Spokane County, Washington - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 10 of 16)

ELBERT BURROWS, son nf William and Matilda, was l.iorn in .\dams cnunty, Illinois, February 2", 1853. He lived there until thirteen years old. then moved with the family to northwestern Missouri, where they resided, engaged in farming, until the spring of 1873, then all came to Clackamas criunt\', Oregon, and followed farming there for three years. The father then went to California and in 1878 Elbert came to Walla Walla, and for the ensuing two years was employed in handling grain for Schwabacher Brothers. He next moved to Spokane county and located on a l)re-emption of one hundred and sixty acres four miles north of Rockford. Fi\-e years later he sold his land and moved into town for the sake of the educational advantages and he has since been engaged in teaming and farming. He is an industrious, enterprising man, and one of the reliable and substantial citizens of the town. He was married in Wliitesville, Missouri, October 20, 1872, to Annie, daughter of William and Drusilla Ellis, who has shared all the experiences and hardships of his pioneer days in this state. They have two children, \Vilbur and Bertha.

PETER DESGRANGES, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Germany September 24. 1826. He was reared and educated in his native land and followed mining there until iSt3, when he emigrated to the United States. He settled in New York and was engaged as a farmer in that state for the ensuing twelve years, then, in 1865. went to Iowa, where for fifteen years he followed his former occupation, farming. In 1880 he came to Rockford and took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres of land four miles northeast of the town, \\-hich property he still owns. He also has real estate interests in Rockford. Of late years he has rented his land and has given his attention to preaching for the L'nited Brethren church. ]\Ir. Desgranges is a public-spirited man and has always labored earnestly and faithfully for the upbuilding of the town and the county, and he enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. In politics he has steadfastly adhered to the Repul)lican party. He was married in Germany, June 3, 1852, to Miss Sophia Duschen, who died January 11, 1899, leaving ten children : Katie, S'jphia, Loui.sa, Elizabeth, Peter, Caroline, Amelia, George, ^Margaret and Henry.

Connecticut, April 23, 1847. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools of that locality. When t\venty-fi\'e years old he went to San Francisco on the steamships Henry Chauncy and Constitution, spending forty tlays on the trip. He remained in and near San Francisco for two and a half years, enipio\ed first on a farm and later by the Market Street Ivaihvay Company, then came overland to Oregon, where he worked for one year. Subsequently he removed to the site of Rockford in November, 1877, but there was no town there then, nor an_\' settlers, and he passed one winter without seeing a human face. His farm is located two and a half miles southeast of the town and consists of three hundred and twenty acres, all in cultivation. Mr. Bradley is an acti\e, industrious man and a successful farmer, and produces fine crops of wheat and oats. He also raises high-grade horses. Mr. Bradley has ne\'er been ambitious for leadership among his fellow men ami never has cared for or accepted a public office of any kind. He was married in December, 1S85, to Martha S., daughter of James and Martha Johnson, and they ha\-e a family of three children: Frederick and Setli, twins, twelve years old, and Idenrv, aged eleven years. Mrs. Bradley died in Januarv, 1891.

ALEXUS LA SHAW is a native of Jefferson C'lunty, New York, born March 12, 1846. On .\ugust 3, 1S62, he enlisted in Company C, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery. He was on guard duty at Washington, D.C., for eighteen months, then was sent to the Shenandoah \alley, where he took part in the battle of \\'inchester and the famous Sheridan ride. He heard the renowned words of that general, "Bovs, come on, we'll take it back before night." They did win back the lost position and the company camped that night on the same ground it had occu])ied the night before. In this battle Mr. La Shaw was severely wounded, but instead of retiring to the hospital he gallantly took a position on the mountain back of Winchester and guarded the signal station until his wounil was healed. I""or three years he was a valiant defender of the flag and his war record is one of which his family have just cause to be proud. Upon being discliarged he returned home for a visit, then started overland for the state of Washington. Tiie train to which he belonged was frequently in danger from Indians, but got through safely. Mr. La Shaw lived at Pendleton, Oregon, nine years, engaged in farming, tiien, in 1877, came to Rockford and homesteaded one hundred and si.xty acres three miles southeast of the town. He is now engaged in wheat and stock raising. Mr. La Siiaw was the tenth settler in the neighboriiood of Rockford. He is a highly respected and esteemed citizen of the county and has frequently been solicited to Ijecome a candidate for office, but lias invariably declined. He was married July 22, 1886, to .\nnie Fuchs. and they iiave had three children : Carl, born September 7, 1887, and Joseph, born July 22, 1891, living, and John, deceased. Mr. La Shaw is a member of J. B. Wyman Post, No. 41, G. A. R., of Washington and Alaska.

ELMER A. \\\\LTMAN. farmer and stockraiser, son of Abrain and Hannah Waltman, was born in Pennsylvania December 12, 1864. When fourteen he accompanied liis parents to Kansas and he received most of liis education in that state. In 1882 the family came to Spokane county, locating at Rockford, and ihe father purchased and remodeled a saw and grist-mill there. Subsequently Elmer also engaged in the lumber and milling business, forming the tirm known as Waltman Brothers & Company. After some years they dissolved partnership and Elmer purchaseil a one-third interest in a new mill, which his father had bought, and they did business together under the name of the Waltman Lumber Company for four years. Air. Elmer Waltman then sold his interest, purchased eighty acres of land and engaged in farming. He is also interested in Spokane real estate and has some renting property in Rockford. He takes an active interest in all local affairs and has held the office of school director in his district. Religiously he is an acti\e member and a class leader in the Unitetl Brethren church. He was married January 24, 1892, to Miss Minnie, a daughter of James and Frances Moore, and a native of Iowa. They ha\-e one adopted son, Elum A.

GEORGE W. DARKNELL, farmer and stockraiser, was born in W'atertown, Wisconsin, January 28, 1855. At the age of seven he accompanied his parents to Rochester, Alinnesota, where he received the greater part of his education. In 1868 his parents moved to Goodhue county, Minnesota, and jjurchased a farm of six hundred acres, uj^on which Mr. Darknell resided until 1880. On February 10, of that year, he was married to Miss Clara Hayward, who was born March 9, i860, in Goodhue county, Minnesota. Accompanied by his wife, he then started for Spokane county, Washington, arriving March 13, 1880. Soon after they secured the homestead (situated three miles southwest of Rockford on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company line).

upon which they still reside. His farm consisted originally of one hundred and si.xty acres, but he subsequently added another quarter-section and in 1897 purchased a third, so that he now owns four hundred and eighty acres. He has good buildings and improvements and raises fine Durham and Holstein cattle. His principal productions, however, are wheat, of which he raises about twenty-five bushels per acre on the average, and oats, of which he has raised as high as seventy-five bushels per acre. He is president of and a director in the Fairfield Farmers Alliance Wareh(nise & Elevator Company and was for two years president of the organization after which the warehouse was named. Mr.' Darknell has been a director of the school district in which he resides for the past fourteen years and has ever manifested a deep interest in the cause of education. He has always been an acti\'e Rei)ublican, has attended most of the conventions held since the territory was admitted to statehood and was the nominee of his party for the state legislature in 1896. Mr. and Mrs. Darknell had four children born to them, all of whom are now living: Anna Maude, born November 22, 1880; Walter Watts, jjorn July 31, 1882; Ralph Milton, born October 26, 1884; Grace Hayward, born July 18, 1886.

\\TLLI.\M B. McFALL, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Iowa, July 22, 1848. At the age of eight he accompanied his parents to [Missouri, where he received his education and when twenty-four he again moved with the family, coming to Junction City, Oregon. He first engaged in the lumber business, then followed farming for a number of years. In 1876 he removed to Whitman county, Washington, and the next year he came to Rock creek valley, passing his first night in that region in his own cahiii, which he had only just erected. He was one of the very earliest settlers in the \alley, there Ijeing no white people there except Messrs. Rounds, Stan, Watts and Gilbert hefore he came. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, hut subsequently sold out and purchased a tract of forty acres fi\-e miles northeast of Rockford and he now owns Due hundred and twenty acres. He raises wheat ])rincii)ally, but has a fine voung orchard. ]\Ir. AIcFall has .seen much of the hardships and dangers of life in a new and unsettled country and has had considerable experience in Indian warfare, ha\ing participated in both the war against Chief Joseph and that waged against the Bannocks. In later years he has taken an active interest in everything pertaining to the welfare of his community. He has faithfully discliarged the duties of road supervisor for two years and those of school director for the past twelve. He was married March 12. 1876, to Calista, daughter of William and Margaret Howell, and they have had four children : Jessie M., Cora and Samuel R.. living, and Lena A., deceased.

JULIAX BUTLER, of the French family of Bouthiellier, a farmer, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 26, 1824. Lie grew to manhood in the city of his nati\'ity, but when twenty-tw(^ }'ears old went to Lockport, New York, and remained two years, then lived in Wisconsin six months, following the trade of a wagonmaker in each of these states. He then \\T)rked at the same business in Iowa for ten months, but in the spring of 1852 mo\ei] to Califcjrnia, where for the ensuing si.x vears he was engaged in mining. In 1858, influenced by the gold excitement, he set out for the Frazer river, but was forced l)y the Indians to turn Ijack after a three days" fight in which si.x of the party were killed. The remnant made their way to Fort Yakima, then to The Dalles, Oregon, thence to Portland, and ]Mr. Butler worked at his trade in Oregon Citv three months, but afterward opened a wagon shop at St. Louis, Oregon, where he lived until i860. Me then worked for the United States government on Warm Spring reservation three months, after wliich he spent three years on the Clearwater river in Idaho. Subsequently returning to iiis old shop and business in St. Louis, Oregon, he passed the ensuing seven years of his life there. He then was engaged for nine years as a wagonmaker for the government at Pendleton, Oregon. In 1880 he came to the vicinity of Rockford and from that date until 1887 he was engaged in farming there, but he then moveil over onto the Cceur d'Alene reservation, where he still resides. He is extensively interested in wheat raising and farms about one thousand acres in all. He was married in January, 1863, to Miss Mary Chamberlain, a native of Willamette valley, Oregon. They have a family of nine chiklren : Adolph, Jerry, \'irginia. Alfred, Clarence, Pauline, Ernest, Josephine and Frances.

