Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 8 of 22)

Martin B. Connelly

That the life record of Martin B. Connelly should find place oh the pages of Spokane's history is due to the fact that he has been greatly interested in the upbuilding of the Inland Empire and has taken an active part in many projects and measures relating to its welfare and improvement. He is numbered today among the most successful real-estate men and financiers of this section, accomplishing what would be the crowning work of a life of much greater duration than his. He is now chairman of the board of directors and the vice president of the Washington Trust Company and is officially connected with a number of the more important corporations of the city. He was born in Portage, Wisconsin, October 15, 1862, a son of Patrick and Honora (Quinn) Connelly, both of whom were natives of County Galway, Ireland. The father, who was a railroad con- tractor, died in 1867 and the mother passed away in 1892. The other members of the family in addition to Martin B. Connelly are: Patrick H., who is now interested in mining in Australia and makes his home at Sydney; and Bridget, who is the wife of Patrick A. Geraty, of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Martin B. Connelly pursued his education in the public schools of Wisconsin and Minneapolis, supplementing the work of the grades by the high-school course, afterward receiving instruction in two business colleges - the La Crosse and the Curtis Business College of Minneapolis. For a year and a half he engaged in reading law in Minneapolis and at the age of nineteen years he became interested in real-estate dealing in that city, since which time he has continued to handle property both on his own account and for others. He remained in the real-estate business in Minneapolis for five years, within which time he platted ^\e additions to the city. He also operated extensively in property in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin and in January, 1889, he arrived in Spokane, where he connected himself with Arthur D. Jones. He was afterward alone for a time and later was joined by R. L. Webster in a partnership that was continued under the firm name of M. B. Connelly & Company, Inc. Operations were carried on under that style until 1902, when Mr. Connelly, J. Grier Long and R. L. Webster incorporated the Washington Trust Company, merging the business interests of Mr. Long, who became vice president and treasurer, and Mr. Webster, who became secretary, while Mr. Connelly naturally assumed the duties of president of the Washington Trust Company and so continued until January, 1911, when he resigned and took charge of the board of directors, also becoming vice president. Mr. Long succeeded to the position of president and treasurer and Mr. Webster still remains as secretary. In addition to its other interests the company has operated . extensively in real-estate, principally in business properties and in their care and management. They also conduct a general insurance and loan department and have made for themselves a most prominent position in financial circles. Mr. Connelly has been interested in th^ construction of a number of large business blocks, their rental and management, and is interested as an officer and director in several investment companies. He is also the vice president and a director of the Union Savings Bank, the president of the Security Investment Company, vice president and director of the Washington State Realty Company, a stockholder in the Penn Mortgage Investment Company, a director and manager of the Guardian Invest-, ment Company treasurer and director of the Washington National Life Insurance Company, a director in the Fidelity Building & Loan Association of which he was president until he resigned, the treasurer and director of the Riverside Park Company, and treasurer and director of the Lincoln Investment Company. The value of his services and of his judgment in these different connections is widely recognized, for it is well known that his plans are carefully formulated and are executed with dispatch.

to Miss Emma M. Patton, a native of Pennsylvania, and unto them have been bom three children, James Bartley, Margaret Amanda and MarUia Josephine. Mr. Connelly gives his political indorsement to the republican party but has neither time nor inclination for active political service. He is, however, a member of several of the leading social organizations of the city, including the Spo- kane Club^ the Spokane Country Club and the Spokane Athletic Club^ of which he is a life member. In Masonry he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in the consistory and has become a noble of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. His name is also on the membership rolls of the Knights of Pythias order and he belongs to the Chamber of Commerce. In this and other connections he has labored effectively and earnestly for the welfare and upbuilding of Spokane and the Inland Empire and takes an active interest in civic matters^ supporting every public movement looking toward improvement and progress. What he says he will do^ he does. Men regard his spoken word with as much respect and faith as they do his written contract and the success that he has achieved and the results which he has accomplished indicate that he is able to pass judgment upon many vital questions^ especially concerning real-estate and financial problems. Such a record cannot but' inspire admiration^ for it is notable even in this country of large and important undertakings.

Walker L. Bean

Walker L. Bean who has been closely associated with commercial and other business interests and is now giving his attention to real estate^ specializing in business properties, was bom January 28, 1862, at Waukesha, Wisconsin. His father. Walker L. Bean, Sr., was born January 11, 1832, in Chesterfield, New York, and became a Wisconsin pioneer. The family to which he belonged is of Scotch descent and was represented with the Continental troops in the Revolutionary war. Walker L. Bean, Sr., became a lieutenant in the Civil war, serving with the Twenty-eighth Wisconsin Infantry, and died at Columbus, Kentucky. Our subject had one uncle, Irving M. Bean, who was a captain in the Civil war, and another uncle. Colonel Sidney A. Bean, who was killed in the battle of Baton Rouge. The family, as indicated, has a most creditable military record, loyalty ever having been one of their marked characteristics as manifest in active duty and unfaltering courage on the battlefield.

The mother of our subject bore the maiden name of Elizabeth J. White. Her people were of English descent and some of her ancestors fought for liberty in the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Bean was born in Windsor, Vermont, and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in January, 1911. Following the death of her first husband, Mrs. Bean had become the wife of Rev. Thomas G. Watson, a pioneer minister of Spokane, of the Presbyterian faith. He erected the old church where the Review building now stands and was one of the most prominent divines in this section of the country, being held in highest respect by all, regardless of creed or religious belief. He died in October, 1908, but the impress of his individuality still remains upon those who came under his teaching.

Walker L. Bean supplemented his public-school education by a course in Carroll College at Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he was graduated in 1882. He was interested in the stories which reached him concerning the west, and, believing this to be the land of promise and of opportunity, he came to Spokane in 1883 and opened the first large grocery store of the city. He made the trip on the first passenger train over the Northern Pacific Railroad from the east and his store was the first up-to-date grocery in the first brick building of Spokane. He also has the distinction of having shipped the first groceries ever sent by railroad to Spokane from the east. Prior to the building of the line everything had to be sent by way of San Francisco. His shipment found a ready and liberal patronage and it was not long before Mr. Bean was enjoying a large ^nd profitable trade. Later he extended his operations into other fields^ becoming associated with S. G. Haverhill in building the first oatmeal mill ever erected in the west, its location being on Howard street, just across from the Echo mill. His next undertaking was in tiie real-estate business, in which he engaged about 1887. He has since continued to deal in properties and at one time was associated with Henry W. Augustine under the firm name of Augustine & Bean, but most of the time has been alone, conducting his business under the style of Walker L. Bean & Company. Mr. Bean was associated with D. T. Ham and Henry W. Augustine in the ownership of the Rookery block for a number of years but at length that property was sold and in connection with Mr. Ham he purchased the Lindelle block, sixty by one hundred and eighty feet and four stories in height, on a double comer at Washington, Riverside and Sprague streets. Mr. Bean has largely engaged in dealing in business properties, including warehouse properties, and he owns and handles much vacant business property. He is thoroughly informed concerning realty values and has made judicious investments for himself as well as for others.

On the 28th of January, 1886, in Murray, Idaho, Mr. Bean was united in marriage to Miss Kate Hussey, a daughter of Warren Hussey, at that time a banker of Murray, Idaho. The four children of this marriage are: Margaret, who is a graduate of Smith College; Warren H., who after graduating at Cornell engaged in farming in Alberta, Canada; and Dorothy and Kathryn, who are attending school.

In his political views Mr. Bean is a republican but is not active. He has never sought oflSce but in different ways has contributed to the upbuilding and improvement of the city, especially during the critical period when many grew faint hearted regarding the future of Spokane. He became a charter member of the Spokane Club but afterward withdrew. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in its varied projects for the welfare and upbuilding of the city. He is a member of the Young Men's Christian Association and is serving on its educational committee. In all matters pertaining to the advancement of Spokane his work has at all times been characterized by a spirit of helpfulness and guided by practical judgment so that the results achieved have constituted salient forces to that end.

Carl Hugo Jabelonsky

Carl Hugo Jabelonsky, an architect of Spokane, who is a splendid example of the men of foreign birth who have found in the new world business conditions, that have enabled them to develop and utilize their powers and talents, and thus win success, was born in Sweden, April 10, 1879. His parents, Anders and Elsa (Akesson) Jabelonsky, were also natives of that country, where they still reside, the father being a retired railroad man. The three brothers and three sisters of

Spending his youthful days in the land of his nativity^ Carl Hugo Jabelonsky was educated in the Malmoe School of Technical Trade^ from which he was graduated in 1897^ receiving the degree similar to that of civil engineer in the United States. During the summer he pursued his studies and until 1899 was employed through the remainder of the year by the city and harbor department of Malmoe as draftsman and assistant engineer. From April until September^ 1899^ he was engineer with the Olands New Cement Company, in charge of the harbor works and buildings, and at the latter date entered upon the study of engineering works in Europe, to which he gave his time until the succeeding May. From February, 1901, until January, 1905, he was draftsman and designer and was in charge of structural steel contracts for J. B. 8c J. M. Cornell Company, of New York City, having come to the United States at the former date. In that connection he had charge of the buildings of the navy department in the Charleston Navy Yards, superintended the steel construction for the Metropolitan Railroad Company of New York at Yonkers, had charge of the steel work for the New York Chamber of Commerce and also superintended the steel construction of a number of the sky scrapers of the metropolis, including buildings twenty-two stories in height. His work also was done in connection with a number of leading apartment houses and manufacturing plants. For three months he was with Thomas Edison designing the steel structure for his cement plant, and from February, 1905, until June, 1906, was with the Westinghouse, Church 8c Kerr Company, engineers of New York city, designing a number of buildings, both steel and reinforced concrete, especially manufacturing plants.

