Spokane County, Washington - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 5 of 16)

\V. K. H0L:\IES, chairman ni the board of city commissioners, is a native of Dover, England, born November 9, 1839. He early learned the trade of a carpenter and joiner, and at seventeen years of age he came to Milwaukee and engaged in the jiursuit of that handicraft. The following year he liecame a member of Captain Starkweather's Light (luards, and he was in 1861 a memlier of Company .\, I'irst Wisconsin X'olunteer Infantry, for three months in the war of the Reliellion. Subseciuently he enlisted in the Seventh Massachusetts Battery and went with the Nineteenth Army Corps. Mr. Holmes look part in the Red River campaign, the capture of Fort Gaines, Fort Morgan, Mobile, Spanish Fort, JMontgomery, Alabama, and in numerous engagements and skirmishes. He was mustered out in 1865. after having served through the war. Returning to Greenlake county, Wisconsin, he engaged in carpenter work for a short time, but soon mo\-ed to Blue Earth county, Minnesota, where he was occupied as a builder for a number of years. He also kept hotel in Madelia, Minnesota, ten years. In 1890 he came to Spokane and he has been serving the city in a public or semi-public capacity ever since. He was bailiff of the municipal court seven years, then inspector of street building materials in the engineer's department, then a special police officer, and finally, in July, 1899, he became a member of the board of city commissioners. Mr. Holmes is chairman of the board of police and is a street commissioner, building inspector and chairman of the bicycle commission. During his long and \-aried public service in this city Mr. Holmes has invariably proved himself an officer of rare fidelity and ability and he has won the esteem and respect of the best citizens of Spokane. He is a member of the F". & A. i\I., and also of Sedgwick Post, No. 8, G. A. R. He was married in Greenlake county, Wisconsin, December 6, 1866, to Nettie M. Knox, a nati\-e of Wisconsin, and they have two children, Hattie E., wife of INIartin M. Dossett. a banker in Madelia. Minnesota, an<l Frank S.. a railroad man.

i6, 1861. Wlien he was nine years uld his family moved to the vicinity of Xorthfiekl, wliere he attended the jjnljhc schixils. He finished his ethication at the Minneapohs Academy, then hved for a numljer of years at Herman, Minnesota, employed as a clerk and afterwards as deputy postmaster. In 1886 he came to Spokane and after scr\-ing' for a short time in the postoffice secured a position as clerk for I. S. Kaufman & Company, real estate and loans. He soon became a member of the hrm and remained in the business for several years. Sul)se(|uently he (>])ened a real estate office alone, but in 1896 took in his Ijrother, David, forming the present firm. Mr. I'rescott is an active memljer of the First Methodist Episcopal church, being also one of the board of trustees and be was one of those wIkj were acti\'e in starting the Jefferson Street church, located on the northwest corner Sharj) a\-enue and Jefferson. Since his arrival here. Mr. l'resc<itt has been closely connected with the development of tiie city. He has been a liberal contrilnitor to railroads and other enterprises benefiting the public and has earned an hcini)re<I ])lace among the public-spirited men who have made Spokane the queen city of the Inland ICmpire. He was married in Herman, Minnesota. March 3, 1887, to Lottie E. Ouilliam. daugiiter of James and Mary .\. They have fi)ur children, namely: M. Genevieve, (irace, 11. Raymond ar.fl Fred L.

COLONEL LOUIS E. BOYD, city clerk, has long been a resident in the west, and has been prominently connected with manv of the early enterprises. It is as a newspaper man. however, that he has exerted his greatest influence. He was born in Keokuk, Iowa, Mav

-3' I "^59- His mother ha\-ing died when he was only eighteen months nld, he was cared for by an aunt in Illinois during his childhood. When he arrived at the age of thirteen he came to his father, who had taken as a homestead the land on which Baker City now stands. Colonel Boyd recei\'ed his education at the Baker City Academy and Willamette University and subsetiuently learned the trade of a printer. He then came to Walla Walla, entered a printing office and soon became a part owner in the Walla Walla \\'atchman. He afterwards started the Sunday Epigram and was its editor and manager for .some time. In May, 1887, he moved to Crjifax and edited the Palouse Gazette until November, when he went t(j Olympia and was elected enrolling clerk of ^he state senate for the session. In October. 1888, he came to Spokane t(/ accept a position as reporter on the Review, but before the year passed he became city editor, a situation which he retained for a number of years. In 1896 he was elected city clerk, and so eminently satisfactory has been his public ser\ice. that the council has unanimously re-elected him each year since. As a military man. Colonel Boyd lias been no less successful than in the civil walks of life. He joined the state militia. Battery A. while at Walla Walla and was soon elcted second lieutenant. In 1892 he received from Governor I''err\- an appointment on his staff as lieutenant-colonel, a rank which he held for four years. In 1896 he became inspector of rifle practice in the First Cavalry Battalion. Since joining the militia, the Colonel has been an assiduous student of military tactics, and he has now become a tactician of no moderate ability. Socially, he affiliates with the I. O. O I'"., being a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, of this city.

\TCTOR U. SMITH, comptroller, is one of the popular and promising young business men of Spokane. He \\as born August 29, 1866, in New Zealand, where his parents were temporarily residing, his father being at that time connected with a government sur\-ey. \\'hen Victor was \'ery young, the family returned to their former home in Toronto, Canada, where he grew up and received a high school education. After graduating he was employed for several years in various clerical positions. At the time he left for the west he resigned a position as assistant bookkeeper and custom house clerk for the Dominion Trunk & Bag Manufacturing Company. He lived in IMontana and Oregon four years, coming to this city in 1888, where he has been em]:)loyed in the real estate and insurance business and in a clerical capacity ever since. In the spring of 1899 Mr. Smith was nominated by the Republican party for tlie office he now holds, and the confidence and esteem in which he is held, was attested by the fact that his majority was several hundred greater than that of his ticket. For many years Mr. Smith has been active in musical circles as a singer in church choirs and as a musical director in several of the city churches. He is also a prominent member of the Spokane Athletic Club and of the Masonic fraternity. He was married in Spokane to Miss Nellie A. Miles, who died in 1892, leaving one son, Charles M. He has recently married une of Spokane's well-known teachers. Miss Lillian E. Goulet, a graduate of the Academy of Holy Names, also of the Spokane high school.

]\Iaine, born April 10, 1837. In 1858 he went to New Jersey, where he taught school for two and a half years, after which he was employed as locomotive fireman on the D. L. & W. Railroad. On August 28, 1862, he enlisted in Company B, Thirty-first New Jersey Infantry, and before the company was mustered in he was elected second lieutenant. He held that rank until iSC>t,. when he was promoted to the first lieutenancy and transferred to Company F, same regiment. Lieutenant Weymouth tiiok part in the battle of Chancellorsville and in many small engagements along the Rapahannock. He remained with his regiment until June 21, 1863. when his company was mustered out He then returned to the post he had left and was engaged as an engineer on the same road until 1866. Subsequently he had charge for two years of a steam dredge, belonging to the Morris Canal Company, then was a conductor on the Morris & Essex Railroad until March, 1870, whe.-. he went to Kansas and entered the employ of the L., L. & G. R. R. He worked for them as a station agent and in a clerical capacity until February, 1881, when he went to the K. C, Ft. S. & G. R. R. as division superintendent. In Fel.iruar}-, 1883, he came to the Pacific coast to accept a position with the Oregon Improvement Company as assistant superintendent, taking full charge of their interests at Seattle. In July, 1883, he accepted the su])ei'intendencv of the Idaho (li\-isiiin of the Xorthern Pacific Railroad, his headquarters I)eing at Sprague, Washington He remainetl in the employ of that company until 1888, when he mo\-ed to Spokane and turned his attention to street-grade contracting. In .August, 1889, he was gi\-en charge of the city water works and was thus employed until 1895. Ill 1897 he was appointed city commissioner and chairman of the board of public works. As a railroad official, 'Mr. Weymouth won the goodwill and respect of the people generally and his public services in this city have only served to increase his popularity. He is certainly one of the best known and most highly esteemed men in the city. He was married in Maine, August 24, 1863, to Lucinda H. Thorne, who died in Kansas, January 14, 1881. Their children are Eva J., living, and Frank H. and Ada L., deceased.

UILLIA^I H. ACUFF, president of the city council, may truthfully be ranked as one of the leading lights of this city. He is a man of spotless integrity and sterling worth, and enjoys in an unusual tiegree the respect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. He was born in Guynedd, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1846. W'hen he was ten years old his family moved to Illinois and lived on a farm in the vicinity of Decatur until 1863, when they returned to Pennsylvania. After being educated in the public schools of Xorristown, Mr. Acuff returned to Illinois, started a planing mill in Decatur, and was engaged for a number of years in the lumber business. On April 21, 1890, he arrived in Spokane and in February, 1892, helped to organize the Washington Mill Company, whose plant is located on the corner of Cedar street and the Great Northern Railway track. He was secretary of the company from its organization until 1899, when he was elected president. They manufacture lumber, sash and doors, and fruit and packing boxes, giving employment to one hundred and ten men steadily. In May, 1896, Mr. Acuff was elected on the Republican ticket to represent the fourth ward in the city council and his popularity as a public official is attested by the fact that in 1898 he was re-elected, becoming president of the council the following year. Mr. Acuff combines many prepossessing personal characteristics with the executive ability necessary for directing successfully both his own extensive private business and the public aft'airs of Spokane. Socially, he is a prominent thirty-second-degree Mason, and has held many important offices in the fraternity. He was married in Decatur, Illinois, August 22, 1871. to Miss Isabella Bricker, a native of Warsaw, Ohio. His wife died in Spokane Xovember 26, 1896, leaving one daughter, Lillie. wife of J. C. Xeffeler.

