Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 6 of 22)

On the 12th of April, 1882, in San Jose, California, Mr. Mallette was united in marriage to Miss Mary A. Johnson, a daughter of W. J. Johnson, a farmer and pioneer of California, who went to that state in 1849. The three children of this marriage are: Mrs. H. M. Dean, of Spokane; Ethel, who is a graduate of Washington University of the class of 1910; and Lester, who is a student in the high school at Spokane. Mrs. MaUette is a member of the Congregational church and presides graciously over her hospitable home. Mr. Mallette holds membership with the Spokane Athletic Club and with Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M. He likewise belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at Victoria and to the Elks lodge in Port Angeles. He is a member of the Spokane Stock Exchange, of which he was one of the incorporators and in which he has continuously served as an officer. He acted as its president in 1909 and is now secretary-treasurer. While living in Port Angeles, he served as mayor for two terms and was president of the Chamber of Commerce there for four or five years. He has long been active in politics as a supporter of the democratic party and has been a delegate to county and state conventions. He has also served on the county central committee and does all in his power to further the interests of the party in which he believes. It is a well known fact that Charles E. Mallette stands firmly in support of his principles and his life exemplifies the high purpose of the Masonic fraternity and is an example of good citizenship as well as of business enterprise.

Stanley Everett Hodgen

Stanley Everett Hodgen, president and manager of the firm of Hodgen & Company, Ltd., was bom in Thomasburg, province of Ontario, Canada, in May, 1880, and is a son of James and Rebecca (Sayers) Hodgen.

In the acquirement of an education Stanley Everett Hodgen attended the public and high schools of Ontario. Upon attaining his maturity he began his business career, his first position being a clerkship in a wholesale grocery house in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The following year he gave this up in order to become a traveling salesman for the O. J. Barnes Company, also of Grand Forks, with whom he remained until June, 1908. He then came to Idaho to take a position in the wholesale depwirtment of the Lewiston Mercantile Company of Lewiston. The firm quickly recognized the young man's ability and trustworthiness and when assigned a stock of goods at White Bird, deemed him the one best qualified to take charge of the business. He took possession of the place in 1904, organizing the White Bird Mercantile Company which he most successfully conducted for four years, during that time acquiring the greater pK>rtion of the stock of the company. Two years after going to White Bird, in 1906, he formed the Hodgen-Brown Cattle Company, which he managed for two years when he sold out his interest to his partner, Mr. Brown. After disposing of his interests in White Bird he came to Spirit Lake, organizing the firm of Hodgen & Company, Ltd. This was incorporated in September, 1908, with S. E. Hodgen, president and manager; G. D. Hodgen, secretary and treasurer; and D. MacKenzie of St. Paul, Minnesota. This company has prospered ever since its incipiency, and is now recognized as one of the flourishing enterprises of the city. In January, 1911, Mr. Hodgen extended his activities by the organization of the lone Mercantile Company, of lone, Washington. This is a general mercantile concern with S. E. Hodgen as president; C. B. Hodgen, manager; and John Warner.

Mr. Hodgen is a member of the Inland Club of Spokane, and fraternally he is connected with the Odd Fellows, being a member of the White Bird Lodge of which he was treasurer during the period of his residence there. Although he is only a little more than thirty years of age, Mr. Hodgen has proven, through his capable management of every enterprise with which he has be^n connected, that he is destined to become one of the affluent business men of northwestern Idaho.

Warren E. Shuck

Mining and real-estate interests have occupied the attention of Warren E. Shuck during the greater part of his business career, but he has now subordinated the latter to the former and is now largely engaged in the development of the Lawerence property at Clark's Fork, Idaho, the work being done under the name of the Lawerence Mining & Milling Company, of which he is secretary-treasurer. He was bom in Minnesota, February 19, 1880. His parents, John S. and Anna M. (Barron) Shudc, were natives of Indiana and of England, respectively, and both died in the year 1 897. The former was of German descent and was living in Indiana at the time of the Civil war. He enlisted on the 17th of, August, 1862, as a member of Company E of the Indiana Infantry, and after the close of his military service removed to Minnesota. In the various localities in which he lived he was recognized as a leading and influential citizen. At one time he was editor of the Nance County Journal at Fullerton, Nebraska, and for a number of years he filled the office of probate judge in Jackson county, Kansas. He became editor of the Mantorville Express at Mantorville, Minnesota, and was elected county attorney of Cass county, that state. His fellow townsmen ever recognized him as a public-spirited citizen and knew he always subordinated partisanship to patriotism. Gordon R. Shudc is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and is an electrical engineer, connected with the Westinghouse people at Seattle, Washington. The two daughters of the family are: Mrs. Ivadelle Gibb, the wife of the Rev. John D. Gibb, of Madelia, Minnesota; and Mrs. Edith Ehrisman, of Rushmore, Minnesota.

Warren E. Shuck completed his public-school course by graduation from the hi^ school at Holton, Kansas, and afterward was graduated from the academic department of the University of Minnesota in 1904, and from the law depart- ment in 1906^ at which time he won the LL. B. degree. Prior to his graduation from the university, however, he followed the profession of school teaching for one year in Kansas and one year in Minnesota, and subsequent to his graduation he engaged in the real-estate and mining business. His identification with the northwest dates from 1906, in which year he arrived in Spokane and established a general real-estate business but subordinates that to his mining interests. In this connection he has principally engaged in the development of the Lawerence property at Clark's Fork, Idaho. The business is incorporated under the name of the Lawerence Mining & Milling Company, with Joseph Reed as president; Smith Hilliard, vice president; and W. E. Shuck as secretary-treasurer. They own nine claims in the group and are about ready to install a concentrating mill. The values are lead silver and they have developed to a depth of six hundred feet in the lower levels and have done one thousand two hundred feet of work in the various surface workings. They have cut a No. 1 vein to the depth of three hundred feet and it is a true fissure vein. They have drifted on it four hundred feet and all the way the ore runs from two and a half to ^ve and a half feet of milling ore, with considerable shipping ore mixed in. Mr. Shuck is also interested in the Senator Mining & Milling Company, of which he is secretary-treasurer, and which now has its property under development, having already a three hundred to four hundred foot tunnel. This promises good returns and its officers are the same as those of the Lawerence company. In addition, Mr. Shuck has other mining interests in the Coeur d'Alenes.

His study of the political questions and issues of the day has led him to give his support to the republican party. He is a member of the Spokane Athletic Club and of the Spokane Mining Association, and in these different connections his personal worth has won recognition in warm friendships. During the six years of his residence in the northwest he has gained a wide acquaintance and has here found the opportunities which he sought. His labors, carefully and intelligently directed, are bringing him good returns and he has every reason to hope that more than ordinary success will be his in his mining operations in this district.

George M. Colborn

George M. Colbom is a Spokane dealer in real estate, largely handling business property and suburban acreage. He was born in lola, Kansas, August 7, 1875, a son of Josiah F. and lola (Friend) Colborn, the former of whom was a native of Indiana and the latter of Virginia. The father, born February 7, 1829, came of Scotch-German ancestry and the family was establislied in America prior to the Revolution, in which representatives of the name took part. He also had military experience, being connected with the militia in pioneer times in fighting Indians in Kansas. He and his wife located upon a farm in the Sunflower state when that state was being opened up for settlement and the town of lola was named in her honor, their land covering the townsite. The death of Mr. Colborn occurred June 16 1904, at Wallace, Idaho, his wife surviving until January 25, 1911. The interment of both took place at lola, Kansas. She had a brother who was an officer in the Civil war while among her ancestors were those who fought in the war for independence. By her marriage she became the mother of the following named: Nell F., of Spokane; Madeline^ the wife of D. C. McKissick, of Wallace, Idaho; Luella E., the widow of W. P. Northrup, of Murray, Idaho; Alice C, the widow of Winfield Scott, of Wallace, that state ; Robert Curtis, who passed away at the age of nineteen years; and Jennie, who married E. H. Moffitt, of Wallace, Idaho, and died in 1909. The other member is George M. Colbom, of this review.

At the usual age the last named entered the public schools of lola, continuing his study there until he had become a high-school student. He afterward attended a business college at Fort Scott, Kansas, and then took a position as stenographer. His identification with the northwest dates from 1 892, when he located in Wallace, Idaho, remaining in that and other different towns until 1899, when he came to Spokane. Here he entered the real-estate field as an employe of the firm oi Cook & Clark, and afterward was with Fred B. Grinnell, acquiring an interest in the business with which he was associated until he sold out in 1907. He then embarked in business on his own account and has so continued to the present day. His clientage has come to him in the field of business and suburban property, which he buys and sells, and he is handling Colborn and Morgan Acre Park addition just north of Hillyard, which consists of six hundred and forty acres, the tract being under the pumping system of irrigation, forty thousand dollars being expended in putting in this system. All of the land has been sold except a hundred-acre tract. About one bondred families are now living on this and the districts which have thus far been cultivated have been planted to orchards and gardens.

