Spokane County, Washington - Biographical sketches, 1900 (part 9 of 16)

J.\AIES \\'ALTOX was born in Pennsylvania, July 7, 1830, and lived there until four years old, then was taken liy his family to IMarion county, Ohio. He worked on his father's farm and in his distillery until twenty years old, but in 1850 started ox'erland for California. He arrived on the 7th day of July of that year and started mining. He ga\'e five hundred and five dollars fur a twenty-first interest in the American Alining Company, but soon sold out and wen.t to Dry creek, near Sacramento, where he took five dollars per day out uf a placer claim. In 1853 he went to Ohio, but after two years returned to California, coming this time via the Isthmus of Panama. He worked on a ranch near Alarysville two years, but in 1858 influenced by the gold excitement, went to Frazer river. The Indians were excited to hostility against the Americans by the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company, but, despite all dangers, he remained there for seven years. He next went to the Caribou country, where he located a placer claim and made one hundred and sixty dollars per day with a rocker for a while, then took a contract to furnish timbers and realized sixty dollars per day, after which he had charge of a pack train for two years. For several years thereafter, Mr. Walton tra\'e]ed (piite extensively, visiting Victoria, British Columbia, Boise, Idaho, Walla Walla, the Kootenai country, Spokane, the Colville valley, Marcus, Rock Creek and Little Salmon, British Columbia, and other western pi)ints, engaged either in mining and prospecting or at cari>enter work. In May, 1882, he located at Chattaroy, where he has since lived. He kept a road house called the Government Forage Staton, for a numlier of years, took part in some of the early Indian fights and in 1887 acted as guide for Cajjtain James Miller on his trip over the mountains into the Okan(jgan country. He now li\-es on a homestead one mile south of Chattaroy. Mr. \\'alton is a very unpretentious man, not ambitious for leadership, but is well liked by his neighbors, by whom he is familiarly known as Pea Vine Jimmy.

J. C. COWGILL, one of the enterprising citizens of Chattaroy, is a native of Dover, Delaware, born March 3, 1846. He was raised to the life of a farmer and when he reached adult age naturally took to that occupation at first. However, he soon became imbued with a desire to see something of the wmid and emliarkcd on a merchant \'essel which saileil between Philaclelpliia and the West Indies. He remained on the ship during the four years following 1864, then farmed till 1 87 1, after which he moved to Santee. Nebraska, where he served as postmaster and had a trading post until 1877. He next moved to Dakota, farmetl for two years there, then went to IVIile City, Montana. an<l worked in a store for a short time. Subsequently he went to the Pine Ridge agency and worked a trading post at Wounded Knee until September, 1882, when he came to Chattaroy. Washington. He is now engaged in the mercantile business there and has charge of the postoffice. Mr. Cowgill has spent a great deal of time prospecting and is the owner of several promising claims. He is also extensively mterested in Chattaroy real estate. Socially, he affiliates with the I. O. O. F. He is a very active man in the affairs of the community and is respected and esteemed bv all his neighbors.

J. E. BARKER, a prominent citizen of Chattaroy and proprietor of the Chattaroy hotel and livery stable, was liorn in Lawrence county, New York, 2^Iarch 28. 1827. He lived in that and adjacent counties until twentyeight years old. running a I)lacksniith shop most of the time after liecoming old enough. He first (ipeiied at ^lorristown. where he worked at his trade exclusively for two years, then m<)\ed onto a farm near by and combined farming and blacksmithing for a few years more. He next moved to the city of (_iou\'erneur and ran a shop one year, then combined blacksmithing and farming, as he had done before in Morristown. In 1866 he sold out and came to Minnesota, where he purchased some land and farmed for three vears. He then conducted a boarding house, farm and shop in Benton county, that state, until 188S, when he sold out, moved to Chattaroy, this county, where he has a hotel, a stable and blacksmith shop. Mr. Barker is one of the old residents of the town and has taken a lively interest in all of its jniblic affairs. Sociallv, he is affiliated with the Maccabees, beng a charter member of the Chattaroy lodge. He was married April 19. 1855. to Sallie Russel, a native of St. Lawrence county. They have one child. living, Izora, wife of John S. Wheeler, a farmer, also one deceased, namelv, Gilbert E. Mrs. Barker is a member of L. O. T. M., she being the first past commander.

DR. J. L. SMITH. Chattaroy, was born in Bridgeton. New Jersey. January 19, 1834, wiiere he resided until se\enteen years old. He enlisted in the Civil war. in Company IL Third New Jersey Cavalry, in 1863. He served under General Phil Sheridan in the.\rmyofthe Potomac and was in all the principal battles and campaigns of that noted army until August. 1865. when he was honorably discharged. Dr. Smith was under fire one hundred and fifty times in a period c^f eleven months. In the fall of 1864 he received a gun-shot wound ni the leg and still suffers at times from the bidlet, for it lodged in a ])osition from which it could not be extracted. On Ajjril 5, 1865, he received a saber cut in the knee and three days later, on the night preceding Lee"s surrender, he was wounded in the right arm by a shell. That Dr. Smith's military duties were discharged with unusual faithfulness and bravery is evidenced by the fact that he holds a certificate of merit from the chief executive of .\ew Jersey. After the war he served in the United States navy yard for two years, then entered school, remaining until he received his M.D. degree from the Philadelphia Medical College in 1874. He subsequently graduated from the Pennsylvania School of Anatomy & Surgery and took a post-graduate course at the Jefferson Medical College. He first practiced in New Jersey, but moved to Philadelphia in 1890 and a year later to Chattaroy as a surgeon on construction for the Great Northern Railroad. He is still practicing in Chattaroy and also conducts a store there, carrving drugs as a part of his stock. He is a member of the F. & A. ]\I., the I. O. O. F; and is past chancellor commander in the K. of P. He was married October 10, 189J. to Edna A. Bailey, a graduate from the Nurses' Training School of the Municipal Hospital of Philadelphia. Mrs. Smith is a talented and refined lady whose personal worth is recognized by all who have the pleasure of her acquaintance.

W. C. FRITTER, supervisor of the New York Life Insurance Company for the Northwest, rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4 Ziegler block, was born in ^lisssouri, on .\pril 1 1. i86j. He acquired his education in the public schools, suIjsequently attending the university at De Soto, ^Missouri. At the age of si.xteen he became deputy collector and treasurer of Jefferson county, Missouri, and at the expiration of his term of office took charge of the school at Sulphur Springs, Missouri, so that, when se\'- enteen, he was teacher of the largest school in the county. He subse(|uently learned telegrapliv and took a position at Aurora Springs with the Missouri & Pacific Railway Company, but was afterwards promoted to an agency for the same company at California, Missouri, where he remained for the ensuing six years. He then accepted a position with the Santa Fe road as their agent at La Juntos, Colorado. Subsequently, howe\-er, he went into the newspaper business, establishing the Otero County Democrat, a daily, but soon sold out and entered the services of the New York Life Insurance Cijmpany, coming direct to Lewiston, Idaho. A year later he became manager for the state of Idaho, with headquarters at Boise City, where he resided until 1898, In that year he came to Spokane to assume the general supervision of the company's interests in the Northwest. Air. Fritter has great faith in Spokane, believing it to possess the most encouraging outlook for the future of any town in the three northwestern states. He established a branch ofiice here f(jr the company he represents on May i, 1899, and according to the reports, it is already doing by far the largest business in the city. !Mr. Fritter is a typical self-made man, ha\ing wrought his own way in the world to a position of eminence in business circles in spite of adverse circumstances and discouragements which would have overwhelmed a less courageous spirit, his father lia\"ing died when Mr. Fritter was only sixteen years of age. He is largely interested in various Spokane enterprises, but gi\-es especial attention to mining, maintaining prominent connections with several of the leading- mining companies. He was married while at Aurora S])rings, ^Missouri, to Nellie E. Williams, daughter of a prominent hardware merchant, and they now have two children, James Earl and Gladys, both of whom are attending the high school at Lewiston, Idaho.

ill politics in Missouri, Colorailo and Idaho, but has never aspired to any office, although many flattering opportunities have occurred for nomination for offices by his party as high as gubernatorial honors.

GEORGE A. LATIMER, of the law firm of Hyde, Latimer & Barnes, is a native of Le Roy, Medina county, Ohio, born February 20, 1862. He was the eldest child of a large family, his boyhood days being spent on his father's farm. He received e.xcellent common and high school ath'antages and at sixteen began teaching. He followed that profession in the winter seasons for several years thereafter. At aljout the age of twenty years he went to Columlnis, Ohio, to take a course in civil engineering and he subseipiently followed that profession in Ohio and Xel.)raska. serving as deputy county surveyor of Medina county, Ohio, and as city engineer of Norfolk, Nebraska, and county sur\eyor of Madison county, Nebraska; was elected and held these offices at the same time, each for the period. of eight years, following the year 1884. "

Mr. Latimer's experience in the line of engineering has been varied and his counsel sought by private and [lulilic corporations, as well as by individuals, in the solution of difficult engineering prol)lems, requiring the expenditure of large sums of money. This embraces railroad work, water systems, dams, -sewerage, grades, paving, municipal work and general land surveying, which experience has eminently fitted him and laid the foundation for the profession he after\var<ls adopted and now fiillows.

of Hon. Isaac Powers and Hon. John R. Hays, at Norfolk, Nebraska, and in about the year 1893 he was admitted to the bar of the district, federal and state courts.

He practiced at Norfolk, Nebraska, thereafter up to and until the spring of 1899, when he came to Spokane and formed a partnership with Mr. S. C. Hyde, of this city. Mr. A. E. Barnes, an old acquaintance of Mr. Latimer and a native of Nebraska, was a few days later taken into the firm and the present firm organized.

Mr. Latimer is an energetic, active attorney. In fact all the members of the firm are men of prominence in politics and in their profession, the firm being one of the largest in the city.

