Spokane County, Washington - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 3 of 16)

CHARLES W. CLARKE, of the firm of Cot)k & Clarke, real estate and loan agents, office 3 and 4 \'an Valkenberg block, is a native of Connecticut, born December 31, 1848. He was brou^^ht up in the district schools of his home place and when fourteen years of age started out to manage for himself. He entered the sciiools of Rochester, New York, took an academic course and graduated in the business college, then engaged as commercial correspondent for N. B. Phelps & Co., of New York City. Later he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered a partnership wdth his brothers there in the firm of Clarke Brothers & Company, manufacturers of furniture. On March i, 1884, he arrived in Spokane, when the three brothers purchased thirty-one hundred acres of railroad land and engaged in the cattle business. In 1887 they quit this business and opened a real estate office. Charles W. and Robert E. had an office in Post Falls, where they platted a large part of the town and spent four years. C. W. came to Spokane and was engaged as deputy assessor and soon after, with Harl J. Cook, formed the real estate firm of Cook & Clarke. The company is doing a fine business and handling some of the best properties. C. W. is a member of the K. of P. lodge and secretary of the Washington & Idaho Irrigation Company, organized for the purpose of irrigating the Spokane prairie. He has served as chairman of the county commissioners of

F. S. MEADE, mercliant tailor, pioneer of 1883, is a native of London, England, born March 25, 1833. In 1848 he came to the L-nited States and learned the trade of a cutter in New York City. He moved west in 1866, locating at Junction City, Kansas, where he had a shop and did a good business at tailoring. In 1868 he removed to Portland, Oregon, where he was cutter for Fishel & Roberts for five years, then went to Astoria, where he followed his trade for three years. He then spent four years in Walla Walla, where he did a good business. On March 16, 1883, he came to S[)okane and purchased a building on Riverside avenue, between Stephen and Howard streets. After returning from a trip to Europe, he and N. Johnson opened a tailoring establishment, which burned in the big fire, he losing heavily. They rebuilt and started business again and have been very successful. Mr. Meade has been the manager for the company since 1889 and he has given perfect satisfaction. In 1892 they opened in tlie Blaldck block, under tlie naiue of N. Johnson & Company, merchant tailors. Mr. Meade is president of the Detroit Mining Company, a member of the advisory board of the Spokane Co-operative Mining Company, and is interested in real estate.

J. H. GREINER, real estate dealer in the Jamieson block, Spokane, is a pioneer of 1878, being a native of Virginia, l)orn in Augusta county, October 19, 1852. He was brought up on a farm, educated in the district schools and at the age of seventeen learned the trade of a carpenter, working with liis grandfather. Captain Rodgers, an old warrior of 18 12. In 1872 he moved to Terra Haute, Indiana, where he followed his trade for eighteen months, then went to California. In June, 1878, he started for Lewiston, Idaho, but on his arrival in Portland volunteered to help fight the Xez Perces Indians, then on the warpath. He was elected sergeant of his company and servetl about thirt}' days. He came to Colfax in August, and in September Uj Spokane. He located one hundred and sixty acres of land near the town of Spangle and went to work at his trade. In 1882 he entered the ministry of the United Brethren church and served in that work for three years. Later he became a contractor and builder and then entered tlie real estate and mining business. He served as a delegate to the county convention when Spokane was cut off from Stevens. He was married in Oroville, California, September 25, 1890, to Carrie A. Gifford, iicc Tobias. She iiad three children : Eugene, Belle and Floy M., and they have one, Oleta, by this marriage.

HARRY C. BELL, secretary of the Wonderful Group and Miller Creek Mining Companies, a pioneer of 1884, 's a native of Missouri, born at St. Louis, August i, 1848. He was given a good c(.)mmon-sch(Jol education and then graduated at the St. Louis University. In 1867 he went to Montana and engaged in mining until 1870, when he removed to the White Pine mining country in Nevada. After spending two }-ears in this field he went to Kansas City, ^Missouri, and engaged for ten years in general merchandising. In 1880 he went to Las Vegas. Xew Alexico, and followed mining and merchandising for a time, after which he went to Cceur d'Alene and was there in the mining excitement of 1883. He came to Spokane in 1884. purchased a stock of goods, and engaged in business on the corner where the Traders' Bank now stands. In company with others he l)uilt the Columbia Hotel in 1890 and laid out Bell Park addition in the northeast part of the city. He was a ])art owner in the Daisy mine and manager of it for some time; also is connected with properties in Slocan, Republic, Baker and all the suroimding camps. Mr. Bell has aways taken a prominent part in building up the city and developing mines. He was married in Kansas City, December 13, 1878, to Belle Jackson, born in Fort Leavenworth, daughter of Dr. George T. Jackson, of the regular army. They ha\-e three children : Susie. James J. and Genevie\-e.

A. P. Curry & Co., promoters and brokers. 301 Trailers' block, pioneer of 1883, is a native of Maine, born July 7, 1836. ^\'hen twelve years old he left home and went to Boston, where he engaged as a clerk in a grocery store at one dollar per month and board. In 1854 he removed to Dixon, Illinois, where he had a store until i860, when the Pike's Peak gold excitement led him to Colorado where he spent one year, and returned to Illinois and enlisted in Company A, Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Capt. H. T. Noble, being the first regiment mustered into service. He served four years and seven months, at the end of which he was a colonel. In July, 1861, he was promoted to lieutenant in Company made cajjtain. After three years' service he was appointed colonel of the First West Tennessee by order of the secretary of war, and was mustered out at Memphis. He was in many engagements in southwest Missouri under General Curtis, being in the three days' fight at Pea Ridge. Other engagements were at Helena, Arkansas, Corinth, Mississippi, luka, Jackson. Meridian, Guntown, Tupelo and the siege of \'icksburg. In 1864 he took part in the expetlition against McGruder and was in numerous minor skirmishes. At the close of the war he settled clown in Memphis and engaged in mercantile business. He was elected sheriff of the county three terms. He operated as a railroad contractor in Arkansas on the Fort Smith & Memphis and on the Memphis & Little Rock roads. In 1877 he went to Lcadville, Colorado, and engaged in mining, and served as city marshal ; was major-general of Colorado National Guard for two years. In the spring of 1883 he came to Spokane where he has since been actively engaged in mining, and has done much to bring the mines of this country into favorable notice. He is president of the Alice Eureka Mining Company, and secretary of the Grey Eagle, and connected with many others. He has served as judge of the municipal court, department commander of the G. A. R.. and was brigadier-general of the state militia for six years. He is one of the prominent and well known citizens.

HON. J. E. GANDY, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Wisconsin, born August 24, 1847. When he was three years old the family removed to Linn county, Iowa, where he grew up. He graduated from Cornell College literary department/then entered the Michigan State Uni- versity at Ann Arbor, where his son Lloyd is now a student. He graduated from the medical department, then opened an office in Cedar Rapids and practiced for two years. He then came to Washington and located in Pierce county where he practiced with success. In 1880 he came to Spokane and engaged as a practicing physician until 1887 when he gave up the practice and devoted his time to his large property interests. He was elected in 1879 on the Republican ticket to represent Pierce county in the territorial legisature. and in 1885 was elected from Spokane county as a member of the territorial legislature. He was afterwards elected to the first, second and fourth sessions of the state legislature, and has served as president of the city council of which he has been a member at different times. ]Mr. Gandy was one of the youngest soldiers in the war of the Rebellion, having enlisted in Company D, Forty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at the age of sixteen years. He was in several engagements and returned home safe after faithfully performing his duty to his country. He, with others, built the Union block three times, it being burned twice. He also built the Gandy block on Sprague avenue, and many other buildings in the city. He was one of the organizers of the Exchange National Bank, a director until 1898, and is a stockholder in the Big Bend National Bank at Davenport. Mr. Gandy has always been an active man in the financial interests of the city and assisted materially in making it the successful metropolis.

native state, and took a classical course in the DePauw University, Indiana, intending to be come an attorney. His health failing, he engaged in farming in his native state, and after si.x years removed to Bloomington and opened a real estate and loan ofiice. He served as trustee in the Illinois W'esleyan University for si.x years, and has always been much interested in educational matters. In 1S82 he came to Spokane and purchased a farm near the city where he resided for five years, then moved to the city and opened a real estate office. He served as a member of the board of education one year, during which the high school and five other fine large school buildings were erected. He was secretary of the school board for four years and took an active part in establishing the Spokane dillege. He has contributed freely to all the early enterprises of the city, and is known as an energetic and representative man. Mr. Sargent was married in Green Castle, Indiana, September i, 1869, to Florence C. Farrow. They have five children : William F., S. Guy, Bernadine, Courtland C. and James B.

J. B. SARGENT, mining and real estate man, 328 Hyde block, pioneer of 1882, is a nati\'e of Illinois* born in Douglas county, December 28, 1844. He was brought up in his

\MLLIA^I ABBOTT LEWIS. The subject of this sketch was born at Hamden, Delaware county. New York, on the 7th day of April, 1852. His parents were both natives of Scotland ; his father, William Lewis, came from Galashiels in 1834 with his parents who settled in Delaware county. New York. In 1851 his father married Jennette Neish. who was born at Peebles, Scotland, and came to America with her parents and settled in Delaware county, in 1830. They settled in the village of Hamden, where the husband was then engaged in merchandising with his father, William Lewis, Sr., under the firm name of

The early education of W. A. Lewis was had at the village school and later at the Delaware Academy, one of the oldest academical institutions in central New York, located at Delhi, the county seat of Delaware county, and he completed his educatinn in 1869 at the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin. Xew York.

