Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 10 of 23)

Charles R. Hesseltine acquired his education in the public schools of Clackamas county, Oregon, and Lincoln county, Washington, pursuing his studies through successive grades until he became a high-school student. Early in his business career he traveled all over the west as a representative for a publishing house, and in 1902 he took up his residence in Seattle, where he entered the promotion field. He possesses marked powers of organization and his administrative direction and executive force have been elements in the successful conduct of various projects which he has instituted and established. He readily sees and seizes upon the opportunity for the establishment of a business that promises success and his efforts in this connection have contributed largely to the commercial activity and consequent prosperity of the northwest. He organized the Pacific Fish Canning Machinery Company, of which he became the secretary and treasurer, and the machines of this company are now being used in every thoroughly modern can- nery in the United States, for one machine will do the work that was formerly done by two hundred Chinamen. Mr. Hesseltine has also organized and financed several successful campaigns which have resulted in the formation of the Comstock-Golden Gate Mining Company, the Washington Meteor Mining Company of Chelan county, Washington, and the Rogers-Hesseltine Company, a real-estate holding company. In the fall of 1908 he came to Spokane and organized the United Securities Company, which does a general financing and promotion business, being the means of bringing worthy and financially sound improvements and investments to the attention of capital. Thus by bringing together the promoters and men of financial standing the business has been operating to the best welfare of the city and many substantial structures during the past four years have been erected as the outcome of its activity. Mr. Hesseltine has also recently organized the Iceless Refrigerator Manufacturing Company, which is proving to be a paying undertaking, and one of his recent inceptions is what is known as the Empire State Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing a new patented floor scraper. Ever since a boy he has been of an inventive turn of mind and shown a natural ability as draftsman. This genial gift has found a practical outlet in a number of useful articles which are the fruit of his fertile brain, among them a potato planter, a device plowing at the same time the ground and planting potatoes. Among others of his notable inventions are a mechanical device for the raising and lowering of buggy tops and an automatic combination breast and wall drill for iron and metal work. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and is in thorough sympathy with its purjjose of instituting publicity measures which vnll make known the advantages of the city and in promoting projects for adorning and improving Spokane in many ways.

On the 11th of March, 1907, Mr. Hesseltine was married to ]SIiss Lillian Fairbanks, a daughter of William and Katherine Fairbanks, of Rutland, Vermont, and a niece of ex-Vice President Fairbanks. The attractive residence of Mr. and Mrs. Hesseltine at No. 2506 Garfield road was erected by him in the year 1911.

Mr. Hesseltine has never become activel_y interested in social orders or clubs, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs. He recognizes the fact that the present and not the future holds his opportunity and therefore makes each passing hour count for the utmost in his business activities. To build up rather than to destroy is his broad policy and not alone has he followed constructive measures but also attacks everything with a contagious enthusiasm that has won him the support and cooperation of many.

Hon. Harry Rosenhaupt

Hon. Harry Rosenhaupt, serving for the second term as a member of the state senate, has long been a recognized leader in political circles in S]X)kane as well as a prominent member of the bar. In both fields laudable ambition, devotion to duty and fitness for leadership have placed him above the majority of his fellows. He was born in Peru, Illinois, January 27, 1869, a son of Joseph and Johanna Rosenhaupt, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume. He became a public-school student in La Salle, Illinois, and for two years attended the Uni versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, from which he was graduated with the class oi 1900, the degree of Bachelor of Laws being then conferred upon him. In the meantime he had become a resident of Spokane in 1886 and had spent several years in clerking and later on connected with the Chicago Clothing Company in this city. In various ways he came into closer and closer contact with public interests and his gradual rise to prominence in connection with the public welfare of the city has come to him in marked recognition of his ability and worth. In early days he belonged to the volunteer fire department, becoming a charter member of the Tiger Hook and Ladder Companj', of which the present chief was then captain. Mr. Rosenhaupt was on duty in 1889 when the city of Spokane was practically reduced to ashes. Determining upon the practice of law as a life work, he spent some time as a student in the law office of Adolph Munter in 1899, and following the completion of his law course in the Michigan State University he formed a partnership with Robertson & Miller, the association being maintained until 1910. In the latter year he joined Harry L. Cohn in a partnership under the firm name of Cohn & Rosenhaupt, and for a year Bruce Blake was also connected with them but has now withdrawn. From the outset of his professional career he has enjoyed a large and distinctively representative practice that has connected him with some of the most important litigation tried in the courts of the district. He is recognized as a strong trial lawyer and equally able as a counselor.

Mr. Rosenhaupt's gift of oratory has not only proved of value in his court work but also in his political connections. He is ever ready to support his position by intelligent argument that indicates wide reading and research and thorough familiarity with the subject under discussion. He has always supported the republican party and in 1899 was elected to represent his district in the house of representatives and again in 1901, so that legislative service was familiar to him when in 1906 he was chosen to the upper house from the seventh senatorial district for a four years' term. In 1910 he was reelected senator and during the session of 1911 was chosen chairman of the judiciary committee. He also served on the appropriation committee and several other important committees and was the author of the Rosenhaupt freight rate bill which was defeated by only one vote. He is an active working member on the floor of the senate and in committee relations and has done splendid service in his comprehensive investigation of the questions under discussion, proving, therefore, a valuable member of the senate. Mr. Rosenhaupt has repeatedly been a member of the city and county committees of the republican party and also of the executive committee, and has been chosen delegate to several state conventions. He was chairman of the city convention when Frank Boyd was nominated for mayor and member of thp executive committee when E. L. Powell was elected mayor.

Aside from political office Mr. Rosenhaupt has done important public work. In 1909 he was largely instrumental in raising the sum of thirty thousand dollars for the entertainment of the irrigation congress held in Spokane. He was appointed on the committee to receive President McKinley on his visit to the west, but owing to the illness of his wife the president was obliged to change his itinerary when he reached San Francisco. Mr. Rosenhaupt also served as one of the legislative committee appointed to escort President Taft on his trip through the state in 1909 and was one of the arbitration committee acting on behalf of the rights of Spokane when the differences between the people of Spokane and the Coeur d'Alene miners was being settled. For many years he has been an active member of the Sons of Veterans and was head officer for the state of Washington in 1901-2, being succeeded in that position by Senator Wesley L. Jones. As a member of the Chamber of Commerce he cooperates in all the progressive movements instituted by that organization for the upbuilding of the city and the exploitation of its advantages. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 3-t, A. I. & A. M., and in the consistory has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He likewise belongs to Spokane Camp, No. 99, W. O. W. ; Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E.; and to the B'nai B'rith. Of the latter he is a past president and has repeatedly been delegate to the grand lodge. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Jewish Temple.

On the 17th of September, 1902, Mr. Rosenhaupt was married to Miss Estelle Mayer, a daughter of Henry Mayer, a business man of Chicago, Illinois, and unto this union have been born three children: Julian M., June 15, 1903; Johanna May, June 15, 1906; and June Estelle, born June 28, 1908. The history of Harry Rosenhaupt is the record of one whose intellectual merit and constantly developing powers have brought him to prominence, his worth and ability in his profession, in citizensliip and in private life being attested by the consensus of public opinion.

Raymond E. Howlett

Raymond E. Howlett, bookkeeper and office manager in the lone mill of the Panhandle Lumber Company, was one of the first employes in this plant, which has been in operation for the past three years. He was born in Sauk county, Wisconsin, on the 7th of August, 1888, and is a son of William and Margaret (Quirk) Howlett. The father was a pioneer of the Badger state, having come there from the province of Quebec, Canada, in 1855, locating in the lumber region where for many years he was employed as a woodsman.

Reared in the state of his birth, Raymond E. Howlett obtained his education in the graded and high schools of Spring Green, Wisconsin, and in the business college at Wausau, being graduated from the latter institution in 1906. After the completion of his commercial course he was qualified to begin his business career, possessing the essential theoretical knowledge necessary to enable him to seek a clerical position. In common with the majority of young men, when able to begin working for himself he felt an impelling desire to leave the vicinity with which he had been familiar since childhood, and to begin his new life amid entirely different surroundings. This was made possible by his obtaining a position as bookkeeper at Eureka, Montana, where he located in 1906, very shortly after his graduation from business college. That he was an efficient and thoroughly capable employe is manifested by the fact that he continued in the service of this company for three years. During that period he obtained the position he now holds, coming here when the Panhandle Lumber Company first began to break the ground for their lone plant. This is the best equipped and most thoroughly modern sawmill in the world and is operated entirely by electricity.

Mr. Hewlett is a very enterprising and industrious young man, ambitious to rise in the world but sufficiently practical to realize that advancement at his age must necessarily be somewhat slow, as naturally he has had but little opportunity to evidence his powers or latent possibilities. As an employe he is efficient in the discharge of his duties conscientiously applying himself to every task in full recognition of his responsibilities.

