Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 1 of 22)

Robert Edmund Strahorn

Starting out in life with less opportunity or equipment than the average American boy, but evidently possessed of an optimism and determination which enabled him to triumph over many adverse situations and discouragements, Robert Edmund Strahorn has followed the lead of his opportunities, doing as best he could anything that came to hand, and creating and seizing legitimate advantages as they have arisen. He has never hesitated to take a forward step when the way was open. Fortunate in possessing a degree of earnestness and frankness that have inspired confidence in others, the simple weight of his character and ability have carried him into important relations with large interests and he is now the president of several important railway and other corporations with headquarters in Spokane. The North Coast Railroad project especially owes its inception and prosecution to him and is constituting a most important element in business activity throughout the northwest.

Mr. Strahorn was bom in Center county, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1852. The family is of Scotch-Irish origin and the ancestry in America is traced back to the great-grandfather of our subject, who in colonial days came from Scotland to the new world and afterward aided in obtaining American liberty in the Revolutionary war. He continued a resident of Union county, Pennsylvania, until his death and his son Samuel Strahorn, grandfather of our subject, also made his home in that rounty. The father, Thomas F. Strahorn, there born and reared, learned the trades of a millwright and machinist and in 1856 removed from Center county, Pennsylvania, to Freeport, Illinois, and nine years later became a resident of Sedalia, Missouri. In 1878 he crossed the Rockies, following in the footsteps of his son who had preceded in 1870, and after residing for a time in Idaho and Montana he became a resident of Los Angeles, California, where he passed away in 1883. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Rebecca Emmert, was born in Center county, Pennsylvania, and was of Dutch lineage, a daughter of John Kramert, who had come to this country from Switzerland. The death of Mrs. Strahorn occurred in 1861.

Robert E. Strahorn spent the first four years of his life in the state of his nativity and was then taken by his parents to northern Illinois, where the period of his youth was passed in village and farm life where his work was of the hardest. His educational privileges were very limited, as he attended school only imtil ten years of age. Private reading and study, however, constantly broadened his knowledge and the studious habits of his youth have made him a man of wide general information. In the school of experience, too, he learned many valuable lessons which have proven of significant worth in his advancement in the business world. In his boyhood days, after his life on the farm, he first sold papers on the streets and then began learning the printer's trade in Sedalia, Missouri, following that occupation for five years. Subsequent to his removal to Denver, Colorado, in 1870, he was engaged in newspaper work as reporter, editor and correspondent until 1877. During the Sioux war of 1875-6 in Wyoming and Montana, he was with General Crook as special correspondent of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and Denver News, personally participating in the fighting in all of the engagements with the Indians, the secretary of war commending him for his gallantry and helpfulness to the government. Moreover, he wrote most interesting accounts of that frontier warfare, which was needed in quelling the Indians in their hostile resentment of the incoming civilization.

While pursuing the journalistic profession Mr. Strahorn became interested in and to some extent identified with the railway business, accompanying as correspondent several surveying parties and also performing publicity work for the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado Central and the Union Pacific Railroad Companies. This opened up to him the opportunity of entering into active connection with railway interests and he organized and conducted the publicity bureaus of the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific Companies, during which period, from 1877 until 1884, he resided much of the time in Omaha and in Denver. He was also engaged in a confidential capMtcity in work relating to the extension of lines for the Union Pacific, this carrying him by stage, horseback and on foot into almost every county of every state and territory west of the Missouri river and brought to him his wide knowledge of the conditions and the opportunities of the west. His next step in the business world brought him into intimate connection with town-site, irrigation and power enterprises in Idaho, Oregon and Washington and when six years had passed in that way he returned to the east, settling in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1890. Through the succeeding eight years he devoted his attention to the negotiation of municipal bonds but since 1898 has permanently resided in Spdcane, where he again became actively interested in development projects, his special lines of operation being in connection with the construction and operation of waterworks, power and. electric plants and irrigation. Those interests still, claim his attention and energies to a considerable extent and have constituted a significant force in the improvement and upbuilding of the districts in which he has operated. His enterprise and executive ability in recent years have, moreover, brought him into prominence in railway connections as the promoter and builder of the North Coast Railroad. He undertook to prosecute that project in the spring of 1905 with the result that in the fall of that year a company was organized and the engineering and construction work has since proceeded steadily. The system is designed to bring Seattle, Tacoma and Portland on the west into direct connection with Walla Walla and Spokane on the east and includes a new short line between Spokane and Walla Walla and another between Spokane and Lewiston, Idaho, and, with its branches, is to have a total length of seven hundred and fifty miles. Throughout practically the whole existence of the company Mr. Strahorn has been its president and active manager. The value of the project is recognized by every business man of this section and its worth as a developing factor of Washington can scarcely be overestimated. In connection with this, Mr. Strahorn has organized the Spokane Union Terminal project which will center five railways in one grand passenger terminal and provide for their concentration along one central zone through the heart of the city, with all surface

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The North Coast Railroad project has sometimes been called the railway romance of our time and our subject, its central figure, the "Sphinx" and "Man of Mystery" because of the very unusual and unique manner of its financing and building, involving many millions of dollars, without the identity of Mr. Strahorn's financial backers becoming known. The war made upon him by rival railway interests* and others bent upon unmasking and defeating him has been a sensation of large magnitude in the Pacific northwest, and probably more thaii any other of Mr. Strahorn's undertakings has emphasized his fine poise, unfaltering pursuit of an undertaking once decided upon and his undying devotion to any trust imposed in him, as well as his modesty in success. Late in the year 1910, when the larger matters desired had been accomplished, this ban of secrecy was removed and it developed that Mr. Strahom had been the confidential agent of Mr. Harriman from the first and the North Coast Railroad enterprise was consolidated with other Harriman lines in the northwest under the name of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company, and Mr. Strahorn made vice-president of the larger corporation.

In order to appreciate some of the accomplishments of this great railroad builder be it stated that several hundred miles of road surveyed and in part constructed have been paid for, to the extent of several million dollars, by the personal check of Mr. Strahorn. A thousand miles of surveyed lines, a hundred miles completed in the Yakima valley, trains operating on portions of road, are a few of the things that have been accomplished in an incredibly short time and in the face of tremendous odds and opposition. There has been built one bridge two thousand nine hundred feet long spanning the Columbia; another over the Snake will be four thousand And seventy feet long and two hundred and seventy-five feet high, probably the highest over any large river in the United States, and this bridge will have ten million pounds of steel used in its construction. Mr. Strahom will erect in' the city of Spokane alone one bridge one hundred and sixty-five feet high and three thousand feet long; another one hundred and seventy-five feet high and one thousand feet long, and both to be marvelous engineering feats.

More recently these interests have organized the West Coast Railway designed to do important construction across the Cascade mountains, with Mr. Strahorn as president, and also the Yakima Valley Transportation Company, which is building important electric railway lines under his direction. Among his many important personal enterprises are the Northwest Light & Water Company, owning waterpower, electric lighting and waterworks plants in various cities of Oregon, Washington and Idaho; the Yakima Valley Power Company, which has built electric transmission lines one hundred and ten miles in length, connecting up and furnishing electric power to all the cities of the Yakima valley and Pasco; and the Pasco Reclamation Company, which is irrigating and otherwise developing large areas of orchard lands surrounding the city of Pasco. Besides financing and being president and manager of these and other companies, Mr. Strahorn has found time to engage in many other activities in connection with commercial oi'ganizations throughout the northwest.

Adell Green, a daughter of Dr. J. W. Green, of Marengo, Illinois, whose social graces and literary attainments (the latter best evidenced by her authorship of the popular volume "Fiftee^i thousand miles by stage") are eloquent testimonials to the credit her husband so freely accords her for a large measure of his success.

Mr. Strahom is a valued member of several social organizations, including the Spokane Club, Spokane Athletic Club, the Inland Club and the Sp<Jcane Country Club, and for several years he has been a trustee of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, cooperating in all of its practical plans for the development of the city. His genial nature, ever^ready helpfulness and philanthropy have given him a large place in the hearts of his fellow citizens. Mr. Strahorn is a man of well balanced capacities and powers, without any of that genius which is liable to produce erratic movements resulting in unwarranted risk and failure. He is eminently a man of business sense, of well balanced mind, even temper and conservative habits, and possesses that kind of enterprise that leads to great accomplishments and benefits others more than himself.