He was married at Norfolk, Nebraska, August 14. 1889. to Ella L. Davenport, daughter of Captain George Davenport, of the First Ohio Light Battery.

L. F. LEE, a sign painter in Spokane, was born in Cumberland county. New Jersey, May 12, 1846. In January, 1863, when sixteen years old, he entered the army of the Southwest as clerk in the commissary department and remained with the troops in that capacity until the close of the war. He was with the forces that drove Price and Marmaduke out ot .\rkansas. After the war he entered the employ of Owen, Teller & Companj-, opened for them an express route from Se- dalia and Raleigli, Missouri, to Fort Smitli, Arkansas, and was with tlieni for some years as express messenger. He then went to St. Louis and learned the trade of a sign writer. After spending five years in that city he went to New Orleans and worked at his trade there, then moved to E\-anston. Wyoming, tlience to Ogden, Utali. thence to Eagle Rock, Idaho, and from there to Spokane, Washington, following his trade in all these places and writing signs for the railroads part of the time in each. Finally, in 1882. he came to Spokane. ^\here he was employed by the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad Company as a sign painter for the ensuing five years. Since then he has been in the sign writing business for himself. Mr. Lee has given his entire attention to his art for many years, not allowing himself to be distracted by other things and has naturally acquired a marvelous skill and dexterity in the use of his brushes. He was married in Ogden. Utah, in 1876, to Miss Annie Benson, of Council Bluffs. They have two children, namely: Ralph B., a bookkeeper and stenographer, and Jane B. Socially, Mr. Lee affiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters.

GEORGE E. RIEN. one of the enterprising young men of Trent, was born in Sonoma county, California, in 1869. The family moved to this county in August, 1881, and took up as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres and i)re-empted eighty more about one and a half miles northeast of Trent. The place has been improved until they now have a fine stock, grain and dairy farm. Mr. Rien has lately discovered a large deposit of fire clav and fire sand which he intends to develop. Mr. Rien is a charter member of the Maccabees' lodge at Pleasant prairie and stands well in the estimation of the people in that part of the county.

ELKAXAH DAILY, deceased, a pioneer of 1882. was born in Wayne county. New York. March 21, 1832. He resided in his nati\'e state until twenty-three years old. then emigrated to Illinois, where he resided until 1869. In 1861 he enlisted in Company E. One Hundredth Illinois Infantry, and for three years thereafter he was a member of the Fourth Army Corps, Army of the Cumlierland, participating in the engagements at Stone River. ^Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga, Strawberry Plains. Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain. Peach Tree Creek. Atlanta. Franklin, Nashville and others. He was a valiant, faithful soldier, and earned the esteem and gratitude of his country. For the thirteen years succeeding 1869 he was a farmer in Indiana, but in 1882 he came to Spokane county, homesteaded land on Five Mile prairie, and bought fijur hundred acres in the same neighborhood. He was engaged in grain raising principally until November 20. 1899, when he died. Having been an intlustrious, thrifty man, he left the farm in an excellent state of cultivation and well improved, so that his family are enabled to successfully carry on the work. Mr. Daily was married in Joliet. Illinois. February 28, 1856. to Charlotte A. Marshall, and they became parents of two children. E. Lunettie, living, and Eva Frances, deceased. Mrs. Daily is one of the pioneer ladies of this countv. and has distinct recollections of the early days. She was one of those who, in 1883, collected at the home of Mr. Joseph S. Allen

ALPH R. STRATTON, one of the prospercius farmers of Five Mile prairie, was born in North Benton, Ohio. Jnne 6, 1859. When six vears old, he went with the family to Kansas, whence, in 1870, he came to Albany, Oregon. Here he ac(inired the greater part of his edncation and had his first experience in the postal ser\-ice. In 1876 he removed to Portland, where, after spending nearly a year in a meat market, he entered the employ of the Oregon Furnitnre Company. Snbsequently he spent a year in Grande Ronde valley, then a brief periixl in Centre\ille, finally arri\'ing in Spokane connty in ^lay, 1881. He worked a while here for J. J. Browne, then served as assistant postmaster under S. Heath, but later went to Rock ford where for several years he was in mercantile jjursuits and first assistant in the postoffice. His next move was to Five Mile prairie. Here he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land from his father, also forty acres east of his htmie, and upon this farm he nriw raises wheat and other cereals. He also has a splendid orchard of peaches, pears and apples. Fraternally, yir. Stratton affiliates with the J. O. U. A. M. He was married in Spijkane September 21. 1884, to Martha Elizabeth Goulil, a pioneer of 1880. Their family consists of Ethel and Edna M., twins, Browne and Roland.

ica. He lived in New York city a year, then at Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio, until 1887, when he came to Spokane county. Upon his arri\al here he purchased lantl on Fi\e Mile prairie, and there the family have ever since resided, though Mr. Hughes himself died November 20, 1892. He was married in Toledo, Ohio, in A|)ril, 1875, ^^ Caroline Walker, and they became parents of three cliildren, James A.. Teresa and John F. Tlie family are engaged in di\-ersified farming, and are among tlie most thrifty, enterprising and progressive citizens of their neighborhood. Since the father's death, Mrs. Hughes has been manager of their affairs and so successfully has she performed her duties as such that she has been enal)le<l to present a farm to eacli of her children. Mrs. Huglies and family are members nf the Catholic church.

ALFRED E. BARNES, of the law firm of Hyde. Lattimer & Barnes, was born in .Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1857. He remained there for the first twenty years of his life, receiving a good public-school education, but in 1877 he came out to Nebraska and engaged in teaching. .\t the same time, he utilized every spare moment in the study of law, with the result that, in March, 1879, he was admitted to the bar. For more than twenty years thereafter he practiced at Ponca, Di.xon county, Nebraska, and for fifteen years of that time he was attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. Barnes is an unusually successful advocate, and his ser\ ices have been called into requisition in all ])arts of the United States. He has been defending counsel in twenty-three homicide cases and has succeeded in clearing his man in e\ery instance except one. For two years he was county auditor of Dixon county, and in tliat time tlie county was successful in all its litigation. On Septemlier 15. 1899, he came to Spokane, having entered into partnership with Messrs. Hyde & Latimer. ]\Ir. Barnes has also been prominent in politics. He was chairman of the conventirm that nominated Meikeljohn of Nebraska, and is an intimate friend of Senator Thurston. Fraternally, he is a prominent thirty-seconddegree Mason. He was a member of the Blue Lodge in Nebraska for fifteen years and its luaster for seven, and is now Damascus commander of Norfolk, Nebraska. He also affiliates with the A. O. U. W. and the K. P. Mr. Barnes was married at Ponca, Nebraska, July 12. 1882, to Cornelia A. King, a native of Illinois, and they have three chiklren, Eugene .\., W. Lamont and Edwin King.

THO^L\S .\. MORROW, a pioneer of 1888, was burn in Pennsylvania in 1864. When three years old, his parents took him to Illinois, where the ensuing four years of his life were jiassed. He then went to Kansas, acquired a common-school education, and subsequently turned his attention to farming. He was in that pursuit there continuously until 1888. except during one year spent in Oklahoma Territory. He then came to Spokane county, where for twiT years he worked as a sawmill man. He has since resided on Fi\e Mile prairie, engaged in raising wheat, oats, potatoes and corn, and in general farming on his oneduuidred-and-fifty-five-acre tract. On December 5, 1894, he was married, in Spokane, to Miss Teresa A. Hughes, daughter of John Hughes, one of the oldest settlers on the prairie. They have one child, Frances A.

Mr. Morrow is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of his neighliorbood, and is active in liromoting every enterpri.se for the jjublic good. Especially interested in the cause of education, he has served two years as clerk of his district and is now a member of its board of directors.

JOLIN ]\I. KEENAN, deceased, a pioneer of 1887, was born in Ireland in April, 1849. At the age of fourteen he came to .\merica and located in New York state, where, for eleven years, he was engaged in farming. Removing then to North Dakota, he embarked in the mercantile business, also was chief of police at Castleton, that state, for five years, and devoted S(ime (jf his time to farming. In 1887 he migrated to Spc;)kane county and liought land on the Little Spokane river at Sturman's Bridge, where he was engaged in raising hay and stock until the date of his death, March 22, 1898. He was quite an active man in local affairs, and, just prior to his demise, was elected justice of the peace. In religion, he was a Catholic. In the state of Minnesota in 1882, he was united in marriage with Mary .\. Smith, and to them were Ijorn si.\ chiklren, Margaret, Mary, Catherine, John F., W'lliam J. and Charles P. Mrs. Keenan and family are still running the fanu. They are among the well-to-d(.i and highlv respectalile people of their neighborhood, and are memljers in good standing of the Catholic church.

HENRY TONNET, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of France, born in 1853. He resided in his fatherland until twenty years old, engaged in fruit culture and in landscape and market gardening. Coming then to America, lie worked on an oyster boat at Baltimore for a time, but soon went onto a farm, remaining one year. He then Worked six months as a farm hand and later spent a year in raising vegetables on a rented place. He was engaged as florist in Philadelphia during the Centennial year, then in the same capacity in New York for two and a half years. Subsequently, he worked for a time at landscape gardening in Yonkers, but he soon came out to San Francisco. From that city he moved to Portland, thence to Walla \\'alla, thence to Pendleton, where, for a brief period, he was engaged in gardening and other pursuits. His ne.xt move was to Spokane. After a short residence in this city, he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres in the northeastern part of Five Mile prairie, and there he has ever since resided. He raises considerable wheat, but is giving most of his energv to gardening and fruit raising. ]\[r. Tonnet brings to his business a large amount of experience, skill and intelligence and naturally is one of the most successful gardeners and orchardists in the county. He lives in a comfortable home, surrDunded liy commodious barns and outbuildings. On May 9, 1893, 'le was married in Spokane to Louise Gerard.

