Spokane County, Washington - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 4 of 16)

Judge Hartson has always heeu prominent in the pohtics of this county, and is at present ciiairman of tlie county RepuUican central committee. He is also a member of the executi\e cumniittee in the state central committee. In the recent Repulilican county convention he was nominated by acclamation for the superior judgeship of this county. The Judge is an active member of the Pioneer Association and lias been secretary since its organization in 1895. ^^ ^^'^s married in \'ineland. New Jersey, March 21, 1884. to Margaret S. Roberson. and they have three children, Clintun H.. Nels(_in T. and Joseph T.

COL. DAVID P. JEXKIXS. a pioneer of 1879, '^'i'^' <i retired atturney, has the distinctiiin of being the oldest attorney li\ing in \Vashington. He was born near Mount Pleasant. Ohio, August 25. 1823. At the age of nineteen he entered the law office of Hon. Samuel Stukeley. at Steubenville. and studied for two years. Later he attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in March. 1845.

He began jjracticing law in Lafayette. Indiana, afterwards remi)\-ing to Cincinnati, thence to La Salle county, Illinois, where he remained until the beginning of the war of the Rebellion, when Governor Gates appointed him major of the First Illinois Cavalry. He was the first major of volunteer cavalry appointed west of the Alleghany mountains. While in the engagement at Lexington, Missouri, he was taken prisoner, with seven companies of his command. He was later paroled and went to St. Louis. Earlv in No-

\ ember he was released from parole and sent by General Ilalleck to Birds Point. Missi>uri. The regiment took part in the engagements of New Madrid and Island No. 10, and assisted in guarding supplies in theOzarkmountains. June 2, 1862, Mr. Jenkins resigned and returned to Illinois, where in Septemlier he assisted in raising a regiment of ca\alry. Re-entering the army as lieutenant-colonel of the Ftjurteenth Illinois Cavalry, he had engagements in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was with General Sherman at the capture of Atlanta. His regiment, which took part in the Stoneman raid, attempted to rescue some officers at Macon, Georgia, and while returning was overiiauled by the enemy in greatly superior numbers. It was completely disorganized and scattered in the many fierce fights which followed.

.\t the close of the war he began law practice in Knoxville. Tennessee, then removed to Colorado and from Colorado came to Seattle March 13, 1873, where he practiced until June 3, 1879. He then located in Spokane, where he has ever since resided. He has been acti\e as a Republican in politics, and connected with many local enterprises. He now owns about seventy acres of land, ajid several houses and lots in the city and several ranches ; also a town site and mining property in Stevens county. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a prominent and resi)ected citizen.

REV. SAMUEL G. H.WERMALE. a retired Methodist minister, residing at 807 Chelan avenue, Spokane, is a son of Peter and Maria Gardener, and was born in Sharpsburg, Washington county. Maryland. October 15. 1824. When he was eight years old the fam- ily removed to ]\Iontg< miery county, Ohi(.i, where lie grew up on a farm. In 1S44 the family remo\-ecl to Fulton county, Illinois, where he engaged as salesman in a store, attended school and later entered the Rock River Seminary. He taught school in Fulton county for several years, and in 1S52 entered the ministry.

After laboring for twenty-one years in Illinois, he was transferred to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1873, and one year later was appointed presiding elder for the district, then comprising an area of about forty thousantl scjuare miles. In 1875 he became a resident of Spokane and on November 14th of that year preached the first sermon to a white congregation in this city.

He served as president of the first town board of trustees, during which administration the fine system of water works was established. He, in company with George A. Davis, Ijuilt the original EcIkj Houring mills, the first full roller mill in Washington.

He was married in Joe Daviess county, Illinois, November i, 1849, to Elizabeth Goldthorp. They ha\-e two living children - Laura v., wife of Dr. B. F. Burch, and Schuyler S., a stdckman of San Diego countv, Califurnia.

EDMOND DUFRESNE, cigar manufacturer. Factory No. 16, District of Oregon, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 3, 1856. He grew to manhood in the city of Ills nativity, was apjircnticed to learn the cigarmaker's trade when fifteen years old and served four years. He moved to Spokane in March, 1888, and went into business, but was burned out the following year, losing almost everything. In 1893, however, he opened a factory in company with Frank Dehnir, and after doing business with him f(^r three years, bought him out. He then moved to his present location. No. 1007 West Broadway, and went into partnership with C. F. Earth. They remained in company until 1898, since which time he has been alone. He employs nine assistants and has built up a large and prosperous business. He manufacturers several fine brands of cigars, among others the Congress, Perfectos, the D. W. C, the Eagles and the Senate Boucjuet, most of which are consumed in this city. All his employees are union men. \\'liile Mr. Dufresne is a good business man, yet the secret of his success lies in the fact that he has thoroughly mastered his Inisiness, so that he is able to put upon the market products of real intrinsic e.xcellence. He is a member of, and a trustee ill, the Eagles, and also belongs to the Foresters of America and the Cigarmakers" Union. He gives considerable attention to mining, and is interested in many properties.

ISAAC S. KAUFMAN, of the real estate firm of I. .S. Kaufman & Company, was born near Decatur, Illinois, January 4, 1844. He was educated and grew up in Decatur, and on August 12, 1862, when eighteen years of age. he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Captain F. L. Hays, and served until the close of the war, being mustered out an orderly sergeant, at Camp Harker, Tennessee, July II, 1865. His regiment was in the engagements at McAffee Church, Chickamauga, Dalton, Resaca and Nashville, and many skirmishes. After being honorably discharged he returned home and entered the

Mount Zion Academy, but on account of poor health soon went to Minnesota, where he engaged for four years in the real estate and brokerage business. In 1883 he came to Spokane and opened a real estate office with George W. Odell, and is still doing business under the same firm name.

In company with H. L. Tilton he built the postoffice block in 1888, and after the fire rebuilt it and the Granite block on Riverside avenue.

He was one of the incorporators of the Ross Park Street Railway Company, assisted in organizing the E.xchange National Bank, served as a member of the city council, and has always been an active representative man in all local enterprises.

Mr. Kaufman was married in Coles county, Illinois, January i, 1874, to Claribel, daughter of Thomas H. and Louisa M. Odell, bom in Coles county, September 21, 1850. They have five children - George \\'., Raymond T.. Ralph O., Clara B. and I. Karl.

DR. MARY A. LATHAM, a pioneer of 1887, is a native of New Richmond, Ohio. Her preliminary education was acquired in the public schools of that state and at Claremont Academy. In 1884 she graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in the first class of women who were admitted to the clinical wards of the Cincinnati General Hospital. Immediately after graduation, she began the practice of her profession in Cincinnati, but she su(jn was compelled to seek a more salubrious climate and accordingly, in 1887. came to Spokane. Her learning and skill soon came to be recognized here and she has since steadilv advanced, though she has long held rank among the foremost medical practitioners of the state. She has been especially successful in the treatment of di.seases of women and children. Tlioroughly devoted to her calling, and animated by a noble desire to alleviate sulTering, slie has always been a tireless worker and student. Such is her marvelous capacity for labor that she also finds time from her study and from her large practice to engage in literary work, and she is gaining an en\iable rejjutation as a newspaper and magazine writer. .K public-spirited citizen, her influence has l)een sensibly felt in many undertakings for the welfare of this city. She was one of tlie promoters of the L'nion Library .Association, and a director in that institution until it merged into the City Library .Association. She is actively identified with various associations pertaining to her profession, also with the Humane Society, of wliich she has been secretary and treasurer. She was chairman of the Washington branch of the Queen Isabelle .Association (medical department), at the World's Columbian E.xposition. On July 28. 1870, she married E. H. Latham. M. D., a gentleman of ability and culture and a physician of high rank. They have three sons. Frank .\., James A. and Warren.

ABR.\H.\M P. WILLIAMS, county assessor, a pioneer of 1885, is a native of Coles county, Illinois, born September 23. 1843. When he was fourteen the family moved to McLeod county. Minnesota. On September 26, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company B, Fourth Minnesota \'olunteer Infantry. He served until May 22. 1863. when, at the siege of X'icksburg. he received a bullet wound in the leg. He was sent to the hospital and on September 26, of the next year, was mustered out. He participated in the engagement at luka, Mississippi, in the siege and battle of Corinth, in the battles of Port Gibson, Raymond, Jackson and Champion Hills, and in the Vicksburg campaign. He again enlisted in F'ebruary, 1865, in Company A, of Hancock's Veteran Army Corps, was appointed duty sergeant and served one year. After the war he located in Silver Lake, Minnesota, where he was engaged in farming, teaching, and as a merchant till 1882, when he moved to North Dakota. He helped to organize Sargent county, becoming its first treasurer. In 1885 he came to Spokane and started a line of express wagons, but afterwards bought out the United States Hotel. This was burned in the fire of 1889, and he lost the accumulations of his lifetime. He then built the Northern Hotel and conducted it two years, then served as court bailiff under Judge Buck four years. He next moved out on his fine fruit farm of forty acres, living there till 1898, when he was elected county assessor. Mr. Williams is a public-spirited and enterprising citizen and is faithfully performing the duties of his oftice. He is a member of Reno Post, No. 47, G. .\. R. He was married in Hutchinson, Minnesota, November 4, 1868, to Miss Harriet Whitelock. a native of Knox county, Missouri. They have ten children, Grace, Eva, Teressa, Maude. J. Carl, Walter, Orton, P>ank, Cecil and Ralph.