Mrs. Carrie Adell Strahorn

Carrie Adell (Green) Strahorn, wife of Robert E. Strahom, of Spokane, is a native of Marengo, McHenry county, Illinois, being the second daughter of Dr. John W. and Louise Babcock Green. Her parents were pioneers of northern Illinois, her father having removed in 1846 from Greenfield, Ohio, of which place Dr. Green's parents were founders. These grandparents of Mrs. Strahom, on her father's side, were descendants of prominent patriots of like name of the Revolutionary war. Her mother, who died in Marengo in 1899, was a native of Lavonia Center, New York, and was a descendant of Aaron Burr. Dr. John W. Green, Mrs. Strahom's father, who died in Chicago in 1893, was for fifty years one of the most noted surgeons of the Mississippi valley. He was the first surgeon to administer an anesthetic west of Chicago. He served with great distinction during the war of the Rebellion, first as regimental surgeon of the Ninety-fifth Illinois, and later as brigade and finally as division surgeon with General Grant in the Army of the Tennessee. Mrs. Green accompanied her husband throughout the famous Red river campaign, sharing every danger of field and hospital.

Carrie Adell Green had the advantage of the public schools of Marengo, supplemented by a liberal education in the higher branches at Ann Arbor. Developing an ardent love for music, she studied to good purpose under some of the foremost American and European vocal masters, and thus, when wedded to Robert E. Strahom, at Marengo, September 19, 1877, she possessed to an unusual degree the graces and refinements and all the wholesome attributes* and practical helpfulness of the sensibly reared young womanhood of those days.

It is not too much to say that Carrie Adell Strahorn has well maintained the lofty traditions of the sturdy, heroic stock of pioneers, patriots and state builders of her ancestry. A superb, home-loving, womanly woman always, yet she has had so much to do with the development of the frontier that her public life and ac- complishments have been the inspiration and pride of many communities in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast states. It has been well said of her that she has "mothered the west."

Immediately after her marriage in 1877 she set out with her husband on the often dangerous and romantic^ and always toilsome career (in a field covering nearly half our continent) the brighter aspects of which are so vividly portrayed in her famous book "Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage," which was published in 1911 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Probably no other woman has so thoroughly experienced every phase of far west exploration and genuine pioneering. This, covering a period of thirty-four years while the west has been in the making, has gone through all gradations from the wilderness haunts of the hostile savage along through the rudest camps of the miner and cowboy to zealous, practical participation in colonization, and town and city building in many waste places, often far in advance of the railways. This work was particularly noticeable and effective from 1877 to 1880 in Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming, and from 1880 to 1890 in Utah, Montana, Idaho and Washington. From 1890 to 1898, while Mr. Strahom transferred his activities largely to New England, Mrs. Strahom pursued her musical and literary studies in Boston. During this period however, the Strahom's spent a portion of each year in Spokane and vicinity, or elsewhere in the Rocky Mountains. Since 1898, when they located p>ermanently in Spokane, Mrs. Strahom has been everything in the life and growth of the city and state that might be expected from one so fully equipped and so ardently in love with the Pacifiitf .j^^a^t o^i^irtry' and its institutions.

Being a frequent contribikprj;. to 4:^!^ ^Columns of various eastern publications during all these years, she has n^ade the most of many opportunities to faithfully portray the leading characteristics of far, )V6sk Hfe asd development, never failing to award due praise to the heroic woc^.'OT'i^^praite^s, as well as to enthusiastically strive for wider recognition of the merits of western resources and institutions, and our climatic, scenic and other attractions.

The camp or home of the Strahoms has always been a landmark of hospitality and a rallying point for the creation and nourishing of public spirit and the strenuous promotion of every good cause. Not a few of the far west's foremost men in business, professional and political life, join her noted husband in gratefully ascribing much of their success to Mrs. Strahorn's untiring encouragement and general helpfulness in her home, social and public activities at the period in their lives when such help meant everything to them. She has also accomplished much in church building and in the founding and support of educational and charitable institutions. Notwithstanding the success, financially and otherwise, of Mr. Strahom, and her prominent place and hearty participation in the social life of Spokane, Mrs. Strahom has not relaxed in her devotion to these more useful and serious things and is still actively engaged in literary pursuitst

Edward Franklin Waggoner

Edward Franklin Waggoner is the president of the Union Fuel & Ice Company of Spokane, with offices at 407 Sprague avenue. He was bom in Lostant, Illinois, February, 15, 1870, and acquired his early education in the public schools there.

while spending his youthful days in the home of his parents^ John G. and Sarah E. (Cox) Waggoner. He was afterward sent to Eureka College at Eureka, Illinois, and when he had put aside his text-hooks he became a clerk in a store there. The next step in his business career brought him into close connection with the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company as traveling salesman and collector, in which capacity he traveled for them in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. He displayed notable ability in all branches of the harvesting machinery business, thereby winning the position of general agent and manager of the company's business in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and a part of Wyoming. In 1908 the International Harvester Company was formed, taking over the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company and Mr. Waggoner was continued in charge of the business until October 15, 1906, when he resigned to enter upon an independent business venture, organizing the Union Fuel & Ice Company, of which he has since been president. The company was established as a wholesale and retail business. The business has grown steadily and substantially since its inception and is now one of the important and prosperous commercial undertakings of Spokane, doing a business of nearly a half million dollars in 1911.

Mr. Waggoner is also trustee and secretary of the Masonic Temple Association and it was he who as the master of Spokane Lodge No. 84, F. & A. M., conceived the project of erecting a Masonic Temple in Spokane and assisted in the formation of the association which erected the temple. He acted as secretary of the board of trustees and as chairman of its finance committee from the outset until the temple was completed, and his work in this connection has received warm commendation. The association was formed in 1901 ; ground for the temple was broken by President Roosevelt on the 26th day of May, 1908; the corner stone was laid October 6, 1904; and the building was dedicated June 14, 1906. Mr. Waggoner is one of the best known and most prominent Masons of the state, taking an active part in the work of the order and ever upholding the high standard which has been maintained by this fraternity. He belongs to and is past master of Spokane Lodge, No. 84, F. & A. M.; is a member and past high priest of Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M. ; and belongs to Spokane Council, No. 4, R. & S. M. ; Cataract Commandery, No. 8, K. T. ; Oriental Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S.; and El Katif Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. He has been awarded high honors in the order and was grand master of the state of Washington in 1906-7. He likewise belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E.; Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F. ; Spokane Council, No. 92, United Commercial Travelers; and is a Woodman of the World.

In addition to his other business interests he is a director and a member of the executive committee of the International Casualty Company and also a director in the Western Soap Company, one of Spokane's largest manufacturing institutions. He is now serving for the second term as a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce and has cooperated readily and effectively in its measures and plans for promoting public progress. His political allegiance is given to the Republican party and he takes an active and helpful interest in its work, yet would never consent to become a candidate for office. He wields an influence which is all the stronger, perhaps, because it is moral rather than political, and is exercised for the public weal rather than for personal ends.

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Miss Nellie McKibben, a daughter of Captain J. M. and Margaret McKibben, of Shelbyville, Illinois. They have two children, Edward F.; Jr., and Margaret. In the social circles of Spokane they are well known and the hospitality of the best homes is cordially extended them. His business interests have brought him a wide acquaintance in the northwest and through Masonry he has become even more widely known, standing as a prominent representative of that order which has ever inculcated principles of high and honorable manhood and promoted good citizenship.

S. A. Stanfield is one of the widely known residents of Lincoln county, who has been more or less actively identified with the agricultural and business interests of Odessa for more than twenty years. He was bom in Umatilla county, Oregon, on February 10, 1869, and is a son of Robert N. and Phoebe (Atwood) Stanfield, natives of Illinois. In the early '50s they crossed the plains to California, whence they later removed to Oregon, settling in Umatilla county where the father filed on some government land and engaged in agricultural pursuits.

The early years of S. A. Stanfield did not differ save in details from those of other lads reared on ranches on the frontier at that period. He attended the public schools in the acquirement of an education until he was eighteen years of age, and when not engaged with his studies assisted his father with the operation of the ranch. By the time he had attained his maturity he was thoroughly familiar with the practical methods of tilling the fields and caring for the stock. In 1887, he engaged in stock raising for three years, meeting with very good success. At the expiration of that period, in 1890, he came to Lincoln county and filed on a homestead near Odessa, and for fourteen years devoted his entire time and energy to the cultivation and improvement of this place. As he is a man of practical ideas who intelligently directs his efforts toward the accomplishment of a definite purpose, he prospered in his undertakings. He brought his land into a high state of productivity and erected good substantial bams and outbuildings as well as a comfortable residence on his ranch, making it one of the attractive and valuable properties of that section. In 1904< he disposed of it and withdrawing from agricultural pursuits removed to Odessa. Here he established a meat market that he conducted with very good success for two years, and then disposed of it. After selling his business he went to Grant county, Washington, and bought a section of land that he cultivated for about a year. Renting this property in 1907, he passed the following two years in and about Spokane, subsequently returning to Odessa. In 1909 he again took possession of the meat market he had previously established, bat only conducted it for a brief period, closing out the business in 1910. Prior to this he had acquired a fine tract of land adjacent to Odessa upon which he located and here he has ever since resided. His land is all under cultivation and is well adapted to the raising of fruits and alfalfa in which he is specializing with very good results. Mr. Stanfield has prospered in his undertakings and is the owner of some very fine land, that is constantly increasing in value. He sold his section of land in Grant county, Washington, as the cultivation of the ranch on which he is living brings him an income that is more than sufficient for the needs of himself and family. In addition to these properties he has a nice residence in Odessa and is a stockholder and director of the Odessa Mercantile Company.

