Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 2 of 22)

After largely mastering the branches of learning taught in the common schools Harry A. Flood left home at the age of eighteen and for six years was upon the road as a traveling salesman, after which he turned his attention to the insurance business, acting for twelve years as manager of life insurance companies, the latter half of that period being spent as manager of the Prudential Insurance Company of America. He entered the insurance field as agent for the Metropolitan Life Company of New Orleans and in 1896 went to San Francisco as agent for the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company, his recognized ability winning him promotion to the position of assistant superintendent. The company sent him to Butte, Montana, where for ninety days he superintended its interests and then came to Spokane to open the district for the company in April, 1898. As superintendent for the Pacific Mutual he figured in insurance circles in Spokane until January 27, 1902, when he became manager of the Prudential. From the beginning of his connection with insurance interests promotions came to him rapidly because of his thorough mastery of every task and duty assigned, resulting in a developing power that qualified him for larger responsibilities. He remained with the Prudential until October, 1906, when he resigned that position to become secretary and active manager of The Trustee Company of Spokane. Since that time his duties have been further increased in his election to the presidency and he now acts in the dual capacity of president and general manager. Mr. Flood became identified with this company soon after its formation and was instrumental in securing capital and raising the capital stock to two hundred thousand dollars. Enthusiastic and zealous in his advocacy of the northwest and with firm belief in its possibilities and in its future Mr. Flood has made extensive investment in wheat and irrigated lands on the Columbia river in connection with his father, Henry Flood, securing in all over twelve thousand acres of land near Beverly of which they still retain ten thousand acres. His property is crossed by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, thus affording him excellent shipping facilities for his products. He is furthermore known in business circles in Spokane as one of the directors of the Spokane Title Company.

On the 27th of November, 1901, at Glendive, Montana, Mr. Flood was united in marriage to Miss Jennie M. Kirkpatrick, of Malvern, Arkansas, formerly a resident of Michigan and a daughter of William Kirkpatrick, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, who following the establishment of his home in the south became an extensive land owner at Malvern, Arkansas. Mr. and Mrs. Flood have become parents of two children, Kathryn and William Harry, the former now attending school. The parents are members of the Vincent Methodist Episcopal church and are interested in the church work, Mr. Flood serving as a trustee of the Marie Beard Deaconess Home.

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- He belongs also to the Spokane Club^ the Spokane Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce and in fraternal relations is a prominent Mason^ having taken the degrees of the blue lodge^ commandery^ consistory and Mystic Shrine. On various occasions he has been called to office in the different branches of Masonry^ being a past master of the lodge^ past commander of the Knights Templar commandery^ and a past potentate of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Inland Club and during 1911 served as trustee of the National Apple Show. He regards it his duty as well as the privilege of citizenship to express his political views which he does in unfaltering support of the republican party, and in the days of conventions he frequently attended as a delegate while at different times he has served as a member of the central committee. The interests and activities of his life have been varied and in considerable measure have contributed to the welfare and progress of the communities in which he has lived. He holds to high ideals in business as well as in citizenship, and careful investigation into his life record shows that his path is never strewn with the wredc of other men's fortunes but that constructive measures have always been used in the attainment of the success which is now his.

One of the well known pioneer residents of Lincoln county is A. G. Mitchum, who located in the vicinity of Harrington in 1888, many years before that thriving town was founded. He was bom in Colusa county, California, on the 15th of July, 1861, and is a son of James and Anna Mitchum, natives of Kentudcy. His parents made the journey overland to the Pacific coast in 1852, locating in California, where the mother passed away during the boyhood of our subject. The father, who was a veteran of the Mexican war, engaged in farming in California until 1879, when he came to Washington with his son A. G. After spending several months in the vicinity of Medical Lake he returned to California, where the following year he died.

The first eighteen years of his life A. G. Mitchum spent in his native county, to whose public schools he is indebted for his early education. Together with his father in 1879 he came to Washington and assisted in sur\xying and platting the town of Medical Lake. The entire state was but sparsely settled at that time, being little more than a wilderness, even Spokane numbering few white people among its citizens. In the fall, the father and son returned to California, where the latter snbsequently spent two years in college, devoting his attention to surveying and other branches of civil engineering. When he was twenty-one he was the successful ' candidate for the office of county surveyor in Colusa county, but he resigned at the ex{Hration of six months and returned to Washington. Here he filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in the vicinity of the present site of Harrington, that he operated for six years. Disposing of his ranch at the end of that period he purchased three hundred and twenty acres of improved land, successfully engaging in its caltivation until 1894. He then leased his ranch and came to Harrington, where very soon thereafter he was appointed postmaster, retaining this office for four years. During that time he became associated with M. F. Adams in the gen- eral mercantile business^ under the firm name of Adams & Mitchmn, continuing to be identified with this enterprise until 1904. In 1898 he and Mr. Adams together with John F. Green organized the Bank of Harrington^ with Mr. Green as president^ M. F. Adams^ vice president and Mr. Mitchum^ cashier. This was eonducted along conservative lines and had become one of the flourishing financial institutions of the county in 1910^ when they sold it to the Union Securities Company. Mr. Mitchum has now retired from active connection with all business enterprises, his entire time being required in the supervision of his extensive property interests. He is a man of rare business sagacity and foresight, having the intuitive faculty of recognizing opportunities overlooked by the average man of affairs and utilizing them to his own benefit. Despite the exacting demands of his large personal interests he has always found time to promote the welfare of the community at large and has been one of the prominent factors in developing the town.

Mr. Mitchum was united in marriage on June 21, 1883, to Miss Mattie E. Hannum, a daughter of Warren W. Hannum, a well known farmer of Yolo county, California, and they became the parents of two daughters. Leila, the elder, is the wife of A. W. Haynes, a farmer of Alberta, Canada, and the mother of two children, Geraldine and Bernice. Imogen, who is a graduate of the University of Washington, is an instructor in the high school of Harrington.

The fraternal connections of Mr. Mitchum are confined to his membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Politically he is a democrat, and served as county surveyor for four years. Mr. Mitchum has always taken an active interest in all questions pertaining to the public welfare, giving his unqualified support to' every progressive movement that promised the betterment of local conditions or the attainment of a higher standard of citizenship.

Gustav Luellwitz

Throughout his entire life, since making his initial step in the business world, Gustav Luellwitz has been connected with the lumber trade and is now at the head of the Shaw- Wells Lumber Company, in which connection he is active in control of one of the most important enterprises of this character in the northwest. He was born at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 80, 1870, and is an adopted son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Luellwitz, of Milwaukee. The father, who was an officer in the German army, died in 1908, but the mother is still living in Milwaukee. Her father was Professor Witte, prominent in the field of college education and an old friend of Bismarck.

In the public schools of his native city Gustav Luellwitz pursued his education to the age of thirteen years. He first engaged in the sawmill manufacturing business in the northern part of Wisconsin at the age of eighteen years and there remained until 1897, selling lumber from 1890- until 1897 on the road. On the 1st of January, 1900, he left the middle west and made his way to Montana, where he was employed by the Big Blackfoot Milling Company of the Amalgamated Company, with which he continued for six months as a salesman. He was afterward in business, on his own account at Salt Lake City until the fall of 1901.

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Emma Lewis McMillan, a daughter of H. G. McMillan, a prominent resident of Salt Lake City, who held a government position for many years daring the Mormon difficulties. His grandfather was for one term governor of Tennessee, and a brother of Mrs. McMillan has been judge of the supreme court of Wyoming for a number of years. She was a representative of one of the old and prominent Kentucky families. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Luellwitz was blessed with one son, Henry McMillan, who was born February 14, 1903.

In the fall of 1901 Mr. Luellwitz came to Spokane and organized the McClain Lumber Company, under which name he operated for a year. The business was then reincorporated under the name of the William Musser Lumber & Manufacturing Company, in which Mr. Luellwitz was interested, retaining the management of the business until 1908, when he severed his connection therewith. He next entered business on his own account under the name of Gustav Luellwitz & Company and in the. spring of 1904 papers of incorporation were taken out under the name of the Jenkins-Luellwitz Lumber Company for the conduct of a general lumber business. In 1905 the Luellwitz Lumber Company was incorporated to take over the retail department of the business and the same year the name of the Jenkins-Luellwitz Company was changed to the Day-Luellwitz Company, at which time Harry L. Day became a partner in the undertaking. The two companies were operated independently, the Day-Luellwitz Company carrying on the wholesale and lumber manufacturing business. His last notable step in the business world has been in connection with the consolidatipa. of the Shaw- Wells and Luellwitz interests, which occurred March 2,, IftJI:^.*^ Operations are still to be continued under the name of the Shaw-Wellp Cpqipjiny:, lidiW «Mr. Luellwitz as president, Frank H. Shaw, former president of the Shaw-Well^ Company, as the vice president and manager of the new company^^§nd.<£^ Macpuaig, formerly of the Luellwitz Company, as treasurer. The Jboai^d- /of ^difecwrt is composed of these officers together with George R. Dodson, Herbert Witherspoon, E. F. C. Van Dis- «el, J. P. Langley and C. E. Wells, the last named a resident of Racine, Wisconsin. The new corporation has been capitalized for one million, two hundred thousand dollars, and plans have been made for the erection, on the Luellwitz property along the railroad tracks on the north side, of a modern three-story semi-fireproof warehouse at a cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The purchase of about two blocks of ground at the junction of Marietta street and the railroad tracks has also been consummated, and constituted the largest real-estate deal on the north side in the present year. The new warehouse will be supplied with excellent shipping facilities and eventually the salesroom and offices of the Company will be located there. The merger of the Shaw-Wells and the Luellwitz Companies is a notable step in the enlargement of the business of the big mail order hoase. By this combination the firm plans to handle lumber and mill work through' loail orders on a plan used by the leading houses of this character in the east. Mr. Luellwitz is also the owner of the Athol Lumber Company and is interested in the Buckeye Lumber Company, the Newman Lake Lumber Company and the Rainier Lumber & Shingle Company of Seattle. He owns large timber tracts in British Columbia and is likewise interested in the Yardley town site. The Day- Lnellwitz Company is incorporated for two hundred thousand dollars and the

