Pierce County, Washington - The whole text, 1927 (part 23 of 27)

Mr. Fuchs was married, in Tacoma. to Miss Katarina Schoenbachler, who is a native of Switzerland and a former schoolmate of his there. To them have been born four children, Herman, Jr., Edwin, Walter and Ida, all now in school. Mr. Fuchs is a member of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, the Tacoma Swiss Society, the Knights of Columbus, and the Elks. Although an unassuming man, he possesses a strong personality and makes a favorable impression on all who come in contact with him. He has been an indefatigable worker, has been fair and square in all of his dealings and has earned the respect and admiration of all who know him.

J. E. Savage

One of the most prominent concerns engaged in the wholesale lumber business in Tacoma is that of Savage Brothers, which has been established here for twenty years. The firm was located in the Provident building until 1923, since which time the offices have been in the Perkins building. The Savage brothers, J. E. and E. H., were born in Bay City, Michigan, sons of Thomas W. and Isabella M. (Redeker) Savage. The father was a pioneer of that state, where he extensively engaged in the logging business to the time of his death, which occurred in 1878. The mother is now living in Tacoma. :

From their boyhood days the lives of the two sons were closely interwoven, their chief interests being mutual, and from youth, when they went to school together in Bay City, they remained together. Their first identification with the lumber business was in the woods, but later, under the firm name of Savage Brothers, they engaged in the wholesale lumber business in Bay City, with which they were connected for nineteen years. They then went to Ashland, Wisconsin, where they carried on a similar business for nine years, followed by two years at Duluth, Minnesota. On July 15, 1906, they came to Tacoma and, still operating under the same firm name, continued the wholesale lumber business here, a business which has through the years been successfully operated on a large scale. Since the death of E. H. Savage, on September 15, 1926, J. E. Savage is carrying on the business alone.

E. H. Savage was married, in Ashland, Wisconsin, to Miss Helen Shores, a native of Michigan, who still lives in Tacoma. In 1904, in Ashland, Wisconsin, J. E. Savage was married to Miss Mildred Fromholtz, who was born in Calumet, Michigan, of which locality her parents were pioneers. To Mr. and Mrs. Savage have been born four children, namely: Edward J., who is in the office with his father; Mildred A., in school; Willard P., a student in the Stadium high school of Tacoma; and Gene, also in school. Both brothers became identified with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, E. H. joining in 1902 and J. E. in 1903.

David A. Rice

Among the honored and well remembered pioneers of Pierce county, whose activities contributed in very definite measure to the development of their respective communities, stood D. A. Rice, whose death September 1, 1908, was deeply regretted by all who knew him. For many years he had been active and untiring in his various fields of operation and as a farmer proved himself a man of sound judgment and progressive spirit, while his influence in the life of the community was for improvement and progress. Mr. Rice was born in Parrish, Oswego county, New York, on the 2d of December, 1832, and was a son of Nathaniel and Amy (Cook) Rice, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of Baltimore, Maryland, and a niece of Captain James Cook, English explorer.

David A. Rice was educated in the public schools of his native state and in 1850, at the age of eighteen years, followed the gold rush to California, where he engaged in mining two years. In 1852 he went to Olympia, Washington, and soon afterwards engaged in logging near Shelton, in partnership with Leonard Greenlaw, con-~ tracting for the sawmills of that locality. He bought and operated one of the first steamboats, named the Resolute, on Puget sound, bringing in freight and supplies for the early settlers. He operated there and at Anderson island until 1868, when he moved to Muck creek, five miles east of Roy, and bought from Henry Murray the old Peter Wilson donation claim of three hundred and twenty acres, to which he later added by purchase three hundred acres. He lived in a log house until 1870, when he took his ox-teams and hauled logs from the woods to the sawmill at Steilacoom, where he had them made into lumber for a new house. He planed the lumber by hand and made and planed the shingles himself. So well constructed was that house that it is still in a remarkable state of preservation and his widow and her family are still living in it. Later Mr. Rice built a large and substantial barn. For many years he ran sheep and cattle on his land and later turned his attention to raising hops and dairying, in which he was successful. He was a man of great energy, did well whatever he undertook and merited the prosperity which came to him.

In October, 1868, Mr. Rice was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ross, who was born at Fort Nisqually, Washington, a daughter of Charles and Catherine (lumants Ross, the latter also born at Fort Nisqually. The father was born in Minnesota and belonged to one of the pioneer families of the northwest. His father, Charles Ross was sent out from Scotland to Victoria, British Columbia, in 1816, to take charge of the Hudson Bay Fur Company post, and built the first house in Victoria, in which city his death eventually occurred. Ross bay, at Victoria, was named in his honor. As his children grew they were sent to England to be educated. To Charles and- Catherine Ross were born ten children, namely: Mrs. Mary Rice; Katie, Celia William, Belle, Charles and John, who are deceased; Florence, who is the wife of Harry Leroy; Elizabeth, the wife of Harry McLowe; and Frank. To Mr. and Mrs Rice were born ten children. Henry, who is employed in the Tacoma post office is married and has two children, Milo and David; Agnes is the wife of W. J. Bradley and the mother of three children, Ida, deceased, Delbert and Doris; Louis, deceased, was married and had three children, Lyle, deceased, Wilbur and Mary; Eliza is the wife of O. F. Hartline and the mother of five children, Jack, Wayne, Margaret, Billie, and Marion; James W., who lives in Idaho, is married and has two children, Mary and Charlotte; Adelaide lives in Idaho; Grace, who is a trained nurse, is the wife of R. H. Hart, and one child born to them died in infancy; Winifred, deceased, was the wife of Ernest Weaver; Angie remains at home and assists in managing the ranch. One child died in infancy. There are five great-grandchildren, Gordon and Stanley Greib, Barbara and Denise Bradley and Robert Bramarr Ord. Mrs. Rice, who lives on the ranch, has leased it to Ernest Weaver, who is running a dairy, and operates a tractor in the farming of the land, the principal crops of which are hay and grain. Mr. Rice was a man of keen and alert mentality and took a deep interest in public affairs, particularly such as related to the welfare of his own community. He served two terms as a member of the county board of commissioners when the county seat was at Steilacoom, was for many years a member of the local school board and was an earnest advocate of improved roads and good schools. Kindly and hospitable, accommodating and friendly, he had a host of warm and loyal friends throughout a aes of the county and was regarded as one of the representative men of his ocality.

The Wheeler-Osgood Company

One of the largest and most important industrial concerns of Tacoma is the Wheeler-Osgood Company, which now enjoys a worldwide reputation as manufacturers of Douglas fir doors. This company was established in 1889 by William C. Wheeler, who had previously been a member of the firm of Carr, Ryder & Wheeler of Dubuque, Iowa, now Carr, Ryder & Adams. Mr. Wheeler leased property from the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company and then interested George R. Osgood of Des Moines, Iowa, and D. D. Clarke of Tacoma, Washington, with whom he started the business with a capital of sixty thousand dollars. They engaged in the manufacture of red cedar doors, which were sold iocally. In 1890, W. T. Ripley of Rutland, Vermont, bought a third interest in the company, and in 1892 T. E. Ripley joined the firm. During the year 1893, when the financial panic was driving industrial and commercial houses to the wall all over the country, about the only business this company had was in selling lumber for nailing up windows and doors of people leaving town. In this crisis T. E. Ripley went to Boston, Massachusetts, to develop an outside market for the red cedar doors. He introduced a number of small lots there and finally secured a carload order. The first carload to be shipped was tied up by a railroad strike and was three months in getting to the east. However, the Wheeler-Osgood Company was one of the few concerns that did not break under the strain of the panic, and thus came through in fair shape for the revival of business which followed. This shipment of doors was the first carload ever shipped east from the Pacific coast, and it passed a car coming west from Portland, Maine, this incident marking the turn of the tide. In 1902 the manufacturing plant of the Wheeler-Osgood Company was destroyed by fire but in the following year they bought land and rebuilt on a larger scale. The door and panel plant in Tacoma now covers twelve acres of land and eight acres is covered by the sawmill in this city. Fifteen hundred men are now employed, the payroll amounting to one million, eight hundred thousand dollars annually, and the plant produces two and one-half million doors a year. In 1905 the company turned from red cedar to Douglas fir, out of which practically all the doors are now made. They make solid and laminated doors, the latter being sold under the trade name "Laminex." The company has a half interest in the North Bend Timber Company, which conducts extensive logging operations to keep their mill supplied with timber. The Wheeler-Osgood Company is the only firm in Tacoma doing national advertising, for which they utilize such agencies as the Saturday Evening Post. Their products are sold all over the United States, the West Indies, South America, South Africa, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, the European market having been pioneered by this company in 1919. They maintain branch offices in New York, Chicago, Spokane, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco, but sell through jobbers, having a large sales organization. The business of the company has shown a steady and substantial increase every year and is today regarded as one of the most prosperous and important manufacturing concerns in the west. The present officers of the Wheeler-Osgood Company are as foliows: George J. Osgood, president

W. R. Ripley was born in Rutland, Vermont, in 1887, and is a son of W. T. and Isabel R. (Reynolds) Ripley, the former of whom died in 1893. He completed his education in Trinity College of Hartford, Connecticut, where he was graduated in 1910. He then came to Tacoma and has been identified with the Wheeler-Osgood Company since 1918. On September 15, 1911, Mr. Ripley was married to Miss Jessie Baillie, daughter of Alexander Baillie, of Tacoma, and they have a son, Alexander W. Mr. Ripley is a republican in his political alignment and is a member of the Union Club and the Tacoma Golf and Country Club.

