Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 19 of 22)

At the same time Mr. Hogan has been one of the most public-spirited residents of the city, to which he donated a large tract of what is now Manito Park, and with John A. Finch he gave thirty-three acres that is now known as Audubon Park, on the north side of the river. Since the establishment of the park commission he has been one of its members and is now its vice president. Again and again he has received practical demonstration of the confidence reposed in him by his fellowmen - a confidence which has on no occasion or under no circumstances been betrayed. At the time of the memorable fire of 1889, when money and supplies were sent to Spokane from all over the United States to relieve the suffering, members of the city council started to loot the relief fund both of its money and its supplies. A committee of one hundred of the representative citizens secretly met in the O. K. Barn, which stood on the site of the present federal building. It was in reality a vigilance committee to devise means to prevent further looting and to save the honor of the city of Spokane. Mr. Hogan was elected president, with Herbert Bolster as secretary. They worked quietly but firmly and accomplished their object. Again, when the bridges across the river had been allowed to deteriorate so that several had caved in and the city was being held for damages, Mr. Hogan was appointed chairman of the committee that investigated and straightened out the affairs. After the Iroquois fire in Chicago, when popular opinion all over the country vras running high, the mayor of Spokane called a meeting of citizens and a committee was ap- pointed to investigate conditions in the public meeting houses^ the theaters^ schools and public buildings of the city. Again Mr. Hogan was appointed chairman of this committee and they visited every public building in the city and wherever changes were needed improvements were ordered and owners made to comply with the requirements^ so that Spokane today has as good protection as it is possible to obtain. On the 22d of January, 1876, at Roseburg, Oregon, Mr. Hogan was married to Miss Mary Flood, a daughter of J. C. and Emily (Lane) Flood, of that city, and a granddaughter of General Joseph Lane, who was a candidate for vice president of the United States with Breckenridge in 1860. Mr. and Mrs. Hogan have four daughters: Mabel, the wife of Percy P. Powell, of Spokane; Bertha, the wife of William G. Davidson, of this city; and Mildred and Cicely, both at home. The family residence is at No. 2225 First avenue. Mr. Hogan holds membership with the Knights of Columbus and with Elks Lodge, No. 228. For many years he has been a member of the Spokane Club and was at one time its president. He is also a member of the Spokane Country Club and has but recently resigned his position as director, which place he had held for many years. In politics he has been a lifelong democrat but has never held public office in Spokane, although he has been repeatedly urged to accept both city and state offices and by both political parties. He has preferred that his public service should be done as a private citizen and has wielded an influence which is perhaps all the more potent because it is moral rather than political and because it seeks the public weal rather than individual honors. When crises have ocurred which have demanded the service of men of unquestioned integrity and public loyalty Mr. Hogan has always been called to the front.

Dr. Bernard E. McCoy, a Spokane physician who has been very successful in specializing in the eye, ear, nose and throat, was bom in Union county, Missouri, October 11, 1878. His parents were Joseph Newton and Louise (Thompson) Mc- Coy, who are now residents of Corydon, Iowa. The father was bom in Kentudty and comes of an old family from southern Scotland. He, too, prepared for the practice of medicine, which he has made his life work, and is still an active representative of the profession. He is also a past grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Iowa, which indicates his prominence in that order. His wife belonged to an old Southern family and her brothers were soldiers in the Confederate army.

Spending his youthful days under the parental roof. Dr. McCoy pursued his literary education in high school and in the University of Iowa and won his professional degree in St. Louis on the completion of a course in Barnes University. In the meantime, however, he had entered commercial life as an employe in the hardware store of E. A. Ray, with whom he continued until 1900, when he entered the University of Iowa and pursued the study of medicine in connection with other courses there mastered. Following his graduation he turned to the northwest for the opportunities which he sought and located in Deer Park, Washington, where he remained for a decade, or until the 1st of November, 1910, when he sought the opportunities offered by a larger city and came to Spokane. During the period of his residence here he has made a specialty of the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat and has been very successful in this branch of practice. Like most of the residents of the northwest^ he hoped to gain substantial returns from investments in mining property and is now interested in a tungsten property^ eleven miles north of Deer Park. He is one of seven who staked the Tungsten King heaps^ showing where the property was mined twenty years before for gold and silver. They were throwing the ore around under the impression tjiat it was magnetic iron but the company finally had an assay made and then staked the claim.

On the 18th of August^ 1904^ at St. Joseph^ Missouri^ occurred the marriage of Dr. McCoy to Miss Beeban Chase, the daughter of Maxon Chase, of Post Falls^ Idaho. They now have one child, Kenneth McCoy. In his political views Dr. Mc- Coy is a stalwart republican and while living in Deer Park was active in assisting his friends to obtain office. He holds membership with the Ejiights of Pythias, with the Modern Woodmen and with the Moose and in Masonry is prominent, belonging to Uie blue lodge at Corydon, Iowa; Spokane Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S.; and EI Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He greatly enjoys athletics and manly outdoor sports and while at the University of Iowa followed the track work. He allows nothing, however, to interfere with the faithful and conscientious performance of his professional duties, ever recognizing the heavy responsibility that devolves upon the physician in his efforts to check the ravages of disease and restore health.

Frederick L. Bergen

Frederick L. Bergen, who has been actively identified with mining interests in this part of the country from the age of eighteen years, is now superintendent of the Morning mine at Mullan, owned by the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. His birth occurred in Berrien county, Michigan, on the 29th day of May, 1869, his father being Louis Bergen. His mother died in 1872 and when a lad of ten years he left home and made his way to Benton county, Indiana, there obtaining such education as the schools of the community afforded. Early in 1887, when a youth of eighteen, he went to Neihart, Montana, to join his father, who had become a miner of that section. For a period of nine years he mined and prospected in Neihart^ Great Falls, Helena, Butte and other sections of Montana. In 1896 he went into the British Columbia mines at Roslyn and Nelson, there also remaining for nine years. On the expiration of that period, in 1905, he came to the Coeur d'Alene district, making his way first to Mace, where he was employed as foreman of the Standard mine, then the property of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. At the end of one and a half years he was transferred to the Tiger-Poorman mine at Burke, also the property of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. Of that mine he was made superintendent, taking the place of C. K. Cartwright, who was transferred to Mullan and placed in charge of the Morning mine, which had just been acquired by the Federal people. Mr. Bergen acted as superintendent of the Tiger- Poorman mine until it was abandoned in 1908 and was then transferred to Wardner as superintendent of the Page Mining Company, likewise owned by the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. Of that property he remained in charge until 1910, when he was transferred to Mullan to take the position of superintendent of the Morning mine, which he still holds. His present responsible position came to him in recognition of ability that is based upon long practical experience and a thorough understanding of the scientific principles of his work. His training has taught him to recognize the indications which show where ore is to be found and also the best methods of obtaining the mineral from the ground.

Dr. H. Z. Dean stands high both as a representative of his profession and as a citizen in Reardan, where in 1909 he was called to the highest office in the municipality, the duties of which he has discharged with a gratifying degree of efficiency. He -was bom in Vernon county, Wisconsin, on the 26th of November, 1872, a son of Thomas and Sarah (Powell) Dean, the father a native of Ohio and the mother of Indiana. During the early years of their domestic life Mr. and Mrs. Dean located in Wisconsin, becoming residents of that state in the late '60s. There Mr. Dean successfully engaged in farming until 1877, when owing to the state of the mother's health they were compelled to seek a milder climate, for which reason the family made the overland trip to Missouri, settling in Benton county. During the succeeding two years Mr. Dean followed his agricultural pursuits there, but at the expiration of that period removed to St. Clair county.

Reared on a farm, from his earliest boyhood Dr. Dean had his energies directed along agricultural lines, assisting his father in the tilling of the fields and care of the cattle while engaged in the mastery of the elements of English lean^g in the' district schools of Benton and St. Clair counties. When he had completed the course therein pursued he attended the high school at Lowry City, Missouri, until graduated at the age of seventeen years. Very soon thereafter together with a brother and an uncle he came to the west. They went to California first a.nd, after spending six months in that state located in Oregon for two years, returning to Missouri in 1892. Here Dr. Dean again turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, assisting in the cultivation of the old homestead until his father disposed of it, when the family removed to Lincoln, Nebraska. It always was Mr. Dean's ambition to become a physician, and to that purpose he now matriculated in the Lincoln Medical College, being graduated in 1902 with the degree of M. D. The first two years of his professional life were spent in South Dakota, whence he removed in 1904? to Cheney, Washington, where he practiced for a year. In 1906 he came to Reardan and established an office that he has ever since successfully maintained. In the choice of his life vocation, Dr. Dean most happily chose the one for which nature seemed to have adapted him. He possesses the pleasing personality, keen mental faculties and decisive manner that enable him to inspire in others that faith and confidence so essential in the attainment of success in both medicine and surgery. Progressive in his ideas he devotes the greater portion of the time he can spare from his large practice in further study, thus keeping in touch with the advance of science, and quickly adopts in his work every new discovery the efficacy of which has been tested beyond question. Since locating here he has been called to discharge the duties of county coroner, having capably filled this office for a term of two years.

