Pierce County, Washington - The whole text, 1927 (part 8 of 27)

Ernest C. Richards

For thirty-seven years Ernest C. Richards has been identified wi : with the well known firm of Hunt & Mottet, now better known as the Hunt & Mottet Company, of Tacoma, and is the oldest man in point of continuous service with that concern, of ee pt ents eee Le in an humble capacity, he gained successive promotions through able and faithful performance of dut j i is his has been well merited. Wise age 2 Sei page Mr. Richards was born in Temperanceville, Virginia. i i : ginia, in 1868, and is a son of Theodore .A. and Emma F. (Broughton) Richards, the former of whom was a mer- chant. Our subject was given the advantage of a good public school education, and at the age of sixteen years he went to Baltimore, Maryland, and entered the employ of his uncle, who operated a produce commission business. In 1890 Mr. Richards came to Tacoma and entered the employ of Hunt & Mottet as bookkeeper, at forty dollars a month. Five years later, on the incorporation of the company, he was made secretary, and some time later was also made treasurer. In 1921, on the death of Mr. Messinger, he was elected president, which position he still retains.

This company was first established by S. A. Wheelright and Edward M. Hunt in 1885, under the firm name of Wheelright & Hunt. Two years later Frederick Mottet bought Mr. Wheelright's interest and from 1887 to 1895 it was known as Hunt & Mottet, from which style the change was made to Hunt & Mottet Company on its incorporation in 1895. The store was first located on Pacific avenue, near Thirteenth street, whence they moved in 1890 to the corner of Fifteenth street and Pacific avenue. In 1907 the company erected its own building at 2112 Pacific avenue, where they have since been located. They have fifty feet of frontage on Pacific avenue and two hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet on Commerce and C streets. The main building is seven stories in height, while the warehouse is mainly three stories, part being one story. Private railroad tracks facilitate shipments and the arrangements are modern in every way. Mr. Hunt died in 1895, and Mr. Mottet, who still lives in Tacoma, retired from active participation in the business in 1907. The present officers are as follows: E. C. Richards, president and treasurer; H. D. Cowles, vice president; E. K. Reynolds, secretary. These men compose the board of directors with E. L. Messinger and J. C. Richards. The Hunt & Mottet Company handles light and heavy hardware, wholesale only, and keeps twelve to fifteen traveling salesmen on the road, who cover the Pacific northwest and Alaska. This is one of the oldest wholesale hardware firms in the west, and one of the very few that were in business at its organization and are still extant.

In 1894 Mr. Richards was united in marriage to Miss Hattie Messinger, of Waterloo, Iowa, and they are the parents of two children, namely: Helen, who is the wife of James C. Menzies, of Wenatchee, Washington; and Robert E., who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Richards is independent in his political views and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Fircrest Golf Club. He has been one of the most stable members of the community, ever standing for those things which make for the advancement and progress of the locality. His business affairs have made heavy demands on his time, but he has always found the opportunity to work for the public welfare and is regarded as a splendid citizen in the fullest sense of the expression.

August Swanson

Among the respected and honored men of his locality is August Swanson, who was born in Sweden on the 9th of December, 1863, and is a son of Swan and Mary (Shell) Swanson, both of whom died in their native land, where the father had followed the vocation ef a carpenter. They were the parents of four children, Alfred Blumquist, Swan J., August and Charles.

August Swanson attended the public schools in his youth and was but thirteen years of age when he suffered the loss of his parents. When fifteen years old he began working on farms, continuing in that kind of employment for two years, and in 1881 he immigrated to the United States. He first located in Nebraska, where he worked as a farm hand three years, and in 1884 came to Tacoma, Washington. His first employment here was on a ranch at Cascade Junction, after which he was employed for a time on the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1887 he returned to Nebraska, and later went to Colorado, where he was for several years employed in a stone quarry. In 1890 he again came to Tacoma, and subsequently went to Burnett, where he worked in the mines until 1901. He then, in partnership with his brother, Swan, bought twenty acres of land west of Puyallup, all of which was densely covered with timber and brush and to which no road had been opened. He built a new house, constructing a barn a short time later, and in the course of time got the land cleared and a road built to the ranch. He now has a nice bearing orchard, has three acres planted to Cuthbert raspberries and raises good crops of potatoes. He keeps a number of cows and has four hundred laying hens, so that he is very comfortably i e improvements he has made on the ranch making it a valuable and aterrs This result has been accomplished only through much hard and persistent labor, and Mr. Swanson has had the pleasure of seeing the place develop i me and a profitable enterprise.

Ese Laven ees 1889, Mr. Swanson was united in marriage to Miss Anna Munson, who is a native of Sweden and a daughter of John and Louise (Strum) Munson. Her parents were both born in Sweden and in an early day came to the United States, locating in Iowa, where the father spent the remainder of his life, as a farmer, dying when comparatively young. The mother survived him many years, passing away in December, 1923, when ninety years of age. To Mr. and Mrs. Swanson have been born six children, as follows: Eber, who lives in Seattle, is married and has a daughter, Anna; Mrs. Jessie Picha, who is the mother of two children, Lloyd and Doris; Elmer, who remains at home; Walter, deceased ; Irving, who is married and has a daughter, Bettie; and Alfred, who remains at home and is operating the ranch

Wilmot P. Ragsdale

One of the best known druggists in Tacoma is Wilmot P. Ragsdale, who for a number of years has been in business at 3822 North Twenty-sixth street. An expert pharmacist and a good business man, he has so conducted his store as to gain the confidence of his customers and has built up a large patronage in his section of the city. Mr. Ragsdale was born in Van Buren county, Iowa, on the 8th of February, 1879, and is a son of John S. and Rachael (Cupp) Ragsdale, the former of whom was a druggist for many years. Both parents are deceased, the mother dying in 1883 and the father in 1916.

Wilmot P. Ragsdale secured a good public school education and then entered his father's drug store, where he learned the secrets of pharmacy and gained valuable business experience. From 1905 to 1910 he was with J. W. Edgerly & Company of Ottumwa, Iowa, in charge of the laboratory, and in the latter year came to Tacoma. He was employed as a drug clerk here and at Aberdeen, Washington, until 1918, when he bought tie drug store of Joseph McGowan at 3822 North Twenty-sixth street, where he is still conducting the business. He carries a full line of pure drugs and the standard proprietary remedies, as well as such side lines as an up-to-date drug store usually handles.

In 1906 Mr. Ragsdale was united in marriage to Miss Amy M. Smith, of Birmingham, Iowa, and they are the parents of a son, Wilmot, born August 19, 1911, who is now in his second year at the Stadium high school. Mr. Ragsdale is a member of the Twenty-sixth and Proctor Business Men's Club and the Commercial Club. Politically he is an independent republican. He has shown a commendable interest in the welfare of his community and because of his sterling integrity, progressive methods and friendliness is very well liked.

Adolph Boerner

One of the highly respected residents of Orting, who after years of persistent and successful effort is now able to enjoy the fruits of his labors, is Adolph Boerner, who long conducted a well improved and productive ranch near this town. Mr. Boerner is a native of Germany, born in 1865, and is a son of August and Augusta (Dean) Boerner, both of whom also were natives of that country. He was reared under the parental roof and secured his education in the public schools.

In 1883, at the age of eighteen years, Mr. Boerner emigrated to the United States and came at once to Orting, where for about five years he worked on the farm of Mr. Lawrence. He then bought forty acres of heavily timbered land near Orting and at once proceeded to develop it into a farm. It was necessary to grub out a space large enough for his first home, and then in the course of time he got most of the land cleared and in cultivation. In the early days he also worked out at times in order to earn money to pay current expenses. His first crops were potatoes and hops, but later he enlarged his operations to include cows, pigs and chickens, as well as a larger variety of crops. He was indefatigable in his efforts, and abundant success crowned his labors. In 1920 he rented out the farm and moved into the town of Orting, where he has since resided.

In 1894 Mr. Boerner was united in marriage to Miss Rachael Hartley, who was born in Switzerland, a daughter of John S. and Mary (Gerber) Hartley, who died before their daughter came to the United States in 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Boerner have no children of their own, but they have reared three sons of Mrs. Boerner's sister, Mrs. Eliza Klaus, who died at our subject's home in Orting when the boys were quite young. These boys, Oscar, Edward and Frederick, received from Mr. and Mrs. Boerner the same careful attention and affection that children of their own would have received. During the World war Oscar and Frederick served. in the United States navy and Edward was in the army, being overseas about a year and attached to the hospital corps. Oscar died at the Bremerton navy yard. Edward is married and is employed in the Northern Pacific express office in Tacoma. Frederick was graduated from the State Normal School at Bellingham and is now a teacher in the public schools of Chehalis.

Irvin Warren Ziegaus

Irvin Warren Ziegaus, member of the well known insurance brokerage firm of Ziegaus, Davis & Sweetland, of Tacoma, has for nearly twenty years been prominently identified with business and public affairs of this state, and his eminently effective public service has received distinctive recognition. Mr. Ziegaus was born in Sharon, Wisconsin, on the 28th of August, 1887, and is a son of George and Ellen Grace (Warren) Ziegaus, the former of whom was for many years a newspaper publisher. He died in January, 1926, and his widow is now living in Tacoma.