When Mr. Colbom arrived in Spokane his cash capital consisted of one hundred and fifty dollars. He borrowed seventy-five dollars to make the purchase of a lot in the Cannondale addition on which he began raising chickens. Almost from the outset his business prospered and as his financial resources increased he found it possible to remove from Cannondale to College avenue, where he secured better quarters. He afterward came to Manito Park where he has a beautiful home on a prominent corner that faces the park for a length of one hundred and fifty feet. Mr. Colbom assisted in promoting Manito Park addition. In a grove which is now a part of the park, in 190S he met J. P. Graves, Dave Ham and another gentleman and they agreed to form a company and gave authority to the firm of Fred B. Grinnell & Company, of which Mr. Colbom was a member, to prosecute the work and develop that part of the country. The company had purchased all of the unplatted land owned by Francis Cook and Charles Reeder, turning it over to the above firm for sale. No residence district of Spokane has been better developed in as short a space of time. In 1904 Mr. Graves made the offer of a hat, suit and wagon if fifty houses were built in the district before May, 1905. The work was undertaken and within the time set seventy-five houses had been built. The meeting in the grove resulted from the fact that those gentlemen wished to consult with Mr. Colborn and Mr. Grinnell as real-estate experts as to the advisability and possibility of transforming it into a part of the city. The work was accomplished and he won the reward. One hundred acres of Manito Park have been deeded to the city and that district is rapidly developing, becoming one of the most attractive portions of Spokane.

On the 3 1st of July, 1897, Mr. Colborn was united in marriage to Miss Lulu V. Gilbert, of Kellogg, Idaho. The father was one of the early residents of this district, coming to Spokane from Minnesota prior to his removal to Kellogg in 1884.

Mr. Colborn exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the republican party but has never been an aspirant for office. He belcmgs to the Chamber of Commerce and finds recreation and interest in his membership in the Spdcane Club and the Spokane Athletic Club^ of which he is a life member. He has won and well merits the title of a self-made man. No fortunate circumstances aided him at the outset of his career. He has worked along the lines of persistent^ earnest labor^ has ever been watchful of opportunities and in their utilization has advanced toward success. His work^ too^ has been of a character which has contributed in no small measure to Spokane's progress and improvement.

Hon. James Allen Perkins

High political honors might have been won by James Allen Perkins had his ambition centered along that line, but he has preferred to utilize the opportunities offered in business and gain his success in the development and conduct of projects which have contributed to general prosperity as well as to individual success. The consensus of public opinion names him as one of the most useful, representative and honored residents of Colfax and Whitman county and because of this his life history cannot fail to prove of interest to many of the readers of this volume.

Illinois claims Mr. Perkins as a native son, his birth having occurred in Belle Plaine, Marshall county, September 7, 1841. His parents were Joel B. and Margaret (Burt) Perkins, who were among the earliest settlers on the Pacific coast, having crossed the plains with an ox team in 1852. They settled in the vicinity of Oregon City in the Willamette valley and subsequently became residents of Benton county, Oregon, where they remained until 1861. That year witnessed their arrival in Washington, taking up their abode in Walla Walla county, where the father purchased a tract of land adjoining the present town of Waitsburg. His energies were there devoted to the development and improvement of a good farm and the work of reclaiming the wild land was further advanced through the efforts of James Allen Perkins, who took up a preemption claim adjoining his father's place. However, he afterward sold his right to that property and purchased the tract upon which the town of Huntsville now stands. In July, 1870, Mr. Perkins and Thomas J. Smith, who was elected state senator from Whitman county upon the admission of the state, settled on the land at the junction of the north and south branches of the Palouse river, agreeing between themselves as to boundaries, for the United States survey had not then been made. After they had together put up thirty tons of wild hay and had taken to their land the materials necessary for building their houses, Mr. Smith withdrew, leaving Mr. Perkins with no other company than his employes. However, the warm personal friendship formed between the two men years ago has always been maintained and Mr. Perkins afterward secured a neighbor in H. S. Hollingsworth, who in the spring located on the land vacated by Mr. Smith. The two soon afterward began the erection of the first sawmill in the region north of the Snake river, east of the Columbia and west of the Rocky mouiitains^ and in various other wavs took active part in the development of the district^ both along material and political lines.

When an act of the territorial legislature organized Whitman county during the winter of 1871-2, Mr. Perkins was appointed one of the commissioners to locate the county seat. Colfax, for the town had even then been platted and named, was the location chosen, and the decision of the commissioners was sustained by the voters at the next regular election. Mr. Perkins had for some time been recognized as a leading and forceful factor in community affairs and in 1870 had received an offer from Superintendent Ross, at Fort Simcoe, to look after Indian matters in the Yakima country. He had declined the position, however, preferring to cast in his lot with the town which was just springing into existence on his land. His decision was fortunate for the little city as well as for himself, as since that date he has proven a most active and prominent factor in the work of general progress and improvement. His capital has been given freely toward its upbuilding and all of his activities have proven elements in its growth and advancement. Specific proof of the value of his labors is found in the fact that he was. one of the incorporators of the Washington & Idaho Railroad, which has had an immeasurable effect upon the development of the agricultural and mineral resources of the two states whose names it bears. He turned his attention to the field of banking when in 1881 he purchased from C. C. Linnington the Bank of Colfax, remaining sole proprietor thereof until 1886, in which year A L. Mills was admitted to partnership. Four years passed and O. E. Williams then became the partner of Mr. Perkiiisi.tfpd^'tiie 3BH<3cessor of Mr. Mills. The bank has always been conducted on silf^^.ec^^el^v'i^ti.Vii JiJies and has constituted a potent force in the financial stability of this section. Mi!^. Perkins has also operated quite extensively in real-estate as lopal ., agei:ijt for ^the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company and the Northern;' -P^dfici-ltdlia^iajtCl Company, representing the latter since it has placed its land on the market.

Mr. Perkins was married in Whitman county, in 1878, to Miss Jennie Ewart, daughter of Captain James Ewart. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins are parents of four children, namely: Minnie B., who in November, 1899, married L. L. Tower, a mining engineer, residing at Northport, Washington; Myrtle M., who in June, 1896, became the wife of Charles E. Scriber, cashier of the Second National Bank of Colfax; Stella, who is the wife of N. B. McDowell and lives in Spokane; and Sumner £. The three daughters were all educated at Mills Seminary in Oakland, California.

never been neglectful of his duties and obligations of citizenship and has been a close and thorough student of the political signs' of the times. His influence and efforts have extended beyond city and county into state politics and his opinions have long carried weight in republican councils. In the session of 1879 he represented Whitman county in the territorial legislature^ and public approval of his course would undoubtedly have been given him in a reelection had he not declined to again stand for office. He has been a delegate to territorial conventions^ chairman of the republican county central committee^ a member of the territorial committee and was one of the members of the first town council of Colfax. The appreciation of his fellow townsmen for his worth, ability and progressive citizenship is indicated by the fact that he has four times been chosen for mayor of Colfax and once without an opposing vote. He was an alternate delegate to the national convention which nominated James A. Garfield for the presidency and in 1892 was a delegate at large to the national republican convention which met at Minneapolis. In August of that year Mr. Perkins was strongly urged by many to allow his name to be used in connection with the candidacy for governor but he steadily refused. Many believe that he would have received the nomination had he cared for it, and a nomination at that time would have been equivalent to an election. Again his friends urged him to become a candidate for the positi^on of United States senator in 1893, but he would not consent as long as Hon. J. 6. Allen was before the legislature as a candidate. His ambition has not been in the line of office seeking and yet no man is more mindful of his duties of citizenship nor labors more earnestly and effectively to promote public progress. Every phase of his public as well as of his private life is above reproach and even those who hold adverse political opinions have naught to say against the man. He is naturally courteous and cordial and these qualities have won him friends wherever he is known, and the fact that those who have known him longest are his warmest friends is an indication of an honorable and well spent life.

Judge Wm. A. Huneke

Judge Wm. A. Huneke, who is a distinguished jurist of Spokane, was born August 12, 1864, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a son of John and Christine (Ringen) Huneke. The father, who was a native of Germany, was a Methodist minister for many years. He was one of the home guard during the war and was in the government employ in the postal department in Europe before coming to America. His death occurred in 1897. The mother was of German descent and died in 1868. To their union five children were born: William A., of this sketch; Louis, who is head bookkeeper for J. F. Fletcher & Company, of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Albert J., who is manager of a mining company at Tyrone, New Mexico; Mrs. E. P. Lurker, of Evansville, Indiana; and Mrs. Amelie C. Kloenne, who is residing in Logansport, Indiana.

William A. Huneke pursued his early education in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and subsequently was a student at Wallace College, Berea, Ohio, where he took a course in the classics and from which institution he was graduated with the degree of A. B. Later he matriculated in the law department of the University of Michigan, and was graduated therefrom with the degree of LL. B. As soon as he was admitted to the bar and thus qualified to practice before the courts he opened an office in Louisville, Kentucky^ and began practicing law and serving as collector. He remained there for one year but in the fall of 1 889 came to Spokane where he has since been located. His ability and learning soon brought him into prominence, and in the courts he gave proof of his power in coping with the intricacies of the law and presenting his cause with clearness and force^ so the majority of his auditors were brought to his point of view through his logical statements and persuasive elements. He was elected judge in 1904 and reelected in 1 908. At present he has charge of department 2. Since he has been connected with the Spokane bar he has been in partnership with various members of the legal fraternity of this city. His first partner was Fred P. Fisher, with whom he practiced for two or three months. Later he entered into partnership with Mark F. Mendenhall, with whom he remained for two years. After practicing alone for some time he became associated with R. J. Danson on the 1st of January, 1896, their partnership holding for nine years, until Mr. Huneke was elected to the bench. Aside from the attention he gives his profession he has also interested himself in mining.