Hon. Richard B. Blake

On the pages of Washington's judicial history the name of Hon. Richard B. Blake figures prominently by reason of his service as judge of the superior court for the district comprised of Spokane and Stevens counties. He was ever a brilliant although unpretentious member of the bar during the period of his connection with the profession here, his ability being widely recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries in the practice of law. It was not alone, however, his high standing as an attorney but also his high character as a man and 'citizen that won for him the warm regard and honor in which he was uniformly held. He was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, March 14, 1850, and died on the 15th of June, 1900. His father, John Blake, was a prominent farmer of that county and upon the homestead farm the son was reared to the age of sixteen years, devoting the summer months to the work of the fields and the winter seasons to the acquirement of his education in the district schools. He afterward went to Danville, Indiana, where he pursued a preparatory course of study and then entered De Pauw Universitj', from which he won his Bachelor of Science degree, being graduated from that institution in 1872. In the meantime he had also taken up the study of law and in October of that year was admitted to the bar. He had previously completed the classical course in De Pauw University as a graduate of 1870 and in his college days became a member of the Phi Gamma Delta.

Judge Blake entered upon law practice at Danville, becoming junior partner of the firm of Hogate & Blake, his associate in practice being later a member of the supreme court of that state. For sixteen years Judge Blake continued a member of the Danville bar, making continuous advancement in practice and at one time holding the office of prosecuting attorney. The west with its growing opportunities attracted him in 1888 and in that year he arrived in Spokane, where he opened a law office in connection with Colonel William M. Bidpath, -mih whom he practiced until October, 1889. In that year Mr. Blake was elected judge of the superior court for Spokane and Stevens counties and remained upon the bench for four years, his record as a judge being in harmony with his record as a man and citizen, distinguished by the utmost loyalty and by a masterful grasp of every problem presented for solution. In 1893 he resumed the private practice of law and became senior partner of the firm of Blake & Post, in which connection he practiced until his death. He possessed a keen, analytical mind and his presentation of his cause was ever characterized by clear reasoning, logical deduction and correct application of legal principles. That he had the honor and respect of his fellow practitioners in indicated in the fact that he was called to the presidency of the Spokane County Bar Association and was elected vice president of the State Bar Association. His name was prominently brought forth in connection with the candidacy for governor on the silver republican ticket but he expressed his unwillingness to leave the active practice of his profession. His name was also mentioned in connection ^vith supreme court honors and in 1896 he was tendered the democratic nomination for maj'or of Spokane but was unwilling to enter public life. He always regarded his profession as his chief interest and was connected wiih much prominent litigation, including the case which H. T. Cowley brought against the Northern Pacific Railroad, in which Judge Blake acted as counselor for the plaintiff. The action was brought to determine the title of about one hundred and twenty acres of land and finally the case went to the supreme court of the United States, where a final decision was rendered in favor of Mr. Blake's client.

On the 22d of December, 1871, in Danville, Indiana, Judge Blake was united in marriage to Miss Antoinette E. Moore, a daughter of Jacob K. and Phoebe Moore, both natives of Danville. They became parents of two sons: Jacob M., who is a graduate of the Ann Arbor Law School and is now living in San Francisco ; and Robert B., who was graduated from the Chicago University and is now a leading attorney of this city. The death of Judge Blake occurred in 1900 and in his passing Spokane lost a man whom she honored highly as a representative lawyer and citizen. He certainly deserved much credit for what he accomplished. He started out in life without capital or assistance and won his way to a leading place as a representative of the Washington bench and bar. As his labors brought to him financial return he made extensive and judicious investment in real estate which netted him a handsome profit in later years. He held membership in the Vincent Episcopal church and in matters of citizenship could always be counted upon to further progressive projects for the public good. He possessed marked literary taste and was also a lover of music. He read broadly and made that which he read his own. His life record is worthy of study, showing the forcefulness of industry, persistency and honorable purpose. He was a man who in every relation of life was found faultless in honor, fearless in conduct and stainless in reputation.

Elmer Devando Olmsted not only enjoys an enviable reputation as a leading physician and surgeon of Spokane, but has also been prominently connected with civic interests and has been honored with many positions of public trust. Under his administration as mayor a vast amoiuit of public improvement was done and the work of paving the city streets was initiated. All through the j'ears of his manhood his life has been one of untiring activity, fruitful in its results, and for almost a quarter of a century his history has been closely interwoven with that of Spokane.

Dr. Olmsted is a native of Davenport, Delaware county. New York, liis birth having occurred on the 6th of June, 18i9. His father, Stephen S. Olmsted, who was also bom in the Empire state, died at the venerable age of eighty-seven years. He was a second cousin of Martin Van Burcn, president of the United States, and was of Holland descent. In earlv life he learned the cabinet-maker's trade.

which he followed both in the east and after his removal to the west. He was also somewhat prominent in local affairs, serving for eight years as postmaster of Victoria, Illinois. He married Clara McMorris, also a native of New York, and her death occurred about 1885, when she was seventy-five years of age. In the family were six sons and four daughters: William H., deceased, who was a farmer of Illinois ; Jolin R., who was at one time a prominent political leader of St. Marys, South Dakota, but is now deceased; James L., who follows merchandising in Victoria, Illinois ; Stephen Armstrong, a farmer of North Dakota ; Walter Morris, a traveling salesman living in Nebraska ; Mary, who died in infancy ; Phoebe A., who was the widow of P. A. Harrington and the grandmother of Dr. W. W. Harrington, of Spokane, died at the age of seventy years; Lucy J., the wife of William Overlander, of Victoria, Illinois; and Sarah I., the wife of Alfred Waffle, also of Victoria.

The other member of the family is Dr. Elmer D. Olmsted, whose early education was acquired in the common and high schools of Illinois. He was yet a youth in his teens when he enlisted for service in the Civil war, in defense of the Union cause, but was rejected on account of being under size. Taking up the study of medicine, he was graduated from the Missouri Homeopathic Medical College of St. Louis with the degree of M. D., and entered upon practice at Plymouth, Illinois, in 1877. There he remained through a decade and in 1887 came to Spokane, where he has since resided. In the disastrous fire wliich swept over the citj' in 1889 he lost all of his personal effects, but liis ability and devotion to his professional duties won him a constantly growing business and for many years he has been regarded as one of the most capable and successful physicians and surgeons of the city. He has been a constai/t student of the science of medicine and of the best medical literature, keeping in touch with the progressive work that is being done by the most eminent members of the profession. He also promotes his knowledge through his membership in the American Medical Association, the American Medical Institute and the Spokane County Medical Society of wliich he is now serving as president. He was also honored with the presidency of the Washington State Homeopatliic Medical Society, to which he still belongs. He has served for a term as a member of the board of health of Spokane, is a member of the medical staff of St. Luke's Hospital, has served for six years as a member of the state medical examining board and has ever taken an active part in upholding the standard of practice in this city. He discharges liis duties with a high sense of conscientious obligation and with strict regard to the etliics of the profession.

WHiile heavy demands have been made upon his time and attention in the practice of medicine. Dr. Olmsted has yet found opportunity for cooperation in many public movements whereby the welfare and upbuilding of the city have been promoted. He has always been in sympathy with republican principles yet not to the extent of partisanship that precludes his action with an independent movement where no issues are involved. He stands for good citizensliip and municipal integrity above all things and never wavered from his position during his service as mayor of Spokane, to which office he was elected on the citizens ticket for a period of two years, beginning in 1897. He advocated many practical measures of reform, improvement and progress. During his administration the first city paving was done. Riverside and Howard streets being thus improved. It was also during his administration that the Chamber of Commerce was organized, Dr. Olmsted be- ing one of the most influential factors in cifecting the organization. It was a difficult undertaking to organize forces in this connection, but when once the work was instituted it has been continuously carried for^vard with results of constantly increasing usefulness and value. He was chosen its first president and continued as its chief executive officer for five years. He afterward continued in positions of trust for a long time but the press of personal business finally compelled him to resign. Sixteen years ago he took part in the organization of the Spokane Savings & Loan Society, of which he is the president. He has been a member of the United States pension examining board for eighteen years and for the greater part of the time has served as its secretary. He was also president of the State Normal School at Cheney, Washington, for a number of years, and is one of those to whom credit is due for the completion of the building of that school. He was appointed for a six j'ears' term but resigned before it was completed on account of the demands of his profession.

Dr. Olmsted has been married twice and by his first wife had two children: Amy Lois, now the wife of Bert Taylor; and Carrie Edna, who was the wife of Fred Taylor and died in 1903. On the 15th of May, 1881, Dr. Olmsted was united in marriage to Miss Emma L. Sutton, who was born in Illinois. His appreciation of comradeship and friendship causes him to enter into social interests with marked zest. He belongs to the Inland Club and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, but is most prominent in the Masonic fraternity, in which he has acquired high honors. He has filled most of the offices in the lodge, the consistory, and the shrine, serving as master of the lodge for five terms, while at the present time he is commander-in-chief of Oriental Consistory, No. 2, S. P. R. S., which position he has filled for the past fourteen years. Upon him has been accorded the honor of election to the thirty-third degree and he holds the second highest office \rithin the gift of the fraternity in Washington as deputy for the sovereign grand inspector general for Alaska and Washington, filling the position under Ernest B. Hussey. He has many traits admirable and worthy of all praise and among his noble qualities is his large capacity for friendship.