Mr. Luellwitz turns aside from business to cast his ballot in favor of the men and measures of the republican party but has never sought nor desired office. He is prominent in Masonry^ holding membership in the blue lodge and chapter of Phillips, Wisconsin, and in the commandery, consistory and Mystic Shrine at Spokane. He belongs also to the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Athletic Club and the Hoo Hoos, an organization of lumbermen, with which he has beeii identified since its inception. He is likewise a member of the Chamber of Commerce and his active aid can be counted upon to further its interests and its projects. His early business experience laid the foundation for his success, bringing him a knowledge of the' lumber trade which has constituted a basic element in his subsequent advancement in this line. As the years have gone by he has more and more largely gained a knowledge of the different phases of the business and is today an acknowledged authority on lumber in the northwest and a prominent representative of the trade. The story of his life is the story of honest industry and thrift. He has been, aptly termed a man of policy. To build up rather than to destroy has ever been his plan and he attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm, his business ever balancing up with the principles of truth and honor.*

Through his capable direction of the hardware business with which he has been identified since November, 1906, W. S. Thompson has become recognized as an active force in promoting the commercial activities of Harrington. A son of W. H. and Catherine (Leuallen) Thompson, he is a native of Tennessee, as were also his parents, his birth having occurred in Anderson county, on the 3d of December, 1862. In 1866, together with his wife and family W. H. Thompson removed to Indiana, where they resided for three years. At the end of that period they again started westward, with the northwest as their destination, locating in Lebanon, Oregon, in 1869. The father followed ranching in various parts of the state until November, 1906, when he engaged in the hardware business in Harrington, VV^ashington, with his son, continuing to be identified with this enterprise until his death in November, 1907. He was one of the well known and progressive citizens of Lincoln county, and had been called to various positions of public trust. At the time of his demise he was a member of the state legislature, having entered upon the duties of representative in 1906. A man of energy and ability he directed his efforts toward a definite purpose, meeting with success in his various undertakings, and at his death held the title to twelve hundred and eighty acres of land in this county in addition to his other interests.

W. S. Thompson was only a child of four years when he removed with his parents to Indiana, where his education was begun. After the family residence was established in Oregon he continued his studies in the public schools of Lebanon until he graduated from the high school, after which he went to the college at Mc- Minnville, where he pursued a scientific course for three years. At the end of that time he engaged in teaching in Linn county for three years, but not feeling that he cared to make of this profession a life vocation he later withdrew from it and became identified with commercial activities. In 1887, at the age of twentyfive, he went to Albany, this state, where for two years he was in the grocery business. He subsequently gave this up in order to accept the position of assistant cashier in the Bank of Oregon, continuing to be connected with this institution until Its failure in 1893. His boyhood and youth had been spent on a farm, and after the nervous strain involved in his business life, the country seemed most alluring and he leased a ranch that he operated for four years. In 1899 he removed with his parents to Harrington, where his father purchased two sections of land that they operated together for two years. At the end of this period Mr. Thompson again returned to the business world as a clerk in the hardware store of Newland Brothers of this city, continuing in their employ until November, 1906, when he and his father purchased the business. They were associated in the conduct of the store, that has ever since been operated under the name of Thompson & Son, until the father's death.- Mr. Thompson has a large and well assorted stock of goods, that he offers at reasonable prices, and is enjoying an excellent patronage. After the death of his father he disposed of their large realty holdings and is now giving his undivided attention to the direction of his business, in the development of which he is meeting with gratifying results.

On the 26th of August, 1 886, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Thompson and Miss lone Magers, a daughter of W. B. and Mary S. (Barkhurst) Magers. The father, who was a physician, was a native of Virginia and the mother of Ohio, and they crossed the plains to Oregon in 1852, Dr. Magers passing away in Staten, this state. Of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson there has been bom one child, M. Beatrice, who is still at home.

Mr. Thompson is a deacon of the Baptist church of which his wife and daughter are both active members^ and he has for many years been superintendent of the Sunday school. In politics he is a republican and since 1904 he has been a member of the county school board. In matters of citizenship Mr. Thompson is progressive, his support and cooperation always being . accorded every movement that bespeaks the advancement of community interests or the development of public utilities.

George Williams

George Williams has been prominently identified with the development of Coeur d'Alene for the past eighteen years, during which period he, has designed and superintended the construction of many of the finest public buildings in the city. He was bom in Henry county, Illinois, on the 11th of November, 1859, and is a son of Robert E. and Lucretia C. (Lester) Williams.

The education of George Williams was completed in the Tabor high school of Cooncil Bluffs, Iowa. Having decided to adopt the profession of architecture for ^ life vocation, at the age of seventeen years he laid aside his school books and devoted his attention to draughting and designing in the office of a local architect. He made good progress in the work and was subsequently able to go into business for himself. In December, 1 890, he came to Oregon, first locating in the eastern part of the state, where he remained for twelve years. At the expiration of that period he came to Coeur d'Alene and established an office that he has ever since maintained. Mr. Williams has been especially successful in designing public buildings, particularly for school purposes^ and was the architect of the Coeur d'Alene, St. Maries^ Sand Point, the Blackfoot, Idaho and the Colville, Washington, high schools, in addition to a number of others of this vicinity. The style and proportion of all of these buildings is noticeably fine, while they meet the practical requirements for which they were intended. Many of the most imposing of Coeur d'Alene's buildings can be attributed to him, as for instance the Masonic Temple, City Hall and Nixon block, all of which are characterized by uniformity of outline and harmony as well as the individuality consistent with the purpose they serve. The same qualities that are notable in Mr. Williams' public buildings, distinguish his private residences, all of which are truly consistent with the laws of art and yet are thoroughly practical in every respect.

On the 15th of November, 1885, Mr. Williams and Miss Emma C. Jones, a daughter of Alexander Jones of Sioux City, Iowa, were united in marriage. Two children have been bom unto Mr. and Mrs. Williams, as follows: Carl, whose birth occurred on October, 1891; and Fred, whose natal day was in June, 1893. Both young men are now working with their father and make their home with their parents at 962 North Fifth street, this city.

Fraternally Mr. Williams is prominently identified with the Masonic order, being a thirty-second degree member of the Scottish Rite. He is affiliated with Temple Commandery, No. 8, K. T., and the various other Masonic lodges in which he has passed through all of the chairs. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, while he maintains relations with the other members of his profession through the medium of his connection with the Architects' Club of Spokane. He takes a helpful interest in political activities and served as councilman from his ward during 1909 and 1910. All matters pertaining to the development of the community or its various public utilities engage the attention of Mr. Williams, who is one of the zealous workers in the Commercial Club, the interests of which he promotes on every possible occasion by giving his unqualified support and cooperation to every movement it champions.

C, C. Grimes has spent practically his entire life in Lincoln county. He was born in Linn county, Oregon, on the 25th of June, 1881, and is a son of George G. and Tunia (King) Grimes, natives of Indiana. During the early years of his life George G. Grimes removed to California, subsequently locating in Oregon, whence he removed to Washington, settling in Lincoln county in 1883. Here Mr, Grimes was for many years successfully engaged in ranching, but he is now living n^tired in Edwall, being one of the well known and prominent residents of that section of the county.

As he was only a child of two years when his parents located in Lincoln county, C. C. Grimes obtained his education in the public schools of EdwaD, after the completion of which he took a special course in bookkeeping. He withdrew from school «i the age of nineteen and during the succeeding two years held the position of assistant postmaster at Edwall. At the expiration of that period he became deputy assessor of Davenport under his father, but after serving in this capacity for two years returned to Edwall and entered the drug store of Dr. J. Kaulbach. He spent two years there learning the business and then came to Harrington to clerk for W. C. Hannum, a druggist of this city. The next year Mr. Hannum sold his store to Gunning & Hallin^ and after conducting it for about four months Mr. Gunning sold his half interest in the business to Mr. Grimes, the name being changed to the Harrington Drug Co. About eighteen months after Mr. Hallin died and the entire business then passed into the control of Mr. Grimes, who has ever since been ccmducting it. He occupies an advantageous location, his store is attractively arranged and he carries a full and complete line of drugs and sundries, such as are usually to be found in an establishment of this kind. As he is always gracious and affable and courteously considerate of his customers, striving to please and accommodate all, he has succeeded in building up a good, permanent patronage, that is constantly increasing.