From June, 1906, until January, 1907, Mr. Jabelonsky was with the New York Central Sc Hudson River Railroad and designed a number of buildings for the corporation, including roundhouses and warehouses, also bridges, working in both steel and reinforced concrete construction. He was afterward, from January until August, 1907, with the General Electric Company at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as assistant engineer in charge of the drafting room, and designed a number of steel and reinforced concrete manufacturing buildings. At the latter day he was promoted, remaining with the company until February, 1908, with headquarters at Schenectady, New York, as architectural engineer in charge of the preliminary layout for the proposed plant at Erie, Pennsylvania. This plant when completed will cost thirty million dollars. For four months Mr. Jabelonsky was temporarily assigned to the American Concrete Steel Company at Newark, New Jersey, in order to study and acquaint himself with the latest methods in concrete building construction.

In May, 1908, Mr. Jabelonsky came to Spokane and his first work was as superintendent of construction on the Washington Mill, the plans for which were made by Architect Robert Sweatt. Mr. Jabelonsky then opened an office of his own as architect and engineer, and has designed a number of the large and smaller buildings in Spokane and tributary territory. He was the designer of the Hotel Majestic, which was erected at a cost of one hundred thousand dollars; the Hoban building, a six-story structure costing twenty-two thousand dollars; the Reiff building, at thirty thousand dollars; two buildings for ^Ir. Goldberg, costing fifty thousand dollars; the Dooley block, at twenty thousand dollars; and the Spokane

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Soda Bottling Works costing forty thousand dollars. He has also designed ahout fifty residences in Spokane and vicinity. He was associated with Mr. Goodwin who built the Castle Hill Manor for B. M. Francis, and did extensive landscape architecture and construction of street and part systems for the Castle' Hill Land Company. At the present time* he has in hand a number of important constructions and, in addition to his extensive architectural, engineering and building operations, he is interested in mining properties in British Columbia, including the Morning Bell and Golden Scepter.

On the 1st of August, 1908, Mr. Jabelonsky was married to Miss Thyra Elizabeth Gunhilda Osterberg, a daughter of Carl Osterberg, a business man of Sweden. They belong to the Swedish Lutheran church and their home, which they own, is a hospitable one, its good cheer being greatly enjoyed by the many friends whom they have gained during their residence in Spokane. Mr. Jabelonsky is a republican and is identified with several organizations in Spokane, especially those in which his fellow countrymen hold membership. He is now the secretary of the Swedish American League, is chairman of the finance committee of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America and is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He also belongs to the American Society of Swedish Engineers and is a fellow of the Spokane Architect Club. He has gained prominence and renown in his profession, his ability, placing him in an enviable position as is indicated by the importance of the work he has done in both the east and the west. His thorough training in Sweden, his study of engineering problems in the different important cities of Europe and his long experience in America have well qualified him for the important and onerous professional duties which devolve upon him.

Dr. Ronald A. Greene, a well known physician specializing in his practice in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat, was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, April 27, 1877. His parents were John and Olivia (Anderson) Greene, both natives of Sweden. The father came across the plains in the '50s, settling at Salt Lake City, where he engaged in business as a contractor and builder. He represented a prominent family of his native country and possessed many of the sterling characteristics of the Swedish j>eople. His death occurred in Salt Lake City in August, 1911, when he had reached the age of eighty years, and his wife passed away there in April, 1911, at the age of eighty. In addition to Dr. Greene, the members of their family were: Oliver B. and George E., both of whom are residents of Salt Lake City; Emma, the wife of J. F. Bledsoe, also of Salt Lake City; and Jennie, the wife of J. C. Alter, of the same city.

After pursuing his studies in the high school of his native city, Dr. Greene completed his more specifically literary course in the University of Utah, while his professional training was received in the Northwestern University Medical School of Chicago, from which he was graduated M. D. in 1901. He added to his theoretical training the benefit of a year's connection as house surgeon of the Illinois Eye and Bar Infirmary of Chicago and afterward became one of the instructors in Rush

Medical College of that city on diseases of the eye and ear. He likewise was one of the teachers of the Northwestern University Medical School^ treating diseases of the eye, ear and nose. He spent some time at the Chicago Polyclinic and his continuous study, reading and practice promoted his knowledge and skill. Returning to Salt Lake City, he there remained for five years and in December, 1909, came to Spokane, where he has since practiced. During his first year in Salt Lake City he was in partnership with Dr. J. C. E. King, the health commissioner, and served as his assistant in office. He specialises in the treatment of diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat and has done much important hospital work, being now oculist and aurist to the Spokane Orphanage ; a member of the medical staff of the Children's Home ; and consulting nose and throat specialist of the Spokane Tuberculosis Sanatorium. He is likewise a member of the teaching staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital and he belongs to both the county and state medical societies of Washington and also the Pacific Coast Oto-Opthalmological Society.

In Salt Lake City, in May, 1904, was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Greene and Miss Louise Rowe, a daughter of W. H. Rowe, formerly assistant superintendent of the Zion Cooperative Mercantile Institution and also president of the Bear River Valley Irrigation project. He was director general of the Utah exhibit at the Alaska- Yukon Exposition and was a very prominent and influential resident of Salt Lake and one of its pioneers. He is descended from English ancestry. The two children of Dr. and Mrs. Greene are Phillip Burkland and Ronald Rowe, six and four years of age respectively.

The Doctor is an independent republican and is a valued member of various organizations. He has held office and is a member of all the different branches of the Odd Fellows society and is now a captain in the Patriarchs Militant He also belongs to the Moose, the Woodmen of the World, the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, and to the Chamber of Commerce. He holds membership in the Young Men's Christian Association and in the Manito Presbyterian church, of which he is an elder. He has always been a worker along lines that have been factors in character building. His purposes and ideals of life have ever been high and in his profession he has ever worked toward advanced ideals, progressing ever toward the goal of perfection. His professional labors have ever had a strict scientific basis, which he has been able to apply with intelligence and substantial results to the needs of his patients.

John Raymer

John Raymer, banker and merchant, has contributed in substantial measure to the business development and growth of Reardan and at the same time has been an active factor in political circles, honored with election to the office of representative, while in his home community he has been continuously in office since the organisation of the town. He was born in Calhoun county, Michigan, June 15, 1856, and is a son of Peter and Mary (Bates) Rajnner, both of whom were natives of New York, whence they removed to Michigan where the father followed the occupation of farming.

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John Raymer spent his early youth in his parents' home^ attending the public schools of Calhoun county^ Michigan^ but at the age of fifteen left home and sought employment in the lumber camps of the northern part of the state. That he was industrious and faithful is indicated by the fact that he warked for one company for seven years and for four- years he served as foreman. In 1884 he came to the west with Seattle as his destination and after remaining there for a short time made his way to Vancouver Island. He next went to Spokane and in December, 1885, removed to Davenport, where he engaged in farming for a year or two. On the expiration of that period he turned his attention to the lumber business which he followed north of Davenport, and in 1888 he purchased a half interest in a sawmill which he afterward removed to north of Mondovi. In 1890 he sold that business and came to Reardan, where in partnership with O. A. Menger he opened the first hardware store in the town. The enterprise prospered and after four years Mr. Raymer purchased his partner's interest, conducting the business alone. In 1901 he erected the present large brick building which he now occupies and he has also built three warehauses and extended the scope of his commercial activities by adding to his store a line of furniture. His establishment is one of the best equipped and the largest in the county and in addition to its conduct Mr. Raymer figures prominently in financial circles as a stockholder and director of the Reardan Exchange Bank, while in 1911, following the death of Mr. Moriarty, he was elected president of that institution. In 1906 John Raymer with several other gentlemen organized the Chamokane Lumber Company, of which he serves as president. This company owns sixteen thousand acres of land in Stevens county and a sawmill in Lincoln county. His business interests are thus of a character that contribute krgely to general progress and prosperity as well as to individual success.