George R. Osgood was born at Craftsbury, Vermont, on the 3d of July, 1840, and is a son of Joshua and Almira (Root) Osgood. He received his education in the district schools and Craftsbury Academy, in his home town, and in 1857 he became a clerk in a general store at Stowe, Vermont, where he remained two years. He went then to Rutland, Vermont, where he was employed in a store for two years, and in December, 1861, removed to Iowa, locating in Des Moines. There he followed the dry goods trade under the firm name of Osgood, Wyman & Harris, and later as Osgood, Harris & Company, until 1887, when he sold his interests in Des Moines and came to Tacoma, Washington, where he embarked in the real estate business. On the organization of the Wheeler-Osgood Company, he became one of the partners and has since remained closely and actively identified with that concern, though now in a position to take things more leisurely than in former years.

On October 18, 1865, Mr. Osgrod was married to Miss Caroline Stoors, of Port Leyden, New York, and they are the parents of three sons. Politically, Mr. Osgood has always been a stanch supporter of the republican party, while his religious affiliation is with the Congregational church. During the years of his residence in Tacoma he has been an active and effective booster for Tacoma, being a potent factor in the upbuilding and development of the city. He has always stood ready to cooperate in all measures for the betterment of the community and has been one of its hardest workers and most valued counselors. Candid and straightforward in all of life's relations, with a sympathetic interest in the welfare of those about him, and cordial and friendly in all his social relations, he has long enjoyed an enviable place in the esteem and good will of his fellowmen.

C. B. Withee, who has been actively identified with the lumber business during his entire business career, has since 1918 served as secretary, treasurer and manager of the Washington Manufacturing Company of Tacoma, a corporation producing porch columns, interior finish, wood gutters, etc., on an extensive scale. He is a native of Maine and a son of H. N. and Sarah M. Withee. The town of Withee, Wisconsin, was named in honor of his father, who for twenty years filled the office of county treasurer in Clark county, that state.

C. B. Withee acquired his early educational training in the schools of Maine and Wisconsin and received his initial experience in the lumber business when still very young. Eventually he left the Badger state for Iowa, where he was connected with lumber interests for a period of thirteen years, at the end of which time he went to Montana, in which state he remained for six years. Always active in the lumber business, he had become thoroughly familiar therewith in all of its phases from logging to manufacturing. In 1906 Mr. Withee made his way to Vancouver, British Columbia but a year later removed to Seattle, Washington, where he spent a few months. The year 1909 witnessed his arrival in Tacoma and soon thereafter he became connected. with the Washington Manufacturing Company, with which he has been continuously identified to the present time, having been made secretary and treasurer of the corporation in 1918. The Washington Manufacturing Company was established in 1903 by August Von Boecklin and others and began operations on a small scale on Pacific avenue in Tacoma. A short time later, however, the plant was removed to its present location at 824 East Twenty-fifth street. About forty million board feet of lumber are annually used in the manufacture of porch columns, interior finish, wood gutters, etc., and ninety per cent of the product is shipped east of the Mississippi river. About one hundred and eighty men are employed in the plant. August Von

Boecklin continued as president of the company until his death in 1926, when he was succeeded by John E. Manley. Mr. Withee's long experience and his thorough knowledge of the lumber business, combined with his excellent executive ability and sound judgment, have constituted valuable factors in the growth and success of the concern with which he is associated. He has followed the westward trend of the lumber industry from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific and has won a well merited measure of prosperity in Tacoma.

Mr. Withee was first married in Wisconsin and a child of that union lives in the state of Minnesota. His second wife, who bore the maiden name of Clara Moody, was also born in the Badger state. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce in Tacoma, while in fraternal circles he is known as a Scottish Rite Mason who has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. The salient traits of his character are such as have commended him to the confidence and esteem of all with whom he has come in contact.

George Kreger

George Kreger is probably as well known as any resident of his section of Pierce county, for he has been a resident of this locality for about forty-five years and has taken an active part in local affairs pertaining to the advancement of public interests. He has been an industrious and enterprising farmer, meeting with well deserved success in his operations, and is now numbered among the substantial and influential citizens of his community. Mr. Kreger was born in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1853, and is a son of Gottlieb and Louisa Kreger, both natives of Germany. They came to this country in 1850, locating first in Michigan, where they remained about one year, and then moved to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where the father bought a farm, whereon he spent his remaining years, he and his wife dying on the same day, in 1900. They were the parents of eleven children, namely, George, Minnie, Rosie, Rosaline, Henry, Amelia, Lizzie, Emil and three who are deceased.

George Kreger was educated in the public schools of Wisconsin and then went to work as a farm hand and in logging camps. In 1870 he removed to Indiana, where he remained two years, and was in Illinois about one year. From there he went to Texas, where he remained until 1883, when he came to Pierce county and took up a homestead claim of one hundred and sixty acres at Swan, or Kreger, lake. The land was covered with timber and brush, and one of the first things Mr. Kreger did was to build a road to his land. He then built a small log house, after which he devoted his attention to clearing the land and getting it in shape for cultivation. For about three years he engaged in raising hops but later turned his attention to stock raising and dairying, in both of which lines he continued successfully for many years. He built two large barns, hop houses, two silos and two good dwellings, besides making many other important improvements. As he prospered he purchased more land, at one time owning over three hundred acres, but has sold part of it and now has two hundred and fifteen acres, most of which is rich and productive bottom land. His principal crops are hay and potatoes, and he also keeps six hundred and fifty hens. He is the owner of Kreger lake, which is well stocked with game fish, and also affords good duck hunting.

Mr. Kreger has been married five times, first in 1870, when seventeen years old, to Miss Augusta Brue, who died three months later. In 1876, in Texas, he married Miss Margaret Campbell, to which union were born eight children, as follows: Henry, who was born in Texas, and is deceased; Charles, who is married and has three children; Mrs. Lillian Tatum, who is the mother of two children, Ralph and Ray, the latter of whom is now in college; Minnie, deceased; Mrs. Ruth Johnson, who is the mother of two children, Fred and Ruby, and also has an adopted son; Mrs. Annie Engels; Blanche; and Robert, who is married and has a son, George. The mother of these children died in 1902 and in 1903 Mr. Kreger was married to Miss Aurilda Mattix, who died in 1921. In 1922 he married Mrs. Mary Tatum, who died in 1928, and in 1924 he married Mrs. Annie Norman. She is the mother of six children by a former marriage. Mr. Kreger is a member of the Washington Cooperative Poultry Association. He served several years as road boss and for twenty-five years was a member of the Kreger Lake school board, having been one of the organizers of the school. He has shown a great interest in education and good roads and in every possible way has contributed to the improvement and advancement of his locality. He is a genial and friendly man, enjoys a wide acquaintance throughout this section of the county and is held in high esteem by all.

Richard N. Kernighan

Richard N. Kernighan has long been a prominent figure in the affairs of Buckley, where for many years he was engaged in the newspaper business, as publisher and editor, during which period he exerted a potent influence for the upbuilding and development of the community. He is now engaged in the manufacture and sale of an automobile device which bids fair to develop into a very successful enterprise, having received enthusiastic endorsement of many leading dealers in automobile supplies. Richard N. Kernighan was born in Ontario, Canada, on the 9th of April, 1868, and is a son of George and Anne (Graham) Kernighan. The parents also were natives of Ontario and the mother died when Richard was but four years of age. The father took his family to Wisconsin in 1874, living in that state until 1898, when he came to Seattle, Washington, where he was employed at the carpenter trade. About 1900 he came to Buckley, where he spent his remaining years, his death occurring here in December, 1919.

Having acquired his education in the public schools of Wisconsin, Richard N. Kernighan then learned the printer's trade and in 1892 embarked in business on his own account, becoming publisher of the Yellow River Pilot, at Pittsville, Wisconsin, which he ran successfully until 1897, when he sold the paper, came west and purchased the Buckley Banner, which had been established in 1889 and which was the first and is now the only newspaper published here. Mr. Kernighan proved himself an able and wide-awake newspaper man, maintaining the Banner at a high standard of excellence, typographically and editorially, and continued as its publisher until 1923, when he sold the paper and plant. In 1925 Mr. Kernighan bought the automobile signal business which he is now conducting, and which he has incorporated as the Utility Auto Specialties Company, Inc. He moved the plant to Buckley and it is now well equipped for the manufacture of the signals. They are for the rear and front of the automobile and show "Stop," "Left" and "Right," with arrows pointing in the proper direction. The device is known as the R. & H. Safety Signal.