Irvin W. Ziegaus attended the public and high schools of his native city and then had two and a half years' work in the University of Wisconsin. In August, 1907, he came to Blaine, Washington, as editor of the Blaine Journal, but on September 17 he resigned that position to become commercial editor of the Tacoma Ledger, which position he held until July 1, 1910. He then accepted the position of assistant secretary of the Tacoma Commercial Club and Chamber of Commerce, in which capacity he served until August 1, 1913, when he was appointed secretary to the governor under the late Governor Ernest Lister.

Mr. Ziegaus was thus engaged until December 4, 1917, when he was commissioned a captain in the United States army and assigned to the judge advocate's office. He was detailed as draft executive officer and draft disbursing officer for the state of Washington, in which position he performed exceptional services for the government. He originated a method of handling the draft that attracted the attention of Major General Enoch H. Crowder, the provost marshal general of the United States, who sent an inspector here to study the system. The result was that Captain Ziegaus' method was adopted by the government and used throughout the country, speeding up the draft operations fifty per cent and saving the federal government thirty million dollars. In appreciation of this and other meritorious service, he was cited at the close of the war by General Crowder and decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. On November 7, 1918, he was promoted to the rank of major, which, however, lacked confirmation because of the close of the war. Mr. Ziegaus received an honorable discharge May 10, 1919. In January, 1919, Governor Lister received permission from the war department to utilize his services temporarily as secretary to the governor, and he was later with Governor Louis F. Hart in the same capacity until May, 1919. He then returned to Tacoma and organized the firm of Ziegaus, Davis & Sweetland, Inc., of which he is president, and is engaged in the general insurance brokerage business, in which the firm has been very successful, being now numbered among the largest companies in this line in Tacoma.

On December 2, 1908, Mr. Ziegaus was united in marriage to Miss Alice Roe Moon, of Sharon, Wisconsin, and they are the parents of four children, namely: Irvin Warren, Jr., aged eighteen years; Marion, aged fifteen years; Alan, aged nine years; and Roe, aged one year. Mr. Ziegaus is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Royal Arcanum and the American Legion, and also belongs to the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Politically he maintains an independent attitude, voting consistently according to his best judgment as to men j ini ional Park Company. He is a d measures. He is fire marshal for the Rainier Nationa a9 of strong individuality and sterling character and stands for all that is best in community life. Because of his splendid record and achievements, he is accorded the highest measure of confidence by his fellowmen.

Thomas Leadman

One of the most progressive and enterprising farmers of northern Pierce county is Thomas Leadman, who has been a resident of this county for over fifty years. He has led an active and useful life, characterized by persistent and well directed industry, and holds an enviable place among the representative men of his section. Mr. Leadman was born near St. Mary's, Ontario, Canada, July 29, 1849, and is a son of Thomas and Frances (Lawrence) Leadman, both of whom were natives of Ireland, whence they came to Canada, where they spent the remainder of their lives. They were the parents of five children: Sarah, Susan, Thomas, John and William, of whom Sarah and William are deceased.

Thomas Leadman attended the public schools of his native land and remained at home until 1872, when he came to this country. He worked in the logging camps of Wisconsin and Minnesota until 1876, then came to Pierce county and went to work for Willis Boatman at Puyallup, being employed in picking hops. He worked on various farms and in the woods here until 1882, when he bought a farm in Stuck valley, where he remained actively engaged in farming until 1902, and he also operated a ranch owned by his wife at Alderton. In 1902 he built a good barn there and in 1904 erected a large and modern house, the other buildings on the place being of a substantial character. This is a fine ranch, of rich bottom land, on which are raised fine crops of hay, about ten acres also being in hops and five acres in berries. He keeps fifty good cows and has operated the place in a manner that has brought a maximum of results. Mr. Leadman is a member of Puyallup Lodge, A. F. and A. M.

On September 1, 1892, Mr. Leadman was united in marriage to Mrs. Marie (Sieh) Helmold, daughter of Peter and Anna (Mahrt) Sieh, both of whom were natives of Germany. Her father came to the United States in 1871, settling on a farm in Minnesota, which he operated until 1885, when he sold out there and came to Auburn, King county, Washington. There he established his permanent home and resided until his death, which occurred in 1898, at the age of ninety-four years. His wife died in 1893. Of the nine children which blessed their union, three are living, Mrs. Magdalena Trager, John and Mrs. Marie Leadman. Mrs. Leadman's first husband was born, reared and educated in Germany. He came to Pierce county in 1878 and bought a large farm at Alderton, which he operated up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1885.

Mrs. Leadman's brother, John Sieh, was born in Germany in 1858 and secured his education in the schools of his native land and in this country, having accompanied his parents on their emigration here when thirteen years of age. He helped his father on the home ranch until 1878, when he went to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he worked for two years for a market gardener. In 1880 he came to Washington and went to work for the Northern Pacific Railroad in the eastern part of the state. In 1885 he bought ten acres of wild land, two miles north of Auburn, King county, cleared it all up and was for several years engaged in the raising of garden truck. He then sold the place and, going to Alberta, Canada, bought three hundred and twenty acres of land near Edmonton. After farming that tract for seven or eight years, he sold it and returned to Pierce county and now makes his home with Mr. and Mrs. Leadman, assisting in the management of the large ranch at Alderton.

Edward P. Pickert

_The Sixth avenue district of Tacoma has just reason for pride in many of the business concerns to be found in that locality, and of none more so than the Betsy Ann Bakery Company, which is one of the outstanding: business successes of that community. Edward P. Pickert, secretary and treasurer of the Betsy Ann Bakery Company, is a native of Tacoma and was born on the 4th of June, 1896. He is a son of William and Margaret (Crane) Pickert, the latter of whom is a daughter of Moses P. Crane, one of the pioneer residents and a successful shoe merchant of this city. William Pickert is connected with the Henry Mohr Hardware Company.

Edward P. Pickert secured his education in the public schools of Tacoma, graduating from the Stadium high school in 1916. He then attended the students' army training camp, after which he entered the employ of the Federal Baking Company. In 1920 he and Edward Hall organized the Betsy Ann Bakery Company, on Sixth avenue, and success attended their venture from the start. In 1922 they erected their present fine brick and tile building, in which they installed the very best of equipment, their productive capacity being five hundred and twenty loaves of bread an hour, in addition to pastry and other products. They do business on the "cash and carry" plan and supply bread to seventy-six grocers. They are now doing an annual business of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

On October 28, 1922, Mr. Pickert was united in marriage to Miss Sadie Moore, who was born in Portage, Manitoba, Canada, and tney are the parents of a daughter, Lila Jean. Mr. Pickert is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Umted Commercial Travelers, the Gyro Club and the Sixth Avenue Business Men's Association. Politically he is independent. He is a man of genial and friendly disposition and straightforward manner and is highly esteemed.

Vaughan Morrill

To the American Wood Pipe Company, of Tacoma, belongs the distinction of being the largest manufacturer of wood pipe in the world, and in the quality of its product it is in a class by itself. To the persistent and well directed efforts of Vaughan Morrill, now president of the company, is this splendid development largely due, and he is today regarded as one of the leading and most influential business men of Tacoma. Mr. Morrill was born in Tacoma on the 7th of September, 1892, and is a son of C. W. and Honnie May (Vaughan) Morrill, both of whom were natives of Maine. The mother was a daughter of E. C. Vaughan, who came to Tacoma in 1884 and became one of the early merchants of this city. C. W. Morrill came to Tacoma in 1886 and in 1889 he and Mr. Vaughan established the well known Vaughan & Morrill book and stationery store, which they later sold to Cole, Martin & Berg. Mr. Morrill died April 19, 1914, and Mrs. Morrill on March 26, 1923.

Vaughan Morrill attended the public schools and had two years of high school work, after which he entered Whitworth College, where he was graduated. He then went to Cornell University, where he took one year's work in mechanical engineering. In 1911 he went to work for the Tacoma Pipe Company, and in the following year, in association with John H. Regan, C. C. Miller and John Biehn, he established the American Wood Pipe Company, with Mr. Miller as president and treasurer and Mr. Morrill as secretary. Construction work on the new plant was begun that year and on January 9, 1913, the company was incorporated. The plant is located at South Thirty-second and Cedar streets and originally comprised three and one-half acres of land. The company now has fourteen acres, of which the buildings and yard occupy six acres. The products consist of wire-wound wood pipe and continuous stove pipe and flume, both creosoted and untreated, underground steam pipe insulation, ereosoted conduit and other articles made from fir and cedar. The dimensions of the pipe made here run to as large as sixteen feet in diameter. They buy their timber in the open market and sell the products direct, shipping to all parts of the United States, Alaska and Mexico and many other foreign countries. During the World war the plant was placed at the service of the government and manufactured enormous quantities of pipe for army cantonments. In 1920 a New York office was established and in 1925 an office was opened in Spokane. Of the product of this company, forty per cent of all the pipe sold is for municipal installation, forty per cent is used in irrigation districts and twenty per cent of pipe used in industrial plants. The American Wood Pipe Company is now recognized as the largest manufacturer of this kind of pipe in the world. The company also has a creosoting plant, where railroad ties and other materials are treated. In 1918 Mr. Morrill bought Mr. Miller's interest in the company and became president and treasurer of the corporation, the other officers now being as follows: F. N. Insinger, vice president; and Cyrus Haffy, Sr idea of the growth of the business may be inferred from the following pects its first year the company did a business of thirty-two eemuaan' dollars, while in 1923 it amounted to one million and seventy-seven thousand dollars. The first year fifteen men were employed, whereas now over one hundred men ce on the payroll, and the capital stock is now four hundred thousand dollars. : f Morrill has devoted himself indefatigably to the building up of the business and to him and his associates its splendid growth has been a source of great satisfaction, for in a large measure it represents the results of their personal labors.