BARXET- M. WHITIXG, an honored and esteemed citizen of Spokane, is a native of Long Island, New York, born March 4, 1842. When he was fourteen years old his family moved to Grass Valley. California, where he grew to manhood and learned the trade of a carpenter. He also early l)ecame interested in mining and had a share in many mining enterprises. He followed his trade in various parts of California and from 1879 to 1882 owned an ice factory in Alameda. In August, 1882, he came to Spokane and took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres of land located about a mile north of the present Monroe street bridge. He platted Whiting's addition, of eighty acres, in 1887 and in 1889 Whiting's second addition, also containing eighty acres. This property was at once placed upon the market and has been sold. Until 1890 he followed his trade as a contractor and builder and has erected many of the finest residences in Spokane. Since com- ing to this city he has been closely identified with all its best interests. Being a publicspirited man. he has donated liberally to railroads and to all the early enterprises of the county and has always done his full share towards the development of the city. He is now an interested participant in many mining ventures. Socially, he affiliates with the I. O. O. F. and the B. P. O. E., No. 228, of Spokane. He was married in San Francisco, April 28, 1875. to Matilda Lee, a daughter of William and Alice and a native of New Orleans, born February 17, 1855. They have tliree children living, Cora L.. Effie and George H.. also two deceased, .Mice and Charles.

JAMES ]\I. ROSE, a pioneer of 1877, is a native of Lafayette county, Missouri, born near Auttsville, June 19. 1850. When he was five years old his family started across the plains by ox team. Mr. Rose remembers distinctly the shooting of three highwaymen, captured after stealing the horses belonging t(5 the expedition, but not executed until convicted by a jury of twelve men. Mr. Rose also had a step-sister, Margaret ^aclg^i"- stolen by Lidians, but she was rescued by his father within three hours, after a hard fight with an Indian, who endeavored to protect himself by holding the girl up before him on the horse. The rescuer, however, being an expert rifieman, brought down the Indian without injuring the girl. At length the family located in Linn county. Oregon, and Mr. Rose received an education at Santa Anna .\cademy. Lebanon, Oregon. After graduation he engaged in farming. He also learned the carpenter trade, a handicraft which he used to a good advantage in the Palouse country, after his arrival here in 1877. His principal occupa- -ton. however, was tilling the soil, and for seventeen years before coming to the citv he was a very successful farmer in the Palouse country. Since arriving here he has been mining in the north half of the Colville reservation. He also prospected on Traill creek, British Columbia; was among the first to go in on ]\Iurphy creek. Briti.sh Columbia, and has recentlv l)een prospecting with great success in the Seven Devils country. Idaho. He has several promising claims and an assay office at Granite. Oregon. Mr. Rose was deputy assessor in 1878 and again in 1898 and is now bailiff under Judge Prather. But though an influental man in civilized life, he is also a typical frontiersman, being a veteran hunter and prospector, a hero of the Modoc war. and a capital marksman. Socially, he is a member of the M. \\". of W. He was married in Linn county. Oregon. June II, 1874. to Miss Josephine Crabtree. They have five children, Ira Elmer, Arthur Florence. George W. and Esther. Ira Elmer and Arthur enlisted in Company L, First \\'ashington Volunteers for service in the Spanish war. Elmer was taken with pneumonia in San Francisco and discharged, but .'\rthur served through the entire Philippine war.

A. T. BROWN, .senior member of the firm of Brown Brothers, roofing and cornice manufacturers, is a native of Belleville, Ontario, born May 28, 1863. He was educated in the Belleville high .school and business college, graduating from the latter institution in the spring of 1883, then went to Winnipeg, Manitoba, and remained during the boom of 1885 and 1886, He opened a roofing and cornice business in that city, but soon moved to ]\Iinneapolis, where he remained until 1889. In that year he came to Spokane and opened a business on Division street, but subsequently he remo\"ed to his present site, 415 to 421 3^ Sprague. Mr. Brown is an acti\-e, energetic business man. has devoted his attention assiduously to his line for many years and as a natural result of such concentration is far in the lead of all competitors in the city. He and his brothers, Thomas and James E., who ha\'e been connected with him in all his enterprises, are doing an excellent business and one which will naturally increase as the city C(.)ntinues to grow. Mr. Brown was married .\ugust 2, 1899. ^'^ yh'i. Lillie McCallum. of Spokane.

JOHN BIGHAM, president of the Pacific Transfer Company, a pioneer of 1883, is a nati\-e of New York, born in Coheese. Albany county, August 29, 1835. He attended high school at Sand Lake, New York, but at the age of eighteen came to McHenry county, Illinois, where he went on a farm with his father. He m<)\ed to Minnesota in 1856, locating in Wabasha county, and when twenty-three years old, engaged in the hotel business at Plain View. He remained in the hotel for fifteen years continuously, then traveled for three or four years, finally locating at Fargo. North Dakota, in 1878. After spending about five 3'ears in the real estate business there, he came to Spokane county and settled at Cheney, but after a year's residence returned to Fargo, where he remained about two years. He then came to Spokane and started a transfer coml)any. The business at first only required three horses, but from that small beginning has grown the present powerful concern, which uses twentv-two horses constantlv and has one of the finest barns and best oftices in the city. The remarkable growth of the business in so slmrt a period speaks eloquently for Mr. Bigham's industry, enterprise and straight forward methods of dealing with the people. Like most of the leading citizens of Spokane. Mr. Bigham is interested in mining and is doing his share for the development of the region which is a source of so much wealth to this city. Socially, he is affiliated with the I. O. O. F.. and Blue Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M. He is one of the oldest Masons in Spokane,, ha\ing been identified with that order for thirty-eight years. He was married December 27. 1862. to Mary T. Owens, of Minneiska, Minnesota, and they have had two children, Jeiniie. now Mrs. L. B. Nash, and Nettie (late Mrs. L. B. U'atkins), deceased in 1889. Mrs. Bigham died February 4, 1892.

SAMUEL CROW, furniture dealer, 216 Riverside avenue, a pioneer of 1888. is a native of Alconbury, Huntingdonshire, England, born .April II. 1858. When twelve years old he was apprenticed to the bricklaying trade, but soon gave it up and entered the signal department of the London & Northwestern Railway. In 1876 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, where he resided for sixteen months. He then lived in New York and in Summitt. New Jersey, for several years, engaged in various occupations, but subse(|uently went back to England on a visit. Returning to America in 1884. he located in Minneapolis. Minnesota, where he was employed by Banker V. G. Hush for a time. Soon, however, he embarked in the furniture business, maintaining establishments both in Minneapolis and at Sault Ste. Marie. Michigan, until 1888. when he came to Spukane. His first position here was on the construction work of the S. L. S. & E. R'y, but in a short time he started on a wagon tour o\"er Ste\-ens county, in search of land He purchased a squatter's right on Stranger creek, but soon sold it back t(j the original owner, returned to Spokane and opened a mattress factory. ^Ir. Crow Ijuilt the Den\'er block and started a furniture l)usiness in it, but was burned out in the fire, losing fourteen thousand dollars. Again he opened a mattress factory and engaged in manufacturing mattresses for the tents in use after the fire, but he soon bought the building of J(.)hn F. Spiger on Howard street and once more embarked in the furniture business. He subsecjuently mo\-ed to his present locati(jn. where he has a thri\-ing trade. Mr. Crow is essentially a self-made man, ha\ing worked his way unaided from very small beginnings t(.) a high standing among the business men of the state. He is a stockholder in the Lost Caljin mine in Fourth of July canyi.m, Idaho, and a trustee in the O. S. Gold ]vlining & Smelting Company ; also owns valuable real estate in Spokane, including a beautiful residence on Third avenue and Division street. Fraternally he is identified with Orient Lodge. No. 74. F. & .\. ]\I.. also with Court Royal, Xo. 19, Foresters of America, of which he is a trustee. He was married September 13, 1885. to Charlotte Turner, of Summitt, New Jersey.

LOUIS L. BERTONNE.VU was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. JNIarch 8, 1851. He was etlucated in a pamchial school by the Jesuit Fathers and later learned the trade (jf a shirt and underwear manufacturer, which handicraft he followed for a number of years in his native town. In 1882 he started in the business for himself and remained so employed until i8yo, when he sold (jut to a brother and rem(_)\-ed to San Francisco. He tried the same Iiusiness in that city. Init ni_)t being successful, mo\'ed to Spokane the same year. He ran a shirt factory in the Columbia block one year, then started in the liriuor business in wliich he has Ijeen eminently successful ever since. He owns the Log Cabin saloon, also a block on Monroe and Broadway, and is a shareholder in the Cceur d" Alene Saloon Company. He is also largely interested in miinng and has shares in the Northern Prince, Frankford, St. Bernard. Crystal Butte, and many others. He is a prominent meml)er of Lodge No. 228 of the Elks, has been treasurer of Court Royal, No. 19, Society of Foresters, and belongs to the Knights of Honor and the Eagles. He was married in 1882, to Miss Theresa Toccanick, a native of Lyons, France. She was brought by her parents to New Orleans, when five years old, and received her education in Bav St. Louis convent.

JOHN .\. WILSON, proprietor of the Manhattan cigar store, is an enterprising business man and one of Spokane's leading tobacconists. He was born in Markesan, Green Lake county, Wisconsin, March 31, 1862, but when four years old was taken by his parents to Hastings, Minnesota, where he was raised on a farm and educated in the public schools. In 1883 he engaged in the dairy business in \'alley City, North Dakota, where he remained until tlie fall of 1889. in which year he came to Spokane. He toi )k contracts here for one year, then went into a cigar business in a store on Monroe street. He remained there till June,

1898, then opened up at his present location, 505 Riverside, where he has a large and flourishing trade, built up as a result of his enterl^rise and fair dealings. He owns a beautiful residence at 1513 Second avenue, where he lives surrounded by all the comforts of home. He was married February 22. 1894, to Miss Ida Delzer. of Rightstown, Wisconsin, and they are parents of two children, Ray and Elmer.