On the 4th of May, 1 892, occurred the marriage of Mr. Ra3nner and Miss Hattie Latham, a native of Canada, and they have four children, Norman, John C, Nelson and Elisabeth. The parents are widely and favorably known in Lincoln county and Mr. Raymer is regarded as a valued member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in which he takes an active part. His political allegiance is given to the democratic party and in 1900 he was elected on its ticket to represent Lincoln county in the house of representatives where he served for one term. That he has the confidence and good-will of his fellow townsmen is indicated by the fact that he has continuously served in the city council since the organisation of the town. He has been a liberal subscriber to all enterprises and a generous supporter of all public movements of his town and county and has thus maintained an even balance in his life with his well directed business affairs which have made him one of the most successful men in Lincoln county.

Hon. Edwin H. Eshleman

This is preeminently the age of the young man. Business conditions and public affairs call for the enterprise, energy and determination of the young, and college training has given them the knowledge which should accompany other <IQalities and which trains the mind for a ready selection of that which is essential, vital and valuable. Possessing the requisite qualities for leadership.

Edwin H. Eshleman has made for himself a notable position in business circles and has become recognized as one of the political leaders of the Inland Empire, being the present representative of his district in the state legislature. In Spokane he is operating extensively in real estate as the president of The Eshleman-Burr company, and the story of his activity and his rise is an interesting one. He was born at Washington, D. C, November 8, 1878, his parents being Edwin M. and Emma L. (Hansell) Eshleman. His father, formerly of the United States coast survey is now living retired in Washington, D. C. His wife was a daughter of Emerick W. Hansell, who was with Secretary of State Seward on the night of his attempted assassination. Mr. Hansell was stabbed in defending Mr. Seward.

Edwin H. Eshleman received his education in Washington, D. C, but with the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he put aside his text-books and enlisted as a member of Company K, First Maryland Volunteers, with which he served for about eight months, when the command was mustered out. Entering business, circles, he became an employe of the Wood-Harmon Company, the largest realestate operators in the United States, and after some time spent in their service came to the west with the determination to help build up the rich, yet undeveloped country. Today he is recognized by his friends and many clients as an empire builder, having taken active and helpful part in the development of this section of the countrv. When he left New York he became associated with The Jacob-Stine Company, of Portland, Oregon, as their sales manager. This company does an enormous real-estate business and is known as one of the largest firms operating on the Pacific coast, but realizing the immense possibilities and the opportunities in Spokane, Mr. Eshleman determined to locate in this city and for a brief period was identified with The Fred B. Grinnell Company. All this time he was actuated by the desire and hope of one day engaging in business on his own account and, feeling that his experience was now sufficient to justify him in his step, he organized the business which is now conducted under the name of The Eshleman-Burr Company. The present partners in the business are among the youngest men who as proprietors are operating in the real-estate field of Spokane today. They have displayed many of the methods of the pioneer, in that they have initiated new ways and methods for conducting the business. The Spokesman-Review wrote of them:

"Since the inception of this company perhaps there are no two young men in Spokane who have shown more marked ability in thfe real-estate field. They are the type of men who attempt great things and make good, accomplishing more in the short space of time they have been in business than they really anticipated."

It has been the business of The Eshleman-Burr Company to handle large realestate projects in Spokane, and they have always been chary in the propositions they have offered the people, seeing to it that nothing but the most meritorious projects were sold through their offices. Among the local additions which this firm has been successful in selling to the investing public are West Kenwood, Irvington Heights, North Audubon Park, Mount Pleasant and numerous others which have proved to be property worthy of investment for the reason that in the short space of time that has elapsed since, values in all these additions have rapidly increased to the benefit of those who purchased these properties.

It goes without saying that the great success attained by this firm is due not only to the integrity, fairness and ability to select property that would be profit- able for the people to buy, but their progressive methods and businesslike way of transacting deals has played an important part in bringing them to the front as a real-estate corporation that is now classed among the best by the most conservative people in the northwest.

Their labors have been a most effective element in the upbuilding and improvement of the northern section of the city, where they are now handling Mount Pleasant, having within a very short space of time sold their lots to the value of more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. They have ever made it their role to handle only such tracts as include the improvements. These improvements include cement sidewalks, parking strips, graded streets, curbing and city water. Purchasers do not hesitate to determine upon a location where such improvements have been or are being made and the firm always holds to the rule that they will handle property of no other class. The Eshleman-Burr Company have met with continuous success in their operations. Their business today has reached extensive proportions and the success which has come to the firm is but the merited reward of persistent, earnest labor, unfaltering energy and progressive methods.

On Christmas day of 1899, in Alexandria, Virginia, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Eshleman and Miss Mary McGinley, daughter of Patrick McGinley and Kathrine McGinley, nee Worthington, a granddaughter of George D. Worthington, the first colonial governor of Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Eshleman now have two children, Edwin M. and Dorothy Lee. He belongs to various fraternal and social organizations, having become a member of Columbia Lodge, No. S, A. F. &. A. M., in Washington, D. C, and of the Elks lodge in Elmira, New York. He also belongs to the United Spanish War Veterans, and in Spokane his membership is in the Inland Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He has been particularly prominent during his residence here as a member of the Chamber of Commerce, serving on a number of iis most important committees, including the membership committee. It was largely due to his activity that the chamber secured larger quarters, and his efforts have been equally effective in accomplishing its purpose of making known the possibilities and opportunities of the city and surrounding country, and of promoting the upbuilding and improvement of Spokane. Mr. Eshleman is also recognized as a leader in the republican ranks in the Inland Empire and in November, 1910, was elected a member of the state legislature. His study of vital questions and issues of the day has been comprehensive and as a member of the state legislature he stands loyally in support of legislation which he deems of essential worth to the commonwealth.

Wesley C. Stone

The commercial interests of Spokane find a worthy and well known representative in Wesley C. Stone, who is conducting a large and profitable drug business in this city. He also has other business interests, being president of the People's Inrestment Company and a director of the Land Title Savings Bank. He was lH>m in Cazenovia, New York, September 13, 1860, a son of Lafayette Stone, who Was also a native of the Empire state and died in 1908. He traced his lineage back to the early settlement of Connecticut and was of English descent. On the distaff side Wesley C. Stone also comes of English ancestry^ although the family was founded in America in colcmial days and sent representatives to the Revolutionary war. The maternal gprandfather was a resident of New Jersey but was living in New York when his daughter^ Maria Wilson^ who became the wife of Lafayette Stone^ was bom. She died in 1873^ leaving but three children^ the surviving daughter being Lucy, now the wife of Myron Drury, of Oswego, New York.

The son, Wesley C. Stone, spent his youthful days in his native town and was educated in Ac Casenovia Seminary and in the Oswego State Normal School of New York and Cornell University. At the age of eighteen years he entered upK>n the profession of school teaching, which he followed until forty years of age. For three years he taught in the rural schools of the Empire state and then entered upon graded school work at Fulton, New York. He afterward became principal of the schools of Oswego Falls, New York, and later went to Theresa, New York, where he was prin* cipal of the Union Free School for three years.

Mr. Stone dates his residence in Washington from 1890, when he arrived at Cheney at the opening of the normal school at that place. He became one of its teachers, at which time its faculty numbered but four. This was the first normal school in the state and Mr. Stone was elected vice principal in 1892, serving for Bvt years or until 1897, when the school was temporarily closed for a year because of lack of funds. Mr. Stone then came to Spokane and engaged in the drug business but in 1 898 resumed his school work, spending three years as a high-school teacher. He then again entered the drug trade in Spokane and now has a well equipped and well appointed establishment at No. 424 Sprague avenue. He has never ceased to feel a deep interest in the Cheney Normal School, which during its early history put forth a strenuous struggle for existence. At one time the faculty went eighteen months without pay. and Mr. Stone took an active part in the work of securing an appropriation for the school, which was finally accomplished. In the educational field he has contributed much to Washington's progress and was very active in the county and state teachers' associations, especially in the former, having a place on its programs for ten years as one of the instructors in Spokane. For the last twelve years he has successfully managed his drug business. He is recognized as a resourceful business man whose energy enables him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes.

On the 15th of July, 1891, in Helena, Montana, Mr. Stone was united in marriage to Miss Emma Grigson, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Grigson, of Fulton. New York. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Stone were bom three daughters: Elsie, Ruth and Mabel, all high-school students.

Mr. Stone belongs to the Druggists' Association of Spokane and is prominent in Masonry, holding membership in Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M. ; in Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; Spokane Council, No. 4, R. & S. M.; Cataract Commandery. No. 3, K. T. ; and all of the Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree. He has likewise crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine and in the different organizations he has filled many offices, being a past master of the lodge, past high priest of the chapter, past thrice illustrious master of the council and past eminent commander of the commanderv. In the state organisations he has also attained prominence and recognition, being a past grand master of the grand council^ while at the present writing he is grand high priest of the Royal Arch Masons. In the moral progress of the commmiity he is also deeply interested^ being an active worker and faithful member in the St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal churchy of which he served for several years as president of the board of trustees. For a period of three years he served as a valued member of the board of education. His influence has been strongly felt along lines leading to the material^ intellectual and moral progress of the city and he seems at all times imbued with the spirit of enterprise which is the foundation of the marvelous history of the northwest.