Acting- upon the popular ad\'ice of the then editiir of the Xew Y(jrk Tribune: "Cio west, young man, and grow up with the country," lie immediately uikju completing his education turned his face to the setting sun. antl engaged in teaching in Grant county, Wisconsin, where he remained until called East in 1870 by the offer of a ])artnershi]) in the mercantile firm of Lewis & Company, in his native town, whicli offer he accepted, returned to Hamden and during the next four years devoted his time and energies to the managment of the then largest mercantile business in Delaware county, while the senior members of the firm, William Lewis and Marshall Shaw, devoted their attentiim to the Inisiness of ])uilding the Delhi branch of the Xew York & Oswego Midland Railroad ( now called the New York, Lake Ontario «S: Western), for the building of which the firm had the contract, and also for a part of the main line of the same road.

In Feljruary, 1874, Mr. Lewis married Fannie Bostwick Shaw, the daughter of his business partner, Marshall Shaw. The folli.iwing summer his health f;iiled from over work, and under the advice of his physician he went to California, passing the winter of 1874- 75 in Los Angeles county, and in the spring returned to Xew York by the way of the Isthmus of Panama. The condition of his health preventing his continuing the mercantile business, and his jjartners desiring to retire from business, the lirm sold out and the co-partnership of Shaw and Lewises was dissolved.

During the Centennial year Mr. Lewis engaged with the Kansas Pacific Railroad in its emigrant department under Land Commissioner Gihnore. The road was then in the hands of a receiver, who afterwards became prominent in the Xorthern Pacific Railway Com- ])any, to-wit: Henry Villard. After severing his connection with railroad work he studied law, as admitted to the bar and in 1883 removed to Spokane I'alls, arriving witii the first througii train after the driving of the golden spike, celebrating the completion of the Xorthern Pacific, in September. He immediately opened a law oflice and has since lieen engaged in tiie active practice of liis profession, being the senior member of the law firm of Lewis & Lewis, wlio iiave one of the largest and nvxst successful law practices in eastern Washington.

HON. C. F. CLOUGH, of the firm of C. I*". Clough & Co. (incorporated), dealers in mines, stocks and real estate, 5 Jamieson block, pioneer of 1884, is a native of Rhode Island, born in W'oonsocket, December 26, 1843. ^^ grew up on a farm and enlisted in the army September 8, 1861, in Company E, Fourth Rhode Island \'olunteer Infantry, and served until July 25. 1865. He was veteranized at Portsmouth, \'irginia, with the rank of corixjral. Mr. Clough ser\ed with credit in the engagements at Roanoke Island, Xew Berne and Fort Macon, all in Xorth Carolina, with Burnsides, then w ith the .\rmy of the Potomac at» South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863 he was transferred to Norfolk. \"irginia, where he was in \arious skirmishes. He returned to tlie Army of the Pot(jmac in 1864 in front of Petershurg, \'irginia, and was in the general advance which led up to the surrender of Lee. At the close of the war he returned to his native home and fijr several years was engaged in selling pianos and sewing machines, after which he removed to Providence and followed the same business for several years. In 1876 he went to California and served as a commercial traveler. This line of work brought him through this section frequently, and in March. 1884, he came to Spokane on account of a mining excitement and the surroundings which he had previously noted. He opened a book and stationery store wliich he conducted \"ery successfully for three years, when he sold out in 1887 to engage in the real estate business. For seven years the business was conducted by himself and Jay P. Graves, under the firm name of Clough & Graves. They were \ery extensive real estate dealers and assisted very materially in building up the city. They erected some of the prominent buildings and were among the heaviest dealers in real estate in Spokane, operating in \'arious enterprises, buikling roads, soliciting public improvements and in various ways contributing to the development of the place. They made a specialty of organizing syndicates for the purpose of buying large tracts of land and platting and .selling the same, and in these venturesome undertakings they were remarkably successful, thereby building up an enviable reputation in lioth the east and the west. The present company, of which Mr. Clough is president, and his son. Lester F., is secretary and treasurer, was organized in 1896. In political matters also Mr. Clough has been very active. He was a member of the city council from 1886 to 1888, and in 1890 he was elected on the citizens' ticket mayor of the city, receiving a large maJDrity. His administration was a credit tn himself and fully justified the confidence repused in him by the perjple.

JOEL F. WARREN, ex-chief of police, a pioneer of 1879, son of Hugh G.. a native of North Carolina, and Esther C, a native of West \'irginia. is a native of ^Missouri, born in Sullivan county. January 8, 1858. The family came to Walla Walla in 1865 and father and son engaged in the cattle business. In 1879 they came to Spokane with a band of cattle, and each took up one hundred and sixty acres of land twenty miles west of the city, where both parents died. The father was first postmaster at Greenwood, this county. Joel F. carried on farming for some time and was deputy county assessor in 1883. On March 25. 1884, he was deputized by Pat Dillon, the sheriff, to arrest Bill Jackson, a notorious character and murderer, and when he succeeded in arresting the man his friends placed him on the police force. In 1887 he, was elected chief and held that position for three }-ears. being appointed again in July. 1897. In 1893 '''^ opened a private detecti\'e bureau, which was incorporated, and he became the manager and superintendent. In May, 1897, he went to San Francisco and captured two men guilty nf a jewelry Inu-glary at Rossland. He went with nine special officers in i89r to Bonner's Ferry where two thousand. fi\e hundred Italians struck, and succeeded in disarming them and getting them to return to work. Mr. Warren has alwa^'s been a very efficient officer and performed his duty in a creditable manner. He has been shotr at on thirteen different occasions, and has taken five medals in different tournaments. He was mar- ried in this county November 28, 1885, to Miss Emma Carstens, who died Octoljcr 17, 1887, leaving a daughter, Eva. He ne.xt married in Spokane, February 28, 1895, Miss Ida Rick, a nati\-e of Wisconsin.

W.VLTER H, WISCOMBE, of the Suburb Roller Mills, office 712 Railroad avenue, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of England, born -September 24. 1843. The family came to the United States in 1848 and located in Osage count}', Kansas, where he grew up on a farm. He was married there on ^larch 23, 1870, to Jennie, daughter of John and Lucinda Jolly, born in southern Illinois June 4, 1853. They have two living children : Frederick, born September I, 1879, now in the employ of the mill comijany. and Clarence, born July 19, 1884. In 1873 ^'i^y removed to Healdsburg, California, where he was engaged in the grocery business. They came to Spokane in 1879 and he worked for a time at the carpenter's trade, which he had learned of his father. In the spring of 1883 he and W. S. Burns built a isleam jilaning mill, having the first steam whistle ever blown in Spokane. After operating the mill fiir two years he was made street and built the fine road to Spangle, also one to Rockford and several others. He then superintended the construction of the Spokane Street Railway, the first in the city, and managed the running of this line until 1890. In 1891 he was appointed citv street C(jmmissioner under the new city charter. He was elected city treasurer on the Republican ticket in 1892 and had to give bond for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was re-elected in 1894. In 1895 lis appointe<l city commissioner and servetl for two years. In September,

J 889. he and W. E. Pierce bought the Suburb Roller INIills at Marshall, and are now operating this ])lant. The mill has a one-hundred-barrel capacity, is fitted up with all the most modern improvements, is run by water power and is kept going at full capacity all the time.

.Mr. W iscombe is an old soldier, having enlisted in 1863 in Company M, Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, and served in the Sixteenth Army Corps in the Army of the West. He was in several engagements, among them being the ones against Ouantrcll, I'rice and Thornton. He was wounded in one engagement in Missouri, being shot in the right hand and losing two fingers. As a result he was discharged in March, 1865. He is a respected member of the F. & .\. .M. and the Knights Templar, also the .\. O. U. W. He has been a stockholder in the E.xchange National Bank since its organization.

EDWARD PITTWOOD. dentist, in the Wolverton block, a jjioneer of 1883, is a native of Illinois, born in Iroquois county, March 12, i860. He was raised in the town oi Watseka, a.nd sluilied dentistry, graduating from the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati and from the Ohio Medical College. After graduating he returned to Illinois and opened an office in Kankakee, where he practiced dentistry for two years, then came to S])okane in 1883. In the early years of Sjjokane history he contributed freely to the several public enterprises and did his share in assisting to build up the city. .As an index of his liberality, the Doctor had only two hundred dollars when the Catholic church was being built, and although not a member, he gave one hundred and twenty-five dollars to the fund for its erection. He has been a heavy owner in real estate and is at present interested in mining. He owns a fine residence at the corner of Fifth and Cceur d' Alene, Iniilt of logs, in a very unique and attractive manner, at a cost of ten thousand dollars. His office is weii fitted up with the best and most modern instruments, and he enjoys a fine practice, being the oldest graduated dentist in the state. The Doctor is well liked among the profession and has been honored with many offices conferretl upon him both in this state and the east. He is a member of the A. F. & A. :M., Elks, Ben Hur and Independent Order of Foresters, and is a very progressive citizen and respected professional man. He was married in Spokane, February 14, 1889, to Elizabeth Reid, a native of Ohio. They have two children, Lucile and Edward H.