On the 18th of January, 1908, Mr. Grimes was united in marriage to Miss Bertha Buestad a daughter of John and Gertrude Buestad, formerly of Chicago, but now residing in California. One child has been bom of this union, Dorothy, whose birth occurred in 1909.

Mr. Grimes belongs to the Masonic fraternity, the Knights of Pythias, Pythian Sisters and D. O. K. K. In politics he is a republican and is serving as police justice and he was also secretary of the McKinley Club at Edwall. He is one of the highly successful and enterprising business men of the town, whose personal interests are identical with those of the municipality, in the development of which he is one of the prominent factors.

H. C. Turner

H. C. Turner, who for the past two years has been successfully engaged in the fire insurance and real-estate business, is one of Lincoln county's pioneers. He was bom in Chariton, Iowa, on the 17th of September, 1880, and is a son of George P. and Sarah Jane (Dotson) Turner, natives of England and Pennsylvania, respectively. He came to America in his youth, first locating in New York, where be remained until 1849 when he made the overland trip to California. Subsequently George P. Turner returned to the middle west, settling in Iowa, where be engaged in farming until May, 1884, when, with his wife and family, he again removed to the west, Washington being his destination on this occasion. He filed on a homestead in the vicinity of Davenport upon his arrival, and the operation of this engaged his attention until his death on the 18th of October, 1896. He wait one of Lincoln county's pioneers and became widely known throughout this section of the state, where he had made many friends. The farm he entered from the government is still in possession of the family and is now being operated by one of his sons. Mr. Turner was drafted into the army during the Civil war, but believing that his first duty was to his wife and children he sent a substitute.

As he had not yet passed the fourth anniversary of his birth when he removed with his parents to Washington, H. C. Turner obtained his education in the gram- mar school of Davenport and the high school of Waterville, Douglas county, following which he pursued a commercial course in the old Blair Business College at Spokane. When he had attained the age of twenty years he laid aside his textbooks and began his independent career. His first position was that of stenographer and bookkeeper for the Harrington Milling Company, whom he served in this capacity for six years. He was a very efficient employe, faithful in his discharge of his responsibilities, trustworthy and reliable, at all times working for the best interest of the firm. In recognition of these qualities, in 1906 they promoted him to the position of manager, the dutes of which he discharged in a highly satisfactory manner. Fully recognizing the limitations surrounding the man working on a salary, and being desirous of advancing more rapidly than he felt was possible as an employe, in 1909 he withdrew from his position and began for himself. Being thoroughly familiar with the country and widely acquainted, he considered that the real-estate and insurance business offered a very promising field, and established an office. Immediately starting operations in this business, his efforts have met with a gratifying degree of success. Opportunity in the majority of cases is nothing more or less than foresight and initiative, as in the average walks of life all have practically the same advantages, but either fail to recognize them or lack the determination that lights the road to success. Mr. Turner in the early days of his career showed himself to be possessed of the indomitable courage and unswerving purpose that convert failures into opportunities, and thus he has steadily forged ahead in his enterprise.

On the 6th of January, 1904, Mr. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Glascock, a daughter of Frank and Leila (Anderson) Glascock, residents of Blade Station, California, and unto them has been born one son, Harold A., in 1908.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Turner are members of the Presbyterian church, and fraternally he affiliates with the Masonic lodge and the Knights of Pythias. In politics Mr. Turner is an ardent republican and is now serving as justice of the peace, his discharge of the responsibilities of this office manifesting the same efficiency and thoroughness that characterize his efforts in every direction. He is a member of the Lincoln County Pioneer & Historical Association and at the present time is secretary and treasurer of this worthy society.

Charles L. King

Charles L. King is a member of The Jensen-King-Byrd Company, doing an extensive jobbing business in hardware at Spokane. Not all days in his career have been equally bright, for at times he has seen the gathering storm clouds which have seemed to threaten disaster, but has always been able to turn defeats into victories and promised failures into successes. In the accomplishment of this task he has wisely used his time and talents and improved each opportunity as it has been presented. He was born June 8, 1863, in London, England, a son of Charles and Martha I. (Scott) King, who were also natives of England, the former bom in Norfolk and the latter in Norwich. The father was a representative of an old English family and came to the United States when his son Charles was but five years of age. He located first in Chicago but after two years removed to Seward,

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Nebraska^ and in that locality engaged in farming. When four years had gone by he continued on his westward way to California and while living in that state served as public administrator and coroner of Solano county^ being located at Benecia^ where his last days were passed. He departed this life in 1898 and is still survived by his widow, who is living in Spokane, at the age of seventy-eight.

Charles L. King was reared in Sacramento valley, California, and completed his education by graduation from the high school at Rio Vista. He then entered the telegraph office at that place, where he learned the business and acted as operator, filling the position at the time the news of the assassination of President Garfield was received. He continued there until 1888 and then removed with his parents to Benecia, where he accepted the position of manager in the office of George W. Humes, proprietor of a salmon cannery. Two years later, or in 1885, he left home and went to Oakland, California, where he took a position with C. £jiox Marshall, merchant and proprietor of a hay and feed store. The next year, 1886, he was offered a situation as cashier with the firm of Miller & Lux, and in April, 1886, was sent to their Soldier's Meadow ranch in northwestern Nevada. There he rode the range and attended to the business of the ranch until December, 1886, when he returned to the office of Miller & Lux, in San Francisco, but made his home in Oakland.

In April^ 1888, Mr. King first became a resident of Washington, at which time he made his way to Sprague, where he secured a saddle horse and then followed Crab creek, down to what is now the town of Wilson Creek, and then up the Grand Coulee and on to Wild Goose Bill's ferry on the Columbia river. He afterward went up to the head of the Grand Coulee and returned by way of the California settlement, where in those days was found the most important wheat district on the Big Bend. This trip lasted three weeks, his purpose being to find some well watered land suitable for stock-raising, but even at that early day he found that all well watered land had been taken up, with the exception of a few small tracts not suited to bis purpose.

Near Harrington Mr. King met an old acquaintance, L. C. Fisher, formerly of Oakland, California, for whom he worked that season at haying and harvesting. Early in September he secured a position in a hardware store in Sprague and in the following year purchased a half interest in the business from a Mr. Brooks, one of his former employers. The firm style of Jensen, King & Company was then assumed and under that name the business was continued until 1895, when the town of Sprague was almost totally destroyed by fire. The outlook was a very dismal one, and on the 1st of January, 1896, the members of the firm removed to Spokane and consolidated their interests with the well known hardware firm of Wolverton & Byrd, Incorporated, under the name of The Jensen-King-Byrd Company, under which caption the firm style continues to do business. At first they sold only to the retail trade, but have since developed their business to include a jobbing department, which is now the largest end of the concern.

On the 5th of November, 1890, Mr. King was united in marriage to Miss Mary L. Adams, a daughter of John L. Adams, superintendent of the railway shops at Sprague, and a sister of Mrs. Jensen. The three children of this marriage are Martha, Edith and Charles Adams King, all now attending high school at Spokane. The parents are members of the Westminster Congregational church and Mr. King is also serving on its executive board. He is a director of the Young Men's Chris- - tian Association and takes active interest in many projects and measures for the material and moral development of the commmiity. He belongs to the Inland Club and to the Chamber of Commerce and for four years was a director of the Interstate Fair Association^ in the work of which he has always taken an active interest. His political support is given to the republican party and his efforts along that line have been effective forces for success. He was president of the Federated Men's Clubs^ covering twenty-six of the improvement clubs of this city which are working in behalf of legislation that resulted in the present primary laws. It was these federated clubs^ during Mr. King's incumbency as president, that secured the election of Mayor Herbert Moore and Mayof M. S. Pratt. Mr. King was at one time mayor of Sprague, filling the office in the years 1895-6. He has always preferred, however, to do his duty as a private citizen rather than as an office holder, and has been everywhere recognized as one whose labors have constituted him a cooperant factor in the attainment of much that is beneficial to the community.

Rudolph Bowman Scott

The spirit of enterprise must be the dominant factor in the life of an individual who makes his way into a new and undeveloped country, willing to meet the difficulties and hardships incident to its upbuilding in order to enjoy the opportunities and advantages there offered. Such a spirit was possessed in large measure by Rudolph Bowman Scott, who became one of the best known and most prominent men of the northwest. He possessed marked force of character and left the impress of his individuality upon all public movements or business concerns with which he became in any wise closely connected. He therefore did much for the benefit of the Spokane country through his activities in farming, real estate, mining, and fire and life insurance. He arrived here in 1888, having made his way from Denver, Colorado, to Coeur d'Alene tliree years before. His labors were therefore an effective force in shaping the history of not only the western part of Washington but of the state in general. He was an American of Indian, African and Scotch extraction. His birth occurred in New Haven, Connecticut, November 16, 1846, and he came of New England ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a Pequot Indian chief,, who married a Scotch woman and fought on the side of liberty throughout the war of the Revolution. His paternal grandfather was a West Indian African of the Toussaint TOuverture stock and the son of a Barbadoes planter sent to New Haven, Connecticut, to be educated at Yale College.