CHARLES M. FASSETT, assayer and chemist, is a nati\e of Elmira, New York, born December 23, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of that city and graduated from the Elmira .\cademy in 1874. He studied chemistry under J. Dorman Steele, author of a text book on chemistry which was a standard in schools for a number of years. Mr. Fassett learned tiie drug business and was engaged in it at Elmira for three years, after which he moved to Nevada, where he remained in business for ten years, located at Reno and Ruby Hill. In 1884 he was elected to represent Eureka county in the Nevada assembly, securing a majority far greater than that of his ticket generally. While in the legislature he dis])layed great ability and became the acknowledged leader of the Republican party, both in and out of the state congress. He later served as chief clerk of the assembly for two sessions. In 1889 he came to Spokane and opened an assay office on North Monroe street. Since then his business has grown contiiUKiuslv until it is now far in the lead in this part of the country. In fact, he has one of the finest offices of its kind in the United States and receives custom from all parts of the union. ^Ir.

Fassett also does a great deal of work in mining engineering for clients from all parts of the United States and even for people in London. He takes a very active interest in everything pertaining to the general welfare of this city, being a member of the school board, first vice-president of the chamber of commerce and a trustee in the L'nitarian church, also an active worker in the S. .\. .\. C. He was the first president of the Spokane Acaflemy of Sciences and now belongs to the .American Institute of Mining Engineers and to the American Chemical Society. He was married January i. 1884, to Edith M. Renham, daughter of I. T. Benham, a pioneer contractor and builder, who came to this city in 1879. They are parents of two children. Lewis M. and Katherine Agnes.

EDGAR BATES VAN OSDEL, analytical chemist and assayer. is a native of Warrenville, Illinois, born October 26, 1875. Being the son of a clergy-man, he was early taken from the city of his birth. At the age of twelve he entered a preparatory school at Ottawa, Kansas, and three years later was admitted to Kno.\ College, Galesburg. Illinois, from which institution he graduated at the age of eighteen with the .\. B. degree. He then entered the University of Chicago and spent three years in post-graduate work in chemistry. .\ little later, in 1897, he came to Spokane and went into business in partnership with W. Jones, in the Ziegler block, but the ne.xt summer he l)ought out Mr. Jones, who went to South .Africa. In January, 1898, he moved to larger quarters under the Symons block. In March, 1900, Mr. \'an Osdel was compelled by his ever-increasing business to again enlarge his quarters and as a consequence removed to his present location at the corner of Howard and First a\-enue, where he has the most ciimplete laboratory in the Northwest. He has been chemist to the city hoard of health since September 10. 1897, and is instructor in assaying in the Blair Business College. Though only a young man and a recent arrival in the citv. ]\Ir. Van Osdel has already acfjuired a very enviable reputation and is rajiidly pushing toward the front ranks in his profession. He has a thorough knowledge of his business, is active, energetic and reliable, and can hardly fail of the highest success.

HON. WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, a pioneer of 1883, is a nati\'e of Kalamazoo county, Michigan, born February 5, 1852. At an early age he moved with his parents to Bremer county, Iowa, where the ensuing ten years of his life were spent. He then mox'ed to Leavenworth, Kansas, completed his educatii.m in the public schools there, and, when eighteen, started to learn the printer's trade. Subsequently, he became editor and publisher of the Leavenworth Argus, but soon went to Salt Lake Citv and became part owner of the Salt Lake Tribune. He was a strong opponent of Mormonism, and for ten years kept up a vigorous fight with that element, so that his paper has a \'ery interesting history. In the fall of 1883 he came to Spokane, spent one year in fliiur milling and in mining, then engaged in grain buying and also in selling agricultural implements. He sold out his business in 1887, and was elected mayor in the spring of that year. In the spring of iS(S4 he had secured the water franchise, but, influenced by the wishes of the jieiple. he relinquished Ir.s rights and turned over his franchise to the city that same year. He was. however, one of a company formed to carry the francln'se until the city shoulrl liecome able to do so. In 1888 ]\Ir. Taylor became president of the Spokane National Bank, and also of the Board of Trade, and he occupied the latter position during the entire boom period. He raised a subsidy of one hunrlrefl and seventy-five thousan<l dollars for the S. L., S. & E. R. R., and one hundred thousand dollars for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad. He was, by the way, one of the originators of the latter road, and had marie a survey as far as Colville before turning o\-er his franchise to ^Iv. Corbin. Since 1890 he has given his attention exclusively to mining and is now interested in many of the leading mines in Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. ]\Ir. Taylor has been a very active man in building up and developing this city, has contributed liberally of his time and money to many of the early enterprises, and has always taken a zealous interest in every undertaking for the promotion of the general welfare. He was married September 3. 1874, to !Miss Charlotte E. Wyrick, of Gardner, Kansas, and they are parents of three children : Frank W. H., Edgar W. and Gertrude.

CH.VRLES F. S:\IILEY, a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Yuba county, California, born in Marysville October 29, 1863. When quite young he went to San Francisco, where he atended school until coming to Spokane. He came here with his brother-in-law, ]\Ir. W. C. Gray, who opened the first hotel in the citv, the California House, where the city hall now stands. He remained in business with him for ten vears. then returned to California and entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Raih'oad Company, but in the same year he came back to Spokane and engaged in farming near the city. In 1890 lie went to Idaho, where for the ensuing four }'ears he followed his former occupation, farming. Subsequently he sold (lut, returned to Spokane, antl after being employed in \-arious capacities for a couple of years accepted a position with John W. Graham & Company as cit_\' solicitor, and he has been performing his duties as such continuously since. He is a man of energy, tact and busines ability, and his ])ersonal good qualities render him a uni\x'rsal fa\-orite. He was married in Sptjkane August 14. 188G. to Eliza W. Morris, daughter of Thomas Morris, of this city, and they ha\'e two children : Clara. born April _'[. 1887. and Amy Gladys, born April 14. 1894.

J. II. GRIFFITH, of the Griffith Heating & I'lumbing Supply Company, is a native of Illinois, born in Princeton I'ebruary 20. 1859. He was educated in the public schools of that town and when sixteen years old apprenticed to learn the machinist and engineering business with the P. M. Manufacturing Company. He remained with them fi\e years, then accepted a position w ith the Haxtun Steam Heating Company, of Kewanee. Illinois, now known as the Western Tube Company. In 1888, while still in their employ, he was sent tcj Spokane to start Holley. Mason & Company in. the business of steam and hot-water heating, and after the death of Mr. Holley became a stockholder of the firm. He remained with them through the building boom subsequent to the fire, and had full charge of their steam and hot-water heating department. In March.

1892, he bought their heating business and started for himself, opening up under the firm name of the Griffith Heating & \'entilating Company in a small building on Howard street. He continued in business until March. 1894, when the present firm was formed. In 1898 they concluded that there was sufficient field for a jobbing supply house, so they branched out in that line and ha\-e been very successful in ])uilding up an e.xceilent business. Mr. Griffith has devtjted his entire time and energy assiduously to one line since early boyhood, and he has the mastery of his vocation which one would naturally expect from such c(jncentration. His minute knowledge of the details of his business, ccjnibined with industry and fidelity, are tiie means by which his success has been attained. He is interested in miningto some extent and owns considerable real estate in Spokane and at St. Joseph. Missouri, and the firm own their own building. Socially he is affiliated with the I. O. O. F.. the Elks, the K. P.. the A. O. I'. W. and the Bankers Life Association.

AXEL HERMAN, a pioneer of 1SS6. is a native of Denmark, born near Copenhagen March 20. 1867. He was educated in the public schools of his own country and afterward at college, from which he graduated when eighteen years old. He emigrated to America the following year and after a short residence ir Iowa came to Spokane and found employment with the Spokane Street Railway Company. He worked for them six years as superintendent of construction, then for the city as assistant street superintendent two years, after which lie engaged in contracting. During the three years spent in that business he had several contracts from the company for which he had formerly worked, and one to set the poles for the Edison Company. Later, however, he hecame interested in mining, ])rospected the Huckleherry mountains and lucatetl a number of claims, many of which promise well. In July. 189S. he bought out the Stillwater Exchange and has since lieen engaged in that Ijusiness. Mr. Herman is a \'ery actix'e Republican and takes a lively and intelligent interest in all the issues of his party. He is also looked upon as a prominent man in mining circles and has been president of the Herman Gold & Copper Mining Company, also i>f the Hecla and the Edna Cold & Copjjer ^Mining Companies. He is a member of the Red Men and the Foresters. He was married January i, 1899, to Masalina V. Comstock. of Boscobel, ^\'isconsin.

CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, senior member of the firm of Andersen Brothers, grocers, 401 Riverside, is a pioneer of 1888. He was born in Rebe, Denmark, May 29, 1854, was educated in the public schools there, and when seventeen vears old set sail for America. He settled in Avoca, Iowa, engaged in the general merchandise business, and remained there for eight years, then came to Wakefield, Nebraska, to open a branch store. He was at this time a junior member of the firm of O. B. Nelson & Company, of Avoca. He remained in Wakefield until 1888, then came to Spokane where the firm had opened a grocery store the year before. Their place of business, located on Howard and Riverside, was liurned nut in the fire of 1889, and they reopened at the present location. In 1895 Andersen and his lirother bought out ^Ir. Nelson and they have ever since been doing business under the present firm name. When ]\Ir. Andersen arrived in America he was without capital or influence, and he owes his success to his own patient industrv and assiduous attention to business. Socialh- he is a member of the Royal Arcanum. He was married to Miss Marie Nelson, of Avoca, Iowa, ]\Iay 29, 1875, and they are parents of two children. Elmer and Lulu.