ANDREW JACKSON ROSS, deceased, was born in Pennfield, Monroe county. New \ork, May 2, 1836, When a young man he removed to Rochester, where he was engaged as a railroad contractor and in the mercantile business until 1884. On .\pril 16, of that year, he arrived in Spokane and began investing in land in and near the city. In 1886 he purchased four hundred and eighty acres from the railroad company, comprising what is now known as Ross Park addition. This pr(.)perty he laid off into five-acre lots. He at once erected a comfortable home on the corner of Center street and Riverton avenue, planted a fine garden and orchard and succeeded in demonstrating that the gravelly soil, though apjiarently barren, was really very producti\'e when supplied with water. In just one year from tlie date of purchase he was enabled to form a syndicate, which gave him eighty-five thousand dollars for a four-fifths interest in this property. He then, with A. M. Cannon and J. J. Browne, formed the Spokane Street Railway Company, which built the first street railway in the city. Mr. Ross had the entire management of the road, while he retained his interest in it, l)ut he soon sold out to Browne & Cannon. In 1889 he and Jacob Hoover organized the Exchange National Bank, of which l\lv. Ross became vice-president. Mr. Ross took a great deal of pride in this institution, giving it the aid and advice )jy which it was enabled to pass through the panic safely and to become the leading bank in this city. In his later years he became extensively interested in mining property, and his wife is now a stockholder in the W^onderful Group, the Miller Creek and the Josie Mack. She also owns a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres southeast of town, and many pieces of property in this city. During his lifetime Mr. Ross was very active and zealous in developing Spokane and perhaps no one man has done more to advance its interests than he. When it was necessary to subsidize a railway, to construct a bridge, to build a road or improve a street, Mr. Ross could always be depended upon for a liberal subscription. He could also be counted upon for active, persistent personal effort. He helped organize the first fire company of the city and himself became a member. He worked hard to secure a right of way for the Great Northern Railroad, contributing toward that end with a liberal hand. He and Mrs. Ross founded the kindergarten system of this city, which fiir the first four years was sustained solely by private subscription. Under their beneficent influence eight schools were established and sustained until they were finally incorporated into the city school S3^stem. Mr. Ross will also long be remembered by the early settlers as the organizer and first president of

EUGENE J. FELLOWES, collector for the city water department, a pioneer of 1883, is a nati\-e c^f Louisiana, born in New Orleans, March 17, 1847. He grew up in the south and graduated from the University of Louisiana, and studied law. graduating from the Law College of Louisiana in 1867. After practicing lor four years in his native state, he removed to Chicago, Illinois, and practiced his profession for eleven years. He was elected a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1881 on the Democratic ticket. After serving in that capacity for a term of two years he came to Spokane and opened a law office, where lie has since practiced, except when serving in public offices. He was the first city assessor and served as a member of the city council for two years, served as a member of the legislature for two years and as clerk of the municipal court for six years. Mr. Fellowes has always been active in al! public matters, being chairman of the committee to establish the first city fire department, and drafted the bill creating and establishing the insane asylum at Medical Lake. He served as one of the regents in the State -Xgricultural College at Pullman, was adjutant of the Washington Brigade of state militia, is a member of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F.. K. of P.. Elks and Foresters, and a well known and much respected citizen. During the past three years he has served as city water rent collector. He was married in Binghamton, New York, December 15, 1873, to Georgina Kendall, born in Paris, France. They have one child. Kendall, who enlisted in Company A, First Washington \'olunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as sergeant. He was wounded February 6, 1899, at Manila, receiving a rifle ball through the right hip. Mrs. Fellowes was the first librarian of the first circulating library of Spokane. She is at present proof clerk in the United States land office of Spokane. She was one of the founders and is at present treasurer of the Spokane Art League. During the late war she was an active worker in the Spokane Art League.

HON. LEANDER H. PRATHER, superior judge of the .state of Washington for Spokane county, a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Indiana, born in Jennings county October 25, 1843. He grew up on a farm until at tlie age of fourteen years, when his father bought some land and laid out the present town of North \'ernon. His father, Hiram, was a prominent farmer and attorney and represented Jennings county in the legislature during several sessions. The Judge's grandfather, William, was the first settler in Jennings county, locating there about the beginning of this century, and was the first judge of the county court. His father was the man who raised the first regiment of Indiana troops for the war of the Rebellion, serving as lieutenant-colonel, and was wounded in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and had to resign. The Judge attended the .schools of North \'ernon until his eighteenth birthday, when he enlisted as a private in Company I, Sixtieth Indiana Volunteers, and served in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh and One Hundred and Fortieth, being discharged as a second lieutenant and assistant quartermaster on General Cortes' staff, being chief of ambulances of the Third Division of the

Tweiity-tliird Army Corps. He was discharged at Greensboro, North Carolina, July II, 1865. He was in the engagements at JNIumfordsville, Pittsburg Landing (where his father was wounded), ^Nlurfreesboro and \\'ilmington. North Carolina, and many skirmishes. After the war he attended college at Asbury University, now DePauw College, at Greencastle, Indiana, taking a classical course of three years. He then taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Indiana, in May, 1869. The Judge opened an office at Columbus and then removed to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he remained one year, and went to Arkansas, where he practiced until 1879. He was married there Way 6, 1879, to Miss Edna, daughter of Judge M. L. Rice, of Little Rock. They then removed to Abilene, Kansas,, where he practiced until 1882, then went to Leadville, Colorado, remaining there until p-ebruary, 1884, when he came to Spokane and opened a law office, since which time he has enjoyed a very lucrative practice. He has served in the offices of the state board of education for two terms, and his present position, to which he was elected on the fusion ticket in 1896. The Judge has always been a very active and prominent man in building up the city, being a stockholder in many of the pioneer enterprises. He is well liked by Ixith attorneys and people. He is a member and past commander of Sedgwick Post, No. 8, Washington and Alaska G. A. R., and a member of the Pioneer Society. His five children are : Rose Leah, Lee H., Kate Edna, Marv Milton and Rice.

W. S. NORMAN, a.pioneer of 1883, is a native of Cheltenham, England, born January 8. 1 86 1. He was raised in England, and graduated from the Cheltenham Grammar School. His father was the owner of two papers in that town, and W. S. was employed on them, becoming an editor. In 1883 he came to Spokane and bought a farm near the citv. The next year he was purser on the steamer Kootenai, and then did work as a stenographer and typewriter, lieing at that time the only stenographer in the city. In the spring of 1886 he was made private secretary for Paul ]\Iolir and A. M. Cannon, constructors of the Spokane & Palouse Railroad. He then became a member of the firm of A. A. Newberry & Co.. agents for the Northern Pacific land department. This company did a very successful business. About this time Mr. Norman purchased a telephone line from Charles B. Hopkins, and organized the Spokane Telephone Company. This company started with thirty subscribers, and soon branched out to the Cccur d'Alenes and the Big Bend country. In 1890 he sold his interest to the Inland Telephone & Telegraph Company, and served as president of the company until 1897. He became a stockholder in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, then running a small plant, and was made secretary and general manager. In the fall of 1887 he organized a syndicate of the principal stockholders of the Electric Light Company, and formed the Washington Water Power Company, acquiring possession of the various interests, making twenty-eight acres, or two-thirds of the entire water power. This company was officered as follows : F. R. Moore, president : John W. Chapman, vice-president : J. D. Sherwood, treasurer, and W. S. Norman, .secretary and manager. Work was immediately started on the construction of the great dam across the ri\-er. When the big fire occurred, the Edison and Telephiine companies lost their lines, but began reconstructi(^n at once, arc lights being put up OH scantlings the night after the tire. Within six weeks the entire system was in use again, and the business increased so that today the plant has a three-thousand-horse-power capacity, and runs continually. In 1890 the Washington Power Com])any acquired all the property of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, the Spokane Cable and Spokane street railways, and franchises of the City Park Transit Company, anil atlditional franchises, and converted the entire system into an electric plant now covering a total of thirty-two miles. The money for all this work was secured in Brooklyn, and the capital increased to one million five hundred thousand dollars, .\fter successfully manipulating all the deals and making this great combine of forces for improving tlie city, Mr. Norman retired from the management in January, 1897, and has since devoted hunself ti.i ijther pursuits, prominent in which was the organization of the Rossland Water & Light Company. He served as secretary of the Board of Trade for three years, and helped to locate many of the enterprises of the city, taking an active part in everything for building up the place. Mr. Norman is a charter member of the Elks, and is interested in the Spokane Hotel.

RUDOLPH B. SCOTT, a pioneer of Spokane county, came to Spokane Falls from Denver, Colorado, in 1883, and has since resided here. He has been engaged in farming, real estate, mining, fire and life insurance, and was United States inspector of customs for five years in the Puget Sound district. 'Sir. Scott was a delegate from Spokane county to the state convention that organized the state of Washington, held at Walla Walla, in September, 1889, and was a delegate to the state convention held at Seattle to elect delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis.

Mr. Scott is an American of Indian, African and Scotch e.xtraction. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and comes of New England fighting stock. His maternal grandfather was a Pequot Indian chief, who married a Scotch woman, and fought throughout the war of the Revoluti(Mi. His paternal grandfather was a \\'est Indian African of the Toussaint L' Ouverture stock, and the son of a Barbados planter, sent to New Haven, Connecticut, to be educated at Yale College. Mr. Scott was schooled in the Lancasterian School of New Maxell, Connecticut, which institution has furnished Connecticut with four governors. Ilelearned the trade of wood-turner in Chauncy Jerome's clock manufacturing establishment in New Haven. Connecticut. When .\braham Lincoln stumped that state in 1859, Mr. Scott, as a boy, carried a torch for him in the procession at New Haven.

Mr. Scott and a brother fought in the war of the Rebellion. He served in the North Atlantic .squadron on board the United States gunboat Chickopee, and was one of the men that volunteered to go with Lieutenant Cushing when he blew up the Rebel ram .Alljemarle. He was severely wounded at the capture of Plymouth, North Carolina. Since the close of the war he has minefl in Coorado, New Mexico and Washington, and has served in tiie U. S. mail service. He was U. S. mail agent from Danville, Illinois, to Ciiicago at the time of the historic Republican convention held at Chicago in 1880, and while the three hundred and five delegates stood solid for U. S. Grant for president. Scott held back forty thousand copies of the Cincinnati Enqui.rer, which was full of abuse of U. S. Grant, and was intended to flood Chicago and defeat Grant's nomination.