S.VMUEL C. STURMAX, a farmer at Sturman's Bridge, was born in Shakopee, Scott county, Minnesota, but when very young was taken by his parents to Wright county, that state, where he was reared and educated. He taught school there 1:wo terms, then, in 1S79, removed to North Dakota and engaged in the dual occupation of farming and teaching. He also held the office of deputy county assessor for two terms. In 1885 he came to Spokane county, and located first at the mouth of the Little Spokane river, but a year later he removed to Sturman's Bridge, where his home has e\er since been. He owns a seventy.-acre farm, and is engaged in raising hay and fruit. Mr. Sturman has long been one of the leading men of his part of the county, and was an active worker in the Farmers' Alliance and the Knights of Labor. He also rendered efficient ser\ice as deputy assessor under Daniels and special deputy .sheriff under Dempsey. He is a charter member of Mt. Carleton Lodge, No. 103, L O. O. F., and of Unique Encampment. In 1883, while in North Dakota, he married Maria J. Smith, and they have had nine children, Ethel, Delia, Celia, deceased, Nora. Guy, Dena and Delmar, twins, the latter deceased, Bryan and Ruth. The family are members of the Episcopal church. In early days, Mrs. Sturman was seriously threatened by Indians in war paint, but she scared them awav with a rifle.

DR. J. D. FAULKNER, physician and surgeon, was born in Hendersonville, Henderson county, Kentucky. He resided there and at Lexington until twelve years old, then moved to Rising Sun, Indiana. In .April, 1861, he enlisted in Company I. Seventh Indiana Infantry, though then only fifteen years old. His father went to Tennessee for the purpose of raising a regiment and used his utmost endeavors to persuade the son to accompany him, but without avail. His uncle also was a Southern man, being staff officer in General Morgan's guerrilla regiment. Mr. Faulkner was drilled for a short time at Camp Morton, Indianapolis, then ordered to western Virginia, the scene of action. He participated in the engagement at Philippi. tlie first in \'irginia, and while in that \icinity a memorable incident occurred. He had stood picket guard two nights for sick friends and the third night was on duty for himself. Being utterly worn out, he fell fast asleep in spite of every efifort to keep awake, and he did not answer the relief guard until called several times. When finally awakened, he explained the matter by stating that he had seen the other man all the time, but refused to answer, because he was angry at not being sooner relieved. The town of Philippi was captured after a fierce struggle. While in that vicinity, ^Ir. Faulkner had an exciting Ijattle with a young lady rebel of al)out seventeen summers. He met her on the railway track near camp, wearing a rebel flag for an apron, and she used such abusive language that he finally lost his temper and snatched away the flag, getting well scratched in the affray. But he was soon summoned to sterner conflicts. He received marching orders in about a week, and before long was pushing forward on the double quick through mud and rain, his rations being raw bacon and hardtack. Soon the Confederates were in sight, and a battle followed, lasting seven days and nights, with short intermissions, Mr. Faulkner serving as sharpshooter, he being the second best rifleman in tlie regiment. The battle wliich followed .lasted about two hours, ending in the defeat of the attacking party. The battle was renewed next day, but on the day following the enemy was found to have retreated. The Union men gave chase, brought them to bay on the Cheat river, killed their general and took most of them prisoners. Shortly afterwards the battle of Bull Run occurred, but their term of enlistment having expired, Mr. Faulkner's regiment took no part in the great engagement.

After a trip home he again enlisted for three months, joining Company E, Fifty-fourth Indiana, which was at once ordered to Salt River, Kentucky. While there, engaged in rebuilding a railroad bridge, they were attacked by General Morgan and forced to surrender, but were at once paroled. Mr. Faulkner here met his uncle. Bill Faulkner, who called his attention to his other uncle. General Morgan, and endeavored to persuade him to join their forces. This he. of course, refused to do. At the end of liis second term he joined Company C, Seventh Indiana Infantry, for three years, and in that time he participated in numerous hardfought engagements. While back in Indiana buying Iiorses for the go\'ernment he was attacked, while alone, by fi\'e armed men, who refused to accede to his request that they shoukl fight him one by one, his two horses to belong to them if they were victors, but knocked him down with a rex'olver twice, beat him into insensibility and made oft' with the h'jrses. Later ^Ir. Faulkner was requested by the colonel to join the Golden Circle, a rebel secret society, find out their plans and desert. Acting upon the suggestion, he told the Indiana secession sympathizers that he had deserted the Union, asked to be secreted till he had an opportunity to go south, and finally gained admission to the Golden Circle. He took their terrible oath, found out what he could of their plans and of General ^Morgan's intended movements in Indiana, then stole away to Rising Sun and divulged the intentions of the guerilla to the commanding officer of a United States cavalry regiment, thus preventing a destructive raid upon Indiana property. The raid was attempted, but Morgan and his men were soon captured and lodged in jail. Thereafter until the close of the war Mr. Faulkner acted as a spy, experiencing many thrilling ad\entures and hair breadth es- capes. When mustered out, he returned to his Indiana home and to new dangers. He never suspected that tlie betrayed Golden Circles were aware of the facts, l)ut they were antl were planning their revenge. They cultivatetl his friendship carefully, and at length persuaded him to join them in having a jolly time. So they procured some chickens and whiskey, repaired to an empty house, started a fire and began to fry the chickens. Before long, in respunse to some remark, the leader informed ^Nlr. Faulkner that his last hour had arrived. At first he thought it a j(.)ke, but when the door was locked, things began to look serious. The leader, reminding bun of the Golden Circle and of his betrayal, gave him two minutes to prepare for death. Feigning a fit of coughing, i\Ir. Faulkner bent over, reached for his revoh'er. then straightening up, turned suddenly around and covered them with his gun, remarking at the same time that the first one to reach for liis revolver would be the first to die. He then ordered the man next the door, who had the key. to unbuckle his belt, allowing his firearms to drnp to the floor, then to unlock the door and walk out. This he did. Meanwhile Mr. Faulkner kept tlie other four closelv co\ered with his revoK'er, a feat which his well-known skill ma<le [lossible. When the door was opened he backed out. turning the key behind him, antl informing those within that if one attempted to escape it wttuld be at his peril. He then compelled the fellow on the outside to saddle his Imrse and liring it to him. Leaping to the satldle he then rode off to a union cavalry company ten miles distant and was safe. The five conspirators left the country for safety. ]\Ir. Faulkner has since heard of two of them as ha\'ing been in Spokane at an early date, and has himself conversed with a sister of one of the conspirators. Our subiect's war experience was unusually full of adventure aiul replete with stirring incident, but space forbids a more complete history of those four }-ears. For more than a c|uarter of a century the Doctor has lived in Washington and he now has oftices in the Oliver block, Spokane.

CHARLES A. GOHiLE. postmaster at Waverly. son of Philip and Lydia .A., was Ixirn in Kansas, January 14, 1871 His parents came to Waverly when he was thirteen years old and he was brought up here. In 1890 he attended school in Spokane and later took a one-year course in the Spokane Business College. He then engaged in extensive farming, having two hundred and thirty acres, and in 1897 entered the mercantile business, where he has since been very successfully employed. He served for some time as deputy postmaster and in 1898 was appointed to his present position. Mr. Gimble is a Republican in politics and has served as clerk of the school board since 1896. His mother lives with him, but his father died August 6. 1897.

P.\UL BOCION, son of David and Susannah Bocion, was born in Lausanne, on the banks of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, May 1 1. 1833. His father was a large farmer and mayor of the town. The family came from the oUI Huguenots and were a highly respected people. Mr. Bocion came to Xew York City on the ship Mercury, arriving July 2, 1857. He then sailed for San Francisco, by way of Panama, traveling on the steamers Central .Americana and Sonora. While in California he was engaged in mining in Siskiyou county. From there he walked one thousand and two hundretl miles to Camplups, then called Fort Thompson, and endured many hanlships on the perilous trip. He later engaged in mining in British Culumbia and in 1858 located at Victoria, where he engaged in the soda water business with some success. In 1880 he came to Cheney and established an extensive liquor business. He erected a fine two-story brick business house, which was burned in 1889. but rebuilt within three months. He now owns two nice brick buildings and has retired from active business. He served as a member of the municipal council in 1898 and is known as an excellent man and rei>resentative citizen.

HON. DANIEL F. PERCR'AL. son of Gordon and Emmeline B., was l)orn in Bangor, Maine, November 16. 1839. His father was one of the early pioneers of IMaine and engaged in the lumber business. He died at Medical Lake, Washingtcjn, in 1896. at the ripe old age of ninety-six years, retaining all his faculties to the time of his death. Mr. Percival was brought up in the lumber business and in 1864 enlisted in the L'nion army. He was present at the fall of Richmond and the surrender of General Lee, and was honorably discharged in 1865, when he engaged in merchandizing at St. Joe, Missouri. On May i, 1866, he started across the plains, with an ox team. After a hard trip, during which seventy of the company were killed by Indians, he arrived in Bozeman, Alontana, Septemlier I, 1866. He engaged in business there for two years and went to California on horseback by way of Salt Lake City. After spending two years in business at San Diego, he removed to Portland. Oregon, and engaged in lumbering. In 1872 he went to Rock Creek.

Washington, and was successfully engaged in stock raising. He served the people of Stevens county as a county commissioner in 1874 and 1875 ^'""^l ^s '1 niember of the legislature for two terms, 1876 to 1880. In 1881 he came to Cheney and engaged in the real estate and brokerage business. He established a private bank and in 1889 organized the First National Bank of Cheney, serving as its president.

j\Ir. Percival was always recognized as a leading citizen and was therefore elected mayor for five consecutive terms. Under his wise administration the water works and electric light systems were constructed and numerous public improvements completed. He was president of the board of trustees of the eastern \\'ashington insane asvlum at ]\Ied;cal Lake, for eight years, giving perfect satisfaction. While a niember of the 1879 legislature he introduced the bill organizing Spcikane county and was the principal originator of the State Normal School. The people of Cheney owe him a debt of gratitude for securing this magnificent public building and addition to the attractions of the town. He owns a handsome two-story dwelling on a beautiful eminence overlooking the valley and his hospitality and kindness make him knijwn o\'er the great Northwest. His life has been one of adventure and signal success. He was married in Portland, Oregon, April 3, 1873. to Elizabeth Blythe, who died June 18, 1896. His present most estimable wife was IMrs. Fannie Osterman.