HON. S. A. WELLS, receiver in United States land office, is a native of Canton, Iowa, born March 18, 1855. In 1858 the family moved to New Orleans, where four of the five members were taken with yellow fever, which in the father's case resulted fatally. The mother moved to Sterling, Illinois, where ]\Ir. Wells began clerking at the age of twehe, continuing in the same occupation for seven years. When eighteen he began studying law in the evenings and he continued to apply hmiself to his law books during spare moments for several years afterwards, while acting as collector. He graduated from the Iowa Law School, Des Moines, in 1880, and, in company with Mr. Fred Sackett, a very prominent attorney, open.ed an office in Sterling. At his suggestion his partner, Mr. Sackett, prepared the work entitled, "Sackett on Instructions to Juries," and Mr. Wells spent two years assisting in the writing of the book, then one in introducing it. They finally sold their rights to Callahan & Company, of Chicago. In May, 1883, Mr. Wells came to Washington for the benefit of his health, and located in Ritzville, where he conceived the idea of dividing Whitman county and establishing Franklin and Adams counties. Through his influence this was done and the county seat of .-\dams county was located in Ritzville. He was elected the first auditor of the county and served as such during 1884 and 1885, then was elected to represent Adams, Franklin and Whitman counties in the lower house of the state legislature during the session of 1885 and 1886. He secured the passage of a bill appropriating six thousand dollars to sink an artesian well, after such persistent efforts that he became known as S. Artesian Wells. \\'hen the United States court was established in Spokane, he was appointed deputy clerk and he moved to Spokane to take the office. May 16. 1890. After two years' service, he resignetl and resumed the practice of law, the firm name being Feighan, Wells &: Herman. When Colonel Feighan was elected county prosecut- ing attorney, lie received an appointment from him as chief depnty. and was thus employed for two years. He was chairman of the Repuljlican county central comi>iittee from 1896 to 1S9S, and in ,\pril of the same year was appointed receiver in the United States land office, which pcisition he still retains. Since Mr. Wells arrived in Washington he has made his influence felt in both county and state and he deser\es rank among the prominent and leading men f)f the northwest. He is well known and highly esteemed in this city. He was married in Waukesha, Wiscunsin, in 1881, to Miss Annie Scribner, of Malvern. Illinois. They iiave four children. Elmer, Edna E., S. Leroy and Anna F. Socially. Mr. Wells is affiliated with Imperial Ludge, I. O. O. F.

ELMER DR.\KE. county superintendent of schools of Spokane county, a i)iuneer of 1879, is a native of ^Medina county, Ohio, born January 7, 1847. When lie was three years old the family mo\ed to Green county. Wisconsin, where he grew up on a farm, attending the common schools till 1865. when he entered Hillsdale College, ^Michigan. He studied in the classical course three years, but was compelled to leave before graduating on account of failing health. He then taught a short time. In 1869 he went to California, where he was engaged in teaching for eight years, serving as principal of the schools in San Buena Ventura, and then in Cacheville, I'olo County. In 1877 '^^ dro\'e to Oregon and resumed his former occupation in that state. After teaching there for two years he come to Spokane county, and in the spring of 1880 homesteaded one hundred and si.xty acres of land eight miles south of Spangle.

He li\ed on this farm till 1887. then moved to Spokane, where he was in the real estate business until 1894. In that year he again entered his profession, accepting the principalship of the Fairfield school in 1895. During the years 1895 and 1896 he was deputy county superintendent, and a meml)er of the countv board of examination. In the fall of 1896 he a.ssumed charge of the Irving school, of which he was principal until 1899, when he resigned, having been elected county superintendent on the Republican ticket. Professor Drake is a man of long and successful experience as a teacher , and the common schools of Spokane are realizing the ijenefit of his able and enthusiastic supervision. The last teachers' institute, conducted by liim, was one of the most instructi\e and inspiring conventions of its kind ever held in the county, and many ex|)ressions of satisfaction with Professor Drake's superintendency were heard from the lips of the teachers present. Unlike many teachers, he has not neglected his duties as a citizen, but has always taken an active part in political matters, local and national. Socially, he is a member of the Royal Arcanum.

He was maried in Sacramento, California, January 30, 1875, to Miss Sarah A. Davenport, a native of Jackson county, Iowa. They have three children, Ernest E., who served as a private in Company L all through the war in the Philippines; Sarah Merle, wife of W. P. Lucas, a merchant in Spangle, and Pauline E., a member of the junior class in the high school of this citv.

and he was raised by an uncle, a physician in Memphis, Tennessee, under whom he studied medicine for some time. In 1850 the uncle moved with his family to Nevada county, California, and later to Plumas countv. where Mr. Peel was engaged for several years in mining and in the merchandise business. During this time Mr. Peel served at different times as county assessor and county surveyor, also kept up a study of law during spare moments. He was finally admitted to the bar and afterwards appointed associate justice in the county court. Later he mo\-ed to Truckee, California. In 1884 he came thence to Spokane, where he erecterl a two-story frame building, on Mill and Siirague, with two store apartments and twenty rooms above for lodging. This building, he sold before the fire. In 1884 he was elected justice of the peace and he discharged the duties of that office, also those of police justice, for two years, after which he resigned to become postmaster. In 1889 he v,as appointed register aufl collector of water rents for the city. In the fall of i8go. he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of county auditor, and so able and efficient was bis administration of that office that be was reelected by a large majority in 1892. Since 1894 be has ser\-ed as cashier for Holley, Mason, Marks & Company, about two years, but has been engaged mainly in mining and ranching. Mr. Peel has always been characterized by intense activity, and his interest in the general welfare has made him a leader, wherever be has lived. He has held several important offices in Spokane, and has invariably been found worthy of the trust reposed in him by the people. Socially be is affiliated with the A. F. is' A. M. He was married in Big INIeaflows. Plumas county. California. Octolier 2\. i860, to Miss Mary E.Robinson. a nativeof Missouri.

They have five children: Lelia. wife of E. J. Dyer; ^Martha E., wife of William O. Hill; Howell \V., secretary and treasurer for Holley. Mason, Marks & Company; Henrietta, widow of Frank Landrum, and Belle.

HON. WILLIAM H. LUDDEX, register of L'nited States land office, is a native of Braintree, AFassachusetts. born September 13. 1851. In 1853. the family moved to California, and Mr. Ludden was reared there. He graduated from Hesperian College in 1871, then taught school for fi\-e years. He also became extensively interested in farming, and hafl charge of a two-tbousand-acre tract in the Sacramento valley. He served as county commissioner four years in Yolo county, California. In 1890, he came to Spokane and entered the lan<l office as chief clerk. Two years later he was elected to represent this district in the state legislature.

While in the house, he introduced and secured the passage of a bill granting a bounty of one-half cent per pound to beet sugar manufacturers and (ine-half cent to beet raisers. In 1894 he opened a law office in Spokane, where for the ensuing four years he was engaged in the practice of his profession. He served two years as deputy prosecuting attorney under Col. J. W. Feighan. On June i, 1898. he was appointed register of the land office, a position which lie still retains. ]\Ir. Ludden has always ocupied a leading place among his fellow citizens, both in this and other states. As a lawyer, as a political leader, as a legislator, and in his present position, he has been eminently successful. He is a member of the F. & A. M., the W. of W. and the Eastern Star. He was marriefl in Sacramento, California, to ^liss Ger- trude Horton, a native of Illinois. They have five daughters : Mabel, a teacher in the city schools, wife of Dr. A. H. Gundlach; Vinnie, wife of Joseph W. Childs; Jessie, Hazel and Ruby.

EDWIN D. SANDERS, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Kansas City, December 30, 1852. In i860 the family moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he grew to man's estate on the farm. He was married there, May 25, 1876, to Miss Maggie E., daughter of Isaac and Margaret Willis. Her father was a wealthy farmer of Calhoun county, Michigan, and her grandfather was a very prominent man in the early affairs of that state, having constructed the Michigan Central Railroad, and having secured an appropriation from congress for the i)reliminary survey of a ship canal to connect the lakes. He belonged to an old Philadelphia Quaker family. In 1877 ^'^^- Sanders came to Walla Walla. Washington, and e\er since has been engaged in mining enterprises, being one of the leading men in the development of the mining region tributary to Spokane. He was one of the original owners of the now far-famed Le Roi mine, and when it was sold owned 14,- 283 shares, for which he received one hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five dollars, besitles having previously received over twenty-five thousand dollars in dividends. This mine sold for about four and one-half millions of dollars. He is still heavily interested in numerous very promising claims. Since coming to Spokane he has served as deputy sheriff of the county four years and has acted as receiver in several large concerns. Mr. Sanders is a prominent, substantial citizen, and one who has done much for the upbuilding and welfare of Spokane. He is a member of the F. & A. M., also of the I. O. O. F. In 1899 he built an elegant home on the southeast corner of Seventh avenue and \\'ashington street, surrounded by grounds which have been beautified by the landscape gardener's art.

Mr. and Mrs. Sanders are parents of one son, Charles W., who served through the Cuban campaign, taking part in the battle of San Juan Hill, after which be received an honorable discharge. Later he re-enlisted in the Fourth United States Cavalry for service in the Philh])ines. and was shortly promoted for meritorious service to the rank of corporal in Troop E.

WILLIAM SHANNON, member of the police force of Spokane, a pioneer of 1 879. was born in Gibson county, Indiana, January 3, 1846. In 1873 he moved to Madelia, Minnesota, where he was married October 18, 1874. to Miss Sarah Robbiiis, a native of Lowell, Massachusetts. In .\pril. 1X77, they went to Petaluma. California, but soon came on to Tumwatcr, Washington, where they livefl till 1S79. They then moved to this city, traveling by rail, by water, and by o.\-teani, and consuming thirteen days in the trip. They arrived here March 28, of that year, and Mr. Shannon has since been in various occupations. His first home in the city was a log house which had been erected by the government for the use of soldiers. The roof was gone and also the floor, but he carried lumber on his back with which to sup])ly these deficiencies. In 1880 he built a small, three-room frame house on the north side of Riverside avenue, between Mill and Post, in which he lived for two years. He also helped to build the first street railway, drivingthefirst spike, and taking charge of the first team of mules used on it after its completion. Mrs. Shannon was a member of the Home Dramatic Company, organized in the winter of 1879 and '80, and took part in the entertainments given for the amusement of the people. For the past ten years Mr. Shannon has been on the police force of the city, and his efficiency as an officer has gained him a very wide reputation. But while his name has been a terror to law-breakers and vagabonds, he is well liked by the law-abiding citizens and his friends are numbered by the hundreds. He has had two children, both natives of Spokane, namely, Ethel, born December 2, 1881, living, and Edna J., born May 14, 1884, died August 14, 1887.