In 1900, in Wisconsin, Mr. Kernighan was united in marriage to Miss Nina I. Risk, a native of that state and the daughter of William Risk, who was born in Ireland, whence he came to the United States in boyhood and became a pioneer settler of Wisconsin. To Mr. and Mrs. Kernighan has been born a daughter, Edith, who is now teaching in the public schools of Auburn, Washington. Her preparation for teaching was obtained in the State Normal School at Ellensburg and at the University of Washington. Mr. Kernighan has taken an active interest in local public affairs, having served a number of years as a member of the city council and has been city treasurer since 1919. He has been true and loyal in all the relations of life,

Jacob Phillis Pyles

Among the prominent residents of Pierce county is Ja illi born in Candor, Washington county, Pennsylvania, ike irre ina aie of Thomas H. and Nancy A. (Phillis) Pyles, both of whom also were natives of the old Keystone state. The father followed farming there until 1876, when he moved to Ohio and bought a farm in Guernsey county, where he devoted himself to agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1903. The mother passed aw ripe were the parents of seven children, as follows: Rachel A oagen ekg reindee of this sketch; Thomas, deceased; M. C.; Ella; and Margaret, who Jacob P, Pyles completed his public school i i i course in a business college in Columbus. In ges tb Caio eke 'hes peoeres in office work until 1889, when he came to Tacoma, Washington orice ere on November 11. A few weeks later he located in Sumner and shortly Shereant went to work in the office of the Sumner Manufacturing Company, where he remained one year. He next was bookkeeper for W. R. Lindsay, in whose general store he remained three years. He was appointed postmaster of Sumner under the administration of President Cleveland, thus serving for five years, and on leaving that office he went to Tacoma and was appointed to a position in the county treasurer's office under Stephen Judson. In 1899 Mr. Pyles went to Skagway, Alaska, where he was a bookkeeper for the Commercial Northern Company for awhile, remaining in Alaska four years. On his return to the States he bought a grocery store in Sumner, in partnership with G. C. Spencer, but after running it for about ten years sold his interest in the business to O. T. Fryar in 1918 and was again appointed postmaster under President Wilson. He served nine years and thus saw fourteen years of service in that office, proving a capable and accommodating official, always discharging the duties of the position in a very acceptable manner. In 1922 Mr. Pyles again opened a grocery store in Sumner, which he conducted about three years, when he closed it out and retired from active business affairs. He bought several good lots in Sumner and built a fine modern house at Ryan and Maple streets, and in 1924 erected a large apartment building adjacent, which property he retained until 1927.

On October 24, 1894, Mr. Pyles was united in marriage to Miss Emma Jameson, who is a native of Dallas, Texas, and a daughter of William and Mary Ellen (Calhoun) Jameson. Her father, who was born in Kansas, is now deceased, but the mother, who was born and reared in Texas, is still living. Mr. Jameson came to Steilacoom, Pierce county, in the spring of 1873 and was killed in a stage accident in the fall of that year. Mrs. Jameson became the wife of Benjamin F. Young, who was born in Michigan and who died in 1920, and to them were born five children: Byron H., Roy A., Glen A., Lola F., and one who died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Pyles are the parents of four children, as follows: Phyllis, who is the wife of H. M. Huff; Marie, who is a stenographer and bookkeeper; Lucile Estella, who is a graduate of the Sumner high school and now employed by the Tacoma Telephone Company; and Leah Margaret, who is in high school.

Mr. Pyles has for the past thirty-six years been a member of Sumner Lodge, No. 42, I. O. O. F., and is a member of Tacoma Lodge, No. 6, A. O. U. W. He has proven a man of vigorous mentality, sound judgment in practical affairs, and progressive ideas. He served three years as a member of the school board and two years as town treasurer of Sumner. He has been a consistent booster of the advantages of Sumner and has supported every movement for the advancement of the community.

Charles Drury

In the front rank of the successful business men of Tacoma stands Charles Drury, to whom is accorded the distinction of operating one of the largest custom tailoring businesses on the Pacific coast. This position has not been gained through any lucky turn of fortune's wheel, but is the legitimate result of the exercise of sound business judgment and persistent effort along well directed lines. Mr. Drury was born near Lincoln, England, July 19, 1866, and is a son of Robert and Hannah (Booth) Drury, of that locality, both now deceased. Mr. Drury was apprenticed at the age of twelve years and learned the trade of a tailor. At the age of eighteen years he came to the United States, locating in Muskegon, Michigan, where he remained for two years, and was also in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for two years. In April, 1889, he came to Tacoma and engaged in the tailoring business, with which he has remained identified continuously since. His first shop was on Eleventh street, where Rhodes Brothers' establishment is now located. During the subsequent years his business enjoyed a steady increase in volume. requiring larger quarters, and finally, in 1926 he erected his own building at 907 Pacific avenue, with a frontage of one hundred feet. He occupies about one-fourth of the building, and employs about forty people. He also owns a branch store at Seattle, where about twenty-five people are employed. Mr. Drury owes his success to the high quality of all work turned out by him and to the prompt and efficient service which he has always rendered his patrons.

On December 30, 1892, Mr. Drury was united in marriage to Miss Nettie B. Rand, a native of Iowa. They have travelled extensively, going abroad very often, having crossed the Atlantic twenty times. In 1926 they made a trip to Europe, driving by automobile to New York and motoring over five thousand five hundred miles through the British Isles, a very delightful trip. Mr. Drury also made one trip around the world, going by way of Russia. He is a member of Tacoma Lodge, No. 22, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Ivanhoe Commandery, Knights Templar; Tacoma Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; and Afifi Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, being a life member of all these bodies. He also belongs to the Tacoma Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and is an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal church. Politically, he supports the democratic party and he served as a member of the school board from 1902 to 1908. He is president of the Ansonia Realty Company and takes an interest in everything affecting the welfare, or prosperity of his city. A man of sterling integrity of character and of social and kindly nature, he well deserves the popularity which he has always enjoyed, being uniformly regarded as one of Tacoma's representative men.

Probably no business concern of Tacoma is more widely known than the Holt Art Store, at 742 Broadway, which has been in continuous existence since 1889. During this period the store has always enjoyed an enviable record for the high quality. of the stock carried and for the efficient service which it has rendered to the community, and today it commands its full share of the local trade in its line. The store was established by Henry Harrison Holt, who was born in Massachusetts and in 1870 came to the coast, first stopping at San Francisco, going from there to Kalama, Cowlitz county, Washington, in company with General Sprague and "Skookam" Smith. He became very prominent in the early history of that county, serving as county auditor, justice of the peace and in other local offices. He was the first conductor on the Northern Pacific Railroad between Kalama and Tenino, and remained in that locality until 1882, when he came to Tacoma. For a few years thereafter he was employed as a traveling salesman and was in a store until 1889, when he opened an art store. In this enterprise he was successful and conducted the business until 1904, when he retired and turned the business over to his son, I. G., and located on a small farm just outside the city, where he lived until his death, which occurred in 1922. He was a member of Tacoma Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, of which he was the first treasurer, serving two terms. He married Miss Wealthie Ruggles Tucker, who was born in Nova Scotia, and now lives in Tacoma, at the age of eighty-eight years. To them were born five children, namely: Grace, who died in early childhood; Marian Isabel, who is in the Holt store; Gertrude May, the widow of W. H. Dickson; Clarke Morris, who was killed in Alaska in 1898; and Ira Gilbert.

The last named was born in 1877 in Kalama, Washington, and secured his education in the public schools of Tacoma, attending high school for a short time. He then went into his father's store, to which he has devoted his attention to the present time, managing the business since 1902. He has proven a man of mature judgment and enterprising methods and is ably sustaining the reputation which the business gained under his father's administration. He carries a large and complete line of art goods of every description and also does an extensive picture framing business.

In 1914 Mr. Holt was united in marriage to Mrs. Lucia C. (Clarke) Hoyt, daughter of Thaden Clarke, who was one of the early settlers of Seattle. Mr. Holt is a member of Tacoma Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, and belongs to the Fircrest Golf Club. He is courteous and accommodating and his splendid personality has gained for him a host of friends throughout the community.

Among the citizens of the northwestern part of Pierce county who have, by their earnest purpose and upright lives, proven themselves worthy of the confidence and esteem of their fellowmen, stands R. W. Uhlman, who-is conducting a general store at the Wollochet ferry landing, where he has a comfortable home and is very well situated. Born in Washington, D. C., May 25, 1864, he is a son of Charles and Minna Uhlman, both of whom were born and reared in Germany. They came to the United States in the middle '40s and located in Washington, D. C., where the father followed his profession, that of architect, in which he gained considerable prominence.

He had a part in remodeling the capitol during Lincoln's administration. His death occurred there April 25, 1864. The mother and her son Charles were in the audience at Ford's theater when President Lincoln was assassinated. In 1870 she took her children to Portland, Oregon, where she lived for some time, and then boarded a steamboat for Olympia, there being no connecting railroad at that time. She bought a farm at Oakville, in Gray's Harbor county, Washington, where she lived until her death, in 1883. To Mr. and Mrs. Uhlman were born seven children: George F., deceased; Robert, who lives in Portland, Oregon; Charles T. and Theodore, deceased; R. W.; and two who died in infancy.

R. W. Uhlman obtained his education in the public schools of Oakville, Washington, and in 1882 went to Portland, Oregon, where he worked on the milk ranch of his brother Robert. Two years later he came to Tacoma and entered the employ of his brother Charles, who was in the meat business. In 1886 R. W. Uhlman opened a meat market of his own in Old Town, Tacoma, in which he was successful, carrying on the business for twenty-four years. He then sold out and moved to Wollochet bay, where he squatted on seven and a half acres of land along the water, which the government had set aside for a military reservation. The land was thickly covered with timber and brush, which Mr. Uhlman cleared off from most of it, and then he built a good house and developed the place into a very comfortable home. In 1918 he erected a building and opened a store, in which he carries a large stock of general merchandise, flour and feed, and also maintains a gas and oil station. He has done very well in this enterprise and is now numbered among the substantial citizens of that locality.