In 1917 Mr. Morrill was united in marriage to Miss Rhoda Vaeth, of Tacoma, daughter of Richard and Louise (Reno) Vaeth. Her father came to Tacoma about 1888 and was one of the pioneer jewelers of this city. To Mr. and Mrs. Morrill have been born two children, Vaughan and Charles William. ] ;

In his political views Mr. Morrill is aligned with the republican party and is greatly interested in public affairs. He is a member of the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club and the Fircrest Golf Club. A man of marked business capacity and the highest principles of integrity and honor, he has made his influence felt in the world of affairs, and: his initiative power and constructive ability have through his activities contributed in a very definite measure to the general prosperity of Tacoma and Pierce county. Personally he is a man of affable and friendly manner, who easily wins friends, and throughout the range of his acquaintance he is held in high esteem.

Dr. Bridge was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1879, and is a son of Edward and Mary (Creller) Bridge, both of whom are deceased. He was reared on his father's farm and secured his elementary education in the public schools. In preparation for the practice of medicine and surgery he matriculated in the College of Medicine of the University of Vermont, from which institution he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1905, being the honor man of his class. While a college student he became a member of Psi Chi fraternity.

After a period of interneship in a hospital at New Bedford, Massachusetts, Dr. Bridge came to Tacoma, Washington, in 1907. In 1909 he removed to Eatonville, Pierce county, where he remained until 1923, when he returned to Tacoma and established offices in the Fidelity building, where he is now located. In 1926 Dr. Bridge organized the Bridge Clinic, specializing in surgery. His name is on the membership rolls of the Pierce County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Bridge is aligned with the republican party in politics and while living in Eatonville served for one term as mayor. He belongs to the Young Men's Republican Club and to the Chamber of Commerce, and also has a membership in the University Club, the Tacoma Golf and Country Club, and the Tacoma Yacht Club. In fraternal circles he is known as a Scottish Rite Mason, belonging to Evergreen Lodge, No. 51, A. F. & A. M., to the commandery and to the Mystic Shrine in Tacoma. He is like-. wise affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Improved Order of Red Men. .

A. R. Mann, who is engaged in the cut flower business in Puyallup, is a native of New Brunswick, Canada, born on the 23d of December, 1857, and is a son of John Wallace and Isabelle (Robinson) Mann, both of whom died in New Brunswick when past ninety years of age. The father had followed the vocation of farming, and also ran a sawmill. '

A. R. Mann secured his education in the public schools of New Brunswick and then worked for a number of years in his father's mill. Shortly after attaining his majority he left home and located at Warsaw, Wisconsin, where he spent two years in the woods. About 1883 he came to the Pacific coast, locating on the Skagit river where he was employed in the woods about nine months. He then went to Tacoma, where he was married, and then embarked in the dairy business. Later he began growing flowers in a commercial way, being the first in Tacoma to engage in that work. At first Mrs. Mann had charge of the greenhouses, and they proved so successful that Mr. Mann sold the dairy and devoted his attention entirely to the florist business. They remained in Tacoma until 1891, when they moved to Larchmont (now a part of Tacoma) and operated their greenhouses there until 1899, when they went to Parkland, where they were in the same business two years. In 1901 Mr. Mann came to Puyallup, established his greenhouses and for over twenty-five years has held a commanding place in the florist business, although he does not at present engage in growing. He has a splendid equipment for the successful handling of his enterprise and has found it both a profitable and a pleasant vocation.

On January 23, 1884, in Tacoma, Mr. Mann was united in marriage to Miss Estelle Cecelia Bradish, who was born September 10, 1856, in Linn City, Oregon, across the river from Oregon City. The great flood of 1861 washed away this entire town excepting one house, after which Mrs. Mann's family moved to Oregon City. She is a daughter of Ira N. and Lucy (Childs) Bradish, the former of whom was born in Michigan and the latter near Worcester, Massachusetts. Mr. Bradish was engaged in the operation of a flour mill at Linn City, but later worked at the carpenter's trade in Oregon City. The family lived in Oregon from January, 1856, to July, 1873, when they came to Tacoma, Washington, where the parents spent the remaining years of their lives.

To Mr. and Mrs. Mann have been born six children: Ira Andrew, who had gone to Africa and engaged in the raising of sheep, entered the British service during the World war, being employed in the department of naval construction, but was taken seriously ill in India and died at Shanghai, China, July 20, 1925, on his way home. Frances Ida is the wife of Oliver E. Leiser, of Kettle Falls, Washington, and they have three children, Oliver Mann, Andrew Twohy and a daughter. John Bradish was with the artillery of the Ninety-first Division and was gassed in France, as a result of which he developed tuberculosis, his death occurring at Puyallup, August 4, 1925. He was in the service eighteen months, spending ten months of that time overseas. He had married Miss Marie C. Paul, who lives in Puyallup with her son, Bradish Paul. Isabella Robinson is the wife of Herbert S. Potter, of Meredith, Washington, whose people were Pierce county pioneers, and they have three children, Katherine Estelle, Franklin Herbert and Patricia Frances. Lucy Augusta, who died in 1920, was the wife of Walter Wallace Wilkes, and to them was born a son, Walter Wallace, Jr., who has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Leiser, and now bears the name of W. W. Wilkes-Leiser. John Wallace lives in California.

Mr. Mann is an ardent supporter of the republican party and he and his wife are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. Fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, which order he joined at Kettle Falls, Washington; the Woodmen of the World, and the Loyal Americans, while Mrs. Mann is a member of the Neighbors of Woodcraft. Mrs. Mann's mother was an earnest advocate of female suffrage, doing effective work with Abigail Scott Duniway, the pioneer suffragist of the coast, and Mr. and Mrs. Mann also are ardent suffragists. Mrs. Mann was the first woman ever called on a jury in Pierce county. For many years she has been engaged in newspaper work, her first work having been done in 1876 with the Tacoma Herald, of which Francis Cook was at that time editor. She was for six years steadily employed on the Puyallup Valley Tribune and two years on the Tacoma News-Tribune, besides which she has through the years done a great deal of work intermittently as has suited her. Her articles are gladly accepted by the press and are widely read throughout this section of the state. Mr. Mann is a gentleman of sterling integrity, fine public spirit and friendly manner, commanding universal esteem and good will.

enjoys marked prestige because of the high order of its professional Bice ota inate those who have, by their lives and labors, contributed to this reputation is Dr. Joseph S. Smeall, who has long been regarded as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the city. A native of Nebraska, he was born on the 138th of August, 1883, and is a son of Jacob and Anna Smeall. The father, who followed pea tele received his elementary education in the public schools oe then took preparatory work at St. Benedict's College, Atchison, Kansas, after whic he matriculated in the medical school of Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, and was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in 1907. He served as interne in St. Joseph's Hospital, Tacoma, and then engaged in the active practice of medicine here. Because of his ability and sincerity, he has risen in the esteem of the people, and his services are in great demand. While he conducts a general practice, he specializes in surgery, in which field his skill and ability have brought him a wide reputation. Dr. Smeall is a veteran of the World war, having, in, 19175 enlisted in the United States Medical Corps, in which he was commissioned captain, and served one and a half years overseas.

Dr. Smeall was united in marriage to Miss Lulu May Nash, of Tacoma, but who was born in Wisconsin. They are the parents of two children, Joseph and Thomas. - The Doctor is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Knights of Columbus. Politically he has always given his support to the, republican party and has maintained a deep interest in public affairs. He belongs to the Pierce County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He has many warm friends, who esteem him for his worth as a man and citizen.

Gustave Alfred Weber

Gustave Alfred Weber has long been recognized as one of the leading plumbers of Tacoma and has done a number of large jobs here which have given him marked prestige in his line of work. He has a well equipped shop at 17 North Tacoma avenue and commands his full share of the local business in both plumbing and heating.

Mr. Weber was born in Germany in 1873 and is a son of Gustave and Augusta Weber, the former of whom died in 1876. His widow later became the wife of Robert Martin, who also was a native of Germany, and in 1881 they brought the family to the United States. They located in Chicago, where they remained until 1889, when they came to Tacoma, arriving here in September. Mr. Martin followed his trade, that of an upholsterer, and later engaged in the restaurant business. He and his wife are now deceased.