On the 1st of April, 1902, in Lincoln, Nebraska, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Dean and Miss Elroira Wood, a daughter of John and Harriet (Pamell) Wood, the father a well known farmer in the vicinity of the capital city.

Dr. Dean votes the republican ticket, giving his unqualified indorsement to the policy of that party. He takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the municipality and he has served as a member of the council, while in 1909 he was elected mayor, his term expiring at the end of two years. He was one of the organizers of the Farmers' State Bank of Reardan, of which William Childs was the first president and W. S. Wells, cashier, but later disposed of his interest in this institution. Fraternally he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen and Foresters of America, while he maintains relations with his fellow practitioners through the medium of his connection with the American Medical Association, the State Medical Association and the Lincoln County Medical Society. Dr. Dean is highly esteemed professionally, popular in his social relations and held in the most favorable regard as a citizen, his cooperation and support always being given in forwarding the adoption of any measure advanced for the development of the community or the promotion of municipal interests.

F. Hughes Finley

F. Hughes Finley, secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Barnard Manufacturing Company with o£Sces located in Spokane and Portland, has been identified with the business interests of Spokane for more than ten years. He was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, and is a son of Samuel and Sarah A. (Oliphant) Finley, who subsequently became residents of Michigan. The paternal grandfather was Dr. John Knox Finley, a prominent physician and surgeon during the period of the Civil war, who passed away in Michigan in 1893. The mother's father, F. Hughes Oliphant, was one of the pioneer iron men of Pennsylvania, being the owner of large iron ore claims at Uniontown, while he had furnaces at Fairchance and Oliphant, that state. ' He was a patriotic man and strong abolitionist. At the time of the war he equipped a troop of cavalry that went to the front under the command of his son. General Duncan Oliphant.

F. Hughes Finley was in his early childhood when his parents removed from Pennsylvania to Michigan, locating at Niles. He pursued his education in the public schools of the latter place until he was graduated from the high school, when he took the examination for admission to West Point. He passed this successfully but was disqualified for admission owing to his physical condition. At the age of seventeen years he began his business career as an employe of Spragtie, Warner & Company, of Chicago, remaining in their service for eighteen months. During the succeeding two or three years he operated on the Chicago board of trade, representing various brokerage firms during that period. Giving up this line of business in 1887, he located in Denver, where he engaged in the realestate business. Later he became general manager of the Bradstreet Mercantile Agency for the states of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. In 1892 he went to Dallas, Texas, where he became -associated with his father in the land mortgage business, representing New York and foreign capital in Texas investments. The firm confined their business to making loans on ranch and farm lands in the state of Texas, and met with great success in their efforts. In 1897 Mr. Finley again located in Chicago^ remaining there until August^ 1901, when he came to Spokane to take charge of the office of the Barnard Manufacturing Company. At the end of a year he was made secretary, treasurer and general manager of the business and has ever since held this position. In addition to his connection with this industry he is president and treasurer of The Success Manufacturing Company, which he organized in this city in 1909. The latter enterprise has been in existence for less than three years and it has been well established and gives every indication of prospering, as its development has been satisfactory and it is now yielding the stockholders good dividends. Mr. Finley has in the past ten years supplied the machinery for the majority of the largest and most modern flour mills in the northwest.

Mr. Finley married Miss Elizabeth Harris, of Lawrence, Kansas, and Washington, D. C, a daughter of the Hon. William A. Harris, one of the early pioneers and prominent citizens of the state whose services have just been recognized by his friends and political admirers by the erection of his statue on the campus of the State University at Manhattan, Kansas. He was a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil war and subsequently represented his district in the United States congress for two terms, while he was United States senator from Kansas for six years. He was the owner of a beautiful home at Linnwood, that state, where he operated one of the finest stock farms in the west, having a fine line of thoroughbred cattle and horses that he imported from Europe. He was also an art collector and his paintings and library we're among the best in the middle west.

Mr. Finley has not been identif^d ,\^\\\i d^e^^i Organizations but while living in Michigan was captain of thei'fi^d jZ^^^^^vi^ 9$, Ah^ State National Guard. He is also a member of several of th^ prominent clubs of Spokane and Portland.

John Vincent Powers

John Vincent Powers is one of the prominent figures in the insurance circles of Spokane. His birth occurred in Yolo, California, on the 4th of November, 1876, his parents being John W. and Lucy (Ballard) Powers. Subsequent to his death in 1891 the father was prominent in the political circles of California of which state his family had been residents since 1849.

John Vincent Powers acquired his early education in the public schools of California and subsequently was graduated from St. Mary's College of Oakland, California, in the class of 1893. After he had completed his academic course he studied law and in 1896 was admitted to the bar of California. Immediately after being accorded the privilege of practicing in the state of California he entered the office of Governor Budd and was an attache of the code commission that worked on the revision of California laws in 1896 and 1897. He practiced in San Francisco until 1906 and won both professional and financial success, but in that year he lost his fortune in the fire following the earthquake, and because of the lack of business operations in San Francisco he went to Alaska where he remained for one year before going to Goldfield, Nevada, from which place he returned to San Francisco in 1908. The following year however, he joined Mr. Philip Harding and others in the organization of the New World Life Insurance Company with headquarters at Spokane. He is secretary of the department of organization and also secretary of the Columbus Finance Company of the Ne)«r World Life Insurance Company. In his business career he is meeting with remarkable success and is one of the most able men in the insurance circles of Spokane. Besides those qualities indispensable to a man of his training - a keen^ rapid^ logical mind, good business ability and a ready capacity for hard work^ he is also a quick j udge of men and is ever ready to seize any opportunity for success which may present itself.

On the 21st of March^ 1910, at Portland, Oregon, Mr. Powers was married to Lilla Jeffers, a daughter of James D. and Annie (Mitchell) Jeffers, of San Francisco, California. To them one child, Jacqueline, has been bom. Mr. Powers has always been an active politician and gives his support to the democratic party. During his residence in California he was one of the most enthusiastic supporters and prominent members of the democracy. At one time he served on the State Central Committee and was also urged to accept the nomination for Congress. His professional duties, however, so completely filled his time that he was unable to accept this nomination. He holds membership in the Inland Club and also in the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. With good intellectual training as his strongest asset, Mr. Powers started upon his independent career with a determination to meet with the success which would be commensurate with the advantages with which he had been endowed, and he has already had the privilege of realizing that he stands high in business circles where individual merit depends upon energy, courtesy, and integrity

Fred L. Prescott

Fred L. Prescott, engaged in the real-estate, loan, insurance and rental business, with office on the third floor of the Hyde block in Spokane, was bom in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 16, 1861, and when nine years of age accompanied his parents on their removal to the vicinity of Northfield, that state, where he attended the public schools. He finished his education at the Minneapolis Academy and afterward resided for a number of years at Herman, Minnesota, where he was employed as clerk for a time, and subsequently served as deputy postmaster.

The year 1886 witnessed his arrival in Spokane and after occupying a position in the postoffice here for a short time he became a clerk in the employ of I. S. Kaufman & Company, real estate and loans. He found this business congenial and his capability soon secured him admission to the firm, with which he was connected for several years. Subsequently he opened an indej>endent real-estate office and in 1896 was joined by his brother David, forming the firm of Prescott Brothers. They became well known in real-estate circles and secured a good clientage, handling considerable valuable property. The partnership relation was dissolved on the 1st of February, 1911, and since that time Fred L. Prescott has continued alone in realestate dealing.

On the 8d of March, 1887, Fred L. Prescott was united in marriage to Miss Lottie E. Quilliam, a daughter of James and Mary A. Quilliam, and they have become parents of four children, M. Genevieve, Grace, H. Raymond and Fred L. The parents are active members of the First Methodist Episcopal church, Mr. Prescott serving on its board of trustees. He was also among those who were active in establishing the Jefferson street church, located on the northwest comer of Jefferson and Sharp avenue. Fraternally he is identified with Spokane Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M., but he does not participate in club or political activities and has never felt that he could spare the time from his business and social duties to seek or fill public office. Since his arrival in Spokane he has been closely connected with the development of the city, has been a liberal contributor to railroads and other enterprises benefiting the public and has earned an honored place among the public-spirited men who have made Spokane the queen city of the Inland Empire.

Leslie W. Anderson

Leslie W. Anderson, president of the North Washington Power & Reduction Company and also .several local mining companies, with offices located at 904 Old National Bank building, was bom in Emporia, Kansas, on December 12, 1874. He is a son of David F. and Mary L. Roberts, well known pioneers of Washington and for many years residents of this city. The father passed away in 1907, but the mother is still living. David F. Anderson was a prominent citizen of Spokane county and was for many years actively identified with its public life. He was a member of the board of county commissioners when it was decided to remove the county seat from Cheney to Spokane and he was also a member of the legislature, while he held many appointive offices. A man of progressive and enterprising ideas, he enthusiastically championed every movement that he felt would benefit the public welfare or advance the development of the community. He poss.essed a rare sense of civic responsibility and discharged with conscientious obligation every public duty with which he was entrusted. He was one of the early pioneers whose forceful character and determination of purpose were the dominant factors in the development of the northwest.