In 1886 Mr. Uhlman was united in marriage to Miss Esther Doyle, who was born in Ireland, a daughter of Patrick and Ellen (Burk) Doyle. Mrs. Uhlman was brought to the United States when but a child and received her education here. Mr. and Mrs. Uhlman are the parents of four children: Charles, who is superintendent of a sawmill, is married and has two children, Betty Ann and Charles; Edna, who is the wife of M. J. McNerthney, a dentist in Tacoma, has six children, Mildred, Margaret, Richard, Mary Esther, James and Elizabeth Ann; Richard L., who lives in Tacoma, is married and has a son; George F. remains at home. All of the children were born and educated in Tacoma. Mr. Uhlman has for thirty-six years been a member of the Masonic order, now belonging to Evergreen Lodge, No. 51, of which he is a past master. He has led a consistent life, has been active and industrious in all of his. affairs, has supported those things which tend to advance the community welfare, and commands to a marked degree the respect and good will of his fellowmen.

Among the up-to-date and successful dairymen of Pierce county, special mention should be made of V. F. Inderbitzin, whose splendid, well improved ranch is located a half mile east of the city limits of Tacoma. He has at various times been interested in other activities in this state and has been rewarded with a very satisfactory measure of success. Mr. Inderbitzin was born in Switzerland, April 1, 1868, and is a son of Paul and Josephine Inderbitzin, both of whom died in the land of the Alps. The father was a baker, following that trade all his life, and his death occurred in 1908. His wife passed away in 1887. They were the parents of six children, Paulina, Joseph, Josephine, V. F., Louise, deceased, and one who died in infancy.

V. F. Inderbitzin received a good education in the public schools of his native country and then learned the baker's trade, which he followed there until 1888, when he emigrated to the United States. On his arrival he went at once to San Francisco, California, where he obtained work on a dairy ranch, where he remained a year. In 1889 he came to Tacoma, and established a milk route, running a wagon on his own account until 1896, when he returned to Switzerland, where he conducted a hotel about two years. He then again came to Tacoma and established a dairy business, which he carried on for two years. After selling out, he built a forty-four-room hotel at Albee. which he conducted for nine years, when it was destroyed by fire, entailing a heavy loss, as no insurance had been carried. Mr. Inderbitzin then returned to Tacoma and leased the Allen Hotel, which he operated for several years, after which he leased the Mason Hotel. He then turned his attention to the timber business, buying and selling timber land in various parts of the state, and at one time owned four- teen hundred acres of fine timber. In 1907 he bought fifteen acres of Indian reservation land, a half mile east of the Tacoma city limits, located thereon in the spring of 1926 and established a dairy, in the operation of which he is meeting with very encouraging success. He owns thirty cows and for their pasturing leases thirty acres additional, and he also raises splendid crops of hay. He has ditched his land, and has made a number of other permanent and substantial improvements, which have added materially to the value of the ranch.

In 1899 Mr. Inderbitzin was married to Miss Christina Luetkens, who was born in Germany and died in 1917. In 1918 he wedded Miss Olga Kliner, who was born in Switzerland, and came to this country in 1917. To this union have been born two children, Victor H. and Max. Mr. Inderbitzin owns a large apartment house in Tacoma, of which Mrs. Inderbitzin is the active manager, while he is giving his personal attention to the dairy ranch, to which he goes daily. He also owns several good coal claims in this state, besides five hundred acres of timber land. Politically Mr. Inderbitzin is a republican and has taken an active interest in party affairs, having served many times as delegate to state conventions. He has shown himself a good business man and has honestly earned all that he has today. He has been the architect of his own fortune and has been true to the highest ideals in business, civic and social life, so that he is well worthy of mention among the successful, self-made residents of Pierce county, who have gained the respect and good will of their fellow citizens.

William Buckingham Coffee

Tacoma sustained the loss of one of its pioneer citizens and civic leaders in the death of William B. Coffee in February, 1927, when he was sixty-seven years of age. He had been a resident of the city for thirty-eight years, was president of the Metropolitan park board and was Tacoma's pioneer in the plumbing, heating and ventilating business, from which he had retired in 1928. His birth occurred at Norwich, Connecticut, December 25, 1859, his parents being James S. and Margaret Coffee. The father, who was a florist and market gardener by occupation, passed away in 1898, when seventy-two years of age, and the mother died in 1913 at the age of eighty-three years.

William B. Coffee came to Tacoma in 1888 and established a plumbing business, which was later combined with that of the Hall Plumbing Company, which was located on St. Helen's avenue and which had been started in 1889 by Edward Hall, now deceased. After the merger of the two plumbing interests the business was conducted at 948 D street and the partnership relation between Mr. Coffee and Mr. Hall was continued for a considerable period. In 1905 the company was incorporated as the William B. Coffee Plumbing Company, under which style the business was thereafter carried on. The volume of the company's trade increased from year to year until it ranked among the leading concerns of that character in the city. Mr. Coffee remained at the head of the enterprise and gave his close personal attention to the management of its affairs until the time of his retirement in 1923. He owned the building in which the business was located and he also had other interests.

Mr. Coffee was married October 18, 1893, to Miss Annie R. Main, a native of Canada and a daughter of Andrew and Isabella (Jardine) Main. To this union the following children were born, all natives of Tacoma: Margaret I., a teacher in the public schools of Tacoma; John M., who married Lillian M. Sly and is a successful lawyer of Tacoma; William Glennon, a graduate of the University of Washington, class of 1926; and Marian J., who is attending school at Pullman.

The following is an excerpt from a review of the career of Mr. Coffee which appeared in the Tacoma Daily Ledger at the time of his death: "William B. Coffee, who during his thirty-eight years of residence in Tacoma had repeatedly exhibited a broad public spirit and readiness to serve where labor was its own reward, died at the family home at 719 South Grant avenue. He had been in failing health for three Yearsx ji p5% Mr. Coffee's last public service was as a member of the Metropolitan park board, of which he was president at the time of his death. He was elected in 1922 for a fiveyear term, which would have expired next June. Probably his outstanding service to the community was when as a member of the school board in 1905, he with the late Judge M. L. Clifford, proposed the purchase of the unfinished Tourist hotel of the Northern Pacific and against overwhelming opposition carried the deal through, giving the city at a cost of thirty thousand dollars the main part of the building which came to be the Stadium high school. His name is one of those engraved on the memorial tablet of the school. Mr. Coffee served seven years in all on the school board, several years of which he was its president. He was always active in Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce activities until recent years. His interest in the Tacoma lodge of Elks was also an outstanding part of his life. During twenty years he is said to have never missed a lodge meeting and for sixteen years he was a member of the board of trustees. He was chairman of the building committee which had charge of the construction of the present Elks temple. He was an active Mason as well, working his way up to the Shrine through both the York and Scottish rites of Masonry, in which he held the thirty-second degree. Politically Mr. Coffee was a democrat all his life and in this affiliation he took an active part in state and local democratic policies."

His passing was the occasion of deep and widespread regret, and his memory will ever be cherished in the hearts of his loved ones. He was a great lover of flowers and growing things. The widow and children of William B. Coffee are consistent and devoted members of the Presbyterian church.

Robert Fiander

Among the sterling old pioneers of Pierce county, who contributed their full quota to clearing and developing this section of the state, was numbered Robert Fiander, who was a resident of this county from 1874. Wonderful indeed have been the changes that have been wrought here in this period, transforming Pierce county from a veritable wilderness to one of the choicest and most desirable sections of the coast country, and of these changes Mr. Fiander was a witness. He was born in Dorsetshire, England, September 30, 1847, a son of Robert and Emma (Chaffey) Fiander, both of whom died in their native country, where the father was engaged in freighting. They were the parents of twelve children, of whom two are living: Mrs. Mary Drake and Mrs. Sarah Tite, who live in England.

Robert Fiander received a limited education in the public schools of his home neighborhood and then was employed in public work in England and Scotland until 1871, when he came to the United States. For a short time he lived in New Jersey and Iowa, and in 1872 came to Pierce county, Washington. Later he went to Thurston county and for about two years lived with a brother, Richard Fiander, who had come to Washington in 1851 with the Hudson Bay Company. In 1874 Mr. Fiander filed a homestead claim on section 14, township 16, range 3, at Swan lake, Pierce county, being the first settler in that part of the county. The land was covered with timber and brush and during the first years of his residence here Mr. Fiander was compelled to pack in his provisions and supplies from Destintes, fourteen miles away. However, his larder was well supplied with fresh meat, the country having an abundance of wild game and birds, as well as salmon. There were also dangerous wild animals, which made it necessary to be constantly on guard. Mr. Fiander had a number of thrilling and unpleasant experiences in those days, one of which was a hand-tohand fight with a large cougar, which he did not conquer until after a long and severe struggle. After entering his land Mr. Fiander built a small log house and then began the task of clearing and draining the land, which entailed a vast amount of the hardest sort of work. Eventually he created a good farm and ran stock cattle on it until 1912, also devoting considerable attention to raising heavy draft horses until the advent of the automobile. He then turned his attention to dairy farming, keeping about eighteen cows, and met with well merited success. Except for about three years, when he leased the farm, he resided there continuously until 1922, when he sold the place and lived in eastern Washington a few years, then made his home with a daughter, in Eatonville, until his death.