Rudolph B. Scott pursued a course of study in the Lancasterian School of New Haven, Connecticut, where among his class-mates were four who afterward became governors. He learned the trade of a wood carver in Chauncey Jerome's clock manufacturing establishment in New Haven, Connecticut, but at the time of the Civil war put aside all business and personal considerations to espouse the cause of the Union. Already he had become deeply interested in political questions and in the situation of the country prior to this time. He was a boy when in 1859 Abraham Lincoln made campaign speeches throughout Connecticut and in the celebration Mr. Scott carried a torch in the procession in New Haven. He and a brother enlisted for service in the Civil war. He was in the North Atlantic

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Squadron on board the United States gunboat Chicopee and was one of the men that volunteered to accompany Lieutenant Gushing when he blew up the rebel ram Albemarle. At the capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, Mr. Scott was severely wounded. Following the close of the war he engaged in mining in Colorado, New Mexico and Washington and was at one time connected with the United States mail service, being United States mail agent from Chicago, Illinois, to Danville, at the time of the historic republican convention held in Chicago in 1880. While the three hundred and ^ve delegates stood solid for U. S. Grant for president Mr. Scott held back forty thousand copies of the Cincinnati Enquirer which were full of abuse for General Grant and were intended to flood Chicago and defeat Grant's nomination. The copies did not arrive xmtil the day after the convention, too late to harm his old comrade.

Mr. Scott had an extended acquaintance among prominent men throughout the country and was one of the leading representatives of the Grand Army of the Republic, in the work and activities of which he took a very helpful part. He served on the staff of Conunander Cosgrove of the department of Washington and Alaska, and was an aid-de-camp on the staff of Russell A. Alger, commander-inchief of the Grand Army of the Republic. He also served as chief mustering officer of the department of Washington and Alaska and in 1898 was a member of the council of administration, while in 1894 he was a delegate from Washington and Alaska to the twenty-fourth national encampment at Boston. He served as inspector of the department in 1890 and &ve years later as chief mustering officer. At Seattle, he was elected junior vice commander 'of the department of Washington and Alaska at the department encampment, on the 22d of June, 1889. Mr. Scott was also a delegate from Spokane county to the state convention that organized the state of Washington held at Walla Walla iil September, 1889 and was a delegate to the state convention held at Seattle -to elect delegates to the national convention at Minneapolis.

Mr. Scott came to the northwest in 1880 and spent three years in the Coeur d'Alene mining country. In 1888 he arrived in Spokane and was one of the first men to establish a fire and life insurance agency here, his company paying all claims in the great fire of 1889. For several years he was manager of the Pequot Mining & Milling Company of Spokane. He continued actively in business until after the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he enlisted at Seattle on the 25th of April, 1898, as a private of Company B, First Washington Veteran Artillery, continuing with that command until November 1, 1898, when bj reason of the close of the war he was honorably discharged at Seattle with the rank of first lieutenant. He was called to public office in 1902 when appointment of President Roosevelt made him United States Chinese inspector, which position he filled for four years, when in 1906 he resigned on account of ill health. It was three years later that he passed away, his death occurring March ^ 28, 1909.

Mr. Scott was survived by a widow and three children. On the 4th of September, 1888, in Denver, Colorado, he had wedded Miss Adele A. Wagner, a daughter of H. O. and Susan (Lyons) Wagner. The father was a well known character in the anti-slavery days in connection with his service in the operation of the underground railroad. At one time at his home in Chicago he entertained John Brown, the martyr of Harper's Ferry, and twelve fugitive slaves, all of whom he assisted on their way to freedom in Canada. H. O. Wagner, Jr., a brother of Mrs. Scott, was for five years United States consul at Lyons, France. Mrs. Scott was bom in Chicago and by her marriage has become the mother of two sons and a daughter: Rudolph B., a civil engineer in the city service; Henry W., who is spending his time in Mexico and Panama; and Addie S., at home. Mrs. Scott has been quite prominent in the Woman's Relief Corps and was the patriotic instructor for the department of Washington and Alaska which was installed June 22, 1899. She is also widely known in connection with her work in the Independent Order of Foresters, being the first vice chief ranger in the first companion court organized in the state of Washington. For the past twelve years she has been its financial secretary and in 1904 and 1905 was the department inspector.

In addition to Mr. Scott's connection with the Grand Army of the Republic he was also prominent in various fraternal organizations. In Masonry he attained the thirty-third degree of the Scottish Rite and he was also widely known as a leading representative of the Independent Order of Foresters, being deputy supreme chief to Oronhyatekha, the Mohawk Indian, who is the supreme chief of the order. Mr. Scott represented Spokane in the high council of the Independent Order of Foresters in 1897, 1898 and 1899. He was a personal friend of Chief Joseph, the great Indian chief of the Nez Perces tribe, and went to Washing^n, D. C, in 1897, with Chief Joseph and his chiefs to present their cause before the Indian commission and the president. Again he accompanied them in 1900 and he did much to formulate public opinion in favor of Chief Joseph during the past few years. He was major general of the department of the northwest of the Union Veterans Union. His religious faith was indicated by his membership in All Saints cathedral. He died March 28, 1909, and thus passed from the scene of earthly activities one who had been a most unique and interesting figure on the stage of action in the northwest. - His character and reputation were alike above reproach. He was a great reader and possessed a remarkable memory so that he could call to mind at almost a moment's notice any of the important historical events which have had to do with molding the department of the northwest. He was himself a great lover of outdoor life and of nature. One of his marked characteristics was his loyalty to his friends who could count upon -him under any and all circumstances. He ever held to the highest ideals yet was charitable in his opinions of others and was always ready to extend a helping hand to uplift a fellow traveler either in a material or moral way.

Robert L. McWilliams of the firm of McWilliams, Weller & McWilliams, was born in Neola, Iowa, on the 27th of March, 1881. He received his education in the public schools of Nebraska and Oregon. Subsequently, he was a student at the University of California, from which he was graduated with the class of 1904. Two years later, he received the degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence from the* law department of the same institution. The year prior to his graduation in the law school, he passed the bar examinations of California.

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Immediately following bis graduation^ he came to Spokane and started in the practice of his profession. In 1910 he acted as assistant corporation counsel of the dly of Spokane. In January, 1911, he was appointed, and is at present serving as chief deputy prosecuting attorney of the county. He at present holds the . position of instructor in the law school of Spokane College, holding evening classes. Mr. McWiUiams has contributed a number of articles to the leading law journals of the country.

He holds membership in the Knights of Columbus, of which organization he is past grand knight and in the University Club. Mr. McWilliams at the present time is serving as chairman of the grievance committee of the Bar Association. He was married on the 18th of November, 1909, to Miss Madge Nagle, a daughter of Michael and Bridget Nagle of San Francisco. Miss Nagle was also a graduate of the University of California. They have one daughter, Helen.

Charles I. Hubbard

A highly successful and enterprising representative of the commercial interests of Cheney is to be found in the person of Charles I. Hubbard, who located here ten years ago, and has ever since been a prominent factor in promoting the town's development. He was bom in Walworth county, Wisconsin, on the 27th of August, 1856, and is a son of Ogden T. and Ann (Conkey) Hubbard. The parents, who were among the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin, are now both deceased, the mother having passed away in 1881 and the father in 1908.

Reared at home Charles I. Hubbard acquired his preliminary education in the common schools in the vicinity of his home, after which he attended the State Normal at Whitewater, Wisconsin for a time. He subsequently matriculated at Beloit College, Beloit, that state, concluding his studies there in 1876. Having been reared in the county it was quite natural that in the selection of a vocation after leaving college he should turn his attention to agricultural pursuits. He located on a farm in Walworth county, Wisconsin, continuing to direct his energies along agricultural lines during the succeeding twenty years, meeting with more than an average degree of prosperity. With his thorough uderstanding of the best practical methods of tilling the fields and caring for the crops he made a most capable and successful farmer. In 1900 he withdrew from the active work of the fields and disposing of his interests in ' Wisconsin, he together with his wife and family removed to the Pacific coast, locating in Cheney. Very soon thereafter he became identified with the commercial interests of the town by purchasing an interest in a hardware and grocery store. He had the misfortune to be burned out two years later, in 1902, but so adjusted his affairs that he was soon able to resume business. In the conduct of his store Mr. Hubbard has manifested the same foresight and appreciation of the requirements of the situation as has characterized the direction of his other andertakings. He is broad-minded and progressive in his ideas yet practical in their execution, never considering the minutest detail connected with the operation of his business too insignificant to receive his personal attention. In 1908 he constructed the beautiful modem building he is now occupying and which affords excellent opportunities and advantages for the attractive display of his stock of mer- chandise. He carries a very complete and carefully selected line of goods in both departments^ chosen with due regard for the varied tastes and circumstances of his patrons. His attention is always carefully given to the selection of brands that he can conscientiously recommend, knowing their value to be fully commensurate in every respect to the prices. He accords his patrons the most courteous treatment and careful consideration, striving to please and satisfy all, recognizing that the prime factor in business success is the spirit of cooperation existing between the merchant and his customers. During the period of his residence here Mr. Hubbard has acquired extensive property interests in the northwest and in addition to these and his mercantile interests in Cheney he is also one of the stockholders and a director of the First National Bank.