J. M. GRQIMER, a pioneer of 1881, was born in St. Stephens, New Brunswick, in 1843, and there he resided until about seventeen years old. For the ten years succeeding i860 he followed the sea, the fir.st three of which was spent in the Indian ocean and later coming around the Horn as mate of the sliip Cowper m 1868. After sailing the Pacific ocean for a year or two, he li.icated in Eureka, Humboldt county, California, where, until 1880, he was engaged in lumliering. He then came to Ainsworth. Washington, and thence later to Spokane. Upon his arrival here he embarked in the hotel business in the old Northern Pacific Hotel, corner of Howard and ]\Iain streets, following that until 1885, since which date he has been engaged in building up his extensive and prosperous trucking and draying business. He has the distinction of being the pioneer in that line of enterprise in this city. Mr. Grimmer is well and favorably known in Spokane, having resided here for many years and having taken an active interest in its political and social welfare. He has ever proved himself a worthy citizen, meriting the esteem and confidence of all. During 1882 and 1883 he was a member of the city council. He is a prominent fraternal man, being at present identified with the I. O. O. P., the F. & A. M., the K. of P. and the Elks, and he is president of the Pioneer Society. In Septeml)er, 1876, while residing in Eureka, California, he was married to Mary C. Hadley, and they are parents of five children : Edith, employed at the stamp window in the postoffice ; Fred, chief clerk for the superintendent of the G. N. Express Company; Hazel; Harry, deceased ; and Ethlvn.

JOHN ELLINGER. a pioneer of 1881, was born in Warren county, Illinois, July 5, 1849. He received his education in the public schools of that county and when twenty-three years old emigrated to Kansas, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land and followed farming two years. He then returned to Illinois and remained with his father one year. In March, 1881, he came to Rockford and purchased a farm of eighty acres four and a half miles northwest of the town, to which he subse(|uently adiletl eight}' acres more. He gives attention principally to wheat raising, but is also on orchardist of extensive experience and has a fine collection of young trees of many varieties. Like other expert fruit growers, he is of opinion that the fruit industry will becDme very important in this county in the near future. Mr. Ellinger's mother died when he was twelve years old and his father passed away about five years ago, so that his only immediate relatives now li\-ing are two brothers, one near him and the other at Leavenworth, Washington. Mr. Ellinger was formerly quite extensively interested in Spokane re.al estate and he still retains one lot in East Spokane.

MARTIN L. STARR, a pioneer of March I, 1878, was born in Iowa July 2, 1843. When ten years old he accompanied his parents across the plains to Bent(in county, Oregon. They traveled with o.x-teams, ferrying in their wagon bnxes across most of the rivers. Martin drove the loose stock all the way. The father died before reaching the promised land and his body was laid to rest at the foot of the Cascade mountains. The remainder of the family arrived at their destination August 10, 1853. The mother filed on a donation and Mr. Starr and his two brothers farmed it for sixteen years. In i86g he came to Pendleton, but in 1872, for the lienefit of his wife's health, moved to California. He worked as a carpenter and builder in that state two years, then in Walla Walla until 1878. In Fe])ruary, of that year, he removed to Colfax; in March he came to Rock creek valley and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land and afterward pur- chased one hundred and sixty acres more. He is engaged in wheat raising. Mr. Starr assisted in building the first Methodist church north of the Snake river and also superintended the erection of the second, located at Farmington, and the third at Rockford. He is quite a prominent man in the county, has served as school clerk and director for many years, was one of the first councilnien at Rockford and has been constable, trnvn marshal, justice of the peace and deputy sheriiT. He was married, first, in January, 1867, to Miss M. E. Belshee, who died in November. 1878, leaving one daughter, ]May. He was next married, in October, 1880, to Miss Amelia Desgranges, and they have eight children: Clarence, Clara J., Ira, Nora E., Nellie, Miles, Samuel F. and Amelia.

JACOB MORRIS, farmer and stockraiser, a pioneer of 1882, is a native of Illinois, bom September 26, 1844. He recei\ed most of his education in that state, although he was only fourteen when, with the rest of his family, he emigrated to Kansas. They followed farming there until 1882, then Mr. Morris came direct to Rockford and engaged first in the meat market business and later in a livery stable enterprise. He was the pioneer of the town in both these lines of industry. He next tried the lumber business for six months, but subseciuently engaged in farming. He first bought one hundred and sixty acres of land six miles southeast of Rockford, known as the Braman place, then the Adams place, then the Stark place, then the Hunl place, and he now owns the i\I. O. McCoy and the Fisher places, four hundred and twenty acres in all. Mr. Morris is an intensely energetic and industrious man and has done more fencing, breaking and improving land than any other man in this community. He was married, August 6, 1865, in Leavenworth, Kansas, to Miss Cassinda, daughter of Evan and Rebecca Reynolds, a native of Missouri, born January 16, 1850. They have nine chililren living, namely: Laura, now Mrs. IManche.ster; Villa E., now Mrs. Gilless; Ida M., now Mrs. Hamilton; Maud D., now Mrs. Wolf: h'.va !>:., wife of Mr. McDowell; Stella; Pearl; Jennie and James; also four deceased, l'2van. .\ndrcw, Jacob and one that died in infancy.

JOHN I. MELMLLE, attorney-at-law, son of Thomas R. and Janet, was born in Fifeshire. Scotland. .September 14, 1868. He was educated in the Madras Academy, at Cupar, Scotland. After serving for some time in the Union Bank of Scotland, he began his legal studies in the office of J. Oliphant A\'att, where he continued for three years. lu 1888 he left Scotland and came to the United States on the ship Furnessia and arrived in Cheney. August i. His first ix)sition was with the bank of Cheney, serving as the first bookkeeper, then shortly afterward was appointed cashier, lie remained in this position until June 30, 1893, 'i^ter which he took a vacation in California and resumed his profession, returning to Cheney in 1894. He was admitted to the supreme court in 1896 and has since been very active in his profession, being the only attorney in this section of the county. He was the receiver of the bank of Cheney, a notary public, and has served as justice <jI the peace for this precinct, He was married, .\ugust 30. 1893. to Daisy C. daughter of William M. and Martha E. Deane, of Cheney. They have three children : Gladys E., born May 20, 1895; Kenneth M., February

AMOS C. STRINGHA3.L son of Samuel and Al)igal, was born in Cayuga county, New York, January 4, 1844. In 1862 he enlisted in Company G, Seventy-fifth New York Infantry, which was sent to Fort Pickens, Florida, in December and remained until the following May. Suljsequently he took part in several skirmishes in Louisiana and New Orleans, was at the battle of Camp Brisland and was one of a party which destroyed a Confederate gunboat hidden in a bayou. He also participated in one of the Red river expeditions and was under fire for forty-four days at Port Hudson, where he received a bullet wound. He next went to Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and took part in another Iiattle, then he and eighty of his regiment were detailed as sharpshooters on the gunboat Clifton and sent to destroy a fort at Sabine Pass. The boat grounded and all were captured and sent to prison at Houston, but later were paroled to Shreveport, where they expected to be exchanged. Instead, they were marched back and held in close confinement for ten months and fourteen days. He was, however, at length exchanged and allowed to return home on a furlough. In November, 1S64, he was honorably discharged and at once went to the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Michigan, where his family lived, bought a farm a<ljoining them and followed farming fo;- several years afterward. He then farmed for five years in Newaygo county and five near Reed City. In March, 1 889, became to Rockford, purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land and later eighty more adjoining, nearly all of which is now under cultivation. Mr. Stringham is one of the leading citizens of his community, takes an intelligent interest in all affairs of public concern in the neighborhood and has served as road supervisor for the past five years. He was married, February 28, 1870, to Marion C. Cornell, a native of New York, and they have seven children: Arthur L., Bertin H., George A., Fred H., Robert W., Bernard E. and Lotie ]\I. Mr. Stringham is a member of the J. B. Wymer Post, No. 45, G. A. R'., of Washington and Alaska.

CHARLES A. RATCLIFFE, agricultural implement and lumlier dealer, son of Lynn and Margaret, was born in Wheeling, ^^'est Virginia, July 16, 1854. When he was eight years of age his parents removed to Lansing, Iowa. He was educated at La Crosse, \\'isci.msin, and returned to Lansing, where he engaged in the lumbering business for seven years. From there he went to Denver, Colorado, and engaged for three years in the lumber business, and then w^ent to Portland, Oregon, where he was engaged in the auditor's ofiice of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company for one year. In 1884 he came to Cheney as the representative of Frank Bros. Implement Company, of Portland. After several years of successful business he took the lousiness in his own name, and conducts a fine, prosperous house, the trade extending a radius of fifteen miles, and being the only general house in this section of the country.

The business averages over five thousand dollars per annum, consisting of a complete line of farm implements, machinery, buggies, wagons and lumber of all kinds. Mr. Ratcliffe has many interesting reminiscences of the early days of Indian troubles, having taken an acti\^e part in the defense of Cheney, when the settlers were threatened by Indians. He has served with perfect satisfaction to the people in the offices of assessor, city clerk, school clerk, school director and city councilman. He was married in St. Louis. Missouri, December 24, 1884. to Louise, daughter of George and Caroline Bresler. They have si.x children : Lynn, born December 5, 1886; Benjamin, January 9, 1889; Ruth, October 14. 1891 : Louise, September 12, 1895; Kent, July 29, 1897, and Mark A., born December 22, 1899.

