Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 11 of 23)

During the last five years of his life Major Armstrong was an invalid, compelled to spend much of his time within doors, but he was a great reader and his books and the companionship of his wife and daughter made the hours pass pleasantly. His political allegiance was given to the republican party and he was always regarded as a public-spirited man for it was known that his aid was never withheld from all practical public projects and movements. He died September 10, 1909, after a residence of twenty-six years in the northwest. He was determined and energetic and his resolute spirit enabled him to carry forward to successful completion whatever he undertook. Socially he was known as a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic, becoming a charter member of John L. Reno Post, of this city, and he was also an Elk. He never allowed the accumulation of wealth to in any way affect his relations toward those less fortunate and was always willing to extend a helping hand where aid was needed. In the years of his active career he was a strong man in his ability to plan and perform and always equally so in his honor and good name.

William S. Norman

The most lively imagination of the novelist has not pictured more interesting tales in fiction than are to be found in the lives of men who have been and are active in the upbuilding of the northwest. The opportunities here offered, the difficulties encountered, are as great as any which are to be found on the pages of literature, and conditions have called forth originality and initiative spirit together with the perseverance and determination that lead to victory. One cannot but thrill with the story of what is accomplished by resolute, energetic men who are making history in the Inland Empire, building from the crude materials that nature has furnished the great structures of wealth, intelligence and culture which constitute the strong elements in the commonwealth. In this connection more than passing notice should be given William S. Norman, now one of the most prominent hotel men on the Pacific coast, one of the proprietors of the Spokane Hotel, the Tacoma Hotel and the North Yakima Hotel. ^Moreover, he has figured prominently in the industrial growth of Spokane city and is still comparatively a young man with limitless opportunities for accomplishment yet before him. Mr. Norman is a native of England, born January 8, 1859. His parents were George and Honore (Thomas) Norman, both now deceased, the former having passed away in 1875 and the latter in 1888. The father was the proprietor and editor of two newspapers published in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, and in addition to his efforts in the journalistic field he conducted a large printing and lithograpliing establishment.

William S. Norman's identification with the northwest dates from February, 1881, at which time he reached Spokane, this being the year of the completion of the railroad. He was then a young man of twenty-five years. He looked over the country in company with F. Lewis Clark and started to take up railroad lands but was unsuccessful in this for his claims were jumped. He afterward worked on farms on the Camas prairie and that fall entered upon stenography in the courts which were being held at Chenej' - the first stenographer who ever lived there. He had learned the art of stenographic writing when in England while reporting for the papers owned by his father. In this state he reported many important cases including that of Holmes versus the Northern Pacific Railway which was one of the first damage cases ever tried in tlie territory, W. C. Jones and James McNaught being the attorneys while Judge George Turner presided on the bench. In February, 1885, Mr. Norman entered the employ of H. H. McCartney & Company, wlio had the contract for supplying all the hay, grain and produce required by the Canadian Pacific Company in the construction of its railroad between the first and second crossing of the Columbia river. Incidental to this j\Ir. Norman supervised the building of a steamer called the Kootenai at Little Dalles, about thirty-five miles from Spokane, hauling the engines from Lake Pend d'Oreille. These engines belonged to the steamer Katie Hallett, which had been sunk in that lake. The engines were raised and hauled one hundred and tliirty-five miles by bull teams over a road which had in parts to be built before the journey could be resumed. The Kootenai was put in commission in April with Mr. Norman in charge of its financial interests as purser while Captain Pingston, one of the old Hudson Bay Company men, was in command. Joe and Marcus Oppenheimer largely financed this undertaking together with H. B. Sanborn, H. L. Pittock, now manager of the Oregonian, Jim Lotam and Harry McCartney. At that time there was only one white man on the Columbia river between The Dalles and Revelstoke, a distance of two hundred and ten miles, and this was Captain William Moore, a customhouse officer of the British government. That season the steamer was used in moving fifteen hundred tons of hay, fifteen hundred head of steers and large quantities of eggs and canned goods. This transportation project indicated in a measure what Spokane miglit do as the hub of the wheel covering the territory luiown as the great Inland Empire. All manner of difficulties were encountered in the construction of the boat, for it was necessary to build a sawmill to get out the needed lumber for the building and the ribs of the boat were brought from Portland. The Kootenai made twenty-six trips up and down the Columbia and was brought doivn from the Little Dalles to Marcus where the old Hudson Bay post was then located.