Leslie W. Anderson was in his early childhood when his parents removed to Spokane, and here he pursued his education in the public schools until he had attained the age of nineteen years. During the latter period of his school life he spent his spare hours and vacations in a local printing office learning the trade, completing his period of service after laying aside his text-books. He subsequently went to Rosalia, this state, and engaged in the newspaper business until 1896. Believing that agricultural pursuits promised better financial returns, he withdrew from journalistic work and located on a ranch in Palouse county that he operated for three years. At the end of that time he turned his attention to mining and prospecting and has ever since given his entire energies to this business, meeting with a goodly measure of success. He has acquired stock in some valuable claims and is officially connected with a number of prominent mining companies, being the president of the Republic Mines Corporation and several other mining companies of more or less importance.

At Rosalia, Washington, on the 20th of December, 1896, Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Josie Boozer, a daughter of H. J. and Rebecca Boozer, and to them have been born three children, as follows: Margaret, Ora and Esther, all of whom are in school.

Mr. Anderson is a past master of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity and is a member of the chapter,- while his connection with organizations of a more purelysocial nature are confined to his membership in the Inland Club. His political indorsement is always given to the man or measures he deems best qualified to subserve the highest interests of the majority, regardless of party affiliation. Mr. Anderson is one of the well informed and capable mining men of the city, who manifests excellent judgment and is recognized as quite an authority in his line of business, his opinion often being sought by his associates.

F. K. P. Baske, who is one of the more recent acquisitions to the Lincoln county bar, has manifested such efficiency during the brief period of his practice that he has but recently been elected to the bench, a distinction which has never before been conferred upon so young a man in the state of Washington.

Judge Baske was born in the state of Nebraska on January 2, 1886, and is a son of Fred and Laura (Zagelow) Baske, who were bom, reared and married in Germany, whence they emigrated to the United States in 1885, locating in Nebraska. There they resided until 1892, when they removed to Lincoln county, Washington, settling in Davenport, where the father engaged in business and is now one of the most prominent and successful merchants in the county.

The education of Judge Baske was begun in the common schools of his native state and continued in those of Davenport until he was graduated from the high school. Having decided upon a professional career, in the fall of 1904 he entered the State College at Pullman, where he pursued a course in economics for two years, and in 1906 he matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, that state. He was awarded the degree of LL. B. from this institution in June, 1909, and immediately thereafter returned to Washington. As soon as he was admitted to the bar he established an office in Davenport and engaged in general practice. Although he was very young, his earnest man^ ner, marked strength of character and thorough grasp of the law and the ability to accurately apply its principles enabled him to win the confidence of business men, and he encountered no difficulty in building up a good practice. It was not necessary for him to pass through the long, discouraging period of tyrociny that usually awaits the young professional man, as his services were sought by the representative men of the town from the very first. From the beginning he manifested unusual ability in the application of legal principles and showed his thorough familiarity with general law. In his private practice he evinced a rare sense of conscientious obligation to his clients and used care in the preparation of his cases, never overlooking any minor technicalities for his opponent to utilize to advantage. He has been connected with very important litigations in the local courts and in every instance has acquitted himself in a highly creditable manner, Such marked skill and ability as he manifested quickly won him recognition as a man well adapted to the duties of the bench and in June, 1911, he was appointed judge of the superior court of Lincoln county for a period of two years. He has been discharging the duties of this responsible position for less than a year, but during that period he has distinguished himself by his decisions^ in each of which he has shown a fine appreciation of the dignity and responsibility of the law as well as a wide knowledge of its principles. He is without doubt the youngest man sitting on the judicial bench, not only in Washington but in the United States, and in the discharge of his duties is exhibiting qualities that give assurance of a brilliant future for him in the profession he has adopted. His strong individuality, acute mental faculties and keen observation united with his fearless spirit and sense of absolute justice has caused him to form very pronounced and dicisive views on many subjects, which he expresses with the independence and utter disregard of public opinion that invariably stamp the man of power, who appreciates the strength of his personality.

In his religious views Judge Baske is a Lutheran, while his political support is accorded the republican party. His connection with fraternal organizations is confined to his membership in the Knights of Pythias. He is one of the foremost young men in Davenport and has every reason to be proud of his record, as his career has been an unusually brilliant one and would seem to forecast a most promising future.

Judge James Zacharie Moore

James Zacharie Moore was bom on a farm near Louisville, Kentucky, July 21, 1844, son of Dr. John Rochester Moore.and M^ry Penelope (Van Pradelles) Moore. The families on both sides Wer^ ''^lurlj^ t^otit^ts. The Moores were from Westmoreland county, England, and i ^eMed Iti-' W^stfiio^eland county, Virginia, in 1640, and the following generations iiitermarried with the Jordans, Harrisons, Lawsons and Rochesters. They took part! in the"}ndiaR^ <«nd French and Indian wars in which the colony was engaged. Many-^J IKe YamiMes swrfed in Washington's army, and after the Revolutionary war the Moores settled in Kentucky. The chief of the Kentucky Moores was Lawson Moore, who came with the settlers on Harrod's Creek, afterward, Harrod's Fort, and then Harrodsburg, after our Revolutionary war. Lawson Moore called the land he acquired in Kentucky, after the Indians were driven back, "Westmoreland," after the English and Colonial counties from which the family had migrated, and this land is still held by a great-grandson. A maternal uncle of Judge Moore's father, Nathanial Rochester, was a major in Washington's army, for whom the city of Rochester, New York, was named, and his grandfather, John Rochester, was captain of a Virginia militia company which served in the Revolutionary war.

His mother, Mary Penelope Van Pradelles was descended from the Owings family of Maryland, which came with the earliest colonists there. The Owingses were intermarried with the Colgates, the Cockeys and the Deyes. Her two maternal uncles, Thomas Deye and John Cockey Owings settled the city of Owingsville, Kentucky, county seat of Bath county, after the Revolutionary war; established the first iron furnaces west of the Alleghany mountains; made the cannon balls there, and shipped them to the American army by flat boat down the Mississippi river, and the same were used at New Orleans on the famous 8th day of January, 1815, when the British regulars under Packenham tested the metal of the American back-woodsmen under Old Hickory Jackson.

tions involved. Here he began his first study of the policies advocated by the republicans and democrats, both before and during the war, and at the then present time. Afterward at Harvard, these questions were discussed by the first minds of the country. He became convinced that the future of the south could be best promoted by the republican party, and that there had been no justification for secession, no matter what the abstract right may have been. He was convinced that the interest of the whole country was in union and a strong central government, and therefore supported the republican cause, and cast his first presidential vote for General Grant,

In J 871 General John M. Harlan, afterward associate justice of the United States supreme court, was a republican candidate for governor of Kentucky, and was again republican candidate for the same office in 1875. On both occasions he gave to Harlan's candidacy earnest and efficient support. In 1876, he became a member of the Cincinnati convention which nominated Hayes for president, and in bringing about that result he had an important part. In 1876 while he and Mrs, Moore were attending the Centennial Exposition, the republican convention of the second district of Kentucky nominated him for congress, and he canvassed the district with his democratic opponent, the Hon. James A. McKenzie, dividing time in joint debate and making a thorough canvass. In 1884 he was a member of the republican national convention which met at Chicago. He supported the candidacy of President Arthur, and was made a member of the republican national committee for Kentucky, which place he held until after he located in Spokane, when he resigned. In 1884 the republicans of the second district of Kentucky again nominated him for congress, though he was in the convention and repeatedly declined the nomination. However, he yielded to the wish of his party and again canvassed the district. The result was much the same as in the race of 1876. The democratic majority was reduced, but the democratic candidate was elected. No other result was anticipated. The Kentucky republicans were mobilizing and disciplining and marshalling their forces which were to give the state to the republicans. And though this event occurred after he had settled in Spokane, yet, he and his friends looked with pride on the pioneer work he and they did by which this great result was achieved.

He located in Spokane in 1886. In January, 1889, he was a member of the convention which met at Ellensburg, Washington territory, the purpose of which was to press the claim of the territory of Washington to become a state. Following this convention, congress passed the enabling act, under which the territories of Washington, Montana, North and South Dakota held conventions and framed constitutions which were afterward adopted by the people, and under which they became states of the Union. He was a member of the Washington convention from a district which was also represented by the Honorable George Turner and the Honorable J.J. Browne. Of that convention he was temporary president and chairman of the committee on the legislative department. This committee framed article 2 of the state constitution.

