Pierce County, Washington - The whole text, 1927 (part 6 of 27)

In July, 1893, Mr. Fiddes was united in marriage to Miss Laura H. Johnson, who also was born and reared in Ontario, Canada, and they are the parents of two children: Melvin J., who is connected with the Mattei Baking Company, of Tacoma; and Helen E., aged thirteen years. Mr. Fiddes gives his political support to the republican party, and his religious affiliation is with the First Presbyterian church.

He is generous in his support of all worthy benevolent causes, stands for the best things in community life and is friendly and cordial in his social relations, enjoying

John J. Law

Among the pioneer printers of Pierce county stands John J. Law, who is still identified with that business here, and who is now the owner of a prosperous enterprise at 117 South Eighth street, operating as the J. J. Law Printing Company. An expert in the technique of his business, and a man of excellent taste and discriminating judgment, he has, through the high quality of his work, gained an excellent reputation, and commands a very satisfactory patronage.

Mr. Law is a native of England, born in 1869, and is.a son of John S. and Emma (Jebb) Law. The family came to the United States in 1870 and for a short time lived in New York city. Then they went to Neponset, Bureau county, Illinois, where the father engaged in the sporting goods business -until in the late '70s, when he moved to Seward, Seward county, Nebraska, taking up a homestead and resuming the sporting goods business and trading with the Indians. In the early part of 1889 he again hit the trail west and landed in Montesano, Washington, where he continued in the sporting goods business, which he carried on up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1923. The mother is still residing there, at the age of eighty-eight years.

John J. Law secured his education in the public schools of Nebraska and then learned the printing trade. He came to Washington with his parents and was engaged for several years on the Montesano Weekly Vidette and in 1891-2 was employed on the Daily News, in Tacoma. He continued to work at his trade in this locality and in 1895 bought the Astoria Daily News, disposing thereof in 1897, and with O. W. Dunbar, of Astoria, went to Skagway, Alaska, establishing the Daily Skagway-Atlin Budget, which they operated for two years and disposed of. Returning to Washington state, he continued in the printing business, and in 1920 purchased the printing plant of John N. Barrett, of Tacoma, and is carrying on the business under the name of the J. J. Law Printing Company. He does all kinds of commercial printing, and by careful attention to the wants of his patrons, he. has built up a flattering business.

In 1905 Mr. Law was united in marriage to Miss Anna Clare Cloney of Aberdeen, and they are the parents of four children, Dorothy, Theresa, John and Frances. Mr. Law is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose, and his political affiliation is with the republican party. Mr. Law takes a deep interest in the progress and welfare of his community, owning his home here, and is proving himself worthy of the confidence and esteem which are accorded him.

Ralph Metcalf

Gaining success and recognition for himself, and at the same time honoring his county and state by his efficient service in important public positions, Ralph Metcalf, state senator from Pierce county, holds worthy prestige among his fellow citizens. He has long filled a conspicuous place in the public eye and as a leading member of the state legislative body is regarded as a statesman of sound erudition, mature judgment, strict integrity and an unselfish and sincere interest in the public welfare. Mr. Metcalf was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on the 2d of November, 1861, a son of Alfred and Rose Clinton (Meloy) Metealf, and is a scion of an old and prominent colonial family. He attended the public schools of his native city and graduated from Brown University. He then entered the University of Michigan, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1883. Later he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced his profession. In 1889 he and C. H. Boynton came to Tacoma and bought the Tacoma Morning Globe, of which Mr. Metcalf was editor until 1898, when the financial panic forced the consolidation of the Globe with the Ledger. He then engaged in the manufacture of

Ralph Metcaly

His first active connection with local political interests was in 1895, when he became secretary and campaign manager of the Good Government League, which put the late P. D. Norton and other reputable business men in the city council and wrought a great improvement in city affairs. He was one of the first advocates of a railroad commission, and in 1902, when this was the uppermost question, he and the late W. H. Harris were the only delegates elected to the county convention from the twenty-sixth senatorial district in opposition to the railroad forces. He was chairman of the city committee when Mr. Campbell was a candidate for mayor and was a member of Frank Cushman's managing committee in several campaigns. In 1906 Mr. Metcalf was elected to the state senate and was one of the leaders of the "square deal combination," which overthrew the old political ring that had controlled the senate from the beginning of statehood, and took from the lieutenant-governor the power to name committees and thus control legislation, and also banished lobbyists from the capitol. From that time to the present Senator Metcalf's record has been characterized by consistent and unwavering advocacy and support of constructive legislation and he has been the author of many bills which have immeasurably benefited the people of this state. He introduced the direct primary bill, which he had first advocated in his paper in 1890, and led the fight for its passage. His pamphlet on Direct Primary Legislation, published at that time for the information of voters, is used as a reference book in many eastern universities, was referred to by Governor Hughes in New York and was quoted by attorneys in defending the constitutionality of the law in the test case of 1908. Some of the important laws on the statute books which he introduced are the following: Establishing a state training school for girls; a joint resolution for an amendment to the constitution of the United States prohibiting polygamy and polygamous cohabitation; relating to the care of the insane and providing for an observation ward in county hospitals; requiring flag exercises in schools and the salute to the flag; a memorial to the president and congress to submit. to the states for ratification the constitutional amendment granting the franchise to woman; and others. In the 1913 session he cooperated with Senator White in drafting the red light abatement law and fighting it through. He assisted Senator Piper in drafting the law providing a minimum wage for women and in securing its passage. In 1925 he introduced the credit union act, to relieve workers from loan sharks, very strongly urged by the State Grange and the State Chamber of Commerce, and the bill was passed by the legislature but was vetoed by the governor. He also gave his support to all other measures which were calculated to advance the material, civic or moral welfare of his state. The initiative in legislation looking to a reduction in state expenditures was the introduction of a bill by Senator Metcalf in 1915 providing for a state budget, and which was passed by both houses, budget laws also. being passed for cities, counties and all public corporations, while in 1921 the administrative code was enacted, the result being that in the years 1922-23-24 there was a reduction in state taxes of nearly ten million dollars. Up to 1911 state road appropriations had been made without any well defined policy, half of the money being wasted. In the 1913 session, through the initiative of Senator Nichols of King county, with the cooperation of Senator Metcalf, the legislature adopted a definite state policy and a state system was established that the United States government has declared to be the best in the country. Washington has not a dollar of state indebtedness and does not levy any state road taxes, roads being paid for as constructed by those who use them, through the gasoline and motor taxes. In 1913 an American commission on farm credits was created by joint action of congress and the states. Becausé he was one of the very few in the state of Washington who had seriously studied this question, Senator Metcalf was commissioned by Governor Lister and the senate to serve on the commission, which made an intensive study in every country in Europe. Senator Metcalf's report was published by the state in a book of two hundred and ninety-three pages and was declared by the United States department of agriculture to be the most informatory and valuable report on the: subject ever published. Senator Metcalf went to Washington and assisted in preparing a bill, from which resulted the federal farm loan act, under which a billion and a half dollars have been loaned to American farmers on long term at low rates. Mr. Metcalf's address at Spokane, upon Rural Credit in Europe before. the Farmers' Union of Washington and Idaho, was published by the United States congress and many thousand copies distributed. Because of his report, Senator

Metcalf was made secretary of the International Trade Commission, which was organized under the same direction as the Rural Credit Commission, to study European conditions in 1922, with a view to increasing American trade. His report was published by congress. The plan suggested by this commission for the settlement of the two great European problems, German reparations and international debts, was the basis for the settlement which was made of the British debt and made the standard basis of settlement of European debts to the United States. Senator Metcalf has made five foreign trips in the last five years as secretary of a commission making an economic study. He represented the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce and the Washington State Chamber of Commerce at the International Chamber of Commerce at Brussels in June, 1925. A splendid tribute was recently paid to Senator Metcalf by Prof. Walter S. Davis, of the College of Puget Sound, who was a member of the state senate, in the following words: "If the voters of the twenty-sixth senatorial district would permit a suggestion from one not a resident of their district, who has deeply at heart the best interests of our grand state and its people, and who has served many years in the state senate as one of his colleagues, the suggestion would be to retain Senator Metcalf in the senate from the twenty-sixth district as long as he is willing to give his time and talents to the public service. * * * I doubt whether any state senatorial district in the United States is today more ably and brilliantly represented in a state legislature than is the twenty-sixth senatorial district of the state of Washington." Senator Metcalf, though a busy man in public affairs, has also been interested in business matters and is a stockholder in several manufacturing enterprises of the state.