Henry W. Newton

Henry W. Newton is engaged in the general insurance loan and real-estate business as a member of the Guernsey-Newton Company, Inc. He is likewise very prominent in musical circles, nor have his efforts been withheld from those projects which are helpful factors in the city's progress and improvement. His activity along these various lines renders him a valued and representative resident of Spokane and in all things he manifests a public-spirited devotion to the general good. The width of the continent separates him from his birthplace, which was a farm in South Carolina, his natal day being August 22, 1869. He is a son of Larkin and Roth M. (Wellborn) Newton, both of whom were natives of South Carolina and of En^sh descent, the latter, however, representing one of the old families of Virginia. The Newton family was founded in the United States when this country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of England. Larkin Newton was prominent in his home locality and took an active part in educational work and in politics. He was a farmer and lawyer and was known as Major Newton because of his early connection with the local militia organization. Afterward he enlisted for service in the Confederate army, in which he was a cavalry officer. He died in 1890 and was long survived by his wife, who passed away in 1909. In their family were the following named: Dr. J. C. C. Newton, D. D., Ph. D., now of Kobe, Japan; Marion, a farmer of Pendleton, South Carolina; Josephus, who is engaged in the newspaper business, covering all the southeast for a publishing house of Nashville, Tennessee; Mrs. Olivia Evatt, who is a widow and resides in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is teaching in the Columbia Orphanage School; Lulu, the wife of Henry Martin, a prominent farmer and merchant of Pickens county. South Carolina; and Henry W., of this review.

The last named spent the first twenty years of his life on his father's farm with the usual experiences that fall to the lot of the farm boy. He completed his literary education in the Honea Path Academy of South Carolina with the class of 1890 and was liberally educated in music in Chicago and New York, where he studied voice, developing the splendid talents with which nature endowed him. Mr. Newton first made his way west of the Mississippi when in 1891 he became a resident of Kansas City, where he engaged in the piano business. In 1894 he went to Chicago, where he conducted a similar enterprise. While associated with the Weber piano people he pursued the study of music, thus developing his native talents. After three years' residence in Chicago he disposed of his stock in the piano business of the McDonald, Newton Company and took up the profession of voice culture. In addition he became well known as concert singer and choir director, having charge of the music of St. James Methodist church, the leading church of that denomination in Chicago. He was also director of the vocal department of the Wesleyan Methodist College at Bloomington, Illinois.

Mr. Newton's identification with the northwest began in 1903, when he settled in Idaho and joined his father-in-law, O. E. Guernsey, in the mining business in the Seven Devils district on Snake river, a property in which Mr. Guernsey was interested, with headquarters at Lewiston. Mr. Newton established a 'mortgage loan business for his father-in-law and later extended the scope of the undertaking by opening real-estate and insurance departments. The business was organized under the name of the Lewiston Loan & Trust Company, Inc., Mr. Newton becoming vice president with Mr. Guernsey as president. Five years later they sold out and removed to Spokane, seeking the broader field of labor offered in this city. Here they have operated under the name of the Guernsey-Newton Company and conduct a general insurance, loan and real-estate business. In the insurance field they represent the Royal of Liverpool, the Scottish Union and National of Edinburgh, Scotland, the Colonial of Hartford, Connecticut, the Philadelphia Underwriters, the Maryland Casualty Company, the Fidelity Deposit Company of Baltimore, and are general agents for eastern Washington and northern Idaho for the two last named. They make real-estate loans in the Inland Empire under the direction of Mr. Guernsey and the various branches of their business are growing and returning substantial profit. Mr. Guernsey remains as president of the company with Mr. Newton as vice president and general manager, J. Riley Chase, treasurer, George H. Schafer, secretary, and Daniel Morgan, trustee. The business is capitalized for twenty-five thousand dollars and they have gained a good clientage during their connection with Spokane.

Mr. Newton is deeply interested in all the various plans and projects for the development and upbuilding of this section of the country. He has studied the problems which Washington must solve because of climatic and soil conditions and is taking an advanced stand upon many important questions. He served as the executive chairman of the board of governors for the state of Washington for the fifth international dry congress held in Spokane in October, 1910, on which occasion there were present delegates not only from all sections of the United States but also from twelve or fourteen foreign countries. An active member of the Chamber of Commerce, he has served on the entertainment and membership committees for three years. He was chairman of the city beautiful committee, which did splendid work resulting in the one million dollar bond issue for city parks, succeeding A. L. White in this position. He has indeed been a cooperant factor in the work for Spokane's development and improveinent and in all that he does is actuated by a spirit that none questions. His political allegiance is given to the republican party but without desire for office.

On the 4th of April, 1903, in Dubuque, Iowa, Mr. Newton was united in marriage to Miss Grace Guernsey, a daughter of O. E. Guernsey and an accomplished musician and pianist who is a graduate of the Mount Vernon Seminary of Washington, D. C. She finished her education by travel, covering Europe, Mexico and Canada. Her musical tastes constitute a bond of sympathy and interest between Mr. and Mrs. Newton in addition to their many other phases of congenial com- panionship. They have ane son, EUery Willis Newton, now six years of age. Mr. Newton is well known in Masonic circles, having taken the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite, and is also a member of the Mystic Shrine. He likewise belongs to Elks Lodge, No. 228, of Spokane, to the Spokane Club and the Inland Club. He was reared a Methodist. He holds a prominent position in musical circles in Spokane, as he has done in other cities where he has made his home, and contributes his services as musical director of a chorus of male voices, now in its third year, known as the Mendelssohn Club. His public activities and his prominence in musical circles constitute an even balance to his business life, making his a well rounded character and constituting him a man of broad, liberal and progressive interests.

Fred C. Kieling

Fred C. Kieling, who is now living retired in Chewelah, has been a resident of Washington for forty-four years, during which period he has been associated with various activities. He was bom in Germany on the 4th of August, 1846, and is a 8on of Albert C. and Johanna (Frohlich) Kieling, both of whom are now decease^, the father having passed away in 1887 and the mother in 1893.

During his boyhood and youth Fred C. Kieling lived in the vicinity of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm and attended the district schools until he had attained the age of fifteen years. In 1863 he went to Michigan and worked in a sawmill for a short time, after which he returned to Wisconsin and enlisted as a drunmier boy in the Forty-fifth Wisconsin Infantry, receiving his discharge in July, 1865. After spending a few months in Chicago and Milwaukee he went to Leavenworth, Kansas, apprenticing himself to the butcher's trade. In April, 1866, he again started westward, crossing the plains to Washington, and locating at Walla Walla in the fall of that year. During the succeeding two years he farmed and freighted, except during the winter months of 1 867 and 1 868, when he had charge of the postoffice at Snebly Bridge^ eight miles north of the present city of Spokane. The duties of this position were not arduous as the country was but sparsely settled and the mail which was carried on snowshoes and horseback was largely composed of letters. When he first located near Spokane there were only about six other white settlers between Hangman creek and Rathdrum, these being "Stonewall" Jackson on Moran Prairie ; Charles Kindle at Rathdrum ; Bob Dper, Jack Fisher and Joe Harron, this side of Post Walls ; Old Camille, a French Canadian. In the spring of 1868 he removed to Colville, remaining there for ^ve years. During that time he worked for the man who had the government meat contract, drove cattle for a Mr. Oppenheim and for a time served as deputy treasurer. In 1871 he filed on a homestead and his entire time and attention was devoted to its cultivation during the period of his residence in 1873-74. Removing to Colville later, he became associated with a friend in filling a government meat contract for four years, following which, in the spring of 1878, he engaged in freighting flour from Colville to the soldiers at the post at Lapawa, Idaho.

In 1880 Mr. Kieling was elected sheriff and assessor of Stevens county and after discharging the duties of these offices for four years he returned to his farm, continuously residing there until 1904, when he disposed of it and moved to

Chewelah. Here he engaged in the meat business until 1909 when he withdrew from the more active interests of life and has ever since been living practically retired^ simply giving his attention to the supervision of his perscmal affairs. Mining operations have always largely engaged the attention of Mr. Kieling^ who is interested in the Windfall Mining & Milling Company and the Rattle Snake Mining & Milling Company.

On the 28d of January^ 1871^ Mr. Kieling was united in marriage to Miss Rubina A. Brown^ a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown of Chewelah^ her mother having been the first white woman in' Stevens county. Mr. Brown came to the Colville valley in 1854 from the Red River of the North in Canada^ taking up a homestead just north of Addy. At that time Mrs. Kieling was only three years old. Mr. Brown and fifteen others volunteered and joined Colonel Wright in Spokane. Three children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Kieling: Albert^ who married May Bunker, now deceased, and has one child, Harold H. ; Ellis H., who chose for his wife Mamie Elfris and also has one son, Kenneth £. ; and Calvin F., who married Elva E. Alkier and has one child, Morris C.