He feels that he especially discharged his duty well upon the following subjects, namely, in promoting biennial instead of annual sessions of the legislature and limiting those sessions to sixty days ; in forbidding special legislation ; in forbidding the use of convict labor so that it could not be brought into competition with free labor, namely, through the leasing system ; in protecting the new state against alien ownership of its lands, which were then purchasable at a small price ; in protecting workers in mines and other dangerous employments; in forbidding free transportation to public officers known as "passes" ; in aiding in the defeat of the bill to give municipal corporations^ including counties, the power to tax themselves for the benefit, of railroads^ etc., known as public aid to such enterprises. He stood with those who would have saved the tide-lands to the state, but the best that could be done then was to leave the disposition of them to the legislature of the state. He did his part as a hard working member, never missing a roll call or vote, and looking solely to the general welfare.

In January, 1891, he was appointed judge of the superior court by the governor and was elected to the same office in 1892, returning to practice in January, 1897. In 1898 he was elected prosecuting attorney, retiring at the end of the term, in neither case being a candidate for reelection.

Judge Moore has always been a student and reader on broad lines. In 1909 at a reunion of the members of the constitutional convention he read a paper on the rise and progress of constitutional government in England and the United States. He has written a paper on the Monroe Doctrine, and another on the duty of the United States under it. He has written many arguments and papers, and delivered addresses on public questions which he contemplates publishing. He always enjoyed the confidence of his clients, the courts, and his professional brethren, and a successful law practice. He was admitted to the bar of the United States supreme court at the same time with Judge John F. Dillon, author of Dillon on Municipal Corporations, and Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge, for many years member of congress in the Henry Clay district of Kentucky. He appears now in court only in special cases and is not seeking a general practice, but is devoting much time to studying, writing and attention to his personal affairs.

He has always promoted the development of the resources of the Inland Empire, and the progress of Spokane, believing it her destiny to be one of the great inland cities of this hemisphere. In 1887 he was one of ten men to put up the money for a preliminary survey, topographical maps and a report on the country which brought Spokane, The Spokane Falls & Northern Railway. In 1888 he contributed to the promotion of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway. And at all times he has aided loyally the course of Spokane and the state of Washington and the Pacific coast.

James E. Quinlan

James E. Quinlan, a prosperous and representative citizen of Mullan, is the manager of the Butte & Coeur d'Alene Mining Company, which he organized in 1907. His birth occurred at Helena, Montana, on the 5th of September, 1879, his parents being Timothy and Mary (Finn) Quinlan, who celebrated their marriage at that place. They crossed the plains in the early days and took up their abode among the pioneer settlers of Montana, the father coming from Chicago, Illinois, and the mother from Minnesota. Timothy Quinlan is engaged in mining at Helena.

James E. Quinlan obtained his early education in the schools of his native city and later attended the high school at Woodstock, Illinois, while subsequently he pursued a course of study in the University of Chicago. In 1898 he returned to the west, making his way to the Coeur d'Alene mining district and locating at Mullan,

Idaho^ where he took up mining and where he has remained continuously since. In 1907 he organized the Butte & Coeur d'Alene Mining Company^ of which the officers were then as follows: J. E. Quinlan^ of Mullan^ president and manager; C. F. C. Robinson^ of Spokane^ vice president; L. C. Lens, of Spokane, secretary and treasurer. The present officers of the concern are as follows: L. C. Lens, of Spokane, president; W. P. Edris, of Spokane, secretary and treasurer; J. E. Quinlan, of Mullan, manager. The company has made some small shipments of silver lead ore and has a tunnel eleven hundred and fifty feet long one thousand feet below the surface. Mr. Quinlan is also interested in other mines in the district and is widely recognized as an authority on the subject of mining. Fraternally he is identified with Wallace Lodge, No. 381, B. P. O. E., and also with Wallace Lodge of the Knights of Columbus.

Ole Hansen

One of the most respected citizens of Spokane county, was Ole Hansen, whose death, June 29, 1911, occasioned profound regret throughout a wide region where he had long been favorably known. He was of Danish descent and was born at Copenhagen, Denmark, January 8, 1844. He received his education in the common schools and continued in his native city until twenty-one years of age, when he resolved to seek his fortune in the new world. He came to the United States and for six m(Hiths worked on a farm in Wisconsin. Perceiving the importance of a more thorough education, he attended school for four months and supported himself by working outside of school hours. He next took up his residence in Chicago and secured a position as coachman for a private family, omtinuing there until 1882. In the year last named he came to the northwest and located on one hundred and sixty acres of land on Pleasant Prairie, Spokane county. He prosecuted his work with such good results that a year later he was able to purchase one hundred and sixty acres in addition and thus became the owner of a farm of three hundred and twenty acres, which he cultivated until 1905. He then gave one hundred and sixty acres to his two eldest sons and in 1910 gave eighty acres to his youngest son, retaining eighty acres for his own use. He was a man of good business judgment, enterprising, industrious and persevering, and gained a prominent position in the community, being recognized as one of its most progressive and useful citizens.

On the 8th of July, 1877, Mr. Hansen was married, at Chicago, to Christina Sorensen, a daughter of Soren Sorensen. To this union ten children were born. Christian, the eldest, born September 5, 1878, is now studying agriculture and dairying at Washington State College. Albert, born September 14, 1882, is engaged in the sand and gravel contracting business at Spokane. He was married June 14, 1911, to Charlotte Camp. Minnie L., born June 29, 1884, was married to E. W. Fox, who died August 19, 1909. She has one son, Donald Louis, who is three years of age. Mrs. Fox is the secretary of and is a stockholder in the F. O. Berg Tent & Awning Company of Spokane. Lillian M., born January 8, 1886, makes her home with her mother. Frank, born March 18, 1888, engages in farming. He married Miss Verna White on August 20, 1910, and they have one son, born February 26, 1912. Ivy, born August 5, 1890, is a stenographer in the employ of the Underwood Typewriter Company of Spokane. Hazel, born February 9, 1 894, is a student in the North Central high school of Spokane. Three children died in infancy. Mrs. Hansen, his widow, now makes her home in Spokane, having a residence at 08618 Atlantic avenue.

Mr. Hansen's death resulted from blood poisoning after a brief illness. He was sixty-seven years of age and apparently had before him many years of usefulness when suddenly the dread messenger arrived, and Spokane county lost one of its most respected citizens and one of its wealthiest farmers. He was an early settler of the county and willingly contributed his part toward the upbuilding of this portion of the state. In politics he adhered to the- republican party and his religious belief was indicated by membership in the Lutheran church - the faith in which he was reared. A generous-hearted and noble-spirited man, he was fully worthy of the esteem in which he was held, and his memory will long be cherished by a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in Spokane county.

Philip Walter Cox

He was bom near Mount Pleasant, Lhm &»vpBttyi ^pwa, June 5, 1842^ the son of Anderson and Julia (Walter) Cox^'i^e ^dErinlerVk: native of North Carolina and the latter of Indiana. In 1845, wh^n the subject of this review was only about three years of age, the father set His face* ^est^ard and in a prairie schooner drawn by ox teams the family made 'Uieir wayacrdS)^. the plains^ reaching after seven months' time that part of Oregon where Albany is now situated. Here the father took up a government claim of six hundred and forty acres of land^ upon which he made his home^ clearing it up, getting the land under a good state of cultivation and erecting primitive buildings and such other improvements as were indispensable. Mr. Cox and his family became the first white settlers in the Willamette valley south of the Santiam river. The father laid out Linn county, which he also named, and he likewise laid out the town site of Albany, giving it the name by which it is now known and building the first log cabin on the town site. Being the pioneer settler of the county and taking a great interest in the development of the section in which he lived, he was widely known among the other settlers moving to the county and served two terms in the territorial legislature of Oregon, being a representative of Linn county. In the fall of 1861 he removed to Walla Walla, Washington, and a year later brought his family to Waitsburg, where he built the first sawmill ever erected in that locality. He was one of the promoters of the town and donated one-half of the land used for the first public school. For a time he was registrar of deeds in the Walla Walla land office. In 1872 he settled in Whitman county. The story of the founding of Colfax is an interesting one. On May 18, 1872, the subject of this review and his father came to the Palouse river, about six miles below the present site of Colfax and, observing the natural resources of the country and seeing the necessity for a county, they followed the stream toward its source to the junction of the north and south branches of the Palouse river, where the father with the traditional willow switch determined the site of the present mill in Colfax, deciding that spot was the logical place for the county seat. Then, procuring the services of James A. Perkins and T. J. Smith, he induced them to settle there, Mr. Smith choosing the present site of the business district of Colfax, and Mr. Perkins locating on the site of his present home. Mr. Smith soon tired of the loneliness and isolation of the district and moved away, whereupon a Mr. HoUingsworth was induced to take Mr. Smith's land. During the following winter Anderson Cox, the father of the subject of this review, appeared before the territorial legislature and asked permission to organize the present Whitman county, fifty miles north and south, east and west from the Idaho line to the Columbia river, which was granted. He then returned to the junction of the north and south forks of the Palouse river and conferred upon the little settlement the name of Colfax. Here he induced Mr. Hollingsworth to erect a sawmill on the site now occupied by the grist mill and from the sawmill was cut the first lumber used in the construction of the first dwellings in Colfax. On account of his activity in promoting the settlement Anderson Cox was accorded the privilege of naming the first county officials. His death, in 1878, occurred suddenly and without warning, as he expired while on his way from Colfax to his home in Waitsburg.