DR. FRANCIS A. POMEROY, son of F. yi. and Irene, was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, while the family were en route to California, January 10, 1849. His father was one of the early pioneers of California and the Doctor began his school life in the Golden state. He later attended high school in Salt Lake City under Bartlett Tripp three years and began the study of medicine there under the instruction of Dr. J. H. Greer. Subsequently he removed to Tombstone. Arizona, and engaged in the drug business. He attended the Rush Medical College, of Chicago, one year, and the Long Island College, of Brooklyn, two years, where he graduated in 1883 and began practicing in Idaho. In 1884 he came to Cheney, and after practicing medicine for several years opened a drug store in connection with his practice. He has a fine, well-appointed store, and enjoys one of the largest practices of any physician in this section of the state. He is local surgeon of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, having served in that capacity for sixteen years. He has served as mayor of the cit}- two terms and as county physician three years. Is local examiner for all the prominent life insurance companies and a strong fraternal man. being a member of different orders and the countv and state medical societies. Dr. Pomerov visited Europe in 1894 and took a post-graduate course at the Post-Graduate School of London. He was married January 10, 1875, ^^ Marv. daughter of Charles and Mary Rich, of Salt Lake City. They have two children : ^^laniie. now Mrs. R. Hendricks, born in Salt Lake City October 25, 1875 '- J'-"''e. born in Idaho June 29, 1883, and Rich, born in 1879. deceased.

RAYMOND C. PETERSON, of the firm of Peterson & Melendy. photo artists, son of Nels N. and Cynthia B., was born in Trenton. Missouri, May 26. 1874. His parents removed to Centerville, Iowa, when he was quite young, and in 1886 came to Ciieney, where he has since resided. He attended the Benjamin Cheney .Academy, the Spokane Business College and the State Normal School, and began life as a photographer. After a one-year's experience in the confectionery business, he returned to his former profession and. in partnership with E. J. Melendy, has the only photograph gallery south of Spokane.

E. J. Melendy. partner in the firm, is a son of Daniel and Cynthia A., was born in Michigan. Ni>vember 24, 1875. He removed to Indiana, then to Nebraska, and in 1896 came to Cheney. Tiie young men ha\e a nicely equipped gallery and enjoy the confidence and respect of the community. Tiiey make a specialty of views and have a choice collection of scenery photos of prominent places in Spokane county. The portraits of pioneers and representative men of this section of the county were taken bv these artists.

GEORGE A. FELLOWS, ticket agent for the Northern Pacific Railway Company, son of George and Ann Marie, was born at Snow Point, Nevada county, California, January 23, i860. He was brought up in his native place, graduated at the L'niversity of the Pacific, at San Jose, California, and began work for the Southern Pacific Railway Company as agent at Antioch. In 1882 he came to Cheney and began work as night operator and was soon promoted to day operator, and, after three years' service, was made agent, which position he has filled to the present day. He passed through the many scenes incidental to settling the country and has acted as Indian scout for the county sheriff during the Indian troubles.

He has repeatedly been offered the nomination for various county offices antl refused in every instance to enter politics. Mr. Fellows has always attended strictly to his business as agent of the company and has seen his business ii'iCrease so that he now requires the assistance of three men. He was married, on September 9. 1S87. to Mabel, daughter of John A. and Annie Harris, of Cheney. Her father was the postmaster and she assistant at the time of marriage. They now have one son - .\rthur, born October 29. 1898. ]\Ir. Fellows is a member of Oriental Lodge, No. 74, F. & A. M., Cataract Commandery, No. 3, and is a thirty-second-degree Scottish Rite Mason, with membership at Spokane. He is also a memlier of Rathbone Lodge, No. 47. K. P., of Chene3\

LOUIS H. HOUCK. merchant, son of Jrihn and Mary, was born in Tiffin, Ohio, .August 19. 1 86 1. He attended the parochial schools and later entered a dry goods store, where he remained for si.x years. In April, 1 88^, he went to Portland, Oregon, and engaged in a general merchandizing ])usiness for one year and removed to Benton, Oregon, wherehe followed merchandizing for fiveyears. He located in Spokane in 1887 and was employed by the F. H. ^lason dry goods store and was manager for the L. Budde store at Palouse City and Cheney. In 1893 '''^ came to Cheney and managed the store for M. Budde until 1898, when he purchased the l)usiness and engaged in merchandizing for himself. He has a nice store and does a good business. ]\Ir. He nick has always taken an active part in all public institutions and assisted in building up the city. He served as a member of the citv council for three terms and still holds that position. He was married, July 12, 1885, to Ida, daughter of William S. and Jennie M. O'Brien. They have two children: William, born October 6, 1888, and Mary, born September 5, 1897.

FR.A.NK KORTE, manager and principal owner of the firm of Frank Korte & Co., son of John G. and Mary, was born in Mc- Gregor, Clayton county, Iowa, August 17, 1875. He was educated at the home high school and came to Cheney when only eighteen years of age, and began working for M. Budde. After some years of successful business the present firm, of which ;\Ir. Korte owns onehalf interest, purchased the store. They carry a stock of fifteen thousand dollars, and do a business of about thirty thousand dollars per year. They carry general merchandise, groceries, dry goods and the stock of a complete store. ]\Ir. Korte was married, September 24, 1896, to Florence, daughter of Martin and Sarah Rowley, of Chene}-. They have two children: Kendall, born July 19, 1897, and Doris, May 30, 1899.

THO^I.\S J. McFERON, son of Robert and Sarah, was born in ]\Iercer county, ]Missouri, February 21, 1844. His father was a well-to-do and successful farmer, owning five to si.x hundred acres, and operating the entire acreage. T. J. was brought up on a farm, and educated in the real old log-cabin school house. At the age of twenty-four he removed to Oregon and was engaged in farming in the Willamette valley for four 3'ears. He then spent torn- years in the saw-mill business at Co- kimbia City, and in April. 1877. came to Cheney and filed on the first quarter-section of land in the township. He now owns two hundred and forty acres and is extensi\-ely engaged in fruit growing, the fruits being apples pears, plums and prunes, with cherries aud small fruits of every variety. Xo irrigation is needed and he claims to produce fruits that cannot be excelled in the world. He harvests annually about one thousand boxes of apples and other fruits in proportion. Among the improvements noticed on his fine farm are two new fruit houses of stone and lumljer. needed in the Inisiness of handling his crop. Fraternally Mr. McFeron is identified with Temple Lodge, Xo. 42. F. & A. M.. of which he is master. He was married, April i, 1877, to Lois M. Martineg, who died in 1889. He was next married, March 5, 1896, to Mrs. Catherine Benoist, sister of Dr. Turner. They have no family.

DR. H. A. WELLS was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 185 1, where he attended tiie local academy. At eighteen years of age he removed to ^lassachusetts and studied dentistry under his brother. J. B. Wells, at Ipswich. Later he graduated at Boston Dental College in the class of 1877. About 1880 he removed to Cheney, Washington, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his professidn. He served as a member of the city council and has contributed liberally in personal effort and money to the advancement of every public enterprise for the upbuilding of the citv. Owning two hundred acres of land in the suburbs, he is interested in the development of the agricultural as well as the educational interests of the neighborhood. He has for years been in good standing in the Masonic order, being

J.\MES W. MLXXICK, son of David and Elizabeth, was born in Iowa July 29, 1858. He was educated in the h(;me district scliools and engaged in farming until at the age of eighteen years, when he learned the l)lacksmith trade. After following this for some time in his natixe state, he left home at the age of twenty-two and located in Xorth Dakota, where, after working two years at his trade, he came to the conclusion that Washington was a good state and in 1883 came to Cheney. He followed blacksmithing here until 1887, when he learned the watch and jewelry trade and engaged in that, at which he has been very successful. He passed through the incidents of pioneer life in Cheney and has witnessed some of the Indian troubles. In 1898 he was appointed the telephone agent for Cheney, which is conducted in connection with his business as a jeweler. Mr. Minnick, like many other pioneers of the west, took up a nice farm in early days, but .sold out to follow his l)resent successful business. He was married Xovember 15, 1881. to Fannie, daughter of H. B. Hansen, of Xorth Dakota. They have six children: Martha E.. Herbert W., Howard. Rex E.. Olcra and Harold.

ABEL BROWX, proprietor of Brown'o livery stable and constable of the Cheney precinct, son of Charles and ^largaret, was born in Klackamas county, Oregon, March 8. 1852. When he was nine years of age his parents removed to Walla Walla, Washington, and remained there for twenty years. He was engaged in the drayage and general li\-ery business, at which he was very successful. In 1 88 1 he came to Cheney and engaged in the same business and now has the largest liverv Ijusiness in this section. He has served as constable and deputy sheriff two terms and is recognized as an active and efficient officer. He assisted very much during the Indian depredations in keeping the redskins away from the homes of the pioneers. 'Sh'. Brown is a strong fraternal man, being a member of the Masonic, I. O. O. F., Rebekahs and Woodmen of this place. He was married, August 12, 1877, to Julia, daughter of Patrick Nolan, a native of Canada. They hax'e had ten children, five of wh(im are living: George, Ida, Margaret, Stella and Grace.