G. A. Weber attended the public schools of Chicago, and after coming to Tacoma he learned the plumbing trade, at which he was employed as a journeyman until 1906, when he engaged in the business on his own account at 1539 Broadway, meeting with success. He remained there until 1926, when he moved to 17 North Tacoma avenue. He put in the plumbing in the Stewart and Jason Lee schools, St. Joseph's Hospital and a number of other prominent buildings and has taken a justifiable pride in the quality of his work, which has gained for him an enviable reputation.

Mr. Weber was married, in 1922, to Mrs. Augusta Bell, of Tacoma. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Fraternal Aid Association, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Master Plumbers Association. Politically he is independent. He and his wife are members of the Tacoma branch of the Theosophical Society, of which he is secretary. A man of kindly and cordial manner, keenly alive to the interests of his community, and unassailable in his integrity, he well merits the high place which he holds in the confidence and respect of his fellowmen.

Peter L, Hale

Peter L, Hale, who owns and operates a splendidly improved farm in the vicinity of Puyallup, is numbered among the sons of Norway who have settled in Pierce county, of : which they have proved themselves worthy citizens in every respect, gaining material prosperity and at the same time contributing to the general welfare and progress of their respective communities. Mr. Hale was born on the 10th of

May, 1868, and is a son of Lars Olsen and Ane (Larson) Hale, both of whom are deceased, the father having been accidentally drowned at sea in 1870, while the mother passed away in 1914. They were the parents of seven children, namely: Ole, who died in infancy, and Louisa, John, Peter L., Lars, Olave and Martin. Martin enlisted in the Canadian army for service in the World war and served four years with the Machine Gun Corps in France.

Peter L. Hale was educated in the public schools of Norway and at the age of fourteen years was confirmed in the Lutheran church. He was but two years of age when his father died, and as soon as he was old enough he devoted his energies to assisting his mother in the operation of the home farm. In 1887 he emigrated to the United States, going at once to Minnesota, where he lived about six months. He then went to Helena, Montana, where he worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad for a few months. In March, 1888, he came to Tacoma, Washington, and went to work in the Hansen planing mill, where he remained until 1892, with the exception of a period when he was sick with typhoid fever. He then went to Contra Costa county, California, where he was employed as a farm hand for six years, at the end of which time, in 1898, he joined the gold rush to Alaska. He engaged in gold mining there three and a half years, and on his return to Washington, in 1901, he bought twenty acres of land at North Puyallup. He cleared this tract and has since devoted himself to its improvement and cultivation, having met with splendid success in the enterprise. In 1902 he built a good, modern house, in 1915 constructed a fine hop drier and has erected other buildings which have added to the value and efficiency of the ranch. He has ten acres planted to hops and also has a good berry patch and a fine orchard, all of which are producing excellent crops.

Mr. Hale was married January 5, 1900, in Tacoma, to Miss Anna Langlow, a native of Norway and a daughter of Ole and Ingar (Idem) Langlow. The father is still living in that country, but the mother passed away January 18, 1925. They were the parents of four children: Anna, Olivea, deceased, Peter and Johanna. The father came to the United States in 1887, lived in Washington seven years, and then returned to his native land, where he owns a good farm. To Mr. and Mrs. Hale have been born three children, as follows: Leif, who was born in Norway, October 3, 1902, was graduated from the Puyallup high school, had two years at the University of Washington, and is now in the employ of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad; Oddwin, born June 8, 1908, in Washington, who was graduated from the Puyallup high school in 1926; and Alice, who was born here January 7, 1918.

Mr. Hale is a member of the Puyallup and Sumner Berry. Growers Association. He has been deeply interested in the welfare of his community and has rendered appreciated service as a member of the North Puyallup school board for the pas twelve years, this being one of the best rural schools in Pierce county.

John Snyder

No better eulogy can be pronounced upon a community or upon its individual members than to point to the work they have accomplished, for this is essentially a utilitarian age and the man of action is very much in evidence. The late John Snyder was such a man and, because of his close identification with the commercial and industrial interests of Tacoma, he is eminently entitled to specific mention in a history of this locality. Intimately associated for years with the development and upbuilding of this city, he was not underestimated by the people, who long since learned to appreciate his true value as a potent factor in important affairs.

Mr. Snyder was a native of Chillicothe, Ross county, Ohio, born October 23, 1852. His parents were Jacob and Magdalina Snyder, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Bavaria. The father was engaged in the hardware business in Chillicothe. Our subject received his education in the public schools of that city, and at the early age of fourteen years he was employed by Mr. Swift, in the wholesale notion business, which they carried on for about ten years. He then engaged in the wholesale hat. business on his own account, and afterward went to Detroit, Michigan, where he became identified with the wholesale hat firm of A. C. Bacon. In January, 1885, he came to Tacoma, Washington, and, in partnership with John B. Stevens, established the Snyder-Stevens Lumbermill Company, at about Twenty-first street south. This business was continued successfully for five or six years, when the mill was destroyed by fire, and Mr. Snyder then entered the First National Bank of Tacoma as vice president and cashier, which positions he held for a number of years. He was next engaged in various other enterprises until about 1903, when he established the Tacoma Fir Door Company, which he operated until 1917, when again fire destroyed his plant. In the meantime he had organized the Clear Fir Lumber Company at Day Island and thereafter devoted his attention to this enterprise up to the time of his death, which occurred March'30, 1924.

On October 21, 1886, Mr. Snyder was united in marriage to Miss Ella M. Frost, who was born in Maine, a daughter of Benjamin B. and Mary (Ingalls) Frost, both of whom also were natives of that state. The Ingalls family came to this country in 1629, while the Frost family was established here in 1635, so that their descendants can well lay claim to colonial antecedents. Both families came originally from England and some of the members fought in the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Snyder's parents brought their family to Ohio when she was but nine months old, and there her father became a railroad contractor. They remained in that state until shortly before they died, when they came to Tacoma, where they passed away. To Mr. and Mrs. Snyder were born two children, Mary and Frost. Mary graduated from the Tacoma high school and from Wellesley College, and became the wife of James V. Munroe, of Yakima, Washington. They are the parents of two children, Mollie and Joan. Frost attended the Tacoma high school and Andover Academy, in Massachusetts, and then entered Yale University, where he was graduated. He is now president of the Clear Fir Lumber Company. He married Margaret Snell, daughter of Judge W. H. Snell, of Tacoma. They have one child, Catharine.

Politically John Snyder was an ardent supporter of the republican party and about 1890 served as a member of the Tacoma city council. He was one of the earliest members of the Commercial Club, while his religious membership was with the First Presbyterian church, of which he was a liberal supporter. Mrs. Snyder is a member of that church and also belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. Snyder possessed to a marked degree the essential elements of good citizenship. He was a man of kindly manner, and all who came into contact with him felt the impress of his splendid personality. :

Abram D. Liddle

One of the successful real estate and insurance men of Tacoma is Abram D. Liddle, whose offices are in the Tacoma building. During the nearly twenty years that he has been identified with business affairs in this city he has risen in the confidence and esteem of the people and today is regarded as one of the community's representative citizens. Mr. Liddle was born in Niagara county, New York, on the 29th of October, 1874, and is a son of Robert W. and Adelaide (Dix) Liddle. In the early '80s the family moved to Iowa, where the father was engaged in farming during the remaining active years of his life, both parents being now deceased.

Abram D. Liddle attended the public schools and took a course in a business college, after which he attended Drake University, at Des Moines. In 1900 he engaged in the insurance business in that city, remaining there until 1908, when he came to Tacoma and established himself in the fire insurance, real estate and loan business, in which he has met with success. He is a man of sound business judgment energetic and enterprising in his methods, and of sterling integrity, so that he enjoys a well merited reputation for reliability in all his engagements.

f In 1908 Mr. Liddle was united in marriage to Miss Myrtle A. Maytum, who is a native of Iowa, and they are the parents of three children, Louise, Dix and Alan These children may revert with pride to the military records of their forebears for their ancestors in the fourth generation served in the war of the Revolution 'while their great-grandfather, Daniel Dix, was a soldier in the War of 1812 f Their grandfather, Robert W. Liddle, was a veteran of the Civil war, having enlisted in Company I, One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantr with which he served one year, and was wounded in the battle of Fort Fisher. Th : father, the subject of this sketch, enlisted in 1917 in Company F, Third Re; ice Washington National Guard. His company was later federalized and was drilled for service in the World war, but was not ordered overseas. Mr. Liddle had six ye of military service, and is subject to recall whenever needed. He is a shai in his political views and takes an active interest in public affairs, having served several times as a delegate to state conventions of his party. He is a member of the Fircrest Golf Club, the Young Men's Business Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Real Estate Board, of which organization he is a trustee, and is a member of the board of curators of the Washington State Historical Society. Mr. Liddle is a

Henry G. Shaw

The largest surgical and hospital supply house on the Pacitic coast is the Shaw Supply Company, of Tacoma, of which Henry G. Shaw is president. Mr. Shaw has been identified with business affairs in this city practically ever since coming here, a period of over thirty years, and today is recognized as one of its most progressive and enterprising business men. He was born in Sturgis, Michigan, on the 9th of October, 1879, and is a son of Rev. Robert P. and Mary (Thornton) Shaw. The family came to Tacoma in 1895, the father becoming pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian church, to which he ministered for a number of years, but is now retired from the active ministry.