In 1897 Senator Metcalf was married to Miss Edith O. Simpson, of Winona, Minnesota, and they are the parents of one child, Elizabeth, now the wife of G. E. Ledbetter, of Tacoma, and the mother of two children. The Senator has always beeh aligned with the republican party and was chairman of the city central committee in 1904-06. He served as secretary of the board of public works of Tacoma in 1890, and again in 1892. He has attained the degree of Knights Templar, being a life member of Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 4; is a life member of Afifi Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Modern Woodmen of America. He belongs to the Union Club, the Tacoma Golf and Country Club, the University Club and the Chamber of Commerce. The state of Washington has benefited by his study of public, questions and legislative achievements. He stands as an honored member of a striking group of able men whose influence in the civic and economic life of the state - and indeed of the nation - has been of a most beneficent order. Senator Metcalf possesses a personality that impresses all who come in contact with him, his genial and kindly manner attracting friendships, while those who have been associated with him hold him in the highest measure of esteem and confidence.

Charles B. Hurley

Among the citizens of Tacoma to whom is vouchsafed a prominen i history stands Charles B. Hurley, who through an extended eicod oe pee wees engaged in the general contracting business, in which he has been eminently successful, through his efforts contributing in a very definite measure to the growth and development of the city in which he lives. Mr. Hurley was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on the 7th of July, 1859, and is a son of William H. and Almira F. (Bender) Hurley, the former of whom was engaged in the importing business in which he was successful. ;

Charles B. Hurley attended the public schools of his native ci = tered the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated SERS Ge Serato neering course in 1878. He then entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad, working in the construction department, and afterward, for about four and a half years, was engaged in railroad construction work in Mexico and South America During the two following years he was with the New Jersey Central Railroad and then went to Pittsburgh, where he became president of the Pennsylvania Natural Gas seat te holding that position three years.

Tacoma Gas & Electric Light Company, which he operated until 1902. He then organized the Hurley-Mason Company and engaged in general contracting, in which he has achieved noteworthy success, having been identified with many large building and construction jobs throughout this section of the country. He erected the Northern Pacific Railroad station in Tacoma, the Perkins building and the hydro-electric plant of the Portland Railway & Power Company, and executed many other large contracts in Tacoma, Portland and Seattle. He has faithfully performed every contract into which he has entered and has long enjoyed a high reputation for absolute reliability in all his engagements.

In 1891 Mr. Hurley was married to Miss Ada McCraken, of Portland, and to them have been born three children, namely: Marjorie Dora, who died in 1897; Catherine, who is the wife of Irving L. Webster, of Portland; and Charles B., Jr., who is a graduate of Yale University and is now engaged in the lumber business in Tacoma.

Politically Mr. Hurley has been a lifelong republican and has taken a deep interest in public affairs, particularly those relating to the welfare of his own community. He is now a member of the freeholders committee which has in hand the drafting of the new city charter for Tacoma. He is a member of the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club, the Fircrest Golf Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the. Arlington Club of Portland. He is one of the most unostentatious of men, openhearted and candid in manner, of unassailable integrity, and has well merited the success which is his and the confidence which is accorded him wherever he is known.

John King

One of the oldest men now actively engaged in business affairs in Puyallup is John King, president and manager of the Puyallup Valley Home Telephone Company, and a man who since coming to this locality in 1910 has been a potent factor in the prosperity and welfare of the community. Mr. King was born in Fulton county, Ohio, on the 2d of April, 1848, and is a son of John and Elizabeth (Shoemaker) King, the latter of whom was a native of Pennsylvania. The father, who was born and reared in Ireland, was a pioneer of Ohio, locating in that-state in 1833, and there devoted his life to farming interests.

Our subject was reared on his father's farm, attended the public schools and then entered an academy in Canada, where an uncle lived. In 1870, when twentytwo years of age, he went to the frontier of northern Kansas, where he took up a tract of government land, which he operated for two years and then sold, after which he bought land in Marshall county, that state. He then entered the State Agricultural College, at Manhattan, Kansas, where he was graduated in 1877, and during the following several years he was engaged in farming and in teaching school. He remained in Kansas until 1909, and during that period he organized the Washington Mutual Telephone Company, of Washington county, that state, which he operated until leaving the state, when he sold it. On coming to the Pacific coast he first located in Oregon, where he remained about one and a half years, and in 1910 came to Puyallup and bought the controlling interest in the Puyallup Valley Home Telephone Company, of which he is now president. This company, which was organized in 1908, covers the territory contributory to Puyallup and embraces twelve hundred subscribers. It has long distance connections through the Bell telephone system, and about fifteen people are on the payroll.

On September 27, 1879, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Augusta Balderson, who was a native of Illinois and who died in 1922. She was a daughter of John and Mary Anne (Smith) Balderson, the former of whom was a native of Canada. The mother's family were pioneer settlers in Illinois, and moved to Kansas in 1869. To Mr. and Mrs. King were born the following children: Rene BS who died in childhood; Bertha, who was first the wife of William Watson, to which union were born three sons, Clarence, Charles and Ralph, and then became the wife of Charles M. Veach, of Puyallup, to which union have been born two children, Blanche and Harry; and John T., who is connected with the Puyallup Valley Home Telephone Company, and who was married to Miss Pearl Wilson, in Kansas. They are the parents of five children - Enid, Doy, Eunice, Gladys and Howard.

once as president, and has been a member of Puyallup Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, since immediately after its organization. He served as road master while a resident of Kansas. His son, John T., is a member of the Kiwanis Club. Mr. King has lived a long and useful life and has been fairly successful in his material affairs, and he has well merited the esteem which is accorded him.

One of the latest important additions to Tacoma's wholesole distributing houses is the Tacoma Drug Company, which was organized by C. F. Osmers during the summer of 1925. Mr. Osmers made his way to Pierce county, Washington, from New York, where he was engaged in the importing business as owner of the C. F. Osmers Company of that city from 1921 until 1925, when he sold his interests in order to come to Tacoma. Prior to 1921 he was a resident of Lewiston, Idaho, for many years, embarking in the retail drug business in that city in 1895. Eleven years later, in 1906, he turned his attention to the wholesale drug business, operating the Idaho Drug Company, of which he was the owner. During the time of his residence in Lewiston, Mr. Osmers was always active in public work in the interest of: the development and progress of that city. He served for several terms as president of the Chamber of Commerce, as a member of the city council and as mayor of that city, which position he resigned when he moved to New York in 1921.

In 1899 Mr. Osmers was united in marriage to Miss Emma Gregory, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and they are the parents of four children, namely: Stanford D., who is associated with his father in business; Margaret, who is at home; Elizabeth, who is in New York; and Frederick, who is a student in the University of Washington.

Mr. Osmers is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His name is likewise on the membership rolls of the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Tacoma Country Club.

The Tacoma Drug Company, which Mr. Osmers organized and of which he is the president and general manager, is filling a long felt need for such a wholesale house in Tacoma. It is prospering and growing very fast. The company is occupying the entire six-story building at the corner of Twenty-first street and Pacific avenue, which was formerly occupied by the A. V. Love Dry Goods Company. Its stock consists of complete lines of all drug store merchandise. Six traveling salesmen cover the territory of western Washington, which number is being constantly increased. The stock of the Tacoma Drug Company is all owned by Mr. Osmers and Tacoma business men, and the company is now one of the firmly established wholesale institutions of the northwest and makes Tacoma an important drug distributing center.

William Hall Paulhamus

Success is more often a matter of sound judgment and persistent determination than of genius, and the former were preeminent qualities in the makeup of William Hall Paulhamus, who not only attained success in his own affairs, but is generally regarded as having been one of the most influential and public-spirited men of his community, his personal efforts for the development and advancement of the Puyallup valley having been particularly effective in their final results. Mr. Paulhamus was born in Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1865, and was a son of Daniel and Teresa (Haggerty) Paulhamus, the former of whom was of Dutch descent, while saben who whike Sy aivs of Pennsylvania, was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The ather was a veteran of the Civil war and was wounded i ated a hotel in Youngstown, Ohio. ¢ FUREPGae SEeMeT Pa

In his early boyhood, William H. Paulhamus accompanied his family on their removal to Youngstown, and in the public schools of that city he secured his education. When eighteen years of age, he went to Aberdeen, South Dakota, and entered the bank of his uncle, F. H. Haggerty, remaining until 1890, when he came to Pierce county, locating at Sumner. Here he became cashier of the Bank of Sumner holding that position four years, and then moved to Tacoma, having been appointed under- sheriff, in which capacity he served three years. He then returned to Sumner and bought a hop farm, and he also planted a small patch to raspberries, his being the first small stand of raspberries in the Puyallup valley. Meeting with success in this venture, he took out all of his hops and replaced them with raspberries and blackberries, in the growing of which he met with splendid results. He advised his neighboring farmers of the valley to engage in berry raising, and later, when he perceived that the market was becoming flooded with berries, he became one of the organizers of the Puyallup and Sumner Fruit Growers Association, of which he served as president up to the time of his death, which occurred April 14, 1925. The association later built canneries, which took care of the surplus berry stock of the community, and proved a distinctive advantage to the farmers. Mr. Paulhamus was also mainly instrumental in the establishment of the Puyallup Valley Fair, which proved a splendid success, and of which he served as president for twenty-five years, up to the time of his death, receiving nothing for his services during those years. He put seventeen acres of his farm into raspberries and fifteen acres into blackberries, and he made many substantial improvements on the place, which now ranks among the best farms of the valley. At one time he owned a large herd of fine Jersey cattle, conducting a successful dairy business, but sold the stock some time prior to his death. Mrs. Paulhamus now leases all of the farm excepting the home, where she is still living.