JAMES D. BUCHANAN, of the Washington Undertaking Company, 919 Riverside avenue, is a pioneer of 1880. He was born in Clark county, Indiana, April 14, 1858. In 1865 the family moved to Pike county, Illinois, where Mr. Buclianan grew up on a farm, Init on attaining his majority he came west to Walla Walla, and in March, 1880, located in Spukane, where he was employed for a short time in a shingle mill, and afterwards in various occupations. He took as a homestead, in 1880, one hundreil and sixty acres of land, northeast of this city, on which he resided for several years. In the spring of 1890, he opened a confectionery business in Spokane, conducted it for the ensuing seven years, then went into undertaking. In December, 1898, he bnuglit in with the present company ami is now doing an extensive and very successful business. .\s a man and a citizen he stands well in the city. He is a member of the Elks, the Modern Woodmen and the Young Men's Institute, also of the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Catholic

Knights of America. He was married in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, June i, 1898, to Miss Ella M. Ryan, a native of St. Thomas, Canada, who is a professional nurse, having graduated from several different hospitals. She nursed for a time in the Sacred Heart hospital, of this city. They have one child, Mary B., born August 12, 1899.

Hon. William E. Richardson

HON. WILLIAM E. RICHARDSON, judge of the superior court of the state of Washington for Spokane and Stevens counties, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Lane county, Oregon, August i, 1857. From his fifth to his thirteenth year he lived in Portland, attending the city schools; then his father, a carpenter by trade, moved with the family to Bitter Root valley, Montana, driving along a band of cattle, which he had purchased in the Willamette valley. .A.fter spending a few months in that vicinity they returned to Oregon, locating in Independence, Polk county, and Judge Richardson attended Christian College at Monmouth, Oregon (now known as the Oregon State Normal School), for four years, graduating from the classical course in 1882. His health being poor, he then moved over to this region for a change of climate, and lived for a short time near Si)angle, then came to Spokane. In 1886 he entered the law office of Hyde & Turner, was admitted to the bar May 14, 1890, and in January, 1891, formed a partnership with the present state senator, H. D. Crow. About two years later this firm was dissolved. Judge Richardson next practiced in partnership with Mr. A. E. Gallagher about a year, then with T. .A. Williams, under the firm name of Richardson & Williams, until 1896, when he was elected to the bench on the Fusion ticket. He is discharging the duties of the difficult and re- sjjonsible position he now holds with marked ability and in a manner well calculated to command the confidence and respect both of the bar and the public. In the trial of causes he is invariably courteous to attorneys, litigants and all persons concerned. His decisions are reached only after a careful consideration and weighing of the law and the evidence and they are generally sustained when tested in the supreme court. Indeed, his entire administration of justice is uniformly characterized by a spirit of fairness and an honest desire to do what is just and right between man and man. judge Richardson also takes an actix'C interest in mining enterprises, and is one of the board of trustees of the Spokane Co-operative Mining Company, organized in 1899. Socially he afiiliates \\ith the Knights of Brotherhood. He was married in .Mbany, Oregon, February 19, 1889, to Mrs. Viola I. Patterson, a native of W'iscfMisin. but raised in Oregon. They are parents of twr) children: Curtis, born I^ecember 21, 1889, and Hugh, born February 21, 1897.

W. R. PARKS, cnuuly commissioner from the third district, a pioneer of 1888, was born in Franklin county, Tennessee, September 6. 1853. In 1S54 the family moved to Grayson county. Texas, where Mr. Parks grew up to the life of a farmer and stock raiser, and when he started in life for himself he naturally followed the same business. In the sjjring of 1S88 he came to the state of Washington, and in the fall of that year arrived in Spokane. He soon engaged in farming in this \'icinity. Init two years later bought a grocery store in Marshall and has been in that business ever since. He also has a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres three miles west of Marshall. He was appointed postmaster during Harrison's administration, a position which he held till the fall of 1896. At that time, however, he was elected county commissioner on the People's party ticket, and he has been discharging his duties as such officer in a manner highlv satisfactory to his constituency and the county generally c\er since. As a business man and a citizen he has the confidence and esteem of those who know him, and he ranks as one of the leading men of the county. Socially he is a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married in Crayson county, Texas. November 19. 1876. to Miss Jane Looney. a native of that county and state. They have eight children, viz. : Jesse, Mary. William, Virgil, Carl and James, living, and Zenar and Minnie, deceased.

1"KAXK BRACHT, chairman of board of county commissioners, is a native of Berlin, Germany, born .\pril 18, 1847. The entire family possessed a great deal of musical talent, and Frank early began to develop his natural gifts. He studied music under Kullack in Ber- Im, then went to Leipsic, where he completed his musical education, after which he entered the German army, becoming a musician in the Royal Guards. He took part in the war between Prussia and Austria and received from Emperor I'rederick the iron cross, presented on account of the exceptional bravery which he displayed in the storming of Trautenau. In 1867 Mr. Bracht's regimental band won, at Paris, the first prize in a musical contest between the leading bands of Europe. The prize was conferred liy the Empress Eugenie. After three years of service in the German army, he came to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1867. He followed his profes- sion there, joining Dodworth's old guard band. Later lie joined the Gilmore band, became its manager and treasurer and took it on a tour through Europe, traveling over England, Ireland, Scotland, Belgium and Holland, then to the Paris exposition and back into Germany. They were accompanied liy Lillian Norton, now the well known vocalist. Madam Nordica. Mr. Bracht was connected with this band for several years and also with Theodore Thomas' orchestra. In 1887 he came to Spokane, opened a store for the sale of musical instruments and conducted it till 1899. and still handles pianos and organs. He was conductor of the Concordia Singing Society for a long time and professor of music in Gonzaga College two years. He has appeared in public entertainments in this city on several different occasions and is very popular with the music-loving people of Spokane. He is the owner of a model farm of three hundred and twenty acres ten miles east of the city on Spokane prairie, where he now resides, surrounded l)y all the comforts and luxuries of life. He has a splendid orchard of six thousand fruit trees, rare and costly shrubbery, magnificent farm buildings and fine cattle and horses. He also owns considerable pniperty in this city, including a three-story brick block on Howard street. In 1898 he had occasion to appear before the county commissioners to object to the railroad taking in the public highway running through his and other property, which had long been used by the general puljlic. So well did he manage this business that his friends said that he himself was the right man for county commissioner. Accordingly he was nominated on the Republican ticket in the fall of 189S and elected. He is discharging the duties of his office in a manner eminently satisfactory to his constitttency. Socially Mr. Bracht affiliates with the F. & A. M.

He was married in New York City to Mary Bagley, of Pennsylvania. They had one son, Edward, who was a bright, iiromising, welleducated young man, but he died in 1890, having caught cold while serving as a member of the volunteer fire department in the fire of 1889. The first Mrs. Bracht also died in Spokane, and Mr. Bracht was married again December 26. 1898, to Mrs. Mary Reinhardt. They have one child, Verna Cecilia .Vdelaide. Mrs. Bracht lias one son, Edmund, l)y former marriage.

E. P. GALBRAITH was born in Jackson, Missouri, in 1844. He came of the old border family in Scotland of the house of Galbraith.. an offshoot from Buccluch. When Mr. Galbraitli was ten years old a childless uncle, who was a wealthy planter in Kentucky, gave him a home, and he resided with him for some years. Mr. Galbraith afterward joined his jjarents at Kingsville, Ohio, and there he attended the Kings\ille .\cademy until 1861. He then enlisted, responding to the first call for troops in the Ci\'il war. He was wounded several times, the last, at the battle of Perryville, being a N'er}' close call. The ball shattered the left arm and shoulder in a shocking manner and at present he has but very little use of the afflicted member. After the war ]\Ir. Galbraith again resumed his studies at the Kingsville Academy", including a course in medicine, of which he made no use. He engaged in the mercantile business for several years in the east and finally made a snug fortune in oil. .\fterward, however, he suffered heavy losses. He came to Spokane in ^larch. 1887. in time to take advantage of the boom which Spokane was having at that time. He suffered much financially through the fire of 1889 and subsequent hard times, Init is proud of this city and confident that people who invest in any enterprise here now will realize all that they desire. Mr. Galbraith has always been a stanch Republican and is conspicuous in al! public enterprises.

NELSON :\IARTIN. a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Illinois, born in Kankakee county November 22. 1844. He graduated from the -Si. Joseph's Acadeniv in St. Louis, Missouri, shortly afterward, in November, 1861, enlisted as a private in Company E, Twelfth Illinois Ca\'alry. He served till the si)ring of 1864, then re-enlisted, remaining in the ser\ice till May 5, 1865. He was wounded three times, the first being a ride ball wound on tlie left wrist, received at Alanassas Gap. N'irginia. The seconil resulted from the explosion of a shell, injuring him in the calf of the left leg, and the third was a rifie ball wound in tiie side, recei\ed at .\le\andria, Louisiana. Mr, Martin was also captured three times, but invariably succeeded in effecting his escape. He was first sergeant of his company for two years and commissary sergeant about a year. After tiie war he became a dealer in paints and oils and later in furniture at Ottumwa, Iowa. In 1871 he mo\ed to Truckee, California, w here he conducted a general merchandise Ijusiiiess till the fall of 1883. He then came to Spokane. On arri\-ing here he bought out the Coeur d'Alene Transportation Company and continued in that business till the railroad was built. He then C(.)nilucteil a truck and dray business for two years, after which he was agent for the Union I'acific coal office till 1894. In that year he installed and equipped a large finuring mill in Marshall, which he nperated for one year. Since 1895 'ic has been dealing extensivelv in mines.