Henry G. Shaw completed his education here, graduating from high school, and in 1897 went to work for the Washington Dental & Photographic Supply Company of Seattle, in its Tacoma office. This was succeeded by the Tacoma Dental & Photo Supply Company, which was incorporated in 1905 by Paul T. Shaw and H. J. Fries. In 1906 Mr. Fries sold his interest in the business to Henry G. Shaw, and in 1910 the concern was succeeded by the Shaw Supply Company, with Robert P. Shaw as president, Henry G. Shaw as vice president and treasurer and Paul T. Shaw as secretary. Henry G. Shaw has since become president of the company, which position, as well as that of treasurer, he still holds. The company was first located at 919 Pacific avenue, but in 1915 moved to its present location at 1015 Pacific avenue, where they occupy three floors and a basement, twenty-five by one hundred and twenty feet in size, or a total of twelve thousand feet of floor space. They are wholesale dealers in surgical and hospital supplies, electro-medical apparatus and photographic supplies and at all times carry a large and complete stock. They have five traveling salesmen and cover the entire northwest, Alaska and the Orient. In 1918 they opened a branch store in Seattle and in 1920 another branch in Portland, Oregon.

In 1908 Mr. Shaw was united in marriage to Miss Margaret L. Knight, of Sturgis, Michigan, and they are the parents of three children, Thornton, Mary Alice and Margaret. Mr. Shaw is an independent republican in his political views, and is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Tacoma Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and Afifi Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Tacoma Country Club and the Rotary Club. He is vice president of the Tacoma Drug Company, which he helped to organize and in wHich he has been financially interested ever since. A man of sterling principles, up-to-date in all his methods, and enjoying to the fullest measure the confidence and respect of his fellow business men, he has long been regarded as one of the representative citizens of Tacoma.

Charles M. Hammond

Charles M. Hammond, president of the well known firm of Hammond & Company, cf Tacoma, has spent his active business life in the fruit and produce business, and his success has come to him through his persistent and rightly directed efforts, backed by sound business judgment. He was born in 1886 in Montrose, Colorado, and is a son of H. S. and Jennie H. Hammond, who brought their family to Tacoma in 1889. In 1890 H. S. Hammond established the firm of Hammond & Company, located at 1527 Dock street, and subsequently moved to Pacific avenue, where the business was carried on for ten years, when the company finally located at 1189 Dock street. H. S. Hammond was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, from which state he moved to Colorado, where he lived until coming to Tacoma. He is deceased and is survived by i i i i in Tacoma and owns the business in partnership with oa ue ee ate nei S. and Jennie Hammond were born four children, Bane Charles M.; Anna, who became the wife of Max Garretson, of Tacoma; Henry S., who is in the employ of the Hammond company ; and Alice, who is deceased. ' :

Charles M. Hammond attended the public schools of Tacoma, graduating foes high school, and then entered his father's business, with which he has ig Ara e continuously since, becoming president of the company on the death of his fa ae Nine people are employed in the operation of the business and shipments are made e Se Her was united in marriage to Miss Grace J. Allison, of Tacoma, and they are the parents of a son, Charles M., Jr. Mr. Hammond is a member of State Lodge, No. 68, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Tacoma Lodge, No. 174, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; the Grotto, and the Tacoma Country Club. Politically he is independent. A man of high moral character and splendid personality, he enjoys an enviable standing among those who know him, while his business reputation is unassailable.

The Pacific Savings & Loan Association, of Tacoma, of which Walter F. McDowell is president, has one of the most remarkable and successful records of any similar organization in the country, and, though but nineteen years old, is now the largest and strongest savings and loan association in the Pacific northwest, its assets being over twelve and a half million dollars. This association was organized January 1, 1907, and, through careful and conservative management, has enjoyed a steady and substantial growth during every year of its existence. Some of its advantageous features are that all funds entrusted to it are loaned on improved real estate at. not to exceed fifty per cent of a conservative valuation; it is under absolute state supervision and control; a contingent and reserve fund is accumulated from year to year; all employees, officers and agents are bonded; the books are inspected annually by the state savings and loan inspector and the examiner of the corporation commissioner's department of Oregon, and expenses are limited by law, the association actually using considerably less than the law permits. The association has never paid less than five per cent per annum during its history. Among the men principally interested in the association at the time of its organization were: W. H. Reid, who is now chairman of the board; John T. Redman, who was the first president; Edward Meath, who was the first secretary, later served as county treasurer and was afterward elected state treasurer; Dr. Burton E. Lemley and J. I. Gilmore, who are still members of the board; and Victor H. Malstrom. The offices of the association were first located near Eleventh street on Pacific avenue; later were moved to the corner of A and Ninth streets, and in 1921 went to the Pacific Savings building, where they occupy two entire floors and the mezzanine floor, with offices also on the fifth floor. Thirty-five people are employed. The association has been of inestimable benefit to the community, having assisted thousands in securing homes.

Walter F. McDowell was born in Arkona, Ontario, Canada, on the 5th of January, 1877, and is a son of James and Margaret (Vahey) McDowell, the latter of whom died in Canada. In 1890 the father went to Harriman, Tennessee, where he became president of a bank, remaining there until 1903, when he came to Olympia, Washington. Soon after locating there, he organized the Olympia Building & Loan Association, which he served as manager up to the time of his death, which occurred in March, 1913. Walter F. McDowell secured a good public school education and then entered Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, which he attended four years. In 1899 he went to Columbus, Ohio, and entered the employ of the Columbian Building & Loan Company, with which he remained until 1906, when he removed to Olympia, Washington, and became connected with the Olympia Building & Loan Association. On the death of his father, he became manager of the association, holding that position until 1919, when he came to Tacoma as secretary of the Pacific Savings & Loan Association. On January 1, 1925, he was made president of the association and is still serving in that capacity. His long and extensive experience with organizations of this character made him well qualified for this position, and he has given able and effecti i

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Mr. McDowell is a member of the First Presbyterian church, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Christian Men's Club, the Tacoma Ad Club, the Fircrest Golf Club, the Young Men's Business Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is first vice president of the United States League of Local Building & Loan Associations, which makes him automatically president at the annual convention in 1928. He is an ardent supporter of prohibition and maintains an independent attitude in political affairs, voting for what he considers the best interests of the people, regardless of party lines. A man of strong individuality, sterling integrity and sound business judgment, he holds distinctive precedence in the business circles of his city, while his cordial and unaffected manner has gained a wide circle of warm and loyal friends.

Grover C. Nolte

Grover C. Nolte, who has for nearly twenty years been actively engaged in the practice of law in Tacoma, has attained a well merited reputation as an able and reliable attorney, having achieved more than ordinary success in his profession, and also ranks high as a progressive and broadminded citizen. He is a native of Clayton county, Iowa, born on the 24th of March, 1886, and is a son of William and Julia Nolte, the former of whom is a carriage maker by trade. The mother is deceased.

Of the nine children in the family, Grover C. Nolte is the fifth in order of birth. He secured a good public and high school education and then entered the law school of the University of Iowa, graduating in 1907. He soon afterward came to Tacoma and has continuously since been engaged in the practice of his profession. His ability and sagacity quickly brought him recognition, and for a number of years he has stood in the front rank of the successful lawyers of the Tacoma bar. He served one term as deputy prosecuting attorney, and during his career he has been identified as counsel with many of the important cases tried in the courts of this and neighboring counties. He is a strong pleader and a sound and safe adviser in legal matters, and he commands the respect of his professional colleagues as well as the confidence of the public.

In 1911 Mr. Nolte was united in marriage to Miss Lilian Sanger, who is a native of Wisconsin, and they are the parents of two children, Eileen and William. Mr. Nolte is a member of Lebanon Lodge, No. 104, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of which he is a past master; Tacoma Commandery, Knights Templar; Tacoma Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, of which he is a past master; Afifi Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of which he is a past potentate; Tacoma Lodge, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and Tacoma Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose. He is a republican in his political views and is an active member of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce. He maintains professional affiliation with the Pierce County Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association. Personally he is a man of strong individuality, straightforward in manner and cordial in his social relations. He has at all times cooperated with his fellow citizens in measures for the advancement of the city along material and civic lines and commands respect and good will.

Samuel Morley Jackson

An outstanding banker and business man, humanitarian and leader in civic affairs is the position which has been won by Samuel Morley Jackson as the result of his efforts as a citizen of Tacoma for the past thirty-seven years. Not only has he achieved material success, having risen to the presidency of the National Bank of Tacoma, but he has won the friendship and esteem of many thousands of persons as well. He has seen many changes take place during the years he has lived in Tacoma and he possesses the satisfaction of having had a part in this development.

Mr. Jackson is a native of Essex county, England, born June 21, 1864. He was educated in English private schools and attended Framingham College, Suffolk, England, for three years. After completing his education he began his business career in London, England, where he remained until 1882 when he came to San Fran- cisco. He began his service there with the London & San Francisco Bank, Ltd., and in 1890 he was transferred to Tacoma to open a branch bank for the same institution in the Mason block. Six years later he was appointed manager of the Tacoma branch.

