here,  and  its  rapid  upbuilding  is  proof  of  the  fact  that  the  public  com- 
mends the  business  judgment  which  Mr.  Hillman  displayed  in  placing  this 
land  on  the  market.  The  last  addition  which  he  platted,  Hillman's  Lake 
Front  addition,  was  practically  all  sold  within  sixty  days  after  it  w-as  placed 
upon  the  market.  As  a  result  of  his  Green  Lake  operations  he  has  made 
some  three  hundred  thousand  dollars.  His  elegant  modern  residence  at 
Kenwood,  erected  in  1900  at  a  cost  of  seven  thousand  dollars,  is  a  conspicu- 
ous feature  of  the  Green  Lake  landscape.  It  occupies  a  commanding  posi- 
tion on  the  lake  front  with  beautiful  and  spacious  grounds  sloping  to  the 
waters.  In  November,  1902,  he  bought  three  hundred  acres  adjoining  Seat- 
tle on  the  southeast,  and  has  platted  and  sold  over  two  thousand  lots,  also 
built  over  three  hundred  houses  and  sold  them.  This  new  addition  is  called 
Hillman  City  addition  to  the  city  of  Seattle.  He  is  ncnv  luiilding  a  twenty- 
five  thousand  dollar  house  at  Hillman  City. 

In  ^Michigan,  in  August.  1895.  Mr.  Hillman  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Bessie  O.  Kenney  of  Toledo,  Ohio.  Three  children  have  blessed  this 
union,  Warren  H..  who  died  in  infancy,  and  Clarence  D.,  who  is  a  son  of 
whom  the  parents  have  every  reason  to  be  proud:  he  won  the  first  prize  in 
the  Toledo  baby  show  in  1900.     They  also  have  a  daughter,  Bessie  O.  K. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  441 

Hillman.  Fraternally  Mr.  Hillman  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  order  and 
with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  hold  membership 
in  Palm  Circle.  The  wise  system  of  indnstrial  economics  which  has  been 
brought  to  bear  in  the  development  of  the  property  which  is  placed  upon  the 
market  has  challenged  uniform  admiration,  for  while  there  has  been  steady 
advancement  in  material  lines  there  has  been  the  entire  absence  of  the  inflation 
of  values,  that  erratic  "boom"  wdiich  in  the  past  proved  eventually  the  death 
knell  to  many  towns  of  the  west.  Mr.  Hillman  has  certainly  contributed 
much  to  the  healthful  growth  and  advancement  of  the  city  of  Seattle  and  he 
stands  to-day  a  splendid  example  of  what  can  be  accomplished  by  untiring- 
energy  and  perseverance.  He  commenced  life  with  no  capital,  Ijut  obstacles 
and  difficulties  in  his  path  seemed  to  serve  as  an  impetus  for  renewed  effort. 
He  has  been  unflagging  in  his  work  and  undaunted  in  the  accomplishment  of 
his  purposes.  His  labors,  too,  have  been  of  a  character  that  commands  re- 
spect and  admiration  because  they  have  pro^'ed  of  marked  Ijenefit  to  his  fel- 
low men  as  w^ell  as  to  himself. 

JAMES  BOTHWELL. 

Among'  the  representative  business  men  of  Seattle  none  are  more  deser\-- 
ing  of  representation  in  this  volume  than  James  Bothwell,  who  is  now  success- 
fully engaged  in  the  mortgage,  loan,  Are  insurance  business,  and  care  of  prop- 
erty and  estates  in  that  city.  He  has  made  his  home  here  since  1883,  and  is 
prominently  identified  with  its  growth  and  upbuilding.  A  native  of  Illinois, 
Mr.  Bothwell  was  born  in  Clay  county,  on  the  23d  of  April,  1858.  His  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  James  Bothwell,  Sr.,  was  born  near  Pittsburg,  Pennsyl- 
A'ania,  and  at  an  early  day  removed  to  Ohio,  wdiere  he  followed  farming 
throughout  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  married  Charlotte  Potter,  whose 
father  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war.  James  K.  Bothwell, 
the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1818,  and  about  1840  w^ent  to 
Illinois,  settling  in  Clay  county,  where  he  carried  on  business  as  a  merchant 
for  a  half  century.  When  he  located  there,  there  was  no  railroad  through 
that  section  of  the  state  and  he  had  but  little  money  with  which  to  embark  in 
business.  He  sold  goods  in  exchange  for  farm  products  and  hogs,  which  he 
shipped  down  the  Mississippi  river  to  New  Orleans.  Although  he  became 
one  of  the  leading  and  influential  citizens  of  his  community,  he  could  never  be 
prevailed  upon  to  accept  public  office,  the  only  public  position  he  w^ould  hold 
i^eing  that  of  school  director.  He  was  held  in  the  highest  regard  by  young 
and  old,  rich  and  poor,  and  his  death  was  widely  and  deq)ly  mourned.     He 

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passed  away  in  1899,  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years,  five  months  and  two  days. 
His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Mary  A.  Brissenden,  was  a  daughter 
of  John  Brissenden,  who  came  to  this  country  from  England. 

The  primary  education  of  James  Bothweh  was  acquired  in  the  pubhc 
schools  near  his  boyhood  home,  and  he  later  attended  Kemper's  family  school 
at  Booneville  and  higher  institutions  of  learning  a,t  Champaign,  Illinois. 
After  leaving  school  he  was  employed  in  the  First  National  Bank  of  Flora, 
Illinois,  for  three  or  four  years,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  went  to  Boulder, 
Colorado,  being  offered  the  position  of  teller  in  the  National  State  Bank  at 
that  place.  Later  he  decided  to  cast  his  lot  with  the  people  of  vSeattle,  but 
on  his  arri\-al  here  in  1883  he  found  business  in  a  very  depressed  condition. 
Realizing  the  advantages  of  this  section,  however,  he  resolved  to  remain,  and 
at  once  secured  a  position  in  a  furniture  store,  of  which  he  was  made  manager 
a  year  later,  it  being  the  property  of  the  Hall  &  Paulson  Furniture  Company, 
and  afterward  of  F.  A.  Chadbounie  &  Compan)'.  After  two  years'  connec- 
tion with  that  establishment  he  was  offered  the  position  of  teller  in  the  Puget 
Sound  National  Bank  by  ]\Ir.  Furth,  and  as  he  was  more  familiar  with  that 
line  of  work  he  accepted  it.  He  had  come  to  Washington  on  account  of  ill 
health  and  the  work  of  the  bank  soon  proved  too  hea\'y  for  him,  owing  to  the 
rapidly  growing  business,  so  that  he  was  finally  obliged  to  resign  his  posi- 
tion just  as  the  prospects  there  seemed  brightest,  being  unable  to  stand  the 
close  confinement. 

Upon  the  organization  of  the  Holmes  Fire  Insurance  Company,  Mr. 
Bothwell  was  asked  to  take  the  position  of  secretary,  which,  he  did  and  re- 
mained with  them  a  year  and  a  half.  Desiring  to  be  more  independent,  he 
then  embarked  in  business  on  his  own  account  in  his  present  hue  as  a  financial 
agent.  Owing  to  the  general  depression  in  business  at  that  time,  many  com- 
panies and  individuals  wdio  had  made  loans  on  property  had  to  take  the  same 
to  protect  their  loans,  and  it  was  in  the  settling  up  of  such  loans  and  the  dis- 
posing of  the  property  that  he  lias  since  been  mainl}-  engaged.  His  connec- 
tion with  banks  and  his  well  known  honesty  and  reliability  haA'e  caused  large 
numbers  of  these  properties  to  be  placed  in  his  hands  for  settlement,  and  the 
attention  he  devotes  to  it,  looking  to  the  ultimate  interests  of  his  clients,  gives 
him  a  large  clientage  not  only  among  the  citizens  here  but  among  eastern 
people  and  corporations.  This  necessitates  a  trip  to  the  principal  cities  of 
the  east  about  every  other  year,  and  in  1900  he  extended  it  to  Europe.  Mr. 
Bothwell  has  now  been  in  this  business  for  fourteen  years  and  has  met  with 
remarkable  success.  For  eight  years  he  has  also  been  interested  in  the  fire 
insurance  business,  and  now  represents  the  National  Fire  Insurance  Com- 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  443 

pan}-  of  Hartford,  Connecticut.  He  also  acts  as  agent  for  eastern  life  in- 
surance companies  and  individuals,  as  well  as  local  parties,  in  making  mort- 
gage loans,  and  is  a  stockholder  in  one  of  the  leading  national  banks  of 
Seattle,  of  which  he  was  a  director  for  a  time.  By  untiring  industry  and 
sound  business  judgment  lie  has  won  a  merited  success  in  all  his  undertak- 
ings, and  is  in  all  respects  worthy  of  the  high  regard  in  which  he  is  uni- 
formly  held. 

On  Thanksgiving  day  in  1888  Mr.  Bothwell  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Minnie  C.  Thorndyke,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Eben  Thorndyke, 
of  South  Thomaston,  Maine,  who  was  a  sea  captain  and  navigator  of  great 
experience  and  a  man  of  splendid  business  ability  as  well.  Our  subject  at- 
tends the  Plymouth  Congregational  church,  of  which  his  wife  is  a  member, 
and  they  are  interested  in  charitable  organizations.  Mr.  Bothwell  is  a  worthy 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  the  Masonic  fra- 
ternity, in  which  he  has  risen  to  the  thirty-second  degree,  being  a  member 
of  Lawson  Consistory  No.  i,  and  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Ta- 
coma.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club  and  is  a  trustee  of  the 
Economic  Club,  which  has  been  instrumental  in  securing  some  of  the  lead- 
ing professors  from  eastern  colleges  to  deliver  lectures  here.  By  his  ballot  he 
supports  the  men  and  measures  of  the  Republican  party,  but  has  never  cared 
for  office,  preferring  to  give  his  attention  to  his  business  affairs.  He  has  ac- 
cumulated property  since  coming  to  Seattle,  and  is  accounted  one  of  the 
most  reliable,  energetic  and  successful  business  men  of  his  adopted  city,  as 
well  as  one  of  its  most  popular  citizens. 

PHILIP   L.    RUNKEL. 

Philip  L.  Runkel  is  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  707  Seventh 
avenue  and  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Alaska  Fisheries  Union  and  has  built 
up  a  splendid  trade  in  this  city.  He  occupies  a  store  building  with  a  front- 
age of  forty-eight  feet  on  Seventh  avenue  and  gives  employment  to  seven 
men.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  city  since  the  fall  of  1889  and  has  there- 
fore been  closely  associated  with  the  new  Seattle  which  rose  from  the  ashes 
of  the  old  city,  after  its  destruction  by  fire  thirteen  years  ago. 

Mr.  Runkel  was  born  at  Milwaukee,  Wisconsin,  May  25,  1857.  His 
father,  Henry  Runkel,  was  born  in  Gunderblum  in  the  Rhine  province  of 
Germany,  July  9,  1824,  and  is  still  living.  He  was  a  contractor  and  builder 
in  Milwaukee  for  some  years  and  later  conducted  a  brewery,  but  for  the 
past  ten  years  he  has  lived  retired.     He  came  to  America  in  1842,  being  one 


444  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

of  the  first  settlers  of  Milwaukee,  taking  up  his  abode  there  when  the  place 
was  but  a  villa.i^-e,  containing  a  few  log  Iniildings.  He  served  as  county 
treasurer  of  Juneau  county,  and  although  a  Democrat  he  was  en- 
dorsed by  the  Republicans  as  well  as  the  members  of  his  own  party,  a  fact 
'Nvhich  indicates  his  standing  in  the  city  and  the  regard  and  confidence  reposed 
in  him.  He  took  a  great  interest  in  public  affairs  and  always  co-operated 
in  any  movement  which  he  believed  would  contribute  to  the  general  good. 
He  was  married  in  Milwaukee  to  Maria  Schaetzel,  who  was  also  a  native 
of  Germany  and  born  in  the  same  province  as  her  husband.  They  became 
the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  whom  two  sons  and  three  daughters  are 
yet  living.  Two  of  the  number  died  in  infancy  and  a  Ijrother  passed  away 
at   the  age   of  twenty-nine  years. 

Philip  L.  Runkel  entered  the  public  schools  at  the  usual  age  and  con- 
tinued his  studies  there  until  he  was  fourteen  years  of  age.  after  which  he 
assisted  his  father  until  he  had  attained  his  majority.  Then  he  started  out 
in  life  on  his  own  account  and  accepted  a  clerkship  in  a  wholesale  and  re- 
tail grocery  store  at  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota.  He  remained  with  one 
firm  for  three  years,  after  which  he  removed  to  Salem,  South  Dakota,  and 
established  a  store  of  his  own  in  connection  with  L.  V.  Snyder.  They 
o]3ened  a  general  mercantile  establishment  and  Mr.  Runkel  remained  in 
Salem  from  the  spring  of  1882  until  the  fall  of  1889,  when  he  sold  out  in 
order  to  go  to  the  coast.  He  had  conducted  an  extensive  wholesale  trade, 
also  did  a  retail  business  to  some  extent,  and  his  large  sales  annually  re- 
turned to  him  an  excellent  income.  He  was  elected  on  the  Democratic  ticket 
to  the  legislature  of  Dakota  in  1885.  He  was  attracted  to  the  west  by  the 
business  possibilities  of  the  Pacific  coast.  His  wife's  people  had  previously 
come  to  this  section  of  the  country  and  in  the  fall  of  1889  Mr.  Runkel 
brought  his  family  to  Seattle,  where  he  embarked  in  business  in  connection 
with  his  brother-in-law,  Louis  Gilbert.  This  relation  was  maintained  for 
a  year,  and  since  1891,  when  Mr.  Runkel  bought  out  Mr.  Gilbert's  inter- 
est in  the  grocery  store  on  Seventh  a^'enue,  his  trade  has  constantly  in- 
creased until  he  now  occupies  two  large  store  rooms  at  No.  707-709.  His 
patronage  is  steadily  increasing  and  his  trade  is  now  very  profitable.  A 
man  of  resourceful  business  ability,  he  has  enlarged  the  scope  of  his  labors, 
extending  his  efforts  into  other  fields.  He  is  likewise  interested  in  real 
estate  here,  owning  different  tracts  in  the  city,  some  of  it  improved,  while 
some  is  vacant  property.  In  1901  he  erected  his  residence  at  303  Broadway. 
In  connection  with  other  interests  he  is  the  vice  president  of  the  Alaska 
Fisheries  Union,  in  which  he  is  a  large  stockholder.     A  man  of  keen  dis- 


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cernmeiit,  of  sound  judgment  and  marked  sagacity  in  business  affairs,  he 
has  carried  forward  his  undertakings  in  a  way  that  has  gained  a  high 
measure  of  success,  and  at  the  same  time  his  course  has  been  one  which  would 
bear  the  closest  investigation,  and  his  methods  are  so  honorable  that  they 
are  well  worthy  of  emulation. 

In  Sioux  Falls,  South  Dakota,  on  the  ist  of  June,  1882,  was  celebrated 
the  marriage  of  Mr.  Runkel  and  Miss  Maria  A.  Gilbert,  a  daughter  of  Her- 
man Gilbert.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  with  one  son,  Henry  G.  In 
politics  Mr.  Runkel  affiliates  with  the  'Democratic  party  and  taken  quite 
an  active  interest  in  local  affairs.  Although  urged  to  accept  the  nomination 
of  mayor,  he  declined.  Two  years  ago,  however,  he  was  nominated  by 
acclamation  for  the  office  of  city  treasurer  without  his  knowledge  or  con- 
sent. After  several  days'  consideration  he  accepted  the  nomination,  al- 
though he  realized  that  the  party  had  no  chance  of  electing  its  men.  While 
not  successful,  he  ran  far  ahead  of  his  ticket,  a  fact  that  indicates  he  is  per- 
sonally popular  and  has  the  unqualified  regard  of  many  of  the  adherents  of 
the  opposition  party.  Prominent  in  the  fraternal  circles  of  the  city,  he  has 
attained  the  Knight  Templar  degree  in  Masonry  and  he  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  There  is  no  exciting  or  sen- 
sational chapter  in  his  life  history,  for  he  has  pursued  the  even  tenor  of  his 
way,  looking  for  advancement  in  the  business  world  to  energy,  perseverance 
and  diligence  rather  than  to  fortunate  circumstances.  Thus  he  has  worked 
his  way  steadily  upward  until  he  is  now  well  known  as  a  successful  mer- 
chant of  his  adopted  city. 

DILLIS  B.  WARD. 

Forty-one  years  have  passed  since  Dillis  Burgess  Ward  came  to  Wash- 
ington. This  state  was  then  a  wild  district,  its  land  unclaimed,  its  re- 
sources undeveloped.  A  few  courageous  frontiersmen  had  dared  I0  locate 
within  its  borders,  but  the  work  of  progress  and  improvement  remained  to 
the  future  and  there  was  little  promise  of  early  development.  Jn  the  years 
which  have  since  passed  Mr.  Ward  has  not  only  witnessed  a  wonderful  trans- 
formation but  has  largely  aided  in  the  labors  which  have  resulted  in  the  up- 
building of  this  great  commonwealth.  He  has  been  particularly  acli\e  in  tlic 
work  of  progress  in  Seattle,  his  business  affairs  contributing  to  the  general 
prosperity  as  well  as  to  his  individual  success. 

Mr.  Ward  is  a  native  of  Kentucky,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Ohio 
rounty,  on  the  30th  of  June,  1838.     The  family  is  of  English  and  Irish  line- 


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age  and  was  early  founded  in  Maryland,  where  the  grandfather  of  our  sub- 
ject was  born.    He  removed  to  Kentucky  in  1798,  only  six  years  after  the  ad- 
mission of  that  state  to  the  Union.     There  he  improved  a  large  farm  and 
reared  his  famil}-  of  eight  sons  and  two  daughters.     He  attained  to  an  ad- 
vanced age  and  was  an  important  factor  in  the  pioneer  development  of  the 
state.     The  father  of  our  subject,  Jesse  Ward,  was  born  in  ^Maryland  in 
1797,  and  was  therefore  but  one  year  of  age  when  his  parents  removed  to 
Kentucky,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood  and  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Ford, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children.     After  her  death  he  wedded  Miss  Elizabeth 
Railey,  a  nati^'e  of  Kentucky,  who  became  the  mother  of  our  subjct.     When 
only  eighteen  years  of  age  Jesse  Ward  volunteered  for  service  in  the  war  of 
1 81 2  and  fought  under  General  Jackson  in  the  battle  of  New  Orleans.     After 
the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  engaged  in  trading,  in  the  winter  constructing 
flatboats,  which  in  the  spring  he  loaded  with  pork  and  tobacco  and  floated 
down  the  Mississippi  river  to  the  Crescent  city.     He  would  then  sell  his  pro- 
duce and  boat  in  New  Orleans  and  return  to  his  Kentucky  home.     He  made 
a  trip  each  season  for  eighteen  years,  sometimes  making  the  return  trip  on 
foot — a  long  and  hard  trip.     After  he  abandoned  that  pursuit  Mr.   Ward 
turned    his    attention    to    farming,    which    vocation    occupied    his    attention 
throughout  the  remainder  of  his  business  career.     For  eight  or  ten  years  he 
filled  the  position  of  constable  of  his  district,  an  office  similar  to  that  of  sheriff 
now.     Eventually  he  removed  to  the  Indian  purchase  in  Kentucky  and  after 
two  years  went  to  Arkansas,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years.     He  had 
married  a  third  time  and  on  the  29th  of  March,  1853.  he  started  with  his  wife 
and  nine  children  across  the  plains  to  Oregon,  locating  near  Salem,  arriving 
at  his  destination  about  the  ist  of  October. 

The  subject  of  this  review  was  then  about  fifteen  years  of  age.  His 
father  had  given  him  a  saddle  horse  and  he  was  in  the  saddle  throughout  the 
entire  journey,  assisting  in  driving  the  stock  which  made  quite  an  extensive 
herd.  He  had  a  lx)y's  keen  delight  and  interest  in  everything  that  transpired 
:!nd  vividly  remembers  the  incidents  of  the  long  trip.  After  they  had  pro- 
ceeded on  thir  journey  several  hundred  miles  they  passed  the  only  United 
States  fort  on  the  western  plains  that  they  saw  on  the  trip.  Some  little  dis- 
tance before  reaching  the  fort  they  noticed  Indians  and  the  night  before  go- 
ing into  camp  they  were  met  by  a  detachment  of. six  United  States  soldiers 
who  informed  them  of  the  proximity  of  the  fort  and  advised  them  not  to 
camp  where  they  were  but  escorted  them  to  the  fort.  Several  thousand  In- 
dians were  there  and  were  holding  a  council,  and  the  soldiers  thought  it  un- 
safe for  the  travelers  to  remain  any  ways  distant  from  the  protection  of  the 


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army  guns.  They  also  told  them  not  to  turn  their  cattle  out,  but  to  corral  them, 
fastening  them  to  the  wagons,  the  fort  furnishing  them  with  hay.  This  was 
done  to  keep  them  from  the  Indians.  The  emigrants  remained  at  the  fort 
until  the  red  men  had  gone  and  then  moved  on  as  before.  The\'  crossed  the 
North  Platte  river  when  it  was  a  raging  torrent.  Securing  a  rope  they  man- 
aged to  fasten  it  across  the  stream  and  then  fastened  two  of  their  wagons  on 
boxes  together,  in  W'hich  they  ferried  their  provisions  and  outfit  across  and 
sw'am  their  stock.  Just  previous  to  this  time  they  had  come  across  a  party  of 
Indians  who  had  been  on  the  war  path  against  the  Crow  tiibe.  They  had 
secured  a  number  of  scalps,  which  were  tied  to  the  bridles  of  their  horses. 
The  chief  made  them  a  speech,  interpreted  by  a  renegade  white  man  who  v/as 
with  the  Indians.  He  said  they  had  made  a  treaty  with  the  government 
which  they  displayed.  From  this  the  emigrants  concluded  that  they  were 
all  right  and  started  on,  going  down  the  side  of  the  butte.  At  this  the  Indians 
became  very  hilarious,  shouting  and  waving  their  blankets.  It  seemed  to  be 
their  intentiton  to  stampede  the  cattle  and  teams.  As  they  got  to  the  foot 
of  the  butte  three  hundred  w^arriors  were  drawn  up  in  line  in  front  of  the  emi- 
grants. The  latter  had  with  them  a  buffalo  calf  which  they  had  captured 
and  which  one  of  the  cows  had  adopted  and  fed.  The  Indians,  however, 
claimed  it  and  took  it  out  and  killed  it.  They  then  demanded  pork  and 
floiu',  saying  they  needed  food.  As  there  \\ere  but  twent}'  well  armed  men 
in  the  company  they  decided  to  divide  with  the  Indians  who  outnumbered 
them  so  greatly  and  when  this  was  done  they  were  permitted  to  pass  on.  The 
Indians,  however,  saw  a  young  white  woman  with  red  hair  in  the  company 
and  another  bright  young  woman,  driving  a  pair  of  mules,  and  fancied  and 
wanted  the  young  ladies.  The  emigrants  put  the  two  girls  in  a  covered  wagon 
out  of  sight  and  said  they  would  shoot  the  first  Indian  who  molested  them  and 
they  were  let  alone.  In  such  ways  the  party  were  annoyed  at  various  times. 
Other  hardships  and  difficulties  had  to  be  encountered  and  they  had  much 
trouble  in  crossing  the  streams.  Later  they  lost  many  of  their  cattle  from 
drinking  alkali  water  and  on  the  Snake  river  their  stock  was  all  stampeded. 
They  were  amid  hostile  Indians,  far  from  civilization  and  ^^  ithout  means  of 
going  forward.  The  outlook  was  indeed  a  very  dark  and  dreary  one,  but 
after  getting  breakfast  the  follow'ing  morning  they  saw  one  of  their  horses 
returning,  which  gave  them  hope,  and  a  number  of  the  men  then  went  on  the 
trail  and  succeeded  in  recovering  considerable  of  their  stock  with  which  to 
proceed.  Mr.  Ward's  father,  however,  was  obliged  to  leave  one  of  his 
wagons  with  its  load.  The  family  made  their  Avay  into  Oregon  and  located 
on  n   farm,   where  the   father  crmtinucd  to  reside  throughout  his  remaining 


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days  with  the  exception  of  a  year  spent  in  Seattle.  lie  was  a  devout  Chris- 
tian man,  a  minister  of  the  ]»iIethodist  Episcopal  church,  and  died  in  that  faith 
at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years.  His  third  wife  had  five  children  by  a  former 
husband  and  of  the  nine  children  Mr.  Ward,  a  step  brother  and  step  sister 
are  all  that  survive. 

The  subject  of  this  review  continued  his  education,  begun  in  the  east, 
by  study  in  Salem,  Oregon.  He  also  assisted  in  the  arduous  task  of  develop- 
ing the  new  farm  and  cultivating  its  fields.  For  twenty-two  years  he  en- 
gaged in  teaching  in  the  territory  of  Washington  and  left  the  impress  of  his 
individualit)'  upon  the  intellectual  development  of  the  communities  with 
which  he  was  connected.  He  was  a  most  capable  instructor,  inspiring  his 
pupils  with  the  zeal  and  interest  which  he  had  in  the  work.  For  a  time 
he  had  charge  of  an  industrial  school  for  Indian  bo)^s  and  girls  at  the  Sko-ko- 
mish  Indian  reservation.  He  also  became  connected  with  journalistic  work 
in  the  west  and  for  two  years  was  manager  of  the  old  Post,  afterwards  con- 
solidated with  the  Intelligencer,  now  the  Post-Intelligencer,  published  in  Seat- 
tle. Since  1880  he  has  engaged  in  dealing  in  real  estate  and  in  mining  brok- 
erage business,  \\ith  an  office  in  the  New  York  block,  and  m  this  line  he  is 
meeting  with  well  deserved  success,  ha\ing  an  extensive  clientage.  He 
served  his  state  as  emigration  agent  for  fi\'e  and  a  half  years,  his  term  end- 
ing on  the  1st  of  April,  1901.     In  this  regard  he  rendered  valuable  service. 

On  the  24th  of  September.  1863,  Mr.  Ward  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Sarah  Isabella  Byles,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Charles  Byles,  a  Cumber- 
land Presbyterian  minister,  who  crossed  the  plains  from  Kentucky  in  1853. 
]\'Tr.  and  Mrs.  \\'ard  have  six  children,  five  daughters  and  a  son.  Sarah  Eli- 
zabeth, the  eldest  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  Professor  Edmond,  of  the  state 
universit}-;  Kate  W.  is  the  wife  of  James  S.  Bushnell,  formerly  of  Pough- 
keepsie.  New  York;  Maud  W.  married  W.  A.  Dickey,  a  graduate  of  Prince- 
ton College,  formerly  a  resident  of  Manchester,  New  Hampshire;  Agnes  W. 
married  Karl  V.  Lively,  of  Portland,  Oregon;  and  Mable,  whose  husband  is 
Charles  A.  Penington,  of  Seattle.  The  son  is  C.  C.  Ward,  a  civil  engineer  of 
note,  who  is  no\v  in  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  Wenatchee  high  line 
irrigation  ditch. 

For  years  Mr.  Ward  has  been  a  strong  temperance  man  by  precept  and 
example,  laboring  to  promote  the  cause.  For  thirty-four  years  he  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Good  Templar's  society  and  has  served  in  all  the  offices  of 
the  order  from  the  lowest  to  the  highest  in  his  jurisdiction.  He  also  has 
membership  relations  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  has 
filled  all  the  official  positions  in  subordinate  lodge  in  that  fraternity.    Through 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  449 

a  long  period  he  has  been  an  acceptable  member  of  the  Methodist  Protestant 
church  and  his  influence  has  ever  been  on  the  side  of  the  right,  the  true  and 
the  beautiful.  Since  attaining  his  majority  he  has  given  his  political  support 
to  the  Republican  party,  has  been  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks  and  his  influ- 
ence and  labors  have  proven  a  potent  element  in  its  advancen:ent  in  this  state. 
He  was  honored  with  an  election  to  the  general  assemblv  and  during  his 
term  supported  all  legislation  which  he  believed  would  redound  to  the  good 
of  the  commonwealth.  Thus  along  political,  educational,  moral  and  busi- 
ness lines  he  has  contributed  to  the  upbuilding  of  the  state.  He  came  to  this 
city  when  it  contained  but  eleven  families  and  from  that  time  forward  has 
put  forth  every  effort  in  his  power  for  its  advancement,  rejoicing  in  its 
growth  and  aiding  in  shaping  its  policy  along  those  lines  which  bring  the 
greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number.  High  on  the  rolls  of  honored  pioneers 
is  his  name  inscribed,  and  the  pages  of  Seattle's  history  are  adorned  with  the 
record  of  his  work. 

JOHN    L.    ANDERSON. 

Captain  John  L.  Anderson  is  the  owner  of  the  steamers  Xanthus,  Cyrene 
and  Elsinore,  plying  on  Lake  Washington,  and  has  been  connected  with 
navigation  in  the  northwest  for  a  number  of  years.  For  fifteen  years  he  has 
made  his  home  in  Seattle.  A  native  of  Sweden,  he  was  born  in  Gutten- 
berg,  November  11,  1868.  His  father,  A.  Jacobson,  was  a  seafaring  man 
throughout  his  entire  life,  being'  connected  with  the  merchant  marine  ser- 
vice, in  which  capacity  he  visited  almost  every  port  of  the  world.  His  record 
on  the  water  was  a  remarkable  one,  for  although  he  \\"as  only  fifty-two  years 
of  age  at  the  time  of  his  death,  he  had  spent  forty  years  on  the  high  seas. 
His  wife  still  survives  him  and  is  yet  living  at  the  old  home  in  Sweden. 
In  their  family  were  four  children :  John  L. ;  Albert,  who  is  engaged  in 
halibut  fishing  on  the  Pacific  coast;  Adolph.  who  is  upon  one  of  his  brother's 
boats;  and  Clara,  who  makes  her  home  with  Captain  Anderson.  The  Cap- 
tain is  a  self-made  man  and  when  only  fourteen  years  of  age  began  to  earn 
his  own  living.  He  had,  while  attending  school,  picked  up  many  a  stray 
dollar  in  xarious  ways,  Ijut  from  the  age  of  fourteen  he  depended  entirely 
upon  his  own  resources.  At  that  time  he  became  connected  with  the  coast 
trade  and  after  two  years  spent  in  that  way  crossed  the  Atlantic  on  a  sail- 
ing vessel.  On  his  second  trip  he  contracted  smallpox  and  was  left  in  the 
hospital  at  Quebec,  the  boat  returning  without  him.  :\f<er  his  recovery 
he  went  to  the  west  and  was  with  a  contractor-  in  Canada  for  a  few  months. 


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At  that  time  he  was  unknown  and  could  not  speak  the  Enghsh  language. 
He  found  it  a  pretty  difficult  situation,  but  he  readily  picked  up  a  knowledge 
of  the  American  tongue  and  thus  found  it  easier  to  obtain  employment. 
He  spent  some  months  in  a  hotel,  after  which  he  secured  work  as  a  painter 
on  the  Canadian  &  Pacific  Railroad.  Soon  afterward  he  was  given  charge 
of  a  gang  of  men,  but  owing  to  his  youth  and  his  foreign  nationality,  his 
position  was  made  a  very  unpleasant  one  to  him  by  the  men  who  served 
under  him,  and  he  at  once  gave  up  his  position ;  but  his  capability  and  fidel- 
ity had  so  pleased  the  superintendent  that  he  was  given  a  pass  to  the  coast 
and  a  letter  of  recommendation,  which  he  still  retains. 

In  1887  Captain  Anderson  came  across  the  country  to  Seattle  and  with 
tlie  exception  of  a  few  months  spent  at  Whatcom  he  has  since  made  his  home 
in  this  city.  He  first  worked  in  a  mill  here  and  afterward  followed  various 
pursuits  which  would  yield  to  him  an  honest  living,  but  soon  obtained  a  posi- 
tion on  a  boat,  for  he  had  a  liking  for  the  sea.  After  being  employed  on  a 
tug  for  a  time  he  secured  employment  on  boats  running  between  San  Fran- 
cisco, Portland,  Seattle  and  Alaska.  He  afterward  secured  a  position  on  a 
Lake  Washington  boat  and  soon  after  was  given  charge  of  the  C.  C.  Calkins, 
a  new  boat  then  being  built  for  lake  trips.  He  was  in  command  of  that 
for  three  years  and  then  became  interested  in  the  Winifred,  a  ne\\'  boat,  in 
which  he  purchased  a  half  interest.  This  he  operated  in  the  line  to  New- 
castle and  found  that  his  business  was  proving  a  profitable  one.  After  run- 
ning this  boat  for  two  years  it  was  destroyed  by  fire,  and  Captain  Ander- 
son then  chartered  the  Quickstep,  which  he  afterward  purchased.  He  next 
built  the  Lady  of  the  Lake,  which  he  afterward  sold.  He*  for  a  time  was 
in  charge  of  a  boat  at  Whatcom,  but  returned  to  Seattle  and  again  engaged 
in  business  on  the  lake.  He  has  bought  and  sold  several  boats  and  is  now 
o{)erating  the  ele^^enth.  He  has  transferred  more  boats  from  the  sound  to 
Lake  A\'ashington  by  way  of  the  river,  and  from  the  lake  to  the  sound,  than 
any  other  man.  This  work  demands  extreme  care  and  a  great  amount  of 
labor,  but  he  has  been  extremely  successful  in  this  undertaking.  Captain 
Anderson  built  the  Acme,  and  of  all  the  different  boats  he  has  sold,  this 
is  the  only  one  still  used  on  the  lake.  He  has  purchased  boats  at  Tacoma 
and  Ballard  and  put  them  on  the  lake  in  addition  to  those  he  has  built.  He 
purchased  the  City  of  Renton,  which  he  ran  on  the  lake  for  some  time  and 
in  1 90 1  he  bought  the  Cyrene  and  in  the  high  water  of  the  following  year 
he  brought  it  from  the  sound  to  the  lake,  at  which  time  he  sold  the  City 
of  Renton.  In  1901  he  purchased  the  Inland  Flyer  at  Portland,  but  soon 
afterward  sold  his  interest  in  that  vessel.     In  August,  1901,  he  became  the 


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owner  of  the  Elsinore,  and  ran  that  on  the  sound  to  Port  Orchard  points 
until  the  winter,  when  he  also  brought  it  to  Lake  Washington,  and  in  the 
fall  of  1902  purchased  the  Xanthus  and  also  brought  her  to  the  lake.     He 
now  operates  the  Xanthus,  the  Cyrene  and  the  Elsinore.     He  has  been  on 
the  lake  so  long  that  he  has  gained  a  most  enviable  reputation  as  one  of 
the  most  skillful  and  capable  sailors.      He  now  has  a  plan  for  building  a 
tine  excursion  steamer  for  the  lake.     In  all  the  years  in  which  he  has  com- 
manded vessels  he  has  never  had  a  man  hurt  either  in  building  or  operating 
his  boats,  and  his  honesty  is  proverbial,  while  his  genial  nature  and  social 
disposition  have  made  him  popular  at  all  points  at  which  he  stops.     To  some 
extent  the  Captain  has  been  interested  in  real  estate,  and  in  1895  he  erected 
his  present  residence,  overlooking  the  lake  at  the  end  of  the  Yesler  cable  line. 
In  1895  Captain  Anderson  was  united  in  marriage  to  Emilie  Matson,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Matson,  a  machinist  of  this  city.     She  is  a  native  of 
Meriden,  Illinois,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  this  locality  since  1884.     Fra- 
ternally the  Captain  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  and  in  politics 
is  a  Republican.    In  October,  1901,  he  made  a  trip  to  his  old  home  in  Sweden, 
and   spent   nearly  five  months   abroad,   visiting  England,    France,   Norway, 
Sweden  and  Germany.     He  went  as  a  passenger  on  the  ship  Kaiser  Wilhelm 
Der  Grosse,  and  returned  n  the  American  liner  St.  Paul,  and  while  he  greatly 
enjoyed  the  trip  and  his  visit  to  the  home  of  his  boyhood,  he  could  never 
be  content  to  live  elsewhere  than  in  the  land  of  the  free — the  home  of  his 
adoption. 

CHARLES    OSNER. 

King  county  figures  as  one  of  the  most  attractive,  progressive  and  pros- 
perous divisions  of  the  state  of  Washington,  justly  claiming  a  high  order 
of  citizenship  and  a  spirit  of  enterprise  which  is  certain  to  secure  develop- 
ment and  advancement  in  the  material  upbuilding  of  the  section.  The  county 
has  been  and  is  signally  favored  in  the  class  of  men  who  have  controlled  its 
affairs,  have  promoted  its  business  interests  and  thereby  contributed  to  its 
prosperity,  and  in  this  connection  the  subject  of  this  review  deserves  rep- 
resentation. The  growth  of  any  community,  town  or  city  depends  upon  its 
commercial  activity  and  its  industrial  interests,  and  therefore  the  real  up- 
builders  of  a  town  are  those  who  stand  at  the  head  of  its  leading  enterprises. 
Mr.  Osner  is  actively  connected  with  real  estate  dealing,  both  on  his  own 
account  and  as  a  broker,  and  his  labors  have  been  effective  in  promoting  the 
growth  and  attractive  appearance  of  Seattle,  to  which  he  has  laid  out  two 
additions. 


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Although  born  in  Germany,  Mr.  Osner  is  of  American  parentage.  His 
father,  Ferdinand  Osner,  was  an  importer  and  wholesale  leather  dealer  of 
Philadelphia,  but  was  abroad  at  the  time  of  Charles's  birth,  which  occurred 
in  Baden  on  the  20th  of  January,  1858.  In  Philadelphia  Charles  Osner 
acquired  his  early  education  and  then  returned  to  Germany  to  continue  his 
studies.  On  putting  aside  his  text  books  he  became  associated  with  his  fa- 
ther in  the  leather  business  and  so  continued  until  twenty-one  years  of  age, 
when  he  started  out  upon  an  independent  business  career  as  a  leather  broker 
in  Chicago,  which  pursuit  he  followed  for  ten  years.  Believing  that  there 
were  better  business  opportunities  on  the  Pacific  coast,  in  1888  he  came  west, 
and  for  a  year  was  a  representative  of  the  Gambrims  Brewery  of  Portland, 
Oregon.  Visiting  Seattle,  he  became  convinced  that  this  was  to  become  the 
leading  city  of  the  northwest  and  determined  to  make  it  the  base  of  his 
future  business  operations.  Accordingly  in  1890  he  made  a  permanent  loca- 
tion here,  and  time  has  proved  the  wisdom  of  his  decision.  For  the  first 
year  he  was  the  Seattle  representative  of  the  Portland  Company,  after  which 
he  engaged  in  the  hotel  business,  but  in  1898  he  retired  from  that  and  be- 
came a  member  of  the  real  estate  and  investment  firm  of  (iroll.  Damns  & 
Osner.  Following  the  financial  panic  ^\•hich  swept  over  the  country  in  1893 
Seattle  suffered  considerable  depression,  but  Mr.  Osner  maintained  firm 
faith  in  its  future,  made  the  best  of  his  opportunities  during  the  dark  period 
and  in  course  of  time  saw  Seattle  emerge  into  a  new  growth,  which  lias  made 
it  the  leading  metropolitan  center  of  the  northwest.  In  January,  1902,  in  con- 
nection with  Mr.  Damus,  he  purchased  Mr.  Groll's  interest  in  the  firm,  and 
under  the  style  of  Damus  &  Osner  business  is  now  carried  on.  While  they 
do  some  fire  insurance  business,  representing  the  Philadelphia  Underwrit- 
ers, the  business  is  mainly  the  buying. and  selling  of  real  estate,  which  they 
carry  on  on  their  own  account,  also  acting  as  brokers.  They  also  super- 
intend the  negotiation  of  loans  and  investments  and  now  have  a  large  client- 
age in  their  line,  for  both  gentlemen  are  known  as  reliable  and  trustworthy 
business  men  of  large  knowledge  concerning  realty  values.  Mr.  Osner  has 
erected  some  residences  in  Seattle  and  has  also  laid  out  two  additions  on 
Green  lake,  one  inside  the  city  limits  and  the  other  just  outside  the  corpora- 
tion confines.  Sixty  acres  have  been  divided  into  city  lots  and  he  also 
holds  another  sixty  acres  within  the  city  limits  which  has  not  yet  been  sub- 
divided. 

While  at  Portland  Mr.  Osner  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Bielen- 
berg,  whose  father  is  now  living  retired  here,  and  in  1898  erected  his  resi- 
dence at   326  Bellevue  avenue,   where  they  have  a  pleasant  home  in  what 


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is  known  as  the  Broadway  district.  In  his  poHtical  affihations  Mr.  Osner 
is  independent,  although  he  usually  votes  the  Democratic  ticket.  He  does 
not  consider  himself  bound  by  party  ties  and  is  a  man  of  independent  spirit, 
self-reliant  and. always  outspoken  in  defense  of  his  honest  convictions.  He 
belongs  to  the  chamber  of  commerce  and  is  a  member  of  several  fraternal 
organizations,  and  he  withholds  his  co-operation  from  no  movement  or  meas- 
ure calculated  to  advance  the  general  welfare.  To  him  there  has  come  the 
attainment  of  a  distinguished  position  in  connection  with  the  material  in- 
dustries of  the  state,  and  his  efforts  have  been  so  discerningly  directed  along 
well  defined  lines  of  labor  that  he  seems  to  have  realized  at  any  one  point 
of  progress  the  full  measure  of  his  possibilities  for  accomplishment  at  that 
point. 

AXEL  H.  SOELBERG. 

Some  historians  have  gone  so  far  as  to  believe  that  the  physical  aspect 
and  character  of  a  country  are  primary  causes  in  determining  the  nature  of 
its  inhabitants,  and  although  this  cannot  be  proved  in  its  entirety,  no  one 
will  dispute  the  fact  that  climate  and  environment  exert  much  influence  upon 
the  temperament  of  people.  This  can  be  stated  with  certainty  of  the  land 
of  Norway,  whose  stern,  rocky,  rug^ged  shores  have  been  the  nurturing  place 
of  men  who  in  all  ages  ha"\'e  found  their  delight  in  the  fiercest  of  the  con- 
flicts against  the  elements  and  the  less  material  but  real  difficulties  of  life. 
While  these  influences  may  have  had  no  appreciable  effect  on  the  firm  and 
upright  character  of  Mr.  Soelberg,  he  is  proud  to  claim  that  northern  coun- 
try as  his  birthplace  and  ascribe  to  its  liardy  soil  much  tliat  has  made  for  his 
success  in  life. 

He  was  born  in  Norway  on  March  2,  1S69,  and  spent  the  first  nineteen 
years  of  his  life  there,  receiving  a  good  education  meanwhile  an.d  preparing 
himself  for  the  future.  The  stories  of  the  wonders  and  the  Drosperity  to 
be  enjoyed  in  the  United  States  had  often  come  to  his  ears,  and  in  1888  he 
came  to  this  country.  He  located  in  Minneapolis  and  found  his  first  em- 
ployment in  a  sash  and  door  factory.  But  four  years  later  he  came  t<T 
Seattle.  Some  of  his  friends  were  interested  in  the  establishment  of  the 
Scandinavian-American  Bank,  and  when  it  was  opened  he  obtained  the  posi- 
tion of  bookkeeper.  After  holding  this  place  for  two  years  he  was  chosen 
cashier,  and  in  May,  1902,  was  elected  vice  president,  which  position  Ik 
now  fills  and  is  very  active  in  making  this  one  of  the  foremost  financial  in- 
stitutions in  the  city;  he  is  also  a  director  in  the  l)ank.      Fie  is  also  connected 


454  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

with  other  interests  in  the  city  and  holds  various  positions;  among  these 
hie  is  secretary  of  the  Seattle  Clearing  House.  But  he  devotes  most  of  his 
time  and  attention  to  the  business  of  the  bank. 

Mr.  Soelberg  has  found  the  Republican  party  representative  of  his  politi- 
cal views,  and  he  has  been  honored  with  being  chosen  as  delegate  to  the  coun- 
ty conventions.  He  holds  membership  in  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen  and  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  of  which  he  is  past  chancellor.  He 
belongs  to  the  Lutheran  church.  For  recreation  during  his  vacation  he 
made  two  trips  to  Alaska,  and  thus  added  to  his  fund  of  knowledge  con- 
cerning the  world.  Mr.  Soelberg  was  married  in  January,  1898,  to  Miss 
Olga  Wickstrom,  who  is  the  daughter  of  one  of  Seattle's  pioneers,  Peter 
Wickstrom.  They  have  one  daughter,  Adene.  They  are  now  living  in 
their  fine  new  residence,  which  was  erected  during  the  past  year.  It  is  situated 
on  Capitol  Hill,  and  has  a  charming  location  at  the  corner  of  Thirteenth 
ax'enue  and  Aloha  street. 

FRANK  HANFORD. 

Almost  fifty  years  have  elapsed  since  this  gentleman  arrived  in  Seattle 
and  he  is  justly  numbered  among  her  honored  pioneers  and  leading  citizens. 
He  has  been  prominently  identified  with  her  business  interests,  and  is  to-day 
a  member  of  the  well-known  insurance  firm  of  Watson,  Hanford  &  Com- 
pany. Not  alone  is  there  particular  interest  attaching  to  his  career  as  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  of  this  state,  but  in  reviewing  his  genealogical  record  we 
find  his  lineage  tracing  back  to  the  colonial  history  of  the  nation  and  to  that 
period  which  marked  the  inception  of  the  grandest  republic  the  world  has 
ever  known. 

Mr.  Hanford  was  born  in  Winchester,  Van  Buren  county,  Iowa,  Jan- 
uary 9,  1853,  and  is  a  descendant  of  Eglin  Hanford,  who  came  to  this  coun- 
try from  Sudbury.  England,  on  the  Planter,  April  10,  1635.  She  was  a 
widow  at  that  time  and  brought  with  her  two  daughters,  leaving  one  son, 
Thomas,  and  a  daughter,  Eglin,  in  England.  Later,  about  1637,  Thomas 
also  emigrated  to  America  and  became  the  first  minister  at  Norvvalk,  Con- 
necticut, where  he  lived  from  1652  to  1693.  He  was  married  October  22, 
1661  to  Miss  Mary  Ince,  daughter  of  Richard  Miles,  who  was  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Mil  ford,  Connecticut,  but  later  became  a  resident  of  New 
Haven,  being  one  of  the  seven  founders  of  the  church  there.  Thomas  Han- 
ford, Jr.,  son  of  Thomas,  was  born  in  Norwalk,  July  18,  1668,  and  married 
Hannah  Burwell.     Their  son  Theophilus  was  the  father  of  Theophilus  Han- 


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ibrd,  Jr.,  who  was  born  April  26,  1724.  The  latter's  son,  Ebenezer  Han- 
ford,  born  October  i,  1757,  was  the  father  of  Thaddeus  Hanford,  the  grand- 
father of  our  subject.  The  last  named  was  born  in  Norwalk,  Connecticut, 
November  21,  1780,  and  in  1802  removed  to  Ohio,  locating  on  a  farm  on 
the  Little  Miami  river,  nine  miles  from  the  city  of  Cincinnati.  He  was  urged 
to  accept  the  nomination  for  governor  of  the  state  but  always  refused  to  ac- 
cept any  political  office.  A  devoted  Christian,  he  was  for  more  than  thirty 
;/ears  a  class  leader  in  the  Methodist  church. 

Edward  Hanford,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  January  10,  1807,  and  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  that  city.  Dur- 
ing his  minority  he  remained  upon  the  home  farm,  and  then  in  company 
with  a  brother  went  to  Van  Buren  county,  Iowa,  where  he  purchased  four 
hundred  acres  of  land.  There  he  was  married  December  4,  1845,  to  Miss 
Abby  J.  Holgate.  She  traces  her  ancestry  back  to  William  Holgate,  the 
progenitor  of  the  American  branch  of  the  family,  who  came  to  this  country 
with  William  Penn  and  erected  the  first  brick  house  in  Philadelphia,  im- 
porting the  brick  from  England.  This  building  was  torn  down  in  1833  and 
some  of  the  relics  found  in  the  corner  stone  are  now  in  possession  of  the 
family.  Members  of  the  family  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  and  one  served  as  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas.  Abra- 
ham Levering  Holgate,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Hanford,  was  of  the  fifth  gen- 
eration in  direct  descent  from  William  Holgate.  He  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, March  i,  1791,  and  with  his  brother  served  as  a  soldier  in  the 
war  of  1812,  belonging  to  the  Chestnut  Hill  Rifle  Rangers.  In  October. 
1819,  he  removed  to  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  edged  tools  until  1824,  and  then  removed  to  Lebanon, 
Ohio,  where  Mr.  Hanford  was  born.  In  October,  1839,  he  went  still  farther 
west  to  the  new  territory  of  Iowa,  where  he  made  his  home  until  called  to 
final  rest  November  7,  1847.  Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hanford  were  born  five 
sons,  namely :  Thaddeus,  now  deceased,  who  was  a  graduate  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Rochester  (New  York)  in  the  class  of  1870;  Cornelius  H.,  United 
States  district  judge  of  Washington;  Frank,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Ar- 
thur E.,  a  member  of  the  abstract  firm  of  Booth.  Whitely  &  Hanford;  and 
Clarence,  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Lowman  &  Hanford  Company. 

Edward  Hanford  continued  his  residence  in  Van  Buren  county.  Iowa, 
until  his  wife's  poor  health  made  it  advisable  for  the  family  to  seek  another 
climate.  As  her  brother,  John  Holgate.  had  come  to  Oregon  in  1847.  they 
decided  to  remove  to  the  Pacific  coast  and  started  for  the  west,  crossing  the 
Missouri  river  in  May,  1853.     They  drove  across  the  plains  and  arrived  at 


456  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

their  destination  in  November.  On  the  ist  of  January,  1854,  Mr.  Hanford 
and  his  brother-in-law  came  north  and  selected  a  claim  near  Seattle,  re- 
turning for  his  family  in  May.  He  found  this  part  of  the  trip  more  severe 
than  crossing  the  plains,  as  they  had  to  travel  by  water  much  of  the  way. 
Canoes  were  at  lirst  used,  but  the  latter  part  of  the  journey  was  made  on  a 
scow.  Mr.  Hanford  engaged  in  logging  until  the  Indian  war  broke  out,  when 
the  red  men  killed  all  his  cattle  and  destroyed  his  orchard  of  two  hundred 
choice  fruit  trees.  He  then  enlisted  in  the  Home  Guards  under  Captain 
Hughett  and  served  until  hostilities  ceased.  He  went  to  Port  Madison, 
and  after  a  year  removed  to  San  Francisco  in  order  to  give  his  children  bet- 
ter educational  advantages  than  the  schools  of  this  state  afforded  at  that 
time.  At  the  end  of  six  years,  however,  he  returned  to  Seattle,  and  bought 
land  at  ^vhat  is  now  the  corner  of  Fourth  avenue  and  James  street,  turn- 
ing his  attention  to  fruit  raising.  Politically  he  was  a  strong  Republican, 
but  ne\'er  held  ofifice.  When  a  young  man  he  was  an  active  member  of  the 
Methodist  Protestant  church,  but  after  coming  west  united  with  the  Baptist 
church  which  was  organized  at  his  house.  Generous  and  hospitable  he  made 
man^'  w arm  friends,  and  he  was  honored  and  respected  by  all  \\ho  knew  him. 
His  deatli  occurred  in  Seattle  on  the  25th  of  September,  1884.  His  wife  still 
survives  him  and  now  makes  her  home  with  our  subject. 

It  was  during  the  infancy  of  Frank  Hanford  that  the  family  crossed 
the  plains  to  Portland,  Oregon,  and  after  stopping  for  a  time  with  his  uncle, 
John  C.  Holgate,  came  to  Seattle  in  August,  1854,  since  which  time  our 
subject  has  been  identified  with  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city.  He 
was  reared  upon  the  frontier  and  his  early  education  was  obtained  in  a 
district  school  which  was  verv  good  for  those  earlv  davs.  Later  when  the 
family  were  driven  away  by  the  Indians  in  1855  they  took  up  their  resi- 
dence in  Seattle,  where  he  attended  school  for  six  years.  During  their 
stay  in  San  Francisco  he  was  a  student  in  the  Washington  grammar  school 
two  years,  and  for  three  years  was  employed  in  a  mining  and  real  estate 
office,  there  gaining  his  first  knowledge  of  business  methods.  Returning 
to  Seattle  in  1866,  at  the  age  of  thirteen,  he  spent  the  following  two  years 
on  the  home  farm,  and  then  entered  the  State  University,  where  he  was  a 
student  from  1869  until  1872.  He  next  engaged  in  teacliing  school  at 
Seabeck  for  three  months,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  took  charge  of  a  store 
for  a  year.  Subsequently  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Crawford  &  Harrington 
for  fourteen  )''ears,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  embarked  in  the  insurance 
business  on  his  own  account  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Pumphrey  &  Han- 
ford.    Later  the  business  was  at  different  times  conducted  under  the  firm 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  457 

style  of  Frank  Hanford;  Haiiford  &  Beach  and  Hanford  &  Stewart  until 
1898,  when  the  present  firm  of  Watson,  Hanford  &  Company  was  estab- 
lished. This  is  one  of  the  leading  concerns  of  the  kind  in  the  city  and  they 
are  doing  a  large  and  profitable  business  which  is  constantly  increasing. 
Mr.  Hanford  is  also  interested  in  several  mining  companies  and  is  a  director 
of  some  of  them.  At  one  time  he  was  a  director  of  the  Meyers  Packing 
Company  but  has  since  retired.  He  is  part  owner  in  the  bark  Hesper  and 
has  considerable  real  estate,  both  farm  land,  and  residence  property.  His 
pleasant  residence  in  Seattle  was  erected  by  hi;ii  in  1886,  and  later  he  bought 
ten  acres  of  land  on  Lake  Washington  with  the  view  of  building  there 
but  never  did  owing  to  his  wife's  death. 

At  Canby,  Oregon,  Mr.  Hanford  was  married  in  1886  to  Miss  Eva 
Waite,  a  daughter  of  ex-Chief  Justice  Aaron  E.  Waite,  of  that  state.  She 
died  in  July,  1894,  leaving  one  son,  Frank  Waite  Hanford.  An  older 
child  had  died  previously. 

Since  attaining  his  majority  Mr,  Hanford  has  always  affiliated  with 
the  Republican  party,  and  has  taken  quite  an  active  and  prominent  part  in 
local  politics.'  In  1890  he  was  elected  to  the  city  council  and  served  two 
years,  during  which  time  a  large  amount  of  work  was  accomplished  by  that 
body  as  it  was  right  after  the  fire.  He  was  called  upon  to  represent  his 
district  in  the  legislature  in  1895  and  became  a  prominent  and  influential 
member  of  the  house.  He  was  instrumental  in  securing  the  amendment  to 
the  corporation  law,  by  which  a  majority  of  directors  may  be  residents  of 
other  states,  and  was  active  in  having  the  arson  law  passed.  He  also  suc- 
ceeded in  having  the  bill,  relieving  ships  in  foreign  trade  from  local  tax, 
pass  through  the  house  but  it  could  not  be  reached  in  the  senate,  owing  to 
the  great  amount  of  legislation  at  that  session.  His  speech  on  this  won 
him  great  renown.  Mr.  Hanford  was  chairman  of  the  house  committee 
on  investigation  of  penitentiaries',  and  was  connected  with  other  important 
work.  He  has  been  a  delegrate  to  numerous  county  and  state  conventions 
of  his  party  and  takes  a  very  active  interest  in  politics  but  has  never  been 
a  politician  in  the  sense  of  office  seeking.  Fraternally  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  and  when  younger  filled  all  the  chairs  in 
the  different  branches  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  including 
the  offices  of  noble  grand  and  chief  patriarch.  He  attends  the  Episcopal 
church,  of  which  his  wife  was  an  earnest  member. 

As  a  pioneer  Mr.  Hanford  has  taken  part  in  every  event  of  historical 
interest  to  the  city  of  Seattle,  and  although  quite  young  he  well  remembers 
when  the  Indians  made  their  attack  on  the  place.  At  that  time  he  was  living 
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where  Hotel  Seattle  now  stands.  When  the  Chinese  riots  occurred  in  i8S6, 
Mr.  Hanford  was  sworn  in  as  a  deputy  sheriff  and  took  an  active  part  in  the 
maintenance  of  law  and  order.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  the  Ranier  Club,  having  been  connected  with  the  latter  for  fifteen 
years.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  Mr.  Hanford  has  ever  been  prominently 
identified  with  public  affairs  in  Seattle,  and  as  one  of  its  leading  and  rep- 
resentative citizens  deserving  of  honorable  mention  in  its  history. 

AUGUSTUS  MUCHMORE. 

Success  comes  not  to  the  man  who  idly  waits,  but  to  the  faithful  toiler 
whose  work  is  characterized  l^y  intelligence  and  force;  it  comes  only  to  the 
man  who  has  the  foresight  and  keenness  of  mental  vision  to  know  when, 
wdiere  and  how  to  exert  his  energies,  and  thus  it  happens  that  but  a  small  pro- 
portion of  those  who  enter  the  "world's  broad  field  of  battle"  come  off  victo- 
rious in  the  struggle  for  wealth  and  position.  Mr.  Muchmore  is  a  member  of 
the  leading  printing  company  of  Seattle,  the  Mensing-Muchmore  Company, 
of  which  he  is  the  founder.  He  is  a  worthy  representative  of  the  younger  ele- 
ment that  has  appreciated  and  improved  the  business  opportunities  that  Se- 
attle offers.  Starting  in  with  a  small  printing  office,  in  1892,  with  only 
thirty  or  forty  fonts  of  type,  he  has  built  up  a  business  that  is  the  most  com- 
plete in  its  line  on  the  coast. 

A  native  of  New  Jersey,  Mr.  ^luchmore  was  born  near  ]\Iadison,  of  that 
state,  in  1867,  and  in  both  paternal  and  maternal  lines  comes  of  ancestry 
that  has  long  been  connected  wath  America.  The  Muchmore  family  is  of 
Scotch  lineage  and  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country  came  to  the  new 
w^orld  between  1730  and  1740.  Our  subject  was  the  fourth  generation  born 
in  New  Jersey,  the  records  showing  that  his  great-grandfather,  his  grandfa- 
ther, John  Muchmore,  and  his  father.  Joseph  Eli  Muchmore,  were  all  natives 
of  that  state.  John  ^luchmore  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits;  his 
home  adjoined  Washington's  headcjuarters,  and  the  army  on  its  memorable 
trip  from  Valley  Forge  encamped  on  his  land.  There  were  a  number  of 
Indian  mounds  there,  and  Augustus  Muchmore  has  found,  by  excavating 
them,  many  arrow-heads  and  other  Indian  relics.  Joseph  E.  Muchmore 
was  born  at  Newark,  New  Jerse)',  in  1819,  and  spent  his  entire  life  in  that 
locality.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  builder  by  trade,  and  followed  it  all  his 
life,  and  was  also  interested  in  educational  matters,  filling  several  local  posi- 
tions in  connection  with  the  schools.  He  married  Margaret  Cook  Kitchell, 
and  of  their  children  se\en   attained  maturitv  and  six  are  vet  livine    but 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  ,  459 

Augustus  is  the  only  one  west  of  Chicago.  The  Kitchell  family  is  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  and  a  complete  record  of  the  family  can  be  traced  down  to  1500. 
Representatives  of  the  name  were  on  the  second  boat  to  reach  American 
shores  from  England.  Several  of  the  family  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  and  one  of  these  was  a  direct  ancestor  of  our  subject.  The  old  Kitchell 
home  was  retained  in  the  possession  of  the  family  until  1897.  The  maternal 
grandfather  of  our  subject  was  born  in  1797,  and  both  his  wife  and  the  wife 
of  John  Muchmore  were  born  in  1800.  Joseph  E.  Muchmore  passed  away 
at  the  age  of  seventy-three  years  and  his  wife  when  fifty-four  years  of  age. 

In  the  public  schools  and  in  a  preparatory  school  at  Williamstown,  Mas- 
sachusetts, Augustus  Muchmore  pursued  his  education  and  then  started 
upon  his  business  career  as  an  employe  in  a  printing  office.  For  nineteen 
3^ears  he  has  followed  this-  pursuit.  After  a  time  spent  at  Madison,  New 
Jersey,  he  went  to  Pennsylvania,  and  was  employed  in  Carlisle  and  after- 
ward in  Bedford.  In  1889  he  came  to  the  west,  remaining  in  California  until 
the  fall  of  the  following  year,  wdien  he  returned  to  the  Atlantic  coast,  but  in^ 
1891  he  again  came  to  the  Pacific  coast.  In  1893  he  embarked  in  business 
on  his  own  account,  in  Oakland,  California,  where,  in  connection  with 
Frank  Jordan,  now  clerk  of  the  supreme  court  of  the  state  of  California, 
he  established  the  Jordan  Printing  Company.  He  has  always  felt  a  deep 
interest  in  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  while  at  Oakland  he  established 
the  first  paper  setting  forth  the  important  object  of  that  order  and  promot- 
ing its  growth  and  development;  it  is  still  published.  In  1898  he  decided 
to  go  to  Skagway  and  establish  a  paper  there,  but  upon  reaching  Seattle  he 
was  so  pleased  with  the  city  and  its  prospects  that  he  decided  to  locate  here 
permanently.  He  started  a  small  ijrinting  establishment  in  a  room  in  the 
Collins  building,  and  in  November  he  admitted  Mr.  Mensing  to  a  partner- 
ship under  the  firm  name  of  the  Mensing-Muchmore  Company.  They  have 
steadily  increased  their  business  until  they  now  have  all  of  the  work  they  can 
handle.  In  the  spring  of  1899  the  company  was  incorporated  under  the 
name  of  the  Mensing-Muchmore  Company,  Mr.  Muchmore  becoming  the 
secretary  and  treasurer.  The  business  grew  so  rapidly  that  it  became  neces- 
sary to  increase  their  facilities,  and  in  June,  T901,  they  removed  to  their 
present  location,  at  714  Third  avenue,  and  put  in  a  lithographing  press.  Since 
that  time  their  business  has  steadily  increased  and  will  necessitate  a  removal 
to  larger  quarters  in  the  near  future.  They  have  the  most  complete  plant 
on  the  coast,  as  they  do  their  own  printing,  lithographing-  and  copper  plate 
work,  all  of  wdiich  is  executed  under  the  one  roof.  Tlieir  business  has  been 
very  satisfactory  and  tests  the  capacity  of  the  plant  and  facilities  to  the  ut- 


46o  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

most.  Mr.  Miichmore  established  the  Forest  Echoes  here,  and  Head  Consul 
P'alkenburg  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  says  it  is  the  best  paper  pub- 
lished in  the  interest  of  the  order.  Mr.  ]\Iuchmore  is  serving  as  editor  of 
this  publication,  which  was  begiin  shortly  after  his  arrival  here. 

Mr.  Muchmore  is  also  very  active  and  prominent  in  political  circles,  has 
been  a  close  and  earnest  student  of  the  questions  and  issues  of  the  day,  and 
has  been  active  in  support  of  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party  since, 
as  a  lad,  he  marched  in  the  campaign  when  Grant  was  a  candidate  for  the 
presidency.  Since  his  arrival  here  he  has  been  an  active  factor  in  local 
political  circles  and  is  now  senang  as  a  member  of  the  city  central  commit- 
tee and  has  frequently  been  a  delegate  to  both  city  and  county  conventions. 
In  1895  he  joined  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  his  labors  in  behalf  of 
the  order  have  been  far-reaching  and  ver\-  valuable,  being  fruitful  of  good  re- 
sults. He  was  a  representative  of  the  head  camp  section  which  met  in  Crip- 
ple Creek,  Colorado,  in  July,  1902,  having  been  elected  unanimously  to  that 
office.  He  has  been  consul  commander  here  for  two  terms.  He  also  be- 
longs to  the  Royal  Arcanum,  to  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  to 
the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  and  is  identified  with  the  Women  of 
Woodcraft.  He  likewise  holds  membership  relations  with  the  Benevolent 
and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles  and  the  Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  ]\Ien,  in  which  he  is  a  past  sachem  and  as  a  delegate 
attended  the  great  council  of  the  state  of  Washington  in  1899.  He  has 
further  membership  relations  with  the  Foresters  of  America  and  the  Degree 
of  Pocahontas.  In  Oakland,  California,  in  1893,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
Mr.  Muchmore  and  Miss  Florence  Harrison  Chick,  a  daughter  of  Harri- 
son Chick,  who  was  an  attorney  of  San  Francisco.  They  have  one  daugh- 
ter, Dorothy  Kitchell.  Their  hospitable  and  comfortable  home  is  a  favorite 
resort  of  their  many  friends  throughout  the  city.  From  a  humble  begin- 
ning in  business  circles  Mr.  Muchmore  has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward 
until  the  position  which  lie  now  occupies  is  alike  creditable  and  honorable 
to  him. 

SAMUEL  LeROY  CRAWFORD. 

Born  near  Oregon  City,  Oregon,  June  22,  1855,  of  a  family  connected 
on  both  sides  in  the  first  settlement  of  Oregon,  Samuel  LeRoy  Crawford  is 
one  of  the  few  descendants  of  the  pioneers  of  the  northwest  that  are  dis- 
tinguishable among  the  ''che-chacos"  that  make  up  the  larger  part  of  the 
population  of  the  northwest  to-day.      His  parents  crossed  the  plains  to  Ore- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  461 

gon  in  1847;  the  father,  Ronald  Crawford  Crawford,  to  join  his  brother, 
Medorem,  who  had  settled  in  the  Willamette  valley  in  1842;  and  the  mother, 
then  a  young-  girl,  Elizabeth  Moore,  with  her  parents  to  join  her  grandfa- 
ther, Major  Robert  Moore,  who  had  come  across  the  plains  in  1842  and 
taken  up  a  donation  claim  at  the  falls  of  the  Willamette  river  opposite  Ore- 
gon City.  Major  Moore  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  first  civil  gov- 
ernment west  of  the  Rockies,  the  provisional  government  of  Oregon,  estab- 
lished in  1843.  Medorem  Crawford  also  took  an  active  part  in  forming  that 
government  and  was  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  political  and  civic  history  of  the  state. 

After  receiving  a  common  school  education  in  the  schools  of  Oregon 
City  and  Salem,  in  1869  Samuel  Crawford  moved  to  Olympia,  Washington, 
with  his  father's  family.  While  there  he  learned  the  printer's  trade  and 
worked  for  several  years  on  the  Washington  Standard  and  the  Daily  Echo. 
Visiting  Seattle  and  becoming*  convinced  that  it  was  the  most  promising  place 
on  Puget  Sound,  Mr.  Crawford  came  here  in  June,  1876,  and  took  charge  of 
the  mechanical  department  of  a  newly  established  paper,  the  Daily  Intelli- 
gencer. In  a  few  years  his  instinct  for  news  and  his  ability  for  newspaper 
work  cropped  out  and  he  was  placed  at  the  head  of  the  local  department.  In 
1880  he  and  Thomas  W.  Prosch  purchased  the  Intelligencer  and  by  enter- 
prise and  hard  work  made  it  the  leading  journal  of  the  territory.  In  1882, 
when  the  Intelligencer  was  consolidated  with  the  Post  as  the  Post-Intelli- 
gencer, Mr.  Crawford  sold  his  interest,  but  remained  for  six  years  in  charge 
of  the  news  department.  In  November,  1888,  he  and  another  employe  of 
the  Post-Intelligencer,  Charles  T.  Conover,  quit  its  service  and  entered  the 
real  estate  business.  Their  co-partnership,  later  incorporated  under  the  title 
of  Crawford  &  Conover,  gave  this  state  its  soubriquet  "The  Evergreen 
State,"  and  has  spent  large  sums  of  money  in  advertising  the  wealth  and  ad- 
vantages of  Seattle  and  the  state  of  Washington.  Mr.  Crawford  is  presi- 
dent of  this  corporation  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Crawford,  Con- 
over &  Fisken,   general  insurance  agents. 

For  many  years  a  trustee  of  the  chamber  of  commerce,  Mr.  Crawford 
has  always  been  one  of  its  chief  workers,  particularly  in  receiving  and  enter- 
taining visitors,  for  which  he  is  especially  fitted  by  his  knowledge  of  what 
Seattle  has  done  and  is  doing.  Because  of  this  knowledge  and  his  familiarity 
with  values  of  real  estate  in  and  about  Seattle  Mr.  Crawford  is  frequently 
called  upon  to  appraise  property  for  the  federal  and  state  governments  and 
the  large  corporations  having  interests  here. 

Mr.  Crawford  has  a  fine  collection  of  interesting  and  valuable  photo- 


462  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

graphs  of  pioneer  meii  and  places,  and  his  memory  is  a  treasure  house  of 
anecdotes  of  early  days  on  Puget  Sound.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first 
baseball  nine  of  the  sound;  in  fact,  he  introduced  baseball  to  Seattle,  and 
was  for  years  one  of  the  best  amateur  players  on  the  sound.  He  was  also 
a  member  of  the  volunteer  fire  department,  which  served  Seattle  well  for 
many  years,  and  was  a  charter  member  of  Seattle  Hook  &  Ladder  Company 

No.   I. 

Princess  Angeline,  Chief  Seattle's  daughter,  counted  Mr.  Craw- 
ford, who  speaks  Chinook,  one  of  her  "tillicums,"  and  used  to  go  to  him  for 
advice  and  assistance,  and  he  often  acted  as  interpreter  when  a  prominent 
visitor  to  this  city  wished  to  interview  the  old  princess.  After  her  death 
Mr.  Crawford  raised  a  fund  among  the  children  of  Seattle  and  erected  a 
monument  over  her  grave  in  Lake  View  cemetery.  He  appealed  to  chil- 
dren rather  than  adults  in  the  hope  that  contributing  to  this  fund  would 
make  them  feel  linked  in  some  measure  to  the  early  history  of  their  city, 
which  he  believes  should  be  made  familiar  to  the  rising  generation,  that, 
knowing  from  what  small  beginnings  and  by  what  struggles  Seattle  has  at- 
tained her  present  position,  they  may  appreciate  what  Seattle  means  to  the 
old  residents. 

A  genuine  westerner,  hearty,  generous,  hospitable,  "Sam  Crawford," 
as  he  is  familiarly  known  to  thousands  of  the  old  residents  of  the  Puget 
Sound  country  and  to  many  of  the  new,  is  the  type  of  the  men  that  have  made 
the  "Seattle  spirit"  famous  by  their  pride  and  confidence  in  the  city  and  by 
their  united  and  untiring  efforts  to  advance  her  interests.  Of  this  spirit, 
which  was  undaunted  by  a  fifteen  million  dollar  fire  and  which  carried  the 
city  through  the  great  financial  panic  without  the  loss  of  a  bank  and  with  a 
steady  increase  in  w^ealth  and  population,  no  other  Seattleite  has  more  than 
Mr.  Crawford,  no  other  has  a  deeper  love  for  Seattle  or  a  firmer  belief  that 
the  future  for  which  he  has  helped  to  lay  the  foundation  will  gloriously  ful- 
fill the  promise  of  the  present. 

H.  A.  NOBLE. 

The  above  named  gentleman,  who  is  well  known  in  business  circles  in 
Seattle  on  account  of  his  prominent  connection  with  the  Kirkland  Land  Im- 
provement Company  and  the  District  Telegraph  Company,  is  an  eastern  man 
with  a  distinguished  genealogy,  both  on  the  side  of  his  father  and  mother. 
Thomas  Noble,  the  emigrant  ancestor,  crossed  the  ocean  from  England  in 
the  wake  of  the  Pilgrims  in  the  early  half  of  the  seventeenth  century,  bought 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  463 

land  in  Massachusetts  and  became  the  progenitor  of  a  vigorous  hne  which 
in  future  years  ramified  throughout  the  various  states  of  the  American  Un- 
ion. Passing  over  the  numerous  generations  down  to  the  present  era,  we 
find  a  branch  of  this  family  strongly  entrenched  in  Monroe  county,  New 
York,  on  the  borders  of  Lake  Ontario.  From  there,  in  1832,  Theron  A. 
Noble  removed  to  Ohio  and  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  at  Cleveland, 
but  on  account  of  an  outbreak  of  the  cholera  subsequently  changed  his  loca- 
tion to  the  neighboring  city  of  Akron.  His  experiences  as  a  pioneer  mer- 
chant at  that  point  are  interesting  to  this  age  of  rapid  transportation.  It 
was  his  custom  to  ride  annually  to  New  York  on  horseback  to  purchase  his 
<?tock  of  goods,  and  such  a  journey  in  those  days  was  longer  and  more  tedi- 
ous than  a  trip  now  around  the  world.  The  return  merchandise  was  trans- 
ported to  Ohio  in  those  clumsy  vehicles  called  "prairie  schooners,"  and  the 
arrival  of  these  caravans  in  the  scattered  Ohio  towns  was  always  an  event 
of  moment.  This  Akron  merchant  married  into  a  distinguished  family  at 
Rochester,  New  York,  his  bride  being  Miss  Lydia,  daughter  of  John  Acer, 
and  on  the  maternal  side  a  granddaughter  of  John  Quincy  Adams.  This 
lady,  who  is  described  by  those  who  knew  her  as  possessed  of  remarkable 
strength  both  of  mind  and  character,  lived  to  an  unusual  age,  only  lacking 
two  years  of  having  completed  a  century  of  existence  when  the  final  sum- 
mons called  her  to  eternal  rest. 

H.  A.  Noble,  son  of  this  worthy  couple,  was  born  at  Rochester,  New 
York,  May  16,  1829,  and  was  consequently  but  three  years  of  age  when  his 
father  located  in  Ohio.  He  grew  up  in  his  new  western  home  and  received 
his  education  principally  in  the  schools  at  Akron,  but  inherited  his  father's 
fondness  for  mercantile  pursuits  and  at  an  early  age  engaged  in  the  milling 
business.  We  find  him  thus  employed,  at  the  inception  of  the  great  Civil 
war,  whose  momentous  incidents  changed  careers  for  so  many  of  the  youths 
of  the  land.  Mr.  Noble,  like  other  young  men  of  Ohio,  felt  the  patriotic 
impulse  and  was  anxious  to  go  to  the  front,  but  the  wretched  condition  of 
his  health  at  that  time,  added  to  the  difficulties  of  a  domestic  nature,  pre- 
vented his  enlistment  in  the  army.  He  was  liberal  with  his  means,  however, 
and  as  a  donation  to  the  Lhiion  cause  paid  nine  hundred  dollars  to  clear  his 
township  from  a  draft  for  the  army,  and  was  offered  the  quartermastership 
of  the  Ninety-eighth  Ohio  Regiment.  In  hopes  of  recuperating  his  health 
Mr.  Noble  went  to  Iowa  and  was  for  some  time  engaged  extensively  in  the 
cattle  business  near  Des  Moines.  With  regained  strength  and  vigor,  as  a 
result  of  a  change  of  climate  and  outdoor  exercise,  he  subsequently  em- 
barked in  the  barbed  wire  business  and  carried  this  on  energetically  for  some 


464  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

years  in  that  section  of  the  state.  In  1886  he  removed  his  headquarters  to 
Chicago,  estabhshed  a  mill  at  Lockport  and  entered  vigorously  into  the  man- 
ufacture of  barbed  wire,  which  at  that  time  was_  much  in  demand  throughout 
the  farming  sections  of  the  west.  At  first  his  ambition  extended  no  farther 
than  the  turning  out  of  some  fifty  carloads  of  his  product  annually,  but  in  a 
short  time  his  firm  was  manufacturing  at  the  rate  of  one  thousand  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  carloads  a  year.  Ill  health,  however,  again  interfered,  and  in 
1890  Mr.  Noble  found  himself  compelled  to  leave  Illinois  in  search  of  a  more 
salubrious  atmosphere  and  a  complete  change  of  employment.  His  atten- 
tion had  been  attracted  to  the  rising  young  city  on  Puget  Sound,  and  eventu- 
ally he  found  himself  located  and  engaged  in  an  entirely  new  business  at 
Seattle.  In  partnership  w^th  his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Leigh  Hunt,  he  as- 
sisted in  organizing  the  Kirkland  Land  &  Improvement  Company,  of  which 
he  has  been  president  since  its  incorporation.  This  company  owns  about 
two  thousand  acres  of  land,  situated  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Washington,  and 
the  original  intention  was  to  establish  a  large  iron  plant  in  that  locality,  but 
unexpected  dii^culties  prevented  the  carrying  out  of  this  design.  Owing  to 
the  hard  times  then  prevailing  in  the  west  as  the  result  of  the  panic  of  1893, 
and  felt  with  special  severity  in  the  state  of  Washington,  some  of  the  heavy 
eastern  stockholders  were  unwilling  to  proceed,  though  a  large  amount  of 
money  had  already  been  expended  in  the  enterprise.  When  Mr.  Noble 
reached  Seattle  he  found  the  American  District  Telegraph  Company  in  a  lan- 
guishing condition,  but  being  elected  president  he  reorganized  it  with  his 
usual  energy  and  executive  ability,  and  in  time  brought  about  such  marked 
improvement  that  the  success  of  this  undertaking  now  seems  assured. 

Turning  to  the  social  side  of  Mr.  Noble's  life  and  his  relations  aside 
from  business,  a  few  additional  remarks  will  be  pertinent.  He  was  married 
at  Massilon,  Ohio,  to  Miss  Mary  F.  Cummings,  and  by  this  union  has  two 
sons  and  two  daughters.  Miss  Jessie,  the  eldest,  is  the  wife  of  the  well 
known  Leigh  Hunt,  now  engaged  extensively  in  mining  operations  in  Korea. 
Mr.  T.  A.  Noble,  the  oldest  son,  is  a  civil  engineer  by  occupation.  His  young- 
er brother,  C.  PL,  is  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  at  Leahy,  Washington, 
and  Josephine,  the  other  daughter,  married  Frank  H.  Brownell,  an  attorney 
at  Everett.  It  has  been  the  custom  of  Mr.  Noble  for  years  to  spend  his 
summers  at  his  pleasant  rural  residence  across  Lake  Washington,  while  his 
winters  are  usually  passed  in  southern  travel,  last  season  being  devoted  to  a 
delightful  trip  to  old  Mexico  and  the  previous  one  to  a  journey  through  dis- 
tant Japan.  Mr.  Noble  was  affiliated  with  the  Whig  party  until  its  merger 
with  the  Republicans  as  a  result  of  the  great  slaverv  agitation,  and  since  then 


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has  been  an  ardent  advocate  of  the  princii)les  of  Lincohi,  Sumner  and  the 
other  great  apostles  of  freedom.  His  fraternal  connections  are  confined  to 
the  Masonic  fraternity,  of  which  ancient  and  honorable  order  he  has  long 
been  a  member. 

ZEPHANIAH  B.  RAWSON. 

In  this  enlightened  age,  when  men  of  industry,  energ}^  and  merit  are 
rapidly  pushing  their  way  to  the  front,  those  who,  by  their  own  individual 
efforts,  have  won  favor  and  fortune  may  properly  claim  recogTiition.  In 
no  calling  to  which  man  gives  his  attention  does  success  depend  more 
largely  upon  individual  effort  than  in  the  law,  and  that  Mr.  Zephaniah  B. 
Rawson  has  achieved  distinction  in  the  field  of  jurisprudence  at  once  attests 
his  superior  ability  and  close  application.  A  man  of  sound  judgment,  he 
manages  his  cases  with  masterly  skill  and  tact,  is  a  logical  reasoner  and  has 
a  ready  command  of  English.  His  powers  as  an  advocate  have  been  demon- 
strated by  his  success  on  many  occasions,  and  he  is  an  able  lawyer  of  large 
and  varied  experience  in  all  the  courts.  Thoroughness  characterizes  all  his 
efforts  and  he  conducts  all  his  business  with  a  strict  regard  to  a  high  standard 
of  professional  ethics. 

Mr.  Rawson  was  born  in  Paris,  Maine,  in  1858.  The  ancestral  line 
can  be  traced  back  to  a  very  early  period  in  the  colonization  of  America. 
The  first  of  this  family  to  come  to  America  was  Edward,  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, who  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  1636.  He  became  a  very  prominent  and 
influential  man  and  served  his  country  as  secretary  of  the  Massachusetts 
colony  from  1650  until  1686.  He  was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Old 
South  church  of  Boston,  and  bore  an  important  part  in  the  establishment 
of  the  policy  of  the  colony  in  the  early  days.  The  family  is  one  well  known 
and  honored  in  England  to  this  day,  and  its  members  yet  hold  high  offices 
in  the  navy,  while  one  is  a  member  of  the  House  of  Lords.  At  the  time  of 
the  Revolutionary  war  the  branch  of  the  family  that  had  been  founded  in 
this  country  was  represented  by  loyal  soldiers  in  the  colonial  army.  In  civic 
affairs  and  in  various  important  walks  of  life  members  of  the  family  have 
figured  honorably  and  conspicuously  in  both  the  New  England  and  central 
states.  The  name  of  Raw^son  has  ever  been  an  honored  one  and  in  civil  and 
military  life  its  representatives  have  commanded  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  the  communities  in  which  they  have  lived,  and  have  borne  their  part  in 
the  work  of  public  progress  and  improvement.  Frank  M.  Rawson.  the  fa- 
ther of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Paris,  Maine,  and  followed  agricultural  pur- 


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suits.  His  religious  faith  was  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  Methodist 
church.  He  married  Vesta  A.  Whitman  and  died  when  the  subject  of  this 
review  was  only  six  years  of  age. 

Zephaniah  B.  Rawson  remained  at  home  until  he  was  twelve  years  of 
age.  He  prepared  for  college  in  the  Maine  Wesleyan  Seminary  at  Kent's 
Hill,  and,  earning  his  own  way  through  school  from  the  time  he  was  thir- 
teen years  of  age,  he  thus  early  showed  the  elementary  strength  of  his  char- 
acter, which  has  been  developed  with  the  passing  years.  His  natural  aptitude 
in  his  studies,  supplemented  by  his  earnest  desire  to  secure  an  education, 
made  him  a  good  scholar.  He  resolved  to  devote  his  attention  to  profes- 
sional life,  and  to  this  end  he  read  law  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Enoch 
Foster  of  the  supreme  court  of  Maine,  and  subsequently  entered  the  Colum- 
bian University,  at  Washington,  D.  C,  and  was  graduated  in  that  institu- 
tion with  the  class  of  1888. 

He  practiced  in  the  Pine  Tree  state  until  1889,  and,  as  he  had  resolved 
to  become  a  resident  of  Washington  when  the  state  should  be  admitted  to 
the  Union,  he  started  for  the  northwest  as  soon  as  this  was  accomplished. 
He  had  heard  more  of  Tacoma  than  of  Seattle,  but  on  looking  over  the  situa- 
tion and  viewing  the  possibilities  of  the  two  cities  he  decided  to  locate  in 
the  latter,  although  friends  and  relatives  urged  him  to  establish  his  home  in 
Tacoma.  Time  has  proved  the  wisdom  of  his  choice,  for  in  this  great  and 
growing  city  he  has  risen  to  an  enviable  position  in  the  ranks  of  the  legal 
fraternity.  On  locating  here  he  entered  into  partnership  as  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Lovejoy  &  Rawson.  A  year  later  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
Mr.  Waller,  which  was  continued  for  two  years,  since  which  time  Mr.  Raw- 
son  has  been  alone.  He  has  engaged  in  the  general  practice  of  law,  thougli 
to  some  extent  he  has  made  a  specialty  of  real  estate  litigations.  He  has 
had  a  large  volume  of  probate  practice,  but  he  does  not  desire  to  make  a 
specialty  of  any  one  line  2nd  has  a  broad  and  comprehensive  knowledge  of 
jurisprudence  in  all  its  departments.  He  practices  before  all  the  courts,  and 
in  1896-97  was  city  attorney  of  Seattle.  He  is  quick  to  master  all  the  in- 
tricacies in  a  case  and  grasp  all  the  details,  at  the  same  time  losing  sight  of 
none  of  the  essential  points  upon  which  the  decision  of  every  case  finally 
turns.  He  has  a  ready  flow  of  language  and  as  a  speaker  is  fluent,  forcible, 
earnest  and  logical  as  well  as  convincing  in  argument.  His  knowledge  of 
the  law,  it  must  be  conceded,  is  hardly  second  to  that  of  any  other  member  of 
the  bar  of  Washington. 

Mr,  Rawson  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  military  affairs,  having  been 
identified  with  the  national  guards  since  1893,  when  he  became  a  member  of 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  467 

Company  D,  and  was  soon  afterward  appointed  to  the  position  of  sergeant 
major  of  the  First  Washington  Regiment.  As  this  office  was  in  the  Hne 
of  staff  duty,  and  he  desired  active  work,  he  resigned  just  prior  to  the  Span- 
ish-American war  and  re-enhsted  in  Company  D.  This  regiment  was  mus- 
tered into  the  United  States  service  and  he  has  the  distinction  of  having  been 
the  first  enhsted  man  sworn  into  the  service  from  the  state  of  Washington. 
He  received  honorable  mention  for  distinguished  and  meritorious  service 
on  five  different  occasions,  while  acting  as  first  sergeant  in  the  Philippines. 
He  was  later  promoted  to  the  second  lieutenancy  for  his  commendable  gal- 
lantry and  capable  work.  He  was  in  every  engagement  in  which  his  com- 
pany participated  except  one,  and  that  was  while  he  was  in  the  hospital,  thir- 
ty miles  away,  but  twenty  minutes  after  he  had  heard  that  the  battle  was  in 
progress  he  started  to  join  his  company.  He  was  also  in  many  of  the  scout- 
ing expeditions  and  was  twice  away  from  his  company  for  so  long  a  time 
that  he  was  reported  dead  among  his  comrades.  He  participated  in  eighteen 
definite  engagements  outside  of  the  scouting  expeditions,  and  served  con- 
tinuously with  the  regiment  until  mustered  out  with  the  rank  of  second  lieu- 
tenant at  San  Francisco  on  the  ist  of  November,  1899.  Soon  after  his  re- 
turn he  was  appoined  brigade  inspector  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel, 
and  held  that  position  until  he  became  a  member  of  the  legislature. 

Mr.  Rawson  has  also  won  honor  and  distinction  in  political  circles.  His 
study  of  the  issues  and  questions  of  the  day  and  of  the  attitude  of  the  parties 
concerning  the  same  has  led  him  to  ally  himself  with  the  Republican  party, 
and  in  the  fall  of  1900  he  was  nominated  on  its  ticket  as  representative  from 
the  forty-first  district  to  the  state  legislature.  His  opposition  to  the  bill 
increasing  the  salary  of  adjutant  generals  and  decreasing  that  of  the  enlisted 
men  won  him  considerable  notoriety.  In  aiding  in  the  defeat  of  the  admin- 
istration bill  he  also  took  a  prominent  part.  He  labored  as  earnestly  for  the 
bill  providing  for  the  return  of  the  penalty  on  city  taxes  to  the  city  instead 
of  to  the  county,  and  was  of  material  assistance  in  obtaining  the  passage  of 
that  measure.  While  in  the  house  he  served  as  chairman  of  the  military  com- 
mittee and  was  a  member  of  the  committee  on  appropriation,  in  which  ca- 
pacity he  was  instrumental  in  wrecking  some  of  the  unjust  bills.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  judiciary  and  horticultural  committees  and  was  widely 
recognized  as  one  of  the  active  working  members  of  the  house,  fearless  in 
defense  of  what  he  believed  to  be  right  and  as  fearless  in  his  opposition  to 
what  he  believed  would  be  detrimental  to  the  weal  of  the  state. 

In  Maine,  in  January,  1884,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Rawson  and 
Miss  Nellie  F.  French,  a  daughter  of  Edwin  R.  Freiich,  who  for  two  terms 


468  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

served  as  state  senator  in  Maine.  They  now  have  two  interesting  sons, 
Ralph  F.  and  Erroll  \V.  .  Mr.  Rawson  is  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the 
World,  of  the  :Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  of  the  Unitarian  church. 
His  has  been  a  most  creditable  record,  characterized  by  a  fidelity  to  duty  in 
private  life,  in  military  circles  and  in  politcal  matters.  He  has  been  recog- 
nized here  for  his  sterling  qualities,  his  fearless  loyalty  to  his  honest  convic- 
tions, his  sturdy  opposition  to  misrule  in  public  affairs,  together  with  his 
clear-headedness,  discretion  and  tact  as  a  manager  and  leader.  His  career 
at  the  bar  has  been  one  of  great  honor,  and  throughout  his  entire  life  he  has 
commanded  the  respect  and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been 
associated.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  strong  purpose,  who  from  the  early  age  of 
thirteen  years,  has  depended  upon  his  own  resources  and  by  sheer  merit  and 
ability  has  gained  the  honorable  position  which  he  now  occupies  in  public 
affairs. 

ARCHIBALD   L.    HERREN. 

The  above  named,  a  retired  real-estate  dealer  and  capitalist  of  Seattle, 
has  through  the  control  of  extensive  property  interests  been  the  prornoter 
of  growth  and  development  in  more  than  one  section  of  this  country.  Pos- 
sessing keen  discrimination,  which  enables  him  to  readily  recognize  oppor- 
tunities for  colonization,  having  also  marked  energ\^  and  business  capacity, 
his  labors  have  proven  of  benefit  to  the  localities  in  which  he  has  operated 
and  at  the  same,  time  have  brought  success  that  ranks  him  among  the  cap- 
italists of  his  adopted  city.  Mr.  Herren  deserves  great  credit  and  com- 
mendation for  what  he  has  accomplished,  for  at  the  close  of  the  Civil  war 
he  found  himself  destitute  as  the  result  of  the  exigencies  of  that  struggle, 
his  interests  at  that  time  having  been  in  the  midst  of  the  country  over  which 
passed  the  contending  armies. 

Mr.  Herren  was  born  at  Waynesville,  North  Carolina,  July  19,  1833, 
a  son  of  Eli  B.  and  Jane  (Yarbrough)  Herren,  natives  of  North  Carolina 
flnd  South  Carolina,  respectively.  He  comes  of  an  old  and  prominent  fam^ 
ily  of  the  south  that  has  been  represented  in  all  of  the  wars  of  the  country 
from  the  time  of  the  early  Indian  outbreaks.  Representatives  of  the  name 
were  found  among  those  who  fought  for  liberty  in  the  Revolution  and  for 
American  rights  in  the  war  of  181 2.  They  w^ere  also  in  the  Texas  revolu- 
tion and  when  the  contest  arose  between  the  north  and  the  south  two  broth- 
ers of  our  subject  joined  the  Confederate  army.  The  great-grandfather  of 
Mr.  Herren  was  a  native  of  Virginia,  but  became  the  founder  of  the  family 


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in  North  Carolina,  where  Berry  Herren,  the  grandfather,  was  born.  He 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  but  Eli  B.  Herren,  his  son  and  the  father 
of  our  subject,  turned  his  attention  to  merchandising  and  trading,  and  in 
his  business  affairs  prospered.  In  his  religious  faith  he  was  a  Baptist  and  a 
man  of  prominence  and  influence  in  his  community  in  ante-bellum  days. 
In  the  family  were  ten  children,  of  whom  Archibald  L.  is  the  eldest.  Seven 
of  the  number  are  now  living:  A.  J.,  a  farmer  of  Cowlitz  county,  Washing- 
ton; J.  P.,  who  is  a  millman  and  farmer  residing  in  North  Carolina;  Will- 
iam A.,  who  is  engaged  in  farming  and  manufacturing  at  the  old  home 
in  North  Carolina;  S.  C,  an  attorney  of  Moscow,  Idaho;  Josephine,  the 
wife  of  Thomas  S.  Siler,  of  North  Carolina;  and  Sarah  J-,  the  wife  of 
W.  E.  Miller,  of  North  Carolina.  Those  who  have  passed  away  died  in 
childhood. 

Archibald  L.  Herron  was  reared  in  North  Carolina,  but  his  educational 
advantages  were  rather  meager  and  it  has  been  by  study  at  home,  through 
broad  reading  and  observation  that  he  has  become  a  well  informed  man. 
Possessing  an  observant  eye  and  retentive  memory  he  is  continually  adding 
to  his  knowledge  facts  gained  in  the  school  of  experience.  At  an  early,  age 
he  became  his  father's  assistant  in  the  store  and  afterward  was  admitted 
to  a  partnership  in  the  business,  this  relation  being  maintained  until  the 
beginning  of  the  war.  As  a  result  of  that  terrible  struggle  his  store,  like 
many  other  enterprises  of  the  south,  was  destroyed  and  his  business  utterly 
ruined.  Two  of  his  brothers  joined  the  southern  army  but  Archibald  L. 
Herren  remained  true  to  the  Union  cause  and  upheld  the  supremacy  of  the 
government  at  Washington.  He  had  served  as  postmaster  of  his  own  town 
and  after  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  took  'a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs 
during  the  reconstruction  period,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  establish  peace 
and  to  place  his  district  in  harmonious  relations  with  the  government.  He 
was  nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the  office  of  state  senator  and 
filled  several  federal  positions,  including  that  of  postmaster.  He  was  also 
the  chairman  of  the  first  board  of  county  commissioners  of  his  county  after 
the  restoration  of  peace.  He  had  served  as  magistrate  from  1855  until 
1866  and  was  one  of  the  five  magistrates  of  the  county  constituting  a  "select 
court." 

While  taking  an  active  part  in  public  affairs  during  the  reconstruc- 
tion period  and  rendering  valuable  aid  to  the  government  in  public  office, 
Mr.  Herren,  in  business  life,  was  doing  what  he  could  to  retrieve  his  lost 
possessions.  He  found  himself  at  the  close  of  the  war  destitute  of  funds, 
but  with   commercial  reputation  and  credit   that   enabled  him  to  secure  a 


470  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

stock  of  goods  worth  ten  thousand  dohars  from  New  York  city,  and  with 
this  he  resumed  business  in  Waynesvihe,  North  Carohna,  where  he  remained 
in  successful  trade  until  1870.  He  then  removed  to  Greenville,  South  Car- 
olina, and  during  the  next  ten  years  became  interested  to  a  considerable 
extent  in  Texas  lands  and  also  in  city  lots  in  Austin,  that  state.  In  1880 
he  returned  to  his  old  home  in  North  Carolina.  Prior  to  his  removal  from 
there  in  1870  he  had  become  largely  interested  in  lands  in  that  state  and 
owned  and  controlled  between  fifty  and  one  hundred  thousand  acres.  He 
remained  continuously  in  North  Carolina  until  1890,  when  he  came  to  Seattle 
and  after  investigating  the  possibilities  and  resources  of  this  region  he  or- 
ganized the  Puget  Sound  Colony  Company,  of  which  he  became  the  presi- 
dent. The  object  of  this  company  was  to  organize  colonies  and  thus  in- 
duce settlement  of  the  Sound  countr)\  He  has  retained  large  land  inter- 
ests in  North  Carolina,  but  has  been  disposing  of  these  since  taking  up  his 
residence  here,  believing  that  the  northwest  has  a  brilliant  future  before  it. 
He  has  made  extensive  and  judicious  investments  in  real  estate  in  Seattle  and 
now  has  very  valuable  property  here,  his  attention  being  given  to  the  super- 
vision of  his  interests. 

On  the  2ist  of  March,  1875,  Mr.  Herren  was  married  to  lola  Jones, 
a  daughter  of  Dr.  W.  R.  and  Elizabeth  (Parkins)  Jones,  the  parents  and 
daughter  being  natives  of  South  Carolina  and  representatives  of  an  old 
southern  family  of  distinction.  Unto  IMr.  and  Mrs.  Herren  have  been  born 
eight  children:  Jennie,  who  is  an  artist  of  local  prominence;  Elizabeth,  who 
is  a  graduate  of  the  State  University  of  Washington  and  a  successful  and 
popular  teacher;  Ellen,  Archibald,  Lyda,  lola,  Mattie  and  Maude,  all  with 
their  parents.  The  family  have  a  fine  modern  home  at  No.  512  Highland 
Drive,  overlooking  Lake  Union  from  an  advantageous  site  on  Queen  Anne 
Hill.  The  family  attend  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  Mr.  Herren  has  been 
a  member  for  many  years.  In  business  circles  he  is  regarded  as  a  man  of 
unusually  good  judgment,  quick  perception  and  decision.  He  yet  has  large 
interests  in  the  south,  which  he  supervises  from  this  point,  in  addition  to 
the  management  of  his  investments  in  the  northwest.  A  little  more  than 
a  third  of  a  centun,^  ago  left  almost  penniless  as  the  result  of  conditions 
arising  from  the  Civil  war,  he  is  to-day  numbered  among  the  capitalists  of 
Seattle,  and  his  life  history  stands  in  splendid  exemplification  of  the  fact 
that  the  road  to  success  is  open  to  all  in  this  free  land  of  ours  and  that 
merit,  close  application  and  sound  judgment,  arising  from  a  thorough  study 
of  a  business  situation,  are  the  elements  necessary  in  gaining  prosperity. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  471 

WILLIAM  H.  BRINKER. 

The  man  who  achieves  success  in  the  legal  profession  is  even  more 
strictly  the  "architect  of  his  own  fortunes"  than  is  the  average  self-made 
business  man,  there  being  in  the  keen  competitions  of  the  lawyer's  life,  with 
its  constantly  recurring-  mental  duel  between  eager  and  determined  antago- 
nists, no  chance  for  the  operation  of  influences  which  may  be  called  to  the  aid 
of  the  merchant,  the  manufacturer  or  financier.  Among  the  men  of  Seattle 
who  have  demonstrated  their  abilities  in  this  difficult  field  William  H.  Brin- 
ker  holds  a  leading  place,  and  his  history  affords  an  interesting  example  of 
ambition  rightly  directed  and  pursued  with  a  zeal  which  overcomes  all  ob- 
stacles. 

Mr.  Brinker  was  born  in  Missouri  on  the  23d  of  December,  185 1,  and 
belongs  to  a  good  old  southern  family,  being  a  grandson  of  Abraham  Brink- 
er, a  Virginia  planter,  who  at  an  early  day  went  to  the  Louisiana  territory 
and  was  given  a  grant  of  land  by  the  king  of  Spain  in  what  is  now  Washing- 
ton county,  Missouri.  He  was  afterward  killed  by  the  Indians  on  the  present 
site  of  Kansas  City  in  1818.  John  B.  Brinker,  the  father  of  our  subject, 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  when  a  mere  boy  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Mis- 
souri, where  he  was  reared  to  manhood.  He  became  a  merchant  and  planter 
of  that  state  and  died  there  in  1854.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig  and  was  a 
stanch  supporter  of  Henry  Clay.  He  married  Sarah  B.  Murphy,  and  to 
them  were  born  eleven  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  ninth  in  order 
of  birth.  Only  two  representatives  of  this  family  now  reside  in  Seattle, 
our  subject  and  his  sister,  Mrs.  S.  W.  Hutchcraft. 

In  early  boyhood  William  H.  Brinker  attended  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  state,  but  at  that  time  the  country  was  involved  in  civil  war,  and  when 
thirteen  years  old,  but  large  for  his  age,  he  laid  aside  his  text  books  and 
joined  the  Confederate  army.  As  a  member  of  Shelby's  cavalry  he  partici- 
pated in  Price's  raid  through  Missouri  in  1864,  and  was  in  all  of  the  enage- 
ments  in  that  state  after  the  battle  of  Pilot  Knob.  He  also  went  with  his 
command  to  Texas  and  remained  in  the  service  until  hostilities  ceased.  He 
had  two  brothers,  John  D.  and  Abraham  Brinker,  who  were  killed  during 
the  war. 

At  the  close  of  the  war  our  subject  drove  a  six-mule  team  from  Inde- 
pendence, Missouri,  to  Fort  Union,  New  Mexico,  and  later  took  a  drove 
of  cattle  from  Texas  to  Salt  Lake  City.  He  next  engaged  in  railroad  work 
on  the  Union  Pacific,  at  first  as  a  section  hand,  but  he  worked  his  way  upward 
to  the  position  of  foreman.      In  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  that  posi- 


472  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

tion  he  was  injured  and  had  to  give  up  railroad  work.  Returning  to  Mis- 
souri, he  was  employed  on  a  farm  during  the  summer  months  and  attended 
school  for  two  wniters.  For  one  year  he  was  a  student  in  the  Missouri  Uni- 
versity, and  subsequently  engaged  in  teaching  school,  during  which  time  he 
devoted  his  leisure  moments  to  reading  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
on  the  1 2th  of  June,  1873.  ^^^  ^^'^^  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  chosen 
profession  at  his  old  home  in  Missouri  for  a  year,  and  then  went  to  Ne- 
braska, but  was  there  only  six  months  when  the  great  grasshopper  plague 
visited  that  state,  making  the  outlook  xevy  gloomy,  so  that  he  returned  to 
Missouri  in  the  fall.  In  1876  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  John- 
son county,  and  so  acceptably  did  he  fill  the  office  that  he  was  re-elected  in 
1878  and  1880. 

In  1885  Mr.  Brinker  received  the  first  territorial  appointment  made  by 
President  Cleveland,  that  of  associate  justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  New 
Mexico,  and  he  held  tliat  position  until  President  Harrison's  election,  when 
he  resigned.  Upon  his  resignation,  in  May,  1889,  he  returned  to  Missouri, 
but  in  December  of  the  same  year  came  to  Washington,  locating  first  at 
South  Bend,  Pacific  county,  where  he  was  engaged  in  practice  until  taking  up 
his  residence  in  Seattle  in  1892,  having  become  a  candidate  for  the  supreme 
judgeship  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  Here  he  has  made  his  home  ever  since. 
In  1893  he  was  appointed  district  attorney  by  President  Cleveland,  w'ithout 
solicitation  on  his  part,  and  he  held  that  office  until  November,  1897,  since 
which  time  he  has  engaged  in  private  practice  in  Seattle,  with  the  exception 
of  a  part  of  two  summers  spent  in  practice  at  Nome,  Alaska.  He  practices 
before  all  the  courts  and  has  a  good  clientag'e. 

At  Warrensburg,  Missouri,  April  zj,  1874,  ^Nlr.  Brinker  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Aliss  Lillian  M.  Hutchinson,  a  daughter  of  O.  H.  P.  Hutchin- 
son, and  to  them  have  been  born  three  sons,  namely :  Jesse  F..,  who  is  now 
with  the  engineering  corps  of  the  United  States  army  at  Luzon,  in  the  Philip- 
pines; Robert  H.,  bookkeeper  for  the  Pox  Saw  Works  at  Seattle;  and  Will- 
iam H.,  Jr.,  a  student  at  the  State  University  of  W^ashington.  Fraternally 
]\Ir.  Brinker  is  connected  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks, 
the  Royal  Arcanum  and  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  is  a  non-affiliated 
Mason  and  Knight  of  Pythias.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  was  active  in  the 
councils  of  the  party  until  its  departure  from  the  old  estabhshed  principles 
of  law^  and  justice  and  went  to  seeking  after  new  gods,  since  which  time  Mr. 
Brinker  has  been  at  sea.  Socially  he  is  deservedly  popular,  as  he  is  affable 
and  courteous  in  manner  and  possesses  that  essential  qualification  to  success 
in  public  life,  that  of  making  friends  readily  and  of  strengthening  the  ties 
of  all  friendships  as  time  advances. 


SEATTLE^  AND  .'KING.  COUNTY.  473 

ENOCH  E.BREECE. 

•A  feeling  of  the  deepest  regret  -ami  consternation  spread  throughout 
Seattle  when  the  news  of  the  tragic  death  of  Enoch  E.  Breece  was  received. 
He  was  one  of  the  most  faithful  representatives  of  the  city's  public  service, 
his  loyalty  being  above  question.  Seattle  had  no  truer  friend  and  he  mani- 
fested his  belief  in  her  future  by  investing  his  means  in  city  property.  .In 
every  way  possible  he  aided  in  the  improvement  and  progress  of  the  city  and 
was  widely  known  as  one  of  Seattle's  representative  men.  In  private  life, 
too,  his  characteristics  were  such'  as  gained  for  him  warm  personal  regard, 
and  the  circle  of  his  friends  was  extensive. ' 

Enoch  E.  Breece  was  born  in  Licking-  county,  C)hio,  July  5,  1856,  a  son 
of  Benjamin  and  Martha  (Randalls)  Breece,  the, former  a  native  of  Virginia 
and  the  latter  of  Ohio.  The  Breece  family  is  of  Welsh  origin  and  was  found- 
ed in  Pliiladelphia  at  the  time  William  Penn  established  the  colony  which  was 
named  in  his  honor.  The  grandfather  of  our  subject,  leaving  Pennsylvania, 
removed  to  Virginia  and  later  to  Ohio,  and  it  was  during  his  stay  in  the 
former  state  that  Benjamin  Breece  was  born.  The  latter  was  one  of  twelve 
children  and  was  left  fatherless  at  the  early  age  of  seven  years.  Accordingly 
he  was  bound  out  to  a  ma;i  of  the  name  of  Murray,  A\'ho  ^\■as  to  give  him  a 
horse  or  one  hundred  dollars  in  money  when  he  was  of  age.  He  began  farm- 
ing in  Ohio  on  his  own  account  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years,  renting  a  tract 
of  land  wdiich  he  cultivated  until  1865,  when  he  removed  to  Effingham  coun- 
ty. Illinois,  where  he  purchased  a  tract  of  Iruid,  but  because  of  a  defective 
title  lost  :dl  that  he  had  invested  in  the  property.  In  1882  he  removed  to 
Robertson  count^^  Texas,  but  after  a  short  time  went  to  Lincoln  county,  New 
Mexico,  where  he  entered  land  from  the  government  and  engaged  in  agricul- 
tural pursuits.  From  there  he  came  to  Brooklyn,  Washington,  a  suburb  of 
Seattle,  and  made  his  home  with  our  subject  for  a  time,  after  which  he  pur- 
chased the  property  now  occupied  by  his  widow.  He  died  in  May,  1899,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-eight  yeai's,  and  his  widow  is  now  seventy-one  years  of  age. 
In  their  familA'  were  four  children:  William  L.,  who  is  engaged  in  mining 
at  Nome;  Adam  A.,  a  resident  of  Brooklyn,  King  county;  Enoch  E. ;  and 
Deborah,  the  wife  of  Elijah  Peebles  of  I-'ort  Stanton,  New  Mexico. 

Enoch  E.  Breece  was  a  child  of  nine  years  when  he  accompanied  his 
parents  on  their  removal  to  Illinois,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood  upon  a 
farm.  He  acquired  a  liberal  education  and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  en- 
gaged in  teaching  school,  which  he  followed  for  three  years,  two  years  of 
that   time  in  Moccasin,   Illinois.     In    1878  he  removed  to  Matlison  county, 

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474  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Iowa,  where  he  followed  scliool  teaching  for  a  year,  and  then  went  to  Cass 
county,  where  he  attended  the  normal  school.  He  was  married  in  Afton, 
Union  .county,  Iowa,  February  26,  1879,  to  Miss  Hattie  Yarnall,  a  native  of 
Moccasin,  Illinois,  in  which  place  they  had  become  acquainted.  It  was  his 
desire  to  secure  a  home  for  them,  and  on  the  day  of  their  marriage  they 
started  in  a  co\'ered  wagon  for  Norton  county,  Kansas,  Mr.  Breece  having 
previously  secured  the  team  and  wagon  for  the  journey.  As  it  was  February 
and  cold  and  wintry,  the  trip  was  not  a  \'ery  pleasant  one,  but  after  travehng 
for  a  month  over  bad  roads  they  reached  their  destination,  locating  three 
miles  from  the  Long  Branch  postoffice  in  Decatur  county,  Kansas,  their  home, 
however,  being  across  the  boundan'  line  between  Decatur  and  Norton 
counties. 

Mr.  Pjreece  pre-empted  a  quarter  section  of  land  and  at  the  same  time 
secured  a  tim.ber  claim  in  Decatur  county,  making  a  half-section  altogether. 
This  claim  was  one  of  a  thousand  which  proved  a  success.  ]\Ir.  Breece  com- 
plying not  only  with  the  letter  but  with  the  spirit  of  the  law,  in  cultivating  the 
timber.  He  owned  the  proi)erty  up  to  the  time  of  iiis  death,  and  it  no\v  has 
upon  it  fifteen  thousand  good  ash  trees.  He  made  his  home  in  Kansas  until 
after  he  proved  up  his  claims,  and  in  1882  he  returned  to  York  county,  Ne- 
braska, and  taught  two  terms  of  school  there,  .also  attending  the  county 
normal  school.  His  purpose  was  to  prepare  for  college,  for  he  had  an  unsat- 
isfied craving  for  knowledge,  but  eventually  he  abandcsned  the  plan  of  pursu- 
ing a  collegiate  course  and  in  1883  embarked  in  the  photographic  business  in 
Girard,  Kansas,  where  he  secured  an  extensive  patronage  and  had  a  home  of 
his  own.  There  he  remained  until  the  fall,  when  his  wife's  mother  died. 
She  had  long  been  in  delicate  health,  and  Mrs.  Breece.  v.ho  was  the  eldest  of 
her  cliildren,  had  taken  the  mother's  part  to  the  younger  members  of  the 
family.  The  father  desiring  to  keep  his  children  together,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Breece  decided  to  go  with  him  to  Red  Willow  county,  Nebraska,  and  our  sub- 
ject established  a  photograi)hic  gallery  at  Indianola,  the  county  seat.  There 
he  carried  on  business  until  the  spring  of  1885.  ^vhen  he  removed  to  a  home- 
stead adjoining  his  timber  claim  in  Decatur  county,  Kansas,  having  laid 
claim  to  the  land  the  previous  fall.  His  first  home  in  that  state  had  been  a 
sod  house  and  now^  he  moved  into  a  dugout.  For  five  years  he  made  his 
home  upon  his  new  place,  breaking  one  hundred  and  ten  acres  of  land  on  both 
claims,  and  fencing  the  two  hundred  and  twenty  acres  with  wire  fence.  He 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  and  stock-raising  on  quite  an  extensive  scale, 
and  having  proved  up  his  claim  in  October.  1890,  he  decided  to  take  a  vaca- 
tion after  years  of  hard  and  continuous  labor  and  make  a  trip  to  Seattle. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  475 

So  well  pleased  with  this  locality  was  Mr.  Breece  that  he  never  returned 
to  Kansas,  and  disposing  of  his  property  in  that  state,  with  the  exception  of 
the  tiniher  claim,  he  purchased  eighty  acres  of  timber  land  in  Snohomish 
county.  Washington,  and  engaged  in  the  business  pruning  and  triming  orch- 
ards, for  which  his  previous  experience  with  the  cultivation  of  trees  had  well 
qualified  him.  He  followed  that  business  for  several  years  and  then,  having 
traded  some  live  stock  for  a  residence  and  two  lots  in  Brooklyn,  he  settled  in 
Seattle,  in  what  was  the  Brooklyn  addition  to  the  city.  In  order  to  encour- 
age the  settlement  of  this  locality  the  owners  of  the  land  offered  one  \ot  free 
to  each  of  the  first  twenty  settlers  who  would  buy  one  lot  and  erect  a  residence 
worth  one  thousand  dollars.  Mr.  Breece  was  among  the  number  who  com- 
plying with  the  request  thus  received  the  extra  lot.  Jn  the  spring  of  1891  he 
erected  the  home  which  is  now  occupied  by  his  family. 

A  man  of  scholarly  tastes,  Mr.  Breece  never  satisfied  his  thirst  for  knowl- 
edge and  not  only  by  broad  reading  and  research  did  he  impro^•e  his  mind, 
but  even  after  coming  to  this  city  he  spent  one  year  as  a  student  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Washington,  taking  up  a  normal  course,  and  after  the  new  univers- 
ity buildings  were  erected  he  spent  another  term  there  as  a  student,  but  again 
he  was  obliged  to  give  up  his  studies  on  account  of  business  complications 
caused  by  an  effort  to  assist  a  friend  in  procuring  a  home.  This  left  him 
with  obligations  to  meet  which  forced  him  to  discontinue  his  studies.  He 
then  accepted  a  position  under  Professor  Russell  of.  the  State  Uni\^ersity  of 
Michigan  and  a  United  States  geologist,  and  went  on  a  geological  expedition 
to  Mount  Stewart.  Washington,  and  other  parts  of  the  state,  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  specimens  of  minerals  for  the  government.  He  was  thus  en- 
gaged for  one  season  and  in  the  fall  he  took  the  civil  service  examination  for 
a  position  on  the  police  department  of  Seattle.  Being  appointed  to  a  position 
on  the  city  patrol,  he  acted  in  that  capacity  until  his  death.  From  the  time 
of  his  arrival  in  Seattle  he  had  the  deepest  interest  in  the  welfare  of  the  city 
and  its  upbuilding.  He  invested  his  money  here,  becoming  the  owner  of 
twenty- two  lots. 

In  })<)]itics  Mr.  Breece  was  a  Democrat  and  fraternally  was  connected 
with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America. 
He  held  membership  in  the  Brooklyn  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  was  one 
of  its  trustees,  and  his  family  also  attended  services  there.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Breece  were  born  three  children,  Albert  O..  who  is  in  the  mail  seiwice  of 
Seattle,  and  Cora  M.  and  Dora  F.,  at  home. 

Mr.  Breece  was  one  of  the  successful  and  enterprising  citizens  of  Seattle. 
His  comfortable  home,  which  he  erected  near  the  university.  ga\'e  evidence  of 


476  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

his  enterprise  and  bis  care  for  his  family.  The  attractive  residence  was  sur- 
rounded by  many  varieties  of  choice  fruits  and  a  profusion  of  flowers  and 
there  Mrs.  Breece  and  her  children  are  still  living.  In  1902  Mr.  Breece 
erected  a  fine  new  business  block,  with  stores,  below  and  a  hotel  above,  which  is 
a  credit  to  the  suburb  of  Brooklyn.  In  the  performance  of  duty  he  was 
prompt,  reliable  and  entirely  loyal,  and  it  was  due  to  these  characteristics  that 
he  lost  his  life  at  the  hands  of  a  notorious  desperado  and  escaped  convict, 
Harry  Tracy,  whom  he  fearlessly  faced  in  his  attempt  to  arrest  him.  Mr. 
Breece  could  have  shot  him  down,  but  he  humanely  sought  to  arrest  him  with- 
out taking  his  life,  and  the  criminal  shot  him.  He  died  as  he  had  lived,,  true 
to  dut}-,  but  his  death  came  as  a  telling  blow  to  his  family  and  friends.  He 
leaves  behind  him  an  untarnished  name  and  a  reputation  OA-er  which  there 
falls  no  shadoAA'  of  w-rong.  He  was  true  to  the  attributes  of  an  upright  man- 
hood, w'as  brave,  loyal  and  true,  and  because  of  these  traits  he  was  uniformly 
honored  by  his  fellow^  men. 

AMOS    BROWX. 

Among  the  residents  of  Seattle  once  prominent  in  her  public  attairs 
who  have  now  passed  to  that  "undiscovered  country  from  whose  bourne 
no  traA-eler  returns,"  is  numbered  Amos  Brown,  one  of  the  honored  pioneers 
of  the  city,  whose  labors  were  of  material  benefit  in  the  improvement  and 
upbuilding  of  this  beautiful  metropolis.  A  feeling  of  the  deepest  regret 
spread  through  the  city  as  the  news  of  his  demise  was  received  by  those  who 
Icnevv"  him,  not  so  much  because  of  the  part  which  he  took  in  business  life, 
not  so  much  for  the  aid  which  he  gave  to  public  enterprrses,  but  because 
the  sterling  traits  of  his  character  had  endeared  him  to  those  with  whom  he 
was  associated  and  because  his  benevolent  spirit  and  generosity  were  so 
often  and  yet  so  unostentatiously   manifested. 

Mr.  Brown  Avas  born  in  Bristol,  Grafton  county,  New  Hampshire,  on 
the  29th  of  July,  1833,  and  died  April  8,  1899.  His  parents  w^ere  Joseph 
and  Relief  ( Orduray)  Brown.  The  father  w-as  also  a  native  of  New  Hamp- 
shire and  was  of  Scotch  and  English  ancestry,  the  family.  howcA-er,  having 
been  founded  in  America  at  a  very  early  day  in  the  history  of  the  old  Granite 
btate.  Joseph  Brown  was  a  prominent  lumber  manufacturer  with  exten- 
sive mills  on  the  Merrimac  river,  where  he  dealt  in  masts  and  spars  and 
conducted  a  general  milling  business,  which  he  superintended  until  sixty 
years  of  age.  He  was  then  succeeded  by  his  sons,  wdio  carried  on  the  busi- 
ness for  many  years,  the  enterprise  proving  a  very  profitable  one. 


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SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  477 

Amos  Brown  was  reared  to  habits  of  industry  and  as  work  was  con- 
sidered more  important  than  study  in  those  days,  his  opportunity  for  ac- 
quiring an  education  was  extremely  hmited,  although  in  the  school  of  ex- 
perience he  gained  much  valuable  knowledge.  At  the  early  age  of  ten  years 
he  began  work  in  the  lumber  camp  and  later  was  employed  at  driving  the 
logs  on  the  river,  becoming  a  hardy,  fearless  and  daring  youth.  He  soon 
excelled  in  this  occupation,  became  an  expert  in  this  line  of  business  and 
was  thus  enabled  to  command  the  highest  price  for  labor  of  that  charac- 
ter. Subsequently  he  worked  in  the  mills  and  rose  from  one  position  to  an- 
other until  he  was  made  superintendent  and  possessed  a  thorough  and  prac- 
tical knowledge  of  the  business  in  all  its  departments,  both  in  principle  and 
detail.  Leaving  home  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  he  followed  lumbering 
up  to  1858,  when  the  Eraser  mines  gold  excitement  broke  out.  and  desirous  of 
rapidly  acquiring  a  fo;*tune  in  the  gold  fields  he  left  for  the  northwest,  after 
selling  his  interests  in  the  east.  Going  to  New  York  he  secured  steerage 
passage,  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  to  Victoria,  British  Columbia, 
paying  two  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  for  a  continuous  passage.  The 
voyage  was  uneventful  save  for  the  discomfort  of  over-crowded  vessels,  but 
suffering  no  accident  and  little  delay,  he  eventually  reached  Victoria,  there 
to  find  that  the  gold  bubble  had  exploded  and  that  the  hopes  of  thousands 
were  doomed  to  bitter  disappointment.  The  town  was  crowded  with  suf- 
fering, starving  humanity.  Disappointed  but  not.  disheartened,  Mr.  Brown 
began  looking  about  for  work,  and  believing  that  he  might  utilize  his  knowl- 
edge of  lumbering,  he  at  once  sailed  for  Port  Gamble,  where  he  found  ready 
employment  at  seventy-five  dollars  per  month  and  expenses.  During  the 
first  year  he  had  charge  of  a  logging  camp,  and  then  purchased  an  interest 
in  logging  teams  and  secured  contracts  with  the  milling  companies  to  funiish 
them  with  logs.  This  business  he  carried  on  successfully  for  two  years 
and  then  sold  his  interest  and  returned  to  the  employ  of  the  company  with 
which  he  had  previously  worked  on  salary.  He  occupied  various  positions 
of  trust  until  1865,  when  he  resigned  in  order  to  visit  his  old  home  in  New 
Hampshire. 

In  1859,  without  visiting  Seattle,  Mr.  Brown  had  been  induced  to  pur- 
chase property  on  Spring  street,  between  Second  avenue  and  the  water  front, 
and  in  1861  he  made  his  first  visit  to  the  town.  In  1863.  in  connection  with 
M.  R.  Maddocks  and  John  Condon,  he  built  the  old  Occidental  Hotel,  on  the 
present  site  of  the  Occidental  block,  and  this  hotel  was  conducted  for  two 
years  by  Messrs.  Maddocks,  Brown  &  Company,  at  the  end  of  which  time  he 
sold  his  interests  to  John  Collins.     In  September,   1867,  following  his  visit 


478  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

to  his  old  home  in  New  Hampshire,  Mr.  Brown  returned  to  Seattle  and 
entered  into  partnership  with  I.  C.  ElHs,  of  Olympia.  He  conducted  a  lum- 
ber business  in  that  city  until  1882  and  was  ver}'  successful  in  the  conduct 
of  the  enterprise,  a  large  business  bringmg  to  him  an  excellent  financial 
return.  For  ten  years  he  was  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Ellis  and  after  that 
was  alone.  In  1882  he  sold  out  and  from  that  time  until  his  death  prac- 
tically lived  retired,  merely  giving  his  supervision  to  his  invested  interests, 
which,  owing  to  increased  values  and  extensive  operations  in  real  estate, 
had  grown  to  considerable  proportions.  Up  to  the  time  of  his  death  he  re- 
tained large  interests  in  Seattle  property,  in  addition  to  having  extensive 
tracts  of  timber  land  in  several  counties  adjoining  the  sound. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Brown  was  an  enthusiastic  Republican  and 
in  his  early  life  was  an  active  participant  in  political  work,  doing  everything 
possible  to  promote  the  success  of  his  party  and  secure  the  adoption  of  its 
principles,  but  in  later  years  he  left  the  party  work  to  younger  men.  He  was 
very  public-spirited  and  co-operated  in  many  movements  and  measures  for 
the  general  good  and  for  the  improvement  of  Seattle.  He  served  the  com- 
munity in  various  positions  of  responsibility  and  no  trust  reposed  in  him 
was  ever  betrayed  to  the  slightest  degree.  He  served  as  a  member  of  the 
city  council  and  for  two  years  was  a  state  official,  acting  as  a  director  of  the 
Steilacoom  Insane  Asylum.  He  was  most  generous  and  benevolent,  his  gen- 
erosity amounting  almost  to  a  fault.  Any  tale  of  distress  awakened  his  ready 
sympathy  and  was  immediately  followed  by  an  impulse  to  assist  in  any  way 
which  he  could. 

In  the  fall  of  1867  Mr.  Brown  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Annie 
M.  Peebles,  a  native  of  New  York,  and  the  same  fall  they  erected  their 
cottage  on  the  corner  of  Front  and  Spring  streets,  which  district  was  then 
almost  an  unbroken  wilderness.  In  the  family  were  five  children:  Alson 
L..  of  the  firm  of  Kinnear  &  Brown,  real  estate  agents  of  Seattle;  Brownie, 
the  wife  of  R.  M.  Kinnear.  her  brother's  partner;  Ora,  Anna  and  Helen, 
all  at  home.  The  children  were  provided  with  liberal  educations  and  the 
success  of  the  father  enabled  him  to  leave  his  family  in  independent  finan- 
cial circumstances.  Mrs.  Brown  has  erected  a  magnificent  residence  in 
one  of  the  best  districts  of  the  city  and  this  handsome  abode  is  celebrated 
for  its  attractive  social  gatherings. 

When  death  claimed  Mr.  Brown,  one  who  knew  him  wrote  of  him": 
"In  the  passing  away  of  Amos  Brown  the  sound  country,  loses  one  of  its 
best  pioneer  citizens.  For  over  forty  years  a  citizen  and  actively  identified 
as  he  was  with  the  growth  of  the  country,  his  death  cannot  be  considered  in 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  479 

any  other  light  than  as  a  loss  to  the  community.  He  was  public-spirited  and 
interested  in  any  movement  for  the  promotion  or  advancement  of  measures 
for  the  general  good  and  he  v^^as  scrupulously  honest  and  upright  in  his  deal- 
ings with  his  fellow  men.  The  punctual  liquidation  of  a  debt  or  obligation 
was  one  of  the  cardinal  principles  of  his  character.  Liberal  and  benevolent, 
he  was  well  known  for  his  generosity,  yet  his  giving  was  always  without 
ostentation  or  display.  When  but  a  boy  he  exhibited  this  same  generous 
spirit  and  kindly  solicitude  for  others,  and  often  when  wet,  cold  and  hungiy 
himself,  he  would  carry  wood  and  food  to  a  poor  widow,  who  lived  neighbor 
to  his  parents,  before  providing  for  his  own  comfort.  He  always  took  a  lively 
interest  in  young  men  and  aided  many  in  securing  positions  where  they  could 
advance  their  own  interests  through  diligence  and  ability.  In  the  early  days 
of  his  residence  in  the  northwest  he  was  known  as  the  friend  of  the  Indians 
and  as  he  never  took  advantage  of  them  or  betrayed  their  confidence  he  was 
loved  and  trusted  by  them.  He  always  had  a  kindly  feeling  for  the  unfor- 
tunate and  erring  and  often  when  men  were  arrested  for  vagrancy  or  trifling 
offences  he  secured  their  release,  pledging  himself  to  furnish  them  employ- 
ment and  become  responsible  for  them.  It  is  pleasing  to  know  that  his  kind- 
ness was  appreciated  and  seldom  abused."  Fraternally  Mr.  Brown  was  con- 
nected with  the  Ancient  Order  of  L^nited  Workmen,  but  lie  had  few  ties  of 
that  character.  He  found  ample  opportunity  to  do  good  through  other 
channels,  and  many  have  reason  to  remember  him  with  gratitude  and  love. 
He  belonged  to  that  band  of  strong,  self-reliant,  energetic  and  courageous  men 
who  laid  the  foundation  for  the  wonderful  development  of  the  northwest,  and 
Mr.  Brown  also  lived  to  take  an  active  part  in  building  the  superstructure  of 
the  great  commonwealth  through  the  advancement  of  one  of  the  leading  cities 
west  of  the  Rockies. 

ROBERT  WOOD. 

For  nearly  a  score  of  years  Mr.  Wood  has  been  identified  witii  mercan- 
tile activities  in  Renton,  and  thus  may  well  be  considered  one  of  the  pioneer 
merchants  of  the  city,  where  he  located  when  it  was  but  a  small  hamlet,  and 
where  he  has  contributed  his  due  quota  to  the  legitimate  advancement  of 
public  and  commercial  interests  and  has  built  up  one  of  the  most  important 
business  enterprises  in  the  place,  the  same  having  had  a  uK^dest  inception 
but  having  expanded  in  scope  and  importance  with  the  growtli  oi  the  town; 
and  now  it  stands  a  credit  to  the  able  and  discriminating  metliods  brought 
to  bear  and  bespeaks  that  unswerving  integrity  and   honor  through   which 


48o  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

alone  are  begotten  public  confidence  and  support.  Sucli  is  Mr.  Wood's  posi- 
tion in  the  community  that  he  is  peculiarly  entitled  to  definite  consideration 
in  this  compilation,  which  has  to  do  with  the  representatve  men  of  King- 
county. 

Mr.  Wood  is  a  native  of  Northumberland.  England,  where  he  was  born 
on  Christmas  day  of  the  year  1836,  coming  of  stanch  old  English  stock.  His 
parents,  William  and  Catherine  (Tate)  W'ood.  were  born  in  the  same  section 
of  the  fair  English  isle,  where  the  father  ^\•as  engaged  in  mining  during  the 
greater  portion  of  liis  active  business  life,  having  been  a  man  of  true  Chris- 
tian piety  and  noble  character  and  having  instilled  into  the  minds  and  hearts 
of  his  children  the  valuable  lessons  of  honesty,  industry,  sobriety  and  integ- 
rity. To  the  precepts  and  examples  of  his  honored  parents  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  feels  that  Jie  is  indebted  for  all  that  he  has  made  of  his  life,  and 
that  it  has  been  a  worthy  one  none  who  know  him  can  deny.  The  mother 
of  our  subject  passed  awa\'  in  her  sixty-first  )'^ear  and  her  husband  at  the  age 
of  sixty-two,  and  of  their  two  sons  and  four  daughters  Robert  is  the  only 
rej)resentative  in  the  state  of  Washington. 

Robert  W^ood  was  reared  and  educated  in  his  native  land,  where  he  de- 
voted his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  until  coming  to  America.  In 
Northumberland  county,  England,  was  solemnized  his  marriage  to  Miss 
Susan  Henderson,  who  was  born  in  the  same  parish  as  he  was,  and  in  1882, 
in  company  with  his  wife  and  their  ten  cliildren,  he  came  to  America,  be- 
lieving that  here  were  to  be  found  better  opportunities  for  the  attaining  of 
success  through  individual  eft'ort  and  that  here  wider  advantages  would  be 
afforded  his  children.  They  proceeded  at  once  10  the  state  of  Texas,  where 
Mr.  Wood  was  engaged  in  the  sheep  business  for  two  years  and  also  in  farm- 
ing, but  his  success  was  of  a  rather  negative  order  and  he  finall}^  disposed  of 
his  interests  in  the  Lone  Star  state,  whence  he  came  directly  to  Renton,  Wash- 
ington, where  lie  opened  a  small  grocery  store,  the  town  having  then  but  few 
inhabitants.  With  the  era  of  development  and  prosperity  his  business  grew 
in  scope  and  soon  demanded  larger  quarters,  while  the  careful  and  honorable 
methods  have  continued  to  hold  to  the  establishment  a  representative  patron- 
age. To  pass  through  the  commodious  and  well  equipped  department  store 
now  conducted  by  Mr.  Wood  and  his  sons,  it  would  be  difficult  for  the  aver- 
age observer  to  believe  that  the  business  had  been  developed  from  so  small  a 
nucleus,  for  the  establishment  \Vould  do  credit  to  a  much  larger  city.  Four 
stores  are  utilized  in  the  accommodation  of  the  enterprise  and  these  afiford  a 
frontage  of  one  hundred  feet,  with  a  large  floor  space,  while  all  classes  of 
merchandise  demanded  by  the  trade  of  Renton  and  its  tributarv  territory  are 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  481 

handled,  the  stock  being  at  all  times  select  and  comprehensive  in  the  various 
departments. 

As  his  able  coadjutors  in  conducting  the  business  Mr.  Wood  has  his 
three  sons,  William,  Edward  and  Joseph,  and  they  are  known  as  active  and 
capable  young  business  men,  sharing  m  the  esteem  which  is  so  uniformly 
accorded  their  father.  The  other  children  are :  Susan,  the  wife  of  Robert 
Harris,  of  San  Diego,  California;  Annie,  the  wife  of  John  Marlow,  of  Ren- 
ton  ;  and  Catherine,  J^ichard,  Mary,  Ellen  and  Robert,  who  remain  at  the 
parental  home.  The  family  all  hold  membership  in  the  Christian  church, 
of  which  Mr.  Wood  has  been  for  many  years  an  ofhcial,  while  he  has  also 
rendered  most  effective  and  devoted  service  as  Sunday-school  superintendent, 
having  been  a  deacon  of  the  church  prior  to  his  removal  from  England,  while 
his  interest  in  the  cause  of  religion  and  morality  has  ever  been  shown  by 
goodly  words  and  deeds.  His  sons  have  made  an  excellent  business  record 
and  enjoy  the  good  will  and  esteem  of  the  people  of  the  community  in  which 
they  have  so  long  maintained  tlien-  home  and  in  which  they  have  ably  co- 
oi:)erated  with  their  father  in  the  building  up  of  a  successful  and  noteworthy 
business.  Mr.  Wood  has  from  time  to  time  made  investments  in  local  real- 
ty and  is  the  owner  of  a  number  of  valuable  properties  in  the  town  to  whose 
upbuilding  and  material  advancement  he  has  so  largely  contributed.  He  has 
a  high  appreciation  of  the  dignity  of  honest  toil,  and  with  him  character  is 
the  significant  thing;,  not  mere  wealth  or  social  prestige,  which  are  so  often 
the  result  of  fortuitous  circumstances.  He  takes  a  proper  interest  in  public 
affairs  of  a  local  nature  and  is  one  of  the  representative  citizens  and  business 
men  of  Renton,  which  now  holds  precedence  as  one  of  the  attractive  and 
prosperous  little  cities  of  the  beautiful  Evergreen  state. 

FRANK  M.  DUGGAN. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  one  of  the  best  known  lumbermen  on  Puget 
Sound,  w^as  born  in  Gardiner,  Maine,  September  22,  1856.  He  came  from  a 
pioneer  family,  his  father  having  resided  at  Gardiner  for  many  years.  Mr. 
Duggan  came  to  Mendocino  county,  California,  in  1874,  and  for  one  year 
worked  in  the  woods  of  that  state.  Coming  to  Washington  in  1875,  he  was 
for  six  years  in  the  employ  of  W.  S.  Jameson  of  Port  Gamble,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing loggers  of  the  state.  The  five  years  following  he  had  charge  of  the  oper- 
ations of  the  Pacific  Boom  Company  on  the  Skagit  river.  Locating  in  Seat- 
tle in  1893  he  has  since  followed  continuously  the  occupation  of  log  scaler 
until  to-day  he  is  probably  the  best  known  scaler  on  the  sound. 


482  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

In  addition  to  the  work  in  scaling,  Mr.  Duggan  in  conjunction  with 
Messrs.  WilHam  and  Hugh  Studdert  and  M.  F.  Brown  estabHshed  the  Seattle 
Tug  Company,  of  which  Mr.  Duggan  became  manager.  This  company 
operates  boats  on  the  sound,  engaged  principally  in  towing  logs,  and  has 
built  up  a  most  profitable  and  successful  business.  ]^Ir.  Duggan  can  point 
with  pride  to  a  proof  of  his  well  known  integrity  and  fairness,  in  this,  that 
there  is  scarcely  a  mill  or  logger  in  the  state  Avho  will  not  accept  his  scale  with- 
out question. 

In  1886  he  was  married  to  Miss  Kathryn  Kiernan  of  Port  Gamble. 
They  have  one  child  and  reside  on  Fourteenth  avenue  in  Seattle.  ?\[r.  Dug- 
gan is  a  firm  believer  in  the  future  greatness  of  his  city  and  state,  and  evi- 
dences the  fact  by  judicious  investments  in  real  estate. 