Edward B. Zane

Edward B. Zane, who is the agent for the Packard motor cars, with offices at the comer of Sprague and Jefferson streets, was born in Philadelphia, on the 7th of February, 1884, a son of Charles S. and Jane (Breece) Zane. The father is a prominent attorney of Philadelphia, where the family reside.

Edward B. Zane pursued his education in the public schools of his native city but in ISOt moved to Seattle. He was connected with the engineering department of the Moran Ship Building Company, the Seattle Engineering Company and later the Seattle Electric Company. In these various positions he acquired a good knowledge of engineering and of mechanic.il construction. In 1907 he became identified wiih the automobile business, being employed by Nute & Keena, who were the agents in the northwest for the Packard Motor Company. He came to Spokane in 1909 and handled the Spokane business but in June, 1910, he was appointed rej}- resentative for the entire Inland Empire district. Their show, rooms were located first at 1122 First avenue but in June, 1911, they moved to the new rooms which were especiaUj- built for them. There were then but three Packard motor cars in this city but now there are over thirty-five. They are also giving special attention to commercial trucks and there are now seven three-ton trucks in use in this citj-. They maintain both a salesroom and service station but do not carry on garage work. On the 16th of June, 1909, Mr. Zane was united in marriage, at Seattle, to Miss Betty Williams, a daughter of H. R. Williams, of that city. They have one daughter, Elizabeth Barbara. Mr. Zane is a member of the Spokane Club and the Spokane Country Club. In his business life he displays marked ability in developing and increasing the business of the company which he represents and in the constantly enlarging patronage accorded this company is seen the success which has rewarded his labors.

Charles F. Clough

Among the veterans of the Civil war who are now residing in Spokane is numbered Charles F. Clough. who for four years valiantly defended the union cause, bravely facing the enemy on many hotly contested battlefields. He has been equally loyal to his country in days of peace and has done much important service, especially while filling the office of city councilman and mayor of Spokane. He is also prominently associated with business interests in the northwest, being an extensive real-estate dealer of Spokane and a stockholder and director in various corporate interests.

Mr. Clough was born at Cumberland. Rhode Island, December 26, 1843. a son of Zera and Sally M. (Cook) Clough. The father, who was born in Connecticut, belonged to an old New England family, of Scotch-Irish descent, was engaged for many years in freighting between Providence and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, before the advent of the railroads. He died in 1849. His wife, who was born in Rhode Island and was of English, lineage, died in 1892. Their family numbered two sons, the brother of our subject being George H. Clough who is now residing in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Mr. Clough's educational facilities in early life were very limited, and confined to country schools during winter terms, like other lads in those days who followed farming as a vocation. In 1861 when in his eighteenth year, he responded to the cormtry's call for volunteers, the rebellion in the south having aroused his patriotic nature and he in the opening year of the struggle joined Company E. Fourth Rhode Island Regiment of Volunteer Infantry, serving from the 8th of September, 1861, until the 25th of July, 1865. He served as a non-commissioned officer in Bumside's campaign in North Carolina in the winter and spring of 1861-2, during the siege and capture of Roanoke island, on the 7th and 8th of February, 1862, and at the battle of Newbern, N. C March 14. 1862. Later he participated in the siege of Fort Macon, which surrendered on the 25th of April of that year, and w4th most of Bumside's forces was transferred from North Carolina to Washington, D. C, leaving the old North state on the oth of July, 1862, then being attached to the Army of the Potomac in routing Lee's forces and driving them out of Maryland. Mr. Clough participated in the battle of South Moun- tain, September 14, 186:2. and that of Antietam. on the 17th of September. After the rout of Lee's army in Maryland he went to Fredericksburg, West Virginia, and was in the battle of that place on the 14th and 15th of December. In the early spring of 1863 his division was transferred to Portsmouth, Virginia, Mr. Clongh remaining in that country for several months, during which his regiment participated in a number of skirmishes near Suffolk, Virginia. Later in that year he was transferred back to the Army of the Potomac and his regiment was on detached duty several months guarding Confederate prisons at Point Lookout, Maryland. Early in the spring of 1864 he was again attached to the Army of the Potomac and took part in several engagements near Petersburg. While at Petersburg his company was stationed directly in front of the town at the point opposite where the rebel fort was undermined, and blown up on July 30, 1864. being followed by one of the noted battles of that year. The regiment was then transferred to Fort Sedgwick, conunonly known as "Fort Hell," on the Jerusalem plank road leading to Petersburg. They remained there until April 2, 1865, under an almost continuous engagement, on the date mentioned a general advance was made on Lee's army, resulting in Lee's being driven from Petersburg and Richmond. The L'nion troops followed the Confederate army until the surrender at Appomattox on the 9th of April, 1865. Mr. Clough was then transferred to a ptoint near Alexandria, Virginia, where he remained until his regiment was sent home to be mustered out in July, 1865. Following the surrender of Lee and other armies south of there in !May, 1865, there was a splendid military pageant held in Washington, being a review of the Army of the Potomac and of Sherman's army which required two full days. In this event Mr. Clough participated, being one of the many thousands of the hero band who passed up the avenue amid the applause of thousands of people who lined the street on each side.

Soon after being mustered out of the army Mr. Clough and one of his old comrades entered the market business, and when he sold out in that line he devoted two years to general merchandising at Woonsocket, Rhode Island. He afterward engaged in the sale of sewing machines and pianos and from 1874 until 1876 inclusive was largely engaged in handling patent right interests, the business taking him to Chicago in 1S76. From that point he went to San Francisco, where for six years he was employed as a commercial traveler, his first visit to Spokane being made while he was thus engaged. He was so impressed with the city and its great possibilities that on the 1st of January, 1884, he quit traveling and on the 2d of March of the same year located in Spokane. This was during the excitement in the Coeur d'Alene mining country, and being attracted by it Mr. Clough spent a few months in the mines of that district, returning to Spokane in July. 1SS4. A little later he bought out an established business on Howard street and conducted a book and stationery store imtil 1887. On selling that enterprise he turned his attention to the real-estate business, in wliich he has engaged continuously since. There were probably twenty-five hundred people in Spokane when Mr. Clough arrived here, and with notable prescience he foresaw the future and made extensive investment in real- estate, realizing that property must necessarily rise in value as the city grew in population. His holdings in 1888, 1889 and 1890 were large and he suffered quite seriously through the financial panic of 1893. but succeeded in weathering the storm and is now the owner of much valuable realty, his business here being conducted as a corporation. He is also a director of the Commer- cial Orchards Company of Washington and a stockholder of the Washington Brick, Lime & Sewer Pipe Company, of the Spokane Title Company and the Peoples National Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia.

Mr. Clough was married twice and by his first union had one son, Lester F. Clough, who was bom September 1, 1873, is now married and resides in Oakland, California. On the 5th of May, 1903, Mr. Clough married Mildred A. Morgan, a native of Saginaw, Michigan, who he claims has proved his mascot, and together they are enjoying their beautiful home on "Cannon Hill." He is a member of the Spokane Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and cooperates in all of the movements instituted by the latter and particularly during the city's earlier or formative period, he was always a liberal contributor both financially and in energetic effort toward the advancement of enterprises that were for the general good and upbuilding of Spokane. In politics he is a republican and has taken an active part in political affairs, frequently serving as a delegate to city and county conventions. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth and ability, have called him to office and for two years, beginning in 1886, he was a member of the city council. In 1890 he was elected mayor, entering upon the duties of the office in April of that year, and served until April, 1891. This was during the reorganization period following the destruction of the business district by fire in 1889. During his tenure of office the old charter was abolished and a new one framed. There was a vast amount of building and improvement during that year, more being done than in any year before or since. The city limits were extended to five times its former size, and a great amount of street railway work was commenced that year. The old steel bridge at Monroe was also begun and nearly finished that year. He gave to the city a businesslike administration, characterized by needed reforms and improvement, and his labors were substantial and beneficial elements in the city's growth.

William Henry Acuff

William Henry Acuff is now living retired after long and close association with business interests of Spokane, whereby he contributed to the general welfare in addition to advancing his individual success. He was born at Gwynedd, Pennsylvania, October 8, 1846, his home being about sixteen miles from Philadelphia in the old Welsh settlement there. At the time that William Penn arrived in that state the three corners of the town square at Gwynedd had been in possession of the Acuff family for a long period. The ancestry is Welsh and Scotch and the parents of our subject were William and Lydia (Ellis) Acuff. The father died when his son William was but five months old, his death being occasioned by typhoid fever when he was twenty-six years of age. The mother lived to the advanced age of eighty-two years and passed away in California in 1906.