Mr. Fiander was twice married, first, in 1871, to Jennie, an Indian girl born and reared in Pierce county, to which union was born a son, William, who now lives in eastern Washington. He is married and has four children. Mrs. Jennie Fiander died in 1880 and in 1884 Mr. Fiander was married to Miss Catherine Dean, a native of Pierce county and a daughter of Aubrey and Rosie Dean, the former of whom was born in England and the latter in Snohomish county, Washington, of Indian parents. To this union were born eight children, namely: Clara is the wife of John Jensen; and has two children, Bessie and Clara; Emma, the wife of Wilbur Parshall has two children, Esther and Alma; Flora Asplund has a daughter, Nellie; Susie Scoggins is the mother of three children, Robert, Martha and Myrtle; Eliza is the wife of Fred

Jensen and the mother of four children, Katherine, Florence, Stanley and George W.; Emila is the wife of Leslie Jensen and has a daughter, Mary Jane; Hannah is the wife of Chris Leber and has two children, Edward and Violet; Bessie, who died in 1918, was the wife of Charles Scoggins. There are also two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Catherine Fiander died March 1, 1914. :

Mr. Fiander took a deep interest in the affairs of his community and served many years as road supervisor and as a member of the school board at Swan Lake. Because of his earnest life and splendid character he was held in the highest measure of esteem throughout his community.

William Breuer

William Breuer is one of the successful and enterprising dairy and poultry farmers in southern Pierce county, his splendid ranch being located near Eatonville. Here he has made many substantial and up-to-date improvements and now has a very desirable and attractive property. A native of Germany, Mr. Breuer was born on the 22d of March, 1871, and is a son of August and Henrietta Breuer, the former of whom owned and operated a flour mill. They both died in Germany, the father in 1910 and the mother in 1918. They were the parents of eight children: Amelia; Ottillia; Augusta, deceased; William; Gustav, deceased; Anna; Martha; and Ernest.

William Breuer was well educated in the public schools of Germany and remained at home, assisting his father, until 1889, when he came to the United States. He first located at Galveston, Texas, where for fifteen years he farmed on rented land, and in 1905 he moved to Grass valley, California, where he bought four hundred acres of land and ran a stock ranch for four years. He then sold out there and in 1910 came to Eatonville, Pierce county, and bought ninety-seven acres of land a mile and a half northwest of that town. Here he has about twenty acres in cultivation, the remainder being good pasture land, and he keeps fourteen head of dairy cattle, about half of which are pure-bred Holstein cattle, and also has a full-blooded Holstein sire. He has -been successful as a dairy farmer, and also gives considerable attention to the poultry business, keeping six hundred White Leghorn hens. He has prospered in his efforts here and in 1920 built two large chicken houses, modern in every respect, and in 1925 a fine barn, a garage and sheds. Mr. Breuer is a director and one of the appraisers of the Federal Land Bank of Tacoma.

On November 25, 1897, at Fluegerville, Texas, Mr. Breuer was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Muery, who was born in Switzerland, a daughter of John Jacob and Salome (Ging) Muery, also natives of that country. The father came to the United States in 1884, locating in Austin county, Texas, where he engaged in farming to the time of his death, which occurred in 1891. He was survived many years by his widow, who died in California in 1923. They were the parents of eight children, namely, Samuel, deceased; John; Jacob, deceased; Arnold; Elizabeth; Verena; Minnie; and Albert. Mr. and Mrs. Breuer have two children: Alfred, born in Texas, January 1, 1900, was graduated from the Eatonville high school and, on June 17, 1923, was married to Miss Mary Struckman, to which union have been born two children, Elizabeth Ann, February 5, 1925, and William Henry, September 18, 1926. Martha Elizabeth, born February 25, 1913, is attending the Eatonville public schools. Mr. Breuer is a member of the Washington Cooperative Poultry Association. He is a strong advocate of improved roads and the best school facilities and is known as a progressive, wide-awake man of affairs, of sound judgment and of stanch integrity in every relation of life. His success has been gained by hard and continuous effort and he stands today among the representative farmers of his section of Pierce county.

Numbered among the able and successful physicians of Tacoma stands Dr. T. Cc. Rummel, who has not only built up a large practice but is also regarded as one of the influential and public-spirited men of Tacoma. Born in Richland county Ohio, in 1860, he is a son of William and Elizabeth (Bishop) Rummel, also natives of the Buckeye state. When Dr. Rummel was two years old his father died and the mother passed away eight years later. The father had been a miller and millwright. He was descended from old Prussian stock, his paternal grandfather, who had been educated for the ministry, having left his native land to escape military service. His son emigrated from Maryland to Ohio, with ox teams, and there engaged in farming.

T. C. Rummel was thrown on his own resources at the age of ten years. He secured his early education in the public schools of his native state, later attending a preparatory school at Haysville. He then went to Chicago, where he took a course in pharmacy, and after his graduation went to Cleveland, Ohio, where he ran a drug store for about four and a half years. He then matriculated in the medical school of Western Reserve University and was graduated with the M. D. degree in 1891. He then sold his drug store and in that year came to Tacoma, where he has since been engaged in the general practice of medicine. He has gained a wide reputation for his accuracy as a diagnostician and has secured splendid results in the treatment of human ailments.

Dr. Rummel has been married twice, first in 1889, in Cleveland, to Miss Mary Leiter, who died in 1898, leaving two children - Dora, deceased, and Jessie, who is teaching in the School of Fine and Applied Arts in New York city. In 1894 the Doctor married Miss Eliza J. Parks, a native of New Brunswick, Canada, and a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Bartlett) Parks, who came to Washington in 1890, the father engaging in farming near Kapowsin. Dr. and Mrs. Rummel have three children. Corwin P., who is a graduate in mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, is married and lives in Seattle; Edith E., who is a graduate of the University of Washington, is a teacher in the high school at Renton, King county; Bartlett, who is a graduate of the University of Washington and also attended the law school of Columbia University, is assistant city attorney of Tacoma.

Dr. Rummel takes a deep interest in the public affairs of his city and has rendered effective service as a member of the city council and of the school board. He is a member of the Pierce County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He ranks high among the medical men of his section of the state and is a commendable example of the successful self-made man and the broad-minded and public-spirited citizen.

Mrs. T. C. Sweeney

Among the women of Pierce county who not only have been successful in their business affairs, but have also gained an exalted place in the confidence and esteem of the people generally, stands Mrs. T. C. Sweeney, who is conducting a prosperous mercantile business at Gig Harbor. She is also active and prominent in civic affairs and is regarded as one of the community's most influential residents. Mrs. Sweeney was born in County Antrim, Ireland, and attended the public schools there, completing her education at Sisters' College, in Blackburn, England. In 1893 she went to Chicago, Illinois, to visit an uncle and see the World's Fair, and, liking the country, remained. In 1894 she became the wife of James Sweeney, to which union were born four children: James J., living in Tacoma, who is married and has two children, James I. and Timothy; Francis P. and John E., who are at home and are associated with their mother in business; and Leo H., who is attending a theological college in eastern Washington. All of the sons have been well educated. In 1908 Mrs. Sweeney brought her sons to Washington and, liking the peninsula country around Gig Harbor, bought forty acres of raw land near that town. She built a good house and, with the assistance of her sons cleared a large part of the land, of which she later sold ten acres. She carried on general farming and operated a dairy until 1915, when she moved into the town of Gig Harbor, and bought property and was appointed postmaster, serving seven years. Then she opened a store and also opened a real estate office and bought and sold a good deal of Gig Harbor property. She took a keen interest in the development of the place and in many ways contributed to its advancement. She enjoyed a steady and substantial increase in her mercantile business and in 1922 built a business block, forty by one hundred and thirteen feet in size, across the street from her former place. In this building she is now conducting a well stocked department store, the stock and fix- tures of which inventory about fifteen thousand dollars. She rents part of the building to the post office department, and another part for a restaurant.

In addition to her varied business interests, she has served four years as a justice of the peace and is a trustee of the Gig Harbor Fair Association. She is a trustee of St. Nicholas church and was largely responsible for the building of the church. She belongs to the Brotherhood of American Yeomen, the Women Voters' League, is vice president of the Parent-Teachers' Association and has stood consistently for good schools and improved roads. She is an active supporter of the democratic party and is a member of the Pierce County Democratic Club. In 1926 she was the democratic candidate for the legislature but Pierce county, being a republican stronghold, she was defeated, though making a good race. She has a splendid personality, is well educated, is a pleasing speaker, and is regarded as one of the most useful citizens in her community. She is an enthusiastic booster for the Gig Harbor peninsular country and has unbounded faith in the future of this section of the country. Because of her courageous and successful efforts since coming here, as well as for her many excellent qualities of character, she is deservedly held in high esteem throughout the community.