On February 14, 1889, Mr. Paulhamus was united in marriage to Miss Allie Noyes Johnson, who was born in Detroit, Michigan, a daughter of William Noyes and Caroline Sarah (Smith) Jchnson, both also natives of Detroit, and of English ancestry. Mr. Johnson was for a number of years engaged in the hotel business in Michigan, but later engaged in the buying and selling of land in the Dakotas. To Mr. and Mrs. Paulhamus were born four children. Alice Noyes, who was born in Tacoma, is the wife of Arthur C. Tebb, of Aberdeen, Washington, head of the A. C. Tebb Lumber Company, and they have a daughter, Gloria. Clay Johnson, who is manager of a mill in Aberdeen, Washington, was married to Miss Evelyn Bretlinger. Caroline Teresa is the wife of F. S. Johnson, who is engaged in the laundry business in Puyallup. Dwight Randolph is in the employ of the Tourtellotte & Bradley building concern in Seattle.

Politically Mr. Paulhamus was an active supporter of the republican party and took a prominent part in public affairs. He served several terms as a member of the state senate, being president of that body for one term, and was also a candidate for governor of the state. Fraternally he was a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, which he joined in boyhood. Mrs. Paulhamus is a member of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Throughout all the years of his residence here Mr. Paulhamus was true to every trust reposed in him, and owing to his probity of character, his genuine worth and his kindly and genial disposition, he won the sincere respect and admiration of his fellowmen to a marked degree, his death being regarded as an irreparable loss to the community which had been honored by his citizenship.

No name is held in higher esteem in banking circles in the city of Tacoma than that df Forbes P. Haskell, Jr., president of the Puget Sound National Bank, for his record in various capacities in connection with the banking interests of this city has been one which has earned for him marked prestige. Mr. Haskell was born in Oakland, California, in 1873, and is a son of Forbes P. and Emma H. Haskell.. The father was a veteran of the Civil war, and in the late '60s he became a member of the surveying crew which ran the route for the first railroad into California. He remained identified with railroad interests for a number of years in California and Kansas. In 1889 he brought his family to Tacoma and here engaged in the insurance business, in which he was successful. Later he became superintendent of the safe deposit department of the Fidelity Trust Company.

Forbes P. Haskell, Jr., received the advantage of a public school education and then entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad, with which company he remained until 1893, when he entered the Fidelity Trust Company as a messenger boy. Here by faithful and able attention to duty he won promotions until he became assistant cashier, which position he held until 1909, when he resigned and became associated with Hugh C. Wallace. In 1920 Mr. Haskell was appointed to liquidate the Scandinavian American Bank, which task he concluded in a very satisfactory manner, and in May, 1923, he was chosen president of the Puget Sound National Bank. This bank is unique in that it is the only one in Tacoma that has not consolidated with some other bank or changed its principal name. It was organized May 8, 1890, with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, as the Puget Sound Savings Bank. The first officers were: Jesse B. Sutton, president; Daniel S. Garlick, cashier, and George Tibbetts, assistant cashier. The bank was then located at the corner of Pacific avenue and Twenty-fourth street and was opened for business May 10, 1890. On April 6, 1912, the capital stock was increased to one hundred thousand dollars, and on August 31, 1912, its name was changed to the Puget Sound State Bank, which name it retained until April 25, 1916, when it became the Puget Sound Bank and Trust Company. On December 31, 1922, it was nationalized and assumed its present name, that of the Puget Sound National Bank, its capital stock being at the same time increased to three hundred thousand dollars. The bank is now housed in a splendid sixteen-story office building, which it purchased.

In 1896 Mr. Haskell was married to Miss Mary E. Lovell, of Tacoma, and they are the parents of two children, namely: Donald F., who is in the Puget Sound National Bank; and Oliver H., who is a graduate of the University of Washington and is now attending Harvard University. Mr. Haskell is a stanch supporter of the republican party and is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He belongs also to the Rotary Club, the Union Club and the Tacoma Country Club and is a popular member of the social circles in which he moves. Possessing tact and. sound judgment, he has ably and successfully directed the affairs of his bank and is regarded as one of the leading banking men of this section of the state. He is recognized as a man of strong and alert mentality, deeply interested in everything pertaining to the advancement of the community along material, civic or moral lines, and is a man of influence and prominence in the affairs of Tacoma.

Almin L. Swanson

Almin L. Swanson, president and manager of the Tacoma Title Company, with offices in the Bankers Trust building, is regarded as one of the leading title men of this county, having long enjoyed a large and steadily increasing patronage among the representative people of the community. He is a native of Sweden, born on the 7th day of September, 1877, and is a son of August and Carolina (Anderson) Swanson. The father came to Tacoma in 1885, and five years later sent for his family, including the mother and five children, of whom Almin L. was the oldest being at that time thirteen years of age. The mother took sick in London anid the children were sent on alone. On their arrival at Quebec, Canada they were kept for a month in quarantine on the St. Lawrence river, on account of 'an epidemic among the passengers aboard ship, but were at length permitted to land and then came on to their father. The mother eventually recovered from her illness and rejoined her family about a year later. On his arrival here, the father engaged in contracting for awhile, but later engaged in manufacturing. After several years in that connection he returned to contracting, which he followed up to the time of his noe aie The mother is still living here.

Academy, and then studied law, though he did not a for rere te | He entered the employ of the Commonwealth Title Company and with that concern remained twelve years, gaining valuable experience and becoming thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business. In 1910 he established the Tacoma Title Company, of which he has since been president and manager, and has met with a very gratifying measure of success. His first office was in the Fidelity buildin where he remained until 1923, when he moved to the Bankers Trust, building Tee he e now Stee The office is well equipped with the most up-to-date files in the county sk a every way Mr. Swanson is prepared to give the best possible service also is a native of Sweden, and who came to this country in girlhood with her mother. To Mr. and Mrs. Swanson were born eight children, namely: Melvin, who is a student in the University of Washington; Cecil, who is in the Stadium high school; Wilmont, Allan and Donald, and three daughters who are deceased. Mr. Swanson gives his political support to the republican party and has served three years on the board of education. He is a member of the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Tacoma Country Club and the Fircrest Golf Club and is a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was one of the first to start the Boy Scout movement in Tacoma, in which organization he has always maintained a deep interest and is now a member of the council. He is a director of the Puget Sound National Bank and is president of the Far West Clay Company. In 1912 Mr. Swanson and his family made a tour of Europe, and went again in 1924, visiting thirteen countries. He is a man of keen and alert mentality, a close reader and observer, and has frequently delivered lectures on Sweden. Of pleasing address and splendid personality, he has formed a wide acquaintance throughout Pierce county and has a host of warm and loyal friends, who esteem him for his genuine worth.

Judson Benton

One of the active and prominent members of the legal fraternity in Tacoma is Judson Benton, who has been successful not only in the regular practice of his profession, but also in the operation of the Bonded Adjustment Corporation, one of the most, successful collection agencies on the Pacific coast.

Mr. Benton was born in Norway, Michigan, on the 17th of June, 1886, and is a son of Joseph W. and Mary (Longrie) Benton, both of whom are deceased. After completing the public school course, he entered the law school of Kent College, where he was graduated in 1913. In that same year he went to Seattle, Washington, and practiced his profession there until 1916, with the exception of a period in 1914 when he was located in Langley, Washington. In 1916 he located in Puyallup, where he practiced about two years, and in 1918 came to Tacoma, where he has practiced to the present time. Well founded in the basic principles of the law, a forceful and effective pleader and a sound and safe counselor, he has met with gratifying success. In 1920 Mr. Benton organized the Bonded Adjustment Corporation, to serve as a clearing house for the delinquent accounts of local business houses, and this concern has proven a marked success, the volume of business increasing to such an extent that fifteen people are employed in the office and in handling the accounts. Mr. Benton specializes in commercial law and has successfully handled a large number of important cases in the courts of this county.

On July 14, 1915, Mr. Benton was united in marriage to Miss Irene La Plante, of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. He gives his support to the republican party and while a resident of Langley served as mayor. He is a member of the Pierce County Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association and the American Bar Association, and belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Columbus (fourth degree), the Fircrest Golf Club and the Tacoma Country Club. He is a director of the American Savings and Loan Association. In every relation of life he has been loyal and true, possessing the essential qualities of good citizenship and throughout the range of his acquaintance is held in the highest measure of esteem.