The education of Philip W. Cox was gained in the public schools of Oregon and he remained under the parental roof, assisting his father in the labors of the farm until 1859, when he removed to Walla Walla, Washington, and took a gov- . ernment claim of one hundred and sixty acres under the preemption act and engaged in the cattle business. In the fall of 1869 he crossed the river to Whitman county, where he preempted one hundred and sixty acres on lower Union flat and in 1870 brought his family to the home which he had established there. On this farm was born the first white child in Whitman county and it was here that the first orchard was planted. Throughout his agricultural experiences Mr. Cox has always given special attention to the raising of cattle and sheep, an occupation which he has found both interesting and profitable. In 1876 he moved to Penawawa and traded his preemption claim for a seven-acre orchard there, later increasing the orchard to twenty- five acres. He sold this orchard in 1881 and going southwest of Colfax about thirty-two miles, bought twelve thousand acres of railroad land, where he continued in his stock-raising business. He continues to reside on this farm, owning a majority of the land which he at that time purchased. At present he has one hundred and eighty head of high-grade horses, thirty being registered, twenty-three hundred sheep, one hundred and thirty cattle and one hundred hogs. In 1874 he became master of the Second grange in Whitman county, which at that time was running a store in Colfax.

Mr. Cox has been married twice. His first union was with Miss Julia Fudge, of Illinois, the nuptials being celebrated in Waitsburg, Washington. To this union were born five children: Arthur, a resident of Whitman county, who is married and has five children, two boys and three girls; Minnie, who married Frank Olds, the latter dying several years later, and afterward she married Claud Hoback, of Calgary, Canada, by whom she has three children, a boy and two girls; Anderson, of Whitman county; Alma, who is the wife of M. Gillam, of Idaho, and the mother of four girls; and Carrie, who has been twice married, first to John Lancaster, of Whitman, by whom she has one son, and after the death of Mr. Lancaster to Speed Swift, of Spokane. The second union of Mr. Cox was with Miss Lizzie Dimick, of Oregon, and occurred in Colfax, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Cox are the parents of six children: Ilda, who married Elmer Shinlund, of Portland, Oregon, by whom she has one child, a boy; Walter and Dale, both of whom reside in Whitman county, Washington; Verta, of Portland, Oregon; and John and Ruth, both of whom are at home. Mr. Cox now has fourteen grandchildren. Mr, Cox has never been an office seeker although he takes a lively interest in dvic and political affairs affecting the welfare of the county, state and nation. He is a member of the Farmers' Union and belongs to the state and national boards of agriculture. Since its organization he has taken a great interest in the Whitman County Fair Association, of which he is the president. He has taken an active part in wrestling from the wilderness Whitman county, has lived out in usefulness his allotted three score years and ten and, therefore, cannot be otherwise than one of the best known and most highly respecte^d men in Whitman county with an acquaintance extending throughout the state of Washington. He has by no means passed the time of his usefulness, being still vigorous and actively engaged in business. He is the worthy son of a worthy sire and the name of Cox, which is synonymous with the founding of Whitman county, will be known as long as the state of Washington endures.

Tyra Hayden Logsdon

Tyra Hayden Logsdon, who is postmaster and mayor of Endicott, Whitman county, was born in Iowa on the 80th of November, 1852, and is a son of Joseph and Martha (Fuqua) Logsdon, both of whom are natives of Kentucky. The parents crossed the plains in 1863, the trip taking three months and two weeks. They located first in Oregon and subsequently in Walla Walla county. Tyra Hayden Logsdon acquired his education in the public schools of Iowa and later in Oregon. At the same time he spent many of the hours which are usually termed leisure in assisting his father on the home farm. After he put aside his text-books he devoted his whole energy and attention to farming on the home place until 1869, after their removal to Riparia, when he was employed in running the ferry which his father managed. Two years later he started out for himself and went to Lewiston where he worked as a farm hand and during the winter attended school at Prescott. The next year he was engaged in riding cattle and two years later carried the mail from Union Flat to Pine City. In 1 875 he went to Walla Walla county and farmed until six years later when he removed to Oregon and engaged in stock-raising. In these pursuits he met with a good degree of success and found them also agreeable occupations. After his removal to Columbia county in 1884 he continued stock-raising, and in 1885, when he located at Pampa, Whitman county, he took up a homestead and again engaged in stock-raising and also in timber culture. Later, desiring to give up agricultural pursuits and to enter upon a business career, he in 1888 op>ened a general merchandise store in partnership with J. W. Mason. Two years later he returned to farming and three years subsequently removed to Endicott where he engaged in the drug business under the firm name of T. H. Logsdon & Company. He continued in this business until he retired from active work and in it again met with the success he had enjoyed in his various other undertakings. His ambition to succeed in life was seen in his unusual efforts to acquire an education and also to continue in those lines of work to which he felt himself best adapted. Since 1897 he has been manager of the Pacific Coast Elevator Company at Endicott^ and much of tbe success of this concern is due to the keen business ability and the methods which have been instituted by Mr. Logsdon.

On the 11th of July^ 1875^ Mr. Logsdon was married to Miss Frances Leming, who is a daughter of Daniel and Mary (Spear) Leming^ natives of Indiana and Ohio respectively. To Mr. and Mrs. Logsdon six children were bom: Nellie V., who is the wife of F. E. Stamfield of Endicott^ and who has one daughter; Charles J,, of Endicott, who is married to Miss Hettie Towe and has four children; Mattie^ who is the wife of George Huntley of Colfax, and has three children; Fannie, who is married to C. H. Mullens of Idaho, and has two children; Grace E., who is the wife of J. L. Powell of Endicott; and Tyra D., who is residing at home.

In politics Mr. Logsdon gives his support to the republican party and has been one of its most active and entliusiastic supporters. Since 1894 he has held the office of postmaster, and two years previously was elected to the office of county commissioner. He has served as school director for many years and in 1895 was elected the first mayor of Endicott, and is at present holding that office. He holds membership in the United Workmen, the Woodmen of the World and the Knights of Pythias, in which organization he has held ail of the chairs. He is one of the most progressive and public-spirited citizens of Endicott and does all in his power to promote any measures which may be proposed in support of public welfare and of community development.

Amiron E. Bidgood

Amiron £. Bidgood^ who for the past ten years has been postmaster of Springdale^ was bom in the state of New York, on the ISth of July, 1848. His parents were George W. and Lucinda (Shepard) Bidgood, both of whom are deceased, the father having passed away in 1879 and the mother in 1880. He is descended from old New England stock, his forefathers having come over in the Mayflower. His grandfather was a veteran of the Revolution and also of the War of 1812, and he had three uncles who also participated in the war of the Rebellion.

The boyhood of Amiron E. Bidgood was spent in Michigan, where he attended the public schools until he had attained the age of fourteen years. He then laid aside his text-books and began his career as a wage earner, his first position being in a machine shop in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he remained until 1 863. Althon^ he was only a youth of sixteen years, his family had always gone to the front for their country, whenever their services could be of any assistance, so he enlisted in Company A, First Michigan Volunteer Cavalry, under General Custer in the Army of the Shenandoah. He remained in the volunteer service until March, 1866, but in January, 1867, he reinlisted as a member of the regular army. From then until January, 1881, with the exception of two winters, he continued in the army, being stationed all over the central west^ south and Pacific coast^ receiving his final discharge papers at Fort Spokane^ Washington^ in January^ 1881. Soon thereafter he filed on a homestead in the vicinity of Chewelah^ this state^ and turned his attention toward agricultural pursuits during the succeeding nine years. Disposing of his ranch in the spring of 1890 he went to Springdale^ engaging in the threshing business there until 1901^ when he received his appointment as postmaster at Springdale^ which office he has ever since retained.

In the spring of 1882, Mr. Bidgood was united in marriage to Jeannette Whitney, the event being celebrated in the vicinity of Chewelah, and unto them was bom one child, Elvira, who married J. N. Kenny.

Mr. Bidgood is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and his political support he gives to the republican party. While serving in his present capacity he has become widely known throughout the community and is well regarded, the circle of his friends being practically coextensive with that of his acquaintances.

Winfield Alonzo Standard

Winfield Alonzo Standard, president of the Albion State Bank, of which he was one of the organizers, has been prominently identified with the business interests of Albion for the past seven years, prior to which he. was for a long time engaged in ranching west of here. A native of Oregon, his birth occurred in Lane county on the 20th of Noyember, 1859, his pa;i'ehjs^'bei^g plivfT W. and Mary (Berthold) Standard. The father was a native o% UUnp^ and th^ ppn^ther of Holland, but they were among the early pioneers of thd northwest, having crossed the plains with an ox team in 1852. Upon their arrival fn Oregon the father ^led on some government land in Lane county, which he cult^atod uutUw J87£,. iwHen he removed with his family to Whitman county, settling on a quarter section of land, eleven miles east of Colfax.