E. H. STANTON, owner of a cold storage plant liii Ri\-erside a\'enue, is a native of New Hampshire, born in Bartlett, November 24, 1862. He was educated in the public schools of that vicinity, but at the age of eighteen left school to engage in the meat market Inisiness in his native town. In 1890 he moverl to Sprague, Washington, and opened a wholesale and retail packing house, but was burned out in the fire of 1895. He then came to Spokane and organized a firm known as the Spokane Meat Company, to build a cold storage plant and run a general packing house, manufacturing all packing house products. Since that time he has bought out one after another of his partners until he now owns the entire business himself, including a modern abbatoir, located two miles east of the city. Mr. Stanton began life without capital, and has never received anything by inheritance, so that he owes his success solely to his own enterprise and abilitv. He has now a business unsurpassed by any of its kind in the state, and he ships to British Columbia and all parts of \\'ashington, Idaho and Montana. His trade has grown steadily from the beginning, and he now has twenty-two employees on his pay-roll. Socially Mr. Stanton affiliates with the Maccabees. He was married February 4, 18S4, to Mi.ss Cora

GEORGE H. HUGHES, a partner in the Griffith Heating & Phimbing Supply Company, is a native of London, England, born No\-ember 29, 1850. When only one year old he was brought by his parents to Utica, New York, and in that city received his education. At the age of fourteen he left school to engage in farm work, and three years later he entered the employ of Charles JMiller & Son, of Utica, as an apprentice to the plumber's trade. He afterward worked for the same firm two years as a journeyman, but l)egan business for himself at twenty-three, furmmg the firm of ^\'icks & Hughes. After a period of eighteen months they took in Lester (jriffith as a partner and the firm then became known as Wicks, Hughes & Griffith. They did business under that name in Utica from 1874 to 1894, then Mr. Griffith resigned and the firm has since been operating in the east as Wicks, Hughes & Company. In 1888 they established a branch store in Watertown, New York, and two years later one at Thousand Island Park, New York, and one in Spokane, Mr. Hughes coming ' to open up the business in that city. In luc spring of 1894 Mr. J. H. Griffith, of Spokane, was taken into the branch Inisiness iiere and the present firm was organized. The firm in Utica is among the largest contractors in the state of New York and did the plumbing on Thousand Island Hotel and on a great many of the jjulatial summer resiliences for which the islands are noted. The tirm in Spokane easily stand at the head in their line of business here, shipping goods to all parts of Washington, Idaho, Alontana and British Columbia. IMr. Hughes is also interested more or less in mining, is a stockholder in the Rambler and Caribou mines, as well as in numerous other properties. He is essentially a self-made man, having wrought his way up from a very small beginning to a place of leadership in the business world without financial help from any source. In his remarkably successful career he has overcome obstacles that would have been prohibitive to a less courageous spirit. He probably owes his success to his thorough mastery of every detail of his business, the fact that he possesses the sagacity to see and the courage and resolution to grasp his opportunities. Mr. Hughes is a member of the National Union, of which he was president for the past year. He was married on May 10, 1876, to Miss Sarah E. Clark, of Mohawk, New York, and they have a family of three children, Edward H., Clara E. and Ina H.

JOHN A. PEACOCK, attorney at law, office, 416 Rookery, is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, born Augvist 14, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Newport, Kentucky, but when sixteen years old left school to enage in business with his father, who was a ct)ntractor and builder. After spending some time in that business he took up the study of law in the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in 1888. He then entered the office of R. W'. Nelson, at Newport, Kentucky, and studied under him until he secured admission to the bar. After practicing there for a brief period he went to Pierre, South Dakota, where he opened an office in the fall of 1889. Three years later, in 1892, he came to Spokane and began practice in the Traders' block. Subsequently, in 1895, he moved to Hazel block and entered into partnership with Mr. S. A. Wells, with whom he was associated until Mr. Wells received an appointment as receiver in the land (jffice. In May, 1899, he came to his present quarters where he has a fine practice. Mr. Peacock is a lawyer of ability, and his business, already large, is sure to increase as time goes on. He owns a comfortable home on Maxwell avenue. He is also interested in mining to some extent. On July 3, 1893, he was married to Miss Annette Denton, of Rochester. [Minnesota, and they are parents of two children. John Denton and Ethelind.

OLI\'ER R. STOCKWELL, a pioneer of 1887, is a native of \"ermont, born in Waterbury, December 9, 1851. He acquired his education in the public schools and in Green Mountain Seminary. When twenty-two years old he became a trainman on the Central Vermont Railroad. In three months he was gi\'en charge of a train as conductor, but, after eighteen months, was compelled to give up on account of sickness. Upon recovering he was appointed station agent on the ]\Iontpelier & Wells River Railway, but two years later resigned and entered the New Jersey Business College of Newark, New Jersey, as teacher and advertiser. He spent a year there, then opened a real estate, insurance, commissiiju and auctioneering business, which be conducted alone for fifteen months, then with a partner until 1S83. For some time subsequent to that date he was engaged in no active business. At length, howex'er, he v»ent to Eiiilclon, Xcw l!anii)shire. and worked at inside hardwood finishing. He came to Sptikane in the si)ring of 1887 under a six months' contract for carpenter work, but after two months and a half purchased his release and went into the grocery store of Gates & Company as salesman. Shortly afterward he bought a half interest in the company. Fie remained in the business until the summer of 1889, selling out just before the fire, then engaged in real estate brokerage in partnership with J. M. Martin. In 1891 he was sworn in as a police officer and he served thereafter until February 28, 1895, being jailor and desk sergeant for two years of that time. Since retiring from office he has frequently served as special officer and in every instance has proved himself one of the most trustworthy and reliable men ever placed on the city's pay roll. He is now the owner of several promising mining claims. Socially he is affiliated with the ^laccabees. He was married October 20, 1880, to Miss Sarah E. Hinds, of Newark, New Jersey, and they have one daughter, Jennie, born November 10, 1884.

JOHN J. BROWN is a native of Sumner county, Tennessee, born J^Iarch 23, 1827. At an early age he was taken by his parents to Illinois. His early educational advantages were scanty enough, Init be afterward took a course at Cumberland College. On January II, i8j2. he was married to Miss Sarah E. Kirkpatrick, with whom, a few months later, he set out for Oregon. Their company had manv encounters with Indians, chief among which were the famous battle of Shell Creek and the severe engagement at Pacific Springs, where the Clark and Oatman families were killed a short time liefore. Arriving in Linn countv, Oregon, Mr. Brown and his wife each received from the government a ijuarter-section of land and at once engaged in fanning and stock raising. ^Nlr. Brown was the breeder and raiser of the fammis Imrse Wehfoot. In tiie spring of i8Si he came to Spokane county and took a homestead, upon whicli he resided until 1886, He then engaged in the real estate husiness in this city, following that until 1893, when he turned his attention to mining. He and his sons have large interests in the Bullion mine. Mr. Brown was formerly (juite prominent in local politics. Fraternally he is an Odd Fellow and a prominent thirty-seconddegree Mason. Mr. Brown has four sons: Z. M., a large dealer in Portland, Oregon; J. F.. manager of the Eagle A\'oolen Mills; Z. D., now in Cape Notue, Alaska, and II. J., a clerk in the land office in Spokane.

CHRISTIAN NAGEL, a pioneer of 1885, is a nati\e of W'urtemherg, Germany, born April 30, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of his fatherland, but at the age of fourteen left to learn the cabinetmaker's trade. He was engaged as a journeyman in that business from 1867 to 1880, living, during that time, in a great many difl'erent cities in German\-. In 1880. howexer, he came to America, Icicatingin l'hiladeli)liia, where he followed his trade for the ensuing five years. He then mo\-ed to Clark's Forks. Idaho, built a shingle mill and remained there until 1887, wlien he came to Spokane, .\rri\ed here he opened a saloon known as the ^Montana Exchange, which burned down in the fire of 1889. He did business for a while thereafter in a tent, but in 1890 built the stone saloon and frame lodging house near the Northern Pacific Railroad depot. In 1890 he m<i\'ed to Sprague, between Mill and Post, and three years later opened the Panhandle saloon opposite the Auditorium, where he is doing business at present. He is affiliated fraternally with the Sons of Herman, being a charter member of Spokane Lodge. No. 9, also with the Red Men. lie was married November iTi, 1881. to Mary Heck, of Bietigheim, Baden, and they have five children : .\nnie, Louisa, \\ iiliam, I""re(lerick and Louis, Mr. Nagel owns a fine residence at No. 1524 Fourth avenue, as well as considerable other propcrlx- in the city, and he is quite extensively interested in mining.

F. M. ELLSWORTH, of Ellsworth & Flemming. lawyers, a pioneer of 1877. is a native of Pennsylvania, born March 4, 1844. When three montiis old he was taken by his parents to the site of the present town of .\insworth. Iowa, and he received his education in Washington College. On July 22. 1861. he enlisted as a ])rivate in Company F, Fifth Iowa Infantry, which served under Genera! (irant. He was promoted for bravery at luka, Mississippi, tn tiie rank of second lieutenant of Fourth Iowa Battery. Mr. Ellsworth participated in the battles of luka. Corinth. Thibodaux. Shreveport and many other engagements and skirmishes. He was wounded in the l)attle at luka. On leaving the army he entered upon the study of law in the office of Major John F. Lacey at Oskaloosa. Iowa, and he was admitted to the bar of Nebraska in 1869. He practiced in that state for nine years, serving one term as prosecuting attorney. He also was representative of the tenth district in the state legislature, elected on the Republican ticket. In 1871 he removed to Seattle. Washington, where he practiced in company with Hon. C. H. Hanford until 1878. In 1879 he came to Colfax, where he resided until 1897. He served as prosecuting attorney of Whitman county from 1881 to 1883, and during 1888 was United States commissioner under Judge Hanford. Since 1897 he has l^een practicing his professimi in SiKikane. Mr. Ellsworth has the distinction of having tried the first case that ever came up in a court of this county after its organization, a case before Justice Ste\-e Liberty. He also attended the first Court held in Stevens county. Mr. Ellsworth has witnessed the development of our state jurisprudence almost from its beginning and is perhaps well posted in the statutory law of Washington past and present. He ranks among the ablest attorneys' of this city. He is president of the Columbia River ]\Iining Company and secretary and treasurer of the Empire Mining & Milling Company. Fraternally he is a Blue Lodge ?iIason, an Od<l Fellow and a meml)er of the G. A. R. He was married March 21. 1871. to Emeline Smith, of Hamilton, (Jntario, and they have five children ; Minnie, Carrie, Susie, James and I'rank.