E. Rhea, a native of Tennessee, born December 28, 1848. who died May 25, 1882. leaving six children : Samuel D., James N., Elizabeth M., Tiihn L., Abraham R. and Edward. He was ne.\t married. October 24. 1886, to Lissie Dentnn. a native of Virginia, born July 20, 1865, who passed away in April, 1893.

EDWARD A. McCLELLAN, a farmer, was born in Tennessee July 9, 1846. He was reared and educated there and when fifteen enlisted in the Confederate army. Company B, Fourth Tennessee Regiment, his father, Captain McClellan, commanding. He participated in the engagements at Fishing Creek, ]\Iurfreesboro, both battles, Nashville. Bnwling Green, Atlanta, Shiloh, Franklin and Missionary Ridge, and in every battle from that one to the last engagement at Bentonville, Xorth Carolina. He was then discharged to attend his brother, who was wounded, and returned to east Tennessee, where he remained for the ensuing fifteen years. He then was engaged in farming and stock raising until 1888, when he came to Rockford, Washingtnn, and worked at the carpenter trade fiir a while. Subsequently he again engaged in farming. He is one of the leading and influential citizens of his community, e\er willing to contril.iute his share toward the general good, and he has filled in a satisfactory manner the offices of justice of the peace, road super\is(.>r and school director. He was married, first, December 28, 1869, to Mary

\\'EBSTER B. WEBB, mining man. son of Theron and Sarah A., was born in Essex county. X'ermont, I'^liruary 28, 1834. He was educated at the Xewbury Seminary and engaged as a scho(jl teacher three years in Bureau county, Illinois. During the Pike's Peak excitement of i860, he removed to Colorado and took an active part in the earlv settlement of that state, serving for three years a member of the Elbert Guards. He spent some time in Salt Lake City, in mining investigations, and went to Placerville. California, where he engaged in mining. Later he was \ery successful in the celebrated Alder Gulch of Montana, and with the money thus obtained engaged in the cattle business, which he successfullyconducted for eighteen years. Hepurchased, in Illinois, large numbers of blooded Clydesdale horses and stallions and came to Cheney September 2t,. 1882, being one of the jMoneers. He engaged in farming and stockraising and has been very successful. He now owns a nice home and is devoting his energies to mining, owning the Jupiter, in the Florence nnning district, in Idaho. This mine shows an eighteen-foot ledge, free milling ore, \ery rich, and is bonded for six hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Welib is a member of the Cheney Pioneer Society, and a mucli respected citizen. He was married, .\pril 29, 1872, to .Vnnetta, daughter of Charles and Eleanor

Cheney, of Des ]\Ioines, Iowa. They have seven cliildren : Nellie, now !Mrs. Renter ; Samuel W'., Nettie M., Charles L., Alva B., Henry and Theodore. Mr. Webb is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 42. F. & A. M., of Cheney, and has been a pnaninent ^Nlason for the past thirtv-se\'en years.

THO^^IAS STEEL, a pioneer of 1872, is a native of Yorkshire, England, born February 12, 1823. His father, a veteran of the battle of Waterloo, died ii: England in 1850. When twenty-one years of age ^Nlr. Steel emigrated to the L'nitetl States aboard the sailing vessel Centurion. He lived in New York and New Jersey for five months and worked for the Singer Sewing Machine Company a while, then, in 1 851, went to California, making the trip in sailing vessels and crossing the isthmus of Panama on foot. He lived for a brief period in Nevada City, then went to Grass valley, where he followed mining and where he met with a very serious accident, which came near costing him his life. He was buried by a cavein, his partner was killed and one of the rescuers dropped dead from heart disease brought on by over-exertion. After his recovery, ]Mr. Steel sold out and went to Australia, where he was engaged for seventeen months in the Yano and Bendigo mines, afterward returning to California with seventeen hundred dollars. He then went to Downerville. Sierra county, and located a mine, which later was named Howland's Flat, the richest property then known, also the famous Blue Lead and Down East claims. He made an average of one hundred and twenty dollars per week for the ensuing ele\'en years, then sold out. removed to Portland. Oregon, purchased an outfit and came in a wagon to Spangle. Subsequently he went to Rosalia, \Miitman county, where he owned the present town site, but soon returned to Spangle, locating there among the very first. He also owned a quarter-section where the main part of Spokane now is and built the first house ever erected in that city, before any white people had ever settled there. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres near Spangle, upon which he has resided continuously since. Mr. Steel has always lieen a very energetic and industrious man, possessing the courage and strength of character essential to a true pioneer, and he has done his full share for the progress and development of the country. He was married in September. 1861, to Aliss Kitchen, of England, and they have been i)arents of four children: Thomas; George, the first white boy born in the county, and Annie, living, and Polly, deceased. Mr. Steel has one of the nicest homes in his vicinitv.

FREDERICK C. HAHN, a pioneer of 1879. was born in Illinois Decemljer 29, 1853. He passed the first ten years of his life in his native state, then accoiupanied his parents to Butler county, Iowa, where he grew to man's estate and received his education. He also learned the trade of a carpenter. On October iS, 1879, he came to Rock ford and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he has ever since resided. He has a splendidly improved farm, supplied with a fine two-story barn. 26x50 feet, and an elegant residence, twenty-six feet square. He raises wheat as his principal product, but has a fine young orchard of carefully selected fruit trees. Mr. Hahn is one of the earliest pioneers of Rockford and has witnessed the development of the town from its incipiency to the present time. He has always taken a Hvely interest in tlie town, contributing to its welfare whenever opportunity offered and he served for two years as a member of its first town council. He was married in May, 1876, to Miss Louisa Desgranges and they have a family of seven children, namely: Sophia, William, Oscar, Frank, Eddie, Carrie and Clara. Mr. Hahn and family are members of the German Evangelical church.

\\'ILLIAM S. SANDERS, hotel proprietor, son of .\. J. and Sabina, was born in Arkansas September 9, 1835. His parents removed to Missouri when he was twelve vears old and he was educated there antl brought up on a farm. Mr. Sanders served in the war during the rebellion and was in the battle of Wilson Creek; After some years he came west and located in Yam Hill count)-, Oregon, and engaged in the lumber business. In 1880 he came to Spokane and has been in this county ever since, being the present proprietor of the Sanders Hotel at W'averly. He is one of the old timers in this sectiim and a much esteemed citizen.

Mr. Sanders was married, in 1846, to Matilda A. Lambert, who died in 1856, leaving four children, two girls and two boys. He subsequently consummated a second marriage, Kate A. LeValle, a native of Illinois, becoming his wife. She has two children: Willie, born April 16, 1888, and Archie, born June 22. 1893.

his early education in the schools of that vicinity. At the age of twenty-one he commenced his medical studies in Blackburn University, Carlinxille. Illinois, and he graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1885. He also took a general post-graduate course in the New York Post- Graduate Medical School in 1893 and after an extended hospital practice came direct to Spangle, where he has ever since been engaged in the pursuit of his profession. His private practice extends over a radius of from ten to fifteen miles and he is also physician to the county poor farm and iiospital. He has, moreover, been city physician ever since the town was incorporated. He is a member of the state board of medical examiners and was its secretary for two years. Dr. Hoxsey is thoroughly educated in his profession, having given his entire attention for many years to the study and practice of medicine and surgery and he stands in tiie front rank among the physicians of the comity. Socially he is affiliated with Spangle Lodge, No. 50, 1. O. O. F., and with Temple Lodge, No. 42. A. F. & A. M.. of Cheney. On the nth of September, 1889. he was united in marriage to Susie, daughter of Thomas R. and Elizabeth Gildea, of Spangle, and they have two children. Maurice and John T.

WILLIAM SPANGLE, retired farmer, son of Henry and Margaret Spangle, a jjioneer of 1872, was born in Illinois December 4. 1834. He was reared and educated in Jersey county. On October 24, 1864. he enlisted in the Thirtieth Illinois Infantry and later participated in the battles of Kingston and Nashville and was captured and sent to Libby prison, but ])aroled after onl\- eighteen days of captivity. He was honorably discharged July 29, 1865, and at once returned to Illinois. Not long afterward he emigrated to ^\'ashington, locating first in Walla Walla, but in 1872 he moved to what is now Spokane county and took a squatter's claim, and. after the survey, a homestead where the town known as Spangle is now located. At first he kept a stage station and postoffice, then started a blacksmith shop, then a hardware store, and, as the country arountl became settled, he encouraged tradesmen and business men to come into the embryo town. In the fall of 1878 his efforts were rewarded, the town was incorporated and the territorial delegate to congress, Hon. Thomas H. Bents, had it named after the founder. ^Ir. Spangle afterward donated grounds for a depot and many building lots to the Northern Pacific Railroad and to the Palouse Land Company t<5 get the railway to build through the town. Air. Spangle is a man of great energy and enterprise and deserves much credit for the benefits he has conferred on that section of the county by his liberality and foresight and untiring personal effort. He was married, April 3, 1856, to Chri.stena, daughter of John and Christena Burger, of Prussia, and they have had si.\ children : Emma, now Airs. Wimpy; John F. ; William H., and Carrie, now Mrs. Irby, living, and two deceased.

JOSEPH S. AIOUNT, son of Samuel and Phebe Alount, was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, Se])teml)er 2, 1819. He received his education in that tijwn and when sixteen came to Zanes\-il]e. Ohii), to his brother, who was a merchant tailor there. He learned the trade in his brother's shop and remained with him for five 3'ears, then moved to Delaware, Ohio, where he li\ed a year. He next returned t'.i ZanesN'ille, then went to Cleveland, where he followed his tratle for the ensuing two years. Subsequently he removed to Kansas and for some time afterward was engaged in the mercantile business in that state. In i860 he went to Little Rock, .Arkansas, and for one year had the contract for supplying the government with mules and horses. For the next twenty years of his life he ser\'ed as traveling salesman for Sprague, \\'arner & Company, of Chicago, and after leaving them he visited Portland, Walla \\'alla, Dayton and other places, but finally locatetl in Cheney and engaged in the real estate business, buying many lots and building houses on them for sale or rent. He lost over six thousand dollars in the various fires. Air. Alount is a man of great energy and enterprise and has contributed very much toward the de- \eIopment of the town. He has also taken an intelligent interest in the municipal government of Cheney and was city treasurer of the town for two years. He was married in California, in October, 1880, to Aliss Jennie Alyers.