CLAUDE T. FINDLEY, proprietor of the most representative stationery and general notions store in Cheney, is a son of James and Sibbie, 'born in McDermott county, Illinois. March 6, 1875. ^^ hen he was eight years of age his parents came tij Cheney, where his father is a prominent farmer and has served as street commissioner for fifteen years. Claude T. was educated at the State N(.irmal School and made the study of music a specialty, jjeing a member of different orchestras and bands. In company with M. Peterson he opened the present place of business, as a partnership concern, and after fifteen months purchased the entire l.nisiness. He carries a stock of ahuut two thousand dollars and does a business of ten thousand dollars annually, supplying most of the books and stationery for the normal and surrounding district schools. His place is the recognized headquarters for everything in his line and he has many staunch personal friends in the city who admire him for his excellent business qualifications.

HENRY CORLEY, son of Andrew J. and Harriet A., was born in Illinois April 19, 1853. He was raised there on a farm and educated at the home schools. In 1873 he went to southwestern Kansas, then into Missouri, and spent some years at farming. He came to Spokane county October 5, 1879, and settled three miles west of Cheney, where he took up a farm of forty acres and worked it for tliree years, then went tn Puget sound and after a short time returned here and secured his present farm of fijur hundred acres seven miles southwest of the city. Mr. Corley conducts a dairy, hay and grain farm and is one of the substantial farmers fif the county. He was married, February 5, 1880, to Rosetta Combs, They have seven children : Veffie, Lela, Ransome. Essie, Charlie, Nona and Andrew.

GEORGE \\'. PHILLIPS, son of William E. and Eliza E., was born in Limestone county, Alaliama, January 15. 1830. His parents left in 1 85 1 and located at Fort Jessup, Sabine parish, Louisiana, where he was educated and began life as a clerk in a large mercantile house. In 1853 he went to Yam Hill countv, Oregon, crossing the plains in wagon, requiring from ^lay 12 to November 28 to make the trip. He took up one hundred and sixty acres of land and farmed it until 1859, when he sold out and engaged in general business, going to Wasco county and then to Wash- ington, where he organized Khckitat county and was appointed clerk by Governor Ferry. After two years he was elected county commissioner. He later returned to Yam Hill county and was elected assessor for four years in succession. He is an Indian war veteran, fighting through the winter of 1855 and 1856 in the United States volunteer army. ]\Ir. Phillips was one of the party tliat was compelled to live on horse flesh for several weeks during the Indian troubles. He came to Cheney in 1887 and was appointed deputy assessor for five years. He never was a candidate for any ottice in this state, but was the first officer this side of Snake river. His wife, wdiose maiden name was Mary J. Ladd. died in Oakesdale, Washington, in 1893. They had seven children, namely: Oscar, Lillie E., Richard yi.. Charles A\'.. Mattie, Mamie, living, and William T., deceased.

THO:\IAS B. S. COLEMAN, son of Fleming and Lydia Ann. a pioneer of November, 1876, was born in Wheeling, West \'irginia, August 19. 1841. His parents removed to Ohio, then to Iowa, where he was brought up on a farm. In 1861 he enlisted in Company H, Seventh ^Missouri \'olunteer Cavalry, and served four years and four months in the war of the Rebellion. He was in the Ijattles at Blue Mills and Crab Orchard, Missouri, and was taken prisoner at Perry Grove. Arkansas, December 7. 1862, and held at Fort Smith f(!r twenty-eight days, when he was paroled and returned to service. After being discharged from the service he was engaged in farming for several years in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Oregon and then came to Spokane Cijunty. After spending a while near

Dayton, he came to his present location, seven miles south of Cheney, in 1877, and took up a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. He is engaged in general hay and stock farming and grows considerable garden stuff. He was married January i, 1868, to Margaret Ann, daughter of Winfield and Lucy Buckley, of Missouri. They iiave five children : L'. S., Lydia .\., Scott, Olive M. and Lucy M. Mr. Coleman is a member of General George Wright Post, G. A. R., at Chenev.

HL'GH D. BELL, son of Thomas and Mary, was born in Ontario, Canada, December 5, 1867. The family removed to California in 1875 and remained there until the spring of 1880, when they came to Cheney and took up a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, where they have a fine liay and stock ranch. Among their possessions is a fine Jersey herd, and dairying is one of the industries in which they are engaged. Hugh D. was married, December 12, 1893. to Bertha, daughter of John and Catherine Peters, a native of Germany. They have three children: Leslie, born December 12, 1894; .\imie B., January 15, 1895, and Lola, June 15, 1897.

WILLIAM K. GRIFFITH, son of William C. and Celia, was born in east Tennessee, Anderson county, September 2, 1833. He was raised there on a farm and left April 4. 1862. In making a gallant attempt to reach the federal lines for enlisting in the army, he was wounded and could not enter the service until October, 1862, when he enlisted and was appointed orderly sergeant and later made second lieutenant of Company A, in the Fourtli Tennessee Cavalry, ser\-ing as sciuit, and was in the fight at Nashville, Tennessee, with Hood. He left the service in 1864 and returned home, where he remained until April 5, 1S76, when he started for Washington, reaching Colfax in ]\Iay, 1S76. ^Ir. Griffith remained for some time in Garfield, then came to Cheney, where he bought a farm of two hundred and forty acres and is now engaged in dairying, raising hay, cattle and horses, his place being six miles from the city. He was married, February 7, 1864, to Harriet, daughter of Shadrach and Susan Stevens, of Alorgan county, Tennessee. They have had four children : Samson R., Riibert P. and Harriet Cordelia, living, and William Wesley, deceased. Mr. Griftith is a member of George Wright Post, Xo. 23, G. A. R., of which he is past commander.

BENJA^HX F. SAWYER, son of Levi and Elizabeth, was born in Northumberland. west Canada, June 12, 1837. He was educated in his native land and brought up on a farm. At the age of twenty-fi\-e years he came to the United States, and located in Ohio, where he was engaged in the grocery business for sixteen years. After a successful experience in Ohio he removed to South Dakota and engaged in farming for seven years, when he came to Washington, arriving here in 1887. He purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and has improved it, being now very successfully engaged in raising wheat, barley, oats and cattle, and conducting a fine dairy. Islv. Sawver was married, February 2, 1861, to Rosella Sullivan. They have had nine children: Mary, Cora B., Ida, John W. and Chester L;, living, and Hattie, Maggie, Mattie

AUGUSTUS F. LESHER, son of Jacob and Ann, was burn in (_jrant countv, Wisconsin, November 13, 1846. His father died in California and he was brought up on a farm in Missouri. When nineteen years of age Mr. Lesher went to Texas and spent some years, then returned ti> bis home state, ^Missouri, and, in 1883, came to Sprague, ^Vashington. He resided at Sprague for four years, then came to Cheney, where he took up one hundred and sixty acres of land and IjDUght four hundred and eighty acres of railroad land, four miles out of town, and engaged in general farming and stockraising. Mr. Lesher is one of the b)ig farmers of this section. He was married, February 2~. 1868, to Margaret J., daughter (if John and Elizabeth Harmtni, of [Missouri. They have five children : Luc)' A., John P., William, Kate and J. Orlan. Mr. Lesher enlisted in August, 1864, m Company K, Fortyfourth [Missouri Infantr}-, under Captain Nathan Winters; was discharged in [March, 1865, and is a member of General George Wright Post, No. 23, G. A. R., at Cheney. His father was a lieutenant in the Seminole war.

JAMES E. BURBANK, son of Harry and Miner\'a, was born in Polk county, Oregon, Jwiie 14. 1859- He attended school in his'' native place until at the age of eleven years,, when his parents removed to Yakima valley and engaged in the stock business. In 1881 he came to Cheney and bought two hundred and forty acres of land and engaged in growing hay and raising stock. He now raises large crops of hav, which he bales and shi]is toall points in Washington and British Columbia. yiv. Burbank is the principal stock raiser in this section, having a good herd all the time and feeds for others. His hay baling and ship- ping business is the largest in Spokane county and his varied interests extend in e\-ery <hrection. He has mining stock in the Napa Gokl Mining Company on the ]\Iyers creek reservation, the Butclier Boy in Deadwood British Cohmibia, and the Boston Gokl jMining Company : also in the Shonee anil many others at Cheney. He was married, December 16. 1878, to Effie E., daughter of George and Adeline Pyliurn, of Yakima. They have one child, Zella IMarie, Ijorn July 8, 1897. Mr. Burbank is an enthusiastic member of Cheney Lodge, No. 21, I. O. O. P., having passed through all the chairs, and was representative to the Grand Lodge one term. 2^1rs. Burbank is a member of the Rebekahs and has been lK)nlored with all the chairs and as representative to the Grand Assemblv at Walla Walla.

ABRAHAM R. CULVER, son of David and Clara, was born in Lucerne county, Pennsylvania, March 20, 1842. When he was five years old his parents renn)\'etl to Illinois, where he attended school and was brought up on a farm. He then went to Black Hawk county, Iowa, where he spent three years, then nio\ed to Richland county, Wisconsin, spending one year, then to Rock county, where he enlisted in the United States army. He ser\-ed as a private in the army for four vears, being in Company G, Thirteenth Wisconsin Infantry, i\Ir. Culver took part in the engagements at Fort Donelson, Huntsville, Alabama, and at Painted Rocks, Alabama, where he was taken prisoner and held in the Cahaba prison for one hundred days, when he was exchanged. He was discharged June 4, 1865, at ]\Iadison, ^^'isconsin. He spent ten years at farming in ]\Iinnesota. then was in the lumber business in Oregon for one year and came to Cheney ]\Iay 6, 1877. , Mr. Culver first tried the lumber business, then bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, to which he added until he now has six hundred and forty acres. He now has thirty-four fine Jersey and Shorthorn cattle and supplies the Cheney creamery with milk. He was married in Minnesota, October 13, 1868, to Marv. tlaughter of Frank Schermer, of Nicoiet count}', Minnesota. They have had eleven children : Lyman, Walter, Ralph. Louis, Alonzo, Frank, .\braham, Robert. Gaylord and OlHe, li\"ing, and Clara, deceased.