In September, 1899, he opened his present business, namely, a cigar store and billiard room, on the corner of Sprague avenue and Post street. He is a prominent citizen of the city and has always been an enterprising business man. Socially he is afiiliated with Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. P., also with No. 228, H. P. O. E. He was married in Ottumwa, Iowa. April 16, 1869, to Mattie Burckhalter, a native of Iowa. Thej- have one child, Fred N., agent for the Pacific Express Company in this cilv.

M.VJOR JAMES A. DRAIN, county clerk, w as born in Warren county, Illinois, September 30, 1867. He was reared on a farm and when si.xteen began life for himself. He attended, for a while, the Western Normal College in Iowa, then located in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was clerk for the Burlington, then clerk and teller for the Capitol National Bank, In 1890 l;c came to Spokane. He was with the Citizens' National Bank as receiving teller until they failed in 1893, then served in the Old National Bank one year and afterward as private secretary for D. C. Corbin two yaars, then opened an office as an e.xpert accountant. He was elected county clerk in 1898 on the Republican ticket, defeating Mr. James R. Low, the then incumbent of the office. Major Drain, though only a young man, has attained to quite a prominent standing, not only as a banker and expert accountant, but as a military man also. In May, 1898, he raised and became captain of a volunteer company, which was mustered into the Washington National Guards as Company .V the following .August. He has since been elevated to the rank of major by order of Governor John R. Rogers, commander-in-chief of the state militia. Major Drain was one of the orig- inators and has since been a leading member and supporter of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. As a county officer he is giving excellent satisfaction and in every way he gives promise of becoming one of the influential men in the future development of this city and countv. Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. IM. He was married in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 24, 1 89 1, to Miss Ethel Marsland, a native of Detroit, Michigan, but of English descent. They have three children: Doris, Kathrvn and Gertrude. Their home is at No. 1425 Sixth avenue.

H. H. HUBBARD, county auditor, was l)orn in Cattaraugus county. New York, March 9, 1846. He was reared on a farm until sixteen, then attended and graduated from Alfred University, New York, after which he was eml)loyed as a clerk for two years. He next went to Buffalo to accept a position as invoice and shipping clerk in 'the Union Iron Works, remained with them two years, then moved to Alamo, Michigan, where he farmed for eight years. He next went to Dayton, New York, and was employed as a carpenter until 1886, when he came west and entered the service of the Northern Pacific, working on telegraph construction until the spring of 1888, then as land viewer. In the fall of 1888 he located in Cheney and purchased a book, stationery and confectionery store, of which he remained proprietor for ten years. In June. 1898, he came to Spokane and bought a grocery store on the corner of Howard and Third, which he conducted until November of the same year, when he became county auditor, elected on the Republican ticket. While in Cheney he held a leading place in the affairs of that town, lieing a member of the city council two years and mayor for one. He has also been prominent and active in the politics of the county and state, and has been a delegate to many state and local conventions. Mr. Hubbard is performing the duties of his present office in a manner highly satisfactory to all. He owns a nice home in this city. No. 2004 Sharpe avenue, where he now resides surrounded by the comforts of life. Mr. Hubbard is a member of the F. & A. M. and the Red Men, also of the J. O. of A. M., but is especially active in the S. of V. For three successive terms he was captain of the camp at Cheney and during 1896 and 1897 was senior vice-commander of the \\'ashington division. He was married in Cattaraugus county. New York. February 8, 1868, to Miss Adell Neare, a native of Dayton, that state. They have three children, namely: Clarence G.. conductor on the Northern Pacific Railroad; Edith D., wife of }vlarshall M. Taylor, of Wallace. Idaho, and Rollin C, deputy county auditor.

HENRY L. KENNAN, police justice and justice of the peace, is a native of Norwalk, Ohio, born April 11, 1852. He graduated from the public schools and also from the Western Reserve University, then studied law with his brother. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced for a time with his brother. In 1882 he was elected probate judge of Huron county, Ohio, and served as such until 1891, when he came to Spokane and opened an office here. He was engaged in active practice for a numljer of years, but in the fall of 1898 was elected justice of the peace and appointed by the mayor police justice. Judge Kennan is a prominent citizen and a lawyer of ability, and he is discharging the duties of both his pul)lic offices in a manner liiglily creditable to himself and satisfactory to the people. He is a very prominent ^lason, being past grand master of the Grand Conncil of R. & S. M., past grand patron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and holding at present the office of senior grand warden of the (jrand Lodge of Washington. F. & A. 'SI. He is also a past potentate of El Katif Temple of the Nobles of the :M3-stic Shrine, and has presided over all the Masonic bodies with which he is connected. He was married in Sandusky, Ohio, Jnne 13. 1877, to Miss Fanny Anthony, a native of Sandusky. They have two children, namely: Ralph A., in the employ of the Central Pacific Railroad, and Alga A., at present a memljer of the senior class of the high school.

JAMES P. CAMPBELL, county commissioner from the second district, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Sheridan county. Missouri, December 16. 1H44. In 1847 the family moved to Oregon and were among the earliest settlers cif Polk count}', that state. wliere they resided for many years. In November, 1864, ]\Ir. Cami)l)e]l enlisted at Dallas, Oregon, in Com]);uiy .\, First Oregon Infantry, as a private, and served as a musician till July I. 1866, when he returned to his farm. In 1876 his father, Samuel L., came to Latah, this county. Mr. Campbell followed him next year, and took as a homestead one Ir: dred and si.xty acres, near Latah, on which he has resided e\'er since. In i8y8 he was elected county commissioner on the Republican ticket and has been discharging his duties as a member .of that board in a very creditable manner ever since. ]\Ir. Campbell is well known to the residents of Spokane county and enjoys the good will and esteem of the people generally. His record as a man and a citizen is above reproach, and his cordial, affable manner makes him a universal favorite. He was married November 5, 1867, to Miss Flora Smith, a native of Illinois. They have seven children, Charles .\., Effi.e B., Claude, deceased, Samuel \V., Fred I., Elta and Opal. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Grand .Army of the Republic, Post No, 62. at Latah.

FRANCIS K. PUGH, deputy county sheriff, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Linn county. Oregon, .\\)r\] 7, i860. He was raised on a farm and when he started out for himself followed farming and stock raising. In 187S he came to Dayton. Washington, and after remaining there one year went to Sliedd, Linn county, Oregon. In 1880 he came to this countv with his brother, Felix M., and bought of an Indian a right to one hundred and sixty acres of land at Salteese Lake, fourteen miles east of tiiis city, living on this farm till the spring of 1889, when he became deputy sheriff under E. H. Hinchliff. Sheriff Hinchliff having retired in .\ugust, 1890. on account of ill health. Mr. Pugh was appointed to fill the unexpired term. So successfully did he discharge llie duties of the office that in November, 1890, he was elected sheriff, and another token of 'is popularity as an officer was given in the :11 of 1892 when he was re-elected. He served till 1895, then went back to his farm and into mining. Two years later he moved his family into town and in May, 1899, he became deputy sheriff. Mr. Pugh is a cordial and pleasant gentleman and one of great personal popularity. He is affiliated sociallv with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Shedd, Oregon, June 2-], 1880, to Miss Carrie Hughbanks, a native of Linn county. Tliey have five children, namely : Ollie, Lottie, Bertrand, Raymond and Beatrice. ^Ir. Pugh"s father. Francis A., was a pioneer of 1S46 in Oregon. He crossed the plains from Iowa by ox-teams, but when he reached Walla Walla the oxen gave out and he and his wife made the remainder of the journey to the \\'illamette valley on horseback. The old gentleman is still living afSalteese Lake, th.ough more than eighty years old, but his wife, Francis K.'s mother, died February 2^, 1895.

H. W. DESGRANGES, chief deputy sheriff, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Berner county, Iowa, January 28, 1870. When he v.-as ten years uld his family moved to this county and located two miles northeast of Rockford. His father, Peter, is still living, at the age of seventy-four, and is a farmer there, but his nidther, Sophia Dushen, died in Rockford February II, 1898. H. W. grew up on his father's farm and when fourteen entered the office of the Rockford Enterprise. At the age of fifteen, on the death of the proprietor, J. B. Hayer, he became editor and owner of the paper, a fact which gives him the distinction of having been the youngest editor in the state. He still owns an interest in the same paper. In 1893 he started in Harrison, Idaho, a publication then kni_)wn as the Harrison Fog Horn, l)ut which is now published under the name of the Harrison ^Messenger. In January, 1899. Mr. Desgranges was appointed an office deputy under Sherifif Speck, and when Sheriff Cole took the office was promoted, becoming chief deputy. He was for some time a correspondent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Francisco Examiner. He has always taken a very active part in politics, stanchly supporting the Republican party. For a young man he is very prominent in this county and his record as a newspaper man and in other branches of activity is one of which he may well Ije proud. He was married in Rockford February 27, 1 89 1, to Miss Ada Hensley, a native of Dayton, Columl:iia county, \\'ashington. They have one son. McKinlev.