William Henry Acuff was an only child and pursued his education in the schools of Pennsylvania and Illinois, having accompanied his mother on her removal to the latter state when eleven years of age. He afterward returned to Norristown, Pennsylvania, where he attended school from 1864 until 1868. He also spent a portion of the time on the oil fields in order to earn the money necessary to en- able him to continue his education. In 1868 he again went to Illinois, settling at Decatur, Macon county, and in that vicinity he followed farming and milling, dealt in grain and "tauglit school. Eventually he turned his attention to the lumber business and organized what is known today as the Decatur Lumber & Manufacturing Company, one of the important industrial and commercial interests of that district. In the spring of 1889 his health failed him and he disposed of his interests in the middle west. He then enjoyed a period of rest covering a few years and in the spring of 1890 came to Spokane, remaining out of business, however, until Februarj', 1892, when he organized the Washington Mill Company, of which he became the first secretarj'. Afterward he was president of the company for a period of fifteen years and in July, 1910, having won substantial success in the conduct of this enterprise, he retired. He has financial interests in the Trustee Company of Spokane, of which he has been a director since its organization.

Aside from business Mr. Acuil is well known in republican circles where he has exerted a wide influence, being well qualified by nature and acquired ability to become a leader of public thought and action. In 1896 he was elected on the republican ticket a member of the city council and served for three years as chairman of its finance committee, while for one year he was president of the council. It was during his term that Spokane was nearly bankrupt and it was through the good business judgment and careful management of Mr. Acuff that the city was able to meet its monthly pay rolls and weather the financial storm. He spent the winter of 1904-3 in Washington, D. C, representing the Chamber of Commerce in the interest of Spokane, endeavoring to assist President Roosevelt in securing increased power for the interstate commerce commission and aid Spokane in its fight for reduced freight rates. The good results he accomplished cannot be overestimated. The campaign was conducted in such a manner that it awakened the admiration of business men and manufacturers all over the United States. In 1908 Mr. Acuff went to Japan as a Spokane representative with the Pacific coast commercial commission to look into the trade relations between the two countries. His efforts have been most effective in promoting business conditions and in bringing forth elements that have been far-reaching forces in the growth and material upbuilding of the northwest. For many years he was the vice president of the Pacific Coast Lumberman's Association and was also president of the local association.

On the 22d of August, 1871, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Acuff was married to Miss Isabelle Bricker, a daughter of Aaron and Louise Bricker of Decatur, Illinois, and they had one daughter, Lillie A., the wife of John C. Neffeler, of Spokane. The wife and mother died in this city in November, 1896. Since his retirement from business life Mr. Acuft" has largely devoted his attention to Masonry which had also claimed much of his time and thought previously. He stands very high in the order and is a past master of Tyrian Lodge, No. 96, F. & A. M.; past high priest of Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; past thrice illustrious master of Spokane Council, No. -t, R. & S. M.; past eminent commander of Cataract Commandery, No. 3, K. T.; and past commander of Oriental Consistory, No. 2. S. P. R. S. He has likewise been awarded the honorary thirty-third degree and is a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member of the grand council and is one of its deputy grand masters. He is also junior warden of the grand commandery and is a past patron of the Eastern Star. He is today one of the best known men of Spokane, respected by all. In manner he is modest and retiring but the work that he has accomplished speaks for itself. His love of justice has expressed itself in correct principle and practice and added to this, the salient features of liis life have been a deep earnestness, impelled and fostered by indomitable perseverance, and a progressive spirit ruled by more than ordinary intelligence and good judgment.

John Melville Grimmer

The life of John Melville Grimmer is perhaps more varied than that of many, for there came to him many interesting and sometimes exciting experiences during the period in which he lived a seafaring life. Today he is quietly pursuing the even tenor of his way as a business man of Spokane, having organized and developed the business that is now conducted under the name of the Grimmer Storage & Truck Line. His birth occurred at St. Stephens, New Brunswick, November 27, 18-i3, his father being William W. Grimmer, and his grandfather, John Grimmer, who were bom in the same place near St. Stephens. The family is of German origin but early representatives of the family settled in Norfolk, England, and thence sailed for New Brunswick. Among the prominent members of the family was Skiffington Grimmer, who became a distinguished lawj'er of New Brunswick; his son was surveyor general of that province and now is attorney general. Another member of the family is a distinguished physician of Edinborough, Scotland. The grandfather of John M. Grimmer was justice of the peace for the part of the county in which he lived and was appointed by the government collector of customs, being head of that department when William W. Grimmer became an officer under him. At one time he owned vessels running between St. Stephens and the West Indies, conducting his interests under the name of the West India Goods & Grocery Business. His son, William W. Grimmer, was supercargo of one of the three vessels, Elizabeth Grimmer, Eliza Gillis and the Caledonia, all three of which were brigs. The latter, thus closely associated with his father in business and in official life, died at St. Stephens in February, 1890, having long survived his wife, who passed away in 1856. She bore the maiden name of Mary Ann Buchanan, and was born at Oak Hill, Charlotte county, New Brunswick, coming of Scotch ancestry. There were two sons of that marriage, the brother of John M. Grimmer being Harry Grimmer, a farmer and logger of Oak Hill, New Brunswick. After losing his first wife the father married again and had five sons, all living in St. Stephens.

John M. Grimmer attended the New Brunswick schools, conning his lessons from books furnished by the British government, all canvas covered. At that day the head of a family paid so much for a term of three months' schooling and the government paid a certain amount, while the teachers boarded around, going from the home of one pupil to another. While the educational opportimities of Mr. Grimmer were thus somewhat limited, in the school of experience he learned many valuable lessons. His first business experience came to him as clerk in the office of Chipman & Bolton, who in connection with the lumber business also shipped lumber to Liverpool, St. Stephens at that time being the center of a large lumber trade. In 1859 Mr. Grimmer shipped on a vessel called the Hibernian and sailed to Dublin. On the return trip he went to Quebec, where he left the ship and thence made his way to his native town. In 1861 he joined the bark Florence Chipman and then went to Baltimore, where it loaded with a general cargo for Liverpool. On tliat ship he afterward sailed to Boston, Quebec, Montreal and then again to Liverpool. He next joined the ship Silesia for Calcutta, proceeding first to Mauritius island, thence to Calcutta, after which he remained in India for two years, returning by way of Cape of Good Hope to St. Helena for orders and thence to Fayal Island, where orders were received to proceed to London. In that city he joined the P. & O. bark Harrington and sailed for New York, where he shipped as second mate on the Zimi, carrying a load of lumber to Liverpool. He next joined the ship Echo as second mate and went to Philadelphia with a general cargo. Later he was wrecked off Hatteras in the bark Falcon and went into Boston under jury masts. On the ship Dame Durden he sailed for Liverpool and returned to Philadelphia on the Echo, then one of the largest sailing vessels afloat, * acting as second mate. Again he was wrecked off Hatteras, losing the main mast and shifting the cargo. With an American sliip sailing under English colors he went to Philadelphia from Quebec, taking on a load of square timber for Liverpool but the ship was water logged just eastward of Newfoundland. Twenty-seven men and officers were upon it for a week, when they were taken off on a Friday by the sliip Chaudiere. Having abandoned the ship they were taken to London, the Fishermen's Society sending the crew to that place, where thev had signed articles. In 1865 Mr. Grimmer sailed as quartermaster on a little blockade riuiner and following the close of the Civil war went to Pernambuco, South America and thence to Macao and on to Bahia. The ship was chartered by the Brazilian government, which was at war with Paraguay to run a blockade between Paraguay and the upper Brazilian country and carried specie from there to Rio de Janeiro. As they did not answer the hail of the fort at Rio they were seized and kept as prisoners of war for two months. When the vessel was sold to the Brazilian government for a dispatch boat the crew deserted and joined a bark, going up the Amazon river as far as the vessel could proceed, thence back to !Maranhao and afterward to Liverpool. At that place Mr. Grimmer joined the ship Cowjoer and in 1868 sailed for San Francisco. In the same year he became master of a schooner engaged in the coast trade.

After some time, however, ]\Ir. Grimmer left that service and went to Eureka, Humboldt county, California, where he was united in marriage to Miss Mary C. Hadley. He left California overland in the fall of 1880 and went on foot to Crescent City, from which point he traveled in the same manner across the moimtains to Grant's Pass, Oregon. He afterward cruised the head waters of different rivers for the Hobbs, Gilmore Box Company, now the Crescent City Mill Company, of San Francisco, through the summer of 1880 and in the latter part of September started by stage from Ainsworth, which at that time was the western headquarters of the Northern Pacific Railway in Spokane, the stage stopping at Medical Lake.