On the 6th of December, 1878, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hubbard and Miss May E. Storms, the event occurring at Spring Prairie, Wisconsin. Mrs. Hubbard is the daughter of M. Storms, who was of the pioneer settlers of Wisconsin, having removed there from Ohio in the very early days. He made the journey by way of Chicago, which at that period gave little evidence of becoming the flourishing metropolis it is today, flrst locating in Milwaukee, at that time little more than a settlement. Of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard there have been bom two children: B. Anna, who is a school teacher; and Clarence M., who is engaged in the clothing business in Cheney.

The family affiliate with the Congregational church, and fraternally Mr. Hubbard is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. His political support is given to the republican party, and although he has never taken a particularly active part in municipal affairs, while living in Wisconsin he served for three years as town treasurer. Loyalty to the community in which he resides and cooperation in the advancement of all public utilities has always characterized Mr. Hubbard, who is an enterprising and enthusiastic member of the Cheney Commercial Club. By reason of his public-spirit and indorsement of every progressive movement during the period of his residence in the county he has become recognized as a most desirable and valuable citizen, and is accorded the general esteem of his fellowtownsmen.

Hugh L. McWilliams, the senior member of the law firm of McWilliams, Weller & McWilliams, was born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin, October 2, 1849, and is the son of Samuel and Theresa S. (McKenna) McWilliams. His father was one of the early pioneer agriculturists of Wisconsin. Mr. McWilliams obtained his early education in the public and high schools of his native state, while later he read law in the office of Ross & Flickinger Brothers at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in 1879.

He practiced his profession in the state of Iowa for ^ye years before removing to Nebraska, where he continued in the practice for twelve years. He also organized and was president for about seven years of the Keith County Bank at Ogalalla, Nebraska, and the Citizens Bank of Julesburg, Colorado. He later disposed of his interests in these institutions, removing to Omaha, Nebraska on account of the better educational facilities for his children, where he again engaged in the law practice under the firm name of McWilliams, Halligan & Clair. He afterward removed to Houston^ Texas, where he resided for about ten years. In 1900, he removed to Ashland, Oregon, at which place he organized the First National Bank, and was attorney for that institution until coming to Spokane; and was also city attorney at the same place for a period of four years.

His present firm, composed of himself, his son Robert L. McWilliams, and Mr. E. D. Weller, is rated among the leading law firms of the city. In the care and precision with which they prepare and conduct their cases they have the full confidence of the bench and the bar of the state.

Mr. MoWiUiams was married in 1880 to Miss Anna Stuart, a native of Canada. She is a daughter of Robert and Margaret Stuart, who came from Scotland, located in Toronto, Canada, later coming to the United States. Mr. and Mrs. McWilliams are the parents of three children, Robert L. McWilliams, Frank S. McWilliams, and Justin E. McWilliams. The eldest son, Robert L., is a member of the present law firm; Frank S., engaged in the mortgage-loan business as secretary of The Fidelity Building & Loan Association; and Justin E. is employed as a clerk in the Old National Bank. The two younger sons reside with their father and mother at their home^ East 518 Indiana avenue, Spokane.

Mr. McWilliams gives his political allegiance to the democratic party, but takes no active part in politics aside from a public-sjMrited interest in the welfare of the state and nation as promoted through public labors and influence. He holds membership in the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, the Modem Woodmen of America and is a member of the Inland Club of Spokane. He has many friends inside and outside of the profession. He takes- pride in the statement that he has never lost a client through dissatisfaction with his work, and has hosts of warm friends at every place in which he has resided during his entire Ufe,

A. E. Crisp

A. E. Crisp, who has spent the greater, part of his life in Lincoln county, has for the past decade been successfully engaged in the hardware business in Harrington. His life record began in Cherokee, Iowa, on the 29th of June^ 1879, his parents being F. G. and Barbara (Mcintosh) Crisp. They were bom and reared in England, whence they emigrated to America, first locating in Canada opposite Niagara Falls. From there they removed to the United States in 1877, settling in Iowa, where for eleven years the father engaged in farming. At the end of that time they once more changed their place of residence this time coming to Washington, locating in Lincoln county in 1888. Here Mr. Crisp resumed his agricultural pursuits, being for many years numbered among the successful find capable ranchers of the county. Ten years ago he withdrew from active life and is now living retired in Harrington, enjoying the ease and comfort provided by the income received from his valuable property interests.

A. E. Crisp was introduced to the elements of English learning in the district schools of his native state, where he spent the first nine years of his life. He con- tinued his education in the schools of Lincoln county until he was fifteen and then laying aside his school books^ he devoted his efforts to assisting his father in the operation of the ranch. In 1902 he removed to Harrington and together with the late Mr. Glascock bought out a small hardware store. They invested more capital and enlarged the business until it became one of the thriving commercial activities of the county. This partnership was terminated in 1907 by the death of Mr. Glascock^ and for three years thereafter Mr. Crisp continued alone. In 1910 he took R. G. Turner into partnership and the business is now conducted under the name of the Harrington Hardware Company.

Dr. Henry A. Ellussman^ one of the well known and highly successful representatives of the medical fraternity of Spokane, whose office is located in the Granite buildings was bom in EUiston, Ohio^ on the 18th of Aprils 1878. He is a son of Dr. F. J. and Margaret A. (Apel) Klussman^ the father being a prominent physician of Toledo^ Ohio^ while the mother is a daughter of John Apel of Bowling Green^ that state^ the owner of extensive oil interests in that vicinity.

After the completion of his preliminary education, Dr. Klussman entered the Ohio Normal University at Ada, Ohio, being graduated from that institution with the degree of Ph. G. in 1896. Having decided to adopt the profession of his father for his life vocation, he subsequently matriculated in the Kentucky School of Medicine at Louisville, that state, being awarded the degree of M. D. with the class of 1900. Dr. Klussman was an unusually bright and clever pupil, seemingly having been endowed with an exceptional natural aptitude in this direction, and in his junior and senior years in college he was assistant clinical demonstrator on genito-urinary diseases. Immediately following his graduation he came to Spokane as assistant to Dr. C. P. Thomas, with whom he remained until the following October, when he opened his own office which he has ever since maintained. Dr. Klussman is a very ambitious, progressive man and is constantly striving to advance in his profession. He has pursued a number of post-graduate courses during the eleven years he has been engaged in practicing in Spokane, in addition to which he keeps in close touch with all modern discoveries and research through the medium of the various medical journals and reviews. Soon after locating here he went to New York city, where he spent several months, pursuing courses in both the Post Graduate School of Medicine of that city and the New York Policlinic Medical School and Hospital. At the same time he took some special and private courses in diseases of the kidneys and bladder at the Presbyterian Hospital of New York under Drs. Cabot and Spooner, and in operative surgery under Professor Dawborn. In 1908 he made a trip to Europe, visiting the leading hospitals of London, Berlin, Vienna and Paris, in all of which he attended lectures on special subjects. He joined classes in the various cities, in anatomy, microscopy and operative surgery on the cadaver, devoting special attention to skin, genito-urinary, kidney and bladder diseases and gynecology. In Berlin he worked under such eminent specialists as Nitze, Casper, Wossidlo, Thumen, Landow, Lewin, Joseph and Pick, while his studies in Vienna were under the direction of Drs. Zukerkandl, Finger,

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Halban^ Tandler^ Ziegler and Christofoletti and in London he continued his work under Drs. Freyer, Harrison and Fenwick. Dr. Klussman was greatly benefited by the courses he pursued while abroad and also by the hospital experience, but neyertheless he felt that there were many physicians in his native land who could assist him still further and in 1907 he spent some time in the Post Graduate School and also the Polyclinic School and Hospital of Chicago, receiving certificates from both institutions. He has an unusually fine equipment, particularly for a man of his age, and is meeting with unqualified success in his practice. During the period of his residence here he has had ample opportunity to demonstrate his ability both as a physician and surgeon, and has effected results in both that have created for him much more than a local reputation. He is frequently called out of the city on consultations and also to perform operations, while patients come to him from all over the northwest and even as far away as British Columbia. Genito-urinary troubles have always engaged much of his time and attention, and he has pursued various courses under the best specialists in this country and Europe on diseases of this nature, while the past year he has specialized in abdominal surgery. Dr. Klussman has a very lucrative practice and has succeeded in acquiring quite extensive property holdings since locating here. He is the owner of one hundred and thirtyfive acres of valuable orchard land, planted in apples, twelve miles south of Kettle Falls on the Columbia river, all of which is under irrigation, and he also owns other real estate, his different holdings aggregating about seventy-five thousand dollars.