Umatilla county was the scene of Mr. Stanfield's marriage on December 22, 1889, to Miss Emma B. Boardman, a daughter of Robert Boardman of Illinois, and they have become the parents of one son, Lloyd, whose natal day was in April, 1891.

Mr. Stanfield has attained the rank of a Royal Arch Mason and is affiliated with the lodge at Davenport. Politically he is a democrat, but has never been officially identified with local governmental affairs. He is an excellent representative of the unassuming, enterprising citizens who form the strength of a community and measure its possibilities and resourcefulness.

Richard Ashton Hutchinson

Richard Ashton Hutchinson is well known in Spokane through the real-estate business which he has conducted, but is perhaps more widely known throughout the state as the senator from the Spokane district. He has been almost continuously in office since 1882 when, at the first election held in Spokane county, he was chosen assessor. Consecutive progress has brought him to a position of prominence and individual ability has made him a leader in public thought and action.

Mr. Hutchinson was born in Grand Gulf, Mississippi, February 14, 1858, a son of William Dean and Margaret (Murray) Hutchinson. The father, who was born in Kentucky in 1798, was a cousin of Andrew Jackson, whose mother belonged to the Hutchinson family. In 1886 William Dean Hutchinson removed from Kentucky to Illinois and afterward went to Havana, Cuba, where he was engaged in business until the outbreak of the Mexican war, when he returned to the United States and volunteered for service with the Mississippi troops. He also went to California in 1849 with the argonauts in search of the golden fleece, but after a brief period spent on the coast returned to Mississippi. His opposition to slavery caused him to join John Brown in his famous campaign in Kansas and during the Civil war he served as guide on General Sigel's staff in Missouri but became disabled and left the army. In the winter of 1 862 he went to Colorado but returned to Kansas and was the builder of the first house in Hays City, that state. He became a resident of eastern Washington, and he and his sons became the first settlers in what is now Mondovi, Lincoln county, where his death occurred on the 8th of November, 1884. There have been few men whose lives have been more closely connected with a greater number of events of national importance than William Dean Hutchinson. Enterprising in spirit, fearless in action, he was the champion of his country's interest in the Mexican war, the friend of the oppressed when slavery marred the fair name of the nation and he met with valorous spirit the hardships and privation incident to pioneer life in California and Washington. His wife was of Irish and Scotch descent. Her father was a lieutenant in the Scotch Grays of the British army during the Napoleonic wars and fought under Wellington throughout the Peninsular campaign and at Waterloo.

Richard Ashton Hutchinson was with his father in Missouri in 1857 when a lad of four years and afterward in Colorado and Kansas. While in the former state he served as a page in the legislature and also worked for a time in the Denver mint. During his residence in Kansas he was for seven years engaged in driving cattle and in conducting a store as well as in fighting Indians^ for the settlers had to contest their right to the territory against the red men. In 1872 with the others of the family he became a pioneer of Quillayute county on the Pacific coast where he improved and developed land. About that time his father met with reverses and the support of the family fell upon Richard A. Hutchinson, then twenty-two years of age. From 1878 until 1879 he worked in the coal mines at Newcastle, King county, but while there became crippled and also lost his health. On* the 1st of May, 1879, he started on foot for eastern Washington with his younger brother William Hutchinson. They arrived at Spokane on the 20th day of May, finding here a hamlet of fifty people. The brothers took up land thirtyfive miles west of the city which they developed and cultivated, transforming it into a valuable tract which they still own. Almost from the beginning of his residence in Spokane county Mr. Hutchinson has been prominent as a factor in its public life. At its first election held in 1882 the district, then comprising the present counties of Spokane, Lincoln, Adams, Douglas and Franklin, he was elected assessor. In 1883 the division of the county was changed so that his property was beyond the borders of Spokane county and as he wished to be with his father he resigned his office but was elected assessor of Lincoln county. In June 1886, he grubstaked the halfbreeds who discovered the mines at Ruby camp, Okanogan county when the reservation was first opened. He has always been interested there and still retains a working property in that district. When Joseph's band of Nez Perce Indians were brought to Spokane in 1886 he received them as prisoners of war and took them to .tb^ Nespelem valley on the Colville reservations where he lived with them until July, 1889, teaching them farming. During the first year and a half Mr. Hutchinson and his wife were the only white residents with those Indians, his nearest neighbor being a horseman fifteen miles distant, on the south side of the Columbia river.

From time to time Mr. Hutchinson was called to public office and has done not a little in shaping the policy of the country during its formative period. In 1 890 he had charge of the United States census in Lincoln county and was elected a member of the house of representatives for the fifteenth district. In 1892 he was chosen senator from Okanogan and Lincoln counties representing the first district, and thus he was actively concerned with framing the laws of the state, giving careful consideration to every important question which came up for settlement.

Reverses overtook Mr. Hutchinson in 1893, for during the panic of that year he lost all of his property and was in debt fifteen thousand dollars, but with resolute spirit he looked to the future to retrieve his losses and in 1895 came to Spokane, where with a borrowed capital of five hundred dollars he embarked in the real-estate business. Such was the sound judgment that he displayed in his purchases and sales of property that within a short time he was able to regain possession of his old home in Lincoln county and discharge all of his indebtedness. Since that time he has continued not only to engage in the real-estate business but also in mining and he is one of the most extensive individual wheat raisers in the state^ having over ten thousand acres in Lincoln, Adams, Douglas and Spokane counties. His mining interests are in the Coeur d'Alenes, British Columbia and in Okanogan and Stevens counties. Recognizing the possibilities for the country especially when water can be secured to aid in its development, Mr.

Hutchinson became the promoter of the Opportunity irrigation district east of Spokane. The National Country Life Commission, appointed by President Roosevelt, said of Opportunity: "It is the most ideal place for Rural Homes that we have seen." Since disposing of his interest in Opportunity Mr. Hutchinson has been actively engaged in real-estate dealing in Spokane, especially handling that district of the city known as the Hutchinson addition. His fitness for office as indicated by his public-spirited citizenship and his devotion to all that works for the welfare of the locality and the commonwealth led to his election in 1906 to the house of representatives from Spokane county and in 1908 he was elected from the fourth district to the state senate, wherein his term of office will continue until 1912. Senator Hutchinson has been twice married, his first -wife being Miss Amelia Johnson, a native of Washington. They were married in 1883. Three children were born to bless this union: Margaret Elizabeth, wife of J. B. Hayes; Ida A.; and William Dean. Mrs. Hutchinson died April 10, 1893. On the 9th of February, 1895 he was united in marriage to Marguerite Wright, a native of Virginia and a daughter of Weitzel A. and Sarah Ann (Taylor) Wright. Mrs. Hutchinson taught the first school inWenatchee in 1885, being then only sixteen years of age. Three children were born of this union, Marita, Rachael and Richard Ashton, Jr. The parents are members of the Episcopal church and are interested in all those features which contribute to the material, intellectual, social and moral welfare of the community. The life record of Mr. Hutchinson if written in detail would present many thrilling and unusual chapters because of his life on the frontier and his experience with the red men, as well as his efforts to attain advancement in a business way, efforts that have ultimately been crowned with a substantial measure of success.

F. R. Jansen, manager of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company, has been identified with the business interests of Odessa for the past five years. He is a native of Iowa, his birth having occurred at Avoca on the 16th of March, 1881, and a son of Henry and Caroline Kuhl. The parents were both bom and reared in Germany, whence they emigrated to Iowa, where for many years the father engaged in farming. In 1889, they removed to Washington, settling in Lind, Adams county, and there the father continued his agricultural pursuits.

As he was a lad of eight years when his people removed to Washington, the education of F. R. Jansen was begun in the schools of his native county and continued in those of Adams county. He subsequently pursued a commercial course for two years in Walla Walla, thus better qualifying himself for the practical duties of life. At the expiration of that time he came to Lincoln county, settling in Krupp, where he began his business career as a grain buyer. He remained there for three years following this occupation, and during that time he discharged his duties with such efficiency and capability that he attracted the attention of various local grain men, and in 1907 he was offered the position of manager of the Odessa Union Warehouse Company, with headquarters at Odessa. This company is operating &ye warehouses in this vicinity, all of which are under the charge and supervision of Mr. Jansen^ whose services have proven in every way equal to the expectations of his employers^ as is manifested by the p>eriod of his connection irith the company.

At Lind^ this state^ on the 80th of May^ 1906^ Mr. Jansen was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude Baumgard^ a daughter of August Baumgard^ a prominent pioneer ranchman of Adams county.