MILTON   DENSMORE. 

The  fitting  reward  of  a  well  spent  life  and  useful  business  career  is  re- 
tirement from  labor  so  that  in  a  season  of  rest  one  may  enjoy  the  fruits  of 
.former  toil.  This  has  l)een  vouchsafed  to  Mr.  Densmore,  one  of  the  early 
settler?  of  Seattle.  He  arrived  in  this  city  on  the  22(1  of  December,  1872, 
and  from  that  time  to  the  present  has  taken  a  deep  and  helpful  interest 
in  its  welfare  and  progress. 

Mr.  Densmore  was  born  in  Chelsea,  Vermont,  October  30.  1839,  and  is 
of  English  lineage.  Joel  Densmore,  his  great-grandfather,  emigrated  from 
England  to  Deering,  ^Massachusetts,  and  Henry  Densmore,  the  grandfather, 
was  born  there.  He  became  one  of  the  first  ]\Iethodists  living  in  that  part  of 
the  country  and  was  a  man  of  considerable  prominence  and  influence  in  his 
community.  His  son,  William  Densmore,  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Lydia  Ann  Davis,  who  was  born  in  Chelsea  and  was  the  daughter  of  Nathan- 
iel Da^'is,  descended  from  an  old  New  England  family.  By  trafle  he  was  a 
stone  mason,  and  in  religious  faith  v.as  a  Methodist.  To  the  parents  of  our 
subject  were  born  four  sons :  Jason,  no^^■  residing  in  Hanover,  New  Hamp- 
.shire:  William,  of  Royalton,  \'ermont;  Alilton:  and  Colonel  Edson  S., 
yonngest  of  the  family,  for  twenty-one  years  served  as  officer  and  usher  in 
the  executive  mansion,  Washington,  D.  C. :  he  died  during  Harrison's  ad- 
ministration.    The  mother  died  in  1854,  and  the  father  passed  away  in  1858. 

]*>Iilton  Densmore  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Chelsea,  Ver- 
mont, and  was  reared  upon  his  father's  farm,  working  hard  in  the  summer 
months  amid  field  and  meadow,  while  in  the  winter  seasons  he  pursued  his 
studies.      By  the  time  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age  he  had  lost  both  of  his 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  483 

parents,  and  since  that  time  has  provided  entirely  for  himself.  As  the  archi- 
tect of  his  own  fortunes  he  has  biiilded  wisely  and  well  and  deserves  great 
credit  for  what  he  has  accomplished  in  the  business  world.  He  continued 
to  work  upon  the  home  farm  until  the  ist  of  September,  1862,  when  he  vol- 
unteered for  service  in  the  Union  army  as  a  member  of  Company  D,  Twelfth 
Vermont  Infantry,  and  was  with  the  First  Army  Corps  in  the  amiy  of  the 
Potomac.  He  was  in  the  battle  of  Fairfax  Courthouse  and  Rappahannock, 
and  also  in  the  great  decisive  battle  of  the  war  at  Gettysburg,  escaping 
without  injury  in  that  sanguinary  struggle  where  so  many  l)ravc  soldiers 
fell,  although  he  was  in  [he  thickest  of  the  fight.  His  brother  Jason,  who 
was  a  member  of  the  Tenth  Vermont  Infantry,  was  wounded  in  the  hip 
at  Petersburg.  Mr.  Densmore's  term  of  enlistment  having  expired,  he  re- 
enlisted  in  October,  1863,  and  from  orderly  sergeant  was  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  second  lieutenant  of  the  company.  After  this  the  regiment  was 
held  in  reserve  in  Vermont  until  the  close  of  the  war.  He  returned  to  his 
home  a  veteran  and  victor  and  resumed  the  peaceful  vocation  of   farming. 

In  the  year  1867,  however,  Mr.  Densmore  left  New  England  and  re- 
moved to  Beloit,  Wisconsin,  where  lie  was  married  on  the  25th  of  Se[)- 
tember,  1867,  to  Rosamond  S.  Merwin.  They  lived  in  Beloit  until  1871, 
at  which  time  they  came  to  Seattle,  bringing  with  them  their  first-born  child, 
Herbert  Milton,  who  was  the  joy  of  his  parents'  hearts  for  twelve  years  and 
then  passed  to  the  home  beyond.  James  Worth,  their  next  son,  was  born 
in  Seattle,  received  an  excellent  education  and  is  now  a  professor  of  music ; 
on  the  28th  of  August,  1901,  he  married  Miss  Olivia  C.  Peck;  they  are 
prominent  young  people  of  the  city  and  have  many  friends. 

After  his  arrival  in  Seattle  Mr.  Densmore  aided  in  laying  the  first 
iron  rail  in  the  Puget  Sound  country.  After  a  short  time  he  engaged  in 
steamboating  for  the  Seattle  Coal  Company,  as  captain  of  the  Ada  and  other 
steamboats,  being  connected  with  that  work  for  four  years.  He  then  opened 
a  grocery  store  at  the  corner  of  Union  and  Third  streets,  conducting  that 
enterprise  for  twelve  years,  meeting  with  gratifying  success,  a  liberal  pat- 
ronage being  accorded  him.  He  safely  passed  through  the  hard  times  and 
had  the  satisfaction  of  being  able  to  pay  one  hundred  cents  on  the  dollar  when 
many  men  were  forced  into  financial  ruin  by  the  stringency  of  the  money 
market  at  that  time. 

Mr.  Densmore  has  l)een  a  life-long  Republican  and  served  for  two  terms 
on  the  Seattle  city  council,  while  for  seven  years  he  has  been  a  member  of  the 
school  board.  He  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  educational  ad- 
vancement of  the  citv  and  his  efforts  in  this  direction  have  not  been  without 


484  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

result.  In  1891  he  built  the  pleasant  and  commodious  home  in  which  he  is 
now  living  with  his  famil}',  spending  the  evening  of  a  useful,  active  and  hon- 
orable life  there  in  practical  retirement  from  labor.  He  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Congregational  church  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  having  been  made  a  Mason  in  George  ^^'ashington  Lodge  No.  51, 
F.  &  A.  M.,  in  Chelsea,  Vermont,  in  i860.  Fie  is  also  a  charter  member  of 
the  Grand  Army,  Stevens  Post,  of  Seattle.  A  loyal  soldier,  a  faithful  and 
enterprising  citizen,  a  reliable  business  man,  a  trustworthy  friend,  a  devoted 
husband  and  father  and  a  consistent  Christian, — such  is  the  life  record  of 
Milton  Densmore. 

IRVING  T.  ALVORD. 

Irving  T.  Alvord  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Washington  and  for  a 
number  of  years  has  been  prominently  identified  with  the  interests  of  King 
county.  His  well  directed  efforts  in  the  practical  affairs  of  life,  his  capable 
management  of  his  business  interests  and  his  sound  judgment  have  brought 
to  him  a  handsome  property,  and  his  life  demonstrates  what  may  l^e  accom- 
plished by  tlie  man  of  energy  and  ambition  who  is  pot  afraid  to  work  and  has 
the  perseverance  to  continue  his  labors  in  the  face  of  seemingly  discourag- 
ing circumstancs.  In  all  the  relations  of  life  he  has  commanded  the  respect 
and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  brought  in  contact,  and  the 
history  of  King  county  would  be  incomplete  without  the  record  of  his  career. 

Born  on  his  father's  farm  near  Kent.  Washington,  on  the  6th  of  August, 
1865,  Mr.  Alvord  obtained  his  elementary  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
that  place,  after  which  he  received  a  four  years'  course  in  the  W^ashington 
State  University  at  Seattle.  Returning  to  Kent  in  1886.  he  worked  one  year 
for  his  father,  after  which  he  started  for  himself  as  a  renter.  Although  Air. 
Alvord  is  now  possessed  of  a  two  hundred  and  seventy  acre  farm,  and  owns  a 
dairy  of  two  hundred  and  forty  cows,  he  still  rents  two  large  farms  in  con- 
nection with  what  he  has.  He  early  made  dair}^ing  his  specialty,  although 
doing  some  general  farming  on  the  side,  and  from  a  paltry  begining  has  built 
up  a  handsome  business,  whose  general  sales  exceed  twentv  tliousand  dollars 
per  year. 

Mr.  Alvord  is  possessed  of  great  determination  of  character,  and  is 
essentially  a  self-made  man.  He  was  married  at  Kent  in  1891  to  Miss  Dora 
M.  Jones,  a  native  of  Georgia.  Two  children  have  graced  this  union.  Eugene 
and  Dorothy.  Mr.  Alvord  is  a  public-spirited  and  progressive  citizen,  and 
has  at  all  times  a  sincere  interest  in  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  man. 


!  SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  485 

^'VILLIAM  J.  COLKETT. 

The  name  of  William  John  Colkett  has  been  inscribed  high  on  the  roll  of 
Seattle's  honored  pioneers  and  eminent  citizens,  and  the  part  which  he  has 
taken  in  the  development  of  the  city  well  entitles  him  to  prominent  mention  in 
this  volume.  During  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  held  the  position  of  assis- 
tant postmaster  of  Seattle,  and  throughout  this  long  period  his  fidelity  to  the 
public  trust  in  the  discharge  of  his  official  duties  has  been  most  marked.  Mr. 
Colkett  was  born  in  Burlington  county,  New  Jersey,  in  1857,  and  is  of  Eng- 
lish and  Scotch  ancestn,-,  but  for  six  generations  members  of  the  family  have 
resided  in  the  United  States.  Joseph  Colkett,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
was  a  native  of  New  Jersey,  was  a  life-long  farmer,  and  was  one  of  the  prom- 
inent early  Methodists.  His  son,  Goldy  Colkett,  was  born  in  Burlington 
county,  New  Jersey,  and  was  there  married  to  Aliss  Mary  Ann  Engle,  also  a 
native  of  Burlington  county,  and  they  were  worthy  and  consistent  members 
of  the  Methodist  church.  He  was  a  painter  and  decorator  by  occupation  and 
was  called  to  his  final  rest  at  the  age  of  sixty  years,  and  his  wife  reached  the 
age  of  sixty-four  years,  when  she,  too,  was  called  to  the  home  beyond.  This 
worthy  couple  became  the  parents  of  five  children,  but  only  t^vo  of  the  number 
still  survive,  the  daughter  being  Sarah,  now  the  wife  of  J.  S.  W.  Shelton  of 
Shelton,  Mason  county,  Washington. 

William  J.  Colkett  received  his  early  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  county,  and  later  supplemented  the  knowledge  there  gained  by  a  one 
year's  business  course  in  the  University  of  \A^ashington,  he  having  been  the 
first  male  graduate  of  that  institution,  the  year  of  his  graduation  being  1880. 
His  father  had  settled  in  W^ashington  in  1866,  and  on  the  3d  of  November, 
1876,  he  joined  the  family  in  this  state,  making  the  journey  by  rail  to  San 
Francisco,  and  thence  by  boat  to  Port  Madison.  In  the  town  of  Coupeville 
he  at  once  secured  employment  in  the  store  of  Major  Haller,  in  which  the 
postoffice  was  also  located,  and  it  was  there  that  he  first  became  familiar  with 
the  duties  of  that  position,  continuing  in  that  capacity  for  two  years.  After 
the  completion  of  his  business  course  in  the  university  he  had  charge  of  the 
postoffice  of  this  city  for  five  months  during  the  absence  of  the  postmaster, 
and  for  a  time  thereafter  he  clerked  in  the  store  of  Corliss  P.  Stone.  From 
that  time  forward  he  was  em[)loyed  at  intervals  in  the  office,  each  time  re- 
ceiving a  raise  in  his  wages,  and  he  linally  became  a  permanent  employe  there- 
in, in  which  he  has  acted  in  every  capacity  with  the  exception  of  that  of  letter 
carrier.  When  he  first  assumed  the  duties  of  his  present  position  the  oflice 
was  allowed  twenty-seven  dollars  a  month  for  clerk  hire,  and  Mr.  Colkett  re- 


486  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

ceived  the  entire  amount,  he  performing-  the  entire  work  in  the  office,  incUicl- 
ing  that  of  sweeping  the  floor.  Close  study  has  given  him  a  keen  insight  into 
the  important  duties  of  his  position,  and  he  has  hterahy  "grown  up"  with  the 
office  and  is  now  the  able  assistant  of  this  great  office,  with  its  immense  busi- 
ness and  its  many  clerks  and  letter  carriers.  He  has  witnessed  the  growth 
of  Seattle  from  a  town  of  thirty-six  hundred  inhabitants  to  one  of  over  one 
hundred  thousand,  and  during  this  time  he  has  labored  to  goodly  ends  and  is 
leaving  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  public  life,  the  substantial 
growth  and  the  material  development  of  the  city. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Colkett  was  celebrated  on  the  28th  of  August,  1884, 
wlien  Miss  Clara  E.  Lombard  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Maine  and 
a  daughter  of  R.  R.  Lombard,  who  came  to  Washington  in  i860.  They 
have  four  children,  Emory  E.,  Marion  L..  \\'illiam  J..  Jr.,  and  Burton  R..  all 
born  in  the  pleasant  home  in  Seattle  which  their  father  erected  about  seven- 
teen years  ago.  Although  yir.  Colkett  was  reared  in  the  faith  of  the  Dem- 
ocracy he  now  votes  independently  of  party  ties,  casting  his  ballot  in  favor  of 
the  men  whom  he  regards  as  best  qualified  to  fill  positions  of  titist  and  repons- 
ibilitv.  The  cause  of  education  has  ever  found  in  him  a  warm  friend,  and  for 
six  years  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  while  for  two  years  of 
that  time  he  was  president  of  the  board.  He  aided  materially  in  the  erection  of 
the  school  buildings,  one  hundred  rooms  having  been  added  during  his  two 
terms  of  office,  and  was  active  in  adding  to  the  city  schools  the  department  of 
manual  training".  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  also  been  an  active  member 
of  the  chamber  of  commerce,  of  which  he  is  now  a  trustee.  In  his  social 
relations  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  while 
religiously  he  is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist  church.  Devotion  to  his 
family  and  friends,  fidelity  to  e\er}-  trust  reposed  in  him  and  advocacy  of  all 
that  tends  to  benefit  mankind, — these  are  the  salient  characteristics  of  William 
J.  Colkett. 

HARRY  R.  JACOBS. 

Throughout  his  entire  life  Harry  R.  Jacobs  has  been  a  resident  of  the 
Pacific  coast,  and  he  is  now  accounted  one  of  the  substantial  and  enterprising 
citizens  of  King  county.  His  integrity  and  uprightness  are  beyond  question, 
and  every  public  measure  having  for  its  object  the  betterment  of  mankind  in 
general  and  this  state  and  vicinity  in  particular  is  certain  to  receive  his  earnest 
support. 

He  was  born  near  Salem.  Oregon,  on  the  2d  of  October,  1864.  ^Vhen 
but  four  years  of  age  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Seattle, 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  487 

Washington,  and  to  the  pubhc  school  system  of  that  city  he  is  indebted  for 
the  early  educational  advantages  which  he  enjoyed.  Later,  however,  he  be- 
came a  student  in  the  Washington  State  University,  leaving  that  institution 
at  the  age  of  twenty  years.  After  putting  aside  his  text  books,  he  served  a 
two  years'  apprenticeship  at  the  plumber's  trade,  while  for  the  succeeding 
four  years  he  followed  that  occupation  as  a  journeyman.  His  father.  Judge 
Orange  Jacobs,  a  well  known  pioneer  of  King  county,  purchased  in  1884  ^ 
small  farm  in  the  White  river  valley,  near  Kent,  as  a  home  for  his  family,  and 
since  1894  our  subject  has  made  his  home  thereon,  devoting  his  time  and  at- 
tention to  general  farming  and  fruit-raising.  In  political  matters  he  exer- 
cises his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men  and  measures  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  and  is  an  active  and  influential  worker  in  its  ranks.  For  a  num- 
ber of  }ears  he  has  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  nominating  conventions,  while 
for  a  period  of  seven  years  he  was  school  clerk  of  school  district  No.  12.  For 
two  }'ears  he  was  also  a  member  of  the  drainage  commissioners  for  drainage 
district  No.  i,  of  King  county.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  he  has  long  been 
identified  with  the  public  interests  of  the  county,  and  he  stands  to-day  as  one 
of  its  most  honored  and  highly  esteemed  citizens. 

llie  marriage  of  Mr.  Jacobs  was  celebrated  in  Seattle  in  1894,  when  Miss 
Helen  R.  Young  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  born  in 
1874,  and  since  1890  she  has  been  a  resident  of  Washington.  Three  children 
ha\e  come  to  brighten  and  bless  their  home,  Lucinda  Margaret,  a  maiden  of 
six  }ears ;  Rolland  Da^•enport,  a  promising  lad  of  three  years ;  and  Helen 
June,  a  babe  of  one  year.  The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jacobs  is  an  attractive 
one.  and  their  numerous  friends  are  always  made  welcome. 

HENRY  FUHRMAN. 

In  the  extension  of  Seattle's  l)oundarics  and  the  im])rovement  nf  its  prop- 
erty interests  a  number  of  business  men  ha\'e  l)een  concerned.  Among  this 
number  is  Henry  Fuhrman,  who  has  platted  one  of  the  additions  to  the  city 
and  who  in  the  control  of  his  real  estate  interests  has  manifested  marked  busi- 
ness al)ility  and  executive  force.  He  \\as  born  in  Germany  in  1844,  belong- 
ing to  one  of  the  old  families  of  that  land.  In  his  native  country  he  acquired 
his  education  and  then  Avhen  nineteen  3'ears  of  age  crossed  the  Atlantic  to  the 
new  world,  ])elieving  that  he  might  have  better  business  opportunities  in  this 
country  where  labor  is  not  hampered  bv  caste  or  class  but  where  every  avenue 
is  open  to  diligence  and  enterprise.  He  located  in  Fremont.  Nebraska,  and 
he  not  only  had  no  capital  but  had  vei-y  little  knowledge  of  the  language  of 


488  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

his  adopted  country.  He  followed  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  to  Ogden, 
selling  goods  along  the  line  and  meeting  with  fair  success  in  his  undertaking. 
He  then  opened  a  store  in  Fremont,  Nebraska,  where  he  conducted  a  success- 
ful mercantile  business  for  twenty  )-ears.  The  enterprise  constantly  grew  in 
volume  and  importance  until  he  found  himself  at  the  head  of  a  large  whole- 
sale drygoods  business,  and  he  left  Fremont  with  a  comfortable  fortune. 
From  there  he  came  to  Seattle  in  1890  and  invested  in  Seattle  real  estate,  pur- 
chasing an  undivided  half  interest  in  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land  on 
Lake  Union.  The  Denny-Fuhrman  addition  was  then  platted  by  our  subject 
and  Mr.  D.  T.  Denny,  and  Mr.  Fuhrman  still  has  a.  large  amount  of  the 
propertv,  which  has  greatly  increased  in  value  since  he  made  the  original  in- 
vestment. From  the  time  of  his  arrival  in  Seattle  he  has  been  engaged  in  the 
improvement  and  sale  of  his  property  and  his  interests  are  now  valued  at  two 
hundred  thousand  dollars. 

Mr.  Fuhrman  was  married  in  Chicago  in  1873  ^  Miss  Carrie  Mayer,  a 
nati\e  of  Germany.  He  has  erected  one  of  the  nicest  homes  in  Seattle,  where 
he  now  resides  in  the  enjoyment  of  desen^ed  peace  and  plenty.  In  politics  he 
is  a  Republican  and  is  a  citizen  of  high  integrity  of  character.  In  youth  and 
manhood  many  a  man  has  been  buffeted  by  fortune,  and  almost  unsurmount- 
able  obstacles  have  seemed  to  stand  in  his  path,  but  perseverance  has  over- 
thrown these  and  the  man  has  gone  forward  to  success.  Such  has  been  the 
history  of  Henry  Fuhrman,  who,  at  the  time  he  attained  his  majority,  came 
to  the  new  world  empty-handed  and  to-day  is  classed  among  the  substantial 
citizens  of  the  northwest. 

FRANK  A.  HILL. 

The  lineage  of  the  subject  of  this  review,  wdio  is  superintendent  of  the 
Renton  mine,  bes]jeaks  long  and  prominent  identification  with  the  annals  of 
American  history,  while  representatives  of  the  name  have  shown  that  intrin- 
sic loyalty  and  patriotism  which  has  led  them  to  take  an  active  part  in  the 
great  conflicts  through  Avhich  the  repul)lic  was  established  and  has  been  per- 
petuated. Mr.  Hill  has  been  conspicuously  identified  with  the  development 
and  management  of  industrial  enterprises  in  this  state  and  elsewhere,  is  an 
expert  in  the  line  of  his  profession  and  is  one  of  the  distinctively  representa- 
tive citizens  and  business  men  of  Renton,  being  thus  peculiarly  entitled  to 
definite  consideration  in  a  work  of  this  character. 

Mr.  Hill  is  a  native  of  Iowa,  having  been  born  in  the  city  of  Muscatine, 
on  the  29th  of  June,    1852.     He  comes  of  old  Puritan  stock,  the  original 


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American  ancestors  having  taken  np  their  abode  in  the  New  England  colonies 
long  prior  to  the  war  of  the  Revolntion  and  being  of  English  lineage.  ]\  [em- 
bers of  the  family  rendered  valiant  services  as  soldiers  in  the  Continental  line 
dnring  the  war  of  the  Revolntion,  and  the  name  has  been  one  of  prominence 
in  New  England  for  many  generations.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  our 
subject  was  a  sea  captain,  and  he  was  lost  at  sea  while  on  active  duty  as  an 
officer  of  a  sailing  vessel.  Sylvester  G.  Hill,  the  father  of  Frank  A.,  was 
born  in  the  state  of  Rhode  Island  and  married  Martha  J.  Dyer,  a  native  of 
Maine.  He  was  a  millman  and  cabinet-maker  by  vocation,  having  been  the 
owner  of  a  sawmill  and  a  door  and  sash  factory  in  Iowa,  where  he  had  taken 
up  his  residence  about  the  year  1849.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion  he  was  one  of  the  first  to  tender  his  services  in  defense  of  the  Union, 
in  response  to. President  Lincoln's  call  for  volunteers,  enlisting  as  a  pri\ate  in 
an  Iowa  regiment  and  being  elected  captain  of  his  company.  Later  he  was 
appointed  colonel  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Regiment  of  Iowa  Volunteer  Infantry. 
He  participated  in  the  Red  river  campaign  and  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  and 
was  with  General  Banks  in  pursuit  of  General  Hood  through  Missouri.  He 
was  brevetted  major  general  for  brilliant  services  and  met  his  death  in  the  bat- 
tle of  Nashville.  His  cherished  and  devoted  wife  survives  him,  ha\ing  now 
attained  the  venerable  age  of  eighty-four  years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death 
she  was  left  with  eleven  children,  all  of  whom  are  living  except  one  and  all  of 
whom  give  their  loved  and  noble  mother  that  deep  filial  solicitude  which  is  her 
just  due.  The  only  representatives  of  the  family  in  the  state  of  Washington 
are  the  subject  of  this  sketch  and  his  sister  Susie,  who  is  the  wife  of  Her- 
bert F.   Clough,  of  Seattle. 

Frank  A.  Hill  was  but  twelve  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  father's 
death,  and  his  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
town,  after  which  he  took  up  the  study  of  mining  and  civil  engineering',  in 
whicli  he  became  thoroughly  qualified,  and  he  has  successfully  followed  his 
profession  in  Iowa,  Illinois,  Texas,  Kansas  and  Washington,  gaining  marked 
prestige  by  reason  of  his  exact  technical  and  practical  knowledge  and  his  ex- 
cellent administrative  ability.  He  was  the  civil  and  mining  engineer  for  the 
Oregon  Improvement  Company  at  the  time  of  the  Seattle  fire  and  had  charge 
of  all  its  construction,  having  come  to  Washington  for  the  purpose  of  taking 
charge  of  its  work.  In  Iowa  Mr.  Hill  was  superintendent  of  mines  for  the 
American  Coal  Company,  and  later  held  similar  relations  with  the  Oregon 
Iinprovement  Company,  the  Western  American  Company  and  Eureka  Com- 
pany, finally  entering  the  employ  of  the  Seattle  Electric  Company,  which  now 
owns  the  mines  at  Renton.     His  experience  has  been  wide  and  varied  and  his 

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efforts  have  been  attended  with  the  most  satisfactory  results  in  the  various 
connections  where  his  able  services  have  been  enlisted.  He  became  superin- 
tendent of  the  Renton  mine  in  September,  1900,  and  during  his  regime  he  has 
increased  its  output  from  fifty  to  five  hundred  tons  per  day.  This  was  the 
first  coal  mine  to  be  opened  in  the  state  of  Washington  and  it  is  still  one  of 
the  most  important  in  this  section  of  the  Union,  having  two  veins, — one  of 
six  and  one-half  and  the  other  of  eight  feet,  and  the  product  is  a  fine  lignite 
coal. 

^[r.  Hill,  who  is  familiarly  known  as  "Captain  Hill,"  is  a  worthy  and 
appreciative  member  of  the  ^Masonic  fraternity,  having  been  raised  to  the  sub- 
lime degree  of  Master  ]\Iason  in  St.  Andrew's  Lodge  No.  35,  A.  F.  &  A.  AT. 
of  Renton,  and  taking  a  deep  interest  in  its  affairs.  He  has  been  a  member 
of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  for  the  past  twenty  years,  while 
his  political  proclivities  are  indicated  in  the  staunch  support  which  he  accords 
to  the  principles  and  policies  of  the  Republican  party,  though  the  honors  and 
emoluments  of  public  office  have  never  appealed  to  him  and  he  has  never  held 
political  preferment  in  this  line. 

January  29.  1874,  Captain  Hill  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary 
Martin,  who  was  born  in  Ohio,  and  departed  this  life  in  Alarch,  1890.  leaving 
one  daughter,  Clara  A.,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  U.  S.  Personus,  of  Seattle. 
Mrs.  Hill  was  a  devoted  wife  and  mother  and  had  won  the  warm  regard  of  a 
Avide  circle  of  friends,  having  been  a  woman  of  gentle  and  gracious  refine- 
ment. In  1891  Mr.  Hill  consummated  a  second  marriage.  Miss  Ella  Martin, 
a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  being  his  choice,  and  they  are  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren,— Frank  A..  Hester,  Leonora  and  Hobart  W.  Mrs.  Hill  presides  with 
gracious  dignity  over  the  attractive  home  in  Renton  and  taken  a  prominent 
part  in  the  social  activities  of  the  city,  being  also  a  zealous  member  of 
the  Alethodist  Episcopal  church.  The  Captain  is  honored  for  his  sterling 
characteristics  and  his  marked  ability  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent  citizens  of  Renton  and  as  one  wdiose  efforts  have  contributed  not  a 
little  to  the  industrial  prosperity  of  the  city  and  county. 

CONFUCIUS  L.  WAYLAND. 

In  a  rapidly  growing  country  like  the  L^nited  States  the  term  pioneer 
is  subject  to  changed  conditions,  and  can  only  be  correctlv  used  in  a  com- 
parative way.  In  long  settled  communities  like  many  in  Virginia  and  the 
New  England  states  the  pioneer  is  necessarily  a  thing  of  the  past.  There  are 
none  living,  and  those  wdio  first  settled  figure  only  in  tradition  or  historv. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  491 

t 

As  advance  is  made  into  such  states  as  Ohio  and  Kentucky  either  the  first 
settler  has  passed  away  or  he  is  apt  to  be  an  old  man.  Not  so  in  new  cities 
of  young  states  like  Washington.  There  the  pioneer  may  see  himself  hon- 
ored at  the  "old  settlers'  meetings"  though  still  a  young  man.  These  re- 
flections were  suggested  by  the  transcription  of  the  name  at  the  head  of  this 
paragraph.  Although  Mr.  Wayland  is  still  in  middle  life  and  though  he 
first  came  to  Seattle  only  twenty-two  years  ago,  he  is  entitled  to  rank  as  an  old 
settler.  When  he  arrived  Seattle  had  a  population  of  only  thirty-six  hundred. 
There  was  but  one  street,  and  it  was  only  cleared  as  far  north  as  Pike,  and 
Second  avenue  was  only  a  wagon  trail.  Everything  was  new  and  raw,  and 
while  with  zeal  characteristic  of  pioneers  all  looked  forward  to  the  time 
when  Seattle  would  be  a  great  metropolis,  there  was  as  yet  little  on  which  to 
base  such  a  prediction.  Mr.  Wayland,  therefore,  has  during  his  residence 
•of  a  little  over  a  score  of  years  seen  substantially  the  whole  growth  of  Se- 
attle from  a  country  town  to  the  dimensions  of  a  bustling  capital,  already  en- 
joying the  title  of  Queen  City  of  Puget  Sound  and  promising  to  reach  pre- 
eminence in  the  oriental  trade  over  all  the  cities  of  the  Pacific  coast. 

Mr.  Wayland  is  a  native  of  what  they  call  over  in  Indiana  "the  state  of 
Boone."  a  locality  celebrated  in  the  dialect  poems  of  James  Whitcomb  Riley 
under  the  pseudonym  of  ''Benjamin  F.  Johnson."     He  is  descended  from  a 
family  which   produced    Francis   Wayland,    author   of   a   political   economy, 
whose  father  emigrated  with  a  brother  to  this  country  from  England  and 
were  of   German   descent.      The  last  mentioned  of   these  brothers   was   the 
great-great-grandfather    of    Confucius    L.     The    latter's    great-grandfather, 
though  the  son  of  a  slave  holder,  was  opposed  to  the  "peculiar  institution," 
and  in  order  to  get  rid  of  the  infamy  removed  from  Virginia  to  Kentucky, 
refusing  to  inherit  any  slave  or  slave-made  wealth.     During  the  subsequent 
■conflicts  over  this  question  leading  to  the  Civil  war  the  Waylands  were  all 
found  on  the  side     of  the  abolitionists  and  the  Union.     George  W.   Way- 
land,    grandson   of   the   Virginia    emigrant   above   mentioned,   was   born    in 
Kentucky  and  followed  the  trade  of  harness-making,  though  he  sold  books 
and  stationery  in  his  later  years.     In  1858  he  crossed  the  Ohio  into  Indiana. 
which  was  at  that  time  decidedly  raw  and  wild  for  a  place  of  abode,  as  none 
of  the  splendid  internal  impro^'ements  which  afterward  ga\'e  the  state  such 
pre-eminence  had   as  yet  materialized.      The   newly  arrived    Kentuckian    lo- 
cated in  Boone  county,  where  he  took  a  strong  stand  against  the  upholders 
•of  slavery,  copperheads,  secessionists  and  all  this  kind  of  disloyal  citizens. 
He  served  as  postmaster  of  the  town,  and  during  the  war,  being  physically 
incapable  of  going  to  the  front,  did  good  service  as  enrolling  officer  for  the 


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government.  He  was  a  religious  man  and  active  as  a  leader  in  the  Metho- 
dist church,  in  which  he  was  usually  one  of  the  members  of  the  board  of 
trustees.  He  married  Nancy  Kelley,  daughter  of  a  veteran  soldier  of  the 
Civil  war,  by  whom  he  had  four  children. 

Confucius  L.  Wayland,  youngest  of  this  family  and  the  only  son,  was 
born  at  Jamestown,  Indiana,  January  4,  1859,  and  besides  the  "little  log 
schoolhouse"  had  the  benefit  of  attendance  at  the  Normal  Institute  in  Dan- 
ville. His  first  venture  on  his  own  account  was  as  teacher  of  a  school  in 
northwestern  Illinois,  which  occupation  he  continued  until  his  mind  had 
been  made  up  to  try  his  fortunes  in  the  northwest.  It  was  in  1881  that  he 
first  appeared  at  Seattle,  and  shortly  afterward  he  became  a  student  in  the 
law  ofiice  of  Struve.  Haines  &  Leary.  This  novitiate  was  followed  in  due 
time  by  courses  at  the  National  University  in  Washington,  D.  C,  and  the 
post-graduate  law  course  in  Georgetown  University,  D.  C,  his  degree  of 
Bachelor  of  Laws  being  received  in  1889.  In  1885  he  had  taken  the  civil 
service  examination  and  vvas  the  first  to  receive  a  position  in  the  classified 
service  from  Washington  territory.  In  1886  he  was  appointed  as  one  of  the 
clerks  in  the  First  Assistant  Postmaster  Generars  ofiice,  and  since  then  has 
been  connected  with  the  postoffice  department  in  one  capacity  or  another. 
As  postofiice  inspector  he  began  traveling  from  Washington,  D.  C,  over 
Delawnre,  Maryland,  Virginia,  West  Virginia  and  North  Carolina,  in  1890, 
then  from  Helena,  ]\tontana  over  Idaho,  Montana,  North  Dakota  and  South 
Dakota  until  1897,  then  from  Spokane,  Washington,  which  last  division 
comprises  Alaska,  Idaho,  Montana,  Oregon  and  Washington.  He  has  visited 
nearly  e^•ery  locality  in  the  states  of  the  Helena  and  Spokane  divisions 
which  has  a  postoffice,  and  many  which  are  without  that  indispensable  agent 
of  civilization.  For  seven  years  he  .averaged  fifty  thousand  miles  annually 
in  [Montana.  North  Dakota  and  Idaho,  about  three  thousand  of  which  were 
traveled  in  stag'e  coaches.  ITe  has  made  nine  round-trips  to  Alaska  and 
visited  seventy  widely  scattered  offices  in  that  remote  territory.  In  1899  he 
went  from  Valdez,  Alaska,  to  the  Yukon  river  on  horseback,  the  first  horse- 
back trip  made  from  tide  water  to  the  Yukon  on  American  soil.  An  evidence 
of  the  rapid  growth  of  Seattle  is  furnished  by  the  fact  that  when  ]\Ir.  Way- 
land  first  came  here  he  for  a  while  relieved  the  foniier  postoffice  clerk  and 
carried  on  the  business  of  the  office  during  the  afternoons  without  assistance. 
At  the  present  time  this  same  postoffice  has  one  hundred  and  sixty  employes. 

On  June  28,  1882.  yir.  Wayland  was  married  to  Miss  Helen,  daughter 
of  the  late  John  K.  Hall,  member  of  the  surveyor  general's  staff,  at  Olympia, 
and  by  this  union  there  are  three  children  :     Russell  G.,  a  student  at  the  State 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  493 

University;  George  Hall,  in  Seattle  high  school;  and  Margaret.  Aside  from 
his  official  business  Mr.  Wayland  has  made  considerable  investments  in  real 
estate,  some  of  which  has  been  improved  by  building,  and  he  also  owns  farm- 
ing property  in  King  and  Whatcom  counties. 

ALVIN  M.  HEMRICH. 

Practical  industry  wisely  and  vigorously  applied  never  fails  of  success. 
It  carries  a  man  onward  and  upward,  brings  out  his  individual  character  and 
powerfully  stimulates  the  actions  of  others.  It  is  this  unflagging  spirit  of 
industry  that  has  laid  the  foundations  and  built  the  commercial  greatness  of 
the  northwest,  and  the  career  of  him  whose  name  intiates  this  paragraph  illus- 
trates most  forcibly  the  possibilities  that  are  open  to  a  young  man  who  pos- 
sesses sterling  business  qualifications,  and  it  proves  that  ambitious  persever- 
ance, steadfast  purpose  and  indefatigable  industry,  as  combined  with  the  ob- 
servance of  sound  business  principles,  will  eventuate  in  the  attaining  of  a  defi- 
nite and  worthy  success.  Mr.  Hemrich,  who  is  president  and  manager  of  the 
Hemrich  Brothers  Brewing  Company,  an  important  industrial  enterprise  in 
the  cit}^  of  Seattle,  is  a  young  man  of  singular  force  of  character  and  one  who 
stands  representative  of  that  insistent  and  well  directed  energy  which  has 
brought  about  the  development  of  the  magnilicent  metropolis  of  the  north- 
west. That  he  should  be  accorded  specific  mention  in  a  work  of  this  nature 
needs  not  be  said. 

Alvin  M.  Hemrich  was  born  in  the  town  of  Alma,  Buffalo  county,  \\'is- 
consin,  on  the  14th  of  February,  1870,  a  son  of  John  and  Catherine  (Koep- 
p'el)  Hemrich,  both  of  whom  were  born  in  Germany.  The  father  was  for 
many  years  engaged  in  the  brewing  business  at  Alma,  Wisconsin,  and  he  was 
seventy-three  years  old  when  he  died,  while  his  wife  is  still  living.  Vlvin 
passed  his  boyhood  days  in  Wisconsin  and  secured  his  early  educational  dis- 
cipline in  the  public  schools.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  assumed  charge  of  the 
business  founded  by  his  father  in  Alma  and  conducted  the  same  for  two  years, 
becoming  thoroughly  familar  with  all  details  pertaining  thereto.  At  the  ex- 
piration of  the  period  noted  he  engaged  in  the  brewing  business  on  his  own 
responsibility  in  the  town  (^f  Durand.  Wisconsin,  and  there  he  successfully 
continued  operations  until  the  year  1890,  when  he  disposed  of  his  interests 
and  came  to  Seattle,  where  his  parents  had  located  some  time  previously. 
After  his  arival  in  Washington  Mr.  Hemrich  proceeded  to  Victoria,  British 
Columbia,  where  for  two  years  he  held  the  position  of  manager  of  the  Vic- 
toria Brewing  Company.     He  then  returned  to  Seattle  and  became  foreman 


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for  the  Albert  Braun  Brewing  Association,  retaining  this  incumbency  one 
year,  when  the  business  was  closed  out,  and  he  then  took  a  similar  position 
with  the  Bay  View  Brewing  Association,  in  whose  employ  he  continued  for 
four  years,  being  finally  compelled  to  resign  by  reason  of  failing  health,  and 
he  then  passed  some  time  in  travel,  principally  in  California.  After  recuper- 
ating his  energies  through  this  period  of  rest  and  recreation  Air.  Hemrich  re- 
turned to  Seattle  and  here  purchased  the  plant  and  business  of  the  old  Slorah 
brev.ery,  located  on  Howard  avenue,  between  Republican  and  ]\Iercer  streets, 
and  there  he  conducted  business  for  six  months,  at  the  expiration  of  which  he 
became  associated  with  his  brother  Louis,  of  whom  mention  is  made  on  an- 
other page,  and  with  Julius  Damns,  in  the  organization  of  the  Hemrich 
Brothers  Brewing  Company,  which  was  duly  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
the  state  on  the  4th  of  February,  1899,  and  under  the  effective  management 
of  these  interested  principals  the  business  has  been  built  up  to  a  most  success- 
ful standpoint,  the  equipment  of  the  plant  being  of  the  most  approved  modern 
type,  while  every  detail  of  manufacture  receives  the  most  careful  and  discrim- 
inating attention  on  the  part  of  our  subject  and  his  brother,  both  of  whom  are 
experts  in  this  line  of  industry.  The  result  is  that  the  products  of  the  brew- 
ry,  including  lager  and  porter,  are  of  exceptional  excellence,  thus  gaining  a 
popularity  which  augurs  for  the  increasing  expansion  and  growth  of  the  busi- 
ness. From  the  brewery  are  sent  forth  each  year  about  thirty-five  thousand 
barrels,  and  in  the  prosecution  of  the  business  in  its  various  departments  em- 
ployment is  afforded  to  a  corps  of  about  seventy-five  capable  workmen. 
None  but  the  best  material  is  utilized  in  the  processes  of  manufacture,  the 
malt  being  secured  from' Wisconsin  and  California,  and  the  hops  being  the 
most  select  products  from  Bohemia  and  from  the  state  of  Washington,  whose 
prestige  in  this  line  is  well  known.  The  present  company  have  made  import- 
ant changes  in  the  equipment  of  the  plant,  having  installed  the  latest  im- 
proved accessories  and  having  greatly  augmented  the  productive  capacity. 
Alvin  ]\I.  Hemrich  has  been  president  of  the  company  from  the  time  of  its 
organization,  and  the  success  of  the  enterprise  is  in  large  measure  due  to  his 
able  and  well  directed  efforts.  In  November,  1901,  Mr.  Hemrich  effected 
the  purchase  of  the  property  of  the  Aberdeen  Brewing  Company  at  Aberdeen, 
this  state,  and  he  began  the  operation  of  the  plant  shortly  afterward,  having 
organized  a  stock  company,  which  was  incorporated  with  a  capital  stock  of 
sixty  thousand  dollars,  he  himself  being  president  of  the  company. 

Air.  Hemrich  is  well  and  most  favorabh  known  in  connection  with  the 
business  activities  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  and  is  esteemed  as  a  straightforward, 
capable  business  man.     He  has  made  judicious  investments  in  local  real  estate 


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and  is  one  of  the  most  loyal  admirers  and  enthusiastic  citizens  of  his  adopted 
city.  His  beautiful  residence,  which  he  erected  in  1898,  is  located  at  503 
Melrose  avenue,  and  is  one  of  the  most  attractive  of  the  many  fine  homes 
for  which  Seattle  is  justly  noted.  Fraternally  Mr.  Hemrich  is  identified 
with  the  Sons  of  Hermann,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Fra- 
ternal Order  of  Eagles,  the  Red  Men,  and  the  Benevolent  and  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  while  his  wiie  is  a  member  of  the  Rebekah  lodge  of  the  Odd 
Fellows.  Mr.  Hemrich  enjoys  marked  popularity  in  both  business  and  social 
circles,  being  a  man  of  genial  presence  and  unfailing  courtesy  in  all  the  rela- 
tions of  life,  and  his  home  is  one  in  which  a  refined  hospitality  is  ever  in  dis- 
tinctive evidence.  On  the  8th  of  May,  1890,  Mr.  Flemrich  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Miss  Minnie  Rutschow,  who  was  born  in  Germany,  being  the 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Minnie  (Benecke)  Rutschow,  both  of  whom  were 
born  in  Prussia.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hemrich  have  two  sons,  Elmer  E.  and 
Andrew  L. 

THOMAS   E.  JONES. 

I 

Seattle  is  proud  to  name  as  one  of  her  citizens  Thomas  E.  Jones,  who 
IS  engaged  in  contracting,  pile-driving  and  wharf-constructing  on  a  large 
scale,  having-  successfully  done  work  for  some  of  the  largest  concerns  in  that 
city.  He  was  born  in  Livingston  county,  Illinois,  August  2,  1856,  a  son  of 
Thomas  A.  and  Minerva  (  Darnall)  Tones,  natives  of  New  Jersey  and  Ken- 
tucky, respectively.  The  maternal  grandfather  of  our  subject  was  one  of 
the  early  pioneers  of  Illinois,  Van  Buren  M.  Darnall,  and  he  had  the  dis- 
tinction of  being  the  first  white  settler  in  Livingston  county,  having  re- 
moved to  that  county  some  years  before  the  Black  Hawk  war.  Here  he 
lived  for  many  years,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  one  of  the  best  known 
and  most  highly  respected  citizens  in  that  portion  of  the  state.  Thomas  A. 
Jones  removed  to  Livingston  county  in  his  youth,  and  here  grew  to  man- 
hood. Successful  in  business,  Mr.  Jones  also  turned  his  attention  to  poli- 
tics, and  became  well  kno^^n  and  honored  among  the  politicians  of  the  coun- 
ty. In  1883  he  moved  to  Seattle,  where  he  invested  in  real  estate,  and  in 
partnership  with  his  son,  Thomas  E.,  engaged  in  the  wliolesale  ice  luisincss. 
This  proved  to  be  amply  remunerative  until  his  death,  wliich  occurred  in 
October,   1895.       Mrs.  Jones  died  November  11,   1902. 

Thomas  E.,  the  only  son  in  a  family  of  four  children,  was  reared  in  his 
native  county,  and  received  his  education  in  the  schools  there,  later  attend- 
ing the  state  normal  school.      He  earlv  became  associated  with  his  father  in 


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business,  and  it  is  to  tliis  close  intimacy  with  his  father  both  in  business  and 
private  Hfe  that  Mr.  Jones  attril-ntes  his  business  success.  A  relationship 
existed  between  them  nhich  is  as  rare  as  it  is  sweet,  and  which  could  not  but 
insure  a  strong  and  noble  character.  Mr.  Jones  is  extensively  engaged  in 
contracting  for  pile  and  wharf  work,  and  has  performed  a  great  deal  of  the 
important  work  in  that  line  for  the  Centennial  Mill  Company,  the  Stets.on 
Post  Alill  Company,  the  Seattle  Electric  Company.  He  built  the  Yesler 
wharf  both  before  and  after  the  disastrous  fire  of  1889.  and  in  fact  has  done 
a  great  majority  of  the  work  in  that  county,  not  excluding  Moran's  work. 
Mr.  Jones  is  as  well  known  in  political  circles  as  in  business  life,  and  this 
is  saying  much.  In  j888  he  was  elected  to  the  city  council,  serving  until 
T890.  He  served  as  chairman  of  the  street  committee,  and  for  four  years 
was  one  of  the  fire  commissioners.  He  has  always  followed  the  time-hon- 
ored customs  of  his  fathers  in  voting  for  the  Democratic  candidates  in  na- 
tional affairs,  but  is  liberal  and  independent  in  matters  of  local  significance. 
]\Ir.  Jones  purchased  his  present  residence  at  315  Blanchard  avenue  in  1886, 
where  he  has  a  comfortable,  modern  home,  in  which  much  taste  and  good 
judgment  are  displayed  in  the  plain  though  comfortable  furnishings.  He 
also  owns  several  fine  farms  in  different  portions  of  King  county,  which  are 
well  improved  and  highly  cultivated.  December  25,  1876,  was  a  fitting  day 
to  celebrate  the  marriage  of  Thomas  E.  Jones  to  Clara  Vincent,  daughter  of 
Mrs.  T.  D.  Mncent.  of  Livingston  county.  Illinois.  To  them  have  been 
born  five  children,  as  follows:  Lilla  \'.,  Olive  E..  L.  Dee.  Carl  H.  and 
Thomas  C.  Mr.  Jones'  popularity  is  evinced  by  the  many  friends  he  has 
made,  and  his  home  is  the  center  of  a  cultivated  and  refined  circle,  which 
widens  daily. 

WILLIAM  STANLEY. 

\\'illiam  Stanley  is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  U'illiam  Stanley  & 
Company,  in  which  he  is  associated  with  his  son,  Samuel  L.,  and  they  are 
prominent  and  well  known  railroad  contractors  and  brokers.  They  also  have 
large  mining  interests  in  Alaska,  and  are  numbered  among  the  successful 
business  men  of  the  northv.-est. 

^^'illiam  Stanley  was  born  in  county  Limerick,  Ireland,  in  1844,  being  a 
son  of  John  and  Catherine  (Lochlin)  Stanley,  both  also  natives  of  the  Em- 
erald Isle  and  devout  members  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church.  In  1850  they 
emigrated  to  America,  bringing  with  them  their  three  children,  two  sons  and 
a  daughter,  and  a  location  was  made  at  Potsdam.  St.  Lawrence  countv,  New 


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York.  The  father  was  a  prominent  educator  and  also  a  imisician  of  abiHty. 
His  hfe's  labors  were  ended  in  death  in  1859,  when  sixty  years  of  age,  and  he 
was  survived  by  his  loving  wife  until  1874,  when  she,  too,  was  called  to  the 
home  beyond. 

William  Stanley  was  but  six  years  of  age  when  he  was  brought  by  his 
parents  to  the  United  States,  and  his  education  was  obtained  in  both  Canada 
and  New  York.  He  became  proficient  as  a  blacksmith  and  machinist,  fol- 
lowing his  trade  in  Canada  and  many  cities  of  the  United  States.  When  he 
was  but  seventeen  years  of  age  the  great  Civil  war  was  inaugurated,  and  in  the 
defense  of  his  adopted  country  he  enlisted  in  Company  D,  Tenth  Regiment 
Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  but  was  shortly  afterward  transferred  to  an  engineer 
and  machinist's  company  and  sent  to  Chattanooga,  where  he  remained  until 
1867,  at  which  time  he  received  an  honorable  discharge.  After  the  close  of  the 
struggle  he  returned  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  worked  for  a  time  at  his 
trade,  and  for  three  years  thereafter  was  engaged  in  setting  up  machinery  in 
Memphis,  Tennessee.  Removing  thence  to  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  he  there 
purchased  land  and  received  contract  work  from  the  Northern  Missouri  Rail- 
way Company,  after  which  he  was  employed  by  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad  Company  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  continuing  work  along  the 
line  of  its  construction  to  Lincoln,  Nebraska. 

In  Montgomery  county,  Iowa,  in  1869,  Mr.  Stanley  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Sarah  E.  Baker,  a  native  of  that  county  and  a  daughter  of 
Judge  Samuel  Baker.  After  their  marriage  they  removed  to  Phillips  county, 
Kansas,  where  our  subject  acquired  and  improved  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land,  and  there  made  his  home  for  eighteen  years.  On  the  expira- 
tion of  that  period,  in  order  to  give  his  sons  better  educational  facilities,  he 
removed  to  Odell,  Nebraska,  which  continued  as  their  place  of  abode  until 
January,  1890,  when  they  came  to  Seattle.  After  his  arrival  in  this  city  Mr. 
Stanley  at  once  resumed  work  at  his  trade,  thus  continuing  ior  the  following 
five  years,  when  the  family  removed  to  Honolulu,  where  he  received  the  con- 
tract for  grading  the  road  bed  from  that  place  to  Wynona,  and  after  a  resi- 
dence there  of  eighteen  months  they  came  again  to  this  city.  In  March, 
1896,  Mr.  Stanley  and  his  son  followed  the  gold  seekers  to  xA.laska.  going  by 
the  Chilkoot  pass,  thence  by  sleds  to  the  foot  of  Lake  La  Barge,  where  they 
erected  boats  and  went  down  the  Stewart  river,  and  later  to  the  mouth  of  the 
McQuestin  river,  where  they  worked  the  bars  for  a  time,  but  without  success. 
In  the  following  August  they  resumed  the  journey  down  the  river  to  the 
Klondike,  where  they  immediately  staked  claims,  their  nearest  supply  point 
being  at  Forty  Mile,  fifty  miles  distant.     The  thermometer  then  registered 


498  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

from  sixty  to  eighty  degrees  below  zero,  and  they  built  large  fires  in  order 
to  thaw  out  the  ground,  which  was  so  frozen  that  it  was  unnecessary  to  erect 
props  and  they  drifted  to  the  bed  rock  in  safety.  They  took  out  large  quan- 
tities of  gold,  and  in  June,  1897,  they  began  the  homeward  journey,  bringing 
with  them  their  treasures.  They  still  owai  their  mines  there,  which  have  ever 
since  been  profitably  worked,  and  it  will  be  many  years  before  their  rich  de- 
posits are  exhausted.  Forty  men  are  employed  in  working  their  claims  and 
rwo  large  steam  plants  are  used.  Mr.  Stanley  is  a  man  of  exceptional  busi- 
ness ability,  and  in  all  life's  relations  he  merits  the  confidence  which  is  so 
freely  accorded  him. 

The  marriage  of  our  subject  and  wife  has  been  blessed  with  eight  chil- 
dren, namely:  Margaret,  the  wife  of  John  Price;  William  C,  who  is  en- 
gaged in  business  with  his  father  and  brother  in  this  city;  John  the  time 
keeper  for  the  firm  of  William  Stanley  &  Company;  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of 
]\Iark  Finney,  of  Seattle;  Sarah,  the  wife  of  William  Murphy,  of  Dawson; 
and  Ida  and  Joseph,  who  are  attending  school  in  Seattle. 

Samuel  L.  Stanley,  the  junior  member  of  the  firm  of  William  Stanley  & 
Company,  was  born  in  Phillips  county,  Kansas,  in  1874.  He  learned  the 
machinist  and  blacksmith's  trade  under  his  father's  careful  guidance,  and 
since  then  he  has  been  his  father's  companion  and  partner  in  all  his  business 
undertakings.  He  is  one  of  Seattle's  bright  and  promising  young  men,  and 
the  success  which  has  attended  this  firm  is  due  in  a  large  measure  to  his  intel- 
ligent and  untiring  efforts.  He  was  married  in  September,  1899,  to  Miss  L. 
M.  Robinson,  and  the  family  are  members  of  the  Roman  Catholic  church. 
They  have  a  beautiful  summer  home  on  ^^l-lite  Point,  at  the  Port  Orchard 
Narrows.  Thev  have  a  wide  circle  of  friends  in  this  city,  and  wherever 
kno\\n  they  are  held  in  the  hightest  esteem. 

HENRY  A.  BODE. 

The  great  German  empire  has  contributed  a  vital  and  significantly  val- 
uable element  to  the  complex  fabric  of  our  social  makeup,  and  as  a  worthy 
representative  of  this  sterling-  class  we  refer  to  the  gentleman  whose  name 
initiates  this  paragraph  and  who  is  now  living  retired  in  the  city  of  Seattle^ 
where  he  was  for  many  years  a  representative  and  honored  business  man, 
beine  ensfae-ed  in  the  merchant  tailorins:  business  here.  He  is  a  man  whose 
integrity  has  ever  been  beyond  cavil  and  his  entire  business  career  was  one 
which  reflected  credit  upon  him  and  showed  the  dominating  elements  of  in- 
flexible honor,  steadfastness  of  purpose  and  marked  ability.     Such  men  are 


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certainh'   worthy  of  consideration  here,   and  this  brief  review  will  be  read 
\\ith  pleasure  by  the  many  friends  and  acquaintances  of  Mr.  Bode. 

Henry  A.  Bode,  whose  residence  is  located  at  927  Seventeenth  avenue, 
was  born  in  the  beautiful  old  city  of  Hanover,  Germany,  on  the  15th  of 
April,  1848.  being  the  son  of  John  H.  and  Dorothea  (Buchholtz)  Bode,  both 
of  whom  were  bom  in  Hanover,  as  was  also  John  A.  Bode,  the  grand- 
father of  our  subject.  John  H.  Bode  held  a  position  under  the  crown,  hav- 
ing been  inspector  and  overseer  of  government  roads;  the  duties  involved 
the  construction  and  care  of  the  public  roads  and  the  planting  of  trees  along 
these  thoroughfares.  He  passed  his  entire  life  in  the  fatherland,  where  his 
death  occurred  in  the  year  1878;  his  wife  passed  away  when  Henry  A.  was  a 
lad  of  fourteen  years,  he  having  been  one  of  ten  children,  of  whom  only 
four  survive,  namely :  Dorothea,  who  is  the  wife  of  John  Hagen,  of  Ham- 
burg, Germany;  Franz,  a  resident  of  Davenport,  Iowa;  Henry  A.;  and 
Mary,  the  wife  of  August  Struck,  of  Davenport,  Iowa. 

Plenry  Bode  remained  at  the  parental  home  until  the  death  of  his 
mother,  when  the  members  of  the  family  became  separated  b}'  the  breaking 
up  of  the  household  and  he  was  thus  early  forced  to  assume  the  individual 
responsibilites  of  life  at  the  age  of  fourteen  years,  his  educational  advan- 
tages having  been  such  as  were  afforded  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city. 
For  two  and  one-half  years  he  was  employed  on  a  farm  and  at  the  expiration 
of  this  interval  he  enteretl  upon  an  apprenticeship  at  the  tailor's  trade.  He- 
thus  served  an  apprenticeship  of  two  and  one-half  years,  becoming  a  capable 
workman,  and  thereafter  he  was  employed  as  a  journeyman  until  he  had  at- 
tained the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  when  he  entered  the  German  army  as  a 
member  of  the  Second  Guard,  with  which  he  ser\-ed  three  years — from  1869 
to  1872 — in  the  city  of  Berlin,  having  been  an  active  participant  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  war.  He  was  then  discharg-ed  and  thereafter  was  em- 
ployed at  his  trade  in  Berlin  until  the  26th  of  April,  1873,  when  he  took 
passage  from  Hamburg  to  New  York,  from  which  latter  city  he  proceeded 
to  Davenport,  Iowa,  where  his  brother  and  sister  had  previously  located. 
He  there  worked  at  his  trade  for  one  year,  within  A\hich  time,  on  the  14th  of 
September,  1873,  he  w^as  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Augusta  Drebusch, 
who  was  born  in  the  province  of  Brandenburg,  kingdom  of  Prussia,  Ger- 
many;  in  the  spring  of  1874  they  removed  from  Davenport  to  Wisconsin, 
where  they  remained  six  months  and  thence  to  Keokuk,  Iowa,  where  they 
made  their  home  for  an  equal  period,  thereafter  passing  a  year  in  Iowa  City, 
another  year  in  Council  Bluffs  and  thence  removing  to  Dunlap,  Iowa,  where 
Mr.   Bode  was  employed  as  cutter  in   the  merchant  tailoring  establishment 


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of  M.  Barrett.  He  next  came  to,  the  Pacific  coast  and  accepted  a  position 
as  cutter  in  the  house  of  John  Reed  &  Sons,  of  Market  Place,  San  Fran- 
cisco, where  he  remained  until  September,   1882,  the  date  of  his  arrival  in 

Seattle. 

Here  he  engaged  in  the  merchant  tailoring  business  on  his  own  respon- 
sibility, establishing  his  headquarters  in  the  Mayham  building  in  Front 
street,  where  he  remained  several  years,  securing  an  excellent  supporting 
patronage.  He  then  removed  his  business  to  the  Drew  building,  between 
Marion  and  Columbia  streets,  and  thence  to  the  corner  of  Madison  and 
Front  streets,  where  he  remained  until  the  memorable  and  devastating  fire 
swept  the  city  in  1889,  and  at  this  time,  as  was  the  case  with  most  of  the  busi- 
ness men  of  the  city,  he  met  with  heavy  loss,  his  fine  stock  of  goods  being 
destroyed  and  the  business  being  left  in  chaotic  order.  Not  disheartened 
by  this  disaster,  Mr.  Bode  resumed  business,  opening  the  same  in  a  tent, 
which  was  located  in  Spring  street,  between  Second  and  Third  avenues,  and 
this  constituted  his  store  and  shop  for  a  period  of  one  year,  during  which 
he  transacted  an  extensive  and  lucrative  business,  having  taken  in  as  high 
as  nine  hundred  dollars  in  a  single  month.  He  catered  to  the  riiost  discrim- 
inating and  representative  patronage,  producing  only  the  best  class  of  work 
and  employing  as  many  as  twenty-six  workmen,  at  wages  of  from  twenty- 
five  to  thirty  dollars  each  per  week.  The  showing,  considering  the  rather 
primitive  headquarters  maintained,  was  certainly  noteworthy,  and  the  pres- 
tige which  Mr.  Bode  enjoyed  gave  evidence  of  popular  appreciation  and 
confidence  and  offered  distinctive  testimony  as  to  his  abilities  in  connec- 
tion with  the  sartorial  art.  He  eventually  secured  more  available  quarters 
in  Columbia  street,  between  Second  and  Third  avenues,  where  he  remained 
about  four  years,  then  removing  to  the  Kenyon  block,  in  Front  street,  where 
he  was  in  control  of  a  large  and  profitable  business  until  the  failure  of  the 
Seattle  Savings  Bank,  in  which  he  met  with  the  loss  of  ten  thousand  dol- 
lars which  he  there  had  on  deposit,  the  outcome  being  that  he  was  com- 
pelled to  sacrifice  other  interests,  involving  a  total  loss  of  fully  forty  thous- 
and dollars.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Bode  has  not  been  regularly  engaged  in 
business,  though  he  has  still  retained  valuable  property  in  Seattle  and  con- 
tinued to  make  this  his  home.  He  has  passed  some  time  in  Colorado  and 
other  sections  of  the  west,  was  for  one  year  engaged  in  business  at  What- 
com, Washington,  but  for  the  last  year  he  has  been  practically  retired  from 
active  business. 

In  politcs  Mr.  Bode  gives  his  allegiance  to  the  Republican  party  so 
far  as  national   issues   are  concerned,  but  in   local   affairs  he  maintains   an 


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independent  attitude,  supporting  men  and  measures  as  his  judgment  dictates,, 
rather  than  being  guided  along  strict  partisan  lines.  Fraternally  he  is 
identified  with  the  Indq:)endent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  and  in  both  busi- 
ness and  social  circles  he  is  honored  as  one  of  the  worthy  citizens  of  Seat- 
tle, where  he  has  maintained  his  home  for  a  score  of  years.  ]\Ir.  and  ]\Irs. 
Bode  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  namely  :  Elsie,  who  is  the  wife  of 
John  Bayne  of  Seattle;  Martha,  who  remains  at  the  parental  home;  and 
Henry  A.,  Jr.,  who  learned  the  tailor's  trade  with  his  father  and  is  now 
engaged  in  business  in  Whatcom,  this  state. 

SAMUEL    LAFROMBOISE. 

From  the  age  of  thirteen  years  Samuel  Lafromboise  has  made  his  own 
A\ay  in  the  w'orld  and  he  has  truly  ^von  the  proud  American  title  of  a  self- 
made  man  and  deserves  the  credit  and  distinction  which  this  term  implies. 
He  was  born  at  Pembroke,  Ontario,  Canada,  January  3,  1858.  His  father, 
Nicholas  Lafromboise,  was  a  native  of  the  same  province,  born  in  181 1.  and 
was  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  in  Canada  from  1854  until  1864.  when 
he  remo\'ed  to  Winnebago  county,  Wisconsin.  There  he  took  out  natural- 
ization papers  in  1865,  thus  becoming  a  citizen  of  the  Union.  Tic  bought 
a  farm  there  and  continued  in  this  occupation  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  1869.  In  early  manhood  he  had  wedded  Alary  Jane  Blakely.  who 
was  born  in  Londonderry,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  is  now  deceased. 

Samuel  Lafromboise  was  only  about  six  years  of  age  when  the  family 
removed  to  Wisconsin,  and  there  in  the  public  schools  of  Winnebago  coun- 
ty he  continued  his  education  until  he  reached  the  age  of  thirteen  years. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  it  was  necessary  that  he  should  beg'in  earning 
his  own  livelihood  and  he  secured  employment  in  the  lumber  business,  by 
which  means  he  was  enabled  to  support  his  mother,  his  sister  and  his  young- 
er brother.  After  reaching  manhood  he  held  responsible  positions,  such  as 
foreman  with  the  Pioneer  Lumber  Company  at  Eau  Claire,  Wisconsin,  also 
foreman  with  the  Doby  Brothers  Lumber  Company  of  Haywood,  and  the 
Chipaway  Lumber  Company.  In  this  way  several  years  were  passed  and  he 
became  thoroughly  conversant  with  the  lumber  trade  and  contributed  not 
a  little  to  the  success  of  the  firms  which  he  represented. 

When  Mr.  Lafromboise  arrived  in  Washington  he  was  employed  as 
timber  cruiser  for  the  St.  Paul  Lumber  Company  of  Tacoma  for  one  sum- 
mer. Later  he  came  to  Enumclow,  and  secured  a  timber  claim  near  the 
town.      This  he  proved  up  and  later  sold  it  to  the  White  River  Lumber  Com- 


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pany.  In  January.  1897,  he  1)ni]t  a  small  hotel,  and  in  December,  1898,  he 
erected  a  large  two-story  building,  which  is  now  used  as  a  public  hall  and  a 
saloon.  In  1902  he  erected  a  handsome  three-story  hotel  building  which 
under  his  management  has  proved  of  benefit  to  the  place  of  his  residence. 
He  A\as  a  stockholder  and  an  acti\'e  member  of  the  Enumclaw  Improvement 
Company,  which  existed  from  J  892  until  1S94,  and  had  an  option  on  sixty 
acres  of  the  town  site  for  a  number  of  years.  This  company  erected  sev- 
eral buildings,  including  a  large  creamery.  On  settling  up  the  affairs  of 
the  Improvement  Company,  when  it  Avent  out  of  lousiness,  the  creamery 
building  was  purchased  b>-  F.  ( ).  Xickerson  and  ]\Ir.  Lafromboise,  but  in 
the  spring  of  1902  this  building  was  destroyed  by  fire  and  our  subject  soon 
afterward  sold  the  ground  to  the  White  RiA-er  Lumber  Company.  His 
principal  business  of  recent  years  has  been  dealing  in  realty  and  he  has 
owned  and  is  still  the  possessor  of  valuable  property  here. 

On  the  3d  of  September,  1891.  in  Enumclaw,  occurred  the  marriage  of 
]\Ir.  Lafromboise  and  ]\Iiss  Susan  Calhoun,  who  was  born  in  Scotland  No- 
vember I,  1 87 1,  and  came  to  this  place  in  1889.  Her  father,  James  Calhoun, 
was  superintendent  of  coal  mines  in  Scotland,  and  filled  similar  positions, 
but  he  died  in  Enumclaw  in  1895.  His  widow,  ]Mrs.  Elizabeth  Calhoun, 
after  residing  for  eight  years  in  Enumclaw,  returned  to  Glasgow,  Scotland, 
wliere  she  died  in  1901.  To  Mr.  and  ]Mrs.  Lafromboise  have  been  born 
four  children,  namely ;  Gtiy  Nicholas.  James  George,  Arthur  Adams  and 
Samuel  Blakley.  Mr.  Lafromboise  endorses  the  Republican  party,  believ- 
ing that  its  principles  are  l^est  calculated  to  conserve  the  general  welfare 
of  the  nation.  He  is  identified  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
and  with  the  Red  Men  of  this  place.  His  success  in  life  may  be  attributed 
to  a  determined  pursuit  of  business  and  to  the  fact  that  he  is  a  man  of  hon- 
•esty  and  integrity. 

JOHN  V.'.  PETER. 

John  W.  Peter  was  born  at  Metropolis  City,  Illinois,  November  4,  1851. 
His  father,  R.  A.  Peter,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  but  for  sixty  years  has  made 
his  home  in  Illinois,  where  he  is  now  living  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty- 
four.  Through  a  long  period  he  carried  on  merchandising  and  to  a  con- 
siderable extent  followed  farming,  gaining  a  good  living  through  these  pur- 
suits. LTpon  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war  he  raised  the  One  Hun- 
dred Thirty-first  Illinois  Infantry  and  with  the  command  served  almost  un- 
til the  close  of  hostilities,  when  the  regiment  was  consolidated  with  another 


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and  he  was  discharged  on  account  of  disabihty.  Throug-hout  his  connec- 
tion with  the  army  he  held  the  rank  of  lieutenant-colonel,  and  was  a  brave 
and  loyal  officer,  whose  own  valor  inspired  his  men  to  deeds  of  courage. 
He  has  served  as  justice  in  Massac  county,  Illinois,  being  the  first  one  to 
occupy  that  position  there.  A\  hile  in  Kentucky  Colonel  Peter  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Amanda  C.  Proffit,  a  nati\'e  of  Tennessee,  and  they  be- 
came the  parents  of  tweh^e  children,  six  sons  and  six  daughters,  of  whom 
five  sons  are  yet  living.  James  A.  was  a  captain  in  the  war,  being  commis- 
sioned before  he  was  of  age. 

John  W.  Peter  pursued  his  education,  in  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive state,  and  with  the  desire  to  enter  professional  life  he  determined  to 
engage  in  the  practic  of  law  and  began  reading  in  the  office  and  under  the 
direction  of  Judge  John  R.  Thomas,  wh(^  is  now  serving  on  the  bench  in 
Oklahoma.  Mr.  Peter  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Mount  Vernon,  Illinois, 
m  June,  1877,  ^^^^  there  beg'an  practice,  continuing  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
bar  until  June,  1889,  when  he  determined  to  go  to  Washington.  He  had 
been  quite  prominent  in  public  affairs  and  had  served  for  five  terms  as  city 
attorney  in  Metropolis  City.  In  1884  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney 
of  ]\Iassac  cotmty  and  filled  that  position  for  four  years  in  a  most  creditable 
and  satisfactory  manner.  Believing  that  there  were  good  opportunities  in 
the  west  he  came  to  this  state  in  1889,  locating  in  Dayton,  where  he  opened 
a  law  office  and  engaged  in  practice  for  the  following  seven  years.  Again 
he  was  recognized  as  a  prominent  local  leader  of  the  Republican  party  and 
was  made  the  party's  nominee  for  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney,  but  lliat 
was  the  year  of  the  Populist  successes  and  he  failed  of  election  by  ninety- 
eight  votes,  although  he  ran  ahead  of  others  on  the  ticket. 

In  1897  Mr.  Peter  came  to  Ballard,  where  lie  has  engaged  in  practice 
■continuously  since.  He  made  a  specialty  of  criminal  law  while  in  Illinois, 
but  since  coming  to  the  west  has  engaged  in  general  practice.  He  has 
gained  a  good  cHentage  here  of  a  representative  character  and  has  con- 
ducted important  litigation.  He  has  also  done  considerable  real  estate  and 
insurance  business  and  has  bought  and  sold  considerable  land  and  improved 
property,  both  on  his  own  account  and  for  others.  In  kjoi  he 
erected  his  present  residence  at  26  East  State  street,  and  in  1902  he  erected 
the  Peter-Lucas  building  in  connection  villi  J.  1'..  Lucas.  Mr.  Peter  was 
nominated  on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the  oft'ce  of  county  assessor  for 
King  county,  and  at  the  November  election  in  1902  he  was  elected  by  a 
majority  of  5,862  votes  over  his  opponent,  and  is  now  serving  his  first  term 
of  assessor  of  the  largest  county  in  the  state  of  Washington. 


504  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

While  in  illinois  Mr.  Peter  was  married  on  the  4th.  of  November,  1872,' 
to  Frances  M.  Loving,  and  to  them  were  born  two  children,  but  both  are 
now  deceased.  Mr.  Peter  has  always  voted  with  the  RepulDlican  party  and 
has  attended  many  of  its  conventions,  his  influence  carrying  weight  m  its 
councils.  He  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  and  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees.  From  the  age  of  fif- 
teen years  he  has  been  an  earnest  and  devoted  meml^er  of  the  Methodist 
church,  and  has  held  all  of  the  offices  in  the  church,  serving  as  steward  and 
class  leader  at  the  present  time.  He  has  also  done  much  to  aid  the  Epworth 
League  and  to  promote  Sunday-sciiool  work,  having  excellent  success  in 
interesting  the  young  people  in  the  cause  of  Christianity  and  its  promotion. 

JESSE   K.    WHITMORE. 

The  ancestry  of  Jesse  K.  Whitmore,  both  lineal  and  collateral,  is  dis- 
tinctively American,  for  through  many  generations  the  family  has  been  es- 
tablished in  this  country.  John  Whitmore,  a  nati^•e  of  England,  left  that 
country  in  1635,  and  braving  the  dangers  incident  to  an  ocean  voyage  at 
tliat  time,  he  sailed  for  the  new  world  and  became  the  progenitor  of  the  fam- 
ilv  in  America.  The  family  record  has  ever  been  a  most  honorable  one. 
The  maternal  great-grandfather  of  our  subject.  Captain  Silas  Nash,  was  a 
captain  in  the  Revolutionary  war  and  proved  a  valiant  officer,  leading  his  men 
into  many  an  engagement  which  contributed  to  the  splendid  victory  that  ulti- 
mately crowned  the  American  arms. 

Seth  Hayden  Whitmore  was  born  in  Oneida  county,  New  York.  He 
married  Miss  Mabel  Nash,  and  in  order  to  provide  for  his  family  he  fol- 
lowed the  brick  and  stone  mason's  trade.  In  1837,  shortly  after  the  Black 
Hawk  war,  he  left  his  native  home  and  settled  on  the  plains  of  Illinois.  In 
1873  a  bridge  on  which  he  was  standing-  fell,  and  he  was  killed,  being  then 
in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of  his  age.  Plis  wife  survived  him  and  departed  this 
life  on  the  3d  of  July,  1900,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eigLt  years.  In  their 
family  were  six  children,  five  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

Jesse  K.  Whitmore,  one  of  these  five  children,  was  born  in  Dixon,  Lee 
county,  Illinois,  on  the  27th  of  September,  1856,  and  is  the  only  member  of 
the  family  living  in  Washington.  He  Avas  educated  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  state  and  after  completing  his  studies  he  turned  his  attention  to  the 
machinist's  trade.  Thinking  he  would  have  better  opportunities  on  the  Pa- 
cific coast,  he  went  to  California  in  1882,  locating  in  Oakland.  He  also  re- 
sided for  a  time  just  across  the  bay  in  San  Francisco  and  v»'as  engaged  in 


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cement  work  there.  Coming  to  Seattle  he  continued  in  the  same  Hne  of 
business  in  this  rapidly  growing  and  developing  city  and  is  the  founder  of 
the  Whitmore  Concrete  Company,  which  is  now  controlling  a  large  and 
constantly  increasing  business.  This  company  was  established  in  18Q3  and 
he  has  since  been  engaged  in  contracting  and  constructing  cement  sidewalks, 
and  all  kinds  of  concrete  work,  having  his  full  share  of  the  business.  He  has 
met  with  gratifying  success,  the  secret  of  which  lies  in  his  reliability  and  the 
excellent   work   which   is   done   under   his   direction. 

In  1883  ^^^'-  Whitmore  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Sarah  Beasley. 
a  nati\'e  of  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  they  have  an  attractive  home  in  this  city. 
Mr.  Whitmore  is  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
in  his  political  views  is  largely  independent,  although  he  has  usually  voted 
the  Republican  ticket.  He  has  no  desire  for  office  and  the  demands  of  his 
increasing  business  would  leave  him  no  time  for  political  work  even  did  he 
care  to  seek  political  preferment.  In  his  business  career  he  has  always  fol- 
lowed the  golden  rule,  and  his  enterprise  and  energy  have  been  salient  fea- 
tures in  his  success  and  prosperity, 

JAMES   HART. 

Through  nineteen  years  James  Hart  has  contributed  largely  to  im- 
provement and  progress  in  King  county,  his  activity  being  carried  along 
many  lines  of  business  that  make  him  v.orthy  of  the  gratitude,  confidence 
and  respect  of  his  fellow  men.  His  home  is  "Summerfield,"  in  Chris- 
topher, but  he  maintains  his  ofiice  in  Auburn.  Mr.  Hart  was  born  in  Staf- 
fordshire, England,  on  the  i8th  of  July,  1848,  but  no  native  son  of  America 
is  more  loyal  to  its  best  interests  that  he.  His  father,  George  Hart,  was 
born  in  Lancasiiire.  England,  March  15,  1816.  For  over  twenty  }-ears  he 
was  a  railroad  inspector,  and  later  a  prominent  railroad  contractor  and  for 
years  had  charge  of  the  Lancashire  &  Yorkshire  Railway  under  the  famous 
Thomas  Brasse}^  the  father  of  the  i:)resent  Lord  Brassey.  Later  Mr.  Hart 
engaged  in  railroad  contracting  on  his  ovvu  account,  being  thus  engaged  until 
he  retired  from  active  business,  in  1880.  ]n  that  year  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness and  removed  to  Southport,  Lancashire,  England,  where  he  became  a 
leader  in  pu()lic  affairs,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  from  1880 
until  1884.  On  the  ist  of  June,  1885,  he  arrived  in  the  territory  of  Wash- 
ington, and  made  his  home  with  his  son,  James,  at  the  present  "Summer- 
field"  farm  near  Auliurn.  There  his  death  (occurred  in  A])ril,  1888.  In 
early  manhood  he  had  wedded  Lcjuisa  Dainby,   who  was  born  in  Stafford- 


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shire,  Enplanrl.  in  1812.  tlieir  niarriao-e  beine  celebrated  in  that  countrv 
about  1845.  ^Irs.  Hart  '^till  survives  her  husband  and  makes  her  home  with 
her  only  child,  James. 

In  taking-  up  the  personal  history  of  ^>lr.  Hart  we  present  to  our  read- 
ers the  life  record  of  one  wlio  is  widely  kno\\n  and  favorably  regarded  in 
King  county  because  of  what  he  has  accomplished  for  the  general  good. 
He  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his  nati\-e  district  and  in  college 
near  ^lanchester.  After  leaving  school  in  1862  he  served  for  two  years 
as  a  clerk  in  the  canal  department  of  the  Eancashire  &  Yorkshire  Railroad. 
He  was  then  articled  to  ^Ir.  Maxwell,  an  architect  and  civil  engineer  of 
Bury,  Lancashire,  serving  five  years  as  a  pupil,  during  which  time  he  ac- 
quired a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  profession.  He  then  entered  the  office 
of  the  Lancashire  (J^:  Yorkshire  Railroad,  where  all  of  the  plans  and  specifi- 
cations for  the  stations,  ware-houses,  machine  shops  and  engine  houses,  etc.,- 
were  drawn.  He  remained  in  that  position  for  several  years,  having  charge 
of  the  office  under  Sturges  ]\[eek,  Esq..  chief  engineer.  Air.  Hart  was  then 
appointed  to  take  charge  of  the  Imilding  and  sanitary  improvements  in  the 
borough  of  Salford,  adjoining  the  city  of  ^Manchester,  and  was  also  appoint- 
ed district  engineer  of  the  largest  division,  Pendleton,  under  the  direction  of 
the  Salford  town  council.  During  the  seven  years  in  which  he  filled  that 
office  he  had  entire  charge  of  tlie  drainage  and  sewer  system,  the  paving  and 
flagging  of  the  highways  of  that  district,  the  construction  of  new  streets 
and  the  repairing  and  maintaining  of  the  roads,  the  town  improvements  and 
the  sanitary  reconstruction  throughout  the  entire  borough  of  Salford.  He 
was  next  appointed  borough  engineer  of  St.  Helens,  in  Lancashire,  having 
control  of  the  streets  and  highways  and  of  the  construction  of  a  large  sys- 
tem of  tramways,  besides  repairing  an  entire  system  of  sewage  and  drainage 
and  town  improvements.  He  served  for  seven  years  in  the  latter  position, 
after  which  he  became  an  applicant  for  the  office  of  city  engineer  of  Liverpool,  ■ 
was  one  of  the  six  candidates  selected,  and  was  the  one  finally  chosen 
by  a  special  committee  for  the  appointment,  but  in  the  ratification  of 
the  appointment  1)y  the  city  council  he  was  beaten  by  a  small 
majority.  He  ^^-as  then  offered  the  appointment  b}-  the  crown  agent 
of  the  colonies  to  go  to  Lagos,  on  the  west  coast  of  Africa,  as 
chief  ci\-il  engineer.  He  passed  the  necessary  government  examination,  but 
owing  to  the  objection  of  his  father  to  this  mo\e  he  declined  to  undertake 
this  service  because  of  the  unhealthful  conditions  of  Lagos.  In  1880  he  was 
admitted  as  associate  member  of  the  Institute  of  Civil  Engineers  of  England, 
and  still  holds  his  membership  in  that  organization.      He  was  also  a  mem- 


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ber  of  thf;  Aiunicipal  and  Sanitary  Engineers  Society  of  London  and  the 
Mechanical  ling-ineer  Society  of  London  and  a  member  of  the  Liverpool 
Eng-ineering-  Society. 

In  April,   1884,  Air.  Hart  left  liis  native  land  for  .Vmerica.      Arriving 
at  Tacoma,  Washington,  on  the  29th  of  that  month,  he  acqnired  a  tract  of 
land  in   the  White   River   Valley,   in   Slang'hter,   now   the   Christopher   i)re- 
cinct,  and  at  once  iDcg-an  clearing  and  impro\ing  the  land.      Th.e  town  of 
Slaughter,  now  the  city  of  Auburn,  had  nor  yet  been  founded.      About  1886 
Mr.  Hart  was  elected  justice  of  the  peace  and  has  served  man}'  years  in  that 
capacity.      14 e  has  also  filled  the  office  of  school  director  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  the  cause  of  education   has  found   in  him  a   warm  and   earnest 
friend.       At  the  tinie  he  settled  in  King  county  there  were  few   roads  cut 
through  the  timiier,  and  one  had  generally  to  follow  the  old  Indian  trails. 
From  the  first  Mr.  Hart  has  devoted  much  attention  to  drainage  and  to  the 
construction  of  good  roads  in  the  White  ri\-er  valley.      In  1886,  when  Pierce 
county  made  an  effort  to  secure  possession  of  the  south  end  of  King'  count}', 
he  was  one  of  the  strongest  opponents  of  the  scheme,  and  at  the  rec|uest  of 
county  authorities  and  of  John  Collins,   mayor  of  Seattle,   he  went  before 
the  legislature  at  Olympia  to  oppose  tlpe  transfer,   and  after  a  bitter  fight 
King  county  succeeded  in  retaining  possession  of  one  of  its  most  valuable 
districts.       Road  construction  and   drainage  have  been  the  two  special   sub- 
jects which  ha\e  elicited  Air.   Hart's  particidar  attention   for  a  number  ot 
years.       He  was  also  instmmental  in   assisting   in   the  organization   of  the 
State  Dairy  Association  and  th.e  King  County  Horticultural  Society,  and  in 
securing  legislation   to  encourage  these  industries.       For  one  term   he  was 
vice  president  of  the  State  Dairy  Association  and  was  president  of  the  King 
County   Horticultural    Society   in    1901    and    1902-3.       The   Lake  \\'ashing- 
ton  canal  scheme  and  the  lowering  of  the  lake  in  order  to  assist  in  the  drain- 
age of  the  White  river  and    surrounding    valleys   and   the  reclamation   of 
a    large    area    of    land,    ha\e    always    claimed    a    share    of    Mr.    Hart's    at- 
tention.      He  appeared  before  the  L^nited  States  ri\-er  and  harbor  c<immis- 
sion  to  point  out  the  necessity,  during  the  construction  of  the  work,  ol  ])ro- 
viding  for  sufficient  and  capacious  outlet  for  the  enormous  amount  of  water 
flowing  into  the  .Sound  from  the  south  end  of  King  county,  which  submerges 
that  district  for  many  months  dm-ing  tl;e  winter.      lu    1890  he  wa^  ai)i)ointed 
superintendent  of  the  construction  of  the   King  county  hospital,  one  of  the 
first  fireproof  constructions  in  the  state,  antl  in  the  face  of  numerous  difti- 
culties  and  objections  to  the  methods  of  construction,  it  is  now  admitted  to 
be  a  first-class,  well  designed  and  well  built  edifice. 


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111  politics  Mr.  Hart  has  taken  a  decu  and  abiding  interest  since  1886, 
and  many  times  has  dehvered  campaign  addresses  in  the  southern  portion  of 
the   county   in   behalf   of  the    Republican   party   and    its   principles.     Yet  he 
does  not  believe  it  to  be  the  duty  of  any  citizen  to  adhere  strictly  to  a  party 
in  the  selection  of  precinct,  county  or  city  officers,  believing  that  the  iitness 
and  qualifications  of  the  candidates  should  be  the  first  consideration  at  these 
times.      On  the  5th  of  April,   1894,  Mr.  Hart  was  admitted  to  the  bar  by 
Judge  Langley,  in  open  court,  the  examining  board  being  composed  of  W. 
H.   Aloore,  afterwards  superior  judge ;   George   Fortson,   one  of  the  heroes 
of  the  Philippine  war,  who  lost  his  life  at  Pasig;  and  E.  P.  Dole,  the  pres- 
ent attorney  general   of  the  Hawaiian  islands.      In    1887   Mr.   Hart  opened 
an  office  in  Auburn,  and  since  1894  has  been  engaged  in  law  practice,  having 
secured  a  good  clientage.      In  the  conduct  of  his  cases  he  has  shown  marked 
legal    ability  and   a   thorough-  understanding   of   the  principles   of  jurispru- 
dence as  well  as  careful  preparation.      He  is  the  oldest  business  citizen  of 
Auburn,  his  connection  with  the  town  being  antedated  only  by  the  W.   R. 
Ballard  family,  who  were  the  founders  of  the  town.      Mr.  Hart  has  labored 
most  earnestly  for  the  welfare,  improvement  and  progress  of  this  place.     He 
prepared  the  plans  lor  the  Auburn  school  building  and  also  for  the  Presby- 
terian church,  and  he  likewise  made  the  plans  for  the   school  buildings  at 
Pialschie  and  Des  Moines,  and  for  the  Presbyterian  church  at  Kent.      He 
has  ever  taken  a  deep  interest  in  educational  matters  in  this  county,  realizing 
how  important  is  good  mental  training  as  a  preparation  for  life's  responsible 
■duties. 

In  1885,  in  King  county,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Hart  and  Miss 
Eliza  Beaumont,  who  was  born  in  Kent,  England,  in  1854.  A  son,  Stanley 
Beaumont,  was  born  to  ihem  in  1888,  and  is  named  for  the  great  explorer 
who  is  a  friend  of  Mr.  Hart.  They  have  also  a  daughter.  Rose  Mabel,  who 
was  born  in  1899.  Mr.  Hart  is  a  member  of  the  Pacific  Northwest  Society 
of  Engineers,  also  a  member  of  the  Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  for  a 
considerable  time  has  been  employed  as  the  right  of  way  and  special  agent 
of  the  Iroqualmie  Falls  and  White  River  Company  for  the  great  scheme  of 
utilizing  a  considerable  portion  of  the  stream  of  White  River  near  Buckley 
as  the  means  of  generating  electricty  for  power  and  lighting  purposes.  Lake 
Lapp's  area  having  been  acquired  as  the  reservoir  for  storage  purposes.  It 
is  expected  that  this  great  plant  of  sixty  thousand  horse  power  will  be  in 
oneration  in  about  two  vears  and  will  ha^-e  cost  over  two  million  dollars  in 
its  construction.  It  would  be  difiicult  to  find  in  King  county,  among  those 
whose  residence  extends  over  no  greater  period  than  that  of  Mr.  Hart,  one 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  509 

who  has  done  so  much  practical  work  for  the  improvement,  progress  and  pro- 
motion of  this  section  of  the  state.  His  knowledge  of  civil  engineering  and 
his  recognition  of  the  possibilities  of  land  through  the  agencv  of  improvement 
and  cultivation,  haA-e  made  his  labors  of  the  greatest  value  in  pul)lic  v.ork, 
while  as  an  architect  he  has  done  much  to  promote  the  pleasing  conditions  of 
various  towns  throughout  this  locality.  He  came  to  America  determined  that 
in  the  opportunities  of  the  northwest  he  would  find  a  good  business  opening 
and  he  has  done  so.  He  possesses  strength  of  character  as  well  as  sterling 
purpose  and  his  career  has  ever  been  such  as  to  commend  him  to  pu1)lic  con- 
fidence. 

ALBERT    J.IMES    GODDARD. 

Albert  James  Goddard,  wlio  since  18SS  has  been  a  resident  of  Seattle, 
is  well  known  in  business  circles  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  Muscatine, 
Iowa,  July  15,  1863,  and  on  both  sides  of  the  family  is  of  English  lineage. 
After  acquiring  his  preliminary  education  in  the  public  schools  he  entered 
the  Norton  Normal  Academy  and  afterward  continued  his  studies  in  the 
Agricultural  College  of  Ames.  Iowa.  Subsequently  he  became  connected 
with  the  crockery  business,  representing  upon  the  road  a  crockery  house  of 
Minneapolis.  He  Avas  thus  engaged  until  1888,  when  he  came  to  Seattle, 
and  since  that  time  he  has  been  associated  with  manufacturing  interests, 
having  with  his  brother  established  the  Pacific  Iron  A\'orks  in  I-Vemont. 
This  entire  district  was  largely  covered  with  stumps  for  miles  in  e\-ery  direc- 
tion, but  it  has  grown  to  be  an  important  part  of  the  great  city  of  Seattle. 
The  Ijrothers  established  tlieir  iron  plant,  towing  the  timl)er  across  the  lake 
with  which  to  erect  the  building,  that  being  the  only  way  to  obtain  the  ma- 
terial at  that  time.  Although  they  began  operations  on  a  small  scale,  they 
greatly  increased  their  facilities  to  meet  the  growing  demand  of  the  trade, 
and  their  business  has  now  been  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Pacific 
Iron  Works.  In  1897  Mr.  Goddard  went  to  Alaska  and  became  a  pioneer 
steamboat  man  on  the  L^])per  Yukon  river,  and  tf)  him  is  due  the  credit  for 
opening  navigation  there,  at  the  time  his  efi'in'ts  creating  much  excitement 
and  enthusiasm.  He  carried  the  mail  u])()n.  his  first  voyage  and  on  reach- 
ing Dawson  received  a  great  welcome.  He  had  transported  the  mail  from 
Seattle  to  that  place  in  only  ten  days,  while  previously  it  had  required  from 
one  to  two  months  to  get  the  mrul  through.  The  passengers  u])on  the  tri]) 
joined  in  writing  a  letter  to  him  thanking  him  for  opening  up  the  country 
to  navigation  and  saying  they  w^ere  glad  it  \\as  an  American  citizen  who 


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liad  the  enterprise  to  first  make  that  trip  over  the  Yukon,  and  that  to  him 
was  due  ah  honor.  Mr.  Goddard  was  so  successful  in  liis  new  enterprise  in 
Alaska  that  his  company  soon  became  tlie  owner  of  four  steamboats  which 
were  operated  for  two  years.  He  then  sokl  out  and  returned  to  Seattle, 
where  he  has  made  extensive  investments  in  improved  property  in  the  city 
and  is  now  actively  concerned  in  the  work  of  building  and  making  improve- 
ments. He  is  a  man  of  resourceful  business  ability,  who  looks  beyond  the 
exigencies  of  the  moment  to  the  possibilities  of  the  future,  is  quick  to  note 
an  opportunity  and  to  utilize  it.  Furthermore,  he  is  thoroughly  reliable  and 
his  success  is  justly  deserved. 

In  1886  Mr.  Goddard  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Clara  P.  Herrick, 
a  native  of  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa,  and  a  most  estimable  lady.  She  is  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  Mr.  Goddard's  religious  views 
are  also  in  conformity  with  that  faith.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Royal  Ar- 
canum and  of  the  Hoo  Hoos  order,  which  is  a  society  of  lumbermen  and  mill- 
machinery  men.  During  his  entire  residence  in  Seattle  he  has  taken  a  deep 
and  active  interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  the  city,  and  his 
efforts  have  been  effecti\-e  in  advancing  the  general  good  along  many  lines. 
In  politics  he  is  a  stanch  Republican  and  upon  that  ticket  was  elected  to  the 
state  legislature  in  1895.  He  has  also  represented  his  ward  in  the  city  coun- 
cil. While  in  the  general  assembly  he  was  active  in  promoting  a  large  ap- 
propriation for  the  State  University  and  was  largely  instrumental  in  secur- 
ing the  passage  of  a  bill  prohibiting  the  sale  of  liquor  within  two  miles  of 
the  university.  He  is  a  man  of  broad  sympathies,  and  the  poor  and  needy 
have  always  found  in  him  a  friend.  ISlv.  Goddard  is  widely  and  favorably 
known  throughout  the  state,  his  abilities  well  fitting  him  for  leadership  in 
political,  business  and  social  life.  The  terms  progress  and  patriotism  might 
be  considered  the  keynote  of  his  character,  for  throughout  his  career  he  has 
labored  for  the  improvement  of  every  line  of  business  or  public  interest  with 
which  he  has  been  associated,  and  at  all  tim.es  has  been  actuated  by  a  fidelity 
to  his  country  and  her  welfare. 

J.    W.    DAVIS. 

A  prominent  citizen  of  Tolt,  King  county,  Washington,  and  one  who 
has  had  a  life  of  varied  interest  is  J.  W.  Davis.  His  father,  James  Davis, 
was  born  in  Nova  Scotia  in  1820,  of  Welsh  ancestry,  and  was  reared  on  a 
farm;  on  arriving  at  manhood  he  learned  the  ship  carpenter's  trade,  and 
coming  to  the  New  England  coast  he  followed  that  trade  until  his  marriage. 


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in  1854;  he  then  moved  to  Wabasha  county,  Minnesota,  and  settled  on  a 
farm.  In  1879  he  went  to  Atkinson,  Nebraska,  and  was  actively  engaged 
in  farming  nntil  his  retirement  a  few  years  ago.  He  had  married  Arina 
W'vman,  who  was  born  near  Skowhegan,  Maine,  in  1835;  she  is  of  English 
descent. 

Their  son,  J.  W.,  was  born  in  Bear  Valley,  Wabasha  county,  Minne- 
sota, on  the  19th  of  January,  1859.  He  obtained  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  Bear  Valley,  and  in  1879  went  with  his  father  to  Atkinson,  Nebraska. 
Here  he  remained  for  twelve  years,  devoting  part  of  his  time  to  farming, 
fo"  two  years  served  as  city  marshal,  and  for  three  years  conducted  a  billiard 
hall;  he  was  also  for  some  years  deputy  sheriff  and  constable.  His  arrival 
in  Tolt,  King  county,  Washington,  was  in  the  year  1891,  where  he  and  his 
brother.  Robert  M.,  carried  on  a  stock  and  dairy  farm  until  1899.  I"  190^ 
he  opened  up  his  present  general  merchandise  store  and  has  since  had  a  very 
lucrative  business. 

In  politics  Mv.  Davis  has  allied  himself  with  the  Republican  party  and 
has  been  school  trustee  and  held  various  minor  offices.  He  belongs  to  the 
Masonic  order  at  Falls  City,  and  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows, 
the  Rebekahs  and  the  Modern  Woodmen  at  Tolt.  He  was  married  at  Sioux 
Falls,  .South  Dokota,  April  2,  1879,  to  Sarah  E,  Dawson,  who  was  born  at 
Sherbrook,  Canada,  in  1857,  and  is  of  Scotch  descent.  They  are  the  parents 
of  five  children:  Edna  F..,  the  wife  of  Fred  B.  Bagwell,  a  farmer  near 
Tolt;  Carl  A.,  Blanch  Grace,  Leonard  A.  and  Nellie  M. 

ISAAC  COOPER. 

One  of  the  successful  men  of  Washington  who  has  worked  his  way 
from  the  bottom  up  to  an  honored  place  in  the  business  world  is  Isaac  Coop- 
er of  Issaquah.  He  was  born  at  Wolverhampton,  Staffordshire,  England, 
on  the  I2th  of  January,  1838;  his  education  was  what  he  could  receive  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  place  until  he  was  eight  years  of  age,  and  he  was 
then  put  to  work  in  the  iron  mines.  In  March,  1870,  he  came  to  Belleville, 
Illinois,  and  worked  in  the  coal  mines  until  ^8/=^.  and  then  came  to  New- 
castle, Washington,  where  he  was  employed  in  the  coal  mines  up  to  iHSy. 
In  that  year  he  came  to  Issaquah,  which  has  since  been  his  home.  lie  built 
the  first  house  in  that  place,  a  frame  structure,  in  which  he  started  a  saloon 
and  also  engaged  in  real  estate  transactions  until  June,  1899,  when  he  took 
charge  of  the  Belleview  Hotel;  this  had  been  built  by  Thomas  and  Mary 
Francis    in    1888,   and    Airs.    Francis    afterwards    became   the  wife   of    Mr. 


512  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Cooper.      This  hotel  was  conducted  by  him  until  February,   1902,  when  it 
was  leased  to  James  C'orbett. 

During  his  residence  in  Issaquah  Mr.  Cooper  has  acquired  considerable 
real  estate.  In  1888  he  was  one  of  the  org-anizers  of  the  Issaquah  Water 
Company,  incorporated  by  George  \\\  Tibbetts,  Thomas  Rowley,  William 
Moore  and  Isaac  Cooper:  in  1901  the  greater  part  of  the  stock  passed  into 
the  hands  of  A.  B.  Stewart  and  Samuel  Stempson  of  Seattle,  and  Mr.  Coop- 
er has  since  been  resident  manager  of  the  concern.  In  politics  he  adheres 
to  Republican  principles,  and  is  connected  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at 
Issaquah.  Mr.  Cooper's  first  marriage  occurred  in  Staffordshire,  England, 
in  1864,  to  Sarah  Jones,  who  died  at  Issaquah  in  April,  1899;  she  left  one 
daughter,  Alice  M.,  who  married  John  ^IcEachern.  In  June.  1900,  he 
was  again  married,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Francis. 

JOHN    A.    McEACHERX. 

Mr.  McEachern  was  born  on  Prince  Edward  Island  in  186^;  his  father. 
Charles,  and  his  mother.  Flora  McAulay,  were  natives  of  the  same  place, 
the  latter  dying  tliere  in  1896  and  the  former  still  living  on  the  home  farm. 
John  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  the  island  and  for  three  years  was  a 
teacher  there.  In  1884  he  became  station  ag'ent  for  the  Prince  Edward 
Island  Railroad,  holding  this  position  for  three  years ;  he  then  held  a  similar 
position  with  the  Canadian  Pacific  at  Algoraa  for  two  years;  and  in  1888 
came  to  Issaquah  as  station  agent  of  the  Northern  Pacific,  which  place  he 
held  until  July,  1894;  for  two  years  he  engaged  in  placer  mining  in  the 
Klondike  and  has  since  resided  at  Issaquah. 

As  recorded  above,  he  was  married  in  1892  to  Alice  M.  Cooper,  and 
they  ha\e  two  children.  Air.  McEachern  belongs  to  the  blue  lodge  of  the 
Masonic  order  at  Falls  City  and  to  the  chapter  of  the  same  at  Seattle;  and 
is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Issaquah.  He  is  one  of  the 
highly  respected  citizens  of  that  place  and  is  interested  in  everything  tending 
to  promote  the  welfare  of  the  town. 

DEWITT  C.  BRAWLEY. 

For  a  number  of  years  Dewitt  C.  Brawley  was  numbered  am.ong  the 
representative  citizens  and  business  men  of  Seattle,  and  in  his  death  the  entire 
community  felt  that  an  irreparable  loss  had  been  sustained  by  the  public. 
He  had  been  intimately  associated  with  several  of  the  leading  industries  of 


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the  locality,  his  genius  and  indubitable  talent  as  a  financier  and  business  man- 
ager resulting  in  the  prosperity  of  these  enterprises.  His  entire  career  was 
marked  by  signal  integrity,  justice  and  honor,  and  no  word  of  detraction  was 
ever  heard  from  those  who  knew  him  well. 

Mr.  Brawley  was  born  near  Meadville,  Crawford  county,  Pennsylvania, 
on  the  3d  of  May,  1842,  and  is  descended  from  one  of  the  early  and  honored 
families  of  that  county.  His  grandfather  James  Brawley,  was  a  native  of 
Eastport,  Pennsylvania,  and  while  engaged  in  government  service  he  assisted 
in  the  survey  of  western  Pennsylvania.  William  Brawley,  the  father  of  our 
subject,  had  the  honor  of  being  the  first  white  child  born  in  Crawford  county, 
and  he  was  there  married  to  Miss  Jane  Stewart,  a  native  of  Erie  county, 
Pennsylvania,  by  whom  he  had  five  children.  He  was  a  farmer  and  miller 
by  occupation,  and  both  he  and  his  wife  were  valued  members  of  the  Metho- 
dist church.  For  forty  years  of  his  life  he  held  the  office  of  justice  of  the 
peace  in  his  township.  His  life's  labors  were  ended  in  death  at  the  age  of 
seventy-four  years,  and  he  was  survived  by  his  loving  wife  for  a  considerable 
period,  she  passing  away  in  her  ninety-first. year. 

Dewitt  C.  Brawley  received  the  advantages  of  a  common  school  educa- 
tion during  his  youth,  and  he  remained  under  the  parental  roof  until  he  at- 
tained to  years  of  maturity.  About  this  time  the  noted  Drake  oil  well  was 
discovered  within  twenty  miles  of  his  home,  and  in  the  great  oil  excitement 
which  followed  our  subject  and  his  brothers  began  assisting  m  the  construc- 
tion of  wells.  Later  they  began  operating  on  their  own  account,  and  l)y  their 
industrious  and  intelligent  efforts  they  became  very  successful  in  that  line, 
their  best  results  being  obtained  at  Moody's  Gulch  and  at  Pit  Hole.  In  1879, 
William  R.  Brawley,  who  was  our  subject's  partner  in  all  his  business  ven- 
tures, came  to  Seattle  to  make  investments,  purchasing  coal  and  timber  lands, 
and  in  1882  he  was  joined  in  this  city  by  Dewitt  C,  but  a  short  time  after- 
ward he  returned  to  Pennsylvania  to  settle  up  their  business  in  the  east,  re- 
turning to  the  Pacific  coast  in  1889.  In  the  meantime  they  became  largely 
interested  in  farming  land.  1)ut  during  the  great  fire  of  1889  they  met  with 
severe  losses.  After  the  reluiilding  of  the  cit}-  they  established  a  1)rickyard. 
and  many  of  the  brick  houses  now  standing  in  Seattle  are  built  from  the  pro- 
duct of  their  manufactory.  They  ailso  platted  the  Brawley  addition  to  the 
city  of  Seattle,  which  has  since  been  sold  and  improved.  In  1887  the  broth- 
ers were  fortunate  investors  in  oil  property  near  Bowling  Green,  Ohio,  be- 
coming by  purchase  the  owners  of  the  famous  Ducat  well,  which  yielded  a 
flow  of  two  hundred  barrels  of  oil  per  hour,  but  eighteen  months  later  they 
sold  this  well  to  the  Standard  Oil  Company  and  retired  from  the  oil  business. 


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During  the  time  of  the  great  financial  panic  in  1893.  in  which  many  of  the 
■iiibstantial  citizens  of  the  northwest  lost  their  property,  the  Brawiey  brothers 
were  great  sufferers,  but  such  was  the  reliability  of  their  character  that  they 
were  able  to  meet  their  obligations  and  thus  saved  much  of  their  property. 
The  year  1880  witnessed  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Brawiey  and  Miss  Ella 
Thomas.  She  is  a  daughter  of  George  Thomas,  of  Cambridge  Springs, 
Pennsylvania,  a  prominent  farmer  and  the  pioneer  manufacturer  of  cheese 
in  that  part  of  the  state.  This  union  proved  a  very  happy  one,  and  resulted 
in  the  birth  of  two  children,  both  born  in  Seattle, — Lee  J.  and  Ruth.  The 
son  is  now  a  member  of  the  senior  class  in  the  Seattle  high  school,  is  captain 
of  the  cadets,  and  is  one  of  the  promising  native  sons  of  the  northwest.  On 
the  14th  of  March,  1900,  the  loving  husband  and  father  was  called  from  the 
scene  of  earth's  activities,  but  his  memor\-  is  still  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of 
his  many  friends.  In  his  young  manhood  he  became  identified  with  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  and  throughout  the  remainder  of  his  life  he  exemplified 
its  helpful  and  beneficent  principles  in  his  every  day  life.  His  religious  pref- 
erence was  indicated  by  his  membership  in  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  his 
widow  is  also  a  member.  He  was  a  man  of  firm  convictions,  honest  purpose, 
kindly  nature  and  upright  life,  and  the  world  is  better  for  his  having  lived. 

WILLIA^[  F.  McNATT. 

William  Francis  McNatt  is  now  the  superintendent  of  the  Meadow 
Brook  farm,  at  Snoqualmie,  the  largest  enterprise  of  the  kind  on  the  Pacific 
coast,  it  being  devoted  to  the  production  of  vegetables,  butter,  cereals  and  to 
stock-raising,  and  ^Ir.  McNatt,  a  practical  agriculturist,  is  well  qualified  for 
the  important  and  responsible  position  which  he  now  fills,  for  through  many 
years  he  has  been  identified  with  farming  as  well  as  other  important  business 
interests  in  this  part  of  the  country. 

He  is  a  native  son  of  King  county,  his  birth  having  occurred  at  South 
Park  August  8.  1862.  His  father,  Francis  McNatt,  was  born  in  Knox 
county,  Tennessee,  April  13,  1820.  and  was  of  Scotch  lineage,  his  ancestors, 
however,  having  come  to  America  from  Scotland  at  an  early  day,  while  in 
pioneer  tim.es  the  family  was  established  in  Tennessee.  With  ox  teams  he 
traveled  overland  to  Washington  in  1852,  making  the  long  journey  across 
the  plains  and  through  the  mountain  fastnesses,  where  the  iron  road  had 
not  yet  been  built,  and  where  it  would  not  be  seen  for  many  years  to  come. 
In  the  year  1853  he  settled  at  Salmon  bay,  where  he  remained  for  three 
vears  and  then  reinoved  to  the  Black  river  vallev.      At  the  time  of  the  Indian 


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uprising  in  1855-56  he  ser\-e(l  as  a  volunteer  soldier  for  the  protection  of 
the  settlers  and  the  subjugation  of  the  red  men.  He  removed  to  South 
Park  in  1861.  taking  up  his  abode  upon  a  farm,  and  performed  the  arduous 
task  of  reclaiming  for  the  purposes  of  civilization  the  land  hitherto  un- 
known to  the  uses  of  the  plov.-.  He  aided  in  the  pioneer  development  of  this 
part  of  the  country  and  belongs  to  that  class  of  sturdy  and  brave  pioneer  set- 
tlers who  deserve  the  gratitude  of  present  and  future  generations  for  what 
they  accomplished  in  the  task  of  transforming  a  wild  region  into  a  habitable 
one.  For  some  years  he  served  as  county  commissioner  of  King  countv  and 
was  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen.  He  died  at  South  Park  in  June, 
1901.  and  thus  passed  aw'ay  one  of  the  honored  jiioneer  settlers,  who  for 
almost  half  a  century  had  been  a  participant  in  the  progress  and  develop- 
ment of  this  portion  of  the  state.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of 
Ann  Burns,  was  born  in  county  Clare,  Ireland,  in  1822,  and  in  the  vear 
1856  came  to  America,  while  in  1859  she  emigrated  to  Washington  and  was 
married  in  Seattle  to  Mr.  McNatt.  Her  death  occurred  in  December.  1900, 
about  six  months  before  her  husband's  demise. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  town  William  T.  McNatt  pursued 
his  preliminary  education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  of  the  ad- 
vanced branches  of  learning  in  the  State  University  of  \\'ashington.  On 
leaving  school,  in  1880,  he  engaged  in  farming  on  an  extensive  scale,  paying 
special  attention  to  hop  raising  for  eight  years.  This  was  one  of  the  im- 
portant departments  of  agriculture  in  the  northwest  and  his  eff(M-ts  were  at- 
tended with  gratifying  success.  In  1888  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  liquor 
business  in  Seattle  in  company  with  F.  P.  Clinging,  but  the  following  year 
the  business  was  swept  away  in  the  great  fire  which  almost  destroyed  the 
city,  entailing  a  clear  loss  of  twenty  thousand  dollars  to  the  firm.  I'rom 
1892  until  1897  ^^^-  McNatt  was  engaged  in  tiie  operation  of  a  sawmill  at 
Auburn.  King  county,  and  in  the  fall  of  1897  ^^^  returned  to  the  old  farm 
at  South  Park  and  established  an  evaixirating  plant  for  the  production  of 
food  supplies  in  a  condensed  form  for  transporting  to  Alaska.  During  two 
years  he  devoted  his  energies  to  that  industry,  and  in  the  fall  of  1899  he  went 
to  the  Cascade  mountains.  There  he  spent  three  years  prospecting  and  mining. 
He  still  holds  large  interests  in  promising  claims  there,  includng  the  Gold 
Leaf  mine,  which  is  now  being  developed  and  is  a  paying  producer.  On 
the  1st  of  December,  looi,  he  was  cho.sen  for  the  important  position  of 
superintendent  of  the  Meadow  Brook  farm  at  Snoqualmie.  because  of  his 
well  known  ability  as  a  manager  and  his  thorough  understanding  of  agri- 
culture in  its  various  branches.      This  farm  coin[)rises  twelve  liumlred  and 


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sixty  acres  of  the  finest  land  of  the  state  and  for  mnay  years  was  known 
as  the  Snoquahnie  Hop  Farm.  Tlie  ^leadow  Brook  Company,  composed 
of  C.  H.  Hamilton,  president,  IT.  P.  W'einstein,  vice  president,  W.  B.  Shaw, 
chairman  of  the  board,  Mrs.  N.  S.  Smith,  secretary  and  treasurer,  and  Will- 
iam F.  McNatt,  superintendent,  is  rapidly  transforming  the  place  into  a 
stock  and  dairy  farm,  devoting  only  sixty  acres  to  hop-raising.  They  make 
a  specialty  of  the  raising  of  Holstein  cattle  and  Poland  China  hogs  of  the 
highest  grades  and  are  extensi\-ely  engaged  in  the  growing  and  packing  of 
vegetables  and  the  manufacture  of  fancv  butter,  having  warehouses  and 
offices  in  Seattle  for  the  purpose  of  facilitating  shipments.  This  is  the 
largest  enterprise  of  the  kind  on  the  Pacitic  coast.  System,  order  and 
method  prevail  in  the  control  of  the  farm  under  the  management  of  jMr.  Mc- 
Natt, who  thoroughly  understands  the  business  from  the  scientific  stand- 
point as  well  as  the  practical,  and  is  therefore  splendidly  qualified  for  con- 
ducting the  business. 

In  Seattle,  on  the  12th  of  July,  1890,  Mr.  McNatt  was  married  to  Ida 
M  Dewev,  who  was  born  in  Indiana  hi  1867  and  came  to  Seattle  in  1889. 
In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  McNatt  is  a  Republican,  and  fraternally  is 
connected  with  Queen  City  Lodge  No.  10.  K,  P.,  of  Seattle.  From  his  old 
college  days  his  circle  of  friends  in  the  state  has  constantly  increased  as  his 
business  interests  have  widened  and  his  acquaintance  accordingly  grown, 
and  he  stands  to-day  as  one  of  the  leading  representatives  of  the  important 
work  of  developing  the  natu.ral  resources  of  this  great  state. 

CHARLES   VERB. 

In  the  history  of  business  development  and  of  individual  achievement 
in  the  northwest  Charles  Verd  of  Fremont  is  deserving  of  prominent  and 
honorable  mention,  for  with  a  cash  capital  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars 
he  came  to  Washington,  and  in  the  development  of  a  lumber  business  of 
magnitude  in  this  section  of  the  state  he  has  advanced  to  a  leading  position 
among  the  successful  business  men  whose  enterprise  is  leading  to  the  rapid 
grow'th  and  improvement  of  this  section  of  the  country.  The  great  forests 
of  this  state  furnish  ample  opportunity  for  representatives  of  the  lumber  in- 
dustry, and  the  giant  trees  converted  into  building  materials  are  now  be- 
ing shipped  not  only  to  all  sections  of  the  Union,  but  to  foreign  countries 
as  well.  Mr.  Verd,  as  the  vice  president  of  the  Br^^ant  Lumber  &  Shingle 
Mill  Company,  is  not  only  widely  known  in  this  state,  but  also  in  the  east, 
to  which  district  the  firm  makes  extensive  shipments. 


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Mr.  Verd  was  born  in  Ontario,  Canada,  October  7,  1840,  a  son  of 
Toiissaint  and  Electa  (Waite)  Verd.  The  father  was  of  French  extrac- 
tion and  the  moth^er  a  native  of  Albany,  New  York.  By  occupation  Tous- 
saint  Verd  was  a  farmer  and  followed  that  pursuit  in  Ontario  until  1849, 
\\'hen  he  removed  to  St.  Clair  county,  Michigan,  locating  in  Grant  town- 
shi]),  where  he  again  engaged  in  farming.  Later,  however,  he  returned  to 
the  Dominion,  but  later  again  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Grant  township,  where 
he  is  still  living,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years.  All  of  his  five  chil- 
dren yet  survive :  Charles,  of  this  re^•ie\v ;  Thomas,  a  farmer  of  Canada ; 
Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  M.  Nicholson,  a  resident  of  Minnesota;  Submitta,  the 
widow  of  John  McNeills,  and  a  resident  of  A'lichigan ;  and  Melissa,  the  wife 
of  Samuel  McFarland,  of  Little  Falls,  Montana. 

Charles  Verd,  the  eldest  of  the  family,  was  a  child  of  nine  years  when 
he  accompanied  his  parents  to  Michigan.  He  was  reared  to  manhood  on  his 
father's  farm  and  in  the  winter  months  was  employed  in  the  woods  in  the 
lumbering-  and  log^ging  camps,  where  he  gained  his  first  knowledge  of  the 
business  in  which  he  is  now  so  extensively  engaged.  On  attaining  his  ma- 
jority he  gave  his  attention  chiefly  to  the  lumber  trade,  and  his  proficiency 
and  experience  in  that  line  gained  him  the  position  of  foreman,  in  which 
capacity  he  represented  various  large  lumber  companies  of  Michigan. 

On  the  nth  of  March,  1888,  Mr.  Verd  came  to  Seattle  and  began  log- 
ging on  a  very  extensive  scale,  purchasing  timber  and  furnishing  logs  for 
mills  and  for  dealers  for  four  years.  At  the  end  of  that  time  Air.  Sanders 
became  his  partner  in  one  of  his  camps,  Mr.  Verd,  however,  owning  two 
others.  In  1893  he  established  the  Bryant  shingle  mill,  which  is  still  oper- 
ated as  the  main  feature  of  the  company's  business,  employing  from  eighty 
to  one  hundred  men.  In  1894  they  leased  the  Fremont  mill  and  after  two 
years  purchased  it.  At  this  mill  lumber  and  all  kinds  of  building  materials, 
such  as  moldings,  casings,  etc.,  are  manufactured,  and  the  mill  has  a  daily 
capacity  of  about  fifty  thousand  feet  of  lumber.  In  July,  1902,  this  large 
plant  was  almost  entirely  destroyed  by  fire,  only  the  planing  mill  being 
saved,  but  with  characteristic  energy,  indicative  of  the  spirit  which  ever  per- 
meates its  business,  the  company  at  once  began  to  replace  this  with  a  larger 
and  more  complete  mill  than  the  old  one,  equipping  it  with  the  latest  im- 
proved machinery  for  the  manufacture  of  lumber  and  of  their  building  spe- 
cialties. This  company  furnished  two  extremely  large  logs  to  the  state  of 
Washington  for  exhibit  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago 
in  1893.  In  the  interest  of  the  mill  and  lumber  operations  the  company 
hns  purchased  large  tracts  of  timber  land,  a  great  deal  of  which  has  already 


5i8  'REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

been  cleared,  but  additional  investments  in  this  way  are  being  made  from 
time  to  time.  The  mills  have  also  been  greatly  improved  by  the  mtroduc- 
tion  of  new  machiner}-  and  modern  methods,  and  }et  even  with  the  mcreased 
facilities  the  company  has  been  unable  to  supply  the  demands  of  a  constantly 
increasing  trade. 

Mr.  \'erd  has  also  become  interested  in  farming  and  stock-raising, 
which  he  has  carried  on  under  his  personal  super\-ision,  and  which  is  also 
a  good  source  of  income.  He  has  also  erected  four  residences  in  Fremont, 
including  his  own  comfortable  home.  His  attention,  however,  has  been 
mainly  given  to  his  lumbering  business,  and  he  is  well  known  to  lumber 
buyers  in  the  east  as  well  as  locally,  and  the  company  sustains  a  very  en- 
^•ia^)]e  reputation   for  prom])tness  and  reliability. 

In  Huron  county.  ^Michigan,  in  January.  1864,  Mr.  \>rd  was  married 
to  Phebe  Huffman,  who  is  a  nati\'e  of  Canada  and  of  German  descent.  Six 
sons  have  been  born  to  them :  Edward,  vrho  is  the  secretary  and  treasurer 
of  the  Bryant  Lumber  &  Shingle  ^U\\  Company;  Charles,  who  is  the  fore- 
man of  the  Fremont  mills;  \\'illiam  H..  the  foreman  of  the  logging  depart- 
ment at  Bryant:  Homer,  who  is  bookkeeper  for  the  company  in  Bryant; 
Frank  and  Fred,  the  latter  a  graduate  of  Wilson's  Business  College.  Two 
daughters  of  the  family  died  in  infancy. 

In  his  political  views  Air.  Verd  is  a  Republican,  and  while  in  ]\Iichi- 
gan  he  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs,  ser^■ing■  as  supervisor  of  Huron 
township  and  in  other  positions  of  public  trust.  Socially  he  is  a  Royal 
Arch  ]^Iason,  and  his  family  are  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church, 
of  which  he  is  a  liberal  supporter.  He  is  a  progressive  and  public  spirited 
citizen,  interested  in  whatever  pertains  to  material  development  and  the  so- 
cal,  intellectual  and  moral  advancement  of  his  community,  and  the  north- 
west has  profited  by  his  labors  in  her  behalf,  for  while  promoting  his  indi- 
vidual business  interests  he  has  also  improved  the  opportunity  to  labor  for 
the  benefit  of  the  section  of  the  countr}^  in  which  he  makes  his  home. 

W.  E.  GIBSON,  M.  D. 

Dr.  W.  E.  Gibson,  who  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in  Issa- 
quah  and  is  one  of  the  leading  and  influential  citizens  of  the  town,  was 
born  in  Jefferson  county,  Pennsylvania,  near  Punxsutawney,  on  the  6th  of 
August,  1859,  and  comes  of  Irish  ancestry.  His  paternal  grandfather,  An- 
drew Gibson,  was  bom  on  the  Emerald  Isle  and  in  his  boyhood  was  brought 
to  America,  becoming  a  resident  of  the  Keystone  state  in   1795.      He  died 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  519 

in  Indiana  county,  that  state,  in  1873.  His  son,  \\\  S.  Gibson,  the  father  of 
the  Doctor,  Nvas  born  in  Indiana  county  January  19,  1822,  and  fohowed 
farming  in  his  native  county  and  in  Jefferson  county,  Pennsylvania,  until 
1866,  when  he  followed  the  tide  of  emigration  to  the  west  and  became  a  resi- 
dent of  Delaware  county,  hjwa.  d'here  he  remained,  devoting  his  energies  to 
agricultural  pursuits,  until  1S99,  A\hen  he  came  to  the  Pacific  coast  and  is 
now  spending  the  evening  of  life  in  Issaquah  in  the  homes  of  his  sons,  W. 
E,  and  J.  H.  Gibson.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Alelirida 
McKee,  was  born  in  Jefferson  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1829,  and  died  in 
Delaware  county.  Iowa,  in  1876. 

The  Doctor  was  only  aliont  se\'en  years  of  age  when  his  parents  re- 
moved to  the  west  and  in  Delaware  county  he  pursued  his  early  education, 
which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  Hopkinton,  Iowa,  in  Lenox  Collegiate 
Institute.  In  1883  he  went  to  \Vi]son\'ille,  Furnas  county,  Nebraska,  where 
he  entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine  in  the  oflice  of  Dr.  George  P.  Shoe- 
maker, and  later  he  became  a  student  in.  the  College  of  Physicians  and  Sur- 
geons at  Keokuk,  iowa,  vliere  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1888. 
He  then  returned  to  Wilsonville,  where  he  practiced  for  a  year,  and  on  the 
expiration  of  that  period  he  came  to  the  northwest,  settling  at  Issaquah, 
where  he  took  charge  of  the  practice  of  Dr.  Shoemaker,  his  former  pre- 
ceptor. For  about  seven  years  he  v.^as  the  local  physician  for  the  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad  Company.  In  1889  he  and  his  brother,  J.  H.  Gibson, 
opened  a  drug  store  in  Is«aquah,  which  they  have  since  conducted,  the 
brother  practically  having  charge  of  that  business. 

While  in  Wilsonville,  Nebraska,  in  the  spring  of  1888,  Dr.  Gibson  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Fannie  Garner,  who  was  born  in  Guthrie  county, 
Iowa,  and  they  now  have  two  children,  Olive  and  Elry,  aged  respectively 
eight  and  three  years.  In  his  political  views  the  Doctor  is  a  Republican  and 
takes  quite  an  active  ])art  in  political  affairs  here.  Cpon  that  ticket  he  was 
elected  to  the  office  of  mayor  of  Issaquah  in  1890  and  his  administration  was 
practical  and  beneficial.  For  several  terms  he  has  been  a  member  of  the  tow  n 
council  and  his  labors  for  the  welfare  of  the  town  have  not  l)een  without 
result.  He  belongs  to  the  Masonic  fraternity,  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the  h'oresters,  the  Order  of  \\'ashing- 
ton  and  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  and  for  all  of  these  he  is 
examining  ])hysician.  He  has  well  qualified  himself  for  his  ])rofessional 
duties  and  has  strict  regard  for  the  ethics  of  the  professional  code,  .so  that 
he  commands  the  confidence  and  respect  of  his  brethren  of  the  medical  fra- 
ternity as  well  as  of  the  public. 


520  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

J.  H.  Gibson,  the  Doctor's  brother  and  partner,  was  born  in  Jefferson 
county,  Pennsylvania,  April  19,  1864,  and  witli  the  family  went  to  Dela- 
ware county,  Iowa,  in  1866,  there  continuing  his  education  in  the  public 
schools,  while  spending-  the  days  of  his  minority  under  the  parental  roof. 
In  1886  he  removed  to  Wilsonville.  Nebraska,  where  for  three  years  he  was 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  and  in  1889  he  came  to  Issaquah  to  enter  the 
field  of  mercantile  activity  here  as  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Gibson  Broth- 
ers" drug  store,  of  which  he  has  since  had  charge.  His  patronage  has  stead- 
ily increased  and  he  conducts  a  well  appointed  establishment,  neat  and  at- 
tractive in  appearance.  He  has  been  postmaster  of  Issaquah  for  four  years 
and  has  almost  continuously  been  chosen  as  a  delegate  to  the  Republican 
convention,  his  opinions  carr}-ing  weight  in  the  councils  of  the  party.  He 
was  married  in  Wilsonville,  Nebraska,  December  25,  1890,  to  Ida  A. 
McDonald,  who  was  born  in  Wisconsin  in  1871,  and  they  have  one  son, 
Grant  M.,  now  eleven  years  of  age. 

WILLIAM  H.  TAYLOR. 

Among  the  men  who  came  to  this  country  before  civilization  had  ef- 
fected much,  and  who  has  a  fund  of  interesting  experiences  of  his  early  life  here, 
is  \\'illiam  H.  Taylor.  His  ancestors  were  of  the  hardy  Saxon  stock  and 
came  to  the  state  of  Ohio  at  an  early  date.  His  father,  William,  had  his 
birth  in  Ohio  in  18 r6  and  about  the  year  1850  went  to  Iowa,  where  he  made 
farming  his  occupation  and  died  in  Linn  county  in  1864;  his  wife,  Hannah 
Wheeling.  Avas  born  in  Ohio  on  January  i,  1S19,  and  is  still  living  at  Todds- 
ville,  Linn  county. 

Their  son,  AA'illiam  H.,  was  born  in  Linn  county,  Iowa,  on  the  12th  of 
Februa.r}%  1853,  and  was  educated  in  the  district  schools  of  his  county.  In 
1872  he  concluded  to  seek  his  fortune  in  i:he  great  west  and  set  out  for  the 
coast,  going  by  the  L^nion  Pacific  Railroad  to  San  Francisco,  thence  to  Vic- 
toria and  Seattle :  from  here  he  and  D.  N.  Taylor  and  family,  the  latter 
now  living  at  Falls  City,  made  a  very  diflicult  and  tedious  trip  overland  to 
the  Snoqualmie  river,  a  distance  of  aiDout  fifty  miles.  At  that  time  the  whole 
county  was  one  vast  stretch  of  dense  forests  and  the  only  roads  were  the 
Indian  trails,  thus  making  communication  very  laborious,  and  these  pioneer 
settlers  found  much  difficulty  in  obtaining  supplies.  For  the  first  eight 
years  of  his  residence  in  this  wild  country  Mr.  Taylor  was  engaged  iii  operat- 
ing a  fleet  of  canoes  along  the  Snoqualmie  river,  carrying  supplies  from 
Snohomish  for  distribution  to  the  settlers  on  the  river  as  far  as  North  Bend, 


SEATTLE   AND   KING   COUNTY.  521 

a  total  distance  of  fifty  miles;  he  hired  Indians  to  paddle  and  pole  the  boats 
and  to  carry  them  and  their  freio-ht  around  the  great  Snorinalmie  falls,  the 
trip  usually  taking  about  five  days. 

In  t88o  Mr.  Taylor  purchased  two  one-hundred-and-sixty-acre  farms 
from  Matts  and  Peter  Peterson,  who  had  taken  them  up  as  homesteads,  and 
here  he  has  since  made  his  home.  When  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  was 
being  built,  in  1889,  he  laid  out  thirty  acres  of  his  land  in  town  lots,  and 
on  this  the  present  town  of  North  Bend  was  built.  From  1880  to  i883 
Mr.  Taylor  was  engaged  in  farming,  from  1888  to  1892  he  served  as  one 
of  the  King  county  board  of  commissioners,  and  in  1895  he  established  a 
general  merchandise  store  at  North  Bend,  which  he  has  conducted  most  suc- 
cessfully ever  since;  he  still  holds  sixty  acres  of  his  original  land  and  also 
some  valuable  timber  interests  in  the  mountains.  Of  the  six  men  who  came 
to  this  region  in  1872  only  one  besides  Mr.  Taylor  is  still  living.  In  politics 
Mr.  Taylor  is  a  Republican  and  takes  a  prominent  part  in  the  public  affairs 
of  his  community. 

INGEBRIGHT  A.  WOLD. 

From  the  "land  of  the  midnight  sun"  have  come  many  of  the  stalwart 
citizens  of  Washington,  men  who  have  bravely  met  the  pioneer  conditions 
with  their  attendant  hardships  and  dilticulties,  resolutely  setting-  to  work 
to  overcome  these  and  carrying  forward  the  work  of  improvement  and  de- 
velopment until  their  labors  have  proved  of  benefit  not  only  to  themselves 
but  also  to  this  and  to  future  generations,  for  their  work  in  reclaiming  the 
wild  districts  for  the  uses  of  the  white  man  will  serve  as  a  foundation  for  fu- 
ture progress  and  improvement.  Among  the  Norwegian  citizens  who  have 
been  active  factors  in  the  business  life  of  the  northwest  is  Ingebright  j\. 
Wold,  who  is  now  living  in  Issafjuah.  He  was  born  in  Throndhjem.  Nor- 
way, November  2^,  1841,  and  is  a  son  of  Andrew  and  Barbara  (Delathmit) 
Wold,  who  were  also  natives  of  the  same  locality.  The  father  was  a  farmer 
by  occupation  and  followed  tliat  pursuit  in  his  native  land  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1851.      llis  wife  long  survixed  him.  passing  away  in  1882. 

Mr.  Wold  of  this  review  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  na- 
tive tf)wn.  He  was  only  ten  years  of  age  at  llu-  time  of  his  father's  death, 
and  when  sixteen  years  of  age  he  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  to  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  serving  for  a  term  of  \\\q  years.  lie  then  worked  as  a  jour- 
neyman in  Norway  until  186.4,  ^vhen  he  resolved  to  test  the  favorable  reports 

concerning  America  and  her  opportunities  by  seeking  a  homo  and  fortune  in 
33 


522  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

the  new  world.  Accordingly,  in  June  of  tliat  year  he  sailed  for  the  United 
States  and  took  up  his  abode  in  Chicag-o,  where  he  engaged  in  shoemaking 
for  a  year. 

In  the  fall  of  1865  Mr.  Wold  went  to  San  Francisco,  by  way  of  the 
Panama  route  and  there  remained  until  the  following  spring,  when  he  made 
his  w^ay  northward  to  Seattle,  where  in  company  with  his  brother  Peter  he. 
established  a  shoemaking  shop  on  Commercial  street.  They  secured  a  stock 
of  leather  and  conducted  the  only  establishment  of  the  kind  in  the  embryo 
city.  The  brothers  remained  in  the  business  for  two  years,  enjoying  an 
extensive  trade  and  manufacturing  shoes  for  all  of  the  pioneer  settlers  ot 
Seattle  and  also  furnishing  shoe  supplies  to  smaller  dealers  throughout  the 
sound  country.  In  the  meantime  Mr.  Wold  purchased  a  number  of  lots 
on  what  is  now  Second  avenue  and  University  street  and  also  on  Pike  street 
and  in  other  parts  of  the  city,  making  judiciou.s  investments  in  real  estate 
when  it  was  sold  at  a  low  figure.  Some  of  this  he  still  holds,  and  it  has 
constantly  risen  in  value  with  the  growth  01  the  city  until  it  is  now  very 
desirable  property.  In  the  soring  of  186S  ^Tr.  Wold  went  to  the  Squak 
valley,  near  the  head  of  Squak  lake,  where  in  connection  with  his  two  broth- 
ers, Peter  and  L.  A.  Wold,  he  purchased  the  Welch  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  for  which  they  paid  five  hundred  dollars.  The  place  was  a 
wilderness,  but  they  soon  cJeared  a  portion  of  it  and  planted  a  hop  field,  from 
which  they  shipped  the  first  hops  raised  in  King  county,  an  industry  wdiich 
has  since  become  an  important  one  here.  Their  shipment  was  made  to 
Seattle  and  sold  to  Smek's  brewery  for  a  keg  of  beer.  From  that  time  they 
increased  their  hop-growing  interests  until  they  had  forty-five  acres  in  hops 
and  for  several  years  enjoyed  a  prosperous  business  through  the  produc- 
tion and  sale  of  that  commodity.  While  residing  on  the  Squak  valley  ranch 
Mr.  W'old  also  conducted  a  general  store,  doing  a  thriving  business  with 
farmers,  miners  and  Indians  of  the  surrounding  country. 

In  1887  I.  A.  Wold  sold  his  interest  in  the  farm  to  his  brother,  L.  A. 
Wold,  and  the  same  year  secured  a  pre-emption  claim  of  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres,  on  which  a  portion  of  the  town  of  Issaquah  was  afterward  built. 
After  proving  up  this  property  and  Iniying  the  claim,  securing  his  title  after 
five  years,  he  platted  eighty  acres  in  town  lots  and  sold  eighty  acres  to  the 
Seattle  Coal  &  Iron  Company,  retaining  for  himself  a  handsome  home  in  the 
town,  with  some  adjoining  farm  land.  This  to^^■n  will  ever  stand  as  a  mon- 
ument to  the  enterprise  and  progressive  spirit  of  Mr.  Wold,  whose  labors 
in  behalf  of  the  development  of  this  portion  of  the  state  have  been  of  no 
unimportant  character. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  523 

In  Seattle,  on  the  6th  of  January,  1893,  Mr.  Wolcl  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Ameha  Waler,  who  was  born  in  Denmark  in  1873,  and  came 
with  her  parents  to  Seattle  in  1890.  They  now  have  three  children:  Ida, 
Walter  and  Oscar,  aged  respectively  nine,  seven  and  four  years.  Mr.  Wold 
belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  at  Issaquah,  and  in  his 
political  affilations  is  a  Democrat.  For  many  years  he  has  taken  an  active 
part  in  public  affairs,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  promote  the  success  of  the 
party  in  which  he  believes,  and  also  contributing  to  general  progress  and 
improvement  along  other  lines.  He  is  familiar  with  the  pioneer  history  of 
the  state  from  an  early  day,  his  residence  here  covering'  thirty-six  years. 
He  has  witnessed  the  introduction  of  the  railroad,  the  telegraph  and  the  tele- 
phone, has  seen  the  wild  land  transformed  into  good  farms,  the  mineral 
resources  of  the  state  developed,  while  towns  and  villages  have  sprung  up 
with  their  accompanying  commercial  and  industrial  interests,  and  churches 
and  schools  have  been  established.  Mr.  Wold's  name  in  inseparably  inter- 
woven with  the  work  of  pioneer  development  and  of  later  day  progress  and  he 
well  deserves  the  rest  from  active  labor  which  he  is  now  enjoying. 

ELWOOD  C.  HUGHES. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  part  of  this  history  of  more  general  interest  than 
the  record  of  the  bar.  It  is  well  known  that  the  peace,  prosperity  and 
well-being  of  every  community  depend  upon  the  wise  interpretation  of  the. 
laws,  as  well  as  upon  their  judicious  framing,  and  therefore  the  records  of 
the  various  persons  who  have  at  different  times  made  up  the  bar  will  fonu  an 
important  part  of  this  volume.  A  well  known  jurist  of  Illinois  said :  "In 
the  American  state  the  great  and  good  lawyer  nmst  always  ])e  prominciU, 
for  he  is  one  of  the  forces  that  move  and  control  society.  Public  confidence 
has  generally  been  reposed  in  the  legal  profession.  It  has  ever  been  the  de- 
fender of  popular  rights,  the  champion  of  freedom  regulated  by  law.  the  firm 
support  of  good  government.  In  the  times  of  danger  it  has  stood  like  a  rock 
and  breasted  the  mad  passions  of  the  hour  and  finally  resisted  tnniuU  and 
faction.  No  political  preferment,  no  mere  place,  can  add  to  the  power  or 
increase  the  honor  which  belongs  to  the  pure  and  educated  lawyer."  Elwood 
C.  Hughes  is  one  who  has  been  honored  by  and  is  an  honor  to  the  legal  fra- 
tcrnitv  of  Washington.  He  stands  to-day  prominent  among  the  leading 
members  of  the  bar  of  the  state,  a  position  to  which  he  has  attained  lln-oiigh 
marked  abilitv. 