Frank E. Day

Textile experts say the Puget Sound climate is destined to leadership in the manufacturing of clothing, but similarly as in any other industry development comes only with human initiative, and the one pioneer, the one who has blazed the trail for the clothing industry in the northwest, is Frank E. Day, president of the Shull- Day Company, Tacoma.

Born and reared in Iowa, his father being a peddler, he naturally inherited and assimilated the selling and progressive spirit that distinguishes those of the great corn state. When he had finished his meager education, the most of which was a few grades in school, he helped dad until he was about twelve, when he started out for himself, and only a few years thereafter his eyes turned toward a larger city and at an early age he found himself with the Glover Company, clothing manufacturers at Dubuque, Iowa, where he remained until he had mastered somewhat the technique of the business, and then, hearing the admonition of Horace Greeley, he came west early in 1900, settling in Tacoma.

Mr. Day's first business connection in the west was with the Love-Johnson Grocery Company, where he continued for a couple of years, at the same time acquainting himself with the west and formulating plans for the clothing industry the business of his knowledge and his liking. It was in 1902, with a capital 4 only six hundred dollars, that he organized the present business known as Shull- Day Company, which at the start was devoted to the manufacture of overalls in a one-story loft at 718 Commerce street, Tacoma. Here a superior quality was built into the product, this in Mr. Day's judgment being the one solid foundation on which any business must be built, namely, quality and service. It was on this basis that the business was continued at this place for about four years, the company having expanded until three floors were occupied with offices at 716 Pacific avenue.

It was in 1906 that the space became too small and a concrete factory building was erected at South Twenty-ninth and A streets, sixty-five by one hundred and thirty feet, two floors. A little later a third floor was added for the recreation and comfort of the employes. A few years later: the four-story wooden structure at South Twenty-ninth and Pacific avenue, adjoining closely the cement factory building, was acquired, which building was devoted entirely to offices, stock and shipping, and the original cement building was given over entirely to manufacturing. 'ABSin in 1919, further expansion was necessary and the land, one hundred by ane hundred thirty-two feet, adjoining the cement factory building on the south, was acquired and a building erected, this factory being devoted exclusively to the manufacturing of the original product - overalls and work clothing and thus giving over the entire cement building as originally erected to the manufacturing of Day's tailored trousers and the new product that was added in 1924, namely, manufacturing of suit clothin This new industry is one of the most difficult lines Mr. Day has yet encountered a his desire to develop a larger clothing industry because of its intricate manufacturing problems, such as more expert workers, involving a large expenditure for new and modern machinery, and the bringing in from eastern clothing centers of experts in clothing manufacturing and what is known in the industry as a designer for the clothing industries leadership. But, none of these things have appeared to stop the pioneering or the blazing of new trails as at the present writing, this latest infant industry is now producing around six hundred suits weekly and growing rapidly. Additional to this is the trousers production, capacity of which is one thousand pairs daily, which together with the original work clothing industry at the separate factory, the capacity of which is one hundred dozen daily, gives Tacoma a ranking industry in its line second to none in the west. The officers of the company are practically the same as in its pioneer days, namely: Frank E. Day, president, and R. D. McDonald, vice president. For a great many years Inez T. Day held the position of secretary-treasurer, but with her resignation from the business in 1920,

While Mr. Day has been busy laying the foundation for this clothing business, however, he has always had time to assume his full share of responsibility as a leading citizen in the community and to that end was a prominent member of a committee of ten who inspired the idea of a municipal dock at Eleventh and the waterway and the new high bridge which now adorns this street and spans the waterway. He was also a leading figure and the one man who did not say "quit"? when certain obstacles arose in the accomplishment of ferry landings from Vashon island and Gig Harbor points into the city of Tacoma by way of Point Defiance park. Those of us who remember the difficulties that were encountered in the accomplishing of this ferry landing through the park, must in reasonableness grant unusual credit to Mr. Day's stick-to-it-iveness that the logical ferry landing for easy access from these urban districts to Tacoma was through Point Defiance park. It is generally understood Mr. Day's time is well taken up by his own business but if anything of importance for the good of the city is to be accomplished one can always find Mr. Day ready and willing to assist.

In 1912 he was married to Miss Sarah R. Crandall, daughter of Judge S. A. and Mrs. Emily Crandall of Tacoma, since which four children, two daughters and two sons, Hollis, Ruth, Virginia and Judd, have been added to accentuate the beautiful home life.

' Mr. Day is a member of few organizations or clubs, but as a great lover of outdoor recreation gives time to golfing and rusticating in the wilds with all available time. Owning a home on Vashon island, the family take great pleasure in all active outdoor sports and especially enjoy such sports together. Mr. and Mrs. Day take great pride in their outings with the children, making it a family affair. As to religion, the family is connected with the Presbyterian church and is exceedingly devoted to any phase of life which will bring betterment in a spiritual way to all their fellowmen. While Mr. Day is modest in all his accomplishments in life, there is one work which he is devoted to outstandingly. He seems to be more than willing to have it known that he is a worker in all phases of Christian activities and improvements that will make this old world a better and more Christian-like place to live in.

Phineas Monroe Annis

Phineas Monroe Annis, of Alderton, is a scion of one of the excellent old pioneer families of this section of Pierce county and has spent the major portion of his life here. He is a worthy representative of that type of American citizen who may properly be called progressive and while devoting his efforts to his own business interests has also given due attention to the general welfare, in the progress of which he has been a factor, so that he is well deserving of the respect which is accorded him by his fellowmen.

Mr. Annis was born in Fillmore county, Minnesota, in 1855, and is a son of Orson Monroe and Adeline (Myers) Annis, who were born and reared in New York state. After completing his education, the father learned the carpenter trade, at which he worked until 1852, when he went to Fillmore county, Minnesota, locating near Rochester, where for three or four years he engaged in farming. Selling his land, he moved to Rochester and there worked at his trade until 1864, when he brought his family across the plains, traveling with the typical ox-team outfit of that period to Salem, Oregon. Mr. Annis worked at the carpenter trade in Salem until 1868, when he came to Old Tacoma, Pierce county, where he worked as a carpenter, helping to build the first sawmill in Tacoma. In the following year he took up a homestead near Alderton, on which he built a log house and then began the task of clearing and cultivating the land. He was successful in developing a good farm, and lived there until his death, which occurred August 21, 1900. The mother survived him a number of years, dying on May 4, 1918. They were the parents of eight children, as follows: Clara, deceased; Phineas Monroe; George F., who 'is operating part of the old farm; John and Nettie, deceased ; Mrs. Lorena Colburn, who lives at McMillin, Washington; Eva, the wife of Martin Williams; and Addie, deceased. ; '

Phineas M. Annis acquired a good public school education and then helped his father clear the homestead, devoting his life to agricultural pursuits. He is a good farmer and has won success in his chosen life work.

In 1891 Mr. Annis was united in marriage to Miss Ruth Balsey, who was born in Minnesota, a daughter of Jerome and Elsie Balsey, both of whom were natives of New York state. The family came to Pierce county, Washington, in 1888, and the father engaged in farming here to the time of his death, in 1901. The mother is still living, at the age of eighty-six years. Of the fifteen children who blessed their union, six are living. To Mr. and Mrs. Annis have been born two children, Mrs. Josephine McChesney, who is married and has five children, Marjory, William, Glen, Marion and Kenneth; and John Howard Annis, who also is married.

Charles Wait Orton

One of the most conspicuous figures in agricultural and business circles of Pierce county is Charles W. Orton, whose splendid farm near Sumner is regarded as one of the best improved and most valuable in the county.. A man of advanced and progressive ideas, he has used up-to-date methods in his farm operations, and his business affairs have been so conducted as to gain for him a place among the prosperous, and substantial farmers of this section of the state.

Charles W. Orton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on the 17th of November, 1879, and is a son of Samuel C. and Amelia (Wait) Orton. The father, who was a native of Illinois, is deceased, and the mother, who was born in New York state, is now living in Sumner, Washington.

Mr. Orton attended the public schools of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, and was graduated from Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. After leaving college, he worked for a short time on a trade journal in Chicago. In November, 1900, he came to Tacoma, where for two and a half years he was employed by The Love-Johnson Company, wholesale grocers, but even at that early age, Mr. Orton's business sense rejected the idea of working for others, and not having sufficient capital to go into business for himself, and disliking the indoor confinement, he went into the Puyallup valley, already famous for its fruit and dairy possibilities and sought to learn those two lines of business from the ground up. With this thought in mind he began work for Mr. W. H. Paulhamus, one of the largest and most successful farmers in the valley at the time.

In the fall of 1903 Mr. Orton and his brother William bought eighty acres of land on section 30, township 20 north, range 5 E, W. M., about a mile and a half southeast of Sumner on the Elhi road. The farm had been devoted for a number of years to dairying and hop-raising, and Orton Brothers, as the partnership was known, continued along these same lines for a number of years, but gradually increased the acreage in small fruits and rhubarb. In 1911 Charles W. took over his brother's interest in the farm and has operated it alone ever since, although some years later he entered into another partnership arrangement with William in automobile agencies at Sumner, Puyallup and Buckley.

In 1910 Mr. Orton began the production of certified milk, with such marked success that this department of the business gained a most enviable reputation of national scope. In 1911 the entry from this farm won first prize in the certified milk class at the International Dairy Show, the largest show of its kind ever held up to that time, there being entries from all parts of the United States and Canada. Mr.