Mr. Scott is one of the prominent Grand Army men of the state. He served on the staff of Commander Cosgrove, department commander G. A. R., \\'ashington and Alaska. He was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Russell A. Alger, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. ; also chief mustering officer of the department of Washington and Alaska. In 1S93 he was a member of the council of administration. In 1804 'ie was a delegate from Washington and Alaska to the t\venty-fi)urth national encampment at Boston. In 1890 he was insi)ector of the department, and in 1895 chief mustering officer. He was elected junior vice-commander of the department of Washington and Alaska, G. A. R., at Seattle at the departnient encampment, June 23, 1889.

He enlisted at Seattle April 25. 1898. as a private in Company B, First Washington Veteran Artillery, and was honorably discharged at Seattle as first lieutenant November i, 1898, by reason of the dose of the war. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason ; also a prominent member of the Independent Order of Foresters, being deputy supreme chief to Oronhyateka, the Mukawk Indian wIk) is the supreme chief of the order. Mr. Scutt represented Spokane in the High Council of the luflependent Order of Foresters in 1897, 1898 and 1899. He was a personal friend of General John A. Logan and of Chief Joseph, the great Indian chief of the Nez Perces Indians, and went to Washington. D. C. in 1897. with Chief Joseph and his chiefs to represent their case before the Indian cimimission and the I'resident, and again in 1900. He has done much to shape the public opinion of the past few years in favor of Chief Joseph. Mr. Scott

]\Irs. Scott was I)oni in Chicago. Her father, H. O. Wagner, was a widely and wellknown character in the anti-slavery days, and a worker in the "underground railroad." He had at his home in Chicago at one time the martyr of Harper's Ferry, John Brown, and twelve of his fugitive slaves, all of whom he assisted to reach the British side in safety. Mr. \\'agner is still living, antl is eighty-four years old. A brother of Mrs. Scott, H. O. Wagner, Jr.. was United States consul at Lyons, France, for five years. Mrs. Scott is quite a prominent figure in the Woman's Relief Corps, and is iiow the patriotic instructor for the department of Washington and Alaska, installed on June 22. 1899. Mrs. Scott is also prominent in the Independent Order of Foresters, being the first vice chief ranger in the first companion court organized in the state of Washington, and is now court deputy to the supreme cliief ranger.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott have three bright children - Rudolph B., the third boy born in Spokane county outside the Indians: Henry W. and .\d(lie S.

J. H. SHORT, of the firm of Short & Son, livervmen, 112 Bernard street, is a native of Delaware, born November 5, 1828. When he was four years old the family removed to Delaware county, Ohio, and when he was fourteen tliey went to Andrew county, Missouri. In 185 1 thev crossed the jjlains in ox teams, being si.x months on the road, and located in Marion

CDunty, Oregon. He tlien went to California, locating at Crescent City, where he built the first hotel. Later he returned to Oregon and took part in the Indian wars, and served as county treasurer of Josephine county for six years. In 1864 he settled in Walla Walla and engaged in the butcher and livery business. He came to Spokane in 1887, and has since been engaged in the livery and auction business. He served under General Joe Lane in Oregon in 1853, and in 1855-56 was under General Lamrick at Grave Creek and the Big Bend of the Rogue river. He was in many skirmishes, and had se\era! narrow escapes. He once went eighty miles on foot from Gra\'e Creek to Jacksonville to carry an important package, making the trip from 2 o'clock in the afternoon of Sat- .urdav to da\-break of Sunday, the Indians being: numerous along the entire route. Mr. Sin irt was' married in Kirbyville. Oregon, in 1858, to Lottie Kirby, of the family for whom the town was named. They have six children - Edward, Joe. Eugene, Fred, Nancv E. and Birt.

H. PREUSSE, the oldest architect in tlie profession in Spokane, is a native of Gcrmanv, born in 1847. son of Carl N'iclor and X'ictoria Preusse. His father died when he was three 3'ears old. and his mother suljsequently married ^L". Wilhelm Alehl, a leading architect, so that Mr. Pruesse had an excellent opportunitv to begin young the study of his profession. At the age of thirteen he went to Halle, and in the famous institutions of that city studied for three }-ears. then returned home and spent alinut three years in his stepfather's office, after which he attended the noted college of architecture at Hijlzminden. From that institution he was sent by the faculty to superintend the construction of the large Bessemer steel works in Osnabruck. He completed that work, then came to America, arriving in New York in June. 1870. He at once came to Chicago, where he found employment in the North Chicago Rolling Mills, but shortly after the great fire Mr. Preusse was compelled to leave that city on account of ill health. He visited the various western states and territories, finally locating in San r>ernardino, California, where for some time he had a thriving business. He afterward lived in San Francisco a while, then moved to Sterling. Kansas, and from there to Kansas City, Missouri. In 1882 Mr. Preusse came to S])okane and commenced the practice of his profession, and many of the imposing buildings destroyed by the fire of 1889 were designed by him and erected under his supervision. Since the lue he has made plans and specifications for a large number of the finest blocks, residences and other buildings in this city and in eastern Washington. In 1893 '^^ took in J. A. Zittel as a partner, and they now employ one assistant. Mr. Preusse has devoted the efforts of liis lifetime to the study and practice of his chosen profession, and as a naturel result of such concentration he is in the front rank among the architects of this state. Socially, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. He is a public-spirited citizen, and takes a lively interest in every enterprise for the promotion of the general welfare, but is especially interested in educational matters. Mr. Preusse is a lover of agriculture and horticulture, has owned three farms of one hundred and sixty acres each, and has taken great pride in having them higlily improved. \\'liile in Sterling. Kansas, he married Miss Rosa Cole, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Spokane. leaving four children, namely : Olga May and Florence Augusta, now attending an eastern university : Carl \'ictor and Arnold Bismark. ]\Ir. Preusse believes in educating his children \vell. and expects to give them each a good educational training.

C. W. CARSON, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Frankfort-on-tlie-]\Iain X'ovember 24, 1848. His mother died when he was three years ok! and at the age of nine he came tn the United States with a friend, and grew up in New York City, where he learned the trade of a miller, and worked at the business until 1873. In 1874 he went to Portland. Oregon, and started a Iiakery, which was not a successful \-enture. and he went to milling, later working at Salem, and finally at Ainsworth. Washington. Pie came to Spokane in 1877 and looked o\'er the jilace. but did nut like the appearance and returned to Ainsworth. In 1880 he returned to Spokane, and engaged in the restatirant business, opening the first on Main street, between Howard and Stevens, where the old Wilson stables are located. After eighteen niiinths he sold out and located another restaurant on Front and Howard, where he remainetl imtil the fire of January 16, 1883. when he lost all his stock. He opened in his own building, which he had purchased before the fire, and had dinner ready for the next day. .\s he owned only the btiilding and had a lot just east of where the city hall now stands, he removed the house from the corner of Howard and Front and kept business going during the remi)\-al. He soon sold out. Ijut followed the restaurant business for many years, accumulating a great deal of property. In 1884 he went to Rathdrum and opened a restaurant, clearing three thouand five hundred dollars in twenty-five days. In i88t lie had a restaurant and lodging house where the Hyde block now is, and during the period from 1884 to 1889 he made an average of one hundred dollars per day in the restaurant business. He has always been liberal with his money in contributing to all the earlv enterprises for building up the city. Mr. Carson was married in Spokane October 14, 1884. to Alice Balhem. She died here March 10. 1889, ka\-ing two children - Hazel B. and Roy E.

J. C. MYRTLE, a pioneer of 1880. is a nati\-e of Missouri, born April 15. 1850. The family crossed the jjlains when he was an infant, and Icjcated at Eugene Cit}'. Oregon, where he grew up and learned the trade of a blacksmith from his father. He went to California in 1869, then to Nevada, where he followed his trade ; then went into the Black Hills with two hundred trappers and prospectors. He purchased a mine in Deadwood, and made a success in operating it, after which he went to California, and latter came to W^alla \\'alla with a drove of horses. In 1880 he arrived in Spokane, and in company with J. W. Arthur, put in a ferry where Trent is now located. They operated this in connection with a store and boarding house for about tw(j years. He was married March 8. 1883. to Maude, daughter of Calloway and Elizabeth Hodges, born in Monterey county, California, May 27, 1861. He then took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he built a residence and made his home for se\-en years, after which he came to the city and has since lieen engaged in handling real estate and jjrospecting. Mrs. Myrtle's father was from \'irginia, and her mother from Missouri, and were among the earlv Oregon settlers, the father locating in 1847 ^"^^1 the mother in 1S45. They came to this county in 1879 and toi>l< up one hundred and sixty acres where Trent now is, and lived there until 1893. when they removed to Oregon. Mrs. ^Mvrtle is a horseback rider and has forded the river many times below the Trent ferrv, where two men ha\-e l)een drowned in trying to cross.

A. C. EDWARDS, broker, rooms 233-4 Hvde block, is a native of Wisconsin, born at Beaver Dam, Dodge county, Jime 10, 1851. At the age of twelve years he left home and learned the trade of a printer, at which trade he workeil in different parts of the country till he was twenty. He then served on the editorial force of the Daily \\'orld at Helena, Arkansas, where he was married January 29. 1872. shortly after which he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he accepted the position of general foreman of the Southern Baptist Publication Society, a very extensive printing and publishing house.

After remaining with this establishment for several years he moved to Kearney, Nebraska, where he established the Gazette, a Democratic paper, which he conducted for about two years, in the meantime establishing other papers in connection therewith in different parts of the county. He later founded a temperance paper called The True Citizen, which had a great influence in the temperance cause.