Elwood  Clarke  Hughes  is  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Struve,  Allen, 


524  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Hughes  &  McMicken.  He  claims  Pennsylvania  as  the  state  of  his  nativity, 
his  birth  having  occurred  near  Bloomsburg,  Columbia  county,,  on  the  25th 
of  August,  1855.  He  is  descended  from  Welsh-Quaker  ancestry  who  came 
to  Pennsylvania  at  the  time  William  Penn  settled  in  Philadelphia.  Members 
of  the  family  were  very  prominent  in  the  early  history  of  that  portion  of  the 
state.  Benjamin  Hughes,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  there, 
and  Ellwood  Hughes,  the  father,  was  born  in  December.  1818,  on  the  old 
homestead  farm  on  which  Benjamin  Hughes  had  settled  on  removing  to 
Columbia  county.  He  married  Elizabeth  Hill,  a  native  of  Hughesville, 
Pennsylvania.  He  was  a  man  of  very  liberal  views,  prominent  and  intiuen- 
tial  in  public  affairs,  and  held  membership  in  the  Lutheran  Evangelical 
church.  In  his  family  were  seven  children,  of  whom  four  are  yet  living. 
The  father  died  in  1894,  and  his  wife  is  now  living  in  Dixon,  Illinois,  in  the 
eighty-fourth  year  of  her  age.  She  comes  of  a  family  of  marked  distinction, 
whose  representatives  were  identified  with  the  learned  professions,  many  of 
them  being  physicians,  clergymen  and  college  professors.  Her  ancestors 
left  England  for  Germany  at  the  same  time  the  Puritans  sailed  on  the  May- 
flower for  America,  and  in  1725  they,  too,  came  to  the  new  world.  The 
grandfather  of  Mrs.  Hughes  was  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  war. 

Eiwood  Clarke  Hughes  was  reared  on  a  farm  near  Dixon,  Illinois,  on 
which  his  parents  had  located  when  they  emigrated  westward.  He  worked 
in  the  fields  in  the  summer  months,  and  in  the  winter  seasons  attended  school 
until  seventeen  years  of  age.  He  afterward  engaged  in  teaching  school 
through  the  winter  months,  and,  anxious  to  acquire  a  better  education,  he 
entered  Carthage  College  at  Carthage,  Illinois,  in  which  he  was  graduated 
in  1878,  being  the  valedictorian  of  his  class,  his  standing  being  ninety-nine 
and  three-quarters,  the  highest  ever  attained  by  any  college  student  in  that 
institution.  Subsequently  he  engaged  in  teaching  Latin  and  Greek  in  the 
preparatory  department  of  the  college  and  afterward  accepted  a  position  at 
Mount  Morris,  Illinois,  where  he  was  also  instructor  in  the  same  branches  for 
a  year. 

In  1880  Mr.  Hughes  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Emma  De  Hart,  a 
native  of  Carthage,  who  had  been  one  of  his  classmates  in  college.  In  the 
meantime  he  had  begun  studying  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the 
state  of  Iowa  in  September,  1881.  He  then  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his 
profession  there  an(i  in  i8S(^  was  admitted  to  practice  in  the. supreme  court 
of  the  United  States.  His  clientage  grew  rapidly,  but  his  health  demanded 
a  change  of  climate,  and  in  1890,  in  company  with  his  partner,  H.  H.  A. 
Hastings,  he  made  a  trip  to  the  Pacific  coast,  visiting  Seattle.     Well  pleased 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  525 

with  the  city  and  its  future  prospects,  they  decided  to  locate  here,  and  for 
three  years  their  partnership  relations  were  maintained.  In  the  fall  of  1893 
Livingston  B.  Stedman  was  admitted  to  a  partnership,  and  the  firm  of 
Hughes,  Hastings  &  Stedman  was  formed.  Not  long  afterward  the  present 
firm  of  Struve.  Allen,  Hughes  &  Mc^Iicken  was  organized^  to  which  Sena- 
tor Allen,  who  died  suddenly  on  Januar}-  29,  1903,  and  Mr.  Hughes  were  the 
court  lawyers.  The  firm  is  one  of  the  most  prominent  in  the  state  and  repre- 
sents a  number  of  leading  corporations  of  Seattle  and  of  Washington.  The 
members  enjoy  a  high  reputation  for  legal  talent  and  integrity  and  their  busi- 
ness is  now  assuming  very  extensive  proportions.  In  his  preparation  of 
cases  ^Ir.  Hughes  is  most  thorough  and  exhaustive :  he  seems  almost  in- 
tuitively to  grasp  the  strong  points  of  law  and  fact,  while  in  his  briefs  and 
arguments  the  authorities  are  cited  so  extensively  and  the  facts  and  reason- 
ing thereon  are  presented  so  cogently  and  unanswerably  as  to  leave  no  doubt 
as  to  the  correctness  of  his  views  or  of  his  conclusions. 

The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hughes  has  been  blessed  with  a  son  and  a 
daughter,  Howard  De  Hart,  who  is  now  a  student  in  Harvard  College,  and 
Helen  M.,  who  has  just  returned  from  Europe,  where,  with  her  mother,  she 
has  been  traveling.  The  cause  of  education  finds  in  Mr.  Hughes  a  warm 
friend,  and  he  is  now  serving  as  a  member  of  the  school  board,  doing  ever\-- 
thing  in  his  power  to  advance  the  standard  of  the  schools  in  this  city.  S«^ci- 
ally  he  is  connected  with  the  Elks,  the  Odd  Fellows  and  the  Knights  Templar, 
and  in  politics  is  a  very  active  and  earnest  Republican.  In  campaign  years 
he  delivers  many  addresses,  and  his  oratorical  ability  is  widely  recognized, 
making  him  an  entertaining  speaker.  His  scholarly  attainments,  his  reliable 
judgment  and  his  charming  powers  of  conversation  would  enable  him  to  fill 
any  position,  however  exalted,  and  he  is  no  less  honored  in  public  than  loved 
in  private  life. 

.MICHAEL  WILSON. 

The  deserved  reward  of  a  well  spent  life  is  an  honored  retirement  from 
business  in  which  to  enjoy  the  fruits  of  former  toil.  To-day.  after  a  useful 
and  beneficial  career,  Mr.  Wilson  is  quietly  living  at  his  l>eautiful  home- 
stead near  O'Brien,  surrounded  by  the  comforts  that  earnest  labor  has 
brought  him.  He  is  a  prominent  citizen  of  the  community,  and  lias  IxTiie 
his  part  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  King  county. 

Mr.  Wilson  was  born  near  Tipton,  Missouri,  on  the  nth  of  Novem- 
ber,   1845.       I^'-^  ancestors,   who  were  of  Scotch   descent,   were  among  the 


526  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

early  and  prominent  settlers  of  the  Old  Dominion,  having  been  residents  of 
that  commonwealth  when  William  Penn  was  making  his  treaty  with  the  In- 
dians. The  father  of  our  subject,  Solomon  Wilson,  was  born  in  Virginia 
in  1813,  and  there  the  days  of  his  youth  and  early  manhood  were  spent.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Missouri,  where  he  de- 
voted his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits  until  1882.  In  that  year  he  lo- 
cated in  Issaquah,  Washington,  where  he  lived  in  quiet  retirement  until  called 
to  his  home  beyond,  passing  away  in  death  in  1894.  For  his  wife  he  chose 
Sarah  McPherson,  who  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1822,  and  she,  too,  was  of 
Scotch  descent.  She  is  still  living,  and  makes  her  home  in  Issaquah,  Wash- 
ington. 

Michael  Wilson  received  the  educational  advantages  afforded  by  the 
country  schools  of  Missouri,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  1875,  and 
in  that  year  he  removed  to  Santa  Rosa,  Sonoma  county,  California,  there  de- 
voting his  attention  to  the  tilling  of  the  soil  for  three  years.  In  the  spring  of 
1878  he  came  to  the  White  river  valley  of  Washington,  where  he  rented 
the  old  Daniel  Post  farm  for  five  years,  during  which  time  he 
followed  dairying.  In  1883  he  became  the  owner  of  the  Alexander  Gow 
homestead  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres,  located  near  the  present  towns 
of  O'Brien  and  Kent,  and  at  that  time  the  place  was  a  dense  wilderness, 
covered  with  a  heavy  growth  of  cottonv/ood  trees  and  underbrush.  The 
only  means  of  receiving  supplies  then  was  by  carrying  them  on  foot  about 
two  miles  from  White  river,  where  they  were  landed  from  small  boats  then 
plying  on  that  stream.  Mr.  Wilson  at  once  began  the  arduous  task  of  clear- 
ing and  improving  his  farm,  and  as  the  years  have  passed  by  he  has  wrought 
a  wonderful  transformation,  surrounding  his  fields  with  well  kept  fences, 
has  erected  commodious  and  substantial  buildings  and  has  made  his  place 
to  blossom  as  the  rose.  For  many  years  he  devoted  his  entire  attention  to 
general  farming  and  dairying,  but  lie  is  now  retired  from  the  active  work 
of  the  farm  and  is  spending  liis  time  in  ease  and  quiet  at  his  beautiful  old 
homestead,  the  work  of  which  is  carried  on  by  his  sons,  Lloyd  and  James. 
An  ardent  Republican  in  politics,  both  he  and  his  sons  take  a  commendable 
interest  in  all  local  campaigns,  and  are  regarded  as  public  spirited  and  pro- 
gressive citizens.  In  his  social  relations  he  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen  at  Kent. 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Wilson  was  celebrated  in  Newtonia,  Newton 
county,  Missouri,  in  1870,  when  Miss  Matilda  Hart  became  his  wife.  She 
was  born  in  Arkansas  in  1847,  and  her  death  occurred  on  the  old  home 
farm  on   the  30th   of  April,    1900.      Four  children   blessed   their   marriage, 


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namely:  Rella,  the  wife  of  Roscoe  Everett,  a  merchant  of  Kent;  Mand, 
the  wife  of  Frank  Warner,  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at  O'Brien; 
Lloyd,  who  married  Mattie  Shaffer,  a  native  of  Stockton,  California;  and 
James,  who  married  Bessie  Raymond,  a  native  of  Canada  and  a  daughter 
of  H.  R.  Raymond,  a  prominent  resident  of  the  Dominion.  I'lie  two  sons, 
Lloyd  and  James,  are  carrying  on  the  work  of  the  home  farm,  thus  relieving 
their  father  of  much  care  and  anxiety  in  his  declining  years. 

STEPHEN  P.  WILLIS. 

The  pioneer  history  of  King  county  has  upon  its  rolls  the  name  of 
Stephen  P.  Willis,  who  for  many  years  has  resided  within  its  borders  and 
is  therefore  one  of  its  oldest  residents.  Wonderful  changes  have  occurred 
since  his  arrival,  and  of  the  work  of  progress  and  advancement  he  has  ever 
been  an  advocate.  By  his  active  participation  as  well  as  friendly  encourage- 
m.ent  he  has  assisted  in  the  development  and  substantial  promotion  of  the 
county  until  it  takes  rank  with  the  older  counties  of  the  east  in  all  the  ele- 
ments of  civilization. 

Illinois  is  the  state  of  Mr.  Willis's  nativitv,  his  birth  havino-  occurred 
in  Putnam  county  on  the  3d  of  September,  1831,  and  on  the  paternal  side 
he  is  descended  from  old  Scotch  ancestry,  while  in  the  maternal  line  he  is 
of  Welsh  descent.  His  father,  James  W.  Willis,  was  born  in  South  Caro- 
lina in  1797,  but  when  a  boy  he  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Ohio,  and  in 
1820  he  located  in  Putnam  county,  Illinois.  There  he  continued  to  make 
his  home  until  1839,  when  he  removed  to  Linn  county,  Iowa,  and  there  his 
life's  labors  were  ended  in  death  in  1844.  He  followed  the  tilling  of  the  soil 
as  a  life  occupation.  For  his  wife  he  chose  Ann  Stewart,  who  was  bom 
in  Kentucky  in  1800,  but  was  reared  in  Ohio.  After  hei*  husband's  death 
she  remained  in  Iowa  until  1857,  then  removed  to  Polk  county,  Oregon, 
from  there  to  Umpqua,  Douglas  county,  Oregon,  and  from  there  to  Uma- 
tilla county,  where  her  death  occurred  at  the  home  of  her  daughter  in  1885. 

Stephen  P.  Willis  received  only  the  meager  advantages  afforded  by 
the  district  schools  of  Illinois  and  Iowa,  and  until  his  twenty-fourth  year 
he  remained  under  the  parental  roof  and  assisted  in  the  work  of  the  home 
farm.  After  his  father's  death  he  continued  to  care  for  his  widowed 
mother  in  low^a  until  1857,  and  in  that  year,  ])y  tlic  I'anama  route,  he  went 
to  California  and  Oregon,  locating  first  in  the  Willamette  valley,  where 
he  remained  for  two  years.  Going  thence  to  the  Umpqua  valley  in  Doug- 
las county,  Oregon,  he  was  there  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits   for  six 


528  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

years,  having  purchased  a  farm  near  Roseburg-  in  1861.  Four  years  later, 
in  1865,  he  came  to  the  White  river  valley  in  Washington,  where  he  home- 
steaded  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  near  the  present  town  of 
Kent,  which  he  cleared  from  the  dense  forest  that  covered  it,  and  was  there 
successfully  engaged  in  farming  and  dairying  for  the  long  period  of  twenty- 
five  years.  By  perseverance,  industry,  economy  and  good  management  he 
attained  a  leading  position  among  the  substantial  farmers  of  the  community, 
and  his  worth  is  widely  acknowledged  by  those  who  are  familiar  with  his 
honorable  business  methods.  Desiring  to  retire  from  the  active  duties  of 
a  business  life,  Mr.  Willis  in  1895  placed  his  farm  in  charge  of  his  nephew, 
\\\  J.  Shinn.  The  latter  divided  the  place  into  five-acre  tracts,  and  these 
he  sold  on  contract,  but  as  some  of  the  purchasers  failed  to  meet  their  obli- 
gations ]\Ir.  \Mllis  is  still  the  owner  of  a  part  of  the  tract.  In  the  meantime 
he  had  also  purchased  three  lots  at  Latonia,  on  Lake  Union,  on  which  he 
erected  a  comfortable  residence,  and  there  he  made  his  home  for  ten  years. 
Selling  his  place  in  1900,  he  returned  to  the  old  farm  on  White  river, 
which  he  had  previously  given  to  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Sarah  Ross,< 
whose  husband,  W.  R.  Ross,  was  waylaid  and  fatally  shot  by  his  neighbor, 
Alexander  Simpson,,  in  1901.  The  latter  is  now  serving  a  fifteen  years' 
sentence  for  his  crime.  The  motive  which  led  to  the  terrible  murder  is 
thought  to  have  been  jealousy.  Mr.  Willis  is  a  Prohibitionist,  and  takes  a 
prominent  part  in  the  campaigns  of  his  party. 

In  Linn  county,  Iowa,  in  1855,  Mr.  Willis  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Caroline  W'hite,  who  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1833,  and  was  of  English  descent. 
For  many  years  they  traveled  life's  journey  together,  sharing  with  each 
other  in  the  joys  and  sorrows  which  checker  the  lives  of  all,  but  on  the  8th 
of  May,  1901,  they  were  separated  by  the  hand  of  death,  the  mother  being 
called  to  her  final  rest  from  the  old  White  river  farm.  Two  of  their  three 
children  are  now  living, — Sarah  A.,  the  widow  of  W.  R.  Ross;  and  Charles 
L.,  a  real  estate  dealer  at  Latonia,  Washington.  Laura  Mildred,  wdio  was 
born  in  1856,  died  in  the  Willamette  valley  of  Oregon  in  1858.  On  No- 
vember 5.  1902,  Mr.  Willis  was  married  to  Edith  E.  Wheeler,  and  now 
makes  his  home  in  Kent. 

RONALD  C.  CRAWFORD. 

Great  indeed  have  been  the  changes  which  time  and  man  have  wrought 
since  Ronald  C.  Crawford  landed  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He  is  numbered 
among  the  pioneers  of  both  Oregon  and  California,  and  is  now  a  distin- 


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guished  and  honored  resident  of  Seattle,  where  he  is  hving  retired  in  the  en- 
joyment of  a  well  earned  rest  after  many  years  of  toil,  in  which  his  efforts 
have  contributed  to  the  development  and  upbuilding  of  this  section  of  the 
country  as  well  as  to  his  individual  prosperity.  When  the  rich  mineral 
sources  were  still  locked  fast  in  the  embraces  of  nature,  when  the  rich  land 
was  unclaimed  and  uncultivated,  when  the  Indians  far  outnumbered  the 
white  settlers,  and  life  in  the  northwest  was  attended  with  many  dangers  and 
hardships,  Mr.  Crawford  took  up  his  abode  on  the  Pacific  coast  and  for  fifty- 
five  years  has  been  identified  with  its  interests. 

He  was  born  in  Havana,  New  York,  in  1827,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish 
ancestry.  His  great-great-grandfather,  William  Crawford,  emigrated  to 
Orange  county,  New  York,  and  became  the  progenitor  of  the  family  in 
America.  He  was  a  Presbyterian  in  religious  faith.  His  son,  William 
Crawford,  Jr.,  w^as  born  in  New  York  and  participated  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution,  wdiile  his  son,  Samuel  Crawford,  Ronald  C.  Craw^ford's  grand- 
father, was  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812.  The  latter  lived  lo  be  more  than 
eighty  years  of  age  and  died  in  1847.  Samuel  G.  Crawford,  the  father. of 
our  subject,  was  born  in  Orange  county.  New  York,  in  1799  and  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Davis  of  the  same  county.  Both  attained  to  an  advanced  age. 
The  father  was  a  Republican  and  gave  to  the  party  an  unfaltering  support. 
He  served  as  magistrate  and  in  numerous  other  (Offices,  was  a  man  of  high 
Christian  character  and  in  his  religious  affiliation  was  a  Congregationalist. 
He  visited  the  Pacific  coast  in  1862  and  his  death  occurred  in  1878  when  he 
was  seventy-nine  years  of  age.  His  good  wife  departed  this  life  in  the  for- 
tieth year  of  her  age.  They  were  the  parents  of  five  children,  all  of  whom 
lived  to  a  good  old  age,  and  two  of  the  sons  yet  survive,  the  brother  of  our 
subject  being  Leroy  Crawford,  now  a  resident  of  New  York. 

Ronald  C.  Crawford  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  Havana, 
New  York,  and  in  1847  when  twenty  years  of  age,  crossed  th.e  plains  to  Ore- 
gon City.  His  brother,  Medorem  Crawford,  had  made  tlic  long  journey 
across  the  plains  in  1842,  and  w^as  one  of  the  pronnnent  i)ioneers  of  Oregon. 
For  many  years  he  was  the  honored  president  of  the  Pioneer  Society  of  that 
state.  He  became  the  owner  of  a  large  farm  in  Yamhill  county  and  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life  there,  being  held  in  the  highest  regard  by  all.  When 
our  subject  came  to  the  Pacific  coast  in  1847  ^^i^^''^'  ^^'^^  '^  ^^'^^^  emigration. 
The  company  wi^li  which  he  traveled  made  the  journey  with  ox  teams,  but 
Mr.  Crawford  had  his  own  horse.  He  assisted  the  company  in  various  ways, 
one  of  his  ditties  being  to  ride  on  ahead,  which  he  could  do.  as  his  horse  trav- 
eled faster  than  the  oxen,  and  select  a  suitable  camping  place  for  the  night. 


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His  lugg-age  was  carried  in  one  of  the  wagons  in  payment  of  the  help  which  he 
rendered  the  party.  There  were  large  herds  of  buffalo  upon  the  plains,,  and 
the  party  frequently  saw  Indians  but  were  never  molested  by  the  red  men. 
The  six  months'  journey  was  terminated  by  their  arrival  at  Oregon  City, 
where  Air.  Crawford  engaged  in  freighting  for  two  years.  Then  when  the 
gold  excitement  in  California  was  drawing  people  to  the  mines  from  all 
sections  of  the  country,  he  also  went  there  in  search  of  the  precious  metal, 
making  the  journey  on  horseback,  packing  his  equipments  and  necessary 
clothing.  Reaching  the  gold  fields  he  engaged  in  placer  mining  on  the  Amer- 
ican river  and  on  the  Feather  river  above  Sacramento,  taking  out  gold  to  the 
value  of  from  one  hundred  to  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  day.  He 
made  a  great  deal  and  when  he  returned  to  Oregon  at  the  end  of  two  years  he 
had  a  handsome  stake  for  so  young  a  man.  He  spent  the  winter  of  185 1-2 
in  San  Francisco,  and  in  the  spring  returned  to  Oregon  City. 

Not  long  after  his  arrival  Mr.  Crawford  was  happily  married  to  Aliss 
Elizabeth  Aloore,  a  native  of  Illinois,  who  crossed  the  plains  with  her  father. 
Tames  M.  Moore,  in  1847.  After  their  marriage  they  secured  a  donation 
claim  in  Clackamas  county  and  resided  thereon  for  five  years,  during 
which  time  our  subject  made  many  improvements  upon  his  land  and  obtained 
his  patent  from  the  government.  At  the  end  of  the  period  he  removed  to 
Walla  Walla  county  and  was  engaged  in  mining,  also  in  freighting  from  the 
mines  of  Walla  ^^^alla  for  four  years.  He  was  next  appointed  deputy  col- 
lector of  internal  revenue  and  spent  six  years  in  Salem,  Oregon.  Fie  joined 
the  Republican  party  at  its  organization  and  was  a  strong  Union  man. 

In  1869  Air.  Crawford  removed  to  Olympia,  Washington,  and  estab- 
lished a  furniture  store,  but  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company  did  not 
make  that  town  its  terminus,  and  he  closed  out  his  business,  removing  to  his 
farm  in  Lewis  county,  where  he  remained  for  five  years,  farming  and  improv- 
ing his  property.  At  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  accepted  the  position  of 
chief  warden  of  the  United  States  penitentiary  on  McNeal  Island,  having 
charge  of  the  prisoners  there  for  three  years.  In  1877  he  became  a  resident 
of  Seattle  and  accepted  the  position  of  pressman  and  afterwards  traveling 
agent  for  the  Post  Intelligencer  for  five  years.  He  then  became  interested 
in  his  present  business,  that  of  buying  bonds  and  commercial  paper  of  all 
descriptions. 

Unto  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Crawford  have  been  born  seven  children,  all  natives 
of  either  Oregon  or  Washington.  Five  survive.  They  are  as  follows :  Ad- 
die,  the  wife  of  M.  E.  Warren  of  Dawson  City;Samuel  L.,  who  is  prominent- 
ly engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  in  Seattle ;   Fannie,  the  widow  of  Clark 


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Biles;  Ronald  M.  of  Dawson;  and  Nellie,  the  wife  of  Captain  Laurence  S. 
Booth,  who  is  engaged  in  the  abstract  business  in  Seattle.  Mr.  Crawford 
was  for  many  years  a  member  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
In  1852  he  was  made  a  Master  Mason  in  ]\Iultnomah  Lodge  No.  i,  F.  &  A. 
AL,  the  first  Masonic  lodge  organized  on  the  Pacific  coast.  For  many  years 
he  has  been  an  honorary  member  of  St.  John's  Lodge  of  Seattle.  In  politics 
he  is  still  a  Republican  on  whom  the  party  can  rely,  and  he  has  been  honored 
w^ith  diflferent  ofiicial  positions.  While  in  Lewis  county  he  was  chosen  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  Washington  territorial  legislature  of  1875.  He 
was  also  postmaster  and  justice  of  the  peace,  filling  all  the  positions  at  one 
time,  creditably  acquitting  himself  in  the  discharge  of  his  manifold  and  varied 
duties.  On  coming  to  Seattle  he  purchased  a  residence  near  the  university 
in  order  to  educate  his  children,  and  has  remained  here  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years.  His  wife,  with  whom  he  has  traveled  life's  journey  for  a  half- 
century,  is  a  member  of  the  Plymouth  Congregational  church,  and  both  are 
numbered  among  the  most  respected  citizens  of  Seattle.  His  connection 
with  the  northwest  covers  a  very  extended  period  and  in  every  sphere  of  life 
in  which  he  has  been  called  upon  to  move  he  has  made  an  indelible- impression, 
and  by  his  excellent  public  service  and  upright  life  has  honored  the  state 
which  has  honored  him. 

REV.  J.  P.  DERWENT  LLWYD. 

Among  the  able  churchmen  and  clergymen  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
church  in  the  state  of  Washington  is  Air.  Llwyd,  who  is  rector  of  St.  Mark's 
church  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  the  same  having  the  largest  and  most  important 
parish  of  the  church  in  the  state.  He  has  not  only  shown  marked  zeal  and 
earnestness  in  his  clerical  work  but  has  manifested  an  administrative  al)ility 
which  has  been  most  potent  in  insuring  the  temporal  welfare  of  his  parish, 
and  he  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem  for  his  devotion  to  the  cause  of  Ihc  Divine 
Master,  for  his  abiding  sympathy  for  "all  those  in  any  way  afflicted  ov  dis- 
tressed in  mind,  body  or  estate,"  and  for  his  able  service  in  his  holy  calling 
as  a  priest  of  the  church. 

Mr.  Llwyd  is  a  native  of  England,  having  been  born  in  the  city  of  Man- 
chester, on  the  7th  of  June,  r86i,  the  son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  and  Emma 
(Plummer)  Llwyd,  both  of  whom  were  likewise  born  in  Manchester,  the 
father  being  of  stanch  old  Welsh  stock  and  a  clergyman  of  the  Church  of 
England.  In  1874  the  family  removed  to  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  and  the 
father  became  rector  of  St.    lames'  church  at  Cravenhurst,  Ontario,  where 


532  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

he  remained  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1890  he  was  appointed  arch  deacon 
of  the  diocese  of  Algoma  and  is  now  incumbent  of  that  office  in  the  parish  of 
Huntsville.  In  liis  native  city  J.  P-  D.  Llwyd  entered  grammar  school  at 
the  ag-e  of  ten  years  and  there  continued  his  studies  about  three  years,  at  the 
expiration  of  which  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Canada, 
where  he  passed  four  years  under  the  private  tutorship  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  S. 
Cole,  B.  A.,  securing  an  excellent  literary  education.  He  then  engaged  in 
pedagogic  work,  becoming  a  teacher  in  the  public  schools  of  Ontario,  and 
after  devoting  three  years  to  this  line  of  endeavor  he  was  identified  with 
mercantile  pursuits  in  Toronto  for  nearly  an  equal  inter\"al.  Reared  under 
the  benign  influences  of  the  great  mother  church  and  ever  appreciative  of 
the  intrinsic  beauty  and  consistency  of  its  faith,  Mr.  Llwyd  was  naturally 
drawn  to  the  priesthood,  and  in  1883  he  began  the  work  of  preparing  him- 
self for  holy  orders  by  entering  the  theological  college  of  Montreal,  where 
he  pursued  his  divinity  course  for  one  year,  at  the  expiration  of  which  he 
went  to  New  York  city,  where  he  spent  one  year  in  study  and  parochial  work 
with  the  Rev.  \V.  S.  Rainsford,  D.  D.,  in  St.  George's  parish.  He  then  re- 
moved to  Indiana,  where  he  was  ordained  to  the  diaconate  and  priesthood  by 
Rt.  Rev.  D.  B.  Knickerbacker,  bishop  of  the  diocese  of  Indiana,  and  there- 
after he  passed  two  years  in  general  missionary  work  in  that  state  and  Wis- 
consin. Finally  he  was  called  to  the  rectorship  of  St.  Paul's  church  at  Riv- 
erside, one  of  the  most  beautiful  of  the  suburban  towns  near  the  city  of 
Chicago,  being  there  installed  for  three  years  and  being  very  successful  in 
his  work,  as  he  was  also  for  the  ensuing  eight  years,  during  which  he  was 
rector  of  the  church  of  the  Good  Shepherd  in  Omaha,  Nebraska. 

In  the  spring  of  1897  Mr.  Llwyd  came  to  Seattle  and  became  rector  of 
St.  Mark's,  whose  parish  is  the  most  important  in  the  state,  as  has  already 
been  stated.  Here  his  zealous  and  unabating  efforts  have  been  attended  with 
most  gratifying  results  in  both  a  spiritual  and  a  temporal  way;  the  work  of 
the  church  and  its  collateral  benevolences  has  been  materially  advanced;  it 
has  gained  further  precedence  in  the  diocese;  and  the  rector  has  won  to  him- 
self the  affection  of  his  parishioners  and  the  esteem  and  good  will  of  all  with 
whom  he  has  come  in  contact.  The  number  of  communicants  has  been  in- 
creased from  five  hundred  to  nine  hundred;  many  improvements  have  been 
made  on  the  church  property,  including  the  erection  of  a  rectory,  and  during 
the  pastorate  of  Mr.  Llwyd  a  total  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  has  been 
expended  in  material  improvements.  With  a  full  appreciation  of  the  solemn 
and  impressive  beauties  of  the  ancient  liturgy,  Mr.  Llwyd  has  embellished 
the  services   and   ritualistic  observances  of   St.    Mark's,   and  has   spared   no 


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pains  to  beg-et  devotion  and  equal  appreciation  on  the  part  of  those  over  whom 
he  is  placed  in  cliarge,  his  sermons  being  ever  marked  by  the  unmistakable 
evidences  ot  spirituality  and  earnestness  and  thus  effectively  supplementing 
the  ritual  of  the  Holy  Catholic  church. 

Fraternally  Mr.  Lhvyd  is  identified  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  the 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  the  Elks  and  the  Odd  Fellows.  He 
has  been  twice  elected  president  of  the  Charity  Organization  Society  at 
Seattle,  and  is  now  a  member  of  the  board  of  library  trustees  of  the  city. 
He  is  in  continual  demand  for  lectures  and  speeches  on  public  occasions. 
On  the  28th  of  December,  1886,  Mr.  I.lwyd  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Mary  Emilie  Thomas,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Brantford,  Ontario,  a 
representative  of  prominent  old  Knickerbocker  families  and  the  daughter  of 
William  H.  and  Adaline  (Kissam)  Thomas.  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Llwyd  are  the 
parents  of  five  children,  namely:  Gwendolyn  Derwent,  Thomas  Derwent, 
Adeline  Derwent,  Charlewood  Derwent  and  Alargaret  Derwent. 

JOHN  B.  POWLES. 

In  a  compilation  purporting  to  portray  the  more  salient  features  in  the 
careers  of  the  representative  men  of  King  county  and  the  citv  of  Seattle, 
tliere  is  unmistakable  consistency  in  according  a  place  of  due  relative  dis- 
tinction and  priority  to  Mr.  Powles,  who  is  one  of  the  progressive  and  suc- 
cessful business  men  of  the  metropolis  of  the  state,  being  an  interested  prin- 
cipal in  the  extensive  commission  house  conducted  under  the  title  of  J.  W. 
Godwin  &  Company,  the  business  being  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the 
state,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch  being  incumbent  of  the  ofiice  of  secre- 
tary and  treasurer  of  the  concern,  which  is  one  of  the  most  important  of  the 
sort  in  this  city. 

Mr.  Powles  is  a  native  of  the  city  of  London,  England,  where  he  was 
born  on  the  19th  of  June,  1856,  the  son  of  William  and  Mary  Jane  (Brack) 
Powles,  both  representative  of  stanch  old  English  stock.  In  the  year  1863 
they  emigrated  from  England  to  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  being  accompanied 
by  their  three  children.  William  Powles  w^as  engaged  in  the  iron  trade  in 
the  city  of  Montreal,  where  he  remained  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on 
Good  PViday,  1875.  He  was  a  man  of  sterling  character  and  marked  ability 
and  was  a  zealous  and  devoted  churchman  of  the  established  chm-ch  of  Eng- 
land, or  the  Protestant  Episcopal  church  in  America.  His  widow  still  sur- 
vives him,  being  likewise  a  devoted  communicant  of  the  Episcopal  church 
and  having  attained  the  venerable  age  of  seventy-five  years.     She  maintains 


534  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

her  home  in  Oelwein,  Iowa,  and  is  held  in  high  esteem  by  ah  who  have  come 
within  the  sphere  of  her  gracious  influence.  Of  her  nine  children  the  subject 
of  this  review  is  the  only  one  in  the  state  of  Washington. 

John  B.  Powles  was  but  seven  years  of  age  at  the  time  of  his  parents' 
removal  from  England  to  Canada,  and  his  early  educational  discipline  was 
received  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  where  he  was  reared  to  years  of  maturity. 
There  under  the  direction  of  his  honored  father  he  became  identified  with 
the  iron  trade,  thoroughly  familiarizing  himself  with  all  branches  of  the 
same,  including  the  building  of  locomotive  engines,  general  repairing  and 
mechanical  drawing,  in  which  latter  department  he  attained  notable  facility 
and  expertness.  From  Montreal  he  removed  to  the  city  of  ^linneapolis, 
Minnesota,  where  for  seven  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  retail  grocery  busi- 
ness, disposing  of  his  interests  at  the  expiration  of  that  time  and  coming  to 
Seattle,  with  whose  natural  advantages  and  promising  future  he  became  so 
impressed  that  he  decided  to  cast  in  his  lot  with  that  of  this  favored  city, 
and  in  the  light  of  the  definite  and  gratifying  success  which  has  come  to  him 
through  his  well  directed  efforts  here,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  he  has  no  regret 
for  ha\ing  chosen  this  place  as  the  field  of  his  operations.  He  took  up  his 
residence  here  just  after  the  great  fire  and  he  began  his  own  business  career  by 
ensrao-in"-  in  the  brokerage  business,  in  which  he  met  with  excellent  success. 
On  the  17th  of  jMay.  1894,  he  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the  Godwin  com- 
mission business,  and  the  enterprise  was  forthwith  incorporated,  under  the 
title  already  noted,  and  our  subject  v.'as  made  secretary  and  treasurer.  The 
enterprise  takes  a  foremost  place  among  the  principal  commission  houses  of 
the  city,  and  the  discrimination  and  keen  business  sagacity  which  have  been 
brought  to  l)ear  ])y  the  interested  principals  have  combined  with  their  high 
reputation  for  inflexible  integrity  and  honor  to  gain  to  the  house  a  repre- 
sentative support,  so  that  each  year  sees  a  marked  increase  in  the  volume  of 
business  transacted.  At  first  the  concern  confined  its  business  largely  to  the 
city,  but  eventually  began  reaching  out  for  the  business  of  the  western  half 
of  the  state,  where  is  now  controlled  a  business  fully  equal  in  scope  and  im- 
portance to  that  of  more  local  order.  The  company  gives  employment  to 
seventeen  men  and  do  a  particularly  large  business  in  the  handling  of  fruits 
and  vegetables,  the  aggregate  of  transactions  reaching  a  half  million  of 
dollars  annually. 

Upon  taking  up  his  residence  in  Seattle  Mr.  Powles  at  once  thoroughly 
identified  himself  with  its  civic  as  well  as  business  interests  and  he  has  gained 
recognition  as  a  wide-aw^ake  and  public  spirited  citizen.  He  has  been  a  very 
active  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  and  is  a  member  of  ite  board  of 


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trustees  at  the  present  time.  In  politics,  while  he  has  no  personal  ambition 
for  official  preferment,  Mr.  Powles  is  a  stanch  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party,  though  he  takes  no  active  part  in  political  affairs,  preferring  to  de- 
vote his  undivided  attention  to  his  business  interests.  He  is  president  of  the 
Renton  Hill  Club,  an  important  organization  which  is  devoting  its  energies 
to  the  beautifying-  of  that  delightful  section  of  the  city  from  which  it  derives 
its  name.  He  is  interested  in  several  mining-  properties  and  propositions 
and  also  owns  valuable  tide-land  property,  while  his  influence  is  ever  given 
in  the  furtherance  of  all  enterprises  and  projects  brought  forward  for  the 
general  good  of  the  city  and  state  in  the  lines  of  industrial,  civic  and  ma- 
terial development,  and  he  is  held  in  the  highest  esteem  in  both  business  and 
social  circles.  On  the  7th  of  April,  1881,  Mr.  Powles  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Mary  Jane  Dixon,  who  was  born  in  the  city  of  Montreal,  Can- 
ada, the  daughter  of  Alonzo  Dixon,  a  prominent  business  man  of  that  city, 
and  of  this  union  two  children  were  born,  Charles  William,  who  died  in  the 
third  year  of  his  age;  and  Olive  Rachel,  who  is  now  a  student  in  the  Seattle 
high  school. 

JOHN  H.  IRVING. 

In  viewing  the  mass  of  mankind  in  the  various  occupations  of  life, 
the  conclusion  is  forced  upon  the  observer  that  in  the  vast  majority  of  cases 
men  have  sought  employment  not  in  the  line  of  their  peculiar  fitness  but  in 
those  fields  where  caprice  or  circumstances  have  placed  them,  thus  explaining 
the  reason  of  the  failure  of  ninety-five  per  cent,  of  those  who  enter  com- 
mercial and  professional  circles.  In  a  few  cases  it  seems  that  men  with  a 
peculiar  fitness  for  a  certain  line  have  taken  it  up  and  marked  success  has 
followed.  Such  is  the  fact  in  the  case  of  the  subject  of  this  biography, 
John  H.  Irving.  He  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Irving  &  Cannon,  merchant 
tailors,  doing  business  in  the  Colonial  block  at  Seattle,  and  is  the  pioneer 
in  the  introduction  of  tailoring  to  the  trade  here. 

A  native  of  Michigan,  he  was  born  in  Port  Huron,  December  23,  1868, 
and  is  of  the  third  generation  to  bear  the  name  of  John  in  the  Irving  fam- 
ily, and  has  given  the  same  name  to  his  own  son.  His  grandfather  was  the  first 
of  the  Irvings  to  come  to  America,  emigrating  from  Scotland  to  Halifax, 
Nova  Scotia,  where  he  engaged  in  ship-building.  Later  he  removed  to 
Stratford,  Ontario,  and  was  there  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  becom- 
ing a  very  prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  that  locality.     John  Irving. 


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the  second,  who  was  born  in  the  land  of  hills  and  heather,  thence  came  with 
the  family  to  the  new  world.  He  was  afterward  engaged  in  railroad  con- 
tracting in  Michigan  and  also  conducted  a  lumber  business  there.  He  mar- 
ried Eliza  J.  Culbertson.  of  New  York  city,  and  to  them  were  born  seven 
children,  the  subject  of  this  review  being  the  sixth  in  order  of  birth. 

The  father  met  his  death  in  an  accident  and  early  in  life  John  H.  Irving 
was  thrown  upon  his  own  resources.  He  earned  the  money  to  meet  the  ex- 
penses of  his  education,  working  in  the  day  time,  while  at  night  he  attended 
Bryant  &  Stratton's  Business  College.  For  two  and  one-half  years  he  was 
with  the  Bell  Telephone  Company  in  Michigan.  He  afterward  made  a  con- 
tract with  the  fimi  of  Wannamaker  &  Brown  to  represent  them  in  the  state 
of  Washington  and  came  to  Seattle  in  1888,  making  this  his  headquarters. 
He  was  very  successful  in  building  up  a  good  trade  for  them  and  remained 
with  them  for  seven  years.  Perceiving  that  there  was  a  demand  for  the 
better  class  of  goods  here,  he  then  entered  into  partnership  in  1891  wath 
Mr.  Cannon,  and  this  relationship  has  since  been  maintained.  He  started 
in  to  build  up  a  business  that  would  prove  a  growing  and  profitable  one, 
and  that  they  have  succeeded  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  their  sales  in 
1 90 1  exceeded  twenty-four  thousand  dollars.  That  they  do  an  immense 
amount  of  work  is  apparent  in  visiting  their  place  of  business  in  the  Colonial 
block,  as  their  space  there  is  not  sufficient  for  performing  the  mechanical 
part  of  their  work  and  their  goods  are  made  up  elsewhere.  At  considerable 
expense  they  have  established  agencies  in  different  parts  of  Washington 
and  Alaska  and  continuously  have  one  man  upon  the  road,  while  at  times 
the  house  is  represented  by  two  traveling  salesmen.  Mr.  Irving  devotes  his 
entire  time  and  attention  to  business  and  has  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing 
it  steadil}'  increase  in  volume  and  importance  so  that  to-day  he  is  at  the  head 
of  one  of  the  leading  commercial  enterprises  of  the  city. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Irving  is  a  stalwart  Democrat,  and  socially 
is  .connected  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America  and  the  United  Com- 
mercial Travelers.  He  was  formerly  cpnnected  with  and  w^as  an  enthusi- 
astic member  of  the  Seattle  Athletic  Association,  but  the  leisure  which  he 
now  has  from  business  cares  he  devotes  to  his  home.  He  is  a  man  of  ex- 
cellent business  ability  and  has  gained  success  through  close  application, 
unremitting  diligence  and  by  strict  adherence  to  commercial  interests.  He 
planned  liis  own  advancement,  accomplished  it  in  spite  of  obstacles,  and 
to-day  is  the  possessor  of  a  very  desirable  capital,  which  is  the  well  earned 
reward  of  his  labors. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  537 

THOMAS  M.  ALVORD. 

Thomas  M.  Alvord  was  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  who  aided  in  lay- 
ing the  foundation  on  which  to  erect  the  superstructure  of  King  county's 
present  prosperity  and  progress.  Through  the  period  of  early  development 
he  was  an  important  factor  in  the  improvement  and  advancement  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  state,  and  was  also  concerned  with  the  broader  interests  which  had 
to  do  with  the  welfare  of  the  commonwealth. 

Mr.  Alvord  was  born  at  Homer,  New  York,  on  the  26th  of  February, 
1832,  and  is  a  son  of  Sylvester  and  Lucy  (Hall)  Alvord,  both  of  English 
descent,  the  former  born  in  New  York  in  1796  and  the  latter  in  New  Hamp- 
shire in  1800.  Li  the  paternal  line  the  ancestors  were  among  the  early  set- 
tlers of  Connecticut.  The  parents  both  died  at  Homer,  New  York,  the  fa- 
ther on  the  13th  of  October,  1864,  and  the  mother  in  1882.  Their  son 
Thomas  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city  and  later  was  a  stu- 
dent in  an  academy  at  that  place.  Remainng  under  the  parental  roof  until 
his  twenty-first  year,  he  then,  in  1853,  made  the  journey,  via  the  Nicaragua 
route,  to  California,  taking  up  his  abode  in  Calaveras  county,  where  for  the 
following  five  years  he  followed  mining  and  logging.  During  the  Eraser 
river  gold  excitement  in  1858  he  spent  about  six  months  in  that  region, 
coming  thence  to  Olympia,  Washington,  and  after  a  short  sojourn  there  lo- 
cated in  the  White  river  valley,  near  the  present  town  of  Kent,  the  year  of 
his  arrival  being  1859.  He  there  purchased  a  donation  claim  of  three  hun- 
dred and  twenty  acres  from  Moses  Kirkland,  who  had  entered  it  in  1854 
and  had  improved  it  to  a  considerable  extent.  In  1855  Mr.  Kirkland  was 
obliged  to  leave  this  place  on  account  of  the  Indians,  who  had  massacred  a 
number  of  families  in  the  immediate  neighborhood.  When  he  returned,  in 
company  with  Mr.  Alvord,  he  found  his  stock  gone  and  his  house  and  all  the 
farming  implements  burned,  with  the  exception  of  a  grindstone  which  was 
found  under  the  bank  of  the  river.  The  Indian  trouble  had  then  subsided 
and  Mr.  Alvord  began  the  arduous  task  of  improving  and  developing  his 
land,  and  soon  he  had  placed  it  under  an  excellent  state  of  cultivation  and  had 
established  a  prosperous  dairy,  which  he  successfully  conducted  from  1S59 
until  1895.  During  this  time  he  also  added  to  his  original  purchase  until  his 
landed  possessions  consisted  of  eleven  hundre<l  acres,  constituting  the  largest 
ranch  in  the  White  river  valley.  During  the  great  panic  of  1893-94  he  was 
compelled  to  mortgage  his  place,  and,  being  unable  to  meet  the  demands  on 
time,  the  mortgage  was  foreclosed  in  1895  by  the  New  England  Mortgage 
and  Security  Company,  and  for  a  time  thereafter  he  rented  the  land  from 
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538  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

this  company.  In  1899,  owing  to  liis  indomitable  energy  and  wise  manage- 
ment, he  was  able  to  repurchase  this  valuable  property,  and  success  has  since 
abundantly  rewarded  his  efforts.  He  is  now  the  owner  of  one  of  the  largest 
and  most  complete  dairy  farms  in  the  White  river  \alley.  Prior  to  the  ter- 
rible panic  of  1893  he  had  also  invested  largely  in  Seattle  property,  and  this 
he  also  lost. 

At  Spafford,  New  York,  in  1859,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr. 
Alvord  and  Miss  ]\Iaria  J.  Smitli.  She  was  born  at  Fabius,  Onondaga  coun- 
ty, New  York,  on  the  i6th  of  September,  1832,  and  is  of  Irish  and  English 
parentage.  Although  she,  too,  has  reached  the  seventieth  milestone  on  the 
journey  of  life,  she  is  yet  very  active,  and  by  her  cheerfulness,  wise  judgment 
and  earnest  labor  has  proved  to  her  husband  a  true  helpmate.  Four  chil- 
dren have  been  born  to  this  worthy  couple,  but  only  three  are  now  living, 
namely:  Elisha  H.,  who  is  engaged  in  mining  on  the  Skagit  river;  Irving 
T.,  a  farmer  and  dairyman  on  White  river,  near  Pialschie,  Washington;  and 
Albert  S.,  engaged  in  mining  pursuits  in  Alaska.  Carrie  Ellen,  the  first  born, 
died  at  the  home  farm  on  the  i8th  of  April,  1891,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight  years.  In  political  matters  Mr.  Alvord  is  independent,  preferring  to 
support  the  men  whom  he  regards  as  best  qualified  to  fill  positions  of  trust 
and  responsibility.  He  is  a  true  example  of  one  who  has  achieved  success 
without  paying  the  price  at  which  it  is  so  often  bought;  for  his  prosperity 
has  not  removed  him  farther  from  his  fellow'  men,  but  has  brought  him  into 
nearer  and  more  intimate  relations  with  them.  The  more  means  he  has  had 
the  more  he  has  done  for  those  around  him,  and  this  honored  pioneer  is  num- 
bered among  King  county's  most  prominent  citizens. 

GEORGE  F.  COTTERILL. 

Among  the  young  men  who  came  to  Washington  territory  and  to  Seat-  . 
tie  during  the  "early  eighties,"  few  have  made  a  more  permanent  impression 
on  the  progress  and  development  of  state  and  city  than  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Mr.  Cotterill  has  not  achieved  wealth,  for  his  activities  have  not  been 
directed  to  personal  dollar-getting.  He  has  not  attained  public  ofiice, 
though  twice  before  the  people  as  candidate  for  mayor  of  his  city  and  con- 
gressman from  his  state,  yet  his  sincere  and  manly  advocacy  of  minority 
principles  have  commanded  tlie  universal  respect  of  partisan  opponents.  In 
his  profession  as  civil  engineer,  ^Ir.  Cotterill  has  played  an  important  part  in 
laying  the  foundation  for  the  present  progress  and  future  greatness  of  Seat- 
tle;   as  a  writer  and  speaker  his  service  in  the  public  affairs  of  citv  and  state 


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has  earned  the  devotion  of  friends  and  the  friendship  of  opponents;  as  an 
advocate  of  reform  principles  of  government  as  apphed  to  city,  state  or  na- 
tion, he  is  a  recognized  leader,  whose  sincerity  is  never  challenged  nor  cour- 
age in  application  questioned.  Though  never  seeking  honors  or  emolu- 
ments, and  enjoying  a  degree  of  confidence  and  assured  success  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession  Mr.  Cotterill  has  never  shirked  a  call  to  public  service,  what- 
ever might  be  the  personal  sacrifice  required,  demanding  oni}  a  square  stand 
in  advocacy  of  his  avowed  principles,  preferring  defeat  on  that  ground  to 
success  by  evasion  or  time-serving.  To-day,  at  the  threshold  of  middle  man- 
hood, George  F.  Cotterill  looks  toward  the  future  with  but  one  controlling- 
ambition — to  accomplish  the  highest  service  for  humanity  which  opportunity 
and  ability  may  afford. 

George  Fletcher  Cotterill  was  born  in  the  city  of  Oxford,  England, 
November  18,  1S65.  His  parentage  is  of  that  solid  foundation  of  Britain's 
greatness — the  honest,  industrious  working  people.  Robert  Cotterill  and 
Alice  (Smith)  Cotterill,  commenced  life  as  gardener  and  housewife  in  their 
najtive  "merrie  England,"  but  Ijv  the  time  fi\'e  children  were  gathered  about 
their  fireside  (three  others  having  died  in  infancy),  the  father  carried  out  a 
long  cherished  plan  looking  to  the  future  of  his  family,  and  joined  the  tide  of 
emigrants  to  the  republic  across  the  Atlantic.  This  was  in  1872,  the  good 
steamer  Samaria  arriving  in  Boston  harbor  early  in  May  of  that  year.  Dur- 
ing 1869-70  Robert  Cotterill  had  made  a  preliminary  trip  to  "spy  out  the  pro- 
mised land,"  extending  his  visit  as  far  west  as  Michigan,  returning  with  the 
determination  to  earn  enough  to  come  again  with  wife  and  children,  which 
he  accomplished  in  1872.  At  this  period  the  subject  of  our  sketch  Avas  six 
years  of  age,  the  fourth  of  the  flock  of  five. 

After  a  few  weeks'  residence  in  Boston  and  later  at  West  Newton,  where 
the  children  first  attended  an  American  school,  the  family  located  at  Montclair, 
New  Jersey,  a  wealthy  and  picturesque  residence  suburb  of  the  American 
metropolis,  nestling  under  and  alt»ng  the  slope  of  the  Orange  mountain,  fif- 
teen miles  west  of  Manhattan  Island.  Here  they  remained  twelve  years, 
Robert  Cotterill  working  as  gardener  and  later  establishing  himself  in  a  hum- 
ble way  as  a  village  florist.  Four  others  were  added  to  the  fold,  of  whom 
tln-ee  little  one  spassed  away  in  infancy  and  childhood,  leaxiiig  two  daughters 
and  four  sons  around  the  family  berth.  Montclair  lias  always  enjoyed  and 
boasted  of  exceptional  educational  facilities,  and  these  the  Cotterill  family 
utilized  to  the  utmost  within  the  means  available.  By  reason  of  an  aptitude 
for  study  and  desire  for  advancement,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  made  such 
rapid  progress  that  at  fifteen  years  of  age  he  was  graduated  from  the  classi- 


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cal  course  of  the  high  school  as  valedictorian  of  his  class.  It  was  his  ambi- 
tion to  become  a  lawyer,  history,  literature  and  languages  having  been  his 
favorite  school  studies.  He  hoped  by  some  means  to  work  his  way  through 
Yale  College,  the  entry  to  which  was  open  by  his  graduation  diploma.  But 
there  were  difficulties  other  than  financial.  The  fifteen  year  old  valedictorian, 
crammed  with  Latin  and  literature,  mathematics  and  philosophy,  was  a  slend- 
er boy  of  stunted  growth,  with  voice  not  yet  turned  from  the  childish  falsetto,  a 
candidate  for  consumption  rather  than  for  college.  On  the  night  of  graduation, 
while  others  were  bestowing  bouquets  and  congratulations,  one  of  the  school 
directors,  Mr.  James  Owen,  said  with  practical  brusqueness  equivalent  to  a 
command,  ''George,  you've  studied  long  enough.  What  you  need  is  good  air, 
plenty  of  exercise  and  a  chance  to  grow.  I'm  going  to  start  a  'crew'  Monday 
morning  to  survey  a  railroad  line  the  other  side  of  the  mountain.  Be  ready 
at  seven  o'clock  at  my  office.  I  want  you  to  carry  the  rod."  And  since  that 
July  day  of  1881,  George  Cotterill  has  been  carrying  the  rod  or  the  chain  or 
ihe  instrument,  steadily  advancing  by  practical  experience  in  the  profession 
of  surveying  and  civil  engineering. 

In  1884  Robert  Cotterill  proceeded  to  carry  out  a  purpose  long  cherished 
but  delayed  only  that  his  older  children  might  complete  .their  education.  The 
same  spirit  which  had  sent  him  across  the  Atlantic  in  search  of  better  oppor- 
tunities, convinced  him  that  the  great  west  offered  still  greater  opportunities, 
and  during  the  latter  seventies  his  judgment  settled  upon  the  frontier  terri- 
tory of  Washington  and  the  Puget  Sound  region,  with  its  bahny  climate  and 
great  possibilities,  as  the  place  of  eventual  location.  The  thieatening  illness 
of  his  oldest  son,  Hedley,  then  twenty  years  of  age,  for  which  change  of  cli- 
mate was  urged,  hastened  the  decision.  In  August,  1884,  the  father  and  two 
sons,  George  being  then  eighteen  years  of  age,  set  out  for  the  Pacific  north- 
west. It  was  an  emigrants'  journey,  without  the  comforts  of  modern  trans- 
continental travel,  or  the  means  to  purchase  them  had  they  been  available. 
The  journey  from. St.  Paul  to  Portland  then  required  six  days  of  tedious,  tire- 
some travel.  With  his  three  years  of  experience  under  the  direction  of  ]\Ir. 
James  Owen,  then  as  now  one  of  the  eminent  leaders  in  the  profession  of  en- 
gineering, George  Cotterill  hoped  for  employment  with  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railway,  whose  headquarters  were  then  at  the  Oregon  metropolis.  Hence  he 
remained  at  Portland,  while  his  father  and  brother  went  on  to  Puget  Sound. 
The  opportunity  seemed  certain,  but  after  three  weeks  of  weary  waiting,  his 
hopes  were  dashed  to  the  ground  by  news  of  the  cessation  of  all  work  on  the 
Cascade  division,  to  which  he  had  been  promised  assignment  by  the  chief  en- 
gineer, VWgW  G.  Bogue.  on  the  strength  of  his  recommendations  from  Mr. 


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Owen.  On  October  i,  1884,  he  took  the  boat  for  Kalama  and  the  train  for 
Taconia,  arriving  at  the  "city  of  destiny"  in  the  dead  of  night  with  a  "two- 
bit  piece"  as  sole  cash  resource.  A  cheap  bed  in  a  "shack"  lodging  house  front- 
ing the  stumps  of  the  future  Pacific  avenue,  absorbed  the  twenty-five  cents,  but 
brought  daylight  in  its  stead,  and  a  long  walk  out  to  the  home  of  friends  on  a 
forest  "ranch"  in  the  suburbs,  found  the  wanderer  a  grateful  welcome  and  a 
late  breakfast.  Work  was  scarce,  and  difficulties  multiplied.  The  meager 
funds  set  aside  for  the  trip  were  soon  exhausted.  The  older  brother  found 
no  improved  health,  for  the  dread  disease  consumption  had  marked  him  for 
its  victim.  During  October  and  November,  though  battling  bravely  against 
its  inroads,  and  striving  to  earn  a  living  by  working  at  his  occupation  as  a 
bookkeeper  for  Moran  Brothers,  fellow  townsmen  from  Montclair,  New 
Jersey,  then  just  establishing  themselves  in  Seattle,  the  struggle  was  unequal 
in  the  face  of  the  Puget  Sound  rainy  season.  "Take  Inm  back  to  the  old 
home,"  was  the  physician's  order,  and  sacrificing  all,  the  father  turned  his 
face  back  towards  the  Atlantic.  It  was  on  Thanksgiving  day,  1884,  that 
father  and  two  sons  met  at  Tacoma,  there  to  say  goodbye,  ni  the  one  case, 
forever.  George,  though  without  work  or  prospects,  had  determined  to  re- 
main, both  from  necessity  and  choice.  In  the  division  of  the  scanty  funds  at 
hand,  he  reserved  but  eight  dollars  when  the  train  for  the  east  left  him  alone 
on  the  Tacoma  platform.  He  secured  a  few  days'  w^ork  laying  out  a  cemetery 
for  the  future  metropolis,  but  was  buncoed  out  of  his  pay  by  a  drunken  em- 
ployer. Even  with  frugal  repasts  of  "cofifee  and  doughnuts"  at  measured 
mtervals,  wdth  the  weekly  room  rent,  the  capital  was  steadily  vanishing  and 
affairs  looked  dark.  An  opportunity  was  offered  to  do  housework  chores 
for  an  old  bachelor,  wh.o  had  forsworn  all  cooking  Ijut  his  own ;  the  compensa- 
tion was  five  dollars  per  month  and  board.  It  w^as  a  life  preserver,  and  George 
grasped  it.  His  employer  was  an  old-time  northern  Pacific  engineer,  C.  A. 
White,  with  a  fine  library  and  a  fund  of  knowledge  about  Puget  Sound  and 
the  Cascade  mountains,  which  were  liberally  drawn  on  by  the  sur\-eyor 
"house-maid."  Before  the  month  expired,  during  the  festive  holiday  season, 
Mr.  White  concluded  to  break  up  housekeeping,  but  he  munificently  paid  his 
young  engineer  "dish-w^asher"  the  full  month's  pay.  ^^'ith  that  five  dollars 
in  hand,  and  no  Tacoma  prospects  in  sight,  George  F.  Cotterill  accepted  the 
invitation  of  Captain  E.  Coding,  then  working  at  Tacoma  ^\  ith  his  little  tug, 
the  Lucy,  and  on  New  Year's  eve,  came  o\-er  to  Seattle  to  commence  1885 
in  the  Queen  City  of  Puget  Sound. 

A  continued  detail  of  Mr.  Cotterill's  life  is  largely  a  record  of  the  various 
enterprises  which  have  made  up  the  progress  of  Seattle.     Pending  employ- 


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ment  at  his  profession,  he  continued  his  brothers  work  of  bookkeeping  for 
Moran  Brothers,  residing  at  the  home  of  Robert  Moran.  His  first  survey- 
ing in  Seattle  consisted  of  measuring  and  platting  a  seat  diagram  for  the  new 
Frye's  Opera  House,  a  job  secured  by  James  Hamilton  Lewis,  whose  ac- 
quaintance he  had  made  at  Tacoma,  over  occasional  "coffee  and  doughtnuts" 
—the  limit  of  the  purse  capacity  of  the  young  southern  lawyer  and  the  youth- 
ful northern  engineer.  Mr.  Lewis  was  "hind  chinaman"  on  the  opera  house 
survey,  and  "consulting  engineer"  on  the  scientific  numbering  of  the  seats,  and 
the  fee  of  fifteen  dollars  was  proudly  divided.  During  February  and  March 
ycjung  Cotterill  secured  a  post  as  back-flagman  on  a  survey  for  the  Columbia 
and  Puget  Sound  Railway  between  the  Black  Diamond  vicinity  and  the  present 
Palmer  Junction.  This  was  his  first  taste  of  Washington  woods.  He  was  ad- 
vanced to  leveler  and  topographer  before  the  completion  of  the  .survey.  Re- 
turning to  the  city,  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  firm  of  Whitworth  &  Thom- 
son, serving  in  any  capacity  that  offered  on  sun^eys  in  Seattle  and  vicinity. 
During  the  summer  of  1885  he  worked  under  Mr.  F.  H.  Whitworth  as  transit 
man  on  the  first  surveys  of  the  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  and  Eastern  Railway,  and 
as  draughtsman  on  the  preliminary  maps  for  that  enterprise.  During  this 
year  and  the  next  he  assisted  Mr.  R.  H.  Thomson  on  the  surveys  and  con- 
struction of  the  first  section  of  the  permanent  sewer  system  of  Seattle,  and  up- 
on the  project  of  the  Grant  street  bridge  to  the  head  of  the  bay — a  great  under- 
taking for  that  day.  He  helped  on  the  first  surveys  of  the  present  site  of 
West  Seattle  into  five-acre  tracts,  and  in  January,  1886,  armed  only  with  com- 
pass and  chain,  was  sent  over  into  the  woods  of  Kitsap  county,  and  with 
crude  means  and  unskilled  help,  designed  and  staked  the'  site  of  Sidney,  the 
present  county  seat  of  the  neighboring  county  across  the  sound. 

In  May,  1886,  the  Northern  Pacific  railway  resumed  the  construction  of 
the  Cascade  division,  and  Mr.  Bogue  remembered  and  redeemed  the  promise 
made  in  Portland  in  1884.  Mr.  Cotterill  proceeded  to  Ellensburg,  via  Tac- 
oma, Portland  and  Pasco,  then  the  only  available  route  of  travel,  reported  to 
H.  S.  Huson  there,  and  was  assigned  to  service  as  transit  man  under  Locating 
Engineer  J.  Q.  Barlow.  The  relocation  of  the  main  line  from  Cle  Elum  to 
the  Stampede  tunnel,  the  location  and  construction  of  the  wonderful  "switch- 
back line"  over  the  Cascade  summit,  and  the  three  miles  of  loops  and  tunnels 
west  of  the  "big  tunnel,"  were  under  Mr.  Barlow's  direction.  Though  not 
yet  twenty-one  years  of  age  Mr.  Cotterill  did  responsible  service  and  gained 
valuable  experience.  The  Cascade  mountain  air  and  ample  exercise  com- 
pleted the  work  of  physical  upbuilding  commenced  in  1881,  and  when  he  left 
the  Northern  Pacific  in  January,  1887,  the  slender,  stunted  student  of  Mont- 


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clciir  had  the  physique  of  an  athlete.  7'he  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  and  Eastern 
enterprise  having  resumed  progress,  Mr.  Cotterill  returned  to  that  employ 
and  during  1887  and  1888  served  with  Mr.  Thomson  on  the  location  work 
and  later  with  Mr.  Whitworth  in  the  prospecting  and  opening  of  the  coal 
mines  at  Oilman  (Issaquah)  and  Grand  Ridge.  In  December,  1888,  he  re- 
signed from  that  service  to  enter  a  partnership  with  Mr.  H.  Thomson,  now 
city  engineer,  and  Mr.  Clarence  L.  White,  since  county  surveyor,  for  the 
general  practice  of  surveying  and  engineering  in  Seattle. 

Within  two  weeks  from  the  return  of  the  father  and  brother  to  New  Jer- 
sey in  1885,  Hedley  Cotterill  succumbed  to  his  disease  and  the  fatigue  of  the 
homeward  trip,  from  which  he  never  rallied.  The  first  news  which  reached 
George  after  the  great  snow  blockade  of  that  winter,  delaying  mails  for  weeks, 
conveyed  the  sad  story  of  the  death  of  his  brother.  Robert  Cotterill  settled 
down  to  his  old  business  as  florist  in  Montclair  and  in  another  three  years 
was  ready  for  the  westward  trip,  bringing  wife  and  youngest  son.  The 
oldest  daughter,  Emily,  remained  in  Montclair,  becoming  the  wife  of  Eu- 
gene Haring,  and  still  residing  there.  The  second  daughter,  Alice,  was 
at  that  time  a  school  teacher  in  Iowa,  having  spent  several  years  in  that 
state  and  in  Illinois,  afterwards,  in  1888,  coming  to  Seattle,  and  later  became 
the  wife  of  John  J.  Smith,  now  the  superintendent  of  a  Seattle  fruit-can- 
ning industry.  The  second  surviving  son,  Frank,  had  worked  his  way  to 
Washington  territory  during  1886,  and  has  since  resided  at  Seattle  or  neigh- 
boring towns,  engaging  in  his  occupation  of  plumbing.  When  father  and 
mother  came  west  in  1887  they  located  upon  a  ranch  on  Lake  Sammamish, 
near  Redmond,  a  tract  acquired  by  George  F.  Cotterill  while  on  the  rail- 
road survey  in  that  vicinity.  Here  the  parents  still  reside,  in  the  quiet  and 
peace  of  a  modest  dairy  farm,  with  all  their  children  save  one  settled  down 
at  close  visiting  distance  in  the  busy  metropolis  ten  miles  to  the  westward. 
Though  approaching  threescore  years  and  ten,  they  are  in  fair  health  and 
satisfied  with  the  turns  of  fortune's  wdieel  which  have  brought  them  con- 
tentment, though  not  wealth.  Though  Episcopalians  from  training  in  the 
church  of  England,  and  still  devoted  to  that  faith,  they  are  regularly  to 
be  found  at  the  little  union  Sunday-school  at  Redmond,  working  for  Chris- 
tian service  regardless  of  denomination. 

In  1892  Mr.  R.  H.  Thomson  became  city  engineer  of  Seattle  antl  he 
at  once  appointed  George  F.  Cotterill  as  his  assistant.  In  that  capacity, 
during  the  eight  years  that  followed,  Mr.  Cotterill  made  his  mark  in  the 
public  progress  of  Seattle.  The  design  and  construction  of  the  sewer  sys- 
tem was  largely  under  his  supervision.     The  system  of  street  naming  and 


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inmibering  was  revised  and  established  by  him.  His  principal  service,  how- 
e-.-er,  was  rendered  in  the  project  for  constructing  the  great  Cedar  Rnxr  grav- 
hv  water  supplv  system;  the  unique  and  up  to  that  time  unknown  method  ot 
financing  such  an  enterprise  by  pledging  its  future  receipts  was  proposed  by 
^Ir.  Cotterill.  The  special  election  of  1895  to  approve  this  plan  was  preceded 
by  a  warmlv  contested  campaign,  in  which  for  the  first  time  he  became  known 
as  a  public 'speaker  and  writer,  the  burden  of  the  defense  of  the  plan  being 
placed  upon  him  as  its  champion.  Its  triumphant  success  at  the  polls  and 
subsequent  accomplishment  are  matters  of  history.  At  a  later  date  ^Ir.  Cot- 
terill's  services  in  matters  relating  to  the  tide  land  and  harbor  flats  have  been 
noteworthy.  The  present  plan  of  diagonal  piers  and  slips,  which  during  the 
past  fi\'e  years  has  revolutionized  Seattle's  water  front  facilities,  was  ac- 
complished only  by  the  persevering  industry  of  George  F.  Cotterill. 

In  February,  1900,  the  municipal  campaign  centered  around  questions 
arising  out  of  the  administration  of  the  laws  dealing  with  vice,  and  also  the 
granting  of  private  franchises.  As  the  recognized  champion  of  the  forces 
which  stood  for  "law  and  order"  and  for  public  ownership  of  public  utilities, 
^Ir.  Cotterill  was  called  upon  to  make  the  race  for  mayor  against  the  Re- 
publican nominee.  At  the  election  in  ^^larch,  though  defeated,  :\Ir.  Cotterill 
was  a  thousand  votes  ahead  of  the  Democratic  ticket  which  he  headed.  Im- 
mediately following  that  campaign,  he  resigned  from  pub.lic  employ  and 
during  the  past  three  years  has  successfully  engaged  in  the  private  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  in  association  with  ]\Ir.  F.  H.  Whitworth,  his  old  em- 
ployer of  1885.  and  Clarence  C.  White,  his  partner  of  1889-90.  In  1902  Mr. 
Cotterill  was  unanimously  tendered  the  Democratic  nomination  for  con- 
gressman-at-large,  without  any  desire  or  seeking  on  his  part.  Though  de- 
feat was  certain,  in  the  face  of  an  overwhelming  normal  Republican  ma- 
jority, Mr.  Cotterill  made  a  memorable  campaign,  covering  the  entire  state, 
and  on  November  4th  led  his  ticket  by  nearly  three  thousand  votes,  of 
which  half  was  in  his  own  county  of  King.  Though  now  quietly  settled 
down  to  the  remunerative  practice  of  his  profession,  these  efforts  have  placed 
him  in  the  front  rank  of  the  public  men  of  the  state,  and  men  of  every  po- 
litical faith  are  in  the  habit  of  speaking  of  George  F.  Cotterill  as  a  man  who 
is  certain  sooner  or  later  to  be  called  into  some  important  station  of  public 
life. 

Mr.  Cotterill  has  been  an  active  worker  and  leader  in  the  temperance 
movement,  and  particularly  in  the  Independent  Order  of  Good  Templars. 
Both  in  England  and  America  his  father  had  engaged  earnestly  in  this  line 
of  reform,  and  it  came  naturally  that  the  son  should  take  up  the  work.     Be- 


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coming  a  member  of  this  order  in  1885,  he  speedily  passed  through  the  local 
lodge  offices,  and  in  1889  became  grand  secretary  of  the  state  jurisdiction. 
In  1893  he  first  attended  the  session  of  the  international  supreme  lodge  at 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  incidentally  the  World's  Fair  at  Chicago.  In  1895 
he  again  represented  Washington,  at  the  international  session  at  Boston 
also  at  Zwich,  Switzerland,  in  1897,  and  at  Toronto,  Canada,  in  1899.  His 
service  at  these  international  gatherings  was  of  such  efficiecncy  that  in  1899 
he  was  recognized  and  honored  by  selection  to  the  second  highest  post  in  the 
international  organization.  In  that  capacity,  during  1902,  he  attended  the 
session  at  Stockholm,  Sweden,  and  occupied  two  months  in  a  tour  through 
Europe,  from  Scandanavia  to  Italy,  and  from  Austria  to  Great  Britain.  These 
and  other  opportunities  for  American  and  foreign  travel  have  been  the  means 
of  a  liberal  education  and  a  broadening  of  character  and  outlook  attainable 
in  no  other  way. 

i\Ir.  Cotterill  is  also  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Work- 
men and  of  the  Royal  Arcanum,  and  has  taken  an  active  interest  in  their 
work  as  occasion  permitted.  During  the  height  of  the  bicycle  movement 
he  was  an  active  leader,  designing  and  constructing  the  twenty-five  miles  and 
more  of  cycle  paths  which  justly  made  Seattle  famous  in  that  line  of  recre- 
ation. The  "good  roads"  movement  has  claimed  his  attention  both  as  an  en- 
gineer and  citizen.  In  November,  1900,  he  attended  the  National  Good 
Roads  Convention  as  a  representative  of  Seattle.  During  the  year  1902  the 
Pacific  Northwest  Society  of  Engineers  was  organized,  and  J\Ir.  Cotterill 
was  honored  by  his  professional  brethren  with  election  as  secretary  of  the 
society. 

In  February,  1889,  George  F.  Cotterill  was  married  to  Miss  Cora  R. 
Gormley,  daughter  of  Henry  and  Orra  Gormley,  of  Dela%an,  Wisconsin, 
who  had  removed  to  Seattle  about  1877.  Mrs.  Cotterill  is  therefore  seven 
vears  more  of  a  Washington  Dioneer  than  her  husband.  Since  their  mar- 
riage  they  have  constantly  resided  in  their  cosy  cottage  home  in  North  Seat- 
tle. One  child  was  born  of  the  union,  Ruth  Eileen,  bringing  the  sunshine 
for  eight  happy  years,  then  passing  over  to  the  beyond,  leaving  a  beautiful 
memory  to  the  bereaved  parents.  During  the  two  years  that  have  followed 
that  sad  event  they  have  striven  by  activities  in  life  and  frequent  travel  and 
other  scenes  to  keep  back  the  shadow  and  remember  only  the  sunshine.  The 
youngest  brother  of  the  family,  Roland  W.  Cotterill,  spent  most  of  his  youth 
and  young  manhood  at  the  home  of  George  F.  Cotterill.  He  is  now  married 
and  occupies  a  responsible  position  with  the  Seattle  Electric  Company.  At 
thirty-seven  years  of  age,  George  F.  Cotterill  has  by  industry,  sobriety  and 


546  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

force  of  character  thus  made  himself  prominent  in  professional,  fraternal 
and  political  circles.  In  all  these  he  has  risen  to  distinction  through  per- 
sonal merit,  capability  and  the  possession  of  sterling  qualities  of  manhood. 
To  be  true  to  Seattle,  true  to  his  fellow  men,  true  to  himself,  these  are  his 
highest  ideals. 

EBENEZER  SHORROCK. 

By  reason  of  his  straightforward  and  conservative  business  policy  and  of 
the  success  he  has  achieved  thereby,  Ebenezer  Shorrock  occupies  a  prominent 
position  in  Seattle,  being  well  known  as  president  and  manager  of  the  North- 
west Trust  &  Safe  Deposit  Company  and  manager  of  the  Land  Mortgage 
Bank  of  Nortli-W'estern  America,  Limited. 

Mr.  Shorrock  is  a  native  of  England,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Lan- 
cashire on  the  22d  of  December,  1859.  His  parents,  now  deceased,  were 
James  and  Elizabeth  (Brown)  Shorrock,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of 
England  and  members  of  the  Baptist  church.  Of  his  two  brothers,  one,  the 
Rev.  A.  G.  Shorrock,  is  a  minister  of  that  denomination  in  China,  while  the 
other,  E.  G.  Shorrock,  is  a  professional  accountant  in  Seattle. 

^Ir.  Shorrock  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  and  won  the  degree 
of  Bachelor  of  Arts  in  the  London  University.  He  then  entered  upon  his 
business  career,  in  which  he  has  since  continued,  the  greater  part  of  it,  prior 
to  his  finally  settling  in  this  country,  being  spent  in  Manchester,  Liverpool 
and  London.  He  made  frequent  visits  to  the  United  States  in  connection 
with  important  financial  interests  and  in  1896  was  sent  to  Seattle  by  the 
Land  Mortgage  Bank  of  North-AVestern  America  to  take  charge  of  that 
company's  extensive  investments  in  the  state  of  Washington.  Becoming 
increasingly  impressed  with  the  future  lying  before  the  Pacific  coast  and 
Seattle  especially,  he  decided  upon  making  it  his  permanent  home  and  in 
1899  established  the  general  financial  and  safe  deposit  business  which  in  1900 
was  taken  over  by  the  Northwest  Trust  &  Safe  Deposit  Company,  w^hich  he 
organized  for  the  purpose.  This  company  has  met  with  very  gratifying 
success,  embracing  as  it  does  general  banking  with  a  savings  bank  depart- 
ment, safe  deposit,  trust,  investment  and  other  departments.  Mr.  Shor- 
rock has  coupled  with  his  own  interests  those  of  the  city  of  his  adoption  and 
is  very  active  and  influential  in  promoting  all  enterprises  for  the  general 
good.  He  was  elected  trustee  of  the  chamber  of  commerce  in  June,  1901, 
and  is  chairman  of  one  of  its  committees.  He  is  a  member  of  the  school 
board,  treasurer  of  the  Charity  Organization  Society  and  president  of  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  547 

Washington  Children's  Home  Society.  His  co-operation  is  heartily  gi'.en 
to  many  movements  for  public  improvement  and  his  worth  as  a  citizen  is 
widely  acknowledged. 

In  1886  Mr.  Shorrock  married  ]\riss  Frances  B.  Bower,  a  native  of  Der- 
byshire, England,  and  to  them  have  been  born  three  sons.  Theirs  is  a  beau- 
tifully, situated  residence  on  the  corner  of  Highland  Drive  and  Seventh 
avenue,  west,  on  Queen  Anne  Hill.  !Mr.  Shorrock,  while  a  Baptist  in  prin- 
ciples, is  a  prominent  and  influential  member  of  Westminster  Presbyterian 
church  of  Seattle,  in  which  he  is  serving  as  a  trustee  and  treasurer.  He  is 
an  able  financier,  a  progressive  business  man  and  is  a  notable  addition  to  the 
financial  circles  of  Seattle  Although  he  has  resided  here  for  a  compara- 
tively brief  period  his  capability  is  widely  acknowledged  and  his  social  quali- 
ties have  gained  for  him  many  friends. 

PATRICK  C.   HAYES. 

The  gentleman  to  a  review  of  whose  life  we  now  turn  is  one  of  the  repre- 
sentative farmers  and  well  known  citizens  of  King  county,  whose  postoftice 
address  is  O'Brien.  He  was  born  in  county  Limerick,  Ireland,  in  February, 
1833.  His  father,  Patrick  Hayes,  Sr.,  was  born  in  the  same  county  in  1785. 
During  his  youth  the  English  government  would  not  allow  the  Irish  of  the 
Catholic  faith  the  advantages  of  the  schools,  but  in  spite  of  this  he  succeeded 
in  becoming  an  accomplished  scholar,  receiving  what  is  known  as  a  ''hedge"' 
education,  being  taught  secretly  by  persons  who  were  ostensibly  engaged  in 
peddling  or  some  other  sort  of  itinerant  occupation.  As  a  life  occupation 
Mr.  Hayes  chose  the  tilling  of  the  soil.  His  wife  was  also  a  native  of  coun- 
ty Limerick,  and  to  this  worthy  couple  were  born  ten  children. 

Patrick  C.  Hayes  gained  his  first  education  in  private  schools,  the  na- 
tional or  public  schools  not  having  been  established  till  he  was  ten  years 
old,  or  in  1843,  thirteen  years  after  the  Catholic  emancipation  bill  had  been 
passed.  The  great  Daniel  O'Connell  was  the  advocate  of  this  measure,  who 
was  the  only  Catholic  member  of  the  House  of  Commons  at  the  time,  and 
Mr.  Hayes  recalls  having  seen  him  before  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1847. 
After  his  arrival  in  America,  in  January,  185 1,  young  Hayes  completed  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  New  York  city.  During  the  first  seventeen 
months  after  his  arrival  in  this  country  he  was  engaged  in  driving  mules 
on  the  Lehigh  &  Delaware  canal,  and  for  five  years  thereafter  he  worked  in 
the  copper  mines  of  Lake  Superior.      At  the  time  of  his  arrival  at  the  mines 


548  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

there  were  but  two  small  vessels  plying  on  the  waters  of  the  lake,  one  the 
side-wheel  steamer  Michigan  and  the  schooner  Miner,  fifty-six  tons  bur- 
den. In  1856,  via  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,,  Mr.  Hayes  made  the  journey 
to  the  Golden  state,  where  for  two  years  he  was  engaged  in  chopping  cord 
wood  in  Nevada  and  Stanislaus  counties,  while  at  the  same  time  he  was 
prospecting  and  mining  to  a  considerable  extent  in  those  localities.  Leav- 
ing California  in  January,  1859,  he  arrived  at  Port  Gamble,  Washington, 
on  the  loth  of  February  of  that  year,  but  after  a  residence  there  of 
six  months  he  returned  to  the  California  mines,  where  he  spent  a  similar 
period.  His  next  occupation  was  logging  on  the  Puget  Sound,  near 
Port  Gamble,  and  in  i860  he  made  a  trip  to  Engle  creek,  east  of  the 
Rocky  mountains,  in  search  of  gold,  but  his  search  proved  unsuccessful, 
and  in  the  fall  of  that  year  he  came  to  the  White  river  valley  of  Washing- 
ton. In  the  following  year  he  leased  a  tract  of  two  acres  from  John  Crum, 
on  which  he  raised  on  the  shares  a  large  crop  of  onions,  finding  a  ready  sale 
for  this  commodity  at  an  exceedingly  high  price,  and  with  the  proceeds  he 
purchased  his  present  farm,  located  near  the  village  of  Orillia,  on  the  North- 
ern Pacific  Railroad.  His  farm  was  originally  the  property  of_  James  Ash- 
well,  who  had  secured  it  as  a  squatter's  claim  in  an  early  day.  At  the  time 
of  the  purchase  his  place  consisted  of  one  hundred  and  fifty-two  acres,  for 
which  he  paid  fifty  dollars  an  acre,  and  later,  in  1892,  he  became  the  owner 
of  an  adjoining  tract  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  school  land,  the  pur- 
chase price  being  one  hundred  and  ten  dollars  an  acre.  Of  the  original 
tract  only  ten  acres  had  been  cleared,  and  it  required  many  years  of  arduous 
and  persistent  labor  to  remove  the  dense  growth  of  trees  and  underbrush  and 
bring  it  to  its  present  high  state  of  cultivation.  The  place  is  now  one  of  the 
valuable  ones  of  the  White  river  valley,  w^ith  its  well  kept  fences,  handsome 
and  commodious  buildings  and  highly  improved  fields. 

In  1876  Mr.  Hayes  planted  the  second  crop  of  hops  in  King  county, 
and  from  that  time  until  1892  he  was  one  of  the  principal  hop-raisers  in  the 
county,  handling  on  an  average  one  hundred  thousand  pounds  a  year.  Dur- 
ing all  this  time,  covering  a  period  of  eighteen  years,  he  has  also  been  en- 
gaged in  the  dairy  business,  now^  milking  about  one  hundred  cows.  His 
farming  operations  are  also  conducted  on  an  extensive  scale:  he  raises  each 
year  large  quantities  of  beets,  hay  and  other  commodities  for  winter  feed, 
while  his  potato  crop  yields  an  average  of  four  hundred  bushels  to  the  acre, 
and  he  devotes  a  large  area  to  the  production  of  the  prolific  tubers.  Through- 
out his  entire  business  career  Mr.  Hayes  has  labored  faithfully  and  intelli- 
gently, and  he  justly  merits  the  high  degree  of  success  which  is  to-dav  his. 


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His  political  support  is  given  to  the  Democracy,  and  he  is  a  strong  advocate 
of  all  movements  and  measures  that  are  calculated  to  advance  morality. 

He  was  married  first  in  Seattle,  in  February,  1865,  to  Bridget  Burns, 
who  was  born  in  county  Clare,  Ireland,  and  who  died  in  1880,  leaving  five 
children,  namely:  John,  a  resident  of  Skagit  county,  Washington;  Mary, 
the  wife  of  Frank  C.  Owens,  an  attorney  of  Olympia;  Ella,  who  married 
Lieutenant  Edwin  L.  Rains;  Agnes,  the  wife  of  Frank  E.  Webb;  and  Anis- 
tatia,  who  resides  at  home.  In  1882,  at  San  Jose,  California,  Mr.  Hayes 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Margaret  Stewart,  who  was  born  in  county  Lim- 
erick, Ireland,  in  1857,  and  came  to  this  country  in  1875.  Throughout  his 
long  and  useful  life  Mr.  Hayes  has  been  guided  by  principles  of  right  and 
justice,  and  he  has  ever  held  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him. 

FREDERICK  KIRSCHNER. 

To  know  Frederick  Kirschner  was  to  like  him,  to  esteem  him  and  to 
entertain  for  him  high  regard,  and  his  was  an  acquaintance  that  wore  well, 
his  oldest  friends  being  his  best  friends.  This  fact  alone  indicated  that  he 
possessed  many  sterling  traits  of  character  and  the  proof  of  this  w'as  also 
found  in  his  business  life,  wdiere  he  bore  a  reputation  for  enterprise  and  reli- 
ability that  was  very  enviable.  He  passed  away  June  29,  1897,  his  death 
being  deeply  regretted  by  those  to  v.-hom  he  had  endeared  himself  by  his 
sunny  nature,   genial  disposition  and  many  kindly  acts. 

Frederick  Kirschner  was  born  on  the  21st  of  May,  1856,  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  and  was  of  German  descent.  In  a  family  of  six  children,  four  sons 
and  tW'O  daughters,  he  was  the  eldest.  Flis  brothers,  Gustave,  John  and 
George,  are  all  living  in  Seattle.  His  sister,  Mrs.  Lizzie  Phillips,  is  a  resi- 
dent of  Barnesville,  Minnesota,  while  Mrs.  Mary  Kinsey  is  living  in  Ar- 
cadia, Wisconsin.  During  his  early  boyhood  Frederick  Kirschner  accom- 
panied, his  parents  on  their  removal  to  Alma,  Wisconsin,  where  his  youth 
^vas  passed  in  the  acquirement  of  a  good  education.  He  remained  a  resident 
of  that  state  until  1884,  when,  recognizing  the  excellent  business  opportuni- 
ties of  the  rapidly  developing  northwest,  he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  made 
his  home  until  called  to  his  final  rest.  Here  in  company  with  his  father-in- 
law  and  his  brother-in-law  he  founded  the  Bay  View  brewery,  the  pioneer 
lager  beer  brewery  in  Washington.  This  was  conducted  with  a  constantly 
increasing  patronage  until  1893,  when  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Claussen- 
Sweeney  Brewing  Company  and  the  Albert  Braun  Brewing  Association  un- 
der the  name  of  the  Seattle  Brewing  &  Malting  Company.      Upon  the  or- 


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ganization  of  the  new  company  Mr.  Kirschner  was  unanimously  elected  treas- 
urer, which  position  he  continued  to  fill  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  and  his 
ability  as  a  financier,  his  keen  business  discernment  and  his  enterprise  were  po- 
tent factors  in  the  prosperous  conduct  of  the  new  concern. 

Before  leaving  Wisconsin  ^U:  Kirschner  was  united  in  marriage  to 
]\Iiss  Emma  Hemrich,  and  to  them  were  born  three  children,  who  AN'ith  their 
mother  survive.  Emily,  the  daughter,  is  the  wife  of  O.  E.  Maurer  of  the 
Bay  View  Bottling  Works;  William  H.  is  also  connected  with  the  Bay  View 
Bottling  Works;  and  Andrew  F.,  the  younger  son,  is  still  in  school.  ]Mr. 
Kirschner  erected  a  fine  residence  at  Bay  View  in  1892.  It  stands  upon  a 
splendid  building  site,  overlooking  the  lake,  and  a  beautiful  view  is  thus 
always  afforded.  Mr.  Kirschner  was  connected  with  a  number  of  fraternal 
and  social  organizations,  including  the  Sons  of  Hermann  and  the  Turnverein, 
and  was  very  popular  among  his  associates  of  those  organizations.  He  was 
progressive  and  public  spirited  and  freely  gave  to  many  movements  for  the 
adornment  of  the  city  or  for  the  promotion  of  enterprises  for  the  public 
good.  In  his  family  he  was  a  devoted  husband  and  father  and  extremely 
fond  of  his  home.  There  with  his  wife  and  children  he  delighted  to  dispense 
a  cordial  hospitality  to  their  many  friends.  In  manner  he  was  genial  and 
social,  and  his  cordiality  and  freedom  from  ostentation  won  him  the  warm- 
est regard  of  those  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  ■  He  possessed,  too,  ex- 
cellent business  ability  and  had  a  genius  for  devising  and  executing  the  right 
thing  at  the  right  time.  Thus  in  the  cultivation  of  those  qualities  which  tend 
to  success  in  business  and  which  win  respect  in  private  life.  Frederick  Kirsch- 
ner so  lived  that  his  death  was  a  matter  of  profound  regret  to  those  who  had 
kno\vn  him. 

JOHN  C.  PETERSON. 

John  C.  Peterson,  residing  at  1632  Tenth  avenue  west,  is  one  of  the 
important  factors  in  the  business  circles  of  Seattle,  where  he  is  now  suc- 
cessfully engaged  in  the  building  of  fine  gasoline  launches.  The  possibili- 
ties that  America  offers  to  her  citizens  he  has  utilized,  and  though  he  came  to 
this  country  in  limited  circumstances  he  has  steadily  and  perseveringly 
worked  his  way  upward,  leaving  the  ranks  of  the  many  to  stand  among  the 
successful  few. 

Mr.  Peterson  was  bom  in  central  Norway  on  the  17th  of  April,  1843,  ^ 
son  of  Peter  Johnson  and  Sarah  (Christianson)  Peterson,  in  whose  family 
were  six  children.      By  occupation  the  father  was  a  farmer,  and  on  the  home 


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place  our  subject  was  reared,  remainng  there  until  1869,  which  year  wit- 
nessed his  emigration  to  the  United  States.  Landing-  in  New  York  city  he 
proceeded  at  once  to  St.  Paul,  Minnesota,  where  he  spent  five  years.  In 
1874  he  came  to  the  Pacific  coast  and  for  nine  years  made  his  home  in  Port- 
land, Oregon,  where  he  was  engaged  in  contract  building.  While  there  he 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Annie  E.  Oleson,  also  a  native  of  Norway, 
where  he  had  first  known  her,  keeping  up  the  acquaintance  during  his  resi- 
dence in  St.  Paul.  To  them  were  born  two  children:  Tilda;  and  Elliott, 
who  is  a  graduate  of  the  Seattle  high  school  and  business  college  and  is  now 
a  machinist  in  the  employ  of  the  Seattle  Electrical  Company.  They  also 
have  an  adopted  daughter,  Lina,  who  has  made  her  home  with  them  since 
the  age  of  ten  years. 

Mr.  Peterson  purchased  property  in  Portland  and  built  a  comfortable 
home,  continuing  his  residence  there  until  the  fall  of  1883,  when  he  came  to 
Seattle.  In  partnership  with  two  other  gentlemen  he  purchased  forty  acres 
of  land  on  what  is  now  known  as  West  Queen  Anne  Hill,  and  on  the  divison 
of  the  property  he  received  ten  acres,  on  which  he  erected  a  house.  He  be- 
gan clearing  the  place  and  getting  it  ready  for  platting.  Later  with  his  brother, 
N.  B.  Peterson,  and  N.  Brason,  he  platted  the  Crown  addition  to  the  city 
of  Seattle  and  subsequently  the  Crown  supplemental  addition,  which  was 
rapidly  sold  out.  In  1891  he  built  the  First  Norwegian  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  at  the  corner  of  Olive  and  Fifth  streets  at  an  expense  of  seven  thous- 
and dollars,  giving  the  congregation  six  years  to  pay  for  it,  which  resulted 
in  financial  loss  to  him.  He  also  built  the  Swedish  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  on  Fifth  avenue  between  Pike  and  Pine  streets,  donating  his  services. 
For  several  years  he  followed  contracting  and  building,  erecting  a  great 
many  residences  in  various  parts  of  the  city,  but  for  the  past  four  years  has 
given  his  attention  principally  to  the  building  of  high  class  gasoline  launches, 
constructing-  nothing  but  the  best  that  good  material  and  superior  workman- 
ship can  produce. 

Mr.  Peterson  still  retains  fifteen  lots  of  his  original  tract.  In  1892 
he  erected  his  present  fine  residence,  which  is  a  t\\o  stor}^  structure  with  a 
basement,  and  the  home  is  noted  for  its  hospitality,  the  many  friends  of  the 
family  always  being  sure  of  a  hearty  welcome  within  its  doors.  la  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican,  but  at  local  elections  he  votes  independently  of  party 
lines,  and  is  verj^  liberal  in  his  views  on  public  questions.  He  is  a  prominent 
and  influential  member  of  Trinity  Methodist  church  and  has  served  on  its 
of^.cial  board  for  a  number  of  years.  Coming  to  this  country  a  poor  boy, 
indebted  to  his  friends  for  funds  to  secure  his  passage,  he  deserves  great 


552  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

credit  for  what  he  has  acconipHshed  in  hfe,  his  success  being  due  entirely  to 
his  own  well  directed  efforts.  Upright  and  honorable  in  all  things,  he  com- 
n?ands  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  is  brought  in  contact 
either  in  business  or  social  life. 

WILLIAM  FARRAND  PROSSER. 

William  Farrand  Prosser,  the  late  president  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  the  state  of  Washington  and  the  editor  of  the  Washington  Historian, 
which  is  a  very  interesting  and  instructive  monthly  publication,  filled  with 
papers,  documents  and  biographical  sketches  concerning  the  history  of  the 
state  and  relating  to  its  progress  and  development  as  one  of  the  states  of  the 
American  Union.  The  Colonel  is  a  pioneer  upon  the  Pacific,  having  taken  up 
his  abode  in  California  in  1854.  He  is  also  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Washington  and  one  of  its  best  informed  citizens.  He  has  a  very  wide  ac- 
quaintance and  has  made  an  honorable  record  as  a  soldier,  as  a  public  officer 
and  as  a  Christian  gentleman. 

Colonel  William  F.  Prosser  is  a  native  of  Williamsport,  Pennsylvania, 
his  birth  having  occurred  March  16,  1834,  and  he  is  of  Welsh  lineage.  His 
parents  were  David  and  Rachel  (Williams)  Prosser,  both  of  whom  w-ere 
born  in  Wales  and  in  1832  emigrated  to  the  United  States,  settling  in  Cambria 
county,  Pennsylvania.  The  father  was  a  miner,  actively  connected  with  the 
industrial  interests  of  the  Keystone  state.  He  not  only  operated  largely  in 
coal  but  was  chiefly  instrumental  in  securing  the  establishing  of  the  Cambria 
Iron  Works  at  Johnstow-n.  His  w^ife  died  in  that  place  in  1842,  leaving  him 
with  four  children.  He  afterward  married  again  and  by  the  second  union 
had  six  children.  The  second  wife,  a  daughter  and  four  grandchildren  were 
lost  in  the  great  Johnstown  flood,  one  of  the  most  terrible  disasters  which  has 
ever  occurred  in  the  history  of  the  country.  '  Colonel  Prosser's  brother. 
Major  A.  Sidney  Prosser,  died  at  Knoxville,  Tennessee.  He  was  a  valiant 
soldier  in  the  Union  army,  senang  in  the  Second  Tennessee  Cavalry,  and 
was  a  successful  and  distinguished  practitioner  of  law  at  Knoxville  at  the 
time  of  his  death.  John  G.  Prosser,  another  brother  of  the  Colonel,  is  a 
railroad  man  of  Nebraska. 

In  taking  up  the  personal  history  of  our  subject  we  present  to  our  readers 
the  life  record  of  one  highly  esteemed  in  the  northwest.  He  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  and  in  the  Johnstown  Academy.  For 
two  years  he  engaged  in  teaching  school  in  Cambria  county,  Pennsylvania, 
and  because  of  ill  health  he  sought  a  change  of  climate,  crossing  the  plains  in 


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1854.  On  the  1st  of  May  of  that  year  he  left  Independence,  Alissouri,  with 
a  party  of  twelve  young  men,  all  from  Pennsylvania.  They  made  the  journey 
with  ox  teams  and  on  the  way  the  Colonel  stood  guard  every  night  from  half 
past  ten  until  half  past  one.  The  journey  w^as  a  long  and  arduous  one  and 
they  experienced  some  trouble  with  the  Indians.  In  California  they  stopped 
first  at  Dutch  Flat  in  Placer  county,  where  the  Colonel  ate  his  first  good  meal 
after  leaving  Missouri.  From  that  place  he  proceeded  to  the  Middle  Fork 
of  the  American  river  and  was  engaged  in  placer  mining  during  the  re- 
mainder of  the  year,  but  met  with  vei7  moderate  success.  He  then  w'ent  to 
Sacramento  and  afterward  to  San  Francisco  and  in  the  spring  of  1855  he 
made  his  way  to  Trinity  county  to  try  his  luck  at  placer  mining,  taking  up  his 
abode  near  Weaverville.  He  there  secured  in  one  day  gold  to  the  amount 
of  one  hundred  and  twenty  dollars,  but  on  the  whole  his  mining  experiences 
were  not  as  profitable  as  he  had  expected  and  he  removed  to  Shasta  county, 
California.  There  he  engaged  in  mining  on  the  Middle  Fork  of  the  Cotton- 
w^ood,  but  in  1857  returned  to  Trinity  county  and  lived  at  Indian  Creek,  turn- 
ing his  attention  to  the  w^ork  of  carrying  express  from  Weaverville  to  Indian 
Creek.      He  was  also  engaged  in  mining  to  some  extent. 

In  1858,  at  the  call  of  the  governor  of  CaHfornia  for  troops,  Colonel  Pros- 
ser  enlisted  and  w-as  elected  second  lieutenant  of  the  Trinity  county  rangers. 
They  proceeded  at  once  to  Huriiboldt  county  and  were  actively  engaged  in 
the  service  of  the  state  against  the  Indians  along  the  Eel  river  and  along  Mad 
river  in  the  vicinity  of  Humboldt  Bay.  They  had  many  severe  encounters 
with  the  red  men  and  a  number  of  the  company  were  killed  while  others  were 
wounded.  That  w'as  a  very  severe  campaign  during  the  winter  and  spring  and 
in  the  latter  season  they  crossed  the  mountains  covered  with  snow  from  one 
to  ten  feet  deep.  It  was  a  time  of  severe  suffering.  Senator  J.  P.  Jones  was  a 
member  of  the  company,  then  serving  as  private  clerk  to  the  captain.  The 
troops  finally  returned  to  Trinity  county  and  were  mustered  out  in  .Vpril,  1859. 
The  campaign  had  been  a  very  successful  though  an  arduous  one,  and  they  had 
captured  many  Indians  and  so  got  the  remainder  of  the  red  men  to  cease  their 
depredations.  Upon  his  return  Colonel  Prosser  again  engaged  in  mining  on 
Canyon  creek.  In  t86o  he  was  nominated  liy  the  Republicans  for  the  state 
legislature  and  was  the  party's  first  candidate  after  its  organization.  He 
made  a  very  strong  campaign  but  as  the  district  had  a  very  large  Democratic 
majority  he  was  defeated  by  a  small  vote.  The  following  spring  the  great 
Civil  war  burst  upon  the  country  and  Colonel  Prosser  went  east  to  take  i)art  in 
the  defense  of  the  Union.  He  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Anderson  Troop 
which  was  sent  to  Louisville,  Kentucky,  and  there  became  t!""e  body  guard  of 
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554  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

General  Biiell,  being  attached  to  his  headquarters  for  special  duty.     They 
\s-ent  with  the  army  to  Nashville  and  thence  to  Shiloh,  participating  in  the 
l)attle  at  the  latter  place  and  in  the  subsequent  operations  of  General  Buell 
until  they  reached  Florence,  Alabama.     While  on  the  march  to  Huntsville 
Colonel  Prosser  was  detached  by  General  Buell  to  go  across  the  country  to 
Nashville,  Tennessee,  with  requisition  for  stores  and  supplies  needed  by  the 
army,  and  while  on  the  way  he  was  captured  by  a  detachment  of  Morgan's 
Confederate  Cavaliy.     They  took  from  him  his  horse  and  arms,  then  paroled 
him  and  turned  him  loose  in  the  woods  to  make  his  way  as  best  he  could.     He 
walked  to  Columbia,  Tennessee,  a  distance  of  about  forty  miles,  in  order  to 
reach  the  Union  lines.     He  then  proceeded  to  Nashville  and  reported  the 
facts  to  General  Buell.     He  was  sent  to  Annapolis,  ^vlaryland,  until  an  ar- 
rangement could  be  made  for  his  exchange,  and  in  that  city  he  was  assigned 
to  duty  with  the  paroled  soldiers  from  Pennsylvania,  there  being  a  large  num- 
ber.    ^Iv.  Prosser  remained  at  that  point  from  June  until  September  before 
he  was  exchansred,  but  at  the  latter  date  he  was  ordered  to  Carlisle,  Pennsvl- 
vania,  to  assist  in  the  organization  of  the  Fifteenth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry, 
serving  as  the  first  quartermaster  of  the  regiment.     He  took  an  active  part 
in  the  battle  of  ]\Iurfreesboro,  and  soon  after  the  engagement,  at  the  request 
of  the  adjutant-general  of  the  state  of  Tennessee,  he  was  transferred  to  the 
Second  Tennessee  Cavalry,  acting  as  its  adjutant  until  March,  1863.     At  that 
time  he  was  commissioned  major  of  the  regiment,  serving  in  the  latter  capac- 
ity until  March,  1864,  when  he  received  the  commission  of  lieutenant  colonel, 
and  in  June,  1865,  he  was  made  a  colonel,  these  promotions  having  been  con- 
ferred upon  him  for  active  and  efficient  service.     During  the  time  of  his  con- 
nection with  the  army  he  participated  in  a  large  number  of  battles,  skirmishes 
and  field  engagements,   including  the   battles  of   Shiloh,    ]\Iurfreesboro   and 
Chickamauga.  the  siege  of  Knoxville,  the  siege  of  Decatur  and  many  other 
engagements.     In  the  latter  part  of  1864  he  had  command  of  the  cavalry  in 
the  district  of  north  Alabama,  with  headquarters  at  Decatur,  and  protected 
the  railroad  line  during  Hood's  operations  in  Tennessee  up  to  the  battle  of 
Nashville.     On  the  6th  of  July,  1865,  he  was  mustered  out  of  the  service  at 
that  city.     He  had  never  received  a  wound  but  had  suffered  greatly  from 
hardships  and  exposure  and  his  health  had  become  much  impaired  through 
the  malaria  in  that  part  of  the  country  in  which  his  military  operations  were 
executed.- 

Owing  to  the  beauty  of  the  country  and  its  rich  promise  for  the  future 
Mr.  Prosser  settled  near  Nashville,  and  purchased  a  farm  seven  miles  from 
that  city.    There  he  engaged  in  numerous  pursuits  looking  to  the  development 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  555 

of  the  resources  of  the  country.  In  1867,  without  his  knowledge,  he  was 
nominated  by  the  Repnbh'can  party  of  Davidson  comity,  in  which  Xashvihe  is 
located,  as  one  of  its  candidates  for  the  state  legislature,  but  not  wishing  to  en- 
gage in  political  strife  he  declined  the  nomination.  Subsequently,  however,  at 
the  solicitation  of  the  leading  men  of  the  party  who  believed  that  he  could  be 
very  useful  in  the  work  of  the  legislature,  growling  out  of  the  conditions  arising 
as  a  result  of  the  war,  he  consented  and  entered  upon  a  most  exciting  and  dan- 
gerous campaign  owing  to  the  bitterness  of  feeling  which  had  hardly  abated 
after  the  close  of  the  war.  He  made  a  successful  canvass,  however,  and  was 
elected.  In  the  legislature  he  took  an  active  and  leading  part  in  the  work  of 
the  house,  with  the  result  that  his  district  recogiiized  his  usefulness  and  named 
him  for  Congress  the  following  year.  Again  he  passed  through  another  ex- 
citing campaign  in  which  tliere  was  great  personal  danger,  but  he  made 
speeches  throughout  his  portion  of  the  state  and  held  joint  debates  with  the 
opposing  candidate.  That  he  enjoyed  in  a  high  degree  the  confidence  of  his 
fellow  townsmen  was  shown  by  his  second  election  and  he  served  his  first 
term  in  the  forty-first  congress  of  the  United  States.  His  congressional 
work  consisted  chiefly  in  advancing  the  cause  of  popular  education  in  the 
south  and  of  promoting  industrial  improvements.  He  championed  every 
measure  calculated  to  rebuild  the  shattered  interests  of  the  south  and  his 
efforts  were  very  effective  and  beneficial.  He  caused  the  im[/ro\'ement  of  the 
Cumberland  river  to  be  begun,  a  work  that  has  since  been  continued  by  Con- 
gress down  to  the  present  time.  At  the  close  of  his  service  in  the  national 
halls  he  received  the  position  of  postmaster  of  Nashville,  Tennessee,  an  office 
which  he  filled  in  a  most  satisfactory  manner  for  three  years.  In  1872  he 
\\-as  appointed  one  of  the  commissioners  from  the  state  of  Tennessee  to  the 
centennial  exposition  in  Philadelphia  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  prepara- 
tions necessary  for  that  national  celebration.  In  June,  1873,  ^""^  ^^'^^  ap- 
pointed one  of  a  commission  for  the  purpose  of  visiting  the  world's  fair  at 
Vienna  and  took  notes  concerning  the  methods  there  employed  with  reference 
to  making  arrangements  for  the  exposition  in  this  country  in  1876.  On  this 
trip  he  visited  the  principal  cities  of  Europe  and  in  connection  with  the  prep- 
aration for  the  exposition  at  Philadelphia  he  visited  that  city  very  frequently 
during  a  period  of  seven  years.  In  1876  and  1878  Colonel  Prosser  was  again 
the  nominee  of  his  party  for  Congress,  but  the  party  having  met  with  reverses 
he  and  many  friends  suffered  defeat. 

Owing  to  continued  ill  health  growing  out  of  his  service  in  the  Civil  war 
Mr.  Prosser  resolved  to  return  to  the  Pacific  coast,  and  in  1879  he  was  ap- 
pointed special  agent   for  the  general   land  office  in  Washington.     In  this 


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capacity  he  again  came  west  and  rendered  the  government  important 
services  in  the  territories  of  Washhigton  and  Idaho  and  the  state  of  Oregon. 
In  1885,  when  President  Cleveland  became  the  chief  executive  of  the  United 
States,  he  was  retired.  In  the  meantime  he  had  located  a  homestead,  in  1882, 
in  Yakima  county,  where  the  town  of  Prosser,  named  in  his  honor,  has  since 
been  established  on  the  line  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad.  There  he 
maintained  his  home  for  a  number  of  years,  living  in  true  pioneer  style.  The 
markets  on  all  sides  of  him  were  at  great  distances  and  one  had  to  travel 
many  miles  through  a  sparsely  settled  region,  chiefly  occupied  by  Indians, 
making  the  journey  by  team  in  order  to  bring  the  supplies  to  his  lo- 
cality. Colonel  Prosser  was  elected  in  1889  to  represent  in  part  the  coun- 
ties of  Yakima  and  Klickitat  in  the  constitutional  convention  which  was 
called  to  meet  at  Olympia  on  the  4th  of  July,  1889.  to  frame  the  consti- 
tution for  the  state  of  Washington.  He  took  a  very  active  and  helpful  part 
in  the  work  of  the  convention  and  was  particularly  instrumental  in  securing 
to  the  school  fund  of  the  state  a  large  amount  of  money  through  the  econo- 
mical disposition  of  the  school  lands.  In  1890,  at  the  special  request  of  Gov- 
ernor Elisha  P.  Ferr}%  he  accepted  the  appointment  as  a  member  of  the  Har- 
bor Line  Commission,  of  which  he  was  president,  and  in  endeavoring  to  pro- 
tect the  interests  of  the  people  of  the  state  upon  the  water  front  of  its  principal 
cities  this  committee  came  into  conflict  with  many  private  interests.  This 
made  the  two  and  one-half  years  in  which  the  commission  served  a  most  try- 
ing time,  exceptionally  annoying,  and  was  hampered  by  much  litigation, 
fourteen  suits  in  all  being  brought  against  the  commission  in  the  superior 
courts  of  the  state  and  in  the  supreme  court  of  the  United  States.  Every 
means  available  were  used  against  them  but  through  all  the  commission  main- 
tained its  integrity  and  was  successful  in  every  case.  Since  the  termination 
of  his  services  as  president  of  the  Harbor  Line  Commission,  ]Mr.  Prosser 
has  given  his  attention  to  his  private  interests,  yet  his  fellow  citizens  were  not 
content  to  allow  him  to  remain  in  private  life  and  in  1893  he  was  elected  as. 
mayor  of  the  city  of  North  Yakima,  serving  for  two  years.  He  was  made 
a  school  director  of  that  city  for  two  terms  and  since  that  time  he  has  been 
actively  engaged  with  work  in  connection  with  the  State  Historical  Society, 
of  which  he  has  been  president  since  1899  and  editor  of  the  Washington  His- 
torian, a  very  valuable  and  most  ably  edited  and  managed  monthly.  The 
Colonel  is  also  engaged  in  the  handling  of  real  estate  both  for  himself  and  for 
others,  having  an  ofiice  in  the  New  York  block  in  the  rapidly  growing  city 
of  Seattle,  where  he  now  resides. 

The  Colonel  was  happily  married  in  this  city  in  1880  to  Miss  Flora  L. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  557 

Thornton,  a  native  o!  Oregon  and  a  daughter  of  Henry  G.  Thornton  of  Ports- 
mouth, Ohio,  and  one  of  the  Oregon  pioneers  of  1853,  ni  which  year  he 
brought  his  family  across  the  plains.  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Prosser  ha\-e  one  son 
and  two  daughters :  William  Thornton,  who  is  now  a  reporter  on  the  Post 
Intelligencer  of  Seattle;  Margaret  Plelen  and  Mildred  Cyrenia,  who  are  at 
home.  The  Colonel  and  his  interesting  family  are  members  of  the  Episcopal 
church,  of  which  he  has  been  vestryman  for  twenty  years.  He  has  a  very 
wide  acquaintance  and  no  man  in  all  the  northwest  is  held  in  higher  regard 
than  he,  for  in  his  public  service  he  has  commanded  the  confidence  of  all.  His 
life  has  indeed  been  a  useful  one  to  his  fellow  men  and  the  honors  that  have 
been  conferred  upon  him  have  been  well  merited. 

CHARLES  M.  ANDERSON. 

The  abo\'e  named  gentleman,  who  is  quite  prominent  in  the  business  and 
railroad  circles  of  Seattle,  is  the  eldest  of  the  six  children  of  Professor  Alex- 
ander Jay  Anderson,  the  distinguished  educator,  and  it  is  not  too  much  to  say 
that  he  is  such  a  son  as  such  a  father  would  naturally  like  to  have.  In  fact, 
it  must  be  a  source  of  i)ride  to  this  worthy  father  to  observe  how  well  all 
his  living  children  are  succeeding  in  the  world,  and  how  much  they  have 
profited  by  his  parental  precepts,  both  those  of  a  domestic  and  those  of  a 
professional  character.  T\\o  of  his  sons,  as  will  appear  later,  have  followed 
in  his  footsteps  as  teachers,  and  Ijifl  fair  to  rise  high  in  the  educational  world. 
The  other  two  hold  influential  positions  in  connection  with  important  busi- 
ness corporations,  while  the  husband  of  the  only  daughter  is  state  agent  of 
one  of  the  large  insurance  companies.  In  fact,  this  is  quite  an  interesting  fam- 
ily in  more  ways  than  one  and  exactly  the  kind  so  pleasant  to  contemplate 
as  typical  of  the  boundless  energy,  unfailing  courage  and  conquering  ambi- 
tion which  characterize  the  dominant  element  m  this  country  to  which  our 
marvelous  national  progress  is  due.  The  Andersons  are  1)ut  one  of  many 
that  we  see  and  read  about,  who  face  the  Avorld  with  no  other  fortune  thrni 
willing-  hands  and  bright  heads  and  soon  win  success  for  themselves  and 
then  for  others  and  in  the  aggregate  make  up  the  grand  army  of  men  of  ac- 
tion who  are  pushing  forward  the  mighty  republic  in  its  onward  march  to 
greatness  and  glory. 

In  the  somewhat  elaborate  sketch  01  Professor  Anderson  full  details 
are  given  of  his  own  career  and  such  particulars  as  were  available  c(^ncerning 
his  parents,  so  it  will  not  be  necessary  to  repeat  any  of  them  in  this  l>iography 
of  his  son.      Charles  M.  Anderson  was  born  at  Lexington,  Illinois.  January 


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3,  1858,  and  with  such  a  father  as  he  had  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  add  that 
his  early  education  was  not  neglected.  This  boy,  however,  seems  to  have 
imbibed  from  the  great  national  bard  of  his  ancestral  land  the  true  secret  of 
success  as  expressed  in  Burns'  famous  "Letter  to  a  Young  Friend :" 

"To  catch  Dame  Fortune's  golden  smile, 

Assiduous  wait  upon  her. 
And  eather  siear  h\  everv  wile  that's  justified  bv  honor; 

Not  for  to  hide  it  in  a  hedge. 

Not  for  a  train  attendant, 
But  for  the  glorious  privilege  of  being  independent." 

The  youth  of  true  grit  hates  dependence  above  all  things,  and  longs  for 
the  time  to  escape  the  home  cage  and  carve  out  a  competency  for  himself. 
Young  Anderson,  therefore.  e\en  before  reaching  the  age  of  maturity  was 
re\-olving  schemes  to  become  a  great  captain  of  industry,  his  special  ambition 
being  to  make  an  engineer  of  himself.  AMien  twelve  years  old  he  began  to 
learn  this  profession,  and  a  year  later  was  connected  with  a  railroad  in  that 
capacity.  It  was,  of  course,  a  boy's  job  and  performed  during  the  summer 
vacation  when  school  was  not  in  session.  In  January,  1878,  he  joined. his 
father  to  assist  as  teacher  in  the  territorial  university  which  he  was  then 
endeavoring  to  resuscitate  at  Seattle,  and  held  this  position  for  the  following 
three  and  a  half  years.  Later  he  went  to  Walla  Walla  to  take  his  brother's 
place  as  assistant  teacher  in  Whitman  College,  of  which  his  father  then  had 
charge,  but  only  remained  there  a  year  and  returned  to  Seattle,  where  he  had 
previously  opened  an  office  for  the  transaction  of  business  connected  with  en- 
gineering. He  laid  out  the  city's  first  water-works  plant,  known  as  the 
Yeder  system,  and  later  the  McNaught  and  Jones  systems.  He  served  also 
as  county  engineer,  and  extended  the  street-car  line  from  Columbia  to  Renton. 
At  least  a  fourth  of  the  present  enterprising  city  of  Seattle  was  laid  out  by 
this  energetic  young  engineer  at  a  time  when  others  of  his  age  have  hardly 
left  college.  He  made  the  first  mineral  surve}-  in  the  state  of  Washington 
and  subdivided  a  good  many  of  the  sections  of  King  county,  particularly  in  the 
vicinity  of  Seattle.  He  was  engineer  of  the  Moore  Investment  Company, 
made  the  topographical  map  of  Capital  Hill  in  its  interest  and  is  now  its 
consulting  engineer.  In  1884  he  organized  the  Anderson  Engineering  Com- 
pany and  incorporated  the  same  in  1892.  He  has  done  considerable  work 
for  the  state  on  the  tide  flat  lands,  and  served  as  land  surveyor  under  contract 
with  the  national  government.  In  1897  ^Ir.  Anderson  made  a  trip  to 
Alaska  and  did  considerable  expert  work  there  for  various  companies  and 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  559 

determined  the  feasibility  of  the  route  for  the  Hne  of  the  Alaska  Central 
Railroad  Company,  and  when  the  latter  was  organized  in  1902  he  was  ap- 
pointed chief  engineer. 

Mr.  Anderson  has  always  had  a  taste  for  military  matters,  and  has  f\s- 
tired  somewhat  conspicuously  in  this  line  since  comino-  to  Washine-ton 
Shortly  after  his  arrival  at  Seattle  he  organized  a  battalion  among  the  uni- 
versity students.  He  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Seattle  Rifles, 
V,  hich  served  during  the  Chinese  riots.  He  was  a  member  of  the  military 
board  during  the  period  of  organization  of  the  National  Guard  of  Washing- 
ton, and  was  colonel  commander  of  the  Second  Regiment  of  the  State  Guard. 
He  organized  a  regiment  consisting  of  eight  companies  in  eastern  \\'ashing- 
ton,  of  ^^■hich  he  was  the  colonel  in  command,  and  four  of  these  companies 
are  now^  serving  in  the  Philippines.  Mr.  Anderson  is  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  served  as  delegate  to  various  territorial  and  county  conventions  and 
in  the  state  convention  of  1902.  September  19,  1889,  he  was  married  in 
Seattle  to  Miss  Laura,  daughter  of  William  A.  AlcPherson,  a  nierchant  at 
Seattle.  The  children,  consisting  of  three  daughters  and  a  son,  are  Mary, 
Isabella,  Lizzie  Ferry,  Laura  Alarjorie  and  Chester  McPherson. 

JOHN  RIPLINGER. 

No  outside  aid  or  influence,  no  family  connection  or  fortunate  environ- 
njents  have  assisted  John  Riplinger  in  his  career,  wdiich,  however,  has  been 
an  active  and  successful  one,  and  he  has  attained  to  prominence  in  public  aft'airs 
and  gained  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with-  whom  he  has  been  associ- 
ated. He  is  now'  serving  as  city  comptroller  and  is  ex-officio  city  clerk. 
Born  in  Minnesota  on  the  12th  of  October,  1864,  his  paternal  ancestors  came 
from  I-oraine,  France.  His  father,  Nicholas  Riplinger,  emigrated  to  Amer- 
ica in  1852  and  located  in  Minnesota,  where  he  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits until  1888,  at  which  tiUiC  he  sought  a  honie  in  Washington,  locating  in 
Skagit  county,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days,  departing  this  life  in  1895. 
While  in  ]\Iinnesota  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  board  of  county  commis- 
sioners from  1878  until  1886  and  then  declined  a  re-nomination.  He  was  a 
leader  in  public  affairs  and  his  loyalty  in  citizenship  and  devotion  to  the  gen- 
eral good  made  him  ^vell  C[ualified  for  office.  In  the  family  were  eight  chil- 
dren and  with  the  exception  of  three  all  are  vet  li\-ing. 

John  Riplinger  was  a  student  in  the  public  schools  of  [Minnesota  in  his 
early  days,  but  has  not  been  able  to  attend  school  since  the  age  of  thirteen, 
although  reading,  experience  and  observation  have  broadened  his  knowledge 


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and  increased  his  usefulness  as  a  factor  in  business  and  official  life.  lie 
remained  on  the  home  farm  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  and  then 
entered  the  office  of  the  county  auditor.  Later  he  began  learning  the  printer's 
trade  and  in  the  spring  of  1887  he  engaged  in  the  newspaper  business  on  his 
own  account,  but  owing  to  ill  health  he  sold  his  paper  in  1890  and  came  to 
Seattle,  intending  to  enter  the  field  as  a  publisher  here.  Instead,  however, 
he  accepted  a  position  in  the  office  of  the  county  treasurer.  In  1891  the  legis- 
lature enacted  a  law  to  revise  the  manner  of  assessing  the  county  property, 
wh.ich  under  the  old  system  had  become  greatly  confused.  The  property 
had  been  assessed  only  as  reported  by  the  owners  and  the  rest  was  credited 
to  "unknown  owners."  Some  pieces  were  thus  assessed  twice  and  others  not 
at  all.  It  was  therefore  arranged  by  townships  numerically  and  ]Mr.  Rip- 
linger  was  given  charge  of  this  very  important  and  extensive  work,  which  he 
performed  so  satisfactorily,  however,  that  upon  the  completion  of  the  task 
he  was  appointed  chief  clerk  in  Decem1>er,  1S91.  He  was  in  the  office  of  the 
county  treasurer  until  the  spring  of  1895.  when  he  began  prospecting  and 
mining  in  British  Columbia,  being  thus  engaged  until  October,  1897.  At 
the  latter  date  he  returned  to  Seattle  and  was  given  employment  by  Mr.  Col- 
vin,  who  was  receiver  for  the  Front  Street  Railroad  Company,  and  for  whom 
he  served  as  accountant.  On  the  ist  of  January,  1898,  he  was  appointed  by 
Mr.  Parry  to  the  position  of  chief  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  city  comptroller, 
Y;'"ti'.  whom  he  served  for  two  and  one-half  _\ears,  and  afterward  held  the 
same  office  with  Mr.  Paul.  He  acted  in  that  capacity  until  the  election  of 
the  spring  of  1902.  At  that  time  the  Republicans  nominated  him  for  the  po- 
sition of  city  comptroller,  and  the  result  of  the  election  was  verv  greatly  to 
his  credit.  He  has  always  been  a  Republican  and  has  attended  a  number  of 
city  and  county  conventions  and  has  been  one  of  the  most  active  workers  in 
his  party.  His  long  service  in  the  office  of  chief  clerk  eminently  qualified 
him  for  the  duties  of  the  office  and  that  he  has  made  manv  friends  is  evi- ' 
denced  by  the  fact  that  the  majority  he  received  was  the  largest  ever  given  in 
the  city,  it  lacking  but  one  vote  of  reaching  thirty-five  hundred,  while  the 
mavor  of  Seattle  was  elected  bv  onlv  six  hundred  fifteen.  Xo  hierher  testi- 
monial  of  Mr.  Riplinger's  capability,  his  loyalty  to  the  trust  reposed  in  him 
and  his  personal  popularity  could  be  given. 

In  December,  1888.  in  ^^linnesota,  Mr.  Riplinger  married  Ada  Lavina 
Richards,  and  they  have  one  daughter,  :\[arie.  They  have  a  good  home  in 
the  city  and  Mr.  Riplinger  acquired  some  farming  interests  in  Skagit  county. 
He  belongs  to  various  fraternal  and  social  organizations,  including  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks:  the  Knights  of  Pvthias ;  the  Fra- 


SEATTLE   AND -KING   COUNTY.  561 

ternal  Order  of  Eagles;  the  Workmen;  the  Woodmen  of  the  \\'orld;  the 
Royal  Arcanum  and  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  He  finds  huntino-  and  fish- 
ing  a  pleasant  means  of  relaxation  and  recreation  from  his  strenuous  official 
and  business  cares.  He  is  a  man  in  whose  life  is  exemplified  the  best  traits 
of  American  manhood  and  good-fellowship.  He  has  a  deep  and  abiding  in- 
terest in  his  fellow  men,  a  genial  nature  and  a  kindly  disposition.  He  is 
a  self-educated  and  a  self-made  man,  and  such  a  record  Americans  hold  in 
the  highest  regard. 

ALEXANDER  JAY  ANDERSON. 

The  educational  annals  of  the  northwest  present  few  names  which  shine 
with  a  brighter  luster  as  the  result  of  good  deeds  done  and  great  work  ac- 
complished than  the  one  which  forms  the  caption  of  this  paragraph.  Per- 
haps no  one  who  has  labored  in  his  line  gave  greater  emphasis  to  Young's 
famous  remark  in  his  "Night  Thoughts"  that  it  is  a  "delightful  task  to  rear 
the  tender  mind  and  teach  the  young  idea  how  to  shoot."  Professor  Anderson 
was  not  only  enamored  with  his  task  but  took  especial  delight  in  grappling 
with  the  young  idea,  and  It  must  have  been  a  \ery  obdurate  subject  that 
proved  unyielding  to  his  persuasive  methods.  If  an}-  one  of  the  generations 
of  bright  students  who  benefited  by  his  instruction  were  assigned  the  duty 
of  inditing  these  pages  they  would  make  them  fairly  glow  with  praises  of 
their  old  preceptor  and  loving  tributes  to  his  fatherly  care.  His  career,  ex- 
tending over  a  period  of  thirty-five  years,  embraced  work  of  great  responsi- 
bility and  difficulty  in  many  institutions  of  three  states  of  the  Union.  His 
success  in  each  charge  was  not  only  marked  but  cumulative,  as  his  efficiency, 
increasing  with  experience,  made  each  achievement  an  improvement  over  the 
last.  At  length  he  was  able  to  retire  with  that  highest  of  all  plaudits,  "Well 
done,  thou  good  and  faithful  servant."  and  an  army  of  alumni,  gratluated 
under  his  fostering  ministrations,  loudly  acclaim  their  admiration  and  undy- 
ing afifection  for  Alexander  Jay  Anderson. 

One  naturally  thinks  of  Scotland  when  hearing  of  great  educators,  as 
more  good  teachers  have  come  out  from  the  rocky  borders  of  Old  Scotia 
than  any  other  equal  territory  in  the  world,  in  fact,  before  the  days  of  pub- 
lic schools  in  the- United  States  the  chief  dependence  for  teachers  was  upon 
the  Scotch,  who  seemed  to  have  special  talent  for  managing  unruly  pupils, 
as  well  as  leading  the  reluctant  along  the  thorn}-  ])aths  of  knowledge.  It 
is  no  surprise,  therefore,  to  learn  that  Alexander  Jay  Anderson  is  of  Scot- 
tish lineage,  both  on  the  side  of  father  and  mother,  though  he  perhaps  re- 


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grets  with  a  Scotchman's  pardonable  pride  that  the  honor  of  nativity  in  the 
land  of  Bums  was  withheld  from  him  by  fortuitous  circumstances.  It  so 
happened  that  his  father,  Joseph  Anderson,  had  a  building  contract  at  Grey 
Abtey,  near  Belfast,  Ireland,  and  it  was  while  his  parents  were  temporarily 
residing  there  that  the  future  instructor  was  born  November  6,  1832.  The 
father,  however,  had  previously  come  to  .America  wdien  seventeen  years  of 
age,  but  after  acquiring  citizenship  had  returned  to  Scotland,  where  his  mar- 
riage occurred.  Five  years  later  he  again  crossed  the  ocean  and  took  up  a 
homestead  in  New  York,  on  the  banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence.  There  he  met 
his  death  accidentally  while  felling  a  tree,  after  w^hich  untoward  event  his 
widow,  with  her  little  children,  removed  to  Illinois  and  located  at  Lockport. 
Alexander  Jay  was  but  six  months  old  when  the  family  reached  these  shores 
and  his  boyhood  was  passed  amid  the  privations  incident  to  life  on  the 
frontier.  He,  however,  had  the  ambition  for  learning,  wdiich  seems  indi- 
genous in  the  Scotch  character,  and  we  find  him  at  an  early  period  making 
even,'-  effort  to  gratify  his  aspirations.  Despite  the  loving  assistance  of  an 
elder  sister  and  a  good  mother's  affectionate  aid,  numerous  stumbling  blocks 
were  found  in  the  way,  and  it  was  proved  in  this  case,  as  in  many  others,  that 
the  road  to  knowledge  is  by  no  means  ro}-al.  School  attendance  was  irreg- 
ular, owing  to  demands  made  upon  the  young  m.an's  time  for  work  in  the 
store,  the  printing  office  and  at  the  teacher's  desk,  as  the  family  exigencies 
demanded.  Finally,  however,  as  they  say  in  the  rude  but  expressive  slang 
of  the  west,  young  Anderson  "got  there,"  and  in  1856  was  made  happy  by 
the  reception  of  the  degree  of  A.  B.  from  Knox  College  at  Galesburg, 
Illinois,  which  may  be  regarded  as  the  starting  point  in  what  was  to  prove 
his  life  work.  But  Professor  Anderson  looks  back  to  the  years  before  his 
graduation  as  fraught  ^\■ith  elements  of  great  value  in  securing  his  future 
success,  on  account  of  the  business  training  then  accjuired,  especially  that  re- 
ceived in  the  printing  office. 

His  first  teaching  was  done  at  Lisbon,  and  later  he  had  charge  of  a 
school  at  Lexington,  Illinois,  but  meantime  he  assisted  in  the  publication 
of  an  educational  w'ork  in  Chicago.  At  an  early  period  in  his  career  Pro- 
fessor Anderson  exhibited  that  talent,  as  rare  as  it  is  useful,  for  takiup;  hold 
of  run-down  institutions  and  rehabilitating  them  by  expert  executive  man- 
agement, coupled  with  thorough  instruction.  This  happened  not  once  but 
several  times,  and  it  w^as  in  such  crises  as  these  that  he  found  use  for  the 
business  knowledge  early  acquired,  which  is  seldom  united  in  the  same  per- 
son with  the  talent  for  teaching.  W'hen.  in  1861,  he  took  charge  of  the 
Fowler  Institute  at  Newark,  Illinois,  it  had  but  six  pupils,  but  this  numlier 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  565 

had  been  increased  to  three  huiuh-ed  when  Professor  Anderson  resigned  after 
an  arduous  experience  of  six  vears. 

But  after  many  years  of  successful  teaching  in  Ilhnois  Professor  Ander- 
son decided  that  it  was  his  duty  to  come  to  the  northwest  and  give  this  com- 
paratively new  section  the  benefit  of  his  experience  as  an  educator.  It  was  a 
decision,  however,  which  cost  a  great  sacrifice,  as  he  was  to  get  but  twelve 
hundred  dollars  in  his  new  field  as  against  eighteen  hundred  dollars  already 
being  recei\ed  in  his  home  state,  and  an  increase  to  two  thousand  dollars  if 
he  would  agree  to  remain.  He  had  made  up  his  mind,  however,  and  in 
1869,  upon  the  completion  of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad,  he  abandoned 
the  field  of  his  former  labors  and  turned  his   face  toward  the  settinsf  sun. 

o 

Ris  first  charge  in  the  northwest  was  as  principal  of  Tualitin  Academy,  an 
endowed  Congregational  institution  at  Forest  Grove,  Oregon,  and  the  pre- 
paratory department  of  the  Pacific  University.  Marked  success  was 
achieved  in  this  position,  but  after  four  years  as  principal  and  one  as  pro- 
fessor of  mathematics  in  the  university  he  accepted  a  call  to  Portland.  At 
this  capital  he  served  two  years  as  principal  of  the  Central  school  and  the  fol- 
lowing one  as  principal  of  the  high  school,  all  the  time  adding  to  his  rqDuta- 
tion  both  as  an  instructor  and  executive  official.  About  this  time  Professor 
Anderson  had  an  opportunity  to  display  his  genius  for  renovating  decayed 
institutions,  heretofore  mentioned  as  one  of  his  marked  characteristics.  The 
university  established  by  the  territory  of  Washington  was  in  a  lang'uishing 
state,  having  failed  several  times  and  then  been  tried  as  a  pri\ate  school,  but 
never  proving  a  success.  Though  the  largest  building  in  Seattle  it  had  been 
closed  some  time  when,  in  1871,  Professor  Anderson  was  inxited  by  the  re- 
gents to  become  president  and  endeavor  to  revive  this  moribund  establish- 
ment. At  first  he  and  his  wife  were  the  only  teachers,  but  at  the  end  of  six 
months  they  were  joined  by  their  son,  Charles  'M.  As  pupils  increased  new 
teachers  were  added  in  the  various  departments  and  soon  signs  of  life  began 
to  be  manifest  in  this  lately  enfeebled  institution.  Owing  to  former  failures 
the  legislature  was  reluctant  to  extend  pecuniary  aid,  but  by  herculean  effort 
in  Olympia  at  the  winter  session  Professor  Anderson,  assisted  by  some  of  the 
regents,  prevailed  upon  the  legislature  to  lend  a  helping  hand.  An  annual 
appropriation  of  two  thousand  dollars,  extending  for  two  years,  was  granted, 
but  this  was  coupled  wnth  a  promise  that  by  the  first  of  March  there  should 
be  in  attendance  thirty  free  scholars  to  be  appointed  by  members  of  the  legis- 
lature. It  took  the  hardest  kind  of  work  to  comply  with  this  feature  of  the 
act,  but  the  effort  was  successful  and  two  years  at  least  provided  for.  The 
next  legislature,  however,  adjourned  without  making  a  continuing  ajipropn- 


564  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

ation,  and  Professor  Anderson  was  at  his  wits'  end  to  devise  some  scheme  to 
keep  his  school  going.  At  this  point  of  desperation,  however,  as  often  hap- 
pens in  the  affairs  of  men,  the  "good  angel"  appeared  with  timely  assist- 
ance. The  superior  nature  of  the  work  done  in  reviving  the  collapsed  in- 
stitution had  attracted  the  attenion  of  many,  and,  among  others,  of  Henry 
Villard,  the  then  powerful  president  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany. This  enterprising  gentleman  kindly  came  to  the  rescue,  and  for  the 
next  two  years  gave  his  personal  check  for  the  same  amount  previously  given 
by  the  legislature.  In  the  meantime  President  Anderson  had  got  the  courses 
of  instruction  up  to  the  regular  collegiate  standard,  and  the  institution  was 
well  upon  its  feet,  so  that  the  next  legislature  did  not  hesitate  to  furnish  the 
necessary  funds.  Pupils  were  in  attendance  from  all  sections  of  the  terri- 
tory and  some  from  the  state  of  Oregon.  Normal  and  business  classes  were 
graduated  in  1880  and  college  classes  in  1881  and  1882.  When  President 
Anderson  resigned  at  the  end  of  this  school  year  there  were  over  three  hun- 
dred pupils,  and  the  institution  had  been  re-established  upon  a  permanent 
basis. 

Whitman  Seminary  was  the  scene  of  Professor  Anderson's  next  and,  as 
it  proved,  final  labors  in  the  field  of  practical  education.  This  institution  had 
been  established  by  Cushing  Eells  in  honor  of  Marcus  Whitman,  whose  his- 
toric journey  over  the  Rocky  mountains  to  Washington  in  the  winter  of 
1842-43  is  regarded  as  the  main  factor  in  saving  Oregon  to  the  Union. 
Upon  his  advent,  in  1882.  as  presiding  genius  of  this  institution  Professor 
Anderson  had  the  name  changed  to  Whitman  College,  and  the  freshman 
class  of  that  year  constituted  the  first  graduates  in  1886.  The  second  year 
was  marked  by  the  erection  of  a  large  building,  at  the  present  time  called  Old 
College  Hall,  but  for  years  it  was  the  place  wdiere  all  of  Whitman's  educa- 
tional work  was  conducted.  The  same  year  brought  from  the  legislature 
the  amended  charter,  which  vastly  enlarged  the  scope,  facilities  and  oppor- 
tunities of  the  college.  Under  President  Anderson's  quickening  touch  the 
institution  grew  apace,  increased  steadily  in  prosperity,  and  its  graduates 
were  in  demand  both  in  business  and  professional  circles.  The  great  educa- 
tional institutions  of  the  east  set  their  approval  upon  the  thorough  training 
received  at  Whitman,  and  by  general  concensus  the  extraordinary  merit  of 
its  revivor  was  warmly  acknowledged.  After  nine  years  of  hard,  conscien- 
tious and  faithful  labor  performed  as  its  president  Professor  Anderson  re- 
tired from  the  control  of  \\'hitman  College,  and  thus  ended  his  active  edu- 
cational career  of  thirty-five  years'  duration.  Though  cherishing  most 
pleasant  recollections  of  all  the  schools  he  has  had  in  charge.  Professor  An- 


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derson  reverts  with  especial  fondness  to  the  days  spent  at  "Old  Whitman." 
which  he  regards  as  the  special  child  of  his  creation.  This  sentiment  on  his 
part  is  freely  reciprocated  by  the  alumni  and  students  who  enjoyed  the  rare 
advantages  of  his  administration  and  learned  to  love  him  as  the  head  of  their 
alma  mater. 

In  the  fall  of  1856  Professor  Anderson  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Miss  Louisa  M.  Phelps,  whose  birth  occurred  on  the  shores  of  the  lovely 
Lake  Chautauqua,  seat  of  the  famous  school  of  learning  that  bears  its  name. 
Mrs.  Anderson  is  of  distinguished  lineage,  her  ancestors  having  come  from 
England  and  settled  in  Massachusetts  a  few  years  after  the  founding  of 
Boston.  The  six  children  are  as  follows :  Charles  M.,  president  of  the  An- 
derson Engineering  Company  at  Seattle;  Oliver  P.,  president  of  the  Ander- 
son Supply  Company  of  Seattle;  Louis  F.,  professor  of  Greek  in  Whitman 
College,  being  the  first  graduate  from  the  classical  course  in  the  University 
of  Washing-ton;  Alexander  Jay,  Jr.,  deceased;  George  P.,  principal  of  a  pri- 
vate school  in  Seattle;  Helen  H.,  wife  of  F.  N.  McCandless,  state  agent  of 
the  Pacific  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Company.  It  might  be  well  to  add  in 
conclusion  that  among  the  honors  conferred  upon  Professor  Anderson  was 
the  degree  of  A.  M.,  in  cursii,  by  Knox  College  before  he  left  Illinois,  and  the 
honorary  degree  of  Ph.  D.  by  the  Pacific  University  in  1883,  after  his  fame 
had  been  established  in  the  northwest. 