JAAIES MORRIS, a pioneer of 1879 and one who has done much for the development of Spokane, is an Englishman by birth. He came to .\merica in early life, finally drifting to California, where after years of successful speculation he at length lost his fortune in the stock market of San Francisco. He then decided to come north, not ha\-ing any fi.xed destination in \'iew, but resoh'ed to find a place which, as he jiithily expressed it, "was not. but was sure to be.'" -\t Pendleton. Walla ^^'alla. Lewiston and many other towns he heard the opinion expressed that Spokane, should it e\-er get a railroad, would surely become to a great city. So he came here, and, finding the town as rich in undeveloped resources as he could desire, decided to cast in his fortunes with Spokane. He ojiened a mercantile esta])lishment and continued in that business four years, then sold out at auction. He has ever since gi\-en his attention to handling and impro\'ing real estate, mining, etc. He erected a great many buildings both liefore and after the fire. Indeed, he is proniinent among the men whose energy, enteri)rise and courage have cmu'erted the wilderness into the busy and prosperous city. He has contributed with liberal hand to the earh- impro\-ements and enterprises and has e\'er manifested a willingness to bear a lion's share i)f the ]niblic burdens. Indeed, he is in e\ery respect a worthy citizen and just such a man as is needed in the development of a new city.

JOHN W, DIM MICK, a pioneer of 1877, is a native of Illinois, born June 11, 1847. ^'^ 1 852 he emigrate<l with his parents to the Willamette valley, Oregon, where he was reared. When fourteen he lost his parents and was thereafter left to his own resources without an}'thing upon which to rely except a common-school education. He came to Walla Walla in i86j and worked at anything he could get for two years, then went back to Oregon and attended school a couple of years. In iS()4 he went to southern Oregon, but after working in the mines a year returned to the valley again. He made a trip to eastern Oregon, then spent two years in the mines of Sacramento valley, California, finally returning to his early iKime. In 1877 he came to Spokane countv, took a pre-emption in Rock Creek vallev and later homesteaded the same claim. He was engaged in farming there until 1899. In that year he came to the city of Spokane, where he has resided since. Mr. Dinimick is one of the rehable and tlioroughh- trustwortli}' citizens of the count}', liighiy esteemed and respected by all. An old pioneer, he has witnessed the gradual transition of the country from barbarism to civilization, and in all these years he has invariably manifested a willingness to help along everything for the best interests of the country. He assisted in erecting the first school and church Iniilding in Rock Creek xalley. He was married in Lane county, "Oregon, October _'4, 1872, to Mary Josephine .Montgomery, a natix'e of Lane county. Oregon, -and they have three children: Loyal P... Clara M. and Minnie Lee. Fraternally -Mr. Dimmick is affiliated with the F. & .\. ^L

H. MIEDEKIXC;. a pioneer of 1886, is a native of Ohio, born November 17, 1865. He acquired his education in the public schools in Nelson College, from which institution he graduated in 1882, though at that time only seventeen vears old. In 1886 he arrived in Spokane. and. having great faith in its future, he settled here and has been i)rominently connected with the business interests of the city ever since. Fraternally he is identified with the Elks and the Foresters.

D. A. D.\RLING. proprietor of the Fountain Sample Rooms, is a native of Iowa, born March 5. 1865. When fifteen years of age he went to Brownsdale, Minnesota, where he grew to manhood, and where for a number of years he was engaged in farming. In 1887 he removed to }iIinneapolis. Minnesota, and embarked in the grocerv business, but eighteen months later he came to Ritzville, \\'ashington, and opened a place of business there. He resided in tliat town continuously imtil 1896, in which year he came to Spokane and engaged in his present business. He is a verV enthusiastic fraternal man. being a member of the Uniform Rank. K. 1',. the B. P. O. E., No. 228. of Spokane, tlie Improved Order of Red Men, No. 9, of which he is trustee, the Foresters of America, and the F. O. E. He was married in Ritzville, Washington, October 9, 1895, to Miss Sylvia V. Lee, a native of Ohio, and they are parents of one child, Mabel L.

SAMUEL DLMMICK. a pioneer of 1875, is a native of Illinois, born in Schuyler county December 17, 1850, but he may truthfully be classed as a son of the west, having been brought to Oregon by his parents when only two years old. His father took a donation lantf claim in Benton county. Oregon, and Mr. Dimmick was raised there, receiving such education in the ])ublic schools of that period afforded. He was left an orphan at the age of ten years and went to live with his sister and brother-in-law. Mr. Star. .\s s(X)n as he became fifteen he started in life for himself and he continued to work as a farm hand until twentyone, then as foreman for three years longer. In 1875 he came to Whitman county, Washington, and took a ])re-emption. u\K>n which he resided continuously until November, 1881, when he mo\ed his family to Palouse City. From 1875 to 1881 he was engaged in freighting lietween Walla Walla. Lewiston and Spokane, and he was here when there was ncjthing beside the falls but a few huts and when all the supplies had to be brought from Walla Walla. He mo\ed his familv from Palouse

City to Spokane on December lo, 1898. Mr. Dimmick is well known to all the old settlers of this section far and near and he commands their respect, confidence and good will. He is an industrious, public-spirited man, and has done much for the improvement of his community and for the general progress. He is a member of Palouse Lodge, No. 46. A. F. & A. yi. He was married June 20, 1874, to Elizabeth A. Breeding, of Lane county, Oregon, a daughter of William P. Breeding, a pioneer of Oregon of 1849. They have three children : Carrol Bertram, Pliny Justin and JMary Edna, the last named of whom is a member of the First Presbyterian church of this citv.

HARVEY J. MARTIN, captain fire station No. I, Spokane, is a native of Illinois, born in Decatur, August 30, 1865. He was educated in the public schools until seventeen, then sjjent a year in the normal and two years in Champaign College. Upon completing his education he engaged with his brother in tile manufacturing in Macon county, following that business for about a year. He then, in 1887, came to Spokane where for two years he was engaged as a real estate speculator, being connected at the same time with a cigar and tobacco store on Post street. After the fire he was engaged in contracting for a time, then bought out the ticket brokerage and real estate business of P. D. Tull, forming the firm of Hobs & Martin. He was thus employed until August, 1 89 1, when he received an appointment on the fire department. He was promoted to the position of foreman in 1892 and td the captaincy of station No. i in 1894. Mr. Martin has always been a faithful and efficient officer and has contributed not a little toward making the department an honor to the city and a source of pride to its citizens. He has the courage, presence of mind and coolness of judgment so essential to a successful fireman, and in every respect is eminently qualified for the responsible position he iiolds. He is interested in mining to some extent. Fraternally he is affiliated with the I. O. O. F, and the Red Men, and he was presiding officer in the latter order for the term just past. He was married in this city May 10, 1898, to Mary Fryer, a pioneer of Spokane.

Benjamin Franklin Pangburn

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PANGBURN, a pioneer of 1S79, was born in Onondaga county. New York, September 15, 1830. He was reared on a farm, obtaining such educatiinial ad\-antages as the common schools of the period aft'orded. At the age of thirteen he started in life for himself, his first position being driver for the York & Erie Canal Company. He was thus employed for two years, then worked as a farm hand for three, after which he was engaged for a period of five years in getting out ship timber and staves. From that time until 1859 he was employed in various capacities, but he then moved to Wisconsin, took a homestead and engaged in farming. In 1864 he enlisted in Company A, Fifty-third Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and from that date till June 28, 1865, he served in the Western Di- \-ision. Being discharged then on account of disabilitv, he returned to his farm in Wisconsin. In 1877 he started for Texas, but, on reaching Independence, Kansas, he gave up the idea and decided to locate there. After a residence of two years he started by wagon for Washington Territory. He resided on a farm on Pine Creek, Whitman county, seven years, then removed to Deep Creek Falls, Spokane county, where the ensuing three years uf his Hfe were passed. In 1888 he came to tiiis city, where, until 1895, he was engaged in the cattle business, since which he has lived in retirement here. He was married in the state of New York January 28, 1858, to Elizabeth Britton, a native of Friendship, that state, and they are parents of five chilrlren : Alice, wife of Mr. J<ihn Butler, of Whitman county ; Ada, deceased; W'illianq ; Maude, wife of Ed. Moore, of Spokane, and Edith, bookkeeper for the Pratt Company of this city. Fraternally Mr. Pangburn is a member of the G. A. R.

DR. F. PIKE, \eterinary surgeon, 328 ]\Iain avenue, is a native of Toronto, Canada, born January 2, 1865. He was educated in the public schools and in 1885 graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College, of Toronto. He practiced two years in his home city, then started for California. He did not reach his destination, however, for, upon arriving in Spokane, he yielded to the advice of Mr. H. Hayward and iMr. Bolster and decided to try liis foutunes in this city. And. indeed, he has never for one moment had occasion to regret that choice, for his abilities as a \eterinarv soon came to be appreciated and his practice has grown with a steadiness which has been very gratifying. Dr. Pike is a graduate of an institution universally recognized as among the very best of its kind on the American continent, and he has added to his college training the careful and assiduous study of later years, so that he may truthfully be classified among the best surgeons of the Pacific coast. His success is the natural result as it is the just reward of his careful, persistent antl well-directed effort. He is interested cpite extensively in mines, and has some stock that promises to yield large returns. Dr. Pike served through the Reil rebellion in northwestern Canada, entering as a private and being promoted on account of distinguished ser\ice to the rank of corporal. He took [jart in the battle of Cut Knife creek and in numerous other engagements and skirmishes. He belonged to the Queen's Own Rifles and served with them during 1884 and 1885.