In 1879 he went to Colorado and engaged in mining, and later was with "Brick" Pomeroy in the publication of the Great West. He came to this city in 1884, and estaljlished the Belknap & Eagle City Transfer Company, doing business between Belknap, a small station on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the Cceur d'Alene mines. After about six months he

He was connected with the Daily Review for two years, tlien engaged in real estate and made a fortune, whicii was lost in the jKuiic of 1893. In 1895 he was appointed United States commissioner for Alaska, and resigned in August, 1897. In coming home he and his wife were on the wrecked steamer Mexico, and spent twenty hours in a life-boat witliout food or water, when they finally drifted to an island and remained three days with the Indians at the station of Metlahkatlah. They lost everything they owned. On his return to Spokane he went into mining and has been successful.

He is one of the trustees of tiie Pioneer Society, and a prominent member of tlie I. O. O. v.. being largely instrumental in establisliing Samaritan Lodge. No. 52, of tliat order in Spokane, which lodge lias grown to 1)e the largest and wealthiest in the state. He was its first noble grand, and has been twice elected as representative to the Grand Lodge of Wash-

SYL\'ESTER HEATH, dealer in real estate, office 5-6 Heath Ijlock, is a native of Indiana, born in Indianapolis March 20, 1847. He was raised in Indiana on a farm, but subsequently removed to the city, where lie graduated from the Indianapolis high school, and spent several years as bookkeeper. In April, 1878, he came to Walla Walla, and the following year. January. 1879, he located in Spokane, and was engaged as clerk in Cannon & Warner's store, also as assistant postmaster. About 1 881 he was appointed postmaster, and served in that capacity for se\en years. In 1880 he took up three hundred and twenty acres of land and laid out what was known as the Heath's addi- tions. whicli were platted and sold as town lots. He built a fine residence on Mission avenue, costing ten thousand dollars, and erected several other buildings, including the Heath block, corner Monroe and Riverside. In connection with the postoffice he kept a book and stationery store, which was burned out during the big fire of 1889. then succeeded by the John \\". Graham Company, book and pajjer dealers. 3ilr. Heath contributed liberally to all the early enterprises, and has always been one of the foremost men of the city. His time is now occupied in handling his own property, which extends over a large area and includes valuable possessions. Mr. Heath was married in Spokane June II. 1882, to Ida E., daughter of Asbury and .\da Ellis, born in Brownsville, Oregon, June 4. 1863. Her family came here from Oregon in 1879, and her father owned the Unif)n Park addition. He died in 1896. Her mother is still living- (in Mnran prairie.

MILTON S. BEXTLEY, of the firm of Prescott Bros., real estate, rental and insurance agents, 316-17 Hyde block, is a native of Missouri, born in Putnam county, August 6, 1862. The family, consisting of father, mother and si.x sons, crossed the plains with horse teams, starting May i, 1882, and arriving in Deep Creek August 12. They bought one hundred and sixty acres in what was then Spokane, now Lincoln county. Father was a Baptist minister, and died there. Mr. Bentley came to Spokane .April I, 1883. and began work as a bricklayer. In 1890 he succeeded Henry Brook as contractor and builder, and built the Hotel Spokane, Blalock and Fernwell and other blocks, and in company with J. N. \'an Dorn I)uilt the V^an Dorn and Bentley block, a three-story brick, on

Riverside, in 1888. He also built the Orient block, on Front street, which he now owns, and many of the city residences, and was quite a successful builder. In 1891 he bought and platted Bentley's addition, an<l in iSi;4 he engaged in the mining business and handling real estate. ]\Ir. Bentley's father was chaplain during the Civil war, and the G. A. R. post at Crescent Park, Lincoln county, was named in his honor. He is a member of Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M.

ALBERT P. WOLVERTON, dealer in real estate and mining properties, 304 Fernwell block, was born in Polk county, Oregon, September 17, 1855. He was raised there on a farm, and f(jllowed that occupation until he was twenty-four years old, when he took a college course and graduated from the scientific department of the Monmouth College. In 1880 he came to Spokane and looked over the situation, then purchased a fifty-si.x-foot lot, where the Holland block now stands, for three hundred and fifty dollars. February 22, 1882, he and his brother, William 1\I., put in a stock of hardware in a two-story brick block, 30x60 feet, where the Wolverton block now stands. This was the first brick block jiut up in this city. After two years A. P. sold to his Iirother. and two years later purchased the property and organized the Spokane Hardware Company, of which he was manager for two years, when he sold out because of ill health. In IMarch, 1884, he and M. Conlan bijught one hundred and fifty-five acres and platted Wolverton & Conlan's addition. Mr. Wolverton put up the Temple Court block in 1889, also the Grand Central Hotel, and several residences. He was one of the original stockholders of the Ross Park

Street Railway, and assisted in every way possible in the building up of the city. He is a member of Imperial Lodge. No. 134. and Unique Encampment. No. ^2. I. O. O. F. During the campaign of 1896 he served as chairman of the Silver Republican party. He was married in Albany. Oregon, March 14. 1888. to Lula. daughter of Lewis and Amelia Miller, b(jrn in New York state. They have had three children - \'an Albert and }»Iargaret, living, and A'ernice, deceased.

FRANK C. LAMGNE. of the firm of F. La\"igne & Cn., real estate, insurance, and mine promoters. \'an X'alkenburg block, is a native of Tennessee, l)orn in ^Memphis. November 29. 1866. His father was a merchant, and Frank C. attended Christian Brothers College, from which he graduated, and engaged as a grocer's clerk. He then engaged for several years in manufacturing grocers' sup])lies. On September 18. 1884. he came to Spokane and engaged in the sawmill business in company with M. ^r. Swingler. At the end of two years he sokl out and returned to Memphis, but after two years came I)ack and engaged in the real estate business, Ijeing also a member of the Spokane Grocery Com[)any. organized in 1896. and he was made secretary and treasurer. This was consolidated in 1898 with the Lindsay- Lavigne Company, and did an excellent business until 1899. when they sold out. Mr. Lavigne then returned ti> the real estate inisiness and opened an office with his father. F. Lavigne. They are doing a fine business. Mr. LaA'igne has a fine residence cjn Spirit Lake and one and one-half miles water front, where he is making a pleasure resort. He is a stockholder in several mining companies, a member of the Elks. Foresters of America and Red Men.

He was married in Spokane February 27, 1890, to Mildred M.. daughter of M. M. and Fannie M. Swingler, born in Corinne, Utah. They have two sons - Anthony F. and Edwin T.

R.\LPH L. CLARKE, a mining man, is a native of Oregon City, Oregon, born Septem- Ijcr 4. 1864. He is a step-son of A. M. Cannon, and for several years was bookkeeper for his step- father in his sawmill, bank and various other enterprises. At the time of the panic and consequent failure of the l)ank, Mr. Clarke was assistant cashier. Since that time he has been engaged in mining exclusively. He is secretary of the Washington Mining Company, and is interested in various other mining enterprises. He was married in Portland, Oregon, June 15, 1887, to Jennie G., daughter of George .\. and M. W. Sheppard, and they are parents of two children - George S. and Dorothy.

JOHN SENGFELDER, of the Spokane Bakery & Confectionery Company, 1 1 Howard street, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Wilkes Barre December 14, 1859. He learned the trade of a candy maker and confectioner in Philadelphia, and when eighteen years old removed to Colorado. In 1884 he went into the Cceur d'.Mene country and paid fifty dollars per barrel for flour, and sold bread at fifty cents a loaf. He opened a shop in Spokane in 1886, and has been successfully engaged in the business ever since. In June, 1896, the Spokane Bakery & Confectionery Company was organ-, ized. and he was made general manager and treasurer. The firm manufactures all kinds of candies, bakers' and confectioners' articles, and does a good business, einploying twenty assistants. Mr. Sengfelder was quite extensively in- terested in real estate before the panic. In 1889 he and J. D. Maxwell built the Windsor block and considerable other property, worth at that time fully ten thousand dollars. He is a member of the F. & A. M. I. O. O. F., and the Elks, and treasurer of the Pioneer Society. He was married in Spokane July 1 1. 1888, to Elizabeth Stevens. They ha\-e two children - \'era S. and Helen A.

E. J. WEBSTER, a pioneer of 1882, is a nati\'e of Hudson, Micliigan. born October 2, 1847. He was raised in Michigan, and at the age of sixteen years enlisted in Capt. Van Valler's company, afterward a portion of the Fourth Michigan Infantry, .\mong the engagements in which he served were the battles of the \\'ilderness, Spottsylvania, Bethesda Church. North Anna River and Cold Harbor, where he was shot through both legs and kept in the hospital o\-er a year, and had to walk on crutches foin- and one-half years after. When he returned to Michigan he took a high school course, and completefl bookkeeping in Detroit, then studistl law in an office one year and entered .Ann Arbor University, from which he graduated in 1870. He served as Hon. Thomas M. Cooley's private secretary two years. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court, and opened an office in Hudson, but in less than one year his office was burned. He served as deputy United States marshal and census enumerator in 1870, then went to California, where he was deputy county clerk of Oakland. After making a trip through Mexico, South and Central .\merica, he returned to Oakland and practiced law until 1882. He then came to Spokane and practiced law several years, but later branched out into real estate. In 1892 he was assessed at six hundred thousand dollars, owning five additions and three thousand lots, besides (5ne thousand seven hundred acres of land near the city, .-\mong the buildings he put up were the Genesee and Riverside blocks, and he purchased the Tidljall. He owned and had leased thirteen store buildings, which were burned 1 luring the l.)ig fire. In 1888 he formed the Fairmount Cemetery Ass(jciation, of which he is president. Mr. Webster has served six years as a member of the school board, being president for four years, and labored hard for the erection of several of the fine, large school buildings. He donated over four miles of a right of way through his own lands for railroads, and contributed freely of his means. He assisted in liicating the army post and building the early bridges, and for several years maintained Minnehaha Park without expense to the city. ]\Ir. Webstej- is now operating in mining with a fair degree of success. Air. Webster has never worried, with all nf his losses. He still has unbounded faith in the future of Spokane and surrounding country.