FREDERICK H. RUSHMEIER.apioneer of 188.1., was born in Manchester, England, Octoljer 9. 1865, While yet in infancy he was brought by liis parents to tlie United States. The\- located first in Chicago, but after two \ears moved to McLeod county, Minnesota, where Mr. Rushmeier was reared and educated. He learned the trades of a carpenter and a machinist and engineer, followed farming a while, and was also interested with his father in a general merchandise store. In 1884 the entire family came to Spokane and Mr. Rushmeier worked at his trade for a time. Afterwards the father took a homestead and Frederick worked with him for a while, but subsequently accepted a positicjn in the city. He remained there until 1896, then came to Rockford and established his present business there. He is sole proprietor of the leading saloon and billiard hall in the town. His father died in Spokane in 1895, '^"t liis mother still lives on a farm near that city. Mr. Rushmeier was married in Minneapolis. March 15. 1886, to Miss Bertha Bahr, and they have had six children.

namely : Annie, Lillie, George and Henry, living, and ^lary and \\"illie, deceased. Mr. Rushmeier is a member of Spokane Tribe, No. 9, I. O. R. AI. He is also chief of the Rockford fire department and has held the office for three successive terms.

THOiAIAS GRIER, son of John and Margaret, was born in Belmont county, Ohio, on the Gth of July, 1823. He spent several years in Belmont, Morgan and Jasper counties at farming and blacksmithing, then remo\-ed to Fayette county, where he handled general farm products. Later he farmed in Illinois and was engaged for three years in the sheep business at Portland, Oregon. He then came to Cheney and bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres three miles out of the city and is now actively engaged in general farming, his principal crop being wheat. His land produces an average of twenty-five bushels per acre and he rents it, getting from five hundred dollars to si.x hundred dollars per year from the rentals. He has served as school director for four terms anil road supervisor one term. Mr. <jrier was married. September 6, 1840, to Belinda Wakefield, who died in .Xjjril, 1844, leaving two children: Jedediah and Mary. Fie was next married, August 26, 1845, to Mary Holcomb. They have fi\-e children: John, Elmer, ^Margaret, Laura and Jennie. Mr. Grier has been a member of the IMetliodist Episcopal church for forty-seven years.

THOMAS W. ODELL, son of John P. and Sarah, was born in Guernsey county, Ohio, December 12. 1853. His parents removed, in 1854, to Rock Island county, Illinois, where he was brought up and educated. He learned the trade of masonry and plastering and remained there until 1S72, when he removed to Iowa and followed his trade with mixed farming. After spending several years in Iowa, he came to Cheney, where he still resides. He bought a farm of one hundred and twenty acres and worked it until 1896, when he UKived into the city. Mr. Odell has served as mayor for three terms and is now serving as councilor on his second term. He was a school director for three years and is a much respected citizen. He continues to work at his trade, being an experienced man in his line.

Mr. Odell was married. October 26, 1876, to Harriet, daughter of Charles and Rebecca Vanduser, of Iowa. They have fi\'e children : Charles P., Eflie, Luella, Sarah and Mvrtle.

GUNNER T. EVERSON, proprietor of the Cheney Hotel, was born in Wisconsin, April 21, 1858. He was reared and educated in that state, then, at the age of twenty, came out west. He traveled quite extensively for a number of years, residing for varying periods of time in several of the principal cities, and finally locating at Cheney in 1886. He first embarked in the grocery business, then followed mining, farming and stock raising, etc., but finally purchased the Cheney Hotel. In 1887 he had married Miss Eveline Anderson. When they assumed control of the hotel it was natural to expect that success would attend them, for both Mr. Everson and his wife had had a \'ery extended ])revious experience as hotel managers, and both had learned the art of making friends of their guests. The results pro\-ed that a hotel, fitted up as that was, could be made to succeed in Cheney, though previous attempts had ended in dismal failure. The house now enjoys a large patronage and is in a prosperous condition. It is a fine, imposing, three-story brick structure, situated just across the street from the railway depot, and in a position to command an excellent view of the surrounding country. \\'ithin, the hotel is supplied with twenty bed moms, two fine parlors, large commodious offices, dining rooms, bathrooms, several sets of lavatories, electric lights, calls, and in fact e\'erything to be found in the most modern and metropolitan hotels. For the benefit of commercial men there is an immense sample room, extending the full length of the building. The table is supplied always with the very best and affords a choice of everything in the market. In fact the appearance and tone of the entire premises bear elofiuent testimony to the thrift and enterprise of the proprietors. Mr. and Mrs. Everson are parents of one daughter, Clara M.

WILLIAM H. SPENCE. son of Andrew and Nancy, was born in Canada. November 1849. His parents remmed to Ljwa when he was six years of age, and he was educated and brought up there on a farm. In the spring of 1862 he went to California and remained there engaged in farming until the fall of 1879, Axhen he came to Medical Lake and J)ought a farm of two hundred and seventy acres and engaged in the livery business. He is now engaged in raising hay and oats and conducting his livery, which is the largest in this section. Mr. Spence always has about one d()zen firstclass horses and rigs of all kinds for the accommodation of the traveling public and strangers desiring such accommodations. He has served as councilman fur three terms, and as a school director, and is a prominent citizen. He was first married, in 1873, ^o }^Iary Thompson, who died November 14, 1881, leaving two ])oys, (jeorge and Frederick. He was next married, in 1890, to Sadie, daughter of John and Sarah Eccles. Thev have no children.

HENRY STOWERS, son of Henry and Louisa, was born in ]\Iercer county, Illinois, September 20. 1842. His parents removed to California in 1852 and remained there twenty - six years, where he was brought uj) and educated on a farm. He engaged in teaming and followed that work for several years. ]\Ir. Stowers came to Latah in 1879 and took up a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and has since purchased eighty acres additional. Wheat is his principal crop, his fields averaging about twenty bushels j^er acre. He makes his home on the wheat ranch and succeeds better than some others who live in the towns. He has been engaged with Mr. Seeiiorn on the Northern Pacific Railroad and is considered a good man in all places where employed.

J.\MES W. KNOW, son of James R. and Ehzabeth. was born in Lafayette county, Missouri, .\pril 3, i860. His parents removed to Nevada when he was four years old, and later to Santa Cruz, California, where he was educated and Ijrought up as a farmer and freighter. He worked at the freighting business for some time, hauling goods to San Jose and the surrounding country. At the age of twenty-one years he left home and was engaged for some time in the lumber and lime business. He came to Latah Augu.st 11, 1881, and located on a limber claim of one hundred and sixty acres, finir miles west of the town. He now resides three and one-half miles northwest of the town, where he is engaged in farming. Barley is his principal crop, averaging twenty-three bushels per acre. He also has a nice orchard of apple, plum and cherry trees and is engaged in raising stock and horses. Mr. Know was married February i, 1893, to Belle, daughter of William Duncan, of Tennessee. Tliey have had seven children : \'irgie and James, the oldest, and four. Leoma. Leona. Leola and Leon, quadruplets, were born June 20, 1897, they being the only similar births recorded in the state of Washington. Leon and Leoma died when six months old, but the others are li\-ing. Their youngest. Dewey, was born October i, 1898.

GEORGE W. ENSLEY. physician and surgeon, son of James M. and Amy A., was born at Gappsville, Pennsylvania, February 1 1 , 1864. He was brought up there and secured a common-school education in the home district schools. In 1883 he began studying medicine with Dr. Rohm, of Clearville, Pennsylvania, then entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, from which he graduated in 1886. He then took a special course on diseases of the heart, thrnat, lungs and gynecology, and began practice in Pleasant Ridge. Pennsylvania, in 1886. After practicing there for one year, he sold out and came direct to Waverly, in July. 1887, and in 1892 removed to Fairfield where he n<:iw has a fine practice. The Doctor is a member of the I. O. O. F., and examiner for the New York Life, Pennsylvania ]\Iutual, New York Mutual. Aetna and other life insurance comjianies. His business averages aljout three thousand dollars yearly, and he has the principal practice in this section. He was in attendance at the birth of the celebrated quadruplets at Latah. He was married November 26, 1891. to Elizabeth C, daughter of William and Mary Connolly, of Waverly. They have one child, Laura AL, born October 19. 1897.

JOHN SERVICE, son of Alexander and Mary, was born in Scotland, April 7, 1858. His parents came to the United States and located in Ohio when he was six years old. Later they removed to Hannibal, Missouri, where his father was engaged in the carpenter shops of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway Company. His parents then moved to Lathrop, Missouri, where he was educated and learned telegraphy, being employed for three years on the Hanni])al & St. Joe Railroad. He then filled a similar position with the Wabash. St. Louis & Pacific for two years and completed a fuller course in telegraphy at Washington, District of Columbia, after which he returned and worked on the \\'al)ash until 18S3, when he came west and worked at The Dalles, Oregon, for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company at various points, as Arlington, Waitsburg and Fairfield. He now owns an interest in the Fairfield Planing Mill Company. This company carries a complete stock of all kinds of lumber, laths, shingles, doors and windows, paints and oils, being the only business of the kind in the county, outside of Spokane. Mr. Ser\'ice also has had some journalistic experience, having been editor of the Fairfield Progress for three years. He was first married to Cora E. Ouiner, of Arlington, Oregon. who left him one son, Walter. He was married again December 11, 1891, to Mary Cleg- horn, of California. They have one child, Helen. Mr. Service has always taken an active part in the upbuilding of the town and has been a liberal contributor to anything which would help the town and the county.

OSCAR H. LOE. son of J. O. and Mary, was born in Nebraska, October 2, 1876. He came to Fairfield in 1889 and was educated and brought up here in the newspaper business. He has been the editiir of the Fairfield Standard for four years, and is a bright and promising newspaper man. He is a Repu1)lican in politics.