PH1NE.\S GILBERT, a pioneer of 1885, is a native of Iowa, born .\pril i, 1843. When four years old he crossed the plains with his ]Kirents to Oregon and he was reared and educated in I'enton ctnuity, where his parents located. .\t the age of twenty he was apprenticed to the wagonmaking trade and he followed that business continuously for fifteen years thereafter, maintaining a wagon factory in Monroe, Benton county. Oregon. In 1878 he purchased a farm in Lane county and devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits until 1885, when he came to Spokane. Since his arrival here he has been engaged in mining and prospecting. He located the Ben Hur in Republic camp and has extensive interests, in the Okanogan country and in the south half of the Colville reservation. One of the most promising properties in which he is interested is the Orient .grouj). Mr. (jilbert is a very enterprising and progressive man and one who will do all that can be done to make a success of his mining ventures. It is to be sincerely hoped that fortune will smile benigrdy upon him and give him the reward which his industry and courage so richly merit. Fraternally he is a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married on the lotli of November, 1868, I to Adelia A. Bowen, a native of Benton county.

Oregon, who died on June 28, 1898. leaving three children: Annie L.. now ]\Irs. W. R. Brown: Guy C. and Earl Tempest. Religiously Mr. Gilhert is a memher of the First ?iIethodist Episcopal church of this city.

WILLIA:\I R. BROWN, foreman of truck 2, fire station No. i, Spokane, is a native of Maiden, Massachusetts, born August 23. 1S70. He received his education in the public schools of that state, but left school when sixteen and started to learn a trade. He gave up. however, before his time expired and went to work for the Boston Rubber Shoe Company, by whom he was employed for about two years. In April. 1890. he came to Spokane. He first started a restaurant on the corner of Post and Second and ran it about four months, then followed various occupations until .\ugust. 1892. when he was appointed to the fire department. He is a very courageous, efficient officer, quick (jf decision and cool of judgment, and is doing his share toward making and keeping the department thoroughly up-to-flate, and equal to the best on the coast. He was married in June. 1895. ^o Annie Gilbert, and they ha\-e had two children, Jessie Earl, deceased, and Alelba C. Socially Mr. Brown is affiliated with the Red Men. the Junior Order of American Mechanics and the Foresters.

started in life. for himself, following it until 1879. when he went to Arizona and engaged in mining. He resided in that state until 1885. then went to Alaska, and was one of the first to discover gold on Forty Mile creek in the Yukon district. After spending six months as a miner and prospector in the frozen north, he came to Washington, and in 1887 engaged in the hotel business at Riparia for the O. R. & N. Company. In 1888 he engaged in business and farming in \Miitman county. He followed that continui:iusly until 1898, then came to Spokane and bought out the Hotel Pedicord. ^Ir. Watsmi is an active, enterprising man. who usually succeeds in anything he undertakes, and he will doubtless build \.\\) a large and profitable Inisiness in the splendid hotel building he now occupies. Fraternally ]\Ir. Watson is identified with the Elks and the Knights of Pythias. He was married October 6, 1879. to 3.1iss Lucy Nicholson, of North Carolina, and they have three children. Elmer. Paul and Gerald.

WILLIA:M WATSON, proprietor of the Hotel Pedicord. is a native of New Brunswick, Canada, born November 22. 1858. When eight vears old. he emigrated to California with his parents, and he acquired his education in the public schools there. He was reared on a farm, so naturally took to that occupation when he

CHRISTOPHER C. DEMPSEY, a pioneer of 1888, is a native of Wisconsin, born in Dodge county December 28, 1858. He was reared on a farm in that state, attending school winters, and when twenty-four years old went to Chicago, where he fullnwed various occupations for three years. He then went to New Orleans and remained there some time, working for the Exposition Company during the exposition of 1885. Sub.se(|uently he removed to the Panhandle of Texas, where for two years he was in the cattle business, then went to Denver, Colorado, and ran a restaurant business for a year. He sold his interests there in the fall of 1888, came to Spokane and opened a restaurant on Post street, but this he sold out just in time to escape lieavy loss in the fire of 1889. After the fire he opened another business of the same character on Bernard and operated it successfully until the fall of 1896, when he was elected sheriff on the Fusion ticket. He served in that capacity with great faithfulness and ability fur two years, giving such excellent general satisfaction that he was all but re-elected in 1898. notwithstanding the overwhelming Republican landslide of that year. After retiring from the sheriff's office he purchased the ^b.idel ]i\-ery staljles and ran them successfully until January, 1900. when he sold out and purchased the Dempsey House, northwest corner of ]\Iain and Stevens streets, where he is now in business. Though possessed of very little capital when he arri\-ed here in 1888, ;Mr. Dempsey has been enabled by his industry and business astuteness to accjuire considerable wealth. He has large real estate interests in Stouts addition and is very extensively interested in mining-, b'raternally he affiliates with the M. W. of W. and with the Elks. On September 26. 1889, '^e was united in marriage with Ellen Lincoln, of Union, Oregon, and they are parents of four children : Mary, Josephine, James and Robert. Mr. Dempsey's mother, now in her eighty-first year, resides with him in Spokane at the present time. She was one of the early pioneers of Wisconsin.

WILLIAM HOLLIXGBERY. of the firm of Canfield & Hollingbery, plumbers, 924 Sprague avenue, is a native of England, born November 19. 1869. He was brought by his parents to Kansas when three years old and was educated in the public schools and in Manhattan College, from which he graduated at the age of nineteen. He learned the plumbing trade in Kansas City, Missouri, working there three years, after which he came to \\'ashington. locating in Seattle in 1889. He was engaged in business there .till the spring of 1894. then came to Spokane and opened a shop at his ])resent location, going into partnership with Mr. Canfield. Both members of the firm are first-class tradesmen and they have built up an extensive and profitable business.

FRED X. M.VRTIX, a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Iowa, born in Ottumwa January 31, 1870. When two years old he was brought by his parents to California and he received his early education in the public schools of Truckee. In 1884 lie came to Spokane and after supplementing his common-school training by a year's study in Prof. Libby's private college went into business with his father. Nelson Martin, taking charge of the latter's entire stage, express and freight business. He was thus employed till the fall of 1886, when he entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Express Company as messenger, a position which he retained until 1889. He was then appointed secretary of the Spokane Truck & Dray Company, but the ne.xt year he became mes.senger for the Pacific Express Company. In 1893 he became cashier in the Spokane office and since 1894 has retained the position of agent continuously. Mr. Martin is a steady, industrious, thoroughly reliable young man, enjoying the confidence of his employers and the res])ect and good will of all who know him. By his energy and frugality he has already become well to do, being the owner of an elegant home on Perry street and Marietta avenue, as well as considerable other city real estate, besides many promising mining properties. Fraternally he is identified with the K. P. and the Elks. On April 3, 1897. he was married to Miss Belle Gifford, of Spokane.

J. W. SEA:\IAX, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Xew York City .\pril 3. 1812. When about twenty years old he went to Xew Orleans, where for a number of years he was engaged in steamboating on the Mississippi river. In 1849 '^^ removed to California to trv his fiirtunes in the mines and he followed mining and merchandising in that state for the ensuing ten years. At the time of the first ^Montana excitement in 1859 he came to Washington, but soon remo\-ed to Florence. Idaho, where he started a store. In 1883 Mr. Seaman settled in Spokane and the following year engaged in the hotel business, an industry to which his energies were devoted until June 28, 1897, when he died. He was a veteran of the Mexican war and entitled In a pension, but always refused to make application for one, saying that he had fought for his country and not for money. He was a man of unconquerable C(jurage, a dauntless pioneer, a true patriot and a most exemplary citizen. He was married in Little Rock. Arkansas, in 1846, to Miss Anna Danforth, and they became parents of nine children, eight of whom are still living, namely: Henrietta, now ]\lrs. (jeorge Starrett; .Adeline, now Mrs. .\. Rossi: Mary, wife of S. H. Lewis; Daniel Jarvis; Frances, now Mrs. Clayton: Margaret, wife of John Glover ; Caroline, now Mrs. Sherman, and Henry W. ^Irs. Frances Clayton, daughter of J. W. Seaman, was born in Stockton, California. June 27, 1853. She received her early education from the Sisters of Xotre Dame at

San Jose and graduated from the school conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Names at Portland. Oregon, in 1873. She then returned home to Walla Walla, where, in 1875, she married Air. Samuel C. Clayton. She went with her husjjand to Boise, Idaho, and there resided until, in 1881, she became a widow. From 1883 until her father's death, in 1897, she was with him in the hotel, but since that date she has been teaching needle art work. She resides with her sister, Mrs. Sherman.

Henry ^\'. Seaman, son of Jasper \V., a pioneer of 1879, was born in Boise City, Idaho, August 19, 1867. He was educated in the public schools of that city, also in Whitman College at Walla Walla and in the Cheney Xormal School. He was associated with his father, under the tirni name of J. W. Seaman & Son, in \-arious restaurant and hiitel enterprises until the fire of 1889, after which he opened the American Resort Restaurant. He ran that for eighteen months, but in 1892 went out of business and is now tra\'eling throughout the eastern states. He was second assistant foreman of the old volunteer hook and ladder company and after the fire was elected foreman. He also served a year cm the call list, after the organization of the paid department. He was a charter member of Company G, the first company organized in Spokan*. In fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men.