Mr. Grimmer remained in Spokane for two weeks, then returned to Ainsworth and began work as bridge carpenter for the Northern Pacific Railway Company. In 1881 the carpenter's gang was changed from trestle No. 23 and sent to build a bridge at Hangman's creek, where they arrived March 11. Three hundred Northern Pacific employes reached there at that time, with Jolin B. Mel.ain as superintendent of construction, and Angus McKenzie as chief builder. Later Mr. McLain was succeeded by the resident engineer, H. M. McCartney, as chief engineer, while H. W. Fairweather was division superintendent. Mr. Grimmer continued with the Northern Pacific until the spring of 1882, when work was concluded at Sandpoint, Idaho. He then came to Spokane and purchased the Northern Pacific Hotel, which he conducted until 1885, but this was not a successful venture and after disposing of his interests therein he purchased a truck and team and turned his attention to the transportation business, in which he has since been engaged. In this undertaking he met with prosperity and is now conducting a successful business under the firm name of the Grimmer Storage & Truck Line. Their storehouse west of the Monroe Street bridge is one hundred and fifty by one hundred and fifty feet and two stories and basement in height. Something of the growth of the business may be imagined from the fact that during the busy season he* uses twenty teams and employs from twenty-six to tliirty-si.x men. When he first arrived in Spokane there were no bridges across the river and the only means of readying the other side was by a ferry boat kept by R. W. Forrest, that made the crossing above where the Division Street bridge now spans the stream. Mr. Forrest was the first mayor of the town. There were few houses on the north side of the river and Mr. Grimmer's home, at No. 1843 Broadway, was the first brick house built on the north side. He and his wife have seen the town grow from an unimportant little village to a city of the first class and recollect many interesting reminiscences of those early days. There were several Indian scares in 1883 and one on the 4th of July of that year, which sent the small population of the town to cover. Mr. Grimmer remembers the first murder that occurred in Spokane, the crime being committed in the little singing and dance house on Howard street, when a man named Roblin was shot by one Conover.

It was on the 20th of September, 1876, in Eureka, California, that Mr. Grimmer wedded Miss Mary C. Hadley, whose father, W. W. Hadley, now living retired, was a representative of an old New England family and had removed to California from Lynn, Massachusetts. The founder of the family in the new world came to this country in the Mayflower. Professor Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale University, is a distant relative. Some members of the Hadley family took part in the Revolutionary war and Mrs. Grimmer is therefore eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. She has the distinction of being the first woman to enter Spokane on a train, coming on a construction train from Ainsworth near Pasco with the bridge builders who built the Howard Street bridge. Mrs. Grimmer was the first lady president of the Pioneer Society. Mr. Grimmer was the fourth president of the society and Fred Grimmer, his son, is now its secretary. Mrs. Grimmer had two brothers: E. W. Hadley, now a cigar manufacturer of San Diego, California; and W. E. Hadley, deceased, who was at one time oivner of the Horton House at San Diego. Mr. and Mrs. Grimmer have four children: Edith, the wife of Frank J. Ginger, a railway mail clerk, of Seattle; Fred E., who is in business with his father; Hazel J., the wife of Morris Halleck Seymour, a traveling salesman, residing in Seattle; and Marie Ethelyn, now attending Washington State University. All three of tlie daugliters are graduates of the Spokane high school. The second daughter. Hazel, was born on the day, September 8, 1883, when the driving of a golden spike completed the Northern Pacific Railroad.

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In politics Mr. Grimmer has always been a strong republican and attended every county convention as delegate and all city conventions with one exception. He has also been a member of every state convention except one. He was elected a member of the city council in 1884 and served for one term and he is an active and valued member of the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Masonic fraternity, was the secretary of the blue lodge years ago, is a member of the consistory and has also crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Slirine. He belongs also to Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., of which he has served as royal knight, was one of the organizers of Myrtle Lodge, ' Knights of Pythias, and is now the onl}' living charter member and of this lodge he has served as chancellor. His wife is past matron of Electra Chapter, No. 20, of the Order of Eastern Star. In his reminiscences, which cover much of the historj' of Spokane and are most interesting, Mr. Grimmer states that the Spokane race track was located on Sprague street, near Wall street in Bro>vne's addition. A quarter of a mile track was near where the Princess Theater now stands. He has witnessed practically the entire growth and development of the city and rejoices in what has been accomplished here. His own business has grown as the population of Spokane has increased and he merits the success which has come to him not only by reason of the fact that he has ably managed his business interests but also because he has taken an active and helpful part in the city's development.

C. Hale Kimble, who is the only gymnastic therapeutic practitioner of Spokane, has given special attention to orthopedic gymnastics and prophylactic health service. His birth occurred in Arizona, on the 20th of September, 1879, his parents being Fowler and Anna M. (Bishop) Kimble. For many years the father was actively engaged in gold mining promotion throughout the Rocky Mountain district and the family resided in various places. Subsequently he disposed of his mining interests and returned to New York city but for the past ten years he has been engaged in founding and promoting the city of La Gloria, and Bay View, Cuba, where he is now making his home.

C. Hale Kimble was educated in tlie public schools of New York city and subsequently entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Early in life he had formed a desire to follow the particular profession which is his at present and immediately after completing liis studies at the Columbia University Medical School he accepted a position as director of physical training in the Young Men's Christian Association in New York city. For some time he was director of the physical department of that institution and also had an outside office, where he engaged in the practice of his profession independently. Because of the extensive patronage accorded him in the Young Men's Christian Association he soon became well known as a successful practitioner and in 1907 he was offered a position as director of the Young Men's Cliristian Association of this city. He accepted that position and served in that connection until the autumn of 1910 and has since been a resident of this city. In connection \ntli his work in tin- Young Men's Christian Association he also built up a large outside practice and in the autumn of 1910 he opened temporary offices in the Kuhn building. When the Old National Bank building was finished he occupied suite 317 but as his patronage increased these offices proved too small and he removed to the eleventh floor. Within a year he again found it necessary to enlarge his offices, so extensive was the patronage accorded him. He is working in harmony with the medical profession of the city and takes only such therapeutic cases as are referred to him by the physicians of Spokane. Among his patients are numbered many of Spokane's most prominent men and women, and the excellent results which he has obtained prove his ability and his efficiency. Few men who have entered the prophylactic field in this city have established themselves more permanently in the regard of the people.

On the 10th of September, 1900, Mr. Kimble was married, in New York city, to Miss Helen J. Brown, and to them three children were born, Marjorie Winifred, Dorothy May and Charles Hale, Jr. Mr. Kimble has never been identified with Spokane's political affairs. He holds membership in the First Presbyterian church and is connected with the National Physical Educational Association, the Rotary Club, the Inland Club and fraternally is an Odd Fellow. In establishing a profession which devotes itself primarily to the prophylaxis or prevention of physical irregularities and disease he has made a very striking contribution to the therapeutic agencies of Spokane, bringing to it the first and onlv seri'ice of its kind in the northwest today. His advancement has depended entirely upon individual skill and the merit he has gained is of creditable 'recognition, substantial benefits having come to him from his labors.

Daniel H. Dwight

Almost a quarter of a century has passed since Daniel H. Dwight came to Spokane and in this period he has not only witnessed the greater part of the city's growth but has also contributed to its development. A review of his life record shows that he is an energetic business man, indefatigable in his efforts to win success and yet he gives a due proportion of his time to public service and in the offices he has filled has made his work count for much in the sum total of Spokane's progress and improvement.

He was born in Dudley, Massachusetts, February 2i. 1862. Through more than two hundred and fifty years the Dwight family, of English origin, has been represented on American soil, John Dwight having settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1634. Members of the family have since been found in New England, including two presidents of Yale College, father and grandson, both of whom bore the name of Timothy Dwight. Three of the family were participants in the Revolutionary war - Captain William Dwight, who was captain of a company of militia raised at Thompson, Connecticut, and Captain Joseph Elliott, who with his company participated in the engagement at Bunker Hill. Moses Lippitt, who served throughout the Revolutionary war, was wounded and drew a pension in recognition of the aid which he rendered his country.

Daniel Dwight, father of Daniel H. Dwight of this review, was born in Dudley, ^Massachusetts, and is now living with his son and namesake in Spokane at the very venerable age of ninety-four years. During his active life he followed the occupation of farming and was very prominent in public affairs, being called to a number of county and state offices. He frequently served as treasurer and selectman of his county and was a member of the state board of agriculture. He was also a trustee of Nichols Academy of Dudley. He wedded Mary E. Low. Her father was Major John Low, who was major of a militia company of Rhode Island, his commission making him an officer of the Fifth Regular Rhode Island ]Militia being dated June 17, 1811, so that it is now more than one hundred years old. His daughter Mrs. Mary E. Dwight passed away in 1881. By her marriage she had become the mother of three children, the sisters being: Susan E., now the wife of C. A. Babcock, a retired merchant living in Boston; and Mary A., the wife of W. H. Isaacs, a mining broker of Los Angeles, California.

Daniel H. D^vight was educated in the common schools of ^Massachusetts, in the high school of his native town and in Nichols Academy, from which he was graduated in 1878. He afterward pursued post-graduate work in 1880. He first engaged in teaching school at Dudley and afterward acted as private tutor. He traveled extensively over the United States with one of his pupils and finally settled in Spokane in 1887. Here he at once engaged in the real-estate business more as a- dealer than as an agent. He bought and sold property, erected buildings and developed his holdings and has always operated alone. At the present time he is the owner of considerable valuable realty in Spokane. He suffered from fire to some extent in 1889 and witnessed the burning of the town but has lived to see its rebuilding on a far grander and more progressive scale than ever before. In addition to his real-estate operations he is a director in the Fidelity National Bank.