ELISHA C. THOMPSON, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Porter cijunty, Indiana, August 29, 1847. ^Vhen he was quite young, his family moved to Appanoose county, Iowa, where they lived on a farm. In 1870 Mr. Thompson moved to Smith county. Kansas, and became one of the first settlers of that section. He took up a farm, but only remained four years, then came to Eugene, Oregon. In 1877 he miived to Latah, purchased one hundred and sixty acres of railroad land near the town and farmed until 1895. when he moved into Latah and assumed charge of the Coplen House. After spending two years in the hotel he went to Harrison, Idaho, and engaged in the restaurant business. In January, 1899. he came to Spokane to take a position as jailer. Socially, i\Ir. Thompson is associated wth the 1. O. O. F.. being a member of Latah Lodge, Nci. 76, and also of the Rebekahs. He was married first in Iowa, to Nancy Manning, who died in Latah. September 6. 1887. leaving five children, namely: Delia, wife of Albert Bauthman. Cora. Edson D., Walter and Hugh. He was married again in Rockford, Washington, :\Iay 7. 1893, to Mrs. EleanorMotley, a native of Polk county, Oregon, whose first husband came to Latah

C. A. COLE, sheriff i>f Spokane county, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Oneida cotnity, New York, August 27, 1855. Wiien eighteen years old he came to Portland, Oregon, and secured empl(n"ment as clerk in the post<.)fiice, a situatiiin \\hich he retained for six years. He next ser\ed as mail agent and in the employ of the \\'ells Fargo E.xpress Company, then was a clerk in a store for a time. In 1879 he accompanied Francis H. Cook, who started for Spokane with a hand printing press and a stock of paper. They stuck in the mud and could haul the outfit no further than Colfax, so they set up in that town and the first two issues of the Spokane Times were printed there. Soon, however, the press was brought on to this city. Mr. Cole remained with it as a solicitor for three montlis. While here, he took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres of land, now a part of Heath's addition, but soon abandoned it and joined the Northern Pacific surveyors. In 1881 he went to Astoria, where for a year he was in the employ of the O. R. & N. as freight clerk on the docks. He next moved to Portland and spent three years in the real estate business, then to Yaquina Bay. Here, with E. B. Jones, he established the Yaquina Alail. Eight months later he bought out Mr. Jones and ran the paper alone for a time, after which he went to Corvalis to become editor and manager of the Corvalis Gazette. In 1887 he came again to Spokane and conducted a fish and poultry market for one year, then returned to the real estate business. For four years from 1889 he was deputy sheriiT under F. K. Pugh. He then became expense bill clerk at Union depot. In January. 1899, he was appointed chief deputy uniler Sheriff R. D. Speck and when ilr. Speck resigned he received that officer's place. As an officer, Sheriff Cole is giving excellent satisfaction to the entire county. He belongs to the I. O. O. F.. the Red Men and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He was married in Eugene City, Oregon. January 4. 1884. to Miss lula Walton, and they ha\e four children. Maggie E.. Nina E., Charles A. and Ralph W.

JOHN WETZEL, county surveyor, is a native of Newport, Kentucky, born May 17, i860. In 1882 he went to St. Louis, was engaged by the Mississipi)i river commission as a recorder on the topographical survey, remained in their employ for two years, then went to Texas and became an engineer on construction. He remained till 1888, when he came to the Ct£ur d Alene country and entered the employ of the O. R. & N. as an engineer in the construction department. In February. 1889. he came to Spokane and became an assistant in the office of the city engineer. In 1898 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office of county surveyor, and in the election following he defeated Oskar Huber by a plurality of about one thousand votes. He is also L'nited States deputy surveyor. Mr. Wetzel has for many years devoted his energies exclusively to his profession, performing successfully the duties of many important and responsible positions, and no better man for the office he now holds could ha\e been found ar.ywhere. Socially, he is affiliated with the Mount Carleton L(Klge. No. 103. I. O. O. F., also with the Junior Order of United American

F. H. M.\SON. president of Holley, Mason, Marks & Company, a pioneer of 1883. is a native of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, born July 17, 1856. When he was ten years old the family moved to Ouincy. Illinois. He graduated from the Militar_\- College of Pennsylvania in 1875, then was in business for a while, but subsequently went to Minneapolis, Minnesota. He started tra\'eling for the Price Baking Powder Company, came out west and finally arrived in Spokane. Having great faith in the future of the city, he in\ested quite lieavily in real estate, purchasing seventy-seven and one-half feet where the firm's building now stands, also much other propertv. In 1883 the company was started by E. J. Brickie, ^^'. R. Newport and J- B. Holley, with a capital of five thousand dollars. Three vears later Mr. Mason purchased a third interest for eighteen thousand dollars and the firm became Holley, Mason & Company. Mr. Holley died and a joint stock company was organized and Mr. James Marks was taken in as a partner. The firm then became Holley, Mason, ]\Iarks & Company. In .\ugust, 1889, they were Inirned out, Init the following year their present building, a si.x-story block 77.X95 feet, was erected by the Hypotheek Bank Company. The present Inisiness requires from fifty to seventy-fi\e employees, including tra\'eling salesmen. They handle shelf, builders' and heavy hardware, iron, sheet metals, hardwood lumber for wagon manufacturers, stoves, house furnishings, plumbing supplies, iron pipes, fittings. mining supjjlies, arms, ammunition, sporting goods, etc. They also dij manufacturing, producing, among other things, the Queen heating stoves, the patent for which is controlled by them. ^[\\ Mason served as president of the Chamber of Commerce one year and is now a director in that body. He helped to organize the Country Club, of which he was the first president. He is also a director in the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad and is connected with many other enterprises. Mr. Mason is one of the leading business men of the Pacific coast and he owes his wealth and business standing to his own dauntless courage, unerring judgment, rare sagacity and foresight and indomitable will, combinetl with a marvelous faculty for mastering the details of a large and intricate business. Socially, he affiliates with the Elks fraternitv.

EDW-\RD H. JAMIESON, owner of the Jamieson building, a pioneer of 1882, was born January 12, 1852, in Ambala, the British military headquarters in India. His father, after twenty-five years of service as a Presbyterian missionary in India, came with his family in 1857 to Monmouth, Illinois, and the young Mr. Jamieson graduatefl from the ^Monmouth College in 1871. He became principal of the high school in Keithsburg, Illinois, and retained the position several years. He then came west and accepted a situation as a principal of the San Jose, California, high school. [Meanwhile he had been giving his spare moments to the study of law and soon was admitted at San Francisco to the supreme court of California. He practiced in San Francisco till 1882, then came to .Spokane and opened an oftice here. Before long he became extensively interested in real estate and for the past ten vears has devoted his time exclusively to his own affairs. He built several business blocks, two of which were burned in the fire of 1889. In i8go he built the Jamieson block, a large brick and stone building-. Bo.xgo feet, six stories high above the l>asement and containing <_'ne hundred and twenty othces. Air. Jamieson is also much interested in fruit growing. He owns twelve Inuulred acres on Moran prairie, about one hundred of which arc in fruit, mostly winter apples and prunes. lie has one of the finest collections of ornamental trees and shrubs on the coast. Mr. Jamieson is one of the substantial men of Spokane, and it may be doubted whether any one man has done more than he to build up this city. His beneficence has alsn e.xtenileil to the surrounding countr\', for he has been a liberal contributor to the early railrciads. bridges, fine country roads, etc. He was married in California to Ida Hoag Haskins, a native of Ohio. They have fi\'e children: Mattie M., Josephine. Edward H.. Evehn and Kathrvn Irene.

GEORGE M. BROWX. secretary and tieasurer of the Hazelwood Compan3\ Limited. 12 South Post street, is a native of Galena. Illinois. In the spring of 1889 Mr. Brown came to Spokane and engaged in the dairy business with J. L. Smith. The ne.xt year his brother, Da\id. came out with two car leads of fine milch cnws and was admitted to the firm. In February, 1899, the present company was organized with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, and ]\Ir. Thomas E. Armitstead was taken in. The\' ha\'e a fine dairy farm of three thousand acres, seven miles west of town, and keep three hundred heatl of cattle. Jerseys, Holsteins and Guernseys. This farm is under the management of

Mr. J. L. Smith : Mr. Thomas E. Armitstead is the salesman ; Mr. Brown does the otifice work, and his brother, David, has charge of the creameries. se\en in number, located in \arious parts of the state. They manufacture from one thousand to two thousand pounds of butter per day. giving employment to fifty men stea(lil\\ In 1892 they opened in their present location sales rooms for their wholesale and retail department, where they market their butter, eggs, cheese, etc. They are all young men, but are among the best known dairymen in the stale. They have spared no pains to make their product the finest that modern methods and improvements can produce, and tliey have secured for Hazelwood products an enviable reputation in this and neighboring states.

liERT O. GK.\11.\M, attorney in the claim department of the Great Northern Railroad, a pioneer of 1879, is a son of Oliver J. and Martha Sprague Graham, born in Mendocino county, California, .\ugust 18, 1871. \\'hen Bert was eiglit years old the family came to Spokane, where the father had a wagon shop for some years, also being leader of the local orchestra. They finally located on a farm on Pleasant prairie and resided there for a numlx'r of years, then returned to this city and Mr. Graham, Sr., organized a band of musicians known as Graham's orchestra. He is at present retired from active life. The young Mr. Graham grew up in Spokane, went through the city schocjls and took a business course, after which he engaged in the study of law, being admitted t<j practice in 1894. Since January. 1897. he has been in his present otifice. The fact that Attorney Graham has already attained to so high a standing in liis profession gives promise of great success to be reaHzed in the future. He is one of the rising young man of tlie Spokane bar. anch if appearances do not deceive, is destined to become one of the leading lawyers of the state. Socially, he affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Spokane. November J3. 1895. to Miss Myrtie. daughter of Charles A. and Cora Bailor. They have one son, Harold, born November 10. 1896.