THOAIAS ROBERTS, son of Edward and Elizabeth Roberts, was born in Denbighshire, North Wales, Alarch 15, 1826. He was reared and educated in the land of his nativity and learned the trade of an engineer'there, Init when nineteen years old came to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where he resided until 1850. He then moved to Ohio and followed his trade in various parts of the state until 1876, when he located at Zanesville. He resided in that city for the ensuing fifteen years, but subsequently came to Spokane, then to Cheney, where he now li\-es with his daughter. He owns a farm of three hundreil and twenty acres at Hartline, in Douglas count}'. Air. Roberts has devoted manv years to the studv of the steam engine and naturally has acquired a complete mastery of his trade. His abilities in that direction were recognized by his election to the presidency of the Engineers" Association at Zanesville, which position he held for four years. He was married at fronton, Ohio, July 2t,, 1852, to Elizabeth Thi:)mas, and the}' have five children: Thomas E., George W., Sarah, Charles A. and Mary. Air. Roberts has for many years been a member of the Baptist church.

JOHN \'AN BRUNT, farmer and stockraiser, an old pioneer of Cheney, was l)orn on the lianks of the Swimming river in New Jersey, March i, 1828. He grew to manhood in his nati\-e state, but when twenty-seven years old went to Indiana, where for three years he farmed and worked at the carpenter trade. He then went to Jasper county, Illinois, and for the ensuing fifteen years was engaged in farming there. Later he came to Cheney antl homesteaded one hundred anil sixty acres, to which he has since added six hundred and forty acres, l)rocured by purchase, so that he is now the owner of eight hundred acres of land. He is engaged in diversified farming, his principal productions being wheat, hay and cattle. Mr. A'an Brunt' is one of the most energetic and successful farmers of this part of the countv, and he is also a man ^vho commands the respect and esteem of his neighbors. He takes an active interest in the public affairs of his communitw is a friend to every enterprise tentling to promote the general well-being and is especially solicitous for the maintenance of a good ])ublic school in his district, h^or manv years he served as a memljer of the board of school directors. He was married, first, on March i, 1857. to Nancy J. Britton. who died at Cheney i in the spring of 1884. leaving seven children: Charles F.. William A., George R.. John H., James R., Thomas W. and Laura E. He was next married, in 1886, to Marv Williams.

SPENCER L. ALENANDER was born in Windsor. Broome county. New York. July 15, 1855. In 1856 his parents emigrated to Iowa county, Wisconsin, and afterwards lived in Vinjqua. \'ernon county. After acquiring a common-school education he began the printer's trade in Mason City, Iowa, when in his eighteenth year. As is customary with the printer, he worked in various cities for years and in i88i and 1882 published the Central City (Colorado) Post and Gilpin Daily Graphic. August 30, 1883. he came to Spokane Falls, thence soon after proceeded to the Inulger mountain country (now Douglas coiHit}) and located government land. From 1883 to 1898 he lived mostly in Spokane, being identified with her business interests in connection witii the Spokane. Columbia and Union Printing Companies. With the panic of 1893 came the loss of his real estate interests. In May, 1898. he took the management and editorship of the Cheney Free Press and. with his family, has resided in Cheney since then. Mr. Alexander was the enrolling clerk in the state senate in 1899 and for the past year has ])een city clerk of the city of Cheney. He was married in Spokane, in 1888. to }iliss Ella Patrick. They have four children.

tive state until sixteen years old, recei\-ing sucli eilucation as the public schools of the period afforded, then went as bellboy on the steamer, Keweenaw, which plied between Buffalo and Superior City. He spent nearly two years on that vessel, then, in 1869. went to ^\'atsonville, California, where he tried farming for two years, after which he remo\-ed to Nex'ada and engaged in the sheep business. Four years later he sold his Iiands, returned to California, locating at Ciridley, and engaged in farming. In the fall of 1879 he came to Spokane county and took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres, three miles north of Tyler, to which he has since added tracts purchased at dift'erent times, until he now owns eleven hundred and thirty acres. He is one of the earliest settlers of Tyler and has taken an active part in building up the town and vicinity. He was postmaster here for five years, when the town was known as Stevens, and he also was engaged in the general merchandise business several years. He was married, September 10, 1879, to Miss Aura Gilpatrick, a natix'e of ]\Iaine, and they have had ten children, namely: Percy, Leroy, Martie. Wilbur, Silvio, Edith. Esther, Albert and Katie, living, and Hiram, deceased. The family belong to the Free Methodist church.

HENRY BOSTON, a pioneer of 1878. was born March 29, 1847, in the vicinity of London, England. When nine years old he came with his brothers to the United States and located in New York, where for three years he was cashier in the employ of Gould & Stiles, Na.ssau street. Subsequently he served as entry clerk for the Walworth Manufacturing Company, of Boston. Massachusetts. In 1872 he came to California and conducted a general merchandise store there for six years, then sold out and came to Marshall, Washington, but soon went to Cabinet Landing, Montana, where for three years he kept a store. In 1881 he came to Tyler, erected the first building in the town, and started a general merchandise store. He was postmaster from that time until 1889, wdien he resigned and engaged in the real estate business, yiv. Boston is one of the leading and ir.fiuential citizens of this county and he enjoys the confidence and good will of his neighbors generally. He is the oldest justice of the peace in this county, having held that office for the past sixteen years, and so accurate have been his decisions that though he has tried hundreds of cases he has never once been re\-ersed in the superior court. He was school director or clerk in his district for nineteen years. In prjlitics. also, he has always taken an active part. He was married in Walla Walla, Washington. ]\Iarch 29, 1893, to Martha -A. Bluett.

ARTHUR E. HOOPER, farmer and stock raiser at Pampa. Washington, was born in North Devon, England, September 19, 1853. He was reared and educated in his native land, but when eighteen years old went to South Africa, where for three years he was employed on a sugar and coffee plantation. He then returned to England, whence, shortly afterwards, he emigrated to Walla Walla, Washington, to join his brother, Albert. Coming to Whitman county, he followed the sheep business for twelve years, then purchased a fi\-e-hundred-and-sixty-acre farm six miles from Chenev and one on the Palouse river, where he has since employed himself in raising cattle arid horses. He deals almost exclusively in stock, always ha\'ing about four hundred head in his pastures. Mr. Hooper also raises hay and grain. He is one of the most energetic and successful stock raisers in this section of the state and by his enterprise and ability has accumulated a snug fortune. He was married, November 30, 1888, to Olive May Reed, of Oregon, antl they have four children: Henry A., Robert N., Edna M. and Fred.

JOHN E. TORMEY, of the firm of Tormey Brothers, dealers in fine wines, liquors and cigars, is a pioneer of 1885. He was born in New York, February 7, 1866, and received his education in the public schools, then clerked in a grocery store in Ri.xford, Pennsylvania, for one year. He next moved to Cuba, New York, secured emjjloyment as salesman in a dry goods store and was there for some time. In 1885 he came to Spokane and engaged in the timljer trade for a brief period, but the next year went into the meat business. In 1888 he opened a saloon on the corner of Sprague avenue and Howard street and shortly afterwards was burned out in the big fire. He then did business in a tent for a while, but soon moved tn his present location, where he has a thriving trade. Mr. Tormey is also interested in Spokane real estate and in

PHILO S. BARNUr^I, son of Stephen and Hepsie B. Barnum. was jjorn in Orleans county, New York. May 2. 1841, but, while in early infancy, was taken by his parents to Michigan, where he received his education.

When fifteen he came overland by stage to Nebraska, worked a while for Major Russel and W'addel Stage Company, then came on by wagon to California. After spending five vears in the mining districts of Shasta county, he came to \\'ashington, arriving in November, 187J. and settled twel\-e miles north of Sprague. He secured a farm of fi\"e hundred and forty acres and engaged in the stock business, but later sold out and bought one hundred and sixty acres two and a half miles east of Tyler, where he now resides. Mr. Bannnn has been a very acti\-e, industrious man, but of late years has retired from business and is enjoying a well-earned repose.

JOHN GARNER, son of Samuel and Eunice Garner, a pioneer of 1880. was born in Rush county, Indiana. January 17. 1841. He received his education in the public schools of that state, also learning the trade of a carpenter. In -August, 1862, he enlisted in Company C, Sixteenth Indiana Volunteers, particii)ated in the siege of Yicksburg and the Red ri\er expedition, and was captured by Kirby Smith at Richmond, Kentucky, but soon paroled and exchanged. He was discharged in July, of 1865. When twentyeight years of age he moved to Oregon and lived near Portland for two years, then came to Washington, and. after traveling quite extensively over the state, finally settled seven and one-half miles from Clieney. He homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land, upon which he has ever since resided, and he is now engaged in diversified farming and in stock raising. Mr. Garner has always been a leading citizen of jiis neighborhood and active in ])romoting every enterprise for the best interests of his community and the county, fkiring the many years of his resideilce in the vicinity of Cheney. He helped survey the road to Spangle and was one of those who were enthusiastic in securing the removal of the county seat to Cheney in 1882. Mr. Garner is also a very stanch Republican, has frequently been elected a delegate to the various conventions of the party and has exerted a powerful influence in county politics. Fraternally, he affiliates with the General George Wright Post, G. A. R., at Cheney. He was married in Indiana. January 17, 1872, to ]\Iiss Lydia HoUoway, a native of that state, and they are parents of two children : William Franklin, born January 9, 1874, and Alonzo L., born September 9, 1877.