Mr. Jansen is a trustee of the Presbyterian churchy in which his wife also holds membership^ and in his political views he is a socialist^ believing that the principles of this party are best adapted to subserve the highest interests of the majority. He is one oi the younger members of the local business circles^ where he is held in high esteem and is recognized as a very capable young man^ whose enterprising and progressive ideas give every assurance of his success.

Joseph E. Horton

Joseph £. Horton^ who has been actively engaged in the real-estate business in Spokane for the past eight years with offices located in the Lindelle buildings was bom in Dubuque county^ lowa^ in September^ 1854. His parents are George W. and Elisabeth (Byrne) Horton, formerly farming people of Iowa, whence they later removed to Minnesota, but they are now residents of California, having located there in 1910. The father has long outlived the Psalmist's allotment of years, having passed the ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth, while the mother is now seventy-six years of an^e.

The preliminary education of Joseph E. Horton was obtained in the public schools of Minnesota, in which state he was reared, this being supplemented later by a course in the State University at Minneapolis, where he received the degree of B. L. in 1880. Three years later he located in South Dakota, becoming a resident of Campbell county, where in 1888 he was appointed to the office of probata judge and was elected to same office in 1884. He served in this capacity until 1886 when he was elected register of deeds and ex-officio county clerk for a term of four years, and in 1891 and 1892 he was state senator on the democratic ticket from Campbell and Walworth counties. Two years later, in 1894, Mr. Horton was appointed Indian post trader at the Cheyenne river agency. South Dakota, continuing to fulfil the duties of this position until 1899. The following year he organized the Bank of Linton, North Dakota, of which he was president for three years, during that time developing it into one of the conservative and firmly established financial institutions of the county. In 1908, Mr. Horton disposed of all of his interests in North Dakota and came to Spokane, where he has ever since engaged in buying and selling real estate on his own account. Possessing much sagacity and foresight, he has made a success of this undertaking, as he possesses the intuitive faculty of recognizing an opportunity not discernible to the average individual and utilizes it to his own advantage. Since locating here, Mr. Horton has been connected with a number of important real-estate transfers, and is the owner of some valuable property. He built and still owns the city market, located at the comer of Second avenue and Stevens street, which covers twenty-five thousand feet of floor space and contains twenty-four stalls.

On the 4th of August^ 1894, Mr. Horton was united in marriage to Miss Minerva A. Eckert, a daughter of Henry and Caroline Eekert, of Tumwater, Washington, and they have become the parents of four children: Erwin, who was born in 1895; Josephine, whose natal year was 1 897 ; Doris, who celebrated her ninth anniversary in 1911; and Jack, whose birth occurred in 1907. The family hoine is located at 2408 Altamont boulevard, this city, where Mr. Horton owns a beautiful residence.

Mr. Horton votes the democratic ticket, but he has had neither the time nor inclination to prominently participate in governmental affairs since locating in Spokane, and his fraternal relations are confined to his membership in the Masonic order. He is intensely loyal to the state of his adoption and feels that the develoj>- ment of Washington, industrially, commercially and agriculturally during the next few years will exceed by far that of the past decade, as its wonderful natural resources are just beginning to be realized.

Joseph Kriegler

Joseph Kriegler, who is actively engaged in the real-estate, insurance and loan business in Odessa is one of the town's most public-spirited and enterprising citizens. He was born in Bohemia on the 18th of February, 1866, and there he was likewise educated and reared to the age of nineteen years. As he was a most ambitious youth he longed to make more rapid progress in the business world than was possible in his native land with its conservative methods and system, and he decided to come to America, feeling convinced that he would here find the opportunities he was seeking. Upon his arrival in this country in 1885, he first located in Waterville, Minnesota, where for eighteen months he followed agricultural pursuits. During that period he became quite familiar with the language ;ind customs of the country, thus qualifying himself to become identified with commercial activities. He, therefore, withdrew from farming and went to Castleton, North Dakota, where he engaged in the general mercantile business for two years. At the end of that time he returned to Minnesota, and for eighteen months followed the same business at Wadina, that state. Five years had elapsed since he first came to the United States and a longing to see his boyhood home proved too strong to be resisted and in 1891, he returned to Europe. He spent four months amid the scenes of his native land, and then came back to America, locating in Everest, North Dakota. For a short time thereafter he clerked in a general mercantile store, that he subsequently purchased and conducted with excellent success for ten years. Soon after he bought this establishment he opened a branch store at Castleton, where he had previously been in business, and this also proved to be a very successful undertaking. In 1901, he disposed of both places and came to Washington, settling in Odessa, and here he has ever since resided. When he first came here Mr. Kriegler engaged in business with his brother E. J. Kriegler for several years, but later he sold his interest to his brother and went into the lumber business. He applied himself energetically and intelligently to the development of this enterprise, which he operated under the name of the Joseph Kriegler Lumber Company until 1908, when he sold it and withdrawing from commercial activities engaged in the real-estate, insurance and loan business. Mr. Kriegler is an alert, wide-awake^ enterprising business man^ who quickly recognizes opportunities not discernible to a man of less perspicacity and utilizes theln to his advantage. He has prospered in a most gratifying manner since locating here, and has acquired not only some fine town property but twenty-five hundred acres of excellent wheat land that he is leasing.

Odessa was the scene of Mr. Kriegler's marriage in 1908 to Miss Louise Haller, a native of Sp<d£ane^ and to them has been born one son Joseph E., who is now attending school.

Mr. Kriegler is a communicant of the Roman Catholic church. He has always taken a very deep interest in all municipal affairs and for the past five years has discharged the duties of town treasurer and he is also a member of the school board. In matters of citizenship he is most progressive^ always finding ample time and opportunity to promote the welfare of the community or to cooperate in developing the various public utilities. He was one of the - organizers of the Odessa Commercial Club, of which he was president for two terms, and has always enthusiastically championed every movement inaugurated by this association that he felt would in any way tend to advance the interests of the town. In addition to his other business responsibilities he is vice president of the Union State Bank of Odessa and is one of the largest stockholders of this institution, which is . one of the county's well established and conservative financial enterprises. Mr. Kriegler is one of the highly regarded business men of the town and is meeting with well deserved success in the development of his various undertakings. His prosperity is generally recognized as the reward of unceasing industry, close concentration and the inherent faculty to utilize every opportunity to the best possible advantage. He has high standards of citizenship and although he is much absorbed in the development of his personal affairs, never neglects his public duties, his services always being at the command of the community.

Frederick Omar Hughes

In a rapidly growing country there is excellent opportunity for the architect and in that profession Frederick Omar Hughes is winning not only a livelihood but gratifying success as a member of the firm of Diamond & Hughes. He was bom near Muskoka, Canada, December 6, 1880. His parents, Peter and Emma (Jarrett) Hughes, are both natives of England and are now residents of Spokane, having in September, 1886, removed to this city where the father was engaged in the general contracting business but is now living retired. He erected the first Medical Lake Insane Asylum and, prior to 1900, was the builder of a large number of the business blocks of Spokane. In addition to Frederick Omar Hughes the others of his father's family are: Thomas B., conducting a wholesale plumbing establishment in Spokane; R. H., foreman of the print shop of the Shaw & Borden Company; and Minnie, a resident of Spokane.

As a pupil in the public schools of Spokane Frederick Omar Hughes passed through consecutive grades and followed his high school course by two correspondence courses in architecture. He received practical training under the direction of his father, with whom he worked for four years in the contracting business.

and then entered upon the active work of his chosen profession as a draftsman in the employ of Albert Held, and was afterward with the firm of Preusse & Zittel and subsequently joined C. T. Diamond in the organization of the present firm with offices in the Mohawk block. They have specialized in store interiors and bank fixtures, yet also do a general architecture business. They were architects for the Lloyd apartments, representing an expediture of eighty-five thousand dollars, and the wholesale plumbing house of Hughes & Company, . representing an investment of fifty thousand dollars. They remodeled the Fidelity National Bank and were professionally employed by the Spokane Table Supply Company, Greenough Brothers, the Inland Empire Biscuit Company and many others.

On the 6th of October, 1906, in Spokane, Mr. Hughes was united in marriage to Miss Carrie McPhee. He has spent the greater part of his life in this city and has a wide acquaintance socially as well as professionally, sterling qualities winning him high regard in both connections.