L. B. WHITTEX, a pioneer of 1880, was 1)1 irn in .Alleghany county, Virginia, November 15, 1850. He was raised in Virginia, and learned the trade of a carpenter, which he followed until 1885. On January 3, 1880, he arri\'ed in Sp<'kane. and bought a lot on Front street, where he erected a shop and worked for several years. In 1881 he bought a lot and erected a frame drug store at 19 Howard, which was burned in 188S. In the spring of 1889 he rebuilt this into a three-story brick, which was ])urned in the big fire, but rebuilt immediately, and which he still owns. He built the fine five-story Whitten block on the corner of Sprague and Post streets in 1890, and the following year put up his nice brick residence, on the corner of Sixth and IMadison. In 1893 he built the two-story brick, 616 Front street, wliich he now owns, also the two-story brick store and office building at 222 Mill street, erected in 1899. Mr. Whitten is also much interested in farming, having one place of three hundred and fifty acres, three five-acre tracts in the city and about twenty lots in different parts of the city. He is at present engaged solely in looking after his personal interests and is kept bus}-. Mr. Whitten was married in Spokane November 5, 1888, to Georgia J. Ballon, a native of Ohio. They have four children - Paul B., Lester C. and V^irginia, living, and Elljie. deceased. Mrs. Whitten was at the time of her marriage a practicing physician in S])okane, having graduated from the Woman's jNIedical College of Philadelidiia, and has just finished a post-graduate course in the same institution, with the intention of again entering the profession.

SA^IUEL GLASGOW, secretary and treasurer of the Centennial Mill Company, is a native of LaPorte, Indiana, and came here in .\pril. 1882. He served as a clerk for three years, then was a bookkeeper for Clark & Curtis' flouring mills fur four years. In 1889. when the Centennial I\lill Companv was organized, he became secretary and treasurer. The company has a mill in Seattle and does a very large tratle with the Orient. The Spokane mill has a capacity of se\en hundred barrels per dav, besides the manufacture of rolled oats, cracked wheat and other cereal products. The output of the two mills runs alxnit two thousand seven hundred barrels per da}-, which is shippeil to the markets of the Oriental isles. Mr. Glasgow is a member of the board of directors of the Washington Cracker Company. He is a prominent man in the fraternal societies, a Shriner Mason, and assisted in the organization of the Imperial degree, I. O. O. F. He owns a fine farm of three hundred and forty acres west of the city, and raises grain.

H. W. GREENBERG, of the Wright- Greenberg Company, printers, publishers and bookbinders, is a native of Minnesota, born at Hastings, October 23, 1858. He was raised there, and learned the trade of a printer. When he was eight years old his i)arents removed to Glencoe, wliere lie was afterward one of the proprietors of the Register. In 1883 he came to Spokane, where he was engaged on the Chronicle, and soon Ijecame foreman of the printing department. He left the Chronicle about 1886 and was engaged on the Review, having charge of the mechanical department and owning part of the plant. In 1888 he sold out, and, in company with H. T. Brown, opened a printing office. He bought Brown's interest and founded the Review job printing office, wliich was burned twice, and he lost about forty thousand dollars. After getting a start again, he organized, in November, 1897, the Pigott- French-Greenberg Company. In 1899 George H. Wright bought the others of the company, and they are now equal partners, and are doing an extensive business. They run a linotype, job printing, blank books, publishing and bookbinding business. Mr. Greenberg served as city councilman in 1891-92, and as a member of the state legislature in 1893-94, being elected on the Repul)lican ticket. He is a i)rominent fraternal man. being a member of the F.

& A. M., K. of P., Elks, Foresters and Woodmen of America. He was married in Hutchinson, Minnesota, June 28. 1885, to Miss Elizabeth C. Pendergast, a native of that place. They have two daughters - Abbie E. and Edith L.

JOHN B. PARKER, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Ohio, born at Crestline, February 16, 1852. He was raised in Ohio and learned the trade of a barber. When eighteen years old he started west, and has worked in many of the best mining camps, where he followed his trade .and invested in mining properties. He kept a prospector in the field steadily for several years, and has made a fair stake at the business several times. In 1883 he came to Spokane and opened a shop, and has been engaged in this city ever since. He is at present located in the Howard block, with Richard Turner, and has his share (jf the patronage. Mr. Parker was married in Corinne, Utah, in iSjj, to Delia Reyno. They have five children - Charles S., Candace M., Byron, Harry and Douglas.

D. K. OLIVER, a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Franklin county, August 30. 1845. W'hen seventeen years old he enlisted in Company E, Twenty-first Pennsylvania Cavalry, and ser\-ed until the close of the war, being in eleven different engagements in the Army of the Potomac. At the close of the war he came west, and in 1866 drove six yoke of o.xen, with a prairie schooner loaded with eight tliDusand pounds nf Ii.-icun. frnm Kansas City, Missouri, to Santa I'e. .\'ew Mexico. He worked in California, Xe\ada and Oregon, and in No\-ember, 1878, came to Spokane by river and wagon. He folknved the carpenter's trade for several years, and has put in different summers in prospecting, having an interest in numerous mining claims. He has a nice home on the corner of Fourth and Washington. In 1892 he built the Oliver block, 2,7,2- 334 Ri\-erside, a two-story brick, with a society hall on the second Hoor. He is a memlier of the G. A. R., Reno Post, No. 47, and Royal Arcanum, Spokane Council, No. 1371. In 1896-7 he served as a member of the city council. Mr. Oliver was married in Dallas, Oregon, on Christmas day, 1873, to Miss Amanda Ham, a native of Oregon, and they have one son, Charles W.

HON. HORATIO N. BELT, ex-mayor of Spokane, is a native of Illinois, born in Jersey county October i, 1841. The Belt family are all descendants of two brothers who came from England after the Revolutionary war and settled in Maryland. It is an old and prominent family ; the father of H. N. served in the war of 1812 under General Jackson and died on the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans in 1869. Our suljject was raised on a farm and taught school for fi\'e years. He then engaged in the fiour mill business and general merchandsing in Jersey county, Illinois, until 1882, when he moved to Bunker Hill, Illinois, where he was also in the Ijanking business, the firm being Belt Brothers & Company. In 1887 he came to Spokane and was largely interested in real estate, purchasing an interest in the Ross Park addition and building a home there. He was one of the promi_)ters of the Ross Park Street Railway Company, the first successful electric line west of the Missouri river. In 1 89 1 he served as a member of the city council and in 1894 was elected mayor on the People's party ticket. He was re-elected in 1895, when the term of office was lengthened to two years. Mr. Belt served during the hardest times in this city, when the panic, Coxey's army, the American Railway Union strike and everything conspired against peace and prosperity. His popularity among the working j^eople saved many riots and prevented hloodshed. In 1896 he was prominently mentioned for governor at the Ellensburg convention, and would have been almost the unanimous choice of the delegates had not the question of location defeated him. Spokane then had the congressman and attorney-general, and the party could not place him on the ticket. He is very popular with the Silver Republicans and tiiose making the fusion part}- of the state. Mr. Belt was married in Jersey county, Illinois, December 15, 1868, to ]\Iartha J. Tipton. They have three children: Cora L., wife of L. S. Roberts; William L., an e.\[)ert accountant, and Horatio C, bookkeeper for the Spok.me Abstract Company. He is a ])rominent man in the Masonic fraternitv.

Richard Ashton Hutchinson

RICHARD ASHTON HUTCHINSON, a pioneer of 1879, farmer, miner and dealer in real estate, 514 South Arthur street, is a native of [Mississippi, born at Grand Gulf February 14. 1S53. His father was a cousin of Andrew Jackson, a veteran of the Me.xican war and a strong anti-slavery man. He came north to assist John Brown and located in Kansas, tlien resided in Colorado and again in Kansas. In 1863 Richard, then ten years old, made his start in the world by being elected as page in the territorial house the last time the legislature ir.et in Golden City. After the legislature adjourned George Lane appointed him a messenger in the Denver mint, which position he resigned to accept a place with W. H. Loveland. He later went to Topeka, Kansas, and spent a year in school there. Leaving school, he proceeded to his father's place on the plains at Hays City. Llere he entered the office of the Hays City Advance, a lively sheet. The editor being compelled to leave town in a hurry the iiaper suspended. Mr. Hutchinson then entered the service of the United States government against the Cheyenne Indians and spent over four vears in that service and in huntina: buffalo and driving Texas cattle. In 1872 the family located in Seattle, wiiere Richard A. was interested in mining. On May 20, 1879, he arrived in Spokane, accompanied by his brother. William H., and on June 3d he and his brother located homesteads near Mondovi, Lincoln county, ujion which they lived for seventeen years. When Spokane county was cut off from Stevens county he and Colonel L. B. Nash, of Spokane, and C. S. Toby, of Spangle, met at Marshall's mill (now Marshall Junction) and organized the Democratic party by appointing a central committee, of which Hon. J. J. Browne was elected chairman and Mr. Hutchinson secretary. Mr. Hutchinson assisted in founding the town of Cheney. He was elected the first county assessor of Spokane county, running six hundred and eleven votes ahead of his ticket, but before his term of office expired Lincoln county was created from a portion of Spokane and his residence fell in Lincoln county, so he resigned the assessor's office in preference to leaving his homestead. He was then appointed the first assessor of Lincoln county. In 1884 he was elected sheriff by a large majority, but on account of a hot county-seat fight he was illegally counted out. In 1886 he was appointed by the general government to take charge of the mills and general stores at Nespilum and manage Chief Joseph and his band of

Nez Perces, then prisoners of war. He made an efficient official, remaining there until July I, 1889. In 1886 he, with others, grttb staked the prospectors that discovered and located the first quartz mines in Okanogan county and he has since been interested in mining. He had charge of the 1890 census in Lincoln county, and was elected that year a member of the house in the state legislature, running six hundred ahead of his ticket. While a member of the legislature he took an active part in working for the reduction of freight rates, he being a member of the railroad committee. In 1892 he was elected to the state senate, running one thousand ahead of his ticket and wiiniing the distinction of being the only member of the preceding house promted to the senate. He held the office until 1896, when he moved to Spokane. He is now engaged as a mining and real estate broker. Mr. Hutchinson has a wife and five children : Bessie, Ida, Marita, Rachel and Richard A., Jr. They are members of the Episcopal church. Mr. Hutchinson is a member of the K. P. .being first past chancellor of the oldest lodge in the state. He is also a meml)er of the A. O. U. \V. and W. of W.