The Bank of California, N. A., purchased the business of the London & San Francisco Bank, Ltd., in 1905 and appointed Mr. Jackson as manager of the Tacoma branch. He remained with that corporation until 1920, when he resigned to become president of the National Bank of Tacoma. His rank as a banker was evidenced by his selection as Washington member of the executive committee of the American Bankers Association, a position he held for several years, much to the credit of the state. Perhaps Mr. Jackson is as well known for his civic work as by his business connections. He has given time without stint to many undertakings, all for the public good. When the Tacoma General Hospital was reorganized in 1912 he became president of the organization. Year after year since then he has been reelected to the post because of his achievements. Under his direction the new main building of the institution was erected at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars and each year since has seen an improvement in the plant and its equipment until today the Tacoma General Hospital stands among the finest institutions of its kind in America. It has been awarded the highest standard of rating by the American College of Surgeons for the work that it is doing.

Mr. Jackson has served as treasurer of the Annie Wright Seminary for years and has been honored in the past with the presidency of the Union Club, the Tacoma Golf and Country Club and the University Club. He belongs also to the Scottish Rite and is a life member of Afifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His membership likewise includes the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, the Elks and the Automobile Club of Western Washington. Mr. Jackson has long been an ardent equestrian and was one of the founders of the Tacoma Riding Club, which has a large membership and is growing rapidly.

Mr. Jackson's home always has been a center of hospitality. He was married June 2, 1894, in San Francisco, to Miss Marie Williams, daughter of Dr. Robert E. Williams, a favorably known physician of his day. They have a family of two sons and a daughter, all living in Tacoma.

Ae apoE eee has accomplished much during his residence in Tacoma, and the shy ae he has won have been earned by his qualities of character. He has been in every movement initiated for the advancement of Tacoma and southwestern Washington for nearly forty years. The esteem in which he is held proves how his citizenship is prized by those who know him.

John Clark

One of the oldest and most highly respected residents of Orti i rting is John Cl who after a long and active career is now quietly and eiitortanig spending a golden sunset of his life here, secure in the respect and esteem of his fellow citizens Mr. Clark was born at Saratoga Springs, New York, on the 25th of July, 1848 and is a son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Craig) Clark, the former of whom was a native of Vermont and the latter of Scotland. John Clark received his education in the i i i public schools of his native st We ayes saan Spa Academy when he laid aside his textbooks mee Ses vice in the Civil war. His father had previously enlisted, but mustered in because of his age. Our subj J schedeccn et i : : ject became a member of C Forty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer I i - Pine nfantry, which was a t of the Potomac. He served from Au ' Men AC. gust, 1864, to June, 1865, duri i j he took part in several of the most im ; f eee . ; portant battles of the war, includi sylvania, Antietam Petersburg and other les Pig oe pire Jot ie ; : » Be , : ser engagements, escapin i inans ky sabes being in a hospital. He was honorably Sibcted elk aimee a rne ae ae and completed his academic course, graduating in 1866. He went t om ante : food eee where he learned the stove molding trade, remaining there bout roa thie pon nee his pepe to railroading, running out of Albany about ; ch perio was employed as b messenger and as substitute conductor. While fe Philedeighies vistien aH Sane ?

he secured a position with the naval department of the government, and was in Washington, D. C., about eight months, after which he spent five years in South America, Africa and other countries. He was then discharged and returned to New York, opening a store on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, which he ran for about six months. He next spent a short time in the navy yard at Brooklyn, after which he took a position as stationary engineer at Round Lake, New York, where he remained about four months. Mr. Clark then entered into another five-year contract with the naval department, going to South America, Hawaii and other places, and on his discharge, in 1883, went to San Francisco. During the following year he was employed on the Central Pacific Railroad out of Sacramento, after which he again signed up for five years' service with the naval department, being sent to Vancouver, Washington, where he was employed in carpenter, repairing and rebuilding work. In 1889 he located at Vancouver, which was his home for twenty years, during which time he was engaged in contracting and building, in which he met with very gratifying success. About 1904 Mr. Clark moved to Seattle, where he lived until 1921, when he came to Orting, where he has since resided.

Mr. Clark has been married twice - first, in 1876, to Miss Isabella Fleming, who died in October, 1877. On February 4, 1889, at Vancouver, Washington, he was married to Mrs. Zerelda H. (Maxon) Delay, who was born in Missouri, a daughter of Silas D. and Mary E. (Harlow) Maxon, the former of whom was a native of Kentucky and the latter of Missouri. In 1847 the Maxon family made the long journey across the plains, with ox teams and covered wagons, being six months on the way, and located near Salem, Oregon, where they remained about a year. They then went to the vicinity of Vancouver, Washington, where the father took up a donation claim, and spent the remaining years of his life in this state. He became prominent and influential in public affairs, serving as a member of the territorial legislature and as a justice of the peace for many years. Mrs. Clark bears the distinction of being one of the oldest living settlers of what was Oregon territory, and has been a witness of the wonderful development which has characterized the great Pacific northwest. She was reared and spent most of her early life near and in Vancouver and was married to Henry Delay in 1860. She is a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the Free Methodist church. Mr. Clark has long been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he has been a past noble grand for thirty-five years, having formerly taken a very active part in lodge work. He is a member of the Seattle post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and belongs to the Colony at Orting, which is comprised of veterans who draw a pension and subsistence from the government but live in their own homes, instead of in the Soldiers Home. His life has been consistent in motive and action, and he has faithfully performed his part, and because of his many excellent personal qualities, he enjoys to. a marked degree the respect and good will of all who know him.

The J. F. Thorsk Company is recognized as one of the leading and most reliable plumbing and heating concerns in Tacoma and under the able management of J. F. Thorsk has attained a high place in public confidence. The business is conducted at 920 Commerce street, which location was formerly occupied by the T. H. Bellingham Company, who moved out in 1922, when Mr. Thorsk engaged in the same line of business there. He is a native of Sweden, where he attended school, and at the age of twelve or fourteen years he was brought to the United States by his father, Carl J. Thorsk, who now lives near Seattle, but who had formerly been engaged in the operation of a ranch at Bothell. ;

J. F. Thorsk came to Seattle in 1899, and he supplemented his early education by much intensive home study, so that today he is well informed on a wide range of 'subjects. He went to work for the Seattle Hardware Company, with which concern he remained about two years, after which he went to Nome, Alaska, where he remained two years. Through his connection with the hardware business, Mr. Thorsk had gained an insight into the plumbing line, and on his return from Alaska he went to work as an apprentice plumber in Seattle, eventually becoming a journeyman. About 1906 he came to Tacoma and went to work for the Bellingham Company, 'with which concern he remained several years. He was made foreman and had charge of the business while Mr, Bellingham was serving as a member of the county board of commissioners. On leaving his employ Mr. Thorsk engaged in business on his own account under the name of J. F. Thorsk Company. He does a general plumbing business, installing heating, steam and water systems, and has been very successful as a contractor along these lines. ;

Mr. Thorsk was united in marriage to Miss Hilda Belongia, and they are rearing three of Mrs. Thorsk's sister's children, Mary, Grace and William O'Malley. Mr. Thorsk is a member of Tacoma Lodge, No. 174, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and the Lions Club.

Joseph R. Turner

One of the successful concerns which have directly contributed to the general prosperity of Tacoma is the West Coast Steel Company, of which Joseph R. Turner is president. For a quarter of a century this firm has run its plant steadily and continuously and has enjoyed a healthy growth, being the leading industry here in its line.

Mr. Turner, who has been an important factor in the success of this company, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1857, and is a son of J. R. and Mary Turner, the former of whom died in 1857 and the latter in 1865. He had but little opportunity for securing such an education as he desired, being compelled at an early age to go to work. He learned the blacksmith trade, working in the shop during the day and attending school in the evenings. Eventually he went west to Kansas, where he entered the University of Kansas, through which he worked his way, graduating in 1885. He then went to Silverton, Colorado, from which state he went to New Mexico, where he ran a blacksmith shop. Later he worked in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California and Utah, and in 1888 he came to Tacoma, buying a blacksmith shop on Commerce street. He afterward bought a half interest in the John Muntz shop, on Fourteenth street, and subsequently sold half of his interest to Fawcett Brothers, after which the business was operated under the name of the Fawcett Wagon Company, of which Mr. Turner was president. Later this firm was dissolved and Mr. Turner then, in 1900, organized the West Coast Wagon Company, which, in 1916, was changed to the West Coast Steel Company. The company sells horse shoes. and wagon material wholesale.