William Pettet

The life history of William Pettet if written in detail would furnish many a chapter of thrilling interest and in the plain statement of facts should serve to inspire and encourage others, giving indication of what may be accomplished when a high sense of duty is coupled witL. determined purpose, energy and intelligence. He came to Spdcane as a pioneer of-' I898«^ J^e./^^^.'s^hen sixty-five years of age, his birth having occurred in England -ik^Septem^r;) 1818. He was bom of wealthy parents, pursued his education in the schools of hid native land and in 1886, when about eighteen years of age, crossed^ the, Atlantic to New York. Two years later he removed to the south, settlfngTn Mditile?^ Alabama, where in connection with two practicing physicians he established a drug store. The following year, however, his partners and two other business associates succumbed to the yellow fever. He bravely faced this crisis in his affairs when it became necessary for him to close out the business and make a division of interests in behalf of those deceased, although he had scarcely entered upon manhood at that time.. In 1841, then twentythree years of age, he established a commission house in New York and in 1842 accompanied the Amon Kendall party as far as Galveston, Texas. On the 6th of May, 1846, he left Independence, Missouri, on the overland trip to San Francisco, whence he made his way to Yuba Bueno. When they passed through Kansas they experienced considerable trouble with the Indians and at different times had to reckon with the hostility of the red men, engaging with them in a severe fight on the Truckee river in order to recover stock driven away by them. When near Truckee lake they were overtaken by a snow storm at which time Mr. Pettet joined a party of six and started for the Sacramento valley, leaving behind their wagons and about sixty people who, refusing to proceed, camped near the lake. Mr. Pettet and his companions reached Sutter's Fort in safety but those who remained all perished save four and these were insane when they finally secured assistance.

Mr. Pettet remained at Sutter's Fort for the purpose of enlisting emigrants as they came in for the war that was then being waged in southern California. With quite a number of enlisted men he went to San Francisco where the troops were fitted out for service on the sloop of war Portsmouth. Returning to Yuba Bueno

Mr. Pettet then organized the firm of Ellis & Pettet for the purpose of dealing with the Russians at Sitka^ Alaska^ and when he had disposed of his business interests in that country he returned to San Francisco, where he was elected to the office of city clerk. He was afterward appointed sheriff and at the close of his term in that position returned to New York. In 18(fl, however, he returned to San Francisco, sending around Cape Horn the material for the first iron building erected in that city - a structure destroyed by fire a few weeks after its completion. Ill health a^in compelled him to return to New York and while there he became interested in mercantile enterprises. In 1868 he went abroad with his family and spent ^ve years in Europe, returning to the United States in 1878. For some time he was a resident of St. Paul, where he was widely known.

The year 1888 witnessed the arrival of Mr. Pettet in Spokane and, believing that the city would enjoy rapid and substantial growth at a later day, he made considerable investments in real estate. The following year in connection with F. R. Moore, now deceased, F. Chamberlin and William Nettleton, he secured the block on which the county courthouse now stands and at their own expense these gentlemen erected a building for the reception of the county records when they were brought from Cheney. In association with Messrs. Moore and Chamberlin Mr. Pettet also established permanent arc lights for the streets. From this partnership developed the present Edison Electric Light Company of Spokane. It was this company that purchased the lower falls of the river and the land on which the big power plant of the Washington Water Power Company now stands. He invested in considerable business property together ivith a large amount of northside residence property and with the growth of the city and demand for realty, his holdings grew in value, in time making him one of the wealthiest residents of Spo-

On the 7th of November, 1850, in Milford, Worcester county, Massachusetts. Mr. Pettet was united in marriage to Miss Caroline S. Dean, a daughter of Sylvester and Charlotte (Cutler) Dean, both representatives of old and well known Massachusetts families. The former was a son of Seth Dean, a soldier of the Revolutionary war. Sylvester Dean became a merchant of New York, where he long continued in business. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Pettet were bom two children. The son George is now assistant secretary of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company. The daughter, Grace, became the wife of J. P. M. Richards, president of Ac Spokane & Eastern Trust Company, and unto them were born ^ve children: Grace, who is the wife of the Rev. E. P. Smith, of Boise, Idaho, and who has two children, Dorothy and Cornelia; Caroline, the wife of Lieutenant Sherburne Whipple, of the United States army now stationed in the Philippines and by whom she has one son, Sherburne ; and John Vanderjwol, Josiah and William Pettet Richards. In the spring of 1889, three months before the great fire, Mr. Pettet was stricken with typhoid fever from which he never fully recovered. The latter years of his life were largely spent at his home, Glasgow Lodge, on the North boulevard, where he had a forty-acre tract of land within the city limits and a beautiful residence on the banks of the Spokane river, fitted up in English style. His eightieth birthday was celebrated by a garden party attended by over two hundred of his friends. It was said of him: "Mr. Pettet's benign influence has been very sensibly has always been a man of great energy and his superb business ability and keen foresight made him eminently successful in his various enterprises."

In his political views Mr. Pettet was a republican during the early days of his residence in thl^ country but in later life became a stanch democrat. He attended the Episcopal church until old age compelled him to remain away from the house of worship^ after which he always observed the Sabbath in services at home. He was a most congenial^ entertaining man^ of kindly nature and greatly enjoyed the companionship of young people. He died in November^ 1904^ in London. He and his wife three years before had left Spokane for an extended tour of the old country and were on their way home when both were taken ill in London. Mrs. Pettet improved but her husband gradually failed until the end came. He -was then about eighty~six years of age. His had been a long^ well spent and honorable life, and it is said that no one who met him, even casually^ would ever forget his frank personality. He was a remarkable and unique character and a most valuable citizen. He sought out his own ways of doing good but they were effective ways, productive of immediate and substantial results. He contributed much to the pioneer development of the city, giving impetus to its industrial and commercial interests in the era which preceded the fire and also in the period that followed the great conflagration. His wise judgment and clear insight were often used for the benefit of others as well as in the conduct of his own business affairs and he stood as a splendid type of the Anglo-Saxon race who finds or makes his opportunity and uses it to the best advantage.

Stanley Alexander Easton

Stanley Alexander Easton, living in Kellogg, has since 1902 acted as manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & -Concentrating Company. His birth occurred in Santa Cruz, California, on the 17th of April, 1874, his parents being Giles A. and Mary Elizabeth (Gushee) Easton. The father, a California pioneer, was an early officer of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and later entered the ministry as one of the pioneer Episcopal clergymen of San Francisco. His demise occurred about 1896.

Stanley A. Easton supplemented his early education by a course of study in the department of mining engineering of the University of California, from which he was graduated in 1894 with the degree of E. M. He first came to Wardner, Idaho, in 1896 and as a mining engineer entered the service of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Company but was absent for several years, working at his profession in British Columbia, other parts of Idaho, Colorado, and all the principal mining centers. Returning to Wardner in 1902, he took charge of the properties of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating Company as manager and in this capacity has ably served to the present time. It has been during his administration that the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining & Concentrating . Company erected the Young Men's Christian Association building in Kellogg. In the line of his profession Mr. Easton is connected with the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the Mining Metallurgical Society of America and the Institute of* Mining & Metallurgy, of London, England.

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On the 15th of November, 1906, Mr. Easton was united in marriage to Miss Estelle Greenough of Missoula, Montana, a daughter of Thomas L. Greenough, the prominent mining and railroad man of Montana and Idaho, who passed away in July, 1911. Our subject and his wife have two children, Ruth and Jane, who were born in the years 1907 and 1910 respectively.

Mr. Easton's fraternal relations are with Wardner Lodge, No. 84, A. F. & A. M., of which he is master, and Wallace Lodge, No. 881, B. P. O. E. He is likewise a member of the Spokane Club of Spokane and belongs to the Idaho Sons of the American Revolution. His business career has been marked by steady advancement and he has ever maintained an unassailable reputation for integrity as well as enterprise.

James M. Simpson

James M. Simpson, actively engaged in the practice of law in Spokane since 1902, now has a large clientage that has connected him with much important litigation tried in the courts of this and adjoining states. He is a western man in that he was born this side of the Mississippi river, which event occurred in Knox county, Missouri, on the 1st day of January, 1860, his parents, Benjamin and Perlina Simpson, being pioneers of that county.

He entered the public schools there when a boy of six years and after completing the course of study therein prescribed, attended the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, from which institution he graduated in the full course of four years in June, 1886. Mr. Simpson first came west in 1882, locating at Deer Lodge, Montana, remaining west but a short time, when he returned to Missouri to complete his education and again came west to Deer Lodge, Montana, where he engaged in educational work until 1904, having charge of the public schools of that place. He devoted the hours that are usually termed leisure to the study of law and was admitted to the bar of that state in June, 1898. Mr. Simpson continued his educational work for a time after his admission to the bar, but has now been engaged in the active practice of his profession for about fifteen years. His careful analysis and logical deductions, and his correct application of precedent and principle to the points at issue, were factors in his success. In 1901 he became prosecuting county attorney of Powell county, Montana, serving in that capacity for nearly two years. In 1902, he resigned the office of county attorney of Powell county, Montana, and came to Spokane, where he has since continued in the practice of the law. He has a large and well selected law library and has remained a student of the principles of jurisprudence to this day. His work done before the courts has won him the recognition and admiration of his professional brethren and has awakened the confidence of the general public to an extent that bas brought him a gratifying clientage. Mr. Simpson has always taken an active interest in politics, but has not sought office, having been a candidate for office but once in his life.