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At that time all the old trading-house buildings were there and William Brown and Marcus Oppenheimer were conducting stores at that point, the town of Marcus being named after the latter. It was about tliis time that ^Ir. Norman wrote a series of letters to the Oregonian concerning the legendary lore of the Columbia which attracted wide attention.

In the fall of 188i the old Dominion mine was discovered and Frank ^Moore put in a milling plant at the Gold Hill mine in the valley. Thirty or forty Chinese camps were wasliing gold on the Columbia and all this in connection with the Silver King discovery, at Nelson, British Columbia, attracted an immense amount of attention to the district. The steamer took up a great number of people to Nelson and in fact the Kootenai became a most important factor in the development of the northwest through the transportation of freight and passengers. In the year previous to this the Blue Bell mine was discovered at Kootenai Lake and tliis was the iirst great quartz mineral discovery of the Kootenais. This mine was the Indians' paint store, where were secured the cosmetic colors used to adorn and vivify the glories of the Hiawatha. In lS8i this property was acquired by the Ainsworths and it was here that Hammell, the Cornish miner, who had been put in charge of the prospect, was murdered bjj^ Sproule, who had put forth a claim in the ownership of the property. Sproule was chased by the British government in one of the most spectacular man hunts of western history and was finally caught, tried and hung in the year 1885.

After shipping had ceased for the winter Mr. Norman came to Spokane in October, 1885, and practiced stenography in the courts of Cheney, where he reported all important cases. Prominent members of the bar at that time were Frank Graves, W. C. Jones, Tom Griffiths, F. A. Bettis, John B. Allen, James McNaught, W. R. Andrews, L. B. Nash and J. J. Bro^vne. In the following spring William S. Norman formed a partnership ^vith A. A. Newberry, whose story of the west is one of the most interesting of the Inland Empire. They handled Northern Pacific land and Mr. Norman became assistant secretary to Messrs. Newberry & Cannon and Paul F. Moore in the organization of Spokane's first railway - the Spokane & Palouse. For a year he served as private secretary and at the same time looked after the land business, but as it developed he left the railway service and opened an office in the Hyde block on Riverside avenue. In the fall of 1886 Cliarles Hopkins, who had built the system of telephone lines through the Palouse country, largely to aid him in the conduct of two or three newspapers which he owned, ordered the equipment of a telephone exchange in Spokane. Unable to prosecute the scheme he sold out to ^Ir. Norman and S. Z. ^Mitchell, the latter now one of the heads of the General Electric industry of America, Burt Nichols, owner of the Nichols block on Riverside, and Lieutenant Sparling. This new company built the exchange in the front part of the real-estate office in the Hyde block, starting business with forty subscribers. In the next few months Mr. Norman bought out the other members of the company and secured an old government line from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene city and the Coeur d'Alene mountains, thus giving the mines their telephone connection with the outside world. When D. C. Corbin built the narrow gauge road in 1887 Mr. Norman equipped the line with the first copper wire used in the northwest. Mr. Norman and Mr. C. B. Hopkins bought the government line to Fort Spokane in 1887 and, in 1889. consolidated their interests

Three years before the Edison Illuminating Compan}^ with a capital of sixtjthousand dollars had a station at the back of the Clark & Curtis and Post mills on the site now occupied by the upper station plant of the Washington Water Power Company. At the time the president of the latter was William Pettit, and the general factotum was Frank O'Connor. Jack Fiskin, who is still with the company, was engineer and electrician, while Frank R. Moore, J. D. Sherwood, Henry M. Hoyt and Fred Chamberlin were stockholders. In the spring of 1887 Mr. Norman jiurchased stock at the solicitation of Frank R. Moore and became more or less actively interested in the operation. The power plant was very small and the water was often very scarce, and with the approval of his partners Mr. Norman started in to get power, which they then believed would be big enough for all time. In 1888 he secured option on all the power west of Post street and east of ^Monroe street at a cost of about four hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including the Clark & Curtis and the Post mills, forming the Washington Water Power Company for the purpose of acquiring this property. There were eight members to this company and the stock was divided into eight parts. The incorporators were: Frank R. Moore, president; J. D. Sherwood, vice president and treasurer; William S. Norman, secretary and general manager; John W. Chapman, Cyrus Bums, Herbert Bolster, Henry Brook and William Pettit. They bought the property from E. C. Brickell, J. J. Brown, Clark & Curtis, the St. Paul & Spokane Water Power Company, represented by Mr. Pettit and one or two others. In the fall of 1889 the Washington Water Power Company bought out the Edison Electric Illuminating Company and made its connection with A. A. Lowe and W. A. White, of Brooklyn, New York, whose families now own the controlling interest in the Washington Water Power Company, for funds to construct the dam across the river and the station building at the foot of Monroe street. The work was well in hand when the great fire of 1889 occurred. Within two hours the entire telephone system was wrecked but the fire missed the small ix)wer station with which the Edison Company was supplying power although it burned down all the poles and the distributing system.