MORITZ   THOMSEN. 

The  business  development  of  Seattle  has  been  almost  phenomenal. 
Comparatively  few  years  have  passed  since  the  establishment  of  a  railroad 
here  to  bring  the  city  into  closer  connection  with  the  outside  world,  but  the 
country  abounded  in  splendid  resources  and  there  came  to  this  district  men  of 
enterprise  and  ability  who  recognized  the  possibilities  here  and  have  labored 
for  the  general  good  as  well  as  individual  prosperity.  There  have  sprung  up 
industries  and  enterprises  of  all  kinds,  utilizing  the  resources  of  the  country, 
and  to-day  Seattle  takes  its  place  among  the  leading  manufacturing  cities 
not  only  upon  the  Pacific  coast  but  of  the  country.  Mr.  Thomsen  is  a  rej)- 
resentative  of  the  manufacturing  interests  here,  being  extensively  engaged  in 
the  operation  of  the  Centennial  Flouring  Mills.  In  addition  to  these  at  Se- 
attle he  owns  another  large  mill  at  Spokane,  the  combined  product  being 
forty-five  hundred  barrels  of  flour  per  day.  He  has  established  a  large  trade 
with  the  Orient,  having  shipped  over  two  million  sacks  of  flour  to  the  far  east. 

Mr.   Thomsen   is   a  native  of   Germany,  his  birth  having  occurred  in 


556  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Tondern,  twenty-five  miles  from  Hamluirg,  on  the  2Sth  of  July,  1850.  He 
comes  of  one  of'the  old  families  of  the  fatherland,  and  his  parents  were  Chris- 
tian and  Maria  (Nissen)  Thomsen.  who  were  farming  people  of  Germany, 
respected  by  reason  of  their  genuine  worth.  They  held  membership  in  the 
Lutheran  church,  and  the  father  died  in  1880  at  the  age  of  fifty-seven  years, 
while  his  wife,  surviving  him  for  some  time,  departed  this  life  in  1895,  at  the 
age  of  sixty-four  years.  They  were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  of  wdiom 
six  are  living,  but  Mr.  Thomsen  is  the  only  one  in  the  state  of  Washington. 

In  the  schools  of  his  native  country  Moritz  Thomsen  acquired  his  early 
education,  and  in  1S64,  when  fourteen  years  of  age,  he  went  to  sea.  From 
that  time  forward  his  knowledge  was  gained  in  the  school  of  experience,  but 
the  life  which  he  chose  Ijrought  to  liim  much  information.  He  sailed  for 
fourteen  years,  visiting  every  country  upon  the  face  of  the  globe,  and  as  the 
vessel  stopped  in  different  ports  he  learned  much  of  interest  concerning  differ- 
ent countries,  their  peoples  and  the  manners  and  customs  followed  there.  An 
active  and  intelligent  young  man,  faithful  to  duty  and  applying  himself 
closely  to  the  work  entrusted  to  him,  he  won  promotion  from  time  to  time 
until  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  became  mate  of  the  vessel.  His  sea  ex- 
periences, however,  ended  in  1870,  for  he  determined  to  become  a  resident  of 
the  land  of  the  free.  He  sailed  to  California  and  for  about  nineteen  years 
remained  in  the  Golden  state.  In  1889  he  went  to  Spokane,  Washington, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  milling  business  and  met  with  marked  success  there. 
This  led  him  to  extend  the  field  of  his  operations  and  in  1897  he  came  to 
Seattle  to  construct  the  Centennial  Flouring  Mills.  He  secured  six  acres  of 
land  here,  formed  a  company  and  incorporated  the  Central  Milling  Company, 
of  which  he  is  the  principal  stockholder  and  the  president.  Since  he  em- 
barked in  his  milling  enterprises  he  has  been  four  times  to  the  Orient,  spend- 
ing four  years  in  all  in  eastern  countries.  There  he  won  a  wide  acquaint- 
ance, and  a  splendid  deniand  for  his  flour  has  since  been  made.  He  makes 
extensive  shipments  there  and  has  also  secured  a  good  sale  for  his  products  in 
Seattle.  His  milling  interests  have  been  of  the  greatest  benefit  to  the  cities  in 
which  they  are  located,  promoting  the  commercial  prosperity  and  gi^'ing  em- 
ployment to  many  operatives  in  the  mills.  Such  is  the  business  capacity 
and  enterprise  of  Mr.  Thomsen  that  he  does  not  confine  himself  wholly  to 
milling  interests,  but  is  a  stockholder  in  the  Pacific  Coast  Biscuit  Company 
and  also  in  the  Spokane  Brewing  &  Malting  Company,  both  of  which  con- 
cerns are  doing  an  extensive  and  profitable  business. 

In  1875  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Thomsen  and  Miss  Maria  Nisen, 
a  native  of  Germany.      They  now  have  five  children,  as  follows:      Anna, 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  567 

Ing,  Minnie,  Theresa  and  Charles.  Mr.  Thonisen  is  not  only  a  successful 
business  man  but  is  also  a  genial  and  social  gentleman  and  this  had  led  to 
his  connection  with  the  Masonic  fraternity.  He  has  become  a  member  of 
the  organization  in  all  of  the  various  branches,  including  blue  lodge,  coun- 
cil, chapter  and  commandery,  and  in  the  vScottish  rite  he  has  attained  the 
thirty-second  degree.  Having  decided  to  make  a  home  in  Seattle,  he  has 
purchased  one  of  the  finest  residences  in  the  city.  It  is  notable  in  a  city  which 
is  famous  for  its  beautiful  homes,  standing  in  the  midst  of  splendid  grounds. 
It  is  located  on  the  corner  of  Madison  and  Terry  avenues  within  a  few  min- 
utes' ride  on  the  Madison  street-car  line  to  the  center  of  Seattle's  business 
section.  Mr.  Thomsen's  career  is  but  another  evidence  of  what  the  Teutonic 
race  is  accomplishing.  It  has  ever  been  a  most  important  element  in  carry- 
ing forward  the  work  of  civilization  in  the  new  districts.  In  introducing 
measures  and  methods  resulting  in  progress  and  improvement,  his  unremit- 
ting diligence  directed  by  sound  intelligence,  his  methods  at  all  times  in  har- 
mony with  the  strictest  commercial  ethics  these  have  been  the  salient  features 
in  his  splendid  prosperity. 

GEORGE  C.  CARMAN. 

George  C.  Carman  is  a  well  known  and  reliable  business  man  of  Seat- 
tle, Washington,  now  enjoying  a  large  trade  as  a  dealer  in  fruit  and  vege- 
tables. A  Canadian,  he  was  born  in  St.  Johns,  New  Brunswick,  on  the  2d 
of  December,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of  Richard  Carman,  Avho  was  born  in  Eng- 
land and  emigrated  to  New  Brunswick  when  a  young  man,  but  his  last  days 
were  spent  in  New  York,  whither  he  remo\Td  with  his  family.  He  was  an 
honest  and  industrious  farmer  and  an  active  member  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
in  which  he  led  the  singing  for  many  years,  being  possessed  of  considerable 
musical  talent.  In  early  manhood  he  married  Miss  Elizabeth  Scott,  who  was 
of  Scotch  ancestry,  and  to  them  were  born  four-  children.  Of  these  our 
subject  was  the  youngest,  being  only  two  weeks  old  at  the  time  of  his  moth- 
er's death.      He  has  one  brother  still  living,  James,  a  resident  of  New  Jersey. 

In  his  native  province  George  C.  Carman  was  reared  and  educated,  as- 
sisting in  the  work  of  the  home  farm  during  the  summer  season  and  attend- 
ing school  during  the  winter  months.  In  i860  he  ^\ent  to  California  by 
way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama,  and  located  in  Mariposa  county,  where  he 
was  employed  in  one  of  General  John  C.  Fremont's  quartz  mills.  .  Later 
Mr.  Carman  engaged  in  placer  mining  on  his  own  account  l)ut  with  only 
very  moderate  success. 


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In  1862  was  celebrated  his  marriage  to  Miss  Abby  L.  Abbot,  a  daughter 
of  Stephen  Abbot,  a  native  of  Wilton,  New  Hampshire,  who  was  one  of  the 
California  pioneers  of  1850.  Air.  Abbot  was  joined  by  a  part  of  his  family 
in  1854,  and  two  years  later  Mrs.  Carman  arrived  on  the  Pacific  coast.  Her 
mother  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Nancy  W.  Beede  and  was  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Thomas  Beede,  a  Unitarian  minister  of  note  in  the  east.  The  Beedes 
were  an  old  New  England  family.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carman  were  born 
three  children;  Edwin,  the  eldest,  died  in  early  childhood.  The  surviving 
children  are  Elizabeth,  now  the  wife  of  J.  W.  Swope,  and  Stephen  A.  Car- 
man. 

After  their  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carman  resided  in  Hunter's  valley, 
]\Iariposa  county,  removing  to  Antioch,  Contra  Costa  county,  in  1864,  where 
]\Ir.  Carman  engaged  in  general  merchandising.  In  1889  he  came  to  Seattle, 
just  after  the  great  fire  at  this  place,  and  after  a  time  engaged  in  his  present 
business  at  the  Fulton  Market,  where  by  honorable  methods  and  close  atten- 
tion to  the  wants  of  his  customers  he  has  built  up  a  very  successful  business, 
and  numbers  among  his  customers  many  of  the  best  citizens  of  Seattle.  In 
politics  Mr.  Carman  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  is  an  upright,  honorable  business  man, 
and  well  merits  the  high  regard  in  which  he  is  uniformly  held. 

PAUL   HOPKINS. 

.\mong  the  important  industries  of  the  young  but  growing  city  of  Bal- 
lard is  the  boiler  Avorks  of  Hopkins  &  Son,  which  were  started  on  a  very 
modest  scale  about  fourteen  years  ago  but  have  so  increased  in  dimensions 
as  to  rank  among  the  largest  establishments  of  the  kind  in  the  state.  The 
founder  and  principal  proprietor  is  an  expert  iron  worker  and  machinist 
who  had  an  extensive  training  in  positions  of  responsibility  in  the  east  and 
brought  to  his  adopted  home  a  ripened  experience  which  has  proved  of  value 
both  to  himself  and  others.  He  is  a  fine  type  of  the  kind  of  men  wdiose 
energy  and  genius  in  the  mechanic  arts  have  brought  about  that  w^onderful 
developm.ent  of  the  United  States  in  manufactures  that  has  astonished  the 
civilized  world.  While  Mr.  Hopkins  has  not  done  it  all,  of  course,  he  has 
done  his  part,  and  it  is  the  aggregate  of  the  results  such  as  he  has'  accom- 
plished which  gives  the  nation  its  pre-eminence  in  all  that  relates  to  the  metal 
trades..  What  he  has  done  for  himself  and  what  he  has  done  for  Ballard 
will  appear  as  the  details  of  his  career  are  unfolded. 

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extensively  engaged  m  transpprtation  on  the  river  Thames.  He  owned 
numerous  teams  and  employed  a  large  number  of  workmen,  features  of  his 
work  being  the  handling  of  coal  used  by  the  college  of  Oxford  and  furnish- 
ing timber  for  the  government's  ship-building  yards.  But  he  was  overtaken 
by  ill  fortune,  and,  having  lost  all  his  property  as  the  result  of  adverse  finan- 
cial circumstances,  he  determined  to  cross  the  ocean  and  make  a  new  start 
in  the  United  States.  This  resolve  was  carried  out  in  1849,  =^nd  after  his 
arrival  he  made  his  way  to  the  west  and  engaged  in  boating  on  the  Illionis 
river.  This  occupation  he  followed  without  change  until  his  death -in  1877. 
He  married  Susannah  Riddle,  and  when  he  left  his  native  land  was  accom- 
panied by  a  number  of  children,  which  by  subsequent  increases  amounted 
to  ten,  consisting  of  seven  sons  and  three  daughters.  It  is  with  the  youngest 
member  of  this  family  that  this  sketch  is  especially  concerned  as  he  is  the 
gentleman  now  so  prominent  in  industrial  circles  at  Ballard. 

Paul  Hopkins  was  born  in  England  in  1843,  and  was  consequently  but 
six  years  old  when  the  parental  emigration  was  made  to  America.  Owing 
to  the  straightened  circumstances  of  his  father,  but  little  time  could  be  de- 
voted to  books,  and  at  a  very  early  age  the  boy  found  it  necessary  to  work 
for  a  living.  His  first  juvenile  venture  was  entered  upon  in  the  eleventh 
year  of  his  age  and  consisted  of  a  iob  of  firing  for  a  planing  mill  at  LaSalle, 
Illinois  This  novitiate  lasted  about  three  yeiirs  and  gave  place  to  a  posi- 
tion on  a  tug  boat  on  the  Chicago  river,  which  Paul  considered  himself 
as  quite  fortunate  to  have  secured.  He  spent  several  years  in  the  grimy  work 
of  firing  for  the  fussy  tug,  but  by  another  fortune  chance  succeeded  in  get- 
ting employment  at  the  McConnick  Reaper  Works.  The  experience  ob- 
tained there  enabled  Mr.  Hopkins  to  step  still  a  little  higher,  and  next  we 
find  him  with  a  good  situation  as  boiler-maJ<er  in  the  shops  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company.  This  place  was  retained  seven  years,  during 
which  Mr.  Hopkins  made  steady  advances  in  his 'knowledge  of  metal  work- 
ing, and  when  he  left  Chicago  it  was  only  for  the  purpose  of  continuing  in 
the  same  ime  of  employment  at  ]\Iilwaukee,  Pie  remained,  however,  but 
a  short  time  at  the  Wisconsin  metropolis,  and  after  working  for  awhile  as 
boiler-maker  in  an  establishment  at  Manitowoc  he  returned  to  Chicago. 
Subsequently  he  did  repair  work  for  the  South  Side  Rolling  Mill  Company, 
and  later  Look  a  position  as  machinist  in  the  steel  works  at  Joliet.  which 
he  retained  about  eight  years.  His  next  venture  was  on  his  own  account 
as  proprietor  of  some  iron  works  at  Manistee,  Michigan,  which  he  operated 
eight  years,  and  this  ended  his  career  in  the  eastern  states.  Having  heard 
much  of  the  Puget  Sound  country  and  the  possibilities  of  the  great  north - 

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570  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

west  Mr.  Hopkins  decided  in  1887  to  cast  his*  lot  with  this  "blooming"  sec- 
tion of  the  Union.  His  first  intention  was  to  stop  at  Taconia,  but  later  he 
decided  to  go  on  to  Seattle,  and.  after  arriving  there  he  secured  work  as  a 
journeyman,  but  at  the  same  time  conducted  a  small  grocery  store  as  a  side 
line.  In  the  spring  of  1888  he  purchased  three  lots  on  the  bay  and  erected 
thereon  a  small  building,  the  lumber  for  which  Mr.  Hopkins  and  his  assist- 
ants carried  on  their  backs.  At  that  time  there  were  but  few  buildings  at 
Ballard,  which  then  gave  little  promise  of  its  subsequent  development.  But 
the  modest  Hopkins  shop  grew  rapidly,  both  in  dimensions  and  patron- 
age, tmtil  eventually  it  became  an  extensive  and  valuable  plant.  It  was 
soon  found  necessary  to  put  up  larger  buildings,  and  those  in  which  the 
firm's  business  is  now  carried  on  are  quite  imposing  both  in  size  and  area 
occupied.  The  boiler  shop  is  sixty  by  ninety-eight  feet  and  the  foundry  and 
machine  shop  is  sixty  by  one  hundred  and  five  feet,  frontage  on  the  rail- 
road. The  establishment  gives  employment  to  thirty-six  persons  and  does 
a  large  amount  of  work  for  Seattle  and  other  towns  in  the  vicinity.  They 
build  gas  works,  tanks  for  paper  mills,  boilers  for  boats,  and  other  machin- 
ery of  a  costly  character.  Some  notable  jobs  have  been  turned  off  by  this 
establishment,  including  a  burner  for  the  Stimsons,  which  was  thirty  feet 
in  diameter,  sixty-one  feet  high  and  required  sixty-four  tons  of  iron  for 
its  construction.  They  made  the  large  boilers  put  in  the  Tilicum,  the  Rapid 
Transit  and  the  steamer  Dode,  besides  marine  boilers  for  many  other  boats. 
This  firm  did  the  work  in  their  line  for  the  Grand  Opera  House  at  Seattle 
and  that  of  the  Diamond  Ice  Company  plant,  which  consumed  seventy-five 
tons  of  iron.  Many  of  the  residences  in  Ballard,  especially  those  near  their 
works,  were  erected  or  finished  by  this  firm,  and  Mr.  Hopkins  himself  owns 
a  fine  house  of  fourteen  rooms  on  Ballard  avenue. 

In  1866  Mr.  Hopkins  was  married  at  Milwaukee,  to  Isabelle  Highland, 
a  lady  of  English  nativity  and  of  excellent  family.  Her  father,  John  High- 
land, served  as  an  engineer  during  the  Civil  war,  and  was  awarded  a  medal 
for  spiking  the  enemy's  guns  in  one  of  their  ports  under  circumstances  of 
exceptional  danger.  Six  of  the  nine  children  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hop- 
kins are  living.  Edward  J.,  a  partner  of  the  Ballard  Iron  Works  Company, 
married  Marcia  Alma  Sprague  and  has  three  children.  Eliza  Isabelle,  who 
is  bookkeeper  at  the  works,  is  .ser\'ing  her  second  term  as  president  of  the 
Epworth  League.  Paul  G..  who  resides  at  Fairhaven,  married  Sarah  Ward 
and  has  one  child.  Frank  Frederick,  who  is  one  of  the  boiler-makers  in  the 
boiler  works,  married  Agnes  Marie  Faber.  Hannah  Maud  is  a  teacher  in 
the  Ballard  schools.     John   .Arthur  is  a  student    at    the    State    Universitv, 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  *  571 

where  he  is  taking  a  course  in  civil  engineering-  and  is  preparing  for  a  course 
in  mechanical  draughting.  Mrs.  Hopkins  is  a  member  of  the  Daughters 
of  Rebekah  and  the  Woman's  Relief  Corps,  while  her  husband's  fraternal 
connections  are  with  the  Odd  Fellows  and  Maccabees.  Mr.  Hopkins  is  in- 
dependent in  his  political  views,  and  the  only  office  he  has  held  was  member- 
ship for  a  short  time  in  the  city  council. 

GEORGE  U.  PIPER. 

Histoiy  concerns  itself  mostly  with  the  men  who  have  had  to  do  with 
the  political  and  military  interests  of  the  countiy,  but  biography  treats  of 
those  busy  toilers  in  the  affairs  of  life  who  form  the  true  strength  of  the 
nation.  It  is  the  men  who  are  successful  and  enterprising  in  the  business 
world  that  bring  prosperity  and  advancement  to  a  community,  and  of  this 
class  Mr.  Piper  is  a  worthy  representative.  He  was  born  in  Warsaw,  Indi- 
ana, on  the  2d  of  May,  1866.  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  and  Dutch  ancestry. 
His  paternal  grandfather  was  born  in  Scotland,  but  when  a  young  man  he 
left  his  home  across  the  sea  and  came  to  America.  He  was  here  married  to 
the  daughter  of  Thomas  Buck,  who  nobly  served  his  country  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  and  he,  too,  was  of  Irish  descent,  while  religiously  he  was  an 
Episcopalian. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Piper  made  their  home  for  a  time  in  Washington  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  their  son.  William  G.,  was  born  on  the  8th  of  August, 
1830.  He  married  Miss  Plattie  Droud,  a  native  daughter  of  Washington 
county,  and  she  was  of  old  Holland  Dutch  ancestry,  who  were  early  settlers 
of  Pennsylvania  and  participants  in  the  early  history  of  the  locality.  William 
G.  Piper  became  a  prominent  member  of  the  legal  profession.  In  1876  he 
removed  with  his  family  to  Albany,  Oregon,  and  thence  to  Salem,  that  state, 
where  for  several  years  he  held  the  office  of  prosecuting  attorney.  Later 
he  took  up  his  abode  in  Moscow,  Idaho,  where  he  was  made  judge  of  the  dis- 
trict court  in  1888,  and  1896  was  again  elected  to  that  important  office.  Af- 
ter his  retirement  from  that  position  he  came  to  Seattle,  and  in  this  city  he 
continued  his  law  practice  until  his  life's  labors  were  ended  in  death,  en  the 
2ist  of  September,  1899.  after  a  long  and  useful  career.  Upon  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Republican  party  he  became  an  ardent  supporter  of  its  principles, 
and  when  the  great  Civil  war  burst  upon 'the  country  he  was  one  of  the  first 
to  ofifer  his  services  to  the  Union  cause  and  was  made  a  colonel  of  an  Indi- 
ana regiment  which  he  assisted  in  organizing.  By  his  fiery  eloquence  he 
induced  manv  to  volunteer  in  the  defense  of  the  starry  banner,  and  in  many 


572  *  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

ways  he  rendered  valuable  service  to  the  cause  he  so  nobly  espoused.  After 
a  service  of  one  year  he  met  with  an  accident  which  confined  him  to  nis  bed 
for  three  years,  and  during  all  this  time  the  cause  of  his  country  weighted 
heavily  upon  him.  After  regaining  his  health  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  and  during  his  long  term  as  district  judge  he  served  with  marked 
ability  and  fidelity,  Ijeing  at  all  times  true  to  duty  and  the  right.  His  wife 
was  called  to  her  final  rest  in  189,:;,  at  the  age  of  sixty-one  years.  To  this 
worthy  couple  were  born  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters:  Charles 
A.  and  Fred  W..  of  Seattle:  Edgar  B.,  the  managing  editor  oi  the  Oregon- 
ian  and  a  resident  of  Portland;  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Langdon  and  Mrs.  E.  D. 
Cusick,  both  of  Albany,  Oregon. 

George  U.  Piper,  who  completes  the  list  of  children  received  the  advan- 
tages afforded  by  the  public  schools  of  Oregon  during  his  early  youth,  and  later 
became  a  student  in  the  Willamette  University.  Throughout  the  early  years 
of  his  life  he  was  engaged  in  journalistic  work,  and  after  his  arrival  in  Se- 
attle, in  1888,  he  and  his  brothers  became  the  owners  of  the  Post  Intelli- 
gencer, and  under  their  original  methods  of  execution  and  their  correct  and 
spirited  grasp  of  affairs  the  paper  grew  rapidly  in  circulation  and  importance 
until  it  ranked  among  the  leading  newspapers  of  the  state.  Since  disposing 
of  his  interest  therein  to  its  present  owners  Mr.  Piper  has  retired  from  the 
journalistic  field  and  has  since  devoted  his  attention  to  loaning  money  and 
making  investments.  He  is  now  interested  in  a  number  of  business  enter- 
prises, and  is  classed  among  the  enterprising  citizens  of  the  northwest.  Po- 
litically he  is  a  life-long  Republican,  and  is  active  in  the  ranks  of  his  chosen 
party,  ever  wielding  a  wide  and  valuable  influence  in  the  affairs  of  his  city  and 
state. 

JAMES  B.  METCALFE. 

The 'profession  of  the  law  when  clothed  in  its  true  dignity,  purity  and 
strength,  must  rank  first  among  the  callings  of  man,  for  law  rules  the  uni- 
verse. The  work  of  the  legal  profession  is  to  formulate,  to  harmonize,  to 
regulate,  to  adjust,  to  administer  those  rules  and  principles  that  underlie  and 
])ermeate  all  government  and  society  and  control  the  varied  relations  of  men. 
As  thus  viewed  there  attaches  to  the  legal  profession  a  nobleness  that  can- 
not but  be  reflected  in  the  life  of  the  true  lawyer,  who,  rising  to  the  responsi- 
bilities of  the  profession,  and  honest  in  the  pursuit  of  his  purpose,  embraces 
the  richness  of  learning,  the  firmness  of  integrity  and  the  purity  of  morals, 
together  with  the  graces  and  modesty  and  the  general  amenities  of  life.     Of 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  573 

such  a  type  James  B.  Metcalfe  is  a  representative.  He  has  for  eighteen  years 
been  practicing  at  the  bar  at  Seattle  and  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  most 
eminent  attorneys  of  the  state. 

Mr.  Metcalfe  is  a  native  of  Mississippi,  his  birth  having  occurred  near 
Natchez  in  Adams  county  on  the  15th  of  January,  1846.  He  is  of  English 
and  Irish  lineage.  The  Metcalfes  arrived  in  Massachusetts  in  1620  and  were 
numbered  among  the  Puritan  settlers  of  New  England,  Michael  being  the 
progenitor  of  the  family  in  America.  Representatives  of  the  name  removed 
to  Connecticut  and  others  to  Ohio,  while  the  branch  of  the  family  to  which 
our  subject  belongs  was  founded  in  Mississippi  by  his  father.  On  the  ma- 
ternal side  the  ancestr)^  can  be  traced  directly  to  Deacon  Samuel  Chapin, 
whose  bronze  statue  adorns  the  park  in  Spring'field,  Massachusetts.  Na- 
thaniel Chapin,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  an  ensign  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  and  members  of  the  Metcalfe  family  were  minute  men  at  Con- 
cord and  Lexington,  so  that  on  both  sides  Mr.  Metcalfe  of  this  review  has 
inherited  the  right  to  become  a  Son  of  the  American  Revolution.  He  has 
availed  himself  of  the  opportunity  this  has  given  and  is  a  valued  member  of 
the  organization.  His  father,  Orrin  Metcalfe,  was  born  in  Enfield,  Con- 
necticut, in  1813,  removed  thence  to  Ohio,  and  subsequently  became  a  resident 
of  Mississippi,  where  he  was  married  to  Miss  Zulink  Rosalie  Lyons,  a  native 
of  Adams  county,  Mississippi.  The  Lyons  family  had  emigrated  from  Ire- 
land to  this  county  at  a  very  early  day  in  its  history  and  had  for  many  years 
resided  in  the  south,  where  they  were  people  of  very  high  repute  and  influence. 
Orrin  Metcalfe  was  the  owner  of  an  extensive  plantation,  which  he  success- 
fully controlled  and  operated,  at  the  same  time  taking  a  very  prominent 
part  in  public  affairs,  his  influence  there  being  on  the  side  of  progress  and 
improvement.  For  fifteen  years  he  served  as  sheriff  of  his  county.  The 
cause  of  education  found  in  him  a  very  warm  friend ;  for  many  years  he  was 
treasurer  of  Jefferson  College,  and  his  wife  \yas  president  of  the  board  of 
trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  Orphan  Asylum.  Both  held  membership  in  the 
Presbyterian  church,  he  being  an  elder  in  the  First  Presbyterian  church  of 
Natchez  for  forty  years.  Flis  life,  at  all  times  honorable  and  upright,  was 
an  example  well  worthy  of  emulation  and  his  mfluence  and  efforts  were  so 
discerningly  directed  that  they  proved  of  the  greatest  value  to  the  commu- 
nity with  which  he  was  associated.  He  was  called  to  his  final  rest  in  1886  at 
the  age  of  seventy-three  years  and  his  wife  passed  away  in  1869.  They  were 
the  parents  of  ten  children,  five  of  whom  arc  yet  living. 

James  Bard  Metcalfe  pursued  his  education  under  the  direction  of  pri- 
vate tutors  and  in  the  schools  of  Natchez.     In  1863  the  need  of  the  southern 


574  REPRESENTATIVE   CTITZENS   OF 

states  to  replenish  the  army  with  additional  troops  caused  him  to  offer  his 
services  to  the  Confederacy.  He  had  deep  sympathy  for  the  people  of  the 
south,  and  also  prompted  with  a  spirit  of  adventure,  he  ran  away  from  home, 
joining  the  army  as  a  member  of  the  Tenth  Mississippi  Cavalry.  His  first 
service  was  in  defense  of  Mobile,  Alabama,  and  he  had  the  honor  of  being 
a  commissioned  officer  of  his  company.  For  some  time  he  served  under  the 
gallant  cavalry  leader.  General  N.  B.  Forrest,  participating  in  many  of  the 
memora1)le  engagements  of  the  Civil  war.  He  remained  in  active  service 
until  the  close  of  hostilities  and  endured  all  the  hardships  and  privations 
which  befell  the  southern  army  during  the  last  tw^o  years  of  the  great  strug- 
gle. He  was  paroled  at  Jackson,  Mississippi,  by  General  E.  R.  S.  Canby. 
He  had  many  narrow  escapes,  bullets  several  times  piercing  his  clothing, 
yet  he  was  never  wounded. 

When  the  war  was  ended  Mr.  Metcalfe  returned  to  Natchez.  His  fam- 
ily had  suffered  much  through  the  loss  of  property  and  in  an  endeavor  to  re- 
trieve his  fortune  he  accepted  a  clerkship  in  a  mercantile  house,  while  later 
he  was  connected  with  a  banking  establishment.  He  studied  law  at  night 
under  the  direction  of  Judge  Ralph  North,  spending  all  his  leisure  moments 
outside  of  banking  hours  in  the  acquirement  of  his  legal  knowledge.  De- 
siring better  opportunities  for  advancement,  in  1870  he  came  to  the  Pacific 
coast,  locating  in  San  Francisco,  where  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  Pa- 
cific Bank,  continuing  at  the  same  time  to  pursue  his  law  studies  for  a  year. 
On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  entered  the  law  office  of  the  firm  of  Bart- 
lett  &  Pratt,  where  for  a  year  he  studied  most  assiduously  and  was  then  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  by  the  supreme  court  of  California.  At  that  time  the  firm 
of  Bartlett  &  Pratt  was  dissolved  and  the  firm  of  Pratt  &  Metcalfe  was 
formed.  He  soon  entered  upon  a  very  active  practice,  meeting  with  highly 
satisfactory  success.  His  ability  as  a  lawyer  was  rapidly  winning  him  a 
foremost  place  among  the  able  members  of  the  bar  of  San  Francisco  when 
in  1883  business  called  him  to  Seattle,  and  he  became  so  deeply  impressed 
with  the  bright  future  that  lay  before  the  city  that  he  decided  to  link  his  in- 
terests with  its  destinv. 

In  accordance  wnth  that  determination,  in  May,  1884,  Mr.  Metcalfe 
took  up  his  abode  in  Seattle  and  opened  an  office  for  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, which  he  continued  alone  for  some  time,  his  clientage  steadily  grow- 
ing each  year.  After  three  or  four  years  he  entered  into  partnership  with 
Junius  Rochister  under  the  firm  name  of  Metcalfe  &  Rochister.  The  busi- 
ness relation  between  them  was  maintained  for  about  two  years,  during 
which  time  they  were  connected  with  some  of  the  most  important  trials  in 


bEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  575 

the  territory.  It  was  during  that  period  that  Mr.  Metcalfe  most  signally 
distinguished  himself  as  a  jury  lawyer  in  the  homicide  case  of  the  Washing- 
ton territory  versus  Miller,  which  is  found  reported  in  volume  3  of  the 
Washington  Territory  Reports.  The  case  attracted  much  attention,  and 
popular  prejudice  against  the  accused  was  so  strong  that  it  was  difficult 
to  obtain  a  fair  and  impartial  trial.  For  two  and  one-half  years  this  case 
was  before  the  courts,  and  in  the  four  trials  which  were  heard  every  inch  of 
the  ground  was  fought  with  great  skill  by  alile  lawyers  in  behalf  of  the  ter- 
ritory. Unremitting  zeal  and  almost  unrequited  toil— for  the  defendant  was 
poor — were  brought  to  bear  on  the  case  by  Mr.  Metcalfe  and  his  able  partner, 
and  the  final  acquital  of  their  client  was  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
victories  in  the  history  of  criminal  cases  in  the  northwest.  Wr.  Metcalfe's 
appeal  to  the  jury  was  a  most  masterful  effort,  and  the  entire  management 
of  the  defense  evinced  the  most  thorough  knowledge  and  application  of  the 
law.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Metcalfe's  practice  has  been  largely  in  corpora- 
tion and  admiralty  law,  in  which  it  may  be  said  he  stands  without  a  peer. 
While  his  practice  has  been  of  a  very  important  character  and  his  clientage 
is  extensive,  he  has  also  been  connected  with  other  interests.  He  was  one 
of  the  originators  and  one  of  the  most  active  promoters  of  the  first  cable  line 
in  Seattle,  known  as  the  Yesler  Avenue  line,  running  from  a  point  near  the 
bay  to  Lake  Washington.  His  prominence  in  business  circles  of  the  city  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  he  was  sent  as  a  deleg^ate  from  the  Seattle  chamber 
of  commerce  to  the  Pacific  board  of  commerce  which  met  in  San  Francisco 
in  September,  "1890,  and  well  did  he  represent  his  city's  organization. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Metcalfe  is  a  stalwart  Democrat,  and  while  in 
San  Francisco  he  a-ttained  much  prominence  as  a  politician  and  was  sent  as 
a  delegate  of  his  party  to  represent  California  in  the  Democratic  national 
convention  held  in  Cincinnati  in  1880,  at  which  time  General  Winfield  Scott 
Hancock  was  nominated  for  the  presidency.  In  other  political  movements 
Mr.  Metcalfe  was  also  very  prominent  and  influential.  He  serv^ed  as  captain 
of  a  company  composed  of  Union  and  Confederate  veterans  during  the  Kear- 
ney agitation  in  San  Francisco,  and  in  1887  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Semple  the  first  attorney  general  of  Washington  territory,  in  which  office  he 
served  with  honor  and  credit  until  the  admission  of  the  territory  into  the 
Union.  During  the  campaign  of  1886  Mr.  Metcalfe  made  a  thorough  can- 
vass of  the  territory  in  behalf  of  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  delegate  to 
congress.  His  addresses  were  magnificent  oratorical  eft'orts,  spoken  of  in 
the  highest  praise  by  those  who  heard  them.     One  journal  in  alluding  to  his 


576  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

speeches  said.  "We  have  hstened  to  many  powerful  orators  but  never  heai-d 
a  clearer  or  more  powerful  argument,"  and  he  would  at  one  time  have  been 
the  unanniious  choice  of  his  party  for  delegate  to  congress,  but  decided  to 
decline  the  honor,  and  stood  with  unsAverving-  fealty  in  support  of  his  can- 
didate, the  Hon.  C.  S.  Voorhees,  whom  he  placed  in  nomination  in  a  speech 
which  created  the  greatest  enthusiasm.  In  many  public  addresses  outside 
the  line  of  his  profession  Mr.  Metcalfe  has  established  a  reputation  as  an 
orator  of  much  ])ower,  force  and  grrace,  and  while  he  possesses  in  a  very 
marked  degree  the  qualities  which  would  fit  him  for  any  position  in  public 
life,  he  desires  to  give  his  entire  attention  to  his  professional  duties. 

In  the  great  fire  which  occurred  in  Seattle  in  1889,  it  was  his  misfortune 
to  lose  his  law  librar\-.  which  was  at  that  time  one  of  the  most  valuable 
private  collections  of  law  books  in  the  city.  Soon  after  the  lire  he  built  a 
three-story  business  block  and  in  this  building,  after  the  formation  of  his 
partnership  with  C.  W.  Turner  and  Andrew  J.  Burleigh,  he  established  new 
ofifices,  which  are  equipped  with  probably  the  largest  and  most  complete 
law  library  in  the  northwest.  After  some  time  Mr.  Burleigh  retired  from  the 
firm,  and  it  continued  as  Metcalfe  &  Turner  until  the  present  firm  of  Met- 
calfe &  Jury  was  established.  They  now  occupy  spacious  offices  in  the  Pa- 
cific block  and  among  their  clients  are  now  numbered  some  of  the  largest 
corporations  in  the  state  of  Washinglon.  Mr.  Metcalfe  has  also  been  in 
many  ways  a  most  Aalued  resident  of  the  city  of  his  choice  and  has  ever  been 
ready  to  promote  the  welfare  of  Seattle.  During  the  anti-Chinese  agi- 
tation he  served  as  lieutenant  of  Company  D  of  the  national  guards  and  was 
on  active  duty  throughout  this  crisis  in  the  city's  histor}\  Public  excitement 
ran  high,  and  on  the  evening  of  the  day  on  which  the  riot  occurred,  in  which 
one  man  was  killed  and  several  wounded,  he  was  detailed  to  post  the  guards, 
the  city  being  then  under  martial  law.  The  undertaking  was  one  of  much  dan- 
ger, as  the  streets  were  filled  with  throngs  of  excited  men,  but  such  was  his 
patience,  firmness  and  loyalty  to  duty  that  he  accomplished  his  tasks  w^ith 
splendid  success  and  continued  to  serve  w^ith  his  company  from  the  time 
martial  law  was  proclaimed  until  the  arrival  of  United  States  troops,  when 
Mr.  Metcalfe  and  liis  men  were  relieved  from  further  military  duties.  Mr. 
Metcalfe  is  known  as  a  man  of  the  highest  type  of  bravery,  having  a  cour- 
age which  will  face  any  danger  if  necessary,  yet  never  taking  needless  risks. 
His  courage  was  strikingly  shown  on  a  cold  night  in  February,  1887,  when 
he  and  Hon.  D.  M.  Drumheller,  then  attending  the  legislature  from  Spokane. 
were  about  t*)  take  the  .steamer  at  the  Olympia  wharf.      The  deck  of  the 


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SEATTLE    AND    KING   COUNTY.  577 

steamer  was  covered  with  ice,  which  could  not  be  seen  in  the  darkness,  and 
Mr.  Drumheller  shpped  and  fell  into  the  water.  Without  a  moment's  hesi- 
tation General  Metcalfe  plunged  in  after  his  friend  and  saved  his  life  at  the 
risk  of  his  own. 

In  1877  Mr.  Metcalfe  was  happily  married  to  Aliss  Louise  Boarman, 
a  native  daughter  of  California,  born  in  Sacramento,  her  parents  being 
Thomas  M.  and  Mary  Boarman,  of  that  city.  To  Mr.  Metcalfe  and  his  wife 
have  been  born  two  sons,  Thomas  Oren  and  James  Vernon.  Mr.  Metcalfe 
is  a  gentleman  of  strong  domestic  tastes,  devoted  to  his  family  and  their 
welfare,  and  gives  t(j  liis  sons  every  opportunity  for  obtaining  a  thorough 
education.  He  takes  very  little  interest  in  fraternal  matters,  but  was  at  one 
time  colonel  of  the  first  regiment  of  the  uniformed  rank  of  the  Knights  of 
Pythias.  In  private  life  he  commands  high  regard,  and  the  circle  of  his 
friends  is  almost  coextensive  with  the  circle  of  his  acquaintances.  As  long  as 
the  history  of  jurisprudence  in  Washington  shall  be  a  matter  of  record,  the 
name  of  Mr.  Metcalfe  will  figure  conspicuously  therein  by  reason  of  the 
fact  that  his  career  at  the  bar  has  been  one  of  distinguished  prominence,  and 
that  his  was  the  lionor  of  serving  as  the  first  attorney  general  of  the  territory 
of  Washington. 

DANIEL  B.  JACKSON. 

Throughout  a  long  period  Captain  Daniel  B.  Jackson  was  a  prominent 
figxu-e  in  the  annals  of  the  Puget  Sound  country  and  aided  materially  in  its 
development  in  many  lines.  By  a  life  of  uprightness,  industry  and  honor- 
able dealing,  a  life  devoted  to  the  support  of  whatever  was  good  and  tnic, 
he  won  the  admiration  and  genuine  regard  of  a  large  circle  of  acquiantances, 
who  sincerely  mourned  his  loss  when,  on  the  29th  of  November,  i8<)3.  he 
was  called  upon  to  lay  aside  the  burdens,  joys  and  sorrows  which  had  fallen 
to  his  lot,  as  to  all,  in  the  journey  of  life.  The  l)irth  of  Captain  Jackson 
occurred  in  Warren,  New  Llamphire,  on  the  i8th  of  July,  1833,  and  ho  was 
a  son  of  William  C.  and  Sarah  P.  (Roberts)  Jackson,  both  of  English 
origin.  The  father  was  a  minister  in  the  I\Iethodist  Episcopal  church,  and 
his  noble,  manly  life  proved  an  inspiration  to  many  of  his  friends  and  as.so- 
ciates  of  that  early  day.  The  family  subsequently  took  up  their  abode  in 
Bangor,  Maine,  where  they  spent  the  remainder  of  their  lives. 

In  1847,  when  but  fourteen  years  of  age.  Daniel  ran  away  from  home 
and  went  to  sea  as  a  cabin  boy  and  officer's  he!]),  remaining  before  the  mast 
for  two  vears,  on  the  expiration  of  which  period  he  retm-ncd  to  his  liome. 


578  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

In  1852  he  embarked  in  lumbering  and  steamboating  on  the  Penobscot  river, 
but  in  1858  he  went  to  Cah"fornia  by  the  Panama  route.  During  his  one 
year's  residence  in  the  Golden  state  he  was  engaged  in  seeking  its  hidden 
treasures,  after  which  he  came  to  the  Puget  Sound  country  and  entered  the 
employ  of  Amos  Phinney  &  Company,  owners  of  large  mills  at  Port  Lud- 
low. In  1871  Captain  Jackson  accepted  a  position  with  the  Puget  Mill  Com- 
pany, and  (hn-ing  his  long  period  of  twenty  years'  connection  with  that  cor- 
poration he  had  charge  of  their  steamboats  and  outside  business,  discharg- 
ing faithfully  the  duties  imposed  upon  him  in  that  important  position.  In 
1884  he  organized  the  W'ashington  Steam  Ship  Company,  which  was  later 
succeeded  by  the  Puget  Sound  &  Alaska  Steam  Ship  Company,  "tmd  of  both 
companies  he  served  as  president.  It  was  during  his  regime  that  the  elegant 
steamer  City  of  Kingston  was  purchased  and  its  sister  ship  City  of  Seattle 
was  built,  while  under  his  skillful  management  a  small  beginning  with  the 
steamer  City  of  Quincy,  Washington,  and  one  or  two  others  developed  into 
one  of  the  largest  and  best  equipped  shipping  industries  on  the  Sound.  Dis- 
posing of  his  interests  in  that  company  in  1892,  two  years  later  Captain  Jack- 
son organi/ed  the  Northwestern  Steam  Ship  Company,  which  operated  the 
elegant  nev;  steamship  Rosalie  on  the  Victoria  route,  also  the  steamers 
George  E.  Starr  and  the  Eliza  Anderson  on  the  Port  Townsend  mail  line. 
Of  this  important  company  he  was  the  president  and  principal  owner  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  and  it  was  largely  owing  to  his  unerring  judgment  and  his 
excellent  business  ability  that  the  concern  obtained  its  high  standing  among 
the  leading  steamship  companies  of  the  Pacific. 

On  the  1 2th  of  September,  1852,  Captain  Jackson  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Mary  A.  Rowell,  whose  father  was  a  native  of  Maine  and  of  English 
extraction,  while  her  mother  was  born  in  the  city  of  Glasgow,  Scotland. 
Mrs.  Jackson  also  claims  the  Pine  Tree  state  as  the  place  of  her  nativity,  and 
in  that  commonwealth  she  gave  her  hand  in  marriage  to  Capain  Jackson, 
whom  she  accompanied  on  his  journey  to  the  Pacific  coast.  To  this  union 
were  born  nine  children,  five  of  whom  are  still  living,  as  follows:  Henry 
R,  the  manager  of  the  Jackson  estate;  Charles  F.,  vice-president  of  the  Philo 
Mining  Company;  Daniel  E. ;  May  E..  the  wife  of  George  T.  Evans,  of 
Seattle;  and  Lottie  E.,  the  wife  of  James  E.  Guptill,  the  first  mate  on  the 
City  of  Topeka.  In  political  matters  Captain  Jackson  was  a  stalwart  sup- 
porter of  Republican  principles,  but  was  never  an  aspirant  for  political 
honors,  and  in  his  fraternal  relations  was  a  thrity-third  degree  Mason  and  a 
member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  In  April  1889,  just 
before  the  memorable  fire  in  this  city,  he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  purchased 


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the  present  family  residence,  then  in  an  unfinished  condition,  and  during  his 
residence  here  he  did  much  for  the  city  in  the  way  of  improving  city  prop- 
pery,  having  erected  many  residences  and  business  houses,  while  in  addition 
he  was  also  largely  interested  in  property  in  San  Francisco.  He  was  one  of 
the  best  known  steamboat  men  on  the  Sound  and  was  also  a  popular  factor 
in  social  life,  and  when  his  career  on  earth  w^as  ended  the  entire  community 
mourned  his  loss,  for  he  was  a  man  of  incalculable  worth  to  the  city. 

ALEXANDER  B.  STEWART. 

Among  the  energetic  and  enterprising  business  men  of  Seattle  is  Alex- 
ander Bruce  Stewart,  president  of  the  Stewart  &  Holmes  drug  business,  the 
largest  and  most  successful  wholesale  and  retail  drug  establishment  in  tlie 
northwest.  He  was  born  in  Glenallan,  Canada,  on  the  20th  of  Februar)', 
1854.  His  father,  George  Stewart,  was  born  in  Ireland,  and  was  descended 
from  the  royal  family  of  Stuarts  in  Scotland.  In  his  native  country  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Jane  Bruce,  who  was  descended  from  the  noted  Bruces 
of  Scotland.  In  1840  Mr.  vStewart  emigrated  with  his  wife  and  two  chil- 
dren, William  and  Robert,  to  America,  locating  on  a  farm  in  Wellington 
county,  Canada,  and  in  that  locality  he  became  a  prominent  and  influential 
citizen.  He  was  called  to  his  final  reward  in  1887,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three 
years,  passing-  away  in  the  faith  of  the  Methodist  church,  of  which  he  w.'is 
long  a  valued  member.  He  survived  his  wife  many  years,  she  having  died 
at  the  age  of  sixty-six  years.  Four  sons  and  a  daughter  were  added  to  the 
family  circle  in  Canada,  and  three  of  the  sons  are  now  residents  of  the  Pa- 
cific coast,  the  brothers  of  our  subject  being  A.  M.,  manager  of  the  Stewart- 
Holmes  branch  drug  store  at  Tacoma,  and  George  M..  the  popular  prist- 
master  of  Seattle  and  one  of  the  city's  most  successful  business  men. 

A.  B.  Stewart  received  an  excellent  mental  training  in  Victoria  College 
of  Canada,  and  in  that  country  he  also  learned  the  drug  business.  When  the 
time  came  for  him  to  enter  the  business  world  on  his  own  account  he  em- 
barked in  the  drug  trade  in  Silver  City,  Nevada,  where  he  was  engaged  from 
1874  until  1879,  and  during  that  time  he  also  established  a  branch  store  at 
Gold  Hill,  that  state.  In  1879  he  removed  from  Silver  City  to  Bodie.  Cali- 
fornia, but  in  1882  sold  his  interests  in  the  latter  place  and  removed  his  G(-»ld 
Hill  store  to  Seattle,  where  for  four  years  he  was  engaged  in  the  drug  trade 
alone.  The  business  was  then  incorporated  as  the  Stewart-Holmes  Com- 
pany, and  they  have  since  established  1)ranch  stores  in  Tacoma  and  Walla 
Walla.     Their  business  interests  now  extend  over  Washington  and  Alaska 


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and  through  parts  of  Idaho  and  Oregon.  Their  trade  has  steadily  increased, 
and  they  are  doing  both  a  large  wholesale  and  retail  business.  Theirs  is  one 
ot  the  leading  industries  of  the  northwest,  and  it  is  to  such  enterprises  that 
Seattle  owes  her  prosperity  and  substantial  progress.  Mr.  Stewart  has  ever 
taken  a  deep  interest  in  all  that  pertains  to  the  welfare  of  his  chosen  city, 
and  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Front  and  T^Iadison  street  car  lines.  An 
active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party,  he  has  served  for  four 
years  as  a  member  of  the  Republican  state  central  committee,  and  has  taken 
an  active  interest  in  all  the  state  conventions.  In  his  social  relations  he  is 
a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  is  now  a  Knight  Templar. 

In  1884  Mr.  Stewart  was  happily  married  to  Miss  May  Elia  Martin,  a 
native  of  Rockford,  Illinois,  and  a  daughter  of  J.  N.  Martin,  D.  D.,  professor 
of  languages  in  the  University  of  the  Pacific,  of  California.  Their  home  has 
been  brightened  and  blessed  by  the  presence  of  one  daughter,  Alma  May. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stewart  are  valued  members  of  the  Congreg-ational 
church.  Their  home  is  a  favorite  resort  with  a  large  circle  of  warm  friends, 
who  esteem  them  highly  for  their  many  excellencies  of  character  and  then- 
genuine  worth. 

FRED  F.  FISHER. 

This  gentleman  is  a  mem1)er  of  the  progressive  corps  which  ma}'  be 
described  as  the  lumber  army  of  the  northwest,  whose  operations  have  been 
conducted  on  a  gigantic  scale  and  their  products  made  familiar  all  over  the 
world.  There  are  few  places  where  building  is  done  that  are  not  familiar 
with  the  shingles  and  other  forms  of  lumber  sent  out  from  the  Puget  Sound 
country.  Western  Washington  is  covered  with  magnificent  forests  of  pine, 
fir,  cedar  and  other  coniferous  trees,  which  afford  an  immense  amount  of 
excellent  material  for  sawed  lumber  and  spars.  Enterprising  men  from  the 
east  who  reached  this  section  shortly  after  the  Civil  war  immediately  saw 
the  possibilities  of  its  rich  resources  in  timber,  and  no  time  was  lost  in  erect- 
ing mills  to  cut  the  gigantic  trees  into  shape  for  commercial  use.  It  was  to 
this  industry  chiefly  that  Washington  owed  the  rapid  development  which 
enabled  it  in  a  few  years  to  change  from  the  chrysalis  state  of  a  feeble  terri- 
tory into  a  full-fledged  commonwealth  of  the  Union.  Mr.  Fisher  was  still 
quite  a  youth  when  liis  lot  was  cast  among  these  energetic  luml>er  men  of 
the  northwest,  but  he  proved  a  worthy  addition  to  such  a  bodv  and  has  pros- 
pered in  business  since  arriving  upon  the  scene. 

The  Fisher  family  originated  in  France.  Ijut  became  residents  of  Ameri- 


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ca  by  emigration  and  had  representatives  in  Maine  at  an  early  period  in  the 
history  of  that  state.  One  of  the  descendants  removed  with  his  wife  to  Iowa 
in  the  early  decades  of  the  last  century,  and  became  the  parents  of  Edward 
Fisher.  The  latter  served  nearly  four  )'ears  as  a  soldier  of  the  Union  in  one  of 
the  Iowa  regiments  during  the  Civil  war  and  made  quite  an  honorable  military 
record.  After  the  cessation  of  hostilities  he  spent  some  years  in  Illinois  as  a 
dealer  in  grain  and  lumber,  but  in  1885  removed  to  Nebraska.  Here  he 
renewed  his  connection  with  the  lumber  interests  and  operated  through  the 
states  of  Colorado  and  Nebraska.  While  in  Illinois  he  married  Mary  Cotton, 
by  whom  he  had  ten  children,  eight  sons  and  two  daughters,  and  all  of  these 
are  living  but  one. 

Fred  F.  Fisher,  one  of  the  sons  above  mentioned,  was  born  at  Galva, 
Iowa,  September  15,  1867,  but  was  reared  and  educated  chiefly  in  Livingston. 
He  accompanied  his  father  to  Nebraska,  and  as  soon  as  of  sufficient  age 
joined  him  in  the  lumber  business.  In  1888  he  went  to  California,  where  he 
spent  two  years  in  the  same  line  and  then  rettirned  to  Nebraska.  While  in 
this  state  previously  he  had  been  employed  by  the  Stimsons,  and  was  offered 
a  situation  by  the  same  people  in.  connection  with  their  lumber  business  at 
Seattle.  It  was  in  1891  that  he  transferred  his  base  of  operations  to  the 
voung  state  of  Washington,  with  whose  development  he  was  destined  to  re- 
main -identified  during  all  the  years  to  come.  After  remaining  a  year  at 
Seattle  Mr.  Fisher  came  to  Ballard,  then  a  place  of  between  four  and  five 
hundred  population,  bought  a  lot  and  built  a  home.  He  remained  with  the 
Stimsons  until  1901,  then  spent  six  months  at  Everett  and  after  returning 
to  Ballard  took  an  interest  in  the  newly  formed  lumber  company  which  went 
by  the  name  of  that  town.  William  H.  Stimson  of  Los  Angeles  was  elected 
president  and  Fred  F.  Fisher  secretary  of  the  Ballard  Lumber  Company  at 
the  time  of  organization,  and  they  still  retain  those  positions.  The  company 
purchased  the  mill  built  by  Hardfield  81  Roberts,  which  has  a  capacity  of 
thirty  thousand  feet  a  day.  Aside  from  the  men  engaged  in  the  lumber 
camps  the  company  employ  fifty  men  and  own  between  fifty  and  sixty  million 
feet  of  lumber  in  the  Skagit  country,  which  is  the  principal  location  o\  their 
outside  operations.  Their  manufacture  covers  pretty  much  all  the  varieties 
of  lumber  required  in  the  building  trades  and  a  lively  shipping  business  is 
done  to  coast  parts  and  to  the  centers  of  this  industry  in  the  east. 

On  September  20,  1890,  Mr.  Fisher  was  married  in  Nebraska  to  Alena. 
daughter  of  Jud  L.  Bond,  a  farmer  of  that  state.  By  this  union  there  have 
been  three  childlren,  two  living:  Gladys  and  Glenn,  and  one  deceased,  named 
Bonnie.     Mr.  Fisher  has  been  quite  active  in  politics  on  the  Republican  side, 


582  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

and  served  three  vears  as  school  director,  was  urged  to  accept  the  nomination 
for  mayor,  but  this  honor  lie  was  constrained  to  decline  on  account  of  the 
exacting  nature  of  his  business.  In  the  fall  of  1900  Mr.  Fisher  erected  the 
residence  in  which  he  now  resides,  on  Leary  avenue,  this  being  the  third 
dwelling  house  put  up  by  him  since  coming  to  Ballard. 

JAMES  D.  TRENHOLM. 

One  of  the  best  known  and  most  highly  respected  business  men  of  Seat- 
tle is  James  D.  Trenholm,  who  is  the  manager  and  secretary  of  the  North- 
western Commercial  Company.  He  is  a  native  of  Canada,  born  in  Mon- 
treal on  the  22d  of  June.  1865,,  and  is  of  English  and  Scotch  ancestry.  His 
father,  John  Trenholm,  was  born  in  England,  but  in  1830  left  his  home 
across  the  sea  and  came  to  America,  where  he  became  interested  in  the  manu- 
facture of  woolen  goods.  He  married  Miss  Ann  Dickson,  a  native  of  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  and  she  still  survives  her  husband.  In  their  family  were 
eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living. 

James  D.  Trenholm,  the  only  representative  of  the  above  family  in  the 
state  of  Washington,  received  his  education  in  St.  Francis  College  at  Que- 
bec. In  1882,  when  seventeen  years  of  age,  he  went  to  North  Dakota,  where 
he  served  as  deputy  register  of  deeds  for  three  years,  durig  which  time  he 
also  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1890.  While  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  at  that  place  he  also  did  a  general  banking  and  farm 
loan  business,  and  became  a  prominent  and  influential  citizen  of  the  locality. 
In  1898  he  made  the  journey  to  the  Klondyke,  and  during  the  year  which  he 
spent  there  established  the  electric  light  plant  and  power  supply  of  Dawson, 
and  on  the  expiration  of  that  period,  in  company  with  Mr.  Rosene,  he  came 
to  Seattle  and  organized  the  Northwestern  Commercial  Company,  s^ince 
which  time  they  have  been  engaged  in  the  shipping  interests,  their  stock 
ha\'ing  increased  during  the  past  year  from  twenty  thousand  to  four  hundred 
thousand  dollars.  They  ship  principally  to  Alaska  and  Siberia,  and  in  the 
last  named  place  they  own  large  possessions  and  are  establishing  trading 
posts.  They  also  own  many  stores  in  Alaska,  and  in  that  countr)^  they  are 
employing  as  many  as  two  hundred  men.  In  addition  to  these  important 
interests  Mr.  Trenholm  has  a  large  interest  in  the  firm  of  Jacobs  &  Trenholm, 
and  they  are  doing  a  general  agency  business  and  own  large  warehouses  in 
this  city.  Thus  it  will  be  seen  that  our  subject  has  attained  to  an  exalted 
position  in  the  business  circles  of  the  northwest,  but  all  that  he  now  possesses 
is  the  result  of  his  own  unaided  efforts  and  executive  ability. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  583 

The  marriage  of  Mr.  Trenholm  and  Miss  Minnie  Grandy,  n  native  of 
Canada,  was  celebrated  in  1889,  and  the  nnion  has  been  blessed  with  four 
children, — Lotty,  May,  Dickson  and  Rnth.  The  family  reside  in  a  beautiful 
home  at  Green  Lake,  where  they  dispense  a  gracious  hospitality  to  their 
many  friends.  Li  political  matters  Mr.  Trenholm  affiliates  with  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  is  at  all  times  a  public  spirited  and  progressive  citizen.  In 
Masonic  circles  he  has  also  gained  a  high  standing,  being  a  member  of  the 
blue  lodge  and  chapter,  the  Mystic  Shrine  and  the  Knights  Templars.  He 
has  also  passed  the  chairs  in  all  branches  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  He 
is  widely  known  throughout  the  county  of  King,  and  his  reputation  for  reli- 
ability in  business  circles  is  unassailable,  while  in  all  life's  relations  he  com- 
mands the  respect  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  brought  in  contact.  He 
is  a  most  progressive  man,  of  great  energy  and  force  of  character  and  is  a 
recognized  leader  in  many  lines  of  business,  which  result  not  only  to  his  own 
profit  but  also  add  to  the  general  prosperity. 

WILLIAM  DeCURTIN. 

One  of  the  enterprising  btisiness  men  of  lnterl)ay,  and  a  gentleman  of 
superior  mental  endowments  and  intellectual  culture,  came  to  America  a 
young  man  and  has  found  in  the  business  possibilities  of  the  new  world  tiie 
opportunity  which,  being  improved,  has  made  him  a  prosperous  resident  of 
his  adopted  land.  He  was  born  in  Switzerland,  a  son  of  Felix  and  Hortense 
(Duval)  DeCurtin.  The  father  was  a  native  of  France  and  was  an  officer 
and  instructor  in  the  French  army.  He  loyally  served  his  country  in  the 
Franco-Prussian  war  on  the  staff  of  one  of  the  famous  marshals  with  the 
rank  of  captain.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  remained  in  the  military 
service  of  his  country  as  instructor  in  military  tactics  in  one  of  the  military 
schools,  in  which  capacity  he  remained  until  his  death  in  1876.  The  subject 
of  this  review  is  the  younger  of  the  two  children  of  the  family.  His  brother 
Jacob  remained  in  his  native  country  and  is  now  a  wealthy  citizen   there. 

William  DeCurtin  was  reared  in  his  native  land  until  be  had  attained 
the  age  of  nineteen  years,  and  acquired  a  good  education,  completing  a  scien- 
tific course,  after  wdiich  he  spent  one  year  as  a  student  in  a  polytechnic  school. 
When  he  was  nineteen  years  of  age  the  scene  of  his  life  changed  materially. 
He  left  his  native  country  for  America,  sailing  for  New  York  to  become  the 
American  correspondent  for  Zw^atchebach  &-  Company,  in  whose  service  he 
remained  for  sixteen  months,  when,  believing  that  he  might  have  better  busi- 


584  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

ness  t)]}portiinities  in  other  connections,  he  entered  the  employ  of  SchHtz  & 
Company,  the  well  known  brewers  of  Mihvaukee,  being  attached  to  their 
Chicago  agency  for  a  year.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  went  to 
St.  I'aul.  where  he  remained  for  a  year  and  a  half  in  the  same  capacity,  and 
later  was  transferred  to  Conncil  Blnffs,  Iowa,  where  he  represented  the  com- 
pany for  four  years. 

In  1S99  Mr.  DeCurtin  came  to  Seattle  and  has  since  been  identified  with 
the  brewing  interests  of  the  northwest.  He  was  elected  president  of  a  brew- 
ing company,  ^^•ith  which  he  was  associated  until  he  became  one  of  the  or- 
ganizers of  the  Claussen  Brewing  Association.  He  was  chosen  the  vice- 
president  and  secretary  of  the  new  corporation  and  has  since  filled  those  posi- 
tions, his  business  capacity  and  enterprise  contributing  largely-  to  the  success- 
ful conduct  of  the  new  industry. 

Mr.  DeCurtin  was  married  in  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa,  in  1898,  to  Eu- 
genia Heuber,  a  native  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  His  political  support  is 
given  the  Republican  party.  Although  a  comparatively  recent  acquisition  to 
the  citizenship  of  Seattle  Mr.  DeCurtin's  progressive  and  enterprising  spirit 
is  manifest  in  the  interest  which  he  has  taken  in  the  advancement  of  measures 
pertaining  to  the  general  welfare  and  progress.  He  is  a  member  of  the  In- 
terbay  Improvement  Club  and  in  a  private  capacity  has  co-operated  in  move- 
ments for  the  benefit  of  the  community.  He  is  a  gentleman  of  superior  abilit}- 
and  fine  educational  attainments;  a  good  linguist,  who  has  made  a  specialty 
of  the  study  of  languages  and  is  proficient  in  five  different  tongues,  including 
the  old  Roman  dialect  spoken  in  Canton  Orisons  in  Switzerland.  He  is  a  pleas- 
ant, genial  man  to  meet  and  has  already  become  popular  with  a  rapidly  increas- 
ing circle  of  friends. 

WILLIAM  M.  CURTISS. 

All  persons  residing  at  or  near  the  town  of  Ballard  must  necessarily 
know  the  gentleman  above  named,  as  he  is  the  pioneer  merchant  of  the  place. 
When  he  first  came  here  Ballard  was  an  unknown  quantity,  still  w^aiting  to 
be  evolved  from  nothing,  like  many  another  of  the  now  striving  cities  of  the 
west.  This  was  not  so  long  ago,  it  is  true,  but  as  he  was  one  of  the  first  on 
the  ground  and  located,  as  the  pharse  goes,  he  is  entitled  to  the  name  of 
early  settler  and  as  such  will  figure  in  the  history  of  the  place.  A  fe^^' 
words,  therefore,  about  Ballard's  oldest  merchant  will  not  be  out  of  place  in 
a  volume  dc\'oted  to  the  representative  men  of  King  county.  His  ancestor.s- 
were  residents  of  New  York  state  for  some  generations  back,  and  his  father 
did  business  as  a  mechanic  at  Oswego.     The  latter  was  a  contractor,  and  in 


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connection  witli  his  father  erected  a  number  of  large  buildings  at  various 
places.  Some  time  during  the  fifties  he  secured  an  important  contract  which 
necessitated  a  trip  to  Ottawa,  Illinois,  and  a  somewhat  prolonged  stay  in 
that  section  of  the  state.  Eventually  he  returned  to  New  York,  and  was 
accidentally  drowned  in  1870  while  working  for  the  government  as  superin- 
tendent of  the  break-water  at  Oswego;  his  boat  was  swamped  while  making 
a  trip  to  the  light  house  in  a  heavy  storm,  and  a  heavy  overcoat  which  he 
wore  at  the  time  prevented  him  from  swimming  satisfactorily.  He  married 
Maria  I.  Todd,  ivho  bore  him  three  children  and  is  ncnv  making  her  home 
at  Ballard. 

William  M.  Curtiss,  the  genial  merchant  with  whose  affairs  this  sketch 
is  concerned,  was  bom  at  Ottawa,  Illinois,  April  24,  1858,  during  the  temp- 
orary residence  of  his  parents  above  mentioned.  While  still  an  infant  he 
was  taken  to  New  York,  and  grew  to  maturity  in  that  state,  where  he  re- 
ceived a  meager  amount  of  schooling-  during  his  boyhood.  He  did  work  in 
difiterent  lines  of  a  miscellaneous  character  until  his  twentieth  year  had  been 
completed,  when  he  learned  the  tinner's  trade,  which  has  since  furnished 
his  chief  occupation.  In  1882  he  left  his  old  home  for  the  distant  west  and 
.spent  four  years  at  Fargo  and  Jamestown,  South  Dakota.  Having  heard 
much  of  the  young  city  growing  up  on  Puget  Sound  he  decided  to  cast  his 
lot  with  the  state  of  Washington,  and  in  1886  made  his  first  appearance  at 
Seattle.  Business  was  dull  at  that  time,  and  work  in  the  skilled  trades  be- 
mf  scarce  Mr.  Curtiss  devoted  his  attention  for  some  time  to  building  small 
boats.  In  a  short  time,  however,  he  embarked  in  mercantile  business  at 
North  .Seattle,  but  this  venture  was  of  brief  continuance,  and  after  the  store 
was  disposed  of  Mr.  Curtiss  purchased  a  lot,  which  now  constitutes  a  part 
of  the  site  01  Ballard.  In  September,  1889,  he  built  a  shack  and  started  a 
tinshop,  which  proved  to  be  the  nucleus  for  the  future  mercantile  interests 
of  Ballard  and  has  since  grown  in  importance  with  the  development  of  the 
town  and  surrounding  country.  During  the  year  following  his  humble  be- 
ginning Mr.  Curtiss  laid  in  a  stock  of  goods  in  his  line,  and  in  the  fall  erected 
that  part  of  his  present  building  which  faces  on  Second  avenue.  There  was 
prosperity  and  steady  growth  from  the  beginning,  and  the  end  of  twelve 
years  found  Mr.  Curtiss  in  possession  of  a  commodious  building,  with  floor 
space  one  hundred  feet  square  and  containing  the  largest  stock  of  its  kind  in 
the  city.  He  deals  in  tinware,  stoves,  pumps,  sashes,  doors  and  other  ar- 
ticles in  that  line,  and  is  not  only  the  oldest  but  the  most  successful  and  poj)- 
ular  of  the  merchants  who  have  found  lodgment  in  the  incipient  city  of  Bal- 
lard. A  shop  well  fitted  with  every  facility  for  making  re]:)airs  and  looked 
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after  by  competent  workmen  is  an  important  adjunct  of  the  regular  mercan- 
tile department.  Aside  from  his  regular  business  Mr.  Curtiss  has  paid  some 
attention  to  mining,  and  has  made  some  investments  in  that  line  which 
promise  well  for  the  future. 

In  1891  Mr.  Curtiss  was  married  to  Amanda  Van  Patten,  who  is  quite 
popular  in  social  circles,  being  a  member  of  the  ladies'  clubs  at  Seattle  and 
Ballard  and  a  Daughter  of  Rebekah.  Mr.  Curtiss  also  takes  interest  in  fra- 
ternal affairs  and  holds  membership  in  various  orders,  including  the  Odd 
Fellows,  Rebekahs,  Workmen  and  Woodmen  of  America.  He  is  indepen- 
dent in  politics,  with  Republican  leanings,  is  a  member  of  the  board  of  edu- 
cation, the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  served  two  years  in  the  city  council. 

CHARLES  F.  WHITTLESEY. 

The  law  has  ever  attracted  to  its  ranks  a  certain  class  of  men  gifted  with 
keen  perception  and  logical  minds,  men  who,  by  nature  or  training,  or  both, 
are  peculiarly  fitted  to  deal  with  the  problems  which  arise  among  their  fel- 
lows. In  reviewing  the  prominent  members  of  the  King  county  bar  we  find 
the  name  of  Charles  F.  Whittlesey,  who  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Booth, 
Whittlesey  &  Hanford,  a  prominent  abstract  compan\-. 

Mr.  Whittlesey  was  born  in  Fort  Warren,  New  Mexico,  on  the  19th 
of  August,  1855,  ^"d  on  both  the  paternal  and  maternal  sides  is  descended 
from  prominent  old  famih'es.  John  Whittlesey,  the  progenitor  of  the  pa- 
ternal branch  in  America,  came  to  this  country  form  Cambridge,  England, 
in  1635,  locating  in  Saybrook.  Connecticut,  and  there  his  son  Joseph  was 
born  on  the  15th  of  January,  167 1.  His  son,  also  named  Joseph,  was  born 
in  that  city  on  the  20th  of  May,  1722,  and  during  the  Revolutionary  war 
.served  as  an  adjutant  quartermaster  of  a  Connecticut  regiment.  He  was 
made  a  prisoner  [)y  the  British  during  that  struggle.  His  son,  John  Baldwin 
Whittlesey,  was  born  in  Saybrook,  November  26,  1782,  and  became  the 
grandfather  of  our  subject.  He  became  a  Presbyterian  minister  in  the  state 
of  New  York,  and  his  death  occurred  there  on  the  loth  of  September,  1833, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-one  years.  He  married  Nancy  Hotchkiss.  a  daughter  of 
Lemuel  and  Penelope  Hotchkiss 

Josq)h  Hotchkiss  Whittlesey,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  Ixnn  in 
Avon,  New  York,  August  22,  1822.  and  was  a  graduate  of  West  Point. 
During  the  Mexian  war  he  was  made  a  second  lieutenant,  and  for  gallant 
service  at  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista,  in  which  he  served  under  General  Tav- 
lor.  he  was  made  a  first  lieutenant.     During  the  Civil  \\ar  he  also  served  his 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  587 

country  as  a  Ijrave  and  loyal  soldier,  having-  command  of  a  regiment  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  was  with  his  regiment  at  the  siege  of  Yorktown, 
and  was  taken  prisoner  at  Winchester,  Virginia,  but  on  account  of  disability 
was  soon  afterward  paroled  and  exchanged.  For  a  time  thereafter  he  was 
engaged  m  recruiting  volunteers  for  the  Union  army  throughout  Pennsyl- 
vania, New  York  and  New  Hampshire.  He  was  afterward  professor  of 
military  science  in  Cornell  University  and  was  next  made  treasurer  of  the 
soldiers'  home  at  Washington,  D.  C,  serving  in  the  latter  position  for  five 
years.  The  year  1884  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  but  after  a  residence 
here  of  only  two  years  he  was  called  to  his  final  rest,  passing  away  on  the  ist 
of  August,  1886,  at  the  age  of  sixty- four  years.  He  married  Miss  Catherine 
Knox  Fauntleroy,  a  descendant  of  an  old  French  family  of  Virginia.  Moore 
Fauntleroy,  the  founder  of  the  family  in  America,  came  to  this  country  from 
Scotland,  locating  in  Frederick  county,  Virginia.  He  was  of  French  de- 
scent. The  maternal  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Charles  Fauntle- 
roy, was  a  member  of  the  supreme  bench  of  the  Old  Dominion,  was  also  a 
member  of  the  Virginia  legislature,  and  was  a  general  in  the  Revolutionary 
war,  having  charge  of  a  Virginia  brigade.  So  great  was  his  sympathy  for 
the  cause  of  the  colonies  that  he  disinherited  a  son  who  espoused  the  British 
cause.  His  daughter  married  Charles  Magill,  who  was  a  colonel  on  General 
Washington's  staff,  while  another  daughter  married  Charles  M.  Thurston, 
who  was  also  a  member  of  Washington's  staff  in  that  memorable  struggle. 
To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whittlesey  were  born  two  sons,  William  H.  and  Charles 
Fauntleroy. 

Charles  F.  Whittlesey  was  educated  by  private  tutors  during  his  early 
years,  and  later  became  a  student  in  the  Princeton  College,  in  which  institu- 
tion he  was  graduated  in  1874.  His  professional  education  was  received  in 
Columbian  College  at  Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  in  which  he  was 
graduated  in  1876,  and  from  that  time  until  1881  he  followed  liis  cliosen  pro- 
fession in  the  capital  city.  In  the  latter  year  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Colo- 
rado, where  he  was  a  member  of  the  legal  profession  for  three  years.  Since 
1883  he  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state  of  Washington,  spending  the  first 
year  in  Whatcom,  and  since  1884  he  has  made  his  home  in  Seattle.  After 
his  arrival  in  this  city  he  turned  his  attention  principally  to  land  law  and 
assisted  in  forming  the  abstracts  for  King  county,  which  his  company  now 
owns.  His  name  is  a  familiar  one  in  political  and  professional  circles 
throughout  this  section  of  the  state,  and  by  reason  of  his  marked  intellectual 
activity  and  superior  ability  he  is  well  fitted  to  aid  in  molding  the  policy  of 
the  state,  to  control  general  interests  and  from  public  opinion.     Mr.  Whitt- 


588  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

lesey  has  been  a  life-long  Democrat,  and  for  two  terms,  of  two  years  each, 
he  served  his  county  as  its  treasurer.  He  was  appointed  by  Governor  George 
Semple  as  regent  of  the  University  of  Washington,  and  was  serving  in  that 
capacity  when  the  territory  was  admitted  into  the  Union. 

On  the  23d  of  July,  1886,  in  Seattle,  Mr.  Whittlesey  was  happily  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Susana  DeWolf,  a  native  of  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  and  a 
daughter  of  Captain  Frederick  S.  DeWolf,  who  served  as  a  captain  of  Con- 
federate forces  during  the  Civil  war,  and  is  now  a  resident  of  Seattle.  The 
union  of  our  subject  and  wife  has  been  blessed  with  two  daughters,  Charlotte 
DeWolf  and  I  .aura  DeWolf.  The  family  reside  in  a  pleasant  home  in  Seat- 
tle, where  thev  dispense  a  gracious  hospitality  to  tlieir  many  friends.  Mrs. 
Whittlesey  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  church  of  this  city. 

GEORGE  N.  GILSON. 

George  X.  Gilson,  chairman  of  the  board  of  county  commissioners  of 
King  countv  and  a  representative  business  man  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  en- 
gaged in  the  sale  of  engineers'  supplies,  is  a  native  of  Port  Jefferson,  Long- 
Island,  being  born  on  the  ist  of  April,  1862.  He  is  of  English  descent, 
and  his  ancestors  came  to  this  country  before  the  Revolutionary  war.  His 
father,  George  F.  Gilson,  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  and  was  there 
inarried  to  Miss  Sarah  Pedwick,  of  Long  Island,  and  five  children  were  born 
to  them  in  the  Empire  state.  In  1875  ^^^  came  to  Seattle,  Washington,  being 
accompanied  on  the  journey  by  his  wife  and  three  children,  George  N. ;  An- 
nie now  the  wife  of  William  Good;  and  Theresa,  the  wife  of  Henry  C.  Wood. 
The  remaining  two  children  joined  them  on  the  Pacific  coast  in  1879.  Re- 
ligiously the  father  was  an  Episcopalian  and  the  mother  a  Methodist,  and  both 
have  passed  away,  the  latter  dying  on  the  25th  of  February,  1890,  and  the 
former  on  the  28th  of  April,  1895.  They  were  people  of  the  highest  in- 
tegrity and  worth,  and  enjoyed  the  respect  and  esteem  of  all  who  had  the 
pleasure  of  their  acquaintance. 

George  N.  Gilson  was  but  seventeen  years  of  age  when  he  accompanied 
his  parents  on  their  removel  to  Washington,  and  after  his  arrival  in  this 
state  he  resumed  his  studies  in  the  Washington  State  University.  After 
putting  aside  his  text  books  he  went  to  sea,  serving  first  in  the  engineer's  de- 
partment, but  afterward  became  a  master,  and  for  seventeen  years  was  on 
the  sea,  during  which  period  he  sailed  around  the  world.  For  a  number  of 
years  after  returning  to  this  state  he  was  engaged  in  the  iron  business,  and 
al.so  invested  largely  in  city  property.      In  January,  1900.  he  incorporated  the 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  589 

Engineers'  Supply  Company,  of  which  he  is  now  the  president  and  manager. 
He  is  progressive  in  his  methods,  industrious  and  persevering,  and  has  man- 
aged his  interests  so  as  to  win  for  himself  a  name  among  the  substantial  busi- 
ness men  of  the  northwest.  During  his  residence  in  Seattle  he  has  erected 
many  homes,  and  has  been  thoroughly  interested  in  the  development  of  this 
region,  doing  all  in  his  power  for  its  progress  and  advancement. 

Mr.  Gilson  was  happily  married  in  1890,  when  Miss  Florence  E.  Hick- 
man became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  daughter  of  the  Golden  state.  To 
this  union  have  been  born  two  daughters,  Florence  Edna  and  Ruth  Serena. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gilson  are  members  of  the  Methodist  church,  in  which  he 
has  served  as  a  trustee  for  many  years.  Socially  he  is  a  meml^er  of  the 
Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World 
and  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  A  life-long  Republican,  he 
has  been  the  choice  of  his  party  for  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  For 
four  years  he  served  as  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  Seattle,  and  during 
that  time  was  active  in  promoting  the  work  of  grading  Front  street.  In 
1898  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  board  of  county  commissioners  of  King- 
county,  and  was  later  made  its  president.  He  is  a  genial,  kind-hearted  and 
affable  gentleman,  and  takes  just  pride  in  handing  down  to  his  posterity  the 
fact  that  he  was  captain  of  the  first  passenger  steamer  that  sailed  from  this 
port.  This  vessel  was  named  the  Hornet,  and  made  the  voyage  to  Port 
Orchard  and  other  ports  on  the  Sound. 

ELLIS  MORRISON. 

To  the  energetic  natures  and  strong  mentality  of  such  men  as  the  Hon. 
Ellis  Morrison  are  due  the  success  and  ever  increasing  prosperity  of  the  Re- 
publican party  in  Washington,  and  in  the  hands  of  this  class  of  citizens  there 
is  ever  assurance  that  the  best  interests  and  welfare  of  the  party  will  be  con- 
served, resulting  in  a  successful  culmination  of  the  highest  ambitions  and 
expectations  entertained  by  its  adherents.  Given  to  the  prosecution  of  active 
measures  in  political  affairs  and  possessing  the  earnest  purpose  of  placing 
their  party  beyond  the  pale  of  possible  dimunition  of  power,  the  Republican 
leaders  in  this  state  are  ever  advancing.  Certainly  one  of  the  most  distin- 
guished leaders  of  the  party  in  the  state  is  Ellis  Morrison,  who  throughout 
his  life  has  been  a  loyal  citizen,  imbued  with  patriotism  and  fearless  in  de- 
fense of  his  honest  convictions.  He  has  served  as  speaker  of  the  house  of 
representatives  in  Washington,  but  is  not  alone  prominent  in  political  circles, 
being  also  regarded  as  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  Seattle,  where,  as  a 
dealer  in  stocks,  bonds  and  mortgages  he  is  widely  known. 


590  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Ellis  Morrison  was  born  in  Butler  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  20th  of 
May,  1850,  and  is  of  Scotch  lineage,  the  family  having  been  established  m 
Massachusetts    four    generations    ago.     He   pursued    his    advanced    studies, 
after  completing  the  work  of  the  public  schools,  in  the  Pennsylvania  Military 
College,  in  which  he  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  187 1  as  a  civil  engineer. 
Later*  his  alma  mater  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of  master  of  civil  en- 
gineering, and  for  ten  years  he  was  the  city  engineer  of  Newcastle,  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  built  the  city  water  works.     He  also  had  charge  of  the  con- 
struction and  inauguration  of  water  works  in  varimis  other  cities,  including 
works   at   Greencastle  and    Wabash.   Indiana.    Sharon   and   Corry,    Pennsyl- 
vania, Warren  and  Defiance,  Ohio.     Mr.  Morrison  studied  law  in  Newcastle, 
Pennsylvania,  during  the  years   1873-74-75,  and  was  admitted  to  the  Law- 
rence county  bar  on  May  3.  1875;    he  is  now  a  member  of  the  King  county 
bar  in  Washington,  but  has  never  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his  profession. 
On  the  i8th  of  February,   1900,  Mr.  Morrison  arrived  in  Seattle  and 
has  since  been  engaged  in  the  brokerage  business  and  in  dealing  in  bonds 
and   mortgages.     He  has  met   with   very  gratifying  success.      Seattle's   im- 
portance as  a  business  center  is  constantly  increasing  and  is  drawing  to  the 
city  men  of  marked  business  and  executive  force  from  all  sections  of  the 
country.     Among  this   number    Mr.    Morrison   is   prominent.     He  has   also 
engaged  in  dealing  in  real  estate,  and  has  platted  several  additions  to  the  city 
in   West  Seattle,  covering  hundreds  of  acres.     Thus  lie  has  contributed  to 
the  improvement  and  upbuilding  of  the  city,  and  at  the  same  time  has  pro- 
motetl  his  individual  prosperity. 

On  the  1st  of  July.  1875.  Mr.  Morrison  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Sarah  Ann  Llewellyn,  a  nati\-e  of  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  and  they  now 
have  three  children.  Phillips.  Llewellyn  and  Ellis.  Mr.  Morrison  has  erected 
a  nice  home  at  1315  Terry  avenue,  where  the  family  are  pleasantly  located. 
Mrs.  Morrison  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Christian  church,  while  our  subject 
is  a  member  of  the  grand  lodge  of  Ancient  York  Masons  of  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania.  He  is  also  a  Knight  Templar,  is  past  master  and  honorary 
member  of  Mahoning  Lodge  No.  243,  Newcastle,  and  a  member  of  the 
grand  lodge  of  Pennsylvania,  and  of  Seattle  Commandery  No.  2,  Knights 
Templar.  Strongly  endorsing  Republican  principles,  he  has  long  been  a 
recognized  leader  of  his  i)arty.  both  in  Pennsylvania  and  in  Washington. 
From  1880  until  1885  he  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  of  the  state  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  in  1892  was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the  state 
legislature  of  Washington,  serving  as  speaker  of  the  house  in  1895.  With 
comprehensive  knowledge  of  parliamentary  law,  he  presided  over  its  deliber- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  591 

ations  in  a  dignified  manner,  his  course  being-  marked  by  the  utmost  fairness 
and  impartiaHty.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  council  of  the  citv  of  Seattle 
and  chairman  of  the  Republican  state  central  committee.  Mr.  Morrison  is 
easily  approachable,  showing-  courtesy  to  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact, 
and  is  a  companionable,  genial  gentleman,  and  has  a  host  of  warm  friends. 
In  his  home  he  is  an  indulgent  father  and  a  kind  and  devoted  hus])an(i.  and 
his  genuine  worth  and  many  virtues  are  widely  recognized.  He  ne\-er  acts 
except  from  honest  motives,  and  in  all  his  varied  relations  in  business  affairs 
and  in  social  life  has  maintained  a  character  and  standing  that  ha\e  im- 
pressed all  with  his  sincere  and  manh'  purpose  to  do  by  others  as  he  would 
have  others  do  by  him. 

CHRISTIAN  A   KINDRED. 

Since  1893  the  roll  of  the  leading-  business  men  of  Seattle  has  included 
the  name  of  Christian  A.  Kindred,  and  none  have  been  more  highly  respected. 
Certainly  none  are  more  deeply  interested  in  all  things  pertaining-  to  the  ad- 
vancement and  prosperity  of  the  city,  and  his  iniluence  has  always  l)een  found 
upon  the  side  of  progress  and  improvement.  He  is  a  native  son  of  Indiana, 
hi^  birth  occurring  in  Jackson  county,  on  the  3d  of  November,  1870.  and  he 
is  of  German  descent.  His  father,  Daniel  Kindred,  nobly  served  his  coun- 
try during  the  great  Civil  war.  and  as  a  companion  on  the  journey  of  life 
chose  Miss  Mary  Ramie.  After  their  marriage  they  removed  from  Indiana 
to  Smith  county.  Kansas,  where  they  became  well  known  farming  i)eople, 
and  there  they  reared  a  family  of  thirteen  children,  six  sons  and  sexen  daugh- 
ters, all  of  whom  are  still  living.  The  parents  are  devout  members  of  the 
Free  Methodist  church,  and  throughout  their  entire  lives  have  f(^llo\\ed  its 
helpful  teachings,  doing  all  in  their  power  to  spread  the  cause  of  Christi- 
anity among  their  fellow  men. 

Christian  A.  Kindred  spent  the  days  of  his  boyhood  and  youth  on  his 
father's  farm  in  Smith  county,  Kansas,  and  to  its  public  school  system  he  is 
indebted  for  the  educational  privileges  which  he  was  permitted  to  enjoy  in 
his  early  life.  In  1893  he  cast  in  his  lot  with  the  citizens  of  Seattle,  where  he 
has  since  been  engaged  in  the  wood  and  coal  business  at  his  present  location. 
He  began  his  operations  here  in  a  small  way,  but  by  undaunted  perseverance 
and  honorable  methods  has  gradually  risen  to  a  prominent  place  in  the  busi- 
ness world,  being  now  the  owner  of  the  extensive  grounds  (mi  which  his  yards 
are  located.  Employment  is  furnished  to  sixteen  men  at  the  wood  camp, 
while  in  Seattle  six  teams  are  kept  constantly  at  work  delivering  wood  and 


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coal  to  his  many  customers.  He  is  a  man  of  integrity  and  marked  fidelity 
to  the  duties  of  life,  and  Seattle  numbers  him  among  her  representative 
citizens.  In  his  social  relations  Mr.  Kindred  is  a  member  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  of  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  while  his  political  preference  is  with  the 
Socialists.  He  is  well  known  and  enjoys  a  distinctive  popularity  in  the  city 
which  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  his  home  and  field  of  labor,  and  has 
unbounded  faith  in  Seattle  and  in  its  growth  and  its  advancement  to  a  posi- 
tion of  still  greater  relative  importance  as  one  of  the  industrial  and  commer- 
cial centers  of  the  west. 

WILLIAM  H.  VERNON. 

Great  rewards  are  always  in  store  for  the  man  who  has  the  foresight 
to  recognize  the  future  value  of  undeveloped  regions,  and.  furthermore. 
has  the  necessary  courage  to  be  the  pioneer  in  building  up  the  resources  of 
the  place.  The  city  of  Ballard  in  King  county.  Washington,  is  an  example 
of  a  locality  which  has  been  lying  for  years  with  its  wealth  untouched  and 
only  awaiting  the  coming  of  the  promoter  to  make  of  it  one  of  the  leading- 
commercial  centers  of  the  west.  And  Mr.  Vernon  is  one  of  those  who  came 
when  it  was  an  insignificant  place  in  the  commercial  world  and  exploited  its 
resources  until  it  is  now  a  thriving  city.  When  he  came  here  there  w-ere 
only  about  two  hundred  inhabitants  in  the  town,  but  his  judgment  told 
him  there  were  excellent  prospects  for  the  future  here,  and  through  hard 
times  and  all  he  has  never  lost  faith  in  the  ultimate  greatness  of  Ballard. 

William  H.  Vernon  is  the  son  of  W.  H.  and  Marv  (Downing)  Ver- 
non, who  both  passed  their  lives  in  England;  the  former  was  interested  in 
a  brewery  for  awhile  and  later  in  farming.  William  w^as  born  in  that  fam- 
ous city  of  Sheffield,  England,  on  July  3,  1839.  He  had  no  opportunities 
in  youth  to  gain  an  education  and  throughout  his  life  has  had  to  pick  up  the 
information  and  culture  by  dint  of  hard  labor  which  come  to  the  more 
favored  as  a  mere  circumstance  of  youth ;  but  he  has  been  a  diligent  student 
to  this  very  day  and  is  not  so  backward  as  some  who  have  made  less  use  of 
their  opportunities.  He  w^as  a  boy  when  he  first  engaged  in  the  mercantile 
business.  But  the  memorable  Black  Friday  in  financial  circles  in  1866  threw 
him,  as  it  did  thousands  of  others,  dowai  from  the  heights  of  success  and 
caused  him  a  loss  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars.  In  the  fall  of  1879  he 
decided  to  come  to  America.  For  a  short  time  he  was  located  in  Minnesota, 
where  he  did  Aeiy  well,  and  then  went  to  Dakota  and  engaged  in  the  stock 


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business,  where  he  remained  for  eight  years.  Ever  since  coming  from  Eng- 
land he  has  had  an  eye  on  the  future  of  the  Sound  country,  and  about  this 
time  he  decided  the  opportunity  had  come  for  him  to  cast  in  his  lot  with  the 
country.  He  at  once  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  insurance  business  and 
is  the  oldest  dealer  in  that  line  in  the  city,  and  he  has  profited  by  his  long 
continuance  in  the  business  He  has  had  the  best  interests  of  the  city  at 
heart  and  has  done  much  to  induce  various  manufacturing  concerns  to  locate 
here.  He  has  also  aided  in  building  up  the  place,  and  owns  a  number  of 
residence  properties.  Mr.  Vernon  represents  a  number  of  the  leading  in- 
surance companies,  and  is  acting  as  agent  for  many  non-resident  property 
owners,  attending  to  their  loans  and  their  general  business.  In  1900  he  and 
his  brother-in-law,  Mr.  Lee,  and  his  son,  William  H.,  started  the  Palace  of 
Sweets  in  Seattle,  and  they  have  built  up  a  good  trade  and  are  now  manu- 
facturing to  a  considerable  extent. 

Mr.  Venion  is  independent  in  politics,  but  he  has  held  the  position  of  jus- 
tice of  the  peace  for  four  years  and  police  judge  for  two  years.  He  married  in 
England  Miss  Alary  Lee,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Martha  (Sellers)  Lee, 
both  living  in  Shefiield,  England,  and  she  was  also  a  native  of  that  country. 
They  have  nine  children,  three  sons  and  six  daughters.  Arthur  is  an  en- 
gineer on  Ihe  Great  Northern.  Edith  May  is  the  wife  of  John  Taylor  and 
resides  in  England.  William  Horace  is  interested,  as  mentioned  before, 
with  his  father  in  the  Palace  of  Sweets.  The  others  are  Grace,  Rose,  Frank, 
Vemie,  Lilly  and  Dora. 

EUSTACE  B.  SCOTT. 

Eustace  B.  Scott,  secretary,  treasurer  and  manager  of  the  Seattle,  Eve- 
rett &  Tacoma  Navigation  Company,  with  office  at  the  Coleman  dock,  is  one 
of  the  most  progressive  and  energetic  young  business  men  of  Seattle,  where 
his  ability,  enterprise  and  upright  methods  have  already  established  for  him 
an  enviable  reputation.  Although  he  is  quite  young,  comparatively,  his  ]»>])- 
ularity  is  established  on  a  firm  basis,  that  of  liis  own  well  tested  merit. 

Mr.  Scott^  was  born  in  Russell.  Kentucky,  May  6,  1871,  and  is  a  son 
of  Uriah  B.  and  Clarinda  (Lionberger)  Scott,  both  natives  of  Ohio.  In 
early  life  the  fatlier  was  engaged  in  boat-building  and  for  years  followed 
that  occupation  in  the  east,  on  the  Ohio,  Mississippi  and  Arkansas  rivers, 
until  coming  to  the  Pacific  coast,  after  whicli  he  was  similarly  engaged  ou 
the  Willamette  and  Columbia  rivers  until  his  removal  to  Portland,  Oregon, 
in   1873.     Since  then  he  has  been  engaged  in  the  navigation  of  the  Sound 


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and  the  construction  of  vessels.  Immediately  after  locating  in  Portland  he 
built  the  Ohio,  and  with  her  navigated  the  Willamette  river  in  1874  to  Day- 
ton, which  point  had  never  before  been  reached  by  steamer.  While  in  Port- 
land he  also  built  the  steamship  Cit>'  of  Salem,  and  interested  in  the  steam- 
ship Flyer.  In  1898  he  removed  to  Seattle  to  look  after  his  mterests  here, 
and  is  to-day  the  president  of  the  Seattle,  Everett  &  Tacoma  Navigation 
Company,  which  was  incorporated  in  1897,  the  other  officers  being  John  J. 
Dockar.  vice-president;  and  E.  B.  Scott,  secretary  and  treasurer.  The 
vessels  now  in  ser\-ice  are  the  steamship  Greyhound,  plying  between  Seattle 
and  Everett:  the  steamship  City  of  Everett,  also  plying  between  those  cities; 
and  the  magnificent  new  Telephone,  one  of  the  swiftest  vessels  of  its  class 
e\er  built.  This  vessel  was  designed  by  E.  B.  Scott  and  built  especially  for 
their  service  and  is  one  of  the  most  elegantly  furnished  and  completely 
equipped  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

Eustace  B.  Scott  has  spent  his  childhood,  youth  and  early  manhood 
on  the  coast,  having  come  to  the  west  with  his  parents  when  only  two  years 
old.  He  received  a  liberal  English  education  in  the  high  school  and  aca- 
demy of  Portland,  wliich  was  supplemented  by  a  commercial  course.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  accepted  a  position  as  freight  clerk  on  the  steamship 
Telephone,  plying  between  Portland  and  Astoria,  Oregxm,  which  position 
he  held  for  three  years,  and  then  spent  four  years  as  purser  on  the  same 
vessel,  resigning  that  position  to  come  to  the  Sound  to  take  charge  as  man- 
aging owner  of  the  steamship  Greyhound.  On  the  loth  of  August.  1898, 
the  company  purchased  the  steamship  City  of  Everett,  and  on  the  28th  of 
October,  the  same  year,  the  company  ^^as  incorporated  under  its  present 
management.  It  has  a  regular  and  satisfactory  passenger  traffic  between 
Seattle  and  other  points,  which  has  increased  to  immense  proportions,  the 
books  of  the  company  showing  for  the  vear  1901  ninety  thousand  and  fifty 
passengers.  They  have  established  a  most  satisfactory  service  with  their 
swift  and  elegantly  fitted  vessels,  making  three  trips  daily. 

On  the  27th  of  December,  1898,  Mr.  Scott  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  Mame  E.  Robinson,  a  native  daughter  of  the  coast.. having  been  born 
and  reared  in  Portland.  Her  parents  are  James  and  ^lary  (  Strong)  Rob- 
inson. Our  subject  and  his  wife  have  a  little  daughter.  Nanette.  Fratern- 
ally Mr.  Scott  is  connected  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of 
Elks  and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  and  religiously  is  a  member  of  the 
First  Baptist  church.  In  his  political  views  he  is  a  Republican,  but  has  had 
no  time  or  inclination  for  public  office.  Since  coming  to  Seattle  he  has  de- 
voted his  entire  energies  to  the  company  of  which  he  is  now  the  manager, 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  595 

and  which  owes  its  success  largely  to  his  untiring  efforts,  good  management 
and  executive  ability.  He  is  a  very  wide-awake  and  progressive  business 
man,  and  wherever  known  is  held  in  high  esteem. 

GEORGE  W.  GABRIEL. 

The  subject  of  this  review  is  now  serving  in  the  important  position  of 
master  mechanic  for  the  Seattle  Electric  Company.  Since  1891  he  has  made 
his  home  in  this  city,  and  during  the  intervening  period  he  has  been  recog- 
nized as  one  of  its  most  progressive  and  public  spirited  citizens.  His  birth 
occurred  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  on  the,22d  of  Eebruary,  1838,  and  he  is  a  son 
of  John  Gabriel,  who  was  a  weaver  by  trade.  He  is  one  of  the  two  surviving 
children,  his  younger  brother  being  still  a  resident  of  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  The 
son  George  W.  received  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
city,  and  learned  the  machinist's  trade  in  a  boiler  factory.  At  the  first  call  for 
volunteers  to  aid  in  suppressing  the  rebellion  he  enlisted  in  Company  C.  Fifth 
Ohio,  and  was  in  camp  until  the  22d  of  April,  1861.  At  the  end  of  his  three 
months'  term  of  enlistment  he  re-enlisted  for  service  m  Company  C,  under 
Captain  Foley,  and  served  as  one  of  Fremont's  body  guards.  Among  the 
many  important  battles  in  which  Mr.  Gabriel  participated  during  his  military 
career  may  be  mentioned  the  engagement  at  Springlield,  and  he  remained 
with  Fremont  until  the  latter  was  superceded,  after  which  he  was  employed 
on  the  Nashville  Railroad,  then  a  government  road  used  in  carrying  muni- 
tions of  war.  Returning  thence  to  the  north,  he  secured  employment  in  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad  Company's  shops  at  Chicago,  there  re- 
maining for  about  two  years,  while  for  the  following  seven  years  he  was  a 
resident  of  Baraboo,  Wisconsin,  and  then  for  the  long  period  of  fourteen 
years  was  an  employe  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad  Com- 
pany. His  next  engagement  was  with  the  Union  Pacific  in  Wyoming,  one 
year  later  he  secured  employment  with  the  Northern  Pacific,  and  for  a  time 
thereafter  was  at  Helena  and  Butte,  Montana,  in  search  of  a  location  that 
would  prove  beneficial  to  his  wife's  ill  health.  Deciding  then  to  come  to 
Washington,  he  was  givfn  charge  of  the  mechanical  department  of  the  street 
railway  at  Tacoma,  and  a  year  later  he  came  to  Seattle  and  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  what  was  then  known  as  the  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railroad : 
but  later  this  road  was  placed  in  the  hands  r)f  a  receiver  and  Mr.  Gabriel  then 
took  charge  of  the  shops  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Comi)any.  to 
which  he  gave  his  attention  until  January,  igoo.  At  that  date  he  assumed 
the  responsible  position  of  master  mechanic  for  the  Seattle  Electric  Company. 


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a  position  which  he  still  continues  to  fill  to  the  utmost  satisfaction  of  all. 
When  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  this  office  the  company  owned  but  a 
small  shop  and  twenty-five  cars,  but  under  his  wise  and  able  supervision  two 
large  shops  have  been  erected,  and  the  company  now  give  employment  to  one 
hundred  and  seventy-five  men,  while  they  have  also  built  and  rebuilt  twenty 
cars.  Thus  they  have  been  able  to  keep  pace  with  the  wonderful  growth  of 
the  city,  and  they  now  do  all  their  own  work  with  the  exception  of  making 
the  castings. 

The  marriage  of  Air.  Gabriel  was  celebrated  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  when 
Miss  Mary  A.  Cole  became  his  wife.  Four  children  have  been  born  of  this 
union,  two  of  whom  died  when  young,  aud  the  two  surviving  are :  Edward, 
who  is  serving  as  freight  agent  for  the  Seattle  Electric  Company;  and  Albert 
C  who  is  engaged  with  a  mining"  company  in  Ashland,  Oregon.  In  his 
fraternal  relations  Mr.  Gabriel  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  order,  holding 
membership  with  lodge  No.  87,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons,  and  with  Seattle 
Chapter  No.  3,  Royal  Arch  Masons.  In  his  political  relations  he  is  inde- 
pendent, while  religiously  he  is  connected  with  the  Episcopal  church. 

JACOB  JULIEN. 

Jacob  Tulien  is  a  retired  farmer  and  for  several  years  has  resided  in  Seat- 
tle, where  he  has  become  quite  extensively  interested  in  real  estate.  He  was 
born  at  Bedford,  Lawrence  county,  Indiana,  an  the  i8th  of  October,  1830. 
His  father,  Renne  Julien,  was  born  in  South  Carolina  in  1783,  and  when  a 
young  man  emigrated  westward,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Lawrence  county,  Indiana,  where  he  made  his  home  continuously  until  1852, 
at  which  time  he  again  journeyed  westward.  He  took  up  his  abode  in  Chari- 
ton, Iowa,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days  passing  away  on  the  15th  of 
March,  1861.  He  was  of  Scotch-Irish  descent  and  manifested  many  of  the 
sterling  traits  of  character  of  the  Scotch-Irish  people.  Throughout  his  en- 
tire business  career  he  carried  on  argicultural  pursuits.  His  wife,  who  bore 
the  maiden  name  of  Julia  Henderson,  was  born  .in  Tennessee  and  died  in 
Lawrence  county,  Indiana. 

Jacob  Julien  obtained  his  education  in  the-  old  time  district  schools  of  his 
native  county  and  in  his  youth  became  familiar  with  the  duties  and  labors  of 
farm  life,  assisting  in  the  cultivation  of  his  father's  farm.  In  1852  he  be- 
came a  resident  of  Iowa  and  purchased  a  farm  near  Chariton,  upon  which  he 
lived  until  1874,  successfully  carrying  on  agricultural  pursuits  during  that 
period.     He  tliep.  came  to  King  county.   Washington,   where  he  purchased 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  597 

sixty-eight  acres  of  farm  land  on  the  Dwamish  river,  seven  miles  from  Seat- 
tle. Upon  this  place  lie  made  excellent  improvements  and  after  a  time  sold 
the  property  and  purchased  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  forty  acres  in  the 
same  locality.  He  carried  on  general  farming  for  twenty  years  and  his  well 
tilled  fields  brought  to  him  a  good  return,  and  he  also  realized  a  handsome 
income  from  liis  stock  dealing.  At  length  he  became  interested  in  Seattle 
residence  property,  and  for  a  number  of  years  has  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  time  in  this  metropolis. 

While  in  the  county  of  his  nativity,  in  1852,  Mr.  Julien  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Amanda  Rogers,  a  native  of  Tennessee  and  of  English  descent. 
Five  children  have  been  born  to  them,  namely :  James,  Jacob  and  Renne,  at 
home;  Orlena,  the  wife  of  A.  Robar,  a  resident  of  Seattle;  and  Lucretia,  the 
wife  of  T.  K.  Ray,  a  farmer  of  King  county.  In  his  political  affiliations  Mr. 
Julien  is  a  Democrat  and  for  twenty-seven  years  he  regularly  voted  in  the 
Dwamish  precinct.  He  has  held  the  ofHces  of  school  director  and  road  super- 
visor for  many  years  and  is  active  and  influential  in  public  affairs.  He  be- 
longs to  St.  John's  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  w^hich  he  joined  tw^enty-seven  years 
ago.  He  became  a  charter  member  of  Seattle  Chapter  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.,  which 
was  organized  January  2,  1883,  and  of  which  he  was  elected  tyler.  In  his  life 
he  exemplifies  the  beneficent  spirit  of  the  craft.  His  career  has  been  one  of 
industry,  and,  brooking  no  obstacles  that  could  be  overcome  by  honest  and 
persistent  effort,  he  has  steadily  worked  his  way  upward  to  success. 

EDGAR   J.   R(3UNDS. 

Edgar  J.  Rounds  is  the  senior  member  of  the  tirm  of  Rounds,  Ditlef- 
sen  &  Company,  contractors  and  builders  of  Seattle,  and  has  been  a  resident 
of  this  city  since  the  2d  of  January,  iSqt.  He  was  born  in  Crawford  county, 
Wisconsin,  May  27,  1865.  His  grandfather,  Isaiah  Rounds,  was  a  native 
of  New  York  and  followed  agricutural  pursuits  as  a  means  of  providing 
for  his  family.  Removing  to  tlie  west  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Wisconsin 
where  he  spent  his  remaining  days  and  passed  away  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
two  years.  Isaiah  Rounds.  Jr  .  tlie  father  of  our  subject,  was  also  a  native  of 
the  Empire  state  and  with  the  faniil}'  nent  to  Wisconsin  where  he  subse- 
quently engaged  in  merchandising  and  was  also  a  millwright.  He  put  in  the 
first  w^ater-power  mill  in  that  part  of  the  country;  it  contained  the  old  up  and 
down  saw,  but  later  he  remodeled  the  mill  and  put  in  a  turbine  wheel  and  cir- 
cular saw^  Not  only  an  active  and  enterprising  business  man  but  also  a 
valued  citizen,  Isaiah  Rounds  was  frequentlv  called  to  official  life  and  filled 


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a  number  of  county  oflices  with  credit  to  himself  and  satisfaction  to  his 
constituents.  He  was  also  a  prominent  and  valued  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  advance  the  cause  of  Christianity  and  pro- 
mote the  growth  of  the  church,  and  in  the  organization  with  which  he  was 
connected  he  filled  various  official  positions.  He  was  married  in  New  York 
to  Luanna  Rich,  a  representative  of  an  old  Vermont  family,  and  they  became 
the  parents  of  four  children. 

Edgar  J.  Rounds,  the  youngest  of  these,  and  the  only  one  now  on  the 
Pacific  coast,  pursued  a  public  school  education  in  Wisconsin  and  later  com- 
pleted a  course  in  a  business  college  at  Madison,  that  state.  His  training 
for  the  practical  duties  of  life  was  in  line  of  carpentering  and  after  he  had 
mastered  his  trade  he  worked  as  a  foreman  for  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroad.  He  afterward  went  to  LaCrosse,  Wisconsin,  and  thence  made 
his  way  to  the  south.  He  went  first  to  Nashville,  but  on  leaving  that  state 
went  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  remained  until  his  removal  to  Seattle,  where  he 
arrived  on  the  2d  of  January.  1891.  During  all-  his  active  years  Mr.  Rounds 
had  engag'ed  in  carpentering  and  building,  and  his  excellent  workmanship 
had  steadilv  secured  him  advancement.  He  established  his  home  in  Seattle 
and  began  business  on  his  own  account  as  the  member  of  the  firm  of  Pick- 
arts  &  Company,  but  after  a  year  he  engaged  in  business  alone  and  was  with- 
out a  partner  for  three  years.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Rounds, 
Ditlefsen  &  Company  and  has  gained  a  high  reputation  in  the  line  ol  his 
chosen  vocation.  His  work  has  been  largely  in  building  windows  and  stairs 
and  other  departments  of  carpentering  of  the  finest  nature.  He  has  erected 
the  Columbia  school  at  Columbia  City,  and  several  warehouses  and  tene- 
ments in  Seattle,  some  of  the  latter  costing  as  high  as  fifteen  thousand  dol- 
lars. He  built  and  fitted  up  his  shop,  which  is  well  supplied  with  all  the 
necessary  machinery  for  the  turning  out  of  fine  work  in  the  line  of  his  chosen 
specialty.  His  pay-roll  amounts  to  three  hundred  dollars  a  week,  except  in 
the  rush  building  season,  when   it  largely  exceeds  that  amount. 

On  the  27th  of  June,  1892.  in  this  city.  Mr.  Rounds  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Susie  E.  Davis,  a  daughter  of  John  Davis,  of  Wisconsin,  who  be- 
longed to  an  old  family  of  Boston,  Massachusetts.  Their  union  has  been 
blessed  with  two  children.  Ethelyn  Byrne  and  Paul  Edgar.  In  1901  Mr. 
Rounds  erected  his  home  here  at  318  Maiden  avenue  and  has  also  built  and 
sold  other  houses  in  the  city,  his  real  estate  business  proving  a  profitable 
source  of  income.  In  politics  he  is  a  stalwart  Republican,  following  the 
family  example  in  this  direction,  and  to  some  extent  has  labored  for  the 
success  of  the  party,  but  has  never  sought  office  as  a  reward  for  party  fealty. 


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He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternit)-  and  the  W'oochnen  of  the 
World.  He  is  a  devoted  member  of  the  IMethodist  church  and  also  belongs 
to  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association.  He  is  a  very  busy  man,  yet  is 
ever  ready  to  pause  in  his  business  duties  to  distribute  aid  to  those  in  need. 
He  is  wholly  worthy  of  the  respect  which  is  freely  tendered  him,  for  his 
name  has  become  synonymous  with  fair  dealing,  honoral>le  Inisiness  methods 

and  all  that  is  elevating  and  beneficial  to  the  citv  and  to  the  individual. 

« 

E.  C.  DICKSON. 

E.  C.  Dickson,  who  is  filling  the  position  of  bookkeeper  and  shipping 
clerk  for  the  Issaquah  Coal  Company  at  Issaquah,  King  county,  is  a  native 
of  Illinois,  liis  birth  having  occurred  at  Rock  Island  on  the  20th  of  Septem- 
ber, 1863.  His  father,  George  M.  Dickson,  was  born  in  Harrisburg,  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1839,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage.  The  paternal  grandfather, 
John  Dickson,  became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  the  Keystone  state,  and 
when  the  country  became  involved  for  tlie  second  time  in  hostilities  with 
England  he  joined  the  American  army  and  fought  in  the  war  of  1812. 
From  his  native  state  George  M.  Dickson  moved  westward  and  for  many 
years  operated  a  paper  mill  at  Milan,  near  Rock  Island,  Illinois.  He  was 
also  interested  in  a  street-car  line  connecting  the  two  places.  In  1886  he 
went  to  Wichita,  Kansas,  where  he  inaugurated  a  street  railway  system,  and 
has  since  resided  there.  He  married  Julia  A.  Chisler,  who  was  born  in  Mor- 
gantown.  West  Virginia,  in  1840,  and  is  still  living. 

E.  C.  Dickson,  their  son.  was  educated  in  the  pul)lic  schools  of  Milan 
and  in  the  Northern  Illinois  College  at  Fulton,  that  state.  When  his  hterary 
course  was  completed  he  took  up  tlie  work  of  bridge-building.  Fie  was  then 
nineteen  vears  of  age  and  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  M.  Lesic  Bridge 
Company  of  Chicag'o,  spending  two  years  in  their  operating  de]:)artment.  In 
1884  he  became  connected  with  the  Horine- Wagner  Company,  conducting 
a  commission  house  at  Omaha,  Nebraska,  where  he  continued  for  nineteen 
months.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  purchased  an  interest  in  the 
Wichita  Paper  Company,  incorporated,  at  Wichita,  Kansas,  with  which  he 
wa,s  connected  for  two  years,  wlien  he  sold  his  interest  in  the  Imsiness,  and 
in  1888  came  to  Seattle,  Washington.  For  alioiil  two  years  he  was  in  the 
emplov  of  H.  M.  Jones  and  J.  M.  Coleman  and  afterward  spent  several 
years  in  Seattle  as  a  political  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party. 
In  1895  he  went  to  Placer  county,  California,  where  he  spent  eight  months 
engaged  in  placer  mining.     Through  the  succeeding  fourteen  months  he  was 


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eniploved  as  a  clerk  in  the  store  of  the  firm  of  Harris  &  Dewett  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  in  the  fall  of  1897  he  went  to  Alaska.  For  a  time  he  had  charge 
of  the  Brooks  pack  train,  between  Skagway  and  Bennett,  and  later  became 
collector  on  the  Brackett  wagon  road,  from  Skagway  to  the  summit  of  the 
White  Pass.  When  he  tenninated  that  business  relation  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  Hugh  Foy,  the  contractor  who  built  the  White  Pass  &  Yukon  Rail- 
road, and  next  accepted  a  clerkship  with  Frank  Twichel.  who  had  charge  of 
the  commissary  department  of  the  White  Pass  &  Yukon  Company. 

In  1899  Mr  Dickson  returned  to  Seattle  and  the  following  year  came 
to  Issaquah  to  accept  the  position  of  bookkeeper  and  shipping  clerk  with  the 
Issaquah  Coal  Company,  extensively  engaged  in  the  mining  of  coal  in  this 
portion  of  the  county.  He  has  held  some  ver)^  important  positions  and  is 
well  qualified  for  the  responsibilities  of  the  one  which  he  is  now  filling.  His 
business  connections  have  taken  him  into  many  sections  of  the  country  and 
thus  he  has  gained  a  somewhat  comprehensive  knowledge  of  America  and 
of  the  interesfing  Alaska  country.  On  the  9th  of  November,  1895,  Mr. 
Dickson  was  married  in  San  Francisco,  the  lady  of  his  choice  being  Miss 
Abbie  Armstrong,  who  was  born  in  Pennsylvania  in  1872.  They  have  made 
many  friends  since  coming  to  Issaquah  and  are  now  well  known  in  the  town. 

JOHN  HUTTON. 

One  of  the  venerable  citizens  of  Seattle  and  one  who  is  well  known  and 
held  in  unequivocal  confidence  and  regard  in  the  community  is  Mr.  Hutton, 
and  though  he  has  passed  the  psalmist's  span  of  three  score  years  and  ten, 
he  is  still  vigorous  and  giA'ing  as  active  attention  to  the  duties  of  his  pro- 
fession, that  of  marine  and  mechanical  consulting  engineer,  as  though  two 
decades  less  rested  upon  his  head.  His  life  has  been  a  somewhat  eventful 
one  and  abounds  in  mteresting  experiences,  while  he  has  not  only  become 
widely  known  for  his  exceptional  skill  as  a  mechanic,  but  he  has  also  lived 
a  life  of  signal  usefulness  and  honor,  having  labored  in  divers  sections  of  the 
world  and  having  at  all  times  directed  his  course  according  to  the  highest 
principles  of  honor  and  integrity.  Mr.  Hutton  has  made  his  horne  in  Seattle 
since  the  year  1885,  and  eveii  a  brief  sketch  of  his  career  is  certain  to  be 
read  with  pleasure  by  his  many  friends. 

John  Hutton  comes  of  staunch  old  English  stock,  and  he  is  himself  a 
native  son  of  the  "right  little,  tight  little  isle,"  having  been  born  in  Buck- 
inghamshire. England,  on  the  3d  of  January,  1825,  being  the  son  of  John 
Hutton,  whose    lineage   traces    back    man\-    generations    in    England.     John 


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SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  60 1 

Hiitton,  Sr.,  was  a  skilled  mechanic  and  in  his  line  achieved  a  reputation  of 
more  than  local  order.  He  married  a  member  of  an  old  and  distinguished 
Scottish  family,  and  they  both  passed  their  lives  in  Great  Britain,  having  be- 
come the  parents  of  thirteen  children,  of  whom  eleven  are  living  at  the  present 
time. 

After  receiving  such  advantages  as  were  to  be  had  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  place  during  his  early  boyhood,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  began  to 
prepare  himself  for  the  practical  duties  and  responsibilities  of  life.  At  the 
age  of  fourteen  years  he  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  as  a  mechanic,  serv- 
ing in  the  great  establishment  of  the  celebrated  firm  of  Easton  &  Amos,  one 
of  the  most  extensive  concerns  of  its  kind  in  the  city  of  London,  and  in  order 
to  secure  for  him  the  privilege  of  acquiring  his  trade  under  the  effective 
direction  implied,  the  mother  of  Mr.  Hutton  paid  a  large  premium  to  gain 
for  him  the  place  as  an  apprentice.  He  completed  a  full  apprenticeship  of 
seven  years,  and  as  a  journeyman  found  employment  with  Scott  &  Russell 
and  other  noted  firms  of  machinists  and  ship-builders  of  London  and  other 
English  cities,  while  later  he  was  similarly  employed  by  leading  concerns  in 
Australia  and  New  Zealand,  having  thus  been  enlisted  in  the  service  of  the 
best  marine  com])anies  of  the  British  possessions.  In  New  Zealand  Air. 
Hutton  established  a  lucrative  business  iipon  his  own  responsibility,  success- 
fullv  conducting  the  enterprise  for  about  seven  years  and  thence  going  to 
the  city  of  Melbourne,  Australia,  where  he  remained  until  1870,  when  he 
shipped  for  San  Francisco,  arriving  at  his  destination  in  due  course  of  time. 
In  that  citv  he  accepted  a  position  in  the  Risden  Iron  Works,  and  after  he 
had  there  passed  eight  days  in  a  suljordinate  capacity,  he  had  so  demon- 
strated his  exceptional  skill  and  ability  that  he  was  given  full  charge  of  the 
works,  as  foreman,  being  thus  shown  preference  over  many  really  competent 
men  who  had  1:>een  in  the  employ  of  the  concern  for  years.  He  showed  a 
greater  technical  knowledge  and  greater  mechanical  facility  than  did  any 
of  the  others,  and  the  fact  did  not  long  wait  recognition  on  the  part  of  the 
operators  of  the  jjlant.  At  the  expiration  of  one  year  Mr.  Hutton  resigned 
his  position  and  became  chief  engineer  of  the  pioneer  American  steamship, 
the  Nevada,  plving  between  San  Francisco  and  New  Zealand,  and  owned 
by  W.  H.  Webb,  of  New  York.  He  retained  this  position  for  eighteen, 
months  and  then  assumed  a  similar  incumbency  on  the  steam  vessel  Prince 
Alfred,  which  was  wrecked  off  the  headlands  of  San  In-ancisco  some  time 
later.  After  this  disaster  i\Ir.  Hutton  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  ac- 
cepted the  position  of  chief  engineer  with  the  firm  of  Goodall  &  Perkins,  and 
for  the  following  three  or  four  years  was  engaged  in  the  north  and  sonlh 

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coastwise  trade.  Within  tlii-^  i)eri()(l  he  grew  satiated  with  seafaring  life, 
and  he  linally  settled  in  San  I'Vancisco,  and  was  there  employed  at  different 
intervals  ir  a  number  of  the  most  important  machine  shops  of  the  city. 
Finally  he  ag-ain  became  chief  engineer  in  connection  with  maritime  ser\ice, 
and  wa<;  holding-  this  position  on  the  steamboat  Edith  in  1889.  when  he  came 
to  Seattle  and  here  took  u{)  his  permanent  abode.  Here  he  established  the 
machine  shops  at  the  Commercial  dock,  between  Madison  and  Marion 
streets,  and  though  the  enterprise  had  a  most  modest  inception,  his  excep- 
tional talent  in  the  line  of  his  work  soon  attracted  an  appreciative  supporting- 
patronage,  and  the  business  constantly  expanded  in  scope  and  importance. 
He  withdrew  from  the  same  in  1897,  since  which  time  the  shops  have  been 
successfully  conducted  by  his  son,  Arthur  F.,  Avho  acquired  his  trade  under 
the  effective  direction  of  his  father  and  who  is  likewise  known  as  a  skilled 
mechanic  in  every  particular.  In  the  establishment  all  kinds  of  machine 
work  and  inarine  repairing-  are  done,  and  employment  is  given  to  a  corps  of 
from  fifteen  to  fifty  capable  assistants,  regulated  by  the  exigencies  of  the 
season  and  demands.  The  son  proves  an  able  successor,  being-  a  man  of 
the  finest  skill  as  an  engineer  and  mechanic,  and  it  is  a  satisfaction  to  his 
father  that  he  was  thus  able  to  place  the  enterprise  which  he  had  founded 
into  the  hands  of  one  capable  of  sustaining-  his  own  high  reputation. 

Mr.  Hutton  is  known  as  one  of  the  best  inhjrmed  and  most  expert 
marine  engineers  on  the  Pacific  coast,  and  his  fine  mechanical  talent  has  been 
fortified  b\-  more  than  half  a  century  of  practical  experience  in  the  technical 
aiv.l  general  work  of  his  profession,  so  that  recourse  is  had  to  his  advice  and 
counsel  b>-  the  leading-  vessel  companies  of  the  coast,  while  implicit  confi- 
dence is  in\-ariably  placed  in  his  judgment.  lie  is  well  known  among-  the 
marine  circles  of  the  coast,  and  his  popularity  is  attested  l)y  the  hearty  greet- 
ings ever  accorded  him  by  those  who  have  known  him  long-  and  well.  In 
politics  Mr.  Hutton  is  not  g-uided  by  strict  partisan  lines,  preferring  to  exer- 
ci.se  hi^  franchise  in  supi)ort  of  those  men  and  measures  deemed  worthy  of 
his  aid.  as  tending  to  conserve  the  l)est  interests  of  the  people  in  general. 

In  the  city  of  London,  in  1845.  Mr.  Hutton  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Miss  .Vnn  Cato,  who  was  born  in  Hertfordshire.  EnHand.  the  eldest  dauo-h-- 
ter  of  William  Cato.  a  manufacturer  of  that  shire,  v.-hich  was  the  home  of 
the  ancestors  of  George  Washington.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hutton  became  the 
parents  of  tour  sons  and  nine  daughters,  of  wIkmh  eleven  are  yet  living.  Of 
tiie  sons  we  record  that  Ei-nest  C.  is  engaged  in  the  mercantile  business  in 
New  Zealand;  Harry  W.  is  one  ••!'  the  leading  maritime  lawyers  of  the  San 
Francisco  bar  and  is  prominent  in  connection  with  the  affairs  of  the  muni- 


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cipal  government;  Frank  is  engaged  in  Inisiness  in  San  Diego,-  California; 
and  Alfred  F.  is  his  father's  successor  in  carrying  on  the  machine  shops  prev- 
iously mentioned.  The  names  of  the  seven  daughters  are  as  follows :  Lou- 
isa, Rosa,  Clara.  Annie,  Bessie,  Catherine  and  Ahce.  all  married.  Mr.  Hut- 
ton  is  an  Odd  Fellow  and  has  filled  every  office  in  the  order  and  at  present  is 
past  provincial  grand  master.  He  has  a  comfortable  home  at  512  East  Lake 
avenue,  and  is  passing  the  evening  of  his  days  in  that  dignified  independence 
and  contentment  which  properly  crown  a  life  of  earnest  toil  and  endeavor. 

EDWARD    O.    GRAVES. 

In  all  the  northwestern  sections  of  this  great  country  there  is  no  man 
more  familiar  with  the  questions  of  finance  as  related  to  our  country  and 
our  government  than  Edward  O.  Graves,  the  president"  of  the  Washington 
National  Bank.  His  broad  and  comprehensive  knowledge  comes  through 
a  most  earnest  and  thorough  study  of  the  question  in  relation  to  tlie  dis- 
charge of  official  duties  in  the  treasury  department  in  our  national  capi- 
tal. For  years  he  was  a  pn^minent  representative  of  official  life  in  \Vash- 
ington  and  his  connection  therewith  was  only  severed  when  he  resolved 
■to  eng'age  in  a  private  l^anking  business  in  the  northwest.  Fie  bears  an 
unassailable  reputation  as  an  official,  and  the  same  unfaltering  honestv  and 
reliability  has  l^een  manifest  in  the  conduct  of  the  banking  institution  with 
which  he  is  now  associated.  No  resident  of  Seattle  is  held  in  higher  regard 
or  more  fully  deserves  the  confidence  of  his  fellow  men. 

Mr.  Graves  is  a  native  of  Herkimer  county.  New  York,  born  on  the  3d 
of  August,  1843,  ^^^^^  ^s  ^'i  English  descent,  his  ancestors,  however,  cross- 
ing the  Atlantic  from  the  "merrie  isle"  at  an  early  period  in  the  develop- 
ment of  New  England,  where  they  located.  They  became  residents  of  Mas- 
sachusetts and  took  an  active  part  in  public  affairs  Ihat  are  now  clu'onicled 
on  the  pages  of  history.  Russell  Graves,  the  great-grandfather  of  Ed- 
ward O.,  aided  in  throwing  off  the  yoke  of  British  oppression,  serving  as 
a  member  of  the  colonial  army  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  John  Gra\cs, 
the  grandfather,  became  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Herkimer  county. 
New  York,  and  was  one  of  the  early  sheriffs  there.  Later  he  represented 
his  district  in  the  state  legislature.  Fie  was  lx)rn  in  Connecticut  and  mar- 
ried Esther  Smith,  whose  father,  Ozial  Smith,  was  one  of  the  first  men 
to  establish  a  home  in  Erie  county.  New  York.  He  was  a  resident  of  Ihif- 
falo  in  1812  when  the  city  Avas  burned  by  the  linglish.  Mr.  and  ^Irs. 
Graves  owned  a  tract  of  land  in  that  citv  where  the  Tiff  House  now  stands. 


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She  was  a  lady  of  remarkable  energy  and  capability  and  attained  to  the 
\ery  ad\'anced  age  of  one  hundred  and  one  years.  Am()ng-  the  children 
born  to  this  worthy  couple  was  Solomon  Graves,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
J  819,  in  Herkimer  county,  where  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  be- 
coming a  leading  and  influential  citizen,  and  leaving  the  impress  of  his  strong- 
individuality  upon  public  affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  state  legisla- 
ture and  largely  aided  in  shaping  public  thought  and  opinion.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Smith,  who  ^^•as  born  in  1821  in  Erie  county.  She 
still  survives  him  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years  and  is  held  in  the  warmest 
regard  In-  all  who  know  her.     Of  their  family  three  sons  still  survive. 

Edward  O.  Graves  was  provided  with  excellent  educational  privileges 
and  on  completing  his  course  in  Hobart  College  in  Gene\-a.  New  York, 
he  entered  governmental  service  and  for  a  number  of  years  was  one  of  the 
most  reliable  and  capable  rq^resentatives  of  the  treasury  department.  His 
first  position  was  a  clerkship  under  the  secretary  of  the  treasury,  Hon. 
F.  E.  Spinner,  who  had  been  deputy  sheriff  of  Herkimer  county  in  his 
early  manhood  under  John  Graves,  the  grandfather  of  our  su1)ject.  In  1868 
E.  O.  Graves  was  promoted  to  chief  clerk  in  the  treasurer's  oilice  and 
when  the  first  civil  service  examinations  were  niaugurated  he  was  made 
chief  examiner,  while  on  the  ist  of  July,  1874,  he  was  made  superintendent 
of  the  redemption  agency  for  the  redemption  of  national  bank  notes,  an 
oftice  which  he  organized  in  its  minutest  detail,  making  it  one  of  the  model 
offices  of  the  government.  In  1883  he  w-as  appointed  by  President  Arthr.r 
assistant  treasurer  of  the  United  States,  and  on  the  ist  of  July,  1885,  was 
made  chief  of  the  l)ureau  of  engraving  and  printing.  Thus  ])romotion  after 
])romotion  came  to  him,  adding  to  his  responsibilities,  for  his  worth  was 
recognized  and  his  fidelity  was  above  question. 

Tn  the  spring  of  1889  Mr.  Graves  came  to  Seattle  and  made  arra.nge- 
ments  for  the  organization  of  the  Washington  National  Bank.  He  then 
returned  to  the  capital  and  resigned  his  position  in  order  to  take  up  hi:- 
abode  here  and  complete  the  organization  of  the  bank.  He  was  made  it;. 
president  and  in  July  opened  the  bank  for  business,  continuing  to  manage 
and  ccjntrol  its  affairs  most  successfully  until  March.  1900,  wlien  he  de- 
cided to  retire  from  active  business,  and  soon  afterward  found  rest  and 
recreation  in  traveling  abroad.  He  is  also  a  partner  in  the  l)ank  at  \\'hat- 
com  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Graves  &  Purdv,  this  institution  being 
the  largest  bank  in  northwestern  Washington.  Thoroughly  familiar  with 
l)anking  business  and  wonderfull}-  conversant  ^^•ith  financial  interests.  Mr. 
Graves    has    made    the    two    1)anks    leading    financial    estal)lishments    and 


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has  so  conducted  them  that  they  aiiniiany  return  g-ood  dividends,  while 
furnishing  the  pubhc  with  a  perfectly  reliable  place  of  deposit,  exchange 
and  general  banking  business.  Mr.  Graves  has  also  been  president  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  wdiich  has  had  important  bearing  on  business  in- 
terests in  Seattle.  During  his  twenty-one  years  of  government  service  he 
was  chairman  of  a  commission  to  examine  the  New  York  custom  house, 
and  of  various  other  important  commissious,  his  recommendations  in  which 
resulted  in  large  savings  to  the  government,  while  the  fact  that  he  held 
his  position  for  so  long  a  time  in  Washington,  during  many  changes  of 
administration,  proves  conclusively  that  he  brought  to  his  duties  such  ability, 
honor  and  fidelity  as  are  deserving  of  the  highest  praise.  His  was  a  most 
valued  public  service,  whose  duty  was  ever  his  paramount  interest,  and 
he  won  the  friendship  as  well  as  trust  and  regard  of  many  of  the  most  prom- 
inent men  of  the  country. 

Mr.  Graves  was  married  in  1868  to  Miss  Clara  E.  Gale,  a  native  of 
Washington,  D.  C,  and  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Leonard  D.  Gale,  a  scientist  of 
great  prominence  who  assisted  Professor  Morse  in  the  in\ention  of  the  tel- 
egraph. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Graves  have  two  daughters,  Jessie  and  Evaline  C, 
at  home,  while  their  son  Edward  Bertram  is  in  the  employ  of  the  surveyor 
general  of  Washington.  I'he  family  are  members  of  St.  Mark's  Episcopal 
church  and  their  home  is  the  center  of  a  cultured  society  circle. 

JOHN    COLLINS. 

The  glory  of  our  republic  is  in  the  perpetuation  of  individuality  and  in 
the  according  of  the  utmost  scope  for  individual  accomplishment.  Fostered 
under  the  most  auspicious  of  surroundings  that  can  encompass  one  who  has 
the  will  to  dare  and  to  do,  our  nation  has  almost  spontaneously  produced  men 
of  finest  mental  caliber,  of  true  virile  strength  and  vigorous  purpose.  The 
cradle  has  never  been  one  of  pampered  luxury,  but  the  modest  couch  of  in- 
fancy has  often  rocked  future  greatness.  American  biography  thus  becomes, 
perhaps,  one  of  more  perfect  individuality,  in  the  general  as  well  as  the  spe- 
cific case,  than  does  that  of  any  other  nation  of  the  globe.  Of  America  is 
the  self-made  man  a  product,  and  the  record  of  accomplishments  in  this  indi- 
vidual sense  is  the  record  v.diich  the  true  and  loyal  American  holds  in  deep- 
est regard  and  highest  honor.  In  tracing  the  career  of  the  subject  of  this 
review  we  are  enabled  to  gain  a  recognition  of  this  sort  of  a  record,  for  he  is 
a  man  of  broadest  intellectuality  and  one  who  has  attained  to  distinguished 
honors.     For  this  reason  there  is  particular  interest  attaching  to  the  points 


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which  mark  liis  progress  in  hfe,  and  this  sketch  is  amply  justified.  There  is 
no  citizen  in  Seattle  who  has  been  a  more  important  part  in  its  history,  his 
name  being  closely  interwoven  with  progress  along  the  various  lines  which 
contribute  to  advancement  and  welfare  for  the  common  rights. 

Mr.  Collins  is  a  native  of  Ireland,  having  been  born  in  Cootehill,  comity 
Cavan,  m  the  province  of  Ulster,  on  the  27th  of  November,  1835.  He  rep- 
resents okl  families  of  that  lan'd  and  his  parents  were  Patrick  and  Mary 
(Dinning)  Collins,  industrious  farming  people.  The  father  attamed  the 
age  of  sixty-eight  years,  and  after  his  death  the  mother  came  to  America  to 
live  with  her  son  John  in  Seattle,  where  she  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-three 
years.  Thev  were  both  de\out  members  of  the  C'atholic  church  and  died  in 
that  faith. 

John  Collins  left  his  home  and  native  land  when  only  ten  years  of  age, 
crossing  the  Atlantic  to  New  York  city,  \\'here  amid  strangers  he  began  life 
on  his  own  account.  After  six  years  spent  in  the  eastern  metropolis  he  re- 
moved to  Machias,  Maine,  where  he  engaged  in  driving  a  team  and  later 
became  connected  with  the  lumber  interests  of  that  state,  continuing  in  that 
line  of  business  until  1857.  Becoming  convinced  that  the  west  offered  bet- 
ter opportunities  than  the  old  and  more  thickly  settled  east,  he  decided  to 
remove  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Arriving  in  San  Francisco.  California,  he  re- 
mained in  that  city  until  September,  when  he  came  to  Puget  Sound  and 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Puget  Sound  Mill  Company  in  their  sawmill  at 
Port  Gamble.  He  had  acquired  a  thorough  knowledge  of  the  business  prior 
to  this  time,  and  his  efficient  ser^-ice  enabled  him  to  command  good  wages. 
Saving  his  earnings  he  remained  with  the  company  for  ten  years  and  then 
made  judicious  investments  of  his  capital  in  real  estate.  While  in  Seattle  he 
purchased  property  and  built  a  hotel.  Studying  the  conditions  of  the  country 
and  its  possibilities,  he  became  convinced  that  Seattle  had  a  brilliant  future 
before  it,  and  accordingly  he  visited  the  town  and  purchased  city  property. 
In  1867  he  took  up  his  abode  here  and  assumed  the  management  of  the  Occi- 
dental Hotel,  in  which  he  owned  a  two-third  interest.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  conducted  this  hotel  most  successfully  and  became  its  sole'  owner.  But 
he  did  not  confine  his  attention  alone  to  this  line.  He  is  a  man  of  resourceful 
business  ability  and  marked  enterprise  and  carries  for^vard  to  a  successful  com- 
pletion whatever  he  undertakes.  His  business  interests,  too.  ha\e  been  of 
such  a  nature  that  they  have  contributed  in  large  measure  to  the  general  pro- 
gress and  prosperity,  as  well  as  to  his  individual  success.  He  was  prominent 
in  the  building  of  railroads  and  in  the  opening  up  of  coal  mines,  two  lines 
that  have  lieen  of  great  benefit  and  material  assistance  to  this  part  of  the 


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state.  He  also  made  many  investments  in  realty  and  platted  the  Collins  addi- 
tion to  tb.e  city.  He  built  the  Seattle  Hotel  block  and  the  Collins  l)lock  and 
became  the  owner  of  other  valnable  property.  He  has,  indeed,  through 
many  years  been  one  of  Seattle's  most  successful,  prominent  and  enterpris- 
ing business  men,  doing  all  in  his  power  to  advance  the  city's  interests.  He 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  gas  company,  and  his  counsel,  as  .well  as  his 
financial  aid,  has  been  a  potent  element  in  the  conduct  of  many  im|>ortant 
enterprises  of  great  value  here. 