Mr. Simpson was married, July 1, 1886, to Miss Kate M. Funk, a daughter of Thomas W. and Rachel Funk, of Kirksville, Missouri. Mrs. Simpson is also a graduate of the State Normal School at Kirksville, Missouri, having graduated in the class with Mr. Simpson in June^ 1886. They have one child James C. Simpson, of this city. Mr. Simpson is identified with three of the leading fraternal organizations. Holding membership in the Masonic fraternity, he has attained high rank and is now a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to Imperial Lodge, No. 184, I. O. O. F., and to Camp No. 99, W. O. W. He belongs also to the Central Christian church and these associations indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules of conduct upon which he bases his life. Those who know him - and his acquaintance is wide - have faith in his ability and his manhood and thus the circle of his friends is continually growing.

Frank Pierson Tebbetts

Frank Pierson Tebbetts, who was formerly engaged in the practice of law, but since locating in Spokane three years ago has been identified with various activities, was born and reared in Salem, Massachusetts, his birth occurring on the 29th of October, 1888. He is a son of Irving S. and Annie M. (Cunningham) Tebbetts, and in the paternal line is descended from the early Puritan settlers of New Hampshire, while his forefathers on the mother's side emigrated to America during the French and Indian war, in which some of them participated. They have been seafaring people for many generations, having long sailed out of the port of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

After the acquirement of his early education which was obtained in the public schools of his native city, Frank Pierson Tebbetts decided upon a legal career and matriculated to this end in the law department of Boston University, being awarded the degree of LL. B. with the class of 1905. While pursuing his professional studies he took up special work in the liberal arts at Harvard University, specializing in literature thereby practically doing eight years work in the space of four. Immediately following his admission to the bar of Massachusetts, he became associated with James M. Marden and they engaged in a general practice in both the criminal and civil courts of Boston under the firm name of Marden & Tebbetts. During his student days, Mr. Tebbetts became quite deeply interested in settlement work and after establishing an office in Boston he took up his residence at "South End House." This is one of the best-known and most highly successful settlements conducted in America and is under the charge of Robert A. Woods, a friend of Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, and of Toynbee Hall, London. Literary pursuits always engaged much of his time and he contributed to various publications, his products being chiefly essays of an editorial nature, and he was at one time editor and publisher of a magazine known as "The Inquisitor." He likewise organized about the same time a literary society, known as the **Bo-Tree," that numbered among its members many well known poets and writers of New England. In 1908, Mr. Tebbetts made a trip through the northwest and was most favorably impressed with Spokane, recognizing and appreciating its wonderful natural advantages, and feeling convinced that it had a great future ahead of it. He found the enterprise and enthusiasm that characterize the people in this section a very great contrast to the dignified conservatism of his native state, but it fascinated him, nevertheless, and he became so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the west that he determined to make it his home. Returning to Boston^ he disposed of all of his interests there and removed to Spokane^ with the expectation of opening a law office here^ hut there were so many advantageous openings along other lines^ that promised better returns in less time for the same amount of energy^ that he gave up all thought of continuing in his profession^ and turned his attention to other activities. He identified himself with the Chamber of Commerce and was assistant manager of the apple show in 1909^ and later he became associated with the Spokane Title Company^ of which he was assistant manager. In 1911^ he assumed charge of the city business of the Edward J. Dahm Company as secretary^ including fire^ casualty and liability insurance^ and at the present time he has under way a project to make Spokane one of the insurance centers of the west. He has already secured a number of general agencies for this city and has other contracts ready to close and others still under advisability.

This dty was the scene of the marriage of Mr. Tebbetts in June, 1911, to Miss Elizabeth A. Turrish, a daughter of James J. Turrish, who came to Spokane in 1876. He is a brother of Henry Turrish of Duluth, Minnesota, one of the well known lumber magnates of the United States. Mrs. Tebbetts is a graduate of Holy Name Academy and Normal School of Spokane, having qualified herself to teach but was married before she identified herself with that profession. She is quite talented and is a musician of more than average ability, as are also her two sisters. Mr. and Mrs. Tebbetts have a very attractive residence, built in the Swiss style, located at 744 Twelfth avenue, the hospitality of which is graciously extended to their many friends, who are always assured of being most delightfully entertained at "Chalet Alpenstein," as their home is named.

Mr. Tebbetts has always been an earnest and active worker in the Young Men's Christian Association, especially in committee work, both in Salem and since locating here. While residing in Massachusetts he was a member of the Second Corps Cadets of Salem, which was originally General Washington's company of body guards, and has for many years been the crack regiment of the state. Mr. Tebbetts is affiliated with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, belonging to Salem Lodge, No. 797, of Salem, Massachusetts, of which his father is past exalted ruler. In politics he is a progressive and while living in Salem in 1907 he represented his ward in the city council. He was also at one time secretary of the board of trade of that city. Mr. Tebbetts is a man of high ideals, who fully appreciates the bonds of humanity. He is tireless in his efforts to forward all beneficient movements, giving his support to every undertaking that he feels is at all likely to advance the welfare of the community. He believes in Spokane and is helping to build its civic and commercial future.

William Horton Foster

The life record of William Horton Foster is perhaps representative of the laws of heredity. He is not only descended from an honorable ancestry but by a most creditable record has added laurels to the family name and his son, Warren Dunham Foster, has also added notable achievement to the family record. Mr. Foster's choice of a profession was that of the law and he continues in general practice as counsel for the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company of Spokane.

A native of Montreal^ Canada^ Mr. Foster was born Jane 6, 1868. His parents were E. C. and Judith Ellen (Horton) Foster, the father being a native of Canada and a representative of an old New England family of English descent that was founded in America prior to the Revolutionary war. He became a lawyer and was assistant attorney general of the United States at the time of his death. While born across the border his parents were citizens of the United States so that he never had to take out naturalization papers. He was with the department for many years, first as general agent of the department of justice and afterward successively in different positions which finally brought him to that of assistant attorney general of the United States. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Judith Ellen Horton, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1840. She pursued her education at Lima, New York, and afterward removed to Clinton, Iowa. She studied law,' was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1872, (one of the first women to be admitted) and was associated with her husband in practice under the firm style of Foster & Foster. She became very prominent in political and temperance circles, being widely known as speaker in behalf of republican principles and as president of the Woman's Republican Association of the United States. The name of J. Ellen Foster became known from one end of the country to the other. She was very prominent in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and was superintendent of its legislative department. When that organization affiliated with the prohibition party she united with the non-partisan Women's Christian Temperance Union. She was one of the officers of the American Red Cross Society and was one of the delegates to the international convention at St. Petersburg, Russia, and ever maintained a foremost position as a noted public lecturer to the time of her death, which occurred in Washington, D. C, August 11, 1910. Her work and the notice of her demise was mentioned by the press throughout the entire country. A son, Emery M. Foster, was a prominent newspaper man, who died in New York in 1909. He was managing editor of the Chicago American, and New York and Philadelphia papers and at the time of his death was editor of the New York World.

William H. Foster pursued his education in the Northwestern University at Evanston, Illinois, and in the Albany Law School, from which he was graduated with the LL. B. degree. In 1885 he was admitted to the bar of Illinois and in 1910 was admitted to practice before the courts of Washington. He followed his profession in Geneseo from the time of his graduation until 1900 and during the succeeding nine years in Chicago. In December, 1909, he arrived in Spokane and while he specialized in the localities where he previously resided in corporation law, he engaged in general law practice for a time as a member of the firm of Cullen, Lee & Foster, leaving that firm in January 1912, to become counsel for the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company.

Mr. Foster is a recognized leader in republican ranks and has done important work as a member of county committees, being an officer of the League of Republican Clubs. He was also a member of the state executive committee of Illinois and was a delegate to several national and state conventions. He has long been interested in educational work and is a member of a number of national societies for the advancement of education along various lines, including the American Historical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the American Economic Association.

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In May, 1885, at Geneseo, Illinois, Mr. Foster was united in marriage to Miss Edith Dunham, a daughter of Charles Dunham, a lawyer with whom Mr. Foster was formerly associated in the practice of his profession under the firm style of Dunham & Foster. He was a leader in democratic circles and was elected to the state legislature in the district that had a normal republican majority. He was also repeatedly a candidate for congress in republican districts and was offered the position of ambassador to Russia by President Cleveland but declined the honor. He was very prominent in his profession, in politics and as a man and was ever recognized as a strong man in his honor and his good name. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have become parents of a son, Warren Dunham Foster, who is department editor of the Youth's Companion although only twenty-four years of age. He has a phenomenal record, having progressed by leaps and boimds. He possesses the western "ginger" and enterprise and has used these effectively in the east. His training was received on Chicago dailies and he was graduated from the Chicago University, after which he served for one year as instructor in English at the Ames University, of Ames, Iowa. He then went to the Youth's Companion to accept a temporary position but has remained with that paper continuously since. Mr. and Mrs. Foster hold membership with the Methodist Episcopal church of Spokane and are interested in the various activities which tend to uplift humanity and which bring a nearer, clearer knowledge of the political, economic and sociological conditions of the country, Mrs. Foster being president of the Spokane Young Women's Christian Association. Their influence has always been given on the side of progress, reform and improvement, and their labors have been effective forces for good.