Dr. Klussman was married in 1897, to Miss Elda A. Rice, a daughter of Frank L. Rice a prominent contractor of Shelby, Ohio, who has constructed many miles of macadam roads through his state ' of such excellence that he has become widely known in this connection, being regarded as one of the best men in this line in the country. Two children have been bom to Dr. and Mrs. Klussman, Richard M., whose birth occurred in 1898; and Helen V., who was born in 1899. The family reside at No. 514 South Bernard street, where Dr. Klussman owns a most attractive property.

Fraternally he is affiliated with the Order of Foresters of Spokane, and although he takes an active interest in all public and municipal affairs, the greater part of his time and attention is absorbed by his large practice, the development of which has undoubtedly been largely promoted by his conscientious devotion to the interests of his patients to the exclusion of all personal considerations.

William H. Panxon

William H. Pannon, present mayor of Hillyard who for the past three years has been traveling engineer for the Spokane division of the Great Northern Railroad, was bom in Buffalo, New York, October 31, 1863, a son of Thomas and Mary (Corcoran) Pannon. The father, who was a veteran of the Civil war, serving under General Hancock, passed away in 1871. The mother, however, survived for twenty-five years thereafter, her demise occurring in 1896.

The boyhood of William H. Pannon was spent in his native city in whose public schools he began his education, completing it in the high school of Rochester, New

York, from which he was graduated with the class of 1878. Immediately thereafter he became self-supporting, and during the succeeding four years followed various activities in his endeavor to find something that he was by nature qualified for and cared to adopt for a life vocation. In 1882 he went to St. Paul, Minnesota^ and there entered the employment of the Great Northern Railroad Company. The next five years he worked as a fireman on an engine running out of Crookston, Minnesota, in which capacity he served with such a degree of efiiciency that he was promoted to the rank of engineer, with headquarters at Breckenridge, Minnesota. At the end of twelve years he was sent by the company to Hillyard, continuing to discharge the duties of an engineer until 1908, when he was promoted to the position of traveling engineer, in which capacity he is still serving.

At Breckenridge, Minnesota, on the 18th of January, 1887, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Pannon to Miss Mary Daly, a daughter of Bartholomew and Mary Daly, and they have become the parents of three daughters: Mabel, I^ouise and Florence.

The family are communicants of the Roman Catholic church and Mr. Pannon is a member of the Knights of Columbus. He also belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and has twice been the delegate from the local order to the national conventions, once when they met at Los Angeles, California, and again at Memphis, Tennessee. His political support Mr. Pannon gives to the democratic party, the policy of which receives his full indorsement. He has high ideals of the responsibility of citizenship and has always given much attention to municipal affairs, having represented his ward in the city council for seven years just prior to his election to the mayoralty chair. Possessing keen foresight and business sagacity Mr. Pannon long ago recognized the wonderful agricultural possibilities afforded in the northwest and has accordingly invested his earnings as he was able from time to time in farming lands. He now has a one-third interest in eight hundred acres of irrigated land in the vicinity of Lewiston, Idaho, that is being operated under the name of the Pannon-Buckley Company. Mr. Pannon is highly regarded in Hillyard, where he has many friends, having in both his public and private relations manifested the loyalty, trustworthiness and efficiency that have characterized him during the twenty-nine years he has served the company by whom he is still employed.

Frank D. Garrett

Frank D. Garrett, engaged in the real-estate business with offices in the Hyde block, is one of the extensive landowners of Washington. He was born in Hardin cbunty, Iowa, on the 12th of October, 1864, his parents being Frank and Mary J. (Strahorn) Garrett, both of whom are prominent among the pioneers of Iowa and are still living.

Mr. Garrett of this review received his education in the public schools of Iowa until he was fifteen years of age. At that time he left his native state and removed west to Pendleton, Oregon, where he accepted employment on a large ranch for seven years, during the greater part of which period he acted as foreman. He thus became acquainted with many of the essential features of the cattle business and subsequently he engaged in that enterprise near Sprague^ Washington, for three years. The winter of the last of these three years was a particularly severe one and he had the misfortune to lose the greater part of his stock, when in two nights ten thousand sheep disappeared. But his determination and grit were undaunted and he immediately engaged in agricultural pursuits and for seven years successfully cultivated his farm near Sprague. Again he exercised the same diligence and careful application to the duties at hand which he had displayed in his previous undertakings and the success with which he met was more than compensatory. He disposed of this property and since 190^ has engaged in the real-estate business in Spokane. His various undertakings have proved so lucrative that he has been able from time to time to purchase considerable land in Washington. At present he is the owner of four thousand acres in the Palouse country and of several valuable holdings in Spokane. He has further extended his activities by associating himself with the Coeur d'Alene Empire Mining Comptiny, of which he is at present serving as president. Since becoming a resident of Spokane eight years ago, he has well proven his worth as a business man, as a judge of real-estate values and as a trusted adviser in business circles.

In Medical Lake, Washington, on the 8d of July, 1889, Mr. Garrett was married to Miss Anna Teal, a daughter of David H. and Rachel Teal. To them two children have been bom: Forest, who is attending college at Pullman, Washington; and Hazel, who is a student at the Lewiston Normal School at Lewiston, Idaho. Mr. Garrett exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party. He holds membership in Spokane Lodge, No. 228, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. He has attained notable success and this has followed as the logical sequence of his labors, his careful study of the development of a rapidly growing country and his integrity. His record may well serve as a source of inspiration and courage to others, showing what may be accomplished by one who has determination and energy. He has proven his worth as a factor in the business world and the position which he occupies is a creditable one and one involving much responsibility.

John B. Blalock

In the year 1879 the firm of Cannon & Warner were freighting through the Spokane country, and as a passenger upon one of their wagons, John B. Blalock arrived in the city of Spokane, which has since been his home. The city, however, at that time was in its embryonic stage - its inhabitants being engaged in trade with the Indians, or busy with the task of developing land. Since that day he has been an interested witness of the growth and progress of this section and success has attended him, making him now the owner of considerable valuable property in the city, where his first place of business was a little one-story building, only fourteen by twenty-eight feet.

John B. Blalock was reared to manhood in his native county, receiving such educational advantages as the common schools of the day afforded but at the age of twenty-two years, or in 1878, he started for the west. He journeyed by rail to san Francisco, thence made his way by boat to Portland and by rail to Walla Walla, after which he came to Spokane with a freighting team, as previously stated. Soon afterward he purchased for one hundred and fifty dollars a lot on Front street, just west of Howard, upon which he erected a small one-story building, fourteen by twenty-eight feet. There he conducted a shoe business, his first stock of goods being that of a firm which had failed at Colfax. In 1880, he invested four hundred and thirty dollars in a site forty feet square on the northwest comer of Howard and Riverside, and the following year he erected on his lot on Riverside a onestory frame building, twenty by forty feet, into which he moved his stock of shoes. In 1882 he erected a store building for rental purposes on the remainder of his property, and soon afterward he purchased the lot and building adjoining him on the west for six hundred and fifty dollars. Moving his stock into that building, he afterward razed the building at the corner and in 1886 there erected a four-story structure, with basement. This was the first four-story building in the city and was soon leased to the First National Bank, the rental being three hundred dollars per month.

The success which Mr. Blalock won in his real-estate operations caused him in 1887 to dispose of his shoe business to N. B. Dolan, and concentrate his entire attention upon his real-estate operations in partnership with R. C. Hyde. They purchased and handled a large amount of city property, making many improvements thereon and erecting numerous buildings. They purchased of Mrs. H. T. Cowley a tract of land, which they platted as the Cazenovia addition, so named after Mrs. Cowley's daughter. In the great fire of 1889 Mr. Blalock^s losses amounted to about twenty-five thousand dollars. The year following he built the Blalock block at the southwest comer of Stevens and Sprague streets, a six-story brick structure, costing, with the ground upon which it stands, two hundred and nine thousand dollars. His prosperity continued until about 1893, when, like many others, he lost much of his holdings during the wide-spread financial panic that swept over the country. However, with resolute spirit he continued his efforts and has since continued to deal in real estate, largely handling farm lands. In this success has again attended his labors. He next located a tract of land near Twin Falls, Idaho, all of which is planted to alfalfa. He is also heavily interested in the W. & B. A. Investment Company, holding real estate in Spokane and vicinity, including the Metropole apartment house. Of this company Mr. Blalock is the manager. He is likewise the owner of property at Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

On the 27th of October, 1884, in Spokane, Mr. Blalock was united in marriage to Miss Martha Hyde, a daughter of Mrs. S. S. Hyde and a sister of former Congressman S. C. Hyde and of R. C. Hyde of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Blalock have one son, Shirl H., who is looking after his father's interests in Idaho.

Fraternally Mr. Blalock is a Mason, holding membership with Oriental Lodge No. 74, and he also belongs to Oriental Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S. While he has never been an active worker in political circles, he votes with the democratic party believing that its principles are most conducive to good government. He has always been prominently identified with matters pertaining to the welfare and progress of the city^ has been a liberal contributor to railroads and to public improvements generally and has also given generously to churches and projects for the social and moral advancement of this section. His long residence in Spokane enables him to speak with authority relative to anything concerning the history of the city and lie is one of the most favorably known of her residents^ his good qualities having won him the kindly regard of a large circle of friends.