One the 28th of December, 1899, Mr. Huneke was married to Miss Laura Grace Cook, a daughter of Isaac Cook of Spokane. The father, who is of English descent, traces his ancestry back to Governor William Bradford. Throughout his active career he was a minister and was at various times president of different colleges. He is now living retired. Mr. and Mrs. Huneke have become the parents of three children: Bradford, deceased; Helen and John.

In politics Mr. Huneke gives his support to the republican party, and before his election to the judgeship was active in political circles and served as delegate to county conventions. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Methodist Episcopal church. He is widely acknowledged as a man of strong intellect and superior ability whose learning constitutes an ornament to the Spokane bar.

George S. Bailey

A splendidly equipped mining property is that of the Ozark Mining & Milling Company of which George S. Bailey is the manager. It has all the necessary adjnncts for successful operation of its claims and its work is being carried on along profitable lines. For the onerous duties which devolve upon him in this connection Mr. Bailey was well trained, having been graduated as a mining engineer at Scranton, Pennsylvania. He was bom in Galena, Illinois, August 10, 1861, a son of J. R. and Mary (Harris) Bailey, both of whom were natives of London, England, and representatives of prominent and well known English families. The father was actively engaged in business at Galena, Illinois, for twenty-five years and was a man of considerable local influence and distinction, representing Jo Daviess county in the Illinois legislature and filling other positions of trust and responsibility in the community. The Harris family were among the earliest to secure homesteads in the vicinity of Galena and the foimding of the family in America antedates the Revolutionary war. The brothers of Mrs. Bailey were soldiers of the Civil war. Unto Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Bailey were bom ^ve sons and four daughters: George S.; Albert, who is a resident of Dalton, South Dakota; William, living in Yankton,

South Dakota ; Frank, a resident of Parker, thai state ; Edward L., whose home is in Marion Junction, South Dakota; Lizzie, the wife of J. E. Oliver, of Mankato, Minnesota; Alice, the wife of A. L. Greene, of Hanover, Illinois; Maggie, the wife of James McAllister, of Parker, South Dakota; and Hattie, the wife of W. S. Sanderson, of Bellevue, Iowa.

George S. Bailey pursued his preliminary education in the coomion schools of Galena, Illinois, and was graduated as a mining engineer at Scranton, Pennsylvania, with the degree of M. E. Throughout the greater part of his life he has been connected in one capacity or another with mining interests. However, he was engaged in merchandising in Montana for three years, after which he spent four years in that state in connection with the mines. He afterward went to Lewiston, Idaho, where he continued for twelve years, and since 1910 has been a resident of Sf>okane. He has followed mining engineering and done general consulting work yet has devoted most of his time to the management of different properties. For three years he was general manager for the Wild Goose Rapids Mining Company of Wallowa, Oregon, owners of a copper mine which Mr. Bailey largely developed. He afterward became manager of the Black Jack gold mine on Salm<Hi river in Idaho where he remained for three years. Subsequently he took charge of the Ozark Mining & Milling Company as manager and has had the oversight of this property for three years. Its holdingps are located at Pierce City, Idaho, and the company is milling free gold. There are seven claims in the Ozark, nine in the Wild Rose and six in the Cameron properties and the mill has a capacity of one hundred tons and is located on the Wild Rose property. It is operated to its fall capacity and the average run is about nine tons. The depth is now ^ve hundred and sixty feet by means of a cross-cut tunnel. This represents an expenditure of about one hundred and twelve thousand dollars on the property and they have nine hundred thousand dollars blocked out and ready for the mill. The lead shows at five hundred and sixty feet depth and is forty-two feet in width, being broader than on the surface but of a different character of ore, having more base, so that it will necessitate the leading process in its handling. The Wild Rose was formerly owned by W. S. Wilkinson, of WaUa Walla, and M. A. Ellis, of Pierce City, and paid to tJiem dividends of about one hundred thousand dollars before it was taken over bj the Ozark Company. The Ozark claim was formerly owned by John Gaffney, one of the pioneers of Idaho, and was operated by him until the 1st of September, 1905, paying him upwards of sixty thousand dollars. The Cameron is now under development and the company expects to spend on the three properties in the year 1912 about seventy-five thousand dollars. Mr. Bailey is also interested in mining properties in the state of Montana and in southern Oregon. He is the vice president of the Sunrise Gold Mining Company, owning property at Pierce City, and he is also interested in many other undeveloped properties both in Idaho and Oregon. His college training gives him an excellent working knowledge and his broad experience has continuously called forth his skill and ability so that his labors have been a potent force in the development of the rich mineral resources of this section.

In 1884 Mr. Bailey was united in marriage to Miss Rosa B. Larson, of Yankton, South Dakota. Mr. Bailey was again married at Great Falls, Montana, in 1891, his second union being with Miss Minnie L. Cox, a daughter of John W. Cox, of Hillsboro, Iowa. The only child of this marriage is Murrell Bailey.

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In his political views Mr. Bailey is an earnest republican and does whatever he can to further the interests of the party and promote its welfare. He has served as a delegate to county and state conventions in both Montana and Idaho and t^as dty alderman of Clarkston^ Washington^ for two years^ or from 1902 until 1904. He was also for two terms school trustee at Pierce City, Idaho, and he indorses all of the practical plans and projects for the benefit of the communities in which he has lived. He became an Elk while in Lewiston and also attained the Knight Templar degree in the commandery at that place, having previously been initiated into Masonry as a member of the lodge at Clarkston, Washington. His friends, and they are many, find him a genial, social gentleman, appreciative of good comradeship and always loyal to those who merit his high regard and his confidence.

Robert L. Dalke

Robert L. Dalke, engaged in the real-estate business with offices in the Jamieson building in Spokane, was bom in Tomah, Wisconsin, August Id, 1873. The name indicates his German lineage, his parents, Edward C. and Augusta (Kert) Dalke both being natives of Germany. The mother was brought to the United States when quite young and passed away in this country in 1887. The father still survives and is now living retired in Spokane. The only daughter of the family is Mrs. T. H. Rieger, of this city.

Robert L. Dalke, the only son, pursued his education in the public schools of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, and afterward studied law in that city and in Marinette, Wisconsin. He felt at the time that his services would be of more use if exerted in other lines, yet he devoted nine long years to the mastery of the principles of law and has found that his knowledge thereof has proven of practical benefit and value to him in later years. He first came to Spokane in October, 1 899, and opened a real-estate office six months after his arrival. He formed a partnership with J. Lawyer and W. H, Keman, with whom he continued for seven years, conducting an extensive business in promoting suburban properties. He was financially interested and instrumental in putting upon the market the Pine Grove Terrace and South Side Cable additions and also conducted a general real-estate business, in wfaidi he has specialized since the dissolution of the partnership in 1906. In the intervening years he has practiced alone and has become well known as a realestate broker, largely advertising, promoting and selling his own properties. He has handled real estate both in Sf>okane and elsewhere and has done as much as any one man in this city in his line of work, while none has more intimate knowledge of the properties upon the market and their real value. The first year in which he was alone his commissions amounted to eight thousand dollars. His activities have never abated and in buying and selling real estate he has gained a wide and favorable acquaintance.

His political activity has also made Mr. Dalke well known for he is a loyal advocate of whatever he believes to be right and the principles of the republican party have found in him a stalwart champion. He has labored for its success and has represented his party in both county and state conventions. For four years, from 1907 until 1910 inclusive, he was councilman of Spokane from the fourth ward. This period was notable by reason of the constructive measures which were introduced. It was during that time that most of the bridges were built and important work was done on the extension of the water and sewer systems, including the installation of the Grand Trunk sewer system, the pipes of which are from nine to twelve feet in diameter. One of the councilmen who fathered the measure was Mr. Dalke, who suggested to the engineer that the Grand Trunk system be on the north side in order to operate necessary drainage. He was likewise a member of the council when the franchise to the Nortii Coast and Milwaukee railroads was granted and while one of the city fathers the Mission, Washington, Olive and Howard street bridges were built and the plans made and work ordered for the Mcmroe street bridge. As a public official Mr. Dalke discountenanced useless expenditure but never believed in retrenchment to the extent of crippling public progress and improvement. He believes in advancement at all times and feels that Spokane's public work must be in keeping with the growth of the city which has been brought about through private enterprise and industry.

In Menominee, Michigan, in October, 1899, Mr. Dalke was united in marriage to Jennie L. Brown, a daughter of Mrs. James Esler, of Varna, Ontario, and unto them have been bom two children, Gertrude L. and Robert L., who are in school. Mr. Dalke is a member of the German Lutheran church and his wife holds membership in the Presbyterian church. Their interests are as one in their desire for the moral development of the conununity and their aid and influence are given along that line. The military chapter in Mr. Dalke's life history covers between two and three years' service as a member of Company L, Third Regiment of the Wiscon^ National Guard. Fraternally he is connected with the Modem Woodmen and with the Royal Highlanders and in strictly social lines is a member of the Inland Club. For about thirteen years he has been a resident of Spokane and in that period he has proven his worth as a business man and citizen, never neglecting private interests for public affairs nor concentrating his attention so closely upon the former that he neglects his* obligations of citizenship.