Mr. Dwight is very active in other ways, being recognized as one of tlie leading republicans of Spokane. He served as committeeman of the city and of the county, was treasurer of the Young ]\Ien's Republican Club and was frequently a delegate to city and county conventions. While in Dudley, Massachusetts, he was a member of the board of education and took an active and helpful interest in the public affairs of that place, being frequently called upon to deliver Memorial Da}' addresses and to act as marshal of parades even when a boy. In 1895 he was elected a member of the Spokane board of education, on which he served for three years, acting as president of the board during the last two years of that period. In 1897 he was a candidate for the legislature on the republican ticket, which, however, met defeat in that year, being opposed by a fusion ticket. Nevertheless, Mr. Dwight polled a larger vote than was given to the majoritv of republican candidates, a fact indicative of his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in him. By a superior court of appointment he became one of the eminent domain commissioners and he is a member of the board of park commissioners but will retire in February, 1912. There are eleven members of the board, one going out every year. He served on the commission in 1893-4 and is now serving for the second term as park commissioner. He was a member of the city council of Sjiokane during the reconstruction period after the great fire and in the midst of the ever memorable panic. For a short time he was acting mayor of Spokane. It was an arduous time but Mr. Dwight proved equal to the occasion. New waterworks had to be constructed and a great deal of bridge work had to be done, together with much improvement of the city streets. Therefore, a policy had to be formulated and instituted to meet the existing conditions. In all of the reconstruc- tion work Mr. Dwight was actively engaged and his duties were most faithfully performed. During his term of office the cantilever Monroe street bridge Was completed and much other notable public work accomplished. Mr. Dwight recognized his own capacities and powers and witli faith in the city he formulated the plans for public improvement and time has demonstrated the wisdom of his opinions and the soundness of his judgment. He avoided every needless expenditure yet he did not believe in parsimonious retrenchment that works against the continued development and benefit of the city. During his first service on the board of park commissioners the Coeur d'Alene Park was the only one which the commissioners developed. At that time it was a dense thicket^ around which there was a fence in order to hold the property in conformitj' with the promise on which the gift of the park was made to the city. Today Coeur d'Alene is one of the beauty spots of Spokane - a splendidly developed park which is a never failing delight to all. When Mr. Dwight was appointed to fill a vacancy on the board in 1908 there was much work to be done, new area having been added to the park system. In 1910 one million dollars was voted for park bondSj which will enable the board to greatly enlarge the park area. Up to this time park improvements have been confined largelj' to Manito, Libertv, Corbin and Hayes parks. Mr. Dwight certainly deserves much credit for what he has done in behalf of the city and its improvement. He has not only recognized existing conditions but has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities, needs and opportunities of the future and has labored not only for this but also for the oncoming generation.

In 1892 Mr. Dwight was elected a member of the city council for three years and in 1893 and 1894' was president of the council and called the first council meeting held in the present city hall, situated at the corner of Howard street and Front avenue. It was also during his incumbency as president of the council that Coxey's army of fifteen hundred passed through Spokane and the general in charge called on the council, demanding one thousand pounds of beef, twelve hundred loaves of bread and transportation out of the city. The council did not comply with the demand but gave them the necessary provisions for the time being and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company furnished the transportation in the way of box cars. It was while Mr. Dwight was a member of the board that Adlai E. Stevenson, then vice president of the United States, visited Spokane on his trip to the west, and in his official capacity our subject was one of the committee on entertainment.

Mr. Dwight has been treasurer of the Chamber of Commerce and is active in that work which is instituted by the organization for Spokane's improvement. He holds membership with the Sons of the American Revolution and has been president of the local chapter. He joined Imperial Lodge, No. ISi, I. O. O. F., immediately after its organization. He is a member of Westminster Congregational church and has always been ready to assist in charitable and benevolent work. He contributed toward erecting and maintaining the present Young Men's Christian Association building and many other worthy enterprises.

Hi.s home life, too, had its inception in Spokane in his marriage, on tlie 9th of August. 1887, to Miss Mary P. Willis, a daughter of W. G. Willis, a retired merchant of Duluth. Minnesota, who removed to Spokane and made this city his home. He was born in Dana, Massachusetts, a representative of an old New England family, and was a Civil war veteran. IMr. and Mrs. Dwight ai-f tlic parents of tliree children: Daniel Willis, born July 21, 1893; ^lary E., August 12, 1895; and Dorothy F., August 26, 1899. All are yet in school. Mr. Dwight has a wide acquaintance in Spokane and the number of his friends is almost coextensive therewith. Even in his business life he has contributed to the upbuilding and improvement of the city and in public office his labors have been of almost incalculable benefit. While he works toward high ideals, his methods are practical and his achievements notable.

Mark F. Mendenhall

Mnrk F. Mendenhall. practicing at the S]3okane bar, where his keen power of analysis and his logical deductions have made him one of the representative and successful attorneys of the city, was born at Millersburg, Pennsylvania, July 7, 1863, and is a son of Henry and Katherine Elizabeth (Ebaugh) Mendenhall. His father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, engaging in pastoral work in and near Baltimore for a number of years and afterward in central Pennsylvania. He was recording secretary of the central Pennsylvania conference for fifteen years and during his life transcribed many large volumes of its records which were noted for his copy-plate penmanship. His death occurred in 1891 while the mother of Mark F. Mendenhall passed away when her son was but four years of age. A sister, Florence Nightingale, died at the age of thirteen years, and a brother, James Hodge Mendenhall, is now a contractor of Seattle.

At the time of his mother's demise jSIark F. Mendenhall went to live with an aunt and uncle in Fleming county, Kentuckj^, and in the public schools of that state familiarized himself with the elementary branches of learning; subsequently he became a student of the Orangeville Academy, in Columbia county, Pennsylvania, and afterward of the Mountain Seminary of Birmingham, Pennsylvania. It was his desire to enter upon the practice of law and with this end in view he became a student in the office of Neff & Hicks at Altoona, Pennsylvania, where he continued for four years, when in 1888 he was admitted to the bar in Blair county, Pennsylvania. He served for two years as assistant principal of the high school of Altoona, teaching natural science and mathematics, but this was simply an expedient to bridge him over to the time when he could depend upon the legal profession as a means of livelihood. Since November, 1889, Mr. Mendenhall has practiced continuously in Spokane and his work and ability have been evidenced in the successes recorded in the courts of Washington and Idaho. His clientage has constantly grown in volume and importance and his name figures in connection with many of the leading litigated interests in these states.

Mr. ^Mendenhall's home life had its foundation in his marriage at Spokane, on the 31st of January, 1893, to Miss Helen Brook, a daughter of Henry and Keziah Brook, pioneer residents of Spokane who came from Minnesota on one of the first through trains over the Northern Pacific Railroad. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Mendenhall have been born five children, Marcus, Wesley, Hallam, Dorothy Ida and Geffry Eugene. The famih' attend the First Methodist Episcopal church, in which Mr. Mendenhall has long been an active member, serving for fifteen years as one of its officers and trustees. His fraternal relations are with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Royal Arcanum, and in connection with the latter he has been grand regent for the jurisdiction of Washington, British Columbia and Idaho. He also holds membership with the United Artisans of Portland, Oregon, and he belongs to the Inland Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. If one would rind Mr. Mendenhall he must seek him where the best interests of the individual and the community are being conserved. He is allied with those forces which work for progress and improvement and during the period of his residence in Spokane his course has ever commanded the respect and high regard of his fellow citizens.

Henry Bernard Luhn. M. D.

Dr. Henry Bernard Luhn, who has done considerable important hospital work and is equally successful in the private jiractice of medicine and surgery, was born in the state of New York, August ii, 1867. His father, Gerhard L. Luhn, was born in Germany and is now living in Spokane at the venerable age of eighty-one years. He is a retired major of the United States army, which he joined in 1852. He fought in the Mormon war of 1858 and all through the Civil war and in the latter was commissioned in 1863. He afterward was on active duty in Wyoming and Montana during the trouble with the Sioux Indians, and in 1886 came to Camp Spokane with the Fourth Infantry, being thereafter identified with military service in the northwest up to the time when he retired in 1895, while stationed at Fort Coeur d'Alene. Since that time he has made Spokane his home. He was first promoted to official rank when made sergeant of the Sixth United States Infantry prior to the outbreak of the Civil war. In February, 1863, he was commissioned second lieutenant, Fourth Infantry, and June 24, 186-1', he was promoted iirst lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry, which rank he held until the close of the war. In 1875 he was commissioned captain and retired as such in 1895, but by special act of congress in 1904 was given the title of major. He was with McClellan's command in the Army of the Potomac in the battle of Bull Run, participated in the second battle of Bull Run, the hotly contested engagements of Gettysburg and Antietam and in fact all of the battles in which the Arm}' of the Potomac, under command of Generals McClellan, Pope and Meade, was engaged. Subsequently he was vrith his regiment when it became a part of Grant's command and was present at the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox.