Frank Depuy Dwight

Frank Depuy Dwight, the able and efficient manager for the John Dower Lumber Company at Puyallup, has by his industrious habits, splendid personal character and commendable interest in public affairs won the unbounded respect of the entire community. He is a native of Union, Union county, Oregon, born on the 12th of July, 1876, and is a son of Henry W. and Emily (Breed) Dwight, both of whom were natives of New York state. The father was a true western pioneer, coming to California in 1849, and later moved to Oregon. The mother came direct to Oregon and there she and her future husband met. Mr. Dwight followed farming for many years, and was also engaged in the livery business, and then ran a grocery store and a drug store. He likewise served as register of the United States land office in Oregon. Eventually he came to the Puyallup valley and bought a farm, on which he spent the remaining years of his life. He is survived by his widow, who is now living in Tacoma, at the age of eighty-four years. ;

Frank D. Dwight attended the public schools and then took a course in a business college. For a number of years he was engaged in the hotel business in Oregon, and later in Idaho. In 1905 he came to Puyallup and for a time worked in sawmills. Later he was with the Pierce County Berry Association, and then organized the Evergreen Lumber Company, which he operated for nine years, at the end of which time he sold it to the Sundown Lumber Company. During the following six years he was manager for the W. E. Patterson Lumber Company, and then became manager for the John Dower Lumber Company, which position he has held to the present time. By natural ability and experience he is well qualified for this responsible place and by his earnest efforts and sound judgment has been a definite factor in the success of the company.

On June 10, 1902, Mr. Dwight was united in marriage to Miss Nellie Perkins, of Baker, Oregon, and to them have been born three children, namely: M. P., who is with the Sunset Lumber Company at Oakland, California; Hubert, who is working with his father; and Frances, who is at home. Mr. Dwight is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and also belongs to the Kiwanis Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association. He is an active republican in his political alignment and was honored by election as a member of the city council of Puyallup, in which capacity he served two terms, and is at the present time clerk of the school board. Im all the relations of life he has been honorable and upright, and his fine qualities have been recognized and appreciated.

S. J. Maxwell

In the truest sense of the term, S. J. Maxwell is a self-made man, having from boyhood made his own way in the world and by his own efforts and ability having risen from a humble capacity to his present enviable standing in the business world. He was born in Henry county, Tennessee, on the 15th of June, 1863, a son of William Morris and Martha (Howard) Maxwell, both of whom died in 1868. Thereafter he lived with an uncle and sister until sixteen years of age, when he started out in life for himself, having received a common school education. Going to Iowa, he obtained employment as a clerk in a grocery store, working from seven o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock at night and receiving a dollar and a half a week. He worked there one year and then entered a bank as office boy, remaining one and a half years. During the following two years he was employed in construction work on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in Iowa.

In the meantime Mr, Maxwell had applied himself during his spare hours to the study of stenography and he now obtained a position in the engineering department of the general offices of the Union Pacific Railroad in Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained until June 6, 1887, when he came to Tacoma and was with the Northern Pacific Railroad until 1900. He then became connected with Dodwell & Company of Tacoma, which concern operated steamships to the Orient and to Alaska and in the fall of the year he was sent to Seattle as the company's agent. A year and a half later he engaged in business for himself as a steamship agent at Seattle, where he remained until 1906, when he returned to Tacoma, and has since been engaged in the same line of business here. He represents the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and dn Holland-American line, two of the oldest and largest steamship compe ve i cone and has met with eminent success in handling the local business

On October 12, 1893, Mr. Maxwell was united in marriage i i Vaughn, a native of Wisconsin, and they are the parents of a8 ditties winaies Donald R., who lives in Seattle; and Katherine E., who is the wife of C 'A White of Yakima, Washington, Politically Mr. Maxwell is nominally a republican but is inclined to maintain an independent attitude, voting according to his own judgment as to men and measures. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and is actively identified with the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, being manager of the industrial and foreign trade bureaus of that organization. He has won the reputation of a man who does well whatever he undertakes and his success since locating in Tacoma has been well won. Candid and straightforward in all his relations and cordial and friendly in manner, he enjoys a wide acquaintance and is highly regarded.

George Pettis

Among the venerable and highly respected residents of northwestern Pierce county specific mention should be made of George Pettis, who is numbered among those who have by their personal efforts assisted in the clearing of the land and the development of the county along agricultural lines. His career has been marked by much hard work, and today he is enjoying well deserved prosperity.

Mr. Pettis was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, on the 12th of September, 1853, and is a son of John and Mary (Wallace) Pettis, the former a native of Canada and the latter of New Hampshire. The father owned a good farm and followed agricultural pursuits up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1874, when eighty-four years of age. The mother died in 1858, in childbirth. To these parents were born nine children, of whom our subject is the only one living, namely: Paul, Edward, Mary, Lucy, Selinda, Sarah, Jennie, Flora and George.

George Pettis was educated in the public schools of his native state and was reared by members of the Shaker religious sect until he was sixteen years of age. He then went to work on a farm, and later went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he remained but a short time, going to Chicago, Illinois, in 1869, shortly before the great fire. After remaining in that city about a year, he returned to Boston and was employed for some twelve months as a plumber's helper. He then went to Nashua, New Hampshire, where he learned the trade of a steel polisher, at which he worked for seven or eight years in various cities in the east. Next he went to Concord, Massachusetts, where he worked as a cook's helper, and later went to Michigan, where he cooked for log drivers for two years. From there he went, to Hammond, Indiana, where he was employed in a vinegar factory two years, and then went to Colorado and cooked in mining camps. He served as cook in the Fifth Avenue Hotel in Leadville for a time and was similarly employed in Denver about six months. In 1883 he went to San Francisco, California, where he cooked for one company seven years, during which period he never lost a day.

In 1892 Mr. Pettis located in Petaluma, California, where he bought a chicken ranch, but "went broke" there, and in 1894 came to Tacoma, Washington, in which city he was employed as a cook until 1900, when he bought eleven acres of land two miles northwest of Puyallup, all of which was covered with timber and brush. After building a small house, he engaged in clearing the land and planted a good orchard. He also planted berries and bought a few cows and a nice flock of chickens, and here he has lived to the present time. He has his farm in good shape and is now able to take things easy, as he derives a nice income from the ranch, one of the prominent features of which is an orchard of one hundred bearing cherry trees.

Frederic D. Metzger

Frederic D. Metzger has long stood in the front ranks of the legal profession in Pierce county, having been uniformly successful as a practitioner, while in the role ofa private citizen he has honored his community. Mr. Metzger was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, on the 19th of December, 1886, and is a son of Alfred F. and Emily (Pratt) Metzger. Alfred F. Metzger came to Seattle, Washington, in the fall of 1889, and soon afterward located at Shelton, Mason county, where he established the first bank in that town. In 1892 the family moved to Seattle, where they lived until March 1, 1900, when they came to Tacoma, where the father is now serving as chief

Frederic D. Metzger secured a public school training, attending the high schools at Seattle and Tacoma, and then went to Whitworth College, where he was graduated in 1906. In 1908 he was appointed to a Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, where he pursued his law studies three years, returning to this country in August, 1911. In October of that year he was, on examination, admitted to the bar and then entered the office of Hayden & Langhorne. In 1913 he became a member of that firm and has since been engaged in the general practice of his profession, though specializing in corporation work. In this particular field of practice he has been eminently successful and has gained wide recognition for his ability and erudition as a lawyer.

On July 23, 1912, Mr. Metzger was united in marriage to Miss Catherine Burr, of Iowa, a daughter of Franklin H. Burr, and his wife, whose family name was Richards. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are the parents of four children: Frederic Cs Martha Jane, Richard Burr and Catherine Emily. Politically Mr. Metzger is a democrat and fraternally is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He also belongs to the Union Club, the Tacoma Golf and Country Club, the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and maintains professional affiliations with the Pierce County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association. He is a director of the Army National Bank of Camp Lewis.

Mr. Metzger is a constant and close student of his profession, keeping in touch with the latest decisions of the courts, and in court practice he is keen and determined, noted for clearness of statement and candor in discussions of the principles of law. By a straightforward, honorable course he has built up a large and remunerative practice and commands to a marked degree the respect of his professional colleagues, while throughout the community he is held in high esteem.

L. H. Heidinger, one of the most prosperous and substantial residents of the vicinity of Sumner, gained his success entirely by his own efforts, and his career has been marked by hard and consecutive endeavor, the exercise of sound business judgment and sterling integrity in all of his dealings. He is now practically retired from active efforts and is devoting his attention chiefly to the management of his interests. Mr. Heidinger was born at Liebig, Germany, on the 12th of February, 1854, and is a son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Riddlesdorf) Heidinger. The parents came to the United States in 1869 and located in Minnesota, where some time later the father bought a farm, which he operated up to the time of his death, which occurred about 1890. His wife passed away in 1880. Of the nine children born to them, two are living, Henry and L. H. Henry, who is now retired and lives in King county, is in the eighty-third year of his age and recently celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary.