Mr.  Collins  has  been  no  less  prominent  and  active  in  political  affairs, 
and  today  is  classed  among-  the  leaders  of  the  Democratic  party  in  the  state. 
On  the  organization  of  the  city  government  in  1869.  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  city  council  and  served  so  satisfactorily  to  his  constituents  that  he  was 
elected  for  three  consecutive  terms,  while  in  1877  ^^^  had  the  honor  of  l>eing 
elected  mavor,  being  the  sixth  .incumbent  in  that  office.  He  exercised  his 
official  prerogatives  in  support  of  e\eiy  measure  and  mo\'ement  for  the  gen- 
eral good.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  inducing  the  city  to  establish  and 
own  its  own  water  works  and  to  control  its  own  harbor  front,  that  it  might 
enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  revenue  derived  therefrom.  He  was  also  a  member 
of  the  committee  to  form  the  new  city  charter  and  in  1882  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  council  of  the  territ>^rial  legislature  and  ser\'ed  during  the  ses- 
sion of  1883-84.  During  that  time  he  was  chairman  of  the  committee  ot  com- 
merce and  member  of  the  comniittee  of  \\ays  and  means.  In  this  way  he  ren- 
dered the  territor\-  verv  \aiuable  ser\'ice.  opposing  in  the  most  vigorous  and 
capable  man.ner  every  measure  which  he  deemed  detrimental  and  aiding  with 
equal  force  and  persistence  every  movement  which  he  believed  would  be  t\>r 
the  benefit  of  the  territory.  He  was  very  active  in  securing  the  passage  of  the 
bill  appropriating  six  thousand  dnllnrs  for  the  territorial  university,  the  largest 
sum  wdiich  up  to  that  time  had  been  given  the  institution.  Tlic  bill  was 
strongly  opposed,  but  Air.  Collins'  able  efforts  in  its  behalf  at  length  pre- 
vailed and  it  was  passed, — a  work  of  great  value  to  the  cause  of  education  in 
the  territory,  as  all  now  acknowledge.  His  efforts  in  all  his  public  life  have 
been  creditable  to  the  people  whom  he  represents,  as  well  as  of  great  benefit 
to  the  citv  and  the  state.  He  has  also  been  very  active  in  the  councils  of  his 
patry,  attending  first  the  territorial  con^'entions  and  later  the  state  conven- 
tions, while  on  one  occasion  he  was  sent  as  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic 
national  convention  which  nominated  Grover  Cleveland  for  president  of  the 
United  States. 

In  1855  Mr.  Collins  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Mary  Ann  j\Iacalroy, 
and  to  them  were  born  four  children,  but  only  one  is  now  living.  Emma  1.., 


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Avho  is  at  home  ^vith  her  father.  The  mother  departed  this  Hfe  in  1871,  and 
in  1878  Mr.  Collins  was  again  married,  his  second  union  being  with  Ange- 
line  B.  TackHng,  by  whom  he  has  four  children:  Edena.  John  F.,  Edward 
and  Catherine.  All  are  members  of  the  Catholic  church,  to  which  Mr.  Col- 
lins has  e\cr  contributed  most  liberall} .  but  while  he  is  hrm  in  his  faith,  he 
has  also  been  most  generous  in  his  contributions  to  other  churches,  to  benevo- 
lent enterprises  and  to  all  measures  relating  to  the  city's  progress  and  sub- 
stantial upbuilding.  Witli  jirm  belief  in  Seattle,  he  identified  his  interests 
with  hers  and  has  been  unswerving  in  his  allegiance.  The  city  has  met  his 
expectations,  but  no  man  in  all  Seattle  has  been  more  active  and  enterprising 
in  his  efforts  for  the  general  good.  Mr.  Collins  is  a  man  of  distinctive  abil- 
ity and  his  character  is  one  wnich  is  above  a  shadow  of  reproach.  He  has 
l>een  faithful  to  the  high  offices  in  which  he  has  been  called  to  serve,  and  is 
widely  known  and  respectefl  by  ah  who  have  been  at  all  familiar  with  his 
honorable  and  useful  career. 

EDWIN  W.  HOUGHTON. 

]n  this  age  of  specialization  wdien  the  aggregate  world's  work  is  divided 
into  many  parcels  and  each  one  is  assigned  to  a  different  specialist,  the  per- 
spective of  the  whole  amount  is  lost,  and  one  does  not  appreciate  the  extent 
and  variety  of  industry  as  was  the  case  when  men  were  each  a  kind  of  Robin- 
son Crusoe  obliged  to  make  everything  and  perform  every  work  which  pro- 
vided for  the  necesssaries  of  life.  In  this  complexity  of  modern  life  surely^ 
one  of  the  most  important  of  our  special  workers  is  the  architect,  the  builder 
of  our  homes  and  constructor  of  the  public  and  private  edifices  \yhich  are 
the  wonder  of  the  world.  In  this  class  of  men  is  to  be  reckoned  Mr.  Edwin 
W  Houghton,  to  whom  one  can  ascribe,  as  he  ^\-alks  through  the  business 
district  of  Seattle.  Washington,  the  erection  of  many  of  the  substantial  struc- 
tures which  are  the  home  of  the  commercial  interests  of  that  city. 

His  father's  name  was  Thomas,  an  Englishman,  who  was  induced  to 
come  to  America  by  an  elder  brother  about  1850.  He  became  interested  in 
a  linancial  w  ay  with  the  meat  packing  and  shipping  industry,  which  was  then 
only  in  its  infancy,  w^ith  little  prophecy  of  the  vast  proportions  wdiich  it  was 
destined  at  this  present  day  to  assume.  But  later  he  sold  out  and  returned 
to  England,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

Edwin  \xa.s  born  in  Hampshire.  England,  August  5.  1856.  He  was 
educated  first  in  the  public  schools  and  later  in  King  Edward's  grammar 
school.     He  then  went  into  the  office  ni  his  uncles,  who  were  prominent  archi- 


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tects  in  Chelsea,  London,  and  had  been  in  the  business  and  in  the  same  office 
for  about  sixty  years.  Thus  he  was  enalMed  to  acquire  a  very  thorough 
training-,  and  he  also  gained  much  practical  knowledge  of  the  craft  by  work- 
ing for  an  elder  brother.  This  brother.  Thomas  Marcus  Houghton,  is  a 
prominent  English  architect,  a  member  of  the  British  Institute  of  Architects, 
Society  of  Arts,  Sanitary  Institute,  and  master  of  chancery  in  all  courts  of 
justice.  x\fter  he  had  carried  on  this  preliminary  work  for  a  few  years  and 
was  able  to  stand  on  his  own  feet,  as  it  were,  he  married  and  in  1884  decided 
to  make  America  the  held  of  his  endeavors.  He  first  spent  some  time  in  the 
east,  then  came  to  the  Pacific"  coast,  and  in  TS89  cast  in  his  lot  with  that  of 
the  growing  city  of  Seattle.  It  was  about  this  time  that  the  big  fire  swept  away 
a  large  part  of  the  cit}-.  and  thus  afforded  a  good  field  for  the  builder.  He 
became  associated  with  a  Mr.  Saunders,  and  they  built  a  numter  of  business 
houses,  some  of  the  more  prominent  being  the  Baile}^  building,  the  P.  I. 
building.  Olympic  block,  the  headquarters  of  the  city  fire  department,  Rain- 
ier hotel,  four  of  the  city  school  buildings.  In  1892  Mr.  Saunders  went  east, 
and  since  then  Mr.  Houghton  has  been  jvlone  in,  the  business.  Some  of  the 
more  recent  buildings  which  he  has  erected  are:  The  Arcade,  the  Esta- 
brook,  the  Curtis,  the  Cascade  laundry,  the  Tippy,  the  Cataract  Company, 
the  Otis,  the  Grand  Opera  House  of  Seattle,  the  Spokane  Theatre,  the  Grand 
Opera  House  at  Butte,  Montana,  Beck's  Theatre  at  New  Whatcom,  besides 
many  residences.  This  is  certainly  a  good  record,  and  he  could  desire  no 
better  monument  to  his  deeds  than  this  list  of  structures,  many  of  which  will 
be  in  existence  long  after  their  builder  has  passed  away. 

Mr.  Houghton  is  a  well  rounded  man  and  has  been  interested  in  other 
matters  than  his  business.  He  is  a  Republic.m  in  politics ;  he  belongs  to  the 
Trinity  parish  church  and  for  three  years  sang  in  its  choir;  and  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  the  Seattle  Driving  Club,  the  Society  of 
Eno-ineers.  and  an  associate  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architecture.  He 
finds  his  prnicipal  recreation  in  riding  and  drixing.  and  owns  three  fine  riding- 
horses.  Mr.  Houghton  was  married  in  England  in  1884,  just  before  com- 
ing to  this  country.  The  lady  of  his  choice  was  Margaret  Ann  Crude,  who 
was  of  Devonshire  family  and  a  graduate  of  Edinburg  University.  They 
have  had  two  children,  but  only  one  is  living,  (iordon  T.  A. 

JAY  A.  KEELOGG. 

In  political  circles  as  well  as  in  business  life  Jay  A.  Kellogg  has  long 
been  recognized  as  a  leader  in  Washington,  hi  addition  to  many  local  po- 
sitions, he  has  served  for  four  years  as  state  senator  and  has  labored  earnestly 


6io  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

and  loyally  for  the  best  interests  of  city,  county  and  state.  He  has  spent 
nearly  his  entire  life  upon  the  Pacific  coast,  and  the  spirit  of  enterprise  and 
progress  so  characteristic  of  this  section  of  the  country  is  exemplihed  in  his 
career.  A  lawyer  l)y  profession,  in  addition  to  his  practice  he  is  also  engaged 
in  the  real  estate,  loan  and  insurance  business. 

Mr.  Kellogg  was  born  in  Boone  county.  Illinois,  in  1853.  His  father. 
Eli  D.  Kellogg,  .was  born  in  Vermont  and  after  residing  for  some  years  in 
Illinois  made  a  tri])  to  California  in  1859.  Three  times  he  crossed  the  plains, 
returning  to  the  east  in  order  to  buy  horses,  which  he  brought  back  \\  ith  him 
to  California.  He  had  no  trouble  with  the  Indians,  but  the  party  which  im- 
mediately followed  that  with  which  he  traveled  were  molested  by  the  red 
men  and  lost  considerable  stock.  Eli  Kellogg  engaged  in  milling,  farming 
and  merchandising.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs,  was  recog- 
nized as  a  leading  and  influential  citizen  of  his  community  and  was  called  to 
represent  his  district  in  the  state  legislature,  where  he  served  for  two  terms, 
proving  a  valued  member  of  the  house.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  was  a 
Republican.  In  Illinois  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  ]Miss  Margaret  Passage, 
and  to  them  were  born  four  children,  of  whom  our  subject  and  a  sister  are 
living  in  Seattle.  The  father  also  resides  in  this  state,  making'  his  home 
in  Lincoln  county,  and  is  the  owner  of  over  eight  hundred  acres  of  very  line 
and  valualjle  wheat  land  south  of  Spokane.  In  his  business  aft'airs  he  has 
prospered,  Ijecoming  one  of  the  well-to-do  residents  of  Lincoln  county,  and 
he  is  also  prominent  in  public  affairs  there  and  has  served  as  countv  com- 
missioner. 

When  \-ery  young  Jay  A.  Kellogg  was  taken  l:)y  his  parents  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  was  reared,  pursuing  his  preliminarv  education  in  the  ])ul)- 
lic  schoijls  and  later  attending  St.  Joseph  College.  In  1879  he  came  to 
Vv'ashington  and  entered  upon  his  business  career  as  proprietor  of  a  jewelry 
store  in  Dayton,  where  he  remained  until  his  removal  t()  Seattle.  Desiring 
to  fit  himself  for  the  profession  of  law.  he  began  reading  under  the  direction 
of  a  preceptor,  and  in  Dayton  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  after  which  he  aban- 
doned mercantile  pursuits  in  order  to  engage  in  practice.  On  his  removal 
to  Seattle  he  also  became  engaged  in  the  real  estate  and  loan  business.  He 
has  made  a  specialty  of  the  former  and  has  been  very  successful.  No  man 
in  the  city  is  better  informed  concerning  realty  values  and  the  possibilities 
of  the  real  estate  market  than  our  subject.  His  business  methods,  in  strict 
conformity  with  the  ethics  of  commercial  life,  combined  with  his  enterprising 
spirit  and  unfailing  courtesy,  have  gained  him  the  public  confidence,  and 
therefore  he  is  enjoying  well  merited  prosperity  in  his  undertakings. 


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Mr.  Kellog-g  has  been  twice  married.  In  Dayton,  this  state,  he  wedded 
Miss  Sina  Coleson,  and  to  them  were  born  two  children,  Jay  C.  and  June. 
After  the  death  of  b.is  first  wife  Mr.  Kellogg  was  again  married,  in  Spokane, 
in  1895.  when  Cora  Lake  became  his  wife,  and  they  now  have  one  son.  In 
1898  he  erected  his  present  home,  which  is  a  pleasant  one,  and  there  hospi- 
tality reignis  supreme.  Mr.  Kellogg  is  an  important  factor  in  political  circles 
and  is  found,  among  the  stalwart  supporters  of  the  Republican  partv.  While 
at  Dayton  he  served  for  three  terms,  covering-  six  years,  as  countv  auditor 
and  four  successi\"e  terms  was  mayor  of  that  city.  He  was  also  honored 
with  election  to  the  state  senate  and  served  so  capal)ly  that  he  was  re-elected. 
He  left  the  impress  of  his  individuality  upon  the  legislature  enacted  during 
that  period,  for  he  was  an  active  working  member  of  the  upper  house  and 
labored  earnestly  fo';  the  adoption  of  every  measure  which  he  believed  would 
contribute  to  the  g^eneral  good.  Since  coming  to  Seattle  in  1807  he  has  been 
sent  as  a  delegate  t(3  \'arious  city,  county  and  state  conventions.  Fraternally 
he  belongs  to  the  Masonic  order,  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  bellows  and 
the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity,  in  which  he  is  connected  with  the  uni- 
formed rank.  He  is  also  identified  with  the  Benevolent  and  Protecti\e  Order 
of  Elks  and  w  itb  the  Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce.  He  stands  as  a  high 
type  of  our  American  manhood,  energetic  and  reliable  in  business,  loyal  and 
progressive  in  citizenship  and  trustworthy  in  all  the  jjrivate  relations  of  life. 

ALPHIUS    BYERS. 

Alphius  Bvers.  who  has  attained  distinction  as  one  of  the  ablest  mem 
bers  of  the  Seattle  bar,  is  now  practicing  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Byers 
&  Byers.  In  this  i)rofession  probably  more  than  in  any  other  success  de- 
pends upon  individual  merit,  upon  a  thorough  understanding  of  tlie  prin- 
ciples of  jurisprudence,  a  power  of  keen  analysis,  and  the  ability  to  present 
clearly,  concisely  and  forcibly  the  strong  points  in  his  cause.  Possessing, 
these  necessary  qualifications,  Mr.  Byers  is  accorded  a  foremost  place  in 
the  ranks  of  the  profession  in  Washington,  and  stands  to-day  as  one  of 
the  most  esteemed  members  of  the  Seattle  bar.  He  is  also  a  prominent 
and  influential  member  of  the  common  council  of  the  city. 

A  native  of  Pennsylvania.  Mr.  Byers  was  born  in  Lawrence  county  on 
the  22d  of  February,  1865,  and  is  of  English  and  Scotch  ancestry.  John 
and  William  Byers,  who  settled  in  Maryland  in  1650,  were  the  i)rogen- 
itors  of  the  faip,il\-  in  America.  Our  subject's  great-grandfather.  Robert 
Bvers,   was  born   in   Virginia  and  served   in   the   Revolutionary   war,    while 


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the  grandfather.  WilHam  Byers,  was  also  a  native  of  the  Old  Dominion 
and  an  officer  in  the  war  of  1812.  The  latter  married  Miss  Betsey  Russell, 
who  was  a  native  of  Connecticut  and  a  representative  of  an  old  New  Eng- 
land family.  From  Virginia  W^illiam  Byers  removed  to  Lawrence  county, 
Pennsylvania,  where  he  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-eight  years.  Like 
his  ancestors  he  was  a  Presbyterian  in  religious  belief.  The  family  was 
a  most  worthy  and  substantial  one. 

Ambrose  Byers,  the  father  of  oiu"  subject,  was  born  on  the  old  home- 
stead in  Lawrence  county.  Pennsylvania,  in  1824.  and  there  spent  his  entire 
life  as  an  industrious  and  upright  farmer.  In  early  manhood  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Mary  McCracken,  a  native  of  Mercer  county,  Penn- 
sylvania. She  came  of  a  family  which  was  also  of  Scotch  origin  and  which 
for  three  generations  had  resided  in  this  country.  True  to  the  patriotic 
instincts  of  his  ancestors  Ambrose  Byers  entered  the  L^nion  army  during 
the  Civil  war  and  fought  for  tlie  old  flag  and  the  cause  it  represented.  He 
dq)arted  this  life  in  1887,  at  the  age  of  sixty-three  years,  and  is  still  sur- 
vived by  his  wife,  wdio  is  now  seventy-three  years  of  age.  Both  w^ere  val- 
ued members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  held  in  the  highest  regard, 
by  all  who  knew  them.  To  them  were  born  ele\^en  children,  eight  sons  and 
three  daughters,  of  whom  three  sons  are  now  on  the  Pacific  slope,  these 
being  Horace  G.,  professor  of  chemistry  in  the  Washington  State  Uni- 
versity ;  and  Obed  A.  and  Alphius,  who  comprise  the  firm  of  Byers  &  Byers, 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Seattle. 

Alphius  Byers  acquired  his  literary  education  at  West  Washington 
College.  Pennsylvania,  and  pursued  his  legal  studies  at  the  Washington.  Uni- 
versity in  St.  Louis.  After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  came  to  Seattle  in. 
1892,  his  brother  Obed  A.  having  preceded  him  tw^o  years,  and  they  at  once 
formed  the  present  partnership.  Although  they  are  engaged  in  general  prac- 
tice, they  make  somewhat  of  a  specialty  of  land,  corporation  and  mercantile 
law,  and  are  meeting  with  most  gratifying  success.  They  have  prospered 
financially  since  coming  west  and  have  acquired  considerable  real  estate  of 
value  in  the  city  wdiere  they  now  make  their  home. 

In  1895  Alphius  Byers  was  united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Ada  Shallade, 
a  native  of  Wisconsin,  and  this  union  has  been  blessed  bv  one  daughter, 
Catherine  A.  Socially  he  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the 
Royal  Arcanum,  and  he  and  his  wife  occupy  an  enviable  position  in  social 
circles  where  intelligence  and  worth  are  the  passports  into  good  society. 
Both  he  and  his  brother  have  been  life-long  Democrats,  and  are  active  in  the 
work  and  councils  of  the  party,  attending  its  conventions  and  doing  all  within 


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their  power  to  secure  its  success.  In  1900  our  subject  was  "elected  a  member 
of  the  city  council,  and  is  now  chairman  of  the  judiciary  committee  and  the 
committee  on  claims.  In  this  capacity  he  is  doing  the  city  valued  service, 
and  is  recognized  as  one  of  its  most  useful  and  public-spirited  citizens. 
Holding  marked  precedence  among  the  members  of  the  bar,  and  retaining  a 
clientele  of  so  representative  a  character  as  to  alone  stand  as  evidence  of  hi^ 
professional  ability  and  personal  popularity,  Mr.  Byers  must  assured!}-  be  ac- 
corded a  place  in  this  volume. 

GEORGE    E.  WEBSTER. 

George  E.  Weljster  is  a  native  of  Boston,  Massachusetts,  born  on  the 
15th  of  October,  1845.  His  father,  Alvah  Webster,  was  born  in  New- 
Hampshire,  March  17,  1822,  and  was  engaged  in  merchandising  in  Sand- 
wich, that  state,  for  many  years,  but  is  now  living  retired  from  active  busi- 
ness cares,  enjoying  a  well  earned  rest.  His  wife,  who  in  her  maidenhood 
was  Manda  Barber,  was  born  at  Orleans,  on  Cape  Cod,  in  1825,  and  is  also 
living*.     Both  came  of  early  New  England  families. 

Their  son  George  E.  acquired  his  education  in  the  excellent  public 
schools  of  Boston,  and  at  seventeen  years  of  age  he  began  earning  his  own 
living.  He  turned  his  attention  to  teaming  and  soon  became  extensively  en- 
gaged in  the  mercantile  transfer  trade,  being  well  known  in  this  connection 
in  Boston  for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  From  1888  until  1890  he  conducted  a 
boarding  stable  in  Boston,  and  in  May,  1891,  came  west  to  Seattle.  In  Sep- 
tember of  the  same  year  he  took  up  his  abode  in  Enumclaw,  where,  in  con-» 
nection  with  F.  O.  Nickerson,  he  purchased  the  mercantile  establishment  for- 
merly owned  l)y  the  firm  of  Griffin  &  Blake.  The  new  firm  conducted  the 
enterprise  for  seven  years,  and  in  1897  Mr.  Webster  disposed  of  his  inter- 
ests and  returned  to  Boston,  where  he  conducted  a  store  for  a  year,  but  find 
ing  that  the  eastern  climate  was  seriously  injuring  his  health,  he  returned  to 
this  city  in  1898.  During  the  period  of  his  first  residence  here  in  1892,  he 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Enumclaw  Improvement  Company.  This 
was  composed  of  George  E.  Webster,  W.  H.  Cooper.  F.  O.  Nickercon,  Sam- 
uel Lafromboise,  Arthur  E.  Pool,  and  C.  C.  Reeber.  They  took  an  option  on 
sixty  acres  of  the  townsite  land  from  F.  O.  Nickerson,  rmd  during  the  three 
years  of  the  existence  of  the  company  many  valuable  improvements  were 
inade  in  the  town.  Among  the  buildings  erected  was  a  hop  house,  forty  In- 
one  hundred  feet,  which  was  afterward  turned  into  a  creamery,  but  in  1902 
it  was  destroved  by  fire.     The  Improvement  Con-i]ian}-  was  forced  out  of  ex- 


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istence  by  the  great  financial  panic  of  1893.  After  his  return  to  Washing- 
ton, in  1898,,  Mr.  Webster  opened  a  grocery  store  at  Green  Lake,  Seattle, 
where  he  remained  until  1902,  when  he  again  came  to  Enumclaw  and' be- 
came a  member  of  the  Webster-Eckhart-Syms  Company,  which  was  estab- 
lished -.nd  incorporated  in  the  spring  of  1902  and  is  now  conducting  a  gen- 
eral mercantile  store. 

In  1863  Mr.  Webster  was  married  in  Boston  to  Fannie  M.  Savage,  who 
was  born  in  Maine  in  1848.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Webster  is  a  stalwart 
Republican,  and  he  belongs  to  the  Crescent  Lodge  of  Masons  at  Enumclaw^ 
having  demitted  from  Faith  Lodge  of  Boston,  which  he  joined  in  187 1.  His 
name  is  also  on  the  membership  rolls  of  Enumclaw  Lodge  No.  132,  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 

LEWIS  R.  DAWSON,  M.  D. 

Lewis  R.  Dawson.  Al.  D.,  is  one  of  the  most  successful,  capable  and  dis- 
tinguished members  of  the  medical  profession  in  Seattle.  He  has  made  his 
home  in  this  city  since  1884  and  is  enjoying  a  constantly  increasing  patron- 
age in  the  line  of  his  chosen  calling,  as  he  has  demonstrated  his  skill  in  coping 
with  the  difficult  problems  which  continually  confront  the  physician.  The 
Doctor  is  a  native  of  Ohio,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Warren,  Trumbull 
county,  on  the  23d  of  Jime,  1856.  The  family  is  of  English  descent,  but  no 
record  has  been  preserved  concerning"  the  establishment  of  the  Dawsons  in 
America.  Isaac  N.  Dawson,  the  father  of  the  Doctor,  was  born  in  Penn- 
sylvania and  in  early  life  lived  in  Newcastle,  that  state,  wdiere  he  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil.  He  removed  to  Trumbull  county,  Ohio, 
and  at  Warren  began  the  manufacture  of  linseed  oil,  in  which  work  he  w^as 
thoroughly  posted  and  l)y  reason  of  his  experience,  knowledge  and  capable 
management  conducted  a  i)rosperous  business.  He  became  one  of  the  lead- 
ing and  imluential  citizens  of  Warren  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  official 
life  of  the  city,  serving  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  many  years,  also  as  a  mem- 
ber and  president  of  the  board  of  education,  while  for  twelve  years  he  occu- 
pied the  position  of  chief  executive  of  Warren,  and  his  administration  as 
mayor  proved  of  practical  benefit  to  the  city  along  lines  of  substantial  im- 
provement and  progress.  His  death  occurred  there  in  1878.  In  early  man- 
hood he  married  Nancy  L.  Reeves,  a  daughter  of  John  Reeves,  a  pioneer  of 
Trumbull  county,  who  was  born  in  Connecticut  and  removed  to  Pennsyl- 
vania from  that  state  and  later  became  one  of  the  first  to  locate  in  Trumbull 
county,  Ohio.     Mrs.  Dawson  attained  the  age  of  seventv-four  vears  and  her 


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death  occurred  in  July,  1900,  when  she  was  laid  to  rest  l)y  the  side  of  her 
husband  in  the  cemetery  in  Warren. 

The  Doctor  was  educated  in  the  pubhc  schools  and  later  in  the  Western 
Reserve  Colleg-e,  at  Hudson,  Ohio.  Being-  thrown  upon  his  own  resources 
he  engaged  in  teaching  school  in  Warren  in  order  to  meet  the  expenses  of  a 
college  course.  When  he  had  completed  his  literary  education  he  at  once 
entered  upon  the  study  of  medicine  under  Dr.  John  R.  Woods  of  Warren, 
and  after  his  preliminary  reading  was  accomplished  he  enteied  the  medical 
department  of  the  University  of  Michigan,  at  Ann  Arbor,  and  was  graduated 
there  in  June,  1882,  after  three  years  of  earnest  and  unremitting  study. 
During  the  following  year  Dr.  Dawson  filled  the  position  of  assistant  sur- 
geon at  the  Quincy  copper  mines  of  Hancock,  Michigan,  and  then  after 
visiting  friends  in  the  east  came  to  Washington,  spending  some  time  in  Walla 
Walla,  Tacoma  and  Portland,  and  in  January,  1884,  reached  Seattle.  He 
visited  these  \'arious  places  in  search  of  a  location  and  decided  that  the  last 
named  offered  the  best  opportunities.  xVccordingly  he  determined  to  take  up 
his  abode  here,  and  his  success  in  the  line  of  his  profession  has  demonstrated 
the  wisdom  of  his  choice.  At  first  he  was  alone  in  practice,  but  in  1887  he 
entered  into  partnership  with  Dr.  Thomas  T.  Minor,  who  was  one  of  the 
most  al)le  members  of  the  medical  fraternity  here.  This  relationship  was 
maintained  nntil  the  death  of  Dr.  Minor  in  December,  1889.  ^^oi'  about  a 
year,  in  1891-92,  Dr.  Dawson  was  engaged  in  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
partnership  with  Dr.  James  B.  Eagleson,  since  which  time  he  has  been  alone, 
and  the  large  patronage  accorded  him  is  an  indication  of  the  confidence  re- 
posed in  him  by  the  public.  After  his  graduation  he  largely  ga\'e  his  atten- 
tion to  the  diseases  of  women  and  in  that  branch  of  medical  practice  was 
very  successful,  but  since  his  return  from  the  Spanish-American  war  his 
practice  has  been  more  general  and  has  included  considerable  surgical  work. 
The  Doctor  has  served  for  fifteen  years  in  the  national  guard  of  the  state 
and  is  now  retired  with  the  rank  of  lieutenant  colonel.  In  December,  1884, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Seattle  Riiles,  Company  IJ,  Mrst  Regiment,  National  Guard 
of  Washington,  and  in  September,  the  following  year,  \vas  made  second  lieu- 
tenant, while  in  May,  1888,  he  became  first  lieutenant.  In  June,  1890.  he 
was  appointed  surgeon  of  the  First  Regiment  of  tlie  National  Guard  of 
Washington  with  the  rank  of  major,  serving  a^  such  till  1896,  when  he  was 
promoted  to  lieutenant-colonel  and  brigade-surgeon,  and  upon  bis  honorable 
discharge  after  fifteen  years  of  faithful  ser\ice  he  was  retired  w  iili  tlie  latter 
rank.  He  Avas  holding  that  rank  at  the  lime  of  tlie  breaking  out  of  tbc 
Spanish-American  war  in   1898,  when  he  tendered  bis  services  to  Governor 


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RofJgers  and  was  ci])pointed  major  and  surgeon  of  the  First  Washington 
Voliinteer  Regiment.  iM'om  May  until  the  following  October  he  was  on 
dut>'  at  \^ancouver  Barracks,  Washington,  and  in  the  Presidio  of  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  on  the  latter  date  was  assigned  with  his  regiment  for  duty  in  the 
Philippines.  He  was  at  [he  front  at  the  battle  of  Santa  Ana,  and  in  all  of 
the  engagements  in  which  the  regiment  participated,  as  well  as  the  first  ex- 
pedition under  General  Lawton  against  Santa  Cruz.  With  his  regiment  he 
afterward  returned  home  and  was  honorably  discharged. 

The  Doctor  was  married  .in  1888  and  has  two  sons  by  this  marriage, 
Lewis  R.  and  W.  Ivalph  C.  On  October  6,  1902.  he  married  Theresa  Eliot 
Reno,  a  native  of  New  York.  He  is  very  prominent  in  fraternal  and  social 
organizations  and  belongs  to  Arcana  Lodge  No.  87,  F.  &  A.  M.,  Washing- 
ton Lodge  of  Perfection  of  the  Scottish  Rite,  the  Washington  chapter  of 
the  Rose  Croix  and  the  Washington  Council  Knights  of  Kadosh.  He  has 
also  attained  <"he  thirty-second  degree  in  Lawson  Consistory  and  belongs  to 
Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Tacoma.  He  is  likewise  identified 
with  the  Spanish-American  War  Veterans  and  the  Washington  Chapter  of 
Sons  of  the  Revolution.  He  belongs  to  the  Rainier  Club,  to  the  Seattle 
Athletic  Association  and  to  the  Golf  and  Country  Club.  In  the  line  of  his 
profession  he  is  connected  with  the  King  County  Medical  Society,  Washing- 
ton State  Medical  Society,  the  American  Medical  Association  and  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Military  Surgeons  of  the  United  States.  Li  manner  he  is  kindly 
and  genial,  and  his  unfailing  courtesy,  supplementing  his  pleasing  person- 
ality and  strong  mind,  makes  Doctor  Dawson  popular  with  a  large  circle  of 
friends. 

JOHN    T.  CONDON. 

John  Thomas  Condon  is  now^  dean  of  the  law  school  which  forms  one 
of  the  departments  of  the  State  University  of  Washington.  This  is  his  aim:- 
mater  and  now  he  is  iKuiored  with  a  position  as  a  member  of  its  faculty.  He 
has  a  comprehensix-e  knowledge  of  the  principles  of  jurisprudence  and  is, 
moreover,  possessed  of  the  ability  to  impart  clearly  and  concisely  to  others 
the  knowledge  that  lie  has  acqufi-ed.  Mr.  Condon  'is  a  native  son  of  Wash- 
ington, his  birth  having  occurred  at  Port  Gamble  on  the  20th  of  September, 
1863.  His  parents  were  John  Steplienson  and  Catherine  Ellen  (O'Callag- 
han)  Condon,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Ireland  and  were  descended  from 
old  families  of  that  land.  Ilie  father  was  born  in  the  countv  of  Clare  and  the 
mother  near  tlie  cit>-  of  Cork.     For  years  the  Condons  were  connected  with 


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walks  of  life  demanding-  strong  mentality,  were  representative  of   the  pro- 
fessions and  were  teachers  and  professors  in  the  University  of  Dublin. 

Mr.  Condon's  father  came  to  America  in  1844,  first  making  his  way  to 
Canada  and  thence  to  New  York  city.  He  was  a  volunteer  in  the  Mexican 
war,  and  served  throughout  the  period  of  hostilities.  He  afterward  went  to 
San  Francisco  and  ran  on  a  steamer  to  Panama.  In  i860  he  went  to  Port 
Gamble,  Washington,  and  engaged  in  the  lumber  business.  He  was  there 
married  and  later  came  to  Seattle,  where  in  partnership  with  John  Collin? 
and  M.  R.  Maddocks  he  built  the  Occidental  Hotel.  After  residing  for  foui 
years  in  Seattle  he  returned  to  Port  Gamble,  where  he  spent  his  remaining 
days.  He  was  a  war  Democrat  and  for  several  years  held  the  office  of  coun- 
ty commissioner.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were  devout  members  of  the  Catholic 
church  and  he  died  in  that  faith  in  1882.  His  widow  survives  him  and  is 
now  living  with  Professor  Condon  in  Seattle.  In  the  family  were  six  chil- 
dren, of  \\hom  five  are  living,  all  born  in  Port  Gamble.  Mary  E.  is  now  the 
wife  of  William  B.  Jacking;  Richard  B.  is  superintendent  of  the  mill  in  Port 
Gamble  and  is  married  and  has  tAVO  children;  Alice  E.  is  the  wife  of  B.  J. 
Griffith,  of  Seattle ;  Eleanor  A.  is  a  teacher  in  the  schools  of  this  city. 

Professor  Condon,  the  second  of  the  familv,  was  educated  in  the  Uni- 
versity  of  Washington,  being  graduated  with  the  class  of  1888.  Pie  later  en- 
tered the  State  University  of  Michigan  at  Ann  Arbor,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1 89 1,  and  in  1892  he  was  a  graduate  of  the  law  department  of  the 
Northwestern  University  of  Chicago.  He  has  since  been  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  carrying  on  a  general  law  practice  for  several  years 
in  partnership  with  Mr.  Wright,  under  the  firm  name  of  Wright  &  Condon 
In  1899  he  was  appointed  dean  of  the  law  school  of  the  University  of  Wash- 
ington and  is  now  ably  filling  the  position,  giving  his  entire  attention  to  his 
duties  in  connection  therewith.  He  is  an  efficient  educator  and  is  accounted 
one  of  the  learned  members  of  the  profession  in  the  state  of  his  nativity. 

JUNIUS    ROCHISTER. 

One  of  the  prominent  members  of  the  Seattle  l)ar.  and  until  recently 
a  lecturer  in  the  law  school  of  the  University  of  Washington,  Junius  Rochis- 
ter  was  the  senior  member  of  the  law  firm  of  Rochister,  Corkerk  &  Childer. 
He  was  a  native  of  Kentucky,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  Damon\illc,  tliat 
state,  on  the  i6th  of  June.  1857.  He  represented  an  <jld  English  family,  trac- 
ing the  ancestry  back  to  the  mother  country,  although  at  a  veiy  early  date 
representatives  of  the  name  came  to  America.     The  ])rogenitor  of  the  family 

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in  this  country  was  John  Rochister,  who  came  with  two  brothers,  and  were 
the  founders  of  the  city  of  Rochester.  New  York,  the  place  being  named  in 
their  honor.  Later  he  settled  in  Hagerstown.  Alaryland,  and  Air.  Rochister 
of  this  review  is  of  the  fifth  generation  of  the  family  born  in  this  country. 
From  the  original  ancestor,  John  Rochester,  the  family  name  of  John 
Rochester  was  continued  through  three  generations  in  the  line  of  direct  de- 
scent to  our  subject,  the  spelling  ha\ing  been  changed  in  the  meantime  to 
Rochister.  The  members  of  the  family  have  ever  been  people  of  the  highest 
worth,  and  advocates  of  all  that  tends  to  advance  the  country  and  its  \velfare 
along  substantial  lines  of  progress  and  improvement.  The  family  was  rep- 
resented in  the  war  of  the  Re\'olution  and  the  paternal  grandfather  of  our 
subject  was  conspicuous  in  his  connection  with  Daniel  Boone  in  the  early 
settlement  of  Kentucky.  He  had  the  honor  of  being  the  first  merchant  within 
that  territoiy.  In  religious  faith  he  was  a  Presbyterian  and  died  at  the  age 
of  fifty  years. 

Charles  H.  Rochister.  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Kentucky 
on  the  31st  of  Januar}',  18 17.  He  married  Miss  Mary  L.  Caldwell,  a  native 
of  his  own  state.  She  was  of  Huguenot  French  and  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry 
and  her  people  were  equall}'  early  settlers  of  Kentucky,  whence  they  removed 
from  Virginia.  Her  father  was  the  first  settler  and  a  founder  of  Adair  coun- 
t\'.  Kentucky,  and  ser\ed  as  clerk  of  the  county  and  of  the  circuit  courts.  He 
and  his  son  James  occupied  that  position  for  sixty  consecutive  years.  Charles 
Rochister  was  for  a  number  of  years  a  farmer,  who  was  also  \-ery  prominent 
in  public  affairs  and  during  a  long  period  held  the  oftice  of  railroad  commis- 
sioner of  Kentucky.  He  departed  this  life  in  the  seventy-se^'enth  year  of  his 
age.  but  his  good  wife  still  survives  him  in  the  seventy-seventh  year  of  her 
life,  and  resides  in  Independence,  Missouri.  They  had  seven  children,  of  whom 
six  are  yet  living.  The  father  had  also  had  seven  children  by  a  previous  mar- 
riage, and  his  second  wife  continually  cared  for  them  as  well  as  for  her  own 
children,  and  deserved  great  credit  for  moulding  the  characters  of  all  so  that 
they  became  honored  residents  of  their  respective  localities.  One  of  the  sons 
IS  now  in  Seattle,  G.  A.  C.  Rochister  being  a  prominent  member  of  the  bar 
here. 

Junius  Rochister  acquired  his  education  in  the  University  of  Virginia 
and  studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  uncle  in  Louisville,  Kentucky,  being  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar  in  that  state  on  the  27th  of  April.  1879.  For  two  years  he 
engaged  in  practice  in  the  east,  and  in  1884  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  at  once 
opened  a  law  office.  The  following  year  he  entered  into  partnership  with  the 
Hon.  J.  B.  Metcalfe,  then  the  attorney  general  of  the  territorv,  this  relation 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  619 

being  maintained  until  Novemljer.  1886.  when  Mr.  Rochister  was  elected 
probate  judge  of  the  county.  During  this  time  he  had  also  been  a  factor  in 
the  improvement  of  the  city,  having  built  the  Yesler  Way  and  the  Jackson 
Cable  Railroad,  assisted  by  Mayor  Metcalfe  and  others.  At  the  close  of  his 
judicial  term  Judge  Rochister  entered  into  partnership  with  Colonel  James 
H.  Lewis,  later  a  member  of  Congress,  and  with  L.  C.  Ciilman,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Rochister,  Lewis  &  Oilman.  They  soon  gained  a  very  large 
and  remunerative  practice,  having,  it  is  believed,  the  most  extensive  clientage 
in  the  city. 

Mr.  Rochister  was  also  much  interested  in  the  development  of  the  mate- 
rial welfare  of  Seattle  and  to  that  work  gave  not  a  little  of  his  attention. 
He  was  the  founder  of  the  suburban  town  of  Columbia,  and  built  the  street 
railway  to  Renton.  A  recognized  leader  in  political  circles,  he  served  as  chair- 
man at  the  city,  county  and  state  central  Democratic  committees,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  first  commission  that  formed  the  city  charter  of  Seattle.  He 
was  the  father  of  the  Seattle  city  library,  and  regarded  this  as  the  most  im- 
portant w'ork  that  he  accomplished.  Certainly  his  memory  deserves  the  grat- 
itude of  the  public  for  his  efforts  in  this  direction,  as  it  affords  the  means  of 
education  to  those  who  care  to  inform  their  minds  concerning  science,  his- 
tory, biography,  traveling  and  fiction.  In  1894  Judge  Rochister's  health 
failed  and  for  several  years  he  w-as  an  invalid,  but  he  recovered  to  some  ex- 
tent and  became  again  an  active  factor  in  the  many  and  varied  interests  of 
Seattle.  He  was  tendered  his  present  position  as  one  of  the  law  professors 
in  the  LTniversity  of  Washington,  which  he  held  till  his  death. 

In  1891  Mr.  Rochister  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Carrie  A.  Rice,  a 
native  of  Middleport,  Meigs  county,  Ohio,  and  a  descendant  of  good  old 
Revolutionary  stock.  One  of  her  great-great-uncles  was  private  secretary  to 
General  Washington.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Captain  James  Rice,  who  won 
his  title  as  commander  of  an  Ohio  river  steamboat.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rochister 
were  highly  valued  members  of  the  Baptist  church,  in  which  he  took  a  most 
active  part,  being  one  of  the  lay  ministers.  As  a  promoter  and  l)uilder  oi 
Seattle  he  was  very  active,  had  erected  numerous  residences  and  brick  blocks 
and  also  given  his  support  to  measures  which  have  contributed  in  a  large  de- 
gree not  only  to  the  business  life  but  to  the  intellectual  and  moral  develop- 
men  of  the  city.  He  had  traveled  extensively  over  the  l-nited  States  and 
had  a  number  of  times  crossed  the  continent,  gaining  that  culture  and  experi- 
ence which  only  travel  can  bring.  He  was  a  man  of  scholarly  attainments, 
of  broad  general  information  and  moreover  an  honorable,  upright  gentleman 
who  deserved  the  unqualified  respect  and  confidence  which  he  received  from 
his  fellow  men. 


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WILLIAM  HOYLE  COLLIER. 

There  is  probably  no  man  in  Seattle  who  has  had  a  more  varied  career 
or  has  traveled  more  extensively  than  Wiliam  Hoyle  Collier,  the  present 
popular  secretary  of  the  Marine  Engineers  Beneficial  Association  No.  38, 
of  this  city.  He  first  visited  here  in  1859.  and  has  made  this  port  his  home 
since  1876.  Lie  was  bom  near  Savannah,  Georgia,  ni  ALarch.  1848,  and  is 
the  only  child  of  Henry  DeWard  and  Caroline  (  DeWitt)  Collier.  On  the 
paternal  side  his  ancestors  came  to  this  country  in  the  Alayflower  and  repre- 
sentatives of  the  family  participated  in  the  Re\olutionary  war.  The  De- 
Witts  were  among  the  earlv  settlers  of  Florida.  Our  subject's  father  was 
a  native  of  Connecticut  and  was  a  seafaring  man,  being  master  of  a  ship  in 
the  foreign  service,  which  made  the  ports  of  England.  China  and  other  coun- 
tries. His  entire  life  from  the  time  he  was  fourteen  years  of  age  was  spent 
on  the  water,  and  he  was  drowned  in  Shanghai  bay  at  the  age  of  forty-nine 
years. 

During  his  boyhood  A\'illiam  H.  Collier  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Llartford,  Connecticut,  and  a  private  school  in  Xew  York  city,  and  he  also 
studied  under  the  direction  of  his  father.  His  mother  having  died  ^^•llen  he 
was  only  four  years  old,  his  early  life  was  spent  upon  the  sea  with  his  father 
except  Avhen  attending-  school.  For  a  time  he  was  a  student  in  English 
schools  at  Hong  Kong,  China,  and  Calcutta,  India.  AX'hen  the  Civil  war 
broke  out,  he  returned  to  the  Lnited  States  and  for  a  time  was  in  the  recruit- 
ing service  lor  the  Confederate  army  up  till  August,  1864,  when  he  went  to 
Australia  and  was  engaged  in  newspaper  work  in  that  country  until  his  health 
failed,  l)eing  connected  with  the  Sidney  Alorning  Herald  and  the  Melbourne 
.\rgus.  In  1868  he  resumed  a  seafaring  life  in  the  capacity  of  engineer  and 
traveled  all  over  the  world,  visiting  nearly  every  important  port.  He  was 
mostly  in  the  merchant  marine,  but  for  a  time  was  connected  with  the  United 
States  coast  survey,  which  work  he  did  not  particularly  like.  Mr.  Collier 
first  came  to  Seattle  in  1859,  and  subsequently  dropped  anchor  in  the  Sound 
several  times  before  locating  here.  Being  attracted  by  the  future  prospects 
of  the  city  he  finally  decided  to  make  this  place  his  permanent  home  and  in 
1876  took  up  his  residence  here.  For  many  years  he  was  engineer  on  boats 
running  to  San  Francisco  and  Alaskan  points,  but  two  years  ago  retired 
from  the  water  and  accepted  his  present  responsible  position  as  secretary  of 
the  Marine  Engineers  Beneficial  ,\ssociation  and  also  as  business  manager. 
The  employment  of  all  engineers  is  made  through  him,  and  he  looks  after 
the  interests  of  the  association  in  everv  wav.     He  not  onlv  attends   to  the 


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business  and  financial  affairs  of  the  organization,  but  also  looks  after  the 
families  of  absent  members,  which  makes  the  position  one  of  exceptional 
responsibility,  but  most  ably  and  satisfactorily  does  he  discharge  its  arduous 
duties.  On  the  rolls  of  the  association  there  are  about  four  hundred  names 
and  its  members  are  scattered  all  over  the  world.  Mr.  Collier  is  also  em- 
ployed as  inspector  of  steam  boilers  and  elevators. 

In  1875,  ""^  Victoria,  British  Columbia,  was  celebrated  his  marriage  to 
Miss  Annie  Winstrom,  a  daughter  of  Robert  Wmstrom  of  London.  Endand, 
and  to  them  have  been  lx)rn  six  children,  as  follows:  Henrv  DeW'ard,  now 
assistant  engineer  in  the  employ  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Steamship  Company; 
Caroline,  wife  of  A.  Smith  of  Seattle;  Annie,  wife  of  James  Lane,  cashier 
in  the  Scandinavian  Bank  of  Seattle;  William  Libby,  paying  teller  in  the 
same  establishment;  Florence  and  Hazel,  both  at  home.  The  family  attend 
St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church,  and  some  of  the  children  are  members  of  its 
choir.  Fraternally  Mr.  Collier  is  connected  with  the  Ancient  Order  of 
United  Workmen.  In  politics  he  is  independent,  casting  his  ballot  for  the 
men  he  believes  best  qualified  for  office  regardless  of  party  affiliations.  He 
is  widely  and  favoralby  known,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that  there  is  no  other 
man  in  Seattle  who  has  more  friends  than  William  H.  Collier. 

JOHN    F.  SCHFRTZER. 

The  city  of  Seattle  is  peculiarly  favored  in  having  so  ready  access  to 
Lake  Washington,  whose  attractions  as  a  summer  resort  cannot  be  excelled, 
and  among  those  identified  with  maintaining  excellent  facilities  for  the  ac- 
commodation of  those  who  here  seek  rest  and  solace  is  the  subject  of  this  re- 
view, who  has  a  pleasant  home  at  Rainier  Beach  and  has  well  e([uii)ped  boat 
houses  and  the  best  of  row  and  sail  boats,  which  are  in  constant  demand  by  a 
large  number  of  appreciative  patrons.  Mr.  Schertzer  is  one  of  the  honored 
veterans  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  and  his  life  has  been  one  of  marked  use- 
fulness and  honor  in  all  its  relations,  characterized  by  the  same  Utyalty  which 
prompted  him  in  his  youth  to  go  forth  in  defense  of  the  L^nion  when  its  in- 
tegrity was  menaced  by  armed  rebellion.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state 
of  Washington  since  the  nth  of  September,  1889.  and  has  here  been  suc- 
cessful in  his  efforts  and  is  one  of  the  popular  and  highly  honored  citizens  of 
Kine'  countv. 

John  F.  Schertzer  is  a  native  of  the  old  Buckeye  state.  ha\ing  l)een  born 
in  the  city  of  Columbus,  Ohio,  on  the  24tli  of  June,  1842,  a  son  of  John  B. 
and  Elizabeth   (Emerick)    Schertzer,  both  of  whom  were  hern  in  Germany, 


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where  tlieir  marriage  was  solemnized.  Shortly  after  thus  uniting  their  life 
destinies  they  emigrated  to  the  United  States  and  settled  in  the  capital  city 
of  Ohio,  where  the  father  was  for  a  numl^er  of  )-ears  engaged  in  the  work  of 
his  trade,  that  of  tailor.  Later  he  purchased  a  farm  in  that  state  and  became 
one  of  the  successful  agriculturists  of  his  section.  He  died  in  the  year  1888, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-eight  years,  but  his  wife  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 
Thev  were  people  of  the  most  sterling  character,  honored  by  all  who  knew 
them,  and  were  devoted  members  of  the  ^lethodist  Episcopal  church.  Of 
their  six  children  four  are  yet  living,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  being  the 
only  representative  of  the  family  in  Washington. 

Mr.  Schertzer  received  excellent  educational  advantages  in  his  early 
years,  having  attended  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city,  and  he  was  but 
nineteen  years  and  fifteen  days  of  age  when  he  showed  his  intrinsic  loyalty 
and  patriotism  by  volunteering  for  service  in  the  defense  of  his  country,  en- 
listing as  a  private  in  Company  A,  Sixth  Alichigan  Volunteer  Cavalry,  with 
which  he  served  under  General  Sheridan  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  par- 
ticipating in  eight  of  the  notable  battles  of  the  great  civil  conflict  and  being 
known  as  a  faithful  and  valiant  soldier,  ever  at  the  post  of  duty,  and  after 
the  close  of  the  war  he  took  part  in  the  grand  review  of  the  victorious  armies 
in  the  city  of  Washington,  receiving  his  honorable  discharge  on  the  loth  of 
October,  1865.  In  the  battle  of  South  Mountain  a  bullet  penetrated  a  small 
testament  which  he  had  placed  in  his  breast  pocket,  thus  saving  him  from  a 
serious  if  not  fatal  wound,  and  in  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  a  ball  lodged  in 
his  saddle,  having  barely  missed  his  thigh.  The  heavy  discharge  of  artillery 
and  the  general  din  of  battle  slightly  impaired  the  hearing  of  Mr.  Schertzer, 
and  he  has  never  entirely  recovered. 

After  his  discharge  from  the  service  Air.  Schertzer  returned  to  his  home 
and  turned  his  attention  to  learning  the  carpenter  trade,  becoming  a  skilled 
mechanic.  He  removed  to  the  state  of  Minnesota  and  was  there  promin- 
ently engaged  in  contracting  and  building  in  Minneapolis  and  other  parts  oi 
the  state  for  a  number  of  years.  He  took  up  a  tract  of  one  hundred  and  sixty 
acres  of  land  in  Rock  county,  erected  a  good  residence  on  the  place  and  made 
good  improvements  otherwise.  A  prairie  fire  finally  destroyed  his  home  and 
literally  devastated  his  farm,  everything  being  lost  except  his  carpenter  tools. 
He  provided  another  dwelling  and  left  his  family  on  the  place,  wdiile  he  re-- 
sumed  work  at  his  trade  in  order  to  retrieve  his  fortunes.  Later  he  disposed 
of  his  farm  and  returned  to  the  city  of  ^Minneapolis,  where  he  gave  his  atten- 
tion to  contracting  and  building  until  the  death  of  his  father,  when  the  estate 
was  divided  and  he  returned  to  Marion  county,  Ohio,  and  took  possession  of 


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the  property  allotted  to  him.  Upon  his  portion  of  the  homestead  farm  he 
erected  a  residence  and  remained  there  imtil  the  fall  of  1888,  when  he  came 
to  Washington  for  the  pnrpose  of  personally  investigating  the  attractions 
and  prospects  of  this  section  of  the  Union.  He  was  employed  for  a  short 
time  in  Seattle  and  then  retnrned  to  Ohio  and  disposed  of  his  property,  after 
which  he  came  throngh  to  Washington  in  company  with  his  family.  Upon 
coming  to  Seattle  he  pnrchased  property  and  erected  a  comfortable  residence, 
and  here  found  ready  demand  for  his  services  as  a  carpenter  and  builder. 
Finally  he  turned  his  attention  to  the  building  of  pleasure  boats  for  use  on 
Uake  Washington,  liaxing  inaugurated  this  enterprise  at  Lester  Park,  where 
he  remained  two  years,  meeting  with  excellent  success.  Li  1892  Mr.  Schert- 
zer  came  to  his  present  location,  at  Rainier  Beach,  in  which  delightful  local- 
ity he  purchased  several  lots,  erecting  a  good  residence  and  several  boat- 
houses  and  constructing  a  large  number  of  fine  boats  which  he  rents  to  pa- 
trons of  this  favorite  resort.  He  makes  a  very  handsome  model  row-boat 
and  also  sailing  boats,  and  as  the  lake  is  some  fifteen  miles  in  length  and  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  in  this  section  he  receives  a  large  patronage,  giving  his 
entire  attention  to  the  improvement  and  keeping  up  his  handsome  property 
and  providing  for  the  wants  of  those  who  come  to  the  lake  for  periods  of  rest 
and  recreation. 

In  politics  Mr.  Schertzer  has  ever  been  a  stanch  advocate  of  the  princi- 
ples and  policies  of  the  Republican  party,  and  fraternally  he  is  identified  with 
the  Grand  Armv  of  the  Republic.  l)eing  an  honored  comrade  of  Stephens 
Post  in  Seattle.  He  was  for  three  years  incumbent  of  the  office  of  town  clerk 
and  for  a  number  of  years  justice  of  the  peace  in  his  home  town  in  Minnesota. 
In  the  year  1869  Mr.  Schertzer  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lydia  Blas- 
dell,  who  was  born  in  Canada,  and  they  have  four  children,  namely:  Frank 
E.,  who  is  engaged  in  mining  in  Alaska;  Jennie  B.,  who  remains  at  the  par- 
ental home;  and  George  A.  and  William  J.,  who  are  engaged  in  boat-building 
at  Madrone  Park. 

JOHN    R.  COMPTON. 

John  R.  Compton  is  the  foreman  of  the  Westerman  Iron  Works,  thus 
occupying  an  important  and  responsible  position  as  a  representative  of  the 
industrial  interests  of  Seattle.  He  was  born  in  Lebanon,  Oregon.  May  12, 
1876,  and  is  a  son  of  Oliver  and  Harriet  (Ray)  Compton,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  Missouri.  They  came  to  Seattle  when  the  subject  of  this  re- 
view was  fourteen  years  of  age,  and  John  R.  Compton  completed  the  high 


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scliool  course  in  this  city,  Ijeg-inning  his  lousiness  career  in  the  Westernian 
Iron  \^^orks  in  1892,  in  the  capacity  of  a  helper.  He  served  his  apprentice- 
ship in  the  forging  department  and  with  the  exception  of  one  year,  from  July, 
1897,  until  August,  1898,  he  has  since  remained  with  the  company  as  one  of 
its  most  trusted  and  faithful  representatives.  In  August,  1898,  Mr.  Comp- 
ton  returned  to  the  Westerman  Iron  W^orks  as  manager  of  the  forge  depart- 
ment and  in  1900  was  advanced  to  the  position  of  superintendent  of  the  works, 
having'  entire  charge  of  all  the  forging.  This  company  makes  a  specialty  of 
heavy  forging  and  executes  large  orders  for  car  works  and  other  extensive 
concern^.  One  order  for  car  wheels  and  iron  work  for  four  hundred  cars 
by  the  White  Pass  and  Yukon  Railnjad  Company  was  satisfactorily  com- 
pleted under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Compton.  who  gives  his  entire  attention  to 
the  business.  Pie  understands  the  work  in  all  its  departments,  and  his  prac- 
tical knowledge  enables  him  to  carefully  direct  the  labors  of  those  who  serve 
under  him.  while  he  is  always  just  and  fair  in  his  treatment  of  employes,  and 
has  their  entire  confidence  and  respect.  He  has  due  regard  for  his  duties  to 
the  company  which  he  represents,  and  his  labors  have  been  profitable  to  the 
house  as  well  as  a  source  of  good  income  to  himself. 

On  the  20th  of  September,  1899,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Comp- 
ton and  I\Iiss  Sadie  B.  Seckels.  a  daughter  of  D.  K.  and  Alice  Seckels.  In 
politics  he  is  a  stanch  Republican  and  fraternally  is  connected  with  the  Be- 
nevolent and  Protective  Order  of  Elks  and  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  A 
y<xing  business  man.  unassuming  and  unpretentious,  he  has,  nevertheless, 
won  the  respect  and  confidence  of  those  with  whom  he  has  been  associated  in 
business  relations  and  has  gained  the  warm  friendship  of  many  with  whom 
he  has  come  in  contact. 

RUFUS  WILLARD,  M.  D. 

Among  Ihe  most  successful  physicians  and  surgeons  of  the  city  of  Seat- 
tle is  numbered  Rufus  \\'illard,  who  has  made  his  home  here  since  Decem- 
ber, 1880,  and  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state  for  fifty  years.  He  stands 
high  in  the  estimation  of  his  professional  brethren,  and  his  opinions  have 
great  weight  in  thir  councils.  The  first  of  the  Willard  family  to  establish 
a  home  in  America  was  Simon  AVillard,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Eng- 
land just  sixteen  years  after  the  landing  of  the  Mayflower  and  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  Concord,  Massachusetts.  He  purchased  land  of  the  Indians, 
and  was  major  in  the  colonial  troops  of  Massachusetts.  He  became  the 
father  of  sixteen  children,  fourteen  sons  and  two  daughters.     The  paternal 


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great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Rufus  Willard.  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary war,  and  was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  while  the  grandfather  of  our 
subject,  also  named  Rufus,  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  Dr.  G.  K. 
Willard.  the  father  of  him  whose  name  introduces  this  review,  removed 
from  New  York  to  Illinois,  and  in  tlie  latter  commonwealth  was  ensfaeed  in 
the  practice  of  medicine  until  1852.  in  which  year  he  crossed  the  plains  to 
Washington,  taking  up  his  abode  in  Olympia,  where  he  followed  his  chosen 
calling  until  his  death  in  1866.  He  received  his  education  principally  in  tlie 
Empire  state,  and  was  also  a  graduate  of  the  Transylvania  University  of 
Lexington,  Kentucky,  l^or  liis  wife  he  chose  INTiss  Eleanor  D.  Smith,  and 
they  became  the  parents  of  seven  children. 

Rufus  Willard  was  born  in  Coles  county,  Illinois  April  2/,  1836,  and 
there  attended  the  public  schools  until  he  accompanied  the  family  on  their 
journey  across  the  plains,  being  at  that  time  seventeen  years  of  age.  The 
trip  was  made  with  ox  teams,  and  during  the  joiu'ney  they  were  fired  upon 
by  the  Indians  several  times,  and  frequent!}'  their  stock  was  stampeded,  but 
their  destination  was  finally  reached  without  any  serious  trouble.  During 
their  first  winter  here  the  family  nicide  their  home  in  Vancouver,  on  the 
Columbia  river,  and  in  the  following  spring  they  came  to  the  Sound  country. 
Soon  after  his  arrival  here  Mr.  Willard  became  interested  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness at  Olympia,  where  he  remained  for  se\eral  years.  He  then  returned  to 
the  Empire  state,  via  the  Isthmus  route,  and  after  his  arrival  there  he  entered 
the  l^niversity  of  New  York,  in  which  institution  he  was  graduated  in  1861, 
being  the  first  to  complete  the  course  there  from  the  territory  of  Washington. 
Returning  to  Olympia,  Washnigton,  he  tlicre  made  his  home  for  the  follow- 
ing thirteen  years,  after  which  he  again  went  to  New  York,  and  in  March, 
1874,  was  graduated  from  the  Bellevue  Hospital  Medical  College.  After 
two  years  spent  in  his  western  home  he  for  the  third  time  returned  to  the 
east  and  this  time  continued  the  journey  to  Europe,  where  he  passed  the  ex- 
amination of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons,  of  Edinburg,  graduating  there- 
in as  a  licentiate  in  1876.  He  was  also  elected  to  and  received  the  fellowship 
degree  of  the  Royal  College  of  Surgeons.  Ijeing  the  lirst  non-resident  of  Eng- 
land to  ever  receive  that  honor.  He  has  taken  several  post-graduate  courses 
in  both  Chicago  and  New  York,  and  has  ever  kci)t  abreast  of  the  times  in  his 
profession.  In  the  spring  of  1877  he  was  elected  to  take  charge  of  the  State 
Insane  Asylum,  as  medical  superintendent,  at  Steilacoom,  which  position  he 
continued  to  fill  for  four  years.  The  year  1880  witnessed  liis  arrival  in 
Seattle,  since  which  time  he  has  been  numbered  among  its  leading  medical 
practitioners,   and  from  the  time  of  his  arrixal   for  fourteen   years   he  w.is 


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medical  superintendent  of  the  Providence  Hospital.  He  noAV  gives  his  en- 
tire time  to  his  private  practice  and  has  built  up  a  large  and  lucrative  pat- 
ronage. 

At  Olympia,  in  1858,  the  Doctor  was  united  in  marriage  to  Sarah  J. 
Fletcher,  who  came  to  this  state  in  1850.  Six  children  have  been  born  of 
this  marriage,  but  one  died  when  young,  and  four  still  survive:  Francis 
Mott,  of  Seattle;  Julia  Eleanor  Ross;  Mrs.  Annie  Hines,  also  of  this  city; 
and  Mrs.  Carrie  M.  Goode  of  Idaho.  Dr.  Willard  gives  his  political  support 
to  the  Republican  party,  and  religiously  he  is  an  active  member  of  the  :\letho- 
dist  Episcopal  church,  in  which  he  served  as  a  lay  delegate  to  the  general 
conference  at  Baltimore  in  1876,  and  again  at  Cleveland  in  1896.  He  has 
held  many  of  the  offices  in  his  home  church,  and  is  also  an  active  Sunday- 
school  worker.  In  his  social  relations  he  is  a  worthy  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  in  which  he  has  attained  to  the  thirty-second  degree  in  the  Scot- 
tish Rite.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  county  and  state  medical  societies. 
He  is  not  only  thoroughly  versed  in  his  profession  but  is  also  well  informed 
along  other  lines,  and  from  the  faithful  performance  of  each  day's  duty  he 
gains  inspiration  and  encouragement  for  the  labors  of  the  next.  Pleasant 
and  agreeable  in  manner,  his  cheery  disposition  as  well  as  his  medical  treat- 
ment of  patients  is  a  potent  element  in  his  success  and  makes  him  a  favorite 
with  all  with  whom  he  comes  in  contact. 

JAMES    H.  NEWELL. 

James  H.  Xewell,  one  of  the  representative  business  men  of  Seattle  and 
an  honored  veteran  of  the  Civil  war,  residing  at  4828  Twenty-third  avenue, 
west,  was  born  in  Waynesburg,  Greene  county,  Pennsylvania,  Novem1:)er  22 
J  845,  his  i)arents  being  John  Newell  and  a  Miss  Dailey,  also  natives  of  the 
old  Keystone  state.  His  paternal  grandfather,  James  H.  Newell,  was  born" 
in  the  north  of  Ireland,  and  on  coming  to  the  new  world  settled  in  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  married  Miss  Sarah  Britt.  He  was  reared  in  the  Protestant 
faith  and  became  a  member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  The  father 
of  our  subject  was  a  marine  engineer  by  occupation.  At  a  very  early  day, 
about  1836,  he  removed  to  Illinois,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Bureau 
county,  but  afterward  returned  to  Pennsylvania,  where  he  was  living  at  the 
outl)reak  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  He  entered  the  service  at  the  first  call 
for  troops  and  was  killed  at  Clear  Creek,  Mississippi,  on  the  loth  of  June, 
1863.  Fie  left  four  children,  of  whom  our  subject  was  the  eldest,  the  others 
being  Sarah,  now  the  wife  of  Frank  X.  Phillips,  of  Kansas ;  Louisa,  who  died 


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unmarried;  and  William,  a  resident  of  Tampico,  Whiteside  county,  Illinois. 

James  H.  Newell  was  only  eighteen  years  of  age  when  he  hecame  the 
head  of  the  family  because  of  his  father's  death,  and  he  then  took  charge  of 
afifairs,  but  feeling  that  his  country  needed  his  services  he  enlisted,  January 
25,  1864,  as  a  member  of  Company  I,  Sixty-fourth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infan- 
try, though  but  little  over  eighteen  years  of  age.  He  participated  in  the  At- 
lanta campaign  and  siege,  being  under  fire  almost  continuously  for  ninety- 
seven  days,  and  as  a  sharpshooter  was  under  General  Sherman  from  Atlanta 
to  the  sea.  h^or  six  weeks  during  his  service  he  was  confined  in  the  Mount 
Pleasant  hospital  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  was  lionorably  discharged.  June 
29.   1865.  \\ith  the  rank  of  first  corporal. 

Returning  to  his  home  in  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  Mr.  Newell  engaged  in 
farming  there  for  one  year,  and  in  1866  went  to  Kansas,  and  ])nrchased  lanci 
in  Johnson  county.  While  residing  there  he  engaged  in  various  occupations, 
devoting  a  part  of  his  time  to  carpenter  work.  In  the  fall  of  1868  he  re 
turned  to  Illinois  and  resumed  farming.  On  the  29th  of  October,  that  year, 
he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Rosella  Warren,  a  daughter  of  John  and 
Mary  ( McNitt )  Warren,  and  to  them  have  been  Ixjrn  three  sons,  all  of 
whom  now  occupy  responsible  positions,  Frank  H.  being  keeper  of  Kinnear 
Park;  Harry  E.  is  with  the  California  Commission  Company:  rmd  iM-ed  L.. 
for  some  time  in  the  employ  of  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  Com])any,  is 
now  ene-ap-ed  in  the  theatrical  line  with  the  Willson  juvenile  ]\linstrel  Com- 
pany  as  property  man. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Newell  removed  from  Bureau  county  to  Rock 
Island,  Illinois,  and  later  to  Whiteside  county,  that  state,  where  he  worked 
at  the  carpenter's  trade,  later  following  the  same  occupation  al  Clinton,  Iowa, 
for  some  time.  He  also  filled  the  position  of  collector  for  the  transfer  com 
pany  of  that  city.  It  was  on  the  21st  of  June,  1889,  that  he  first  came  to  Se- 
attle, where  for  one  year  he  was  engaged  in  carpenter  work,  and  then  re- 
moved to  0]vmi)ia,  where  he  bought  property,  and  remained  one  year  work- 
ing at  his  trade.  On  selling  out  there  he  moved  to  Salem,  Oregon,  but  after 
a  month  passed  at  that  place  he  returned  to  Seattle,  locating  on  Second  a\e- 
nue,  where  he  made  his  home  a  short  time  while  engaged  in  contracting  and 
building.  He  next  bought  a  ranch  in  Kitsap  county.  Washington,  but  after 
one  winter  spent  there  he  again  took  up  his  residence  in  Seattle,  legating  at 
Interbay,  where  he  now  lives.  He  established  a  milk  route  and  for  a  time 
eneaeed  in  the  dairy  business,  making  the  manufacture  of  l)Utter  the  mam 
feature  of  his  business.  He  became  one  of  the  organizers  of  tlic  Interl)ay 
Improvement  Clul),  of  which  he  is  now  vice  president,  and  as  a  ]Mil)1ic-spirite(l 


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and  progressive  citizen  he  has  taken  (juile  an  active  and  prominent  part  ni 
the  development  and  upbuilding  of  his  adopted  city.  For  the  past  four  years 
he  has  given  his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business  and  contract  building, 
and  is  meeting  with  excellent  success.  In  1901  he  erected  his  own  comfort- 
able residence,  and  besides  this  owns  another  residence  in  Interbay. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  Newell  is  an  ardent  Democrat  and  has  been  an 
active  worker  for  the  principles  of  his  party,  but  has  never  been  an  aspirant 
for  political  honors,  preferring  to  devote  his  undivided  attention  to  his  busi- 
ness interests.  Fraternally  he  is  an  honored  member  of  the  Grand  Army  post 
of  Seattle  and  has  filled  various  offices  in  the  order.  He  is  widely  and  fav- 
orably known  and  well  merits  the  confidence  reposed  in  him  by  his  fellow 
citizens. 

JAMES    WILLIA^IS. 

Such  was  the  stanchng  attained  1)y  the  subject  of  this  memoir  in  connec- 
tion with  the  development  of  the  industrial  acti^•ities  of  the  state,  such  his 
prestige  in  the  line  of  his  profession  as  a  civil  and  mining  engineer,  and  such 
the  esteem  which  he  commanded  by  reason  of  his  honorable  life  and  sterling- 
character,  that  it  is  in  justice  due  that  he  be  accorded  distinctive  recognition 
ir.  this  compilation.  In  his  death  King  count}'  lost  a  valuable  and  worthy 
citizen,  while  in  the  attractive  village  of  Renton.  where  he  long  maintained 
his  home,  the  community  felt  a  sense  of  personal  bereavement  when  he  was 
thus  called  to  his  reward,  after  a  life  of  earnest  endeavor  and  unswerving 
honor  in  all  its  relations. 

James  Williams  was  born  in  Staffordshire.  England,  on  the  9th  of 
April,  1846,  coming  of  stanch  old  English  stock  on  both  sides.  Fie  was 
reared  and  educated  in  his  native  land,  where  he  received  a  most  thorough 
technical  training  as  a  civil  and  mining  engineer,  the  profession  to  whose 
practical  work  he  devoted  his  attention  during  the  years  of  his  active  career. 
In  1868,  shortly  after  attaining  his  legal  majority,  Mr.  Williams  left  his  na 
tive  land  and  came  to  America,  believing  that  in  the  United  States  would  be 
found  wider  opportunities  for  effective  and  successful  work  in  the  line  of 
the  profession  for  which  he  had  fitted  himself.  He  first  secured  employment 
in  connection  with  the  coal-mining  industry  in  the  state  of  Pennsylvania,  and 
a  few  years  later  his  services  were  enlisted  ])v  the  Union  Pacific  Mininsf  Com- 
pany  at  Laramie,  Wyoming,  where  he  held  a  responsible  position  for  sev- 
eral years.  In  1873  Mr.  Williams  came  to  Renton,  King  county,  Washing- 
ton, and  entered  the  employ  of  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company,  and  had 


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charge  of  the  mines  at  this  point  and  also  at  Newcastle  from  tlie  vear  men- 
tioned until  1883.  He  finally,  in  the  year  last  mentioned,  was  compelled  to 
resign  his  active  labors,  having  become  a  great  sufferer  from  rheumatic  trou- 
bles, and  he  thereafter  lived  practically  retired  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
on  the  17th  of  January,  igoo.  He  was  prominently  concerned  in  the  devel- 
opment of  many  of  the  mines  in  this  section,  including  the  celebrated  Cedar 
Mountain  coal  mine  in  King  county,  and  he  gained  the  highest  reputation  in 
the  line  of  his  profession.  Mr.  Williams  was  a  man  of  exemplary  habits,  of 
the  highest  business  integrity,  was  a  good  citizen  and  a  loving  and  indulgent 
husband  and  father,  being  signally  true  in  all  the  relations  of  life  and  com- 
manding unqualified  conhdence  and  esteem  on  the  part  of  all  who  knew  him. 
Tn  politics  he  exercised  his  franchise  in  support  of  the  principles  and  policies 
of  the  Republican  party,  and  his  religious  faith  was  that  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church,  of  which  he  was  a  communicant  and  a  devoted  churchman. 
Fraternally  he  was  prominently  identified  with  the  time-honored  order  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  having  held  membership  in  St.  Andrew's  Lodge  No. 
35,  in  Renton. 

Mr.  Williams  had  crossed  the  Atlantic  on  four  dift'erent  occasions,  and 
at  one  time  he  was  there  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Lizzie  P.  Black.  Mrs. 
Williams  was  born  in  Walsall,  Staffordshire,  England,  and  soon  ofter  her 
marriage  she  accompanied  her  husband  on  his  return  to  the  United  States. 
They  became  the  parents  of  seven  children,  of  whom  five  are  living  at  the 
present  time,  namely:  Gertrude,  who  is  the  wife  of  Arthur  E.  Raymond,  ot 
Renton;  Sidney  J.,  of  whom  more  specific  mention  will  be  made  in  following 
paragraphs;  Arthur  E.,  who  is  attending  school;  Florence,  wdio  remains  with 
her  mother,  being  a  graduate  of  Whitworth  College;  and  Edith  M.,  who  like- 
wise remains  with  her  mother.  All  are  communicants  of  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  church  and  the  family  is  one  which  has  occupied  a  prominent  posi- 
tion in  the  best  social  life  of  the  community. 

Sidney  J.  Williams,  through  wdiose  courtesy  w^as  secured  the  data  for 
this  l)rief  memoir  of  his  honored  father,  is  a  native  of  King  county,  having 
Ix-'en  born  in  the  town  of  Renton,  which  is  still  the  family  home,  on  the  loth 
of  April.  1877.  In  his  home  town  he  received  his  preliminary  educational 
discipline  in  the  public  schools,  and  in  the  Washington  State  University  he 
took  both  the  literary  and  law^  courses  and  was  graduated  in  the  law  depart- 
ment as  a  member  of  the  class  of  -1901,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  state 
on  the  6th  of  June,  of  that  year.  He  is  now  established  in  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  profession  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  the  firm  name  l)eing  Blake  &  Will- 
iams.    He  is  thoroughly  devoted  to  his  profession,  is  a  close  student,  ;nid 


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careful  and  conservative  in  his  methods.  As  soon  as  he  attained  his  legal 
majority  Mr.  Williams  sent  in  his  application  for  membership  in  the  Masonic 
lodge,  with  which  his  father  had  Ijeen  so  prominently  identified,  and  in  due 
time  he  received  the  fellowcraft  degrees  in  St.  Andrew's  Lodge  No.  35,  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons,  of  Renton.  being  there  raised  to  the  degree  of  Master 
Mason.  Of  this  lodge  he  has  filled  the  office  of  secretary,  and  he  is  also  iden- 
tified with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows, being  in  the  latter  past  noble  grand  of  the  lodge  at  Renton.  While  he 
is  a  stanch  Republican  in  his  political  proclivities,  Mr.  Williams  realizes  that 
the  law  is  a  jealous  mistress  and  demands  an  undivided  devotion  on  the  part 
of  those  who  aim  to  achieve  success  in  the  profession,  and  thus  he  has  no 
wish  to  become  active  in  the  field  of  politics. 

FRANK  TURNER. 

Frank  Turner  is  a  retail  dealer  in  meat,  and  is  also  engaged  in  the  ship- 
ping business  in  this  line,  at  Auburn.  He  was  born  in  New  York  city.  April 
9,  1859.  Flis  father,  Gilbert  Turner,  was  born  at  Turner,  Orange  county, 
New  York,  about  1832.  That  place  was  named  in  honor  of  the  family, 
which  had  been  established  there  at  an  early  day.  For  many  years  the  father 
of  our  subject  was  an  active  and  prominent  business  man  of  that  section  and 
owns  there  three  large  farms,  alscj  conducts  a  hotel  and  in  other  ways  is  in- 
terested in  the  improvement  and  commercial  activity  of  the  district.  He  is 
a  large  producer  of  live  stock  and  of  dairy  products,  and  for  many  years  has 
supplied  the  W^est  Point  military  post  with  meat  and  dairy  products,  his  place 
being  located  only  about  eight  miles  from  the  noted  military  academy.  ]\fr. 
Turner  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Martha  Pollard,  who  was  born  in 
New  York  citv  about  1840,  and  is  a  daughter  of  Willett  Pollard,  who  was 
captain  of  one  of  the  Cunard  line  steamers  for  many  years  and  was  afterward 
engaged  in  stevedoring  on  East  ri\er.  The  parents  of  our  subject  were  mar- 
ried at  Turner  and  are  still  living  in  the  old  home  there. 

At  the  usual  age  Frank  Turner  began  his  education  in  the  common, 
schools  of  Orange  county,  and  then  entered  the  Chester  Academy  at  Chesten 
New  York.  On  leaving  school  at  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  became  em- 
ployed in  the  old  Washington  market  in  New  York,  where  he  remained  for 
two  years.  Throughout  his  entire  life  he  has  been  connected  with  the  meat 
business.  About  1883  he  went  to  Medora,  South  Dakota,  and  was  asso- 
ciated with  Marquis  De  Mora,  and  Theodore  Roosevelt,  now  the  president  of 
the  United  States,  in  the  conduct  of  a  cold  storage  plant  at  that  place.     After 


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one  year  in  this  Inisiness  Mr.  Turner  went  to  Minneapolis,  where  for  two 
years  he  had  charge  of  the  Minneapohs  Transfer  Packing  Company,  and  on 
the  expiration  of  that  period  he  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  employed  in 
Armour's  packing  house  for  a  year.  In  1890  he  arri\ed  in  W'ashingtoi. 
settling  in  Tacoma,  where  for  a  year  he  was  engaged  in  canning  lish  at  Mu- 
kilteo,  where  he  rented  a  cannery.  The  following  year  he  was  in  the  butch- 
ering business  at  Snohomish,  and  then  was  with  the  Puget  Sound  Dressed 
Beef  and  Packing  Company  at  Seattle.  Later  he  located  at  Kent.  Washing- 
ton, where  he  entered  into  partnership  with  William  Horlock,  conducting  a 
new  butchering  business,  this  relation  being  maintained  for  about  four  years 
Li  1896  Mr.  Turner  came  to  Auburn  and  purchased  the  butchering  business 
of  the  Pauly  Brothers,  and  Auburn  has  since  been  his  home.  He  has  a 
forty-acre  farm  near  the  town,  where  he  keeps  his  stock  and  has  a  large 
slaughter-house.  He  now  enjoys  an  extensixc  local  trade  and  also  does  a 
shipping  business. 

Mr.  Turner  belongs  to  Perseverance  Lodge,  Free  and  Accepted  Masons, 
New  York  city,  and  to  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity  of  Auburn.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Republican  and  at  the  last  election  cast  his  ballot  for  Theodore 
Roosevelt,  his  former  associate  and  partner,  for  vice  president.  He  does  not 
find  the  time  or  desire  for  office,  however,  preferring  to  devote  his  attention 
exclusively  to  his  business  affairs,  in  which  he  is  now  meeting  with  signal 
success. 

MRS.  J.  F.  T.  MITCHELL. 

In  acknowledging  the  indebtedness  of  the  ])u1)lic  to  the  pioneers  win 
settled  upon  the  frontier  of  the  northwest,  one  should  not  forget  that  an  im- 
portant part  in  the  work  of  development  and  progress  has  been  carried  on  by 
the  pioneer  women.  Their  lives,  of  a  more  quiet  character,  have  perhaps  not 
brought  them  into  so  great  public  notice,  but  their  influence  and  work  1ia\e 
been  none  the  less  potent.  Mrs.  Mitchell  came  to  Seattle  when  it  was  but  a 
mere  hamlet  in  the  midst  of  the  woods,  and  during  more  than  four  decades 
has  lived  in  this  city,  taking  an  active  interest  in  the  well-being  and  progress 
of  Seattle. 

Mrs.  Margaret  Judith  (Jacklin)  Mitchell  was  born  on  the  13th  of 
INfarch,  1854,  in  Galena,  Illinois,  the  town  of  the  famous  soldier  and  presi- 
dent General  U.  S.  Grant.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Jacklin.  a  native  oi 
England,  whose  ancestors  have  long  resided  in  that  country,  and  who  were 
originally   descendants   of   the   Jacquelins   of   France.      The   father  of   Mrs. 


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Mitchell  emigrated  to  the  United  States  ^vhe^  a  young  man  and  was  marriec: 
in  Oshkosii,  Wisconsin,  to  Miss  Grace  Brooks  Grannan.  a  lady  of  Irish  birth 
and  ancestry,  who.  however,  was  reared  in  Canada.  With  his  wife  and  fam- 
ily of  four  children  he  crossed  the  plains  in  i860  to  San  Francisco,  and 
thence  came  to  Seattle  to  engage  in  the  lumber  business  with  his  brother-in- 
law.  Weaker  Lawrence  Grannan,  who  had  come  to  the  northwest  in  1852.  and 
who  l^ecame  one  of  the  prominent  and  prosperous  pioneer  lumbermen  and 
shipbuilders  of  the  Puget  Sound  country.  ^Ir.  Grannan  shipped  the  first 
cargo  of  lumber  out  of  this  district  and  built  up  a  very  large  lumber  indus- 
try at  LItsaladdy.  He  was  married  in  San  Francisco  to  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hale, 
and  four  years  later  his  death  occurred.  Thus  passed  away  one  of  the  noble 
pioneer  men  of  the  territory  of  Washington,  one  whose  efforts  and  labors 
Mere  of  marked  Aalue  in  promoting  the  early  development  of  this  section  of 
the  countrv.  ]\Irs.  Mitchell's  father  was  his  partner  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  and  was  interested  with  him  in  all  his  enterprises,  acquiring  a  consid- 
erable fortune  through  their  business  operations.  At  length  he  retired  from 
business  and  removed  to  the  east,  passing  away  in  1870  at  the  age  of  forty- 
nine  years.  His  good  wife  survived  him  and  returned  to  Seattle,  where  she 
resided  until  1891.  when  in  the  seventy-sixth  year  of  her  age  she  was  called 
to  her  final  rest.  Their  children  were  Frances  Elizabeth,  Margaret  Judith, 
William  Brooks  and  Angeline  Burdette  Coutts.  The  mother  was  a  devoted 
Roman  Catholic  and  the  father  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church.  The 
children  were  educated  at  home  under  the  instruction  of  a  governess  and 
tutor.  This  means  of  education  Avas  somewhat  unusual  in  the  pioneer  days 
in  the  Sound  country.  Frances  Elizabeth  became  the  wife  of  Captain  Albert 
Nicholas  and  is  now  a  Avidow  residing  in  Seattle.  She  has  three  children. 
Angeline  B.  Coutts  became  the  wife  of  the  Hon.  John  Collins,  of  Seattle,  and 
has  four  children. 

^Margaret  Judith,  whose  name  introduces  this  record,  married  Captain 
J.  V.  T.  Mitchell,  who  was  the  pioneer  shipbuilder  and  marine  architect  of 
the  Puget  Sound  country.  He  was  educated  in  Scotland,  becoming  a  shi]> 
builder,  and  in  1862  came  to  Utsaladdy.  Ten  years  later  he  established  the 
first  ship-building  plant  in  the  Puget  Sound  country  at  Seattle.  He  contin- 
ued in  the  business  until  1898,  at  which  time  he  went  north  to  superinten(' 
the  completion  of  a  large  contract.  While  on  his  way.  on  the  i8th  of  June, 
1898.  he  departed  this  life,  dying  of  heart  disease.  He  was  a  citizen  of  a 
very  excellent  reputation.  His  sterling  worth  and  splendid  characteristics 
won  for  him  the  high  regard  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact.  He  was 
also  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason.     The  loss  to  his  family  and  to  the  coun- 


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try  was  a  very  great  (jiie,  for  in  the  household  he  was  a  devoted  husband  and 
father  and  as  a  citizen  was  pubhc  spirited  and  progressive,  interested  in  all 
that  pertained  to  the  general  welfare. 

To  Mr.  and  Airs.  Mitchell  were  born  six  children:  Grace  Elizabeth, 
Alexander.  Merdes,  Lettie,  Anastasia  and  Wendell  \X.,  all  of  whom  were 
born  in  Seattle.  They  became  students  in  the  schools  of  this  city  and  in  the 
state  university.  Grace  Elizabeth  was  the  first  native  daughter  of  Wash- 
ington to  graduate  from  the  law  department  of  that  institution,  completing 
the  course  with  the  class  of  1902,  since  which  time  she  has  been  admitted 
to  the  bar. 

At  her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Mitchell  Avas  left  in  possession  of  a  good 
propert}'.  She  and  her  children  have  an  elegant  and  commodious  home  at 
414  Boylston  avenue.  Mrs.  Mitchell  was  made  administratrix  of  her  hus- 
band's propert}-  and  is  conducting  the  business  with  marked  ability.  She  is 
a  member  of  the  Pioneer  Society  of  the  state,  is  one  of  its  trustees  and  she 
had  the  honor  of  being  the  first  president  of  the  Woman's  Federation  of 
Clubs  in  the  city.  She  and  her  accomplished  daughters  are  held  in  very  high 
esteem  by  a  wide  circle  of  friends  in  the  city  in  which  she  has  so  long  resided, 
and  in  which  they  were  born. 

JAMES    A.  BUNCE. 

One  of  the  most  distinguished  and  prominent  residents  of  Seattle  is 
James  A.  Bunce,  whose  extensive  business  interests,  active  political  work  and 
marked  enterprise  have  made  him  an  eminent  factor  of  the  northwest.  He 
has  been  and  is  distinctively  a  man  of  affairs  and  one  who  has  wielded  a 
wide  influence.  A  strong  mentality,  an  invincible  courage,  a  most  deter- 
mined individuality  have  so  entered  into  this  makeup  as  to  render  him  a  nat- 
ural leader  of  men  and  a  director  of  opinion. 

Mr.  Bunce  was  Ixjrn  in  Chatham,  Ontario.  Canada,  February  8,  1854. 
during  a  temporary  sojourn  of  his  parents  in  that  state.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, James  A.  Bunce,  was  a  native  of  New  York  and  a  pioneer  of  Illinois, 
going  to  Freeport,  that  state,  at  an  early  day.  There  he  followed  his  trade  of 
blacksmithing.  making  his  home  in  Freeport  until  called  to  his  final  rest. 
The  ]:)arents  of  our  subject  were  Jacob  B.  and  Melissa  L.  (Mitchell)  Bunce. 
^riie  father,  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  was  born  in  1820,  and  the  mother 
was  a  native  of  Indiana.  In  early  life  he  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade 
under  the  direction  of  his  father  and  for  a  number  of  years  followed  that 
pursuit  in  Freeport.  Illinois,  but  on  account  of  an  accident,  whirli  resulted  in 

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a  broken  leg,  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  work  at  his  trade,  and  in  consequence 
turned  his  attention  to  railroad  contract  work,  wdiich  he  carried  on  exten- 
sively for  several  years.     In  1853  he  went  to  Canada  to  execute  some  rail- 
road contracting  there  and  later  returned  to  Freeport,  Illinois,  but  remaine;. 
less  than  a  year  at  that  time.      Removing  to  Olmsted  county,   Minnesota, 
he  was  there  engaged  in  general  merchandising  and  trading,  handling  grain 
and  other  products  of  the  farm.     He  lived  in  a  tent  until  a  log  cabin  could 
ht  built,  after  which  he  made  that  primitive  dwelling  his  home  for  seven 
or  eight  years.     In  the  meantime  the  country  settled  up  rapidly,  his  busi- 
ness proportionately  increased  and  he  then  replaced  his  log  cabin  by  a  fine 
brick  residence.     He  was  one  of  the  leading  citizens  in  business  and  social 
matters  in  that  part  of  the  state  and  contributed  in  large  measure  to  public 
progress  and  improvement.     A  pronounced  Republican  in  politics,  he  never 
sought  or  desired  office,  although  he  labored  most  earnestly  for  his  party's 
success.     He  remained  in  active  business  life  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  occurred   in    1883.     He  was  very  successful   in  his  mercantile  inter- 
ests, and  was  thus  enabled  to  provide  a  comfortable  home  for  his  family. 
Religiously  he  was  connected  with  the  Christian  church,  becoming  one  of 
the  early  followers  of  the  doctrines  preached  by  Alexander  Campbell.     Fra- 
ternally he  was  connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and 
was  prominent  and  active  in  its  work.    Flis  wife  died  October  17,  1871.    In  the 
family  were  seven  children :     Lucretia  is  the  wife  of  J.  J.  McDonald,  painter 
of  Seattle:  George  W.  is  a  resident  of  Mankato,  Minnesota,  and  has  been 
upon  the  road  for  twenty  years  as  a  traveling  salesman;  Huldah  F.  is  the 
w^ife  of  a  prominent  grain  dealer  of  the  state,  who  served  for  many  vears 
as  state  grain  inspector;  James  A.  is  the  next  of  the  family;  Edgar  J.   is 
a  traveling  salesman  residing  at  Redwood  Falls,  Minnesota;  Mary  Adelaide 
is  the  wife  of  A.  A.  Robinson,  a  painter  of  Seattle;  and  Maude  E.  is  the 
deceased  wife  of  Albert  S.  Ford,  for  many  years  a  journalist  of  Spokane. 

James  A.  Bunce  was  only  a  year  old  wdien  his  parents  removed  to  the 
frontier  of  Minnesota,  where  he  was  reared  to  manhood  amid  the  condi- 
tions of  pioneer  life.  He  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools,  at- 
tending the  high  school  of  Rochester,  Minnesota,  and  after  completing  his 
course  assisted  his  father  in  the  store  and  in  other  business  affairs,  includ- 
ing the  supervision  of  his  father's  extensive  landed  interests.  He  remained 
at  home  until  twenty-six  years  of  age.  From  the  time  he  was  thirteen  years 
of  age  he  was  allowed  to  trade  for  himself,  and  he  worked  on  the  farm 
during  the  summer  months  and  in  the  store  through  the  winter  seasons. 
From  the  time  that  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  he  owned  certain  lines 


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of  goods  in  the  store,  dealing  in  these  strictly  on  his  own  account.  He 
invested  his  earnings  in  other  goods  and  commodities  and  when  his  father 
removed  to  another  part  of  the  state  Mr.  Bunce  became  sole  proprietor  of 
the  business,  which  he  carried  on  until  1881,  carrying  the  best  stock  of 
fancy  goods  in  the  town.  In  that  year,  however,  he  lost  all  by  fire  and 
found  himself  forty  dollars  in  debt,  because  he  had  no  insurance  upon  the 
store.  He  went  then  to  Brainard,  Minnesota,  and  accepted  a  position  as 
night  agent  for  the  Northern  Pacific  Express  Company,  which  position 
he  held  for  a  year,  when  he  established  a  livery  business  and  began  trading 
in  horses,  for  which  he  had  always  had  a  special  fondness,  being  an  ex- 
cellent judge  of  a  fine  animal.  He  continued  his  buying  and  selling,  ship- 
ping draft  horses  to  Minneapolis.  He  also  dealt  and  traded  in  farm  pro- 
duce. 

In  1883  Mr.  Bunce  removed  to  Minneapolis,  where  he  conducted  a 
livery  stable  and  also  bought  and  sold  horses,  remaining  there  for  five  years, 
during  which  time  he  made  over  fifty  thousand  dollars.  In  1888  he  re- 
moved to  Spokane,  Washington,  where  for  a  short  time  he  was  connected 
with  the  Northern  Pacific  Express  Company,  but  again  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  horse  dealing.  In  1895  he  came  to  Seattle,  having  in  the  meantime 
suffered  financial  reverses,  but  with  strong  courage  and  a  determination  to 
retrieve  his  lost  possessions  he  accepted  a  position  in  a  lumber  yard,  where 
he  remained  for  some  time.  He  next  turned  his  attention  to  contracting 
and  building,  which  he  has  since  followed,  being  alone  until  1901,  when 
he  admitted  his  son-in-law,  Walter  H.  Johnston  to  a  partnership  under 
the  firm  style  of  the  B.  &  J.  Contracting  Company,  general  contractors  and 
builders.  Mr.  Bunce  has  erected  many  fine  residences  in  Seattle,  including 
some  of  the  most  beautiful  homes  here.  He  has  done  much  conduit  work 
for  the  Denny  Ice  Compan3^  building-  conduits  for  undergTound  wires  and 
heating.  He  has  also  done  a  large  amount  of  concrete  work  in  1)uilding 
walls  and  conduits,  and  the  business  of  the  firm  is  now  extensive  and  im- 
portant, the  company  ranking  among  the  most  prominent  in  their  line  o 
business  in  the  city.  • 

In  1899,  because  of  his  especial  fitness,  Mr.  Bunce  was  appointed  city 
inspector  of  streets  and  sewers,  having  under  his  supervision  the  construc- 
tion of  streets,  sewers,  grading  and  paving.  Reared  in  the  faith  of  the 
Republican  party,  since  1896  he  has  given  his  support  to  the  free-silver 
branch  of  the  party,  and  he  is  to-day  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influ- 
ential members  of  the  party  in  the  state.  Few  men  are  more  widely  known 
in  political  circles  of  the  northwest  than  he.     He  has  represented  the  city 


636  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

in  state  and  national  C(jn\entions.  was  a  delegate  to  the  national  conven- 
tion in  Kansas  City  in  1900.  and  at  that  time  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
national  committee  for  the  state  of  Washington.  He  is  most  active  and 
intluential  in  campaign  work,  was  elected  one  of  five  to  do  campaign  work 
in  doubtful  states  and  spent  the  fall  of  1900  in  such  work  in  various  states. 
During  the  vears  1894-5  he  was  in  the  government  secret  service  depart- 
ment. He  ser\ed  with  distinction  and  received  letters  of  the  highest  praise 
in  recognition  of  his  work.  In  1902  he  was  one  of  the  deputies  who  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  chase  for  the  notorious  Harry  Tracy,  and  with  his 
son,  Fred  C.  Bunce,  followed  him  for  se\-eral  days  and  nights  through  the 
dense  woods  of  King  county,  exchanging  shots  with  him  in  the  dark,  at 
which  time  he  would  undoubtedly  have  captured  him  had  he  been  certain 
of  the  identitv  (jf  the  man.  Fear  is  unknown  to  him.  and  he  never  hesi- 
tates for  an  instant  in  the  performance  of  his  duty  in  the  goxernment  ser- 
vice. He  is  a  splendid  athlete,  has  mastered  the  science,  and  frequently  gives 
lessons  therin.  While  in  Alinnesota  he  served  for  thirteen  years  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  hre  department  and  for  three  years  as  chief  of  the  department 
of  Hrainard.  while  through  the  remaining  years  he  was  connected  with 
the  department  at  Rochester. 

Mr.  Bunce  was  reared  in  the  Baptist  churcli.  Imt  became  a  meml)er  of 
the  Congregational  church.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Ameri- 
can Union  and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  American  Protecti^■e  Associa- 
tion. He  was  largely  instrumental  in  organizing  the  American  Union,  of 
which  he  was  chosen  the  general  commander  for  the  United  States  and  has 
since  held  the  office.  This  organization  was  effected  in  the  city  of  Seattle, 
its  pnr])ose  being  of  a  patriotic  nature,  to  preserve  American  institutions 
and  rights,  and  it  has  become  an  order  of  national  importance. 

In  St.  Paul.  Minnesota,  in  September,  1875.  ]\Ir.  Bunce  was  marrietl  to 
Miss  Henrietta  L.  Newton,  a  daughter  of  Ezra  and  Martha  Thayer  (Pat- 
ton)  Newtfjn.  She  was  jjorn  in  Kingston,  New  Hampshire,  and  in  earlv 
life  accomi)anied  her  parents  to  Minnesota,  where  she  remained  until  com- 
ing to  Washington.  She  has  been  a  faithful  helpmate  to  her  husband,  and 
has  a  large  circle  of  acquaintances  here.  Nine  children  were  born  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Bunce:  Nellie  AI.  is  the  wife  of  W.  H.  Johnston,  a  member 
of  the  B.  &  J.  Contracting  Company;  Frederick  C,  who  is  one  of  the  skilled 
civil  engineers  of  the  state,  now  employed  in  the  county  sur\evor"s  office; 
Ezra  N..  an  electrical  engineer;  Henry  C,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eleven 
years;  Jim,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eight  years;  Martha  AI.  and  Charles 
D.,  at  home;  and  two  who  died  in  infancv.     Mr.  Bunce  erected  an  eleg-ant 


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residence  on  Queen  .\nne  Hill  in  1897,  and  there  the  famiiv  reside  in  one 
of  the  most  attracti\-e  homes  of  the  city,  supplied  with  all  the  adornments 
that  wealth,  guided  b}-  refined  taste,  can  secure.  Always  a  lover  of  the 
noble  steed,  Mr.  Bunce  has  owned  some  very  fine  horses  and  now  keeps 
a  blooded  team  of  roadsters.  His  has  been  an  e\entful  career.  Born  in 
Canada,  reared  upon  the  frontier,  suffering  loss  through  fire  and  in  other 
ways,,  yet  OA'ercoming  all  obstacles  by  determined  and  resolute  purpose,  he 
stands  to-day  among  the  successful  business  men  of  this  great  northwest, 
a  leader  in  the  political  world  and  a  man  of  marked  influence  in  the  city 
whic'    he  has  chosen  as  his  place  of  residence. 

JOHN   MEGRATH. 

Prominently  connected  with  the  building  interests  of  Seattle.  John  Me- 
grath  has  resided  in  this  city  since  1883.  He  is  a  native  of  Belfast,  Ire- 
land, where  his  birth  occurred  May  2/,  1850.  He  comes  of  a  famiiv  of 
Scotch-Irish  ancestry,  his  parents  being  John  and  Elizabeth  (  Katherwood) 
Megrath,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  Emerald  Isle.  The  father 
was  a  contractor  and  builder,  performing  his  full  share  of  the  work  along 
building  lines  in  all  the  places  of  his  residence.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were 
valued  and  lo^al  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church,  and  in  that  faith 
passed  away.  The  father  departed  this  life  at  the  age  of  sixty  years,  and 
his  wife  was  called  to  her  final  rest  in  the  fiftv-seventh  vear  of  her  age. 
both  being  buried  in  the  cemetery  near  Belfast.  They  were  the  parents  of 
nine  children,  of  whom  five  are  yet  living.  One  of  the  sons,  Alexander 
Megrath,  is  filling  the  office  of  timekeeper  for  his  brother  in  Seattle. 

John  Megrath  pursued  his  education  in  the  schools  of  his  native  city 
and  afterward  learned  the  bricklayer's  trade  there,  but  believing  that  the 
business  opportunities  (vf  the  new  world  were  sn])eri<)r  to  those  of  the  old 
world  he  determined  to  seek  his  home  in  America  and  accordingly  crossed 
the  Atlantic  to  the  United  States  in  1872.  He  first  located  in  Chicago, 
where  he  remained  for  fourteen  months,  but  attracted  to  the  Pacific  coast, 
he  made  his  way  to  San  Francisco,  California,  in  1873.  There  he  worked 
at  his  trade  until  1883.  at  which  time  he  came  to  Seattle,  and  since  then 
has  been  continuously  engaged  in  contracting  and  building  in  the  city. 
He  has  erected  numerous  large  buildings,  among  which  are  the  Arling- 
ton Hotel,  the  Occidental  Hotel,  the  i/nion  Hardw.arc  building,  and 
many  others  of  importance,  also  superintending  the  erection  of  the 
state    university.       He    owns    his    own    brickvards,    at    the    month    ot     the 


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Dwaniish  river,  his  plant  there  having  a  capacity  of  sixty  thousand  brick 
per  day.  In  1900  he  entered  into  partnership  with  E.  J.  Duhamel  and  F. 
M.  Gribble,  who  are  also  experienced  men  in  the  business,  and  at  the  pres- 
ent time  they  are  erecting  the  first  steel  building  ever  put  up  in  Seattle.  It 
is  being  constructed  for  the  Steam  Heat  &  Power  Company  and  its  dimen- 
sions are  one  hundred  and  ten  by  one  hundred  and  eight  feet,  and  eighty 
feet  in  height,  the  entire  cost  of  the  building  to  be  about  two  hundred  and 
seventy-five  thousand  dollars.  Since  his  arrival  in  Seattle  Mr.  Megrath 
has  enjoyed  a  constantly  increasing  patronage,  his  business  growing  con- 
tinually hoth  in  volume  and  importance.  Many  large  contracts  have  Ijeen 
awarded  him,  because  he  is  known  as  a  man  of  exceptional  business  abilit}^ 
and  great  skill  in  the  line  of  his  chosen  vocation.  He  is,  furthermore,  re- 
liable,  and   faithfully  lives  up  to  the  terms  of  a  contract. 

In  1875  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Megrath  and  Miss  Lizzie 
J.  Gilmore,  a  native  of  Ireland.  Seven  children  have  come  to  bless  their 
home :  Agnes  ].,  the  wife  of  Sylvester  C.  Pier,  a  resident  of  Portland, 
Oregon;  Ella  G. ;  Winnefred  H. ;  Frances  R.  G. ;  Lilly  K. ;  Violet  May; 
and  Pearl  A.  The  family  home  is  one  of  the  fine  residences  in  the  city. 
The  parents  are  valued  members  of  the  Presbyterian  church  and  the  fam- 
ily occupy  a  very  enviable  position  in  social  circles.  Mr.  Megrath  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  belonging  to  the  blue  lodge,  chapter  and 
commandery;  he  is  the  eminent  commander  of  Seattle  Commandery,  K.  T. 
for  1 902- 1903,  and  has  membership  relations  with  Afifi  Temple  of  Tacoma. 
His  political  support  is  given  the  Republican  party.  The  wisdom  of  his 
determination  to  make  America  his  home  has  been  fully  demonstrated  as 
the  years  have  passed.  With  keen  insight  he  understood  the  business  pos- 
sibilities of  the  new  world,  and^  establishing  his  home  on  the  Pacific  coast, 
he  has  steadily  advanced  to  a  position  in  building,  circles,  where  he  is  hon- 
ored and  respected  by  all. 

JAMES  CARROLL. 

For  a  number  of  years  Captain  James  Carroll  has  been  classed  among 
the  prominent  and  influential  citizens  of  Seattle,  where  he  is  interested  in 
many  important  enterprises,  being  the  agent  for  the  Alaska  Commercial 
Company,  for  the  Rodman  mines  and  for  the  Northern  Lakes  &  Rivers  Nav- 
igation Company,  while  he  is  also  a  general  merchant  and  outfitter  in  Alas- 
ka. He  was  born  in  Ireland,  November  i,  1840,  but  when  only  six  months 
old  he  was  brought  by  his  father,  Lawrence  Carroll,  to  the  United  States, 


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the  latter,  locating  on  a  farm  in  Kendall  county,  Illinois,  where  he  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy  )^ears.  This  property  is  now  in  the  possession  of  one  of  his 
daughters. 

Captain  James  Carroll  was  reared  on  that  farm  to  the  age  of  sixteen 
years,  and  he  then  went  to  Chicago  and  took  up  the  life  of  a  sailor,  following 
that  occupation  for  forty  years.     x\fter  about  two  years  spent  on  the  Great 
Lakes  he  went  to   New  York,  and   from  that  time  forward  during  the  re- 
mainder   of   his   seafaring   life  he   followed   the   ])rin}-   deep.     He   was   first 
in  the  merchant  marine  service,  sailing  principally  to  Japan  and  China,  and 
was  in  the  last  named  country  during  the  Chinese  war  of  i86r.     Returning 
thence  to  California,  he  then  sailed  to  the  Sandwich  and  South  Sea  islands 
and  then  to  the  Atlantic  waters,  on  which  he  made  the  trip  to  European  ports. 
In  1863  he  recei\ed  his  first  promotion  and  afterward  filled  all  the  higher  of- 
fices in  the  service,  and  has  visited  nearly  all  the  foreign  countries.     In  1865 
Captain  Carroll  again  sailed  to  the  Golden  state,  and  from  that  time  on  he  re- 
mained on  the  Pacific  waters.     In  the  early  days  he  was  connected  with  the 
National  Steamship  Company,  and  in  1866  he  was  the  second  officer  of  the 
brig  ''Swallow"  when  it  took  our  envoy,  Mr.  Burlingame,  to  make  the  treaty 
with  China.     In  1878  Mr.  Carroll  became  an  employe  in  the  Alaska  service,, 
sailing  from  Portland  and  Seattle,  and  he  carried  the  first  tourists  to  that 
country,  which  was  prior  to  the  advent  of  the  mining  industry  there.     In 
company  with  E.  C.  Hughes,  N.  A.  Fuller  and  George  E.  Piltz,  he  fitted  out 
the  Juneau  and  Harris,  and  made  a  trip  to  that  region  in  the  fall  of  1880. 
On  the  4th  of  Januaiw,  1898,  he  abandoned  his  seafaring  life  and  engaged  in 
his  present  occupation.     About  ten  years  ago  he  erected  a  pleasant  home  at 
Berkley,  in  which  he  established  his  family,  and  he  is  also  interested  to  a 
considerable   extent   in   property   at   Port   Townsend,    where   he   owns   both 
residence  and  unimproved  property  and  is  also  a  stockholder  in  the  water- 
works there.     He  is  also  interested  in  and  is  the  purchasing  agent  for  the 
Rodman  mines,   which  are  located  on   Baranof   island,   this   side   of   Sitka, 
wdiere  they  have  sixty  stamp  mill  and  seven  miles  of  railroad.     The  trans- 
portation company  in  which  he  is  interested,  known  as  the  Alaska  Commer- 
cial Company,  owns  three  ships  which  run  from  Seattle  to  Alaska,  and  they 
also  own  nearly  all  the  boats  on  the  Lower  Yukon  with  the  excqjtimi  of  those 
belonging  to  the  North  American  Lading  &  Transportation  ComiJany.    Tiie 
company  owns  and  operates  nearly  all  the  larger  stores  on  the  Yukon.     A 
few  years  ago  our  stibject  removed  his  outfitting  business  from   Seattle  to 
Skagway,   and   has   now  turned   that   industry   almost  exclusively   into   the 
grocery  line,  of  which  he  carries  a  stock  amounting  to  twelve  thousand  dol- 


640  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

lars,  while  at  Nome,  Alaska,  his  outfitting  business  is  capitalized  at  fifteen 

thousand  dollars. 

At  San  Francisco,  California,  in  1S71,  Captain  Carroll  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Dorothy  Bowington,  and  of  their  children  the  only  survivor  is 
John,  \\ho  for  a  number  of  years  served  as  purser,  but  is  now  engaged  in 
mining  at  Nome.  In  matters  of  national  importance  the  Captain  casts  his 
ballot  in  favor  of  the  Democracy,  but  at  local  elections  he  votes  independently 
of  partv  ties.  In  his  social  relations  he  is  a  member  of  the  ^Masonic  frater- 
nity, being  a  member  of  Port  Townsend  Lodge  No.  6,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Chap- 
ter No.  120.  at  Victoria,  of  California  Commandery  No.  i.  Knights  Tem- 
plar, and  of  Lawson  Consistory  No.  i.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias  when  that  order  Avas  first  organized,  for  many  years  has  been 
identified  widi  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  is  also  a  member 
of  the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks.  In  connection  with  his 
seafaring  life  he  is  identified  with  the  Master  Marines'  Association  and  the 
Masters  and  Pilots'  Association  of  San  Francisco. 

NELSON  CHILBERG. 

Nelson  Chilberg  came  to  Seattle  in  1872.  He  has  been  a  very  prom- 
inent factor  in  the  development  of  this  section  of  the  state,  has  contributed 
to  the  work  of  reclaiming  Alaska  for  purposes  of  civilization,  and  in  an  early 
day  he  was  actively  identified  with  the  mining  interests  of  Colorado.  He 
laid  out  the  city  of  Georgetown  there  and  in  other  ways  promoted  improve- 
ment and  progress.  It  will  thus  be  seen  that  his  life  has  been  a  busy,  useful 
and  active  one,  and  in  tlie  history  of  Seattle  he  well  deserves  honorable  men- 
ion  as  one  who  has  borne  his  part  in  the  work  of  advancement. 

Mr.  Chilberg  is  a  native  of  Sweden,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  that 
land  on  the  23d  of  September.  1840.  Lie  is  a  son  of  C.  J.  Chilberg  and  a 
brother  of  Vndrew  Chilberg,  now  the  president  of  the  Scandinavian  Ameri- 
can Bank  of  this  city.  Nelson  Chilberg  pursued  his  education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Iowa,  his  father  having  located  in  that  state  in  1846,  in  which  year 
he  brought  his  family  from  Swedai  to  the  United  States.  When  about  eigh- 
teen years  of  age  he  went  with  his  father  to  Minnesota  to  sell  a  lot  of  stock. 
He  had  been  troubled  with  rheumatism,  and  his  father  desired  to  see  if  a 
change  of  climate  would  not  prove  helpful.  He  was  greatlv  benefited  there- 
b}-  and  after  that  he  did  not  remain  long  in  Iowa.  In  i860  he  and  his  brother 
Andrew  accompanied  their  father  to  Colorado,  crossing  the  Missouri  river 
at   Plattsmouth  and  thence  proceeded  by  team  to  Boulder.     Mr.    Chilberg 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  641 

engaged  in  mining  at  what  is  now  Golden  and  aided  in  constructing  a  road 
across  Guy  mountain.  He  followed  mining  on  Chicago  creek,  about  ten 
miles  south  of  Central  City,  and  during  the  second  winter  which  he  spent  in 
Colorado  went  to  the  present  site  of  Georgetown,  laying  out  and  foundmg 
the  town.  He  remained  in  the  mines  for  four  or  fi\-e  years  and  then,  purchas- 
ing an  ox  team,  proceeded  to  Central  City,  where  he  engaged  in  teaming  and 
hauling  hay  to  the  mines  and  the  settlers  lixing  in  that  portion  of  the  state. 
He  there  made  his  home  for  a  year,  after  whicli  lie  sold  out  and  returned  to 
Iowa  for  the  winter. 

The  next  spring  Mr.  Chilberg  took  a  load  (,|  provisions  across  the  plains 
and  afterward  made  four  or  five  such  trips,  but  in  the  winter  of  1864 
abandoned  this  \\()rk  and  returned  to  his  old  home  in  Iowa.  He  had 
to  get  a  pass  allowing  him  to  cross  the  Missouri  river,  because  of  the  condi- 
tions brought  about  the  Civil  war,  then  in  progress.  He  remained  in  Iowa 
in  charge  of  his  farm  un.til  1872,  \\hen  he  decided  to  come  to  Washington, 
where  his  father  had  located  three  years  previousl}-.  He  then  sold  all  his 
property  with  the  exception  of  his  land  and  made  his  way  to  the  Pacific  coast. 
He  rented  a  tract  of  land  in  the  Swinomish  fiats  and  there  raised  a  crop  of 
oats  and  barley.  He  sold  the  oats  but  could  not  dispose  of  the  barley,  for 
though  the  ground  was  rich  and  produced  abundantly  there  was  no  market 
for  such  a  crop  at  that  time.  Mr.  Chilberg  also  took  up  a  claim  of  eighty 
acres.  The  next  year  he  went  to  Port  Townsend  and  conducted  a  dairv  ranch 
in  the  Chimasum  valley,  readily  disposing  of  his  dairy  products  in  the  ad- 
joining logging  camps.  During  the  next  year  he  was  in  the  employ  of  a 
farmer  and  in  the  following  year  came  to  Seattle  and  established  a  eTocerv 
store  in  the  town,  then  containing  a  population  of  about  twenty-five  hundred 
people.  In  this  enterprise  he  was  associated  v.  ith  his  brother  Andrew,  but 
later  purchased  his  brother's  interest  and  conducted  the  store  alone.  He 
continued  the  business  until  the  great  fire  swept  over  the  city  in  Juno.  iS8(), 
when  his  store  was  entirely  destroyed.  Just  ])re\'ious  to  this  time  he  had  be- 
come engag'ed  in  the  real  estate  business,  and  since  the  conflagration  he  has 
given  much  of  his  time  to  dealing  in  real  estate  in  the  city.  His  eft'orts  have 
largely  contributed  to  the  improvement,  extension  and  upbuilding  of  the  city. 
He  laid  out  the  Chilberg  addition,  the  Northern  Pacific  addition  and  the  Mc- 
Elroy  addition  to  Ballard,  and  these  have  l)ecome  improved  districts. 

In  1896  Mr.  Chilberg  went  to  Juneau  and  the  next  spring  to  Central 
America,  returning  in  Alay.  Shortly  afterward  he  took  a  steamer  to  Alas- 
ka and  spent  the  succeeding  winter  in  Skagway.  Jn  the  si)ring  of  i8()7  he 
took  up  his  abode  in  Atlin  county,   where  he  engaged   in   prospecting  until 


642  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS    OF 

autumn,  when  he  returned  to  Skag^vay  and  estabhshed  a  grocery  store. 
With  the  returning-  spring  the  railroad  was  completed  and  Mr.  Chilberg  then 
sold  his  store  and  returned  home,  but  in  the  spring  of  1899  he  went  to  Nome 
and  did  some  prospecting  there.  Upon  his  return  to  Seattle  he  resumed  real 
estate  operations  and  is  now  engaged  in  this  line  of  business. 

In  Iowa,  in  1865,  Mr.  Chilberg  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Matilda 
C.  Shanstrom,  and  to  them  were  born  two  children :  John  Edward  and 
Mabel  V.,  the  former  a  well  known  business  man  of  the  city.  In  1877  Mr. 
Chilberg  purchased  a  home  in  Seattle  and  in  1884  built  his  present  residence. 
On  questions  of  state  and  national  importance  he  votes  with  the  Democracy, 
but  at  local  elections  is  independent.  He  belongs  to  the  Ancient  Order  of 
I'nited  Workmen  and  attends  the  Congregational  church.  The  history  of 
pioneer  life  and  of  the  wonderful  developm.ent  of  the  west  is  largely  familiar 
to  Mr.  Chilberg  through  actual  experience.  He  visited  the  coast  when  it 
was  set  off  from  civilization  and  improvement  of  the  east  by  long  stretches 
of  sand,  almost  impassable  mountains  and  deep  ri\ers.  He  knows  of  the 
hardships  of  the  early  mining  days  and  of  the  trials  incident  to  pioneer  life 
here,  and  he  takes  great  pride  in  what  has  been  accomplished  by  the  enterj)ris- 
ing  citizens  and  well  deserves  a  share  of  the  praise  and  gratitude  due  to  those 
who  in  an  early  day  established  homes  in  the  northwest  and  advanced  its  im- 
provement. 

MATT  H.  GORMLEV. 

New  countries  naturally  abound  in  young  men,  as  only  the  strong  and 
vigorous  can  undergo  the  labors  incident  to  discovery  and  settlement.  For 
similar  reasons,  as  advancement  is  made  in  the  various  arts  constituting  civili- 
zation, and  civil  government  takes  shape,  young  men  are  apt  to  be  found  at 
the  forefront  in  positions  of  responsibility  and  trust.  The  new  northwest, 
which  has  been  bounding  forward  so  rapidly  during  the  last  few  decades,  is 
filled  with  ambitious  spirits  who  have  gone  there  in  youth  or  earfy  manhood 
to  "grow  up  with  the  country."  The  Spanish  war,  owing  to  its  diversion  to 
the  islands  in  the  distant  Pacific,  furnished  an  advantageous  opportunity 
to  the  adventurous  spirits  of  the  coast  states,  and  incidentally  a  great  stim- 
ulus to  their  commerce.  It  was  natural,  therefore,  that  when  the  scene  of 
A\ar  was  transferred  to  the  Philippines  and  a  call  was  made  for  a  large  num- 
ber of  troops  to  go  to  those  distant  possessions  that  there  should  be  an  eae-er 
ciesire  to  enlist  among  the  ambitious  young  men  of  the  northwest.  Among 
those  who  volunteered  promptly,  went  to  the  front  and  saw  arduous  service 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  643 

amid  the  swamps  and  rice  fields  of  the  land  of  the  Tagalogs,  was  the  o-entle- 
man  whose  name  heads  this  sketch,  and  his  title  of  captain  was  earned  as  the 
result  of  gallant  service  in  the  field.  But  not  simply  in  military  matters  but 
in  civil  life  as  well,  Captain  Gormley  has  shown  himself  to  be  a  fit  associate 
of  those  progressive  young  men  whose  combined  efforts  have  brought  the 
northwest  so  prominently  to  the  front. 

Henry  Gormley,  who  was  a  native  of  New  York,  came  as  a  young  man 
to  Walworth  county,  Wisconsin,  where  he  followed  the  business  of  contract- 
ing and  building.  Being  attracted  by  the  accounts  heard  of  the  Puget  Sound 
country,  he  determined  to  try  his  fortunes  in  that  section,  and  in  1878  came 
to  Seattle,  where  he  resumed  his  old  occupation  as  a  contractor.  While  re- 
siding in  Wisconsin  he  had  married  Orra  McGraw,  by  whom  he  had  three 
children,  and  one  of  the  two  of  these  now  li\'ing  is  the  gentleman  with  whose 
life  this  memoir  is  especially  concerned. 

Matt  H.  Gormley  was  born  at  Dekuan.  Wisconsin.  March  18.  1867, 
and  was  consequently  about  eleven  years  old  when  his  father  brought  him  to 
Seattle.  He  was  given  a  good  education  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the 
state  uni\ersity,  where  he  received  the  degree  of  B.  S..  in  the  class  of  1886. 
After  leaving  college  Mr.  Gormley  engaged  with  his  father  in  the  business  of 
contracting  and  Imilding,  and  was  so  employed  until  appointed  deputv  sher- 
iff, in  which  ofiice  he  served  during  the  period  from  1890  to  189-',  and  then, 
after  a  short  time  in  the  county  treasurer's  ofilce,  he  returned  to  building. 
In  the  same  year  of  his  graduation  Mr.  Gormley  had  joined  the  state  militia, 
and  when  the  call  came  for  troops  to  fight  against  Spain  the  regiment  to 
which  he  belonged  was  accepted  in  its  entirety,  rmd  1))-  the  reorganization  for 
the  federal  service  he  became  first  lieutenant  of  Company  B.  The  command 
was  sent  to  the  Presidio,  where  it  w'as  drilled  and  disciplined  for  six  months 
and  then  sent  to  the  Philippine  islands  for  what  proved  to  l)e  a  long  continued 
and  arduous  ser\ice.  Lieutenant  Gormley  took  ])art  with  his  regiment  in 
much  hard  marching  throughout  the  Cjuagmires  of  Luzon  and  adjacent  isl- 
ands, and  was  engaged  in  innumerable  skirmisb.es  witli  the  elusive  Tagalogs, 
besides  the  more  serious  fights  at  Santa  Ana,  Guadaloupe,  Pasig,  Cainta, 
Taytay,  Morong  and  Colamba.  The  captain  of  Comjmny  B  having  been 
killed  at  Pasig,  Lieutenant  Gormley  .succeeded  him  in  command,  and  from 
that  time  on  was  ranked  as  captain.  At  the  expiration  of  their  term  of  enlist- 
ment this  gallant  regiment  was  returned  to  San  Francisco  and  mustered  out, 
and  the  individual  members,  after  the  American  style  of  doing  these  things, 
all  speedily  retuni.ed  to  their  places  in  the  walks  of  ci\i]  life.  With  reputa- 
tion increased  l)y  his  patriotic  service  in  the  distant  orient  Captain  Gormley 


644  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

quietly  resumed  his  old  duties  at  Seattle,  but  was  not  long  allowed  to  remain 
in  private  life  by  his  admiring  fellow  citizens.  He  first  came  to  the  city 
treasurer's  oftice  as  clerk  for  Judge  Foote.  and  after  the  election  of  S.  F. 
Rathbun  in  the  following  spring  he  was  appointed  chief  deputy  under  the 
new  incumbent.  He  served  in  this  position  until  1902.  \\hen,  at  the  spring 
election  of  that  year,  he  himself  was  chosen  city  treasurer  and  in  due  time  ni- 
stalled  in  the  oflice.  Captain  Gormley  is  a  good  business  man  by  natural 
inclination  and  Iniining,  and  has  completely  mastered  :dl  the  details  of  the 
treasurer's  office  during  his  connection  therewith.  There  is  no  part  of  the 
work,  howe\-cr  small,  which  he  is  not  able  to  do,  and  which  at  some  time  he 
has  not  done,  and  h,e  takes  the  main  responsibility  himself,  leaving  only  the 
routine  matters  for  subordinates'  attention.  The  result  of  all  this  has  been 
a  steady  increase  in  the  business  of  tlie  office,  and  such  accuracy  in  the  ac- 
counting and  scrui)ulous  care  over  the  public  re\enues  as  to  elicit  general 
praise  for  the  treasurer  from  his  constituency. 

Captain  Gormley  has  long  been  one  of  the  actixe  young'  leaders  in  poli- 
tics on  the  Republican  side,  and  is  usually  found  as  a  delegate  in  the  various 
party  conventions.  His  fraternal  connections  are  C(onfined  to  membership 
in  the  Royal  Arccinum.  Like  most  g'ame  spirits  he  is  fond  of  all  sorts  of  out- 
door sports  and  exercise,  especially  hunting  and  fishing,  in  which  lines  he 
is  an  ardent  devotee.  He  is  fond  of  the  studx-  of  ornithologv.  and,  in  connec- 
tion  with  his  friend,  Samuel  Rathbun,  has  given  much  time  to  this  interest- 
ing science  made  so  popular  in  America  liv  the  great  Aububon.  In  1892 
Captain  Gormley  was  united  in  marriage  at  Seattle  with  Miss  Ida  Schon- 
myer,  and  they  have  three  bright  and  promising  children,  whose  names  are 
Lawrence,  Rowena  and   Tack. 

MORGAN  JAMES  CARKEEK. 

Morgan  James  Carkeek,  one  of  the  most  prominent  contractors  and 
builders  of  Seattle,  W^ashington,  has  been  identified  with  the  business  interests 
of  this  city  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century,  and  there  are  many  notable  ex- 
amples of  his  architectural  skill  and  ability  to  be  seen  throughout  the  city. 
Thoroughly  reliable  in  all  things,  the  quality  of  his  work  is  a  convincing  test 
of  his  own  personal  w(jrth,  and  he  has  become  an  important  factor  in  busi- 
ness circles. 

Mr.  Carkeek  was  born  in  Redruth,  Cornwall,  England,  of  old  English 
ancestry,  his  parents  being  M.  J.  anrl  Elizabeth  (Shepherd)  Carkeek,  also 
natives  of  Redruth,  of  which  i^lace  his  father  was  one  of  the  leading  con- 


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tractors  and  l)iiilders.  He  was  a  valued  and  intliiential  memljer  of  the  Meth- 
odist church,  taking  a  very  active  and  prominent  part  in  rehgious  work,  and 
serving  as  supermtendent  of  the  Sunday-school.  He  established  and  built 
one  of  the  churches  of  his  nati\'e  town.  He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight 
years,  honored  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him,  and  the  shock  of  his  death 
proved  fatal  to  his  wife,  who  survived  him  only  three  days.  Thev  were 
people  of  the  highest  moral  character,  and  had  a  host  of  warm  friends. 
To  them  were  born  thirteen  children,  six  sons  and  seven  daucfhters.  Con- 
tracting  and  building  became  the  occupation  of  all  of  the  sons.  One  of  these, 
Arthur  Carkeek,  is  to-day  a  prominent  architect  and  one  of  the  most  inllu- 
ential  citizens  of  the  parish  in  which  he  has  always  made  his  home.  He  is 
now  serving  as  justice  of  the  peace  and  chief  of  the  local  board. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  land  Morgan  J.  Carkeek  ac([uired  a 
good  practical  education,  and  with  his  father  learned  contracting  and  build- 
ing, soon  becoming-  an  expert  workman.  On  his  emigration  to  the  United 
States  in  i86r),  he  settled  in  California,  and  for  about  three  years  engaged  in 
mining  in  Tuolumne,  Calaveras  and  Mariposa  counties,  meeting  with  but 
moderate  success.  He  then  returned  to  San  Francisco,  and  in  1870  went  to 
Port  Townsend.  where  he  worked  at  his  trade  for  three  years.  He  visited 
Seattle  in  1870,  Imt  did  not  locate  permanently  here  until  live  years  later,  lie 
built  the. first  stone  block,  known  as  the  Dexter  Horton  Bank,  which  was 
destroyed  1)y  fire  in  1889.  During  his  residence  here  he  was  successfully 
eng-aged  in  contracting  and  building,  and  had  erected  some  of  the  most  im- 
portant buildings  of  the  city,  including  the  fine  Burke  and  Haller  blocks,  and 
many  of  the  UKJSt  lieautiful  residences.  Mr.  Carkeek  also  built  the  Provin- 
cial jail  in  New  Westminster,  and  other  important  buildings  in  Victoria ; 
the  l^^irst  National  Bank  building  of  Salem,  Oregon;  the  l)arracks  at  lA.rt 
Uawton ;  and  a  part  of  the  light-house  on  Destruction  island  under  go\-ern- 
ment  contract.  He  has  reared  for  himself  a  lasting  monument  in  the  cit\- 
where  he  makes  his  home  by  the  many  bear.tiful  and  thoroughly  su1)stantial 
buildings  which  he  has  erected  there.  He  has  one  of  the  most  elegant  homes 
of  Seattle,  which  is  located  on  the  southeast  corner  of  Madison  and  Boren 
avenues,  and  was  built  by  him  in  1886.  It  is  situated  in  the  midst  of  beauti- 
ful grounds,  wliich  are  well  laid  out  and  attest  the  artistic  skill  and  refinement 
of  the  owner.  ]\Ir.  Carkeek  also  has  a  fine  farm  on  the  Dwamish  river,  six 
miles  from  the  city,  and  owns  property  in  several  other  counties  of  this  state. 

In  1879  Mr.  Cark-eek  returned  to  England,  where  he  married  iMuilx', 
eldest  daughter  of  Mr.  Jackson  Ga.skill.  late  of  the  Chase,  Totters  T.ar. 
Middlesex,  and  this  union  has  been  blessed  with  two  cliildren  :      \'ivian   Abu-- 


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o-an.  now  a  member  of  the  Seattle  bar;  and  Guendolen,  who  is  still  in  school. 
The  parents  hold  mernbership  in  the  Episcopal  church,  and  in  politics  Mr. 
Carkeek  is  identified  with  the  Republican  party.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  Comerce,  and  has  always  taken  an  acti\e  interest  in  those  enterprises 
calculated  to  advance  the  welfare  of  Seattle.  He  was  one  of  the  first  board 
of  trustees  who  took  stock  and  organized  the  first  street  railway  in  the  city; 
and  was  also  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Pontiac  Brick  &  Tile  Company. 
Mr.  Carkeek  invented  and  patented  the  improved  shinglc-bunch  which  so 
economizes  space  as  to  nearly  dou1)le  tlie  capacity  of  cars  for  carrying 
shingles.  As  the  shingle  industry  is  important  on  Puget  Sound,  this  inven- 
tion has  been  the  means  of  saving  thousands  of  dollars  to  the  shingle  man- 
ufacturer here.  The  career  of  Mr.  Carkeek  has  ever  been  such  as  to  warrant 
the  trust  and  confidence  of  the  business  world,  for  he  has  ever  conducted  all 
transactions  on  the  strictest  principles  of  honor  and  integrit}^  and  he  right- 
fully enjoys  the  high  esteem  of  his  fellow^  citizens.  His  devotion  to  the  pub- 
lic good  is  unquestioned,  and  arises  from  a  sincere  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
his  fellow  men. 

WILLIAM  COCPIRANE. 

Ireland  has  sent  many  of  her  worthy  sons  to  the  new  world,  and  they 
have  become  important  factors  in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  various  com- 
munities with  which  they  are  connected.  A  representative  of  this  class  is 
William  Cochrane,  a  native  of  county  Cavan,  Ireland,  wdiere  he  was  born  on 
the  15th  of  December,  1845.  I"  the  old  home  in  which  he  first  saw  the  light 
of  day  his  father  and  his  grandfather  were  also  born,  and  thus  the  same  roof 
covered  the  family  for  at  least  three  generations.  Adam  Cochrane,  the  fath- 
er of  our  subject,  followed  the  tilling  of  the  soil  as  a  life  occupation,  and  his 
death  occurred  at  the  old  ancestral  home  in  1879.  His  wife,  who  bore  the 
maiden  name  of  Elizabeth  ^^IcKibbon,  was  born  at  King's  Court,  county 
Cavan,  Ireland,  and  her  death  occurred  at  the  Cochrane  home  in  1881.  To 
this  worthy  couple  were  born  sixteen  children,  ten  daughters  and  six  sons. 

William  Cochrane  received  his  education  in  the  Hibernian  School  in 
his  native  county,  and  he  remained  at  home  until  his  eighteenth  year,  dur- 
ing which  time  he  assisted  his  father  in  the  work  of  the  farm.  In  1863  lie 
crossed  the  broad  Atlantic  to  the  new  world,  and  after  his  arrival  here  he  was 
employed  for  two  years  in  an  architect's  office  in  New  York  city.  Going  to 
the  lumber  regions  on  the  Muskegon  river  in  Michigan,  he  there  spent  three 
years  in  the  employ  of  Harry  Bartow,  after  which,  in   1869,  he  returned  to 


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New  York  city  and  was  placed  in  charg-e  of  the  Ijeautiful  summer  resort  and 
farm  owned  by  the  noted  New  York  criminal  lawyer,  A.  P.  Clarke,  located 
at  Mount  Claire,  New  Jersey,  and  consisting  of  one  hundred  acres.  Thus 
he  was  employed  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and  during  the  following  few  months 
he  had  charge  of  the  farm  owned  by  L.  M.  Flernoy,  a  New  York  banker,  the 
property  being  located  at  Paducah,  Kentucky.  Mr.  Cochrane  arrived  in 
Seattle,  Washington,  in  March,  1873,  the  journey  having  been  made  via 
Salt  Take.  During  his  first  two  years  here  he  worked  by  the  month  for 
John  Burns  and  William  Powell,  after  which  he  purchased  one  hundred  and 
sixty  acres  of  timber  land  at  Houghton,  on  Lake  Washington,  which  he  still 
owns.  At  that  time  his  supply  of  ready  money  was  extremely  limited,  but 
he  found  a  valuable  friend  in  Bailey  Gatzet,  one  of  the  enterprising  pioneers 
of  Seattle,  who  furnished  him  with  the  means  necessary  to  embark  on  a  large 
scale  in  the  logging  and  lumbering  business,  and  during  the  fifteen  years  in 
which  he  was  thus  engaged  he  crossed  Lake  Washington  fifteen  times  on 
rafts,  this  being  before  the  advent  of  boats  on  its  waters.  Forming  a  part- 
nership with  Michael  Day,  these  gentlemen  went  to  the  Skagit  river  in  Wash- 
ington in  1879,  where  they  secured  a  contract  to  build  a  wagon  road  from 
Godell  to  the  Ruby  creek  mines,  a  distance  of  nine  miles,  and  after  much  diffi- 
culty, on  account  of  deep  snows,  the  road  was  completed  in  1880,  but  the 
mines  proved  a  failure  and  the  money  thus  expended  proved  a  total '  loss, 
leaving  the  firm  of  Cochrane  &  Day  in  a  state  of  bankruptcy.  In  1880,  in 
order  to  retrieve  their  lost  possessions,  they  purchased  cattle  from  David 
Needy,  which  they  took  to  the  Dwamish  valley,  and  there  in  connection  with 
their  cattle  business  they  also  furnished  piles  for  the  market.  After  two  years 
Mr.  Cochrane  sold  his  interest  therein  to  Michael  Day's  brother  and  embarked 
extensively  in  the  logging  business,  operating  three  large  camps  on  Squak 
Slough  and  Lake  Union,  continuing  thus  for  three  years,  on  the  expiration 
of  which  period'  on  account  of  a  disagreement  with  the  Western  Mill  Com- 
pany, he  abandoned  the  business.  This  mill  company  was  amply  paid,  how- 
ever, when  Mr.  Cochrane  lobbied  the  lien  and  scale  law  through  the  legis- 
lature in   1883. 

i-i  1885  Mr.  Cochrane  l-ec-me  the  owner  of  his  present  fine  farm  of  one 
hunrircd  and  seventy-four  .'cres.  located  on  tlie  White  river  fifteen  miles 
frori  Seattle,  between  the  stritions  of  Orillia  and  O'Brien,  on  the  Up'OH  Pa- 
cific R-iilroad.  In  1894  he  purchaserl  eighty  acres  adjoining,  and  he  ':ow  has 
one  of  the  best  improved  fanr.s  -  '^-  "Mley,  on  v/hich  is  located  n-i  elegant 
res- \-ice  nnd  manv  si-hstan^'-^  '  •'^:— .  Lor  mnnv  ye-r^  h'-  h-,s  also 
been  extensively  engaged  in  the  hop  business,  sixty  acres  of  his  place  being 


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devoted  to  that  crop,  and  in  addition  he  is  the.  owner  of  a  large  and  well 
equipped  dairy,  milking  about  sixty  cows.  To  carry  on  so  many  enterprises 
requires  tiie  assistance  of  about  twenty-four  men.  His  place  was  purchased 
from  the  heirs  of  Patrick  O'Brien,  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  the  valley. 
]n  1S85  our  subject  was  a  candidate  on  the  fusion  People's  ticket  for  the 
office  of  sheriff- of  King  county,  his  opponent  being  John  H.  McGraw,  who 
represented  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Cochrane  was  successful  in  the  elec- 
ti<.>n.  and  proved  a  competent  and  a1)le  official.  In  his  social  relations  he  is 
a  memljer  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  ^^'orkmen  at  Kirkland,  Wash- 
ington. 

On  the  9th  of  April,  1890,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Katie  A.  Modi- 
gan.  who  was  born  at  Kilkee,  county  Clare,  Ireland,  on  the  loth  of  July, 
1870.  She  came  to  this  country  in  1887.  and  for  a  time  made  her  home 
with  a  sister  in  Connecticut  and  a  brother  in  Dakota.  She  came  to  Seattle, 
Washington,  in  1886.  accompanied  by  her  brother,  and  four  years  later  gave 
her  hand  in  marriage  to  j\Ir.  Cochrane.  Their  marriage  was  celebrated  in 
the  Catholic  cliurch  near  their  home;  the  ground  (jn  which  this  church  is 
located  was  donated  by  oiu"  subject. 

An  interesting  incident  in  the  life  of  ^Ir.  Cochrane  occurred  in  1888, 
when  Cle\eland  made  the  second  race  for  the  presidency.  A  bet  was  made 
with  (ieorge  \\'.  Tibett,  our  subject  advocating  that  Cleveland  w^ould  be 
elected,  and  the  \vager  was  that  the  loser  should  play  a  hand  organ  on  one  of 
the  public  streets  of  Seattle  for  four  hours,  while  the  proceeds  from  this  en- 
tertainment were  to  be  given  to  the  Oq)hans'  Home  and  the  Ladies  Aid 
Si^ciety.  Mr.  Cochrane  Avas  the  loser,  and  he  perfoniied  his  share  of  the 
wager  of  the  great  entertainment  of  the  citizens  of  that  city,  the  proceeds 
therefrom  amounting  to  four  hundred  and  sixty  dollars. 

FRED  H.  HARKINS. 