E. Tappan Tannatt

In making a selection of those men, sketches of whose lives should go to make up the biographical portion of this work, the author has used great care to select none but such as have in some measure left "footprints on the sands of time," or who have, by their lives and labors, aided materially in making this the great center of commercial, industrial and mining activity which it is today. In this connection mention should be made of E. Tappan Tannatt, a civil and hydraulic engineer, whose work has been of an important character not only in Spokane an<l the Inland Empire, but also in Montana, in California and in Hawaii. He was bom in Manchester, Massachusetts, September 16, 1864, his parents being General T. R. and Elizabeth Foster (Tappan) Tannatt, the former a native of the state of New York, and the latter of Manchester, Massachusetts. They now reside at No. 1311 Seventh avenue in Spokane, and General Tannatt is retired. Their only daughter, Miriam H., is the wife of Dr. C. K. Merriam, a retired physician of Spokane.

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Mr. Tannatt, whose name introduces this record^ pursued a course in the Unirersity of Illinois and in Washington State College^ being graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science and Electrical Engineer. He became connected with engineering parties in the early development work of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company^ being thus engaged from 1881 until 188S on the line to Huntington. He was also with the Oregon Improvement Company in the development of the western country and later entered the University of Illinois. However, in 1886, he returned to the northwest to take up engineering work and in 1891 was elected county surveyor of Latah county, Idaho, which position he filled for two years. He also followed engineering in that state and for further training along professional lines entered the Washington State College at Pullman, where he spent three years, being graduated in 1898 with the degree of B. S. E. E. He next went to Portland, where he passed the examination for lieutenant in the United States Volunteer Engineers. He was commissioned by President McKinley and approved by the senate for important service in that connection, and at the close of the Spanish-American war he accepted a position as engineer in charge of the civil department of the Waialua Agricultural Company at Honolulu. He served through the period of development work covering two years and resigned to take a position as managing engineer of the Oahu College Trustees. They were doing a large amount of engineering development work, developing an addition to Honolulu, placing the city water works and building an electric line, of which he had charge from its inception to its completion. He opened an engineer's office in Honolulu and engaged in development irrigation work on the islands, constructing the then largest dam and gravity system in the Hawaiian group, at Waiamea and Waialua. Closing that work, Mr. Tannatt returned to the United States and opened an engineer's office in the Empire State building in Spokane. A year later, however, he accepted a position as professor of civil engineering in the Montana State College and engineer in charge of the Montana irrigation department of the experiment station. While there he wrote a large number of bulletins on engineering topics and was the man who discovered and reported upon the effect of alkali on Portland cement. At the end of five years he returned to Spokane and opened offices in the Empire State building, where he is now located. He is president of the Jordan-Tannatt Engineering Company at Helena, Montana; also president of the Tannatt- Allen Company, an engineering company of Spokane, that makes a specialty of hydraulic and irrigation work with contract to install the same. They have installed pumping plants for the Spokane Brewing & Malting Company, the Blalock Fruit Company of Walla Walla, and many smaller plants. Mr. Tannatt is personally carrying on consulting engineering work and is consulting engineer for the city of Pomeroy and also the city of Waitsburg.

His bulletin on the effect of alkali uf>on Portland cement attracted world-wide attention and resulted in the establishment of a plant for the manufacture of alkaliproof Portland cement at Denver Colorado, by the Colorado Portland Cement Company. When he first issued his statement concerning alkali Mr. Tannatt was subjected to much unkind criticism but the government today agrees with the facts which he presented. He made over five thousand tests before he proved the truth of his theory. The bulletin published by Professor Edwin Burke of the Montana experiment station shows chemical reaction is now recognized as a fact. Cement failures that were credited to poor work were shown to be due to the action of alkali on the cement and manufacturers and builders are now taking precaution against failure from this cause.. Sea water was also included in this discovery and its action is identical with that of alkali.

While a member of the Second United States Engineering Corps Mr. Tannatt was stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco and also at Honolulu and did much work on the present Camp McKinley and also on the preliminary surveys at Pearl harbor.

In 1890, at Farmington, Washington, Mr. Tannatt was married to Miss Virginia Carlton, a dau^ter of Captain J. F. Carlton, a Civil war veteran, now residing at Kendrick, Idaho. Their four children are: Hazel, who is a graduate of the State Normal School at Cheney and is now teaching history and domestic science at Reardon, Washington; Carlton, Miriam and Virginia, all in school. The parents are members of the First Presbyterian church and Mr. Tannatt is a teacher of a class of boys in the Sunday school, in the work of which he is much interested. Fraternally he is a Mason, belonging to Pacific Lodge, No. 288, at Honolulu. He is also connected with the United Spanish War Veterans and in politics is a republican. He to<^ an active part in politics in Idaho and was elected county surveyor on the republican ticket. While in Hawaii he was much interested in what is known as the home rule republican party and was instrumental in the appointment of the senate investigating committee. He laid before senator Mitchell the conditions and the report of the commission which was practically the same as the letters written to Senator Mitchell upon the subject. Outside the field of politics, however, Mr. Tannatt's most important public service has been done. His discoveries concerning Portland cement and the engineering projects with which he has been connected have constituted valuable and important elements in the progress and improvement in this section of the country. His work is of far-reaching influence and value and entitles him to prominent recognition as a citizen and civil engineer.

Never courting notoriety nor publicity but quietly and persistently pursuing his way with well defined plans and strong purpose, O. G. Laberee has reached a notable position among the most prominent mining and railway men of the northwest. His record needs no especial elaboration nor commendation; it speaks for itself for his labors have been an element in the utilization of the great natural resources of this section of the country and therefore the source of the country's development and prosperity. From each experience in life he has learned the lesson therein contained.

Mr. Laberee belongs to that class of representative and ambitious men who have crossed the border from Canada into the United States where competition is greater but where advancement is more quickly secured. He was born on a farm in Melbourne county in the province of Quebec in 1864, his parents being Benjamin R. and Mary Jane (Wakefield) Laberee, the former of French Huguenot and Irish lineage and the latter of English descent. The first member of the Laberee family in America left France at the time of the persecution of the

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Hngaenots and went to Ireland. He married a daughter of that country and some jears afterward with his wife and two sons sailed in his own vessel, loaded with merchandise, for the new world, landing at or near Boston. Soon afterward he secured a homestead in Massachusetts but had not long been a resident of New England when both he and his wife met death at the hands of the Indians. One of the sons escaped but the other was captured by the red men and taken to Quebec, where he was held as a prisoner for about a year. He finally escaped in the innter and traveled through one hundred miles of wilderness before reaching a settlement. At length, however, he arrived in Eastern Townships, Compton county, in the province of Quebec, where members of the Laberee family have since lived.

Thoroughness characterized O. G. Laberee in the acquirement of an education and has been one of his salient characteristics in later life. After leaving the high school he looked about him for a favorable business opening and in the year 1884, when twenty years of age, decided to try his fortune on the Pacific coast, traveling westward with a carload of thoroughbred cattle over the Northern Pacific Railroad, which was only partially completed at that time. As a cattle breeder he became well known in the west but still more important interests were to claim his attention as in the recognition of opportunities he has extended his efforts into the fields of mining and railroad building.

It was in the year 1895 that Mr. Laberee became a resident of Spokane. He had acquainted himself with the reports concerning the Roslyn mining camp of British Columbia and after paying ^ visit thereto h6', lltvested in several mining properties of that district, including, the Califor^jiia, Mascot and Eldorado, also becoming a large owner of the Josie. He was the first Canadian investor in properties of that district. He then returned to eastern Canada and it is admitted that it was his influence which cau^d_jp£^OjjVpth*er.,prpnlinent capitalists to purchase mining interests at Roslyn and vicinity, particularly the Goodrum and Blackstock interests, the investments of which included the War Eagle and Center Star, while Governor Macintosh, also influenced by Mr. Laberee, made investments for the Whitacre Wright Syndicate.