WILLIAM D, BEXSOX. a pioneer of 1887. is a nati\'e of X'ew York state, born at Saratoga July 4, 1857. When three years old he was brought by his parents to Carrollton. Illinois, where his father engaged in manufacturing carriages. He acquired his educa- tion tliere, living with liis parents till nineteen years old. then removed to California. After residing in that state a year and a half he went hack to Minneapolis and learned the harl)er"s trade. He then went into Inisiness for himself, maintaining a shop there until 18S7, when he remo\'ed to Spokane. He workeil as a journeyman here f<jr a short time, but soon opened a shop of his own on Post street, where he did business until the hig fire burned him out. After the fire he located on the corner of Monrtie and Sprague, remaining there until the Hogan lilock was completed, when he removed to his present location. 8 P(jst street. Mr. Benson is one of the oldest antl most successful barbers in Spokane and has the most ci:)mpleteh' e(|uipijed shop in the city, lie has acquired cjuite extensise interests both in Sf^okane real estate and in mining jiropertics, being owner of the .Mbion mine and various others. Fraternally he is identified with the L O. O. F. and the A. O. C. W. lie was married on August 6, 1883. to Fliza Bouesquet, of Alinneapolis. and they have three children. Max, Mollie and Irene.

LOUIS M. DAX'EXPORT, one of the most successful business men of Spokane, proprietor and manager tif Davenport's restaurant, 805-809 Sprague avenue, was born at Pawnee City, Nebraska, July 14, 1869. In 1877 he removed with his parents to the Pacific coast, and most of his early life was sjient between northern California and San Francisco. He came to Spokane in May, 1889, stopping off here on his return from an eastern trip. He was without capital Init liked the place antl decided to remain. He worked at odtl pursuits until the great fire of 1889, and for a short time afterward was engaged in contracting in a small wa_\' on rock and excavation work. In December. 1889. he opened a restaurant in a tent across the street from his present location. His tent was heated by stoves and had an inside frame work of rafters and joists, permitting a rtoor and u])i)er story. Mr. Davenport catered to the dail}' wants of his customers on the ground rtoor ui his impro\ised structure and slept at night in the upper story. Business prospered in the tent. In July. 1890, Mr. Davenport moved to what is now the center room of his present location. In the summer of 1891 a west room was added and in the spring of 1893 '^'i ^''^t room. The building was damaged by fire in that year causing the restaurant to close for two niontlis. but during this time it was remodeled into much the same form it now bears. ^Ir. Davenport, iiowexer, has since greatly improxed the interior and added to the sides and rear until it now covers a floor space of 17,600 square feet. It is the largest building of its kind in the northwest. The present establishment represents an investment of forty-five thousand dollars and includes, besides the perfectly appointed restaurant, a coniplete plant for the manufacture of ice. large cold storage facilities, etc. ^Ir. Davenport has extensi\e holdings in a number of outside enter- [Mises. i)rincipal among them being the Ryan lit Newton Company, a wholesale fruit, produce and commission house, owning and operating a large cold storage plant. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Davenport is a prominent thirty-second-degree Mason.

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his parents when one year old and acquired his etkication in the puhhc schools here and in the Spokane Business College, frnm which he graduatetl in 1897. He was reared on a farm, assisting with the wurk during his minority and attending school fur the most part only in winter. In 1895 he came to Spokane, where he secured eniplnyment in the Cnld Stcjrage Market, remaining there until the militia company to which he belonged was ordered to the Philippines. He served throughout the entire war against Aguinaldo's forces, taking part in all the principal engagements. He was one of the first to cross the Pasig river to the island of Patoras under a heavy fire from the insurgents, being in the first boat to land. He also rendered \alual3le ser\'ice as a regimental scout. Init after being engaged in that kmd of duty for three months was stricken with a fe\er and compelled to resign. In October, 1899, he was honoralily discharged with the rest of Company L. to which he lielonged, receiving special mention for his various feats of bravery. Since returning home from the war he has been devoting his attention to mining as a business. Air. Rose is a young man of great energy and of an enterprising disposition, and he can hardly fail to make his influence very sensibly felt in the future development 'of this state. The same bra\e spirit which gained him distinction as a soldier will enable him to o\erconie obstacles ir; his way to success and will gain for him a decisive victory in the battle of life.

RICHARD TURNER, a partner with Mr. John Parker in the O. K. barber shop, is a native of Springfield, Missouri, born in .\ugust, 1868. He lived in Missouri until fourteen years old, learning the barljcr's trade wdien only thirteen. In 1882 he went to St. Paul, Minnesota, where he fidlowed his handicraft until 1887, in which year he came to Spokane. He worked as a journeyman in the Grand Hotel liarber shop until 1893, then formed a partnershi]i with Mr. Parker in the O. K. shops. While in St. Paul he attended the public schools and started to take the classical course in the St. Paul high school, but gave it up at the end of his second year. Mr. Turner is an excellent tradesman and is doing a first-class business in this cit_\'. He built a fine residence in Sherwood addition and n<jw has a beautiful home in Heath's third addition. Mr. Turner was married in 1893 to Mrs. Mate Hall, a native of Pennsvhania.

CH.VRLES L. KNOX, real estate and mining broker. 515 Rookery building, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of East Machias, Maine, born May 13, 1857. He grew up there, receiving an academic education, and when seventeen came west to Reno, Nevada, and became interested in mining and lumljering. In 1879 he came to Spokane and started to work at the carpenter trade, erecting, with the help of I. T. Benham, a stone mason, the first fire-proof building in this city, owned by J. N. Squires, and located just north of where the Grand Hotel now stands. In 1883 he engaged in the real estate business. He has taken an active part in developing the various luining camps tributary to Spokane and is at the jjresent time general manager of the Tracy Creek Mining Comjiany. He also owns some valuable properties in northern California. In 1890 he was elected to the city council from the fifth ward, re-elected in 1891, serving until 1893. when he accepted a position in the postoffice. Since 1897 he lias Ijeen in the real estate and mining business. He is a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., the Royal .Arcanum and Woodmen of the WorUl. He was married in Helena, Montana, January 12, 1887, to Miss Clara S. Hall. They have three children, Frederick H., Donald H. and Helen P.

FRANK HYDE GRAVES, of the law firm of Graves & Graves, is a native of Hancock countv, mini lis. Ijurn June 15, 1858. He was reared on a farm in St. Mary's township, of that county, and attended a country school in the A\ inter months till he entered Carthage College in 1876. Graduating in 1880, he was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1882 and entered upon the practice in Carthage, Illinois, as a member of the firm of O'Hana & Gra\-es. He came to this state late in the year 1884 and began the ])ractice of his profession in Spokane in January, 1885. In January, 1886, the firm of Houghton & Graves was formed, and a year later the firm became Houghton, Graves & Jones and so continued till the spring of 1890. At that date the firm was dissolved by the retirement from practice of Judge Houghton, and by ^Ir. Jones' election as attorney-general of the state. Mr. Graves and Judge Turner then formed the firm of Turner & Graves, which continued till Judge Turner was elected to the United States senate in February, 1896. That spring Mr. W"\\\ G. Graves removed to Spokane from EUensburg, anil the firm became Graves & Gra\-es and has so continued to the present. Mr. Graves early todk rank in the courts of Spokane and adjoining counties as a trial lawyer and to-day is one of the leading advocates of the state. For years he has commanded a large and lucrative practice and he and his brother now have a famous business.

Politically Mr. Graves was a Republican till iHfjfi. In the campaign of that year he enthusiastically supported Bryan as a silver Republican, and is now an ardent Democrat, as he himself ]nits it, "of the Bryan type."

From the fall of 1897 to December, 1899, he \\as principal stockholder in the Seattle Post- Intelligencer. He is now treasurer, the second largest stockholder and a controlling spirit in the Central Navigation & Construction Company ; a member of the board of trustees and largest stockiiolder in the Columbia Railway & Navigation Comjiany. The object of these two companies, working together, is to connect Spokane with the sea by an independent line and the work is far forward. Mr. Graves was a heavy stockholder in the famous Le Roi mine and for years a member of its board and its attorney. At i)resent he is interested in the City of Paris, Old Ironsides and Knob Hill mines in the Greenwood country. His brother, Mr. Jay P. Graves, and he control the extensive Granby Smelting Works at Grand Forks, British Columbia. In September, 1882, he was married to Miss Maude Ferris, of Carthage. They have two children, Carroll S., born in 1883, and Arnold London, born in 1893.

J.\Y P. GRAVES, a pioneer of 1887, is a native of Carthage, Illinois, bom June 27, 1859. .\fter completing his education in Carthage College, he embarked in the hardware business at Plymouth, lllinnis, where he resided until coming to Spokane. Upon arriving here, he engaged in the real estate and brokerage business, and in 1891 he turned his attention to mining, an industry in which he has been remarkably successful. In the fall of 1895 he organized the Old Ironsides Mining Company, of which he has been vice-president and manager and is now president. In January, 1897, he organized the Knob Hill Gold Mining Company, of which he is vice-president, and the same year he established the Paris Gold Mining Companv, of which he has ever since been manager and president. Pie also was foremost in instituting the Granljy Consolidated Mining & Smelting Company, in 1898, and he has held the offices of vice-president and manager since. Their smelting plant is located in Grand Forks, British Columbia. In this industry Mr. Graves has about half a million of his own capital invested, and he has succeeded in interesting his friends in this and other mining enterprises to the extent of about a million and a half dollars. For the promotion of their warious projects, he and his companies have established offices in Montreal, Canada, New York. Boston and Philadelphia. Mr. Graves is also interested in numerous mining properties in addition to those mentioned, but so great is his capacity for affairs, that he manages to find, time for other projects and to discharge his duties as a man and a citizen. He is erecting a three-story pressed-lirick Ijlock on l\i\'erside a\enue. east of Washington street, also a fine residence on Eighth avenue and Washington. He is the owner of the block on the southwest corner of Riverside and Bernard, as well as much other real estate in the city. In 1890 be I)i>ught the controlling interest in and became president of the Washington Abstract and Title Guarantee Company, retaining both his interest and his office until 1900. when he witl:drew from the company. From 1892 to 1895 he was a director in the Old National Bank, and for a number of years he was a director in the board of trade. In 1894 he was the candidate of the Republican party for mayor of Spokane, but was defeated by Dan Drumheller, the Democratic nominee. Mr. Graves has been verv active in securing subsidies for railroads, promoting early enterprises and advancing by everv means in his power, the best interests of Spokane, and to his industry, enterprise and zeal, the city is greatly indebted. He was married in Plymouth, Illinois, October 18, 1879. to Miss Amanda Cox, of that state, and they are parents of one son, Clyde M., now a student in ]\Iount Pleasant Military Academy, New York.