JOHN A. LONG, harnessmaker, 118 Stevens, between Riverside and Main, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Union county April 5, 1839. When he was twelve years old the family removed to Brookville, where he learned tlie trade of harnessmaker. He enlisted at Freeport Septmber 15, 1861, in Company H, Fifteenth Illinois Infantry, under Captain M.D. Swift. He served three years and nine months in the Army of Teimessee and rose to the rank of captain. He was also in the Seventeenth Army Corps under General Tohn A. Logan, and took an active part in many engagements, including Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, Shiloh, Corinth, Memphis, Black River, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Jackson, Mississippi, and many skirmishes. After the war he located in Boone. Iowa, where he had a harness shop for two years, then resided in various places. In March, 1884, he came to Spokane and opened a shop and now has a nice business, in which he has been successful. He was elected a member of the city council on the Republican ticket in 1894 and served three years. Mr. Long is a member of the F. & A. M. and I. O. O. F. He was married in Freeport, Illinois. July 4, 1870, to Ellen J. Hoffhine. They have four children: Bernice M., Roy H., Ivy V. and Helen M.

WTLLIAM D. PARKS, a pioneer of 1878. is a native of New York, born in Malone, Franklin county, October 3, 1838. He was raised on a farm and when he was sixteen years old the family removed to Wisconsin, where he was engaged in farming and lumber manufacturir.g for eight years. He was married there in the town of Waukau April 15, 1S60, to Miss Emma Bertrand, a native of New York. They removed to St. Charles. Minnesota, in 1861, and on February 16, 1863. he enlisted in Company D, Seventh Minnesota Infantry, and served as a private nearly two years, being in the engagements at Holly Springs, Mississippi, where they chased Forrest and Price and broke up the guerrilla bands: Big Blue, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Mobile, Alabama, and other skirmishes. At the time of his discharge he was acting as second lieutenant. They moved to Dakota, where they spent eight years, then came to Spokane, reaching here November i, 1878. In 1879 he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land on the hill south of town, where Arlington Heights is now located. He still owns thirty acres. He engaged, with others, and built the Eagle blockon Riverside. Mr. Parks has built several of the best residences in the city and made some of the greatest improvements. The family are active workers in the Methodist Episcopal church and he helped to build the first Methodist church in this citv.

EZRA D. RINEAR, a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Michigan, born in Cass county March .28, 1854. He was raised there on a farm. In 1877 he started west and located in California, then in Oregon, and in April, 1878. arrived in Spokane. He took up one hundred and sixty acres of land and purchased a second quarter-section fifteen miles southeast of town and resided there until the fall of 1894, when he was elected sheriff of the county on the People's party ticket and served for two years. Mr. Rinear is heavily interested in mining properties in Washington. Idaho and British Columbia. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. and Woodmen of the World. He was married in Cass county, Michigan, October 19, 1S72, to Minerva Tompkins, a native of Ohio. They have three children : Clarence E., Charles B. and Nora B.

JAMES E. DANIELS, collector of customs at Northport, Washington, is a native of Maryville, Dodge county, W isconsin. born January 29, 1859. He was raised in Wisconsin and followed various occupations in that state until 1886, when he came to Cheney.

this county. In 1887, he moved to Spokane, where he was employed by Henry Brook as an office man and in a warehouse and later as foreman of the building department. In

1893. went to Springdale to become superintendent of the Washington Brick, Lime & Manufacturing Company and had charge of their business for two years. Since November I, 1897. he has held his present position as collector of United States customs at Northport. During the years 1887, ^888 and 1889 he was a member of the Sj^kane volunteer lire dejiartment. Mr. Daniels is a man of unstained reputation and one who enjoys the confidence and goodwill of his fellow citizens where\er he lias li\ed. He was married in Spokane. June 3. 1890, to Miss Mary E.. daughter of Henry and Kezia Brook.

GEORGE H. LEONARD, justice of the peace and attorney-at-law, is a pioneer of 1886. He is a nati\c of the town of Stafford, in Genesee county. New ^'ork, born June 19, 1852. When he was fourteen years old his familv moved to Washington, D. C, where he attended the Columbia University, spending some years in scientific study, but graduating from the law department in 1872. After completing his education he went to Chicago, opened an office and practiced until 1885, the firm name being Ewing & Leonard. From that time till 1886 he was alone in his practice of law. During those years he lived in Hyde Park, a suburb of Chicago, being inayor of his town from 1880 to 1882 inclusive, and serving also for some years as president of its board of educa- tion. In 1886 he came to Spokane and opened a real estate office with H. Bolster. He remained in that business until 1892, when he again entered upon the practice of law. In 189 1 Mr. Leonard was a member of the commission appointed to frame a charter for this city, and in 1899 he received from the county commissioners an appointment to the office of justice of the peace. Politically Justice Leonard is an ardent Republican. He is also interested in religious work, being an active member of the First Presbyterian church of this city. He was married in Hyde Park September 14, 1.876, to Miss Laura Butlin, a native 01 Milwaukee, daughter of Thomas and Minerva Butlin. They have four children : Thomas B., born in July. 1877; Charlotte, born in September, 1879; Helen, born in June, 1881, and George, born in July, 1883.

C. J. KORDS, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Lnva, born in Guttenberg August 18, 1854. After spending the first twelve years of his life in the town of his nativity, he moved to Ouincy, Illinois, where he remained till 1869. Fie then came west to Douglas county, Nevada, where for several years he was engaged in teaming. In 1880 he visited this city and in 1881 permanently located here. He at once resumed his former occupation and is at the present time employed in trucking for the large mercantile houses of this city. Mr. Kords is a member in good standing of the Masonic fraternity. He was married at Spokane August 20, 1 89 1, to Miss J. C. Lauer, a native of Burlington, Iowa. They have two children : Roland C, born June 30, 1892, and Gladys M., born March 12, 1894.

J. W. BINKLEY, of the law firm of Binkley & Taylor, 7 and 8 Van Valkenlnirg block, is a pioneer of 1883. He was born in Ontario, Canada, July 10, 1856, and grew to man's estate in his native province, receiving his education there and studying law at Osgoode Hall. He was admitted to the bar of this state at Tacoma in May. 1883. and came directly to Spokane. The present partnership was at once formed antl he has Ijeen practicing in company with Mr. Taylor ever since. Mr. Binkley was, however, probate judge in 1885 ^'t^' 1886, and he discharged the duties of that office with great ability and to the entire satisfaction of his constituency. In 1886 the firm organized the Northwestern Pacific Mortgage Company, which was subsequently merged into the Hypotheek Bank, an institution which has exerted a powerful influence in the commercial life of the city and county also. Messrs. Binkley & Taylor managed the business of this company from the time of its organization until 1896. Mr. Binkley is not only a leading and very successful member of the bar of Spiikane, Imt he is an eminently public-spirited citizen, and one whose influence has been very sensibly felt in the de\-elopment of the city. Notwithstanding his large and exacting law practice, he found lime t(i I)ear an and enthusiastic part in organizing and carrying to a successful issue the first and second Spokane Industrial E.xpositions, over both of which he was president. He was also active in estalilisliing the \\^riglit army post at Spokane, and he has recently completed the construction of the elegant Montvale block, a fine three-story brick on the corner of First avenue and Monroe street. Indeed, he has always been alive to the interests of the city and ever willing to contiibute his share towards any enterprise of public benefit. Socially he is aftiliated prominently with the I. O. O. F. Mr. Binkley has been twice married; by his first marriage he had one daughter.

A. H. MYERS, chief of the Spokane fire department and a pioneer of 1883, was born at Oakland, California, .\pril 30, 1849. He learned the ])lumber"s trade and worked as a journeyman till about 1870, when he opened a shop of his own. in which he did business for five years. In 1875 lie was appointed to remodel the Xapa Insane .\sylum and later was given full charge of the plumbing department of that institution. He afterwards moved to Portland, Oregon, and then to Walla Walla. Washington. In each of these cities he fitted up the plumbing in some <if the largest and finest buildings. In 1883 he came to Spokane and was employed for the next five years in the mechanical department of the firm of J. H. Boyd & Company, lie then bought out their plumbing department and organized the Falls City Plumbing & Heating Company, of which he was manager imtil the bi^ fire burned them out. They reopened, however, but soon Mr. Myers sold iiis interest and again opened a shop alone. He was engaged in this shop until, in November. 1896. he was appointed chief of the fire department of this city.