Winfield Alonzo Standard was reared to the age of thirteen years in his native county, in district schools of which he received his introduction to the elements of English learning. After the family located in Whitman county he continued his studies in a private school in Colfax until 1876. His text-books were then laid aside and returning home he assisted his father with the cultivation of the ranch and the care of the stock, qualifying himself for an agricultural career. He continued to be associated with his father in agricultural pursuits until 1890 when he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land west of Albion, energetically devoting himself to its cultivation until 1905. Enterprising and industrious in his methods during the fifteen years of his active work, Mr. Standard made extensive improvements on his place and brought it under high cultivation. At various times he installed thereon such modem conveniences and facilities as are deemed essential by the progressive agriculturist and his is now one of the best equipped ranches in this vicinity. In 1905, he withdrew from the active work of the fields and removed to Albion to engage in the grain and warehouse business. The next year he became associated with other local business men in the org^ization of the Albion State Bank, but he is still engaging in the grain and warehouse business. Since 1908 he has been president of this institution and a member of the board of directors. As its officials are all judi- cious and conservative men of recognized commercial standings the bank has thrived from its incipiency and is now numbered among the well organized and stable financial enterprises of the county.

At Spokane^ Washington, on the 8d of August, 1883, Mr. Standard was united in marriage to Miss Susan Pierce, a native of Missouri, and they have become the parents of the following children : Ward E., Lulu Mae and Dorothy E., all of whom are at home.

In common with the majority of progressive business men Mr. Standard shows great interest in all public affairs concerning the welfare of the community, although he has no inclination toward public office. He gives his support to the men and measures of the republican party but his various enterprises have kept him occupied and have precluded any active participation in political affairs. However, as a friend of education and interested in all matters pertaining thereto he has consented to serve for several years past as a school director. In all of his transactions Mr. Standard manifests the highest type of integrity and the most commendable principles, his methods of conducting his business affairs at all times being above question or suspicion of any kind.

Hon. Lloyd E. Gandy

Hon. Lloyd E. Gandy, attorney at law, was born December 28, 1877, at Puyallup, Washington, and is a son of Dr. J. E. Gandy, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. The family removed to Spc^ane in March, 1880, and the son Lloyd was educated in the public schools until graduated from the high school with the class of 1897. He afterward entered the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, matriculating for the literary course, and in 1901 the B. A. degree was conferred upon him. He continued in the institution as a student in the law department and won his LL. B. degree in 1908. Immediately after his graduation he returned to Spokane and for more than eight years has continued in practice here. His life has been in contra-distinction to the old adage that a prophet is never without honor save in his own country, for in this city where practically his entire life has been passed Mr. Gandy has won recognition as one of the able young members of the bar, qualified to cope with the intricate problems of law in the preparation and presentation of his cases. He now has a large clientage and is successful in his pratice.

On the 18th of June, 1908, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mr. Gandy waa united in marriage to Miss Helen D. Georg, a daughter of Conrad and Ellen Margaret (Reeves) Georg, of that city. Her father was a member of the medical faculty of the University of Michigan, being professor of medical therapeutics, and his son is now professor of surgery. An interesting fact relative to the two families - the Gandys and the Georgs - is that nineteen diplomas have been awarded to their members by the University of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Gandy have two children, Joseph E. and Ellen Margaret, aged respectively seven and three years.

Mr. Gandy belongs to Oriental Lodge, No. 74, A. F. & A. M., and is also a member of the University and Inland Clubs. He has been a leader in municipal reform and takes an active part in the various organizations of the city which are formed for this purpose, looking forward to its advancement and making it a better place.

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He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and at present is serving as president of the Playgromids Association, while he is identified with many other organizations working along similar lines as either an officer or active member. He is one of the recognized leaders in republican ranks and in the fall of 1910 was elected to the state legislature from the fifth district. Whatever else may be said of the legal fraternity it cannot be denied that members of the bar have been more prominent actors in public affairs than any other class of the community. This is but the natural result of causes which are manifest and require no explanation. The ability and training which qualify to practice law also qualify in many respects for those duties which lie outside the strict path of the profession and which touch the general interests of society. To his legislative duties Mr. Gandy brings to bear the same analytical powers that mark his work as a lawyer and thus looking at the question from every possible standpoint he is able to reach just and equitable conclusions.

Jacob Wieber

Jacob Wieber, owner of the Colton Cash Hardware & Furniture Store and secretary and treasurer of The Inland Implement Company, and also mayor of Colton, has been identified with the commercial interests of Whitman county for the past fourteen years. He was born at Meyers Grove, Minnesota, on the 14th of April, 1874, and is a son of John and Francis (Kessler) Wieber, the father a native of Germany and the mother of Ohio.

Reared on the farm where he was born, Jacob Wieber pursued his education m the common schools of that vicinity to the age of thirteen years. In 1887, he laid aside his text-books and thereafter assisted his father with the operation of the home farm. In November of the following year he accompanied his parents on their removal to Whitman county, and here the father acquired two hundred and forty acres of land in the vicinity of Uniontown. He remained at home and assisted his father in the cultivation of the ranch until 1897, when he decided upon an independent career and in the fall of that year went to Uniontown and opened a meat market. He subsequently withdrew from this business and in the following spring invested his capital in a threshing outfit, that he operated in the surrounding country until 1901. In the fall of the latter year he accepted a position with Barney Jacobs, an implement dealer at Uniontown, but the next season he again engaged in threshing. In the winter of 1902, he went back to Minnesota on a visit and upon his return to Whitman county in the spring he became associated with Frank Hobler and they engaged in carpenter work. When the harvest season opened, however, Mr. Wieber gave his entire attention to threshing, having established a fine business in this line that was netting him good remuneration. After the close of the work in 1903, he accepted a position in the implement establishment of H. S. Gransch at Colton, continuing in his service until May, 1904, when he made another trip to Minnesota, returning during the summer. During this time he was engaged in buying and selling hay and grain and when he came back from Minnesota he extended his business in this connection, devoting to it a large portion of his time until 1908. In February, 1907, Mr. Wieber bought out the Colton Cash Hardware & Furniture Store, which is one of the largest and best in the vicinity. In February, 1910, he became asso- dated with Swen Swenson in founding the Swenson & Wieber Implement Company with houses at Colton and Uniontown, Mr. Wieber managing the Colton establishment until on March 1^ 1911^ when this enterprise was consolidated with three other companies and incorporated under the name of The Inland Implement Company, with stores located both at Colton and Uniontown. Mr. Wieber has always been secretary and treasurer of the company, which has prospered from its incipiency and is now one of the most thriving in the county. At this writing Mr. Wieber has disposed of his hardware and furniture store known as the Colton Cash Hardware & Furniture Company to Kirk & Munson^ the transfer taking place on April 1, and just now he is contemplating a visit with his family to their old home in North Dakota and Minnesota.

North Dakota was the scene of Mr. Wieber 's marriage on the 9th of July, 1906, to Miss Philomena Metzger, a native of Minnesota and a daughter of Joseph and Mary (Och) Metzger, the father a native of Germany and the mother of Minnesota. Two daughters have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Wieber, Elenora F. and Mary Theresa.

Mr. and Mrs. Wieber are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and he is also affiliated with the Knights of Columbus, being deputy grand knight of Colton Council, No. 1565. He is likewise past chief of the local organization of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and he has passed through all of the chairs of the Catholic Relief and Beneficiary Association, and belongs to the United Artisans. His connection with organizations of a more purely social nature is confined to his membership in the Inland Club of Spokane.^ In politics he is independent, giving his support to such men and measures as in his judgment are best adapted to meet the exigencies of the situation. Municipal affairs always engage his attention, and for eight years he was a member of the town council, and in 1911 he was elected mayor and is still the incumbent of this office. Mr. Wieber has always displayed enterprise and diligence in his undertakings and to this fact can be attributed the progress that has marked his business career and its corresponding success.

George M. Nethercutt

George M. Nethercutt, practicing at the Spokane bar, was bom at Grayson, Carter county, Kentucky, September 4, 1864, a son of Moses and Katherine (Mauk) Nethercutt. The father was municipal judge of Grayson at the time of his death. In the public schools of his native place George M. Nethercutt began his education, which was continued in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. In the spring of 1889 he came to Spokane and was engaged in the building and real-estate business for a period of ten years, but thinking to find professional pursuits more congenial and also more profitable, during the latter part of that decade he devoted his leisure hours to the study of law under George W. Stocker, who is now police judge of Spokane, and the late W. Abbott Lewis. In 1898 Mr. Nethercutt was admitted to the bar and has continued to follow his profession with success since that day, and in 1908 he was admitted to practice in the United States supreme court. Since entering upon his practice he has made a creditable record owing to the care and precision with which he prepares his cases and the strength with which he presents his cause^ his deductions following in logical connection. He is now attorney for the Equitable Life Assurance Society^ doing special work for that institution with offices in Spokane.