Fred  H.  Harkins  was  born  in  New  Orleans,  Louisiana,  Februarv  27, 
183T,  and  is  now  Wvmg  a  retired  life  in  Seattle.  His  has  been  a  somewhat 
eventful  career,  in  which  there  are  many  points  of  interest.  His  parents 
died  during  his  infancy  and  he  was  reared  by  his  paternal  uncle,  Godfrey  Har- 
kins. who  conducted  a  meat  business  in  the  old  French  market  of  New  Or- 
leans. Frerl  attended  a  privated  school  until  he  was  about  fourteen  years  of 
age.  when  his  uncle  apprenticed  him  to  S.  V.  Barrett,  avIio  conducted  a  whole- 
sale wine  and  liquor  store  at  No.  28  of  the  old  Levee,  one  block  from  the 
custom  house  on  old  Levee  street.     Young.  Harkins  remained  with  that  man 


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until  the  spring  of  1848,  when  he  had  some  trouble  with  his  employer.  He 
^^'as  told  to  copy  a  letter  to  an  agent  in  Matamoras.  The  letter  was  written 
in  iM-ench.  of  which  language  Mr.  Harkins  had  but  little  knowledge,  and  be- 
cause of  a  mistake  made  in  the  copying  his  employer  abused  him,  and  our 
subject  resolved  to  leave.  His  uncle  insisted  upon  his  returning  to  Mr. 
Barrett  but  the  nephew  was  just  as  resolute  and  refused  to  do  so. 

In  the  summer  of  1848  the  United  States  troops  were  returning  home 
from  Mexico,  going  up  the  Mississippi  river.  Mr.  Harkins  then  began 
selling  books.  He  would  take  books  on  board  a  steamer  bound  for  some 
port  up  the  river,  place  them  upon  the  table  in  the  cabin  and  sell  them  to  the 
officers  and  men.  His  profits  amounted  to  an  a^'erage  of  twenty-five  dollars 
a  day,  but  instead  of  making  a  good  use  of  his  money,  on  Sundays  he  would 
visit  the  bull  fights  which  were  held  across  the  river.  Outside  the  enclosure 
were  gaming  tables  and  Mr.  Harkins  usually  left  the  greater  part  of  his 
week's  profit  there.  However,  he  soon  learned  from  experience  that  this 
was  not  a  wise  course  to  pursue  and  he  has  since  let  gambling  alone.  In 
the  latter  part  of  the  summer  of  1848  he  went  to  St.  Louis  on  the  steamer 
Illinois  and  tried  to  engage  in  book  peddling  but  found  that  he  could  make 
nothing  at  it.  He  therefore  went  up  the  Illinois  river  as  far  as  La  Salle. 
At  that  time  the  locks  on  the  canal  were  just  being  completed.  He  returned  to 
Peoria  and  afterward  went  to  Knox^qlle,  Illinois,  where  he  secured  work  as 
a  farm  hand  in  the  employ  of  Cyril  W'oods  at  thirteen  dollars  a  month.  He 
was  thus  engaged  for  three  years  and  in  the  spring  of  185 1  went  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  took  pasage  on  the  steamer  War  Eagle,  bound  for  St.  Paul,  Min- 
nesota. The  latter  city  was  at  that  time  a  mere  hamlet  compared  to  what  i: 
is  t(^-day.  St.  Anthony  Falls  were  still  smaller  and  there  was  no  Minne- 
ai)olis,  the  present  site  of  the  city  being  still  a  part  of  the  Fort  Snelling  reser- 
vation. Mr.  Harkins  went  to  Stillwater,  eighteen  miles  east  of  St.  T\-uii,  ar 
tlie  head  of  the  St.  Croix.  That  place  was  the  headquarters  for  the  logging 
industry.  There  was  but  one  mill  for  cutting  lumber,  but  this  was  a  small 
affair,  the  motive  power  being  furnished  by  an  overshot  water  wlieel. 
The  loo-s  were  cut  and  hauled  to  the  stream  above  the  mill  and  were  tloated 
and  cauo-ht  in  booms,  then  were  rafted  and  floated  down  the  river  to  the  mill-- 
as  far  as  St.  Louis,  where  they  were  cut  into  lumber.  Mr.  Harkins  was  em- 
ployed in  the  logging  camps  during  the  years  1853-4-5. 

In  1856  occm-red  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Harkins,  and  he  then  secured  a 
team  of  liis  own  and  began  tlie  logging  business  for  himself,  his  wife  acting 
as  cook  for  the  crew.  He  made  a  successful  drive,  but  after  having  his  logs 
in  the  boom  for  a  time  tliere  came  a  freshet,  and  the  rush  of  the  water  broke 

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the  boom  and  scattered  the  logs  as  far  down  as  Lake  Pepin.  The  expense  of 
picking  them  up  would  have  exceeded  the  value  of  the  logs,  so  he  let  them  go. 
and  the  winter's  earnings  were  thus  wiped  away.  Mr.  Harkins  then  began 
business  life  anew.  He  took  up  a  pre-emption  claim  and  began  the  develop- 
ment of  a  farm,  but  the  financial  panic  of  1857  made  it  a  very  hard  matter  to 
gain  a  start  to  fortune.  However,  there  was  plenty  of  game  such  as  vieer 
and  pheasants,  and  these  furnished  many  a  meal  for  the  pioneer  home.  The 
mink,  otter  and  martens  were  also  numerous  and  there  w'ere  many  musk- 
rats  in  the  marshes,  so  that  in  the  seasons  of  1857-58-59  Mr.  Harkins  made 
considerable  money  in  hunting  and  trapping.  In  the  fall  of  i860  he  went 
with  his  wife  and  two  children  to  visit  her  people  in  Butler  county,  Pennsyl- 
\ania,  and  then  returned  to  his  old  home  in  New^  Orleans.  His  people  were 
^•ery  much  surprised  to  see  him,  as  they  believed  him  dead,  having  heard 
nothing  from  him  since  he  left  his  native  city  in  1848.  They  gave  him  a 
cordial  welcome,  but  he  differed  from  them  so  radically  on  the  slavery  ques- 
tion that  it  engendered  bitter  feeling,  and  he  decided  to  return  to  the  north. 
In  the  early  part  of  March,  1861,  shortly  before  the  blockade  of  the  river,  he 
took  a  steamer  going  north  as  far  as  Dubuque.  Iowa,  where  he  had  friends 
living.  He  enlisted  in  the  Third  Iowa  Independent  Battery  in  September, 
1861,  and  sent  his  wife  and  children  to  her  people  in  Minnesota.  He  served 
out  his  term  of  three  years  and  was  discharged  at  Davenport  in  October, 
1864,  returning  to  his  home  with  a  most  creditable  military  record. 

The  following  spring  Mr.  Harkins  removed  to  Brown  county,  Minne- 
sota, ten  miles  form  New  Ulm,  on  the  Minnesota  river  in  the  Sioux  reserva- 
tion. He  built  a  shingle  mill  near  the  river,  and  purchased  and  broke  and 
fenced  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  prairie  land  on  the  rise  back  of  the  bot- 
tom land;  the  bottom  land  was  covered  with  timber,  while  the  upland  was 
prairie.  He  also  established  an  apiary  of  three  hives  which  was  increased  in 
five  years  to  one  hundred  and  thirty-tw^o  hives,  and  from  these  he  would 
extract  one  barrel  of  honey  of  forty  gallons,  between  nine  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing and  three  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  each  day  during  the  three  weeks 
while  the  basswood  trees  were  in  blossom.  In  connection  with  his  shinde 
mill  and  the  care  of  his  apiary  Mr.  Harkins  engaged  to  a  considerable  extent 
in  the  raising  of  horses  and  cattle,  but  in  the  winter  of  1872-3  there  came  one 
or  the  fearful  l^lizzards  which  are  the  terror  of  the  western  country.  In  that 
storm  there  perished  within  a  radius  of  one  hundred  miles  from  the  Harkins 
home  seventy-five  peeople.  Mr.  Harkins  was  out  in  the  storm  for  a  time,  on 
his  return  liome  from  New  Ulm,  a  distance  of  ten  miles   from   the   farm. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  651 

That  blizzard  was  the  direct  cause  of  the  reniMxal  of  the  family  to  Seattle, 
for  they  did  not  wish  to  go  through  any  more  such  experiences. 

In  the  fall  of  1873  Mr.  Harkins  came  on  an  inspection  tour  to  the  north- 
west over  the  Union  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pacific  Railroads  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. He  went  as  far  south  as  Watsonville  and  then  returned  to  San  l^-an- 
cisco  and  took  passage  on  the  steamer  Princess  bound  for  Victoria.  Leav- 
ing that  steamer,  he  became  a  passenger  on  the  steamer  Goliah  at  Port  Town- 
send,  and  proceeded  to  Seattle,  On  the  night  of  the  earthquake  which  shook 
up  the  Collins  Hotel,  he  went  to  Tacoma,  which  at  that  time  was  but  a  small 
settlement,  containing  only  the  Hanson  mill  and  its  yard,  with  only  a  small 
space  cleared  out  in  the  woods.  The  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  was  only 
finished  as  far  as  Tenino,  eighteen  miles  south  of  Olympia,  from  which  place 
to  Tacoma  there  was  a  stage  line.  i\fter  two  weeks  spent  upon  the  Sound 
Mr.  Harkins  proceeded  to  Olympia  by  steamer,  and  on  to  Portland,  Oregon, 
by  rail.  He  went  as  far  south  as  Albany,  thence  returned  to  Portland  and 
took  a  steamer  for  San  Francisco,  whence  he  returned  to  Minnesota.  There 
he  sold  his  stock,  his  bees,  his  home  and  some  of  his  real  estate,  and  with  his 
family  started  for  Tacoma  in  the  fall  of  1874.  He  iri^•ested  in  some  real 
estate  in  Tacoma,  which  he  still  owns,  but  he  remained  in  that  city  for  only 
eleven  months,  going  thence  to  Seattle,  where  he  purchased  his  present  home 
on  West  and  A'^ine  streets.  He  has  never  yet  had  occasion  to  regret  his  loca- 
tion in  Washington.  Since  coming  here  he  has  engaged  in  job  carpentery 
work,  in  bridge  building  and  logging.  He  also  conducted  a  stave  factory 
in  connection  with  G.  W.  Harris  and  W.  C.  Reveal.  The  business  was 
closed  out  in  1884,  and  since  that  time  Mr.  Harkins  has  li\ed  retired,  having 
acquired  a  handsome  competence  Avhich  enables  him  to  rest  from  further, 
labors. 

On  October  2,  1856,  Mr.  Harkins  was  married  to  Mary  A.  Kriedler. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Polly  (McCollough)  Kriedler,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  Pennsylvania,  and  the  former  was  of  German  descent 
and  the  latter  of  Scotch  lineage.  In  1853  they  remo\ed  from  Rtitler  county, 
Pennsylvania,  to  Stillwater,  Minnesota,  and  there  Air.  Harkins  met  the  lady 
who  became  his  wife.  To  this  marriage  were  born  the  following  children : 
Fred,  who  was  born  in  Stillwater,  October  2,  1857,  is  now  engaged  in  busi- 
ness in  Tacoma;  Harry,  born  in  Stillwater,  February  4,  i860,  is  chief  en- 
gineer on  the  steamer  Farrollon,  running  between  Alaska  and  Seattle,  and 
his  family  reside  at  Port  Townsend ;  both  of  these  sons  married  in  Seattle 
and  each  has  two  children,  a  boy  and  a  girl.  Willie,  the  third  son.  born  in 
Brown  county,  Minnesota,  in  April,   1866,  died  in  Seattle,  August  4.  ^^^o\ 


652  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

1^1  ay  Annie,  born  in  Brown  county,  Minnesota,  October  2^.  1871,  died  in 
Tacoma  November  18,  1874;  Bertie,  born  in  Seattle,  November  2,  1875,  died 
in  this  city  July  30.  1880;  Ivy  Myrtle,  born  m  Seattle,  June  17,  1880,  was 
married  in  November,  1901,  to  B.  W.  :\IcIntosh,  and  is  now  living-  m  San 
Francisco,  California. 

In  politics  Mr.  Harkins  has  always  been  independent.  When  the  par- 
ties place  their  respective  candidates  in  the  field  he  considers  the  fitness  of  the 
diiYerent  ofiice  seekers,  casts  his  ballot  as  lie  thinks  best  and  then  abides  the 
vote  of  the  majority.  He  has  never  held,  nor  would  he  accept  a  public  office 
and  has  always  advised  his  sons  to  follow  the  same  course.  ^Ir.  Harkins 
has  liad  many  experiences  in  his  life,  in  New  Orleans,  in  the  logging-  camps 
of  Minnesota,  amid  the  pioneer  farms  of  that  state,  and  in  the  development 
of  the  lumber  reg-ions  and  the  productive  industries  of  the  northwest.  He  has 
made  and  retained  many  friends,  and  his  sterling"  worth  has  ever  gained  for 
him  the  respect  and  confidence  of  those  with  whoni  he  is  associated. 

SAMUEL  F.  RATHBUN. 

Samuel  F.  Rathbun  can  be  called  one  of  the  representative  citizens  of 
Seattle.  His  term  of  office  as  city  treasurer  has  but  recently  expired,  he  hav- 
ing been  elected  to  that  postion  in  March,  1900,  the  result  of  the  choice  of 
his  fellow  townsmen.  He  has  resided  in  Seattle  since  February,  1890.  He 
was  born  near  Fishkill  on  the  Hudson,  in  Dutchess  county.  New  York,  April 
17,  1858.  The  family  came  to  America  from  England  prior  to  1650.  and 
settled  in  Connecticut.  Samuel  R.  Rathbun.  the  father  of  our  subject,  was 
lx)rn  in  i'ittsfield,  Massachusetts,  and  was  a  well  known  woolen  manufac- 
turer carrying  on  business  along  that  line  throughout  his  life.  In  his  poli- 
tical vie\\s  he  was  a  Whig  and  afterward  became  a  Republican,  he  and  his 
son  Samuel  being  the  only  ones  of  tlie  familv  connected  with  the  Republi- 
can party.  The  father  was  a  \varm  personal  friend  of  former  United  States 
Senator  (ieorge  F.  Edmunds,  and  in  1856  did  campaign  work  throughout 
X'erniont  with  that  gentleman.  This  was  the  only  time  that  he  ever  actively 
engaged  in  ix:)litical  work.  He  was  a  man  of  influence  and  prominence, 
however,  in  l)usiness  circles,  and  his  opinions  were  considered  as  authority  on 
everything  pertaining  to  woolen  manufacture.  His  l^rother  Milton  was  a 
soldier  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  and  died  in  France  in  1864  from  disease 
contracted  in  the  armv.  Saiuuel  R.  Rathbun  was  united  in  marriage  to  Marv 
L.  Hawley  of  Colchester.  Vermont,  in  the  year  1836.  She  is  descended 
from  Revolutionary  ancestry.      Her  grandmother,  as  is  recorded  in  the  his- 


SEATTLE'  AND    KING    COUNTy!  653 

tory  (3f  X^ermont.  refused  to  give  bread  to  a  number  of  English  soldiers 
A\ho  demanded  of  her  \\]mt  she  was  cooking,  and  when  they  threatened  to 
take  the  l^read  she  seized  an  axe  and  drove  them  all  from  the  house,  after 
which  she  was  unmolested  by  the  British  troops.  Samuel  F.  Rathbun  is  the 
eighth  in  order  of  birth  of  a  family  of  nine  children.  His  sister,  Mrs.  C.  W. 
Smith,  is  the  wife  of  the  city  librarian  of  Seattle,  and  she  and  her  brother  are 
the  only  representatives  of  the  family  in  the  northwest.  The  faher  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-six  years  and  the  mother's  death  resulted  from  an  accident 
when  she  was  hfty-one  years  of  age,  although  her  famih-  were  noted  for  their 
longevity. 

Samuel  F.  Rathbun  pursued  his  studies  in  his  native  state  and  was  grad- 
uated in  the  high  school  of  Auburn,  New  York.  He  was  afterward  asso- 
ciated \\ith  banking  interests  for  ten  years  and  when  he  first  came  to  Seattle 
continued  in  the  same  line  of  business  activity.  In  1886  he  began  to  work 
his  v/ay  westward  and  visited  the  greater  portion  of  the  central  part  of  the 
country  from  AJanitol)a  south  to  Oklahoma.  He  was  one  of  the  parties  who 
participated  in  the  first  city  election  held  in  Oklahoma  City.  Elreno  had 
but  five  ])eople  within  its  liorders  at  that  time.  His  destination,  however,  was 
th.e  coast,  and  at  last  he  started  for  the  Sound  country,  arriving  in  Seattle  in 
February,  1890.  During  the  first  three  years  which  he  spent  in  this  city  he 
was  connected  with  the  \\'ashington  Bank,  after  wliicli  he  returned  to  the 
east  for  liis  wife.  Shortly  after  his  marriage  he  l)rought  his  bride  to  Seattle 
and  turned  his  attention  to  merchandising.  He  carried  on  business  until 
appointed  deputy  city  treasurer  in  1896,  and  in  1900  he  became  city  treas- 
urer, so  that  he  was  connected  with  the  active  management  of.  the  position 
for  six  years.  When  he  assumed  the  office  there  were  only  three  men  em- 
ployed in  the  department,  but  owing  to  the  rapid  growth  of  the  city,  business 
has  steadily  and  constantly  increased  so  that  ten  men  are  employed  regularly, 
and  so  great  is  the  volume  of  business  that  it  is  almost  impossible  for  them 
to  attend  to  it.  the  increase  being  more  than  three  hundred  per  cent.  Under- 
standing evevy  detail  and  department  of  the  work,  Air.  Rathbun  carefully 
superintended  everything  connected  with  the  office  and  controlled  affairs  in 
a  way  that  indicated  liis  excellent  business  ability  and  executive  force,  and 
made  his  services  of  the  greatest  value  to  the  city.  Xo  more  faithful  cus- 
todian of  the  public  exchequer  could  be  found,  and  he  well  deserved  the 
honor  which  was  conferred  upon  him  by  his  election  to  the  office.  He  is 
one  of  the  active  workers  in  the  Republican  party  in  this  city  and  has  at- 
tended many  of  its  conventions  and  been  a  prominent  factor  in  Ivepublican 
councils  for  twentv-three  vears,  both  in  New  York  and  in   Washington. 


654  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

On  the  3  [St  of  March,  1891,  Mr.  Rathbim  was  united  in  marriage  to 
Lnella  Wilkinson,  a  daughter  of  V.  B.  Wilkinson,  a  merchant  of  Auburn, 
New  \  ork.  tie  erected  his  own  residence  here  on  Fourteenth  avenue  north, 
and  has  become  interested  in  other  real  estate  investments  and  dealings.  He 
belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters  and  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce. He  attends  St.  Mark's  and  St.  Clement's  church,  his  wife  being  a 
member  of  the  latter.  Mr.  Rathbun  is  a  popular  and  valued  representative 
of  the  Elliott  Bay  Yacht  Club  and  is  an  ex-commodore  of  the  Northwest 
International  Yachting  Association.  He  also  belongs  to  the  Seattle  Kennel 
Clul)  and  has  been  connected  with  all  matters  of  interest  ni  the  athletic  line, 
being  an  ardent  sportsman  and  appreciative  of  the  need  of  such  relaxation 
from  business  cares  as  an  aid  to  health.  He  has  carried  on  scientific  investi- 
gations in  natural  history  and  is  one  of  the  best  ornithologists  of  the  north- 
west. He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Ornithologists'  Union,  a  high  dis- 
tinction, and  is  authority  concerning  everything  in  this  line  on  the  Pacific 
coast.  He  has  contributed  to  the  literature  of  the  association,  being  the 
author  of  the  first  list  of  land  birds  of  western  Washington  ever  compiled, 
and  is  a  correspondent  of  the  Smithsonian  Institute.  While  in  New  York 
he  was  volunteer  fireman  for  eight  years  and  was  foreman  of  a  crack  com- 
pany. He  is  a  man  of  distinguished  and  forceful  individuality,  of  broad 
mentality  and  most  mature  judgment,  and  is  leaving  his  impress  upon  the 
scientific  world  as  well  as  upon  the  public  life  of  his  adopted  city.  During 
the  years  of  his  residence  in  Seattle  he  has  become  a  factor  in  its  development 
and  upbuilding  and  in  tlie  promotion  of  enterprises  which  add  not  alone  to 
his  individual  prosperity  but  also  advance  the  general  welfare  and  prosperity 
of  the  city  which,  he  makes  his  home.  In  manner  he  is  most  cordial  and 
genial,  and  has  a  deep  and  abiding  interest  in  his  fellow  men.  These  quali- 
ties render  him  a  most  popular  citizen,  and  it  would  be  difticult  to  find  one 
who  has  more  friends  in  Seattle  than  Samuel  F.  Rathbun. 

REV.  ALEXANDER  BEERS. 

There  is  nothing  in  the  world  more  beautiful  to  contemplate  than  the 
spectacle  of  a  life  rich  in  the  harvest  of  good  and  unselfish  deeds  on  behalf 
of  humanity.  The  man  who  has  lived  for  others  and  has  brought  into  potent 
exercise  the  best  energies  of  his  mind  that  he  might  make  the  world  brighter 
and  better  from  his  being  a  part  of  it,  cannot  fail  to  enjoy  a  serenity  of  soul 
that  will  reveal  itself  in  all  the  relations  of  his  life.  The  life  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  has  been  one  of  signal  activity  and  devotion  as  a  laborer  in  the 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  655 

vineyard  of  the  Divine  Master  and  in  the  field  ot  education,  and  he  has  borne 
the  heat  and  burden  of  the  day  unfalteringly  and  with  that  zeal  which  has 
made  his  life  one  worthy  of  emulation.  He  is  at  the  present  time  pastor  of 
the  First  Methodist  Episcopal  church  of  Seattle  and  also  has  the  additional 
responsibilities  implied  in  his  incumbency  of  the  office  of  president  of  the 
Seattle  Seminary. 

Alexander  Beers  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Iowa,  having  been  born  at 
Bloomfield,  Davis  county,  on  the  4th  of  March,  1862.  a  son  of  Ezekiel  and 
Sarah  (Underwood)  Beers.  Ezekiel  Beers  was  left  an  orphan  in  his  child- 
hood and  was  reared  by  an  uncle.  He  came  in  an  early  day  to  the  state  of 
Kansas  and  there  endured  tlie  trying  experiences  and  vicissitudes  of  pioneer 
life  and  the  peril  incidental  to  the  border  troubles  through  which  the  state 
gained  its  sobriquet  of  ''Bleeding  Kansas."  At  the  time  of  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion  he  enlisted  in  the  Union  army  and  assisted  in  driving  Price  from 
Missouri.  ETe  thereafter  retained  his  residence  in  Kansas  until  1879.  when 
he  became  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Multnomah  county,  Oregon,  locating  in 
Powell  Valley,  about  fifteen  miles  east  of  the  city  of  Portland,  where  he  still 
resides,  l3eing  one  of  the  prominent  farmers  and  stock-growers  of  that  sec- 
tion, while  in  politics  he  is  a  stalwart  Republican.  His  cherished  and  de- 
voted wife  was  summoned  into  eternal  rest  in  the  year  1896  and  is  survived 
by  nine  of  her  ten  children,  Alexander  being  the  only  one  of  th.e  number  now 
residing  in  Washington. 

Rev.  Alexander  Beers  attended  the  public  schools  until  1884.  when  he 
went  to  New  York  and  Ijecame  a  student  in  the  A.  M.  Chesbro  Seminary, 
an  institution  maintained  under  the  auspices  of  the  Free  Meth(xlist  church, 
near  the  city  of  Rochester.  Here  he  completed  a  course  of  study,  after  which 
he  took  the  regular  divinity  course  prescribed  by  the  church,  and  was  duly 
ordained  elder.  During  his  course  of  study  he  served  for  a  time  as  pastor 
of  the  Virginia  Street  Free  Methodist  church  of  Buffalo,  New  York.  He 
also  served  as  pastor  of  the  First  Free  Methodist  church  of  Rochester,  New 
York.  He  was  married  in  the  fall  of  1889  to  Miss  Adelaide  Newton,  daugh- 
ter of  Randolph  Newton,  a  wealthy  and  influential  farmer  of  Chenango 
countv,  New  York.  Miss  Newton  was  for  a  number  of  vears  one  of  the 
leading  teachers  in  the  A.  AI.  Chesbro  Seminary. 

At  the  earnest  request  of  Bishop  Roberts,  he  resigned  his  position  as 
pastor  and  went  to  Virginia  to  assume  the  position  of  principal  of  Virginia 
Seminary  at  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  Mrs.  Beers  becoming  preceptress 
at  the  same  time.  He  continued  his  effecti\-e  laljors  in  this  institution  for  a 
period  of  three  years,  when  he  was  called  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  Seattle 


656  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Seminary  to  become  the  principal.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  Seattle 
Seminary,  as  principal  or  president,  for  ten  years,  and  under  his  manage- 
ment the  institution  has  become  one  of  the  most  flourishing  of  its  kind  in  the 
state  of  Washington.  At  the  time  he  took  the  management  the  seminary 
was  burdened  with  an  indebtedness  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars.  This  incubus 
lie  has  entirely  removed  and  has  made  various  improvements  in  the  buildings, 
e(|uipments  and  facilities.  He  has  a  strong  faculty  and  the  institution  of 
learning  is  strictly  up  to  date.  A  ladies'  hall  was  erected  in  1899,  adding 
greath'  to  the  accommodations  of  the  seminary,  which  is  in  a  flourishing 
condition,  with  a  constantly  increasing  patronage.  Rev.  Beers  has  been  not 
only  president  of  the  institution  but  has  served  as  pastor  of  one  of  the  Free 
Methodist  chtuxhes  during  the  greater  portion  of  the  time  he  has  been  in 
Seattle.  During  his  pastorate  Mr.  Beers  has  succeeded  in  building  a  church 
and  parsonage,  said  to  be  the  best  on  the  coast  of  the  denomination  to  which 
he  belongs,  and  has  succeeded  in  raising  a  considerable  indebtedness  which 
encumbered  the  denomination  and  impaired  its  functions,  and  has  shown 
himself  a  capable  administrator,  an  indefatigable  worker,  as  well  as  a  popu- 
lar pastor.  He  was  reared  a  stanch  Republican,  casting  his  first  vote  for 
James  G.  Blaine,  but  is  now  a  most  enthusiastic  temperance  worker,  always 
casting  his  vote  for  the  prohibition  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

GEORGE  E.  SACKETT. 

Success  in  any  line  of  occupation,  in  any  avenue  of  business  is  not  a 
matter  of  luck  but  the  legitimate  result  of  effort  which  utilizes  the  means  at 
hand.  h\  \-iew  of  this  condition  the  study  of  biography  becomes  valuable, 
and  it  is  a  j.»ractical  advantage  to  trace  the  history  of  a  successful  life,  be  it 
in  the  world  of  business,  \\here  competition  is  rife,  in  the  intellectual  field, 
where  devotees  open  up  the  wider  realms  of  knowledge,  in  a  public  sphere, 
where  is  directed  the  course  of  government  and  the  policies  formed  that 
sway  nations,  or  in  the  calm  and  peaceful  pursuits  of  agriculture.  The  at- 
tention of  the  reader  is  here  directed  to  the  life  of  a  man  well  known  in  busi- 
ness circles  in  Seattle  by  reason  of  his  keen  discrimination,  untiring  activity 
and  executive  power,  and  who  <jccupies  the  position  of  secretary  and  treas- 
urer of  the  Diamond  Ice  &-  Storage  Company  and  also  the  IMutual  Light  & 
Heat  Company. 

Mr.  Sackett  was  born  in  Eanesville,  Harrison  county,  Indiana,  March 
10,  1843.  The  family  is  a  very  old  one  in  America  and  Sackett  Harbor  is 
named  in  honor  of  its  early  representatives.     The  record  can  be  traced  back 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  657 

to  Colonel  Sackett,  who  constructed  ships  for  the  government  during  the 
Revolutionary  wpa:  The  grandfather  and  the  father  of  our  subject  both 
bore  the  name  of  Charles.  The  latter  was  born  in  Massachusetts  in  1820, 
went  with  his  family  to  Indiana,  l:)ecoming  a  very  active  and  influential  mem- 
ber of  his  community,  and  settling  in  Floyd  county  as  one  of  its  early  pio- 
neers. There  he  took  an  important  part  in  public  affairs  and  served  for  ten 
years  as  county  commissioner  and  for  eight  years  as  county  auditor.  He-  was 
also  a  member  of  the  city  council  of  New  Albany,  and  his  political  support 
was  given,  the  Wliig  party  in  early  life,  while  later  he  became  a  Democrat. 
In  Indiana  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Joyce,  a  daughter  of  William 
Gresham,  an  uncle  of  the  Hon.  Walter  Q.  Gresham,  who  served  as  secretary 
of  state  under  President  Cleveland.  Thirteen  children  were  born  of  this 
marriage,  of  whom  our  subject  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth  and  the  only 
one  now  living  in  Washington.  The  father  still  resides  in  Indiana  and  is 
now  eight}-nine  years  of  age,  jjut  the  mother  passed  away  at  the  age  of 
sixty rthree  years. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  George  E.  Sackett  pursued  his 
education  and  when  fifteen  }ears  of  age  entered  upon  his  business  career.  He 
served  for  eight  years  as  deputy  county  auditor  under  his  father  and  from 
that  time  until  1892  was  connected  with  the  iron  manufacturing  interests 
in  the  rolling  mill  of  -\ew  A11)any.  Thence  he  came  to  the  west,  and  after 
looking  over  the  countr}'  decided  to  locate  in  Seattle,  bringing  his  familv  to 
this  city  in  June,  1892.  He  and  Charles  E.  Crane  and  others  became  the 
owaiers  c»f  the  ice  plant,  which  was  then  but  an  insignificant  affair,  but  they 
have  developed  this  industry  until  the  plant  now  has  a  capacity  of  thirty  tons 
a  day.  They  are  also  doing  an  extensive  cold  storage  business  and  ha\'e 
lately  developed  a  steam  heating  industry,  furnishing-  heat  for  many  homes 
in  the  territory  hing  between  Madison  and  I'lke  streets.  In  the  electrical 
department  of  their  business  they  furnish  light  and  power  for  the  same  terri- 
tory. This  has  been  accomplished  only  by  the  most  earnest  and  active  effort, 
but  they  ha\e  succeeded  in  building-  up  a  fine  business  and  devote  their  entire 
attention  to  the  wf)rk,  vrhich  has  novr  proved  to  them  a  jirofitable  source  of 
income. 

In  Charleston,  Indiana,  on  the  25th  of  Octoijer,  1876,  Mr.  Sackett  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Mary  K.  Van  Hook,  a  daughter  of  William  Vim 
Hook,  a  druggist  of  that  place  and  a  representative  of  an  old  and  prominent 
family  of  Indiana.  Their  union  has  been  blessed  with  one  son  and  [\\o 
daughters,  Errett  Van  Hook,  who  is  now  in  the  electrical  department  of  the 
business  of  which  his  father  is  secretary  and  treasurer;  Martha  J.  and  Mar- 


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garet  ].,  who  are  at  home.  While  residing  in  Indiana  Mr.  Sackett  took  an 
active  part  in  the  work  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  fraternities,  but  has  not  been  connected  with  either  since 
coming  here.  He  has  given  his  attention  in  an  undivided  manner  to  his 
business  affairs.  He  possesses  most  excellent  organizing  and  managing 
capacity  and  in  the  successful  operation  of  the  industries  with  which  he  is 
connected  displays  superior  executive  power. 

G.  WARD  KEMP. 

(i.  Ward  Kemp,  who  is  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in  Seattle,  occu- 
pying a  pleasant  ofitice  in  the  Eurke  building,  w^as  born  at  Northeast,  Mary- 
land, at  the  headwaters  of  the  Chesapeake  bay,  on  February  ii.  1867.  Fie 
was  called  Ward  after  his  relatives  in  Rochester,  New  York,  Ferdinand 
\\'ard,  the  noted  W'^all  street  financier,  who  operated  there  wdth  Grant  in  the 
early  eig'hties,  being  his  second  cousin.  George  Kemp,  his  grandfather,  who 
married  Elizabeth  Miller,  was  a  native  of  England  and  about  1835  came  to 
America  and  declared  liis  intention  of  surrendering"  his  title  of  "gentleman" 
for  that  of  "American  citizen,"  and  settled  at  Blount  ^lorris,  New  York, 
\\here  he  became  largely  interested  in  farming.  The  maternal  grandmother 
of  Air.  G.  Ward  Kemp  was  an  Ashley,  and  a  descendant  of  the  Johnstones, 
whose  ancestry  could  be  traced  back  in  direct  line  through  an  old  Connecti- 
cut family  to  an  emigrant  who  came  to  the  new  ^vorld  on  the  ^Mayflower,  and 
she  was  also  related  to  the  Bristols  of  Ohio.  '  Mr.  Potter,  the  maternal  grand- 
father, was  a  cousin  of  Potter  Palmer,  the  millionaire  hotel  man  of  Chicago : 
he  was  a  Presbyterian  missionary  and  long  labored  among  the  Choctaw  and 
Cherokee  Indians  of  -Vrkansas ;  he  had  a  soldier's  claim  in  Minnesota  where 
St.  Paul  now  stands,  and  in  1850  took  up  his  abode  in  Augusta,  Michigan, 
and  spent  his  last  days  at  Niles,  Michigan,  where  his  death  occurred  at  the 
age  of  seventy-five  years.  His  widow  still  survives  and  is  now  eighty-five 
years  of  age,  and  both  these  worthy  people  were  educated  together  at  Ober- 
lin  College.  George  Kemp,  the  paternal  grandfather,  also  located  at  Au- 
gusta, Michigan,  where  he  died  when  about  eighty  years  of  age,  and  his  wife 
died  there  soon  after  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine. 

Edward  Kemp,  the  father  of  G.  Ward,  was  born  in  England  and  was 
about  two  years  of  age  when  his  parents  came  to  America.  He  was  edu- 
cated at  Olivet  College,  Michigan,  and  in  i860  married  Jennie  A.  Potter, 
who  had  been  educated  at  home  by  governesses.  Mr.  Kemp  turned  his  at- 
tention to  agricultural  pursuits  in  the  Wolverine  state,  but  in   i86q  moved 


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to  Maryland,  where,  owing  to  his  aboHtionist  tendencies,  he  did  not  receive 
a  very  cordial  welcome.  But  he  bought  a  tarm  on  the  eastern  shore  of 
Chesapeake  bay  and  engaged  in  farming  there  until  1884,  when  he  sold  out 
and  took  up  his  abode  at  Lansdale,  near  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania.  In 
1892,  owing  to  the  cold  climate,  the  family  came  west,  and  both  parents 
lived  near  El  Paso  de  Robles,  California,  until  January,  1903,  when  Mrs. 
Kemp  died.  In  their  family  were  seven  children,  of  whom  six  are  living: 
Elizabeth,  at  home;  Ellen  G.,  who  is  teaching  in  New  Jersey;  G.  Ward; 
Laura  Evangeline,  who  is  also  teacliing  in  New  Jersey;  Effie  J.,  the  wife 
of  John  Hudson,  at  Templeton,  California;  and  Bowdoin  P.,  who  is  a  den- 
tist at  Suisun  City,  near  San  Francisco,  and  in  1901  married  Louise  Pfau. 
G.  Ward  Kemp  pursued  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools,  and 
for  one  year  was  a  student  in  the  Dansville  Seminary,  at  Dansville,  New 
York.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  went  to  Salida,  Colorado,  and  learned  the 
machinist's  trade  in  the  shops  of  the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railroad,  where 
he  remained  four  years  and  saved  several  hundred  dollars,  which  he  de- 
termined to  spend  for  a  college  education.  According]}-  he  went  at  once  to 
the  Universitv  ot  JNlissouri,  where  he  remained  four  years,  and  in  1891  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws  and  in  1892  that  of  Master  of  Laws. 
He  was  a  po])ular  student  in  the  school  and  served  as  president  of  one  of  the 
literary  clubs  and  ^vas  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Bliss  Lyceum,  named 
in  honor  of  Judge  Bliss,  the  dean  of  the  law  department  of  the  university 
and  a  noted  ku\-  writer.  Mr.  Kemp  was  the  only  one  of  his  class  and  the 
first  person  to  win  the  degree  of  Master  of  Laws  from  the  university.  As 
soon  as  his  college  education  was  completed  he  went  to  California  and  began 
practice  in  San  Luis  Obispo,  where  he  remained  till  the  fall  of  1898,  when 
he  came  to  Seattle.  He  made  this  move  because  the  former  field  was  limited, 
and  he  decided  to  locate  in  a  large  city,  where  the  volume  of  legal  business 
would  be  greater.  In  1895  he  had  made  a  trip  to  the  north,  in  which  he 
visited  Portland.  Tacoma,  Seattle  and,  later.  Spokane  and  even  Alaska,  and 
came  to  the  conclusion  that  because  of  the  natural  resources  and  surround- 
ings of  Seattle  it  had  the  brightest  prospects  of  a  brilliant  future  and  accord- 
ingly he  esta1)1ished  his  home  here.  On  the  1st  of  January.  1899.  he  opened 
the  office  at  430-2  Burke  building,  where  he  has  since  remained.  A  leading 
case  with  ^vhich  he  was  connected  was  that  known  as  the  Brabon,  or  firemen, 
case,  in  which  lie  established  a  new  point  of  law,  namely,  the  liability  of  the 
city  for  personal  injuries  on  an  ungraded  street.  This  case  also  established 
the  fact  that  firemen  are  not  servants  of  the  city.  He  won  his  suit  here  for 
the  widow  and   upon  appeal  argued  the  case  in  01ym|)ia,   and   the  opinion 


66o  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

wliicli  was  given  in  July,  1902,  sustained  him.  The  judgment  of  eleven 
thousand  seven  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  uas  the  largest  for  personal  in- 
juries ever  given  against  the  city  of  Seattle.  While  in  California  Mr.  Kemp 
largely  engaged  in  the  practice  of  corporation  and  land  law,  but  he  has  not 
made  a  specialty  of  any  particular  branch  here  except  of  patent  law.  He 
has  conducted  a  number  of  damage  suits,  in  which  he  has  been  very  success- 
ful, and  has  had  some  noted  cases  in  bankruptcy  in  the  United  States  courts. 
lie  has  tried  nine  cases  in  the  supreme  courts,  and  of  the  four  tried  in.  Cali- 
fornia he  won  three  and  of  the  five  tried  in  this  state  he  has  won  all.  This  is  a 
remarkable  record  and  shows  that  he  is  possessed  of  Aery  superior  ability 
in  the  line  of  his  chosen  profession. 

Believing  firmly  in  the  principles  of  the  Republican  party.  Mr.  Kemp 
gives  to  it  his  political  support,  and  delivered  many  campaign  addresses  in 
the  first  year  in  which  William  McKinley  was  a  candidate  for  the  presidency. 
His  professional  duties,  however,  prevent  him  from  entering  actively  into 
politics.  He  belongs  to  St.  John's  Lodge  Xo.  9,  I^^  &  A.  M..  in  which  he 
served  as  junior  steward.  He  is  past  grand  of  Seattle  Lodge  No.  7,  I.  O. 
O.  F.,  and  is  also  a  member  of  Camp  No.  69,  W.  of  W".  He  belongs  to  St. 
Mark's  Episcopal  church,  is  director  of  St.  Mark's  chapter  of  the  Brother- 
hood of  St.  Andrew,  and  attended  as  one  of  its  delegates  at  the  convention 
in  Boston,  October,  1902.  He  is  one  of  the  lay  readers  and  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  the  church  choir  almost  continuously  during  his  residence  hei'e.  He 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  work  of  both  church  and  Sunday-school,  and 
in  the  latter  long  served  as  assistant  superintendent.  Fie  was  confirmed  when 
fifteen  years  old  by  Bishop  Lay,  of  Easton,  Maryland,  and  since  that  time 
has  labored  earnestly  to  extend  the  inlluence  and  promote  the  growth  of  the 
church.  Although  well  grounded  in  the  principles  of  common  law  at  his  ad- 
mission to  the  Ijcir.  he  has  ever  since  been  a  diligent  student  of  the  legal 
science,  and  this  knowledge  has  served  him  well  in  many  a  legal  battle  before 
superior  and  appellate  courts.  lie  always  prepares  his  cases  with  great  care, 
and  if  there  is  a  close  point  involved  in  the  issue,  it  is  his  habit  to  thoroughly 
examine  every  authority  bearing  upon  the  question,  and  this  makes  him  a 
very  dangerous  adversary. 

On  November  12,  1902,  Mr.  Kemp  was  married  in  St.  Mark's  church 
to  Miss  Charlotte  Leslie  Shannon,  who  was  born  November  15,  1880,  near 
Des  Moines,  Iowa,  and  received  her  educaion  at  the  public  schools  of  Omaha, 
Nebraska,  and  Jacksonville.  Florida,  later  attended  the  Young  Ladies'  Semi- 
nary  at  Salt  Lake  City.  Utah,  graduated  from  the  high  schools  of  both 
Crangeville,  Idaho,  and  North  Yakimn,  Washington,  completed  the  normal 


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course  at  Lewiston,  Idaho,  and  tinally  attended  Whitman  Colleg'e  at  \A'alla 
Walla,  W^ashington;  she  has  been  an  interested  student  of  Greek,  Latin  and 
the  modern  Romaic  languages,  mathematics  and  music,  and,  above  all  these 
accomplishments,  she  Jias  a  cliarming  personality.  Her  father  is  James  \A'. 
Shannon,  the  son  of  Isaac  Shannon  and  his  wife,  formerly  a  Miss  Endsley, 
both  from  Ohio.  Mr.  Shannon  is  a  cousin  of  Stephen  Glover,  the  musical 
composer,  and  also  of  James  Shannon,  the  owner  of  a  fine  stud  of  racing 
horses  at  Chicago.  For  the  past  twenty  years  Mr.  Shannon  has  been  en- 
gaged as  a  ci\il  engineer  and  mining  expert  in  Wyoming  and  Idaho,  for  the 
last  seven  years  holding  the  positions  of  United  States  deputy  mineral  sur- 
veyor for  Idaho  and  county  surveyor  of  Idaho  county,  Idaho.  Ph-ior  to 
coming  to  the  Avest  he  was  clerk  and  treasurer  of  Warren  county,  Io\va;  he 
brought  his  family  to  Seattle  in  1902.  His  wife's  maiden  name  was  Clara 
Eugenia  Bateman,  whose  mother  was  a  Marks,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  whose 
father  was  the  Rew  A.  L.  Sampson  Bateman,  a  relative  of  former  Governor 
Sampson  of  Vermont  and  a  direct  descendant  of  Lord  Bateman,  who,  like 
one  of  the  ancestors  of  Mr.  Kemp,  came  to  /\merica  on  the  Mayflower;  he 
was  also  an  uncle  of  the  inventor  WHiite,  well  known  for  his  sewing  ma- 
chines, and  was  first  cousin  of  Columbus  Delano,  secretary  of  the  interior 
under  President  Grant.  In  1840  Rev.  Bateman  was  sent  by  the  general 
Methodist  conference  to  California,  where  he  worked  as  a  missionary  among 
the  Mormons,  and  was  an  active  minister  for  forty-five  years,  till  his  death. 
After  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Shannon,  he  married 
the  widow  of  the  noted  evangelist  John  Liskip.  Mrs.  Shannon  was  the  first 
white  child  born  in  Carst)n  City,  Nevada.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kemp  are  now 
residing  in  their  own  home,  corner  of  Boylston  avenue  and  John  street,  a 
situation  which  commands  a  (ine  view  over  pp.rt  of  the  city  and  Puget  Sound, 
and  here  thev  delight  to  en.tertain  their  numerous  friends. 


'is' 


WILLIAM  H.  LORD. 

In  the  earlv  days  of  the  c()im[ry  the  I'orefathers  of  this  gentleman  came 
from  Ireland  and  settled  on  the  New  ILngland  coast.  William  Lord,  the 
father,  was  1x)rn  at  Vassalbor<'i,  Akune,  a1)ont  the  year  1795,  and  followed 
farming  in  that  state  until  1867,  when  he  went  to  Wright  county,  JMinne- 
sota,  where  he  lived  with  one  of  his  sons  till  his  death  in  1887;  his  wife. 
Eunice  Gardner,  was  born  on  the  island  of  Nantucket,  Massachusetts,  in 
1795,  and  died  at  China,  Kennebec  county.  Maine,  in  the  autumn  of  1863, 
lier  ])eople  bein.g  Quakers  and  coming  i'rom  bjigland. 


662  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

William  11.  Lord,  the  son  of  the  aljove  parents,  came  into  the  world  at 
Vassalbora,  Maine,  on  the  23d  day  of  Jnly,  1835,  and  when  he  was  three 
years  old  went  \\  ith  his  parents  to  China,  IMaine,  receiving  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  that  Aillage.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  left  home  and  worked 
for  one  summer  in  a  sawmill  at  Gardiner,  }»Iaine,  the  following  summer  in 
a  ship-yard  at  Damariscotta,  Maine,  and  during  the  winter  of  1855-56  was 
engaged  in  getting  out  ship  timbers  in  Virginia,  later  working  in  a  ship-yard 
ill  Thomaston,  Alaine.  In  the  fall  of  1836  he  was  married,  and  till  1859 
\\(^rked  on  a  farm  near  China ;  he  then  moved  to  Wright  county,  Minnesota, 
where  he  worked  in  a  sawmill  until  1862.  In  the  fall  of  that  year  he  enlisted 
in  the  Eighth  Minnesota  Volunteer  Infantry;  his  first  service  was  on  the 
western  frontier  under  General  Sully:  in  October,  1864,  the  regiment  was 
sent  south  to  ]\Iurfreesboro,  Tennessee,  serving  in  the  Twenty-third  Army 
Corps  under  General  Thomas  and  going  through  to  Charlotte,  North  Caro- 
lina, where  they  were  discharged  in  August,  1S65.  He  went  through  the 
entire  war  without  wounds  or  sickness. 

After  leaving  the  army  he  clerked  for  six  months  at  Monticello,  Minne- 
sota, and  in  the  fall  of  1867  established  himself  in  the  general  merchandising 
business  at  ButYalo,  the  same  state,  where  he  lived  for  six  years,  and  for  four 
years  acted  as  sheriff  of  Wright  county;  in  the  fall  of  1873  he  sold  out,  and, 
moving  to  Minneapolis,  took  a  position  as  traveling  salesman  with  Post  & 
Davis,  confectioners,  remaining  with  them  for  three  years ;  for  the  next  three 
years  Mr.  Lord  was  working  at  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Wright  county.  It 
was  in  the  fall  of  1884  that  he  came  to  Washington,  locating  on  a  section  of 
railroad  near  Polt,  King  county;  three  years  later,  selling  the  improvements 
on  the  land,  he  went  to  Seattle,  where  he  was  a  member  of  the  police  force 
for  a  year,  then  spent  six  months  in  the  real  estate  line,  and  in  March  of  1889 
returned  to  Tolt.  buying  a  general  store  and  hotel  located  on  the  banks  of  the 
Snoqualmie  river:  this  he  conducted  three  years.  He  then  built  the  Tolt 
Hotel  and  has  ever  since  catered  to  the  wants  of  the  traveling  public,  his  wide 
experience  of  affairs  and  men  making  him  an  ideal  host.  At  the  same  time 
he  cultivates  a  forty-acre  tract  of  land  in  the  valley. 

His  politics  are  Republican,  and  for  many  years  he  has  been  influential 
in  his  party,  in  1901  being  a  member  of  the  county  central  committee  and 
for  many  years  having  been  a  delegate  to  the  state  and  county  conventions. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Falls  City  Lodge  No.  66,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  Mr.  Lord 
has  been  twice  married;  in  1856,  at  China,  Maine,  he  became  the  husband  of 
Rosella  Hall,  who  was  born  in  that  village  in  1839  and  died  at  Monticello, 
Minnesota,  in  the  spring  of   1877,  leaving  four  children:     Winslow   H.,   a 


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contractor  at  Ballard,  Washington;  Tissett,  livin-  at  Buffalo  Minnesota 
the  widow  ot  V.  H.  Codv.  who  died  there  in  1901:  Eunice,  the  wife  of 
Lharles  Harvey  at  Monticello,  Minnesota;  and  Augusta,  who  died  in  1880 
at  the  age  of  ten  at  Buffalo.  Minnesota.  As  his  second  wife  he  took,  at  \1- 
bion,  Minnesota,  Eugenia  Jouanne,  born  in  Paris,  France,  in  i860,  and 
coming  to  this  country  with  her  parents  when  she  was  ten  years  old.  She 
is  the  mother  of  six  children :  Rose,  the  wife  of  John  Ogil'vie,  living  on  a 
farm  near  Tolt;  Eugene.  Leon,  Myrtle,  Roy  and  Violet. 

BENJAMIN  C.  LEVY. 

The  Republican  party  is  always  glad  to  welcome  into  its  ranks  men  of 
intelligence,  energy  and  loyalty,  and  there  is  no  one  in  Washington  to  wiicm 
these  attributes  could  be  more  aptly  applied  than  to  Mr.  Levy,  one  of  the 
representative  citizens  of  Seattle.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  politi- 
cal work  of  the  city,  and  for  more  than  eleven  years  has  capably  filled  the 
position  of  cashier  and  deputy  county  treasurer,  lia\ing  entered  upon  the 
duties  of  that  office  in  August,  1891.  He  has  also  been  a  witness  of  most  of 
the  growth  and  de\'eIopment  of  Seattle,  as  he  arrived  here  immediatelv  after 
the  fire  in  1889,  when  it  was  a  city  of  tents. 

Mr.  Levy  was  born  at  Metz,  Trance,  on  May  i,  1847.  but  the  family 
came  to  this  country  when  he  was  only  six  months  old,  so  that  he  is  practi- 
cally a  native  American  citizen.  He  pursued  his  education  in  the  scho<^ls  of 
Milwaukee  and  New  York,  and  also  in  the  College  of  New  York  in  the  latter 
city.  He  was  only  sixteen  years  of  age  when  he  enlisted  as  a  member  of 
Company  A,  Fourteenth  Lmited  States  Infantry.  The  regiment  was  as- 
signed to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  as  a  part  of  the  First  Brigade,  Second 
Division,  Fifth  Army  Corps,  and  he  participated  in  the  battles  of  Kelly's 
Ford  and  Mine  Run,  after  which  he  was  sent  back  to  the  hospital  at  the 
headquarters  at  Fort  Trumbull,  Connecticut;  after  recovering  his  health  he 
served  for  three  months  as  provost  guard  in  Richmond.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  the  regiment  was  recruited  at  Hart's  Island  in  New  York  liarlxM-  and 
was  sent  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  to  California.  arri\-ing  at  San 
Francisco  on  December  jo.  1865.  Flis  discharge  ])apers  followed  him,  how- 
ever, and  on  the  17th  of  the  same  month  he  left  the  service. 

Mr.  Levy  is  an  ardent  Republican,  and  in  August,  1891,  he  was  ap- 
pointed deputy  county  treasurer  of  King  county,  and  no  higher  testimc^iial 
of  his  worth  could  be  given  than  that  he  has  been  retained  in  this  position 
ever  since,  although  during  six  years  of  this  period  the  Democratic  parly 


664  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

u-as  in  control  of  tiie  office.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  St.  John's  Lodge 
No.  9,  F.  &  A.  M,  Seattle  Chapter  No.  3,  R.  A.  M.,  and  is  a  charter  member 
of  Rainier  Council  No.  1399  of  the  Royal  Arcanum.  He  is  likewise  a  mem- 
ber of  John  F.  Miller  Post  No.  31,  G.  A.  R.,  of  which  he  is  commander. 

WILLIAM  BEATTIE. 

For  more  than  a  score  of  years  this  sterling  citizen  and  honored  busi- 
ness man  of  Seattle  has  been  a  resident  of  this  city,  and  his  fortunes  have 
varied  with  her  epochs  of  prosperity  and  depression,  but  his  steadfastness  of 
purpose,  indomitable  energy,  stanch  integrity  and  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  line  of  enterprise  to  which,  he  has  devoted  his  attention  have  proved 
adequate  to  enable  him  to  overcome  obstacles,  recoup  losses  and  win  prece- 
dence as  one  of  the  successful  and  representative  business  men  of  the  city. 
He  is  the  senior  member  of  the  wagon  manufacturing  and  general  black- 
smithing  firm  of  Beattie  &  Son,  v.-hose  well  equipped  establishment  is  located 
at  Nos.  1612-14-16  Fourth  avenue. 

William  Beattie  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Michigan,  having  been  born 
in  the  town  of  Dexter,  Washtenaw  county,  on  the  9th  of  February,  1832, 
the  son  of  William  and  Dorothea  (Robson)  Beattie,  the  former  of  whom 
was  born  in  the  highlands  of  Scotlanrl  and  the  latter  in  England.  William 
Beattie.  Sr.,  emigrated  to  America  when  a  young  man,  about  the  year  1825, 
locating  in  the  state  of  New  York.  In  Ontario  county,  that  state,  he  married 
Dorothea  Robson,  \\ho  had  come  with  her  parents  to  America  when  a  child. 
Soon  after  their  marriage  they  started  for  the  wilds  of  Michigan,  making' 
th.e  journey  by  means  of  team  and  wagon.  He  located  in  Livingston  county, 
where  he  secured  a  tract  of  eighty  acres  of  heavily  timbered  land,  subse- 
quently adding  to  the  same  until  lie  was  the  owner  of  two  hundred  acres, 
wh.ich,  with  the  assistance  of  his  sons,  he  cleared  and  placed  under  cultiva- 
tion. There  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life  in  agricultural  pursuits,  his 
death  occurring  about  the  year  1876.  Flis  first  wife  died  in  1850,  anfl  he 
subsequently  married  Charlotte  Emmett,  who  is  likewise  deceased.  The 
father  of  our  subject  was  a  man  of  unassuming  character,  of  inflexible  in- 
tegrity and  was  one  of  the  world's  earnest  workers,  commanding  unquali- 
fied confidence  and  esteem.  In  his  political  proclivities  he  was  a  Democrat, 
and  his  religious  faith  was  that  of  th.e  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  By  the 
first  marriage  there  were  six  children,  of  whom  four  lived  to  attain  years  of 
maturity,  and  of  these  three  sur\-i\c.  Of  the  four  we  may  record  that  Archi- 
bald, who  was  born  in  New  York,  died  in  Michigan  in  1899,  having  attained 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  665 

a   venerable  age;   Anna   is  the  wife  of   Andrew   Sharp,   of  that  state;   and 
James  also  lives  in  Michigan. 

William  Beattie  was  reared  on  the  old  homestead  farm  in  Livingston 
county.  Michigan,  early  beginning  to  contribute  his  quota  to  the  work  of 
reclaiming  and  cultivating  the  same,  while  his  educational  privileges  were 
such  as  were  afforded  in  the  district  school,  two  miles  distant  from  his  home, 
his  attendance  being  limited  to  the  short  winter  months,  as  was  the  case 
with  the  a\'erage  farmer  boy  of  the  locality  and  period.  He  continued  to 
assist  in  the  work  of  the  farm  until  he  had  attained  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
when  he  decided  to  adopt  the  vocation  of  a  mechanic,  with  which  object  in 
view  he  entered  a  blacksmith  shop  at  Howell,  Livingston  county,  where  he 
served  a  three  years'  apprenticeship  and  then  remained  for  the  succeeding 
fou.r  years  in  the  employ  of  his  instructor.  VV'ithin  this  period,  on  the  iSth 
of  February,  1859,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Jeanette  Melvin,  who 
was  born  in  How^ell,  a  daugher  of  Rodney  and  Melvina  (Sharp)  Melvin, 
both  of  whom  were  natives  of  the  state  of  New  York.  From  Howell  Mr. 
Beattie  removed  to  Marshall,  Michigan,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  work 
of  his  trade  for  tlu'ee  years,  then  returning  to  the  employ  of  his  old  master  in 
Howell  for  an  equal  period,  thereafter  passing  three  years  in  Ionia,  same 
state,  after  which  he  again  removed  to  Howell,  where  he  purchased  the  entire 
business  of  his  former  employer,  who  was  then  carrying  on  an  excellent  busi- 
ness in  the  manufacturing  of  carriages  and  wagons,  this  having  been  before 
tlie  machine  work  of  the  later  years  had  displaced  the  old  and  reliable  hand 
productions  in  this  line.  Mr.  Beattie  continued  to  conduct  the  enterprise  suc- 
cessfully, and  that  his  operations  were  of  no  inconsiderable  scope  may  be 
recognized  when  we  revert  to  the  fact  that  he  had  in  his  employ  about  twenty 
workmen. 

In  the  year  1870  ATr.  Beattie  met  with  a  most  grievous  loss  and  be- 
reavement, his  wife  being  fatally  burned  by  the  explosion  of  a  lamp,  leaving 
him  with  four  motherless  children.  He  then  left  the  three  younger  children 
with  their  maternal  grandparents  and^  in  company  with  his  eldest  son,  Wal- 
ter J.,  started  for  Sonoma  county,  California.  Upon  his  arrival  he  engaged 
in  the  work  of  his  trade  at  Cloverdale  and  there  remained  about  three  years, 
then  taking  passage  for  Portland,  Oregon,  on  the  ill-fated  steamer  Great 
Republic,  which  v,-as  stranded  and  burned  on  the  lower  Columbia  river,  our 
subject  and  his  son,  vvith  the  other  passengers,  being  rescued  from  the  wreck 
by  a  governmeiit  boat,  while  severnl  of  the  crew  lost  their  lives.  Mr.  Beattie 
engaged  in  the  work  of  his  trade  at  Roseburg,  Oregon,  for  a  time,  and  then, 

in  December,   1880,  came  to  Washington,  spending  one  season  in  the  Ruby 
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666  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Stake  countr>'  and  then  locating  in  Seattle,  where  he  opened  a  blacksmith 
shop  and  where  he  has  ever  since  maintained  his  home.  His  first  shop  was 
located  in  Madison  street,  near  Railroad  avenue,  and  there  he  built  up  a  good 
business  in  blacksmithing  and  general  repair  work,  but  he  lost  all  that  he  had 
accumulated  in  the  great  fire  that  swept  the  city  in  1889,  his  loss  aggregating 
about  six  thousand  dollars.  Not  daunted  by  this  great  misfortune,  he  opened 
business  in  another  shop,  on  the  site  of  the  present  Times  building,  and  his 
enterprise  was  conducted  with  such  ability  and  discretion  that  its  growth 
has  been  very  gratifying.  In  igor  Mr.  Beattie  erected  his  present  building, 
which  is  two  stories  in  height  and  sixty  feet  square,  and  here  he  is  associated 
with  his  sons,  Walter  J.  and  Frank  R.,  in  the  conducting  of  a  general  black- 
smithing  and  repairing  business  and  also  the  manufacture  of  the  best  grade 
of  delivery  wagons  and  heavy  trucks,  employment  being  given  to  a  corps  of 
ten  capable  workmen. 

In  politics  Mr.  Beattie  gives  an  unfaltering  support  to  the  principles  of 
the  Democratic  party,  in  whose  ranks  he  has  been  an  active  worker,  having 
been  a  member  of  the  county  central  committee  and  a  delegate  to  various 
party  conventions.  He  has  never  sought  official  preferment  in  the  gift  of  his 
party  since  coming  to  Washington,  but  while  living  in  Michigan  he  held  a 
number  of  local  offices.  Fraternally  he  was  identified  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  while  a  resident  of  Michigan,  but  has  never  main- 
tained active  affiliation  in  the  west.  Of  the  four  children  of  our  subject  we 
enter  brief  record,  as  follows:  Walter  J.  is  the  junior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Beattie  &  Son;  Frank  is  also  connected  with  his  father  in  business; 
Elbert  is  an  electrician  in  Seattle;  and  Minnie  is  the  wife  of  Grant  Bicer,  a 
stockman  of  Hunter's  Hot  Springs,  Montana. 

GEORGE   W.    TIBBETTS. 

The  history  of  the  lives  of  some  men  who  have  won  success  in  life 
contains  very  little  that  could  be  termed  "sensational,"  while  that  of  others, 
equally  successful,  has  so  many  varied  and  interesting  phases  that  it  is 
almost  like  a  romance;  George  W.  Tibbetts  has  had  a  career  of  unusual 
interest  and  he  has  experienced  many  of  the  ups  and  downs  of  a  long  course 
of  public  and  commercial  activity.  His  father,  Daniel  was  born  in  the 
same  house  as  he  himself,  in  the  year  1782,  of  Scotch-Irish  lineage,  fol- 
lowed farming  as  an  occupation,  and  died  in  1855;  l^is  wife  was  of  the 
same  stock,  was  born  in  the  same  place  about  1824  and  died  in  December, 
1845,  when  the  son  George  was  not  a  year  old. 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  667 

George  Tibbetts  was  born  at  Acton,  Maine,  on  January  22,  1845. 
When  four  years  of  age  he  went  to  hve  with  his  uncle,  Josiah  Whitmore,  in 
Strafford  county.  New  Hampshire,  and  there  received  his  education  in  the 
pubHc  schools;  but  when  he  was  fifteen  years  of  age  he  ran  away  from  home 
and  for  a  year  worked  on  a  farm  near  Great  Falls,  New  Hampshire.  At 
the  age  of  sixteen,  in  July,  1861,  he  enlisted  in  Company  F,  Fourth  New 
Hampshire  Infantry,  in  which  he  served  till  the  close  of  the  war  and  re- 
enlisted  as  a  veteran  on  February  20,  1864,  at  Morris  Island,  South  Car- 
olina; the  first  three  years  of  his  service  was  in  the  Tenth  Army  Corps, 
Department .  of  the  South,  and  on  leaving  South  Carolina  he  joined  the 
Army  of  the  James  under  General  Butler.  He  participated  in  the  principal 
battles  of  that  great  conflict  and  on  the  12th  of  August.  1864,  at  the  battle 
of  Deep  Bottom  on  the  James  river,  near  Richmond,  he  was  taken  prisoner, 
and  for  nearly  a  year  endured  all  the  frightful  sufferings  of  northern  soldiers 
in  the  prisons  at  Libby,  Belle  Isle  and  Salisbury.  He  was  mustered  out 
of  the  service  as  a  paroled  prisoner  at  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  on  June 
30,  1865. 

Prison  life  had  so  undermined  his  health  that  he  was  advised  to  go 
west,  and  so  in  the  fall  of  1865  he  went  to  Moniteau  county,  Missouri, 
where  he  attended  school  for  six  months.  He  then  entered  into  partner- 
ship with  Lorain  Baker,  of  Ohio,  and  they  conducted  a  general  nierchandis- 
ing  business  in  Moniteau  and  Morgan  counties.  Then  selling  out  to  his 
partner,  Mr.  Tibbetts  for  six  months  carried  on  a  store  alone  at  Butler, 
Bates  county,  Missouri ;  he  then  went  to  Newtonia,  Newton  county,  and 
became  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Tibbetts,  Wilson  &  Company,  en- 
gaged in  general  mercantile  and  banking  business;  this  was  continued  until 
1870,  when  he  disposed  of  his  interests  and  moved  to  Clackamas  county, 
Oregon,  where  for  one  year  he  farmed.  In  1871  he  boug'ht  one  hundred 
and  sixty  acres  of  land  in  King  coimty,  Washington,  in  Squak  valley,  near 
the  head  of  Squak  lake  (now  called  Sammamish  lake),  and  he  has  made 
this  his  permanent  home  ever  since. 

Mr.  Tibbetts  made  many  improvements  on  this  place  and  for  years 
was  extensively  engaged  in  hop-raising,  dairying  and  general  farming,  be- 
sides his  own  place  having  a  number  of  rented  farms;  in  i88t  he  erected 
an  extensive  hotel  and  store  on  the  farm  and  in  1882  established  a  stage 
line  from  Seattle  to  Lake  Washington,  thence  by  boat  to  Belmont  and  I-ake 
Sammamish,  and  from  there  by  stage  to  North  Bend,  operating  in  con- 
nection with  the  Columbia  and  Puget  Sound  Railroad;  on  the  completion 


668  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

of  the  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  and  Eastern  Railroad  to  North  Bend  in  1889 
he  discontinued  the  stage  line.  In  1888,  when  the  town  of  Issaquah  was 
laid  out.  Air.  Tibbetts  put  up  a  large  two-story  building,  and  moved  his 
business  to  this  point,  which  was  the  first  business  house  in  the  town  and 
which  for  several  years  has  been  occupied  by  the  Issaquah  Coal  Company. 
In  1889  he  built  a  store  at  Snoqualmie,  and  later  in  company  with  S.  D. 
Gusten  erected  the  Cascadia  Hotel  and  store  at  North  Bend.  In  1893,  when 
in  the  full  enjoyment  of  great  prosperity,  the  financial  panic  wdiich  wrecked 
so  many  swept  away  nearly  all  of  his  extensive  possessions ;  at  that  time 
besides  his  stores  and  other  business  interests  he  had  about  two  thousand 
acres  of  the  finest  land  in  King  county  under  cultivation ;  his  losses  in  hard 
cash  amounted  to  over  one  hundred  thousand  dollars.  The  hard  work 
and  the  shock  resulting  from  the  loss  of  the  accumulation  of  years  impaired 
his  health,  and  for  six  years  he  practically  retired  from  active  work ;  but 
in  1 90 1  he  started  in  to  restore  his  fortunes  by  establishing  a  general  store 
at  Issaquah  and  has  since  enjoyed  a  thriving  trade.  Among  the  various 
lines  that  he  engaged  in  was  the  dairy  and  hop  business,  from  1896  to  1903, 
being  president  of  the  Dwamish  Dairy  Association  of  King  county,  and  he 
shipped  the  first  can  of  milk  ever  sent  to  Seattle. 

Air.  Tibbetts  has  been  a  life-long  Republican  and  for  nearly  thirty 
years  has  been  prominent  in  the  public  afl^airs  of  King  county.  In  1876 
he  was  elected  to  the  territorial  legislature,  was  the  first  postmaster  at  Ren- 
ton  and  was  justice  of  the  peace  there  from  1875  to  1878.  and  was  the 
postmaster  at  Squak  from  1878  to  1886;  in  1884  he  was  elected  brigadier 
general  of  the  Washington  State  National  Guards  and  served  for  two  years; 
he  was  chairman  of  the  Republican  county  central  committee:  in  1888  he 
was  nominated  by  acclamation  for  representative  of  his  state,  but  he  de- 
clined. He  was  elected  a  member  of  the  constitutional  convention  that 
framed  the  state  constitution  in  1889.  In  November.  1902,  he  was  elected 
to  the  house  of  representatives  of  the  eighth  legislative  assembly  of  Wash- 
ington and  is  now  a  member. 

In  1899  lie  was  elected  department  commander  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic  for  Washington  and  Alaska,  which  he  had  helped  organize 
in  1878,  being  the  first  senior  vice  commander  of  Stevens  Post  No.  i.  at 
Seattle.  He  joined  the  Masonic  order  at  Falls  City.  Washington,  in  1890. 
was  a  charter  member  and  one  of  the  organizers  of  Alyrtle  Lodge  at  Issa- 
quah in  1899.  and  holds  membership  in  the  Scottish  Rite  chapter  of  the 
order  at  Seattle.  In  18S3  he  joined  Harmony  Lodge.  Knights  of  Pythias, 
at   Seattle  and  transferred  to  Triangle  Lodge  at  Issaciuah  in    1888.  being 


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SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  669 

a  charter  member  also  of  the  Rathbone  Sisters.  In  1875,  he  became  a 
member  of  Oh've  Branch  Lodge  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows at  Seattle  and  demitted  to  Gillman  Lodge  at  Issaquah  in  1889,  being- 
past  chief  patriarch  of  Unity  Encampment  No  2.  of  Seattle,  and  member 
of  Rebecca  Lodge  at  Issaqnah.  He  belongs  to  the  Order  of  Washington 
at   Issaquah. 

On  March  11,  1868,  at  Carthage,  Jasper  county,  Missouri,  Mr.  Tib- 
betts  became  the  husband  of  Rebecca  A.  Wilson,  who  was  born  in  Moniteau 
county  of  that  state  on  August  15,  1849,  ^iitl  was  the  daughter  of  S.  W. 
Wilson,  a  prominent  farmer  of  that  county.  Of  the  seven  children  born 
to  them,  three  are  now  living:  Ida  M.,  who  is  the  wife  of  John  M.  Goode, 
a  merchant  at  Noah  Bend,  was  born  in  the  first  log  cabin  built  in  Squak 
valley.  made  historical  by  the  murder  of  the  Castro  family  there  on  No- 
vember 7,  1864;  the  cabin  was  built  by  Thomas  Russel  in  1863.  George 
\\'ilson  was  born  at  Renton,  Washington,  on  June  18,  1877,  was  educated 
in  th.e  schools  at  Issaquah,  and  until  1897  remained  at  home,  a  valuable 
assistant  in  his  father's  business ;  in  that  year  he  and  his  brother-in-law, 
John  M.  Goode,  made  a  trip  to  Alaska  with  a  lot  of  goods  which  they  dis- 
posed of  so  advantageously  that  they  returned  and  in  1899  bought  the 
store  and  hotel  at  North  Bend  which  had  been  established  by  Gusten  and 
Tibbetts  in  1891  ;  he  is  now  the  postmaster  at  that  place.  Fred  S.,  the 
youngest  son,  is  in  business  with  his  father  at  Issac[uah. 

GEORGE  JAMES. 

George  James  is  the  senior  member  and  manager  of  the  Variety  Iron 
Works  Company,  iron  founders  and  manufacturers.  This  business  was 
established  by  i\Ir.  James  in  1889  and  has  been  under  his  control  since  that 
time.  In  1899  it  was  incorporated,  Mr.  James  continuing  as  manager.  The 
enterprise  has  become  one  of  the  most  representative  of  the  industrial  inter- 
ests of  the  northwest.  All  the  products  of  the  factory  are  of  a  superior  grade, 
both  in  casting  and  manufacturing. 

The  width  of  the  continent  separates  Mr.  James  from  the  place  of  his 
birth,  for  he  is  a  native  of  New  York  city,  born  on  September  17,  1858,  of  a 
family  of  English  lineage.  xA.lfred  James,  his  father,  was  a  native  of  Eng- 
land, but  becoming  a  lover  of  civil  liberty  he  joined  a  charter  mo\-ement  in 
England  and  because  of  this  was  obliged  to  leave  his  native  land  and  come 
to  America.  He  was  married  in  London  to  Miss  Martha  Porch,  whose 
father  was  a  celebrated  artist :  the  one  child  born  to  them  in  London,  Adrian 


670  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

Rienzie.  is  now  in  New  York  city.  Thirteen  children  were  added  to  the  fam- 
ily circle  in  America's  metropolis,  where  for  a  number  of  years  the  father 
was  a  prominent  merchant  tailor.  He  was  ever  a  lover  of  liberty  and  op- 
posed to  oppression  in  every  form,  and  the  first  Cuban  rebellion  was  planned 
in  his  house,  and  he  became  a  filibuster  and  went  to  Cuba  in  1869.  Their 
ship,  the  Hornet,  was  captured  by  the  United  States  authorities  while  coaling 
at  Wilmington,  North  Carolina,  and  he  then  returned  home,  where  he  died 
from  tlie  effects  of  a  surgical  operation  made  necessary  by  ill  health.  Of  the 
fourteen  children  in  his  family  eight  are  now  living,  and  his  wife  also  sur- 
vives him  in  the  seventieth  year  of  her  age. 

George  James  was  educated  in  New  York  and  learned  his  trade  in  that 
city,  after  which  he  engaged  in  business  there  and  later  in  Chicago.  He 
arrived  in  Seattle  in  October,  1889,  with  seven  and  a  half  dollars  in  his 
pocket.  He  had  not  enough  money  to  bring  his  wife  and  two  children  with 
him  from  Chicago,  but  he  had  earned  enough  within  six  weeks  in  this  thriv- 
ing city  of  the  northwest  to  send  for  them,  and  it  was  a  happy  meeting  when 
they  reached  him  in  his  new  home  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He  had  been  mar- 
ried in  1877  to  Miss  Mary  McCastland.  Charles,  George  and  Maude  were 
born  to  them  in  Chicago,  Fred,  who  was  born  in  Chicago,  is  dead,  and  Min- 
nie, born  in  Seattle,  is  also  deceased.  His  good  wife,  who  passed  with  him 
through  all  the  early  trials  and  was  ever  an  able  assistant,  departed  this  life 
on  October  17,  1900.  This  had  been  a  happy  married  life,  covering  a  period 
of  twenty-three  years,  and  her  loss  was  most  deeply  felt  by  husband  and 
children. 

Mr.  James'  path  to  success  in  this  city  was  not  a  flowery  one,  although 
it  started  out  in  a  promising  manner.  He  secured  a  position  with  a  firm  in 
Ballard.  Ijut  not  long  afterward  his  employers  failed,  and  he  then  began  work 
for  the  Washington  Iron  Works,  but  was  forced  to  leave  because  he  was  not 
a  resident  molder,  although  he  was  a  member  of  the  union,  their  opposition 
being  because  he  ^^•as  an  eastern  man.  He  then  found  a  man  who  had  a 
little  shop  in  the  woods,  and  there  he  began  the  manufacture  of  iron  special- 
ties in  ])lumbing  goods.  The  next  seven  months  was  a  hard  struggle,  but  at 
the  end  of  that  time  a  gentleman  bought  out  Mr.'  James'  partner,  and  the 
Dwyer  Manufacturing  Company  was  organized.  After  they  had  conducted 
this  for  twenty  months  they  built  the  present  plant  on  the  tide  flats.  In  1894 
Charles  Mulcahey  purchased  the  interests  of  the  Dwyer  Brothers,  and  with 
Mr.  James'  interests  organized  the  Variety  Iron  Works,  and  under  this  ar- 
rangement it  grew  in  volume  as  the  city  increased  in  population.  J.  B.  C. 
Lockwood  finally  purchased  Mr.  Mulcahey \s  interest,  and  the  business  was 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  671 

then  enlarged,  and  under  the  direction  of  Mr.  James  they  branched  out  into 
the  manufacture  of  machinery  and  did  jobbing  work.  The  shop  was 
equipped  for  a  heavy  class  of  work  and  success  attended  the  enterprise.  A 
little  later  Mr.  Lockwood  sold  his  interest  to.  Charles  Fleehart,  and  after 
some  months  Mr.  James  purchased  the  latter  s  interest.  Some  time  later  he 
sold  a  half  interest  to  the  Puget  Sound  Machinery  Company,  and  the  busi- 
ness was  incorporated  with  J.  H.  Perkins  as  president,  Thomas  Green  as 
secretary,  and  Mr.  James  as  manager.  From  the  time  of  the  incorporation 
the  business  of  the  house  has  steadily  increased  in  volume,  and  they  now 
manufacture  all  kinds  of  the  heaviest  work  in  iron,  and  have  placed  machin- 
ery in  many  of  the  leading  business  blocks  of  the  city  and  a  number  of  saw- 
mills in  the  state  and  furnished  the  iron  construction  for  many  of  the  county 
bridges.  Their  trade  extends  all  over  the  state  and  even  into  other  states. 
Mr.  James  has  prospered  with  the  growth  of  the  enterprise  and  with  the 
growth  of  the  city,  and  as  his  financial  resources  have  been  enlarged  he  has 
made  judicious  investments,  until  he  now  owns  considerable  city  property, 
including  various  tide-land  lots  and  residences.  The  company's  plant,  which 
is  located  on  the  tide  flats  at  1241  to  1245  Utah  street,  covers  two  full  lots, 
and  is  one  of  the  best  equipped  in  the  northwest. 

Mr.  James  is  a  member  of  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  the  World  and  of 
the  Manufacturer's  Association.  He  is  an  expert  molder,  thoroughly  reliable 
in  business,  a  good  citizen,  and  is  deeply  interested  in  the  welfare  of  Seattle. 
His  career  is  certainlv  a  creditable  and  honorable  one,  for  in  the  face  of  op- 
position, meeting  untold  difficulties  and  obstacles,  he  has  steadily  advanced, 
and  to-day  stands  among  the  prosperous  men  of  the  northwest,  enjoying 
success  and  also  the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  comes  in 
contact. 

C.  E.  JOHNSON. 

C.  E.  Johnson  has  always  resided  upon  the  Pacific  coast,  and  the  true 
spirit  of  western  progress  and  advancement  is  exemplified  in  his  career.  He 
was  born  in  Woodland,  California,  May  8,  1866,  a  son  of  Corbley  and  Jennie 
(Pool)  Johnson,  the  former  born  in  Ohio  in  1825  and  the  latter  in  Indiana 
in  1845.  I"  early  life  the  father  engaged  in  merchandising,  following  that 
pursuit  in  Ohio,  Indiana,  Wisconsin,  Kansas  and  Texas.  In  the  early  six- 
ties he  went  to  Woodland,  California,  and  later  to  Paso  Robles,  where  he 
lias  since  been  engaged  in  farming,  he  and  his  wife  still  residing  there. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  C.  E.  Johnson  acquired  his  early 


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education,  which  was  supplemented  by  study  in  the  University  of  Southern 
Cahfornia  at  Los  Angeles,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the  class  of  1883. 
Through  the  three  succeeding  years  he  was  engaged  in  farming  in  San  Luis 
Obispo  county,  California,  and  from  1887  until  1890  he  made  his  home  in 
Los  Angeles/  In  the  latter  year  and  in  1891  he  worked  for  the  Electric 
Improvement  Company  at  San  Jose,  California,  and  from  1891  until  1900 
was  with  the  construction  department  of  the  Edison  Electric  Light  &  Power 
Company  of  San  Francisco.  In  May  of  the  latter  year  he  came  to  Seattle 
to  accept  a  position  with  the  Seattle  Electric  Company,  and  in  September, 
1901,  he  took  charge  of  the  sub-station  of  the  Snoqualmie  Falls  Power  Com- 
pany at  Issaquah,  acting  as  patrolman  from  Renton  to  the  falls,  a  distance  of 
nineteen  miles. 

Mr.  Johnson  is  an  active  worker  in  the  Republican  ranks  and  was  ap- 
pointed police  judge  by  the  Issaquah  town  council  in  January,  1902.  He  is 
always  interested  in  everything  pertaining  to  the  welfare  and  improvement 
of  the  town  and  has  co-operated  in  many  movements  for  the  general  welfare 
of  the  community.  In  San  Francisco,  in  1897,  Mr.  Johnson  was  united  in 
marriage  to  -Miss  Elmira  Scofield,  who  was  born  in  W' atsonville,  California, 
and  they  have  one  child,  Dorothy,  ■  aged  four  years. 

CHARLES  FI.  BEBB. 

Charles  H.  Bebb,  of  the  firm  of  Bel)b  &  Mendel,  is  one  of  the  leading 
architects  of  Seattle  and  a  man  whose  standing  in  the  business  community 
might  well  be  envied.  His  work  is  of  the  highest  order,  and  when  he  under- 
takes a  commission  it  is  a  guarantee  that  it  will  be  conscientiously  performed. 
He  first  came  to  Seattle  in  1890.  as  supervising  architect  for  the  firm  of 
Adler  8z  Sullivan,  of  Chicago,  to  take  charge  of  the  construction  of  an  opera 
house  and  hotel  building  that was  projected  for  the  corner  of  Second  avenue 
and  University  street,  but  the  plan  was  not  consummated,  owing  to  the 
failure  of  Baring  Brothers.  Returning  to  Chicago,  he  remained  with 
Messrs.  Adler  &  Sullivan  as  head  superintendent  until  the  fall  of  1893.  when 
he  was  again  induced  to  come  to  Seattle,  accepting  the  position  of  archi- 
tectural engineer  with  the  Denny  Clay  Company,  who  at  that  time  enlarged 
tlieir  plant  by  the  establishment  of  a  branch  for  the  manufacture  of  archi- 
tectural terra  cotta.     He  remained  with  the  firm  for  five  vears. 

A  native  of  England,  Mr.  Bebb  was  born  in  Surrey,  April  10.  1858. 
After  passing  through  King's  College.  London,  and  a  preparatory  school  in 
Switzerland,  he  passed  into  the  University  at  Lausanne,  but  soon  afterw^ard 


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returned  to  London  to  a  private  tutor.  L[e  next  took  up  a  course  of  civil 
engineering  at  the  School  of  ]\ lines,  l^ut  before  his  graduation  went  to  South 
Africa,  where  he  was  connected  for  fire  years  witli  the  engineering  depart- 
ment of  the  Cape  government  railways  in  the  western  division.  A  tempo- 
rary cessation  of  construction  was  the  cause  of  his  return  to  England,  and 
it  was  shortly  afterward  that  he  decided  to  come  to  Chicago,  having  in  project 
a  position  with  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  then  being  built  in  Texas. 
Upon  arriving  in  Chicago,  ho^vever,  and  studying  the  then  existing  con- 
ditions he  felt  that  better  opportunities  existed  in  that  city  than  railroad 
work  in  Texas  might  offer.  It  was  just  al^out  this  time  that  the  modern 
high  steel  construction  fire-proof  building  was  evolving,  the  art  of  fire- 
proofing"  as  applied  to  buildings  being  in  its  primitive  stages.  The  subject 
was  one  that  might  well  ha\e  appealed  to  any  engineer,  and  it  appealed  to 
him  forcibly  and  at  once.  He  became  connected  with  the  Illinois  Terra 
Cotta  Lumber  Company,  and  in  a  A-ery  sliort  time  was  appointed  construc- 
tion engineer  for  the  firm,  with  full  charge  of  alj  their  work.  The  part 
taken  by  this  company  under  his  management  in  the  development  of  fire- 
proof construction  is  well  known  in  the  middle  west.  It  was  a  question  in 
those  days  not  of  securing  work,  which  was  plentiful,  but  of  making  a  rec- 
ord of  thorough  and  practical  efficiency  in  the  manner  and  methods  of 
carrying  out  the  work,  so  that  it  might  be  said  of  any  of  the  fire-proof  build- 
ings that  the  last  one  built  was  most  practically  fire-proof.  j\lr.  Bebb  de- 
voted all  the  thought  and  energy  of  an  acti\-e  mind  in  this  direction,  and 
in  1888,  when  the  contract  for  the  fire-proofing  of  the  great  Chicago  Audi- 
toriurn  was  awarded  to  his  company  through  his  individual  exertions,  he 
appreciated  fully  the  reward  of  his  efforts,  this  contract  being  the  largest  of 
its  kind  at  that  time  ever  awarded  in  this  or  any  other  country.  The  Chamber 
of  Commerce  building  and  the  Monon  block  are  others  among  a  long  list 
of  important  buildings  fire-proofed  under  his  direction.  In  addition  to  his 
regular  work  he  contributed  articles  to  the  technical  press,  among  them  being 
a  paper  entitled  "Fire  Losses  in  Fire-proof  Buildings,"  issued  in  the  Engi- 
neering Magazine  in  February,  1893,  which  received  general  comment 
throughout  the  country  and  is  being  reprinted  in  Europe  and  Australia. 

When  the  Chicago  Auditorium  was  nearing  completion  Mr.  Beljb  re- 
ceived an  offer  from  the  architects  of  the  building,  Messrs.  Adler  &  Sullivan, 
which  he  felt  would  be  to  his  advantage  to  accept,  and  he  assumed  the  duties 
of  superintending  architect  in  their  office.  During  the  years  he  was  with 
them  he  had  full  charge  of  their  important  work,  among  which  may  l)e  men- 
tioned   the     Schiller  Theatre,    the   Crane   Elevator    Company's    factory,    the 


674  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

foundations  tor  the  Cold  Storage  Exchange,  the  Synagogue  on  Thirty-first 
and  Indiana  avenue,  the  Wright  &  Hill's  Linseed  Oil  Company's  plant,  the 
Meyer  building  and  many  others.  It  was  to  take  charge  of  the  projected 
Seattle  Theatre  building  for  the  same  company  that  Mr.  Bebb  first  came  to 
this  city.  Opening  an  office  of  his  own  as  an  architect  in  1898  in  the  West- 
ington  block,  Seattle,  his  efficiency  in  his  profession  and  his  thorough  busi- 
ness methods  soon  became  established,  and  his  patronage  increased  rapidly. 
Among  a  partial  list  of  the  many  fine  residences  constructed  from  plans  from 
his  office  are  those  owned  by  Frank  W.  Baker.  Judge  Harrison  Bostwick, 
Miss  Lenora  Denny,  James  D.  Hoge,  Clarence  Hanford,  H.  A.  Kyer,  Daniel 
Kelleher,  N.  B.  Nelson,  Dr.  James  Shannon,  Dr.  George  M.  Horton,  Fred 
S.  Stinson,  Albert  S.  Kerry,  Charles  Frj^e  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Nadean,  while 
among  the  business  blocks  are  the  new  Times  building,  the  Denny  building, 
the  A.  \V.  Denny  building,  and  in  course  of  construction  the  five-story  Se- 
attle Athletic  Club  building  and  the  six-story  office  building  on  Second  avenue 
for  Messrs.  Hamon  &  Schmitz,  also  the  factory  building  for  the  Pacific  Coast 
Syrup  Company  of  San  Francisco,  the  large  printing  establishment  for 
Tucker  Hanfor,  covering  a  ground  area  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  by  one 
hundred  and  twenty  feet,  and  the  Colonial  Hotel  for  Stinson  Brothers.  A 
list  of  these  buildings,  while  incomplete,  indicates  the  character  of  his  work 
and  evidences  the  fact  that  he  enjoys  to  a  large  degree  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  the  public.  In  1901  he  took  into  partnership  Louis  L.  Mendel. 
In  Chicago,  Illinois,  shortly  after  his  arrival  in  this  country,  Mr.  Bebb 
was  married  to  Virginia  R.  Burns,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  A.  P.  Burns  of  Ellicott 
Cit3%  Maryland,  and  they  have  one  son.  In  politics  Mr.  Bebb  is  a  Repub- 
lican, but  his  business  interests  give  him  n®  time  for  active  political  work. 
A  prominent  ]\Iason,  he  belongs  to  Arcana  Lodge  No.  87,  F.  &  A.  ]\I.,  Wash- 
ington Lodge  of  Perfection  No.  i,  Washington  Chapter  of  Rose  Croiz, 
Washington  Council  of  the  Knights  of  Kadosh.  and  Lawson  Consistory 
No.  I.  He  is  likewise  connected  with  Afifi  Temple  of  the  ]\Iystic  Shrine  at 
Tacoma.  He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Institute  of  Architects,  is  presi- 
dent of  the  Washington  State  Chapter  of  the  American  Institute  of  Archi- 
tects, belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  is  secretarv  of  the  Seattle  Ath- 
letic  Club  and  is  a  member  of  the  University  Club  and  the  Tennis  Club. 
The  profession  with  which  he  is  identified  deserves  to  be  ranked  amone  the 
arts.  It  demands  superior  qualifications,  a  thorough  understandine  of  me- 
chanical  principles  combined  with  artistic  knowledge  and  taste,  and  these 
should  be  supplemer.ted  by  keen  executive  ability  and  foresight.     In  all  these 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  675 

qualities  Mr.  Bebb  is  well  equipped,  and  thus  through  his  own  efforts  he  has 
gained  a  reputation  in  the  field  of  his  chosen  labor  that  is  hardly  second  to 
any  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

EDMUND    BOWDEN. 

Edmund  Bowden  is  of  English  ancestry,  his  birth  having  occurred  in 
British  Columbia  on  the  28th  of  August,  i860.  His  father,  William  Bowden, 
was  born  in  Belfast,  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  was  married  in  England  and 
in  1S58  emigrated  to  the  new  world,  locating  in  British  Columbia.  He 
was  chief  of  police  there  for  fifteen  years,  and  was  a  valued  and  leading 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity.  Of  his  family  of  nine  children  only  five 
are  now  living,  and  Mr.  Bowden  of  this  review  is  the  only  member  of  the 
family  now  li\ing  in  Washington. 

Edmund  Bowden  was  educated  in  the  pul^lic  schools  of  British  Colum- 
bia, completing  his  studies  in  the  schools  of  Victoria.  He  has  made  his 
own  way  in  the  world,  and  the  splendid  success  he  has  achieved  indicates 
his  excellent  business  ability  and  force  of  character.  He  first  learned  teleg- 
raphy, and  was  a  very  capable  operator,  so  that  he  was  enabled  to  com- 
mand good  positions.  He  continued  in  that  business  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  during  a  part  of  the  time  was  manager  of  the  W^estern  Union  Tele- 
graph Company  at  Walla  Walla.  In  1888  he  came  to  Seattle  and  turned 
his  attention  to  the  real  estate  business  and  made  insurance. a  department 
of  the  new  venture.  He  also  began  loaning  money  for  eastern  capitalists, 
and  placed  about  two  million  dollars  in  Seattle  to  rebuild  the  city  after  the 
great  fire  of  1889.  He  has  represented  the  Atlas  Assurance  Company  of 
London  for  eight  years,  and  has  done  his  full  share  in  the  insurance  busi- 
ness of  the  city.  He  is  now  extensively  engaged  in  buying  and  selling  real 
estate  in  Seattle,  which  he  handles  on  his  own  account.  His  success  in  the 
other  lines  of  his  business  has  enabled  him  to  make  judicious  investments 
in  real  estate,  and  he  is  now  the  owner  of  much  valuable  property. 

In  1882  Mr.  Bowden  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Angle  Burt,  of 
Walla  Walla,  Washington,  and  they  now  have  two  children  :  Edmund  R. 
and  William  Burt.  Mr.  Bowden  is  a  prominent  Republican  in  his  ])oliti- 
cal  views,  and  in  his  social  relations  is  connected  with  Arcana  Lodge  No. 
87,  F.  &  A.  M..  in  which  he  took  the  degree  of  a  Master  Mason  in  1895. 
He  is  a  past  master  of  the  blue  lodge,  and  has  received  all  the  degrees 
of  the  Scottish  Rite  up  to  and  including  the  thirty-third,  and  has  accept- 
ablv  filled  most  of  the  offices  in  the  order.     He  is  a  thoroughly  informed 


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Mason  and  one  of  the  best  workers  in  the  craft  in  this  city.  He  is  also 
a  prominent  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity  and  is  chairman 
of  the  judiciary  committee  of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  and  chairman  of 
the  board  of  trustees  of  Queen  City  Lodge  Xo.  lo,  K.  of  P.,  of  Seattle.  He  is 
also  secretary  of  the  associate  board  of  trustees  of  the  organization  and  is 
master  of  the  Lodge  of  Perfection  of  the  Scottish  Rite  Masons  and  treas- 
urer of  Arcana  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  ^I.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  Seattle 
Athletic  Club,,  and  with  his  family  attends  St.  Mark's  Episcopal  church. 
i\Jr.  Bowden  has  contributed  in  no  small  measure  to  the  upbuilding  and 
improvement  of  Seattle,  and  is  one  of  the  highly  respected  residents  of  the 
citv.  in  which  he  and  his  wife  have  a  wide  and  favorable  acquaintance. 

CHARLES  V.  O'BRIEN. 

There  are  few  men  in  whose  life  history  losses  and  successes  have  fol- 
lowed in  such  rapid  succession  as  in  the  career  of  Charles  V.  O'Brien,  but  to- 
day he  is  known  as  one  of  the  capitalists  of  the  Sound  country,  his  invest- 
ments being  so  judiciously  placed  that  they  yield  to  him  an  excellent  return, 
and  his  income  is  now  a  gratifying  one. 

Born  in  Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  April  5,  1859,  he  is  a  son  of  Ambrose 
and  Isabelle  (Chisem)  O'Brien,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Canada. 
The  father  was  a  shipbuilder  at  Maitland,  on  the  bay  of  Fundy,  and  became 
well  known  in  that  line  of  business.  Lie  still  resides  in  Nova  Scotia,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-seven  years,  while  his  wife  is  sixty-seven  years  of  age.  Al- 
though he  led  an  active  business  life,  he  was  never  prominent  in  politics,  pre- 
ferring that  his  undivided  attention  be  given'  to  his  ship-building  interests. 

The  eldest  of  a  family  of  seven  children,  Charles  \^  O'Brien  was  reared 
in  his  native  countr}-  and  accjuired  but  a  limited  education,  for  from  the  age 
of  ten  years  he  spent  most  of  his  time  in  the  forests  in  the  lumber  and  logg- 
ing camps.  At  the  early  age  of  sixteen  he  engaged  in  logging  contract 
work  on  his  own  account  and  followed  that  pursuit  until  his  twenty-fourth 
year.  He  then  left  his  native  country  and  in  the  spring  of  1883  came  to 
Washington  in  order  to  engage  in  business  amid  the  great  forest  districts 
of  the  northwest.  He  followed  logging  on  Discovery  bay  in  the  employ  of 
others,  and  when  he  had  saved  fifteen  hundred  dollars  of  his  earnings  began 
business  on  his  own  account,  but  he  lost  all  that  he  had  made  through  a  fresh- 
et which  swelled  the  waters  of  Salt  creek  until  they  carried  away  all  his  logs. 
The  next  year  Frank  Clapp  furnished  him  with  funds  to  enable  him  to  re- 
sume operations,  from' which  he  cleared  six  thousand  dollars,  but  in  the  turn 


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of  fortune's  wheel  he  was  again  the  loser,  for  he  lost  that  sum  in  real  estate 
transactions.  Not  yet  disheartened,  he  again  engag^ed  in  logging  one  season 
with  fair  success,  and  the  following  year  engaged  in  street-grading  contract 
work  in  Seattle,  having  in  his  employ  one  liundred  men  and  forty  teams. 
He  followed  that  business  for  two  years,  during  which  time  he  cleared  seven- 
ty-five thousand  dollars,  but  this  was  also  lost  in  real  estate  speculation. 
Once  more  he  started  at  the  bottom  of  the  financial  ladder,  and  he  started  in 
again  to  earn  his  li\'ing  as  a  teamster  in  a  logging  camp,  but  a  man  of  such 
resolute  spirit  and  unfaltering  energy  could  not  long  remain  in  such  a  posi- 
tion. He  eagerly  watched  for  a  business  opportunity  of  which  he  might 
take  advantage,  and  found  one  in  1897  when  he  went  to  Alaska,  outfitting  a 
pack  train  of  thirty  horses,  but  in  three  months  he  lost  them  all.  In  the  au- 
tumn of  the  same  year  he  purchased  a  train  of  one  hundred  and  fifteen  pack 
animals  and  took  a  contract  from  the  Canadian  government  to  transport  all 
government  supplies  from  Skagway  to  Lake  Bennett  and  other  interior 
points.  For  two  years  Mr.  O'Brien  w^as  engaged  in  that  work,  making  his 
headquarters  at  Skagway.  The  business  proved  profitable,  enabling  him  to 
make  a  new  start  on  the  highroad  to  success.  While  residing  there  he  was 
also  elected  a  member  of  the  city  council,  but  resigned  preparatory  to  return- 
ing to  Seattle,  in  August,  1899. 

After  the  time  spent  in  the  north  he  made  a  tour  of  the  east,  visiting 
Chicago,  Washington,  New  York,  and  his  old  home  in  Nova  Scotia,  spend- 
ing nine  months  in  travel.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  returned  to 
this  state  and  began  logging  on  the  Columbia  river,  following  that  pursuit 
for  a  year  and  a  half,  when  he  sold  out,  and  for  six  months  was  not  connected 
with  any  business  enterprise.  He  has  invested  largely  in  city  property  in 
Seattle  and  now  owns  the  fine  three-story  flat  building  at  the  corner  of  Fifth 
avenue  and  Lenora  street,  and  has  other  improved  property  here,  the  rental 
from  which  furnishes  him  with  a  \-ery  gratifying  income.  His  persex'er- 
ance,  his  adaptability  to  circumstances,  his  strong  determination  and  un- 
faltering courage,  have  been  the  means  of  enabling  him  to  overcome  ob- 
stacles and  difficulties  which  have  beset  his  path  and  to  push  his  way  steadily 
for\\ard  to  prosperity. 

In  politics  Mr.  O'Brien  is  a  Repul)lican,  and  socially  is  connected  with 
the  Fraternal  Order  of  Artie  Brotherhood.  On  October  6,  1887,  he  was 
married  to  Miss  Jeanne  Dick,  of  Clallam  county,  Washington,  a  daughter  01 
James  B.  and  Margaret  (Dewar)  Dick.  Mrs.  O'Brien  was  born  in  Indiana 
and  her  parents  were  natives  of  Cardiff,  Scotland.  At  an  early  day  they 
became  residents  of  Dungeness,  Clallam  county,  where  Mr.  Dick  became  well 


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known  and  prominent  in  business  and  public  life.  His  wife  is  now  living  at 
Port  Angeles,  Washington.  Mr.  and  Mrs  O"  Brien  have  had  four  children, 
but  three  died  in  childhood.  One  daughter,  Margaret,  named  in  honor  of  her 
grandmother,  is  now  living.  Mr.  O'Brien  has  had  a  checkered  and  eventful 
career,  during  which  time  he  has  traveled  extensively  over  the  north  part  of 
this  continent  from  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific.  His  fortunate  tendency  of 
looking  upon  the  bright  side,  even  in  the  face  of  discouragements,  and  an- 
ticipating a  more  encouraging  future,  combined  with  good  business  judg- 
ment, has  won  for  him  a  desirable  position  among  the  capitalists  of  his 
adopted  city  and  state. 

ROBERT  O.  SMITH. 

Robert  O.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of  R.  O.  Smith  &  Company, 
real  estate  dealers  of  Seattle.  He  was  born  in  Barton  county,  Missouri, 
January  6,  1870.  his  parents  being  W.  C.  and  N.  J.  (Jones)  Smith.  Upon 
his  father's  farm  in  the  county  of  his  nativity  he  was  reared,  and  acquired  a 
common  school  education.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  left  home,  going  to 
Kansas  City,  where  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  street  car  company,  acting 
as  a  gripman  and  conductor  for  several  years.  He  was  afterward  engaged 
in  the  real  estate  business  in  Kansas  City  for  a  time  and  in  1891  came  to 
Seattle,  attracted  by  the  great  and  growing  northwest,  believing  that  in  its 
business  opportunities  he  would  have  better  advanages  for  securing  the  suc- 
cess which  is  the  goal  toward  which  all  business  men  are  striving.  For  ten 
months  he  was  engaged  in  various  employments,  and  then  returned  to  Lib- 
eral, Missouri,  where  he  engaged  in  the  hay,  grain  and  feed  business  and  also 
followed  farming  and  stock  dealing  for  three  years.  In  1895,  however,  he 
again  came  to  Seattle  and  through  the  succeeding  year  conducted  a  creamery 
at  Avon,  Washington.  On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  again  came  to 
this  city  and  accepted  a  position  in  the  employ  of  Lilly,  Bogardus  &  Company 
for  two  years.  Next  he  entered  the  employ  of  Mitchell,  Lewis  &  Staver, 
having  charge  of  their  machinery  department  for  one  year.  In  August, 
1900,  he  became  associated  with  C.  D.  Hillman.  a  prominent  real  estate 
dealer  of  Seattle,  under  the  firm  name  of  Hillman  &  Company.  Mr. 
Smith  has  established  a  reputation  as  a  reliable  and  successful  real 
estate  dealer  and  has  demonstrated  his  ability  as  a  salesman.  Associ- 
ated with  Mr.  Hillman,  he  became  actixely  interested  in  real  estate  transac- 
tions in  the  vicinity  of  Green  Lake,  and  during  that  time  assisted  in  the  sale 
of  four  thousand  lots  included  in  the  Kilbourn.  the  Hillman  and  the  Hill- 


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man's  School  additions,  also  the  Woodland  Park  addition,  the  Green  Lake 
Borne  addition  and  Hillman's  Lake  Front  addition.  In  May,  1902,  Mr. 
Smith  severed  his  connection  with  Mr.  Hillman  and  established  his  present 
business,  and  has  already  secured  a  large  and  gratifying  clientage  in  general 
real  estate  transactions.  He  handles  timber  lands,  lots,  houses,  and  attends 
to  rental  investments,  and,  in  fact,  does  all  kinds  of  business  included  within 
a  general  real  estate  enterprise. 

On  the  23d  of  February,  1892,  Mr.  Smith  was  united  in  marriage  in 
Missouri  to  Miss  Effie  Nichols,  a  daughter  of  John  E.  Nichols,  and  they  now 
have  three  interesting-  children,  Clarence,  Jessie  and  Earl.  In  his  political 
views  Mr.  Smith  is  an  earnest  Republican  and  is  quite  prominent  in  fraternal 
organizations.  He  belongs  to  the  Knights  of  the  Maccabees,  to  the  Wood- 
men of  the  World  and  to  Green  Lake  Lodge  No.  184,  of  the  Fraternal  Broth- 
erhood, of  which  he  is  now  treasurer.  He  is  one  of  the  active  and  enterpris- 
ing young  business  men  of  Seattle.  His  is  a  genial  and  pleasing  personality, 
and  he  has  made  a  large  circle  of  friends. 

WILLIAM  McLACHLAN. 

A  native  of  Scotland,  William  McLachlan  well  represents  the  sturdy 
thrift  and.  unexcelled  honor  of  the  sons  of  that  portion  of  Great  Britain. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  his  grandfather  also,  the  latter, 
Daniel  McLachlan  having  been  born  at  Inverness,  where  he  was  married  to 
Mary  McDowd,  also  of  Scotch  descent.  They  came  with  their  children  to 
Canada,  where  the  remainder  of  their  lives  were  spent,  Daniel  ]\IcLachlan 
having  taken  up  crown  land,  which  he  improved  to  a  high  state  of  cultivation. 
He  died  at  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-eight  years.  To  this  worthy  couple 
were  born  the  following  children:  Charles,  Malcolm,  John  Daniel.  Alex- 
ander, Mary,  Clemina  and  Nancy. 

Our  subject  was  third  in  a  family  of  live  children  born  to  Malcolm  and 
Jane  (Kirkwood)  McLachlan.  Daniel,  the  oldest,  is  governor  of  the  In- 
dian agency  in  Victoria,  British  Colum])ia ;  Robert  K.,  the  second  in  order  of 
birth,  is  engaged  in  farming;  William  is  the  immediate  subject  of  this  re- 
view ;  Margaret  is  the  wife  of  William  Douglas,  and  lives  in  Canada ;  I^Iary, 
the  youngest,  is  the  wife  of  Alexander  Crawford  and  also  resides  in  Canada. 
By  a  second  marriage,  with  Christina  McDonald,  Malcolm  McLachlan  be- 
came the  father  of  six  children,  as  follows:  Duncan,  president  and  founder 
of  Chalam  College  in  Ontario:  John,  deputy  sheriff  of  Ottawa.  Canada; 
Alexander,  who  is  a  missionary,  having  been  president  for  ten  years  of  the 


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board  of  missions;  Charles,  a  physician  of  New  Rockford,  North  Dakota; 
Malcohn,  a  professor  in  a  college  in  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan;  and  James, 
who  also  lives  in  New  Rockford,  North  Dakota. 

William  McLachlan  was  born  of  the  marriage  of  Malcolm  McLachlan 
to  Jane  Kirkwood.  September  8,  1831,  in  Ontario,  Canada.  Here  he  lived 
on.  a  farm  with  his  parents,  engaging  in  the  pleasures  and  hardships  of  the 
average  Canadian  bov,  and  receiving  his  education  in  the  common  schools 
that  the  country  afforded.  Air.  AlcLachlan  remained  with  his  father  on 
the  farm,  and  in  this  connection  they  also  conducted  a  very  lucrative  dairy 
business.  In  1878  he  removed  to  the  island  of  San  Juan,  where  he  engaged 
in  the  lime  business,  founding  the  Eureka  Lime  Company.  His  brother 
Daniel  was  connected  wdth  him  in  this  enterprise,  which  yielded  them  an 
ample  competence  until  they  sold  out,  four  years  later.  William  McLachlan 
then  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  the  house-moving 
business.  The  firm  name  of  McLachlan  &  Son,  at  1421  Sixth  avenue,  was 
adopted  in  1898,  when  his  son  Thomas  E.  became  a  partner.  He  is  also 
interested  in  Seattle  real  estate,  being  owner  of  four  handsome  residence  lots 
on  Lenora  avenue,  besides  the  beautiful  and  well  improved  property  where 
his  residence  stands. 

On  January  i,  1873,  occurred  the  marriage  of  William  McLachlan  and 
Lillian  Cox,  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Nancy  (Campbell)  Cox.  To  this 
happy  couple  have  been  born  two  children,  Thomas  E.,  before  mentioned  as 
a  partner  with  his  father.;  and  Etta  W.,  an  intelligent  and  accomplished 
young  lady,  a  graduate  of  the  city  schools  and  the  commercial  college.  In 
politics  Mr.  McLachlan  is  a  stanch  Republican,  never  sw^erving  in  his  allegi- 
ance to  his  party.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  the  First  Presbyterian  church 
of  Seattle,  and  a  charter  member  of  Columbia  Lodge  No.  2,  A.  O.  C  W. 
He  is  honest  and  upright  in  all  his  dealings,  and  well  deserves  the  success 
which  has  crowned  his  efforts. 

CHARLES  E.  REMSBERG. 

As  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Remsberg  &  Simmonds.  the  subject  of  this 
review  is  practicing,  law  in  Seattle,  where  he  located  in  1889,  soon  after  the 
great  fire.  He  was  born  in  Warren  county,  Indiana,  Alay  20,  1863,  and 
traces  his  ancestry  back  to  Adam  Remsberg,  who  during  the  period  of  the 
Revolutionary  war  located  in  what  is  now  known  as  Washington  county, 
Pennsylvania.  The  line  of  descent  is  traced  down  through  John  Remsberg, 
Sr.,  John  Remsberg,  Jr.,  and   Lewis   Remsberg,   the  last  named   beine  the 


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father  of  our  subject.  Lewis  was  born  in  Frederick  county,  Maryland,  and 
in  1859  moved  westward,  locating  in  Indiana.  In  his  native  state  he  w^edded 
Rebecca  Brandenburg,  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Brandenburg,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  John  Brandenburg,  who  was  born  in  this  country  but  was  of 
German  parentage.  Our  subject  is  the  youngest  in  a  family  of  five  children, 
the  others  all  being  daughters.  Both  parents  are  still  living  in  Warren 
county,  Indiana,  the  father  at  the  age  of  eighty  years  and  the  mother  at  the 
age  of  seventy-nine.  With  the  exception  of  the  youngest  sister  the  children 
also  survive. 

In  the  district  schools  Charles  E.  Remsberg  pursued  his  education  until 
he  was  fourteen  years  of  age  and  afterward  devoted  his  entire  time  and 
attention  to  the  work  of  the  home  farm  until  he  had  attained  the  age  of 
twenty.  One  of  his  sisters  having  been  ill  for  a  long  time,  it  was  believed 
that  traveling  would  prove  beneficial  to  her,  and  Charles  accompanied  her  on 
a  trip  to  the  east,  through  Maryland,  Washington  and  New  York.  This 
caused  him  to  realize  the  need  of  further  education,  and  in  the  fall  of  1882 
he  went  to  the  Terre  Haute  Normal  School.  After  completing  one  year's 
work  he  engaged  in  teaching  for  two  years  and  then  spent  a  period  of  two 
more  years  in  the  normal.  Later  he  entered  the  University  of  Indiana  at 
Bloomington,  making  a  specialty  of  the  study  of  sociology.  Lie  completed 
his  course  in  1889  and  intended  to  go  to  Charlottesville,  Virginia,  to  pursue 
his  law  course,  but  e\ents  occurred  that  occasioned  him  to  seek  a  home  in 
the  northwest,  and  he  arrived  in  Seattle  in  1889. 

Mr.  Remsljerg  was  much  impressed  with  the  business  outlook  here  and 
deciding  to  remain  he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  and  also  began 
reading  law  in  this  city,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1893.  He  has  since 
engaged  in  practice,  and  in  February,  1898.  entered  into  partnership  with 
George  Simmonds  under  the  firm  name  of  Remsberg  &  Simmonds.  While 
he  has  been  engaged  in  general  practice,  his  law  work  has  been  largely  in 
the  probate  court.  He  was  one  of  the  three  lawyers  who  published  the  re- 
vised statutes  and  code  of  the  state  of  Washington  in  1896,  a  work  of  much 
value  to  the  members  of  the  profession  and  one  whicli  has  been  accepted  as 
authority.  Mr.  Remsberg  was  engaged  in  this  task  for  two  years,  and 
although  the  work  did  not  prove  a  financial  success,  owing  to  the  great 
money  panic  in  which  the  country  was  involved  at  that  time,  the  volume  is 
one  that  has  elicited  the  highest  commendation  of  the  leading  members  of 
the  bar  not  only  in  Washington  but  throughout  the  country.  Mr.  Remsberg 
has   been   connected  with   much   important  litigation.      He   was   one   of  the 

counsel  in  the  damage  case  of  S.  P.  Dixon  against  the  Third  Street  Railway 
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Company.  This  was  tried  twice  in  the  supreme  court  of  the  state  and  then 
was  taken  to  the  suprem.e  court  of  the  United  States  and  in  each  instance 
Mr.  Remsberg-  won  a  verdict  favorable  to  his  cHent.  Other  very  important 
litigation  has  been  conducted  by  him  and  he  stands  to-day  as  one  of  the  noted  • 
lawyers  of  the  Seattle  bar,  strong  in  his  comprehensive  knowledge  of  juris- 
prudence, logical  in  his  deductions  and  forceful  in  his  presentation  of  a  case. 

Voting  with  the  Republican  party,  Mr.  Remsberg  has  attended  almost 
all  of  the  city  and  county  conventions  since  his  arrival  here,  and  his  opinions 
carry  weight  in  the  Republican  councils.  From  1890  until  1894  he  ser^^ed 
as  justice  of  the  peace,  and  thereby  acquired  the  title  of  judge,  by  which 
he  is  universally  known.  Fraternally  he  is  connected  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows  and  he  belongs  to  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  at  Seattle. 

In  1 891  Mr.  Remsberg  returned  to  Indiana  and  was  there  married  to 
Belle  Farquhar,  a  daughter  of  A.  H.  and  Esther  Farquhar.  They  have  two 
daughters,  Mabel  and  Helen.  ]\Ir.  Remsberg  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
in  the  northern  part  of  this  city,,  where  Fremont  now  stands,  and  was  one 
of  the  chief  factors  in  having  the  bridge  constructed  along  the  west  shore 
at  Lake  Union.  When  he  located  there  the  only  highway  was  a  country 
road,  and  his  influence  has  been  veiy  great  and  beneficial  to  the  substantial 
development  and  improvement  of  that  part  of  the  city.  In  1902  he  erected 
a  nice  home  on  a  five-acre  tract  on  the  shore  of  Green  Lake,  known  as  "The 
Farquharidge."  He  has  loaned  much  money  in  Seattle  for  eastern  and  other 
clients  and  to  a  considerable  extent  has  made  investments  on  his  own  ac- 
count in  both  business  and  residence  projDerty.  He  has  erected  two  business 
blocks  here  and  his  labors  have  been  eft'ective  in  promoting  public  progress 
along  lines  of  business  improvement.  He  is  a  member  of  the  L^nitarian 
church,  and  possessing  excellent  musical  ability  his  services  in  this  direction 
have  proved  of  pleasure  and  benefit  to  the  church.  Perhaps  the  art  of  music 
furnishes  him  his  most  desirable  and  pleasurable  recreation  from  the  strenu- 
ous cares  of  important  business  undertakings  and  an  extensive  and  growing 
law  practice. 

JOHN  D.  SMITH. 

John  D.  Smith,  a  retired  capitalist  residing  at  601  Garfield  avenue. 
Queen  Anne  Hill,  Seattle,  has  passed  the  eightieth  mile-stone  on  life's  jour- 
ney and  may  well  look  with  pleasure  and  pride  on  the  long  and  successful 
career  from  the  time  when  he  started  as  a  poor  boy  and  aided  only  by  his 
honest  purpose  to  succeed,  until  now  when  he  ranks  as  one  of  the  wealthiest 


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and  most  influential  men  of  Seattle.  Mr.  Smith  is  the  son  of  John  and 
Lavinia  (Pronty)  Smith,  both  of  New  England  birth  and  early  settlers  of 
Kentucky,  the  fatlier  being  an  extensive  farmer  of  Greenup  county,  where  he 
lived  and  died.  John,  Jr.,  first  saw  the  light  of  day  on  his  father's  farm  in 
Greenup  county,  Kentucky,  on  the  3d  day  of  June,  1822;  he  was  left  mother- 
less at  the  age  of  ten  and  two  years  later  passed  out  from  under  the  paternal 
roof,  and  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age  worked  on  a  farm.  He  then 
went  to  New  York  city  and  learned  the  clockmaker's  trade  at  a  shop  on 
Maiden  Lane,  his  part  of  the  business  being  to  put  the  clocks  together  at 
eight  cents  apiece;  he  spent  two  years  at  this  and  in  1842,  when  twenty  years 
of  age,  moved  west  to  Guernsey  county,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged  in  farming 
and  running  a  store.  There  on  July  15,  1845,  he  was  married  to  Margaret 
McClelland,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania;  he  continued  in  the  merchandise  line 
at  Point  Pleasant,  Guernsey  county,  until  the  death  of  his  wife  in  1852. 
After  this  sad  bereavement  he  left  his  only  child,  John  C,  with  its  grand- 
parents McClelland,  and  for  four  years  engaged  in  the  fur  trade,  traveling 
throughout  the  wilds  of  the  Lake  Superior  region  in  Canada,  Michigan  and 
Wisconsin.  He  met  with  satisfactory  results  and  then  settled  at  Lincoln, 
Nebraska,  making  that  a  base  of  operations  for  a  large  cattle  business ;  every 
year  he  drove  one  or  two  droves  of  from  five  to  nine  hundred  cattle  each 
through  from  Texas ;  he  also  eng^aged  in  buying  and  shipping  grain  from 
Lincoln  to  Chicago  and  St.  Louis.  He  remained,  in  all,  about  thirteen  years 
in  Lincoln. 

In  1876  Mr.  Smith  came  to  Seattle.  Here  he  engaged  in  land  and  real 
estate  transactions,  acquiring  about  twenty-two  hundred  acres  of  land.  In 
1885  he  platted  what  is  now  known  as  the  France  addition  of  Seattle  and 
later  sold  the  tract  to  Martin  France,  whose  name  it  bears;  in  1890  he  laid 
out  the  third  motor  addition  of  the  city.  He  has  done  much  in  building  and 
improving  the  city ;  he  has  built  four  houses  on  Union  street,  five  on  Stewart 
and  Seventh  and  four  on  Queen  Anne.  He  was  the  first  man  to  purchase 
lots  in  the  Biglow  addition  of  Queen  Anne  Hill,  and  here  in  1890  he  erected 
his  beautiful  home,  a  three-story  residence  with  basement  and  with  a  veranda 
entirely  around  each  of  two  stories ;  from  one  of  these  is  to  be  obtained  a 
magnificent  view  of  the  scenic  region  of  Pug'et  Sound,  and  off  to  the  south 
the  snow-capped  grandeur  of  Mount  Rainier  is  visible.  Mount  Baker  also 
being  seen  in  its  purple  splendor;  an  excellent  view  of  the  city  of  Seattle  is 
also  to  be  had.  Here  Mr.  Smith  enjoys  receiving  his  friends  and  takes 
pleasiu"e  in  showing  them  the  points  of  interest. 

Just  before  removing  to  Nebraska  in  1863  he  was  married  a  second  time, 


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his  wife  being  Margaret  Stnbbs,  a  native  of  Canada;  to  them  were  born 
three  children,  May,  Charles  and  George,  all  of  whom  died  before  reaching 
maturity.  John  C,  his  son  by  his  first  wife,  is  a  well  known  and  respected 
citizen  of  the  suburb  of  Fremont.  In  politics  Air.  Smith  is  a  Democrat ;  he 
served  two  very  successful  terms  as  a  member  of  the  Nebraska  state  legis- 
lature and  was  active  in  securing  the  removal  of  the  state  capitol  from  Om- 
aha to  Lincoln;  since  coming  to  Seattle  he  has  taken  no  part  in  political 
matters.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Master  Mason  and  one  of  the  oldest  members 
in  the  state,  having  joined  that  order  sixty  years  ago.  It  may  be  truly  said 
of  him  that  he  is  a  self-made  man,  for  he  started  in  life  without  money  and 
among  strangers,  and  without  accepting  help  from  anyone  has  made  himself 
master  of  his  destiny;  now^  in  the  fulness  of  his  years  he  occupies  a  place  of 
honor  among  his  fellow  men. 

ROBERT  E.  CARTER. 

Prominently  and  successfully  identified  with  a  line  of  industrial  en- 
terprise which  has  important  bearing  upon  the  material  advancement  of  any 
community,  the  subject  of  this  review  is  one  of  the  leading  contractors  and 
builders  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  having  his  shop  and  office  at  713  Third  avenue 
and  his  residence  at  19 13  East  Spruce  street,  one  of  the  attractive  residence 
sections  of  the  city.  He  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  representative  business 
men  of  -the  city,  and  as  such  is  properly  given  consideration  in  a  work  of  this 
province. 

Mr.  Carter  claims  the  "right  little,  tight  little  isle"  of  England  as  the 
land  of  his  nativity,  having  been  born  in  the  borough  and  town  of  Bucking- 
ham, on  New  Year's  day,  1865,  the  son  of  Robert  G.  and  Maria  Carter,  both 
representatives  of  sterling  old  English  families.  The  father  of  our  subject 
was  a  building  contractor  in  England,  where  he  did  business  on  an  extensive 
scale  and  largely  in  a  legitimately  speculati^'e  way,  buying  and  improving 
town  property  and  placing  the  same  on  the  market.  He  is  now  living  practic- 
ally retired  from  active  business,  in  Great  Alarlow,  Bucks  county,  England, 
his  wife  having  entered  into  eternal  rest  in  1885.  They  became  the  parents  of 
eleven  children,  of  whom  nine  are  living  at  the  present  time  and  all  except 
three  still  reside  in  England.  Those  who  came  to  the  United  States  are 
Robert  E.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  George,  who  was  for  several  years 
secretary  of  the  Young  ]\Ien's  Christian  Association  in  Seattle,  where  he  was 
well  and  favorably  known,  and  who  is  now  a  resident  of  Victoria,  British 


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Columbia;  and  Rosa  H.,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Frederick  Shensky,  of  San 
Mateo,  CaHfornia. 

Robert  E.  Carter  passed  his  boyhood  days  beneath  the  parental  roof- 
tree  and  attended  a  boarding  school  in  Buckingham  until  he  had  attained  the 
age  of  fifteen  years,  when  he  entered  upon  an  apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's 
trade  under  the  efifective  dirction  of  his  father,  thus  continuing  until  the  age 
of  eighteen,  when  he  went  to  the  city  of  London,  where  he  worked  as  a 
journeyman,  in  the  employ  of  William  Willett  &  Company,  a  large  contract- 
ing concern,  for  about  three  years.  Li  1887  he  came  to  America,  whither 
his  brother  George  had  preceded  him.  He  did  not  remain  long  in  the  east, 
but  came  through  to  Seattle,  where  he  found  ample  demand  for  his  services 
in  the  line  of  his  trade.  The  first  work  which  thus  enlisted  his  attention  was 
in  connection  with  the  erection  of  the  large  residence  of  Cyrus  Walker  at 
Port  Ludlow.  Mr.  Carter  continued  to  be  employed  as  a  journeyman  until 
the  great  fire  which  destroyed  so  great  a  portion  of  Seattle  in  1889,  when  the 
courageous  citizens  inaugurated  the  work  of  rebuilding  almost  before  the 
ruins  of  business  blocks  and  residences  were  yet  cold,  and  he  then  engaged 
in  contracting  and  building  on  his  own  responsibility.  His  last  work  prior  to 
the  fire  had  been  on  the  old  Commercial  mill,  and  after  this  disastrous  conflag- 
ration his  first  individual  contract  work  was  in  the  erection  of  a  temporary 
building  for  La  Tour  &  Company.  He  continued  to  be  successfully  engaged 
in  contracting  until  the  panic  of  1893,  when  all  lines  of  business  became 
greatly  depressed  in  this  section  of  the  Union,  and  Mr.  Carter  was  for  a 
time  compelled  to  take  such  employment  as  he  could  secure  in  order  to  meet 
existing  exigencies,  his  case  beings  similar  to  that  of  many  others  whose 
affairs  had  previously  been  in  a  prosperous  condition.  Finally  the  reaction 
came  and  the  financial  depression  began  to  abate;  building  enterprises  were 
resumed  and  again  our  subject  found  it  possible  to  engage  in  business  as  a 
contractor,  and  in  this  line  he  continued  active  operations  until  the  year  1900, 
confining  his  attention  chiefly  to  the  erection  of  residences.  For  the  past 
two  years  Mr.  Carter  has  given  his  attention  more  particularly  to  the  manu- 
facturing and  installing  of  store  and  office  fixtures  and  to  remodeling  and 
refitting  store  and  ofiice  buildings  His  shop  is  well  equipped  and  he  is 
known  as  a  superior  mechanic  and  careful  workman,  so  that  he  lias  attained 
a  high  reputation. 

Li  politics  Mr.  Carter  gives  his  allegiance  to  the  Rei)ul)hcan  ])arty,  but 
he  has  never  manifested  any  personal  political  ambition  in  the  matter  of 
seeking  or  desiring  official  preferment.  His  religious  faith  is  that  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  church    and    he    is    a    communicant  in   vSt.  Clement's 


686  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

church,  of  which  he  has  served  as  a  member  of  the  vestry.  Fraternally  he  is 
identified  with  the  Ancient  Order  of  Foresters  of  America,  in  which  he  is 
past  chief  ranger,  and  with  the  Modern  Woodmen  of  America,  in  which  he 
is  venerable  counsel.  On  the  28th  of  April,  1892,  was.  solemnized  the  mar- 
riage of  Mr.  Carter  to  Miss  Anna  Partin,  who  was  born  in  Durham,  Eng- 
land, and  who  came  to  the  United  States  when  she  was  a  child.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Carter  are  the  parents  of  three  children,  namely:  Netta  May,  Clyde 
R:  and  Gertrude  A. 

LOUIS  HEMRICH. 

A  biographical  record  of  the  representative  men  of  Seattle  and  King 
county  would  be  incomplete  and  unsatisfactory  without  a  personal  and  some- 
what detailed  mention  of  those  whose  lives  are  interwoven  so  closely  with  the 
indutrial  activities  of  this  section.  In  the  subject  of  this  review,  who  is 
secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  Hemrich  Brothers  P>rewing  Company,  we  find 
a  young  man  of  that  progressive,  alert  and  discriminating  type  through 
which  has  been  brought  about  the  magnificent  commercial  and  material  de- 
velopment of  the  Pacific  northwest,  and  it  is  with  satisfaction  that  we  here 
note  the  more  salient  points  in  his  honorable  and  useful  career. 

Louis  Hemrich  was  born  in  the  town  of  Alma,  Buffalo  county,  Wiscon- 
sin, on  the  20th  of  May,  1872,  a  son  of  John  and  Catherine  (Koeppel) 
Hemrich,  the  former  of  whom  was  born  in  Baden,  Germany,  and  the  latter 
in  Bavaria.  They  came  to  America  and  resided  in  Wisconsin  for  a  number 
of  years,  removing  thence  to  Seattle  when  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  a 
lad  of  about  fourteen  years,  his  rudimentary  educational  training  having 
been  secured  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state,  while  he  continued  his 
studies  thereafter  in  the  public  schools  of  Seattle,  where  he  prepared  himself 
for  college.  At  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  matriculated  in  the  University 
of  Washington,  where  he  completed  a  commercial  course.  After  leaving 
school  Mr.  Hemrich  took  a  position  as  bookkeeper  for  the  Seattle  Brewing 
&  Malting  Company,  where  he  remained  for  a  period  of  three  years  and  was 
then  elected  secretary  and  treasurer  of  the  company,  in  which  capacity  he 
rendered  most  effective  service  for  the  ensuing  two  years.  He  then  resigned 
this  office  and  forthwith  became  associated  with  his  brothers  in  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Hemrich  Brothers  Brewing  Company,  which  was  duly  mcor- 
porated  under  the  laws  of  the  state.  They  erected  a  fine  plant,  where  is 
produced  a  lager  of  the  most  excellent  order,  the  purity,  fine  flavor  and  gene- 
ral attractiveness  of  the  product  giving  it  a  high  reputation,  while  the  busi- 


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ness  is  conducted  upon  the  highest  principles  of  honor  and  fideHty,  so  that 
its  rapid  expansion  in  scope  and  importance  came  as  a  natural  sequel. 

As  a  business  man  Mr.  Hemrich  has  shown  marked  acumen  and  mature 
judgment,  and  his  progressive  ideas  and  his  confidence  in  the  future  of  his 
home  city  have  been  signalized  by  the  investments  which  he  has  made  in  local 
realty  and  by  the  enterprise  he  has  shown  in  the  improving  of  his  various 
properties.  In  1901  he  erected  in  the  village  of  Ballard,  a  suburb  of  Seattle, 
a  fine  brick  business  block,  located  at  the  corner  of  First  avenue  and  Charles 
street,  and  he  has  also  erected  a  number  of  substantial  business  buildings  in 
the  city  of  Seattle,  together  with  a  number  of  dwellings.  He  is  the  owner  of 
valuable  timber  lands  in  the  state  and  has  well  selected  realty  in  other  towns 
and  cities  aside  from  those  already  mentioned.  He  has  recently  accum- 
ulated a  tract  of  land  on  Beacon  Hill,  and  this  will  be  platted  for  residence 
purposes  and  is  destined  to  become  one  of  the  most  desirable  sections  of  the 
city.  Mr.  Hemrich  erected  his  own  beautiful  residence,  one  of  the  finest  in 
the  city,  m  tqoi,  the  same  being  located  on  tlie  southwest  corner  of  Belmont 
avenue  and  Republican  street.  It  is  substantial  and  commodious,  of  effec- 
?:we  architectural  design,  having  the  most  modern  equipments  and  acces* 
sories  and  is  a  home  which  would  do  credit  to  any  metropolitan  community. 

While  Mr.  Hemrich  takes  an  abiding  interest  in  all  that  concerns  the 
advancement  and  material  upbuilding  of  his  home  city  and  state,  he  has  ne\-er 
taken  an  active  part  in  political  afi^airs,  maintaining  an  independent  attitude 
in  this  regard  and  giving  his  support  to  men  and  measures.  Fraternally  he 
is  a  popular  member  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen  and  the 
Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  and  he  is  most  highly  esteemed  in  both  business 
and  social  circles.  On  the  20th  of  May,  1897,  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  Mr. 
Flemrich  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Eliza  Hanna,  daughter  of  Nicholas 
and  Mary  Hanna,  who  were  numbered  among  the  early  settlers  of  this  city, 
where  Mrs.  Hemrich  was  born  and  reared  and  where  she  has  been  prominent 
in  the  best  social  life. 

JOHN  LANGSTON. 

No  man  in  King  county  is  more  distinctively  entitled  to  representation 
in  this  compilation  than  is  Mr.  Langston,  for  he  figures  as  one  of  the  sterl- 
ing pioneers  of  the  state  of  Washington,  as  one  whose  life  labors  have 
brought  about  the  de\;elopment  and  progress  of  our  great  commonwealth, 
and  as  one  who  commands  unqualified  confidence  and  esteem  in  the  communi- 
ty where  he  has  so  long  made  his  home.     He  is  now  living  practically  retired 


688  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

in  the  city  of  Seattle,  where  he  has  a  beanitfiil  home,  and  while  he  has  been 
successful  in  his  efforts  in  connection  with  the  industrial  activities  of  the 
state,  there  can  be  none  to  begrudge  him  his  prosperity,  for  it  represents 
the  result  of  his  own  labors. 

John  L-angston  is  a  native  of  the  state  of  Missouri,  having  been  born  on 
a  farm  in  Osage  county,  on  the  7th  of  January,  1842,  the  son  of  Abraham 
and  Rebecca  (Slater)  Langston,  natives  respectively  of  Indiana  and  Ohio. 
Abraham  Langston,  who  was  a  son  of  John  Langston,  one  of  the  early 
pioneers  of  the  Hoosier  state,  was  reared  to  maturity  in  Indiana  and  as  a 
young  man  removed  thence  to  Osage  county,  Missouri,  where  he  devoted 
his  attention  to  teaching  school  at  intervals  for  a  number  of  years,  also  be- 
coming one  of  the  successful  agriculturists  of  that  section,  where  he  owned 
two  good  farms.  In  1847  ^i'  ^§4^  he  removed  with  his  family  to  Polk 
county,  Iowa,  locating  near  the  city  of  Des  Monies,  where  he  remained  until 
1849,  when  he  returned  to  Missouri,  locating  in  Lewis  county.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  disposed  of  all  his  interests  there  and  joined  the  throng  of 
argonauts  making  their  way  across  the  plains  to  the  New  Eldorado  in  Cali- 
fornia, the  gold  excitement  being  then  at  its  height.  He  drove  a  large  band 
of  live  stock  through  to  the  coast,  arriving  safely  at  his  destination  and  locat- 
ing on  the  American  river  in  California,  where,  a  few  months  later,  he  suc- 
cuml)ed  to  an  attack  of  typhoid  fever.  He  left  a  widow  and  two  children, 
our  subject,  and  his  sister  Emily,  who  was  married  in  Alissouri  to  Anthony 
Washburn,  with  whom  she  came  to  Washington  and  here  died  in  the  year 
1863.  After  the  death  of  his  father  the  subject  of  this  sketch  became  the 
head  of  the  family  and  the  support  and  protector  of  his  mother  and  sister. 
In  1859,  when  se\'enteen  years  of  age,  he  started,  in  company  with  his  moth- 
er, sister  and  brother-in-law,  across  the  plains  for  Colusa  county,  California, 
the  long,  weary  and  hazardous  journey  being  made  with  ox  teams.  They 
started  on  the  21st  of  April  and  reached  their  destination  on  the  17th  of 
September.  Mr.  Langston  and  his  brother-in-law  here  engaged  in  cutting 
cordwood  and  during  the  winter  got  out  three  hundred  cords.  The  follow- 
ing season  Mr.  Langston  was  employed  on  a  ranch  in  that  locality,  and  in 
1862  embarked  at  San  Francisco  for  the  territory  of  Washington,  where  the 
work  of  development  had  scarcely  been  inaugurated.  The  ^'essel  reached 
Port  Townsend  after  a  voyage  of  thirty-one  days"  duration,  and  two  more 
days  elapsed  ere  he  arrived  in  Seattle,  whither  he  came  in  company  with 
James  Coffin,  a  son-in-law  of  the  late  \\'illiam  Bell.  In  company  with  a 
friend  Mr.  Langston  went  to  White  river  valley,  taking  up  a  claim  of  govern- 
ment land  in  King  county  and  continuing  his  residence  there  until  he  had 


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proved  on  the  property.  He  then  traded  the  same  for  another  claim  in  the 
same  county,  exchanging  with  Joseph  Brannan.  In  1867,  at  Kent,  Mr. 
Langston  opened  the  lirst  store  in  King  county  outside  of  Seattle,  and  here 
he  conducted  busniess  for  a  period  of  seventeen  years,  building  up  a  profit- 
able general  merchandise  enterprise.  About  the  year  1870  he  also  estab- 
lished a  ferry  across  White  river,  in  the  meanwhile  continuing  to  operate 
his  farm,  which  he  developed  into  one  of  the  most  valuable  and  thoroughly 
improved  in  the  county.  For  some  three  years  before  leaving  this  farm 
Mr.  Langston  was  engaged  quite  extensively  in  the  dairy  business,  produc- 
ing cheese  during  the  summer  seasons  and  butter  in  the  winters.  He  kept 
a  herd  of  about  seventy-five  excellent  milch  cows  and  in  this  line,  also,  did  a 
profitable  business.  In  the  fall  of  1882  Mr.  Langston  disposed  of  his  farm 
and  in  the  following  year  removed  to  Seattle,  which  city  has  ever  since  been 
virtually  his  home.  Here  he  engaged  in  the  livery  business,  his  stables  be- 
ing located  on  Washington  street,  where  the  St.  Charles  Hotel  now  stands, 
and  there  he  continued  the  enterprise  until  the  devastating  fire  nearly  wiped 
out  the  city  in  1889.  He  finally  resumed  the  livery  business  in  Eighth 
avenue,  near  L'nion  street,  and  there  conducted  the  same  successfully  until 
1891.  when  he  disposed  of  his  interests.  In  1889  Mr.  Langston  purchased 
another  tract  of  forty  acres  of  heavily  timloered  land.  This  he  also  cleared 
and  improved  and  he  gave  his  personal  attention  to  its  operation  until  1899, 
dividing  his  time  between  the  city  and  the  farm.  It  should  be  noted  in  this 
connection  that  ]\Ir.  Langston  has  cleared  and  reclaimed  a  total  of  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  heavily  timbered  land  in  King  county,  placing  two  hundred 
and  eio-htv  acres  of  the  same  under  effective  cultivation.  In  the  spring  of 
1883  he  took  the  contract  for  the  clearing  of  eight  miles  of  the  right  of  way 
of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  between  the  White  and  Black  rivers.  On 
his  last  mentioned  farm  Mr.  Langston  has  given  his  attention  principally 
to  the  dairy  business,  about  twenty  cows  being  kept  on  the  place,  and  for  the 
past  tv.o  years  he  has  rented  the  same,  giving  his  attention  principally  to  the 
demands  placed  upon  him  in  the  operation  of  his  magnificent  funeral  coach, 
which  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  northwest  and  which  is  drawn  by  a  team  of 
the  best  horses,  the  car  l^eing  operated  in  connection  with  the  undertaking 
business  of  three  different  concerns  in  the  city.  In  1902  he  completed  his 
fine  modern  residence  at  720  Union  street,  the  same  being  one  of  the  mnny 
attractive  homes  in  the  city.  While  Mr.  Langston  has  ever  shown  himself 
to  be  a  public  spirited  and  progressive  citizen,  taking  deep  interest  in  all  that 
has  concerned  the  well-being  of  the  city  and  county  of  his  iiome,  he  has  never 
sous-ht  or  desired  the  honors  or  emoluments  of  political  preferment,  though 


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he  is  recognized  as  one  of  the  stalwart  supporters  of  the  Repubhcan  party. 
Mr.  Langston  erected  the  St.  Charles  Hotel,  one  of  the  first  to  be  opened  to 
the  public  after  the  fire  of  1889. 