J. A. Talkington^ the present mayor of Harrington^ is one of the well known pioneer ranchmen of Lincoln county^ having located here in 1 889. He was bom and reared on his father's farm in the vicinity of Jenny Lind^ Arkansas^ his natal day being the 6th of November, 1861. In the paternal line Mr. Talkington is descended from New England colonial ancestry, his forefathers having been numbered among the early English settlers in that section. His great-grandfather, Stephen Talkington, in his early manhood moved from his New England home to Kentucky, whence his son, Edward Talkington, removed in 1827 to Arkansas. In the latter state in 1831 occurred the birth of Joseph Talkington, the father of our subject, who there engaged in farming during his entire active life. For his wife he chose Miss Rebecca A. Kirk, a native of Tennessee, her birth there occurring in 1838. Although the Talkingtons had long been residents of the south at the breaking out of the war, they were northern sympathizers, and Joseph Talkington valiantly gave his services in defense of his country's flag.

Bom and reared on his father's farm, J. A. Talkington pursued his education in the public schools of his native state, and such times as he was not there engaged, assisted his father in the operation of the homestead. Upon attaining his majority he left school and spent a year traveling through the south. When he returned home he again resumed his agricultural pursuits and for two years thereafter gave his undivided attention to the cultivation of the fields. In common with many other young men he was strongly drawn to the west, his long line of pioneer ancestors having bred in him that spirit of conquest, characteristic of those, who . fonn the advance guard of civilization in the development of the nation. Therefore, he left the parental roof in 1887 and in January of the next year located in Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in the feed business until April, 1889, when he came to Lincoln county. Feeling that he desired to become a permanent resident of the country he flled on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, ten miles south of Davenport, that he cultivated for five years. He subsequently disposed of this and thereafter engaged in the buying and selling of real estate mitil 1901, when he purchased a ranch of seven hundred and eighty a mile cast of Harrington. During the ensuing five years he resided there with his family, giving his undivided attention to the operation of his fields. Although it is still cultivated under the personal supervision of Mr. Talkington since 1906 he has been living in Harrington, having removed here in order to give his children the benefit of the schools. He is meeting with most excellent success in ranching, his fields being given that careful attention that always assures an abundant harvest, the quality being fully equal in every respect to the quantity.

On the 23d of December, 1886, Mr. Talkington was united in marriage to Miss S. V. McMillian, a daughter of W. A. McMillian, a native of Florida, who subsequently became a well known educator of Arkansas. Of this union there have been born the following children: Brant, Pleas, Leonard, Floyd, Willard, Emmett and Jessie, all of whom are still in school.

* Mr. Talkington is a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity, and in politics he is a republican. He has always taken a prominent interest in local governmental affairs and in 1900 ran for representative but was defeated. He was elected to the office of mayor in December, 1910, and during the period of his service lias discharged his responsibilities in a manner to meet with the commendation of the municipality. In common with the majority of the citizens of this section of the state, Mr. Talking^n has the most unbounded faith in a great future for his county, to the interests of which he is ever loyal, enthusiastically championing every movement that he feels at all likely to redound to the development of its resources.

A. G. Avery

Mr. A. G. Avery, of the law firm of Post, Avery & Higgins, was born in Moravia, New York, June 6, 1860, an only son of Benjamin L. and Ruth (Pickens) Avery, both natives of New York, and is the present-day representative of an ancestral line which runs back through Averys of Groton, Connecticut, of Revolutionary fame and Captain James Avery of colonial days, to good old England.

Mr. Avery's acknowledged faculty of always being one of the leaders of the professional and social life of the community in which he lives, had its origin in a similar triut in his father, who was at different times, postmaster, president of Genoa, New York, and president of the Civil war veterans of the counties of Cayuga, Seneca and Wayne in that state, he having served in the Ninth New York Heavy Artillery in that war.

After some years at the academy at Genoa and at home under a private tutor, he entered the office of Richard C. Steel, of Auburn, New York, in 1 888, to study law, whence he went to the law school of the University of Michigan, where he was graduated in 1886, being admitted to the bar the following year at Buffalo. He then returned to Genoa, where he successfully survived the first twelve months of a young lawyer's practice. Here he married in February of 1888 Miss Evelyn Young, the daughter of a prominent citizen of the home town and one of his old schoolmates. Leaving his father, mother and sister at Genoa, he and his bride came to Spokane, where he opened an office in 1888.

He later practiced two years, from 1891 to 1898, in partnership with Frank T. Post. From 1893 to 1900 he was again alone; but combined his practice, in the latter year, with Mr. Post and Thomas B. Higgins, having meanwhile served two terms as corporation counsel of Spokane from 1897 to 1901, at the time when Spokane began its first paving local improvements.

The profession of the law has rightly been said to be a jealous mistress since those who would gain her favor must give her their undivided devotion. Mr. Avery's recognition of, and compliance with, this demand have won the goddess' unhesitating and unqualified approval. This is in part evidenced by the fact that he^ when alone^ and his present firm^ have enjoyed the professional confidence and employment of a goodly number of the northwest's best citizens^ among which are fomid both the rich and the poor^ the corporated and the unincorporated. The federal government in 1905 recognized the results of liis devotion to the law by his appointment as United States attorney for the eastern district of Washington^ which place he held till 1910 when^ from the increased business of the iirm^ he felt compelled to ask the government to appoint some one in his stead.

Mr. Avery's ability^ his professional achievements^ his genial personality and his reputation for sterling character have been recognized by numerous public admowledgments. At different times he has been chosen president^ of the Washington State Bar Association, of the Spokane County Bar Association, of the Washington State League of Republican Clubs, of the Spokane Club, of the University Club of Spokane, of the Spokane Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and governor of the Washington Society of Colonial Wars.

Finally, bis home life has not been less happy, since Mr. and Mrs. Avery, their dan^ter Ruth, and their hospitable home on West Sixth avenue have long enjoyed the warmest regard of all their wide acquaintance among that class of the community's citizens who represent its best thought and life.

Albert P. Wolverton

This has been termed the age of commercialism and the record of the present indicates that it is an age of notable business enterprise and achievement. EspedaUy is this true in America where the great national resources of the country are by no means exhausted and the ambitious, progressive man can therefore find opportunity to gain through his labor those things which nature has provided for his use, or in the field of manufacture and of purchase and sale secure equal chance for successful business activity. Albert P. Wolverton was one of Spokane's residents who gave substantial evidence of industry, persistency and capable management in the conduct of real-estate transactions. He was a native son of the northwest, having been bom in Polk coimty, Oregon, September 17, 1855, and came of a family of English ancestry that was established in America early in the eighteenth century. His father, John B. Wolverton, was bom in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, December 4, 1822, and having arrived at years of maturity was married, November 25, 1847, to Mary J. Nealy, whose birth occurred May 1, 1825. For a time they were residents of Iowa and in 1855 started from that state for the Pacific coast. He became one of the pioneers of Polk county, Oregon, where for many years he devoted his attention to farming and eventually lived retired in Monmouth. There on the 4th of December, 1901, his seventy-ninth birthday anniversary was celebrated, at which time he was still a hale and hearty man. He lived to celebrate «ie more birthday anniversary, passing away December 29, 1902. His wife survived him for about seven years and died September 20, 1909. In their family were seven children of whom Albert P. was the fourth in order of birth. Of these Charles, Bruce, Otis, Grant and Mrs. Josie C. Byrd are all living, while Albert P. and William have passed away.

Albert P. Wolverton was reared upon the home farm, there remaining until twenty-four jears of age, after which he pursued a college course and was graduated from the scientific department of Monmouth College. In 1880 he came to Spokane accompanied by his brother William Marshall Wolverton, and after looking over the situation, which they believed held forth good promises, they purchased a fifty-six foot lot where the Holland block now stands. This occurred February 22, 1882, and the purchase price was but three hundred and fifty dollars. Spokane was not then a city of modem improvements but was a frontier town just emerging from villagehood. The brothers erected a two-story brick block thirty by sixty feet where the Wolverton block now stands and opened there a stock of hardware. Theirs was the first brick structure erected in the city. After two years Albert P. Wolverton sold his goods to his brother and two years later purchased the property and organized the Spokane Hardware Company of which he was manager for two years. Ill health then caused him to sell out, after which he operated quite largely in real estate. In March, 1884, in connection with M. Conlan, he purchased one hundred and fifty-five acres and platted Wolverton & Conlan's addition. In 1889 he erected the Temple Court, also the Grand Central Hotel and several residences, and his purchase and sale of property at different times added not only to his own income but also to the business development of the city. All of his undertakings prospered by reason of his sound judgment and capable management. He became one of the original stockholders of the Ross Park Street Railway and assisted in every way possible in the upbuilding of the city.