WILLIAM H. ZIEGLER, mining broker, fourth floor of Ziegler block, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Chenoa, McLean county, Illinois, October 19. 1863. In October, 1879, the family came to Spokane and Mr. Ziegler and his father, Louis, opened the first hardware store in the city under the firm name of Louis Ziegler & Son. They leased from Alexanfler Warner a lot on the north side of Main street, between Howard and Stevens, and put up a small frame building, about 20x60 feet, which they used for a place of business. They did but little the first winter, but afterward succeeded in Ijuilding up a fine trade in that locality. In the summer of 1882 the father bought a lot on the northeast corner of Riverside and Howard streets, while the son, AN'illiam H.. was absent conducting a branch store in Medical Lake. The young Mr. Ziegler thought this a poor investment and did not want any part in it, but the father erected a two-story frame building, then one of the finest in the city, and moved the stock into it, also Iiringing the old building over and placing it beside the new. In 1884 they sold the branch house in Medical Lake to Campbell & Van Wie and two years later the Spokane Ijusiness was sold to Rosenhaiipt Brothers. The lot and Iniildings were retained. ho\\e\er, and after the hig fire of 1889, which destroyed the Iniiklings. tlie large Ziegier hlock was erected. In 1886 Mr. ^\'illiam Ziegier entered the First National Bank as hookkeeper anrl he was with them in that ca])acity for eighteen months. Commencing in Jannary. 1890. he was paying teller in the Traders" National Bank for eighteen months, since which time he has gi\-en his attention to mining and lie is now interested in nnmerous properties. For the past twenty 3'ears Mr. Ziegier has lieen intimately connected with the de\-elopment of this city. He ha.s long heen prominent both in business and as a mining man and has contributed his full share toward the opening of the mining region trulnitary to the city. Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. M.

MAJOR JAMES O'NEILL, deputy clerk of the L'nited States court, office, .\uditorium building, is a native of Duanesburg, Schenecta- <ly county. New ^'ork, born F'ebruary 8. i8j6. He recei\ed an academic education and in 1851 went to New York City, where he was engaged in a wholesale grocery and commission business till 1853, when he came out to Oregon. He settled in Oregon City, but soon went to Portland and Ijecame agent for Wells. Fargo & Company. He became the third mayor of the cit_\- of Portland and held that office during the years of 1856 and 1857. In 1 86 1 he went to Lapwai in the Nez Perces reservation as superintendent of teaching and the next year took full charge of the agency under a commission issued July 6. 1864. signed by President Lincoln, appointing him United

States Indian agent for the territory of Idaho. He still has this notable document carefully preserved and framed. In 1866 he passed through this country on his way to select land for a reser\-ation and the land then chosen constitutes the ])resent Coeur d'Alene Indian reser\e. He retired from his position in [868 ar.d on May 10, of the following year, went back to New \'ork state, riding on the first through train 011 the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Ogden. He remained about nine years at his native place, then in 1878 returned to Chewelah. Stevens county. Washington, where he was sub-Indian agent, having charge of the Caur d'Alene Indians, in 1887 he resigned, being elected auditor of Stevens county. He served for two years, then was elected to the state senate to represent Stevens and Spokane counties. In 1892 he recei\ed an apixjintment as deijuty clerk of the United States district and circuit courts of the eastern division of Washington, a position which he has retained until the present time. Major O'Neill has long been prominent in the affairs of this and neighboring states. He is also popular i)ersonally and enjoys in a marked degree the respect and esteem of the citizens of this city. He is a memljer of the Catholic church. He married, in Fulton county. New \'ork. November 10. 1849. Miss Caroline M. Crimmell. a native of Fulton county, -New \'ork. She died in her native place No- \eml)er 16, 1871. leaving one daughter. Kate, wife of W. W. Tompkins, a commission merchant in Chicago.

than any other contractor and builder in this city. He was born in Holland, June 5, 1845, but when seven years old he was brought by his parents to Buffalo, Xew York. There he grew to manhood, learning the trade of a carpenter and afterwards being employed as a contractor and builder. He enlisted .August 14, 1862, in Company W. Ele\-ent]i Xew York Cavalry, and ser\-ed from that date 'till the close of the war - thirty-four months. During this time he saw much of the hardest fighting of the Rebellion, having been in the engagements at Gettysburg, Fairfax Court House, Jackson, Mississippi, Port Hudson. Mobile, .Mabama, and many others. At Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he received a ginishot wound in the right leg. which confined him to the field hospital for four months. Few men can boast of a more laudable war record and few have more reason to he proud of their military ser\-ice than Mr. Johnson. .After the war he returned to Buffalo, Xew York, and followed his former occupation until .\ugust, 1880. when lie came to Spokane and accepted a position as foreman of general constructiim for the Xorthern Pacific Railroad Company. He built for them the first freight depot in Sixikane and the first passenger depot in S|jrague. Subsequently he became general superintendent of construction for the United States go\-ernment and was stationed at Fort Spokane, and erected nearly all the fine buidings there. .\fter inspecting the various army posts in the United States, General Sherman said, in his report, that those built by Mr. Johnson were the finest, considering the cost of their construction, of any in the United States. In S])okane, also, Air. Johnson has made a great record as a Iniilder. He planned and constructed the Catholic church on Main street in 1883, ''^''"' '^"i't the old Gonzaga College, the St. Alary's school, the Pacific Hotel. Granite block, the old postoffice building, Daniels block, Merriam block, Holley, Mason, Alarks & Company's building, Sisters' Hospital, Symons block, Galland Burke l>rewery, Cieur d' .\lene theatre, and the residences of J. J. Brown, AI. AI. Cowey, Jacob Hoover, H. L. Richardson, General William P. Carlin and man}- others. He, with his son, William F.. is now buiding the street car barns, shops, foundry, sand house and stables, which are to cost forty-four thousand dollars. He has frequently been requested to become a candidate for mayor, but invariably refused public office until Alay, 1899. when he was elected a member of the city council. Socially, he is affiliated with the G. .\. R. and the Elks. He was married in Buft'alo, Xew A'ork, Jime 18, 1872, to Aliss Louisa Luke, a nati\-e of Buffalo. They have three children, Alargaret, Amelia and William F.

JOHX D. SHERWOOD, real estate and mining operator, is a nati\'e of San Francisco, California, born October 12, i860. When eighteen he entered Har\-ard College, graduating in 1883. then came to Spokane and engaged in the mercantile business with E. Dempsie. .After three years he sold to Air. Dempsie and opened a real estate ofiice and he. with Frank R. Aloore, Fred Chamberlain. William Pettet and others, organized the first electric light company. .About 1 888 he became interested in Iniilding the first cable street railway, extending from the Alonroe street bridge, out Boone to the army post; also another running south on Alonroe to Thirteentli street and east rm Thirteenth five blocks. The company bought th.e Spokane

Street Railway from Browne & Cannon, and in 1891 abandoned the cables, thereafter using electricity as the motive power. Then the same persons organized the Washington ^^'ater Power Company, which purchased seventeen acres of land including the main falls of the river. The \-arious companies were consolitlated in 1899 into the Washington \\'ater Power Company, of which ]\lr. Sherwood is vice-president. He was president of the street railways for several years and also for a long time vice-president of the Board of Traile. He erected just before the fire the first five-story office building in this city, a brick and stone structure on the site of the present Sherwood block. It was burned in the fire, the total loss being sixty-five thousand dollars, of which forty thousand dollars was covered by insurance. In 1890 he and his brother, Frank P.. erected the Sherwood block, a three-story brick. Mr. Sherwood has always Ijeen a thrifty, enterprising citizen and is one to whom Spokane owes \-ery much. He is a public-spirited man and has contributed liberally to enterprises of public benefit. He helped establish the army post here and was one of the largest contributors. He was married in Red Bluff, California, to Miss Josephine B. Cone, a native of that place.

FRANKLIN P. SHER\\'OOD, son of Benjamin F. and Almira D., was born in San Francisco, California, July 11, 1864. He was educated in the School of ]\Iines in Columbia College, New York, came to Spokane in 1886 and has been associated with his brother, John D., in his various business enterprises, but has devoted most of his time to mining in the various camps around Spokane. He has operated princi])ally in the Cceur d' Alene mines, li\-ing at W'ardner four years, l)ut in 1890 he moved to Ruby City in the Okanog-an district, then spent two years in Rossland, British Columbia, two years at Kalso, and two in other parts of British Columbia, actively engaged in mining at all of these places. Fle is now interested in the Buffalo Hump district, wiiere he is engaged in develophig several properties. Like his brother, John D., Mr. Franklin P. Sherwood has been a very valuable man in the up-buiiding of this city. His capital has helped build its street railways and has been donated freely to its public enterprises, but what is still more important, it lias been devoted to developing the mining region, which has furnished so large a part of the wealth of this city.