HON. H. BUTLER, son of William C. and Rebecca, was born in Monmouth, Illinois, July 14, 1848. His parents remiived to Lyon county, Kansas, when he was eleven years old. and he was educated and brought up there. In 1866 he went to ]\Iissouri and entered into the saw-mill and lumbering business, where he was engaged until April, 1873, when he came to Washington and located one hundred and sixty acres of land near the present town of Pomeroy. in Garfield county. He spent a few years in farming and then went into mining in Idaho for ten years. Mr. Butler served as representative in the territorial legislature of Idaho in 1877 and 1879 and was mining recorder of the Atlanta district and justice of the peace for his precinct during his residence in the state, .\fter farming again in Garfield county for a few years he came to Fairfield in 1891. He engaged in the livery business for four years and was a deputy United States marslial for some time, assisting in suppressing the sale of liquors to Indians.

Some years ago he purcliased the J. R. Lowe & Company general store and went into merchandizing. He was appointed postmaster .\pril 13, 1897. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.. and at present is the noble grand of his lodge. Mr. Butler was married July 28, 1878, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jackson J. and Francis Yount, of Fairfield. They have four children: Clyde, aged nineteen; Chancey. aged thirteen; \'irgil. aged seven; and Gladys, aged five vears.

JOHN O. LOE, son of Ole O. and Ragnild, was born in Norway, February 20, 1851. He came to the United States in 1870, arriving' at Lansing, Iowa. June 16, of that year. He learned the trade of a blacksmith in the old country and worked at that in Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska, and in 1889 came to Fairfield where he helped erect the second building in the place, now the Coy warehouse. Mr. Loe was one of the very first settlers here and assisted in building the railroad depot. He built a shop and did the first blacksmithing here. He served as the first constable of the city. Mr. Loe was married in 1875 to Mary Strand, of Stanton. Nebraska. They have seven children ; Oscar. Hannah, Julia, Edwin. ^label. Zelda and Weimar. Mr. Loe opened the first place of business in Fairfield, and now does a large business in blacksmithing and wr)od and carriage work.

COL. E. H. MORRISON was born in New Jersey, .\ugust 4. 1848. He was educated at the Rectory school at Hampden, Connecticut, also in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy. New York, class of "68. He made a trip to Central City, Colorado, in 1867, to examine some mines for the University Mining Company. In 1868 he went to Europe to study engineering, and before returning made an extensive trip over that continent and the Orient. The ne.xt year he returned, got married and again went to Europe, spending a year on the ]\Ie(hterranean. In 1870 he embarked in the cotton industry in Alabama, but in 1875 1^*^ miived north to New Jersey, and engaged in iron mining. He ser\'ed as a member of the g()\-ernment centennial commission in the Centennial Exposition, then was private secretary to a congressman at Washington, D. C, for twn years. In 1878 he became register in the land office at Walla \\'alla. which jjosition he retained six years. He worked in the interests of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company a while, and in 1889 became manager of the Oregon Irrigating Company's lands on Puget sound. He was also appointerl commissary general of the territory in that year. In i8qi he came to Fairfield, where he has ever since resided. He lives in a beautiful h(jme on a hill near the town, Iniilt in tlie colonial style, and commanding an excellent \-iew. Colonel Morrison has been foremost in the promotion of every enterprise for the benefit of bis neighborhood. Init deserves special credit for his part in obtaining the best factory at Wa\'erly, and getting the industry started. He was married. September 2, 1869, to Louise Norton, of Troy, New York, and they ha\-e two children, Norton H. and Edward O.

EDWARD E. GIMBLE, son of I'hillip and Lydia A., was born in Washington, Tazewell county, Illinois, May 28, 1863. His parents removed to Americus, Kansas, in 1869, where they were engaged in farming. He was brought up and educated there and engaged in the hotel business until 1884, when he came to Spokane, passing through that city on the day he was twenty-one years of age. He went to Waverly and erected the first hinise and opened the pioneer store, and in 1884 was the first postmaster of the present town of Waverly, which position he held until 1888. In 1889 he came to Fairfield and opened a large store here which he conducted until 1895, when he sold to Mr. J. L. Spath, but still works in the interest of the store. Mr. Gimljle was one of the first settlers of this section, having hunted game over the entire area now co\-ered by farms. He was married, January 19, 1886, at Peoria, Illinois, to Mamie R. Hidl. They have had two children: Beryl died at the age of sixteen months, and Irene, who was accidentally drowned when three years old. Mr. Gimble has always taken a prominent part in the hjcal politics of the Democratic party, although he has ne\'er sought any political preferment.

WILLIAM GARDNER, son of Isaac and Martha, was hnvu in Bolscott, near Banbury, Oxford, England, Feliruary 14, 1840. He attended the schools of his native land and engaged in farming. In 1872 he came to the United States on the steamship Baltic, and located in Wisconsin where he was engaged in farming for tweh-e years. In March, 1884, he came to Spokane, thence to Fairfield in 1890, and bought a half-section i^f railroad land one and one-half miles south of the town. Mr. Gardner was married in Bolscott, England, to Ann M. Pearson. They have seven living children : Jennie, Elijah, ]\lartha, George, Lizzie, Joseiih and Annie. .\ daughter, .\melia

Slatter. died at tlie age of twenty-seven years. Elijah, his eldest son, was born in Bolscott, O.xford. 'Slay 2 J, 1866. He was educated in Wisconsin and raised on his father's farm. .\t the age of twenty-one years he went to work for himself, and when the family came to \\'ashington, owned a farm. He is now at home with his father, having been married. His children are Clarence W. and Henrv M.

BENJ.\AnN F. DASHIELL, farmer and orchardist. son of George W. and Mary, was born in Lrniisville, Kentucky. March 28. 1838. The family rem(_)\-ed to Iowa in 184'), where he was educated and brought up im a farm. In i860 three of the bn)thers came west and located in Oregon, and remained there until 1872, engaged in farming and stockraising. He came to W'averly in 1874 and secured his present farm cif three hundred and twenty acres, and gave the town site frnm his farm. He now has eight acres in orchard, chiefly apples of the Ben Davis variety. His fanu crops are principally barlev, wheat and oats, averaging about twent_\--fi\e bushels per acre. Mr. Dashiell is also quite a stockraiser, having horses, hogs and cattle. He is one of the pioneers and passed through the Indian troubles with Chief Joseph and his band.

ROBERT J. HEALE. .son of Charles H. and .\nnie J., was born in Freeport. Maine, and reare<l and educated in De\'i)nshire. England. On March 9. 1S72. when eighteen years of age, he left England and sailed fur the United States on the steamship France, and located in New Jersey. He worked at the carpenter's trade, and after four vears went to Texas, after which he worketl in New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City and Topeka, where he worked at his trade, and sang solo bass in the Episcopal church choirs. He then engaged in milling in Russell county, Kansas, and lost thirty-six thousand dollars on account of failure of crops. He came to Washington and spent several years in Tacoma engaged in the feed and contracting business. After working in Spokane for some time in a sash and door factory, and being employed by the Northern Pacific Company, he came to \\a\erly and is now engaged as a millwright at the sugar factory. Mr. Heale was married, in 1873. to Emma, daughter of Peter and Elizabetli Stone. They have four children : Ciiarles, Robert, Emma and Percy.

1).\N1 1:L ROTHGEB, farmer, son of Henry and Sarah, was born in Gallia county, Ohio, Septeml)er 16, 1837. He was raised there and educated to running a farm of eighty acres. When thirty-five years old he sold out and went to Missouri where he spent several years in farming, and on August 10, 1880, arrived in W.ncrly. ba\ing crossed the plains with teams, taking three months and ten days on the road. The country was then open and an extensive grassy prairie. He took up eigiity acres which he still owns, excepting a fifteen-acre tract donated to tlie sugar factory. Mr. Rothgeb is an old soldier and pioneer, being wagon master and teamster during the war of the Rebellion, being on hand with his teams at the battles fought along the Ohio and West Virginia lines. He is engaged here in growing wheat, cattle and hogs, and intends to plant sugar beets quite extensively. He was married .\ugust 13. 1868, ti> Rachel R.. daughter of Isaac and Mary Shaffer, lioni in Page county. \'irginia. Novem-

Hon. Frank P. Witter. M. D.

HON. FRANK P. WITTER. M. D.. son of John and Mary, wa.s born in Massachusetts, May 20, 1 86 1. At the age of ten years he accompanied bis parents to Putnam, Connecticut, where he grew to manhrjod. He was educated in the Putnam high school and in the Woodstnck .\cademy, then entered the University of Michigan, from the medical department of which he graduated in 1887. .\fter lea\-ing college he mii\-ed tu North Dakota, practiced medicine there for two years, then came to Rockford, where he has since resided. In 1892 he was elected mayor of the town ami was re-elected in 1894, again in 1896, and again in 1898, and in 1898 he was also elected to the state legislature to represent the fifth district, where he took an active part in securing an appropriation for the Cheney Normal School. During that session be was also chairman of the committee that made the investigation of affairs in the Medical Lake Insane Asylum, v\hicb resulted in the many good and radical changes made there, and which will, it is hoped, place the management of those institutions on a par with that of the older eastern states. He was associate pulilisher of the Rockford Enterprise for two years. Doctor Witter is a very active man in the town where he lix'cs, and is a leader in everything for the ad\-ancement of the community and the general good. In his profession, also. Doctor Witter ranks among the leading physicians of eastern Washington. His practice covers a radius of about fifteen miles, and averages from two to three thousand dollars ])er annum, and he is fre(|uently called on difficult surgical cases in the Spokane hospitals. He is a member of the Spijkane Coimty Medical Society, and is examiner for all the leading life insurance companies. The Doctor is a prominent and enthusiastic member of the F. & A. M., the I. O. O. F., the Woodmen of the World, and other fraternities.