The family affiliate with the Congregational church, and Mr. Kieling belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic, while his political support he gives to the democratic party. He is not only one of the pioneers of Stevens county but of the state of Washington, which has developed from little more than a wilderness into one of the nation's great commonwealths during the period of his residence.

Wilbur Simpson Yearsley

Wilbur Simpson Yearsley, vice president of the firm of Ham, Yearsley & Ryrie, has been a resident of Washington for the past nineteen years, during the greater portion of which time he has been identified with the business interests of Spokane. He is a native of Pennsylvania, his birth having occurred in Westtown township, Chester county, on the 22d of April, 1866, his parents being Washington and Jane (Lewis) Yearsley. In both lines he is of Quaker extraction, his father's family having emigrated to America in 1684, as members of William Penn's colcmy, while his maternal ancestors came to this country from Wales during the early colcmial days. His mother, who celebrated the seventy-ninth anniversary of her birth on the 10th of September, 1911, is now a resident of Spokane and makes her home with her son at 2017 Mallon street.

Wilbur Simpson Yearsley was educated in the public schools of his native town and later for a time studied at Woralls Academy at West Chester, Pennsylvania. He then took a course in the Pierce Business College at Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1886. He began his business career in a general merchandise store at Westtown and while there he devoted his spare hours to reading law under the direction of Alfred P. Reid, of West Chester. For six years he was identified with various occupations but still continued his law studies, being admitted to the Chester county bar in June, 1892. On the 1st of the following July he came to Spokane as examiner for the Pennsylvania Mortgage Investment Company, being retained here in that capacity until 1905. When this company retrenched, following the panic of 1893 and 1894, he was located at Colfax, this state, where he had charge of the business in Whitman and Garfield counties and also that of Latah and Ne« Perce counties^ Idaho. Two years later, in 1897, his duties were increased by the addition of the business of Yakima, Kittitas, Adams and Franklin comities, Washington, all of which he cleared up in 1899 and turned it over to the Spokane office. For two years thereafter he engaged in the land and loan business on his own responsibility but in 1901 he became associated with D. T. Ham and C. L. Hoffman and together they organized the Palouse Land Company, which they operated until 1906. In August, 1907, together with David J. Ham, Donald Ryrie and Shirley S. Philbrick he incorporated the company of Ham, Yearsley, Ryrie & Philbrick for the purpose of a general investment business but in 1908 Mr. Philbrick retired to look after personal business. Since then the firm has been conducted under the name of Ham, Yearsley & Ryrie, with D. T. Ham, president; Wilbur S. Yearsley, vice president; K. Murray, secretary; and D. Ryrie, treasurer. They do ;: general fire, liability and indenmity insurance business and they also handle land, loans and investments and collectively and individually they are financially identified with various local enterprises. Mr. Yearsley has quite extensive interests and at the present time is president of The Inland Empire Paper Company, vice president of The Liberty Lake Land Company and International Power Company, while he is also president of The Industrial Development Company and The Klickitat Colombia River Irrigation Company. He is one of the enterprising and progpressive business men of the city and is meeting with excellent success in his various undertakings. ,. ^»,

Political activities have alway&'ibQgag^ ;mir<^h;oi the attention of Mr. Yearsley, although he has never been an office seeker, and his support is given to the den^ocratic party. He was on the democratiic tidcet of this state during the Palmer and Buckner campaign an4wMe*i>eisiding in Whitman county he was chairman of the democratic central committee. Fraternally he is identified with Thompson Lodge, F. & A. M., of eastern Pennsylvania, and his connection with organizations of a more purely social nature is confined to his membership in the Spokane and Inland Clubs of this city. Mr. Yearsley has never married and makes his home at 2017 MalloB street. He is an enthusiastic admirer of the northwest and has unlimited faith in the marvelous possibilities it offers, commercially, industrially and agriculturally, owing to its many natural advantages and the spirit of energy that characterises its citizens. He avails himself of every possible opportunity to advance its interests by championing every progressive movement inaugurated in Spokane and giving his cooperaticm to forwarding the development of the various public utilities.

William Mulhall

William Mulhall, a member of the real-estate firm of Mulhall Brothers, whose offices are located at No. 110 Stevens street, Spokane, was bom in Grundy county, Illinois, in 1862, and is a son of James and Ann (O'Leary) Mulhall. The father was a well known farmer and stockman of Illinois until 1890, when he removed to Wa, and there he passed away in December, 1902.

The preliminary education of William Mulhall was obtained in the common schools, following which he pursued a course in Bryant & Stratton Business College at Chicago. After his graduation from this institution he went to Iowa, where he began his business career as head of the real-estate department o( the Bank of Northwestern Iowa at Alton, that state. He was identified with this concern for three years, and then removed to Rock Valley, Iowa, where he was associated with others in the organization of the Farmers' Bank of Rock Valley, of which his brother John was president and he was cashier. This became one of the well established and flourishing banking institutions of the county, and Mr. Mulhall was identified with it during the succeeding fifteen years. At the expiration of that period he disposed of his interest and resigning his position went to Sioux City and once more engaged in the real-estate business. He continued in this line at that point for three years, and at the end of that time, in 1902, he came to Spokane, and has ever since made this city his home. During the first nine years of his residence here, Mr. Mulhall devoted the greater part of his attention to the development of his fine stock ranch, on Camas prairie, Idaho, in the vicinity of Grangeville. He has two thousand acres of land there and is breeding and raising thoroughbred horses, cattle and hogs. On the 1st of August, 1911, Mr. Mulhall together with his sons, Emmet and Earl, organized the real-estate firm of Mulhall Brothers, and they are making a specialty of Camas prairie lands and farm loans. Although they have only been engaged in business for a few months, their prospects are promising and they have already put through several important deals.

In September, 1888, Mr. Mulhall was united in marriage to Miss Ida Pardon, a daughter of John Pardon of Andover, New York, and to them have been born four children: Emmet L., who was bom in 1889; Earl A., whose birth occurred in 1890; Agnes M., born in 1895; and William P., Jr., who was born in 1902. The family home is located at No. 1200 Grand boulevard, this city, where they have a very comfortable and attractive residence. Fraternally Mr. Mulhall is identified with the Knights of Columbus.

Linneus Lincoln Westfall

While engaged in the general practice of law at Spokane Linneus Lincoln Westfall has specialized to some extent in patent litigation, and in this connection has secured a large clientele. He was born in Macomb, Illinois, April 5, 1865. His ancestry is traced back to one of the old New York families whose establishment in America antedates the Revolution, in which representatives of the name took part. The family came originally from Westphalia, now a part of Germany, and the surname was originally spelled Westphal, but was changed to conform to the English spelling. His father. Dr. Beverly R. Westfall, was born in Troy, New York, and died in Spokane, August 3, 1889. He devoted his life to the profession of medicine and enjoyed a large practice. He came to Spokane in 1883 and during his residence here served as councilman from the fourth ward. With remarkable foresight he recognized the possibilities for the building of a large city here and while a member of the council offered a resolution to buy the water power for two hundred thousand dollars, which would have included all of the holdings of the present Washington Water Power Company. His resolution was defeated, howerer, because other members of the council contended that it would bankrupt the dty. Soon after his arrival Dr. Westfall purchased property on North Monroe street and he said that if Spokane would purchase the water power a city would be developed that would reach from the hill on the south to Little Baldy on the north. Had his plan been carried out Spokane would have been richer by many millions of dollars, but unfortunately he could not convince his colleagues in the council that his ideas were of practical value. During the Civil war he organized a company in Illinois for service at the front and was chosen its captain, but on account of the serious illness of one of his sons he had to resign and did not go to the front. He married Ellen E. Hays, who was born in Kentucky and died in Illinois in 1883. She was of Irish descent although the family was planted on American soil prior to the Revolutionary war. In the family were five sons and two daughters: Frank C, a farmer at Twin Falls, Idaho; Ralph B., a farmer at Prosser, Washington; Leland D., a nurseryman of Portland, Oregon; Linneus L., of this review; Hugh H., proprietor of a cafe in Denver, Colorado; Sarah S., the wife of Dr. F. M. Martin, of Maryville, Missouri; and Myra, the wife of William Hayes, of Los Angeles, California.

In the common schools Linneus Lincoln Westfall began his education and afterward attended the Illinois Normal School and Business College at Macomb. He pursued the study of law in the office and under the direction of C. F. Wheat, of that city, teaching school a portion of the time as he preferred earning his own way, and was admitted to the bar in Illinois in August, 1887. "In February, 1888, he left the middle west and came to Spokane and on the 12th of that month opened an office on Monroe street near the courthouse on the north side. In the great fire of 1889 all of the law offices save his were destroyed. He remained at his original location until 1890 when he removed to the south side and occupied an office in the center of the city. In the meantime he did a great amount of office work and record searching until after the street car system was installed and he removed his place of business to the south side of the river. He has always practiced alone and while he continues to engage in general practice he has to some extent specialized in patent litigation. He has also given considerable attention to real-estate law and titles, representing a number of corporations, and is owner of an interest in the Guaranty Title Company. His work is largely along technical lines for real-estate and patent litigation turn more to the scientific and technical sides of law practice. He greatly enjoys this phase of the profession. Mr. Westfall is a member of a society the members of which investigate, study and keep in touch with the latest development of psychic nature, the laws suggested thereby and their application to physical and mental healing, deriving conclusions from actual experimental work in connection with the hjrpothesis laid down by Hudson and other scientific writers.