On the 16th of October, 1889, in southeastern Colorado, Mr. Nethercutt was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Wilcox, a daughter of Isaac N. Wilcox, of that state. In November, 1910, Mr. Nethercutt was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, whose death was deeply deplored by a large circle of friends and by the church. in which she was a most active and helpful worker. Indeed she was beloved by all who knew her and she had a very wide and extensive circle of friends. She was actively and helpfully engaged in church and charitable work for many years. She became one of the organizers and the first president of the Lidgerwood Ladies Aid Society, which position she held until its final disorganization. It was a pioneer institution, which was organized some years before the Christian church at Lidgerwood came into existence, and not until the church was completed did the society as such disband, the church taking over its work. Mrs. Nethercutt became a very prominent member of the First Christian church, cooperating heartily in all its various lines of work. She also did much in behalf of the Good Templars, and wherever or whenever she could lend a helping hand, or do a kind act, or speak an encouraging word to those less fortunate, she did it, graciously imparting to them good cheer from the abundance of her own bright and cheery nature. She loved to do good, to help a feUowman, and her work was not the expression of duty done but rather the prompting oj[ a heart that reached out in sisterly kindness to all mankind. Mr. Nethercutt h^h^s.nieqibeE^ip in Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., and gives his political; sui^piqrt ff*Ji3^e. x^publican party but without desire for office as a reward for party fealty. He feels that success at the bar will be best attained if his undivided^at^tenj^pp is given to his professional duties. His devotion to his clients' inJteYes^tsr 1$ *f>rDverbia)[ and as a practitioner in the courts he is making a creditable record and winning recog^tion and success.

Edmund R. Week

Prominent among the leading and representative business men of Spokane is numbered Edmund R. Week, now the secretary and the largest stockholder of the Pacific Coast Pipe Company, with offices in Spokane. He also has other important business connections and the story of his life reads largely like a romance in its account of difficulties met and overcome and of victories achieved in the face of obstacles which would utterly have discouraged men of less resolute and courageous spirit. He was bom near Stevens Point, Wisconsin, September 30, 1849. His parents, John and Gunild Week, were both natives of Norway and the mother is still living at Stevens Point at the advanced age of eighty-six years. The father, however, died in 1889. The geneological line can be traced back to a very remote period and he is descended from a family of bishops prominent in ecclesiastical circles. His brother and two sisters recently returned to Norway for the first time since coming to America and while there opened the vault of Bishop Week who was buried four hundred years ago, finding the body still in a good state of preservation. John Week was a pioneer lumberman of Wisconsin, prominent in the northern part of the state. On coming to America he made his way first to Chicago^ at which time the city contained only between twelve and fifteen hundred people. Times were very hard and he had no capital, and in order to provide for his daily needs he engaged in sawing wood with a buck saw. It was subsequent to this that he removed to Wisconsin, becoming a lumberman of that state, and the lumber business which he established in 1848 is still being conducted under the name of the John Week Lumber Company. During his residence in Wisconsin he served as county commissioner. Unto him and his wife were bom seven children: Edmund R.; Nelson A. and A. R., who are residents of Stevents Point, Wisconsin; J. A., who is living in Los Angeles, -California; Sarah, the wife of Theodore Gribie, of Chicago; Cora, of New York city; and Martha G., of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

Edmund R. Week after attending the public schools continued his education in the normal school of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and pursued a commercial course in Milwaukee. He first engaged in the logging business on his own account, winning success in that undertaking. In 1882 he disposed of his interests and on the advice of a physician started for the west. -He went to St. Paul where he. boarded the Northern Pacific in company with Professors Bumham and Hemenway, both of La Crosse, Wisconsin. The three proceeded by train as far as Miles City, which was then the terminal of the passenger service. There they bought cayuses, fastened their baggage on behind their saddles and proceeded up the Yellowstone river, finally reaching Billings which was then the headquarters of the construction work fo^ the Northern Pacific. There they obtained letters to the surveyors who were working in the Yellowstone Park, and finally reached Big Timber. After many adventures in fording the Yellowstone they followed Boulder creek up into the snow-capped mountains and found the air so rarefied that in trying to hunt out trails over the divide they could hardly hear one another calling back and forth. They spent two nights on the snow line, the first night getting little sleep on account of the big snow mosquitoes, and the next night sleeping little because of the intense cold. They followed dangerous trails down to Barnett's Bridge and it fell to the lot of Mr. Week to lead in fording the streams. They worked their way up the mountains to Yellowstone falls and Tower Creek falls, thence to Sulphur mountain where they made camp. They used the water of two streams in preparing their dinner and found the bread so full of sulphur and the tea so full of acid that they went hungry. While following over a trackless wilderness they made their way to Yellowstone lake and there came upon a number of United States engineers laying out the roads. With out guides, compass or maps and lost most of the time they proceeded to the Upi>er Geyser Basin where they presented their letters to the Northern Pacific engineers whose guests they were for two days. Continuing on their journey they reached Mammoth Hot Springs where Mr. Hemenway's horse was choked to death by a picket rope. The United States troops and officers came in next day and located the jiermanent corners and lines of the Yellowstone Park. The travelers placed their baggage on the freight wagons and took the remaining horses to Bozeman, Montana, then a town of one thousand inhabitants. From that point Professors Burnham and Hemenway returned with their horses to Miles City and thence to La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Mr. Week, however, determined to continue on to the Pacific coast, starting by stage from Bozeman and at one sitting traveling one hundred and twelve miles to Helena, Montana, then a placer mining town. He thence proceeded to Deer Lodge and on to Missoula^ a town of seven hundred population. He was told that the road through the mountains was impassable and that the route down the Missoula river was equally so. However, he bought a twelve foot boat, pointed at both ends, and with an old miner started down the stream toward the ocean. He had many exciting experiences, shooting rapids, passing through canyons and guiding the boat over perpendicular falls. Many portages were necessary but at length they reached Thompson's Falls, where they met the Northern construction crew coming from the west. At that point they left the boat and went to Belknap where they remained for three days, and then obtained passage to Rock Island, from which point they started on a construction train to Sandpoint, Idaho, and thence came to Spokane, arriving in September, 1882.

The present city was then a town of about three thousand inhabitants. It did not look very inviting as there was little but sage brush, dried grass and black rock in this vicinity, but Mr. Week was much interested in the falls. From Spokane they proceeded to The Dalles, Oregon, and thence to Portland by boat. There was no railroad to the latter city at that time and he made the trip from Portland to San Francisco and thence returned to Wisconsin with health restored. He had made this roughing trip because of a severe cough which he had when he left La Crosse, and it was feared that his tendencies were consumptive. Three days after leaving home his cough disappeared and he has never been troubled with one since.

On his return to Wisconsin Mr. Week was given charge of the timber cruising, logging and log driving for the John Week Lumber Company, a corporation controlled wholly by the family. He continued the work until 1892 and during that p>eriod invented a road-making machine which was an innovation in logging and was later adopted and generally used. He called it the "road jointer;" it trued up the track and the road was made uniform merely by having this machine pulled over it. Teams could haul larger loads and therefore it made the hauling of logs cheaper. In driving logs Mr. Week conducted the business on a different system from others and was very successful. He was put in complete charge of the work, hiring men, directing and buying, when only twenty-two years old. In 1892 he went to Indiana where he engaged in the real-estate, gas and oil business, spending ten years there. On selling out he removed to Spokane, coming to this city in 1901 to look over lumbering interests, but decided not to embark in that business here. He finally turned his attention to the wood pipe business and invested with the Pacific Coast Pipe Company of which he is now the largest stockholder. The pipe is built in Seattle but the company has its headquarters at Spokane. It is a million dollar corporation with T. B. Garretson as president and manager; J. C. Ralston, director; E. R. Week, secretary; and W. J. C. Wakefield, treasurer. Mr. Week has served as secretary for a number of years. The company makes a steel-banded Oregon fir wood pipe which is largely used in irrigation projects, municipal waterworks systems, penstocks and in water power development. It is economical in construction and is very effective in its uses. It is put in use in the eastern states as well as in the west in competition with steel. The company has introduced this pipe in New York, Connecticut, Vermont and Michigan and is making more pipes than any other company of its kind, its output being from two hundred and fifty to three hundred miles of pipe each year, and the demand is constantly increasing. Mr. Week is also interested in the water power plant at Trent, a ten thousand horse power proposition located only a short distance from Spokane, which promises to play a large part in

In August, 1882, Mr. Week was married to Miss Frances H. Finch, a daughter of John Finch, of Wisconsin, and they now have three children: E. R., Jr., mechanical and civil engineer of Spokane; Anna, at home; and Earling F., who will be graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1912. Mr. Week is independent in politics. His activities are limited to voting although at one time he was a candidate upon the democratic ticket for the office of state senator from the seventh district. He is a man of high social as well as business standing and his life has been one of well directed activity, bringing him into important business relations. He is energetic, prompt and notably reliable, has a genius for executing the right thing at the right time and these qualities joined to everyday common sense constitute his chief characteristics.