Mr. Laberee's judgment concerning the material resources of the northwest has proven to be remarkably sound and his insight keen. After a visit made to Boundary Creek, British Columbia, he purchased the Knob Hill mine and a large interest in the Old Ironsides, two of the principal properties of the Granby Consolidated Mining Company, these properties constituting the basis upon which the company was formed. He remained a stockholder in the company for many years and derived from his interests a most gratifying profit. He disposed of his Roslyn interests in 1898, soon after the Knob Hill and Old Ironsides properties were placed upon the market in eastern Canada. He was also the organizer of the MoUie Gibson Mining Company which owns and is operating the MoUie Gibson mine in the Slokane country. At about the same time he purchased the Virtue mine at Baker City, Oregon, which has a record of having paid over three million dollars in dividends. He also became the owner of the Cumberland mine at Silver City, Idaho, and formed the Virtue Consolidated Mining Company with a capital of three million dollars, the stock of which was easily sold to eastern investors for Mr. Laberee's name in connection with such properties had come to be regarded as a guarantee of their worth. His investments in 1899 included the pur- chase of a half block of ground between Coeur d'Alene avenue and Third avenue^ fronting Coenr d'Alene Park in Spokane, whereon he began the erection of his palatial residence which was completed in 1900 at a cost of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

He became in 1901 active in the organization of the International Coal & Coke Company, owning coal lands at Coleman, Alberta, and through his representation Canadian capitalists were induced to purchase the controlling interests. Mr. Laberee, however, has remained as a large shareholder of the company which for several years past has been paying regular dividends. After the formation of that company and the sale of much of its stock he joined Andrew Laidlaw in the purchase of fifty-two thousand acres of coal land situated in the Crow's Nest Pass district fifty miles north of Michel, British Columbia. Again he was instrumental in inducing the investment of eastern capital in the organization of the Imperial Coal & Coke Company, capitalized for four million, five hundred thousand dollars. After disposing of his interests in that connection in 1907, Mr. Laberee secured control of the Pincher Creek Coal Mining Company, owning properties two and a half miles from the town of Pincher Creek, Alberta. Since he has secured controlling interest in this company he has steadily prosecuted development work with the result that the company is now ready to begin a production that will place it on a steady dividend-paying basis. The controlling interest in the corporation is held by Mr. Laberee and R. D. Miller, also of Spokane.

Mr. Laberee has in connection with railway interests become even more widely known. In 1909 he was appointed receiver of the Alaska Central Railway Company on the request of the bond-holders who had commenced foreclosure proceedings. This is a railroad project from Resurrection Bay to the Matanuska coal fields and the Yukon river. When Mr. Laberee assumed change as receiver only fifty miles of road had been completed. He added to this twenty-one miles, giving general oversight to the construction work, so that the line is now seventy-one miles in length, and in less than a year he had successfully wound up the business of the company with credit to himself and satisfaction to all interested.

Directly after the sale of the Alaska Central Railway Company Mr. Laberee incorporated the Alaska Northern Railway Company under the laws of the state of Washington with a capital of thirty million dollars, and with head offices in Seattle. This company purchased the Alaska Central Railway from the bondholders and is now awaiting development concerning the government's attitude in relation to Alaska ere taking further steps to build the road. However, the company keeps the part of the line now in existence in good repair and operates it for about eight months in the year. At one time Mr. Laberee was an extensive stockholder in the Washington Water Power Company. His present connections are with the Pincher Creek Coal Mining Company and the Alaska Northern Railway Company. Of both of these he is serving as president and of the latter he is also general manager. He is also an investor in a large number of Alaska gold and copper properties. Indeed if it were known he has been the moving spirit in consummating many important business deals and operations which are now accorded to others. As previously stated, however, he works quietly, finding his reward in the joy of accomplishing what he undertakes. For intricate and involved business problems he finds ready and correct solution and with almost intuitive prescience seems to grasp every point in the case, coordinating all forces so as to produce a harmonious, unified and resultant whole.

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On the 19th of August^ 1887^ Mr. Laberee was united in marriage to Miss Rose Clark of Olympia, Washington^ and they have two children^ Ben R. and Gladys. Those who meet Mr. Laberee in social connections find him an entertaining^ genial^ social gentleman. He is popular in the membership of the Lamb'si Club of New York city^ the Spokane Club and the Spokane Country Club^ and in the Arctic Club and Rainier Club of Seattle^ Washington. An analyzation of his hfe work shows him to be a most forceful man of ready resources. He has a keen eye that seems to see to the very center of possibilities and to grasp every detail of a situation^ yet he says little about what he has accomplished and works as quietly as if he were engaged upon some project of minor importance.

James C. Broad

James C* Broad, a contractor largely engaged on public work, displays in his business connections marked executive ability and keen insight, combined with a thorough knowledge of all that pertains directly to his chosen field of labor. He was bom in England, October 19, 1865, the only son of William and Maria Broad, who were also natives of that country, where the mother still resides. The father died in 1866 and Mrs. Broad afterward became the wife of Thomas Pierce, by whom she had six children: William, Thomas, Albert and Bessie, all residents of Spokane; Annie, who is the wife of John Toms, also of this city; and Carrie, living in England.

In the public schools of his native country James C. Broad pursued his education and first became connected with mining in Cornwall, England. He afterward engaged in the butchering business for a year and in 1884, then a youth of nineteen, crossed the Atlantic and made his way to Chicago, where he conducted a butchering business for two years. He went to British Columbia at the time of the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and there continued for a year, after which he spent the succeeding six months in Chicago. He next went to Omaha, Nebraska, where he remained for three months and spent a half year in Kansas City before his removal to Telluride, Colorado. He was there engaged in mining until he came to Spdcane. Here he began general contracting and has continued in this place to the present time. For about three years, from 1889 until 1892, he was engaged on contract work for the Washington Water Power Company, being thus employed at the time it was consolidated with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company. He did construction work for that corporation and also did the construction work for the Arlington Heights Street Railway Company and the City Park Transit Company in the building of an electric railway. For the past fifteen years he has been largely engaged in the execution of city contracts, building waterworks, sewers and doing street grading. He put in the north side force mains and a twenty-eight-foot force main from the pumping station to Division street. He also graded Seventh avenue, Maple, Ash, Walnut, Perry and Nora streets. In sewer work he built the sewer for No. 4 district for seven miles; in No. 5 district in the fifth ward, three miles ; No. 7 district, in the first ward, three miles ; also the sewers in Second, Fourth and Fifth avenues, Jefferson street, Sprague and Grand avenues, McClellan street. Twenty-sixth street. Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets. Wall and How- ard streets^ Cataldo avenue^ Washington street^ Spofford avenue^ Maxwell, Nora. Sinio, Sharpe, Stevens, Dean, Gardiner, Boone, Kalispell, Normandy, Atlantic, Montgomery, Mansfield and Mission streets. He put in the drainage in Brown's addition for about six miles and also the Cannon Hill drainage for about five miles. He also installed the sewer system at Moscow, Idaho, extending for twenty milcii; the waterworks at Potlatch; the waterworks at Davenport; and the waterworks at Wilbur. Mr. Broad is also interested in the Snowstorm Mining & Milling Company of which he is a director. This property is located in Idaho' and is now making shipments. He is also interested in the Rambler-Cariboo in British Columbia and the Stewart in Idaho. He is a freeholder and is one of Sf>okane's foremost citizens who has witnessed much of its growth and progress. He was residing here during the time of the great fire in 1 889 and recalls many interesting details of that disaster.

Fraternally Mr. Broad is a prominent Mason, holding membership in the lodge, chapter, council, commandery and consistory, also in the Mystic Shrine and the Order of the Eastern Star. He likewise belongs to the Spokane Athletic Club and politically he is an active republican who recognizes the obligations as well as the privileges of citizenship and strives to advance the public welfare through the adoption of f>olitical principles that are permanent factors in good government. His business interests, his political activities, his Masonic connections, have all brought him into prominence as a leading citizen of Spokane and in an analyzation of his life record it is found that his success has its root in close application, thorou^ preliminary training and promptness and reliability in the execution of his contracts. Such a man naturally enjoys public confidence and wins the high regard and warm esteem of his fellowmen.

Albert Held

Albert Held, a Spokane architect, with offices in the Realty building, was bom at New Ulm, Minnesota, March 25, 1866, a son of Albert and Christine (Stupp) Held, of that city. The father was a contractor and builder and still makes his home there. The son pursued his education in the public schools and in the University of Minnesota, which he attended for two years, pursuing the technical course. He then followed his calling as a draughtsman in various places in Minnesota and when the disastrous Spokane fire occurred in the fall of 1889 he realized that there would be much building in the city and opened an office here and has since occupied a leading position in the profession in the Inland Empire. He designed the Holly-Mason building - the first real fireproof structure in Spokane, - ^the Palace department store, the Home Telephone building, the North Central high school, the Marshall- Wells Company storehouse, the Realty building, the terminal station and all the work on the Inland Empire system. He was also tiie architect of the new gas works, the Centennial Mills, St. Luke's HospHtal, the State Veterinary Hospital and the entire interior of Sacred Heart Hospital above the third floor, and among Spokane's fine apartment houses he designed the new Knickerbocker apartments for Graham B. Dennis, the finest ever erected in the far west, and also the San Marco and Breslin apartments. Among the early resi- dences which were built after designs that he made were those of James Clark^ C. H. Reeves, E. D. Sanders and William F. Zimmermann, and he was also the architect of the Webster and Lincoln schools. In addition to his profession he is a director of the Exchange National Bank.

On the 14th of October, 1903, in Spokane, Mr. Held was married to Mrs. Kate C. Logan, a daughter of I. T. and Melinde C. Benham, of this city.