During the early days before Spokane had a paid fire department Mr. Westfall was president of the Washington Volunteer Hose Company No. 8, and was thus serving at the time of the great conflagration of 1889. The company had only three hand hose carts at that time and were working with a part of the hose when a number of men came along and took off the balance of the hose and their cart ai^d they never saw them again. The men of the company realized that they were working at a hopeless task as very little water was obtainable, but still they kept on fighting the fire until the end, unwilling to admit defeat. The fire could have easily been put out by one of the chemical engines now owned by the city. The townsmen had no idea of the danger before them until they saw the blase j .mp to the dome of the Pacific Hotel and when that was ignited it seemed as though a current of air sprung up that was on a line from the original fire to the dome of the hotel and then drew the flames down to the business section. Mr. Westfall retained his membership with the company until a paid fire department was established.

He holds membership with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World and in the latter has filled all of the chairs and was twice interstate delegate^ serving in the convention which was held in Colorado in 1908 and again at Los Angeles in 1905. He belongs also to the Inland Club and to the Chamber of Commerce and at one time was a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. In his political views Mr. Westfall is a republican^ actively interested in the party and its success^ and has frequently been a delegate to the city and county conventions. He has also served on both city and county conunittees and has frequently delivered campaign addresses in behalf of his party.

On the 2d of October^ 1890^ in Spokane^ was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Westfall and Miss Adelaide Mickel^ a daughter of Judge P. D. Mickel, a prominent attorney of Spokane and at one time attorney for the city of Sp(Jcane, but now deceased. He came to this city in 1886 and was a representative of an old New York family of German descent. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Westfall have been bom two children, Elbert L. and Ethel B. The f anally attend the Presbyterian church, of which they are members. Thoroughness has always characterized him in every relation of life, enabling him in his school days to lay a good foundation for his future success. In his preparation for the bar he studied diligently and mastered the great basic principles of jurisprudence. The same quality has characterized him in all of his professional service, making him one of Spokane's able and successful lawyers, particularly prominent in the field of his special lines.

David Bemiss

Along with the rapid development of Washington in a material way, through the utilization of its natural resources and the establishment and conduct of important business enterprises, there came an equal desire for advancement in educational lines. The state was largely settled by an intelligent, progressive and enterprising class of citizens from the east who recognized the value of intellectual training and called to the schools of the state men of marked capability and e£Bciency in educational work. Among this number was David Bemiss, who for ten years was superintendent of the Spokane schools, which he largely raised to the high standard of excellence now maintained.

He was a native of Ontario, Canada, bom January 8, 1840, and his parents were Orrin and Phebe (Crawford) Bemiss, natives of New York. The father was a farmer by occupation and to his son afforded excellent educational opportunities, which were improved to good advantage. David Bemiss remained a pupil in the public schools until seventeen years of age, when he entered upon the pro- fession of teaching, ^'year later he became a student in an academy with intention to prepare for cidtege^ and in 1861 he matriculated in Toronto University, from which he received his Bachelor of Arts degree upon graduation with the class of 1865. The following year he won his Master of Arts degree and also the silver medal in natural science. Throughout his entire life he was connected with educational work. On the completion of his university course he was called to the saperintendency of the public schools of Clinton, Michigan, where he remained for four years. During the succeeding year he was a teacher at Birmingham, that state, and was then elected superintendent of the city schools of Coldwater, Mich* igan. During his incumbency in that position the standard of education was raised until the right of certification was accorded these schools by the University of Michigan - ^a privilege never extended to any but institutions of the highest rank. Not only were Mr. Bemiss' labors felt as a progressive intellectual force in the towns mentioned but also constituted an element for educational advancement throughout the state, for he became distinguished as an institute worker and lecturer and in 1877-8 was president of the Michigan Association of City School Superintendents - A position that indicated the high regard entertained for his ability by his coworkers. In 1878 he became superintendent of the public schools of Manistee, Michigan, which also improved under his supervision until they became affiliated with the University of Michigan. He continued there as sui>erintendent and as a member of the board of education Cor nine years and in 1887 accepted the saperintendency of the schools of Fort Scott, Kansas, where he remained for two years.

On the expiration of that period Professor Bemiss resigned to come to Spokane and during the decade between 1889 and 1899 labored indefatigably to place the schools of this city on the highest possible educational plane. He was constantly studying out new methods to improve the schools and add to their efficiency in preparing boys and girls for the responsible duties of later life. He introduced many valuable measures and plans in connection with the schools and also exerted a powerful and beneficial influence in the educational development of the state. Thoroughness and ability marked his career and he continued one of the chief exponents of high standards of scholarship until his death. Two years before his demise, however, he retired from active connection with the profession and in much needed rest spent his remaining days upon his farm near the dty. His standing in professional circles was indicated by the fact that he was appointed by the State Teachers Association to organize a state reading circle, of which he for a time served as president. He was also a member of the state board of education and served as president of the Washington State Teachers Association. He became a member of the national council of education, an organization of sixty members, including leading educators from all parts of the United States. His reputation in his profession was by no means local. He was regarded as one of the ablest exponents of the public school system of the country and he had the power to inspire others with something of the same zeal and interest which actuated him in his work.

In Canada, in 1 866, Professor Bemiss was united in marriage to Miss Phebe M. Page, a native of Canada, and unto them were bom four children: Catherine M. ; Dr. C. D. Bemiss, a prominent dentist of Spokane, who married Miss Mary Crawford, of Spokane, by whom he has two children, Richard C. and Catherine C. ; El-

Death severed the family circle when on the 16th of February, 1902, Professor Bemiss was called from this life. He had never been remiss in the duties of citizenship but always kept well informed concerning the questions which were of vital and significant interest to city, state and nation. He was an active republican and he was equally earnest in his support of the First Presbyterian church, in which he served as an elder. In his own home he was a most hospitable host, ever friendly and courteous, yet possessing that dignity which forbade undue familiarity. He enjoyed travel, which was to him a means of rest and recreation, and it is almost needless to say that many of his most pleasant hours were spent in his library in association with men of master minds of all ages. While his intellectual superiority placed him above the great majority of his fellows, there was in him nevertheless an abiding human sympathy that kept him in close touch with his fellowmen and won him the confidence, good will and honor of all who knew him.

Harley Lewis Hughes

Harley Lewis Hughes, editor of the Labor World and widely known as a leading socialist of the northwest, was born in the Willamette valley of Oregon on the 10th of June, 1871. His father, William C. Hughes, of Irish descent, was a native of Missouri and is now living in Thornton, Whitman county, Washington, where be follows the occupation of farming. He became one of the pioneers of the northwest, making his way from Missouri across the plains to Oregon in 1854. He married Rosella Matoon, who was born in Indiana and was brought across the plains when only a year old, her parents casting in their lot with, the early settlers of Oregon in 1855. Mr. and Mrs. William Hughes became parents of three sons and a daughter. The brothers of our subject are Hosea D. and Charles M., both of whom are farming at Thornton, and the sister is Maud C, the wife of W. C. Baker, a grain merchant and farmer of Thornton.

In the public schools of Whitman county Harley Lewis Hughes pursued his education prior to entering Colfax College, and when his school days were over he became connected with the newspaper business in St. John, Washington, where he remained for six months. He afterward conducted the first newspaper in Harrison, Idaho, called the Harrison Ensign, there remaining for a year, after which he began the publication of the Silver Star at Gem, Idaho. His next newspaper venture was in the publication of the Idaho State Tribune at Wallace, Idaho, and from 1896 until 1900 he was editor and publisher of the Basin Progress, at Basin, Montana. He eventually left the newspaper field to become identified with other business pursuits but in 1906 entered into active connection with the well known Labor World of Spokane. In 1901 he was a reporter on the Spokesman Review and in 1902 and 1903 was organizer for the American Labor Union. In December of the latter year he established a printing business in which he became associated with Coates Brothers in August, 1906. In the previous March he was engaged by the labor organizations of Spokane to manage and edit the Labor World and has since poblished that paper, conducting business under the firm name of Coates, Hughes & Coates. He ever stands in support of the many rather than the few and believes in a more equal division of labor and responsibility and of the wealth that accrues from labor.

Mr. Hughes' close study of the political, social and economic questions of the day has led him to become identified with the socialist party in the work of which he takes an active interest, being frequently a delegate to its city, county and state conventions. He was also the first candidate of the socialist party for mayor in Spokane, being nominated in 1902, and he was a member of the third legislature of the state of Idaho in 1905-6.