He Heidinger received his education in the public schools of Germany, later supplementing this by much private study and reading, so that today he is , well informed man. When fourteen years old he went to England and learned the trade of a butcher, at which he worked there until 1870, when he immigrated to the United States. He located in Minnesota, and eventually obtained a place in a butcher shop in Minneapolis, where he remained until 1879, when he opened a shop of his own at Ada, Minnesota, which he sold after running it about a year. In 1880 he moved to Independence, Oregon, and bought a butcher shop, which he ran for a little over a year and then sold. In December, 1881, he came to Tacoma, Washington, which at that time had a population of about eight hundred, and bought two lots én G street which he cleared off and on which he built a house. He then engaged in the meat business on Pacific avenue, selling out a short time later, and afterward was for awhile in business with Geiger Brothers. Selling his interests here, he went to Puyallup and established a meat market, which he successfully operated for nearl eighteen years. In 1897 Mr. Heidinger joined the gold rush to Alaska sbahakaite there until late fall, when he returned and spent the winter in Washington In the following spring he went back to Alaska, by way of the Stickeen route and ieint lished a meat market at Wrangel, which he operated for awhile and in Au ust ¢ ' back to Washington, returning almost at once to Skagway where he o meet cate market, which he operated until spring. He then came! bwelk to iy eahinetaad bought a herd of fat cattle, which he took to Alaska and sold at a nice profit, after which he again opened a butcher shop at Skagway. Some time later he again returned to the States and took some cattle to Dawson, Alaska, in the sale of which he realized a handsome profit. He also brought a second lot of cattle to Dawson, and in 1900 he closed out all his interests in Alaska and returned to Puyallup. Here he established two butcher shops, both of which he later leased. He was successful in all his business ventures and acquired a good deal of real estate in Puyallup. In August, 1901, Mr. Heidinger bought one hundred acres of land three miles north of Sumner, a part of which was cleared. He finished the clearing of the land, drained it and then occupied a good house on the place which had been built in 1890 by Dr. Spinning. Here he devoted his attention to dairy farming, keeping eighty-five head of high grade cows, but now both of his ranches are leased.

In 1880 Mr. Heidinger was united in marriage to Miss Katrine Stark, who was born in Germany and is a daughter of Chris and Katrine Stark. Her parents brought their family to the United States in 1868, locating in Minnesota, where the father engaged in farming until 1882, when they came to the Puyallup valley, where the parents died, the mother in December, 1918. They had nine children, namely: Maggie, who lives in Minnesota; Katrine, Mrs. Heidinger; William, who lives in Oregon; Henry, who lives in Alaska; Peter and Christ, in Oregon; John, of Tacoma; Lizzie, who lives in Seattle; and Mrs. Mary Schefflin. To Mr. and Mrs. Heidinger have been born four children. Josephine is the wife of George Nicoli, of Prineville, Oregon, and they have three children, Margaret, who is a graduate of the State Agricultural College, at Pullman, and is now a druggist in Chicago; Elizabeth, now attending college at Walla Walla; and Eugene, who is in high school. William is married and has six children, Louis, William, Frances, Jack and Fred, twins, the latter being deceased, and James. Louis, who lives in Oregon, is married and has three children, Annette, Katherine and Paul. Kate is the wife of Car] Leindecker, and they have a daughter, Margene, who is attending the University of Washington.

Mr. Heidinger is a member of Heidinger Lodge, Woodmen of the World, and a charter member of Puyallup Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He has been active in local public affairs and served two terms as a member of the school board.

Carl D. Mettler

Carl D. Mettler, who is now living retired on his fine farm, one mile east of the city limits of Tacoma, was during his active years one of the most successful and enterprising farmers in this section of the county. His life has been characterized by hard and persistent labor and his business operations marked by sound judgment, while as a citizen he has so ordered his actions as to win a high place in the community where he lives.

Mr. Mettler was born in Canton Schwyz, Switzerland, on the 16th of February, 1863, and is a son of Frank K. and Agatha Mettler, the former of whom was born in 1819, and died in July, 1867, while the latter was born in 1825 and died in 1916, when past eighty years of age. The father owned a large dairy and followed farming in connection. To him and his wife were born twelve children, namely: Mary, Agatha, Dorothy, Caroline and Katrine, all deceased; Annie; Frank K., also deceased; Lois, Frank, Carl D., Simon and Theodore. The last named, who was a father in the Benedictine order in Switzerland, also is deceased.

Carl D. Mettler was educated in the public schools of his native land and helped his father on the home farm until he was twenty-four years old. In 1887 he emigrated to the United States, going at once to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he was employed on a dairy farm for three years. In May, 1890, he came to Tacoma and in the ensuing fall leased forty acres of Indian reservation land. Later he leased more land and at one time had three hundred acres under lease. He engaged in the dairy business, milking thirty cows, and was one of the first to bring Holstein cattle to the Puyallup valley. During these years he cleared two hundred acres of good land a mile east of Tacoma. In 1899 he bought forty acres of this land, to which he later added by forty-acre purchases until he finally became the owner of the entire two hundred acres which he had cleared. Since then he bought from his brother Simon the latter's interest in the land. He is at this time the owner of eighty acres, the greater part of which is leased for gardening and dairy purposes, and he is now living i i om active affairs. While he and his brother were enes Ee a ike pritae soe cates they built a barn, one hundred and seventy by Pave feet in size, at that time the largest barn in Hi county, and at that time i i i - their native land. e fa ; v P oa Wr esih gaan eee: He was twice married and had two eres by ag second union, Joseph, who lives in California ; and Mary, now Mrs. Mett es ! . and Mrs. Mettler are the parents of five children, namely: Charles iVie5 a go en mi Tacoma, is married and has a daughter, Mary Katrine; Pauline J. and ahi vn os home; Elizabeth Ann is the wife of Fred Gffler ; and Louis is at home. (0) 4 e children received good educations. Charles V. is a veteran of the World war, aving served two years in France as: the coast artillery, and now holds a good posiion i nk of California at Tacoma. ! ae me nears is a republican in his political views, is a member of the Swiss Society of Tacoma, and he and his wife are members of the Holy Rosary Roman Catholic church in that city. He is of a progressive type of character, doing well whatever he undertakes. He has proven a worthy citizen of his adopted country, to the institutions of which he has been loyal and true, and in every way he has been worthy of the respect which has been accorded him by his fellow citizens,

William Carleton Wheeler

For a period covering more than three decades William Carleton Wheeler figured prominently in industrial circles of Tacoma as president of The Wheeler, Osgood Company, manufacturers of yellow fir doors, sash, blinds, moldings, sidings and shingles, and one of the oldest and most substantial institutions in the northwest. He had attained the age of seventy-nine years when called to his final rest on the 18th of November, 1920. His birth occurred in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, on the 13th of July, 1841, his parents being Loring and Eveline (Bruce) Wheeler, who were also natives of the Bay state. The American progenitors of the family immigrated to this country from England early in the seventeenth century and settled at Concord. Loring Wheeler, the father of William C. Wheeler, was born in Westminster, Massachusetts, in 1807, and there acquired his education, after which he removed to Fitchburg, where he engaged for a brief period in the manufacture of house bellows. In 1860 he sold out and turned his attention to farming in that district, continuing active in agricultural circles until his death in 1873. For years prior to his death he settled many estates, being a man of great business and executive ability.

William C. Wheeler attended school in his native town and on leaving the high school started out in the business world. In 1862, however, he joined the army, becoming a member of Company A, Fifty-third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. His regiment was engaged entirely in service in Louisiana, its last battle being at Port Hudson, which was the last point on the Mississippi river to surrender. Mr. Wheeler was mustered out in 1863 and with a creditable military record returned to his home. He then went to. Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he became bookkeeper for the E. Chase & Sons Lumber Company, occupying that position for nearly three years. He was afterward connected with the Hampden Paper Company as paymaster for a period of nearly three years and later on account of ill health went to Dubuque, Iowa, where he spent a twenty-year period with the firm of Carr & Austin and its successors, sash and door manufacturers. At the end of that time Mr. Wheeler sold his interest in the company, because of ill health, the name being at the time Carr, Ryder & Wheeler. It became one of. the leading firms in the business in the middle west, controlling a trade of extensive proportions.

His impaired health required Mr. Wheeler to leave that country for a more equable climate, and in 1889 he came to Pierce county, Washington, taking up his permanent abode in Tacoma. Here he organized Wheeler, Osgood & Company, of which he became the president. In 1903 the concern reincorporated under the name of The Wheeler, Osgood Company. His associate officers were as follows: T. E. Ripley, vice president; G. R. Osgood, second vice president; William C. Wheeler, Jr., secretary; and R. H. Clarke, treasurer. Something of the development of the business is indicated in the fact that at the commencement the company had but fifty employees while today there are more than a thousand names on the payroll. In 1914 the company bought out the Far West Lumber Company's sawmill, adding it to its factory plant, which manufactures everything that is used in interior and exterior work for all classes of buildings, including sash, doors, veneered panels and lumber products. This has become one of the most important industrial features of Tacoma, its business extending throughout this country and many foreign countries, and in the control thereof Mr. Wheeler manifested notable executive ability and initiative. The chief directing head of the business until his death, he was thoroughly acquainted with the trade from the first point in manufacture to the time when the product is placed upon the market. In addition to his interests in The Wheeler, Osgood Company he was the president of the Moore Logging Company.