The West Coast Steel Company was originally organized in 1900, with the. following officers: Joseph R. Turner, president; N. M. Graybill, vice president and William H. Reid, secretary and treasurer. It was first located at A and Fourteenth streets, but in 1902 moved to 1948 Pacific avenue, where it built its own three-story brick building, ninety by one hundred and twenty feet in size. Here, in addition to the wholesaling of heavy hardware, they are extensively engaged. in the manu-- facture of automobile bodies and trailers. They are enjoying great success in this line, and in 1925, among other contracts, they built sixty truck bodies for the Pacific Fruit and Produce Company. They are wholesalers of Kelly tires, which are handled from their plant at 720 Pacific avenue, and are agents for the International Harvester trucks and passenger cars, having sold the entire equipment of forty-one trucks to the Washington Egg and Poultry Association. They also deal extensively in aut mobile accessories. They have a large branch house at Seattle and ae lo "4 average of seventy-five men, practically all of whom are skilled while their Fon t traveling representatives covers. all of the northwest and Alaska Mr. Tu ik ee erm ne to the management of the company of which he is the neva an a i i i . see ae on easure of seeing it develop into one of the leading concerns in its.

Tacoma, and to them have been born four sitdvedle tata erode pe ae y practicing physician in Tacoma; Nathaniel A., who is a fessi L Mg who ae id Dacothae Williawimiiehe § ; "s 3 pro: essional violin player

; > Mv F o 1s engaged in the sign business in this city: who is the wife of Albert Libby, of Tacoma. Mr. Turner j Rc NE Free and Accepted Masons, the Improved Order of Red Me Puce eee Order of Foresters, and also belongs to the Chamber of C Sabicea aaa ate and the Auto Trades Association. He is mapetacte a il itis ee keen perception, honesty of purpose and a genius for devising and doing the right thing at the right time are prominent characteristics of his and have gained for him not only material success but also the respect and admiration of all who know him.

George Lawler

In his particular field of effort George Lawler has attained a noteworthy prominence and is today the leading bulb grower of the northwest. His success has been gained through thoughtful and intelligent efforts and the exercise of sound business judgment and up-to-date methods, and he enjoys a worthy reputation throughout this section of the state.

Mr. Lawler was born in Carlinville, Illinois, in 1861, and is a son of Peter and Ellen Harriet Taylor (Gregory) Lawler. His mother was born in Lancashire, near Liverpool, England. His father, who was a native of Ireland, was a soldier in the Civil war, and took part in General Sherman's historic march to the sea, being under the direct command of General Joseph Hooker. He was killed in the battle of New Hope Church, being buried in the national cemetery at Marietta, Georgia. The mother's death occurred at Pontiac, Illinois, where she was laid to rest. They were the parents of two children, George, of this sketch, and Mrs. J. Albert Blue, of Pontiac, Illinois.

George Lawler attended the public schools of his native state, completing his education at Grand Prairie Seminary and a commercial college at Onarga, Illinois. He then worked for awhile at truck gardening but at the age of nineteen years went to Burlington, Iowa, and learned railroad telegraph operating, being made station agent at Montrose, lowa. Later he operated lumber yards at Hopkins, Missouri, and Bedford, Iowa, for five years. In the spring of 1888 he went to California and located in San Francisco, where he worked for the lumber firm of Hooper Brothers. In the fall of that year he came to Tacoma, Washington, and obtained a position in the office of the Pacific Mill Company, of which C. F. White was president. Here he became chief accountant. Later he went to Shelton, Washington, as accountant for the Satsop Railroad Company, a logging railroad, remaining there three years. About 1893 Mr. Lawler engaged in the wholesale lumber business in Tacoma and soon afterward built a sawmill, which he sold after operating it a year. During this period he sold the first big lot of railroad ties that the Burlington Railroad bought in Washington, they being shipped to Alliance, Nebraska, to be used in road construction. He then engaged in the real estate business for several years. Mr. Lawler was one of the prime movers in the reclaiming of the tide lands in Tacoma, one of the most important pieces of development work about that city,. and which contributed largely to its industrial progress.

In 1910 Mr. Lawler bought fifteen acres of land on section 6, township 20, range 4, on which he built a fine, modern house, while the grounds were artistically laid out and beautified with shrubbery and flowers. In 1917 he began raising bulbs, including narcissus, jonquils, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, iris, lilies and other species, and met with very encouraging success. In 1920 he had one acre planted, from which he sold two hundred and forty-four thousand seven hundred and thirty cut flowers, for which he received four thousand, three hundred and forty-seven dollars and forty-five cents. From the beginning of his work in this line he has annually had increased sales and now ships all over the United States as far east as Chicago and New York. He shipped the first carload of bulbs to Chicago that was sent from the coast. In 1926 Mr. Lawler bought one hundred and sixty acres of land near Roy, Pierce county, and has planted fifty acres to narcissus bulbs alone, and at North Puyallup has planted fifteen acres to other bulbs, being now probably the largest individual bulb grower in the state of Washington. He ships lilies, growing his bulbs from seed, and has a good market for all that he can grow. Among his lilies are such standard varieties as Regal and Candidum or Madonna, and he is also now engaged in the growing of Spanish, Dutch, English and other iris from bulbs. In 1926 Mr. Lawler took first prize at the Western Washington State Fair for the best exhibit of bulbs.

In 1883, at Montrose, Iowa, Mr. Lawler was united in marriage to Miss Hannah Ann Magnolia Ward, who was born in St. Louis, Missouri, a daughter of Thomas and Ess Susanna (Casbourn) Ward, both of whom were natives of England and are now deceased. To Mr. and Mrs. Lawler were born. two children, Ellen, who was

? . . r ; Rufus, in high school; and Katherine Elizabeth. George Ward v aati snd WES admitted to the bar, but is now associated with his comes in the bulb business. He is married and has a son, John Ward. In 1905 Mr. Lawler ied Mary Florence Ward.

CeueNee: Lawler is a member of Tacoma Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M., at ee and is a past grand master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of the state of Washington; Tacoma Consistory, A. A. S. R., in which he has held all the chairs; and Afifi Temple A. A. O. N. M. S., of Tacoma, while he and his wife are members of the Order of the Eastern Star in Tacoma. Though his own business affairs make heavy demands on his time, Mr. Lawler has not neglected his duty to his community and has given his earnest support to every movement for the advancement of the

George H. Raleigh

One of the leading and most influential banking institutions in the west is the Bank of California, National Association, of San Francisco, California, with branches at Tacoma, Seattle and Portland. This bank was established in San Francisco in 1864, and during the entire period of its history it has stood there as a great tower of financial strength. In 1890 the London and San Francisco Bank, Limited, established a branch in Tacoma, the head office of the institution being in London, England, and the American head office being in San Francisco. A branch had been established in Portland, Oregon, about 1880, and in 1900 they established another branch in Seattle. On February 25, 1905, the Bank of California purchased the three branches mentioned, and operated them as state banks until, by special act of congress, February 5, 1910, they were nationalized, being today the only nationalized system in the United States operating branches outside of the city where the head bank is situated. Over each branch bank is appointed a, manager, who possesses the same powers as to the making of loans as is possessed by a board of directors. On January 18, 1919, the Bank of California bought the banking department of the Fidelity Trust Company, of Tacoma. This branch has always been well housed, but is now erecting a new building at 1007-11-13 Pacific avenue, which is to be completed by January 19, 1929, and which will be an, ornament to the city architecturally, while its massiveness will be symbolic of the strength of the banking company which will occupy it. It is seventy-five by one hundred and twenty feet in size and two stories in height, equivalent, however, to five ordinary stories, and will be constructed of Wilkeson stone.

The Tacoma branch of the Bank of California was opened under the management of T. V. Walter, with S. M. Jackson, now president of the National Bank of Tacoma, as accountant. Mr. Walter died in September, 1896, and William A. Mac- Rae, now manager of the branch at Portland, came to Tacoma as manager. In 1900 Mr. MacRae became manager of the Portland branch and Mr. Jackson became manager at Tacoma, remaining at the head of the bank until 1920, when he went to the National Bank of Tacoma, and George H. Raleigh then became the head of the Tacoma branch bank, which position he still retains. Some idea of the financial strength of the Bank of California may be gained from the following items from its last statement of condition, including the Portland, Seattle and Tacoma branches: Capital, eight million five hundred thousand dollars; surplus and undivided profits, nine million one hundred eighty thousand four hundred eighty-four dollars and fifty-five cents; deposits, eighty-one million nine hundred thousand sixty-three dollars and seventy-eight cents; loans and discounts, sixty-one million six hundred fifty-eight thousand, three hundred twenty-one dollars and seventy-five cents; cash and sight exchange, twenty-seven million seven hundred ninety-four thousand eight hundred eleven dollars and fifty-six cents; total resources, one hundred ni illi hundred ninety-eight thousand six hundred fif : Aide on ae Bank'ef California 'and' its 'thres Branclied -coaaiitntavohie sey oe tee cee: ee branches constitute one association under one management, and depositors at any one of the banks have the protecti h i : bie: on of capital, surplus and undivided profits of the association. 3 pe Ng had

George H. Raleigh was born in eastern Ontario, Canada, on the 7th of July, 1878, and is a son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Raleigh. In 1891 the family came to Tacoma, and the parents still live here. Our subject secured his education in the public schools and earned his first money by selling newspapers. Later he was a doctor's office boy for a time, after which he was employed as a clerk in a drug store. In 1893 he became office boy in the London and San Francisco Bank, and has remained with that bank and its successor continuously since, having worked in every position, and by successive promotions finally reaching his present post as manager. His years of preparation made him well qualified for the position, the duties of which he has discharged in an able and efficient manner, and today he is regarded in Tacoma as one of its most sagacious and competent bankers.