Charles W. Orton

; Three acres of the farm are devoted to asparagus and seven to rhubarb, both of which grow in the Puyallup valley to a state of perfection not attained elsewhere in America. There are three large rhubarb forcing houses on the farm and Mr. Orton is the largest producer of hot-house rhubarb west of Chicago, if not in the entire United States. He is a stanch supporter of cooperative marketing, and nearly all his crops are marketed through such organizations.

Another forty acres of land has been added to the original holdings, and in 1914 Mr. Orton erected a fine modern residence, provided with all the conveniences equal to any city home. It is furnished in old English period style and with notably fine taste. The house is surrounded by spacious grounds, which were laid out by one of the best landscape designers. It is known as Orton Place and is regarded as one of the show places of the country. To it distinguished visitors to the northwest are often taken.

The farm is supplied with an excellent set of other farm buildings, and improved machinery is utilized in its operation, which is systematized to the highest degree. Pure spring water from Mr. Orton's own water system is piped to all portions of the farm, as well as to many of the surrounding ranches. He has exercised not only careful judgment in the development of his farm, but has added creative ability and modern, scientific concept, the result of which is so well indicated in the results he has obtained.

The place, as handled by him, is an institution rather than a farm. He has it departmentalized, with able foremen at the head of each department. From eight to twenty men are regularly employed, aside from the large groups of transient berry pickers used only in season. Cottages on the place are furnished some of the men and their families. Several of the men employed have been with Mr. Orton for from six to sixteen years, and the finest spirit of loyalty and cooperation exists between employer and employes.

This college-bred farmer uses his technical training in the manipulation of his farm work. He has an office connected with the house, and here he spends many hours of the day in a careful study of scientific production, marketing and other matters of vital importance to the successful farmer. He is always on the alert for new departures, and in this connection has recently added the cultivation of narcissus bulbs to his other activities, being now one of the largest bulb growers of the Puyallup valley.

On December 18, 1922, Mr. Orton was united in marriage to Virginia Carter Keating MacCraig, an immediate descendant of one of the oldest and most aristocratic families of the south - the Carter-Davises and Winslows of Virginia and Kentucky, early slave-holders, and for generations leaders in the cultural, political and exelusive social life of the south. Mrs. Orton is southern in type and has inherited many of the qualities of her distinguished ancestors. She is a leader in the artistic, club and social life of the northwest, a recognized writer of verse and short stories; is broadly charitable, and is known as one of the most brilliant minded and charming women of the state. :

Mr. Orton is inordinately proud of his wife, and of his fine, old mother, who at past seventy-three is still an alert figure mentally and physically, taking an active part in the activities surrounding her. In speaking of those two Mr. Orton said, "I feel that most of the fine or worthwhile things that have come into my life have come through my wife, who is always an inspiration for one's best, and my mother, whose wise and true counsel guided my early efforts."

Charles W. Orton, although a very busy man, has a keen interest in the constructive and,civic development of not only his own community but of the entire state. He is recognized and sought for his cool, level-headed judgment, his unwavering sense of justice and his unselfish attitude on all matters presented to him. He is a conservative, dignified, silent type of man, avoiding, rather than seeking honors.

Mr. Orton is a director of the Puyallup & Sumner Fruit Growers Association; vice president of the Puget Sound Bulb Exchange; and a director of the Sumner Rhubarb Association, all cooperative marketing associations. He is also president of the Washington State Dairymen's Association. For eight years he has been a member and is now president of the Port of Tacoma Commission. He is president of the Sumner National Farm Loan Association; has served as director of the Western Washington Fair for fourteen years; is a trustee of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce; and is a member of the state-wide committee on the relation of electricity to agriculture, under the auspices of Washington State College. Mr. Orton is member of the Elks Lodge at Puyallup, the Sumner Rotary Club, the Sigma Nu college fraternity, the Tacoma Country Club and the Valley Linden Golf Club.

B. E, Paul

Determination to succeed and indomitable persistence in the face of discouraging conditions have been the elements of the splendid success which is crowning the life work of B. E. Paul, president of the Western Iron & Wire Works, of Tacoma, and today no man in this community enjoys to a greater degree the respect and confidence of his fellowmen. Mr. Paul was born in Australia in 1883 and is a son of H. A. C. and Emilie (Noah) Paul, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Australia. The family came to the United States in 1887, locating in Cornelius, Oregon, but the parents later 'moved east and passed away in Indiana.

B. E. Paul secured his education in the public schools of Cornelius and Spokane, and in the latter city learned the trade of ironworker. Then for a number of years he worked in various parts of the country for the purpose of securing experience and in 1904 came to Tacoma. There was no ornamental iron works in this locality and, with two hundred dollars of his own, some financial help from his father and borrowed capital, he organized and incorporated the Tacoma Ornamental Iron Works. The plant was first established in the old Massasoit Hotel building, at Seventeenth, Jefferson and Broadway, where he had a room twenty-five by fifty feet, for which he paid eighteen dollars a month. He and his partners worked hard, but eventually this enterprise proved a failure and the company was dissolved about 1914: In 1915 Mr. Paul bought up the assets of the old company and started in again alone in the same line of business, under the name of the Western Iron & Wire Works, located in the same place as the old company. Under his careful management, this enterprise has proven a distinct success, enjoying a steady growth in business. They employ from twelve to fourteen skilled workmen, the products consisting of ornamental iron for buildings, wrought iron work of various kinds, wire mesh work, window guards, screens and similar work, and the company also manufactures sand, gravel and coal screens. In May, 1927, the company occupied its own building, adjoining its former location, here having abundant room, the first floor being fifty by one hundred and seventy-five feet in size, the second floor fifty by seventy-five feet, and there is additional ground fifty by one hundred and seventy-five feet in size, providing ample space for further enlargement if needed.

In March, 1906, in Tacoma, Mr. Paul was united in marriage to Miss Clara Louise Buettner, who is a native of Indiana and a daughter of John and Helen Buettner. The family came to Tacoma when Mrs. Paul was a child but the parents now live in Los Angeles, California. To Mr. and Mrs. Paul have been born five children, Arthur, who is with his- father in the business, Walter, Helen, Mildred and Margaret. Mr. Paul is a member of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and he and his family are members of Zion Lutheran church, in the activities of. which Mrs. Paul is greatly interested. Mr. Paul's career presents a notable example of those qualities of mind and character which overcome obstacles and win success and his record is most commendable.

Ralph H. Shaffer

In the plant of the Shaffer Box Company, Tacoma has the largest single box factory in the west and it is also one of the city's most important industrial enterprises, being up-to-date in its equipment and giving employment to a large number of men. Ralph H. Shaffer, president of the company, is a native of Troy, Ohio, and a son of G. O. and Caroline (Spiker) Shaffer. The father is deceased and the mother is living in California.

Ralph H. Shaffer attended the public schools of his native state and then entered the law department of the Ohio State University but did not graduate. He next secured employment with the National Cash Register Company, at Dayton,

Ohio, where he remained for about a year, after which he entered the educational department of the government in the Philippine islands, where he did effective work for three years. In February, 1908, he came to Tacoma and entered the office of the Ledger and News, in which he remained for nine years, rising to the position of assistant general manager. He next bought an interest in the American Auto Company but sold out three years later and in January, 1920, purchased an interest in the Pacific Box Company, of which he became secretary and treasurer and in November of the same year was elected president. This business was first established in 1889 as the Capital Box Company, located at Twenty-sixth and E streets, but in 1893 was reorganized as the Pacific Box Company, at the same location. In 1920-21 the present plant was built on the Hylebos waterway, and in 1925 the business was again reorganized as the Shaffer Box Company, with the following officers: Ralph H. Shaffer, president; R. H. Pangborn, vice president; F. C. Brewer, vice president and treasurer; and E. C. Glueck, secretary. The plant is equipped with modern machinery, all electrically driven, and about four hundred men are employed. All kinds of boxes are produced, though a specialty is made of oil cases, the capacity of the factory being about five million feet of box shook per month. Mr. Shaffer has devoted himself indefatigably to the interest of the business, in which he has shown marked ability as an executive. Late in 1920 he purchased the Pratt Dock Company and in 1921 leased the large ocean dock of the Northern Pacific, changing the name of the company to the Terminal Dock Company. This company does a general dock and steamship forwarding business all over the world. In November, 1925, the name of the company was changed to the Shaffer Terminals, Inc. Mr. Shaffer is president of this company and Sam B. Stocking is vice president and general manager.

In 1910, in Tacoma, Mr. Shaffer was united in marriage to Miss Muriel Roberts, who was born in Indiana, a daughter of Dr. H. V. and Annie L. Roberts. The family came to Tacoma in the '90s and for a number of years Dr. Roberts was one of the leading dentists of this city. He is now deceased and the mother is making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer.

Fraternally Mr. Shaffer is affiliated with Tacoma Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and with the Masons, belonging to Tacoma Consistory, A. A. S. R., and to Afifi Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He also belongs to the Rotary Club, the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club, the Fircrest Golf Club and the American Legion. During 1918 Mr. Shaffer enlisted as a private of infantry and was stationed at Camp McArthur, Texas, at the close of the war. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he has been a tireless worker in the activities of that organization and maintains a keen interest in the welfare and prosperity of his community.