Sylvias Van Buren Meek

One of the prominent farmers engaged in wheat-raising in the Palouse country who is widely known both personally and by reputation, is Sylvias Van Buren Meek, living near Johnson in Whitman county, Washington. He was bom in Doddridge county. West Virginia, October 7, 1864, a son of Hezekiah and Mary (Pepper) Meek, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of West Virginia. The boyhood days of the son were spent in the latter state, where he secured a common-school education and assisted his father until 1884, when he removed to Kansas where he obtained employment on a cattle ranch. He followed this business until 1887, when, responding to the calling of the prosperous far west he removed to the state of Washington and settled nine miles south of Pullman, where he purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land upon which he began farming. He was diligent in business and conducted his agricultural activities with success so that from time to time he added to his holdings of land until he brought them up to four hundred acres. He has brought his farm under a good state of tilth, adding suitable improvements and making of it one of the really good farms of the community. Ambitious, however, and desirous to increase his holdings he has continued to extend his operations until he is at present cultivating twelve hundred acres, making him one of the large raisers of wheat of which he makes a specialty. He is also interested to a considerable extent in the breeding of mules and in his business has met with most enviable success.

Mr. Meek was married in Moscow, Idaho, in December, 1890, to Miss Lora May Taylor, of Washington, a daughter of James S. and Anna (Billups) Taylor, both natives of Iowa. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Meek have been born eight children, Winnie, Ray, Laura, Hazel, Wayne, Thora, Lulu and Harry, all yet at home. Mr. Meek is connected with the Farmers Union, where his voice has weight in matters concerning the policy and purpose of the society. Being greatly interested in educational matters he has been particularly active in school work and has been a member of the local school board for sixteen years. Politically his affiliation is with the republican party but he has never taken a conspicuous part in politics, preferring to give the best of his endeavors to his business, the education of his children and his home life. It will be noted in reviewing the history of Mr. Meek that he started on his career with no financial advantages but with a commendable ambition to succeed, and undaunted perseverance in gaining his object. His present success is attributable alone to his own efforts which have always been well directed and to the industry which has always characterized him. He is vitally interested in the affairs of the great northwest and his faith in his community is unbounded. To the many friends and acquaintances of Mr. Meek few men appeal as being of better citizenship or more worthy in the communities in which they live.

Theodore Gentsch

Theodore Gentsch, whose business covers the field of real estate, investments, fire insurance and mortgage loans, was bom at Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1, 1881. The father, Frederick Christian Gentsch, was bom January 16, 1852, at Schloss Rheinfels, St. Goar, Prussia, but in 1853 was taken to Burlington, Iowa, where he remained until September 15, 1871, when he left that city for Omaha, Nebraska. He first secured employment with the Union Pacific Railroad Company in the express department at Omaha, where he continued until December 27, 1871, when he was transferred by the same company to Ogden, Utah, to take the agency at that place. After about six years he went from Ogden to Salt Lake City, Utah, in February, 1877, as general agent for the same company. On the 22d of October of that year he married Augusta Elizabeth Lalk, at Burlington, Iowa, and took his bride to Salt Lake City, where he resided until October 1, 1898, during which time he was advanced from the position of general agent of the Union Pacific Express Company to that of assistant superintendent, superintendent and general superintendent of the Pacific Express Company, successors to the Union Pacific Railroad Company's Express, with jurisdiction over the states of Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington. In October. 1898, he removed from Salt Lake City to Omaha, Nebraska, to become general superintendent of The Pacific Express Company's lines throughout the United States, and about 1902 became a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, where he still makes his home, occup3ring the position of general superintendent of the Pacific Express Company. He installed the express service on the lines of what are now the Oregon Short Line railroad and the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company and the connecting stage lines as the railroads were built.

In the Gentsch family were four sons and four daughters: Fred William, who is superintendent of the dining cars and hotels of the Oregon Short Line Company at Ogden, Utah ; Herman Lalk, who is with Wells Fargo & Company at Reno, Nevada ; Walter, who is with the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company at Ogden, Utah ; and A^ugusta Elizabeth, Marion, Gertrude and Helen, all living with their parents in St. Louis.

The other member of the family, Theodore Gentsch began his education in the public schools of his native city and continued in the schools of Omaha, Nebraska. In May, 1899, he entered the employ of the Pacific Express Company as clerk and stenographer and was advanced from the position of chief clerk to the su]>erintendent, from which he resigned in June, 1900. In July of the same year, however, he re- entered the service in the superintendent's office at Salt Lake City, and was appointed cashier at that place in January, 1901. In September, 1901, he was made traveling auditor, with headquarters at Salt Lake, his territory covering the states of Wyoming, Idaho, Utah and southern Montana. He was transferred in the same capacity to Spokane, Washington, with jurisdiction over the lines of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company in eastern Washington and northern Idaho, acting in that capacity until March, 1905, when he went to Salt Lake City as cashier of the Salt Lake Security & Trust Company. His residence there covered about a year and a half and in October, 1906, he resigned his position and returned to Spokane, becoming cashier of the Union Trust Company in January, 1907. For about a year and a half he acted in that capacity, resigning in June, 1908, since which time he has engaged in the real-estate, investment, fire insurance and mortgage loan business, with offices in the Paulsen building. He confines his operations to city property and has secured a good clientage in the conduct of his business. He is now secretary of the Spokane Association of Local Fire Insurance Agents and also secretary of the Spokane Realty Association.

Mr. Gentsch married Miss Luvera Snow, who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a daughter of George Albert Snow, who in addition to other business interests, is identified with various industries in Utah and in Chicago, Illinois. At the present time he is handling large reclamation projects in Utah, Idaho and Oregon. He has resided for the past ten years in Chicago, although temporarily making his home in Salt Lake City.

William Leroy La Follette

One of the many enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Whitman county, who have greatly contributed toward promoting its agricultural development is William Leroy La Follette of Pullman, congressman from this district. His birth occurred in Boone county, Indiana, on the 80th of November, 1860, his parents being Harvey M. and Susan (Fullenweider) La Follette, also natives of Indiana.

William Leroy La Follette attended the common schools in the acquirement of his education, his student days being terminated before he had attained the age of seventeen years. Unusually ambitious and enterprising, he was anxious to begin his business career and feeling convinced that in the less congested districts of the far west greater opportunities and better advantages were afforded the industrious young man, in 1 877 he came to Washington, first locating in Walla Walla. Later he became a resident of Whitman county, but having recognized the benefits to be gained from a better knowledge of business methods he returned in October, 1879, to his native state and pursued a commercial course in the Indiana Central Normal College. Feeling that he was now equipped to pursue his career, he again located in August of the following year in this county, settling in the vicinity of Penawawa where he turned his attention to general farming and stock-raising. He applied himself energetically to the development of his interests, meeting with such substantial returns that in 1883 he had sufficient capital to buy three hundred and twenty acres of most desirable land at the head of Almota creek. For ten years thereafter he concentrated his entire time and attention upon the further develop- ment of his ranch, making a specialty of stock-raising. Although he was only twenty-three years of age when he acquired the title to this property, Mr. La Follette was a well developed and capable business man, generally spoken of as one of the very promising young ranchmen of the county. During the ten years he resided upon this place he directed his undertakings with intelligence, his good judgment and sagacity being manifested in the development of his ranch and his constantly increasing success. He rented his holdings here in 1893 and removed to Albion, where he bought one hundred and seventy acres, continuing to follow stock-raising. He met with lucrative returns, his affairs prospering in a most gratifying manner, and as he possessed much foresight and had the utmost confidence in the agricultural future of this section he extended the boundaries of his ranch from time to time until his holdings aggregated thirty-six hundred acres. In 1895, he removed to a fruit farm of thirteen hundred acres he owned on the Snake river making his home there until 1905, when he brought his family to Pullman, in order to give his children better educational advantages. His time was still devoted to the operation of his orchard, however, until 1908 when he sold it, realizing thereon a handsome profit on the investment. Mr. La Follette has also disposed of his holdings at Albion, but he still owns twenty-three hundred acres of land in Whitman county, which is now rated at many times its original cost and is constantly increasing in value. He is still engaged in the horse business and is one of its foremost representatives in the county.

At Ewartsville, this county, in 1886, Mr. La Follette was united in marriage to Miss Mary Tabor, a native of Oregon and a daughter of John B. and Melcena Tabor, the father a native of Tennessee and the mother of Missouri. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. La Follette, as follows: John Tabor, a resident of Pullman, who married Miss Edith Largent; and William Leroy, Jr., Mary Melcena, Clara Katherine, Warren Jasper, Robert Chester and Alice Eva, all of whom are still at home.

The family affiliate with the Presbyterian church, and fraternally Mr. La Follette has attained the rank of a thirty-second degree member of the Scottish Rite in the Masonic order and belongs to the chapter and the shrine, and he is also identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is a strong believer in the benefits to be derived through organization and has always been an active member of the Grange and of every other association of the agriculturists of this vicinity for the past thirty years. For some years he was a stockholder and director of the First National Bank of this city and he also belongs to the local Chamber of Commerce, the efforts of which he loyally champions on every possible occasion, having implicit confidence in the wonderful possibilities of this great state.