EDWIN S. JORDAN, son of Daniel T. and Lucv A. Jordan, is a native of Maine, born April 18. 1855. He grew to manhood and was educated in that state, graduating from the Eastern State Normal School, in Castine, in the class of 1881. He had also been interested with his brother in a general merchandise business for eight years prior to that date. In 1882 he removed to Sonoma county. California, and for four years thereafter was a school teacher in the county of Sonoma, then came to Washington. He settled in St. John, where for five years he was engaged in sheep raising, but afterwards went into the stock business in ^Montana, Iniying cattle and shipping them to Chicago. Subsecjuently he came to Cheney and purchased a farm of four hundred and eighty acres and he has since been dealing exclusively in hay and stock. He raises an a\-erage crcip of three hundred tons of hav annuallv. Mr. Jordan is an industrious, enterprising man and one of the most thrifty and succesful stock men of the community in which he lives. Socially, he is affiliated with Penobscot Lodge. No. 7, I. O. O. F., of Bangor, Maine.

WILBUR W. W.\LT]\IAN, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Pennsylvania, born October 20. 1859. He grew to man's estate there, early engaging in the lumber Ini^mess with his father. In 1880 he removed to Cawker City. Kansas, where he followed farming and stock raising until 1883. In that year he came to Spokane county and, with his father and brother, bought the town site of Rockford, organizing the town there. They also purchased a combined saw and flouringmill of Farnsworth. Worley & Company, and engaged in lumbering, but in 1899 Mr. Waltman sold out. moved to Spokane and, in company with A. C. Grier, purchased a grocery store on the corner of First and Howard. They conducted the business together, under the firm name of Waltman & Grier until 1893. when Mr. Grier retired and the firm became known as W. W. Waltman & Company. In 1896 Mr. Waltman sold out and engaged in lumbering near Harrison, Idaho, where he and his brother, V. E., have a large sawmill. They do business under the name of the Waltman Lumber Company. Mr. Waltman is a very energetic and successful business man, but he is no less active in promoting the general welfare of his community by every means in his power. Perhaps his greatest public service is that which he rendered while a member of the constitutional convention. He has, however, faithfully jjerformeil numerous minor duties since. He was a memlier of the city council, elected to fill an unexpired term. While he was in the office the present city water works were erected. Air. W'altnian is ^-ery prominent in Odd Fellowship. Ijeing a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, and having- passed through all the chairs and taken all the degrees in the order. He is also a memher of the Junior Order of United .\merican Mechanics. He was married, July 3, 1884, to Miss Emma B. Dawson, a native of Pennsylvania, and they have one daughter, Edna.

ROBERT .\. WILSON, a pi.meer of 1880, is a nati\-e of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- Aania, born February 8. 1855. -^'^ ^'''^ ^K^ '^f fifteen he started in life fnr himself, cnming out to Nevada, where he engaged in nfining and also served for a time as LInited States mail rider. In 1873 he went to .Arizona and engaged in mining there. I)ut three years later he returned to his native city and visited the Centennial E.xposition. He then came to California and took charge of a pack train for a few years, Init in 1880 he moxcd to Spok.anc, coming all the way on horseback. He was engaged for a short time as a tinsmith in the employ of Mr. Knipe and in 1887 was elected constable of the West Spokane precinct. Subsequently, however, he resigned his office to accept a position on the police force of the citv and in 1890 he resigned that also. He had been one of the organizers of the volunteer fire department and of the Tiger Honk & Ladder Company, and when the jiaid department was instituted in 1889 he was given the position of assistant chief. On April iTi, 1890, he resigned and was re-appointed on the jiolice force. He is a member of Lodge No. no, K. P., and also belongs to Lodsre No.-

A.XCL'S McKEXZlE, a pioneer of 1888, is a native of New Brunswick, Canada, born March 15, 1843. When four years old he accon-ipanicd his parents to Carroll, Maine, and there he grew up to the lumber business. In 1875 he came to Nevada, continuing in the lumber business there for the ensuing three years, but in 1878 he removed to Washington and entered tlie employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He can-ie to Spokane in 1 88 1 as a contractor on the railroad and in 1886 went to Montana, having received a contract to do some work on construction there. Returning the following year, but one, t<] Si)okanc, he located in this city. He was in the employ of different railroads until 1894, when he became tie inspector and purchaser f(jr the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Coml)any, a position which he still retains. He is one of the best known and most successful railro.'id contractors in this section and is unusually well-fitted by past experience for the position he now holds. As a man and a citizen, his standing in the city and wherever he is known is good. I-'raternally, he affiliates with the 1. O. O. F. He was married in Portland, CJregon, March 2, 1886, to Miss E. A. McLean, a native of Canada, who came with her j)arents to the Pacific coast in 1878 and located at Tacoma. Her mother, Mrs. Margaret McLean, died in Spokane, November 4. 1889, but her father, John B., still lives, residing now in Canada. Mrs. McKenzie is a member of the Imperial Lodge, No. 58, Rebekahs, and the Primrose Camp, Women of

Woodcraft. Religiously, she is identified with the Presbyterian church. She and Mr. Mc- Kenzie are parents of five children: Edna (i., Agnes I., Ross S., Kennedy and lirownie L.

L. L. WESTFALL, attorney-at-law, room 12. Fernwell block, a pioneer of 1888, is a native of Macomb. Illinois, born April 5, 1865. When sixteen years of age he started in life for himself. He attended the public .schools and in i.SS^ graduated at Macomb Normal College. He then taught school for a while, reading law under the direction of Mr. C. F. Wheat at the same time. In 1887 he was admitted at Mi iunt\'ernon, Illinois, to the supreme court of that state. He began the practice of law at Macomb, serving as assistant prosecuting attorney there until 1888. when he came to Spokane. Upon arriving in this city, he opened a law office nn Monroe street, on the north side, and at the time of the big fire had the only office wdiich was not destroyed. He has practiced law very successfully in this city ever since. Mr. Westfall shares in the hdiKir and repect which lielong to the self-made man. Pie earned his own education and worked liis own way unaided in the world, until he has gained a rank among the leading lawyers of the city and all lovers of self-reliant industry and courage will glory in his success. Fraternally, he affiliates with Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., and with the W. of W. He is clerk in the latter order and has held that office in one or other of the camps ever since 1892, with the exception of about six nmnths. He was married in Spokane. Octo1)er 2, 1890. tn Miss Adelaide Mickel, a native of Inwa, and they have two children: Elbert L. and lahel B.

Mr. \Vestfall and wife both belong to the Presbyterian church and Mrs. Westfall is a memljer (if Primrose Circle, Women of Woodcraft. Dr. Beverly R. Westfall, father of L. L., was a pioneer of 1883 and one of the early physicians of this county. He died in Spokane, August 3, 1899, the day before the big fire. He erected two residences on ^lonroe and Broadway in 1883, the first structures of their kind on the north side, excepting those of Colonel Jenkins and Judge Douglas.

ELMER E. LUCAS, of Lucas Brothers, hardware merchants, Spangle, is a native of of Illinois, liorn May 19, 1868. The family , moved to Kansas when he was an infant and in 1884 moved to Spangle, where they engaged in farming. Elmer graduated from the Spokane Business College in 1890 and was appointed dei)uty county assessor. The same vear he engaged in the hardware business with his Iirother, ^Villiam P., and they have now a fine business. He is the organizer and leader of the Lucas Harmony Band and is a member of Temple Lodge, No. 42, F. & .\. M., of Cheney, and of the W. of W., of Spangle. He was married in Sjiangie, ^larch 18, 1896, to Miss Frances E. .Mmciuist. a native of Indiana. They have one son, Ellsworth.

HON. WILLL\M P. LUC.VS, of Lucas Brothers, hardware merchants. Spangle, was born in Kansas, Feliruary 3, 1870. In 1884 the family moved to S])angle. In 1S89 he entered the employ of (). W. .Vines, hardware merchant, and learned the tinner's trade. In 1890 him.self and brother, Elmer E., pur- chased the business. Tliey now liave a nice business and handle agricultural im])lements and machinery. In 1894 lie graduated from the Spokane Business College. In 1898 he was elected mayor of the city. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. He was marrietl, September 9, 1899, to Miss Merle Drake.

Hon. Cornelius E. Mohundro

HON. CORNELIUS E. MOHUNDRO, fruit raiser and gardener at' Latah, was jjorn in Jackson county, Tennessee, October 2. 1836. Iri i8.|9 the family mo\-ed to Webster coimty. Missouri. He early chose farming as an occupation and continued in that pursuit until April 15. 1861, when he enlisted in the Alissouri Home Guards. .After three nmnths' service he joined the state militia, serving in that for the ne.xt seven months. On Septem- Ijer 27. 1S64, he became a member of Company G. Sixteenth Missouri Volunteer Infantry, and remained with his regiment until finally mustered nut. .\pril 4, 1S65. Me then returned home and again engaged in farming, also becoming actively interested in politics. For ten ci-^nsecuti\'e years he was justice of the peace. In 1882 Mr. Mohundro came to Columbia county, Washington, where for eight years he continued in agricultural pursuits. His next mo\e was to Oakesdale and from that town, in 1894, he came to Latah, following his present occupaticm here e\'er since. In 1896 he was elected to the state legislature and, during his term of office, became distinguished for his activity in securing the passage of the Canutt railroad bill and in procuring the sending of a memorial to congress for the establishment of a soldiers' liome at Furt Sherman. At present, Mr. Mohundro is justice of the peace at Latah.

He is a member and senior vice-commander of General Millroy Post, No. 62, G. A. R., and belongs to the Christian church. He was married in Webster county, Missouri, September 16, 1S60, to Miss Isabella J. Duncan, a nati\'e of Indiana, and to their union have been born six children : Joseph L., county clerk of Columbia county; \\'i!liam G., farmer; Mary K.. wife of .Austin Pintler;- Martha J., wife of T. M. Hadley, of Latah; Sarah E., wife of George D. Stone, of Latah, and Julia A.