HON. EUGENE :\IILLER. attorney and counselor at law, office in Rookery building, is a nati\'e of Loitisiana. He was educated at Centenary College of Louisiana, located in Jackson, graduating with the A. B. degree. He also received the degree of A. M. from the same institution two years later. He read law in Pennsylvania, was admitted to the supreme court of that state in 1880. and subsequently practiced in Butler, a city in the oil region. He was afterward admitted tn the supreme coiu"t of Minnesota, and followed the profession there two years, a member of the firm of IMiller, Young & Miller. On February 6. 1884, he came to Spokane and began practicing here. In 1892, without any solicitation on his part, he received from Mayor Drumheller an appointment as city commissioner of Spokane, but, after serving a few months, he resigned to become judge of the municipal court of this city. To this office he was reelected, serving as judge of that court until it ceased to exist, January i. 1898. He then resumed the general practice of law. Judge Miller is a man of splendid judicial ability, and his administration of justice while in the m.unicipal court was characterized by impartiality, accuracy and dispatch. That he discharged the duties of his office to the satisfaction of the people is evinced by the fact that he was elected e\-ery time he came before them for their suffrages. Socially he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fell(;ws. He was married in the spring of 1899, to Mrs. Bessie G. Talbot, a native of California.

REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS, a pioneer of 1886, was born in ^Monmouthshire, South \\'ales, June 15, 1847. He was early taken by his parents to Trelyn, and in 1866 he accompanied the rest of the family to America. He had attended the public schools of Wales, also spending two years in a select school, and when he came tij the United States he continued his studies here. Mr. Edwards early became interested in literary work, and has devoted much energy to it since, writing many pamphlets, monographs, and newspaper articles, also a few more pretentii.ais works. In 1873 he enrolled as a student in Bangor Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1876. He was then called to the pastorate of the Congregational church at East Orrington, Maine, where, in June, 1876. he was ordained. His next pastorate was in West Newfield, Maine, whence, in 1882, he was called to a new church at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He served them very successfully for four years. In April. 1886, he came to Spokane to take charge of the First (now Westminster) Congregational church of this city. He remained with them until 1890. when he accepted a position as financial agent of \\'hitman College. Walla Walla. To the upbuilding of this institution his best energies were devoted for three years, then he returned to Spokane at the call of

Pilgrim Congregational church, of which he has ever since heen pastor. Mr. Edwards has also ministered to the churches at Pleasant Prairie. Hillyard and Trent, and has assisted in building four church edifices and two parsonages in this county. He has laljored zealously and untiringly for the cause of temperance, education and Christianity, and in every way jwissible for the amelioration of his fellow man. Mr. Edwards is greatly interested in tlie early history of the Pacific Nm-thwest, and endeavors to familiarize himself with every pulilication upon the subject. He is himself the author of the historical jjart of this volume. Mr. Edwards was married in l'n>\idencc, Pennsylvania, in December. 1869, to Miss Elizalieth Williams, a native of Wales, and they are the parents of six children : Rev. Rosine M., pastor of the Congregational church at Tolt, Washington; David; .Knna K.. wife of David Roberts, Roseburg, Oregon; Lillian ; Orville G. and J. \\'hitman.

SAMUEL THORSL.XND. of Thorsland S' Sampson, of the Riverside Bakery. 333 Riverside avenue, is a native of Norway, born March i, 1868. He learned the trade of a baker in his native land and emigrated to this country in 1888. coming directly to Six)kane. He followed his trade here as a journeyman until 1893, when he opened his present place of business. In 1897 he admitted Louis Sampson, fcjrming the present firm. They also handle confectionery and are doing a large and thriving business. Mr. Thorsland has practically grown up with this city, and is well and favorably known to all the old residents. He is a member of ]\Inunt Carleton Lodge, No. 103. I. O. O. F., and affiliates also with the Knights of Pvthias. He was married in

Spokane in 1894, to Miss Bernice Irish, wlio died June 13, 1894. He was again married in Spokane, May 24, 1898, to Reitha Keating. They have one child, Delmont S., born July 7, 1899.

EDWIN R. CIIILDS, president and manager of tiie Childs Lumber Company, is a native of Greenfield, Huron county, Oiiio, born December 28, 1842. .\t the early age of eleven, he was left an orphan, and iiad to work out the difficult problem of existence for himself. In 1859 he went to Jennings county, Indiana, and on .\pril 16, 1861, enlisted as private in Company G. Sixtii Indiana \\.>lunteer Infantry. After three months" service lie reenlisted, becoming a private in the Tliirtyseventh Indiana Infantry, which formed a part of the I'ourteenth .\rmy Corps. He took part in tiie engagements at Stone River, wliere he was slightly wounded, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Nashville, Resaca and Atlanta, was veteranized February 1 1, 1864, and was in Sherman's famous march to the sea. He afterwards became dutj' sergeant, and serve<l as such till the cessation of hostilities. Few men now living have seen longer service or more hard fighting in the war of the Rebellion than has Mr. Childs. Returning to civil pursuits, after four years of faithful military service, Ik came out to Miiuiesota and bought one hundred and sixty acres in Blue Earth county, but soon located in lM)rt Lea\enworth, Kansas, where he had charge of a government saw mill for two years. He next went to Des Moines. Iowa, and secured employment in a planing mill, of which he afterward became manager. In 1883 he came to Spokane and worked in a planing mill one year, after which he was engaged in contracting and building for several years, putting up the Lincoln school and many of the largest buildings and finest residences of the city. In 1887 he organized the Spokane Manufacturing & Lumber Company, of which he was manager for one year. In 1892 he built a small planing mill, which two years later was enlarged and moved to its present location, and which, since then, has been again enlarged and improved in many ways. It is now owned by Mr. Childs and his two sons and Mr. L. F. Williams. They employ forty hands and manufacture all kinds of building materials. Mr. Childs is a man of commanding personal appearance, tall, erect and soldierly in his bearing. Fle owes his success in life solely tu his own unaided efforts and to his unusual energy and force of character. Since coming to Spokane he has been a prominent factor in the de- \el'ipment of the city, not only building up the enterprises in which he himself has been interested, but contributing liberally t<:) others of a public (jr semi-public nature. He was married in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1869, to Miss Isabel Baker. They have four children: Dee, wife of Charles Hay ward, electrician in this city; Leroy L., who, inheriting his father's patriotism, enlisted in Company L. First Washington Volunteer Infantry, served through the Philippine war, receiving a slight wound in action, and was discharged as first sergeant; also Jonas W. and Isabel.

JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, secretary and treasurer of the Union Iron Works, is a native of this state, born in Colville, Stevens county, October 2, 1868. In 1876 the family mo\ed to Portland, Oregon, where James attended school until 1879, ^vben the family came to Spokane county. .After com[)leting an academic course in Cheney, he went into a hardware business in that town and conducted it successfully for four years, then went to Tacoma as weighmaster for the Northern Pacific Elevator Company, and was thus emploved till 1890. In that year he came to Spokane and purchased a fourth interest in the Washington Fuel Company, of which he became secretary and treasurer. He sold out his interest in 1898, and, when the Union Iron Works were reorganized in September, became a stockholder and was elected secretary and treasurer. He is also a director in the Diamond Ice & Fuel Company. Mr. Fitzpatrick's achievements in business are siimething remarkable for one so young as he, and they give promise of great success to be realized in the future. He is a public-spirited young man and has in- \-ariably been a liberal contributor to the different enterprises of the countv. Snicially he is a prominent thirty-second-degree Mason and was at one time potentate in the Mystic Shrine.

H. E. M.\cC.\]\IY, assistant superintendent of the Union Iron Works, is a native of Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, born January 25, 1854. When only nine years of age he was left an orphan and has made his f'wn way unaided ever since, traveling extensively over nearly all the west. He learned the trade of an iron molder in the Minnesota Iron Works at Minneapolis, anrl has since been employed as foreman in many shops. He was head foreman for a while in the St. Paul foundry shops and later had charge of the American Hoist & Derrick Company's business in St. Paul. In 1889 he came west, located in Spokane just after the fire, erected a small foundry, and in lanuarv, 1893, took Harry Curtis into part- nership. They burned out the next December, losing nearly everything, but in January, 1894, they rebuilt, increasing the size of their plant. They inciirp(jrate(l in 1S97 as the Union Iron Works Comiiaii}-, but in September. 1898, Mr. Curtis retired ; the plant was again enlarged and the present company was organized. They build and e(|uip plants for the reduction of ores and manufacture all kinds nf machinery and structural iron, steam engines, boilers, etc. Mr. r\IacCamy belongs to that class of men. who. starting without anything, have made their way in the wnrld b_\- self-reliant industry and enterprise, and he recei\'es the respect which men of that character always command. Socially he affiliates with the Modern Woodmen. He was married in St. Paul, Minnesota. January 30. 1883, to ]\Iiss .\nnie F. Tollerton, a native of St. Paul. They have five chidren, namely: Claudia. Harry. Ray. Willard and Carl.

C. H. PRESCOTT, superintendent of the Union Iron \\'orks, is a native of Massachusetts, born in Leominster January 19, 1855. In 1855 '^'''^ family came Ui P)urlington, Iowa, and remained until it \\as liroken u\) by the death of the mother in 1863. In 1872 C. H. returned to Massachusetts, locating at Taunton, where he served an ap])renticeship of five years learning the trade of a machinist. He then came west to Creston. Iowa, where he was employed in the shops of the Chicago. Burlington & Ouincy Railroad, then moved to North Platte, on the Union Pacific, and was fireman on an engine for two years. He ne.xt went to Billings. Montana, to accept a position as a machinist on the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1886 he became master mechanic for the Cceur d'.Mene Railway & Navigation Company, and two years later he was given the same position on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad. In 1889 he entered the service of the Sjxjkane Falls & Northern Kailroad as master luechanic. but resigned in May, 1899, to accept the position he has since lield. namely, the superintendency of the Union Iron Works. Mr. Prescott has de\'oted almost his entire life to the study of machinery and his thorough knowledge of all the details of the business renders him exactly the right man for the responsible ptjsition he now holds. He is a prominent member of the I"". & .\. M. He was married in Billings, Montana, October i, 1884. to Miss Matilda Mathewson. a native of Canada. Tliey have one son. Daniel C. born April 12, 1899.