\\\\LTER :M. caudle, son of William M. and Catherine, was born in Peoria, Illinois, January 30, 1868. His parents removed to Missouri when he was six months old, and at the age of fifteen years he left home and went to Denver. Colorado, then to Fort Smith, Arkansas, where be was engaged as deputy United States marshal in suppressing the moonshine whiskey makers. He then went to Fort Scott, Kansas, and worked for Ogrlen Brothers Training Stables where be trained the famous George Sprague, Peoria and Big John horses. Later he was engaged at Walla Walla, Pullman and Rockford, in working draft horses, and in 1893 be went to Alberta, Canada, where he serverl on the moimted police force for nearly four years. After working for the Golden Lumber Company, at Golden, British Columbia, he came to Fairfield and was engaged with the Farmers' Alliance warehouse for a time, w ben be, like many others, became imbued witli the idea of riches in the Klondike, and left Seattle, February 22. 1898, arriving in Dawson Citv, July 9. After spending considerable time in looking over the situation he came to tlie conclusion that the country was no place for a poor man. hence, on August 12. he left for and arri\-ed in Seattle. October 8. He came back to Fairfield and accepted his former work, where he is now employed.

JOHN W. HAMMOND, son of John and Melinda, was born near Springfield, Illinois, April 18, 1853. He was reared on a farm there and educated in the public schools, but in 1871 he went to Kansas and a year later to Arkansas, where for three years he was engaged in the lumber business. He then came to Colfax, Washington, and resided there for the ensuing seventeen years, but in 1892 he mo\-ed to Rockford. He rented a farm for a while. !)ut afterward gave his attention to masonry entirely. His mother and a younger brother live with him. Air. Hammond is quite extensively interested in town i)ropertv.

THOM.VS BOTHAM is a native of Hull, Yorkshire, England, born September 18, 1843. He received his education in the land of his birth and when nineteen years old accompanied his parents to Canada. The family then lived successively in Xew \'ork. Wisconsin. Iowa and Kansas, and while in the last named state the father died. Mr. Botham went to California in 1875, thence to Oregon in 1876 and from that state to Colfax, Washington, in 1877. He removed after a short time to Palouse City and soon went thence to Rockford. of which town he and his two brothers-in-law were the original settlers. He homesteaded a quarter- .section of land and remained on it a rear, then sold his right and went to Walla Walla. After a year's residence in that city, he went to The Dalles, Oregon, was there three years, then went to Ciiehalis and I)uilt a flouring mill. From that town he returned to Rockford. where he has ever since resided. He is quite extensively interested in town property. He put up a mill in Rockford in 1883, but it burned down the next year. He is now government miller on the Cieur d'Alene reservation. Mr. I5otham is one of the leading citizens of his part of the county and takes an active and intelligent interest in all affairs of public concern in the community. He has been deputy assessor and constable and now holds the office of town marshal. Politically he is a stanch and active Republican. He was married, January i. 1865. to Eliza A., daughter of C. M. and Eliza Farnsworth. and they have two children. Charles R. and Willis 15. ; also three grandchildren.

JACOB H.W'SOX. blacksmith, a pioneer of 1886, was born in Norway. June 10, 1849. He resided in the land of his nativity until twenty-two years old, learning the trades of a blacksmith, a wagonmaker and a maciiinist. In 1 87 1 he emigrated to the United States, located in (irand Rapids, Michigan, and worked forthcRock Island Railroad Company for some time afterwards, then went to Grand Rapids. Wisconsin, where he resided one year. Subserpiently he removed to Arkdale. \\'isconsin, purchased a shop in company with his brother, and passed the ensuing eleven years there in the pursuit of his trade. In 1886 he came to this state, and on the 23d of November he opened a shop in Rockford. He was burned out about fi\e and a half years ago. but soon reopened in Rockford. In 1899 he sold his shop and engaged in the implement business, carry- ing a general line of farm implements. Since coming to this state he has taken an active and leading part in the pnhlic affairs of his town and of the county. He has heen city councilman for eleven years, and delegate to the Republican conventions for a like period : has held the offtce of school director for two years, and was deputy assessor for one. He was one of the first councilmen of the town after its incorporation, and one of the committee having in charge the construction of the school house. Mr. Hanson has been twice mairied. On October 28, 1880, he wedded Julia Peterson, who died in July, 1888. leaving two children. Martha and Palmar. He was next married August It. 1891, to Maren Olson, and they have two chililren, Julia and Olward.

HON. ALONZO K. CLARK is a native of Sharon, \'ermont, born December 15, 1846. In September, t86j. he enlisted in the Sixteenth Vermont Infantry and he later served in the First Cavalry. Mr. Clark participated in the battles of Gettysburg and Cedar Creek and in numerous skirmishes. He was mustered out with General Custer in 1865, then returned to Vermont, but after a brief stay rcnuA-ed to Massachusetts. He again enlisted in the army in 1866 and served until October rg. 1879, when he was discharged at Fort Sherman. While in the army he iiarticipated in eight battles with Indians and in 1867 had a very thrilling experience. He and one companion were carrying dispatches across the Staked Plains when they were pursued by thirteen Apaches. After a twentv-mile ride they reached a buffalo wallow, killed their horses and built fortifications out of the bodies. Protected by this rude breastwork, thev held the red skins off for twenty- four hours, then Mr. Clark's companion was killed and he withstood them alone for several hours longer until finally rescued by cavalry. He then continued on his way with the dispatches. Upon leaving the army, he and ^Ir. Knipe started the first hardware store in Spokane. They did business together until 1883, then sold out and Mr. Clark Ijought a farm near Waverly, upon which he resided three years. He subsequently came to Rockford, where he has been engaged at different times in the general merchandise l)usiness, farming, teaming, lumbering and selling agricultural implements. In i86g he was elected to the legislature on the Republican ticket and while there acquired the name of Tide Lands Clark. He it was who introduced the bill for organizing the territorial militia. He was appointed postmaster by President Harrison and again by IMcKinley. He has always been an active worker for the success of his pohtical ])arty and for the best interests of the town. Mr. Clark was married, in November, 1882, to Miss Stella, daughter of E. P. and T. A. Newell, and they have had three children, all of whom are deceased.

CHARLES P. COEY. .son of William J. and Marv Coev. was burn in New York state. September 5, 1857. He received his education in the public schools there, then learned the machinist trade. At the age of twenty-three he went to St. Francis. California', wdiere he was connected with a street railway company four years. He then served as deputy county clerk for a time, but subsequently came to Rockford and embarked in the general merchandise business. Later he built a large establishment at Fairfield and in 1893 he instituted the lianks at

Rockford and Fairfield. He is also interested in lumbering and saw milling and owns a large grain elevator. I\Ir. Coey is one of the leading business men of the C(junty, is thoroughly progressi\-e and possesses a wonderful faculty for conducting successfully many different enterprises. He was married in Portland, Oregon, April II, 1893, to Elizabeth Rash, who died in 1 8q6.

ALEXANDER .M. BRANDT, a pi.meer of 1887, was liorn in Dillsburg. York county. Pennsylvania, December 29, 1845, but when quite young he went with his parents to Cumberland county, where he received his education in the pulilic schools and at Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pennsyhania. Subsec|uently he remox-ed to Hagerstown, Maryland, and was engagetl in the hay, grain and straw business in that town until 1871. From there he moved to Cumberland, where he remained a little over a year, then went to \\"ashington, D. C.. and for sixteen years longer was a dealer in coal, serving as southern sales agent for the (ieorge's Creek & Cumberland Railroad, owned by the Maryland Coal Company. Whilst in Maryland he was an active, energetic worker in the Republican conventions. In 1888 he came to Spokane and on the 1st of April of that year moved out to I'iock creek \-alIey, where fur one vear he farmed a si.\-]umdred-and-f(irtv-acre tract. He then came to Rockford and engaged in the real estate and loaning business. He negotiated the first loan f(.ir the Lombard Investment Company, is now agent for the Providence Trust and other o mipanies and alwavs has much choice jJHjperty listed on his books for sale. He is himself the owner of eighty acres of fine farming land. ]\Ir. Brandt is quite a leader in ever\- undertaking for the de\eloiiment and improvement of the town and is especially active in politics, having been a delegate to nearly all the Republican C(.)nventi()ns since he has resided in Rockford, and, in 1898, to the Silver Re])ublican conventitjn. He was married in La Vale, Franklin county, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1870, to Miss Fanny, daughter of John and Lucetta Miller, and they ha\e had four children: Ivan M.. a farmer; Carl E,, in the hardware lousiness : Edwin C, deputy in the sheriffs office at Spokane; also David E., deceased.

Mr. Brandt joined the Masonic order at Hagerstown in 1870 and is now a Royal Arch Mason, is an enthusiastic member of tlie Presbyterian church and a leader in all religious work.

Cll.\kLh:S H. MOREHOUSE, a pioneer of 1878. is a native of Hamilton, New York, born November 20. 1853. When quite young he was taken by his parents to Illinois and he was reared and received his education there. When sixteen, however, he moved to Colorado and engaged in teaming and saw milling and remained in that state until 1876. For the ne.xt two or three years he traveled around considerably, following up mining excitements and visiting the scene of Custer's massacre ,ind Mammoth springs. He had charge of a livery stable in Montana about six months, then came by team to Spokane, arriving September 20. 1 878. He was in the city during the exciting times and was, like the other settlers, supplied Ijy the government with arms and ammunition for defense against the Indians. He was engaged in the livery business in Spokane two years, then moved to Rockford, where he has since resided. He is owner of the Morehouse block, the opera house and considerable other real estate in the town, and he has erected more huildings in Rockford than any other man. In fact, lie lias done so much for the development of his town, especially Emma street, that he has acquired an envial)le reputation as a town builder. Mr. Morehouse has also been influential in the municipal o"overnment of Rockford, has served as councilman and road overseer for four years and while in office obtained the grading of many streets and roads. He was married. May 8. 1881, to Margaret, daughter of Peter and Sophia Desgranges, and they have a family of five children : Mabel C, Evelana. \'ictor P., Ethel C. and Charlotte M. Socially ^Ir. ^lorehouse is affiliated with Rockford Lodge, No. 40, I. O. O. F., and also with the Woodmen of the World.