C.M'T.Mx Freeman Southard

C.M'T.MX FREEMAN SOUTHARD, a jjioneer uf 1878, is a native of Wiscasset, Maine, born October 20, 1842. When twelve years of age he embarked on the ship Frankwellbar. bound for Calcutta. He served as cabin boy on that vessel for a year and a iialf, then returned home and completed his education. In 1 86 1 he enlisted in Company G, I'cnnth Maine Volunteer Infantry, and participated in the battle of Bull Run and in several other engagements. He was promoted to the rank of corporal, hut on August 4, 1861, was discharged on account of disability. Returning home he engaged in the confectionery jjusiness, but a year later sold out and went hack to sea. He subsequently engaged in mackerel fishing on the Bay of St. Lawrence and met with good success for a time, but in 1863 came via Panama to Cascade Rapids, Oregon. Thence he proceeded to the Boise Basin mines, traveling by stage from The Dalles. He was engaged in mining there for a while, hut later went to San Francisco, thence to Sacramento and later had cliarge of a large stock ranch. He returned to Maine, going back via the Nicaragua route. Upon his arrival there, he again took to the sea, first with his brother, who was captain of a coast vessel, then as commander of a vessel of his own. In 1878 he came to Spokane county, l(jcating three miles east of Latah, where he bought a fane three-hundred-and-twenty-acre farm. He also owns a farm one and a half miles east of Latah. Captain Southard is a leading farmer, ergetic. thrifty man and a substantial and respected citizen. He belongs to the L O. O. F., and in religious persuasion is a Baptist. He was married, in Cheney, Washington, March 4, 1886, to Miss Miranda Flint and thev have two daughters : Myrtle X. and Blanche :\L

JOHN ^lORAN, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Ireland. .April 5, 1856. He enjoyed good educational advantages in his native land. When seventeen years old he emigrated to the L'nited States, locating first at Albany, New York, but in 1875 he came out to Colorado to engage in mining, and two years later he removed to California, still following the same business. But Iiefore the year was passed he came to Spokane county, took a homestead in Rock .creek valley, and turned his attention to farming. In 1S83 he engaged in lumbering on the C(xur d' Alene reservation, and that was his business for al)()ut four years, but in 1887 he moved into the town of Latah and opened a real estate, insurance and loan ottice. Being also well posted in law, he was frequently called upon to prosecute or defend suits in the justice courts. In 1896 he went to British Columbia, on a prospecting trip, and succeeded in making se\eral good discoveries. He organized the Leo British Columbia Mining Company in 1899, becoming its president. They have now developed and are operating several paying properties. Mr.

Moran has always taken an active and leading part in politics, though he has never coveted political preferment fur himself. He was, however, postmaster during Cleveland's administration. Fraternally, he is identified with the W. of ^V. and the Circle. He was married in Troy, New York, April 30, 1889, to Miss Annie Howard, a native of that state, and they have three sons: John LI., Francis E. and Eugene Leo.

HENRY TREEDE, a pioneer of 1885, is a native of Llamburg, Germany, born July 7, 1855. He received such educational advantages as German youth almost universally enjoy, and, when seventeen, emigrated to America, locating first in Sandusky, Ohio. Two years later he went to San Francisco, California, where the ensuing ele\-en years were passed. In 1885 he came to Spokane county, bought a farm fmu- miles south of Fairfield and engaged in agricultural pursuits. Being a thrifty, enterprising man, he has been unusually successful as a farmer, and is now the owner of a section of fine land, well impro\-ed. Mr. Treede'has also maintained an actix-e and intelligent interest in the political concerns of the county and state. In 1894 he was elected county commissioner, and for four years discharged the duties of that office with al)ility and good judgment. It was during his term that the county court house w^as completed. He was an active member of the Farmers' Alliance and one of the prominent promoters of the Farmers' Alliance warehouse at Fairfield. He was married in San Francisco, California, December 21, 1884, to Miss Mary Brincken. a native of Germany, and they have two children : Dora and Emma.

W. A. STARR, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Sullivan county, Xew York. November 2, 1836. ^^'hile still in bis infancy be was taken by bis parents to Indiana, wbere for tbe next twelve years tbe family were engaged in farming. Tbey tben rem(i\-ecl by team to Illinois, wbence, in 1854, tbey went to Boone, Iowa, traveling tbe entire distance in wagons. Here ]\Ir. Starr attained bis majority and completed bis education. For a number of years afterwards be was engaged in farming tbere, but in 1875 be came out to Idabo. wbence. two years later, be moved to W'alla ^\'alla. W'asbington. He farmed in tbat \-icinity tbree years, tben came to Spokane county, locating near Spangle, wbere be purcbased a tbree-bundred-and-twenty-acre farm. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits tbere until i8c)3. wben be sold out and moved to Rock creek vallev. four miles east of Fairfield.

C. N. WniPY, son of Major R. H. and Lydia L. Wimpy, a pioneer of 1872, was born in Idabo, November 7, 1867. In 1872 bis parents located on a farm on Hangman creek, two and a balf miles nortb of Latab, and Mr. Wimpv bas resided tbere or in Spokane ex'er since. In 1888 be entered tbe employ of Holley. Mason, Marks & Company and be has served in their shipping department continuously since. He takes an active interest in local politics and is in every way an exemplary citizen, commanding tbe confidence and good will of all who know him. In fraternal affiliations, he is a member of tbe I. O. O. F. and the K. P. He was married, in Spokane. February 2. 1893. to Aliss Nellie I. Yake. a native of Michigan, and tbey have two children : L. Ingles and IMvrtle E.

WILLIAM H. DARKNELL. a pioneer of 1879. was born in Wi.sconsin. March 8, 1852. When ten years old he accompanied iiis ]iarents to Minnesota and tbere was reared and educated. He early engaged in farming, but in 1873 came out to California, tlience to Oregon and. in 1878, to Dayton, \\'ashington. Tbe following year he came to Spokane county, bought a tract of railroad lantl ten miles southeast of Rockford, and set vigorously to work to establish a comfortable home for liimself and family. He is now the owner of three hundred and forty acres of fine land in ar excellent state of cultivation, and in everyway plainly evincing his thrift, enterprise and progressiveness. He is engaged in wheat producing and genera! farming, but is best known tor his success as a stock raiser. He is quite acti\e in jiolitics and has the distinction of havir.g cast the first vote ever polled in Rockford. In 1900 he was appointed by County Assessor A. P. Williams deputy assessor for his vicmity. Frjiternally. Mr. Darknell is identified with the !-". & .\. M. and with Fairview Lodge. Xo. 40. 1. O. O. ]-'. He was married in The Dalles. Oregon, in 1878. to Miss \'irginia Justice, and to their union were born two children : Jennie, wife of G. M. Blakely. and Hattie. He was next married, at Rockford. in 1886. to Miss Clara Lefars, and they are parents of two children: Amata and Homer.

CHARLES N. ANDERSON, deceased, a pioneer of 1880. was born in Canada, in 1848. He passed his early youth there and in tbe state of Michigan, enjoying good educational advantages. .About 1870 he went to California, where for some time he followed the dual occupation of mining and farming.

Subsequently, however, he moved to Oregon and engaged in agricultural pursuits there. He came to Spokane county in 1880, took a homestead four miles east of Rockford and for the ten years ensuing ga\-e himself energetically to general farming and wheat raising. In 1890 he m<:)ved into Rockford to engage in the warehouse and grain buying business, and he was thus employed until his death, which occurred Feliruary 9, 1897. Though very young when the Ci\'il war l:)r(ike (Hit, Mr. Anderson, nevertheless, earned the hduor and gratitude of his adopted country by three years' of faithful and efficient service in the Federal army. He was a member of Company C, Fifteenth !ilichigan Volunteer Infantry. While he ne\-er was ambitious to be distinguished above ordinary men, or for any kind of i)referment, he was a substantial and patriotic citizen and one who always commanded the respect and gi.iod will of those will) knew him. Fraternally, he was affiliated with the J. B. Wyman Post, No. 40, G. A. R., and with Fair\'iew Lodge. No. 40, I. O. O. F. He was married, in Polk county, Oregon, in September, 1880, to Miss Ella M. Higgins, a native of Oregon, who still lives in Rockford. Her- father. Seldon Higgins. crossed the plains in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson had seven children, namely: Oscar S., Cranston. Lyman, Harley, Sarah, Charles E. and Nellie C, all of whcim are living.

WILSON STAFFORD, superintendent of county poor farm, is a native of Iowa, born January 14. 1848. - In 1852 the family came to Linn county, Oregon, where he grew up and was educated. He was engaged in farming and stock raising until 1874. when he moved to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1884 lie moved to Lincoln county and engaged in stock raising. In 1889 he moved to Spokane county, locating at Medical Lake and later to Rock creek valley, near Fairfield. In 1898 he was appointed by the county commissioners superintendent <<i the poor farm, which position he still occupies. He has taken an active part in the politics of the county and has been a delegate to many of the Republican conventions. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married in Linn county, Oregon, October 3, 1867, to Miss Melissa Pugh, a native of Oregon. They have nine children : Anna, Chester, Clarence, Asburv, Nellie, Lm^a, Florence, Willie and Benjamin.