In  King  county,  on  the  .30th  of  July,  1870,  Mr.  Langston  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Mrs.  Helen  Keller,  who  was  born  in  the  state  of  Maine,  as  were 
also  her  parents,  Goddard  and  Elizabeth  Molmes.  Of  the  four  children 
born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Langston,  the  second  died  in  infancy,  while  Hugh  E. 
died  in  1893,  at  the  age  of  tAventy-one  years.  The  two  surviving"  children 
are  Cecil  A.,  and  Nellie,  who  is  the  wife  of  Harry  Watson,  of  this  city.  Mr. 
Langston  is  one  of  the  few  remaining  pioneers  of  King  county,  and  this 
slight  tribute  to  his  worthy  life  and  accomplishment  is  certainly  due  in  this 
connection.  The  family  have  occupied  a  prominent  place  in  the  social  life 
of  the  citv,  and  the  iiome  of  our  subject  is  known  as  a  center  of  cordial  hos- 
pitality and  good  cheer. 

BENJAMIN  F.  BRIGGS. 

As  one  of  the  honored  pioneers  of  the  state  of  Washington  and  as  a 
representative  business  man  of  Seattle,  it  is  certainly  fitting  that  Mr.  Briggs 
be  accorded  definite  recognition  in  a  compilation  of  the  province  ascribed  to 
this  work,  and  in  connection  with  his  career  and  genealogical  record  are  to 
be  found  iriany  points  of  distinctive  interest.  He  was  incumbent  of  the  re- 
sponsible position  of  cashier  of  the  banking  house  of  Dexter  Horton  &  Com- 
pany, and  known  as  one  of  the  able  financiers  of  the  state,  and  during  the 
long  years  of  his  residence  in  Washington  had  retained  unqualified  confi- 
dence and  esteem  on  the  part  of  those  with  whom  he  had  come  in  contact 
in  the  various  relations  of  life. 

Mr.  Briggs  was  a  representative  of  families  long  identified  with  the 
annals  of  American  history,  the  same  having  been  founded  in  New  England 
in  the  early  colonial  epoch.  He  was  born  in  the  village  of  Assonet,  Bristol 
county,  Massachusetts,  near  the  city  of  Boston,  the  date  of  his  nativity  hav- 
ing been  July  19,  1832.  His  father,  Franklin  Briggs,  was  likewise  a  native 
of  the  old  Bay  state,  and  he  followed  a  seafaring  life,  having  been  an  able 
navigator.  He  was  mate  of  a  vessel  during  the  war  of  181 2  and  was  cap- 
tured by  the  British  and  held  in  Dartmouth  prison  for  several  months.  He 
was  prominently  identified  with  maritime  interests  for  many  years,  having 
been  master  of  a  large  schooner  utilized  in  the  southern  trade  and  having 
prospered  in  his  endeavors.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Hatha- 
way, was  likewise  a  native  of  Massachusetts  and  a  member  of  one  of  the 


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prominent  old  families  of  New  England.  Of  their  eight  children,  three  are 
living  at  the  present  time,  the  subject  of  this  review  being  the  only  repre- 
sentative of  the  family  who  came  to  the  state  of  Washington.  The  father 
lived  to  attain  the  age  of  seventy-five  years,  his  wife  having  passed  away  at 
the  age  of  forty-nine. 

Benjamin  F.  Briggs  received  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his 
native  state  and  in  an  excellent  academy  at  Middleboro,  having  passed  the 
summer  seasons  on  various  vessels,  while  he  devoted  the  winter  months  to 
his  school  work,  thus  gaining  a  good  practical  experience  simultaneously 
with  scholastic  discipline.  When  he  attained  his  legal  majority  he  decided 
that  he  would  try  his  fortunes  on  the  Pacific  coast,  the  gold  excitement  being 
then  at  its  height,  and  he  felt  that  here  might  be  found  better  opportunities 
for  the  attainmerit  of  success  through  personal  effort.  In  1853,  therefore, 
he  set  forth  for  California,  making  the  trip  by  way  of  the  Isthmus  of  Panama, 
and  for  three  years  after  his  arrival  in  the  Golden  state  he  continued  to  be 
identified  with  maritime  interests,  being  employed  on  different  vessels  and 
finding  his  services  in  ready  demand.  He  then  entered  into  partnershi])  \\ilh 
Captain  Laml)  and  was  engaged  in  the  grain  and  general  commission  busi- 
ness in  San  Francisco  for  several  years,,  after  which  he  held  a  position  as 
accountant  in  the  same  city  until  1869,  when  he  came  to  Seattle,  as  one  of 
the  pioneers  of  the  future  metropolis  of  the  great  state.  In  June,  1870,  Mr. 
Briggs  opened  the  first  banking  institution  ever  founded  in  the  city,  in  the 
capacity  of  cashier,  the  concern  being  a  private  banking  house  conducted  by 
the  well  known  firm  of  Dexter  Horton  &  Company.  He  remained  with  the 
bank  for  two  years  after  Mr.  Florton  disposed  of  his  interests  therein,  in 
1893.  and  after  that  time  was  associated  \\ith  Air.  Horton  in  the  most  re- 
sponsible position  one  man  can  hold  in  the  employ  of  another,  that  of  con- 
fidential agent,  and  handled  all  of  the  business  interests  of  Mr.  Horton  as 
though  they  were  his  own,  these  interests  being  of  wide  scope  and  importance 
and  demanding  in  their  management  marked  financial  and  administrative 
ability.  Mr.  Briggs  proved  altogether  capable  of  discharging  the  varied 
duties  devolving  upon  him,  and  his  integrity  and  fidelity  were  pro\-erbial, 
no  business  man  in  the  city  ever  being  held  in  greater  confidence,  while  his 
advice  and  counsel  were  valued  by  many  of  the  prominent  men  of  Seattle. 

Mr.  Briggs  made  judicious  investments  in  both  city  and  country  prop- 
erty, buying  valuable  land  in  Snohomish  and  King  counties,  the  latter  being 
located  a  short  distance  to  the  east  of  Lake  Washington,  while  in  the  city 
of  Seattle  he  owned  a  quarter  of  each  of  three  different  blocks.  He  erected 
five  substantial  buildings  on  his  property  at  the  corner  of  Spring  street  and 


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Seventh  avenue,  and  a  fine  building  on  his  ^ladison  street  property,  while 
his  commodious  and  beautiful  residence  is  located  at  the  corner  of  Spring 
street  and  Sixth  avenue.  That  he  had  confidence  in  the  development  of  the 
city  and  a  prescience  as  to  the  magnificent  future  awaiting  her,  was  shown 
in  his  investment  in  local  realty,  and  the  city  had  among  its  citizens  no  more 
loyal  and  enthusiastic  devotee  to  its  interests.  Mr.  Briggs  attended  to  the 
renting  of  both  the  New  York  and  the  Seattle  buildings,  which  are  among 
the  finest  of  the  many  modern  and  attractive  business  blocks  in  the  city.  The 
New  York  building  contains  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight  office  rooms,  three 
laree  stores  of  three  stories  each,  two  smaller  stores  and  the  fine  offices  and 
counting  room  of  the  Washington  National  Bank.  The  Seattle  building 
contains  eight  stores,  forty-six  double  rooms  and  thirty-three  single,  and  of 
both  of  these  structures  Mr.  Briggs  was  the  agent,  collecting  all  rents  and 
having  general  charge  of  the  properties. 

In  politics  Mr.  Briggs  had  ever  given  his  allegiance  to  the  Republican 
partv,  and  m  the  early  days  of  his  residence  in  Seattle  he  served  as  a  member 
of  the  city  council,  while  he  refused  to  accept  nomination  for  various  other 
offices.  He  attended  the  Protestant  ]\Iethodist  church  and  was  a  liberal  con- 
tributor to  its  support.  Fraternally  he  was  identified  with  the  Masonic  order, 
having  been  initiated  in  the  same  shortly  after  taking  up  his  residence  in 
California.  In  1869  'Mr.  Briggs  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Rebecca 
Horton,  dauo-hter  of  Dexter  Horton,  with  whose  extensive  business  and 
moneyed  interests  he  was  so  long  and  prominently  identified,  and  of  this 
union  three  children  were  born :  Ida,  Alfred  and  Laura.  He  was  afterward 
married  to  Sarah  Griffith,  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  four  children  were 
born  of  this  union:  Frank,  who  is  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business  in  Se- 
attle; Clarence,  a  student  in  the  Portland  jNIedical  College;  and  Herbert  and 
Clyde,  who  remain  at  the  parental  home.  On  August  17,  1902,  Mr.  Briggs 
ended  his  long  and  useful  career  in  death,  a  loss  not  only  to  his  family  circle 
but  to  the  city  and  county  where  he  had  labored  so  earnestly. 

FRANCIS  M.  CARROLL,  M.  D. 

Success  in  any  vocation,  in  any  avenue  of  business,  is  not  a  matter  of 
spontaneity  but  is  the  legitimate  offspring  of  effort  in  the  proper  utilization 
of  the  means  at  hand,  the  improvement  of  opportunity  and  the  exercise  of 
the  highest  functions  made  possible  by  the  specific  ability  in  any  case.  In 
view  of  these  facts  the  study  of  biography  becomes  valuable  and  its  lessons 
of  practical  use.     To  trace  the  history  of  a  successful  life  must  ever  prove  a 


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profitable  and  satisfying  indulgence,  for  the  history  of  the  individual  is  the 
history  of  the  nation,  the  history  of  the  nation  that  of  the  world.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  is  a  man  to  whom  has  not  been  denied  a  full  measure  of 
success  in  his  chosen  field  of  endeavor,  wdio  stands  distinctively  as  one  of  the 
representative  members  of  the  medical  profession  in  the  state  of  Washington 
and  whose  prestige  has  been  gained  by  close  application,  determined  effort 
and  the  development  of  the  intrinsic  forces  which  are  his.  When  it  is  stated 
that  the  Doctor  is  the  city  health  officer  of  Seattle  and  secretary  of  the  King 
County  Medical  Association,  an  idea  of  his  precedence  in  his  profession  is 
at  once  conveyed,  and  he  is  known  and  honored  as  one  of  the  leading  physi- 
cians and  surgeons  of  the  metropolis  of  the  state  and  as  a  young  man  of  high 
intellectual  and  executive  powers. 

Francis  M.  Carroll  is  a  native  of  the  fair  land  of  the  south,  though  he 
has  passed  the  major  portion  of  his  life  in  Washington,  which  has  been  his 
home  since  1879,  while  he  has  resided  in  the  city  of  Seattle  since  1885.  The 
Doctor  was  born  in  the  quaint  old  city  of  Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana,  on  the 
2 1  St  of  September,  1869,  and  is  a  representative  of  one  of  the  old  and  dis- 
tinguished families  of  our  republic,  the  genealogical  record  tracing  back  to 
the  early  colonial  epoch  in  our  national  history.  The  original  American 
progenitor  came  hither  from  England  wath  Lord  Baltimore,  and  one  of  the 
old  and  prominent  families  of  the  state  of  Maryland  is  that  to  which  refer- 
ence is  often  made  as  the  "Carrolls  of  Carrollton."  The  town  mentioned  is 
located  in  Carroll  county,  and  both  w'ere  named  in  honor  of  direct  ancestors 
of  the  subject  of  this  review.  Members  of  the  family  have  participated  in 
the  various  wars  in  which  our  country  has  been  engaged,  aiding  in  the  secur- 
ing of  our  national  independence,  while  later  the  loyalty  of  those  bearing  the 
name  was  shown  by  similar  service  in  the  other  wars  through  which  the 
integrity  of  the  Union  has  been  maintained.  Thus  it  should  be  noted  that 
John  R.  Carroll,  the  great-great-grandfather  of  the  Doctor,  as  a  member  of 
tlie  Friendly  Sons  of  St.  Patrick,  was  an  active  participant  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution;  his  son  George  took  part  in  the  war  of  1812;  the  latter's  son, 
also  named  George,  w^ent  forth  to  do  yeoman  service  in  the  Mexican  war; 
wliile  the  latter's  son,  P.  P.  Carroll,  the  father  of  the  Doctor,  was  one  of  tlie 
brave  and  gallant  soldiers  who  aided  in  perpetuating  the  Union  during  the 
dark  days  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion.  He  w^as  a  lieutenant  in  the  Twenty- 
fourth  United  States  Lifantry ;  was  wounded  in  the  attack  u\)in\  Port  Royal. 
South  Carolina,  on  the  7th  of  November,  1861  ;  and  again,  in  July,  1864, 
he  received  severe  wounds  while  in  charge  of  the  blowing  up  of  the  mine  at 
tlie  fortifications  before  Petersburg;  and  in  March,   1865,  he  again  suffered 


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the  fortunes  of  war,  receiving"  another  wound.  He  participated  in  the  first 
battle  of  Bull  Run  and  thereafter  continued  in  active  service  until  victory 
came  to  the  Union  arms,  having  been  among  the  first  of  the  Union  soldiers 
to  enter  the  Confederate  capital  at  the  thne  of  its  capitulation.  His  was  the 
distinction,  also,  of  having  been  in  command  of  President  Lincoln's  body 
guard.    After  the  war  he  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law,  and  was  later  elected 

to  the  bench. 

When  Doctor  Carroll  was  ten  years  of  age  his  parents  removed  to  the 
territory  of  Washington,  taking  up  their  residence  in  Olympia,  the  capital 
city,  and  there  he  pursued  his  studies  in  the  public  schools  and  under  the 
direction  of  private  tutors,  thus  preparing  himself  for  entrance  into  the 
State  University.  He  continued  his  studies  in  this  institution  for  some  time, 
and  thereafter  completed  a  course  in  business  college.  Of  self-reliant  nature 
and  strong  mentality,  it  was  but  natural  that  the  young  man  should  early 
formulate  definite  plans  as  to  his  future  life  work,  and  thus  we  find  that  he 
determined  to  prepare  himself  for  the  medical  profession.  He  began  his 
reading  under  Dr.  Horton,  and  later  entered  the  Cooper  Medical  College  in 
the  city  of  San  Francisco,  where  he  completed  a  thorough  course  and  was 
graduated  as  a  member  of  the  class  of  1896.  receiving  his  coveted  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine.  Since  then  he  has  been  an  indefatigable  student  and 
has  missed  no  opportunity  for  extending  his  knowledge  of  the  sciences  of 
medicine  and  surgery  through  well  directed  reading  and  supplementary 
clinical  work.  Soon  after  his  graduation  Dr.  Carroll  received  the  appoint- 
ment as  surgeon  for  the  Monte  Cristo  mines,  and  as  such  he  continued  to 
render  efficient  service  until  January,  1898,  when  he  returned  to  Seattle  and 
established  himself  in  the  general  practice  of  his  profession,  since  which 
time  he  has  gained  definite  recognition  among  his  professional  confreres  and 
on  the  part  of  a  representative  class  of  citizens.  The  Doctor  is  thoroughly 
en  rapport  with  his  profession,  is  essentially  and  at  all  times  an  assiduous 
student,  keeping  fully  abreast  of  the  advances  made  in  sciences  of  medicine 
and  surgery,  and  his  success  has  been  of  pronounced  order  and  has  come  as 
the  nature  sequence  of  his  earnest  and  able  application  to  his  professional 
work.  In  May,  1900,  Dr.  Carroll  was  appointed  assistant  health  officer  of 
the  city  of  Seattle,  and  on  August  ist  of  the  following  year  he  was  accorded 
preferment  as  chief  health  officer,  of  which  position  he  has  since  been  the  in- 
cumbent. He  is  a  member  of  the  American  Medical  Association;  the  Wash- 
ington State  Medical  Society;  the  King  County  Medical  Association,  of 
which  he  is  secretary;  and  is  also  identified  with  the  Association  of  Military 
Surgeons  of  the  United  States,  having  been  appointed  in   1898  surgeon  of 


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the  national  guard  of  the  state  of  Washington,  with  the  rank  of  first  heu- 
tenant. 

Fraternally  the  Doctor  holds  membership  in  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
the  Benevolent  and  Protective  Order  of  Elks,  the  Woodmen  of  the  World, 
the  Fraternal  Order  of  Eagles,  the  Modern  Woodmen  and  the  Order  of 
Washington.  He  is  local  medical  examiner  for  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and 
the  Modern  Woodmen  and  also  of  the  Railway  Trainmen's  Insurance  Asso- 
ciation. In  politics  he  gives  a  stanch  allegiance  to  the  Republican  party, 
taking  an  active  interest  in  its  cause,  and  in  1900  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Seattle  city  convention  of  his  party.  In  July,  1900,  Dr.  Carroll  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Miss  Ida  Sutthoff,  who  was  born  in  California,  and  of  this 
union  one  daughter  has  been  born,  Ida  Eugenie.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Carroll  are 
highly  esteemed  in  the  social  circles  of  the  city  and  are  numbered  among  the 
popular  young  people  of  Seattle. 

ALEXANDER  S.  JEFFS. 

At  the  bar  of  Seattle  Alexander  S.  Jeffs  has  attained  to  a  position  which 
is  creditable,  because  it  indicates  his  capability  and  his  close  application  in 
the  line  of  his  chosen  profession.  He  is  one  of  the  native  sons  of  Washing- 
ton, and  has  here  laid  the  foundation  for  a  successful  career  in  the  law  by  a 
very  thorough  course  of  study,  and  his  laudable  ambition  and  enterprise 
auger  w-ell  for  the  future. 

jMr.  Jeffs  was  born  at  Pialschie,  King  county,  July  8,  1874,  and  is  a 
son  of  Richard  Jeffs,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewdiere  in  this  volume. 
His  education  w^as  received  in  the  public  schools  and  in  Tuilatin  Academy 
at  Forest  Grove,  Oregon.  He  directed  his  literary  studies  with  the  end  in 
view  of  becoming  a  member  of  the  bar.  He  therefore  pursued  a  classical 
course  and  afterward  went  to  Portland,  Oregon,  where  he  entered  the  Port- 
land Academy  and  was  graduated  with  the  class  of  1894.  Going  to  Cali- 
fornia he  later  .became  a  student  in  the  law  department  of  the  Leland  Stan- 
ford LTniversity,  and  when  four  years  had  passed  he  graduated  and  w^on  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  In  January,  1899,  he  entered  the  law  office  of 
Thomas  B.  Hardin  of  Seattle,  and  was  with  him  for  about  a  year  when  the 
law  firm  of  Lewis,  Hardin  &  Albertson  was  formed,  Mr.  Jeff's  becoming  a 
clerk  in  the  office  of  this  firm.  He  acted  in  that  capacity  until  May,  1901, 
when  he  returned  home,  continuing  with  his  father  upon  the  farm  until  Feb- 
ruary, 1902,  when  he  began  practice  on  his  own  account  with  an  office  in  the 
Pioneer  building  in  Seattle,      He  has  given  special  attention  to  realty  law, 


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taking-  no  part  in  the  practice  of  criminal  law.  He  is  well  fitted  by  earnest 
study  and  experience  to  make  a  success  in  the  profession  and  already  has 
attained  an  enviable  position.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Jeffs  is  a  Republi- 
can, and  socially  is  connected  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Foresters.  He 
still  considers  Pialschie  his  home,  returning  there  every  Saturday  evening 
and  spending  Sunday. 

THOMAS  M.  FISHER. 

Throughout  almost  his  entire  life  Colonel  Thomas  :M.  Fisher  has  been 
either  in  the  military  or  civil  service  of  his  country  and  is  to-day  filling  the 
office  of  Chinese  inspector  and  inspector  of  immigration  at  the  port  of  Seattle, 
having  been  connected  with  the  district  since  1891.  The  name  of  Fisher 
also  figures  conspicuously  in  connection  with  the  history  of  the  Civil  w^ar, 
and  at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  the  brilliant  service  of  our  subject  and  his 
father  \von  the  attention  of  the  nation  and  the  recognition  of  the  national 
government.  Wdierever  found,  Colonel  Fisher  has  been  known  for  his  un- 
swerving loyalty  to  his  country,  his  patriotism  being  one  of  the  salient  fea- 
tures in  his  honorable  career. 

The  Colonel  was  born  in  Lancaster  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  19th 
of  February.  1846.  His  father,  General  J.  W.  Fisher,  was  a  member  of 
the  legal  fraternity  and  won  distinction  at  the  bar,  eventually  becoming  chief 
justice  of  the  supreme  court  of  Wyoming.  When  the  Civil  war  was  inaug- 
urated he  offered  his  services  to  the  government  and  went  to  the  front  with 
the  rank  of  captain.  Later  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  colonel  and 
afterward  to  Ijrigadier  general.  He  won  glory  and  renown  at  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg  by  capturing  Little  Round  Top,  and  he  continued  in  active  serv- 
ice until  the  cessation  of  hostilities,  being  discharged  as  brigadier  general,  a 
rank  which  had  been  won  by  meritorious  service.  Later  he  went  to  Wyom- 
ing, spending  his  last  days  there,  and  enjoying  distinction  as  one  of  the  most 
eminent  members  of  the  bar  of  the  west.  He  was  appointed  to  the  position 
of  chief  justice  and  presided  over  that  court  of  last  resort  in  a  manner  which 
reflected  credit  upon  its  judicial  history.  Fle  died  in  1901,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-six  years.  In  early  manhood  he  married  rvliss  Elizabeth 
R.  Shearer,  a  daughter  of  Major  James  Shearer,  who  won  his  title  in  the 
war  of  18 [2.  Eight  children  were  born  of  this  marriage,  our  subject  being 
the  only  one  on  the  coast. 

Colonel  Fisher  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native 
county  and  was  only  fifteen  years   of  age  when   he  enlisted   in   the  Fifth 


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Pennsylvania  Infantry,  later  becoming  a  member  of  the  Second  Regiment 
of  Pennsylvania  Volunteers.  At  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  he  carried  the  dis- 
patch concerning  the  surrender  of  Round  Top  across  the  field  to  General 
Meade,  and  for  this  act  of  conspicuous  bravery  he  was  made  first  lieutenant. 
He  had  been  wounded  at  Fredericksburg,  but  was  off  duty  for  only  a  few 
weeks.  At  the  battle  of  Ream's  Station  he  was  brevetted  captain,  and  com- 
manded Company  B  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Ninetieth  Pennsylvania  In- 
fantry from  the  30th  of  May,  1864,  until  the  close  of  the  war,  although  he 
was  only  eighteen  years  of  age  when  he  took  command.  He  took  part  in  all 
the  engagements  participated  in  by  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  including 
the  seven  days'  battle  of  the  Wilderness,  Mechanicsville,  Gaines'  Mills,  Mal- 
vern Hill,  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  Falksburg,  Gettysburg,  the  Wilder- 
ness campaign  and  the  siege  of  Petersburg,  up  to  the  battle  of  Ream's  Station, 
August  25,  1864,  when  the  regiment  was  captured.  He  was  afterward  in- 
carcerated at  Petersburg,  Libby  prison,  Dansville  and  Salisbury,  and  on  the 
22d  of  February,  1865,  was  paroled. 

Shortly  after  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  made  lieutenant  of  the  Twenty- 
third  Infantry  in  the  regular  army,  and  served  throughout  the  Indian  cam- 
paign under  General  Crook  in  Oregon  and  California.  In  1872  he  resigned 
and  went  to  Wyoming,  where  he  resided  until  1880,  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law.  He  had  studied  law  while  in  the  army,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
Wyoming,  and  there  continued  in  practice  until  1880,  when  he  removed  to 
Colorado  and  was  city  attorney  at  Silver  Cliff  in  1882.  He  joined  the  state 
militia  there  and  became  a  captain  in  the  Colorado  National  Guard. 
He  also  became  an  aide  on  the  staff  of  Governor  Routte,  with  the 
rank  of  colonel.  After  three  years  he  removed  to  Cheyenne.  Wyoming, 
where  he  practiced  law  with  success  until  1890,  during  which  time  he  was 
commander  of  the  department  of  the  Grand  x\rmy  of  the  Republic  for  Wy- 
oming and  Colorado.  Pie  then  went  to  Washington,  D.  C,  where  he  held 
various  positions  in  the  interior  department  until  1891,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed inspector  of  immigration  and  assigned  to  duty  in  the  Seattle  district, 
serving  until  the  latter  part  of  1893,  when  he  went  out  with  the  administra- 
tion. In  1S96  he  was  elected  prosecuting  attorney  of  Jefferson  county  and 
discharged  his  duties  so  acceptably  that  in  1898  he  was  re-elected  without 
opposition,  receiving  practically  all  the  votes  of  the  county,  only  three  being 
cast  against  him.  In  1896  he  was  appointed  to  the  position  of  Chinese  in- 
spector, an«l  in  1901  the  office  was  transferred  to  the  bureau  of  immigration 
and  he  was  given  the  duties  of  inspector  of  immigration,  with  office  in  Seattle, 
so  that  he  is  now  serving  in  that  capacity.  He  has  always  l)ccn  a  Republican, 
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taking  a  most  active  and  helpful  interest  in  the  work  of  the  party  until  after 
he  entered  oflice  under  the  civil  service  rules. 

Colonel  Fisher  has  been  twice  married.  He  first  wedded  I\Iiss  Bessie 
Wilford,  in  Pennsylvania,  and  they  became  the  parents  of  two  children, 
Thomas  M.,  of  Seattle,  and  Charles  E.,  who  is  connected  with  the  Post 
Intellis-encer.  After  the  death  of  his  first  wife  Colonel  Fisher  was  married 
at  Port  Townsend  to  Rosella  F.  Plummer.  For  thirty-three  years  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity;  belongs  to  John  F.  Miller  Post, 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  was  commander  of  his  post  for  three  years  in 
Port  Townsend  and  for  five  years  in  Cheyenne.  He  has  also  served  as  state 
counselor  for  the  state  of  Washington  in  the  Junior  Order  of  American  Me- 
chanics. Such,  in  brief,  is  his  life  history.  In  whatever  relation  of  life 
we  find  him — in  the  government  service,  in  political  circles,  in  military  life, 
in  professional  or  social  relations — he  is  always  the  same  honored  and  hon- 
orable gentleman,  whose  worth  well  merits  the  high  regard  which  is  uni- 
fomily  given  him. 

EDWARD  J.  DUHAMEL. 

It  is  alwaysa  pleasure  to  see  true  merit  suitably  rewarded  and  to  behold 
the  prosperity  of  those  who  eminently  deserve  it,  as  does  the  subject  of  this 
review.  At  an  early  ag'e  he  learned  one  of  the  great  lessons  of  life — that 
there  is  no  royal  road  to  wealth, — and  therefore  he  has  toiled  industriously, 
winning  not  only  affluence  but  also  the  confidence  of  the  people  with  whom 
he  has  been  associated  in  business.  Work  has  developed  his  latent  resources 
jiiid  brought  out  the  strong,  self-reliant  force  of  his  character.  He  is  now 
extensively  engaged  in  contracting  and  building,  and  has  erected  some  of  the 
largest  and  finest  buildings  on  the  Puget  Sound. 

^Ir.  Duhamel  was  born  in  Buffalo,  New  York,  August  25,  1850,  and 
comes  of  a  family  of  French  origin  that  was  established  in  Canada  at  an 
early  day.  His  father,  Peter  Duhamel,  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  locate  in 
the  United  States.  He  took  up  his  abode  near  Buffalo,  and  engaged  in  con- 
tracting and  building.  In  1854  he  removed  westward  to  Wisconsin,  settling 
in  Whitewater,  Walworth  county,  where  he  remained  until  1862,  when  he 
returned  to  Canada.  After  a  few  years,  however,  he  again  came  to  the 
United  States  and  remained  a  resident  of  Chicago  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  in  1891.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Virginia  Bessett,  and 
they  became  the  parents  of  seven  children,  but  the  subject  of  this  review  is 
the  only  one  living  on  the  Pacific  coast. 

In  the  public  schools   of  ^Visconsin   Edward  J.   Duhamel   pursued  his 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  699 

education.  He  had  natural  taste  and  inclination  for  the  builder's  art,  but  his 
father  did  not  wish  him  to  follow  that  pursuit,  so  in  1867  he  entered  the  office 
of  an  architect  in  order  to  master  the  kindred  profession  of  planning  build- 
ings. He  readily  mastered  the  work,  was  given  charge  of  the  office  and  re- 
mained in  that  responsible  position  until  1875.  In  that  year  Mr.  Duhamel 
sought  a  home  in  the  south.  He  went  to  Galveston,  Texas,  where  he  opened 
an  office,  remaining  in  business  in  that  city  and  in  Houston  until  1887.  He 
then  removed  to  El  Paso,  Texas,  where  he  remained  for  two  years,  when  he 
came  to  the  north,  locating  in  Seattle,  where  he  turned  his  attention  to  con- 
tracting and  building,  taking  contracts  for  the  erection  of  large  buildings. 
He  erected  the  Squire  Latimer  building  and  the  large  schoolhouse  at  Port 
Townsend,  after  which  he  went  to  Tacoma,  where  he  had  the  contract  for  the 
original  city  hall,  but  a  change  of  location  and  plans  delayed  the  work,  and 
in  consequence  of  this  he  went  to  Chicago  in  1894,  not  caring  to  wait  until 
the  dilatory  committee  should  adjust  affairs  in  Tacoma.  In  Chicago  he 
engaged  in  building,  erecting  a  number  of  churches,  but  a  preference  for  the 
west  caused  him  to  return  to  Washington,  and  upon  again  locating  in  Seattle 
in  1897  he  secured  the  contract  for  erecting  the  ten  additions  to  St.  Joseph's 
Hospital  at  Tacoma,  in  connection  with  Mr.  Cribble.  The  firm  of  Cribble  & 
Duhamel  was  formed.  In  1890  Mr.  Megrath  became  a  partner,  and  while 
Mr.  Cribble  is  still  interested  in  the  business  the  iirm  name  is  now  Megrath 
&  Duhamel.  When  Mr.  Megrath  became  interested  in  the  contracting  busi- 
ness, the  others  also  became  interested  in  his  brickyards.  After  a  year  the 
latter  business  was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  the  Washington  Brick 
&  Tile  Company,  of  which  Air.  Megrath  is  the  president,  while  Mr.  Duhamel 
is  the  secretary  and  treasurer.  Among  the  most  prominent  buildings  which 
he  has  erected  are  the  Snoqualmie  Falls  building,  at  the  corner  of  Main  and 
Second  streets,  the  Hamlock  building,  the  Smith  building  on  Jackson  street, 
the  car  barns  at  Fifth  and  Pine  streets,  the  power  plant  building  of  the 
Seattle  Electric  Company  on  Western  avenue,  one  of  the  most  substantial 
and  the  first  one  of  the  kind  erected  here,  the  schoolhouse  at  Green  Lake,  the 
wharf,  warehouse  and  bunkers  on  the  tide  fiats  for  the  Electric  Company 
and  the  four-story  and  basement  factory  for  the  Pacific  Coast  Syrup  Com- 
pany, the  first  large  brick  building  on  the  tide  lands,  also  the  two  buildings 
for  James  H.  Perkins  on  the  tide  flats.  These  are  an  indication  of  the  nature 
of  the  contracts  awarded  to  our  subject,  who  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
prominent,  capable  and  successful  contractors  of  the  city,  and  the  volume  of 
his  business  is  steadily  increasing.  He  furnishes  employment  to  a  large  force 
of  workmen  and  is  always  just  and  fair  in  his  dealings  with  them. 


700  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

\h:  Duhamel  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Neddermeyer  of  Chicago. 
Socially  he  is  connected  with  the  Masons  and  the  Elks,  and  in  politics  is 
indq^endent,,  preferring  to  vote  for  those  whom  he  thinks  best  qualified  for 
office,  without  regard  to  party  ties.  Starting  upon  an  independent  business 
career  upon  his  removal  to  the  south,  he  has  steadily  advanced  in  his  chosen 
field  of  labor  until  he  has  contributed  in  no  small  degree  to  the  improvement 
of  the  northwest,  and  at  the  same  time  has  advanced  until  he  now-  occupies  a 
commanding  position  in  business  affairs. 

SAMUEL  C.  CALDERHEAD. 

It  is  always  interesting  to  take  up  the  life  of  one  who  has  been  devoted 
to  public  affairs,  whether  in  those  affecting  the  greater  divisions  of  the  coun- 
try or  those  of  the  township  or  county.  The  ever  increasing  importance  of 
America  as  a  center  for  commercial  power,  and  of  late  years  as  a  world 
empire,  must  cause  every  true  citizen  of  our  republic  to  assume  a  proper  share 
of  the  duties  incumbent  upon  public-spirited  citizenship.  Mr.  Calderhead 
of  Seattle  has  not  only  a  record  of  a  life  spent  in  honorable  activity  in  private 
affairs  but  has  devoted  time  and  service  to  the  public  matters  of  his  county 
and  state. 

Mr.  Calderhead  has  a  good  ancestry,  which  is  a  good  beginning  for 
anyone  and  has  much  to  do  with  the  future  of  the  individual.  His  grand- 
father Alexander  was  a  native  of  Scotland  and  a  minister  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  He  was  induced  to  cross  the  waters  to  America,  and  settled 
in  Belmont  county,  Ohio,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days  and  took 
up  a  homestead.  In  this  state  Ebenezer  B.  was  born,  and  he  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father  and  made  the  ministry  his  calling  in  life.  He  has  a 
record  of  fifty  years  spent  in  this  capacity,  and  twenty-five  of  these  were 
with  one  congregation.  He  is  still  living,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety 
years,  with  the  page  of  life  remarkably  free  from  the  blots  of  human  w'eak- 
ness.  His  wife  was  Martha  Boyd  Wallace,  who  was  also  of  Scotch  origin; 
she  died  in  her  forty-sixth  year. 

Samuel  C.  was  one  of  eleven  children  and  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1856. 
After  a  period  passed  in  the  pul)lic  schools  he  attended  Franklin  College,  but 
at  the  age  of  sixteen  set  out  on  his  (^wn  account  to  battle  with  the  world.  He 
finally  took  up  railroad  work  as  a  settled  occupation  and  was  an  operator  and 
station  agent  for  a  number  of  years  in  Kansas  wnth  the  Kansas  City,  Fort 
Scott  and  Gulf,  and  later  with  tlie  Missouri  Pacific.  But  his  eyes  had  been 
turned  for  some  time  to  the  Puget  Sound  countrv.  and  in   1880  he  came  to 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  701 

Walla  Walla  and  for  seven  years  was  in  the  employ  of  the  railroad  there 
and  in  the  vicinity.  The  year  1887  is  the  date  of  his  coming  to  Seattle, 
where  for  four  years  he  held  the  position  of  secretary  for  the  Seattle  Ter- 
minal Railway  and  Elevator  Company,  and  then  with  the  Great  Northern 
in  different  capacities.  Later  he  was  nominated  by  his  party,  the  Demo- 
cratic, to  the  office  of  mayor  of  the  city  and  made  the  race  against  Mayor 
Humes  in  1898.  His  ability  as  a  business  manager  was  recognized  in 
his  appointment  to  receiver  of  the  Guarantee  Loan  and  Trust  Company 
Bank.  He  gave  his  exclusive  attention  to  the  matters  connected  with  this 
business  until  they  were  all  adjusted  in  the  early  part  of  1902.  In  1900  he 
received  the  unanimous  nomination  for  county  treasurer,  but  though  he 
ran  eighteen  hundred  votes  ahead  of  the  support  accorded  to  the  presiden- 
tial candidate  Bryan,  and  carried  the  city,  the  Republican  majority  in  the 
county  was  too  great  to  overcome.  He  has  always  been  interested  in  the 
success  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  with  the  exception  of  the  year  1896 
has  attended  every  city,  county  and  state  convention  since  he  came  here. 
Mr.  Calderhead  is  active  in  the  fraternal  org-anization.  He  holds 
several  of  the  lower  degrees  of  Masonry  and  Ijelongs  to  the  Seattle  Com- 
mandery  No.  2,  of  the  Knights  Templars.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Benevo- 
lent and  Protecti>'e  Order  of  Elks,  the  Seattle  Camp  No.  69.  of  the  W^ood- 
men  of  the  W'orld,  and  is  past  counsul ;  and  to  the  Ancient  Order  of  L'nited 
Workmen.  Mr.  Calderhead  was  married  in  Walla  Walla,  Junue  27,  1886, 
to  Mrs.  Haselton,  and  they  have  two  children.  Gem  O.  and  Samuel  J.  The 
residence  in  which  the  family  reside  was  erected  in  1891,  and  is  a  home  of 
much  taste  and  refinement. 

HENRY  LOHSE. 

Henry  Lohse  is  extensively  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  l)rick  in 
Seattle,  conducting  an  industry  which  has  contriljuted  to  the  general  pros- 
perity of  the  city  as  well  as  to  the  indixidual  success  of  the  owner.  Mr. 
Lohse  has  long  resided  in  Washington,  having  taken  up  his  alxxle  in  this 
state  in  January,  1871,  so  that  he  has  witnessed  nuich  of  the  growth  and 
development  in  the  last  quarter  of  a  Century.  He  is  a  native  of  Germany,  his 
birth  having  occurred  in  Holstein,  January  22,  1840.  His  father,  Hans 
Lohse,  was  a  farmer  by  occupation  and  married  Gretchen  W^rage,  by  whom 
he  had  six  children,  four  sons  and  two  daughters,  but  Frank  and  Henry  are 
the  only  ones  now  living.  The  father  died  of  typhoid  fever  at  the  age  of 
forty-eight  years,   but  on  both   sides   the  family  were  noted   for  longevity. 


702  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

On  the  paternal  side  the  grandfather  reached  the  age  of  ninety-one  years, 
the  grandmother  ninety-six  years,  while  on  the  maternal  side  they  were 
eighty-one  and  eighty-five  years  of  age,  respectively. 

When  a  young  man  Henry  Lohse  worked  upon  the  home  farm  during 
the  months  of  summer  and  attended  school  throughout  the  remainder  of  the 
year  until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age.  He  then  began  preparation  for  the 
practical  duties  of  business  life  by  learning  the  trade  of  a  mason,  and  after- 
ward followed  that  pursuit  in  various  parts  of  Germany,  working  as  a  jour- 
neyman for  five  years.  Having  heard  favorable  reports  of  the  opportunities 
and  privileges  of  the  new  world,  he  determined  to  try  his  fortune  in  America, 
and  in  1865  crossed  the  Atlantic  and  located  in  Chicago,  Illinois.  There  he 
followed  the  trade  of  bricklaying,  and  while  thus  engaged  learned  the  En- 
glish language.  In  January,  1871,  he  arrived  in  Seattle,  coming  west  on 
account  of  his  health,  two  physicians  having  recommended  him  to  take  this 
step.  He  located  first  at  Olympia,  as  there  was  more  business  being  done  in 
that  city,  the  seat  of  government.  He  had  brought  some  money  with  him  to 
the  west,  and  invested  in  property  there.  He  also  worked  at  whatever  he 
could  get  to  do  for  fi\'e  years.  Seeing  that  there  was  a  more  brilliant  future 
before  Seattle,  he  determined  to  locate  here,  being  advised  to  do  so  by  Bailey 
Gatzert  and  Henry  Yesler.  Accordingly  he  shipped  brick  from  Olympia, 
did  some  building  on  his  own  account  and  also  sold  brick  to  others.  He 
entered  into  partnership  with  Otto  Ranke  as  a  contractor,  and  they  remained 
together  until  1884.  when  Mr.  Lohse  established  a  brickyard  on  Jackson 
street.  In  1894  he  removed  his  business  to  his  present  location  on  the  south 
side  of  the  city.  He  has  built  up  an  extensive  trade,  and  his  brickyard  now 
has  a  capacity  of  twenty-five  thousand  brick  per  day.  He  manufactures  the 
sand-rolled  brick,  which  is  an  excellent  building  material.  His  patronage 
has  so  increased  that  at  the  beginning  of  the  present  year  he  had  orders  for 
all  the  brick  which  he  could  manufacture  durino-  the  vear.  This  condition  of 
afi'airs  is  quite  different  from  what  existed  at  the  time  of  his  arrival  here.- 
Then  his  present  output  would  have  furnished  all  the  brick  used  in  the  city 
for  fi\-e  years.  Mr.  Lohse  erected  the  Holyoke  building,  also  the  York  Hotel 
and  the  Eppler  block,  and  up  to  the  time  of  the  great  fire  in  Seattle  he  and 
Mr.  Ranke  had  erected  every  brick  building  in  the  city  with  one  exception. 
He  also  built  the  Bay  View  brewery,  and  his  son  Henry  is  now  building  the 
large  addition  and  the  smokestack  to  that  plant.  In  1877  Mr.  Lohse  erected 
his  present  residence  on  James  street  and  also  the  house  adjoining  on  the  east. 
There  is  a  very  fine  spring  on  his  place,  which  he  has  fixed  so  that  it  can  be 
reached  by  the  public,  and  is  much  appreciated. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  703 

Mr.  Lohse  was  married  in  Chicago,  in  1866,  to  Meta  Cirjack,  and  they 
have  three  children  living.  They  also  lost  two  by  diphtheria  in  1890.  Those 
who  still  survive  are  ITenry.  a  contractor;  Gretchen  L.,  who  is  now  traveling 
in  Europe;  and  Frank,  who  is  foreman  in  his  father's  brickyard.  Mrs.  Lohse 
belongs  to  the  Frauenverein,  a  ladies'  aid  society.  Mr.  Lohse  holds  member- 
ship in  the  Turnverein  and  in  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but  has  never  sought  or  desired  office.  He  and 
his  family  attend  the  Lutheran  church.  During  the  years  of  his  residence  in 
the  Laiited  States  he  has  never  had  occasion  to  regret  his  determination  to 
seek  a  home  in  the  new  world,  for  he  found  that  the  reports  of  business  oppor- 
tunities here  were  not  exaggerated,  but  that  good  openings  lay  before  men  of 
energy,  determination  and  ambition.  Fie  has  steadily  worked  his  way  up- 
ward, and  in  Seattle  has  established  an  industry  of  importance,  bringing  to 
him  an  excellent  financial  return. 

JOHN  WOODING. 

John  Wooding  is  a  retired  farmer  living  in  Auburn  and  since  1877  has 
made  his  home  in  W^ashington.  He  \vas  born  in  Saginaw,  Michigan,  Feb- 
ruary 10,  1858.  and  is  a  son  of  John  Wooding,  Sr.,  whose  birth  occurred  in 
Canada  in  181 8.  \Vhen  a  young  man  his  father  removed  from  the  domin- 
ion to  Micliigan,  and  was  there  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade  at  Saginaw, 
remaining  in  that  business  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1873.  He  was 
of  Welsh-English  stock,  and  his  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Erma 
Garland,  was  of  English  descent.  She  was  born  in  Saginaw,  Michigan, 
in  1837  and  is  now  living  in  Auburn. 

At  1-he  usual  age  John  Wooding  entered  the  public  schools,  and  after 
he  had  mastered  the  common  English  branches  of  learning  further  contin- 
ued his  studies  in  the  high  school  at  Toledo,  being  graduated  in  that  insti- 
tution. When  nineteen  years  of  age  he  sought  a  home  in  the  northwest, 
making  his  way  to  AVashington,  where  he  secured  a  claim  in  the  Green  river 
valley  comprising  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land.  This  is  located  on 
the  river,  five  miles  from  the  town  of  Auburn.  The  tract  was  a  tangle  of 
underbrush  and  trees,  as  was  all  of  the  surrounding  country  at  that  time,  but 
he  cleared  it  and  with  characteristic  energy  began  to  make  it  arable.  Since 
that  time  his  attention  has  largely  been  given  to  farming  and  his  agricultural 
intetrests  have  brought  to  him  a  creditable  and  desirable  financial  return. 
Since  1890  he  has  rented  his  farm.  For  ten  or  twelve  years  prior  to  1890 
he  was  extensively  engaged  in  hop-growing  in  King  county.     He  afterward 


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devoted  his  attention  to  dairying-  and  general  farming  and  these  Hnes  of 
agricultural  work  also  prove  quite  profitable.  Since  1889  he  has,  made  his 
home  in  the  town  of  Auburn,  and  for  five  years  after  his  arrival  was  engaged 
in  merchandising  as  a  partner  of  C.  P.  Lacey,  Dave  Hart,  Dr.  Hoge  and  \V. 
H.  Hemphill.     This  business  was  conducted  until   1894,  when  it  was  closed 

out. 

In  .\uburn.  in  1878,  ^Ir.  Wooding  was  united  in  marriage  to  Lucretia 
Brannan,  who  was  born  at  the  home  of  her  parents  in  the  White  ri\-er  valley 
of  Washington,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Sarah  Brannan.  who  were  among 
the  first  settlers  of  the  valley.  To  our  subject  anrl  his  wife  have  been  born 
four  children,  and  the  family  circle  yet  remains  unbroken  by  the  hand  of 
death.     Their  names  are  as  follows :  Guy,   Blanche.'  Grace  and  Ethel. 

For  manv  years  Mr.  W'ooding  has  been  a  prominent  worker  in  the 
ranks  of  the  Republican  party  and  does  everything  in  his  power  to  promote 
the  growth  and  insure  the  success  of  that  party.  He  has  served  as  county 
commissioner,  and  in  1894  was  elected  to  represent  his  district  in  the  state 
senate  and  re-elected  in  1898.  Fie  was  nominated  for  sheriff  of  King 
county  on  the  27th  of  June.  1902.  Socially  he  is  connected  with  King  Solo- 
mon Lodge.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Kent,  and  Chapter  Xo.  3.  R.  A.  M..  at  Seattle. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  Valley  Lodge.  I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  Douglas  Lodge, 
K.  P..  at  Auburn.  From  the  time  when  he  entered  upon  his  business  career 
he  has  cherished  a  desire  to  provide  a  good  home  for  himself  and  his  family, 
and  he  has  prospered  in  his  business  affairs  as  the  result  of  this  determina- 
tion. His  dealings  have  been  in  strict  accordance  with  business  principles, 
and  in  Auburn  and  the  surroundino-  district,  where  he  is  best  known.  Mr. 
Wooding  has  many  friends. 

CLARK  M.  NETTLETON. 

Clark  M.  Nettleton  is  the  business  manager  of  the  Seattle  Bridge  Com- 
pany and  director  of  the  Mensing-Muchmore  Printing  Company,  a  trustee 
of  the  Seattle  &  Shanghai  Investment  Company,  and  a  member  of  the  civil 
service  commission  of  Seattle.  These  interests  indicate  something  of  the 
extent  and  scope  of  his  efforts.  A  man  of  resourceful  business  ability,  he 
stands  among  those  whose  keen  discrimination  not  only  enables  them  to 
recognize  the  opportunity  of  the  present,  but  also  the  exigencies  and  possi- 
bilities of  the  future,  and  his  work  is  proving  a  substantial  and  important 
element  in  the  upbuilding  and  development  of  the  great  northwest,  which 
is  fast  becoming  the  center  of  the  world's  commercial  and  industrial  life. 


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Mr.  Nettletoii  was  born  in  Lewis  Center,  Ohio,  September  25,  1868, 
and  is  a  son  of  Stiles  R.  and  Amelia  (Mills)  Nettleton,  the  former  a  native 
of  Ohio  and  the  latter  of  Michigan.  The  father  was  identified  with  Jay 
Cook  &  Company  in  extensive  bnsiness  and  railroad  interests,  and  in  1872 
he  went  to  the  Red  river  valley  of  Minnesota  as  a  representative  of  the  land 
department  of  that  company  during  the  construction  of  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railroad.  He  was  thus  engaged  until  1884.  and  was  extensively  interested 
in  real  estate  operations  in  that  section  of  the  country.  In  the  latter  year  he 
removed  to  Northfield,  Minnesota,  where  he  purchased  the  Northfield  News, 
which  he  conducted  with  success  for  four  years.  He  then  purchased  a  stock 
farm  in  southern  Minnesota  and  took  up  his  abode  thereon.  In  his  family 
were  seven  children,  namely:  Elva,  the  wife  of  Edgar  C.  Turner,  a  resident 
farmer  of  Snohomish  county;  H.  S.,  who  is  the  buyer  for  the  Frederick  & 
Nelson  Furniture  Company,  of  Seattle;  Clark  M..  of  this  review;  Alice,  who 
is  a  professional  nurse,  of  Seattle;  Mabel,  a  teacher  in  the  public  school  of 
that  place;  S.  R.,  Jr.,  in  charge  of  the  rock  quarries  of  the  Seattle  Bridge 
Company ;  and  Marie. 

Clark  M.  Nettleton,  now  well  known  in  Seattle  and  throughout  Wash- 
ington, was  reared  under  the  parental  roof,  acquiring  his  preliminary  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools,  while  later  he  pursued  a  three  years'  literary 
course  in  Carleton  College,  of  Northfield,  Minnesota.  In  1887  he  entered 
his  father's  newspaper  office,  learning  the  printer's  trade,  and  after  his  father 
sold  the  paper  and  purchased  his  stock  ranch  Clark  remained  at  home  on 
the  ranch  for  two  years.  He  then  went  to  Minneapolis,  where  he  pursued 
a  course  of  study  in  a  business  college.  Upon  the  completion  of  his  business 
course  in  Minneapolis  he  accepted  a  clerical  position  with  his  uncle,  A.  B. 
Nettleton,  with  whom  he  remained  until   1890. 

That  year  witnessed  his  arrival  in  Seattle,  where  he  engaged  with  E.  F. 
Cassell  as  a  stenographer,  continuing  in  his  employ  for  six  months,  when  he 
accepted  a  position  as  private  secretary  to  Mr.  L.  S.  J.  Hunt,  and  acted  in 
that  capacity  until  1894.  He  next  took  a  position  on  the  Post  Intelligencer 
and  after  serving  as  a  reporter  for  one  month  was  transferred  to  the  tele- 
graphic department,  where  he  spent  aljout  eight  months,  going  from  there 
to  the  local  room.  Three  months  later  he  was  made  city  editor  of  the  paper 
and  continuously  and  capably  served  in  that  position  for  three  years.  He 
was  then  offered  and  accepted  a  position  with  C.  J.  Smith,  manager  of  the 
Pacific  Coast  Company,  acting  as  his  private  secretary  in  the  conduct  of  his 
official  busniess.  He  remained  until  Mr.  Smith  left  the  company  in  1889. 
after  which  he  was  retained  bv  his  former  employer  in  the  position  of  pri- 


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vale  secretary  in  the  care  of  his  individual  interests  until  November,  1900. 
.\t  that  date  Mr.  Nettleton  resigned  in  order  to  assume  his  present  position 
as  part  owner  and  business  manager  of  the  Seattle  Bridge  Company.  Mr. 
Nettleton  is  vet  a  voung  man,  having  hardly  reached  the  prime  of  lite,  yet 
he  has  achieved  success  which  many  a  man  of  twice  his  years  might  well 
envy.  He  stands  to-day  prominent  among  the  builders  of  the  great  north- 
west, energetic,  determined  and  resolute,  and  his  past  achievements  argue 
well 'for  a* successful  future.  Mr.  Nettleton  was  married  in  1894  to  Miss 
Tennie  M.  Brophy,  the  daughter  of  C.  A.  Brophy,  a  manufacturer  of  Chicago. 

GEORGE  A.  BROOKE. 

Whether  there  is  anything  in  hereditary  tendencies  or  whether  ability 
may  be  developed  in  certain  lines  without  ancestral  qualifications,  is  a  much 
discussed  question.  Mr.  Brooke's  choice  of  a  vocation  may  have  been  in- 
lluenced  by  the  work  of  his  ancestors,  but  at  all  events  his  labors  have  been 
an  important  factor  in  the  mining  interests  of  the  northwest,  where  he  is 
now  acting  as  manager  and  engineer  for  the  Issaquah  Coal  Company  in  the 
extensive  operation  of  valuable  coal  beds.  Such  a  business  claimed  the 
attention  of  both  his  father  and  his  grandfather.  The  latter,  Samuel 
Brooke,  was  one  of  the  original  developers  of  the  Pennsylvania  coal  fields. 
His  son,  Louis  P.  Brooke,  was  born  in  Chester  county,  Pennsylvania,  in 
1 81 6,  and  was  of  English  descent.  For  many  years  he  was  extensively 
eneaeed  in  the  wholesale  drvgoods  business  in  Philadelphia,  but  later  he- 
came  largelv  interested  in  the  ownership  of  anthracite  coal  mines  in  that 
state.  Fie  married  :Margaret  Weaver,  who  was  born  in  Sunbury,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1826.  and  was  of  German  lineage.  Her  father,  Martin  Weaver, 
was  one  of  the  first  shippers  of  anthracite  coal  over  the  Reading  Railroad. 
:vlr.  Brooke  died  in  Pottsville,  Pennsylvania,  in  1894,  and  his  wife  passed 
away  there  in  189 1. 

George  A.  Brooke  was  born  to  the  last  mentioned  parents,  at  Philadel- 
phia, Pennsylvania,  November  15,  1854.  He  pursued  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  in  Lehigh  University,  at  Pottsville,  being  graduated  in 
the  latter  institution  in  the  class  of  1876.  This  college  was  founded  by 
Asa  Packer,  who  was  engaged  in  the  operation  of  coal  mines  and  at  his 
death  left  a  fortune  of  fifty  million  dollars.  On  leaving  school  Mr.  Brooke 
accepted  a  position  as  mining  engineer  with  the  Philadelphia  &  Reading 
Coal  Company,  with  which  he  remained  for  sixteen  years  as  one  of  its 
trusted  employes,  a  fact  which  is  indicated  by  his  long  continuance  in  the 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  707 

service  of  the  company.  In  1892  he  came  to  Washington  and  for  about  a 
year  was  with  the  Green  River  Coal  &  Coke  Company,  at  Pahiier,  King  county. 
In  iSq3  he  accepted  the  position  of  engineer  and  superintendent  with  the 
Seattle  Coal  &  Iron  Company,  at  their  coal  mines  in  Issaquah,  and  served 
in  that  capacity  until  1897.  In  that  year  he  went  to  the  East  Kootenai 
country  in  British  Columbia  as  superintendent  of  a  group  of  silver  mines 
owned  by  an  English  company.  After  a  year  with  that  corporation  he  went 
to  Alaska,  where , he  was  engaged  in  prospecting  for  a  year,  and  in  1900  he 
returned  to  Washington  and  resumed  his  former  position  in  the  Issaquah 
coal  mines.  The  name  of  the  company  had  in  the  meantime  been  changed 
to  the  Issaquah  Coal  Company,  although  the  stock  is  still  in  possession  of 
those  who  composed  the  Seattle  Coal  &  Iron  Company.  This  company 
built  the  Seattle,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railroad  from  Seattle  to  Snoqual- 
mie  and  North  Bend,  and  also  a  liranch  to  Sumas.  their  franchise  in- 
cluding territory  and  right  of  way  through  Snoqualmie  Pass  to  Spokane, 
at  which  place  they  built  a  short  spur  of  the  road.  The  name  of 
the  road  was  later  changed  to  the  Seattle  (S:  International,  and  sub- 
secfuently  the  entire  railroad  franchise  was  sold  to  the  Northern  Pacific, 
but  the  compan)^  retained  all  of  its  coal  interests.  They  own  three  thous- 
and acres  of  valuable  coal  and  timber  land  and  have  two  mines  in  operation, 
one  at  Issaquah,  and  the  other  at  Grand  Ridge,  two  miles  east.  The  out- 
put of  the  Issaquah  mine  is  a  thousand  tons  daily  and  of  the  (irand  Ridge 
mine  three  hundred  tons  per  day.  The  Issaquah-  plant  was  equipped  in 
1901  with  three-thousand-ton  bunkers,  washing  plant  and  modern  appli- 
ances for  preparing  coal  for  market.  The  coal  is  adapted  for  domestic 
purposes.  The  operation  of  the  mines  is  under  the  direct  supervision  of  Mr. 
Brooke,  whose  colleg'e  training  and  practical  experience  well  fit  him  for  the 
important  position  he  now  occupies. 

In  Pottsville.  Pennsylvania,  in  1882,  Mr.  Brooke  was  united  in  mar- 
riage to  Miss  Gertrude  Sheafe  Fisher,  a  member  of  one  of  the  pioneer  fami- 
lies of  New  England.  Her  grandfather,  Samuel  Fisher,  was  one  of  the 
first  developers  of  the  Pennsylvania  anthracite  coal  regions.  Her  father, 
Howell  Fisher,  was  a  prominent  lawyer  of  Pottsville  and  died  in  that  city. 
Flis  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Charlotte  Sheafe,  and  belonged  to  one  of 
the  old  and  distinguished  families  of  Massachusetss.  Two  children  have 
been  born  our  subject  and  his  wife:  Charlotte  Sheafe,  named  for  her 
grandmother,  and  George  Albert,  aged,  respectively,  eighteen  and  sixteen 
years.  In  his  political  views  Mr.  Brooke  is  a  stalwart  Repul)lican,  being 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  party  here,  and  for  a  numl^er  of  years 


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he  has  been  a  member  of  the  county  central  committee.  His  interest  in 
politics  arises  from  a  spirit  of  loyal  citizenship,  which  desires  the  welfare 
of  county,  state  and  nation,  and  not  from  any  desn'es  for  othce.  for  his 
business  affairs  leave  him  no  time  for  office-holding. 

TLMOTHY  J.  ROWLEY. 

Clearly  defined  purpose  and  energetic  effort  in  the  affairs  of  life  will 
eventuate  in  the  attaining  of  a  due  measure  of  success,  but  in  following  out 
the  career  of  one  who  has  attained  success  by  his  own  efforts  there  comes 
into  view  the  intrinsic  individuality  which  makes  such  accomplishment  pos- 
sible. The  qualities  which  have  made  Timothy  J.  Howley  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  successful  business  men  of  Kent  have  also  brought  him  the 
esteem  of  his  fellow  townsmen,  for  his  career  has  been  one  of  well  directed 
energv,  strong  determination  and  honorable  methods. 

.Mr.   Ho\\ley  was   born   in   Ontario,   Canada,  on   the    15th  of  October, 
1862,  a  son  of  Timothy  and  Susan  (Fitzgerald)   Howley,  both  born  in  Ire- 
land in  1822.     \\dien  a  young  man  the  father  removed  to  Ontario,  Canada, 
where  he  has  ever  since  followed  farming  near  Ottawa.     His  wife  died  on 
the  farm  there  in  1866.    Their  son  Timothy  received  his  early  education  in  the 
district  schools  near  his  boyhood  home,  and  until  his  twentieth  year  assisted 
his  father  in  the  work  of  the  farm.     In  1882  he  went  to  the  lumber  districts 
of  Wisconsin,  where  he  was  engaged  in  lumbering  at  various  localities  for 
five  years,  and  in   1889  he  came  to  the  Wlnte  river  \alley  in  A\^ashington. 
For  a  number  of  years  after  his  arrival  in  this  state  he  was  engaged  in  rail- 
road and  timber  contracting,  and  in  1898  he  embarked  in  the  real  estate  and 
insurance  business  in  Kent.     Since  that  time  he  has  handled  a  large  amount 
of  the  real  estate  which  has  changed  hands  in  the  town  of  Kent  and  the  sur- 
rounding country,  and  at  the  same  time  has  been  an  extensive  purchaser  of 
different    kinds    of    property.     Oue    among    the    many    important    missions 
which  he  has  successfully  engineered  was  the  obtaining  of  the  right  of  way 
for  the   Seattle  &  Tacoma  Railway  in    1901,   this  requiring  six  months  of 
difficult  work  on  the  part  of  'Mr.  Howley.     During  the  building  of  this  line 
he  received  the  contract  for  furnishing  all  the  lumber  used  in  its  construc- 
tion, including  ties,  bridges,  etc.     Through  his  eft'orts  the  company  was  in- 
duced  to  make  Kent  its  headquarters   and  the  terminal   of  the  road,   thus 
securing  for  this  city  the  barns,   power  house,   machine  shops  and  general 
office  of  the  company.     Mr.  Howley  is  widelv  recognized  as  a  man  of  unre- 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  709 

mitting  energ}'  and  perseverance,  but  his  business  methods  have  ever  been 
characterized  by  integrity,  and  his  career  is  a  most  commendable  one. 

He  was  married  at  Kent  in  October,  1893,  to  Mary  Downey,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Patrick  Downey,  a  pioneer  farmer  of  the  White  river  valley.  She 
was  born  on  her  father's  farm  on  the  22d  of  June,  1873,  ^^'^^  '^y  l^^i'  marriage 
has  become  the  mother  of  two  children,  Timothy  Joseph  and  JNlary  Eliza- 
beth. Mr.  Howley  exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men 
and  measures  of  the  Republican  party,  and  is  an  active  worker  in  its  ranks. 
For  a  number  of  years  he  was  the  choice  of  his  fellow  citizens  for  the  office 
of  city  councilman.  His  social  relations  connect  him  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen,  the  Red 
Men,  of  Kent,  and  with  the  Knights  of  Pythias  at  Auburn.  He  well  merits 
the  friendship  vvhich  is  so  universally  accorded  him,  and  his  name  is  found 
on  the  roll  of  King  county's  representative  citizens. 

KEARIN  H.  McCABE. 

No  better  illustration  of  the  character,  energy  and  enterprise  of  the 
typical  son  of  Erin  con  be  found  than  that  afforded  by  the  career  of  this  well 
kown  farmer  of  King  county.  He  was  born  at  Roscommon,  Ireland,  on 
the  2d  of  April,  1832,  and  is  a  son  of  Michael  and  Bridget  (Saunders)  Mc- 
Cabe,  both  also  natives  of  the  Emerald  isle,  the  father  born  in  county  Fer- 
managh in  1792,  and  the  mother  at  Roscommon.  Both  died  at  the  later 
place,  the  mother  in  1862  and  the  father  in  1872.  He  followed  the  life  of  an 
agriculturist,  and  was  prominent  in  the  social  and  public  affairs  of  his  native 
county,  for  many  years  being  an  officer  in  the  revenue  service. 

Kearin  Henry  McCabe  received  an  excellent  education  during-  his  youth 
under  his  father's  instruction,  and  later  spent  a  year  at  the  Roscommon 
Academv.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years  he  went  to  live  with  his  uncle.  Aver 
McCloskey,  with  whom  he  made  his  home  for  four  years,  or  until  he  left 
the  land  of  his  birth  for  the  new  world.  After  his  arrival  on  American  soil 
he  took  up  his  abode  at  Newark,  New  Jersey,  where  he  learned  the  molder's 
trade,  and  from  that  city  journeyed  to  Georgia,  there  remaining  for  a  year 
and  a  half.  By  the  isthmus  route  he  then  went  to  California,  where  for 
four  vears  he  was  engaged  in  trading  in  cattle,  on  the  expiration  of  which 
period,  in  1858,  he  joined  the  tide  of  emigration  making  its  way  to  the 
Eraser  river  in  British  Columbia,  where  for  the  following  year  he  devoted 
his  attention  to  mining  and  trading.  In  1859  he  arrived  in  Washington, 
first  locating  in  Seattle,  and  in  the  same  year  he  became  the  owner  of  his 


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present  farm,  located  on  the  west  side  of  tlie  White  ri\er,  near  Kent.  His 
place  comprises  one  hundred  and  eighty  acres  of  rich  and  fertile  land,  and 
there  for  forty  years  Mr.  McCabe  has  labored  earnestly  and  effectively  as  a 
hop-raiser,  dairyman  and  farmer.  During  that  time,  in  the  early  sixties,  he 
also  made  two  trips  to  the  mines,  in  Idaho  and  Oregon.  He  began  the  rais- 
ing of  hops  about  1882,  and  from  that  time  until  the  present  has  annually 
devoted  about  twenty  acres  to  that  commodity,  ^^d^ile  he  has  also  been  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  dairying  and  farming.  He  is  a  man  of  keen  discrim- 
ination and  sound  judgment  in  business  affairs,  of  energ)'  and  perseverance, 
and  the  prosperity  which  has  attended  his  eft'orts  is  the  merited  reward  of 
his  own  labor.  In  politics  he  is  an  independent  Republican,  and  for  two 
years  he  ably  served  his  county  as  a  commissioner.  He  expects  to  enjoy 
his  declining  years  in  the  land  of  his  birth,  where  he  has  business  interests 
and  many  old-time  friends. 

IRVIN  K.  WEITZEL. 

Back  to  the  old  Keystone  state  must  we  turn  in  tracing  the  lineage  of 
the  subject  of  this  review.  That  section  of  the  country  which  was  the  cradle 
of  so  much  of  our  national  history  became  the  home  of  his  ancestors  in  early 
colonial  days,  and  the  records  extant  tell  of  representatives  of  the  family 
having  been  loyal  to  the  nation  in  the  crucial  periods  when  grim-visaged 
war  reared  its  horrid  front,  and  bespeak  the  activities  of  honest  and  indus- 
trious men  who  have  also  honored  their  country  in  the  "piping  times  of 
peace." 

Mr.  Weitzel  was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  29th  of 
March,  1844,  and  in  the  same  house  his  father,  Jacob  Weitzel,  was  born  in 
1812.  The  great-grandfather  served  as  an  officer  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 
Jacob  Weitzel  became  a  tin  and  copper-smith,  and  his  death  occurred  at 
Lancaster  in  1888.  His  wife  also  claimed  that  city  as  the  place  of  her  nativ- 
ity, her  birth  occurring  in  18 10,  and  in  1889  she  was  called  to  her  final  rest. 
Both  she  and  her  husband  were  of  German  descent. 

Irvin  K.  Weitzel  enjoyed  the  educational  advantages  afforded  by  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  place,  and  at  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  war, 
on  the  14th  of  October,  1861,  he  offered  his  services  as  a  loyal  defender  of 
the  stars  and  stripes,  joining  Company  F,  Ninth  Pennsylvania  Cavalry,  at 
the  first  call  for  three-year  troops.  He  became  a  member  of  the  Army  of 
the  Cumberland,  and  as  such  participated  in  all  the  engagements  and  skir- 
mishes   throughout    Kentucky   and    Tennessee,    also    participating    in    Sher- 


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man's  famous  march  to  the  sea.  Among  the  most  notahle  battles  in  which 
he  took  part  were  Chattanooga,  Chickamauga,  Missionary  Ridge,  Lookout 
Mountain  and  Rome,  and  at  the  last  named  eng-agement,  in  1864,  he  was 
seriously  injured,  receiving  a  bayonet  wound  below  the  right  knee.  His 
regiment  was  discharged  on  the  31st  of  December,  1863,  but  on  the  follow- 
ing day,  January  i,  1864,  they  re-enlisted  at  Mossy  Creek,  Tennessee,  and  on 
the  1 8th  of  July,  1865,  were  honorably  discharged  at  Lexington,  South  Car- 
olina, for  the  war  had  ended  and  the  country  no  longer  needed  their  services. 

Returning  to  his  home  with  a  most  excellent  military  record,  Mr.  Weit- 
zel  made  a  short  visit  to  his  old  Pennsylvania  home,  after  which  he  went  to 
North  Carolina,  there  purchasing  a  drove  of  government  mules  at  auction, 
which  he  brought  to  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania.  He  there  disposed  of  a  por- 
tion of  them  and  with  the  remainder  established  himself  in  the  teaming  and 
ice  business,  which  he  continued  for  a  year,  while  for  the  following  year  he 
resided  at  Nevada,  Story  county,  Iowa.  Going  thence  to  Charlevoix  coun- 
ty, Michigan,  he  was  engaged  in  fanning  for  two  years,  on  the  expiration 
of  which  period  he  sold  his  possessions  there  and  returned  to  Pittsburg, 
where  he  purchased  the  ice  business  he  had  originally  established,  success- 
fully conducting  that  enterprise  from  1870  until  1878.  In  the  latter  year, 
he  purchased  a  farm  in  Lawrence  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  which  he  made 
his  home  for  five  years.  Disposing  of  that  property,  he  again  returned  to 
Pittsburg,  and  through  the  earnest  solicitation  of  his  brother  George  became 
his'  partner  in  a  planing  mill,  but  this  venture  proved  unprofitable,  and 
during  the  year  and  a  half  in  which  he  was  thus  engaged  he  lost  all  his  earn- 
ings of  former  years,  amounting  to  several  thousand  dollars.  During  the 
succeeding  two  years  he  found  employment  in  the  car  shops  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad  Company,  and  in  April.  1884,  he  came  to  Washington,  first 
locating  on  Vashon  Island,  near  Tacoma,  wdiere  he  secured  a  soldier's  claim. 
In  the  fall  of  1886  he  came  to  the  White  river  valley,  purchasing  the  A.  B. 
Young  place  of  eighty  acres  near  Orillia.  to  which  he  afterward  added  an 
adjoining  thirty  acres,  thus  increasing  his  landed  possessions  to  one  hun(h-ed 
and  ten  acres,  where  he  has  made  for  himself  and  family  a  comfortable 
home,  and  has  devoted  his  attention  to  dairying  and  general  farming.  He 
has  long  held  rank  among  the  practical  and  thrifty  agriculturists  of  his 
locality,  and  his  farm  is  one  of  the  valuable  ones  of  the  valley. 

At  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  29th  of  March,  1867,  ]\Ir.  Weitzel 
was  united  in  marriage  to  Eleanor  Deniston,  a  native  of  that  city,  and  her 
death  occurred  on  the  farm  in  Lawa-ence  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1881. 
Siie  became  the  mother  of  five  children,  namelv :     W^illiam,   a   plumber   at 


712  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Seattle;  Jennie,  tlie  wife  of  Levi  Snow,  a  farmer  on  Vashon  Island;  Re- 
becca, the' wife  of  Richard  Hayden,  a  surveyor  of  Seattle;  Jessie,  the  wife  of 
Ailen  Clark,  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  on  White  river;  and  Irvin,  at 
home.  For  his  second  wnfe  Mr.  Weitzel  chose  Jennie  Chadwick,  and  their 
marriage  was  celebrated  in  Westmoreland  county,  near  Pittsburg,  Pennsyl- 
vania, in  1882.  She  was  born  in  that  city  on  the  i8th  of  October,  1849,  and 
is  of  English  and  Irish  descent.  This  union  has  been  blessed  with  four  chil- 
dren:  Harry,  a  machinist  employed  at  Moran's  shipyards  in  Seattle;  Mary, 
a  young  lady  of  fourteen  years;  Lizzie,  who  has  reached  the  age  of  twelve 
years;  and  Eddie,  who  was  born  in  1892,  and  died  at  the  age  of  five  months. 
Mr.  Weitzel  is  an  active  worker  in  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  party,  and  in 
1900,  by  the  county  commissioners,  he  was  appointed  bridge  inspector  for 
the.  second  district  of  King  county,  and  he  has  proved  a  competent  official. 
He  maintains  pleasant  relations  with  his  old  army  comrades  through  his 
membership  in  John  F.  Miller  Post,  Grand  Army  of. the  Republic,  depart- 
ment of  Washington  and  Alaska. 

FRANK  E.  ADAMS. 

Frank  E.  Adams,  a  registered  patent  attorney,  a  mechanical  engineer 
and  manager  of  the  Electric  Blue  Print  Company,  has  been  engaged  in  this 
line  of  trade  longer  than  any  other  man  now  residing  in  Seattle.  He  is  an 
expert  in  preparing  patent  drawings  and  specifications,  and  through  his  dili- 
gence, perseverance  and  business  ability  has  won  for  himself  a  name  among 
the  representative  men  of  the  city,  while  at  the  same  time  he  has  contributed 
to  the  general  prosperity  through  the  conduct  of  enterprises  which  furnish 
employment  to  many. 

Mr.  Adams  was  born  in  Bristol,  England,  in  1870,  and  was  but  two 
years  of  age  when  he  was  brought  by  his  parents,  Isaac  and  Sarah  (Bryant) 
Adams,  to  America,  the  family  locating  first  in  Duluth,  later  in  Brainerd 
and  finally  m  Minneapolis,  Minnesota.  The  father  was  a  mining  engineer, 
and  both  he  and  his  wife  died  at  about  the  age  of  seventy  years.  Of  their 
six  children,  Frank  E.  is  now^  the  only  one  residing  in  this  city,  but  he  has 
two  brothers  in  Tacoma,  this  state.  After  attending  the  schools  of  Minne- 
apolis and  the  State  University  of  Minnesota,  Frank  E.  Adams  served  an 
ap])renticeship  as  a  machinist  and  draughtsman  in  the  North  Star  Iron 
Works  at  Minneapolis,  and  after  completing  his  term  of  service  there  he  was 
employed  as  draughtsman  and  mechanical  designer  by  different  firms  in 
many  of  the  largest  cities  of  the  United  States,  thus  gaining  an  experience 
which  has  proved  of  inestimable  value  to  him  in  later  life.    He  came  to  Seattle 


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in  1890  and  entered  the  city  engineer's  office,  where  he  worked  for  some  time, 
and  then  opened  an  office  for  the  general  practice  of  his  profession.  For  a 
time  he  devoted  his  earnings  to  the  study  of  patent  law,  and  he  is  now  capable 
of  designing  all  classes  of  machinery  and  skillfully  preparing  and  prosecuting 
applications  for  patents.  He  is  now  a  registered  patent  attorney  in  both  the 
United  States  and  Canada,  and  also  conducts  the  prosecution  of  patents 
throughout  the  foreign  countries. 

In  poliiical  matters  Mr.  Adams  has  ever  been  a  loyal  supporter  of  Re- 
publican pnnciples,  and  has  many  times  served  as  a  delegate  to  city  and 
county  conx-entions,  while  in  1895  he  was  elected  a  fire  commissioner,  receiv- 
ing the  largest  majority  of  any  candidate  on  the  Republican  ticket.  In  1891 
he  became  a  member  of  the  National  Guards,  entering  Company  D,  which 
soon  afterward  was  sent  out  to  quell  the  Franklin  and  Gilman  coal  riots. 
Later  he  was  made  first  sergeant  of  his  company,  and  in  that  capacity,  in 
1894,  he  participated  in  the  Northern  Pacific  strike.  From  the  rank  of  first 
sergeant  he  rose  at  one  step  to  that  of  captain,  in  which  capacity  he  had 
charge  of  a  detachment  on  the  Columbia  river  during  the  fishing  strike,  in 
wliich  he  was  out  for  ninety  days,  and  he  received  the  highest  praise  for  this 
service  from  the  adjutant  general  of  the  state  in  his  biennial  report  covering 
that  period.  During  the  Spanish-American  war  he  volunteered  at  the  first 
call  for  troops,  and  his  company  was  the  first  ever  mustered  into  the  service 
from  the  state  of  Washington,  and  was  known  as  Company  D,  First  Wash- 
ington Infantry,  United  States  Volunteers.  They  were  sent  immediately  to 
San  Fran.cisco.  wliere  tliey  were  stationed  at  the  Presidio  until  the  following 
October,  and  thence  went  to  the  Philippines,  Captain  Adams  serving  dur- 
ing the  greater  part  of  the  time  with  the  rank  of  major  and  received  mention 
for  disting'uished  service  in  battle.  One  month  before  the  regiment  left  the 
island  he  was  ordered  to  San  Francisco  for  treatment  on  account  of  ill 
health,  and  after  receiving  his  discharge  at  San  Francisco  with  the  remainder 
of  the  regiment  he  veturned  to  Seattle  and  again  took  up  the  duties  of  a  busi- 
ness life. 

In  the  year  1890  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Adams  and  Miss  Emily 
A.  Hewitt,  a  daughter  of  I.  B.  Hewitt,  residing  at  Snohomish,  Washington. 
They  have  one  child,  Viviane.  Mrs.  Adams  accompanied  her  husband  on 
his  trip  to  the  Philippines.  She  is  a  registered  patent  attorney  and  assistant 
to  her  liusabnd.  Captain  Adams  is  an  active  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  in  which  he  served  as  an  officer  prior  to  his  removal  to  the  Philip- 
pines. Wherever  known  he  is  held  in  high  regard,  and  in  the  city  of  Seattle, 
where  nearly  his  entire  life  has  been  passed,  he  has  a  host  of  warm  friends.  . 
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714  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

RICHARD  JEFFS. 

It  is  always  a  pleasant  task  to  trace  the  history  of  a  man  who  has  won  a 
high  place  in  the  respect  and  esteem  of  his  fellow  men  by  his  own  intrinsic 
Avorth  and  merit.  Such  a  man  is  the  sterling  citizen  above  mentioned,  one 
-who  has  worked  his  way  upward  from  a  humble  position  by  unflagging 
attention  to  business,  by  fidelity  to  the  interests  of  his  superiors  and  due 
regard  to  the  rights  of  others.  For  a  number  of  years  he  has  been  a  resident 
of  King  county,  has  made  its  advancement  and  prosperity  one' of  his  ruling 
principles  and  glories  in  the  wonderful  progress  it  has  made. 

I\[r.  Jeffs  was  born  in  Weschester  county,  New  York,  on  the  24tli  of 
December,  1827.  His  father.  William  Jeffs,  was  born  in  Scotland,  and  when 
thirty  years  of  age  came  to  the  new  world,  locating  in  \Vestchester  county, 
A'ew  York,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  teaming  throughout  the 
JSFew  England  states,  this  being  before  the  advent  of  the  railroads  in  that 
section.  He  died  in  Westchester  comity  in  the  early  forties,  at  the  age  of 
sixty-five  years.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden  name  of  ]\Iary  Gray, 
was  also  a  native  of  the  land  of  hills  and  heather,  and  her  death  occurred  in 
Westchester  county.  New  York,  about  1852. 

To  the  district  schools  of  his  native  county  Richard  Jeff's  is  indebted 
for  the  early  mental  training  which  he  received,  while  later  he  attended  a 
boarding  school  at  New  Haven,  Connecticut.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
left  his  parents'  home  and  \\-ent  to  New  York  city,  where  for  two  vears  he 
was  employed  as  bookkeeper  for  a  large  contracting  firm.  The  vear  1850 
witnessed  his  arrival  on  the  Pacific  coast,  at  which  time  he  made  the  journey 
to  San  Francisco,  California,  landing  in  that  city  with  a  cash  capital  of  two 
dollars  and  fifty  cents.  He  first  secured  employment  at  unloading  ships, 
for  which  he  received  one  dollar  an  hour,  and  at  the  expiration  of  three  days 
he  had  saved  sufficient  money  to  enable  him  to  go  to  the  mining  districts, 
in  Calaveras  and  Tuolumne  counties.  In  1858  he  joined  the  tide  of  emn'a- 
tion  on  its  way  to  the  Eraser  river  gold  district  in  British  Columbia,  where 
he  spent  the  following  year,  and  in  June,  1859,  l^e  arrived  in  Seattle,  Wash- 
ington. After  a  residence  of  two  years  in  that  city  he  removed  to  the  White 
river  valley,  where  he  pre-empted  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  farming 
land  two  miles  from  the  present  town  of  Kent  and  adjoining  the  village  of 
Pialschie,  on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad,  where  he  has  since  made  his  home. 
A\''hen  he  located  on  this  farm  forty  years  ago  the  place  was  a  wilderness, 
and  it  reciuired  many  years  of  hard  and  persistent  toil  to  transform  it  to  its 
present   high   state  of  cultivation.     As  prosperity  has  rewarded  his   efforts, 


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he  has  added  to  his  landed  possessions  until  he  is  now  the  owner  of  one 
thousand  acres  of  rich  and  fertile  land,  three  hundred  and  seventeen  acres  of 
which  he  cultivates,  while  the  remainder  is  rented. 

Mr.  Jeffs  was  among  the  first  in  the  White  river  valley  to  engage  in  the 
cultivation  of  hops,  and  unlike  many  other  residents  of  this  section  he  has 
continued  in  that  industry,  undaunted  by  the  many  obstacles  which  have 
from  time  to  time  obstructed  his  path,  until  his  identification  with  that  in- 
dustry now  covers  a  period  of  thirty-five  years.  He  usually  devotes  about 
twenty-five  acres  to  that  crop.  He  also  conducts  a  dairy  of  fifty  cows, 
carries  on  general  farming  on  an  extensive  scale  and  raises  sheep,  hogs  and 
horses,  and  thus  it  will  be  seen  that  he  is  one  of  the  progressive  and  wide- 
awake citizens  of  the  county.  In  1878  he  organized  the  company  which 
purchased  a  hop  farm  of  twelve  hundred  and  seventy  acres  at  Snocjualmie, 
Washington,  in  which  he  originally  owned  a  one-sixth  interest  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  the  president  and  man.ager  of  the  company.  Under 
his  wise  administration  the  company  was  exceedingly  prosperous,  and  he  de- 
voted most  of  his  time  to  its  interests  from  1878  until  1890,  when  a  new 
manager  was  selected  and  he  disposed  of  his  interests  therein.  A  few  years 
later  the  great  hop  farm  was  abandoned.  In  the  meantime  Mr.  Jeffs  had 
accumulated  a  large  amount  of  valuable  property  in  Seattle,  much  of  which 
he  still  owns.  Owing  to  his  varied  resources  he  was  one  of  the  few  who 
passed  through  the  terrible  panic  of  1893-4  without  being  financially  crip- 
pled. Throughout  the  years  of  his  active  business  career  he  has  been  a  gen- 
erous friend,  and  there  are  many  people  in  King  county  to-day  who  have 
reason  to  thank  Richard  Jeffs  for  the  valuable  assistance  which  he  rendered 
them  in  their  early  struggles.  During  the  past  few  years  he  has  affiliated 
with  the  Republican  party.  He  was  a  member  of  the  consitutional  conven- 
tion wiiich  met  to  form  the  state  of  Washington  in  1888,  and  in  this  assemb- 
lage he  made  a  stubborn  and  successful  fight  to  saxe  for  the  new  state  the 
valuable  tide  lands  on  the  Puget  Sound,  adjacent  to  Seattle,  the  property 
owners  insisting  on  the  title  to  the  property  running  to  low  water  mark,  and 
it  was  to  this  Mr.  Jeffs  objected.  It  developed  in  after  years  that  his  suc- 
cessful opposition  resulted  in  a  revenue  of  many  millions  of  dollars  to  the 
state. 

On  his  White  river  farm,  in  1863.  Mr.  Jeffs  was  united  in  marriage  to 
an  Indian  woman,  who  has  proved  to  him  an  able  assistant  in  his  subsec|uent 
career.  They  have  one  child,  Alexander,  who  received  an  excellent  educa- 
tion and  for  a  number  of  years  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  in 
Seattle.     In  his  youth  he  attended  the    public  schools  of  Kent,   after  which 


7i6  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

he  spent  two  years  in  the  P.cademy  at  Forest  Grove,  Oregon.  For  a  similar 
period  he  was  a  student  in  the  Portland  Academy,  after  which  he  entered  the 
Stanford  University  of  California,  remaining  in  that  institution  of  learning 
for  four  years.  Aiter  leaving  school  he  devoted  three  years  to  the  study  of 
law,  m  the  office  of  Lewis,  Hardin  &  Albertson  of  Seattle,  and  he  is  now  a 
valued  legal  practitioner  in  that  city.  He  is  now  but  twenty-five  years  of 
age.  The  career  of  Mr.  Jeffs,  of  this  review,  proves  that  the  only  true  suc- 
cess in  life  is  that  which  is  accomplished  by  personal  effort  and  industry.  It 
proves  that  the  road  to  success  is  open  to  all  young  men  who  have  the  cour- 
age to  tread  its  pathway,  and  the  life  record  of  such  a  man  will  serve  as  an 
nispiration  to  the  young  of  this  and  future  generations,  and  teach  by  incon- 
trovertible facts  that  success  is  ambition's  answer. 

JAMES  V/EIR. 

Scotland  has  sent  many  of  her  worthy  sons  to  the  new  world,  and  they 
have  become  important  factors  in  advancing  the  interests  of  the  various  com- 
munities with  which  they  are  connected.  A  representative  of  this  class  is 
James  Weir,  who  was  born  twelve  miles  from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  February 
27.  1850.  His  father,  Thomas  Weir,  was  born  in  Ayrshire,  Scotland,  and 
during  his  lifetime  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits.  His  death  oc- 
curred at  Kilmarnoch.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Margaret 
Campbell. 

James  Weir  received  his  education  at  Irving,  Ayrshire,  and  after  put- 
ting aside  his  text  books  he  worked  for  several  years  in  the  coal  mines  there. 
After  attaining  to  young  manhood  he  determined  to  try  his  fortunes  in 
America,  believing  better  opportunities  were  afforded  to  young  men  in  the 
new  world  than  in  the  more  thickly  settled  countries  of  Europe.  Accord- 
in.gly  he  crossed  the  Atlantic  in  1868,  and  for  a  short  time  after  his  arrival 
here  worked  in  the  coal  mines  at  Barton,  Maryland,  later  securing  employ- 
ment in  the  iron  mines  at  Independence  and  Fairmont,  Virginia.  Tn  1871 
he  returned  to  the  land  of  his  birth,  but  after  a  short  visit  there  again  crossed 
the  briny  deep  to  the  United  Staes,  and  from  that  time  until  1876  was  an 
employe  in  the  coal  mines  at  Harmony,  Indiana.  In  the  meantime,  in  1873, 
he  had  again  returned  to  his  childhood's  home  in  Scotland.  The  15th  of 
February;  1876,  v\atnessed  the  arrival  of  Mr.  Weir  in  the  state  of  Washing- 
ton, and  he  came  to  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  but  at  that  time  this 
now  flourishing  city  consisted  of  only  a  few  buildings  scattered  along  the 
water  front.     He  has  been  one  of  the  determined  workers  who  developed  the 


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coal  and  timber  resources  of  the  surrounding  country.  From  the  time  of 
his  arrival  here  until  1880  he  worked  in  the  Newcastle  mines,  mining  coal 
on  contracts,  and  in  the  latter  year  he  assisted  in  opening  the  first  coal  mine 
at  Carbonado,  Pierce  county.  From  1881  for  the  following  eight  years  he 
followed  the  varying  fortunes  of  a  miner  at  Renton,  on  Lake  Washington, 
and  during  the  same  time  he  was  also  engaged  in  the  hotel  business  in  that 
city  and  Seattle,  having  erected  the  Cottage  Hotel  at  Renton  in  1882,  while 
for  fifteen  months,  from  1887  i-^^^til  the  fire  of  1889,  he  was  proprietor  of  the 
Aetna  Hotel  on  First  avenue,  Seattle.  In  1890,  after  the  rebuilding  of  the 
city,  he  opened  the  New  England  Hotel,  at  the  corner  of  First  and  Main 
streets,  which  he  has  ever  since  conducted  with  success.  His  patronage  is 
of  the  best  class,  and  by  straightforward  business  methods  he  has  won  an 
enviable  reputation,  his  efforts  to  please  each  guest  being  the  keynote  to  his 
success.  In  1896  Mr.  Weir  organized  the  Renton  Co-operative  Coal  Min- 
ing Company,  of  which  he  was  president  until  the  property  was  sold  to  the 
Seattle  Electric  Light  &  Power  Company  in  1900.  In  1898  he  purchased 
a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-three  acres,  located  at  South  Park,  six 
miles  from  Seattle,  which  he  has  greatly  developed  and  improved. 

At  Brooklyn,  New  York,  in  March,  1872,  Mr.  Weir  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Martha  Preistly,  who  was  born  on  the  Emerald  Isle  in  1850, 
and  they  have  four  children,  James,  Julia,  Martha  and  Grace.  Mr.  Weir 
gives  his  political  support  to  the  Republican  party,  and  is  an  active  worker 
in  the  ranks  of  his  chosen  party.  Flis  character  is  marked  by  sincerity  and 
firmness,  his  manner  is  ever  courteous  and  genial.  Careful  a'nd  painstaking, 
exact  and  conscientious,  he  has.   from  year  to  year,  prospered  deservingly. 

DAVID  McVAY. 

Twenty  years  ago  the  census  reports  showed  no  such  place  as  Ballard, 
Washington,  but  to-day  it  is  one  of  the  thriving  and  prosperous  cities  of  the 
state.  And  this  is  true  of  the  majority  of  the  places  in  the  west;  they  have 
existed  only  a  short  time,  but  what  they  lose  in  the  way  of  antiquity  they 
make  up  in  progressiveness  and  as  far  as  staliility  is  concerned  they  have  as 
good  grounds  for  confidence  in  this  regard  as  many  places  which  have  be- 
come hoary  with  age.  The  relationship  between  tliis  city  of  Ballard  and  the 
gentleman  who  is  the  subject  of  this  biography  has  been  a  close  one,  and  one 
cannot  speak  of  the  growth  of  Ballard  without  mention  of  David  McVay. 

The  McVay  family  is  of  Scotch  descent,  but  has  resided  in  America  for 
manv   generations.     Grandfather    fohn   was   a    native   of   Pennsylvania  and 


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did  his  part  as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  The  father  was  also  named 
John  and  was  a  native  of  the  same  state.  He  was  a  cooper  by  trade  and  was 
prominent  in  the  community,  having  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  for  several 
terms.  He  married  Mary  O'Neal,  and  they  were  the  parents  of  seven 
children. 

David  is  the  only  one  of  these  seven  who  resides  in  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington. He  was  born  in  Armstrong  county,  Pennsylvania,  near  Pittsburg, 
in  October,  1840.  For  three  or  four  months  each  year  he  attended  such 
schools  as  the  vicinity  afforded,  and  while  he  was  still  a  boy  began  work  in 
a  sawmill.  Beginning,  as  he  did,  at  this  early  age  and  having  followed  the 
lumber  business  all  his  life,  he  has  learned  it  in  every  detail,  and  there  is 
practically  nothing  about  it  which  he  is  not  able  to  do.  When  he  was  nine- 
teen years  old  he  left  his  native  state  and  went  to  Cattaraugus  county.  New 
York,  where  he  followed  his  chosen  pursuit  for  three  years.  He  then  went 
to  Michigan  and  eng^aged  in  lumbering  and  logging  there  for  eighteen  years. 
After  this  extensive  experience  he  decided  to  come  to  the  undeveloped  re- 
gions of  the  Pacific  coast,  where  his  knowledge  of  the  timber  would  be  very 
valuable  to  him.  He  made  the  trip  in  1883  and  located  first  in  Oregon,  but 
four  years  later  came  to  Washington.  In  Chehalis  he  built  the  first  shingle 
mill  erected  in  that  county,  in  1886,  and  he  then  went  to  Buckley  and  built 
a  mill  of  his  own,  which  he  operated  from  1887  to  1889.  He  had  been 
casting  his  eye  about  for  a  good  permanent  location,  and  his  foresight  told 
hjm  that  Ballard  was  an  ideal  place  for  a  manufacturing  center,  so  he  came 
here  in  1889.  He  built  a  shingle  mill  of  a  daily  capacity  of  three  hundred 
thousand,  and  he  added  to  it  and  improved  it  as  the  demand  warranted  until 
1902,  when  a  disastrous  fire  destroyed  all  the  plant  with  the  exception  of  the 
dry  kilns  and  the  office.  When  he  started  his  mill  he  had  to  take  green 
hands  and  educate  them  to  the  business.  The  ashes  were  hardly  cool  when 
he  and  his  men  began  the  erection  of  a  new  plant,  and  in  a  short  time  a 
complete  modern  saw  and  shingle  mill  was  finished,  which  had  a  daily 
capacity  of  two  hundred  thousand  shingles  and  seventy-five  thousand  feet 
of  lumber,  lliis  company  was  incorporated  at  first  with  a  capital  of  twenty 
five  thousand  dollars,  but  this  has  been  increased  to  one  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars;  they  do  their  own  log.ging  and  give  employment  to  one 
hundred  and  fifty  men. 

Mr.  McVay  has  been  thoroughly  interested  in  the  welfare  and  upbuild- 
mg  of  his  ado])ted  city,  and  was  for  some  years  an  active  factor  in  local 
aftairs.  He  is  Republican  in  his  political  views,  and  has  been  in  the  city 
council  several  terms  and  has  been  elected  to  the  office  of  mayor;  during  his 


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administration  he  did  all  in  his  power  to  secure  a  better  water  and  light  sys- 
tem for  the  town.  He  has  been  interested  to  some  extent  in  real  estate,  and 
he  erected  a  nice  residence  soon  after  coming  here.  Fraternally  he  is  a 
Knight  of  Pythias.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  one  daughter,  Lnki,  who  is  the 
wife  of  L.  H.  Johnson,  a  member  of  the  company.  He  married  his  present 
wife  in  Seattle  on  December  24,  1896,  her  maiden  name  being  Emma 
Edwards. 

ROBERT  HICKINGBOTTOM,  D.  V.  S. 

The  profession  of  veterinary  surgeon  is  one  of  the  latest  and  yet  one  of 
the  most  valuable  pursuits,  for  as  man's  dependence  upon  the  lower  animals 
increases  so  is  it  important  that  he  should  be  able  to  protect  and  care  for 
these.  One  who  has  gained  especial  prominence  in  this  line  is  Robert  Hick- 
ingbottom,  whose  office  is  now  located  at  the  corner  of  Fifth  and  Pine  streets, 
Seattle,  Washington. 

In  the  record  of  his  family's  history  it  is  known  that  the  parents  were 
George  and  Ann  (Ogilvil)  Hickingbottom,  the  father  a  native  of  Yorkshire, 
England,  and  the  mother  of  Edinburg.  Scotland.  In  his  youth  George  came 
to  America  with  his  brothers  and  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  Ontario 
county,  Canada ;  there  he  erected  the  first  stone  residence  in  the  province  and 
became  extensively  engaged  in  the  raising  of  fine  stock;  he  was  an  importer 
and  breeder  of  Clydedale  horses,  short  horn  cattle  and  Berkshire  hogs;  he 
was  probably  ihe  best  known  and  the  most  extensive  breeder  of  high  grade 
stock  in  the  province,  shipping  to  the  United  States  and  throughout  the  pro- 
vinces. He  was  equally  well  known  in  public  affairs,  and  as  a  worker  and  a 
power  in  the  conservative  party  he  did  much  good,  although  he  was  no 
aspirant  for  political  office.  His  death  occurred  in  1890,  while  his  wife 
passed  away  in  1900;  the  father  of  George  Hickingbottom  remained  in 
England  all  his  fife,  but  the  mother,  at  her  husband's  death,  came  to  Canada 
and  spent  the  remainder  of  her  life  with  her  son.  George  and  Ann  Hicking- 
bottom were  the  parents  of  twelve  children,  of  whom  ten  are  now  living,  all 
engaged  in  worthy  occupations;  John  and  James  are  engaged  in  farming 
and  in  raising  fine  stock  in  Huron  county,  Canada;  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of 
\A'.  Ward,  engaged  in  the  fine  stock  business  in  Balsam,  Ontario;  Joseph 
was  eneao-ed  in  mining  in  Colorado  until  he  met  his  death  l)v  an  accident  in 
the  mines  in  1882;  Jessie  is  the  wife  of  W.  H.  Bryant,  a  farmer  and  stock- 
man of  Ashburn,  Ontario;  George  died  in  Ashburn,  Ontario;  William  is 
in  the  lumber  and  sawmill  business  in  Santa  Cruz  county,  California;  Thom- 


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as  is  a  traveling  salesman  of  Toronto.  Canada;  Dr.  Richard  is  a  veterinary 
surgeon  at  Dawson,  Northwest  territory;  Andrew  is  a  horse  dealer  and 
fancier  in  Toronto,  Canada;  Annie,  who  remains  single,  resides  at  the  old 
home  at  Whidby. 

Robert  R.,  the  twelfth  and  youngest  child,  was  born  at  Whidby,  On- 
tario, February  i6,  1864;  was  reared  on  his  father's  farm  and  received  his 
education  in  the  Whidby  Collegiate  Institute  and  in  the  University  of  Toron- 
to. He  graduated  at  the  Toronto  Veterinary  College  in  1888.  He  at  once 
began  practice  at  Brooklyn,  Ontario,  under  Hon.  John  Dryden,  the  minister 
of  agriculture  of  Ontario,  with  whom  he  was  associated  for  a  number  of 
years  and  through  whose  recommendation  he  was  appointed  to  a  position 
under  the  British  government  at  Vancouver  in  1894.  He  remained  here 
until  1897,  when  he  received  an  appointment  under  both  the  British  and 
American  governments  as  inspector  of  animals,  and  he  located  at  Roslyn, 
British  Columbia,  where  he  remained  for  seven  years.  In  1900  he  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession  and  in  connection  carried  on  a  business  of  buy- 
ing, shipping  and  selling  horses  at  Roslyn.  In  1902  he  resigned  his  govern- 
ment position  and  removed  his  place  of  business  to  Seattle.  No  one  in  the 
northwest  possesses  better  credentials  or  a  better  record  in  his  profession 
than  does  Dr.  Hickingbottom,  as  the  important  positions  which  he  has  filled 
would  indicate;  during  the  brief  period  of  his  residence  in  Seattle  he  has 
established  a  large  and  lucrative  patronage. 

During  the  Doctor's  short  residence  in  the  states  he  has  maintained  an 
independent  position  in  political  affairs.  In  November,  1884.  he  was  mar- 
ried at  Port  Perry,  Ontario,  to  Susan  H.  Huburtus,  a  native  of  iVshburn, 
that  province,  and  a  daughter  of  George  and  Isabelle  (Nichols)  Huburtus; 
the  father  is  of  German,  and  the  mother  of  Scotch  extraction.  The  Doctor 
and  wife  have  two  children,  Fred  Huburtus  and  Isabelle. 

JOHN  J.   McGILVRA. 

An  enumeration  of  the  men  of  the  present  generation  who  have  won 
honor  and  public  recognition  for  themselves  and  at  the  same  time  have  hon- 
ored the  state  to  which  they  belong  would  be  incomplete  were  there  failure 
to  make  prominent  reference  to  the  one  whose  name  initiates  this  paragraph. 
He  holds  distinctive  precedence  as  a  statesman,  as  a  lawyer,  as  a  distinguished 
pioneer,  and  although  he  has  reached  the  evening  of  life,  he  is  yet  an  active 
factor  in  Washington.     His  labors  have  been  so  beneficial  and  his  influence 


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so  extended  that  along  many  lines  of  improvement,  advancement  and  up- 
building his  work  has  contributed  to  the  general  good. 

Judge  2'dcGilvra  was  born  in  Livingston  county,  New  York,  on  the  nth 
of  July,  1827,  and  in  his  life  he  has  exemplified  many  of  the  sterling  char- 
acteristics of  his  Scotch  ancestry.  From  the  land  of  the  heather  in  the  year 
1740  came  representatives  of  the  name,  founding  the  family  in  Washington 
county.  New  York.  The  original  progenitor  in  America  was  the  great- 
grandfather of  our  subject.  The  grandfather  was  born  in  Washington 
county,  and  tiiere  spent  his  entire  life  of  seventy  years  as  an  industrious  and 
energetic  farmer.  His  son,  John  McGilvra.  was  also  born  in  Washington 
coimty  and  was  married  there.  He  and  his  wife  removed  to  Livingston 
county,  where  they  OAMied  a  farm,  upon  which  they  reared  their  family  of 
seven  children,  only  three  of  whom  are  yet  living. 

Judge  John  J.  McGilvra  obtained  his  early  education  in  western  New 
York,  and  in  1844,  when  seventeen  years  of  age,  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Illinois,  wliere  he  l^ecame  a  student  in  an  academy  at  Elgin.  For  some  time 
he  engaged  in  teaching,  and  in  1850  entered  upon  the  study  of  law  in  Elgin, 
under  the  direction  of  the  Hon.  Edward  Gitiord,  a  graduate  of  Yale  Col- 
lege and  of  the  Cambridge  Law  School.  Judge  McGilvra  finished  his  pre- 
paratory studies  for  the  legal  profession  in  Chicago  under  the  preceptorship 
of  Ebenezer  Peck,  afterward  one  of  the  judges  of  the  court  of  claims,  and 
was  admitted  to  practice  in  1853.  ^"^^  then  opened  an  office  there,  and  while 
residing  in  that  city  had  the  pleasure  of  becoming  acquainted  with  Abraham 

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Lincoln.  As  the  result  of  this  acquaintance,  when  Air.  Lincoln  became  presi- 
ident  he  appointed  Mr.  McGilvra  United  States  attorney  for  Washington 
in  1861.  While  a  practitioner  at  the  Chicago  bar  our  subject  also  became  in- 
timately acquainted  with  Chief  Justice  Fuller,  whose  law  office  was  on  the 
same  iloor  of  the  buildings  as  Judge  McGilvra's. 

When  the  latter  was  appointed  United  States  attorney  for  Washington 
he  brought  his  family  to  the  territory,  establishing  his  home  in  Olympia,  his 
time  being  occupied  with  the  duties  of  tlie  court.  In  the  spring  of  1862, 
however,  he  took  his  family  east  of  the  mountains,  and  in  the  fall  located  at 
Vancouver,  where  they  resided  until  1864.  Alxnit  that  time  Mr.  McGilvra 
had  become  convinced  that  Seattle  was  to  Ije  the  metropolis  of  the  territoiy, 
and  he  removed  to  this  city,  which  has  since  been  his  home.  After  ably  fill- 
ing the  office  of  United  States  attorney  for  five  years  he  declined  reappoint- 
ment, in  order  to  gi\^e  his  whole  attention  to  the  practice  of  law.  He  also 
became  interested  in  politics,  and  a  man  of  strong  nature,  marked  intellec- 
tual force  and  keen  discernment,  Mr.  McGilvra  would  have  found  it  utterly 


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impossible  to  keep  from  taking  an  active  part  in  the  public  affairs  which 
shaped  the  pohtical  history  of  the  territory.     In  1866  he  was  nominated  and 
elected  on  the  Repnljlican  ticket  to  the  territorial  legislature,  and  while  a 
member  of  the  house  devoted  considerable  attention  to  procuring  the  pas- 
sage of  a  bill  that  secured  an  appropriation  of  twenty-five  hundred  dollars 
for  the  opening  of  a  wagon  road  through  the  Snoqualine  pass.     Thus  was 
secured  the  establishment  of  the  first  line  of  connection  between  the  eastern 
and   western  parts   of  the  territory   except  that  afforded  l)y   the  Columbia 
river.     No  other  work  which  he  could  have  performed  would  have  been  so 
beneficial  to  the  territory  in  the  development  of  Seattle  and  of  this  portion  of 
the  northwest,  for  it  formecl  the  only  highway  between  eastern  and  western 
Washington  north  of  the  Columbia  river  prior  to  the  time  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific Railroad  was  built.     The  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company  seemed 
determined  to  suppress  Seattle  and  blight  its  future  by  making  Tacoma  its 
terminus,  after  the  people  of  this  city  had  oft'ered  many  inducements  for  the 
extension  of  the  line  to  this  point.     A  public  meeting  was  then  held,  in  which 
Mr.  McGilvra  ably  advocated  the  building  of  another  road.     This  resulted  in 
the  organizing  of  the  Seattle  and  Walla  Walla  Railroad  Company.     Mr.  Mc- 
Gilvra drew  the  articles  of  incorporation  and  the  by-laws,  and   for  several 
years  transacted  all  the  legal  business  of  the  company.     In  connection  with 
Arthur  A.  Denny,  James  M.  Colman  and  others,  he  became  a  most  potent  fac- 
tor in  raising  money  and  in  securing  the  construction  of  the  new  line.     This 
virtually  checkmated  the  efforts  of  the  Northern  Pacific  and  gave  to  Seattle 
a  road  of  its  own.     In  the  eft'ort  the  people  of  the  city  became  very  enthusi- 
astic, and  some  two  miles  of  the  road  was  graded  by  picnic  parties  composed 
of  Seattle's  population,  men,  women  and  children  participating  in  the  work. 
Toward  this  valuable  enterprise  Mr.  McGilvra  gave  sixty  acres  of  land  and 
his  services  for  three  years,  and  to  his  mental  and  physical  efforts  the  success 
of  the  road  was  largely  due. 

For  two  years  Judge  McGilvra  was  city  attorney  of  Seattle,  and  spent 
the  vv  inter  of  1876-77  in  Washington,  D.  C,  in  prosecuting  the  claims  of  the 
city  of  Seattle  to  three  hundred  and  twenty  acres  of  land  within  the  city  lim- 
its under  tlie  town  site  law,  in  which  he  was  successful.  While  engaged  in 
this  prosecution  his  attention  was  called  to  the  fact  that  the  Northern  Pacific 
Railroad  Company  was  attempting  to  change  its  branch  line  from  the  Skagit 
to  the  Natchez  Pass  in  the  Cascade  mountains,  and  for  that  purpose  had 
filed  an  amended  plan  or  plat  of  its  branch  line  with  the  commissioner  of  the 
general  land  office.  Judge  McGilvra  at  once  called  the  attention  of  Judge 
Orange  Jacobs,  then   delegate  from  W^ashington   to   Congress,   to  this   fact, 


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and  they  both  entered  their  protest  against  the  same  unless  the  withdrawn 
lands  on  the  Skagit  hne  were  restored  to  settlement.  He  was  subsequently 
employed  by  the  people  of  King  and  other  counties  to  assist  Judge  Jacobs  in 
securing  the  restoration  of  these  lands.  In  this  attempt  they  were  successful 
after  a  lengthy  struggle,  and  five  million  acres  were  thereby  restored  to  the 
people  for  settlement,  although  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  made  a  tre- 
mendous opposing  effort.  Judge  McGilvra,  however,  was  given  the  priv- 
ilege of  the  floor  of  the  house  by  the  speaker,  and  through  the  courtesy  of 
Senator  Mitchell  had  practically  the  same  privilege  in  the  senate.  He  ap- 
peared before  all  of  the  committee,  made  oral  arguments  and  submitted 
printed  briefs,  and  notwithstanding  the  great  efforts  made  by  a  powerful 
railroad  corporation  he  met  with  success,  and  the  lands  were  restored,  result- 
ing greatly  to  the  benefit  of  this  portion  of  Puget  Sound.  It  was  a  great  tri- 
umph and  his  victory  was  a  deserving  tribute  to  his  able  presentation  of  the 
cause  of  justice  and  equity.  At  first  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad  Company 
had  discriminated  against  Seattle  and  seemed  determined  to  crush  out  its 
future  prospects,  and  it  is  now  a  gratification  to  the  old  settlers  of  the  city 
that  the  company  must  ask  favors  of  Seattle.  Judge  McGilvra  is  certainly 
entitled  to  much  credit  for  the  very  able  and  active  part  which  he  took  in  be- 
half of  this  district  in  bringing  the  railroad  company  to  terms.  As  a  very 
talented  attorney  he  won  a  high  reputation  and  for  many  years  was  con- 
nected witii  nearly  all  of  the  important  cases  on  the  docket  of  his  district. 
Through  his  active  practice  at  the  bar  and  through  his  investments  in  real 
estate  he  has  become  one  of  the  wealthy  men  of  Washington.  He  is  pre-em- 
inently a  self-made  man  and  his  prosperity  is  justly  merited.  He  started  out 
for  himself  in  the  twelfth  year  of  his  age,  working  first  as  a  chore  boy  for 
four  dollars  per  month  and  also  working  for  his  board  and  the  privilege  of 
attending  school.  Subsequently  he  engag"ed  in  teaching  in  order  to  secure 
the  means  neccessary  to  pursue  his  own  education,  and  thus  his  unaided  ef- 
forts enabled  him  to  advance  steadily  until  he  is  now  occupying  a  most  prom- 
inent and  honored,  place  in  Washington  as  a  statesman  of  ability  and  as  a 
lawyer  of  distinction. 

During  the  past  fifteen  years  he  has  been  jM-ictically  retired  from  the 
practice  of  law,  giving  his  attention  to  his  private  interests  and  to  the  enjoy- 
ment which  travel  brings.  He  has  visited  the  many  interesting  points 
throughout  the  United  States,  and  has  looked  upon  many  scenes,  historical 
as  well  as  modern,  in  Europe.  He  is  thoroughly  acquainted  with  the  Pacific 
coast  from  Alaska  to  the  city  of  Mexico,  and  has  visited  Switzerland,  Bel- 
gium, Germany,  Austria,  France,  England  and  Scotland,  the  land  of  his  an- 


724  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS    OF 

cestors.  During  the  Civil  war  he  was  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and 
was  a  stanch  adherent  to  the  government  in  its  efforts  to  preserve  the  Union. 
In  1863-64,  while  conducting  law  cases  in  the  capital,  he  was  introduced  by 
Secretary  Chase  to  Secretary  Stanton,  and  was  well  received  by  them  both. 
He  did  much  valuable  service  in  the  removal  of  copperheads  from  office  in 
Washington,  Oregon  and  California.  His  efforts  in  behalf  of  Seattle  have 
been  of  material  benefit  in  the  substantial  improvement  of  the  city.  He  has 
purchased  several  hundred  acres  of  land  on  the  city  side  of  Lake  Washing- 
ton, and  from  time  to  time  has  platted  additions.  He  opened  Madison  street 
its  whole  length  to  the  lake  at  his  own  expense  in  1864-65,  at  a  cost  of  fifteen 
hundred  dollars.  He  subsidized  the  :\Iadison  street  cable  railway  to  the 
amount  of  fifty  thousand  dollars.  He  has  erected  a  number  of  residences, 
still  has  large  property  holdings,  and  his  own  home,  which  is  a  palatial  one, 
is  situated  on  tlie  lake. 

On  the  8th  of  February,  1855,  Judge  ^vIcGihra  was  married  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  M.  Hills,  a  native  of  Oneida  county.  New  York,  and  a  daughter 
of  H.  O.  LIills  of  that  county,  who  was  descended  from  one  of  the  prominent 
old  Connecticut  families.  Five  children  have  blessed  this  union,  three  of 
whom  are  living,  namely:  Carrie  E,,  now  the  wife  of  Judge  Thomas  Burke, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  lawyers  of  Seattle:  Oliver  C,  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Burke,  Shepard  &  McGilvra;  and  Lillian  L.,  at  home  with  her 
parents.  Judge  McGilvra  was  formerly  president  of  the  Pioneer  Society 
of  the  state  of  Washington,  and  enjoys  the  highest  respect  of  all  who  know 
him  througiiout  the  northwest.  At  the  annual  reunion  in  June,  1902.  Judge 
jMcGilvra  presented  to  the  Pioneer  Association  a  magnificent  lot  on  the 
shore  of  Lake  Washington,  at  the  foot  of  ^ladison  street  and  convenient  of 
access,  for  a  liome,  which  was  duly  appreciated.  While  in  practice  he  was 
regarded  as  the  peer  of  the  ablest  members  of  the  bar,  and  his  ability  won  him 
distinction  in  legal  and  political  circles  at  the  capital.  To-day  he  is  resting 
from  his  labors  at  the  close  of  a  most  useful  career.  It  is  said  of  an  eminent 
man  of  old  that  he  had  done  things  Avorthy  to  be  written,  that  he  had  written 
things  worthy  to  be  read,  and  by  his  life  had  contributed  to  the  welfare  of 
the  republic  and  the  happiness  of  mankind.  This  eulogy  is  one  that  can  well 
be  pronounced  on  Judge  John  J.  McGilvra. 

JULIUS  HORTON. 

From  an  early  period  Julius  Florton  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  history  of  this  section  of  Washington,  and  now  in  his  declining 
years  he  is  living  retired   from  the  active  duties  of  life,  crowned  with  the 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  725 

veneration  and  respect  which  should  ever  be  accorded  to  one  travehng-  the 
downward  path  of  hfe.  He  laid  out  and  established  the  village  of  George- 
town, in  which  he  has  long-  made  his  home,  laboring  for  its  promotion  and 
welfare.  He  was  born  in  Chemung  county,  New  York.  March  15.  1834, 
and  is  a  brother  of  Dexter  Horton,  a  sketch  of  whom  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  volume.  When  but  a  boy  Julius  Horton  accompanied  his  parents  on 
their  removal  to  Illinois,  and  in  the  Prairie  state  he  received  his  early  edu- 
cational training-,  and  on  putting  aside  his  text  books  he  turned  his  attention 
to  agricultural  pursuits.  While  a  resident  of  that  state  he  also  spent  about 
seven  years  in  the  mercantile  business,  but  owing  to  ill  health  and  a  desire 
to  join  his  brother  in  this  state  he  came  to  Washington  in  1869,  the  journey 
being  made  by  railroad  to  San  Francisco,  this  being  shortly  after  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  railroad  to  that  point,  and  from  there  on  the  old  ship 
Marmion.  After  spending  about  two  years  wnth  his  brother  in  Seattle,  Mr. 
Horton  purchased  and  located  on  land  in  the  valley,  a  part  of  which  tract  is 
now  owned  by  the  present  treasurer  of  King  county  and  another  portion 
forms  the  old  race  track.  At  the  time  of  the  purchase  the  place  was  known 
as  the  L.  M.  Collins  donation  claim,  it  being  both  prairie  and  timber  land, 
but  in  time  ]\lr.  Horton  succeeded  in  clearing  it  of  its  native  growth  of 
timber  and  placed  the  wdiole  under  a  line  state  of  cultivation.  In  June.  1890, 
he  and  his  wife  laid  out  the  town  of  Georgetown,  which  they  named  in  honor 
of  their  son,  Dr.  George  M.  Horton,  and  they  at  once  began  the  erection  of 
a  number  of  buildings  and  also  their  own  line  residence,  which  is  one  of  the 
best  homes  in  the  town.  The  place  had  a  steady  growth  from  the  start,  and 
this  beautiful  little  village  now  stands  as  a  monument  to  their  enterprising 
spirit.  They  stil!  own  a  number  of  lots  here,  which  they  are  selling  at  a 
reasonable  price  in  order  to  induce  people  to  build  in  this  locality.  Mrs. 
Horton  has  proved  a-  valuable  assistant  to  her  husband  in  all  his  business 
ventures,  and  with  him  shares  in  the  high  esteem  of  the  residents  of  this 
portion  of  King  county. 

Mrs.  Horton  bore  the  maiden  name  of  Annie  E.  Bigelow,  and  her  mar- 
riage to  Mr.  Horton  was  solemnized  in  Illinois.  vShe  is  a  sister  of  General 
Harrv  Bieelow,  a  sketch  of  whose  life  will  also  be  found  in  this  work.  I'our 
children  have  been  born  to  this  union,  as  follows:  George  M.,  who  is  repre- 
sented elsewhere  in  this  volume:  Dora  E.,  the  wife  of  William  A.  Carle; 
Maud  M.,  who  became  the  wife  of  Frank  G.  Edmund,  who  served  as  master 
at  arms  on  the  United  States  steamship  Oregon,  and  was  at  the  battle  of 
Manila,  and  she  died  on  the  23d  of  December,  1898;  and  Howard  Dexter, 
who  is  engaged  in  the  studv  of  medicine.     The  two  eldest  children  were  born 


720  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

in  Illinois.  Mr.  Horton  has  been  identified  with  tlie  principles  of  Repub- 
licanism since  the  organization  of  that  party,  and  on  its  ticket  he  has  been 
elected  to  many  positions  of  honor  and  trust.  For  four  years  he  was  the 
efticient  deputy  assessor,  serving  under  both  Chilberg  and  Hughes,  and  was 
afterward  elected  to  the  office  of  assessor,  in  which  he  was  serving  at  the 
time  of  the  disastrous  fire  in  Seattle.  For  many  years  he  also  served  as  a 
school  director.  Fraternally  he  is  a  Mason,  having  joined  that  old  and 
time-honored  order  forty  years  ago.  He  has  given  his  aid  in  many  generous 
ways  to  the  perpetuation  of  those  forces  which  conserve  the  best  interests 
of  the  community,  and  the  course  that  he  has  followed  in  political,  business, 
social  and  home  circles  commends  him  to  the  high  esteem  of  all. 

FRANK  V.  HYMAN. 

Incumbent  of  the  responsible  and  exacting  oftice  of  chief  deputy  grain 
inspector  in  the  service  of  the  state  of  Washington  and  maintaining  his 
residence  in  the  city  of  Seattle,  Mr.  Hyman  is  known  as  one  of  the  pro- 
gressive and  able  young  business  men  of  the  metropolis  of  the  state,  where 
he  has  lived  for  the  past  twelve  years,  and  he  is  well  entitled  to  definite  con- 
sideration in  this  compilation. 

Frank  V.  Hyman  is  a  native  of  the  city  of  Logansport,  Indiana,  where 
he  was  born  in  August,  1862,  the  second  in  order  of  birth  of  the  six  chil- 
dren of  Daniel  and  Martha  (Reagan)  Hyman.  His  father  was  born  in 
Germany,  whence  he  came  to  America  when  a  youth,  taking  up  a  tract  of 
land  in  Cass  county,  Indiana,  at  a  point  ten  miles  south  of  Logansport.  the 
locality  being  known  as  Deer  Creek.  There  he  improved  an  excellent  farm, 
being  one  of  the  honored  and  substantial  citizens  of  the  community,  and 
there  he  passed  the  remainder  of  his  life,  his  death  occurring  when  he  was 
about  fifty-five  years  of  age,  while  his  wife  passed  away  at  the  age  of  forty- 
five.  Daniel  Hyman  was  a  stalwart  supporter  of  the  principles  and  policies 
of  the  Democratic  party,  in  whose  cause  he  was  an  active  w^orker,  having 
served  as  a  member  of  the  state  central  committee,  but  never  having  sought 
official  preferment  for  himself. 

Frank  V.  Hyman  was  reared  to  the  sturdy  discipline  of  the  farm,  and 
his  educational  advantages  were  such  as  were  aft'orded  by  the  public  schools 
of  his  native  state.  He  continued  to  assist  in  the  work  of  the  homestead 
farm  until  he  had  attained  his  legal  majority,  when  he  removed  to  Iowa, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  for  some  time,  and  then  went 
to  North  Platte,  Nebraska,  and  was  there  identified  with  railroading-  for  a 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  727 

period  of  three  years.  At  the  expiration  of  this  time,  in  August,  1889,  he 
came  to  Seattle  and  here  secured  a  position  as  traveUng  salesman  for  a  cigar 
factory,  covering  in  his  field  of  lahor  the  greater  portion  of  the  northwest, 
and  he  was  thus  engaged  for  five  years.  He  then  engaged  in  the  cigar  busi- 
ness on  his  own  responsibility,  doing  a  general  brokerage  business  and  hav- 
mg  his  headquarters  in  Seattle.  He  successfully  continued  this  enterprise 
until  May,  1901,  when  he  was  appointed  to  his  present  position  as  chief 
deputy  grain  inspector,  in  which  connection  he  is  assisted  by  three  sub- 
ordinates, and  under  his  direction  all  incoming  grain  is  carefully  inspected 
on  the  cars,  as  well  as  that  held  in  the  elevators,  while,  if  requested,  grain 
for  foreign  shipment  is  also  inspected.  The  duties  involved  are  onerous, 
since  an  average  of  from  fourteen  hundred  to  fifteen  hundred  cars  per  month 
are  inspected  in  the  shipping  season,  the  greater  portion  being  in  sacks,  so 
that  the  amount  of  detail  work  required  is  very  large.  Mr.  Hyman  has 
proved  a  most  capable  and  discriminating  executive  and  his  services  are  of 
great  benefit  to  both  the  buyer  and  the  seller. 

In  his  political  allegiance  Mr.  Hyman  is  prominently  identified  with 
the  Democratic  party,  in  whose  cause  he  has  taken  an  active  interest,  ha\ing 
been  a  delegate  to  both  city  and  county  conventions  since  taking  up  his 
residence  in  Seattle,  while  he  was  also  prominent  in  the  local  party  ranks 
while  residing  in  Iowa  and  Nebraska.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he 
identified  himself  with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  but  he  has 
not  maintained  his  active  afliliation  with  the  fraternity  in  recent  years.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias,  in  which  he  has  passed  all  the  official 
chairs,  also  representing  his  lodge  in  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state,  and  he 
also  holds  membership  in  the  local  lodge  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  lie 
has  taken  a  lively  interest  in  all  that  concerns  the  advancement  and  well- 
being  of  his  home  city,  and  has  here  erected  three  residences.  At  Waterloo, 
Iowa,  in  1886,  Mr.  Hyman  \vas  united  in  marriage  to  Miss  Josie  Garvie, 
and  they  have  one  daughter,  Effie  May. 

HERBERT  S.  UPPER. 

"A  man  of  affairs"  is  a  very  apt  and  suggestive  phrase,  and.  moreover, 
very  complimentary  to  the  individual  so  designated,  for  it  is  the  men  of 
affairs  in  America  who  hold  the  first  places  of  distinction  and  not  only  re- 
ceive the  material  rewards  in  the  way  of  wealth  and  prosperity,  but  are  looked 
up  to  and  respected  by  all  their  fellow^  citizens.  It  is  no  exaggeration  to  say 
that  Mr.  Upper  deserves  this  peculiar  American  title,  for  in  his  life  of  little 


728  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

more  than  thirty  years  he  has  been  engaged  since  he  was  in  his  'teens  in  the 
moil  of  business,  where  only  the  stalwart  and  persevering  are  able  to  stem 
the  tide  and  be  accounted  victorious. 

He  is  the  son  of  Canadian  parents,  and  his  father  was  a  banker  in  St. 
Thomas,    Ontario.      He   was   born    in    Villia   Nova,    Ontario,    November    5, 
1869.      He  was  reared  in  the  city  of   St.   Thomas,  and  after  finishing  his 
course  in  the  public  schools  took  a  college  course.     He  early  formed  the  in- 
tention of  going  to  the  country  of  opportunities,   the  great  west,  and,   so, 
when  he  was  still  a  boy  in  years,  he  went  to  the  Pacific  coast.     Seattle  was  at 
that  time,  about  1889,  a  city  of  seventeen  thousand  population,  and  he  de- 
cided that  it  was  the  place  for  him  to  locate  and  make  the  scene  of  his  life 
work.     Thus  early  he  had  formed  a  considerable  knowledge  of  the  value  of 
timber  lands,  gained  among  the  forests  of  the  north,  and  his  first  investments 
were  in  this  line.     He  kept  steadily  buying  and  has,  perhaps,  owned  more  of 
this  kind  of  property  than  any  man  of  his  age  in  the  state,  if  not  without 
this  limitation  of  age.     The  keynote  of  his  success  in  these  ventures  seems  to 
have  been  his  infallible  judgment  as  to  timber  values,  and  his  foresight  as 
to  the  increase  of  the  lumber  industry  in  the  state  of  Washington  has  been 
rewarded,  for  these  values  at  the  present  time  have  exceeded  even  his  esti- 
mates.     He  has  always  invested   with  a  safe  margin   and    was  one   of  the 
fortunate  few  who  weathered  the  stomis  of  the  financial  stress  of  the  early 
nineties,  when  those  most  solid  financially  were  none  too  secure.     And  he 
exhibited  his  great  confidence  in  the  ultimate  outcome  of  this  period  and  the 
general  stability  of  the  country  when  he  was  the  only  one  who  would  take 
mortgages  on  timber  lands  and  other  real  estate.     Mr.  Upper  has  also  dealt 
extensively  in  city  property,   both  residences  and  business  houses.     He  has 
laid  out  three  additions  to  Seattle  and  has  built  a  number  of  residences.     That 
his  business  has  steadily  increased  and  is  now  carried  on  on  a  large  scale 
may  l)e  inferred  from  the  fact  that  he  employs  four  persons  in  his  office  and 
two  on  the  outside,  who  are  all  needed  to  manage  the  volume  of  business. 

But  Mr.  Upper  has  been  occupied  in  other  affairs  as  well  as  real  estate. 
He  delights  in  the  life  of  the  farm,  and  has  an  especial  liking  for  stock.  On 
his  ranch  east  of  Lake  Washington  there  is  some  very  choice  stock,  and  he 
is  a  good  judge  of  horseflesh,  riding  and  driving  some  of  his  blooded  horses 
constituting  his  chief  diversion.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  is  the 
president  of  the  Seattle  Riding  Club.  All  matters  that  have  had  the  public 
good  in  view  have  found  in  Mr.  Upper  a  willing  helper,  and  he  is  interested 
m  several  companies  for  the  development  of  the  resources  of  the  state.  He 
IS  a  member  of  the   Seattle  Chamber  of  Commerce,   a   stockholder   in   the 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  729 

Rainier  Club,  is  connected  with  the  management  of  the  King  County  Fair 
Association,  and  belongs  to  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  In  church  affairs  he 
holds  membership  with  the  First  Baptist  church  and  is  the  treasurer.  Mr. 
Upper  has  had  his  suite  of  offices  in  the  Schermerhorn  block  for  the  past 
thirteen  years;  and  in  1902  he  built  for  himself  a  nice  residence  on  East 
Jefferson  street,  near  Eighteenth. 

ELWOOD  HORTON. 

One  of  the  busiest,  most  energetic  and  most  enterprising  men  of  Seattle 
is  this  well  known  contractor  and  builder,  who  is  in  every  way  a  splendid 
type  of  our  best  American  citizenship.  His  present  residence,  office  and  shop 
are  at  717  Pike  street,  while  his  telephone  number  is  Red  1716.  A  native  of 
Indiana.  Mr.  Horton  was  born  in  ]\Iarion  county,  that  state,  December  14, 
1855,  liis  parents  being  William  and  Elizabeth  (Mendanhall)  Horton,  both 
natives  of  Ohio,  the  former  born  in  181 5,  the  latter  in  1819.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  James  Horton,  was  a  pioneer  of  iMarion  county,  Indiana,  where 
he  located  in  1830.  He  cleared  a  farm  from  a  heavily  timbered  tract  of  land 
in  that  locality  and  endured  all  the  privations  incident  to  early  backwoods 
life  and  the  development  of  a  new  country.  There  he  spent  the  remainder 
of  his  life  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits.  His  wife  bore  the  maiden  name 
of  Ilayworth.  Our  subject's  great-grandfather  was  captured  by  the  Jn- 
dians  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  killed  by  them. 

William  Horton  was  one  of  a  familv  of  ten  children,  seven  sons  and 
three  daughters,  all  of  whom  are  now  deceased.  He  was  a  lad  of  fifteen 
years  on  accompanying  his  parents  011  their  removal  to  Indiana  and  in  early 
life  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  continued  to  follow  during  his 
entn-e  business  career  at  West  Newton,  Indiana.  He  and  his  family  were 
members  of  the  Society  of  h^riends,  and  in  politics  he  was  a  stanch  abolition- 
ist and  Republican.  He  was  well  known  in  business  circles  in  that  portion 
of  the  Floosier  state  in  which  he  lived,  and  erected  there  a  great  many  public 
buildings,  churches,  schoolhouses,  etc.  After  a  useful  and  well  spent  life 
he  died  in  1889,  and  his  estimable  wife  passed  away  in   1893. 

In  the  family  of  this  worthy  couple  were  eight  children,  namely:  John, 
who  remained  in  Marion  county,  Indiana,  where  he  scrxed  as  deputy  sheriff 
for  fifteen  years,  was  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  l)eing  a  member  of  the 
Twenty-eighth  Indiana  Volunteer  Infantry,  and  died  in  1881  at  the  age  of 
forty  years.  Alfred,  who  was  also  a  soldier  of  the  Civil  war,  is  now  en- 
gaged in  the  sawmill  and  lumber  business  in  Morgan  county,  Indiana.     Eme- 

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line  is  the  wife  of  Rev.  John  Striljhng,  a  minister  of  the  Friends  church  at 
Earlham,  Iowa.  Joseph  is  an  undertaker  of  West  Newton,  Indiana.  Sarah 
A.  is  the  wife  of  David  Mihar  of  IncHanapohs,  Indiana.  James  is  connected 
with  Alfred  in  business  in  Morgan  county,  Indiana.  Elwood,  our  subject, 
is  the  next  of  the  family.  Jennie  is  the  wife  of  Milton  Osborne  of  Jewell 
county,  Kansas. 

Elwood  Horton  was  bom  in  West  Newton,  Indiana,  and  in  that  village 
grew  to  manhood,  Ijeing  indebted  to  its  common  schools  for  his  educational 
privileges.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years  he  began  learning  the  carpenter's 
trade  with  his  father,  and  after  attaining  his  eighteenth  year  was  associated 
with  him  in  business.  As  his  father  grew  oldhe  assumed  more  and  more  the 
responsibility  of  the  firm  until  he  had  entire  control.  In  1886  he  removed  to 
the  city  of  Indianapolis,  where  he  engaged  in  contracting  and  building  until 
the  fall  of  that  year,  when  he  went  to  Pasadena,  California.  There  he  was 
also  engaged  in  contract  work,  larg-el\  on  churches,  public  buildings,  etc., 
remaining  there  until  the  spring  of  1889.  when  he  came  to  Seattle,  where  he 
has  since  engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business.  He  has  erected  many  fine 
residences  here  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most  reliable  contractors  and 
builders  of  the  city,  his  work  always  g'ivijig  the  utmost  satisfaction. 

Before  leaving  his  native  state  ^Ir.  Horton  was  married  in  Clarion 
county,  Indiana,  September  13,  1883,  to  ]^Iiss  Anna  Coppuck,  a  daughter  of 
Isaac  and  Judith  (Russell)  Coppuck,  all  natives  of  that  county.  Mrs.  Hor- 
ton is  one  of  a  family  of  four  children,  the  others  beino-  Calvin  \\'eslev  and 
James,  both  residents  of  Indianapolis,  Indiana;  and  William,  deceased.  To 
our  subject  and  his  wife  have  been  born  three  children,  namely:  Floyd  E., 
Ralph  W.  and  Edith  F.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horton  are  both  earnest  and  consist- 
ent members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and  he  is  also  connected 
with  the  Woodmen  of  the  World.  In  his  political  affiliations  he  is  a  stalwart 
Republican  and  takes  a  commendable  interest  in  public  affairs. 

AARON    T.  VAN    DE    VANTER. 

The  term  "captains  of  industry"  is  now  a  familiar  one  in  the  parlance 
of  the  day.  It  has  sprung  into  existence  as  the  result  of  business  conditions 
which  are  shaping  the  history  of  this  country  and  of  the  world.  History  is 
no  longer  a  record  of  war  and  conquest,  but  is  an  account  of  business  achieve- 
ment and- accomplishment,  and  the  men  who  are  prominent  in  public  life  are 
they  who  are  conducting  extensive  and  important  enterprises  in  the  business 
world.     Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  is  one  of  the  representative  citizens  of  Seattle, 


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closely  and  actively  associated  with  many  lines  which  have  contributed  to 
the  substantial  upbuilding-  and  improvement  of  the  city  as  well  as  to  his  indi- 
vidual prosperity.  He  may  well  be  classed  among  the  "captains  of  industry" 
in  Seattle,  for  he  seems  the  personification  of  the  term,  his  life  being  indeed 
busy  and  useful.  He  is  now  manager  of  the  King  County  Fair  Association, 
which  is  of  great  worth  to  the  locality,  stimulating  business  activity  and 
bringing  to  the  public  notice  the  many  lines  of  labor  which  are  represented 
and  the  many  natural  resources  which  the  country  offers  to  its  citizens. 

Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  was  born  in  Sturgis,  St.  Joseph  county,  Michigan, 
February  25,  1859,  and  is  a  son  of  John  F.  Van  De  Vanter,  who  Avas  born  in 
Penn  township,  Delaware  county,  Ohio,  in  May,  1819.  The  family  is  re- 
corded as  among  the  settlers  enumerated  in  the  first  census  taken  in  Hunt- 
ington county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1790,  in  which  year  Peter  Van  Deventer  (as 
■the  name  was  then  written)  was  named  as  the  head  of  a  family  of  five  sons 
and  two  daughters.  He  was  the  great-grandfather  of  our  subject  and  one  of 
the  earliest  settlers  on  the  Juniata  river,  having-  r^iioved  to  Pennsylvania 
from  New  Jersey.  Although  too  old  to  serve  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  he 
was  an  ardent  patriot.  He  married  Margaret  Miller  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  the  seconid,-Jac<Dh,  is  the  grandfather  of 
our  subject.  He  was  born  in  Huntington,  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  fol- 
lowed farming  throughout  his  life.  In  183 1  he  removed  to  Indiana,  locating 
there  when  the  Indians  were  far  more  numerous  than  the  white  settlers.  He 
became  c[uite  prominent  in  public  affairs  and  served  as  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners who  erected  the  court  house  of  Wayne  county  at  a  cost  of  two  hun- 
dren  thousand  dollars,  and  his  name  is  inscribed  in  that  building.  He  mar- 
ried Lydia  Fee,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Patience  (Kelly)  Fee,  of  Hunting- 
ton county,  Pennsylvania.  John  Fee  was  a  loyal  soldier  in  the  Revolution- 
ary war  and  his  widoAv  was  afterward  granted  a  pension.  His  name  is  also 
on  the  census  report  of  Fiuntington  county  of  1790.  After  the  death  of  his 
first  wife  he  wedded  Jane  Jackson.  His  previous  military  service  as  a  Rev- 
olutionary soldier  made  him  a  valued  fighter  in  the  early  Indian  wars  of  his 
adopted  state. 