In politics Mr. Held is independent, nor has he ever been an office seeker but recently has been appointed a park commissioner. He is a prominent member of the Chamber of Conmierce and in the summer of 1911 represented Spokane and the state of Washington on the Boston Chamber of Commerce official tour of Europe for the purpose of creating an interest in the old world in the fifth congress of the International Chamber of Commerce to be held in Boston, in 1912. Mr. Held belongs to Imperial Lodge, No. 34, I. O. O. F., to the Spokane Club and is a life member of the Sjjokane Amateur Athletic Club. He was one of a committee of fifteen of the Spokane Club who acquired the site and assisted in raising the funds to erect the new clubhouse. Evidences of his skill and ability are seen on all sides in Spokane and with the upbuilding of the city that has sprung into existence since the time of the fire he has been closely associated.

Fritz Marschante

Frita Marschante is proprietor of the Pacific Hotel and is equally well known in financial and mining circles, being a heavy stockholder in some of the leading mining conq^anies operating in the northwest. He was bom in Strassburg, Germany, January 29, 1874, and his parents, John and Anna Marie (Hoffman) Marschante, were also natives of that city, where they still reside, the father being now retired from active business. He is of French descent and a representative of a prominent family. He served as a soldier under the emperor Napoleon III and has various mementos in recognition of his bravery and loyalty. He was on active duty much throughout the time of his connection with the army and was a non-commissioned officer. In days of peace he devoted his time as wine grower and dealer and was the owner of large vineyards until his substantial success enabled him to retire from active life. His wife, too, belongps to a leading family of southern Germany, her people being at one time the richest in that part of the country and owners of large forests. Michael and Charles Marschante, brothers of Fritz Marschante, are still residents of Germany and have been soldiers in the army. The only daughter of the family who is living in America is Lonise, now the widow of Victor Dessert, and a resident of Spokane. The other daughter, Mary, is the wife of George Entzminger and they make their home in Gennany.

In the public schools of his native city Fritz Marschante pursued his education to the age of sixteen years, when he came to the United States, arriving in Spokane in 1890. Here he first secured employment in the Pacific Hotel and has occupied nearly every position in connection with the conduct of the hostelry of which he is now the proprietor. In 1905 he secured a lease on the building and has since been conducting the hotel with excellent success, making it one of the popular houses of the city^ to which is accorded an extensive patronage. Aside from this Mr. Marschante is interested in the Traders National Bank of Spokane and is widely known as a representative of mining interests. He was one of the promoters of the Jack Waite Mining Company^ of which he is a director^ he and his associates purchasing for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars the property which lies in the Coeur d'Alene mining district and comprises three claims and a fraction. This is a silver lead property which is listed and shipments are made to International^ Utah; and to Salida^ Colorado. The company is capitalized for one million^ five hundred thousand dollars^ and sold one million^ four hundred thousand shares. No treasury stock, however, is offered now. The present officers of the company are: Robert Sheffels, president; J. P. Schroeder, vice president; and Albert A. Piller, secretary-treasurer.

In addition to his connection with the Jack Waite Mining Company, Mr. Marschante is the vice president of the Bear Top Orofino Consolidated Mining Company and was one of the promoters of the Orofino, which merged with the Bear Top, making a group of twenty-one claims. They are shipping four hundred and fifty tons per month at the present time and the output is constantly on the increase. This is a lead silver property located in the Coeur d'Alene district and the officers of the company are: Dr. George Rohrer, president; F. Marschante, vice president; and Joe N. Thenes, secretary-treasurer. Mr. Marschante is still interested in the Blade Horse mine, of which he was at one time a director. This is also a lead silver property in the Coeur d'Alenes and there are nine claims in the group. He is likewise interested in several other mining ventures and in addition he owns a section of land in Stevens county, which is a hay farm under cultivation. Into industrial circles he has also extended his efforts, being now a stockholder and the vice president of the Crescent Wooden ware & Box Manufacturing Company, which is a profitable enterprise, manufacturing all kinds of woodenware and boxes. Its officers are : Reinhard Martin, president ^nd treasurer ; Fritz Marschante, vice president; and Meyer Rosenberg, secretary and manager. The extent and importance of the business interests of Mr. Marschante indicates something of his ability, his enterprise and his initiative spirit.

On the 19th of October, 1902, in Spokane, Mr. Marschante was united in marriage to Miss Florence La Pray, a representative of one of the oldest white families of Stevens county, Washington. Her father, Joseph La Pray, located in that county in 1859 and built the La Pray toll bridge twenty-five miles down the river. In pioneer times he hauled freight, using several teams in this way between Walla Walla and ColviUe. Mr. and Mrs. Marschante are the parents of two children, a son and daughter, Fritz and Marion.

Mr. Marschante is a freeholder of Sf>okane and in politics is an active republican, representing his party at different times in state conventions and doing all in his power to promote its growth and insure its success. He belongs to the Ancient Order of Red Men and the Foresters of America, also to the Inland Club and to the Chamber of Commerce. While his business activities have been of constantly growing importance, he has found time to cooperate in public measures for the general benefit of the community and his efforts on the whole have contributed to the progress and upbuilding of this section of the state. His record furnishes a notable example of a self-made man, as from the age of sixteen years he has been dependent upon his own resources, working his way upward by means of indefatigable industry and unfaltering determination. In every position which he filled he proved his worth and gradually came to a place where he was ahle to control important interests. From that time his efforts have been of constantly broadening scope and he is recognized now as a man of force in the business and mining circles of the northwest.

Edward J. Roberts

Edward J. Roberts^ general superintendent of the Spokane International Railway Company, is one of the prominent civil engineers of the northwest, being thoroughly familiar with the great scientific principles which underlie his profession and with the active work incident to the various departments of civil engineering. He has always been prompted by laudable ambition and the high ideal of service which he placed before himself has been reached. Throughout his life he has been identified with the Missouri valley country or the far west He was bom on a farm in Columbia county, Wisconsin, September 9, 1857. His parents, Evan W. and Elizabeth (Williams) Roberts, were long identified with agricultural interests there. Upon the old homestead the son was reared, being afforded the (^portunity of supplementing his early education, acquired in the district schools of his native county, by study in Ripon College of Ripon, Wisconsin. Following his graduati(m from that institution, in 1880, he turned his attention to railroading and tiiroughout his entire life has directed his efforts in this broad branch of labor. His first position was that of axman on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Omaha Railroad, but the following year, in 1881, he came west with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, then engaged in construction work and in locating crews. He made his headquarters at Glendive, Montana, and was first employed as a leveler but afterward became assistant construction engineer and subsequently locating engineer. In 1883 he went to the Canadian Pacific Railroad and aided in locating their line through the Selkirk mountains. In 1884 he was in charge of the location and construction of that road, continuing his work on the completion of the mainline until the latter part of 1885. * In the succeeding winter he was locating engineer with the St. .Paul & Duluth Railroad and in 1887 was appointed chief engineer of construction in charge of all surveys and construction on an extension of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba, now the Great Northern Railroad, from Minot, North Dakota, to Great Falls, Montana. The building of this railroad extension of Bve hundred and fifty miles in six months was the record for rapid railway constmction in the United States. At that time Mr. Roberts was a young man of but twenty-nine years yet he completed the longest stretch of railroad in the shortest time of anyone who had undertaken a similar work. His plans were well formulated, the work carefully systematized and the results achieved brought to him the attention of railway builders and men throughout the country.

Mr. Roberts' connection with Spokane dates from 1888, in which year he visited the dty and made the survey for the Spokane & Eastern from Davenport to the Colombia river. The following year he took up his permanent abode here and joined D. C. Corbin as chief engineer of the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad and has since been associated with Mr. Corbin in all of his enterprises. Among the roads which they have built are the Nels<m & Fort Shepherd^ in British Columbia; the Columbia & Red Mountain Railroad; and the Spokane International Railroad. After Mr. Corbin sold the Spokane Falls & Northern^ Mr. Roberts was made general manager of the Sweeny mines^ in the Coeur d'Alene district These included the mines that were afterward consolidated under the name of the Federal Mining Company and Mr. Roberts became the first general manager. At this writing, in 1911, he is general superintendent for the Spokane International Railway Company; the Corbin Coke & Coal Company, of British Columbia; president of the Union Iron Works of Spokane; and a director of the Exchange National Bank and of the Union Trust & Savingps Bank.

Mr. Roberts was married on the 13th of December, 1883, to Miss Mary Tracy, a daughter of J. M. and Rebecca (Davis) Tracy, of Liverpool, England. Her father was a noted railroad contractor and to<^ a prominent part in the constructi<m of the Siberian Transcontinental Railway. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts now have five living children: Edward J., Jr., of Corbin, British Columbia; William T., a civil engineer of Sp<^ane; John A., a student of this dty; Marian Elizabeth; and Daniel Corbin. One son, Paul, was drowned in October, 1910, when twenty-tiirec years of age. The family reside at No. 1923 First avenue. Mr. Roberts has never been interested in politics nor is he identified with any fraternal organizations. He belongs, however, to the Spdume Club and has many friends in its membership. His ability and the importance of his business connections have brought him into prominent identification with the development and upbuilding of the northwest.

David P. Jenkins

There came to the northwest in an early day men of prescience, who were able to recognize something of what the future had in store for this great and growing western country. Recognizing the advantages due to situation and natural resources, they exemplified their faith and hope in their works and upon that foundation builded their fortunes. Among the strongest of the enterprising men who saw in Spokane opportunities for the future, David P. Jenkins was numbered. In the years which have since followed he has not only gained prominence and success for himself but has also contributed in notable measure to the upbuilding and progress of the city of Spokane, and his name is indeed an honored one here and his work will remain as a monument for generations to come.