On the 9th of May, 1864, Major Luhn was united in marriage to Catherine Ann Von Oltmans, who was born in New York. Her father belonged to a prominent Holland family and became the founder of the Williamsburg Savings Bank at Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. Luhn is now living in Spokane. In the family were two sons. The younger brotlier, William Luke Luhn, is now captain of the Tentli United States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont. He was formerly teller and cashier in the Citizens and the Old National Bank and went to the Klondike in 1897. Returning in 1898, he went to the Philippines as a soldier of the Spanish-American war and was adjutant in the First Washington Volunteers. When the troops from tliis state were mustered out he was lieutenant colonel of the Thirty-sixth United States Volunteers under General Franklin Bell. After his service in tlie Philipiiincs he was commissioned first lieutenant of the Eleventh

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United States Cavalry and in 1908 was made captain of the Tentli United States Cavalrj', with which rank he is now serving. There are also three daughters in the farailj': Maria, the wife of Ernest De Lashmutt, of Spokane; Euphemia, the wife of George Harris Smith, an attorney for the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City ; and Catherine, the wife of Captain James E. Fechet, of the Ninth LTnited States Cavalry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Henry Bernard Luhn acquired his preliminary education in the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, pursuing a thorough commercial course and afterward finishing his junior year in the scientific courses. Subsequently he matriculated in the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in preparation for the practice of medicine and was graduated from the medical department in 1891, at which time his degree was conferred upon him. Following his graduation he spent two years in a hospital in Philadelphia as interne and then came to Spokane, where he located for practice in October, 1892. He has since followed his profession with increasing success and is now surgeon for the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Company and surgeon of the Sacred Heart Hospital stafi'. He is also medical director of the New World Life Insurance Company and was appointed assistant surgeon of the National Guards of Washington by Governor McGraw but resigned about 1905. He has a large private practice and this as well as his hospital work has won him a high and well deserved reputation.

On the 23d of June, 1897, Dr. Luhn completed arrangements for a happy home of his own by his marriage to Miss Anne Goodall Higgins, a daughter of a former New York citizen, and they have two children : Marion, now thirteen j'ears of age, and Catherine, aged twelve years, both of whom are students at Brunot Hall. The family attend the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Luhn votes with the republican party and is identified with various fraternal and social organizations, including Spokane Lodge. No. 228, B. P. O. E., and the Knights of Columbus. In the former he served as exalted ruler and as deputy grand exalted ruler, and in the latter was state deputy for the state of Washington. In more strictly social lines his membership is in the Sjaokane, the Spokane Country and the University Clubs. He is also a member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, the Military Order of Loyal Legion, the Spokane County Medical Society, the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. With him success in life has been reached because he has made good use of his time, has improved the talents with which nature endowed him and has faithfully and conscientiously performed every duty that has devolved upon him. The consensus of public opinion regarding his position in the medical profession places him in the foremost rank.

Robert Insinger

The extensive banking, real-estate and insurance interests of Robert Insinger place him in a prominent position among the successful and enterprising business men of this city. He belongs to that class of men who recognize that the present and not the future holds their opportunity, and with appreciation of the advantages which have come to him he has proven his worth and business capacity by utilizing these along legitimate lines leading to success. He is numbered among Spokane's citizens who have had their nativity across the water, his hirth having occurred in the Netherlands, December 6, 1862, a son of J. A. Insinger, now deceased. His education was acquired in the schools of Holland and in the spring of 1885 he arrived in western Canada, believing that effort is less hampered in the new world than in the old. There he engaged in farming and stock-raising until he came to Spokane on the 1st of August, 1897. He arrived in America when a young man of twenty-two years and in his undertaking, carefully managed and conducted, won success. He came to Spokane as manager of the Holland Bank and since the 1st of January, 1908, has been manager of the Northwestern & Hypotheek. An indication of his excellent business and executive abilit}' is found in the fact that he has increased the business of the investment department from two to nearh- six million dollars in three years. In addition to his connection with the Northwestern & Hypotheek he has organized a second company known as the Tweede, Northwestern & Hypotheek, which was formed for the purpose of pro%ading more money than one institution could supply. In all of his business affairs he has been watchful of opportunities pointing to future as well as present success and he has never regarded the accomplishment of any task as a final end but rather as the starting point for new accompUshment. He is a director of the Phoenix Lumber Company, the Spokane Eastern Trust Company and the Spokane Title Company, and is vice president of the Western Union Life Insurance Company and of the Trustee Company of Spokane. The latter is a trust company which owns some fine blocks whicli have been brought under one management, including the Wolverton, the Hyde and Eagle blocks, all situated in the heart of the city.

Mr. Insinger's wife was in her maidenhood !Miss Julia Xettleton, a daughter of Hon. William Nettleton, now deceased, and they have one son, Frederic, who is attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, ilr. Nettleton was one of the pioneer settlers of MinnesoUi and became the owner of Nettleton's addition in Spokane. He was also largely interested in water-power sites in Spokane and was very prominent in early days in Duluth, Minnesota.

Mr. Insinger belongs to the Country Club and the Spokane Club, also to the Chamber of Commerce, of which he is now ser^ang as vice president. He is an enthusiastic advocate of the northwest, zealous in his support of Spokane and her interests, and at all times manifests the loyalty of public-spirited citizenship.

Gilbert Lewis Chamberlin

During the twelve years of his residence in Spokane Gilbert Lewis Chamberlin has the remarkable record of having built several hundred houses. He is one of the most progressive residents of this city and while he has already done much for its upbuilding he is at the present time associated with men in a company that proposes to handle Spokane property on a still larger scale. At the present writing he is president of the Chamberlin Real Estate & Improvement Comp.iny and president and manager of the Reserve Realty Company.

Mr. Chamberlin was born at Mokena, Illinois. July 19, 1853, a grandson of one of the soldiers of the war of 1812, who was of English descent, and a son of Lewis L. Chamberlin, who was bom in Henriette, New York, and during his lifetime en- gaged in farming and in directing a large manufacturing enterprise in Wayne county, Indiana, he and his brother-in-law, Norton Davis, having owned the controling interest in the Wayne Agricultural Works of that county. Some time prior to his death, which occurred in 1879, he retired from active business. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Lucy Calkins, was a representative of the old Wilburham, Massachusetts, family of that name, of English descent, and died in 1861. A brother of Gilbert L. Chamberlin served in Company C, of the One Hundredth Illinois Volunteer Infantry during the Civil war and was killed at the battle of Chickamauga. A sister, Carrie, is now the wife of Milo Smith, a farmer of Iowa, while another sister, Flavia, is the deceased wiffe of George Austin, foreman of the Borden Condensed Milk factory at Brewster, New York. Her first husband was a brother of George Austin and died in the hospital at Nashville, Tennessee, from disease contracted during his service in the army. A third sister, Lucy, died in childhood.

In the common schools of Illinois Gilbert L. ChamberUn pursued his education to the age of fifteen years and then entered the academy at Dublin, Indiana. On starting out in business life he engaged in farming but afterward conducted a real-estate business in northwestern Kansas, and while a resident of that state also became a director in two banks, the Oberlin Trust & Banking Company and the Western Investment & Banking Company, acting also as manager of the latter. In 1893 he went to Los Angeles, California, where he engaged in the building business for six years, and in 1899 came to Spokane, where he has since engaged in the real-estate business and the erection of homes to be sold on the installment plan, conducting this undertaking under the firm name of the Chamberlin Real Estate & Investment Company, Inc. The officers of the company are: G. L. Chamberlin, president; T. N. Wilson, vice president; E. A. Chamberlin, secretarytreasurer; F. S. Ostrander, assistant secretary; H. L. Chamberlin, cashier; E. H. Hamm, assistant cashier; E. W. Ostrander, J. C. Barline, E. A. Chamberlin, O. C. Jensen, T. N. Wilson, A. E. Gallagher and G. L. Chamberlin, directors. The company is incorporated with a capital of one hundred thousand dollars. They build homes on the installment plan, affording an opportunity to merchants and other business men to secure these on easy payments. In all parts of the city the company have erected these homes which at present total several hundred. Today the company handles nothing but its own property and for the purpose of carrying on its enlarged operations a new company under the name of the Reserve Realty Company has been incorporated with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars with an issue of five hundred thousand dollars in six per cent gold bonds. All of the money from the sale of these bonds will be used for the upbuilding of Spokane, the company intending to erect apartment houses and to engage in building operations on a more extensive scale. The personnel of the Realty Reserve Company is: G. L. Chamberlin, president and manager; O. C. Jensen, vice president; E. A. Chamberlin, secretarj'; Dr. T. N. Wilson, treasurer; H. L. Chamberlin, cashier. The directors are O. C. Jensen, J. C. Barline, F. J. Holman, D. K. McDonald, G. L. Chamberlin, E. A. Chamberlin and A. E. Gallaglier. The companies publish a vast amount of attractive literature and beside materially aiding in the progressive welfare of the city they promote a saving instinct and have the satisfaction of knowing that manv of the successful men of today owe their advancement at least

In Kansas City, Missouri, on September 26, 1873, ]\Ir. Chamberlin was united in marriage to Miss Annie Wickersham, a daughter of J. G. Wickersham, of that citj', who is a native of Dublin, Indiana, but is now living retired on his fruit ranch near Los Angeles, California. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlin have become the parents of four children. Ernest A., who is secretary of both the Chamberlin companies, married Anna Hull, a daughter of C. B. Hull, a grocer of Union Park. Ina, is the wife of W. J. Ballard, president of the Ballard Plannery Company, of Spokane. Ruby is the wife of C. E. Romo, station agent of the Spokane Inland Railway at Liberty Lake, and Harry is cashier of both the Chamberlin companies.