At Holyoke, Massachusetts, on the 29th of April, 1865, Mr. Wheeler was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Couch, who was born at Plainfield, New Hampshire, January 18, 1842. Her parents were John Morton and Fanny G. (Goodale) Couch, the former born at Lee, Massachusetts, and the latter at Amherst, Massachusetts. Sarah Elizabeth Couch was still but a child when she accompanied her parents on their return to the Bay state, and she remained at home to the time of her marriage, pursuing a high school course at Holyoke. William Carleton and Sarah Elizabeth (Couch) Wheeler became the parents of four sons, as follows: Alvin Sawyer, professor of chemistry in the University of North Carolina, who married Edith James and has two sons; Edgar C., who is pastor of Pilgrim Congregational church of Tacoma, which he founded and developed, and who wedded Cornelia Robertson; Robert R., who is deceased; and William C., who, as above stated, is secretary of The Wheeler, Osgood Company. The last named married Caroline Mason and has five children.

Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth (Couch) Wheeler has served for eighteen years as president of the Washington Women's Missionary Union, home and foreign, of the Congregational church. She belongs to Virginia Dare Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, to the Aloha Club, to the New England Society and to the First Congregational church, having been a member of the last named since 1889.

Mr. Wheeler gave his political support to the republican party and his interest in public affairs was of a deep and beneficial character. In 1895 he served as president of the Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Commercial Club and served as president of the Ferry Museum. All features of municipal life interested him and his cooperation was heartily given to every movement for promoting the general good. He held membership in the First Congregational church, of which he was deacon emeritus, and served as president of its board of trustees for eighteen years.

The following tribute, by Rev. Edgar C. Wheeler, appeared in "The WOCO," the house organ of The Wheeler, Osgood Company, in its issue of August and September, 1923: "A short time ago, Dr. John R. Mott, an old family friend, defined vision as 'seeing what others do not see; seeing further than they see; and seeing before they see. To a certain extent my father had this power of vision. He never would have left safe and sane New England for Dubuque, Iowa, to engage in the sash and door business for twenty-one years, if he had not been a man of vision. He'never would have left Dubuque in 1889 for Tacoma to organize a new sash and door business far from the markets of the world, if he had not been a man of vision. To have vision is a sign of strength. On the other hand, to be visionary is a sign of weakness. My father was not visionary. He saw the future of the sash and door industry, and the present great WOCO plant is the realization of his dream. Another reason why his life work was a success and not a failure lies in a certain rugged quality known as integrity. If a man starts out as Germany did, regarding solemn treaties as mere scraps of paper, the time will come as it has in Germany when the current coin of his conversation and deeds will be mere scraps of paper. My father aimed always to make his word better than his bond, not merely as good as his bond! When he gave his word, made a promise, entered into verbal obligation, he set his whole life and character back of it, until the day it was redeemed. You didn't have to jog his memory, or call him to book, or show him where he signed his name. He delivered the goods, often at the cost of great personal sacrifice. This is illustrated by his attitude toward his church financial obligations. In flush times he made a liberal pledge to his church. In lean times when almost everybody else cut down their usual pledge, he maintained his at the old level, though it cost him the satisfying of many a personal want. For example, he never indulged in the luxury of an automobile until he was seventy-four years old. When it came to meeting his obligations the atmosphere in his home and in his office was never tainted with an alibi. One more quality, among many, I would like to emphasize might be called his power of application. When he went into the sash and door business he expected to invest his energy, his time and his money in that business. He went to his office practically every day for fifty years. Many successful business men retire at the age of sixty-five. He kept to his task until he died at the age of seventy-nine. He never sought excuses for staying away from his work. Many a day he went to work when those close to him thought he should have gone to bed. As he consecrated his time to his business, so he concentrated his money. He died leaving no investments outside of the business he had built up and his home. He carfied all his eggs in ene basket - he risked his fortune on his faith in WOCO. For a time he was interested in a bank, but when the bank closed his small investment passed out, too. So it may be said that the secret of his success was his capacity for sticking to one thing. His motto must have been, 'This one thing I do,' and the result justifies his limitation and concentration of effort. Now he is gone and his place here below will know him no more, but we could wish WOCO no greater thing than this, that the spirit and principles of the founder may always abide in this company of workers."

Joseph L. Carman

Amoug the prosperous manufacturing enterprises of Tacoma none presents a more creditable record than the Carman Manufacturing Company, of which Joseph L. Carman is president and the success of which has been to a very large measure due to his indefatigable efforts, able management and progressive methods. Mr. Carman has gained marked prestige through his business successes since coming to Tacoma and is regarded as one of the representative business men of the city. He was born in Carman, Henderson county, Illinois, on the 5th of November, 1861, and is a son of Joseph and Mercy (Crane) Carman, who were pioneer settlers in Illinois, where the father became a man of considerable prominence and influence, the town of Carman being named in his honor.

Joseph L. Carman attended the public schools and a preparatory school at Burlington, Iowa, after which he took a course in a business college. At the age of sixteen years he became connected with the insurance business, which engaged his attention until the age of twenty-two, when he located at Des Moines, Iowa, and entered the mattress business. He had visited Tacoma in 1890 and had formed a very favorable opinion of the locality, so in January, 1891, he sold his interests in Des Moines and came to this city. In that same year he established the Pacific Lounge & Mattress Company, which was the successor of L. S. Wood & Company, which had been established in 1889. In 1900 the firm style was changed to that of the Carman Manufacturing Company, which name it still retains, and it has been under the same management continuously since 1891. Joseph L. Carman has been president since that date, and J. W. Tibbetts has been secretary since 1894.

The present factory, which was erected in 1908, covers thirty-two: lots, or about one and a half city blocks. The three main buildings are, respectively, three hundred by one hundred and twenty feet in size, two and four stories high; two hundred by one hundred and twenty feet, four stories high; and fifty by one hundred and twenty feet, four stories high, all being of mill construction and equipped with sprinkler systems throughout. The Carman company is engaged in the manufacture of bedroom and dining room furniture, iron beds, spring beds, kitchen equipment, and a general line of mattresses, including mattresses de luxe. The products of the factory are sold throughout the west and in Alaska, Honolulu and the Philippines, sales being made direct to furniture dealers and eight traveling salesmen being employed. The company also has branch factories at Portland, Oregon, and Seattle and Spokane Washington. One hundred and fifty people are employed in the Tacoma factory iro hundred and fifty in the factory at Portland, which covers seven acres of ground forty at Seattle and thirty at Spokane, a total of nearly five hundred employes, This concern is one of the largest in its line in the United States and one of the oldest in the west. Mr. Carman has devoted himself very closely to the building up of this great enterprise, the steady and substantial growth of which has reflected great credit on his business acumen, farsightedness and sound judgment. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Bank of Tacoma, the Army

In 1898 Mr. Carman was united in marriage to Miss Margaret Cootes, of Tacoma, and they are the parents of a son, Joseph Lincoln, Jr., who is vice president and secretary of the Olympia Calpet Refining Company, at Seattle. He is a graduate of Yale University and was a member of the varsity rowing crew. He was married to Miss Dorothy Alexander, daughter of H. F. Alexander, and they have a son, Joseph Lincoln (III).

Our subject is a republican in his political views, while fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has received the thirtysecond degree of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite; the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, of which he has served as director. Mr. Carman is essentially a man of affairs, holding distinctive preferment as one of the most progressive and energetic men who have here inaugurated and carried to successful consummation large and important undertakings, so that today he occupies an enviable position among those who have so largely contributed to the development and prosperity of Tacoma. He is a man of sterling character and worth, is genial and companionable among his associates, and throughout the range of his wide acquaintance is held in high esteem.

Oscar H. Pihl

Oscar H. Pihl holds a foremost place among the enterprising, progressive and influential business men of Puyallup, having for many years until recently conducted one of the leading commercial establishments of this locality. His birth took place in Sweden on the 3d of May, 1868, and he is a son of C. J. A. and Sophia (Samuels) Pihl, both of whom also were natives of Sweden. They were reared and married in that country, and brought their family to the United States in the fall of 1868, locating at Hastings, Minnesota, where the father was employed as a carpenter about twenty years. In 1888 the family came to Puyallup, Washington, where he continued to work at his trade, being employed in the construction of a number of the most important buildings in this locality. His death occurred March 16, 1920, and that of his wife, March 3, 1919. Of the nine children born to this worthy couple, the subject of this sketch is the eldest, he also being the only one born in Sweden. The others are as follows: J. M., of Mountain View, California; Christine, of Puyallup; Albert, of Twin Falls, Idaho; Mrs. Mary Sehon, who is teaching school in Puyallup; F. T., who is engaged in the real estate business in Puyallup; Josephine, who lives in Olympia, Washington; Mrs. Emma Seely, of Puyallup; and Walter, who lives in Oregon.