Frank S. Baker

Frank S. Baker, well known editor and publisher, is the president and treasurer of the Tribune Publishing Company, which publishes the Tacoma Daily Ledger and the Tacoma News-Tribune. His birth occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 27th of July, 1879, his parents being Elbert Hall and Ida Anna (Smith) Baker, the former born at Norwalk, Ohio, July 25, 1854. The ancestral line is traced back to Edward Baker, who came to America in 1638 with Governor Bradford. Crossing the Atlantic from England, he settled in Lynn, Massachusetts. The maternal grandfather, Pardon B. Smith, a native of New York, was a Civil war veteran, serving for three years in the Nineteenth Ohio Battery as quartermaster sergeant.

The name of Baker is prominently known throughout the length and breadth of the country in connection with journalistic interests, for Elbert H. Baker is the president of the Plain Dealer Publishing Company of Cleveland, Ohio. He was born of the marriage of Henry and Clara Maria (Hall) Baker and attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education. It was in 1877, when a young man of twenty-three years, that he began work on the Cleveland Herald and thus embarked upon a newspaper career which has continued without interruption through the past half century. He was connected with the Cleveland Leader in the capacity of advertising manager from 1882 until 1897, was general manager of the Cleveland 'Plain Dealer from 1898 until 1920 and has been president of the Plain Dealer Publishing

Company since 1913. He is also joint owner with his son, Frank S. Baker, of the Morning and Sunday Ledger and the News-Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. Elbert H. Baker is a director of the Cleveland Life Insurance Company, has been a director of the Associated Press since 1916 and since 1907 has been a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, of which he served as president from 1912 until 1914. He is a trustee of the Cleveland Young Men's Christian Association, president of the board of trustees of the Euclid Avenue Congregational church, a member of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and active in municipal and civic affairs. His name is on the membership rolls of the Union, Athletic and Chagrin Valley Hunt Clubs of Cleveland and the Union, Commercial, Country and Yacht Clubs of Tacoma. On the ist of June, 1876, he wedded Ida Anna Smith, of Cleveland, Ohio, and they are the parents of five children, three sons and two daughters. Their home is at Gates Mills, Ohio.

Frank S. Baker, the second in order of birth in his father's family, attended the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio, and 'was graduated from the Western Reserve University in 1901 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The same year he began his journalistic career in the employ of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and in 1902 becamé business manager of the Canton (Ohio) Democrat. During the six-year period between 1904 and 1910 he was identified with the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the capacity of business manager, after which he published the Boston Traveler for two years. It was in 1912 that he purchased the Tacoma Tribune, while six years later, in 1918, he acquired the Tacoma Ledger and Tacoma Evening News. He consolidated the News and Tribune as the News-Tribune and continues the Ledger as the Morning and Sunday Ledger. Mr. Baker not only occupies the presidency of the Tribune Publishing Company but is the president of the Cascade Paper Company and treasurer of the Tacoma Engraving Company.

On the 22d of October, 1903, Mr. Baker was married in Cleveland, Ohio, to Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Vilas, a native of that state and a daughter of M. G. and Lettie B. (Baker) Vilas, also representatives of an old Ohio family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Baker are the parents of two daughters and a son, namely: Mrs. Elizabeth Vilas Kelley, Mary Bartlett and Elbert Hall. The family residence is at Gravelly Lake, Tacoma.

Mr. Baker is identified with the Elks lodge of Tacoma and the Delta Kappa Epsilon, a college fraternity. He is a member of Trinity Episcopal church and also belongs to the Union, University, Commercial, Country and Tacoma Yacht Clubs of Tacoma. Moreover, he is a trustee of Annie Wright Seminary of Tacoma. A contemporary biographer said of him: "His life has been devoted to newspaper publication. His preliminary training was along that line under the direction of his father, one of the distinguished journalists of the country, and following in his footsteps Frank S. Baker has attained prominence in the newspaper circles of the northwest."

Leslie L. Doud

One of the largest and best equipped sawmills in Tacoma is that of the Defiance Lumber Company, of which Leslie L. Doud is president. His birth occurred in New York on the 24th of May, 1863. He attended Wisconsin schools in the -acquirement of an education but early put aside his textbooks in order to provide for his own support, being variously employed prior to attaining the age of twenty-three years At that time he purchased a hardware store at Pittsville, Wisconsin, which he ee ducted successfully for fifteen years. = -

On the expiration of that period, in 1900, Mr. Doud disposed of his interests in the Badger state and came west to Pierce county, Washington, locating first in Buckley. Here the Doud Brothers Lumber Company was organized and operated until 1905. At that time he located at Tacoma and organized the Defiance Lumber Company, which later bought the property of the Doud Brothers Lumber Company His associates in the beginning were C, C. Doud, W. H. Doud, George H. Reed, J C. Buchanan, James McNeely and William Fettig. All have sold their interests in 'the concern with the exception of Leslie L. Doud, who is associated in the business with his son, Lee L. Doud, the secretary and treasurer. The Defiance Lumber Company owns docks and railway sidings, has a quarter mile of water front and a plant covering fifteen acres of ground at 4717 North Forty-ninth street. Two hundred and fifty men are employed. The mill has a capacity of one hundred and fifty thousand feet every eight-hour shift. The product is practically all fir, about twenty-five per cent of the output being exported, while the remainder is sold throughout the United States. Lee L. Doud is active manager of the business.

In 1885 Leslie L. Doud was united in marriage to Miss Flora A. Clapper, of Wisconsin. They became the parents of five children: Lee L.; Mrs. Lola Louise Little, who makes her home in California; Mrs. Neva H. Martin, a resident of Tacoma, Washington; Donald H., living in California; and Mrs. Gladys G. Martin, of Tacoma.

Leslie L. Doud is a republican in politics and has been actively and helpfully interested in civic affairs. He is a Scottish Rite Mason, belonging to Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M., and to Afifi Temple, A. A. O. N. M.S. Tacoma has long numbered him among her most substantial and prosperous business men as well as highly. esteemed and respected citizens.

Lee L. Doud

Lee L. Doud, son of Leslie L. Doud and secretary and treasurer of the Defiance Lumber Company of Tacoma, was born in Pittsville, Wisconsin, on the 29th of October, 1887. His public school education was supplemented by five years' attendance at Whitworth College of Washington, while subsequently he spent one year as a student in the University of California. His time has since been devoted to the lumber business, in which he has shown himself a man of sound judgment and marked executive ability. The Defiance Lumber Company is now one of the most important lumber concerns of this section of the state, the business having enjoyed a steady and substantial growth since its inception. His brother, Donald H. Doud, is sales manager for the Defiance Lumber Company at Los Angeles, California.

In September, 1914, Lee L. Doud was united in marriage to Miss Erna Muehlenbruch, of Tacoma, and they are the parents of three children: Charlotte E., Lee L., Jr., and David H.

Fraternally Lee L. Doud is identified with the Masonic order and with Tacoma Lodge, No. 174, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His name is also on the membership rolls of the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club, the Fircrest Golf Club: and the Chamber of Commerce. In his political views he is a republican and has consistently supported every measure proposed for the advancement of the best interests of the city and county. Candid and straightforward in manner, and genial and affable in his social relations, Lee L. Doud has a host of warm and loyal friends and is regarded as one of the strong and influential men of his community.

In one of the most exacting and responsible fields of public service W. H. Grayum has achieved distinction and his record as superintendent of the third school district at Puyallup has given additional prestige to his already creditable career. Mr. Grayum was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1887, and is a son of C. W. and Ora (Hebard) Grayum, both of whom were also natives of the Buckeye state. He was given the advantage of a good education, attending the public schools of his home neighborhood and the normal school at Edmond, Oklahoma. He then prepared for his life work in the Kansas State Normal College, at Emporia, Kansas, where he was graduated in 1913, with the degree of Bachtlor of Arts. He has now completed about half of the required work for the Master's degree at Washington University. His first experience in teaching was at Marion, Kansas, where he served one year ae principal of a- ward school, while he was still carrying on his college work in 1910-11. In 1913 he was called to Neodesha, Kansas, where he organized the first junior-senior high school in that state, remaining at the head of that school four years. In September, 1917, he became principal of the high school at Centralia, Washington. He made this a six-year high school in 1919, and remained at its head until 1920, when he became principal of the Puyallup high school, in which position he served for two years, when his ability and genius for organization was recognized in his appointment as superintendent of school district No. 3, which comprises the city of

Puyallup and adjacent territory east and west of the city. It includes one juniorsenior high school, grades seven to twelve, and four elementary schools, grades one to six. There are nine hundred and fifteen pupils in the high school and eleven hundred and thirty-one pupils in the elementary schools, fifty-eight teachers being employed. The Tacoma Transit Company is under contract to transport all pupils living more than one mile from their school, one special bus being run in the morning and one in the evening, the regular bus service being used at other hours. Thus cheap and safe transportation is provided for all who require it. The schools are maintained in the best possible physical condition, the equipment being up-to-date in every respect, while the teaching standard is equal to that found anywhere. Mr. Grayum possesses marked executive and administrative ability, and, though insisting on strict discipline, his authority is tempered with a sense of justice which has made him eminently fair and has gained for him the respect of both teachers and pupils.