FRANCIS A. PUGH, a pioneer of 1881, was born in Kentucky, April 20, 1820. When quite young he was taken by his ])arents to Illinois and in that state he was reared and educated. He early went to Iowa, then a piimeer state, and in April, 1846, he removed thence to Oregon, making the trip o\-erland by ox-team. He located in the Willamette valley, near Portland, residing there for about five years. In 1851 he went to Linn county, Oregon, where the ensuing se\-enteen years of his life were passed. He remr)\-ed to Dayton. Washington, in 1878 and thence three years later to Spokane county. Shortly after his arrival here, he settled on a farm at Saltese lake, where his residence has e\'er since been. Mr. Pugh has followed farming and stockraising as an occupation for more than forty years and in that industry he has always been very successful. Fie has been in the forefront of civilization's march nearl}- all his life and has earned an hiinnred place among those whose courage and self-sacrifice have converted a vast wilderness into thriving and prosperous states. Though over eighty years old, he is still a hale, hearty man, retaining much of his original vigor and energy. He was married, while in Iowa, to Miss Ruth Jessup. a nati\-e of Indiana, who died in Spokane in Fehruary, 1895, Their children are, Mary and George, deceased; John \\'., a prosperous farmer in Linn -county, Oregon; Melissa, wife of W. M. Stafford, superintendent of the county poor farm ; F. M. .deputy marshal for eastern Washington; Thomas AV., who died at Saltese lake in 1896; T. K., deputy sheriff of Si)okane county; and Sarah, wife of J. I. Frume. of Athena, Ore- Sfon.

JOHN N. BUTLER, a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Hamilton county Ohio, born in 1841. He lived in the state of his Ijirth until twenty years of age, then responded to Lincoln's first call for volunteers and became a member of Company B, Second Kentucky Infantrv. His first term of enlistment was uaturally only three months, but he re-enlisted July 31, 1 86 1, in Company G, Thirty-ninth Ohio Infantry, and was assigned to service under General FreniLint in Missouri. During the ensuing three years he was in the siege of Lexingtiin, the battle of Islaml No. 10, the siege of Corinth, the battle of luka and Sherman's march to the sea, besides numerous other engagements and skirmishes. He was wounded in one of the battles around Atlanta, Ijy a rifle ball which enteretl his left thigh. On September 2b, 1864, he was mustered out, after a military career of which he and his family have just reason to be proud. After the war he returned to Ohio and was engaged in teaching until 1870, when he went to Kansas. He pursued his profession for five years, then moved to California and later to Oregon, teaching and farming in both these states. In the sjiring of 1878 he came to Spokane count}-, pre-empted ninety acres and purchased two hundred and ten acres of railroad land and eighty of school land, making a farm of three hundred and eighty acres in all. He culti- \ates al)out ninety acres, but gives most of his attention to stock raising, so that much of his land is in pasture. He has, however, a fine orchard of twenty-five acres. He is one of the leading farmers and most influential and rejH-eseutative citizens of Moran prairie. Socially, he is connected with the Masonic order and with Sedgwick Post, G. A. R. He was married in Ohio, in 1867, to ]\Iiss Jennie Dickey anil they have been parents of four children : Cora, a normal graduate, teacher in the Lincoln school, Spokane; Frank, principal of the government Indian school, at the Klamath agency: John, deceased, and Alfred, a .senior in the S])okane high school. They arc menibers of the First :\Iethodist Episcopal church, Spokane.

N. R. HULL, a pioneer of 1884, was born in Illinois, in 1834. but when only four years of age was taken l)y his parents to Missouri, where the family lived on a farm for nine years. Mr. Hull tiien moved to Iowa and was engaged in farming there most of the time for the ensuing thirty-seven years. He was, however, at work in the Colorado mines from i860 to 1866. On the 7th of March, 1884, he landetl in S])okane county and bought one hundred and sixty acres of school land, located thirteen miles southeast of Spokane, and on this he has ever since made his home. He is engaged in raising wheat, oats, potatoes and other prodncts and is one of the successful and thrifty farmers of that neighborhood. As a citizen, he holds quite a leading place in his community, being actively interested in everything of general benefit and always willing to do his share towards promoting the common good. He has held the offices of school director and road supervisor for several terms. Socially, he is affiliated with the F. & A. M., in Iowa, and he is also a policy holder in the A. O. U. W. He was married in Ljwa, in 1856, to Miss Malinda Long, and they have been parents of seven children, namely : Mary, Albert. Emma, Curtis. Jesse and Edith, living, and Henry, deceased. Mrs. Hull is a member of the Bai)tist church.

ROBERT B. PATERSON, president of the Spokane Dry Goods Company, a pioneer of 1889, was born in Iowa, November 18, 1864. He acquired his education in the public schools and in Iowa College, and at the age of twenty engaged in the mercantile business at Charles City, Iowa, with Mr. J. M. Comstock, forming the firm of Comstock & Paterson. He resided there for about five years, then came to Spokane and engaged in the same business here. Being a man of extraordinary executive and cijmmercial ability, he soon became prominent in the business circles of this city and of the northwest. The greater part of his time, for the past eleven years, has Iieen dev(.)ted to negotiating the purchases of his company, and he is now one of the most widely known buyers on the Pacific coast. The company also maintains an office in New York City where a considerable portion of his time is spent. Mr. Paterson is also manager of the Crescent store, which is the retail branch of the Spokane Dry Goods Company, and which is one of the finest and best equipped places of business in this state. In his large commercial operations, he naturally has had to employ a great many subordinates, and these he has always treated with such courtesy and fairness as to maintain the best of good feeling between employer and employee. He was married in Charles City, Iowa, January 1, i88g, to Miss Henrietta I. Davidson, a native I if that state, and they ha\-e one daughter, Gene\ie\"e. They reside in a magnificent home on Seventh avenue.

SAMUEL MILLER, a farmer and fruitraiser, six miles northeast of Mead, a pioneer of 1889, was born in the vicinity of Jackson, Ohio, December 17, 1855. He grew to manho(_)d in his native state, receiving good early educational advantages and graduating at the Lebanon Normal School. After completing his course of study he was engaged for a few years in the dual occupation of farming and teaching, but in 1880 he embarked in the lumbering business on the Ohio river. He was thus employed until 1889, when he moved to Spokane county, bought out a squatter's right, homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres where he now lives, and engaged in farming and fruitraising. Since that date he has given his energies mostly to his farm, though he has also taught school some, and for two years was foreman for the Dort Brothers in their planing mill. Mr. Miller has always taken an active and leading part in politics. Indeed he has ever been one of the representative and influential citizens of his community, meriting and receiving the esteem and respect of his neighbors. He served as deputy assessor while Mr. Dan- iels held the office of county assessor. In his fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Mead Lodge. No. 46. I. O. O. F. He was married in Jackson county, Ohio, December 27. 1883, to Miss Jessie L. Osborne, a native of that state, and they have seven children, Harry D.. Mabel L., Maudie, Bertha, Jessie, Hilburn and Clara.

WILLIAAI MORTER. a pioneer of 1881, was born in Pennsylvania in 1842. He received a common-school education and after arriving at years of maturity was engaged in farming and burning lime until 1870, when he removed to Illinois. He went to Iowa the ne.xt year and engaged in the meat market business, following that line until 1879. He afterward spent a year in Kansas and a short time in California, but finally came to Walla Walla, where for some months he worked on a farm. His next move was to Spokane county and his next employment was making ties for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. Upon finishing his contract, he came to ]\Iedical Lake, bought a salt plant there and for two years was engaged in making }kledical Lake salts. He then maintained a meat market for a time, but during the past three years he has been mining and prospecting in the various mining districts tributary to Spokane. He is quite heavily interested in Medical Lake real estate, being owner of a half interest in the Lake House and of much other property on the lake front and in different parts of the town. Mr. Morter has always manifested considerable interest in the general welfare of Medical Lake, has taken quite an active part in its municipal affairs and has served for one term as a member of its city council. In fraternal affiliations he is an Odd Fellow.

JUDGE C. F. BACKUS, attorney-at-law, a pioneer of Spokane county of 1887, was born in Soutli Bend, Indiana, May 3, 1845. I" 1850 the family cros.sed the plains in an o.x-train, of which his father was captain, and located in Linn county. Oregon, where Mr. Backus lived for the ensuing twenty years. He received an academic education, then was engaged as a stock-raiser, merchant and manufacturer. Subsequently he studied law in The Dalles, Oregon, securing admission to the supreme court in 1877. He then opened an office in The Dalles, and practiced there for about ten years, also taking an active and leading part in the Republican political campaigns of the state. In March, 1887, he came to Spokane where he has ever since resided, engaged continuously in the practice of his profession. During 1891-92, also during 1897-98, he served as justice of the peace, and in 1898 he held the office of police judge for several months. In eacli of these offices he discliarged his duties with skill, energy and impartiality, winning for himself the confidence and good will of his constituency. Fraternally he affiliates with the Foresters. He was married in Linn county. Oregon, .\pril 16, 1868. to Elizabeth Leady. a native of Indiana, and they have two daughters, Lottie M., wife of H. E. Hamilton, a commission merchant in Spokane; and \'elma. Mr. Backus's father is still livmg at Hood River, Oregon, though past eighty-three vears old.

LOUIS H. HILBV, a pioneer of 1878, was born in California. December 24, 1856, and his entire minority was passed in that state, except about three years, during which he was absent in \'irginia City, Nevada. He was engaged for some time in the quicksilver mines of California, l)ut the last few years of his stay there were spent in farming. In 1877 he moved to Walla Walla. Washington, worked with a threshing machine during the harvest seascjn. then went to Palouse City. After traveling extensively over the country for some time he finally located in Spokane countv, homesteading one hundred and sixty acres of land on the south side of Moran prairie. For the first twelve years he was in the stock husiness. hut recently has turned his attention more particularly to grain raising. For the three years succeeding 1882 he was absent at Badger Mount, where he had a ranch of three hundred and twenty acres, but in 1885 he sold this and returned to his homestead. He has a fine farm on the prairie, rich and fertile and improved with a good house and barn and a splendid orchard covering fifteen acres. He takes great pride in raising thoroughbred Clyde horses. Poland China hogs and Plymouth Rock chickens. Mr. Hilby is one of the most energetic, progressive and successful farmers on Moran prairie, and he is also a leading and influential man in local and county affairs. He has at different times served his community in the capacities of road supervisor and justice of the peace, and in 1894 was nominated for the office of county auditor. Socially he is affiliated with the United Moderns. He was united in marriage February 22. 1890, to Miss Louise Bauer, of Houser Junction. Idaho, and they have three children. ]\\\\&. Cora and John.

moved to Michigan and farmed for twelve years, subsequently going to California. He was engaged in saw-milling in the Santa Cruz mountains for a year and a half, but afterwards returned to Michigan and followed the same occupation in that state for five years. At the expiration of that period he went back ti:) Califoria. He worked as a carpenter there until 1878, then came to Spokane county and homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land half a mile west of Medical Lake. He now has a fine farm, forty acres of which are platted into town lots and the remainder reduced to a high state of cultivation. He is engaged in diversified farming and gives cimsiderable attention to fruit raising and to the care of his splendid orchard. Being a man of prudence and good judgment he has been enabled to make an excellent success of that form of agricultural enterprise, in which so many have failed. He was married in Michigan, in 1863. to Mrs. Amanda Ainsley, whose daughter, by a former marriage, resides in Brooklyn, New York. JNIrs. Brown is a daughter of Colonel John Ainsley. one of the pioneers of Michigan.