Osear H. Pihl was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the public schools of Hastings, after which he assisted his father for awhile. After coming to Washington, in 1888, he was employed at railroad work, in sawmills and on farms, and also spent three summers in Alaska. In 1903 he and his brother, J. M. Pihl, bought from Widen & Gibbs the Puyallup Trading Company, which they operated together until 1921, when our subject bought his partner's interest and thereafter ran the business alone until 1926, when he sold out, and is now practically retired. He built the building occupied by the store, in 1911, and also built a feed house in 1908, which he sold in 1920. He carried a large stock of groceries, feed, flour, grain and hay, and was rewarded with a fine measure of prosperity, his store being regarded as the leader in its line in Puyallup. In all his operations he has shown sound business judgment, and the success which has attended his efforts has been well earned.

Mr. Pihl has been married twice - first, in 1908, to Miss Grace Showers, who was born in Ohio and who died in January, 1922. She was brought west when young, her father, George Showers, having taken up a homestead on one of the islands of the North bay. To this union was born a son, Carl, who is now seventeen years of age. In September, 1924, Mr. Pihl was married to Mrs. Charlotte Mosher, who was born in San Francisco, California, but was living in Spokane, Washington, at the time of her marriage.

in his voting. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been treasurer for the past sixteen years, and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He belongs to the Puyallup Chamber of Commerce and was for eighteen years a member of the volunteer fire department. He has been loyal and true in all of life's relations, and no man in the community is held in higher esteem than he.

George Albert Stanley

George Albert Stanley, veteran principal of schools in Tacoma, where he was prominently identified with educational interests for thirty-two years, was head of the new Jason Lee intermediate high school when called to his final rest on the 15th of November, 1924, at the age of fifty-eight years. His birth occurred in Missouri in 1866, his parents being James and Mary (Doty) Stanley, who were natives of New York and Indiana, respectively. The family, which is of English descent, has been represented in America through four generations. James Stanley, the father of George Albert Stanley, was an assistant surgeon in the Civil war, serving during the entire period of hostilities between the north and the south. His health was broken by the rigors of military life and he died soon after the close of the war. To him and his wife had been born seven children. The widowed mother, Mrs. Mary (Doty) Stanley, eventually made her way to Oregon to join her sons who were living in that state. Her son, David T. Stanley, who established the State Normal School at Monmouth, Oregon, was also the president of a bank and the owner of a printing office there.

George A. Stanley, whose name introduces this review, spent the period of his boyhood in the state of his nativity and was a youth of seventeen when he began teaching school there. The following year he journeyed westward to Oregon and for two years was a student in the State Normal School at Monmouth. He next spent two years as an instructor at Prineville, Oregon. Subsequently he went back east across the continent as far as Ann Arbor, Michigan, for special work in the University of Michigan, and was also graduated from the Michigan State Normal College at Ypsilanti. The year 1891 witnessed his arrival in Tacoma, Washington, where he spent the remainder of his life in educational work. He first served as principal of the Lincoln high school for a year, was then principal of the Franklin school for two years and thereafter filled the position of principal at the Hawthorne school for a year. Mr. Stanley in 1897 became principal of the old Central school, then the normal training school, of which he continued at the head until the new Central school was completed. In September, 1924, he was made principal of the new Jason Lee intermediate high school and was thus serving when death called him. A large school has been named in his honor.

In 1896 Mr. Stanley was united in marriage to Harriet Perkins Maxwell, a native of Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, and a daughter of James Levi and Adelaide Amelia (Maxwell) Maxwell, who were first cousins and both were born at Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. The Maxwells were Loyalists, and the grandfather of Mrs. Harriet Perkins (Maxwell) Stanley served as a major in the War of 1812. Mrs. Stanley was educated at Fredericton, New Brunswick, and taught school in that province as well as in the states of Maine and Massachusetts. It was in 1891 that she came to Tacoma, Washington, where she spent four and one-half years as a teacher in the Franklin school and thus became acquainted with her future husband. Mr. and Mrs. George A. Stanley were the parents of a daughter, Maxine, whose birth occurred in Tacoma and who is not only a graduate of the Stadium high school of the city but also of the University of Washington. She is now the wife of Ralph Brindley, who is likewise a graduate of the University of Washington and who received the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in forestry and lumbering. Mr. Brindley is connected with the Wheeler-Osgood Company of Tacoma in the capacity of assistant superintendent. He belongs to the Greek letter fraternity Phi Kappa Sigma and also has membership in the Masonic order, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Gyro Club. His wife is a member of the Phi ae Gamma sorority and of the Junior League. They have one son, Ralph Stanley religious faith was indicated by his membership in the Episcopal church, to which the surviving members of his family also belong. His name was likewise on the membership rolls of the Royal Arcanum, the Commercial Club and the Kiwanis Club. The following is an excerpt from a review of his career which appeared in a local newspaper at the time of his death: "He was a hard worker, had high ideals for himself and insisted on them for his pupils. Thousands of Tacoma students counted him as a benefactor and friend."

The following tribute to George A. Stanley was adopted by the Council of the Federation: "Our beloved leader and friend will ever live in the hearts of those he leaves behind. He was a man of exalted character and serious purpose. His manner was quiet and unassuming; yet, no more potent influence for good has ever existed in the Tacoma schools. The sweet memory of his warm friendship, his wise counsel, his sympathetic understanding is a priceless legacy. Though bowed with grief that he has been taken from us in the very prime of life, our hearts are filled with gratitude that it was our privilege to be his coworkers, and to be inspired by his uncompromising ideals, his gentle, kindly service, and his unflinching loyalty to duty. How much richer life would be with his dear presence."

The following is copied from the Washington Education Journal of January, 1925: "When the new Jason Lee intermediate school was opened Mr. Stanley was chosen as its first principal. He carried on his work there with fidelity and skill, never complaining, although his health had long been in such a condition that he must often have been in severe physical pain. With characteristic fortitude he filled his place of duty until the day before his death. Going to the hospital for a few days of rest, the final summons came unexpectedly. He took an interest in educational matters outside of his own immediate work and had served on the county board of education, in the Puget Sound Schoolmasters' Club, the Teachers' Retirement Fund Association, and the Washington Education Association. Superintendent of Schools William F. Geiger of Tacoma pays him this tribute after years of association: 'He was quiet, kindly, efficient and courteous, an ideal type of educator, respected alike by students and his associates.' The thousands of young people whom he started on the path of life will echo this testimonial. In their minds he was a perfect type of a scholar who was also a kindly and courteous gentleman. Mr. Stanley had a keen appreciation of the real art of teaching. He felt that teachers did their best work when following their own initiative. He had the highest standards and never lost faith in his work. His life was a constant reminder and a splendid example of the kindlier ways of living and doing. His character was strong but appealing. Those who knew him best felt most keenly the power of his influence. "When one dies who in life has counted for much, his fellows do not leave him unmemorialized. Though he is no longer here to speak for himself, print seems to make less final the sentence of the Great Silence. It is a pledge that not yet shall he join the ranks of the unknown dead. His life has not ended: it is just beginning.'

To and fro through all the classrooms, Never more we'll see you there. 'Mongst the groups upon the school grounds, While our problems we'd discuss, How we gladly hailed your presence And the smiles you had for us.

Guy E. Kelly

In many respects the life record of Guy E. Kelly, of Tacoma, is worthy of more extended mention than is possible in a work of this nature, but in the limited space at the disposal of the biographer will be given the salient facts in his career and an indication of his outstanding characteristics. Mr. Kelly was born in Rochester, Minnesota, on the 23d of May, 1876, and is a son of J. E. and Alice L. (Fleming) Kelly. His parents were married in Chicago and in the early '70s went to Minnesota, where the father engaged in farming. Later he went to Watertown, South Dakota, where he was engaged in the implement and live stock business up to the time of his death. The mother now resides in Tacoma.