At that time the street railway service comprised horse cars on Riverside avenue, owned by J. J. Browne and A. j\I. Cannon, which ran out to the Browne addition and back around the Cannon addition. There was a partially completed electric street railway known as the Ross Park street railway and extending out Main street from Ross Park, with G. B. Dennis as the principal factor. The Spokane cable railway had partially built a cable railway including the Monroe street bridge, extending from Monroe up Boone street to Natatorium Park and to the ground across the river on which is now located the army post. Frank R. Moore, Herbert Bolster. J. D. Sherwood, Henry Brook and some of the other large shareliolders in the Washington Water Power Company were promoters and shareholders of this road. The fire naturally brought on consolidation: It resulted in the formation of the Inland Telephone & Telegraph Company and the Hopkins & Norman Telephone systems being all consolidated into one holding company, and a half interest in the company was sold to the Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Company which then controlled and is still controlling the Pacific states telephone interests of the American Bell Telephone Company. The street railways, owing to their fire losses, needed help and a plan was perfected whereby the Spokane cable railway stockholders purchased the interests of the Spokane street railway owned by Messrs. Cannon and Browne, and a program of electrifying the system was inaugurated. In the spring of 1892 the Washington Water Power Company increased its capital and liaving previously bought out tlie Edison Electric lUuntinating Company, acquired also the properties of the Spokane Cable Railway Company which had extended its cable lines south on Monroe to Fourteenth street where it owned large landed interests, and the Spokane Street Railway Company was also included in this deal. At a later day the Ross Park Street Railway was taken and still later the City Park Transit Line owned by David and Chester Glass and built to exploit the Lidgerwood addition. These were consolidated and brought into the ownership of the Washington Water Power Company which then controlled all lighting and street railway business except the motor line owned by John R. Cook running south on Washington street to Cook's addition. The panic of 1893 caused the railway interests to suffer severely and in the fall of that year in a town of twenty thousand people the average gross daily earnings at times ran as low as one hundred twenty dollars or barely enough to take care of the pay roll. Values of real estate fell below the amounts of their mortgages and while the Washington Water Power Company in some measure weathered the storm and kept out of the liands of the receiver all of the original promoters with one exception virtually lost their interest in the property. Mr. Norman severed his connection with tlie company in 1896.

Again his ability, power of organization and initiative spirit were called into play in connection with the hotel interests of Spokane. In the bankruptcy of 1893 the SjDokane Hotel had to appeal to its creditors, including the Washington Water Power Company, for help and the question was raised whether the hotel should remain open or closed. Mr. Norman, however, took over the control of the stock and refurnished the hotel. This was four months before the panic, during which the business went to pieces and the jwoperty passed into the hands of a mortgage company and the creditors. Perhaps one of the best evidences of the conditions of the times was the fact that in 1894 rather than see the hotel close the mortgage company gave Mr. Norman and his brother, Ben Norman, a lease on the property practically rent free for the first six months and then for two years at five hundred dollars per month. In 1 895 the tide turned, for with the discovery of the Le Roi mine mining activity generally made times prosperous. The hotel shared in the general revival of business and in 1899 the two Normans, taking in as partner Mr. James Breen, the well known smelting operator, who at that time liad charge of the Le Roi smelters at Northport, bought the real estate and building and at a later day purchased the adjoining ground from John A. Finch. In 1900 they remodeled the hotel and made it what it is today - the finest hotel of the Inland Empire. The famous Tacoma Hotel was bought in 190.5 and at present the brothers with their partner are operating a string of hotels in the west under the name of the Norman Hotels, Limited.

Mr. Norman was married April 25, 1889, to Aimee L. Sherlock, a daughter of Richard and Rosetta Sherlock and a representative of an old Portland family. Her father was a pioneer and merchant there, having made the trip to Portland about 1849 or 1850. He was descended from Irish ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Norman have three children, Kathleen, Marjorie and Sherlock.