R. C. BROWN, a pioneer of 1878. was born in Pike county, Pennsylvania, in 1833. He was reared and educated in his native state, residing there until twentv-two vears old. He then

C. H. U'EEKS. secretary and treasurer of the Spokane Dry Goods Company, was born in the Western Reserve. Ohio. July 8, 1842. He acquired a good common-school education and supplemented it by a course in the Western Reserve College, then became a railroad man. He held various positions in the operating department of the Pennsylvania Railroad Companv until 1877. when he accepted a situation in the traffic department of the Great Northern Railroad, holding various positions in this department, the last of which was the general agency at Spokane. He was employed by that company until 1894. then resigned to become associated with the Spokane Dry Goods Company. When that firm finahy incorporated, in January, 1895, he was elected secretary and treasurer, a positiim which he still retains. They have a very large wholesale and retail trade, extending over a wide area. Their business is large enough to require the services of about one hundred employees, including two traveling salesmen. Mr. Weeks is a business man of unusual ability, possessing the unerring judgment, keen foresight and capacity for great labur always present in those eminent!}' qualified for commercial pursuits. Since coming to Spokane he has ever manifested an abiding interest in the city's social and material welfare. He has been especially active in the promotion of the industrial expositions, and was one of the incorporators of the present Chamber of Commerce, of which he is a past director. In religious affiliations Mr. Weeks is identified with the Westminster Congregational church of this city. He was married in Charles City, Iowa. September 13, 1886, to Miss Carolyn A. Barney, a native of SwantDU, Vermont.

ANDREW LEFE\'RE, deceased, a pioneer of 1872, was a native of Montreal, Canada, born in 1824. He was reared on a farm, receiving no educational advantages whatever. In 1849 he removed to California, becoming one of the pioneer settlers of Siskiyou county, that state, where he mined for three years. In 1856, however, he came to Walla A\'alla. Washington, to take part in the Indian wars then in progress. In 1872 he removed to Medical Lake, bringing with him a band of horses, cattle and sheep, and. in fact, everything necessary for farming. The Indians tried to dissuade him from settling there, telling him that the waters of the lake were poisonous, but he soon discovered the falsity of their statements and the medicinal value of the water, so decided to make his home upon the banks of the lake. He took as a homestead the site of the present town and was engaged in farming for many years afterward. But when the town became (pule large he retired from his farm and gave his entire attention to the real estate business. He was always a firm friend of Medical Lake and contributed in every way in his power to its material and social advancement. He was largely instrumental in securing the establishment of the ho.spital for the insane at that place. Mr. Lefevre was one of tlie most enteri:)rising and progressive men of the county and was highly esteemed and respected bv all who knew him. Politically he was allied to the Democratic party, by which he was once elected to the office of county C(Mnmissioner. He v.as married before leaving Canada to Miss May. of English descent, who lived onlv three years after becoming his wife. She presented him with two children, both of whom are now deceased. In 1862, at U'alla Walla. Mr. Lefe\re married Miss Annie Forrest, a native of Canada, and they had six children, two of whom are now living. The wife and mother died in 1874, and the father was su1>sequently married to Mrs. Jane Kimbell. a native of Illinois. On January 15. 1900, ;Mr. Lefevre died at his home in Medical Lake, and his loss was mourned by a host of friends all o\er this part of the state.

E. W. HAND, of the law firm of Hand, Taylor & Graves, 41 1-12-13-14, the Rookery building, is a native of Wisconsin, born May 2;^, 1859. He acquired his preliminary educa- tion in tlie public schools and in tlie Normal at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and. in 1886. entered tlie law department of the .State University at Madison. He had previously read law in the office of his brother for four years, so that he completed their course in one year. In 1890 he Ijegan the practice of his profession in Phillips, \Msconsin, where he resided until the town was burned in 1894. He then came west, locating first at Wallace, Idaho. For the ensuing three years he continued the pursuit of his profession there, but in 1897 he came to Spokane and opened an ofifice here. Later he fijrmed a partnership with Charles A. Fleming, the firiu name being Hand & Fleming. In March, 1899, this partnership was dissolved and two months later the present firm was organized. They rank among the leading law firms of the city and have an 'extensive and constantly increasing practice. Mr. Hand is also interested in various mining enterprises. Fraternally he is identified with Spokane L(Klge, No. 34. F. & A. M., also with Excelsior Camp, No. 5124, M. W. A., of which he has been clerk since its organization in 1897. Mr. Hand has always taken an interest in politics and has served as city attorney both in Phillips, Wisconsin, and in Wallace, Idaho. He was married in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 5, 1894, to Miss Lola A. Willis, a native of that state, wdio died January 10, 1899, leaving one daughter, Ruth j\Iarv.

CAPT. C. H. THOMPSON, a mining man, was born in Ohio, September 2.2, 1842, there acquiring his education, .\pril 16, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth Volunteer Infantry, which served under Colonel (afterwards Major-General) Steadman. At the end of his three-months' term he re-enlisted, becoming a member of the Eleventh Ohio Infantry. He served in the .A.rmy of the Cumberland and the Army of the Tennessee, and was with Burnsides and Thomas. He took part in twenty-seven different engagements, among which were the battles of Philippi, Carrick's Ford, Alurfrecsborough, Perryville, Stone River and Crab Orchard ; was present at the capture of Morgan, and assisted in the siege of Kno.xville. At Carrick's Ford he received a gun shot wound in the leg. and in the battle of Strawberry Plain he was wounded in the side. He was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant of the First United States Colored Artillery at Knoxville, and in 1865 he liecame ca])tain of the same regiment, which rank he retained until the close of the war. He was mustered out April 11. 1866, after a military service lasting from the time the first shot of the war was fired until after the last Confederate soldier had laid down liis arms. Few men can boast of a more praiseworthy military record, and few have a better title to their country's gratitude. Retiring from the army, he returned to Ohio, but soon removed to Arkansas and engaged in raising cotton. He went back to Cle\eland. Ohio, in 1869, opened a grocery store, and also took up the studv of mining and retorting. Before a \ear had jiassed. however, he removed to Iowa, to accept a position as freight agent of the construction company which built the Dubucjue & Sioux City Railr(.)ad. He resigned in 1871. went to E'oston and resumed the study of mining, taking a course of lectures in a school of technology there. In 1874 he commenced operating in mines and two years later he was called to take charge of the El Capitan mine in California. For the two years subsequent to 1880 he was mining in Colorado. He then went east and engaged in manufacturing, but in 1885 he returned to the Occident. Since that time he has followed mining exclusively and with great success. He was one of the pioneers of the \'irtue mine at Baker City, Oregon, is interested in the Wonderful Mining Group in the Slocum country, in the Bunker Hill, at Sumpter, Oregon, and in the Keystone Belle, at Sumpter,Oregon. He is president nf the Miller Creek Mining Company, vice-president of the Wonderful and general manager of the Keystone. Captain Thompson was a commissioner from the state of Washington to the World's Columbian E.xposition.andin 1899 was appointed hy President McKinley to a similar office in the Paris Exposition. He was married in Cleveiaiui, Ohio, September 22, 1S68, to Miss Clara E. Sherman, a natix'e of Ohio, and a relative of General Sherman. They have one daughter, Geraldine. Captain Thompson is one of those men who possess the elements of success in their inmost beings. One hardly knows which to a<lmire the more, his splendid fight against the armed forces of disunion, or his etjuallv heroic contest to win from Mother Earth her carefully concealed treasures. In both species of warfare he has been a conqueror.

W. R. BARTHOLOMEW, a pioneer of the sjiring iif 1878, was born in the state of Wisconsin in 1854. \\hen fifteen x-ears old he removed to Dakota and there he resided until 1875. tben crossed the plains with a team to Grande Roiide valley, Oregon. He maintained a harness simp there until 187S, but in that vear removed to Spokane county and homesteaded one hundred and si.xty acres of land three miles north of Medical Lake. He made his home upon this land until 1886, then went to Chenev and ran a stage between there and Deep creek about three years. In 1890 he came to Medical Lake to engage in a genera! merchandise store with his father. Subsecjuently, however, he opened a harness shop, and to that business he has devoted his energies continuously since. Mr. Bartholomew has always taken a lively and intelligent interest in local affairs, and has fre- (|ucnily been elected to offices in the municipal government. During his residence at Cheney he was marshal and constable and since coming to Medical Lake he has held the office of constable continuously, also has twice served as assessor of the town. He is a man of good principles and uncjuestioned integrity, commanding the respect and confidence of his neigiibors. Socially he is affiliated with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Medical Lake in 1882. to Miss Vina Whitlock, who is also a pioneer of iS^S. They have seven children, Claude, Ray, Myrtle, Birdie, Thomas, Gilbert and a child not named.