J. F. C. ABEL, a pioneer of 1883, was born in MechJenburg, Germany, September 11, 1838. In 1850 the family emigrated to the United States, coming to Chicago and later locating in Fond du Lac county. Wisconsin, where Mr. .\bcl grew to manhood and learned the cabinetmaker's trade, also becoming skilled as a patternmaker in a foundry. In 1859. influenced by the gold excitement, he started, in coinpany with his brother John and two brothers-in-law. for Pikes Peak. Colorado. They kept right on to California, coming all the way by ox-team, and arriving in Siskiyou county after a trip lasting a little over six months. He secured employment in a machine shop and remainetl at work there till the spring of 1862, when he moved to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1866 he passed through the locality where Spokane now stands and camped over night beside the falls. On returning to U'alla Walla he established a foundry and machine shop, which he sold to his partner in 1867. He then started in the caljinet and tnrniture l)usiness, toHowing tiiat until 1883. i" which year he located in Spokane. He immediately went to work at his trade again and was thus employed for several years afterward. ^Ir. Abel is a typical pioneer. ha\'ing experienced all the hardships and iiriwations incident to primiti\-e traveling, and to the development of a new and unsettled country. He was married in Walla Walla March 20. 1870. to Caroline Saling. a nati\'e of (lennany. who dierl June 16. 1889. lea\ing six children : Kate, who died March 15, 1892, at twenty-one years of age : Fred ; Carrie, now ^Irs. William Traub: Anna; Arthur and Clara. Socially Mr. Abel is affiliated with the A. O. U. W. and the I. O. O. F. Mr. Abel helped organize Washington Engine Company. No. i. of Walla Walla, in 1863. He held some of the prominent positions in Walla Walla county at a \ery earlv date.

WALTER FRANCE is a native of Cuyahoga county, Ohio, born January 28, 1844. In 1853 the famil}' mo\"ed to Guthrie county. Iowa, where he li\-ed on a farm for many years. He came to Seattle in 18S1. and was engaged in the real estate business one year, then went to Farmington and worked a few months in a ])ork packing establishment. In June. 1883. he arri\"ed in Spokane and for several years afterwards conducted a second-hand store, then was in the grocery business, but finally gave his entire attention to speculating in real estate. ^Vs a speculator he was epecially successful, being a man of unerring judgment and quick to see a good investment. For the past four years he has given his attention almost exclusively to mining and is interested in manv very promising properties in this locality. In the sjiring of 1889 he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the city council as representative of the fourth ward, and in 1893 '^^ was elected on the Republican ticket councilman from the fifth ward. He was nominated for mayor on the Citizens' ticket in April. 1895. but failed of election. ^Ir. France's record in this city, in both private and public life, is above reproach and he enjoys in the fullest degree the confidence and esteem of his fellow citizens. He also has the distinction of being an old soldier, having ser\-ed for fi\'e months in the Civil war in Company C. Forty-Sixth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, during which time he took part in several minor engagements. He was married in Guthrie county. Iowa. Juh- 20. 1870. to Miss Mary E. Hewitt, a natixe of Dallas county, that state. They have one daughter. Bertha G., wife of Mr. A. .\. Young, of the firm of Young Brothers, importers oi tea and coffee.

JOHN J. WHITE, city treasurer, was Ixirn in Cleveland. Ohio. July 24. 1S61. When he arrived at the age of ten his family uKived to }ililwaukee. Wisconsin, where Mr. White received a high-school education, supplemented liy three years' study at a seminary. In 1880 he removed to Seattle and found employment as a bookkeeper for a large commission house. Later he was engaged for a year as manager of the big Snoriualmie hop ranch, the largest hop ranch in the world, containing upwards of three hundrerl acres. In 1S87 he came to Spokane and accepted a situation as bookkeeper for J. D. Merrymann. who had a large grocery house, but in the spring of

1888 he became city clerk and remained in that office until 1890. In the spring of 1891 he was appointed deputy city treasurer and in the fall of 1 89 1 was appointed deputy county clerk. In 1893 he became deputy county assessor, and in 1895 deputy city comptroller and deputy city treasurer. He was elected city treasurer on the Republican ticket in 1898 and has done credit to himself by the able and efficient manner in which he has performed the duties vi that office ever since. Personally, jNIr. White is a genial and wJKjlesouled and is very popular with everybody whose good fortune it is to meet him. He is very prominent in Odd Fellowship, being noble grand of Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, also chief patriarch of Unique Encampment, No. 32. a member of Canton Fortuna, No. 5, Patriarchs Militant, and a Rebekah. He was married in Seattle. June 14, 1887, to Miss Martha A. Price, a native of \'iclt.)ria, P)ritish Columbia.

WALTER C. SIVYER. manager of the Inland Empire Ccimpany. was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Septemljcr 3, 1861. When he was seven years of age, the family mo\ed to Fort Scott. Kansas. He graduated in 1883 fi'oin the Waljash College at Crawfordsville, Luliana ; proceeded thence to Jamestown, North Dakota ; opened a real estate and insurance business, also practiced law in the L'nited States land office. In 1887 he came to Spokane and opened an office for the transaction of a general real estate, insurance and rental business. In December, 1893, he organized and was elected manager of the Inland Empire Cimipany, whose offices are located on the fifth floor of the Exchange building. The object of this company is to buy and sell real estate, negotiate loans, and to act as trustee to make investments for non-residents, etc. They keep four employees steadily and are doing a very successful business. Mr. Sivyer is also a director in the Security Savings & Loan Association. He is quite a ])rominent young man, enterprising and industrious, and his influence in business circles will be felt more and more in the vears to come.

I'ELIX M. PUGH, deputy United States marshal, is a native of Linn county. Oregon, born June 12, 1854. He grew up on a farm, took a business course in Portland, and in 1877 moved to Dayton, Washington, where he was engaged in the drug business about three years. In April, 1880, he came to Spokane county and took as a homestead, one hundred and sixty acres of land at Salteese lake, twelve miles east of the city, where he lived for the ensuing eight years. During this time he was deputy assessor four years and was engaged for a while in making the plats for the first map of this county. In 1888 he moved to Spokane and served as deputy sheriff for six years, then was nominated by acclamation on the Republican ticket for sheriff, but was defeated by a majority of only thirty-one votes. After the election he returned to his farm, where he remained until 1S96, being employed during one year of this lime as deputy dairy inspector. He then returned to the city and in August, 1897, was appointed liy W. C. Ide, chief deputy United States marshal for eastern Washington. Mr. Pugh is a thorough pioneer, having spent his entire life thus far on the coast. He has long been a citizen of this county and is well known and highly esteemed by all the old residents.

He has botli the experience and the natural courage necessary to eminently ciualify him for the some times dangerous duties of the position he now holds. Socially, lie is a member of the Elks and the ^^'oodmen of the World. He was married in Linn C(.)unty, Oregon, October 27, 1875, to Aliss Fannie C. Taylor, a native ot Oregon. They have four children, namely : P'red C, John T., Gladys and Ruth E.

HON. XOR.MAN BUCK, of the law firm of Buck & Craven, office 412 Hyde bldck, is a nati\-e of Erie county, New York. \\'hen he was thirteen years old his family moved to Batavia, Illinois, where they resided for three years, after which they went to the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At this time Judge Buck was engaged in building fanning mills in his brother's shop, attending public school during the winter months. He at length entered the Lawrence University in Apijleton, Wisconsin, from which institution he received his degree in 1859. He next took a law course in .Albany, New York, graduating in i860; then opened an office in ^^'inona, Minnesota, and practiced till 1862. On August 16. of that year, he enlisted in CVimpany D, Seventh Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, and served a year in the campaign against the Sioux Indians. He then went south, took part in an engagement at Tupelo, Mississippi, was in the battle of Nashville, the capture of Moliile, and manv skirnu'shes. Ha\-ing entered the armv as a private, he rose i-i three years to the rank of captain, a fact which in itself speaks volumes for the character of his military service. After his discharge he returned to Winona, Minnesota, and served as judge of pro1)ate two years, then as prosecuting attorney two more. Subsequently he was ai)pointed United States attorney for Idaho territory, but soon became an associate justice in the Idaho supreme court, serving for eight years. In 1889 he opened an office in the Van Valkenburg block, Spokane, l)ut was burned out in the big fire of that year, losing his four-thouand-dollar library. He was elected superior judge of Spokane county in 1892, and ably discharged the duties of that office for the ensuing four years. Judge Buck was the pioneer judge in many of the Idaho districts. Socially, he is affiliated with the G. A. R., the K. of P., the I. O. O. F., and the W. (if W.. and he was commander of G. A. R., department of Washington and Alaska, during 1896-97. Personally Judge Buck is an entertaining conversationalist and a very aiTable and pleasant gentleman. Fie was married in Galena, Illinois, September 26, 1863, to Francena, M. Kellogg, a native of Groton, New York. They have three children - - Storey, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Julian F., and Nathan K., a mail carrier of this citv.