On the 3d of August, 1 898, Mr. Hughes was married at Basin, Montana, to Mrs. Emma A. Howe, nee Axtell, a daughter of Dr. Axtell, of Troy, Pennsylvania. They have twin sons, Harry and Edwin, who are attending school. Mr. Hughes is well known in a number of fraternal organizations, being prominently identified with the Eagles and a member of the grand aerie. He was also worthy president of the Spokaiie Aerie and has been twice district grand worthy president. He likewise holds membership with the Knights of Maccabees and tlie Ladies of Security. His interest in public affairs and his ready sympathy for the unfortunate are testified to by his membership on the Spokane Charities Commission. He has been a close and discriminating student of the questions of the day, of existing conditions and of the probable outcome of important issues, and his editorials which bear on the labor world have attracted widespread attention and have awakened earnest thought among his readers.

G. G. Ripley, who has been engaged in the general practice of law in Spokane since 1908, was bom in Iowa, March 27, 1876. His ancestors came from the north of Ireland in the early part of the seventeenth century and representatives of his family fought for the independence of the nation in the Revolutionary war. His grandfather served under General Winfield Scott and was a gunner on the Constitution in the War of 1812.

His father, Elias Pinckney Ripley, was born in Rock Springs, Maryland, July 21, 1887, and is now living in Spokane at the age of seventy-five years. He, too, has a creditable military record. He removed to Iowa in 1854 and, although he was injured in early life, he served under Adjutant General Baker in the Iowa Reserves and held the position of United States enrolling officer. He was also a zealous member and officer of the Union League. He entered upon the practice of law in Ackley, Iowa, and at one time was magistrate in Wright county, that state. He also served as postmaster for a number of years, his commission being signed by General Grant. He has made his home in the northwest since 1910 and is now enjoying a well earned rest in Spokane. In early manhood he wedded Mary E. Groff, who was bom in Illinois and is of Holland and French Huguenot ancestry, although early representatives of her family came to America prior to the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Ripley also survives and she and her husband are now com- fortably located in Spokane. In their family were two daughters: Lena, the wife of Walter W. Fox, a merchant of Iowa ; and Florine, the wife of Edwin Serverancc, a civil engineer of Montana ; while one son, Lloyd Glen, died at the age of eighteen years.

G. G. Ripley, the only surviving son, attended the high school of Belmond, Iowa, and afterward the Iowa State Normal, where he won the degree of Bachelor of Didactics. He was afterward graduated from Dral^e University at Des Moines with the degree of LL. B. in 1902. He engaged in teaching school both before and after attending the Normal, devoting three years to the professicm. Later he became a traveling salesman and subsequently entered upon the practice of law, having been admitted to the bar in Iowa in 1902. He then practiced for a time in Belmond but came to Spokane in 1903 and in the intervening period to the present time has largely engaged in practice alone. While he is familiar with all branches of the law, he is specializing in equity and corporation work, representing a number of corporations. He also represents a number of mining companies and is familiar with the legal principles which bear upon this branch of practice.

Mr. Ripley was united in marriage to Miss Clyde Estelle Shepherd, of Si>okane, a daughter of John and Josephine Shepherd, of Van Wert, Ohio, the former now deceased. Mrs. Ripley is a represeiltative of an old and prominent family of Kentucky and by her marriage she has become the mother of two daughters, Margaret Shepherd and Virginia Florine.

The parents are of the Episcopal faith, holding membership in All Saints Cathedral, and Mr. Ripley belongs also to the Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained high rank, being a Consistory Mason and Mystic Shriner, as well as Knight Templar. He has served as an officer in various branches of the order and has also assisted in conferring the work. He likewise belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge, the Young Men's Christian Association, Business Men's Association, the Inland Club - connections which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his life. He is an active member of the Republican Progressive League and has represented his city and county in conventions. He also served as a member of the county central committee during the election of 1911, took an active interest therein and was one of the first to support Senator Poindexter. He is a man of resourceful ability, determined and energetic, and what he undertakes in any direction he accomplishes. He stands for that which is highest and most serviceable in the activities which go to make up human existence and which are features of general progress and improvement and in his chosen profession, wherein advancement is only secured through individual merit, he has worked his way steadily upward.

Arthur D. Jones

Arthur D. Jones is the president of Arthur D. Jones & Company, the oldest as well as the largest real-estate firm in Spokane. He has been at the head of this institution continuously since 1887 and has built it up from one desk to one of the strong institutions of the city, occupying half of the ground floor space of the Arthur D. Jones building with an office entirely finished and furnished in imported mahogany.

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Mr. Jones was born in Michigan^ September 25, 1859, and was educated in the common schools and at the State College at Iowa City^ Iowa. After a short experience as a school teacher and solicitor for a magazine, he toolL a position with the advertising department of the Chicago Morning News, where he remained for five years until failing health brought him to Spc^ane.

Since 1887 he has been closely identified with the development of the city and country both in conjunction with general public enterprises and through his own initiative. Conspicuous among the records of his work in Spol^ane are the derelopment of Hillyard, Richland Park, The Hill, Cannon Hill Park and a number of other additions in Spokane as well as suburban properties. His company is - local agent for the United States Mortgage & Trust Company and The Mortgage Bond Company, of New York, and also loaning agents for two of the great New York life insurance companies. The business includes real-estate, rental, loan and bond departments, banks, etc. He is manager of numerous land companies in which he is financially interested and is a stock holder in four Spokane banks and in other enterprises.

Mr. Jones was married December 25, 1887, to Miss Ada M. Stinson, and has two sons and one daughter. In politics he is a liberal republican, and, although he has been keenly interested in political affairs, the only office he ever held or tried for was that of city councilman for a three-year term.

Mr. Jones literally grew up with Spokane. When he started in business in tliis city, his capital consisted of very little money and the city contained only a few thousand people. For over a quartev- of-a-e^tiH^ he has watched the city grow and assisted in its growing, ^nd lifs ow^f^drj^iln^S have prospered with it.

John Aylard Finch is the senior partner t>f the firm of Finch & Campbell, who have done more to develop the mining industry of the Inland Empire than any other firm in this district. He was bom in Cambridgeshire, England, May 12, 1854, a son of William and Sophia (Aylard) Finch, who came to the United States about 1862 and for many years were residents of Cleveland, Ohio. A brother of our subject, W. E. Finch, is also a resident of Spokane. In the parish school of Soham, Cambridgeshire, England, John A. Finch began his education but was only eight years of age when the family came to the United States and his studies were continued in the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio. When his text-books were put aside he became connected with iron and steel manufacturing in Cleveland and afterward continued in the same line of business at Youngstown, Ohio. Subsequently he Went to Montreal with an importing firm engaged in the importation of iron from England. He was next located in Chicago as manufacturers' agent, still continuing in the iron trade. In the spring of 1881 he determined to go to the west to enjoy what he believed would be better business opportunities than could be secured in the older and more conservative east. Accordingly he proceeded to Denver and afterward to Leadville, Colorado, where he remained for a year in mining. On the expiration of that time he returned to the iron business in Ohio but in the sum- mer of* 1887 came to Spokane and began to acquire mining property in the Coeur d'Alene region of northern Idaho in connection Mrith A. B. Campbell.

As associates in mining enterprises Finch & Campbell purchased the Gem mine in the Coeur d'Alene district and then organized the Milwaukee Mining Company in connection with capitalist friends of Milwaukee and Youngstown, Ohio, Mr. Campbell becoming president and Mr. Finch secretary and treasurer of this company. They operated the mine most successfully for more than twelve years and in 1891 began the development of the Standard mine, which they opened and equipped. Later they opened the Hecla mine, both of which have paid several millions in dividends and are still being operated and are paying handsome dividends. Mr. Finch became secretary and treasurer of both, with Mr. Campbell as president. In 1898 they extended their operations into British Columbia, going to the Slocan district, where they opened and developed the Enterprise and Standard mines, which are now leading properties of that locality. In fact Finch & Campbell are among the leaders in mining and developing in the whole Inland Empire. They recognized the fact that nature was lavish in her gifts in regard to the mineral resources of the country and notable sagacity and sound judgment have enabled them to so place their investments that splendid returns have generally accrued from their development of mining property. They have seldom been identified with mining interests that have not proven profitable. Their activities have been not only a source of gratifying individual success but have also constituted one of the most potent forces in the development of the mining industry and consequent prosperity of the entire district. For many years Mr. Finch has also been leading factor in financing and controlling other important business enterprises. He is the president of the White & Bender Company and of the Coeur d'Alene Hardware Company, both of Wallace, Idaho; president of the Blalock Fruit Company of Walla Walla; and president of the National Lumber & Box Company of Hoquiam, Washington, with Mr. Campbell, as vice president of these companies. The last named enterprise was established in 1901 and is today one of the largest of its kind in the northwest. Mr. Finch is a trustee of the Union Trust Company and also an officer and director of many other companies, the long list including many of the most important business interests of the Inland Empire.