Mr. Chamberlin votes with the republican party but has never taken an active part in politics aside from exercising his francliise in support of measures which he deems of value in good government. He belongs to the Woodmen of the World but needs no fraternal nor social connections to make him widely known. His business affairs have gained him a very extensive acquaintance and won for liim a prominent and enviable position in business circles for his labors constitute an effective and valuable force in the improvement, development and adornment of Spokane.

The reclamation of the wild lands of Washington is a question that is being rapidly solved through the initiative and enterprising spirit of such men as Donald K. McDonald, whose keen sagacity and discernment enable them to take full cognizance of the situation and develop the methods which are most effective in producing desired results. Today some of the most liighly improved and productive districts of the Spokane country owe their development to Mr. McDonald, who has been a pioneer in the advancement of irrigation methods, marking out the path that others have followed. He was born in Nova Scotia, June 10, 1861, a son of Simon and Elizabetli (Kennedy) McDonald, who were also natives of that country and were of Scotch descent. The father, who was a farmer by occupation, died in 1879 and the mother's death occurred in 1910. In the family were five sons and six daughters, of whom three are deceased: Hugh D., a resident farmer of Rockford, Washington; John Henry, a farmer of Wilsoncreek, Washington; James W., who follows agricultural pursuits at Medical Lake, this state; Simon, who is similarly occupied at Edwall, Washington; Christine, the wife of Robert Carlisle, a contractor and builder at Medical Lake; Elizabeth, the wife of John Ross, an engineer of Haverhill, ^Massachusetts ; and Catherine, the wife of W. F. Vining, an engineer of Newton, ^Massachusetts.

The other member of the family is Donald K. McDonald, who was educated in the Picton Academy of Nova Scotia and afterward engaged in teaching school in that country imtil he reached the age of eighteen years, when he went to California. For two years he worked in the woods of Humboldt county and in 1881 came to Spokane. Here he was employed on the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad as a carpenter until twenty-one years of age, when he filed on a homestead near Edwall and began farming, which pursuit he followed until 1881, when he was elected to the office of county assessor. He continued to till the fields and at the same time performed his duties as assessor so satisfactorily that he was elected for three consecutive terms of two years each. He also has the enviable distinction of being the only assessor of Lincoln count}' who was ever reelected. In 1891 Mr. McDonald came to Spokane, where he entered the emplo\' of the Oregon Mortgage Company, which he represented for about twenty years, resigning as their agent in the fall of 1910. In 1893, in connection with a partner, Mr. Edmiston, he established a state savings bank and while the period of panic and financial depression caused the bank to suspend everj' depositor was paid in full. Their institution was situated on the present site of the Old National Bank of today. Since that time Mr. McDonald has given his attention to the mortgage company's business and to the development of property. He was associated with R. A. Hutchinson in the ownership of a half section of land and to that fact and his own initiative the to^vn of Opportunity came into being. Mr. McDonald made up his mind that the thing to do with their land was to dig wells and pump water for irrigation. Although others tried to discourage him, he believed that the experiment would be successful and it was, even beyond his most sanguine expectations. The results that have been accomplished in that district are marvelous considering the short space of time that the work has been carried on, the result being that this is one of the garden spots of the state and the town is well named, for it proved to be Mr. McDonald's opportunity, bringing him the success which always crowns initial effort and indefatigable energj' when guided by sound judgment. After he had demonstrated the fact that he knew something of land and what it would do, he and his partner purchased other property and A. C. Jamison also entered the firm, thus adding to the capital with which they could operate. When they had secured sufficient land the Power Company agreed to furnish power and the town of Vera was established and developed, both Vera and Opportunity being furnished with power. They have recently acquired another thousand acres of land and they have over five thousand acres in Vera and Opportunitj'. This is a splendid showing in so short a space of time and it is only the beginning of what they plan to do. He is now developing Wilsoncreek property, comprising about thirteen hundred and seventy-six acres of swamp land, which is being drained and of which about one-half is the property of Mr. McDonald. He expects there to raise timothy hay and will experiment extensively with celery and other products. He has already introduced Canadian field peas, securing the finest crop ever grown in the north. He is enthusiastic in his faith concerning this district and its possibilities and time is proving the wisdom of his judgment. His official titles are those of secretary-treasurer of the Modern Irrigation Land Company, which owns Opportunity ; secretary-treasurer of the Vera Company ; a director of the Reserve Realty ComjDany; a director of the Union Trust & Savings Bank; and a director of the Empire Life Insurance Company of Seattle.

In Spokane, on the lOtli of February, 1897, Mr. McDonald was united in marriage to !Miss !Maude Seelye. a daughter of H. N. Seelye, now deceased, who was a contractor and pioneer of Minnesota. His mother was one of the Stuarts of Scotland and Mr. Seelye was a native of New Brunswick, where he became known in business as a shipbuilder. Unto Mr. and Mrs. McDonald has been born one child. Vera, a student in the Academy of the Holy Name at Spokane. Politicalh' Mr. McDonald is a democrat and has been active in politics, frequently attending county conventions and using his aid and influence in support of the principles iu which he believes. Fraternalh- he is a Mason, having attained high rank in .the order as a member of the consistory and shrine of Spokane. He also belongs to the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce. With faith in the country and belief in his own business powers - a belief that time has proven to be well founded - Mr. McDonald has steadily advanced in business circles and his operations have not only been a source of substantial individual success but also an element in general development, progress and improvement.

Major James M. Armstrong

Spokane is a monument to the business ability and enterprise of such men as Major James M. Armstrong, who came to this city in 1883 when its proportions were those of a village. He recognized, however, the possibilities for growth and development here and became a prominent factor in business circles, active in tlie management of business affairs which have constituted important elements in public progress.

He was born in Wasliington, Washington county, Pennsylvania, April 23, 181'Jt, a son of David and Letitia Armstrong, who were also natives of that place. When a little lad of six years he accompanied his parents on their removal to Louisville, Kentucky, and six years later the family went to Washington, Iowa. It is a notable fact that much of Major Armstrong's life was spent in communities named in honor of the "father of his country," for he was born in Washington, Pennsylvania, lived for a time in Washington, Iowa, and Washington, D. C, and afterward became a resident of the state of Washington.

Following the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted on the 28th of July, 1861, as a private of Company K, Thirteenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and served in the Army of the Tennessee for three years, participating in many hard fought campaigns and engagements, including the battle of Shiloh, the siege and battle of Corinth and the siege of Vieksburg. He also took part in the battles of Marietta, Peach Tree Creek and Atlanta, and in the last named sustained a gini-shot wound in the left leg, which necessitated the amputation of that member, so that he was honorably discharged for disability on the 21st of July, 1864. He left Iowa in 1867, going to Washington, D. C, where he occupied a clerical position in the census office of the department of the interior and also acted as chief clerk in the land office. While thus engaged he entered upon the study of law in the Columbia Law School and was graduated with the class of 1871.

The year 1880 witnessed the arrival of Major, Armstrong in this state. On the 20th of April he was appointed by President Hayes to the position of register of the land office at Colfax and came to Spokane on the transference of the office to this city in September, 1883. He held that position until 1885, after which he engaged in the general practice of law for four years, but was again called to public office in October, 1889, when elected county clerk. He ably discharged the duties of that position for four years and then served as deputy until 1895, when he resigned to become treasurer of the LeRoi Mining Company, which he had aided in incorporating in 1890. At the time the mine was sold in 1898 he was treasurer of the company and a heavy stockholder. He was also interested in the Sullivan group and was president of the Wonderful and other mining properties and vice president of the Miller Creek group and of the Gem. His investments in mining property brought him splendid returns and he also became interested in city property in Spokane, being half owner of the Hyde block and owner of a fine residence on the north side. He became one of the most prominent residents of this city and took high rank among the men whose enterprise and business ability developed and built up Spokane and the surrojinding mining region - the great source of its wealth and prosperity.

On the 11th of June, 1873, in Washington, D. C, Major Armstrong was united in marriage to Miss Lida B. Murphy, a native of Philadelphia and a daughter of Charles and Margaret E. Murphy, the former a descendant of one of the prominent early English families of this country. Her father was at one time a resident of New Jersey and afterward of Philadelphia, becoming an editor of that city and later a prominent lawyer. Unto Major and Mrs. Armstrong was born a daughter. May Edith, who was born April 17, 1880, and is now the wife of Donald Kizer, a practicing attorney of Spokane. They have one daughter, Edith Lida Kizer.