In politics Mr. Norman is a republican and has been a voter in the second ward since 1885 but his activities have been more in the line of general business development than in politics. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., being one of the first initiated into that organization. In 1889 and 1890 he was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce and served on the committee which secured the subsidies for the Spokane Falls & Northern and the Great Northern Railways. In more strictly social lines he is connected with the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Athletic Club, Arlington Club of Portland, the Rossland Club of Rossland, British Columbia, and the Rocky Mountain Club of New York city. In a summary of his life Mr. Norman can be accorded a prominent place among the empire builders of eastern Washington, having figured most prominently in the industrial growth of Spokane and in the development of railwaj', tele23hone, telegraph and electric interests, whereby the growth and progress of this section have been materially advanced. Possessing broad, enlightened and liberal-minded views, faith in himself and in the vast resources for development inherent in his country's wide domain, and specific needs along the distinct lines chosen for his life work, liis has been an active career in which he has accomplished important and far-reaching results contributing in no small degree to the expansion and material growth of the things from which he himself has derived substantial benefits.

James A. Anderson

Farming, stock-raising, merchandising, banking, mining, real-estate dealing - all have claimed the attention of James A. Anderson, and in each field he has operated successfuUj'. He is today a prominent figure in financial circles in Spokane, is also interested in the Division Street Hardware Company and is the owner of considerable valuable property in the Palouse country. He was born in Iowa, May 14, 1859, a son of John and Margaret (Davis) Anderson, both of whom were natives of Scotland and were descended from old and prominent Scotch families. Both are now deceased, the mother passing away in 1874. Several sons and daughters of the family are living in this countrj'.

The removal of his parents from Iowa to Kansas in his early youth made James A. Anderson a pupil in the schools of the latter state and in the high school, where he completed his education. He was engaged in farming and stock-raising in Kansas during the period of his early manhood but came to Washington in 1889 and turned his attention to commercial pursuits, becoming a dealer in hardware, implements and grain at Rosalia. There he remained until 1906, when he removed to Spokane, and the success which he had achieved along commercial lines enabled him to become one of the large stockholders in the Spokane State Bank, of which he was elected president in 1907. This institution conducts a general banking business, with J. A. Anderson as president; H. A. Steinke, vice president; G. W. Peddycord, cashier; and H. W. Belshaw, Josh Wilson, J. M. Donovan and J. W. Bursell as directors. The bank is capitalized for fifty thousand dollars and has a surplus of twelve thousand. A general banking business is conducted and this is the only bank on the north side, its location being at the corner of Division and Nora streets. The company owns its own home, known as tiie Spokane Bank building, a two-story brick structure, sixty by ninety feet, the first story being used for banking purposes, while the second is divided into apartments. The bank has a large out-oftown patronage and, based upon safe, conservative principles, is doing a good business. Mr. Anderson is also stockholder in the Exchange and Fidelity Banks, is the largest owner in the Spokane State Bank building and holds fifty per cent of the stock in the Division Street Hardware Company, of which he is the president. He has also made investment in property, owning one tliousand acres in the Palouse country all under cultivation, and four hmidred and eighty acres under cultivation in Alberta and timber, lands in Washington. He is one of the largest owners of the Belcher Mining Companj' in Terry county, Washington, and is secretary and treasurer of the company.

On the 27th of October, 1886, in Dunlap, Kansas, occurred the marriage of James A. Anderson and Miss Jennie F. Webster, a daughter of Captain Webster, who commanded steamboats on the Ohio river. The two children born unto them are Bernice, now the wife of Orville Tupper, cashier of the Wilson Creek Bank; and Rex, who is now attending high school.

Politically Mr. Anderson is a republican and is an active and influential worker of his party who has served as delegate to countj^ and state conventions and has done effective work on the county central committee. He is interested in all that pertains to Spokane's progress and upbuilding and because of this has become a working member of the Chamber of Commerce. He also belongs to the Inland Club and is well known in fraternal circles, holding membership in Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M., in Oriental Consistory of the Scottish Rite and in El Katif Temple of the Mystric Shrine. While in Rosalia he filled all of the chairs in the local lodge save that of master. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled all of the chairs and is now a past grand. He has achieved remarkable success, advancing from farmer boj- to his present position as banker, merchant and landowner, and his prosperity is a visible evidence of intelligence and well directed industry, of determination, perseverance and notable ambition.