On the 14th of March, 1888, Mr. Wolverton was united in marriage to Miss Lula Miller, a daughter of Lewis and Amelia (Schweiger) Miller, both of whom were natives of Germany but were married in New York. They came to America in 1852 and in 1862 made their way to Oregon by way of the water route around Cape Horn, settling in Albany, Oregon, where Mr. Miller followed the blacksmith's trade and became a prominent citizen. He and his wife celebrated their golden anniversary April 29, 1905. Mr. and Mrs. Wolverton became the parents of three children: Vernice A., who was born January 5, 1889, and died August 26, 1892; Vance Albert, born October 5, 1890; and Margaret, born March 2, 1894. The death of the husband and father occurred in Los Angeles, California, on the 22d of November, 1907. In 1904 he went with his family to southern California, spending a portion of his time at Redlands and the remainder largely at Santa Monica. From the latter place he went to Pamona in September prior to his death, which resulted directly from an operation, the shock of which he could not stand on account of severe heart trouble and his weakened condition caused by stomach trouble. He was prepared for the end, however, having put all of his business affairs in order, and with loving words for his family upon his lips he passed away. He was most widely and favorably known in Spokane and enjoyed the warm friendship of all whom he met in fraternal relations. He was a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, the Unique Encampment, No. 32, I. O. O. F., the Woodmen and the Eagles. He always manifested a citizen's interest in politics and during the campaign of 1896 served as chairman of the silver republican party. At one time he was the candidate for the nomination of county assessor and was highly recommended for the office by his friends and by the press who spoke of him in terms of praise and high regard. He was a member of the Chris- tian church and governed his entire life by its teachings. He ever spoke kindly of his fellowmen^ was charitable in disposition and was ever ready to extend a helping hand to those who needed aid. His life was so honorable and his principles 80 manly that he won respect and confidence wherever he went and it was with the deepest regret that his fellow townsmen heard of his demise^ knowing that Spokane had thus lost a good citizen^ his associates a faithful friend and his family a devoted husband and father.

Moses A. Phelps

Moses A. Phelps, of Spokane, is a prominent representative of the lumber interests of the northwest. In all that he undertakes he displays an aptitude for successful management and his business methods are such as will bear close investigation and scrutiny. The width of the continent separates him from his birthplace, for he was bom in Franklin county, Massachusetts, December 11, 1858. The Phelps family is of English origin but was established in New England at an early period in the colonization of the new world. His father, W. H. Phelps, was bom in Hubbardston, Massachusetts, engaged for many years in the lumber bosiness and was prominent in public affairs in Wendell, Franklin county, Massadiusetts, where he long made his home. He wedded Mary N. Needham, who was a native of Wendell, and a representative of an old New England family of English lineage. Mrs. Phelps now resides in Foxboro, Massachusetts, but the death of W. H. Phelps occurred in 1893. Their surviving children are: Moses A.; William J., a wholesale hay and grain merchant of Worcester, Massachusetts ; and Elmyra, who is the widow of H. E. Wells and resides at Foxboro, Massachusetts.

At the usual age Moses A. Phelps beg^n his education as a public-school student and also studied to some extent in private schools. He was first employed in connection with the hay and grain business in Franklin, New Hampshire, and subsequently went to Boston, where he was engaged in the wholesale hay and grain bosiness for two years. In 1886 he arrived in Spokane and has since been connected with the lumber trade of this city, operating under the name of the M. A. Phelps Lumber Company, successors to the firm of Phelps & Wadsworth. Their ofiees are in the Empire State building and they have an extensive plant, owning and operating mills at Cusick, which have a capacity of sixty thousand feet of bnnber daily. Mr. Phelps is an excellent judge of standing timber as well as of the finished product, and his executive ability and the careful management of his interests have brought him substantial and gratifying financial returns.

When Mr. Phelps came to Spokane there were only five or six buildings on the north side of the river across which there was but one bridge, that of Post street. He furnished the lumber for the second bridge which was built across Division street. The first electric light station was then under the Galland-Burke Brewing Company's little building and when that was removed Mr. Phelps furnished the hunber for the second plants which was built where the Washing^n Water Power Company's Post street station now stands. Where the Review building is now located there was a church that was removed to Broadway and the leading hotel was where the city hall now stands, with the First National Bank just across the comer. The hotel was conducted by W. C. Gray and was a popular hostelry, although it would not compare very favorably with the attractive modem hotels of the present. Within a few years a wonderful change has occurred and fine modem buildings now occupy the sites that were then vacant or were covered with shacks. Mr. Phelps is also a director in the Fidelity Bank^ one of Spc^ane's foremost financial institutions.

In 1887^ in Greenfield^ Massachusetts^ Mr. Phelps was united in marriage to Miss Netta W. Sheldon^ a daughter of George B. Sheldon^ a farmer living near Greenfield, and a representative of an old New England family. Two children have been bom unto Mr. and Mrs. Phelps: Ralph S.^ who is engaged in the lumber business ; and Marion^ a student at Brunot Hall. Mr. Phelps has a life membership in the Spokane Athletic Club^ is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and is also a member of the Inland Club. His wife belongs to the Esther Reed Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was state regent of that association for several years. She is much interested in club work^ being a member of the Cultus Club. Few men are more prominent or more widely known in the enterprising city of Spokane than Moses A. Phelps. He has been an important factor in business circles and his prosperity is well deserved^ for in him are embraced the characteristics of an imbending integrity^ imabating energy and industry that never flags.

George M. Forster

Few of the important enterprises which have contributed to the upbuilding of the Inland Empire have not benefited by the cooperation and assistance of George M. Forster. Added to his business ability, which made him a factor in the conduct of many successful enterprises, there was a nobility of character which won him the respect and honor of all with whom he was associated. He was born in Dundas^ Ontario, Septembei: 19, 1845, a son of Walter and Mary Forster, both of whom were natives of Scotland, but at a later date came to America and settled in Canada. They were farming people, connected with agricultural pursuits throughout their entire lives.

George M. Forster supplemented his public-school education by a course in the law department of the St. Louis (Missouri) University, from which he was graduated in the class of 1878. He then entered upon the practice of law in that city, following his profession there for more than five years, when, in September, 188S, he left the Mississippi valley for the northwest. Sometime after his arrival in Spokane he formed a partnership with Colonel W. W. D. Turner, which firm was later increased by the admission of Judge George Turner, under the style of Turner, Forster & Turner. Later Judge Turner became associated with Frank H. Graves, and thereafter upon the retirement of Colonel Turner from active practice, in 1891, a partnership was formed with W. J. C. Wakefield under the firm name of Forster & Wakefield, which was continued until the death of Mr. Forster. During all this period Mr. Forster was recognized as an able lawyer, and was connected with much important litigation. He was strong in argument, clear in his reasoning and logical in his deductions. With almost intuitive percep- tion he seemed to recognize the connection between cause and effect, however obscure, and his ready mastery of the principles of jurisprudence enabled him to make correct application of the legal points to the salient features in his cases.

It was not alone, however, in the field of law that he gained distinction, for his work in other connections was of an equally prominent and important character. He was one of the original incorporators of the LeRoi Mining & Smelting Company, and for many years its president. This company developed and operated the LeRoi mine at Rossland, British Columbia, one of the largest producers in that district. He was an early stockholder in the Centennial Mill Company, as well as other manufacturing, mining and financial concerns that featured in the opboilding and development of the Inland Empire. In all of these enterprises Mr. Forster took an active and vigorous interest and had a voice in their management and control.

Mr. Forster was twice married. He first wedded Miss Helen Witherspoon, of Detroit, Michigan, and unto them was born a daughter, Adah, who is now the wife of J. N. Matchett, a resident of Spokane. On the 29th of October, 1900, Mr. Forster married Mrs. M. C. (Kelliher) Spencer, a daughter of M. M. and Catherine (Cronin) Kelliher, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume.

The death of Mr. Forster occurred February 12, 1905, and the passing of few has been more deeply regretted in all the northwest. His salient qualities were such as to endear him to his companion^ , in. ^soqial; Jife and to his business associates. His political allegiance was giy^n.;tp' the republican party and he always kept well informed on the questions ; and issues of the day, though he did not seek nor desire office. He possessed a keen sense of humor and a deep love of nature. He found enjoyment in the forests and by the stream-, and in the beauty of flowers. He was a Mason, a life member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, and belonged to and took and active part in several other clubs and organizations which form a part in the early history of the city. Generous in personal life to a fault, and of a genial disposition, he made and kept a host of friends who mourn his demise.

Austin Corbin, Ii

In the twentieth century, other things being equal, the men, of affluence are the stronger force in the progress of the world. Austin Corbin, II., of this review, has the good fortune of belonging to a family that has been prominent in the upbuilding and development of the northwest through the establishment and control of many important business enterprises and stimulated by the example of his father and others of the name he has continued active in the work they have instituted and has proven his force and resourcefulness in business circles.

He was bom in Denver, Colorado, September 24, 1863, and is a son of Daniel Chase Corbin, of whom extended mention is made elsewhere in this volume. His father is prominently associated with irrigation and land projects, with railway and other important interests in the northwest, and under his direction Austin Corbin has received his business training and is now vice president of all of the companies which his father has established here. In their management and control he has shown himself possessed of excellent executiye ability^ administrative direction and initiative spirit and what he undertakes is accomplished by reason of his resolute will and his resourcefulness.