Hon.  John  F.  Van  De  A^anter,  the  father  of  our  subject,  is  the  only  sur- 
viving member  of  his  father^s  family.  He  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  and  in  a  branch  of  the  state  university,  and  for  two  or  three  winters 
engaged  in  teaching  school.  He  followed  farming  in  both  Indiana  and 
Michigan,  removing  to  the  latter  state  in  1857.  There  he  resided  for  twenty 
years  and  took  an  active  part  in  political  affairs  not  because  he  desired  public 
office  but  because  he  believed  it  the  duty  of  American  citizens  to  thus  support 


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the  principles  of  good  government.  He  served  as  justice  of  the  peace  and 
superintendent  of  the  poor,  and  liis  early  political  support  was  given  to  the 
Whig  party.  Later  he  became  a  stanch  Abolitionist  and  subsequently  joined 
tlie  ranks  of  the  Republican  party.  In  1887  he  came  to  Washington  and  lo- 
cated on  the  farm  which  is  now  owned  by  his  son  Aaron  T.  After  two  years 
he  retired  from  active  life  and  now  makes  his  home  in  Kent.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  order  of  that  place  and  has  taken  the  Royal  Arch  degrees. 
He  belongs  to  the  Presbyterian  church  of  that  place,  is  one  of  the  elders  and 
represented  the  church  of  Puget  Sound  at  the  general  assembly  at  Saratoga 
Springs  in  .1896.  In  Greenfield  Mills,  Eagrange  county,  Indiana,  on  the 
25th  of  April,  1842,  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  married  Elizabeth  Da)1;on  Thomp- 
son, a  daughter  of  Aaron  Thompson,  a  farmer  of  the  Hoosier  state.  They 
became  the  parents  of  four  children:  William,  of  Chicago;  Edward,  a  phys- 
ician of  King  county;  A.  T,,  of  this  review;  and  Lizzie,  the  wife  of  W.  W. 
Watson,  of  Kent,  in  1892  the  parents  celebrated  their  golden  wedding,  on 
which  happy  occasion  three  of  the  children  and  many  friends  and  relatives 
were  present.  In  February,  1898,  however,  Mr.  \^an  De  Vanter  lost  liis  wife 
after  a  most  happy  married  life  covering  fifty-six  years.  She  was  an  earnest 
Christian  woman,  and  in  her  family  was  a  devoted  wife  and  mother. 

Aaron  T.  Van  De  Vanter  pursued  his  education  in  the  public  schools 
and  spent  his  boyhood  days  on  his  father's  farm,  where  he  remained  until 
1883.  He  then  made  his  way  to  Washington,  for  he  had  heard  of  the  hops 
grown  here  and  realized  that  the  industr}^  might  be  a  profitable  one.  Ac- 
cordingly he  settled  in  the  White  River  ^•alley  and  purchased  a  farm  near 
Kent  which  was  but  slightly  improved.  To-day,  however,  he  has  three  hun- 
dred acres  of  richly  cultivated  land  there,  and  his  agricultural  interests  have 
been  of  an  important  character.  He  enjoys  the  reputation  of  being  the  larg- 
est shipper  of  asparagus  on  Puget  Sound,  and  his  annual  sales  of  this  vege- 
table bring  to  him  a  good  financial  return.  In  his  dairy  business  he  is  also 
prospering,  and  has  a  herd  of  one  hundred  head  of  fine  cattle.  He  has  al- 
ways been  a  lover  of  fine  horses  and  has  bred  some  very  valuable  ones.  He 
owns  the  stallion  Erect,  a  full  brother  of  Direct,  bred  by  the  stallion  Monroe 
Salisbury.  He  also  has  the  stallion  Pathmark,  with  a  record  of  2:15^. 
This  horse  has  been  on  the  road  for  three  years  and  has  taken  many  prizes. 
Mr.  \\in  De  Vanter  continued  to  reside  on  his  farm  until  his  removal  to  the 
city  in  order  to  take  charge  of  the  county  fair.  He  was  one  of  the  incorpo- 
rators of  the  King  County  Fair  Association,  which  was  organized  in  1901. 
His  idea  is  to  make  this  a  great  and  permanent  exhibit  of  the  resources  of  the 
community.     In  it  are  represented  one  hundred  and  ten  classes  of  manufac- 


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tures,  beside  its  mineral  and  fishing  industries  and  all  of  the  various  depart- 
ments of  agriculture  and  horticulture.  The  exhibits  already  made  have 
awakened  wide  interest  and  have  been  creditable  to  the  city  and  surrounding 
country.  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  deserves  great  credit  for  what  he  is  accom- 
plishing in  this  respect.  Such  an  institution  always  stimulates  effort  and 
causes  the  different  representatives  of  business  enterprises  to  do  their  best 
in  securing  for  such  exhibits  the  finest  products  of  which  thev  ha\-e  control. 
It  l^ecomes  a  matter  of  local  pride  which  reflects  directly  upon  the  business 
activity  and  prosperity  of  a  locality.  In  connection  with  James  F.  McElroy 
Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  purchased  and  subdivided  three  hundred  acres  of  the  old 
Page  farm  at  Black  River  Junction  into  five-acre  tracts. 

On  the  24th  of  June,  1900.  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  was  married  at  Kent 
to  Miss  Martha  May  Triplett.  a  daughter  of  F.  A.  Triplett.  of  that 
place.  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  is  very  prominent  and  popular  in  social  circles 
and  his  name  is  on  the  membership  roll  of  many  social  and  fraternal  organ- 
izations. He  belongs  to  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  the  Ancient 
Order  of  United  Workmen,  the  Knights  of  Pythias  fraternity  and  the  uni- 
formed ranlv  of  Woodmen  of  the  World,  tlie  Royal  Arcanum  and  holds  an 
honorary  life  membership  in  Seattle  Podge  No.  92,  Benevolent  Protective 
Order  of  Elks,  of  which  he  is  past  exalted  scribe.  He  takes  a  very  active 
part  in  Masonry  and  is  a  prominent  member  of  Verity  Lodge  No.  59.  of 
Kent,  in  which  he  is  a  past  master.  He  likewise  belongs  to  Seattle  Chapter 
No.  3.  Royal  Arch  Masons,  Seattle  Commandery  No.  2,  Knight  Templars, 
and  Afifi  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  Tacoma.  In  the  first  grand  lodge 
of  which  he  was  a  member  he  was  one  of  a  committee  to  expose  the  noted 
swindler  FJeming".  He  has  ever  endeavoreci  to  uphold  the  dignity  of  the 
order  and  in  his  life  exemplifies  its  beneficent  principles. 

In  his  political  affiliations  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  is  a  stalwart  Republican. 
unswerving  in  his  alleg"iance  to  the  party.  He  served  as  mayor  of  Kent,  and 
he  was  later  elected  to  the  state  senate.  He  served  during  the  first  full  term 
of  four  ye.^rs  and  was  chairman  of  the  committee  on  appropriations  He 
was  widely  recognized  as  one  of  the  active  workings  members  of  the  upper 
house  and  his  keen  insight  into  public  questions,  his  loyalty  and  patrotism 
were  manifest  in  many  important  acts  of  legislation.  Before  his  term  as 
senator  had  expired  he  was  nominated  to  the  office  of  sheriff'  and  later  was  re- 
nominated, but  was  defeated  by  the  combination  of  Populists  and  Demo- 
crats. Two  years  later,  however,  his  name  was  again  placed  upon  the  county 
ticket  for  office  and  he  was  chosen  sheriff,  although  every  other  Republican 
candidate  on  the  ticket  was  defeated  except  the  assessor.     He  handled  sue- 


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cessf Lilly  the  greatest  jail-break  in  the  record  of  the  county.  He  took  charge 
of  the  office  on  the  14th  of  January  and  on  the  17th  of  March  twenty-three 
prisoners  broke  jail,  but  he  succeeded  in  capturing  them  all  without  the  loss 
of  life.  Mr.  Van  De  Vanter  was  president  of  the  first  live-stock  board  of  the 
state,  being  chosen  to  that  office  on  the  organization  at  Ellensburg.  He  de- 
serves to  be  classed  among  the  substantial  builders  of  the  great  northwest, 
and  has  performed  his  part  nobly  in  establishing  and  maintaining  the  ma- 
terial interests,  the  legal  status  and  moral  welfare  of  his  community. 

EDWIN  A.  STROUT. 

Edwin  A.  Strout  belongs  to  the  little  group  of  distinctively  representa- 
tive l3usiness  men  who  have  been  the  pioneers  in  inaugurating  and  building 
up  the  chief  industries  of  this  section  of  the  country.  He  early  had  the  busi- 
ness foresight  to  realize  Seattle's  future  growth  and  importance,  and  acting 
in  accordance  with  the  dictates  of  his  faith  and  judgment  he  has  prospered 
with  the  growth  of  Seattle  and  of  the  state  of  Washington.  He  is  now  con- 
nected with  many  extensive  and  important  business  interests.  At  the  pres- 
ent time  he  is  secretary  of  the  Brick  Exchange,  representing  nearly  all  of 
the  ])rick  manufacturing  interests  of  this  section ;  secretary  and  a  large  owner 
in  the  .Seattle  Brick  &  Tile  Company;  vice  president  of  the  Seattle  Ice  Com- 
pany; and  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  E.  A.  Strout  &  Company,  fire, 
marine  and  liability  insurance  agents.  His  business  interests  are  extensive 
and  such  as  demand  his  active  attention. 

Mr.  Strout  is  a  native  of  New  Hampshire,  having  been  born  at  Conway, 
July  26,  1862.  His  father,  Bennett  F.  Strout,  was  born  in  Maine  and  led  an 
active  business  life  until  about  fifteen  years  ago,  when  he  retired  from  busi- 
ness and  went  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  now  lives.  During  the  greater  part 
of  his  business  career  he  remained  in  New  Hampshire.  He  has  now  attained 
the  age  of  eighty-three  years  and  is  still  active  and  well.  In  public  affairs 
he  has  been  an  active  worker.  He  served  as  county  commissioner  and  in 
other  local  official  positions  and  for  several  years  was  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  house  of  representatives.  While  living  in  Maine  he  was  united 
in  marriage  to  Abbie  Woodruff,  daughter  of  Erastus  Woodruff,  of  Lyndon, 
Vermont.  They  had  two  children,  the  elder  being  Charles  H.,  a  resident  of 
Philadelphia  and  proprietor  of  St.  Luke's  School  for  Boys.  On  both  sides 
of  the  family  the  ancestry  can  be  traced  back  in  this  country  to  the  seven- 
teenth century.  The  father  is  a  descendant  of  John  Strout,  who  came  to 
Boston.  Massachusetts,  in    1630.  from  England.     On  the  Woodruff  side  the 


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lineage  runs  iDack  to  1664,  when  Matthew  Woodruff  came  from  England 
and  was  one  of  the  original  eighty-four  settlers  of  Farmington,  Connecticut. 
Edwin  A.  Strout  of  this  review  pursued  a  portion  of  his  education  in 
Conway,  New  Hampshire,  and  afterward  became  a  student  in  an  academy 
at  Wolfboro,  in  the  graded  schools  at  Dover  and  in  the  business  college  at 
Manchester,  New  Hampshire.  In  1879  ^^^  entered  upon  his  active  business 
career,  becoming  connected  with  the  subsistence  department  of  the  army. 
He  was  first  sent  to  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  he  remained  for  some 
months,  acting  as  clerk  for  his  uncle.  Captain  C.  A.  Woodruff,  commissary 
of  subsistence.  United  States  Army.  From  there  he  went  to  Santa  Fe,  New 
Mexico,  wdiere  he  acted  as  chief  clerk  for  Captain  Woodruff  until  the  fall  of 
1884.  During  this  time  he  saw  a  great  deal  of  active  service  in  the  Apache 
Indian  troubles  of  that  period.  In  1884  he  came  with  Captain  Woodruff  to 
Vancouver  barracks.  Washington,  where  he  was  stationed  until  he  came  to 
Seattle.  In  1885  he  made  up  his  mind  to  engage  in  business  for  himself, 
and  with  this  end  in  view  investigated  the  prospects  offered  in  the  various 
cities  of  Oregon  and  Washington,  making  a  trip  in  that  year  to  Tacoma  and 
Seattle.  Deciding  that  Seattle  offered  the  best  prospects  for  a  young  man 
he  came  here  in  January,  1887.  He  then  organized  the  Puget  Sound  Ice 
Company  for  the  manufacture  of  artificial  ice,  and  erected  a  plant  at  West 
and  Seneca  streets  in  the  spring  of  1887.  This  was  the  first  ice  plant  ever 
operated  on  Puget  Sound.  He  was  connected  with  this  company  until  the 
plant  was  destroyed  in  the  general  conflagration  of  1889.  He  then  assisted 
in  the  organization  of  the  Seattle  Ice  &  Refrigeration  Company,  which 
erected  a  large  plant  at  Yesler.  This  company  was  later  changed  to  the 
Seattle  Ice  Company,  and  the  plant  was  removed  to  its  present  location  in 
this  city.  In  1889  Mr.  Strout  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Washington 
Territory  Investment  Company,  was  elected  its  first  vice  president  and  later 
was  made  president.  This  company  bought  the  lot  on  the  northwest  corner 
of  Second  Avenue  and  Cherry  street  and  erected,  in  1889-90.  the  building 
now  known  as  the  Post-Intelligencer  building.  Mr.  Strout  retained  the 
manao-ement  of  this  building  until  it  was  sold  in  IQ02.  In  1888  he  was  as- 
sociated  with  George  H.  Heilbron  in  the  organization  of  the  Seattle  Brick 
&  Tile  Company  and  has  acted  as  its  secretary  continuously  since  that  time. 
These  enterprises  ha\-e  furnished  employment  to  a  large  numlx;r  of  men  and 
have  contributed  greatly  to  IMr.  Strout's  success  as  well  as  aiding  in  the  up- 
building of  Seattle. 

At  Fort  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  in  1889,  Mr.  Strout  was  united  in  mar- 


riage 


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States  army,  and  they  have  two  children,  Edwin  A.  and  Helen.  In  1884 
he  erected  his  residence  on  Marion  street,  between  Summit  and  Boylston 
avenues.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  St.  Mark's 
Episcopal  church,  and  of  :\It.  Hood  Lodge  No.  32,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has 
always  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the  social  and  club  life  of  Seattle,  being 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Rainier  Club.  Country  Club  and  Golf  &  Country 
Club.  He  is  a  man  of  strong  individuality  and  perseverance  and  is  justly 
entitled  to  rank  with  the  prominent  men  of  Seattle. 

CLARENCE  \V.  COULTER. 

There  is  more  than  ordinary  interest  attaching  to  the  career  of  the  gen- 
tleman whose  name  initiates  this  paragraph,  for  not  only  is  he  a  native  son 
of  the  state  of  Washington  and  a  representative  of  one  of  its  sterling  pioneer 
families,  but  he  has  also  personally  been  conspicuously  identified  with  the 
great  idustrial  interests  and  activities  which  ha\'e  brought  about  the  mag- 
nificent development  of  this  favored  section  of  the  northwest;  while  his 
youth  was  passed  amid  the  scenes  and  en\'ironments  of  the  pioneer  epoch,  so 
that  his  memory  forms  a  chain  linking  the  period  of  inception  with  that  of 
latter-day  opulence  and  prosperity.  Thus  it  will  at  once  be  seen  how  con- 
sistently may  a  review  of  his  life  history  be  incorporated  in  a  publication  of 
this  nature.  Mr.  Coulter  maintains  his  home  and  business  headquarters  in 
the  city  of  Seattle  and  is  here  secretary  and  manager  of  the  Excelsior  & 
Wooden  Ware  Manufacturing  Company,  agent  for  the  Burke  building,  one 
of  the  finest  business  blocks  in  the  city,  and  also  has  other  interests  of 
marked  importance. 

Mr.  Coulter  traces  his  lineage,  on  both  sides,  to  stanch  English  origin, 
the  respective  families  having  been  established  on  American  soil  in  the  early 
colonial  epoch,  while  it  is  a  matter  of  record  that  his  paternal  great-grand- 
father was  an  active  participant  in  the  war  of  the  Revolution,  while  he  sub- 
sequently removed  to  what  is  now  the  middle  west,  then  the  very  frontier  of 
civilization,  and  took  part  in  the  Black  Hawk  Indian  war.  Samuel  Coulter, 
the  father  of  the  subject  of  this  review,  came  to  Oregon  as  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  1850,  and  within  the  following  year  took  up  his  abode  in  that  part  of 
Oregon  territory  which  is  now  comprised  in  the  state  of  Washington.  He 
was  born  in  West  Virginia,  whence  he  went  to  Ohio,  and  when  eighteen  vears 
of  age  started  on  the  long  and  perilous  overland  trip  across  the  plains  to 
Oregon,  starting  from  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  with  a  large  company, 
the  wagon  train  wending  its  way  over  the  weary  stretches    of    plain    and 


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mountain,  and  the  party  being  sufficient  in  number  to  repel  the  attacks  of  the 
hostile  Indians,  who  menaced  the  train  on  several  occasions  while  enroute. 
He  came  to  Oregon  City,  which  was  at  that  time  the  principal  settlement  in 
the  territory,  arriving  at  this  point  after  having  passed  six  months  on  the 
journey.      He  there  became  identified  with  the  lumbering  business,   contin- 
uing operations  until  1852,  when  he  went  to  Colorado  on  a  mining  expedi- 
tion, being  quite  successful  m  his  efforts,  and  returning  to  Oregon  in  the 
spring  of  the  following  year.     He  then  turned  his  attention  to  the  cattle  busi- 
ness,  his  branding  corrals  being  located  Avhere  the  thriving    little    city    of 
Eilensburg,  Washington,  now  stands,  the  site  being  unmarked  bv  a  sinde 
dwelling  at  that  time.      He  continued  very  successfully    in    that    enterprise 
until  1877.  when  he  removed  to  the  city  of  Portland  and  purchased  the  land 
on  which  the  Edmond  Hotel  now  stands,  that  building  having  been  erected 
by  him.     He  leased  the  hotel  property  and  gave  his  attention  to  dealing  in 
timber  lands  upon   an   extensive  scale,  having  become  the  owner  of  about 
five  thousand  acres  of  valuable  land  of  that  character,  and  having  acquired 
other  desirable  realty  all  up  and  down  the  Sound.     In  1880  he  took  and  com- 
pleted the  contract  for  the  building  of  the  line  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Rail- 
road between   Cheney  and  Spokane  Falls,  and   in   the  fall  of  that  year  he 
again  returned  to  the  Sound  and  engaged  in  the  cattle  business.     In  addition 
to    continuing  this   enterprise,    in    1883    Mr.    Coulter   resumed   the   logging 
business,  constructing  for  the  purpose  a  standard-guage  railroad  six  or  more 
miles   in  length  and  utilizing  on  the  same  the  first  donkey  engine  brought 
into   requisition    in   connection   with   the  lumbering   business   in   this  section 
of  the  Union.     The  line  was  at  the  head  of  the  North  bay.   and  the  logs 
handled  on  the  same  were  sold  to  various  mills  operated  on  the  Sound.     In 
1886  he  disposed  of  his  cattle  business,  but  he  continued  to  be  prominently 
identified  with  the  lumbering  industry  until   1893,  since  which  time  he  has 
devoted  his  attention  to  general  trading  operations,  maintaining  his  home  and 
business  headf|uarters  in  the  city  of  .Seattle.     Mr.  Coulter  has  been  promi- 
nent in  political  affairs  from  the  earlv  territorial  days  of  Washington,  and 
at  one  time  he  owned  and  published  a  paper  in  the  capital  cit\-,  Olympia.  in 
the  interests  of  the  Republican  party,  of  whose  principles  he  lias  ever  been 
a  stanch  advocate.     President  Grant  appointed  him  to  the  office  of  internal 
revenue  collector  for  the  territory  of  Washington,  and  he  was  in  tenure  of 
the  same  at   the  time  when  the  districts  of  Washington  and   Oregon  were 
combined,  and  he  was  then  tendered  the  position  as  collector  for  the  entire 
district.      But  the  demands  of  his  ]M-ivate  business  affairs  rendered   it  inex- 
pedient for  him  to  continue  in  the  office,  whose  duties  would  have  required 


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his  absence  from  his  headiiqarters  too  great  a  portion  of  his  time.  Mr. 
Couher  has  ever  been  known  as  a  public-spirited,  loyal  and  progressive  citi- 
zen of  the  Evergreen  state,  giving  his  aid  and  influence  in  the  support  of 
schools  and  churches  and  all  other  worthy  enterprises  fostering  development 
and  conserving  the  general  welfare.  During  the  Indian  war  of  1855  he  was 
first  lieutenant  in  the  militia  raised  to  repel  the  attacks  of  the  savages. 

In  Oregon,  in  1853,  Samuel  Coulter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Harriet  E.  Tilley,  who  had  accompanied  her  father,  Judge  Abraham  Tilley, 
to  Oregon  in  the  year  prior  to  her  marriage.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Coulter  became 
the  parents  of  three  sons,  namely:  Clarence  W.,  the  immediate  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Esmond,  deceased;  and  Alvah  S.,  wdio  is  identified  with  mining 
enterprises,  and  who  resides  in  the  city  of  Seattle. 

Clarence  \V.  Coulter  w^as  born  on  the  prairie  farm  in  Thurston  county, 
Washington,  about  twenty  miles  from  the  city  of  Olympia,  the  date  of  his 
nativity  having  been  December  6,  1856.  His  early  educational  discipline 
was  received  in  the  public  schools  of  the  capital,  while  in  1872  he  went  to 
Oregon,  where  he  continued  his  educational  work  for  a  period  of  five  years. 
After  leaving  school  he  became  identified  with  the  operation  of  steamboats, 
and  thus  continued  about  two  years.  He  then  returned  to  Olympia  and 
became  associated  \\ith  his  father  in  the  cattle  and  lumbering  business,  this 
relation  existing  until  1893.  ^^'^  1888  he  also  became  interested  in  mining 
and  prospecting  enterprises,  and  became  a  prominent  operator.  He  erected 
a  ten-stamp  mill  near  Juneau,  Alaska,  and  had  mining  interests  from  that 
distant  division  of  our  national  domain  to  California,  and,  as  he  had  charg^e 
of  the  cattle  business,  he  made  Seattle  his  headquarters.  He  disposed  of 
tlie  Juneau  mines  and  mill  in  1892,  and  in  the  following  year  went  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  remained  until  the  spring  of  1896,  when  he  went  to  Cook's 
Inlet,  at  the  time  of  the  gold  excitement  in  that  district.  In  the  following 
year  he  joined  the  stampede  to  the  Cariboo  country  in  British  Columbia,  and 
there  remained  during  that  summer.  In  1898,  under  tlie  contractor  D.  A. 
Robinson.  Mr.  Coulter  had  charge  of  the  construction  of  the  elevators  and 
docks  of  the  Great  Northern  Railroad  at  Smith's  Cove,  and  since  that  time 
he  has  given  more  or  less  attention  to  speculating  in  timber  lands,  in  which 
line  his  operations  have  been  successful,  for  not  only  is  he  an  excellent  judge 
of  values,  but  he  also  has  that  keen  business  sagacity  which  enables  him  to 
handle  the  various  projects  with  the  best  results.  In  April,  1900,  Mr.  Coul- 
ter effected  in  Seattle  the  organization  of  the  Excelsior  &  Wooden  Ware 
Manufacturing  Company,  which  enterprise  is  the  only  one  of  the  sort  in  the 
state  and  he  has  been  secretary  and  manager  of  the  company  from  its  incep- 


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tion.  He  is  also  secretary  of  the  Wenatchee  Development  Company,  which 
owns  the  town  site  and  large  tracts  of  land  contiguous  thereto,  of  Wenatchee, 
Chelan  county.  This  company  platted  the  town  and  has  done  much  to 
further  its  development  and  progress.  In  April,  1901,  Mr.  Coulter  took 
the  agency  of  the  Burke  building,  and  has  charge  of  rentals  and  other  details 
of  management  of  this  fine  structure,  which  contains  four  stores  and  one 
hundred  and  fifty-nine  modern  oftice  rooms,  the  building  being  six  stories 
in  height  and  located  on  Second  avenue. 

In  politics  Mr.  Coulter  gives  an  unqualified  allegiance  to  the  Republican 
party,  and  while  he  has  never  sought  official  preferment  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  city  council  in  1883,  serving  efficiently  and  laboring  to  ad- 
vance the  best  interests  of  the  municipality.  He  is  alert  and  progressive, 
fully  typifying  that  spirit  which  has  brought  about  the  magnificent  develop- 
ment of  the  great  northwest,  and  his  course  has  ever  been  such  as  to  retain 
to  him  the  unequivocal  confidence  and  esteem  of  all  who  know  him.  In  the 
city  of  Seattle,  in  August,  1882,  Mr.  Coulter  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Helena  B.  Smith,  and  of  this  union  two  children  were  Ijorn,  Clarice,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  one  year ;   and  Chester,  who  remains  at  the  parental  home. 

JOSEPH  L.  JENOTT. 

If  the  history  of  Joseph  Lachapelle  Jenott  was  written  in  detail  it  would 
furnish  many  a  chapter  of  more  thrilling  interest  than  any  book  of  fiction. 
He  has  undergone  all  of  the  experiences  of  life  amid  the  mining  regions  of 
Alaska.  He  came  to  Seattle  in  April,  1888,  and  from  this  point  went  to  the 
cold  northern  region.  He  was  born  in  New  Glasgow,  Canada,  on  the  19th 
of  April,  1863,  and  comes  of  French  lineage.  His  father,  Frank  Jenott, 
was  also  born  in  Canada  and  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  follo.wing  that  pur- 
suit continuously  for  more  than  sixty  years.  He  now  lives  retired  in  Seattle. 
He  was  but  fourteen  years  of  age  when  he  removed  from  Canada  to  Massa- 
chusetts and  there  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  IMttsfield.  but  later  re- 
turned to  Canada,  in  which  country  he  was  married.  The  family  has  re- 
sided for  many  generations  in  America,  and  the  father  is  now  living  retired 
in  a  pleasant  home  which  was  erected  for  him  by  his  son  Joseph  in  1901. 

Joseph  L.  Jenott  had  but  limited  educational  privileges  in  the  public 
schools  of  his  native  country,  but  through  observation  and  experience  he  has 
added  largely  to  his  knowledge  and  is  now  a  well-informed,  if  self-educated, 
man.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  years  he  left  Canada  and  went  to  Michigan, 
where  he  was  connected  with,  the  logging  interests  of  that  state,  spending 


740  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

about  eight  years  in  that  way  in  Michigan  and  Wisconsin.  In  1888  he  came 
to  Washington,  having  read  of  the  country,  its  advantages  and  opportuni- 
ties. BeHeving  that  it  would  be  a  good  field  of  labor  he  and  his  brother  made 
their  way  to  the  coast  and  took  up  their  abode  in  Seattle  and  engaged  in 
chopping  wood  on  Queen  Anne  Hill,  now  one  of  the  most  beautiful  residence 
districts  of  the  city,  but  then  all  covered  Avith  timber.  As  the  man  for  whom 
he  was  working  could  not  pay  him,  :\Ir.  Jenott  purchased  a  team  and  hauled 
the  wood  off  for  himself,  and  so  gained  a  very  comfortable  financial  return 
for  his  labor,  as  prices  were  very  high  at  that  time  on  account  of  the  extra 
demand  for  luml^er  caused  by  the  great  fire  \\hich  had  occurred  in  Seattle 
in  June,  1889. 

Mr.  Jenott  started  in  business  at  Ballard,  but  there  he  suffered  losses 
bA-  fire  on  two  dift'erent  occasions  in  the  same  month,  and  as  he  had  no  insur- 
ance he  was  thus  badly  crippled  financially.  In  1894  he  felt  a  desire  to  go 
to  Alaska,  and  in  the  following  spring  sold  his  interests  in  Seattle,  locating 
his  family  in  that  city,  and  in  1895  took  passage  on  a  boat  for  Alaska.  At 
Juneau  he  purchased  thirty  dollars'  worth  of  provisions,  thence  proceeded  to 
Dyea  and  from  there  walked  over  the  summit.  It  required  forty-five  days 
to  make  the  trip  from  Seattle  to  Forty  Mile,  and  when  he  arrived  there  he 
held  only  seventy -five  cents  remaining.  He  then  went  on  a  prospecting  tour 
in  that  locality  and  also  at  Sixty  Mile  creek.  He  made  some  little  money 
in  helping  a  couple  in  transporting  their  goods,  and  in  the  fall  he  went  to 
work  cutting  wood  in  order  to  get  money  needed  to  buy  provisions.  The 
following  spring  a  stampede  started  on  American  creek,  and  his  partner 
wanted  to  go  there,  but  as  ]\tr.  Jenott  had  to  get  something  which  W'Ould 
bring  hini  in  an  income  sufficient  to  keep  his  family,  he  and  his  partner  there 
separated.  ]n  the  fall  '\\y.  Jenott  went  to  what  is  now  Dawson,  and  staked 
a  claim  v.-hich  he  afterward  sold  for  one  hundred  dollars.  In  the  fall  of  that 
year,  1896,  he  returned  to  Seattle  and  spent  the  winter  with  his  family,  but 
in  the  spring  of  1897  again  went  to  Alaska,  proceeding  to  Dawson,  where 
the  town  was  just  being  established.  He  took  a  claim  on  Twenty-one,  above 
Bonanza,  and  this  proved  a  profitable  move,  as  he  cleared  up  a  good  stake 
on  it.  In  the  summer  of  1898  Mr.  Jenott  returned  to  Seattle,  but  in  1899 
again  went  to  Alaska,  and  made  two  trips  that  year,  getting  machinery  to  a 
claim  on  Dominion.  This  was  placed  in  working  order  in  1900,  and  Mr. 
Jenott  then  made  a  trip  to  Paris.  In  1901  he  returned  to  Dominion  and 
disposed  of  his  property  there,  again  coming  to  Seattle  in  June  of  that  year. 
Here  he  has  since  made  his  home. 

On  the  2(\  of  October,  1890.  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Joseph  L. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  74i 

Jenott  and  Miss  Mary  Sherman,  a  daughter  of  Chris  Sherman  of  this  city. 
They  have  two  daughters,  Winnie  and  Lena.  In  the  fah  of  1898  }^Ir.  Jenott 
buih  his  pleasant  home  at  2520  Fifth  avenue,  designing  all  of  the  work  him- 
self. He  has  also  erected  two  other  houses  here,  including  one  for  his  father, 
built  in  1901.  He  has  invested  in  other  city  property  in  Seattle,  and  owns 
a  good  business  block  which  brings  him  in  a  very  desirable  rental.  Mr. 
Jenott  is  a  plain,  unassuming  man,  but  possesses  strong  worth  of  character 
and  has  gained  many  friends.  He  is  numbered  among  the  honored  citizens, 
and  his  earnest  efforts  have  contributed  to  the  improvement  of  Alaska  and 
to  the  work  of  opening  up  that  district  to  the  uses  of  the  white  man. 

W.  C.  WEEKS. 

Though  living  upon  the  Pacific  coast.  Mr.  Weeks  was  born  on  the 
Atlantic  slope,  and  at  one  time  was  a  resident  of  Florida,  so  that  the  places 
of  his  activity  are  widely  scattered.  His  birth  occurred  in  Lancaster,  New 
Hampshire,  February  25,  1863,  his  parents  being  William  D.  and  Helen 
(Fowler)  Weeks.  His  father,  also  a  native  of  Lancaster,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 28.  1818,  while  the  mother  was  Ijorn  in  Woodstock,  Connecticut. 
Both  were  of  English  descent  and  lived  for  many  years  in  happy  wedded  life 
at  Lancaster,  but  were  separated  in  death  in  1884,  when  Mr.  Weeks  was 
called  to  his  final  rest.     His  wife  survived  him  and  died  in  1897. 

W.  C.  Weeks  obtained  his  early  education  in  the  public  schools  of  h.is 
native  city  and  later  studied  in  the  academy  there.  His  youth  was  passed 
upon  the  home  farm,  and  he  assisted  in  its  cultivation  until  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  when  he  left  home  and  in  1886  took  up  his  abode  in  Orlando, 
Florida,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  dairy  business  for  about  two  years. 
In  1889  he  came  to  Washington,  locating  at  North  Bend,  King  county,  and 
for  two  years  occupied  a  position  as  salesman  in  the  store  of  Gusten  & 
Tibbctts,  who  then  made  an  assignment.  Mr.  Weeks  later  purchased  the 
store  from  the  assignee  and  conducted  the  business  from  1892  until  1897, 
securing  a  good  patronage  and  meeting  with  fair  success.  At  the  same  time 
he  operated  a  shingle  mill  and  conducted  a  hotel.  For  the  ])ast  three  years 
he  has  been  contracting  and  logging,  owning  large  tracts  of  timber  land  in 
the  vicinity  of  North  Bend  and  shipping  the  logs  to  points  on  the  sea  coast. 
He  has  built  up  a  good  business  in  this  line  and  is  thus  connected  with  one 
of  the  most  important  industries  of  the  northwest.  He  is  a  Republican  m 
his  political  views,  but  has  no  time  nor  inclination  for  public  oftice.  i^referr- 
ino-  to  eive  his  attention  to  his  well  managed  business  at¥airs,  which  are  bring- 
ing  to  him  excellent  returns. 


742  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

WILLIAM  R.  BRAWLEY. 

\Villiani  R.  Brawley,  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  city,  has 
made  his  home  in  Seattle  since  1879,  actively  interested  in  all  measures 
advanced  for  the  good  of  the  people,  and  has  performed  his  full  share  in  the 
development  and  improvement  of  the  city.  He  was  born  in  Meadville, 
Crawford  county,  Pennsylvania,  on  the  20th  of  February,  1840,  and  is  of 
Scotch.  German  and  Irish  descent,  his  ancestors  having  been  among  the 
first  to  locate  in  the  United  States.  His  grandfather,  James  Brawley,  was 
a  native  of  Eastport,  Pennslyvania,  but  later  became  a  prominent  settler  of 
Crawford  county,  that  state,  and  William  R.  Brawley,  the  father  of  our  sub- 
ject, was  the  first  white  child  born  in  that  county.  James  Brawley  was  a 
farmer  and  lumberman  by  occupation.  In  his  family  were  eleven  children, 
and  he  attained  to  the  good  old  age  of  eighty-three  years,  leaving  behind  him 
at  his  death  a  record  for  honorable  and  upright  dealing. 

William  R.  Brawley,  the  father  of  our  subject,  married  Miss  Jane 
Stewart,  of  Erie  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  her  ancestors  were  from  the 
north  of  Ireland,  and  were  also  among  the  early  settlers  of  this  country. 
]\Ir.  Brawley  followed  the  tilling  of  the  soil  as  a  life  occupation,  and  in  addi- 
tion he  also  owned  and  operated  a  flouring  mill.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were 
valued  and  active  members  of  the  Methodist  church,  and  for  many  years  he 
served  as  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school.  For  the  long  period  of 
forty  years  he  was  also  a  justice  of  the  peace.  His  death  occurred  when  he 
had  reached  his  seventy-fourth  year,  but  his  wife  long  survived  him,  pass- 
ing away  at  the  age  of  ninety-three  years  and  three  months.  To  this  worthy 
couple  were  born  five  children. 

William  R.  Brawley,  the  subject  of  this  review,  was  reared  and  received 
his  education  in  the  place  of  his  nativity.  He  had  just  attained  to  mature 
years  when  the  great  oil  discoveries  in  Pennsylvania  were  made,  the  famous 
Drake  well,  the  first  one  to  be  successfully  operated,  being  located  within 
twenty  miles  of  his  home,  and  he  and  his  three  brothers  at  once  began  work 
in  the  oil  fields.  Purchasing  the  necessary  tools,  they  began  constructing 
wells  by  contract,  but  soon  they  were  able  to  lease  land  and  construct  wells 
on  their  own  account,  at  one  time  owning  as  high  as  twenty-five  wells  and 
leasing  twelve  thousand  acres  of  land.  Their  principal  well,  known  as  the 
Troutman,  produced  a  flow  of  eight  hundred  and  fifty  barrels  of  oil  a  day. 
In  1879,  however,  Mr.  Brawley  and  his  brother  D.  C.  became  convinced  of 
the  many  advantages  to  be  secured  in  Seattle,  and  accordingly  the  former 
came  to  this  city  to  make  investments,  while  the  brother  remained  in  the  east 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  743 

and  continued  to  look  after  their  interests  there.  After  a  residence  here  of 
ten  years  the  great  fire  occurred,  and  hke  many  others  Mr.  Brawley  met  with 
heavy  losses,  but  with  characteristic  energy  he  at  once  began  the  work  of 
retrieving  his  lost  possessions,  and  is  now  the  owner  of  much  city  property 
and  one  of  the  leading  business  men  of  the  city.  He  has  been  especially  in- 
terested in  the  purchase  and  improvement  of  farming-  lands,  and  is  also  one 
of  the  owners  of  the  Bell  &  Crown  copper  and  gold  mine,  also  of  the  Copper 
Whale  mine,  near  Index,  both  valuable  properties.  In  1883  his  brother, 
DeWitt  Clinton  Brawley,  joined  him  in  Seattle,  and  together  they  continued 
operations'  in  this  city  until  they  were  separated  by  the  hand  of  death,  the 
brother  passing  away  on  the  14th  of  March,  1900.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church,  and  his  loss  was  deeply  mourned  in  this  community,  but  his 
memory  is  enshrined  in  the  hearts  of  scores  of  his  old  friends  and  associates, 
to  whose  interests  he  was  ever  faithful. 

In  1882  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Brawley  and  J\Iiss  Ger- 
trude Parkhurst.  She,  too,  is  a  native  of  Pennsylvania,  and  is  a  daughter 
of  Henry  Saxton  Parkhurst,  a  descendent  of  an  old  Swiss  family  who  were 
early  settlers  of  Vermont.  Her  great-grandfather,  Elim  Parkhurst,  was 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  her  father  fought  throughout  the 
period  of  the  Civil  war,  during  which  time  he  was  twice  taken  prisoner,  but 
each  time  made  his  escape.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  entered  the  ministry 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  continuing  until  his  death  in  1875.  at 
which  time  his  wife  and  family  came  to  Seattle,  where  they  have  since 
resided.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brawley  have  been  born  four  children,  all  nativei 
of  Seattle,  and  the  two  now  living  are  W.  Parkhurst  and  Edith.  The  fami- 
ly are  prominent  members  of  the  Methodist  chruch.  In  1888  Mr.  Brawley 
erected  a  beautiful  and  commodious  residence  at  302  Ninth  avenue,  where 
his  familv  and  also  his  brother's  widow  nnd  children  now  reside,  and  all 
are  held  in  high  regard  by  many  friends  and  acquaintances. 

J.  H.  PAYNE. 

Daniel  Payne,  the  father  of  the  sul)ject  of  this  brief  biography,  was  a 
native  of  Ohio,  born  there  on  April  9,  1822,  and  after  reaching  manhood 
followed  farming  in  the  states  of  Pennsylvania,  Indiana  and  Illinois.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  war  he  followed  the  flag  of  the  Union  and  died  at  Springfield, 
Illinois,  in  February,  1863.  His  wife,  Sarah  J.  Wheeler,  was  born  in 
Kentucky  December  27,  1828,  and  died  at  Xenia,  Ohio,  in  February,  1896. 

Their  son  James  H.  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Whitley  county,  Indiana,  on 


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the  I2tli  (lay  of  September,  1849;  ^^^  worked  on  his  father's  farm  in  the  sum- 
mer and  learned  the  lessons  of  the  district  schools  in  the  winter  in  Porter  and 
Laporte  counties,  Indiana,  and  in  his  eighteenth  year  left  home  to  farm  on 
his  own  account,  continuing  till  1876.  In  March,  1877,  he  went  to  Sher- 
man, Texas,  where  for  four  years  he  engaged  in  the  different  pursuits  of 
stock-raising,  contracting,  butchering  and  farming.  In  June  1881,  he 
moved  to  Bureau  county,  Illinois,  where  he  engaged  in  agriculture  for  eight 
years,  and  in  March,  1889.  arrived  in  King  county,  Washington.  He  took 
up  a  homestead  on  the  Snoqualmie  river  five  miles  from  Fall  City;  he  spent 
much  time  and  labor  in  clearing  and  improving  this  land  and  in  1895  traded 
it  for  town  lots  and  farm  property  at  Fall  City,  where  he  now  resides  and 
devotes  his  attention  to  farming  and  stock-raising. 

Mr.  Payne  has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  is  chairman  of  the  Republican  precinct  committee, 
has  served  as  constable  for  several  years  and  is  usually  a  delegate  to  the 
nominating  conventions  of  his  party.  Mr.  Payne's  marriage  was  celebrated 
at  Princeton,  Illinois,  on  January  5,  1873,  when  he  became  the  husljand  of 
Hester  A.  Morton,  who  was  born  in  Henry  county,  Illinois,  in  1853,  her 
mother  bjeing  a  native  of  Canada,  and  her  father  of  Ohio.  They  are  the 
parents  of  six  children:  Fred  Morton,  Franklin  L.,  Elmer  E.,  Elsie  E., 
David  and  James  Clayton.  Mr.  Payne  is  a  man  of  much  ability,  of  straight- 
forward, honest  purposes,  and  seeks  to  advance  the  best  intersts  of  city  and 
county. 

CARL    KLEINSCHiMIDT. 

Nowhere  are  men  so  thoroughly  grounded  in  the  principles  of  education 
and  in  science  generally  as  in  the  great  German  empire;  and  the  educated 
German  is  the  synonym  of  the  well  rounded,  broad  cultured  man,  who  may 
be  depended  upon  to  execute  affairs  of  great  importance  and  requiring  pow- 
ers of  mind  and  persistence.  One  of  such  men  and  one  who  has  accom- 
plished the  saving  of  large  sums  of  money  to  the  shipping  interests  of  the 
world  by  his  inventions  and  study,  is  Carl  Kleinschmidt,  the  general  man- 
ager and  treasurer  of  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Pile  and  Timber  Preserving 
Company,  whose  offices  are  located  at  429-430-431  Burke  building  at  Seattle, 
Washington,  and  the  laboratories  and  works  including  the  boring  machines 
are  on  the  tide  flats. 

Mr.  Kleinschmidt  was  born  and  reared  in  Prussia,  received  a  liberal 
education  and  then  went  to  the  famous  mining  school  at  Clausthal,  where 


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he  studied  under  his  uncles,  Professor  Bode  and  William  Kleinschmidt,  and 
completed  a  thorough  course  in  mining,  mastering  all  the  technicalities  and  the 
practical  work  of  mining,  including  the  concentrating  of  ores  by  hydraulics. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  he  entered  the  Prussian  army  to  complete  his  military 
duty  in  the  Fourth  Army  Corps  in  the  fortress  at  Magdeburg.  His  coming  to 
America  was  in  i860,  and  he  first  located  at  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  where  for 
two  years  he  engaged  in  mining  engineering  and  concentrating  in  the  lead 
districts.  In  1863,  in  Lawrence,  Kansas,  he  was  enrolled  in  the  Third  Reg- 
iment, Kansas  troops,  and  appointed  master  of  transportation  for  the  divis- 
ion, under  command  of  General  Williams,  and  served  till  the  close  of  the  war.. 
He  then  went  across  the  plains  and  landed  at  Confederate  Gulch  in  Diamond 
City,  Montana,  where  he  engaged  in  hydraulic  and  quartz  mining  and  mer- 
chandising, later  was  engaged  in  stock-raising  and  grazing  on  a  large  scale 
in  Deer  Lodge  county  on  the  Big  Blackfoot  river,  and  was  also  in  wholesale 
merchandising  in  Helena,  Butte  and  Bozeman;  he  was  successful  till  the 
winter  of  1888,  when  he  met  with  severe  losses  in  cattle,  horses  and  sheep. 
In  1 89 1  he  operated  in  the  Slocan  country  and  on  the  Salmon  river,  and  in 
he  next  year  came  to  Seattle  and  has  ever  since  been  engaged  in  min.ing 
operations  in  the  northwest.  In  1898  he  went  to  Dawson  and  as  a  mining 
engineer  located  and  purchased  thirty-four  claims,  some  of  which  he  still  re- 
tains, principally  the  copper  claims  near  Five  Fingers  on  the  Lewes  river. 
But  it  is  in  a  more  scientific  direction  that  Mr.  Kleinschmidt  has  been 
chiefly  successful.  He  is  also  a  student  of  chemistry  and  has  for  many  years 
maintained  a  private  laboratory,  where  he  has  assayed  quartz  and  ores,  sam- 
pled out  of  mines  on  which  he  made  reports,  and  of  other  districts  to  get 
familiar  with  the  formations,  acquiring  an  increased  knowledge  of  the  di- 
verse mining  districts  and  ore  values.  About  eight  years  ago,  during  his  fre- 
quent traveling  on  the  Sound  and  Pacific  ocean,  his  attention  was  called  to 
the  vast  losses  caused  by  the  ravages  of  the  teredo,  or  ship-worms,  on  the 
wharves,  docks  and  other  marine  and  submarine  constructions,  and  the  great 
expense  entailed  by  the  replacing  of  the  material  destroyed  by  these  worms. 
He  therefore  determined  to  thoroughly  experiment  and  ascertain  if  some  ef- 
fective chemical  compound  might  not  be  applied  to  the  marine  and  submarine 
wood  construction  to  make  it  immune  from  the  attacks  of  this  pest  and  of 
other  mollusks.  After  extended  observation  and  study  he  arrived  at  two  im- 
portant conclusions :  that  the  processes  then  in  use  were  neither  the  most  ef- 
fective nor  the  cheapest,  and  that  chemicals  could  be  so  united  with  some  suit- 
able medium  as  to  penetrate  every  fibre  of  the  wood  in  the  submarine  con- 
struction and  render  it  absolutely  impervious  to  the  attacks,  at  the  same  time 
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increasing  the  durability  of  the  timbers;  and  he  finally  produced  the  com- 
pound which  promises  to  displace  all  previous  primitive  and  crude  attempts 
to  accomplish  this  end.  The  modus  operandi  consists  of  making  a  longi- 
tudinal bore  through  the  timber,  with  which  a  lateral  bore  connects;  after 
the  timber  is  in  place  the  cavity  is  filled  with  the  liquid  compound  either  from 
the  top  or  side,  and  the  fibres  become  so  permeated  that  the  pile  is  rendered 
practically  immune  from  the  teredo  attack;  where  the  boring  is  impractical, 
the  same  result  is  gained  by  immersion  of  the  timbers.  This  method  has  also 
-been  found  equally  efficacious  in  countries  where  the  termite,  or  white  ant, 
is  the  scourge  of  all  wood  structures.  On  October  4,  1901,  Mr.  Kleinschmidt 
iiled  application  for  a  patent  in  the  United  States  office,  which  was  duly 
granted,  and  recently  steps  have  been  taken  to  secure  patents  in  foreign  coun- 
tries. In  January,  1902  the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Pile  and  Timber  Preserv- 
ing Company  was  incorporated  with  paid  up  capital  stock  of  two  million 
dollars,  and  with  Dr.  Thomas  MacGuire  as  president,  Carl  Kleinschmidt  as 
g-eneral  manager  and  treasurer,  and  George  B.  Cole  as  attorney  and  secre- 
tary; the  main  office  is  at  Seattle.  The  company  has  secured  a  site  of  six 
Iiundred  feet  frontage  on  the  water  front,  where  the  plant,  laboratory,  bor- 
ing machines  and  pile  booms  are  located,  and  it  is  satisfactoi"y  to  note  that 
all  details  for  carrying  on  the  business  have  been  completed.  The  company 
iilso  owns  the  patent  right  for  the  boring  machine  invented  by  Mr.  Klein- 
scmidt,  wliicli  is  so  constructed  that  a  boring  of  almost  any  length  and  diam- 
ter  in  the  center  of  a  timl)er  shaft  can  be  made  in  a  short  time  and  at  low  cost, 
making  the  machine  available  to  bore  conduits  and  pipes  for  many  other 
purposes. 

Mr.  Kleinschmidt  was  married  in  Germany  to  Miss  Emma  Marie  Carus, 
a  native  of  that  counti-y;  she  has  not  only  been  to  him  an  excellent  wife  from 
a  domestic  standpoint,  but  is  herself  a  business  woman  and  is  one  of  the 
-directors  of  the  company.  They  have  become  the  parents  of  ten  children, 
iive  of  whom  survive;  their  son  Kurt,  who  was  lost  on  the  fated  steamer 
Elbe  in  1894,  was  also  a  mining  and  engineer  metallurgist  of  great  promise 
-and  with  fine  qualifications,  having  completed  six  years  of  study  in  one  of 
the  best  technical  mining  schools  of  Europe,  that  in  Freiburg,  Saxony.  The 
other  children  are:  Carl,  Jr.,  the  manager  of  the  Montana  Copper  Com- 
pany; Henry,  a  hydraulic  mining  engineer  in  Alaska;  Emma  K.  is  the  wife 
of  Leo  Sutor,  of  Los  Angeles;  Anna  K.  is  the  wife  of  Mark  David,  of  Seat- 
tle; and  Marie  K.,  the  youngest  daughter,  is  still  at  home  with  the  family  in 
their  fine  residence  at  312  Seventeenth  avenue.  Mr.  Kleinschmidt  has  al- 
^vays  been  firm  in  his  adherence  to  the  Republican  party,  and  is  a  member  of 


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the  James  A.  Sexton  Post,  Grand  Army  of  the  Repubhc.  Such  is  a  brief 
sketch  of  a  man  whose  work  and  influence  have  been  no  doubt  of  great  vahie 
not  only  to  his  own  community  but  to  the  world  in  general,  and  although  he 
is  very  near  seventy  years  of  age,  he  looks  and  feels  hale  and  hearty,  so  that 
no  one  would  attribute  to  him  such  advanced  years. 

JAMES    A.  MOORE. 

To  the  energetic  natures,  keen  discernment  and  strong  mentality  of  such 
men  as  James  A.  Moore,  the  president  of  the  Moore  Investment  Company  of 
Seattle,  is  due  the  upbuilding  and  improvement  of  the  city,  and  in  the  hands 
of  this  class  of  citizens  there  is  every  assurance  that  the  best  interests  and 
welfare  of  the  city  will  be  conserved.  The  life  of  our  subject  has  been  one 
of  continuous  activity,  and  to-day  he  is  numbered  among  the  substantial  res- 
idents of  Seattle.  His  interests  are  so  thoroughly  identified  with  those  of 
the  northwest  that  at  all  times  he  is  ready  to  lend  his  aid  and  co-operaion  to 
any  movement  calculated  to  benefit  this  section  of  the  country  or  advance  its 
material  development,  and  while  his  labors  have  brought  to  him  individual 
prosperity,  no  man  in  Seattle  has  done  more  to  beautify  and  improve  the  city 
or  to  produce  its  splendid  and  attractive  appearance  than  James  A.  Moore. 

A  native  of  Nova  Scotia,  Mr.  Moore  was  born  on  the  23d  of  October, 
1861,  and  is  of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  The  family  was  founded  in  Nova 
Scotia  in  the  seventeenth  century  by  James  Moore,  who  emigrated  from  the 
north  of  Ireland  in  1650.  He  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the  country  and 
established  on  American  soil  the  family  of  which  our  subject  is  a  representa- 
tive in  the  fifth  generation.  During  all  the  intervening  years  the  Moores 
have  for  the  most  part  been  merchants,  ship-owners  or  masters  of  vessels, 
and  in  religious  faith  they  have  been  Presbyterians  and  Congregationalists. 
James  Moore,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia,  and 
was  largely  interested  in  ships  and  shipping,  but  not  only  did  he  become  very 
prominent  on  account  of  his  extensive  business  interests,  but  was  also  equall}- 
well  known  and  honored  because  of  his  leadership  in  public  affairs.  His  la- 
bors formed  an  integral  part  of  the  history  of  that  land.  He  married  Miss 
Agnes  Sutherland,  and  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  eighty  years.  They 
w^ere  the  parents  of  nine  children,  of  whom  five  are  yet  living.  Their  son, 
Andrew  K.  Moore,  was  born  in  Nova  Scotia  on  the  estate  which  had  been 
in  the  possession  of  the  family  for  two  hundred  years,  and  like  his  father  he 
became  one  of  the  prominent  representatives  of  ship-building  and  shipping 
interests  in  his  native  land.     At  one  time  he  was  the  owner  of  forty  sailing 


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vessels.  He  married  Miss  Isabel  McClellan,  a  lady  of  Highland  Scotch  an- 
cestry, born  in  Nova  Scotia,  and  their  union  was  blessed  with  six  children. 
The  parents  held  membership  in  the  Congregational  church,  in  which  Mr. 
Moore  served  as  an  elder.  He  contributed  most  generously  to  the  support  of 
the  church  and  was  one  of  its  most  prominent  and  influential  members.  In 
politics  he  was  connected  with  the  Conservative  party,  strongly  endorsing  its 
principles.  A  life  of  prominence,  of  honor  in  business  and  of  fidelity  to  every 
duty  made  him  one  of  the  most  honored  and  respected  citizens  of  his  native 
land.  He  died  on  the  5th  of  May,  1900,  at  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-four, 
having  for  a  number  of  years  survived  his  wife,  who  passed  away  at  the  age 
of  sixty-four. 

James  A.  Moore  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  his  native  coun- 
try, and  after  his  graduation  in  the  high  school  he  became  associated  with 
his  father  in  the  shipping  business,  with  which  he  was  connected  for  a  num- 
ber of  years.  In  1886  he  came  to  Seattle  and  was  well  pleased  with  the  city. 
He  deemed  its  future  bright,  and  he  soon  began  to  invest  in  city  real  estate 
and  to  engage  in  its  improvement.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  one  of  the 
most  prominent  factors  in  the  growth  of  the  city,  and  his  labors  have  been  a 
most  potent  element  in  adding  to  the  beauty  of  Seattle.  In  1897  he  organized 
the  Moore  Investment  Company,  which  was  capitalized  for  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars,  and  at  once  engaged  in  purchasing  tracts  of  land  and  plat- 
ting additions  to  the  city,  foreseeing  the  demand  for  land  which  would  be 
made  by  the  city's  rapid  growth.  He  platted  Latona,  Brooklyn  and  Uni- 
versity Heights,  and  other  smaller  tracts,  which  have  been  largely  built  upon, 
extending  the  city's  area  and  adding  to  it  many  desirable  residence  districts. 
In  1 90 1  he  began  platting  and  improving  Capital  Hill  on  a  gigantic  scale, 
expending  over  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars  in  improvements 
there.  The  addition  comprises  two  hundred  acres  in  a  most  attractive  and 
delightful  portion  of  the  city,  commanding  a  most  magnificent  view  of  the 
bay  and  a  wide  extent  of  scenery  which  partakes  of  the  nature  of  the  sub- 
lime, the  mountain  peaks  towering  into  the  regions  of  eternal  snow.  Mounts 
Rainier,  Baker,  St.  Helens  and  Hood  may  all  be  seen,  with  altitudes  of 
eleven,  twelve,  thirteen  and  fifteen  thousand  feet  respectively,  standing  giiard 
over  the  beautiful  city  which  lies  nestling  at  their  base  with  the  broad  and 
shimmering  bay  before  it.  On  the  hill  one  hundred  fine  residences  have  al- 
ready been  built  and  one  hundred  are  in  process  of  construction,  so  that 
within  an  almost  incredibly  short  space  of  time  Capital  Hill  will  have  taken 
its  place  as  the  most  beautiful  and  desirable  residence  district  in  the  city. 
The  minimum  cost  of  these  homes  is  three  thousand  dollars,  and  some  of 
them  partake  of  the  nature  of  palaces. 


SEATTLE    AND    KING    COUNTY.  749 

It  was  Mr.  Moore  who  planned  and  built  the  Lincoln  apartment  house 
of  Seattle.  It  is  a  building  one  hundred  and  twenty  feet  square,  seven  stories 
in  height  and  containing  seventy-two  elegantly  finished  and  furnished  apart- 
ments, the  lot  and  building  costing  two  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars. 
It  was  not  only  the  first  but  the  finest  apartment  house  west  of  Chicago,  cred- 
itable alike  to  the  city  and  to  him  whose  business  sagacity  and  ability  made  it 
possible.  It  is  occupied  by  people  of  wealth  in  the  city  and  is  a  paying  invest- 
ment. In  the  past  three  years  and  a  half  Mr.  Moore  has  brought  to  the  city 
of  Seattle  for  investment  over  two  million  and  a  half  dollars,  which  has  been 
invested  in  business  enterprises  and  business  property  here,  placing  him  de- 
cidedly in  the  lead  of  those  who  have  contributed  largely  to  the  improvement 
of  the  city  and  its  material  prosperity.  He  built  the  first  block  of  concrete 
sidewalk  in  the  residence  district  of  Seattle.  He  let  the  first  contract  for 
asphalt  street  paving  in  the  residence  district,  it  being  three  miles  in  length. 
He  built  the  Lumber  Exchange  building,  at  a  cost  of  two  hundred  and  fifty 
thousand  dollars,  a  six  story  office  building  on  Second  avenue  and  Seneca 
street.  He  built  the  Arcade  building  on  Second  avenue,  covering  the  entire 
block  from  University  to  Union  streets,  having  a  frontage  of  three  hundred 
and  sixty  feet  on  Second  avenue.  It  is  as  yet  the  largest  building  constructed 
in  Seattle,  and  was  erected  at  a  cost  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dol- 
lars. He  also  constructed  the  Whitcomb,  Estabrook,  Curtiss  and  other  busi- 
ness blocks.  All  of  these  different  buildings  and  improvements  stand  as  mon- 
uments to  the  enterprise,  thrift  and  progressive  spirit  of  Mr.  Moore. 

In  1885  Mr.  Moore  was  married  to  Miss  Eugenie  G.  Jones,  a  native  of 
Denver,  Colorado,  and  a  lady  of  superior  culture.  They  are  members  of  the 
Plymouth  Congregational  church,  of  which  Mr.  Moore  is  a  trustee,  serving 
as  chairman  of  the  board  at  the  present  time.  He  is  a  valued  member  of  var- 
ious prominent  clubs  of  this  city  and  is  a  Knight  Templar  Mason.  In  pulit- 
iical  thought  and  action  he  has  always  been  independent,  carrying  out  his 
honest  views  without  fear  or  favor.  In  business  he  has  achieved  success 
through  honorable  effort,  strong  executive  force,  power  of  organization  and 
capable  management,  while  in  private  life  he  has  gained  that  warm  personal 
regard  which  arises  from  kindliness,  geniality,  deference  for  the  opinions  of 
others  and  true  nobility  of  character. 

JAMES  McCLINTOCK. 

In  an  analysis  of  the  character  and  life  work  of  James  McClintock.  we 
note  many  of  the  characteristics  which  have  marked  the  Scotch  nation  for 
many    centuries — the    perseverance,    reliabilty,    energy    and    unconquerable 


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determination  to  pursue  a  course  that  has  been  marked  out.  It  is  these  sterl- 
ing quaHties  which  have  gained  for  :\Ir.  McChntock  success  in  hfe  and  made 
him  one  of  the  substantial  and  valued  citizens  of  Washington. 

Mr.  McClintock  was  born  at  Borhead,  near  Glasgow,  Scotland,  about 
1847.  His  father,  Robert  3.IcClintock,  was  a  native  of  the  north  of  Ireland 
and  by  trade  was  a  boot  and  shoe-maker,  following  that  calling  in  Scotland 
for  a  number  of  years.  On  leaving  the  land  of  hills  and  heather  he  crossed 
the  Atlantic  to  New  York  city,  where  he  engaged  in  business  for  several 
years,  biit  his  death  occurred  in  Scotland,  about  1852.  His  w-ife  was  in  her 
maidenhood  Catherine  Algey.  She,  too,  was  a  native  of  Scotland,  and  died 
there  the  same  year  in  which  her  husband's  death  occurred. 

James  McClintock  was  thus  left  an  orphan  when  only  five  years  of  age.- 
He  went  to  live  with  an  aunt  in  Paisley,  Scotland,  wdiere  he  attended  school 
for  two  years,  but  when  a  youth  of  nine  he  became  dissatisfied  w'ith  his  home 
surroundings  and  secreted  himself  as  a  stow-aw^ay  on  the  vessel  Trogan, 
bound  from  Greenwich  to  the  West  Indies.  There  the  captain  of  the  ship 
Cherokee  took  a  fancy  to  the  lad  and  made  him  a  member  of  the  ship's  crew. 
They  were  on  a  cruise  to  Brazil,  New-  Foundland  and  Liverpool,  thence  to 
British  North  America  and  to  the  ^Mediterranean  sea.  In  the  waters  of  that 
sea  Mr.  ]^IcClintock  became  a  member  of  the  crew  of  the  ship  Blue  Catherine, 
sailing  to  South  America  and  returning  by  way  of  Gibralter  and  Liverpool, 
to  Glasgow^  There  he  joined  another  vessel,  bound  for  Burmah,  India, 
and  returned  from  there  on  the  American  ship  Southern  Rights  to  London. 
Soon  afterward  he  made  a  trip  to  Cuba  and  the  United  States,  and  for  two 
years  during  the  period  of  the  Civil  war,  was  sailing  on  the  lakes  between 
Chicago  and  Buffalo.  Returning  to  London  he  shipped  for  Bombay,  India, 
where  he  entered  the  service  of  an  English  ship  bound  for  Burrard  Inlet, 
British  Columbia. 

At  that  point  Mr.  McClintock  abandoned  his  seafaring  life  of  nearly 
twenty  years,  during  which  time  he  had  visited  m^any  ports  on  the  face  of 
the  globe.  He  took  passage  from  Victoria  for  Alaska,  \vhere  he  spent 
one  summer  in  bartering  for  furs  with  the  Eskimo  Indians.  After  dispos- 
ing of  his  cargo  at  Victoria,  he  went  to  Port  Discovery,  Washington.  There 
he  worked  in  the  sawmills  and  in  the  logging  camps  and  also  at  Port  Ludlow 
and  Port  Blakeley.  Thtis  two  years  were  passed,  and  in  the  fall  of  1870  he 
went  up  the  White  river  in  a  canoe,  spending  the  winter  in  hunting  and 
trapping  on  White  and  Green  rivers.  The  following  year  he  took  up  a  pre- 
emption claim  of  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  on  Newankum  creek,  at  what 
is  known  as  Porter's  Prairie.     This  he  cleared  and  improved  and  afterward 


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purchased  a  tract  of  railroad  land  of  eighty  acres,  adjoining  his  first  pur- 
chase, thus  becoming  the  owner  of  one  of  the  most  valuable  farms  in  King 
county.  He  devotes  his  attention  to  stock-raising,  dairying  and  farming, 
and  his  business  has  been  profitably  conducted.  When  he  located  on  this 
place  there  were  no  white  people  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  and  he  lived  for 
a  long  time  in  a  primitive  cabin  while  he  carried  on  the  work  of  transforming 
the  dense  forest  tract  into  an  attracive  farm.  In  later  years  he  built  a  hand- 
some residence  and  other  substantial  and  modern  buildings  and  now  has' 
one  of  the  best  improved  farm  properties  in  this  portion  of  the  state. 

On  the  19th  of  June,  1883,  Mr.  McClintock  was  united  in  marriage  irfc. 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  Martha  Sprott,  who  was  born  in  that  city  in  1862 
and  was  educated  in  the  old  Monklen  school  near  there.  After  leavins^ 
school  she  lived  with  the  family  of  her  future  husband  for  seven  years,: 
assisting  Mrs.  McClintock  in  an  extensive  dry  goods  and  general  mercantile- 
business  at  Paisley,  Scotland.  The  father,  James  Sprott,  is  still  living 
and  is  now  manager  of  coal  mines  in  Scotland.  Her  mother,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Matilda  Wilson,  died  in  Glasgow  about  1885.  The  marriage  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  McClintock  has  been  blessed  with  nine  children,  as  follows; 
James,  Mattie,  William,  Mary,  Ida,  Jessie,  Emily  and  Robert,  all  living  at 
home.  They  also  lost  one  daughter,  Katie,  who  died  in  July,  1900,  at  the. 
age  of  fifteen  years  and  six  months. 

In  his  political  views  Mr.  McClintock  is  independent,  casting  his  ballot' 
without  regard  to  party  affiliations.  He  was  a  charter  member  of  Crystal 
Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Enumclaw,  and  had  joined  the  Masonic  order  in  Glas- 
gow, Scotland,  as  a  member  of  Star  Lodge  No,  219,  F.  &  A.  M.  He  has 
had  an  eventful  career  and  his  life  history,  if  written  in  detail,  would  furnish 
many  interesting  and  sometimes  exciting  chapters,  for  during  his  seafaring- 
life  he  had  many  experiences  such  as  are  unknown  to  the  landsman.  Since 
his  arrival  in  King  county  he  has  made  the  most  of  his  opportunities,  and 
to-day  stands  as  a  leading  representative  of  agricultural  interests  here. 

OLIVER  DYER  COLVIN. 

It  has  often  been  stated  and  commented  upon  that  the  L'nited  States  has' 
always  presented  great  opportunities  to  men  of  industry,  ability,  honesty  and 
integrity,  and  as  long  as  men  have  the  aspirations  and  the  determinatitm  to 
improve  their  condition  in  life  and  win  the  success  which  it  is  possible  to 
attain,  the  theme  will  never  be  exhausted. 

One  of  the  most  prominent  of  Washington's  business  men.  whose  enter- 


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prise  and  sound  judgment  have  not  only  promoted  his  individual  prosperity 
but  have  advanced  the  public  welfare,  is  Oliver  D.  Colvin.  He  is  manager 
of  the  Seattle  agency  of  the  American  Steel  &  Wire  Company,  whose  gen- 
eral office  is  in  Chicago,  and  which  is  one  of  the  constituent  companies  of  the 
United  States  Steel  Corporation.  His  territory  embraces  the  state  of  Wash- 
ington, Alaska  and  northwest  British  possessions.  He  is  also  vice-president 
of  the  Snoqualmie  Falls  &  White  River  Power  Company,  the  largest  power 
company  in  the  northwest;  the  power  being  generated  by  water  in  the  foot- 
hills of  the  Cascade  mountains,  transmitted  some  forty  miles,  and  furnishing 
power  for  the  cities  of  Seattle  and  Tacoma. 

Mr.  Colvin  was  born  in  Coldwater,  Michigan,  on  the  12th  of  June.  1867, 
is  of  Holland  and  Scotch-Irish  descent,  and  comes  from  families  who  left  the 
old  world  for  the  new  about  the  year  1700.  The  Colvins  selected  for  their 
home  the  vicinity  of  Lake  Champlain  and  the  beautiful  Lake  George  in  New 
York,  where  many  of  them  still  reside,  not  unknown  to  the  political  and 
social  life  of  the  state.  On  the  maternal  side  he  is  a  descendant  of  the 
Richeys  and  Updykes  of  lower  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  a  strain  of  Hol- 
land with  Scotch-Irish  blood.  The  Richeys  owned  large  plantations  worked 
by  their  negro  slaves  before  the  time  when  a  humane  legislature  of  New 
Jersey  abolished  slavery  in  that  state. 

Mr.  Colvin's  grandfather,  Colonel  Oliver  D.  Colvin,  was  a  prominent 
citizen  of  that  commonwealth,  a  member  of  the  state  legislature,  and  a  colo- 
nel of  the  militia.  He  afterwards  became  a  prominent  citizen  of  Coldwater, 
Michigan,  and  his  death  occurred  there  at  the  early  age  of  forty-four 
years.  His  son,  Hiram  M.  Colvin,  was  born  in  the  latter  city  in  1841,  and 
has  now  reached  his  sixty-second  milestone  on  the  journey  of  life.  In  1864 
he  married  Miss  Lucy  Shutts,  who  was  born  in  Sandusky,  Ohio.  Her  father 
was  a  prominent  man  in  the  state  of  New  York,  was  a  member  of  the  legis- 
lature and  a  colonel  of  the  militia.  This  in  a  measure  may  account  for  the 
fact  that  the  subject  of  this  sketch  early  took  an  interest  in  military  affairs, 
and  became  a  commissioned  officer  of  the  militia  of  the  state  of  Kansas  before 
he  was  of  age. 

In  18(9  Hiram  ]M.  Colvin  removed  with  his  family  to  Missouri,  where 
he  engaged  in  farming  and  stock-raising,  dealing  principally  in  thoroughbred 
Hereford  cattle.  They  later,  in  18S2,  took  up  their  abode  in  Burlingame, 
Kansas,  where  he  continued  farming  and  stock-raising,  afterwards  moving 
to  Osage  City,  Kansas,  where  he  engaged  in  grain  and  mercantile  business 
until  1888,  and  there  his  wife  still  resides.  In  their  family  are  four  children, 
consisting  of  three  daughters,  Lida  May,  now  Mrs.  J.  K.  Schoonmacher,  a 
resident  of  Spokane,  W^ashington :  Jessie  Maude,  who  is  unmarried  and  resid- 


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ing  in  Spokane;  Nellie  Madge,  who  married  George  Williams,  connected 
with  the  Kansas  City  Journal  of  Kansas  City,  Missouri;  and  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

O.  D.  Colvin  received  his  primary  education  in  the  schools  of  Missouri, 
attended  the  high  school  at  Burlingame,  Kansas,  where  he  graduated  and 
afterwards  entered  Baldwin  University.  After  putting  aside  his  text  books 
he  was  engaged  in  business  with  his  father  until  his  twenty-first  year,  when 
he  experienced  that  longing  for  the  far  west  which  has  ever  beckoned  the 
young  men  who  are  ambitious  and  are  willing  to  assist  in  building  up  a  new 
country,  and  he  left  his  parental  home  and  removed  to  the  Pacific  coast,  ar- 
riving in  I'acoma,  Washington  territory,  in  June,  1888.  He  was  engaged  in 
different  pursuits,  and  assisted  in  the  surveying  of  a  portion  of  that  city; 
also  assisted  in  planning  and  building  the  city  of  Fairhaven  and  the  surveying 
of  the  Fairhaven  Southern  Railroad.  Within  eighteen  months  time  he  wit- 
nessed the  growth  of  the  last  named  place  from  a  village  containing  four 
buildings  to  one  of  several  thousand  inhabitants.  After  returning  to  Tacoma 
he  engaged  in  the  real  estate  business  there,  acquiring  considerable  property. 

In  1890  he  came  to  .Seattle,  as  it  seemed  to  him  even  at  that  time  that  it 
was  destined  to  be  the  great  commercial  city  of  the  Pacific  coast,  and  the  fol- 
lowing year  accepted  the  position  of  chief  deputy  assessor  of  the  county  of 
King,  and  for  a  number  of  years  thereafter  was  connected  with  the  treas- 
urer's and  assessor's  offices.  In  the  spring  of  1894  he  was  appointed  deputy 
United  States  marshal  by  James  C.  Drake,  ably  serving  in  that  position  dur- 
ing the  trouble  with""Coxey's  army"  and  the  Great  Northern  strike.  He  was 
actively  engaged  in  several  riots  and  disturbances,  where  his  military  train- 
ing was  of  great  assistance. 

In  August,  1895,  he  was  appointed  auditor  of  the  Seattle  Consolidated 
Street  Railway  and  the  Rainier  Power  &  Railway  Company,  the  two  com- 
panies representing  the  street  railway  system  of  the  city  of  Seattle,  and  in 
December  of  that  year  was  made  receiver  of  the  Front  Street  Cable  Railway 
Company,  under  authority  of  United  States  circuit  court,  which  position  he 
filled  so  satisfactorily  for  four  years  that  on  the  reorganization  of  the  com- 
pany he  was  appointed  general  manager  of  the  road  by  its  former  bond- 
holders, and  continued  in  its  management  until  August,  1899. 

In  1896  Mr.  Colvin  was  made  a  special  officer  and  given  full  authority 
to  investigate  the  feasibility  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company,  con- 
structing their  cars  at  their  Tacoma  and  Seattle  shops,  to  be  loaded  with  local 
products,  thereby  making  an  earning  while  in  transit,  and  be  sold  to  eastern 
railway  companies.     In  that  capacity  he  visited  New  York,  where  lie  inter- 


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viewed  the  officers  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company,  and  although 
his  plan  was  considered  feasible  and  practical,  it  was  never  carried  out  owing 
to  the  reorganization  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company  at  that  time. 

In  June,  1897,  without  any  solicitation  on  his  part,  the  local  agency  of 
the  W'ashburn-Moen  Manufacturing  Company  w^as  tendered  Mr.  Colvin,  this 
company  representing  a  capital  of  nine  million  dollars;  and  two  years  after 
his  connection  with  them  it  was  merged  into  the  American  Steele  &  Wire 
Company,  consolidating  practically  the  rod  and  wire  interests  of  the  United' 
States,  and  with  a  capitalization  of  ninety  millions  of  dollars.  In  December^. 
IQOO,  the  United  States  Steel  Corporation,  known  as  the  "billion  dollar  trust," 
was  also  incorporated,  absorbing  the  American  Steel  &  Wire  Company  and 
making  it  a  part  of  the  largest  corporation  in  the  world.  Mr.  Colvin  is  their 
only  representative  in  the  northwest,  his  office  being  located  at  108  West 
Washington  street,  Seattle,  where  he  has  well  appointed  offices  and  an  excel- 
lent corps  of  clerks.  The  company  also  has  a  large  warehouse  in  the  city  at 
1 1 5-1 17  First  avenue  south,  built  of  brick,  sixty  by  three  hundred  feet  in 
extent,  with  a  floor  space  of  thirty  thousand  feet,  having  a  carrying  capacity 
of  three  thousand  pounds  to  the  square  foot.  Seattle  is  the  second  agency  of 
importance  on  the  Pacific  coast,  ranking  next  to  San  Francisco,  and  as  the 
representative  of  the  territory  tributary  to  Seattle  Mr.  Colvin  has  won  for 
himself  an  enviable  reputation  in  business  circles. 

In  his  social  relations  he  is  a  member  of  the  Rainier  Club,  the  Country 
an-d  Golf  Club,  Tennis  Club,  Firlock  Club  and  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  On 
the  24th  of  October,  1894,  in  Seattle,  occurred  the  marriage  of  Mr.  Colvin 
and  Miss  Eva  Victoria  Amery,  she  being  a  native  of  Wisconsin,  but  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  as  both  her  father  and  mother  were  born  and  reared  in  the  city 
of  London.  One  son,  Oliver  D.  Colvin,  Jr.,  born  March  i,  1899,  has  blessed 
this  union.  The  family  reside  in  a  beautiful  home  at  11 17  Cherry  avenue, 
on  First  Hill,  where  they  dispense  a  gracious  hospitality  to  their  many 
friends.  They  are  members  of  St.'  Mark's  Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Colvin 
exercises  his  right  of  franchise  in  support  of  the  men  and  the  measures  of  the 
Republican  party,  and  all  movements  for  the  public  good  receive  his  hearty 
support  and  co-operation. 

WILLIAM  T.  SCOTT. 

William  T.  Scott,  a  successful  and  able  legal  practitioner  of  Seattle, 
was  born  in  Union  county,  Kentucky,  on  the  30th  of  October,  1846,  and  is 
of  Scotch  descent,  his  ancestry  being  among  the  early  settlers  of  both  Vir- 


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ginia  and  Kentucky,  and  they  were  Presbyterians  in  their  rehgious  faith. 
The  great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Thomas  Scott,  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  war,  and  became  one  of  the  prominent  and  influential  citizens 
of  Kentucky,  in  which  commonwealth  his  son,  Thomas  Scott,  was  born. 
The  latter  became  a  well  known  and  extensive  farmer,  and  attained  promin- 
ence in  both  Kentucky  and  Illinois,  his  death  occurring  in  Galesburg,  of  the 
latter  state,  in  1859. 

William  Scott,  the  son  of  the  latter  Thomas  Scott,  was  born  in  Meade 
county,  Kentucky,  on  the  8th  of  June,  1821.  In  early  life  he  became  con- 
nected with  steamboat  work  on  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi  rivers,  and  rose  to 
the  position  of  captain,  in  which  capacity  he  served  his  government  through- 
out the  period  of  the  Civil  war.  As  a  companion  on  the  journey  of  life  he 
chose  Miss  Indiana  Roberts,  a  native  of  the  state  of  Indiana.  In  an  early 
day  her  people  were  identified  with  the  Whig,  and  afterward  with  the 
Republican  party.  During  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  seven  of  her  brothers 
nobly  defended  the  starry  banner  on  the  battle  fields  of  the  south,  and  four 
of  them  laid  down  their  lives  on  the  altar  of  their  country,  three  dying  in 
battle,  while  the  fourth  was  stricken  with  disease.  The  union  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Scott  was  blessed  wih  three  children,  all  of  whom  are  still  living. 
The  father  was  called  to  his  final  rest  in  1868,  dying  from  exposure  received 
while  serving  in  the  defense  of  his  country.  In  the  same  year  his  loving  wife 
joined  him  in  the  spirit  world. 

William  T.  Scott,  son  of  these  parents,  received  his  literary  education 
in  the  Indiana  State  University,  in  which  institution  he  was  graduated  in 
1869,  and  while  a  student  there  he  also  prepared  for  his  law  practice.  In 
Harrison  county,  Indiana,  in  1871,  he  embarked  in  the  practice  of  his 
chosen  profession,  remaining  there  for  four  years,  on  the  expiration  of  which 
period,  in  1875,  he  removed  to  York  county,  Nebraska,  and  there  continued 
his  chosen  profession  until  1890.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  a  resident  of 
Seattle,  and  during  his  connection  with  the  courts  of  King  county  has  won  an 
enviable  place  among  his  professional  brethren  and  as  a  practitioner  has 
secured  a  liberal  clientage.  On  attaining  to  mature  years  Mr.  Scott  cast 
his  first  presidential  vote  for  General  Grant,  and  since  that  time  has  remained 
an  ardent  adherent  of  Republican  principles.  In  1879,  while  following  the 
practice  of  law  in  Nebraska,  he  was  made  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  the 
state  legislature,  and  was  successful  at  the  following  election,  serving  in  that 
honorable  office  with  efficiency.  He  also  had  honor  of  being  elected  pros- 
ecuting attorney  of  York  county,  Nebraska,  and  was  one  of  the  delegates 
to  the  national  convention  which  nominated  James  G.  Blaine  for  president 


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of  the  United  States,,  being  very  active  in  procuring  his  nomination.  In 
Seattle  Mr.  Scott  was  the  corporation  counsel  of  the  city  from  1894  to  1896, 
and  his  ability  has  enabled  him  to  grace  the  many  positions  which  he  has 
been  called  upon  to  fill. 

The  marriage  of  ]Mr.  Scott  was  celebrated  in  1871,  when  Miss  Sarah 
J.  Miller  became  his  wife.  She  is  a  native  of  Harrison  county,  Indiana, 
and  to  their  union  have  been  born  three  children,  Charles  A.,  Thomas  A. 
and  Clara  K.  The  elder  son  is  chief  clerk  to  the  corporation  counsel,  while 
the  younger  son  is  a  student  in  the  law  department  of  the  University  of 
Washington.  Mr.  Scott  became  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  at 
New  Albany,  Indiana,  in  1870,  and  is  now  a  Master  and  Royal  Arch  Mason 
and  a  Sir  Knight  Templar.  Both  at  the  bar  and  in  the  political  circles  of 
King  county  he  occupies  an  enviable  position,  and  wherever  known  is 
honored  and  esteemed  for  his  many  noble  characteristics. 

FRANK    LEWIS    WHEELER. 

Frank  Lewis  Wheeler  was  born  in  the  city  of  Brooklyn,  New  York, 
January  13,  1866;  received  his  education  at  Adelphi  College  in  Brooklyn  and 
after  his  graduation  went  into  his  father's  wholesale  jewelry  store,  in  which 
business  he  remained  until  August,  1889,  when  he  came  to  the  then  territory 
of  Washington  and  located  at  Seattle.  In  1890  he  moved  to  Gray's  Harbor, 
Washington,  and  erected  a  saw  mill,  in  which  business  he  was  engaged  until 
the  summer  of  1892.  He  then  sold  out  his  interests  in  the  Gray's  Harbor 
country  and  moved  to  North  Yakima,  Washington.  There  he  was  engaged 
for  some  months  in  surveying,  being  at  work  on  the  Sunnyside  canal,  which 
was  being  constructed  at  that  time;  also  on  one  or  two  others  of  the  large 
irrigation  enterprises. 

In  ]\Iarch,  1893,  Mr.  Wheeler  purchased  the  Fruit  Vale  ranch.  Since 
that  time  he  has  been  actively  engaged  in  the  growing  of  fruit  and  has  taken 
great  interest  in  the  products  of  his  state,  having  early  identified  himself  with 
the  North  West  Fruit  Growers'  Association,  of  which  he  was  vice  president 
for  the  state  of  Washington  for  several  terms.  Appreciating  the  fact  that 
the  exportation  of  fruit  from  the  state  of  W^ashington  would  be  one  of  the 
most  important  industries,  he  has  become  associated  with  and  an  active 
member  of  the  firm  of  H.  S.  Emerson  Company,  Incorporated,  the  oldest 
wholesale  fruit  house  on  Puget  Sound.  Mr.  Wheeler  is  a  stanch  Repub- 
lican, believes  in  expansion,  and  it  is  his  intention  to  place  the  Washington 
fruits  in  Siberia  and  all  the  oriental  countries.     Mr.  Wheeler  and  his  asso- 


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ciates  have,  no  doubt,  a  bright  future  for  their  business.  The  firm  is  well 
and  favorably  known  and  with  an  abundance  of  capital  and  new  energy, 
there  seems  to  be  no  limit  to  their  ambitions. 

D.  McL.  BROWN. 

David  C.  and  Mary  (McMullen)  Brown  were  natives  of  the  Isle  of 
Man,  and  the  former  came  in  youth  with  his  uncle  to  the  new  world,  settling 
in  Canada  and  engaging  in  farming.  In  1888  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  Seattle,  Washington,  and  resided  with  his  sons  till  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  January,  1901.  He  took  part  in  public  affairs  to  some  extent  in 
Canada  and  was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church.  His  wife,  who 
died  in  Canada  in  1877,  was  the  mother  of  six  children:  Kate;  D.  McL.; 
Duncan  and  William,  members  of  the  Seattle  Bridge  Company;  George, 
also  with  that  company ;    and  Charles  Neil,  in  Nome,  Alaska. 

D.  McL.  Brown  was  born  to  the  above  named  parents  in  Ontario,  Can- 
ada, June  5,  i860,  and  was  reared  on  a  farm  and  received  a  common 
school  education.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  moved  with  his  family  to 
Manitoulin  Island  in  Lake  Huron,  where  for  the  next  seven  years  he  and  his 
father  and  his  brothers  were  engaged  in  getting  out  timber  for  the  railroad 
companies.  The  year  1877  was  the  date  of  his  coming  to  Seattle,  and  for 
the  next  two  years  he  was  employed  in  various  capacities,  but  then  accepted 
a  position  with  the  Moran  Company  as  foreman  of  the  construction  of  their 
first  dock  and  water  ways,  remaining  with  the  firm  for  four  years.  In  the 
meantime  the  Puget  Sound  Pile  Driving  Company  had  been  organized,  and 
on  leaving  his  previous  employment  Mr.  Brown  became  a  partner  in  this 
enterprise.  The  original  company  was  formed  by  Brown  Brothers,  D.  A., 
William  A.  and  C.  N.  Nettleton,  together  with  other  prominent  business 
men  of  Seattle,  but  on  the  entry  of  our  Mr.  Brown  into  partnership  the 
name  was  changed  to  Brown  Brothers,  and  in  December,  1890,  it  was  or- 
ganized as  the  Seattle  Bridge  Company,  with  R.  W.  Ledgewood  and  James 
McPherson  as  part  owners.  In  1895  Mr.  Ledgewood  disposed  of  his  in- 
terest to  the  company,  and  in  1898  Mr.  McPherson  sold  his,  and  the  present 
Seattle  Bridge  Company,  with  offices  at  511-12  Pacific  block,  is  composed 
of  D.  McL.,  D.  A.,  W.  A.  Brown  and  Clark  M.  Nettleton.  They  are  exten- 
sively engaged  in  the  building  of  coal  bunkers,  in  dredging  and  making- 
harbor  improvements,  and  they  also  construct  steel  combination  and  Howe 
truss  bridges,  do  pile-driving  and  wharf-building.  They  received  a  govern- 
ment contract  for  the  improvement  of  the  harbor  at  Everett,  and  to  complete 


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this  work  the  company  bought  at  great  expense  a  hydraulic  dredge,  and  tugs, 
scows  and  a  complete  equipment  for  that  kind  of  w'ork.  They  have  taken 
some  of  the  largest  contracts  let  by  the  government  on  the  Pacific  coast,  one 
of  them  amounting  to  four  hundred  thousand  dollars.  They  built  the  White 
Star  dock  for  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad,  the  Yesler  pier  No.  2  for  the 
J.  B.  Agen  Company,  constructed  five  bridges  across  the  Snohomish  river 
for  the  Great  Northern,  and  dredged  the  waterway  of  Smith's  cove  from 
the  level  of  twenty-six  to  thirty-four  feet  below  tide  in  order  to  accomodate 
the  larger  ships.  In  1897  they  built  the  government  dock  at  Sitka  and  in 
1898  the  first  dock  at  Skagway  for  the  Pacific  Coast  Company,  tiie  steamer 
Alki  being  the  first  vessel  to  land  at  the  dock.  In  April,  1902,  the  company 
purchased  the  Port  Orchard  rock  quarry  at  a  cost  of  thirty  thousand  dollars, 
and  they  will  use  this  valuable  ledge  of  basaltic  rock  for  rip-rap  and  maca- 
dam work.  The  invested  capital  of  this  enterprise  is  a  quarter  of  a  million, 
and  thus  it  is  one  of  the  soundest  companies  form  the  standpoint  of  financial 
reliability  and  business  management  in  the  w'est. 

On  August  31,  1899,  Mr.  Brown  was  married  to  IMiss  ]Mary  E.  Graham, 
a  daughter  of  Harvey  Graham,  a  native  of  Toronto,  Canada,  whence  his 
parents  removed  to  Michigan;  from  1900  till  his  death  in  the  following  year 
Mr.  Graham  resided  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  stanch 
member  of  the  Republican  party;  judging  by  the  success  of  wdiat  may  be 
reasonably  considered  the  first  half  of  his  life,  a  still  brighter  future  awaits 
him,  and  he  will  no  doubt  always  be  numbered  with  the  leading  business  men 
of  the  Pacific  coast. 

IRA  A.  NADEAU. 

Ira  A.  Nadeau  is  a  general  agent  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Com- 
pany at  Seattle  and  is  a  prominent  factor  in  the  transportaion  interests  of 
the  northwest,  his  superior  business  ability  and  executive  force  well  qualify- 
ing him  for  the  discharge  of  the  important  duties  of  the  responsible  position 
which  he  now  occupies.  He  has  been  a  resident  of  Seattle  since  January, 
1883,  and  comes  from  the  Mississippi  valley,  his  birth  having  occurred  in 
Monroe,  Michigan,  on  the  23d  of  January,  1856.  He  is  of  French  ancestry 
on  the  paternal  side,  w^hile  on  the  maternal  side  the  ancestors  can  be  traced 
back  to  a  family  of  English  birth  that  was  early  established  in  New  York. 
The  paternal  grandfather,  Joseph  Nadeau,  settled  on  the  Raisin  river,  near 
Monroe,  Michigan,  in  1804,  becoming  one  of  the  pioneers  of  that  state. 
In  fact,  few  had  ventured  within  the  confines  of  ^lichigan  at  that  time,  the 
work  of  improvement  and  progress  having  been  scarcely  begun.     He  served 


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his  country  as  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  18 12  and  was  a  very  loyal  and  progres- 
sive citizen,  and  contributed  his  full  share  to  the  early  development  of  his 
adopted  state.  From  the  government  he  secured  a  tract  of  land  which  he 
improved,  and  on  which  he  carried  on  farming  for  many  years.  He  at- 
tained the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-six  years.  His  wife,  who  bore  the  maiden 
name  of  Mary  Guior,  was  also  of  French  lineage. 

Philip  Nadeau,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  on  his  parents'  farm 
near  Monroe,  Michigan,  in  1824,  and  was  there  reared  and  educated,  becom- 
familiar  with  all  the  duties  and  labors  that  fall  to  the  lot  of  the  agriculturist. 
He  married  Miss  Lucy  Begnell,  who  was  born  in  Cattaraugus,  New  York. 
Li  order  to  provide  for  his  family  he  followed  merchandising  for  many  years 
in  Monroe,  Michigan,  becoming  an  active  factor  in  the  commercial  interests 
of  the  place.  He  prospered  in  his  undertakings  and  as  the  years  passed 
accumulated  a  comfortable  competence.  He  died  on  the  3d  of  February, 
IQ02,  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years,  in  the  town  where  almost  his  entire 
life  had  been  passed,  and  where  in  public  affairs  his  usefulness  was  widely 
felt.  He  had  been  called  to  fill  various  positions  of  honor  and  trust ;  was 
a  member  of  the  city  council  and  was  sheriff  of  the  county.  A  man  of  high 
integrity  of  character  and  of  business  ability,  his  town  and  county  ranked 
him  among  their  valued  representative  citizens,  and  when  he  was  called  to 
his  final  rest  Monroe  mourned  the  loss  of  one  who  was  ever  known  to  be  of 
upright  life,  trustworthy  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings.  His  good  wife 
still  survives  him  and  is  now  in  the  seventy-eighth  year  of  her  age.  This 
worthy  couple  were  the  parents  of  eight  children,  all  of  whom  are  yet  living. 
One  of  the  sons,  H.  P.  N.,  resides  in  Spokane,  Washington,  and  with  the 
exception  of  our  subject  is  the  only  member  of  the  family  living  in  this 
"state. 

Ira  A.  Nadeau  was  the  fifth  in  order  of  birth,  and  to  the  public  school 
system  of  Monroe  he  is  indebted  for  the  literary  advantages  which  he  en- 
joyed. Thinking  to  make  the  practice  of  law  his  life  work,  when  he  had  put 
aside  the  text  books  used  in  the  public  schools  he  entered  the  ofiice  of  Edward 
Willits,  who  later  was  a  member  of  congress  and  assistant  secretary  of 
agriculture  under  President  Harrison.  After  a  thorough  training,  in  which 
he  largely  mastered  the  greatest  principles  of  the  science  of  jurisprudence, 
Mr.  Nadeau  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  year  1878  and  began  the  practice 
of  his  profession  in  his  native  town,  where  he  remained  for  three  years. 
On  the  expiration  of  that  period  he  removed  to  Lincoln,  Nebraska,  with  the 
•intention  of  opening  an  office  there,  Ijut  on  meeting  with  friends,  business 
■propositions  were   presented  to   him   which   turned   his  attention   into  other 


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channels.  The  firm  of  Stephens,  Waters  and  Nadeau  was  organized  for  the 
purpose  of  engaging  in  the  lumber  trade,  and  this  was  conducted  success- 
fully until  1883.  At  that  time  Mr.  Nadeau  sold  his  interest  in  the  firm 
and  came  to  Seattle.  He  entered  into  business  relations  in  this  city  in  con- 
nection with  the  Oregon  Improvement  Company  in  order  to  secure  its  right 
of  way  and  lands.  He  afterward  served  as  its  local  treasurer  and  also  of  the 
Puget  Sound  Shore  Railway  Company,  continuing  in  the  latter  position 
until  the  road  passed  into  the  possession  of  the  Northern  Pacific  Railroad 
Company,  which  now  has  an  entry  into  Seattle.  Mr.  Nadeau  had  become 
agent  for  the  Puget  Sound  Railway  Company  and  remained  in  that  position 
until  the  line  was  absorbed  by  the  Northern  Pacific  Railway  Company  in 
1890.  In  that  year  he  was  made  general  agent  of  the  Northern  Pacific  and 
so  continued  until  September,  1893,  at  which  time  he  resigned  from  the 
operating  department  of  the  road  and  became  the  general  agent  of  the  line, 
continuing  in  the  latter  office  up  to  the  present  time. 

Since  his  arrival  in  Seattle  Mr.  Nadeau  has  taken  an  active  interest  in 
the  growth  and  improvement  of  the  city,  and  his  counsel  and  labors  have 
been  effective  in  promoting  general  progress  along  substantial  lines.  For 
a  number  of  years  he  has  been  an  active  and  influential  member  of  the  Cham- 
ber of  Commerce  and  through  a  considerable  period  has  served  as  one  of  its 
trustees.  He  is  a  popular  and  valued  member  of  the  various  social  arid  fra- 
ternal clubs  of  the  city,  and  in  politics  is  a  stanch  Democrat  who  believes  in 
the  gold  standard.  Mr.  Nadeau  was  happily  married  in  1885.  the  lady  of 
his  choice  being  Miss  Flora  Fonda,  a  native  of  St.  Joseph,  Michigan,  and  a 
daughter  of  Captain  John  Fonda,  an  old  resident  and  highly  respected  citi- 
zen of  Seattle.  They  have  two  children :  Madeline  and  George  Fonda, 
both  of  whom  are  still  students  in  school.  Mrs.  Nadeau  is  a  valued  member 
of  the  Episcopal  church  and  l^elongs  to  various  ladies'  clubs  of  the  city, 
taking  an  active  interest  in  the  social  life  of  this  place.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Nadeau  have  a  large  circle  of  friends,  and  the  leading  citizens  of  Seattle 
have  counted  the  city  fortunate  in  that  it  has  elicited  the  co-operation  and 
aid  of  such  a  progressive  and  enterprising  man  as  the  subject  of  this  review. 

RICHARD   J.  GRAHAM. 

One  of  the  oldest  and  best  known  merchant  tailors  of  Seattle  is  Richard 
James  Graham,  who  since  pioneer  days  has  been  connected  with  the  devel- 
opment and  substantial  progress  of  this  section  of  the  state.  He  is  a  native 
of  Lancashire.  England,  born  March  5,  1853,  a  son  of  William  and  Margaret 


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(Scott)  Graham,  natives  of  Scotland.  The  father  is  descended  from  Mal- 
cohn  Graham,  one  of  the  old  Scottish  chieftains.  William  Graham  was  a  sec- 
ond lieutenant  in  the  British  amiy,  but  later  in  life  sold  his  commission  and 
emigrated  to  New  York  city  in  1854,  where  he  carried  on  merchant  tailor- 
ing for  a  number  of  years.  For  some  time  thereafter  he  was  engaged  in 
business  in  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  in  1874  took  up  his  abode  in  Albany,  Ore- 
gon, where  he  followed  his  chosen  calling  for  some  time  and  is  now  the 
owner  of  a  fine  fruit  farm.  He  has  reached  the  seventy-fifth  mile-stone  on 
the  journey  of  life,  but  his  wife  lies  buried  at  Albany,  she  having  passed 
away  on  Easter  Sunday  of  the  year  1897.  They  had  four  children,  of  whom 
Richard  J.  is  the  only  survivor. 

Richard  J.  Graham  received  his  literary  education  in  the  public  schools 
of  Detroit,  Michigan,  and  his  business  training  was  received  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  father  at  New  York  city,  and  together  they  were  engaged  in  the 
tailoring  business  in  Albany,  Oregon,  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1880  the 
son  came  to  Seattle,  where  he  has  since  been  recognized  as  one  of  the  leading 
merchant  tailors  of  the  city,  and  during  the  twenty-two  years  which  marks 
the  period  of  his  residence  in  Washington  he  has  won  and  retained  the  confi- 
dence and  good  will  of  all  with  whom  he  has  had  business  or  social  relations. 
In  political  matters  he  is  a  RqDublican,  and  prior  to  his  removal  to  Seattle  he 
served  for  some  years  as  the  efficient  member  of  the  Albany  school  board, 
while  for  a  time  he  was  also  chief  of  the  volunteer  fire  department  of  the 
city.  He  is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  having  been 
made  a  Mason  in  St.  John's  Lodge  No.  62,  at  Albany,  Oregon,  was  after- 
ward transferred  to  Eureka  Lodge  No.  20,  of  Seattle,  and  was  a  charter 
member  of  Ionic  Lodge  No.  90,  of  this  city,  serving  as  its  first  master  under 
uniformed  division,  and  also  under  charter.  He  was  exalted  in  Bailey  Chap- 
ter No.  8,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  became  a  charter  member  of  Seattle  Chapter 
No.  3,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and  a  charter  member  of  Seattle  Council  No.  6, 
Royal  and  Select  Masters,  and  is  a  past  thrice  illustrious  master.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  knighthood  in  Seattle  Commandery  No.  2,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  grand  lodge  of  the  state  and  also  of  the  grand  council  of  Royal  and 
Select  Masters.  Throughout  all  the  years  of  his  life  he  has  exemplified  the 
beneficent  and  helpful  principles  of  this  fraternity  in  his  every  day  life. 

In  1874.  in  Ypsilanti,  Michigan,  Mr.  Graham  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Frances  Helena  Nichols,  also  a  native  of  the  Empire  state,  and  she 
accompanied  her  husband  on  their  removal  to  the  Pacific  coast.  Three  chil- 
dren have  been  born  of  this  union.  Eugene  F.,  a  native  of  Eugene.  Oregon; 
Pearl,  who  was  born  in  Albany,  that  state;  and  Sa-Dell,  a  native  of  Seattle. 

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All  are  at  home,  and  the  family  reside  in  one  of  the  pleasant  dwellings  in 
Seattle,  located  on  Queen  Anne  Hill  at  the  corner  of  Prospect  and  Warren 
avenues.  They  enjoy  the  hospitality  of  many  of  the  best  homes  of  Seattle, 
and  their  circle  of  friends  is  almost  co-extensive  with  their  circle  of  ac- 
quaintances. 

•     '  JAMES  R.  MASON. 

James  R.  ]\Iason,  a  representative  of  the  insurance  business  in  Seattle, 
handling:  both  fire  and  marine  insurance,  has  for  fourteen  years  resided  on 
the  Sound,  and  while  conducting  a  successful  enterprise  in  the  line  of  his 
chosen  calling  in  the  field  of  commerce  he  has  at  the  same  time  been  a  citizen 
of  worth,  loyally  and  actively  interested  in  everything  pertaining  to  the 
general  progress  and  upbuilding  of  this  portion  of  the  state.  Mr.  ^lason  is 
a  native  of  Ohio,  his  birth  having  occurred  in  the  city  of  Ashland  in  1859. 
His  father,  James  Mason,  Sr.,  was  born  in  Washington,  Pennsylvania,  and 
■when  a  young  man  removed  to  Ohio,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  insurance 
business.  He  was  married  in  that  state  to  Miss  Day,  and  to  them  were  born 
four  children,  of  whom  the  subject  of  this  review  is  the  only  one  now  living 
on  the  coast.  On  the  paternal  side  the  Mason  family  is  of  Virginia  stock 
and  on  the  maternal  side  our  subject  is  a  representative  of  an  old  Alaryland 
family.     Both  families  were  represented  in  the  Revolutionary  war. 

In  the  public  schools  James  R.  Mason  acquired  his  preliminary  educa- 
tion, which  was  supplemented  by  a  course  in  the  University  of  W^ooster, 
at  Wooster,  Ohio,  where  he  pursued  classical  studies.  He  then  entered  into 
business  with  his  father,  and  this  connection  was  maintained  for  a  number 
of  years,  so  that  he  early  became  interested  in  insurance  in  its  various 
phases.  Having  heard  and  thought  considerable  about  the  west  and  its  ad- 
vantages, yir.  ]\Iason  ultimately  decided  to  locate  in  this  section  of  the 
country  and  in  1888  made  his  way  to  the  west.  His  first  home  was  at  Port 
Townsend,  and  there  he  started  in  business  on  his  own  account.  The  agency 
Avhich  he  established  soon  became  a  profitable  one  and  he  carried  on  busi- 
ness there  until  January,  1898,  when  he  decided  to  come  to  Seattle,  as  he 
recognized  the  fact  that  this  city  had  before  it  a  great  future.  Here  he 
opened  his  office  for  the  transaction  of  marine  and  fire  insurance,  and  since 
the  first  few  months  has  occupied  a  pleasant  suite  of  rooms  in  the  Hallard 
building.  He  represents  the  Home  Insurance  Company  of  New  York,  the 
Canton  Insurance  office,  limited,  of  Hong  Kong,  and  the  Western  Assur- 
ance Company  of  Toronto.     He  has  written  a  very  large  and  profitable  busi- 


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ness  in  both  branches,  fire  and  marine.     He  gives  close  and  earnest  attention 
to  his  business  and  to  some  extent  is  interested  in  shipping. 

On  the  24th  of  October,  1901,  in  Seattle,  Mr.  Alason  was  united  in 
marriage  to  Mrs.  AHce  Baldwin.  They  attend  the  Presbyterian  church 
and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Seattle  Athletic  Club.  In  politics  he  is  an  earnest 
Republican  and  takes  an  active  interest  in  county  and  state  conventions.  He 
has  never  sought  or  desired  office,  preferring  to  give  his  entire  attention  to 
his  business  affairs,  in  which  he  has  met  with  very  creditable  success,  being 
recognized  as  one  of  the  leading  representatives  of  insurance  in  the  north- 
west. 

HARRY  WHITE. 

It  is  especially  fitting  that  in  a  volume  giving  the  history  of  the  men  of 
Seattle  and  vicinity  that  some  mention  should  be  made  of  one  who  was  the 
city's  chief  executive  following  that  trying  crisis  of  1889,  which  will  always 
remain  as  one  of  the  most  memorable  events  in  the  early  history  of  the  city. 
And  after  the  devastating  fire  of  that  year  Mayor  White  was  the  leader  in 
the  w^ork  of  rebuilding  and  carrying  out  improvements  on  a  larger  scale  so 
as  to  give  opportunity  for  the  unhindered  and  phenomenal  growth  which 
has  followed  since  that  time. 

Mr.  White  w^as  born  on  a  farm  near  Columbus  Junction,  Iowa,  January 
5.  1859,  being  the  son  of  Robert  A.  and  Hannah  E.  White.  His  early  edu- 
cation was  confined  to  the  country  schools  with  the  exception  of  one  term  at 
the  Eastern  Iowa  Normal  School.  He  had  become  pretty  thoroughly 
grounded  in  business  matters  when  he  came  to  Seattle  in  1887,  and  he  at  once 
began  buying,  improving  and  selling  real  estate.  He  also  engaged  in  the 
sale  and  development  of  mining  property,  principally  in  Alaska ;  he  is  still 
connected  with  some  large  mining  enterprises  in  Alaska  and  is  promoting 
some  oil  lands  there.  The  purchases  are  made  through  Mr.  White's  Seattle 
office,  but  the  disposition  of  the  property  is  usually  effected  through  his  Lon- 
don connections. 

On  December  31,  1895,  Mr.  White  was  married  at  Harvard,  Nebraska, 
to  Miss  Anna  Morrow,  daughter  of  Colonel  John  C.  Morrow.  They  have 
no  children.  In  1889  Mr.  White  was  elected  one  of  the  eight  city  council- 
men  of  Seattle,  and  while  in  this  office  took  an  active  part  in  advocating 
municipal  ownership  of  the  water  w^orks  and  other  public  utilities.  At  the 
following  mayorality  election  city  ownership  became  the  chief  issue,  and  as 
its  advocate  and  on  the  Republican  ticket  Mr.   Wliile  made  the  race  and  was 


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elected;  at  the  expiration  of  the  first  term  he  was  re-elected  for  two  years. 
His  first  two  years  in  office  covered  the  period  of  rehabilitation  of  the  greater 
part  of  the  business  district  of  the  city  from  the  effects  of  the  great  fire,  and 
it  was  here  that  his  broad  views  in  regard  to  the  future  welfare  of  the  city 
proved  of  lasting  benefit.  As  a  result  of  his  leadership  the  streets  were  all 
widened  and  regraded,  Railroad  avenue  was  planked  and  put  in  a  passable 
condition,  and  the  railroads  removed  from  the  streets  and  avenues  to  Rail- 
road avenue.  At  that  time  the  administration  of  the  city  was  conducted 
under  the  old  territorial  charter,  but  by  the  time  of  his  re-election  to  the 
mayorality  the  new  charter  had  been  secured  and  adopted,  and  under  this 
more  modern  document  the  city  was  enabled  to  buy  the  water  w^orks  and  in- 
augurate the  present  system  of  water  works.  And  among  other  extensive 
reforms  and  innovations  brought  about  \vhile  he  was  chief  executive  w^ere 
the  organization  of  the  fire  department,  the  police  department,  the  present 
system  of  laying  out  the  parks,  and  the  establishment  of  the  public  library. 
It  is  thus  clear  that  Mr.  White  has  not  only  been  successful  in  his  own  busi- 
ness, but  by  his  public-spirited  endeavor  has  helped  make  the  great  metropo- 
lis of  Puget  Sound  \vhat  it  is,  and  may  deservedly  be  given  a  place  among  the 
city  fathers. 

JAMES    NUGENT. 

On  the  roll  of  Seattle's  early  settlers  is  found  the  name  of  Captain 
James  Nugent,  who  has  put  aside  the  active  cares  of  business  life  and  is  now 
living  in  quiet  retirement  at  his  pleasant  home  in  this  city.  He  was  born  in 
the  old  Bay  state  in  East  Boston  on  November  16,  1845,  and  is  of  Irish  an- 
cestry. His  grandfather,  James  Nugent,  was  a  aative  of  Ireland,  while  his 
father,  also  named  James,  was  born  and  reared  in  Massachusetts,  where  he 
was  married  to  Miss  Catharine  Gallagher,  also  a  native  of  the  old  Bay  state. 
The  father  was  a  contractor  and  builder,  and  he  died  at  the  early  age  of  thir- 
ty-tw^o  years,  but  his  widow  survived  him  many  years,  her  death  occurring 
at  the  age  of  sixty-four. 

Captain  Nugent  was  the  oldest  of  his  parents'  four  children,  and  in 
early  life  the  care  of  his  mother  and  the  younger  children  fell  upon  his  young 
shoulders.  The  educational  privileges  which  he  enjoyed  were  those  afforded 
by  the  common  schools  of  the  county,  and  after  putting  aside  his  text  books 
he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  at  which  he  worked  when  only  eleven  years 
of  age.  He  was  thus  engaged  till  1867,  when  he  came  to  the  Puget  Sound 
country,  where  he  was  at  once  made  mate  of  the  steamer  Success,  plying  be- 


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SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.  765 

tween  Seattle,  Port  Blakeley  and  other  ports,  and  he  subsequently  became 
the  owner  and  captain  of  this  vessel.  He  later  became  the  owner  of  the  Seat- 
tle, for  many  years  was  owner  of  the  Michigan,  and  during  the  nineteen 
years  in  which  he  engaged  in  this  career  he  had  the  fortune  never  to  meet 
with  a  shipwreck.  At  the  same  time  he  made  many  investments  in  Seattle 
property,  which  now  bring  him  a  handsome  income.  In  1892  he  buiU  for 
himself  and  family  a  beautiful  residence  at  11 18  Cherry  avenue,  the  corner  of 
Miner  avenue,  where  his  home  is  surrounded  by  beautiful  grounds,  in  the  care 
of  which  he  takes  much  pride  and  pleasure.  Since  1896  he  has  lived  retired  at 
this  comfortable  home,  enjoying  the  comforts  ^^■hich  many  years  of  per- 
sistent effort  have  brought  to  him. 

In  1877  Captain  Nugent  was  happily  married  to  Miss  Emily  Fish,  a 
native  of  Belvidere,  Pennsylvania,  and  a  descendant  of  a  prominent  old 
American  family.  The  union  has  been  blessed  with  one  daughter,  Etta,  who 
is  now  the  wife  of  Walter  S.  Fulton,  a  leading  member  of  the  Seattle  bar  and 
the  present  prosecuting  attorney.  Captain  Nugent  has  been  a  life-long  Dem- 
ocrat, and  in  his  fraternal  relations  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias  and^ 
the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen.  A  large  acquaintanceship  has  en- 
abled Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nugent  to  gain  a  large  circle  of  friends,  and  their  social 
qualities  have  made  them  popular  with  all. 

L.  CHARLES  NEVILLE,  M.  D. 

Dr.  L.  Charles  Neville  has  attained  to  a  position  of  distinction  as  a 
representative  of  the  medical  fraternity  and  as  a  leading  business  man  of 
Seattle,  where  he  has  made  his  home  since  1890.  During  this  time  lie  has 
witnessed  the  rapid  growth  of  the  city  from  a  population  of  forty  thousand 
to  three  times  that  amount. 

The  Doctor  was  born  in  Canton,  Stark  county,  Ohio,  September  22, 
1863.  and  is  a  son  of  Rev.  William  Neville.  The  ancestry  of  the  family 
can  be  traced  back  to  the  great-grandfather  of  the  Doctor,  who  was  a  lineal 
descendent  of  the  house  of  Warwick,  of  England.  Crossing  the  Atlantic 
to  the  United  States,  he  settled  in  North  Carolina  prior  1(^  the  RevoliUimiary 
war,  seeking  a  home  in  the  new  world  because  of  political  reasons.  Later 
he  removed  to  Maryland,  where  his  son,  Edward  Neville,  was  born.  The 
latter  afterward  became  a  resident  of  Pennsylvania,  and  died  in  that  state  at 
the  age  of  eighty-six  years.  The  Rev.  William  Neville  is  a  native  of  the 
Keystone  state,  and  has  devoted  the  greater  part  i^f  his  life  to  the  work  of 
the  ministrv  of  the  United   Brethren  church,  but   is   now   li\ing  retired,  at 


766  REPRESENTATIVE   CITIZENS   OF 

the  age  of  eighty-two  years,  making  his  home  in  Gahon,  Crawford  county, 
Ohio.  He  married  Lydia  J.  Hartsough,  a  native  of  Ohio,  and  to  them  were 
born  eight  children,  of  whom  the  Doctor  is  the  fourth  in  order  of  birth. 
One  brother,  Edward,  is  a  graduate  of  the  Fort  Wayne  Medical  College  and 
is  now  living  with  our  subject. 

In  the  public  schools  of  his  native  state  Dr.  L.  Charles  Neville  pursued 
his  early  education,  and  later  was  a  student  in  the  Fostoria  Academy,  at 
Fostoria,  Ohio.  When  he  had  completed  his  studies  there  he  engaged  in 
teaching  for  three  years  in  Crawford  county,  Ohio,  during  which  time  he 
took  up  the  study  of  medicine.  He  then  entered  the  Toledo  Medical  College 
at  Toledo,  Ohio,  and  was  graduated  in  March,  1889.  He  practiced  for  a 
short  time  in  that  city  and  then  went  to  Logan  sport,  Indiana,  where  he 
practiced  for  a  year.  Owing  to  a  fire  he  lost  all  that  he  had,  and  he  decided 
to  come  west,  hoping  to   retrieve  his  losses  here. 

The  month  of  October,  1890,  witnessed  the  arrival  of  Dr.  Neville  on 
the  coast.  He  knew  no  one  west  of  the  Mississippi,  but  he  located  in  Seattle 
and  with  resolute  purpose  determined  that  he  would  succeed  if  success  could 
be  gained  by  close  application  to  his  work,  by  honorable  dealing  and  by  un- 
faltering perseverance.  He  has  never  had  a  partner  since  coming  to  this 
place.  He  started  in  alone,  and  has  built  up  a  very  satisfactory  practice, 
because  the  people  have  recognized  his  capability  in  meeting  the  complex 
problems  which  arise  in  the  treatment  of  disease.  He  has  not  made  a  spe- 
cialty of  any  branch  of  medicine,  though  he  has  had  special  training  along 
certain  lines,  but  he  prefers  that  his  practice  shall  be  general,  and  he  reads 
broadly  concerning  all  departments  of  the  medical  science.  He  is  now  ex- 
amining physician  for  a  number  of  insurance  companies.  W^hatever  tends 
to  bring  to  man  the  key  to  that  complex  mystery  which  we  call  life  elicits 
his  interest  and  attention,  and  he  has  ever  done  everything  in  his  power  to 
promote  his  efficiency  in  his  chosen  calling.  To  some  extent  the  Doctor  has 
become  interested  in  mining,  and  is  the  president  of  the  Crown  Point  Alin- 
ing Company  in  the  Chelan  district.  He  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of 
this  company,  which  is  now  on  a  paying  basis.  He  has  erected  and  sold 
three  residences  in  the  city,  and  now  owns  the  old  Latimer  residence  on 
First  avenue  and  Vine  street. 

In  Ohio,  in  1884,  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Neville  and  Aliss 
Jennie  C.  Wisterman,  a  daughter  of  J.  D.  Wisterman.  a  merchant  and  grain 
dealer  of  Galion,  Ohio.  They  now  have  one  son,  Richard  Douglas.  The 
Doctor  is  quite  prominent  in  social  and  fraternal  circles.  He  belongs  to  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  in  which  he  is  a  past  noble  grand.     He 


SEATTLE   AND    KING    COUNTY.  767 

is  also  a  member  of  the  Woodmen  of  the  World,  of  the  Knights  of  the  Mac- 
cabees, the  Foresters  of  America,  and  in  the  last  named  has  filled  all  of  the 
chairs  and  was  the  first  grand  chief  ranger  of  the  state,  while  for  eight  years 
he  was  deputy  supreme  chief  ranger.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  but 
the  demands  of  his  profession  leave  him  little  time  for  political  work.  He  is 
connected  with  the  King  County  Medical  Association  and  the  State  Medical 
Association,  and  thus  keeps  in  touch  with  the  advanced  thought  and  inves- 
tigation of  the  medical  profession.  He  has  been  remarkably  successful  in 
his  chosen  field  of  labor,  and  his  time  is  devoted  almost  exclusively  to  his 
professional  duties. 

REGINALD  HEBER  THOMSON. 

For  the  past  eleven  years  Reginald  Heber  Thomson  has  been  the  city 
engineer  of  Seattle,  and  great  credit  does  he  deserve  for  what  he  has  done  in 
behalf  of  the  city  in  regard  to  its  streets,  its  sewers  and  its  splendid  water 
works,  as  his  efforts  have  largely  contributed  to  its  improvement  and  its  up- 
building, and  his  name  is  inseparably  interwoven  with  its  history.  Mr. 
Thomson  is  a  native  of  Hanover,  Indiana,  his  birth  having  occurred  there  on 
the  20th  of  March,  1856.  He  is  of  Scotch  ancestry.  His  great-great-grand- 
father, William  C,  Thomson,  went  over  from  Glasgow,  Scotland,  to  county 
Donegal,  Ireland,  about  1726.  James  Thomson,  the  great-grandfather,  was 
born  in  county  Donegal  in  1730,  and  emigrating  in  1771  to  America  he 
located  at  Conocoheaugue,  in  Franklin  county,  Pennsylvania,  and  became 
the  progenitor  of  the  family  in  the  new  world.  He  removed  to  Derry  town- 
ship, Westmoreland  county,  Pennsylvania,  in  1778,  and  on  the  second  day 
of  April  in  that  year  James  Henry  Thompson,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject, 
was  born.  The  great-grandfather  and  all  his  family  removed  from  the 
Keystone  state  to  Nicholas  county,  Kentucky,  in  1793,  and  the  grandfather 
was  there  married,  December  12,  1799,  to  Miss  Sarah  Henry.  He  was  the 
ruling  elder  in  the  Presbyterian  church,  had  a  great  love  for  music  and  pos- 
sessed considerable  ability  as  a  singer,  leading  the  church  singing  for  many 
years.  He  was  also  an  extensive  and  prosperous  farmer  and  influential  citi- 
zen and  for  fourteen  years  served  as  magistrate  of  Nicholas  county,  while 
for  two  years  he  filled  the  office  of  county  sheriff.  Later  he  removed  to  De- 
catur county,  Indiana.  This  was  in  the  year  1828  and  he  was  acccimpanied 
by  many  friends,  a  settlement  being  made  at  Greensburg,  near  wliere  the 
grandfather  departed  this  life  on  the  7th  of  August.  1840,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
two  years.  His  wife  removed  to  Olympia,  Washington,  in  1S52.  in  com- 
pany with  her  daughter  Mary  Elizabeth,   the  wife  of  the   Rev.   George  F. 


768  REPRESENTATIVE    CITIZENS   OF 

Whitworth,  and  died  there  on  the  22nd  of  June,  1858.  She  was  a  woman  of 
great  piety  and  an  active  Christian  worker.  By  her  marriage  she  had  a 
family  of  eight  children ;  two  daughters  and  six  sons.  The  eldest  daughter, 
Almira,  became  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  G.  Lowry,  a  minister  of  the 
Presbyterian  church,  while  Mary  Elizabeth  married  the  Rev.  George  F. 
Whitworth,  also  a  minister  of  the  gospel  connected  with  the  same  denomina- 
tion.    Three  of  the  sons  of  the  family  became  Presbyterian  ministers. 

Samuel  Harrison  Thomson,  the  father  of  our  subject,  was  born  in 
Nicholas  county,  Kentucky,  on  the  26th  of  August,  181 3.  He  married  Mag- 
deline  Sophronia  Clifton,  who  was  born  in  Henry  county,  Kentucky,  in 
1820,  and  was  of  Huguenot  ancestry,  representatives  of  the  family  removing 
to  Am.enca  at  a  very  early  date.  Her  grandfather  had  a  large  estate  in 
Washington  county,  Virginia.  Mr.  Thomson's  father  was  a  scientist  and 
educator,  and  for  thirty-two  years  was  professor  of  mechanical  philosophy 
and  mathematics  in  Hanover  College,  serving  in  that  position  from  1844 
until  1876,  during  which  time  there  was  conferred  upon  him  the  honorary 
degrees  of  Master  of  Arts,  Doctor  of  Philosophy  and  Doctor  of  Laws.  At 
length  Dr.  Thompson  resigned  his  position  in  the  college  and  in  1877  re- 
moved to  Healdsburg,  California,  where  for  four  years  he  conducted  the 
Healdsburg  Institute.  He  was  a  civil  engineer,  also  an  ordained  minister 
of  the  Presbyterian  church.  It  was  for  the  benefit  of  his  health  that  he 
sought  a  home  on  the  Pacific  coast,  but  his  life  was  only  prolonged  for  a  few 
years  and  he  was  called  to  his  final  rest  when  in  Pasadena,  California,  on  the 
2nd  of  September,  T882,  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine  years.  His  good  wife  sur- 
vives him  and  now  resides  with  her  son  in  Seattle.  The  eldest  brother, 
Henry  Clifton  Thomson,  D.  D.,  has  charge  of  the  Presbyterian  mission  for 
the  education  of  the  Spanish-speaking  ministers  of  the  church  at  Albuquer- 
que, New  Mexico.  The  next  eldest.  Rev.  Williell  Thomson,  resides  in  Los 
Angeles,  California.  These  three  brothers  are  all  that  remain  of  a  family 
of  nine  children. 

Reginald  Heber  Thomson  was  educated  in  Hanover  College,  being 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1877  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Arts.  Ten 
years  later  the  degree  of  Master  of  xArts  was  conferred  upon  him,  and  in 
1 90 1  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Philosophy.  After  his  graduation 
in  1877  he  accompanied  his  parents  on  their  removal  to  California,  and  en- 
gaged in  teaching  in  the  mathematical  department  of  the  Healdsburg  Insti- 
tute. In  his  college  work  he  had  given  special  attention  to  civil  engineering 
and  for  a  time  followed  that  profession  in  California.  Removing  to  Seattle 
in  1 88 1,  he  at  once  became  assistant  city  surveyor  and  aided  in  laying  out 


SEATTLE   AND    KING   COUNTY.    .  769 

many  of  the  improved  streets  of  the  city.  During  the  years  from  1881  until 
1883,  inclusive,  he  was  assistant  city  surveyor.  In  1882  he  entered  into  part- 
nership with  F.  H.  Whitworth,  who  was  city  and  county  surveyor,  under  the 
firm  name  of  Whitworth  &  Thomson,  and  they  conducted  a  general  line  of 
engineering  in  railroad,  mining  and  city  work.  In  1884  Mr.  Thomson  be- 
came city  surveyor  and  drew  the  plans  for  the  construction  of  the  first  sewer 
constructed  in  the  city  on  thoroughly  modern  principles,  that  on  Union  street, 
and  it  has  been  the  pattern  of  the  subsequent  work  of  a  similar  nature  here. 
He  also,  at  that  time,  drew  plans  and  superintended  the  construction  of  the 
Grant  street  bridge,  which  is  a  roadway  twenty-six  feet  wide  and  two  miles 
long,  built  across  an  arm  of  the  bay  south  of  the  city,  connecting  the  city 
with  the  manufacturing  districts. 

In  December,  1886,  the  firm  of  Whitworth  &  Thomson  was  dissolved 
and  our  subject  left  the  city  employ  and  became  the  locating  engineer  of  the 
Seattle,  Lake  Shore  &  Eastern  Railway,  now  a  portion  of  the  Northern  Pa- 
cific Railway.  He  made  a  location  for  it  from  the  head  of  Lake  Washington 
through  Snoqualmie  valley  and  the  Snoqualmie  pass  to  Lake  Kitchelos.  In 
March,  1888,  he  went  to  Spokane,  where  he  was  the  resident  engineer  of  the 
road  for  a  year,  locating  and  constructing  its  terminals.  He  also  located  the 
two  crossings  of  the  Spokane  river  and  planned  and  superintended  the  con- 
struction of  the  two  bridges.  His  work  of  locating  the  road  through  the 
rough  and  mountainous  country  was  very  difficult,  but  his  line  was  adopted 
and  has  received  the  highest  commendation. 

On  the  completion  of  his  work  at  Spokane  in  1889  he  left  the  employ 
of  the  company  and  retired  to  Seattle,  where  he  became  engaged  in  minmg 
engineering  and  also  served  as  consulting  engineer  until  May,  1892,  at  which 
time  he  was  appointed  city  engineer  of  Seattle.  As  such  he  has  constructed 
the  principal  part  of  the  sewer  system  of  the  city,  including  two  sewer  tun- 
nels, one  six  feet  in  diameter  and  more  than  a  mile  long,  extending  from 
Lake  Union  basin  to  tide  water;  the  other  is  an  egg-shaped  tunnel  foin-  by 
six  feet,  extending  from  Rainier  valley  to  tide  water,  nearly  one  mile  in 
length.  These  tunnels  were  made  through  the  most  treacherous  glacial  drift, 
and  the  prosecution  of  the  work  had  been  practically  abandoned  by  those  in 
charge  before  Mr.  Thomson's  appointment.  He  has  also  perfected  the  plans 
and  superintended  the  laying  of  all  pavements  in  the  city,  and  it  was  he  who 
laid  the  first  block  of  vitrified  brick  pavement  on  the  Pacific  coast.  He  has 
been  the  principal  advocate  of  the  gravity  system  of  water  for  the  city  and  has 
pushed  that  project  for  the  past  seven  years  until  the  system  has  been  adopted 
and  the  city  is  now  supplied  with  an  abundance  of  pure  mountain  water. 


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twenty-two  and  one-half  million  gallons  per  day,  at  a  cost  of  one  million  and 
one  hundred  and  seventy  thousand  dollars,  which  sum  is  eighty  thousand 
dollars  less  than  the  original  estimate,  while  the  system  is  a  better  one  than 
first  outlined.  The  intake  is  twenty-six  miles  away  in  the  mountains,  where 
the  city  has  acquired  the  watershed  of  Cedar  river  and  Cedar  lake,  through  a 
distance  of  twenty  miles.  Cedar  lake,  itself,  is  more  than  three  miles  long  and 
a  mile  wide,  its  elevation  being  fifteen  hundred  and  thirty  feet  above  sea  level. 
By  the  construction  of  a  small  dam,  the  lake  can  be  made  to  hold  sufficient 
water  to  furnish  the  city  six  hundred  million  gallons  every  day  in  the  year. 
This  has  been  the  great  life  work  and  aim  of  Mr.  Thomson,  and  Seattle 
could  not  possibly  have  a  better  water  system.  It  will  prove  one  of  the  great- 
est blessings  to  the  inhabitants  for  all  time  and  will  be  one  of  the  city's  great- 
est attractions — an  unfailing  supply  of  pure,  clear  mountain  water  at  the 
cheapest  possible  rate  at  which  an  abundant  supply  could  be  obtained.  Cer- 
tainly Seattle  owes  much  to  Mr.  Thomson,  whose  labors  have  been  of  the 
greatest  benefit.  His  work  has  been  of  a  character  that  adds  much  to  the 
healthfulness  of  the  city  and  is,  therefore,  of  direct  good  to  every  individual. 
A  fall  of  six  hundred  feet  is  made  by  cascades  in  Cedar  river  a  short  distance 
below  Cedar  lake,  and  at  the  foot  of  these  cascades  Mr.  Thomson  is  now  con- 
structing* for  the  city  of  Seattle  the  first  section  of  a  municipal  electrical  plant. 
The  first  installation  is  to  deliver  in  the  city  about  three  thousand  horse  power, 
and  the  final  installation  about  ten  times  that  amount. 

In  1883  was  celebrated  the  marriage  of  our  subject  and  Miss  Adeline 
Laughlin,  a  native  of  California,  who  is  of  Scotch  extraction.  Her  father, 
James  Laughlin,  was  one  of  California's  pioneer  farmers.  Their  union  has 
been  blessed  with  four  children :  James  Harrison,  Marion  Wing,  Reginald 
Heber,  Jr.  and  Frances  Clifton.  The  parents  are  members  of  the  Presby- 
terian church,  and  Mr.  Thomson  has  served  as  elder  for  twenty-five  years 
and  as  a  teacher  of  the  Bible  class.  He  votes  with  the  Republican  party  but  is 
a  strong  temperance  man  and  believes  quite  firmly  in  Prohibition  principles. 
His  labors  along  all  lines  have  been  for  the  progress  and  upbuilding  of  his 
city  or  for  the  uplifting  of  his  fellow  men,  and  the  record  of  Mr.  Thomson  is 
one  which  has  ever  been  above  reproach. 

HENRY   YANDELL. 

During  the  many  years  which  mark  the  period  of  Dr.  Yandell's  pro- 
fessional career  he  has  met  with  gratifying  success,  and  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Seattle  of  about  thirteen  years  has  won  the  good  will  and  patron- 


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age  of  many  of  the  leading  citizens  and  families  of  the  place.  He  is  a  great 
student  and  endeavors  to  keep  abreast  of  the  times  in  everything  relating 
to  discoveries  in  medical  science. 

Dr.  Yandell  was  born  in  Hinds  county,  Mississippi,  on  Big  Black  river, 
in  April,  1835.  The  family  was  established  in  this  country  by  the  great- 
great-grandfather  of  our  subject,  Lunsford  Yandell,  who  came  from  Scot- 
land in  the  early  part  of  1700.  He  married  a  Miss  Moore,  a  native  of  coun- 
ty Antrim,  Ireland.  Under  King  George's  rule  Lunsford  Yandell  purchased 
six  square  miles  of  land  in  Mecklenburg  county,  Virginia,  for  fifty  pounds. 
There  Wilson  Yandell,  the  grandfather  of  our  subject,  was  born,  and  he, 
too,  entered  the  medical  profession,  this  occupation  having  been  followed 
by  members  of  the  family  for  many  generations.  He  married  a  Miss  Pitt, 
of  Virginia,  and  in  1790  they  emigrated  to  Tennessee,  locating  in  Sumner 
county,  and  after  a  residence  there  of  a  few  years  located  in  Rutherford 
county,  that  state,  on  Stone  river.  Four  of  their  sons  entered  the  medical 
profession,  and  one  daughter  became  the  wife  of  a  physician.  Henry  Yan- 
dell, one  of  the  sons,  was  born  in  the  family  home  in  Rutherford  county,' 
Tennessee,  and  as  a  life  occupation  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  his  father. 
He  was  practicing  at  Bedford,  Tennessee,  during  the  terrible  epidemic  of 
cholera  there  in  1832  and  1833.  In  1834  he  removed  to  Mississippi,  where 
his  life's  labors  were  ended  in  death  in  1835,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty- 
two  years.  He  was  married  to  Martha  Davis,  and  after  her  husband's 
death  she  returned  to  Tennessee,  where  she  passed  away  in  death  in  1850, 
when  her  son  Henry  was  fifteen  years  of  age. 

Henry  Yandell  received  his  literary  education  in  Dickson  Academy  at 
Shelbyville,  Tennessee,  and  after  his  mother's  death  he  made  his  home  with 
an  uncle  in  Mississippi.  For  three  years  he  was  employed  as  a  dork  in  a 
drug  store,  and  during  that  time  he  also  read  medicine,  later,  in  1853.  en- 
tering the  University  of  Louisville,  in  which  he  was  graduated  with  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  after  a  three  years'  course.  His  ability  along  the  line  of 
his  chosen  calling  soon  became  recognized  and  he  Avas  made  an  interne 
in  Louisville  Hospital,  but  on  account  of  the  urgent  request  of  his  uncle 
to  return  to  Mississippi  he  did  not  accept  the  position,  but  at  once  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Yazoo,  Mississippi,  remaining  there 
for  nearly  thirty-five  years,  during  which  time  he  built  up  an  excellent  medi- 
cal and  surgical  practice.  In  1861,  however,  he  put  aside  all  personal  con- 
siderations and  entered  the  Confederate  army  as  a  surgeon,  in  which  ca- 
pacity he  served  for  three  years,  principally  engaged  in  hospital  work,  al- 
though he  applied  for  field  duty  and   for  a  short  lime  served  on  the  staff 


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of  General  Johnston.  After  the  war  had  closed  he  remained  until  the  last 
man  was  taken  from  the  hospital,  after  which  he  resumed  his  medical  prac- 
tice in  Yazoo. 

About  this  time  the  cause  of  temperance  was  being  greatly  agitated 
in  Mississippi,  and  at  the  close  of  the  war  Dr.  Yandell  took  an  active  part 
in  having  the  option  law  passed.  He  organized  the  movement  in  his  county, 
and  defeated  the  saloon  element  in  the  following  election.  The  question 
was  very  bitterly  fought  at  a  later  election,  but  again  his  party  came  out 
victorious,  with  a  still  greater  majority,  and  Dr.  Yandell  has  the  satisfac- 
tion of  knowing  that  owing  to  his  efficient  work  there  has  never  been  a 
saloon  in  the  county  since  that  time,  and  but  three  counties  in  the  state 
license  the  sale  of  liquor  at  the  present  time. 

In  1888,  on  account  of  failing  health.  Dr.  Yandell  was  obliged  to  seek 
a  change  of  climate,  and  accordingly  arrived  in  Seattle,  Washington,  in 
April,  1889,  and  immediately  opened  an  office  and  resumed  the  practice  of 
medicine.  He  has  confined  his  work  principally  to  city  practice,  but  has 
frequently  extended  his  aid  to  the  surrounding  towns  and  country.  He 
is  now  associated  in  practice  with  his  son-in-law,  A.  R.  Bailey.  Soon  after 
taking  up  his  residence  in  this  city  he  erected  a  commodious  and  substan- 
tial house  on  Sixth,  near  Bell  street,  where  the  family  extend  a  gracious 
hospitality  to  their  many  friends. 

In  October,  1867,  w^as  celebrated  the  marriage  of  Dr.  Yandell  and 
;Miss  Rebecca  W.,  the  daughter  of  William  C.  Hays,  a  prominent  land 
owner  of  Yazoo  county,  Mississippi.  Two  of  her  uncles  nobly  served  their 
country  in  its  wars.  Colonel  Jack  Hays  having  been  a  member  of  the  noted 
Texas  Rangers  during  the  Mexican  war,  while  General  Henry  T.  Hays 
made  a  fine  record  as  a  soldier.  The  marriage  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yandell 
was  celebrated  in  Yazoo  county,  Mississippi,  and  has  been  blessed  with 
five  children,  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  namely :  Claiborne  B.,  who 
is  a  reporter  on  the  Post-Intelligencer  of  Seattle;  Martha,  the  wife  of  Dr. 
A.  R.  Bailey,  of  this  city;  William  Henry,  the  leading  clerk  for  the  Schwa- 
bacher  Hardware  Company;  John  S.,  with  the  Bradstreet  Company;  and 
David  L.,  at  home.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Yandell  are  members  of  the  Presby- 
terian church.  Prior  to  the  Civil  war  the  Doctor  gave  his  political  sup- 
port to  the  Whig  party  and  made  a  strong  effort  to  defeat  the  secession 
movement  in  this  state,  but  since  the  close  of  that  struggle  he  has  supported 
the  principles  of  the  Democracy.  In  1896,  on  the  fusion  ticket,  he  was  made 
the  county  coroner,  in  which  capacity  he  served  for  two  years.  He  is  deeply 
interested  in  the  political  questions  of  the  day,  believing  it  the  duty  of  every 


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American  citizen  to  attend  the  primaries  and  see  that  capable  men  are  given 
the  nominations  for  office.  He  has  been  a  delegate  to  every  city  conven- 
tion since  taking  up  his  abode  within  its  borders,  and  has  frequently  at- 
tended the  state  conventions,  but  has  never  been  a  seeker  for  political  pre- 
ferment. While  a  resident  of  Mississippi  he  became  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic order,  and  there  served  as  master  of  his  lodge  and  as  high  priest  of 
the  chapter.  He  is  also  a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  and  a  member  of  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  the  Knights  of  Honor.  In  connection  with  his  medical 
practice  he  is  a  member  of  the  King  County  Medical  Society.  In  all  the 
varied  relations  of  life  he  has  been  honorable,  sincere  and  trustworthy,  and 
has  won  the  praise  and  admiration  of  all  who  have  been  associated  with 
him  in  any  manner. 


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