Dr. George Tilton Doolittle, who in the practice of medicine has demonstrated his ability to cojDe with the intricate j^roblems that continuallv confront the physician, has based his success upon thorough preparation and continuous subsequent study following his graduation from Yale. He is one of New Haven's native sons, his birth having there occurred on the 23d of October, 1860. He is a representative of one of the oldest New England families, of English descent, his ancestors having come to America in the early part of the seventeenth century. His father, Tilton E. Doolittle, was also a native of Connecticut, becoming a member of tlie New Haven bar, and was very prominent not only in local affairs but also as a legislator in molding the destiny and shaping the policy of the state. Having graduated from Trinity College, he was admitted to the bar when only twenty-one years of age. Broad educational training, however, qualified him for his work for he not only pursued the law course but also the academic course in Trinity. Subsequent to his admission to the bar he located for practice in New Haven and was accorded an extensive clientage^ being regarded as one of the distinguished attorneys of the bar of that city. For seventeen years he filled the office of district attorney of New Haven county, resigning that position two years prior to his death, which occurred in 1896. He had also been chosen to represent his district in the state legislature and his prominence in the ranks of his party was indicated in the fact that he was elected speaker of the house. His knowledge of parliamentary practice and his love of justice made him a most fair and impartial presiding officer. His wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary Cook, survived her husband two years, passing away in 1898. She was a descendant of Colonel Thaddeus Cook, of Revolutionary war fame, and also of Captain Cook, who took part in the Colonial wars. The Cook family, like the Doolittles, has been established in America since the earliest period in the colonization of the country. The children of Tilton and Mary (Cook) Doolittle were: George Tilton, of this review; John A., who is engaged in business on Long Island, New York; and Sarah D., who became the wife of Dr. P. C. Lane, of St. Louis, ^Missouri, and is now living at the old family home in New Haven.

Dr. Doolittle pursued his early education in the Hopkins grammar school of New Haven, Connecticut, and the Episcopal Academy of Cheshire, Connecticut, and prepared for a professional career by a course in the medical department of Yale University, being numbered among its alumni of 1884. He afterward spent two years in Europe, passing much of the time as a student of medicine in Vienna and also some time in Kiel, Germany. He thus came into close touch with the advanced methods of many of the distinguished physicians and surgeons of the old world and, splendidly equipped for his chosen life work, he returned to America, practicing for a few years thereafter in New Haven. It was in 1886 that he opened an office in his native city and during his residence there he served as a member of the board of health and also as health officer. Thinking to find a still better field of labor with the rapidly growing and developing west, he came to Spokane in 1889 and here began the practice of medicine, serving on the board of health for three years and as health officer for two years, his official duties having been discharged in addition to a constantly increasing private practice, the importance of which places him in a creditable position among the prominent representatives of the profession here. He belongs to the State Medical Society and the County Medical Society and of the latter has served as president. He was also a member of the County and State Medical Societies while in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1905 he was elected a member to the state legislature and also was sitting in tlif tity council for a term of two years.

In his native city, on the ]5tli of March, 1890, Dr. Doolittle was married to Miss May G. Hendryx, a daughter of Andrew B. Hendryx, of New Haven and a representative of an old New England family. They now have three sons, George H., Andrew B. and Tilton E., all of whom are in school. Dr. and Mrs. Doolittle hold membership in the Episcopal church and he is identified with several of the clubs and societies of the city. In 1909 he was honored with the presidency of the Spokane Club and he belongs also to the Spokane Country Club. While in New Haven he was a member of the Quinnipiae Club. He holds membership with the Society of the Colonial Wars and his prominence in the organization known as the Sons of the Revolution is indicated in the fact that he has been vice president of the state society. An eminent American statesman is responsible for the statement that the strongest and most capable men of the country are those who have had their nativity in the east and have sought the business opportunities of the west, in which section of the country they use the qualities inherited from a capable ancestry in the upbuilding of a new empire. Alive to the opportunities of the northwest. Dr. Doolittle has cooperated in various projects for the general good and at the same time his liberal training at home and abroad and his subsequent study and experience in the practical work of the profession have placed him in a prominent position among Spokane's physicians and surgeons.