An enterprising and highly successful young business man of Harrington is to be found in the person of T. O. Burrill, who for the past decade has been engaged in contracting and building in Lincoln county. He was bom in Umatilla county, Oregon, on the 25th of April, 1879, and is a son of Sanford and Ann (Stewart) Burrill. The father, who was a minister, followed his profession in Illinois until 1877, when together with his wife and family he came to Washington, arriving in Walla Walla on the 1st of January. He remained there for six months, when he was sent to a church in Weston, Oregon, that he retained for two years. At the expiration of that time he filed on a homestead and for several years devoted his energies to the improvement and cultivation of his ranch and for five years was in the hardware business in Adams, Oregon. In 1890 he came to Harrington and engaged in the mercantile business, but he soon disposed of this and again turned his attention to farming. Later he returned to the ministry and was so occupied for seven years. He passed away in 1909, one of the honored pioneers of the state and a veteran of the Civil war, having gone to the front as a member of a company of the Forty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

The greater part of the boyhood and youth of T. O. Burrill were passed on his father's ranch, in the cultivation of which he gave such assistance as he was able. In the acquirement of his education he attended the common schools of his native county and Harrington^ and at the age of twenty he went to Tacoma, where he attended the preparatory department of Puget Sound University for two years. He then learned the carpenter's trade^ and upon his return to Harrington he engaged in contracting and building in which he has met with gratifying success. He is not only an excellent workman but he is thoroughly reliable and trustworthy and can always be depended upon to keep his word in a business transaction. These qualities have been important factors in promoting his progress and today he is ranked as one of the foremost men in his line in the town. Although he is young he has had much experience and has been awarded contracts for many of the most important public buildings in the town, including the city hall, opera house, bank and Methodist Episcopal church, as well as many of the best residences. Mr. Burrill has prospered in a most satisfactory manner and, in addition to his fine business, is one of the stockholders in the Burrill Orchard Company of Washington^ organized by the heirs of the late Sanford Burrill.

On the 5th of December, 1907, Mr. Buirrill was united in marriage to Miss Maud Graff^ a daughter of Fred and Kate Graff, well known pioneers of Lincoln county. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burrill hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal church, in the work of which they take an active interest, while for six years he has been superintendent of the Sunday school. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, and in politics he is independent, giving his support to such men and measures as he deems best adapted to serve the highest interests of the community. Mr. Burrill is an energetic, progressive young man, who highly merits such success as he has met with, as he always applies himself closely to his business in the conduct of which he conforms to the highest standards of commercial integrity.

Arthur R. Blewett

The industrial enterprises of Spokane find a worthy and well known representative in Arthur R. Blewett, who is the secretary and general manager of the Northwest Harvester Company, an enterprise that has excellent equipment and is well established on the road to success. A native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Arthur R. Blewett was born June 14, 1877, of the marriage of Alexander Chapman Blewett and Galveston Stone. The mother was named for her native city, Galveston, Texas, and belonged to an old southern family, prominent in antebellum days. She was of English descent, as was her husband, who was a native of Kentucky. The latter died in California, in 1898, and his wife passed away in 1901. In their family were three sons and two daughters: Arthur R. ; Hannibal C, who is living in Turlock, California; Roy V., of the same place; Miss Betsy Stark, of Spokane; and Effie, who is also living in Spokane.

Arthur R. Blewett, taken to California in his boyhood days, his parents removing to that state in 1890, supplemented his public-school course by study in San Joaquin Valley College at Woodbridge, California. After putting aside his text-books he engaged in farming ninety-five hundred acres of land at Turlock, Stanislaus, California, but withdrew from agricultural pursuits in 1906 and went upon the road as a traveling salesman for The Holt Manufacturing Company, at Stockton, California, with which he was connected six years. He traveled over the northwest territory, covering Oregon, Washington, Montana and Canada, and in 1907 was made the district manager for the company at Spokane, continuing in that position through the years 1908 and 1909. Since then he has been the secretary and manager of the Northwest Harvester Company, of which he was one of the organizers. They make a specialty of side hill combined harvesters and build two types of machines - one called the Northwest Side Hill Combined Harvester, and the other the Blewett Side Hill Combined Harvester. The inventions and patents of the latter are owned by Mr. Blewett. In addition to the manufacture and sale of harvesters, the company conducts a general foundry and machine shop business, builds a variety of special machinery and does all kinds of repair work. They have completed their second year in business and in ten months their output in machines amoimted to over eighty thousand dollars. They now have plans for the building of sixty machines for the year 1912, which will represent over one hundred thousand dollars. The company owns its own plant adjoining Spokane, with four acres of ground, and has an exceptionally good class of all brick factory buildings, with concrete floors, numbering nine. Modem machinery has been installed and everything is planned for the rapid filling of orders. They have won notable success since embarking in this enterprise and not a little of the result is attributable to Arthur R. Blewett, whose previous experience with The Holt Manufacturing Company well qualified him to undertake the duties that devolve upon him in his present connection. The Northwest Harvester Company has the following officers: Ben C. Holt, president and treasurer; C. Parker Holt, vice president; and Arthur R. Blewett, manager and secretary. The business is capitalized for three hundred thousand dollars.

In addition to his other interests, Mr. Blewett owqs> an irrigated ranch at Turlock, California, which he is now improving. He belongs to the Spokane Club, to the Spokane Athletic Club and also to the Chamber of Commerce. His political views are in accord with the principles of the democratic party and he keeps well informed on the questions of the day but does not seek nor desire office, feeling that his time and attention are fully occupied by business affairs, which are growing in volume and importance and which have already won him recognition as an enterprising and successful business man of his adopted city.

G. W. Finney, president of the Union State Bank of Odessa, was the founder of the town in the development of which he has always taken a prominent part, being one of the foremost citizens and most progressive business men in the place. He is a native of Missouri, his birth having occurred in Linn county, on the 24th of June, 1861, his parents being Franklin and Nancy J. (Hizer) Finney. The father was a native of Virginia and the mother of Kentudcy, but they were long residents of Linn county, where the father engaged in agricultural pursuits.

G. W. Finney was given the advantages of a good practical education in the district and public schools of his native county, where he passed tlie first twenty years of his life. In 1881, he left home and started out to make his own way in the world. In common with the majority of young men of that period he felt that better opportunities were to be afforded in the west so he went to Colorado and worked in the mines for several years. At the end of that time he returned to Missouri but only remained a year or two, when he decided to come to the northwest. He arrived in Lincoln county in the spring of 1886 and immediately thereafter filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. Having been reared on a farm he was thoroughly familiar with agricultural pursuits and stock raising, and was in every way well qualified to make a success of the cultivation of his ranch. A man of clear judgment and thoroughly practical in his ideas, he directed his undertakings with intelligence, and although he met with the usual discouragements and obstacles that confront the pioneers in every section, he possessed the determination of purpose and confidence in his own powers that carried him on to success. During the succeeding years he met with constantly increasing prosperity, and had brought his land under high cultivation and had it well improved when the Great Northern Railroad Company extended their lines through this section of Lincoln county in 1892. They passed directly through Mr. Finney's ranch, and being a man of much foresight and perspicacity he naturally recognized the wonderful opportunity and advantage this afforded him, and determined to utilize it to his own benefit. There was no settlement in this immediate vicinitv at that period, and with the improved transportation facilities settlers began coming into the country in constantly increasing numbers, and Mr. Finney began formulating plans for the location of a town site on his homestead. He had these entirely completed and his land platted and laid out ready for settlement before 1898. About the same time he established a lumberyard here and not only sold lots to the new-comers but also supplied them with all building materials. The location was a most excellent one and the town, which had been incorporated and named Odessa, grew with amazing rapidity and is now one of the most prosperous and thriving villages in Lincoln county. Mr. Finney has been tireless in his efforts to promote its development along the various lines and has erected four of the largest and most substantial business blocks in the town. In 1902 he became associated with other citizens in the organization of the Odessa State Bank, and was one of the directors of this institution and later became the vice president. Its development was promoted with very good success until 1911 when it became consolidated with the First National Bank. In 1911 both of these institutions were liquidated, and the Union State Bank was organized with Mr. Finney as president;. Joseph Kriegler and William R. Lesley, vice presidents; Charles T. Deetz, cashier; and Henry Ryke, assistant cashier. Mr. Finney has been financially interested in various local enterprises, and he still engages in the lumber and real-estate business. He is a very public-spirited man and is always ready to give his indorsement and cooperation to every movement that will forward the financial, moral, intellectual or social welfare of the community. He is an active member of the Odessa Commercial Club, and enthusiastically champions its various undertakings. In addition to his extensive town property, he is the owner of two thousand acres of fine wheat land that he is leasing.