On the 3d of September, 1896, in Chicago, Mr. Finch was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte R. Swingler, a daughter of M. M. and Fannie Swingler, of Spokane, who came to this city in 1884. Mr, Finch is a director of the Country Club but does not belong to any fraternal orders. He was the first president of the club and has maintained deep interest in the organization. He has likewise been a member of the Spokane Club since 1894 and is a life member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He belongs to the Episcopal church, is one of the trustees of St. Luke's Hospital and has given liberally toward charitable and benevolent work. He donated the site for the present hospital and also the land for the Children's Home on Northwest boulevard. Politically he has always been a republican and served as a member of the state senate in the first general assembly of Idaho in 1891. Four years later he came to Spokane, where he has since made his home and during the period of his residence here he has not been active in politics. In 1897 he erected his present palatial home, which is one of the finest in the northwest. While he has come to rank with the millionaires of this section of the country, his path has never been strewn by the wreck of other men's fortunes and the secret of his success is found in his keen discrimination^ his close application and his executive force. His business activity has constituted an important element in general development and prosperity and his own success has enabled him to often extend a helping hand to those less fortunate and to do effective and important work for the alleviation of those upon whom fate has entailed suffering or hardships.

Seabury Merritt

Seabury Merritt, who in the practice of his profession has come to be regarded largely as an authority on land law in the northwest because of his wide study along those lines and the important litigated interests of this character which he has conducted, was bom in Frankfort, Indiana, August 28, 1866. He is one of a family of three sons and two daughters and his parents were Samuel and Elizabeth (Gaskill) Merritt, natives respectively of Ohio and Indiana. The father came of English ancestry although the family was planted on American soil prior to the Revolutionary war. The father throughout much of his life engaged in merchandising and in*the grain business, and in the year 1860 he was elected sheriff of Clinton county, Indiana, receiving more votes than were given Lincoln. He served as a trustee of the schools for sixteen consecutive years while his incumbency in the sheriff's office covered the period of the Civil war. He married Elizabeth Gaskill, who was likewise of English lineage and belonged to one of the old American families antedating the war for independence. She died in 1896, just nineteen days before the death of her husband. Of their sons John W. is now associated with his brother Seabury in the practice of law in Spokane, and William A. is a bookkeeper of this city. The two sisters are: Emma, now the wife of John J. Blair, chief dispatcher of the Northern Pacific Railroad at Spokane; and Jennie M., who is living with her brother.

In the common schools of Indiana, Seabury Merritt pursued his early education while spending his boyhood days upon his father's farm. He early became familiar with the work of plowing, planting and harvesting and continued to assist in the cultivation of the old homestead until 1888, when he embarked in the hardware and implement business in which he continued for three and a half years. In the latter pert of 1891 he began reading law and while thus engaged at Frankfort, Indiana, also conducted an insurance and abstract business. He was admitted to practice in 1895 and followed his profession alone in his native state until 1900, when the opportunities of the west attracted him and he came to Spokane, where he became the successor to Judge Wallace Mount, in the firm of Mount & Merritt, the judge being elected to the supreme bench. Until 1906 that firm remained as Merritt & Merritt but in that year Hugo E. Oswald was admitted to a partnership under the firm style of Merritt, Oswald & Merritt. They conducted a general law practice, specializing, however, largely in land and titles. They represented the Oregon Mortgage Company and other mortgage companies and have been attorneys for many corporations including Ham, Yearsley &- Ryrie ; the Big Bend Land Company ; the Oregon Mortgage Company; the Pacific Northwest Investment Society; the E. H. Stanton Company; and the Mohler Union Warehouse Company. Mr. Merritt is recognized as having comprehensive knowledge of land law on account of the vast number of titles he has been called upon to examine. Like almost all who come to the northwest^ he is interested in its development and is the owner of an irrigated orchard of fortyfive acres^ all in apples^ on the Columbia river^ twenty-eight miles above Wenatchee and known as the Hossier Apple Ranch. In addition to this, Mr. Merritt owns Spokane property and his holdings outside of the city include timber land in British Columbia and in different sections of the western part of the state. He is likewise interested in mining operations in Idaho and is thus contributing to the material development and prdgress of the Inland Empire. However, the practice of law is his real life work and the firm of which he is a member has a more extensive practice in the eastern part of the state than any other firm of attorneys here, their legal business extending to Lincoln, Adams and Douglas counties.

Mr. Merritt is well known in Masonic circles as a member of the commandery and Mystic Shrine, and has served as senior warden in the blue lodge. He belongs also to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Lodge No. 228, has filled all of the chairs in the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, has been past chancellor for several years and has represented Spokane Lodge in the grand lodge. He is like wise connected with the Fraternal Order of Eagles and is a ^valued member of the Spokane Club^ the Inland Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Merritt is a republican and was an active member of the central committees of city, county and state when in Indiana and a delegate to city, county and state conventions both in Indiana and Washington. In his native state he did considerable campaign work and since coming to the west has been a candidate for congress in the third Washington district in 1910, in the primary, but insurgency caused the republican defeat. He stands always as a fearless defender of the principles or cause in which he believes and his position upon political questions has therefore never been an equivocal one. During the twelve years of his residence in Spokane he has become widely known and the power which he has displayed in his law practice places him in a foremost position among the members of the Spokane bar.

Dr. Frank Rose, physician and surgeon, of Spokane, was bom in Ontario, Canada, October 25, 1869. His father, Lawrence Rose, a native of Oxfordshire, England, became a pioneer resident of western Ontario where he engaged in the milling business, becoming the owner of a flour mill there. His death occurred in 1885. Representatives of the family to which he belonged have lived at Deddington, England, for the last five hundred years and for several centuries have been connected with the milling business there. The mother of Dr. Rose bore the maiden name of Hannah Phin and was bom at the old family homestead in Ontario, Canada, which is called Kennaquhair.

It was in the Guel{^ Collegiate Institute that Dr. Rose pursued his more specifically literary education, after which he entered the University of Minnesota to pursue a medical course and was graduated M. D. in 1901. Broad practical experience came to him in one year's service in Asbury Hospital and he afterward received clinical instruction in Chicago and New York for a period of three months. He next came to Spokane where he has since followed his profession.

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and the liberal practice accorded him is the best evidence of his capability and the consensus of pablic opinion concerning his equipment for and devotion to his chosen life work. He is a member- of the County Medical Society , of which he has served as vice president and treasurer^ and he belongs also to the State Medical Society^ in which he is a member of the judicial counsel.

Dr. Rose has filled the office of city bacteriologist and is now a member of the play ground commission. Perhaps his most important public service in the nature of his profession has been in connection with the development of the water supply. When the city decided to change its water system from the river to wells in the Spokane valley^ Dr. Rose and the board of health, with Mayor Moore, went on a trip of inspection to ascertain the source and volume of the water supply and the quality of the water in the Spokane valley. After a very careful investigation both as to the quantity and quality. Mayor Moore and Dr. Rose decided to sink wells near the waterworks and thus supply the city. It has been found through sabsequent experience that they were not only wise but correct in their decision for the supply and quality of the water have far surpassed all their expectations based on that investigation. The bacteriological examinations, made twice each uKHith for several years, have confirmed the earlier examination as to the purity, and Spokane can well boast of having the finest and purest Water of any city in the world. The supply has never failed and as high as forty million gallons have been pumped at one time without any appreciable diminution of the water in the wells. The water is presumed to come from the entire watershed of the Spokane valley and is filtered through sand and gravel, reaching the consumers in perfect purity. It is unique in that this is the only great water supply of that character in the world, although Long Island has somewhat the same character but not to the same extent. Dr. Rose modestly gives Mayor Moore and the board of health the credit for securing and developing the water supply and system, but he should share with the mayor and the board of health the credit and honor. On the 16th of September, 1899, Dr. Rose was married to Mrs. Annie Winchester. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, having taken the degrees of the lodge, the consistory and the Mystic Shrine. His political allegiance has always been given the republican party and his religious faith is that of the Episcopal diurch, his membership having been in All Saints' cathedral for seven years during which period he has also held the office of vestryman. His life work has indeed been of benefit and value to his fellowmen and all of his professional duties are discharged with a conscientious sense of obligatioii.

B. M. Francis

B. M. Francis, whose real-estate operations not only cover Spokane but also various other districts of the northwest, was bom December 25, 1865, in Pontiac, Midiigan, a son of John and Mary Rose Francis, natives of Pontiac and England respectively. The latter is a resident of Frankfort, Michigan, but the father died in 1886. He was a representative of an old New England family of English descent and was a leading and influential resident of his home town where he served as alderman and in other local offices. His family numbered two sons and three daughters; B. M.^ of this review; L. R.^ engaged in the automobile business in Detroit, Michigan; Miss Ethel M. Francis, residing in Spokane; Lulu M., who married Clark Long, of Havillah, Washington; and Edna, the wife of Eph Slade, of Michigan.