David P. Jenkins was bom on a farm near Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, Ohio, August 25, 1823, his parents being Israel and Elizabeth (Horsman) Jenkins. The father was a native of Virginia but was an orthodox Quaker, and as his religious belief and principles were in direct opposition to slavery, he left home in early manhood and started on the trail over the Alleghany mountains, crossing the Ohio river at Zane's Landing into a free territory. He bought land and planned for the building of a cabin, after which he returned to Virginia and farther completed arrangements for having a home of his own by his marriage. Two years later he brought his wife to his claim in Ohio and as the years passed became a prosperous farmer. By his first marriage he had eight children, of whom

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It was upon the old home farm in Ohio that David P. Jenkins was reared^ and the common schools of the neighborhood afforded him his educational privileges^ supplemented by a course in the Mount Pleasant Seminary, a Quaker institution. He took up the study of law when eighteen years of age in the office of General Samuel Stokely, of Steubenville, Ohio, being there a fellow student with Samuel Wilson, afterward a distinguished lawyer of San Francisco. He completed his legal studies in the Law School of Cincinnati and in the winter of 1844 was admitted to the bar, after which he engaged in practice for some time in Cincinnati. Subsequently he was located at Hennepin, Illinois, and at La Salle, that state, and was making satisfactory progress in his profession when the Civil war broke out. Governor Yates without his knowledge or consent commissioned him major of the First IllincHS Cavalry, which was the first cavalry regiment organized west of the Alleghany mountains. Putting aside all personal and professional considerations he entered the service and was with his regiment until it disbanded in 1862, when he returned to Illinois. The governor then authorized him to assist in recruiting the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry, of which he was commissioned lieutenant colonel and during the greater part of the succeeding three years he was in command of the regiment and took part in many of the most important engagements and events of the war until after the surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston, when, at his request, he was discharged from the service.

On again entering the legal profession Mr. Jenkins practiced for three years in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was afterward located for a time in Logansport, Indiana, and in Georgetown, Colorado. .-He came to. Washington at the suggestion of Major General Milroy, who at that tjmc was Uni^d States Indian agent for the territory, and for six years thereafcei* was a resident of Seattle. The reports which reached him concerning eastern'; Washington, especially in connection with the approaching completion of the Northern Pacific -Rail way, led him in 1879 to visit this part of the state. He proceeded up the Columbia river and thence overland and settled in Spokane, where he became owner of one hundred and fifty-seven acres of valuable land, on which he built a home, thus being established as one of the principal property owners at the beginning of the development of the city. His keen sagacity enabled him to recognize the possibilities here and appreciating something of what the future had in store for this great and growing western country, he cast in his lot with Spokane's settlers and has since been an active contributor to its progress and improvement. His homestead covered the area comprised within the boundaries of what are now Howard and Cedar streets and extending from the Spokane river northward to a point beyond Mallon avenue. Out of this district he gave to the city the site of the present courthouse, comprising a full city block. He also gave the ground for the old Spokane College but this reverted to him when the school passed out of existence from lack of support. He also gave the ground for the Plymouth Congregational church and parsonage at the comer of Adams and Mallon avenue, although he was not a member of the church. His daughter, Mrs. Rue, however, attends that church. The Jenkins Institute, which he established, has already had liberal support from Him and probably will receive still more in the future. This school was founded by Colonel Jenkins and meets a need in educational training. It offers vocational courses^ because young men must be specially trained to make their way in the world. It is the object of the institute to make its students efficient both in skill and character and to this end an excellent teaching force has been secured^ all being men of experience^ who are experts in their various lines and who inspire as well as instruct their pupils. Colonel Jenkins gave to the school a permanent endowment fund of fifty thousand dollars and the project is one dear to his heart. Colonel Jenkins has always taken a great interest in the Young Men's Christian Association and the Jenkins Institute has back of it the spirit of that organization in its attempt to surround boys at the critical and formative period of their lives with such influences and aids as will develop a robust physical, mental and moral manhood.

For a number of years Colonel Jenkins maintained a large farm at Chewelah, Stevens county, and there gave the land on which to erect a high school, which has been called the Jenkins high school. He also made a gift of five thousand dollars to establish a school of domestic science, with the proviso that the city or other citizens raise a similar amount.

On the 28th of November, 1849, Colonel Jenkins was united in marriage at Granville, Illinois, to Miss Hannah Lobdell, the third daughter of George A. and Almira Austin (Preston) Lobdell, of that place. Mrs. Jenkins died in Ohio, in July, 1879. They had three children: Annie M., who was bom in Hennepin, Illinois, and died in La Salle, that state, in 1858; George M., who was bom in Hennepin, and died in Spokane in 1904; and Emma F., who was bom in La Salle, Illinois, and is the wife of William H. Rue, who came from Englishtown, New Jersey, and is now a resident of Spokane. By her marriage there are two daughters, Annie and Mabel Rue. The former is the wife of Charles D. Robinson, of Spokane, and they have two children, Frances and Dorothy. The younger daughter, Mabel, resides with her mother at No. 1914 Ninth avenue in Spokane.

Colonel Jenkins is now in his eighty-ninth year, and while no longer an active factor in the business world, the "precious prize of keen mentality" is yet his and he still feels a deep interest in the world's progress and what is being accomplished. He has ever been a public-spirited and loyal citizen of Spokane, contributing in large measure to the various projects and movements for its upbuilding and one need but review his history to know how sincere and helpful an interest he has taken in the work of general advancement. His name is inseparably interwoven with the records of Spokane and he certainly deserves mention as one of its upbuilders. His life has ever been faultless in honor, fearless in integrity and stainless in reputation, and thus he has come to old age with the high respect of all with whom he has been brought in contact.

Jules Lyle Prickett

In the business career of Jules Lyle Prickett, now a prominent representative of mining interests in Spokane, all days have not been equally bright. Indeed he has seen the gathering of storm clouds which have threatened disaster and has met the force of the financial storm yet, undeterred by this, he has with resolute purpose continued on his way, retrieving bis lost possessions and working steadily upward until he has reached a high plane of affluence. His record is another proof of the fact that the west offers almost boundless opportunities to the man of determination who is not afraid of work.

He was born in Edwardsville^ Illinois, April 18, 1855, and is a son of John A. and Elizabeth M. (Baemsbach) Prickett, the former a prominent banker and business man of Ed wards ville, where he conducted the private bank of J. A. Prickett & Son and also operated a flour mill having a daily capacity of one thousand barrels. He had served as captain of a company in the Mexican war and was severely wounded at the battle of Buena Vista, having been carried off the field in the same ambulance with Jefferson Davis. He lived, however, to enjoy many years of business activity and prosperity, his death occurring in 1897, while his wife survived until 1909, also passing away in Edwardsville. They were the parents of two sons and three daughters: Jules L. ; Harris E., now of Seattle; Minnie, the wife of Cyrus Happy, of Spokane; Jessie, the wife of W. W. Greenwood, of Seattle; and Clara, the wife of W. H. Jones, of Edwardsville, Illinois.

In the public schiools of his native city Jules L. Prickett pursued his early education and afterward went to Germany, where he attended the technical schools of Darmstadt. When his education was completed he returned to the United States and joined his father in the banking business, remaining at Edwardsville mitil 1888, when he came to Spokane, where he also became a factor in banking circles. He was a director and the second heaviest stoddiolder in the First National Bank of Spokane, of which James N. Glover was the president and the principal stockholder. Mr. Prickett also organized and became the largest stockholder of the Spokane Savings Bank and served as its cashier. These institutions collapsed in the financial panic of 1898, Mr. Prickett losing every dollar that he had. The Spokane Savings Bank paid the depositors in fuU, but Mr. Prickett did not realize a penny on his holdings. He afterward turned his attention to mining interests and was the secretary for a number of years of the Cariboo mine in British Columbia and one of its stockholders, which venture led him to become interested in many other mining properties. He has also been actively connected with business projects of Spokane. He was one of the original incorporators and stockholders of the Washington Water Power Company and acted as director thereof for a number of years. His keen sagacity enables him to usually foretell the outcome of any business situation and on the whole his life has been crowned with success that places him now with the substantial residents of Spokane, his labors contributing to the development and material prosperity of the northwest as well as to his individual interests.

Mr. Pridcett resides at No. 825 Seventh avenue with an interesting little family. He was married September 28, 1892, to Miss Mary Estelle Sherlock, of Portland, Oregon, who is a daughter of Samuel and Rose Sherlock, pioneer residents of that city. They have three children: Lois Elizabeth, Mary Estelle and Jules Lyle, Jr.

Mr. Prickett belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, holding membership in Lodge No. 9 of St. Louis. He is also affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and he belongs to the Spokane Country Club and was one of the organizers and for three terms the president of the Spokane Club. He votes with the republican party but aside from this is not active in politics. The concentration of his energies upon business affairs precludes great activity along other lines, and in the control and development of his interests his record contradicts the old adage that opportunity knocks but once and proves the fact which every individual should recognize - ^that every day and every hour holds its opportunity and that the faithful performance of the duty that lies nearest at hand fits one for the duties of succeeding days. Undeterred by failure and by obstacles^ he resolutely set his face toward the goal of success and has made a good record in the race of life.