James F. Herrick

Varied and important interests claim the attention and cooperation of James F. Herrick, who at different times has been identified with mining and with commercial and manufacturing enterprises. His efforts are of such a practical character as to make his work a forceful and effective factor in the promotion of public progress as well as of individual success. He was born in Greenbush, New Yorkj December 16, ISoi, a son of William H. and Maria (Faulkner) Herrick. The Herrick family is of Danish descent but was founded in New England during the early period of American colonization. One of the name served as a colonel in the Revolutionary war and Admiral Worden was directly related to the family. William H. Herrick, born in New York city, became a grain merchant and distiller. He resided for a long period in Oswego, New York, where he became recognized as a prominent and influential citizen, serving there as mayor, as member of the school board and in numerous other offices. He died in 1895 but is still sur^-ived by his wife, who j'et makes her home in Oswego, New York. She was bom in Greenbush, that state, and. represented an old family from Edinburgh, Scotland. In their family were three sons and five daughters, the brothers of James F. Herrick being: A. Thomas Herrick, assistant to the president of the Spokane & International Railroad ; and W. H. Herrick, a lumber merchant of New York. The sisters are: ]Mary, who is the widow of J. B. Lathrop and resides in Oswego; Louise, of Oswego, the widow of J. G. Merriman ; Hettie, who is the widow of W. H. Weed and lives in Oswego; Fannie, also of that city; and Carrie, the wife of W. D. Wheeler, of New York.

In the Oswego public schools James F. Herrick pursued his education preparatory to entering college at New Haven, Connecticut. He became associated with business affairs in the employ of his father, who was a car manufacturer of Oswego, and there James F. Herrick worked at that trade until he turned his attention to the lumber manufacturing business at Fulton, New York. Subsequently he disposed of his interest to the Standard Oil Company and operated their factory for eleven years. It was then the largest box factory in the United States and is today utilizing one hundred and twenty million feet of boxes per year.

Mr. Herrick dates his residence in Spokane from 1895, at which time he engaged in mining in Rossland, British Columbia, acting as manager of the Iron Mask, a mine which has now been shipping for over twelve years. He also purchased an interest in the Buckeye Lumber Company and has since been active in the conduct of the business. They own a sawmill, planing mill and box factory at Buckeye, Washington, and something of the size of the plant may be gained from the fact that the capacity of the mill is fiftj- thousand feet of lumber daily and they probably cut four million feet in a year for the box factory alone. Their principal output is fruit boxes. The companj- is a close corporation, iWth Mr. Herrick as president and owner. The business has become an extensive one and the success of the undertaking indicates the keen sagacity, sound judgment and wise control of the president.

While still a resident of Oswego Mr. Herrick was married on the 21st of December, 1873, to Miss Clara F. Fort, a daughter of Daniel G. Fort, bank casliier, collector of the port, maj'or of the city and congressman, having thus in different important relations proved his worth as a business man and citizen. Mr. Herrick is prominent in Masonry, having taken the degrees of the lodge, commandery and shrine, and he belongs also to the Spokane Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In all the communities in which he has resided he has been recognized as a leader of public thought and action. In politics he is an independent republican and while in the east filled nearly all of the municipal offices. He was only twentytwo years of age when elected mayor of Fulton, New York, and he also served as a member of the city council of that place, wliile in Oswego, New York, he served on both the police and excise boards. Whether in office or out of it he has ever been recognized as a loyal and progressive citizen who feels that for benefits derived from the government adequate return should be made in faithful support of those interests and measures which are factors in the general welfare, safeguarding the interests of the many. In his business life his course has been marked by continuous advancement and each forward step has brought him a broader outlook and ^vider opportunities. ]\Iorever, he has never regarded any position as final but rather as the starting jx)int for the accomplishment of still larger interests.

Lloyd S. Roberts

Lloyd S. Roberts, prominent in financial circles in Spokane as a dealer in stocks and bounds and general banking business, which he conducted as a member of the firm of Roberts Brothers up to the time of his death, was born in Ross county, Ohio, November 21, 1860, his parents being Albert D. and Rebecca Roberts, the former a prominent farmer of Ross county. In the public schools of that county the son pursued his education to the age of eighteen years, when he put aside his text-books to devote his entire time and attention to general agricultural pursuits, which he followed for a few years. He then engaged in the milling business with his brother in Ross county, Ohio, for a few years, after which he removed to the middle west, settling in Hutchinson, Kansas, where his business connection was that of representative for the Winfield Mortgage & Trust Company. He occupied that position for two years and in 1888 came to Spokane as representative for the same company, continuing in their employ until 1890.