Guy E. Kelly secured his preliminary education in the public i from the Watertown high school, and then attended the South Dist eet Ce at Brookings, where he was graduated. From 1901 to 1905 he acted as private ae tary to United States Senator A. B. Kittredge, meanwhile attending law school at night, at the George Washington University, Washington, D. C. He was graduated in 1905, after which he returned to Brookings and practiced his profession one year On August 14, 1906, he came to Tacoma and has practiced law here to the present time. He became a member of the law firm of Garvey & Kelly, which later becam Garvey, Kelly & McMahon and for the past ten years has been Kelly & McMah " Mr. Kelly specializes in the practice of corporation and banking law, in which h ee been eminently successful. He is attorney for and a director in ithe Puget S. nd National Bank. His firm were attorneys for the liquidation of the Shiditie vise American Bank and, through litigation, succeeded in collecting over one and half million dollars. Depositors were paid sixty-six per cent of their accounts h t experts had said that they would not receive over twenty per cent, this bein a eR as the most successful liquidation of a bank in the United States A eg te = ao bees) ee any cause ae he is engaged, Mr. Kelly haa® won a ae e as exceedingly sound and safe. Kelly & McMahon pee in oe ieee aay Ra of ee mee a large and representative clientele Se eheans side from his professional work, Mr. Kelly is i ified witha ; interests, particularly in the line of motor pid ae ee oraceor 'ence ones bier Retrsherers of a Ee & Tacoma Transit Company, which a ponte i ; , and was the first auto stage in the United Stat . lished on a permanent schedule basis. These busses setae ce each way. Mr. Kelly is also secretary and general cotnseuina war Cane es and the International Motor Transit Company running from Seattle to Portland. These companies use all White truck equipment, and five of the busses now in use have each run over one million miles.

On June 22, 1903, Mr. Kelly was married to Miss Margaret Mary McNamee, of Brookings, South Dakota, and they are the parents of three children, Jean Mary, Margaret and Guy E., Jr. Politically Mr. Kelly has always been an active supporter of the republican party, in the councils of which he has had an important place. He served from 1920 to 1924 as a member of the republican national committee from Washington. From 1910 to 1914 he served as chairman of the Pierce county central committee, and from 1914 to 1918 was president of the Young Men's Republican Club. From 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the state legislature and during the last two years of that period served as speaker of the house. He is a member of Evergreen Lodge, No. 51, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master; is a past master of the Past Masters Association of Pierce County; is a thirty-second degree member of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Tacoma Consistory; and a member of Afifi Temple, Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, at Tacoma; Tacoma Lodge, No. 174, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and the Knights of Pythias. He also belongs to the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club and the Commercial Club, and is No. 1 member of the Tacoma Kiwanis Club, of which he was the first president, and was also the first governor of the Pacific district. He was a charter member of the Tacoma Riding Club and its first president, in 1924, and he is a member of John R. Thompson Camp, Spanish War Veterans, of which he is a past commander. He maintains professional affiliation with the Pierce County Bar Association, the Washington State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. Kelly is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, having enlisted in 1898 in Company H, First Regiment, South Dakota Volunteer Infantry. This command took an active part in the campaigns of that short but decisive conflict, being under fire in sixteen engagements, and Mr. Kelly was discharged with the rank of regimental commissary sergeant. During the World war he contributed of his efforts to the success of local war measures, being an effective four-minute speaker and in various other ways cooperating in support of the government.

A man of great force of character, Mr. Kelly is generally found in the lead in advancing measures for the betterment of his city or county. Noted as a citizen whose useful career has conferred credit upon the community and whose marked abilities and sterling qualities have won for him more than local repute, he holds distinctive precedence among the progressive and public-spirited men of his city, while his cordial and friendly manner has gained for him a host of warm personal friends.

R. H. Dudley

R. H. Dudley has become widely and favorably known throughout Puyallup and vicinity, and he has built up a large patronage in his special line, that of sheet metal work, in which he is an expert. Mr. Dudley is a native of Washington, born at Newcastle, King county, on the 5th of March, 1879, and is a son of E. and Mary (Diamond) Dudley, both of whom were natives of England, the father born in Lancastershire and the mother in Swansea. The mother came to the United States alone in girlhood, locating in Reno, Nevada, where she met and became the wife of E. Dudley. Her death occurred in 1920. }

The father, who came to the United States about 1871, was a minister of the Methodist church. He first located in Pennsylvania, where he remained but a short time, and then went to Kansas, where also his stay was brief. His next location was in Nevada, where he remained two or three years, and he then went to Newcastle, Washington, where he was stationed one year. In 1880 he went to Tacoma, where he preached and ministered for ten years. There was at that time but one Protestant church in Tacoma, the three religious denominations established there using the church in rotation. During the weeks when he did not preach in Tacoma, Rev. Dudley rode the circuit, which embraced a large radius of surrounding country. In 1890, because of failing health, he was compelled to retire from active pastoral work, and he then came to Puyallup, where. he was engaged in farming up to the i : then enlisted in the United States army, in which he served two Late heaas laa corporal before he was twenty-one years old, being a MAE Tin Company C, First Regiment, Washington Volunteer Infantry. He spent ten ponte in the Philippine islands, taking part in about fifteen battles and skirmishes. ( : leaving the army, he returned to Puyallup and went to work for Charles Hood, wit whom he learned the plumbing trade. He remained with Mr. Hood pract cally twentythree years, his service there being interrupted by one year spent with a cannery. In 1924 he embarked in business on his own account, establishing a sheet metal shop, in which he met with such success that in June, 1926, he moved his shop to a larger, and better location, having purchased half of the building. He has handled a large number of contracts in his line, all of which he has executed in a manner that has won for him an enviable reputation not only as a skilled and competent workman but as a man of honorable and commendable business methods. ;

Mr. Dudley is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, belonging to the blue lodge in Puyallup and to the chapter of Royal Arch Masons in Tacoma, and also belongs to General Thompson Camp, Spanish-American War Veterans, in Tacoma. He is a man of attractive personality, friend:y in manner and honest in his motives, and he has gained a high standing among the representative people of his community.

Harvey L. Galbreath

One of the most popular eating places in Tacoma is Harvey's Cafe, at 909 Pacific avenue, owned and operated by Harvey L. Galbreath, who has shown himself well adapted to this business, in which he has attained a high measure of success. Mr. Galbreath was born in Linkville (now Klamath Falls), Oregon, on the 18th of April, 1885, and is a son cf George and Minnie J. (Wooldridge) Galbreath. The mother was a daughter of Silas Wooldridge, who came across the plains from Missouri in 1852, being one of the first settlers on the Missouri flats, near Grant's pass. The paternal grandfather, John Galbreath, was an early pioneer of the state of Oregon. George Galbreath owned a large ranch near Lost River Gap, Oregon, and was engaged in the horse business there. He handled all kinds of wild animals and was eventually killed by a wild horse.

Harvey L. Galbreath was educated in the public schools and then learned the baking trade, which he followed for five years, after which he was employed as a cook. He came to Tacoma in 1910 and was employed at various occupations here until 1918, when he opened a restaurant at 909 Pacific avenue, which he is operating under the name of Harvey's Cafe. He has a nicely furnished restaurant, which has enjoyed marked popularity during the period of its existence and has been a remunerative enterprise. Mr. Galbreath looks carefully after the wants of his customers, serving food of the highest quality, and his kindly and genial manner has won for him many friends among his regular patrons.

On September 9, 1920, Mr. Galbreath was united in marriage to Miss Irene Johnson, of Hinkley, Minnesota, and they have an adopted son, Cameron, aged ten years. Mr. Galbreath is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, while his political views are in harmony with the tenets of the republican party. Because of his useful life and high character, he commands respect and esteem.

George B. Guyles

George B. Guyles has long been a conspicuous figure in fire insurance circles in Tacoma, the firm of J. C. Guyles & Company having long stood as one of the best known and most reliable firms in its line in this section of the country. Mr. Guyles was born in Dwight, Michigan, on the 28th of October, 1886, and is a son of Jay C. and May (Sampson) Guyles. The mother was a daughter of Rev. William H. Sampson, who in an early day was a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in Washington and became a pioneer in Pierce county. One of her brothers, L. E. Sampson, was an early settler in Tacoma and was one of the first postmasters here.

Jay C. Guyles brought his family to Tacoma in July, 1887, and for a time was bookkeeper in P. C. Paulson's mill. Later he moved to Sumner, this county, but afterward returned to Tacoma, and on January 1, 1889, he and L. E. Sampson engaged in the real estate and insurance business. In this they were successful and the business has been carried on without a break to the present time. Mr. Sampson died in 1902 and Mr. Guyles in 1916.

George B. Guyles attended the public schools and then entered the University of California, from which he was graduated in 1909. In June of that year he went into his father's business and has remained with it since, being now the head of the firm, which is still operated as J. C. Guyles & Company. The concern does a general fire insurance business, representing a number of the strongest and most reliable companies in the world, and it has always commanded its full share of the local insurance business.

In May, 1910, Mr. Guyles was united in marriage to Miss Grace Batz, of Bakersfield, California, and they are the parents of three children, namely: Alice, now aged twelve years; Marian, aged nine years; and William Carlton, aged six years. Mr. Guyles is a republican in his political views and is a member of the Tacoma Rotary Club, of which he was president in 1926, the Tacoma Golf and Country Club, the University Club, the Orpheus Club and the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. He takes a deep interest in all affairs relating to the prosperity and upbuilding of Tacoma and is regarded as one of the city's enterprising and progressive business men - a man of sterling integrity, well worthy of the confidence which is accorded him.