G. W. Finney was twice married, his first union with Miss Mary S. Ray took place in Colorado and of the children born of this marriage two survive, Trella D. and Pearl M. Mrs. Finney passed away in Odessa in 1891. On February 25, 1893, Mr. Finney was married at Odessa, to Miss Emma Durland.

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Mr. Finney is chairman of the board of trustees of the Methodist Episcopal cuurch, with which his family also affiliate^ and he is also a member of the Odd FeUows fraternity. His political support he gives to the democratic party, and although he is actively interested in local governmental affairs has always refused to accept office barring that of member of the board of education, of which he now serves as president. He has been connected with this board for eight years. He is one of the representative citizens of the town and belongs to the type of men to whose energies and progressive ideas the northwest is indebted for its rapid and substantial development. Mr. Finney is widely known throughout Lincoln county and is generally accorded the esteem and respect his powers of organization and executive ability as well as general business sagacity so highly merit.

John J. Moak

There is something in the free, open life of the west that brings out the strongest elements of manhood, that calls forth the real worth of the individual and in riding the range in early manhood John J. Moak became self-reliant, resolute and determined and thus laid the foundation for his advancement and success in later years. He is today well known as a mining engineer and real-estate dealer of Spokane and his life typifies in large measure the progressive spirit which dominates the Pacific coast country. He was born in the state of New York, August 28, 1859, one of two sons of Levi and Cecelia (Van Naton) Moak, who were also natives of New York. His ancestors came to America with Peter Stuyvesant and settled on the Hudson river. They were originally from Holland and in later generations the family was represented in the Revolutionary war. Levi Moak remained a resident of the Empire state until 1858, when by way of Panama and Aspinwall he made his way to California, becoming one of the pioneer residents of that state. He filled the office of assessor of Butte county for many years and well known as a leading citizen of his district. His wife, who is also a, representative of an old Holland family, is now living in Charleston, Idaho, but Mr. Moak passed away in 1900. Jacob E. Moak, one of their sons, is now a resident of Silver Hill, Washington. The two daughters are: Mrs. Fannie L. Kirkpatrick, also of Silver Hill ; and Mrs. Carrie Vadney, of Clarkston, Idaho.

In the public schools of California John J. Moak pursued his early education, which was supplemented by study in the State University at Eugene, Oregon, where he specialized in mineralogy, metalurgy and chemistry. His first business experience, however, was in riding the range in California, Oregon and Nevada, and thus his time was occupied until he reached the age of twenty-three years. He then engaged in mining at Canyon City, Oregon, where he remained . for &ve or six years, connected with both quartz and placer mining. Later he engaged in placer mining in Susanville, Oregon, and from there went to the Coeur d'Alenes where tie remained in 1 884-5, doing placer mining. He next located in Farmington and Tekoa, where he carried on general merchandising for two years, and subsequently he again became interested in mining operations at Susanville. At Baker City, Oregon, he engaged in both placer and quartz mining and then went to Boise, Idaho, where he followed placer mining until he located in the Bohemia district above Eugene, Oregon, where he spent four years.

On the expiration of that period Mr. Moak went to the Black Rock district in northern Nevada as a placer miner and later was connected. with the lumber and wood business for a year in Plumas and Shasta counties^ in northern California. After spending three months in exaptiining copper properties in the Washoe river country he went to Shaniko^ Oregon, and invested in city property. While residing there he acted as superintendent of the waterworks and street grading but left that place to go to the Coeur d'Alenes where he devoted ten years to placer and quartz mining. Again he returned to Spokane and entered into the real-estate business as a partner of C. C. Barnard. In September, 1910, he purchased an interest in the Garmen Realty & Building Company with which he has since been connected, and has also been identified with placer interests in Idaho. They have &ye hundred and forty acres lying along California creek, in Idaho county, Idaho. Work is there carriei on under the name of the Humboldt Quartz Placer Milling Company with Mr. Moak as general manager and superintendent. They have a ditch two miles long with fourteen hundred feet of steel pipe, two No. 2 giants and two hundred feet head. The work has just been begun and the ground assays from one to twenty dollars per yard, giving a general average of two dollars and a half per yard. It is estimated the contents of deposits are six hundred feet on one channel, four hundred feet wide, with an average depth of thirty-five feet. There are eight claims a mile long and a quarter of a mile wide with a creek channel through the center, and the average depth is fifty feet. There is plenty of water and dumpage witb pressure to spare and the claims are to be worked by the hydraulic method.

While at Susanville Mr. Moak was foreman of the Humboldt mine and he owned ground at Marysville that he worked. He was foreman for the Coeur d'Alene Placer Company and was also foreman for Keney Brothers at Macy Ridge, Susanville. He had the Gardner placer diggings at Granite under lease and worked that property for two seasons. He was also foreman and superintendent for the Elk Creek placer mines at Baker City and foreman at Baker City for the Second Creek Placer Mining Company. He was connected with the Noonday mine and mill at Boheniia, acting as mill boss. At Murray he was connected with the Golden Chest mill, dividing four years between mill and mine. He afterward secured a lease on the Fancy Gulch placers in Eagle Creek district near Murray which he worked for two years.

Mr. M^ak is prominently known in the Knights of Pythias lodge in which he has filled all of the chairs and is now past chancellor commander. While in Oregon he became identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen but has since drop{>ed his membership. In politics he is an active republican and while in Oregon represented his party in county and state conventions. He also served on the republican county central committee for several terms and did all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the party. In 1 876 he served as a member of the Walla Walla Home Guards which comprises his military experience save that while in Butte county, California, he had a number of skirmishes with the Indians who at that time would plunder the farms of the settlers. He often had to live out in the brush two or three days at a time in order to protect his home. The Mill Creek Indians were then known as the Big Foot tribe and occasioned considerable trouble to the settlers. There is no phase of pioneer life on the Pacific coast with which Mr. Moak is not familiar and few men are more thoroughly informed concerning its mining development and all the hardships and difficulties incident to the life of the miner. He has, however, lived to enjoy much of the success which is to be attained from the development of the rich mineral resources of the country and because of the extent and importance of his operations and his work he is well known.

Ernest D. Weller

Ernest D. Weller, of the firm of McWilliams, Weller & McWilliams and a representative of the Spokane bar, was born at New London, Iowa, September 18, 1888, his parents being William L. and Martha M. (Roberts) Weller. The father was a prominent agriculturist of Iowa and had four children.

Ernest D. Weller pursued his education in the public schools of New London, completing his literary course by graduation from the Iowa Wesleyan University in 1904. Subsequently he became a student in the law department of the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1908. Upon being admitted to the bar he immediately settled at Cheney, where he remained for two years, during which time he served one year as city attorney. In 1910 he came to Spokane to become a member of his present firm and has since been engaged in the practice of law in this city. He does not concentrate his energies up6n any special line but engages in general practice and has secured a good clientage,' which is proof of his ability, as the public does not place its legal interests in unskilled hands.

On the 24th of August, 1909, Mr. Weller was married, at Burlington, Iowa, to Miss Grace M. Jackman, a daughter of George B. and Sadie A. Jackman. Mr. and Mrs. Weller have one daughter, Elizabeth. Mr. Weller holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce. He possesses admirable social qualities and that spirit of courtesy and kindliness which has gained for him an extensive circle of friends during his two years' residence in this city. The family home is at East 920 DeSmet avenue.

Harry A. Flood

Harry A. Flood is justlv classed with the wide-awake, alert business men of Spokane, for he has contributed in substantial manner to the progress and rapid development of the city, his business affairs being largely of a nature that has promoted general activity and prosperity as well as individual success. He is recognized as one of the leading factors in The Trustee Company of Spokane which owns and controls a number of the best business blocks of the city, and his keen sagacity, enterprise and determination have been salient features in the organization and management of this company which ranks second to none of the kind in the Inland Empire.

Mr. Flood is yet a young man to whom undoubtedly the future holds out much promise. He was born in Decatur, Illinois, May 9, 1878, a son of Henry and Catherine (Bricker) Flood. The family is of Irish lineage, having been estab- lished in America by the great-great-grandfather of Harry A. Flood, who, leaving the Emerald isle, crossed the Atlantic to the new world while this country was still numbered among the colonial possesions of Great Britain. His father, Henry Flood, now residing in Spokane is a native of Kentucky and for a considerable period operated extensively in real estate in the northwest, his success enabling him at length to put aside business cares, and live retired in the enjoyment of the fruits of his former toil. His wife is a native of Ohio and in their family were four sons, of whom William C. and Frank M. are both deceased. The living brother of Harry A. Flood is John R. Flood, now master mechanic of the Blackwell Lumber Company at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.