The progressive spirit which has always Dr. Cyrus Knapp Merriam in the practice of his profession has made him the pioneer in introducing advanced methods. He is the first in Spokane to utilize antitoxin in the treatment of diphtheria^ and many other tangible evidences of his progressive spirit might be cited.

Dr. Merriam was born in Houlton^ Maine, in 1848, a son of Lewis and Mary Ann (Foss) Merriam. The Merriam family was established in America about 1848, and on the other side of the Atlantic the ancestry can be traced back to 1400. The present form of the name is a corruption of Meryhm, or Meryham and the family seat was at Hadlow, County Kent, England. Representatives of the name in America participated in the Revolutionary war and members of the Merriam family were publishers of Webster's dictionary. Dr. Merriam's boyhood days were spent upon a farm and in his father's sawmill, only a portion of each year being given to the attainment of an education. In his early boyhood he picked wool on the farm for the manufacture of garments in the family mill. At length the farm was sold and the family removed two miles distant, wiiere stood a sawmill which the father had built on the north branch of the Meduxnekeag. This was sold in 1861 and the family again located on a farm. Three of the children of the household responded to the country's call during the Civil war and others started out to establish homes for themselves. It was not until 1871 that Dr. Merriam had opportunity of supplementing his early education by study in Colbj University at Watervile, Maine, where he became a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He earned the expenses for his first term by river driving during the previous spring, having charge of a crew of men. It was only after a severe struggle in order to meet the expenses of his college course that he was graduated in 1875, winning the Bachelor of Arts degree. Seven years later his alma mater conferred upon him the Master of Arts degree in recognition of the excellent original work which he had done in the meantime. Most of the expense of his university course "^as met by teaching during the vacations, yet he always says that he owes much to the kindly advise and financial aid of an older brother who was then an officer and is now a retired major general of the United States army. For some time his study and teaching alternated. He became sub-master in the Oliver Grammar School and teacher of penmanship in all the grammar schools of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and while thus engaged pursued a course of reading under Dr. Chamberlin of that city. During the winter of 1 876 and 1 877 he was highschool teacher in Rockport, Maine, and his earnings at that point enabled him to continue his medical preparation in Bellevue Hospital at New York. He studied the following summer mider Dr. Burnham^ a prominent surgeon of Lowell, Massachusetts, and also had the benefit of Dr. Benoit's instruction, but completed his medical education in the medical department of the University of the City of New York, now Columbia College, from which he was graduated in February, 1879. While in that institution he received private instruction in physical diagnosis from Professor A. L. Loomis, and in surgery from Professor John B. Darby, earning high commendation from both for aptitude and skill. His first year's practice was in partnership with Dr. Benoit and his income for the twelve months barely met his expenses. At the end of that time he was appointed acting assistant surgeon of the United States army and on the 13th of March, 1880, was assigned temporarily to duty at Vancouver Barracks, in what was then the territory of Washington. For eight years he was connected with the United States troops in the department of the Columbia, and was frequently in the field with soldiers who were directed to look after the welfare of the friendly Indians as well as to curb the renegades of Chief Moses' and Chief Joseph's bands and the Kalispells, In this connection Dr. Merriam was stationed at different times at Camp Chelan, White Bluffs, Fort Colville, Fort Coeur d'Alene (now Fort Sherman) and at Fort Spokane. Much of the time he was post surgeon and was highly complimented by Surgeon General John Moore, U. S. A., for efficient work and care in the treatment of critical cases. He learned many valuable lessons on the frontier and his work again proved the truth of the old adage that "Necessity is the mother of in- Tenti(Mi." Among other things he improvised a rawhide jacket splint with a detachable jury mast for supporting the head in cases of Pott's disease of the vertebral colunm, which admirably met the requirements and possessed the desirable qualities of strength, lightness and durability. He witnessed many of the events of pioneer life brought about through the lawlessness that so largely existed on the frmtier, one of his early unpleasant experiences being the witnessing of the hanging at Colville, in 1881 or 1882, of an Indian who had killed a saloon keeper. Dr. Merriam having been appointed as medical officer to determine when life became extinct.

Dr. Merriam severed his connection with the army in December, 1887, and located in Spokane, where he has been very successful in building up a desirable practice. He was one of the founders of the Spokane County Medical Society and served as its secretary for the first two years. He also took part in the org^- iiation of the Washington State Medical Society, over which he presided as president in 1890 and 1891. He is likewise a member of the American Medical Assodatimi. In addition to a large private practice he has for eight years served on the staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital of Spokane but for many years has devoted bis energies almost exclusively to his profession and has long ranked among the leading physicians of the coast.

In June, 1905, in Spokane, Dr. Merriam was united in marriage to Miss Miriam, the only daughter of General and Mrs. Thomas R. Tannatt. Her father was one of the pioneers of the northwest, prominently known in this section of the country. Dr. and Mrs. Merriam have one daughter, Elizabeth Tannatt. Theirs is a hospitable home, its good cheer being greatly enjoyed by many friends. He is also a freeholder in Spokane and has been in the mining business since 1 896, being an officer in several mining corporations, his interests lying in the Elk City district of Idaho, in Old Mexico, and in British Columbia. In politics he is a republican but has never taken an active part in the work of the party. He has, however, been deeply interested in the welfare and progress of the northwest and his cooperation can always be counted upon as an asset in Spokane's advancement and improvement. Yet, preeminently he is a physician and one whose high ideals of professional service have gained for him a prominent place among the physicians and surgeons of Spokane.

Edgar F. Graves

The remarkable development of the northwest deserves to rank with the seven wonders of the world. Men of the east with all the culture and training of the older section of the country have recognized the almost limitless possibilities of the Pacific coast district and have come here to utilize the natural resources in the upbuilding of their individual fortunes and at the same time their labors constitute a forceful and effective element in the development of the region in which they labor. Of this class Edgar F. Graves is a well known representative and his business activity has constituted an important element in the real-estate operations that

He was bom in Panama, New York, June 2, 1864, a son of Lorenzo C. and Louisa (Moore) Graves. The family removed here in 1878 and located just west of Spokane on a ranch at what is now Meadow Lake. The father devoted his energies to the development of that property, carrying on general agricultural pursuits and at the same time he served for a number of years as justice of the peace, his continuation in the office being indicative of the fact that his decisions were fair and impartial. He and his wife now make their home in Los Angeles, California, and he has retired from active business. Their family number seven children, the brothers and sisters of Edgar F. Graves being: John W., now a practicing attorney of Sp>okane; Glen C, a commercial traveler; Walter, a druggist of eastern Oregon; Melville, who is engaged in the real-estate and insurance business in San Francisco; Lola, the wife of D. H. Anderson, of Sp>okane; and Pansy, who married Clifton Gilbert, a business man of Los Angeles.

Edward F. Graves supplemented his public-school education, acquired in his native town, by three years' study in the high school of Lowell, Michigan, and not content with the opportunities already afforded him he attended the Episcopal Academy of Spokane, following the removal of the family to the west. This was the first private school in eastern Washington and many of the pioneers of SpK>kane obtained their education there. For a brief period he engaged in teaching school during the years 1881-2 and then turned his attention to civil engineering, being engaged in the survey for the Northern Pacific Railroad for a few years. This work took him into the various sections of the northwest, after which he returned to Spokane and secured a homestead near Medical Lake, devoting five years to the development and cultivation of that property. When Mr. Graves had secured the title to his homestead he came to Spokane and engaged in the real-estate and loan business. He had closely studied the situation, recognizing the fact that each year would bring a large number of people to the west and believing that realestate dealing would prove a profitable source of income. Time has attested the wisdom of his opinion in this regard^ for from the beginning he met with unusual success and has become recognized as one of the foremost real-estate operators in the Spokane country. Ranching^ however, has always proved to him an attractive business and not wishing to sever his connection with that line entirely he purchased several farms in the Lalouse country and in the Meadow Lake district. Again and again he has added to his holdings until his possessions now aggregate eight thousand acres which are being placed upon the market by the Hanaeur-Graves Company in five and ten acre tracts. This company was organized in 1907 with Mr. Graves as the president and he is further operating along the same line as the vice president of the Meadow Lake Orchard Company. In his real-estate dealings he is attempting to develop the region for commercial orchard purposes and the district is proving very valuable because of the productiveness of the fruit trees which have here been set out, some of the finest apples and other fruits of the northwest being here raised.

On the 1st of January, 1884, occurred the marriage of Mr. Graves and Miss Hallie D. Davis, a daughter of James W. and Harriet D. (Sillamon) Davis, who were pioneer residents of this section. They became parents of eight children, namely: Ethel, the wife of Garrett Anderson, of Medical Lake; Grace, who married Allyn E. Post, of Coulee City, Washington; Emma, Edgar F., Jr., Edwina, Howard and Dorothy, all living at home; and John W., who passed away in 1909 at the age of sixteen years. The family reside at No. 1117 Tenth avenue, where Mr. Graves erected a pleasant home in 1907.