As an officer, Chief jMyers has lieen eminently satisfactory to all. He has made many improvements in the tlepartment. adding greatly to its efficiency, so that it is now con- .sidered one of the finest in the west. As regards quick work and life-saving appliances, it is ranked next to the Kansas City fire department. In Ocober, 1899, Mr. JMyers read

Mr. Myers is a charter member of the Elks, and belongs also to the Ancient Order of Foresters. He has been a liberal suljscriber to all early enterprises and a generous supporter of everything having a tendency to develop the city.

FERDINAND H.\ASE.a pioneer of 1883, was l)orn in Braunschweig. Germany, January 10. 1848. He grew to manhood in his native town, learned ca1)inetmaking and followed the trade until 1875. when he came over to the United States, finally locating in Minnesota. He tried farming for four years, then moved to Minneapolis and worked at his trade for four years more. On July i. 1883. he arrived in Spokane with just five cents in his pocket. However, lie secured employment at once in the I^rst .National Bank Ijuilding, which was then in course of construction. Soon afterwards he opened a sJioi) as a contractor and builder and was foreman in the erection of the Hyde block, the Van X'alkenburg, and many other large buildings. Since 1887 he lias been engaged in the lii|uor l)usiness, being now located at 927 Second avenue. Like many others, he was burned out in the great fire of 1889. losing consideral)le. Mr. Haase was for years a member of the Hook and Ladder Company, and for a long time president of the Concordia Singing Societ}', to which hie still belongs. He also helped start the Turnverein and was its first president. Indeed, he has always shown liimself a public-spirited man. cimtrilniting liberally of his means to all the early enterprises which had any tendency to benefit or build up the city.

He was married at Braunschweig, Germany, April 19, 1874, to Johanna Luettich. Thev have six children, Elizabeth, Alljert, Emma. William, Oscar and Ferdinand, all born in the United States.

WILLIAAI S. AIcCREA, of the firm of McCrea «& Merryweather, real estate, insurance, rentals and safety deposit, is a native of Huron county, Ontario, born August 13, 1871. When he was a boy the family went to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and when he became sixteen they moved to Rathdrum, Idaho. Here Mr. McCrea was for a while in a general merchandise firm known as Mc- Crea Brothers. In 1888 he came to Spokane, accepted a position as bookkeeper in the savings department of the Bank of S]Kjkane Falls and was employed by them until the fire of 1889. He then took charge of the safe deposit vaults for the Washington Savings Bank. In 1894 he and W. G. Merry weather organized the Washington Safe Deposit & Trust Company, located in the basement of the Gushing building. They also attend to renting and insurance, and do a large business in writing surety bonds. In May, 1897, Mr. McCrea was elected city treastirer, which office he held fi:>r two years. He is one of the most enterprising young men of the city, and pnimises to soon take rank among the leading business men of the state. He is a prominent member of the F. & A. M., the K. of P. anrl the Royal Arcanum. He was married, in 1895,

ALEXANDER W. McMORRAN. of the firm of McMorran & Featherstone, manufacturers of staple drugs in handy packages, is a member of the Spokane city council. He was born in Ontario, Canada. October 9. 1853. He received a high school education and clerked in a drug store for one year. Then, though only sixteen years old, he determined to start life, so he went to Detroit, entered a drug store and became a pharmacist. He remained in Detroit eight years, then came to Central City, Colorado, and opened a drug store. He was in business there for two years, then in Leadville for about two years, then in Denver, where he had a fine drug store. In the fall of i88j he came to Salt Lake City ar.d acquired a large stock of drugs, which, in the spring of 1884. he brought to Spokane. He opened up in the Wolverton block, but was burned out the following fall, losing everything. In 1889 he was again burned out in the Zeigler block and again lost nearly everything he had. He soon started business for the third time in this city, in company with A. A. Pelton, and was for the third time burned out. Few men have suffered more frequent or more severe losses by fire than has Mr. Mc- Morran and none could have shown a more dauntless courage or a greater resourcefulness than he in recovering from these losses. After the third fire he was for six years in charge of the Spokane Drug Company's laboratory. In 1898. however, he engaged in his present business. The firm are putting up staple medicines and drugs in handy pack- ages. In the spring of 1897 Mr. McMorran was elected a member of the city council for the Fifth ward and is proving himself a capable official, thoroughly awake to the best interests of Spokane. Socially, he is affiliated prom inently with the F. & A. M. He was married in Central City, Colorado, May 18, 1881, to Miss May F'utnam, a native of Illinois. They have three sons. Earl, Lloyd and Clair.

M. M. COWLEY was born in Rathdrum, county Wicklow, Ireland, May 9. 1841. He was educated in a private school of high rank and in the nn mastery of Clondalkin, near Dublin. He emigrated to .\merica in 1856. locating in Rnchester city, New York, where he remained till the spring of 1858. He then crossed the plains to Placerville, California, consuming si.x months on the journey. His first employment was clerking in a large mercantile establishment in the southern part of the state and this he followed three years. He then concluded to try his fortunes in the mining region of Idaho. He arrived in the Salmon river country in 1862 and mined with varying success until 1867, when he located at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho. He was in the mercantile business there, also conducting a ferry on the Kootenai river, for five years, but on July 4, 1872, he removed to Spokane Bridge, this county. Here he resided for the ensuing seventeen years, following the mercantile business and cattle industry and sticking to his isolated post throughout the entire Xez Perce war, despite all danger.

In 1885, he became identified with the Traders' National Bank, of which he has ever since been a director. In 1889 he sold his stock of general merchandise, rented his buildings, and removed to Spokane, where he was elected cashier of the bank. In January, 1892, he was elected to the presidency, an office which he has held ever since. Under his able and efficient management, the bank has achieved great success, standing today among the leading financial institutions of the northwest.

Mr. Cowley is an active member of the Catholic church and is prominent in forwarding the various charitable and educational instiutions of that denominatiim. Thoroughly public-spirited, he gives liberally of his means to every worthy cause. He owes his financial success to hard, unceasing effort, rather than to fortune, and his wealth is the reward of much self-sacrificing toil and the fruit of judicious investment. Personally, he is loyal and generous in his friendships and a great favorite with all whom he meets, either socially or in business.

He was married in Walla Walla, W'ashington. in October, 1873, to Miss Annie Connelly, and they have two daughters, both of whom reside with them in their beautiful home in this citv.

JOHN M. SEMPLE. M. D., office, rooms 7, 8 and 9. Jamieson block, is a native of Scotland, born in Strathbungo, a suburb of Glasgow, August 21, 1857. When he was ten years old his family emigrated to Utica, Xew York, where he learned telegraphy and was employed for two years in taking press dispatches for the Utica Herald. He then moved to Albany and was made chief operator for the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company. At the sanie time he was studying medicine, and soon received an appointment as apothecary and clinical clerk, under Dr. John P. Gray, superintendent of the Utica state hospital. In 1886 he graduated from Bellevne Hospital Medical College, of New York City.and shortly afterwards received an appointment on the medical staff of the state hospital, at Auburn, New York. He soon resigned, however, to enter the general hospital at Flat Bush, a suburb of Brooklyn. .A.fter spending a year there, he was again called to the .\uburn state hospital and remained tilj December, 1889, when he came to Spokane and opened an office. In December, 1890, he became superintendent of the state hospital for insane, at Medical Lake, which position he held till July, 1897. After resigning his charge at Medical Lake, he returned to Spokane and has since built up a large private practice. Dr. Semple is president of the Spokane County Medical Society, and is a member of the .\merican Medical .\ssociation and of the Washington State Medical Society. He also belongs to the F. & A. M. He was married in .\uburn. New York, October 30, 1890, to Miss Almira B. Clary, a native of .\uburn. They have two sons, John C, born .August 2S, 1891, and Andrew, born July I, 1896.

G. S. ALLISON, M. D., whose office is at 8 and 10 Granite block, Spokane, is a pioneer of 1882. He was born in Louisiana, Missouri. July 22. 1848. He imrsued his studies in home district chools until the age of fifteen, when he entered the Cherry Grove Seminary, Abington, Illinois, .\fter attending this school for three years, he entered the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in 1 87 1. He practiced for one year under a preceptor, and then removed to Macon county. Illinois, where he practiced medicine for some years. In 1881 he spent si.\ months in the

He began his practice in this city in July, 1882, and is now the oldest resident physician, has a fine business and is a much respected citizen. He was president of the first medical society in this city, is at present a member of the State Medical Society and a member of the Masonic fraternity.

The Doctor was married in Mount Zion, ^lacon county, Illinois, May 2. 1876. to Ellen E., daughter of William and Agnes Marriner, born in Lebanon, Tennessee. They have four children - Ida, Mabel, Walter and Gladys.

HON. MILLARD T. HARTSON, attorney-at-law, was born in Alden, Erie county, New York, May 13, 1857. At the age of ten he moved with his parents to Vineland, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools. Upon graduating from the high school he entered the Pennsylvania Military College, at Chester, as a cadet. In 1879 he graduated as junior captain, standing fifth in a large class. He then studied law until admitted to the bar, but shortly afterward moved to Fargo. North Dakota, where for a year he practiced his profession.

Coming then to Spokane, he opened an office here. He was soon elected city attorney and in the discharge of his duties as such, he displayed great ability and a profound knowledge of the law. The electors of Spokane county, appreciating these qualities, afterward made him probate judge, an office which he held for two terms, winning, by his fairness and integrity, the respect and confidence of all. .-\fter the territory was admitted to statehood.