GEORGE W. LIBBY, M. D., office in the Trader' l)lock, is a native of Hiram, Oxford count)-, Maine. .After spending his boyhood days on a farm, he graduated from the Maine W'esleyan Seminary at Kent's Hill, then took medical courses at Harvard and Bowdoin, receiving his degree in 1876. In 1875 he was house pupil at the Maine General Hospital. The succeeding seven years of liis life were devoted to active ])ractice at Searsixirt, Alaine, then one year at Middletown, Connecticut. .\rriving in Spokane in 1884, he has since applied himself assiduously to the study and practice of his chosen profession and his zeal and industry ha\-e been rewarded by an extensive and very desirable patronage. He is a charter member of the Spokane County and of the Washington State Medical .societies. He is a member of the United States pension examining board of this district and is an examiner also for several of the large life insurance companies, and was for seven years a member of the medical and surgical staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital, of Spokane. He is also an occasional contributor to the Medical Sentinel. Dr. Libby is one of the leading physicians in this city. Before starting to practice he took time to prepare thoroughly in a good college of liberal arts and in two of the best medical schools in the land, and he has since diligently cultivated his art. He has not, howe\er, allowed his love of medical science to interfere with his fraternal and religious duties. He is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. and he and his family are active members of the First Methndist Episcopal church. He is president, also, of the JDoard of trustees of the church, and delegate-elect to the general conference to be held in Chicago in 1900. He was married in Massachusetts, May 31. 1877, to Miss Jaco\a D. Fribble, of .\ugusta. Kentucky. They have two children, Elva E.. born .\pril 5, 1878, and George \\'.. born September 13, 1880, both natives of Searsport, r^Iaine.

HON. GEORGE TURNER, United States senator, was born February 25, 1850, at Edina, Knox county, Missouri. When nine years old he accompanied his family to Lebanon, Laclede county, Missouri, and there he resided for a number of years afterwards. At the early age of thirteen he was placed in charge of a telegraph office, being an expert operator, and he held that responsible position throughout the remaining years of the war. A very precocious youth, he prosecuted his study of law vigorously, and when eighteen years old passed his e.xamination for the bar. He shortly afterwards began practice at Mol)ile. .Alabama, with a friend, Charles Mayer, of about his own age. In 1874 he was the candidate of the Republican party for attorneygeneral, but was defeated by a small majority. Two years later he was appointed United States marshal, an office which he held for four years. He was cliairman of the Republican national delegations of 1880 and 1884 and has the di.stinction of being one of the three hundred and six who held out for the nomination of General (jrant for a third term. In 1884 he was ap]K)inted territorial judge of the fourth district, which included most of eastern Washington, his office being located in \'akima. The next year he removed to Spokane and in 1887 he resigned his judgeship to become a member of the law firm of Turner, I'"oster & Turner. He practiced in that firm a while, then with Mr. Frank Graves and later in the firm <if Turner. Gra\es & M'Kinstrey. He was a member of the constitutional con- \ention of 1889. and chairman of the judiciary committee. In 1898 he was elected to the United States senate, where he has won for himself an enviable distinction for legislartive ability and statesmanship. His speeches are always listened to with respectful attention and that on the Philippine question elicited much complimentary comment. Senator Turner has long been regarded as one of the foremost lawyers and statesmen of the state of Washington, anfl of his successful career his fellowcitizens are very proud. He was heavily interested in the Leroi mine, the sale of which made him wealthy. At present lie owns mnch valuable rea! estate and is one of the largest stockholders in the Yellowstone Park Railroad, extending from Bozeman, ^hintana. to the park, a distance of one hundred miles. Senator Turner was married in ^hmtgomery, Alabama, to Miss Bertha Dreher, a native of that state.

AVERY E. DA\TDSOX, a pioneer of September 18, 1878, is now employed as engineer at the ciiurt house. He was born in ^larshalltown. Kentucky. December 12, 1851. When he was four years of age the family came to the coast and lived successively in California, Oregon and Idaho. ^Ir. David- ,son learned, in Portland, the trade of a marine engineer and machinist. In 1878 he came t^o Spokane and was employed as a sawyer in the saw mill of Cannon. Warner & Pease, the first mill of its kind in the county. He snon Ijecame superintendent of the liusiness and remained with that firm until 1890. when he was compelled to leave on account of failing eyesight and exhaustion from overwork. He spent several years in the mountains prospecting and recuperating. He was then cmplned as a boatliuilder and engineer by the Idaho Transportation Company and afterwards by the International Transportation Com- ]xany. During the years 1889-90 Mr. Davidson serx'ed as a member of the city council from the third ward, having been elected on the citizens' ticket. For about six months of this time he was acting mayor, and an active participant in the big street railway fight, which took place at that time. He was also active in securing the construction of the large, steel cantilever bridge on Monroe street. He has also held the position

On November 3. 1898, Mr. Davidson figured ci insjMcuouslv in an exciting struggle with a ciiuiile of highwaymen. He and his wife were coming into the citv on the Ross Park Street Railway, when the roliliers boarded the car and ordered him and the motorman and Conductor to throw up their hands. The others did so, but Mr. Davidson attacked one of the desperadoes and had a li\'ejy tussle with him on the car floor. Mr. Davidson was shiit through the bodv and the men escaped, but were afterwards apprehended and are serving a ten-years" term in the Walla Walla penitentiary. ^Ir. Da\"idson was married in East Portland. September 22. 1875, to Hannah .S, Black, a native of Tippecanoe, Indiana. They have two children, Wiliam T. and Earl .\.

A. G. ANSELL. a pioneer of 1884 and a mining operator, office in Symons block, is a native of West \'irginia, born November 9, 1 85 J. In 1833 the family moved to Calhoun coiuit\-. Illinois, where he grew up, learning the printer's trade in Hardin, the county seat. He t.aught school several years, then l-ulilished the Calhoun County Democrat for ;iIiout five years. Then, his printing office being destroved b\' fire, he went to Toiieka, Kansas, and found em])loyment on the Topeka Dailv Capital. He afterwards went to Glencoe, Minnesota, and published the Enterprise. In February, 1884, he came to Spokane to accept a position as city editor of the Chronicle. Pie worke<l for a while on the Re\iew and spent a year as editor of the Colfax Gazette, then organized the Spokane Printing Company, which did job work exclusively for several years. In May. 1895, he was elected city treasurer on the Repuljlican ticket and served tor two years. ' Since lea\-ing the oilice he has been operating in mines antl mining properties. Mr. Ansell is a prominent member of the I. O. O. F.. l)eing one of the two grand representatives elected by the Cirand Lodge of the slate of Washington to the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He is now ser\-ing his seconil term as such representative. He joined the order in Illinois in 1874, passed through the chairs in tlie sul)ordinate lodge in Hardin and scr\ed two terms in the (jrand Lodge of that state. He is a charter member of Samaritan Lotlge, No. 52. of Spokane, and was elected grantl warden of the Grand Lodge of Washington in 1893 "^'""^l grand master in 1894. Mr. Ansell is no less respected and esteemed outside of the order. He was married in San Jose, California, September J 7. 1888. to Miss May D. Stockton, a nati\'e of Iowa.

DA\TD S. PRFSCOTT, of the hrm of Prescott Brothers, real estate, insurance, loans and rentals, was born in Minneapolis. JNIinnesota. January 11, 1859. In 1870 the family moved to the \icinity of Xorthfiekl and David suljsequently received an education in the Carleti/m College, located in that city. In 1880 he became a ilrug clerk in Minneapolis, but tw'i vea.rs later came further west and opened a store in (ilendix-e, Montana, where he remained in the drug business until 1887. He then came to Spokane and, after ser\'ing as a drug clerk for a brief period, became chief deputy in the county auditor's office, which position he held for a year and a half. He was sul)sequentlv secretary of the Ross Park Street Railway for a short time, then bookkeeper for the county treasurer until 1892, when he himself became county treasurer, being elected on the Republican ticket. .Vfter ably discharging the duties (jf that office for two years he retired and became a member of the present real estate firm. Like his brother, Fred L., whose biographical sketch also appears in this volume, Mr. Daniel Prescott has been a liberal donor to the early enterprises of the city and has contributed freely of his means and of his energies to the growth and de\elopment of Spokane. He is secretary of the Crawford Creek Mining Company, also of the Giant Mining Company, of Rosslancl. British Columbia, and of tlie Skylark Gold & Copper Mining Company, and he is connectetl with many otlier mining enterprises. Socially, he is a prominent member of the 1". & .\. M.. being master of Spokane 1-odge. Xo. 34. He was married in Lemars, Iowa, November 16, 1881, to Laura R. Betsworth. a native of Illinois, and a daughter of Ca[)tain B. F. Betsworth. They have four children, namely: Fthel F.. Ernest S., Leslie F. and \'erna L.

ARTHUR J. SHA\\y receiver for the First National Bank, is a native of Aurora, New York, born .\pril 6, 1856. He graduated from the Genesee Wesieyan Seminary, of Lima, in 1878. and proceeded thence to Rochester. New \"ork. where he studied law and was admitted to the bar, October 6. 1881. He practiced in Rochester for two years, then came to Spokane, and. shortly after, was appointed by President .\rthur receiver of public moneys at Lewiston, Idaho. He served four years, then returned to Sjjokane and became i)usiness manager of the Review. In 1888 he was made associate editor, a jjosition which he held until

July, 1S90, when he was appointed postmaster by President Harrison. He served under this appointment three and a halt years. In 1S93 he was elected cashier of the Browne National Bank, and remained in that position until the hank suspended during the panic. Pie was then made receixer. first of the Commercial Savings Bank, then of the First National, and finally of the Citizens' National Bank. In January, 1895, '""^ received the caucus nomination as secretary of. the United States senate, hut the Republican party faileil to elect its officers. Pie is connected with many mining companies and is a member of the board of directors of the Bunker Hill Company. i\lr. Shaw maintains a high rank among the business men of this city. His knowledge of the law, combined with a perfect mastery of every detail of the banking business, eminently qualifies him fo.r the position he now holds. He was married in Rochester, New York, April 30. 1884, to Mary E. Munson. a native of Canandaigua, New York. They ha\e two children, .\rthur ]., Jr., and Eleanor.