Politically Mr. Raleigh gives his support to the republican party, while fraternally he is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has received the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, and is a knight commander of the Court of Honor, an honorary degree. Socially he is a member of the Union Club, the Tacoma Country Club, the Rainier Club of Seattle, the Seattle Golf and Country Club and the Aberdeen Golf and Country Club. He is recognized as a splendid citizen, progressive in all that the term implies, and a man of lofty character and sturdy integrity, because of which characteristics he has won and retains the confidence and good will of all who have had dealings with him.

Edward Lacey

Among the former citizens of Pierce county who lived worthy lives, performed well their allotted tasks, and now are sleeping in the "windowless palaces of rest,' was Edward Lacey, who died at his home near Puyallup, June 14, 1926, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. His life was one of indomitable energy and persistency of purpose, backed by correct principles and right motives, and he won not only a fine measure of material success, but, what is of far more importance, the confidence and respect of his fellowmen.

Mr. Lacey was born in Kent county, England, on the 25th of August, 1838, a son of Thomas and Hannah Lacey, both of whom died in their native land. He received his educational training in the public schools near his home and then devoted his attention to farming and hop raising there until 1884, when he emigrated to the United States, reaching Tacoma on Thanksgiving day. Soon afterward he went to work on the old city reservoir, and later worked in the Tacoma Hotel until February, 1889, when he bought forty acres of the old Benson donation claim, in what is now North Puyallup. The land was densely covered with cedar and cottonwood trees and heavy brush, the only improvement on the place being a small house. He immediately set himself to the task of clearing the land and in the course of time developed a good farm and a comfortable home. He planted the tract mainly to hops and fruit, in the cultivation and raising of which he was successful, and here spent the remaining years of his life. He was a good farmer, did well whatever he undertook and had the pleasure of seeing his judgment vindicated in the results of his investment and his efforts.

On November 7, 1863, Mr. Lacey was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Judges, who was born in Kent, England, a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Judges, and they became the parents of nine children: William T., who was born in England and now lives in South Tacoma, is married and has four children, George, Alice, William and Frank. Edward, who was born in England, came to the United States in 1883, a year and a half ahead of the other members of the family. He is married and has three children, Lottie, Edith and Frederick. Annie was first married to a Mr. Reilly, to which union were born two children, James McE. and Theodore M., and was later married to a Mr. Ayres, to which union -was born a daughter, Annie Elizabeth, who is now the wife of J. H. Granholm, and they have a son, Jackson W., born November 18, 1921. James McE. Reilly is married and has four children - Eileen B., born March 31, 1915; Gail M., born in January, 1917; James, born October 19, 1918; and Dean E., born in June, 1926. Mrs. Elizabeth McArthur is the mother of two daughters, Mrs. Etta Sexton and Elsie McArthur. Mrs. Sexton is the mother of four children - Leonard A., born June 24, 1918; Merlyn, born December 3, 1919; Lester, deceased; and Rebecca, born in June, 1923. Mrs. Alice M. Meader is the ther of two children - Gwendolyn M., born May 3, 1898; an E born Mech 16, 1902. Julia lives at home with her mother. Fred J., who lives on and owns a part of the home place, is married and has three children, Margaret, John and Fred, Jr. Mrs. J. C. Will resides in Puyallup. Elsie May lives at home

Numbered among the representative citizens of Orting whose lives have been marked by persistent and well directed activity, while at the same time they have given due attention to the general welfare and progress of the community, is O. C. Johnson, who is now practically retired from active affairs and is in a position to enjoy the fruits of his years of earnest effort. Mr. Johnson was born in Ohio in 1862 and is a son of F. T. and Elizabeth (Jones) Johnson, both of whom also were natives of the Buckeye state, the latter being of Scottish descent, her father coming to this country when seventeen years of age. P. T. Johnson was a farmer by vocation, and also was a minister of the Quaker church. In 1871 the family moved to Mitchell county, Kansas, where he was engaged in farming for sixteen years.

In the latter county O. C. Johnson secured his education, being compelled to ride five miles to and from the district school, which he was able to attend three months each winter. He was engaged in farming until 1887, when he came to Washington, first locating in Tacoma, where he lived about three months. He then came to Orting, near which place he took a squatter's claim, which he lost some time later, however, when a survey showed that he was located on railroad land. Mr. Johnson then farmed rented land until 1916, when he engaged, in the wood, fuel and transfer business in Orting, in which he met with a fine measure of success, conducting it until 1926, when he practically retired from active business affairs, though he still does a little farming. During his active years he also did some carpenter work in Orting, having built several houses in this town.

In 1883, in Kansas, Mr. Johnson was united in marriage to Miss Rosie Pitts, who was born in Michigan, a daughter of L. C. and Nancy Pitts, the former of whom was a native of New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have been born five children. Frank, who is a contractor and builder at Orting, was married to Miss Helen Hardkie, and they have two children, Harold and Edna. Lizzie is the wife of J. Y. Case, who operates a garage at Orting, and they are the parents of eight children. Hazel is the wife of C. W. Speaks, of Moclips, Grays Harbor county, and she has two children by her first husband, Mr. Wanger. Cyril was married to Miss Ruby Hartman, and they have one child. He has an electric shop in Orting. Vera died at the age of five years.

Politically Mr. Johnson gives his support to the republican party and has been active in local public affairs, having served several terms as a member of the town council. He is a member of the Tribe of Ben-Hur and has been actively identified with the Western Washington Fair Association. Mrs. Johnson is a member of the Women's Relief Corps. Mr. Johnson is regarded as a splendid citizen and has at all times stood for those things which advance the welfare of the people and the community.

Charles H. Ross

Pierce county is characterized by a full share of honored pioneers who have done so much for the development of the county and the establishment of the institutions of civilization in this fertile and well favored section. They will soon be gone and the past can have no better history or memento than their records. Charles H. Ross, who enjoys the distinction of being one of the oldest living settlers of the SUxanae aged nat been a witness of Pierce county's development from the virgin orest to Its present prosperous status as one of Washington' of whom was a native of Pennsylvania, and the latter of Illinois. They became pioneers of Iowa, locating near Des Moines, where they lived until 1851, when they crossed the plains, with ox team and covered wagon, there being sixty-five wagons in their company. It was while en route on this journey that the subject of this sketch was born. The family wintered at Portland, Oregon, and then took up land on the present site of Long View, Washington. The father engaged in gardening and the first year made fifteen hundred dollars on potatoes and onions raised on three acres of land. During the winter of 1861-62 they suffered great hardships, being seven miles from their nearest neighbors. The Columbia river froze over and snow was four feet deep on the level and many of their cattle were lost from the cold and lack of feed. In the spring of 1862 the family and a neighboring family loaded their effects onto a scow and went to Portland, where they were able to sell two hundred bushels of turnips for three dollars a bushel. In the following year they moved to Steilacoom, Washington, where the father bought a claim, but they lived there only until 1865, when they came to the Puyallup valley. At that time there were only twenty white families in the valley, while the Indian population was about eight hundred. Mr. Ross homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land where the Western Washington Experimental Station is now located, the land at that time being covered with timber. He cleared the tract, developed a good farm, and there spent the remaining years of his life. The mother died in 1913. Darius Ross was a republican in his political views, and he took an active and influential part in the early affairs of his locality.

Charles H. Ross secured his elementary education in the old log schoolhouse in the Puyallup valley, completing his publie school course in Olympia. He had one year in Willamette University and then took a course in a business college in Portland. He engaged in the grocery business in the latter city, but later returned to the Puyallup valley and engaged in the hop business where his father had previously been similarly engaged. Afterward he turned his attention to the dairy business, and later devoted himself to market gardening. In 1894 he embarked in the real estate business in Puyallup, which he has continued to the present time, also handling insurance. He has enjoyed a good business through the years, having handled a great deal of farm land, and in various ways has been a factor in the development and upbuilding of this section of the county. He and his father each gave twenty acres of land to the state of Washington for experimental station purposes.

In 1883 Mr. Ross was united in marriage to Miss Emma Knox, who was born in Oregon, a daughter of John Knox, a pioneer of that state. To Mr. and Mrs. Ross have been born three children, namely: Juanita, who died at the age of fourteen years; Royal R., who remains with his father; and Barton, who lives at home and is engaged in the poultry business. In past years Mr. Ross was an active member of the Good Templars and for many years has-been an active member of the Christian church. He has taken a deep interest in the affairs of his community, having rendered effective service as a member of the school board. He also served on the state board of horticulture. He is independent in his political views, voting according to the dictates of his judgment. Mr. Ross is remarkably well preserved physically for his years and is one of the grand old men of Pierce county. He is a veritable mine of information regarding the early period in the county's history and his reminiscences of the pioneer days are exceedingly interesting. Kindly and cordial in manner, he enjoys a wide acquaintance and is held in the highest measure of esteem by all who know him.