Mr. Roberts then organized the Washington Abstract & Title Company, of which he was president for a year, and also became identified with the Bank of Columbia. Later he became cashier of the Brown National Bank, with which he was connected for two _vears, and on the expiration of that period he became one of the firm of Roberts Brothers, dealers in stocks and bonds and also conducting a general banking business. He was thus associated up to the time of his death. He did not confine his attention entirely to that line, for he also organized the firm of Powell, Roberts & Finley, of which he was president for two years. He occupied a commanding position in banking circles and his ability was recognized by his colleagues and contemporaries, who ever expressed admiration for his resourcefulness, his capable management and his executive force.

On the 25th of August, 1891, Mr. Roberts was united in marriage to Miss Cora L. Belt, a daughter of the Hon. Horatio N. and Martha (Tipton) Belt, who are mentioned elsewhere in this volume. The children of this marriage are Dorothy L. and Marshall A., both of whom are in school.

In his 23olitical views Mr. Roberts was a republican but the honors and emoluments of office had no attraction for him. He held membership in the Westminster Congregational church and in that faith passed away October 23, 1905. He was a home-loving man, devoted to the welfare of his familj' and ever loyal in his friendships. There were no spectacular phases in his life but his record was none the less useful and none the less Significant than that of many a man who has been more prominently before the public eye. He was ever faithful to duty, whether of a public or pirivate nature, and his record indicates what can be accomplished along the lines of steady progression when willingness to work, capability and recognition of opportunity are numbered among the salient traits of the individual. Desire to succeed that he might provide well for his family prompted ^Ir. Roberts in all of his business career and brought him eventually to a prominent position in financial circles in Spokane.

Waldo Grant Paine

Waldo Grant Paine is regarded as one of the most prominent railroad men of the country, having carried through to successful completion all the projects of that character with which he has been connected. He paid his first visit to Spokane in 1885 and was so well pleased the country that he determined to make it his future home and upon his return to the east shaped all of his plans with that end in view. His operations in the northwest have been of decided value in the development and upbuilding of the country, for no other agency does so much in the direct path of general progress as railroad building and operation. Mr. Paine is a native of St. Paul, born June 1-1, 1863, his parents being Parker and Roselle E. (Grant) Paine, both of whom were of English lineage. The Paine family came from Suffolk, England, during the colonial epoch in the history of this country and William Paine, the grandfather of Waldo G. Paine, was a chaplain in the Revolutionary army and also served as a private. His son Parker Paine was born in North Anson, Maine, and became a prominent banker of St. Paul, where he conducted a private bank and also organized the First National Bank of that city, in connection with Horace Thompson. He died in 1875 and was long survived by his wife, who passed away in 1903. She was born in Wapping, Connecticut, and came of a family prominent in the Revolutionary war, belonging to the same branch of the family as did President Grant. Their only son was Waldo Grant Paine, who, however, had two half-brothers : Franklin, who was captain of sharpshooters during the Civil war, organizing a company at St. Paul and serving throughout the period of hostilities, while at the present time he is engaged in the grain business in Duluth, Minnesota; and Mark, who is engaged in the lumber business in Superior, Wisconsin.

Waldo G. Paine was educated in the public schools of St. Paul and was graduated from the high school with the class of 1878. In the same city he entered upon his business career, being connected with a wholesale grocery house from 1880 until 1889. In August of the latter year he made his way westward to Spokane. He had first visited the west in 1883, at which time he went to Glendive and Missoula, Montana. In 1885 he visited Spokane and the city with its possibilities and opportunities proved so attractive to him that he resolved that it should one day be his home, and in 1889 he returned to take up his permanent abode here. For the first year he was engaged in the real-estate business with W. O. Nettleton, after which he purchased the interest of T. P. Lindsay in the Lindsay Mercantile Company and with Philip Richmond and James F. Sloan conducted the business under the firm name of Sloane, Paine & Richmond. Later the last named retired and the business was reorganized under the name of the Sloane-Paine Company, so continuing until 1903, when ^Ir. Paine sold out to Mr. Sloane and turned his attention to the railroad enterprises which have meant so much in the development of the northwest. Associated with F. A. Blackwell and others, he became interested in the building of the Spokane & Coeur d'Alene Railroad and with this as his initial step in that field he has continued, his activities and interests constantly broadening and the worth of his service, therefore, constantly increasing as a factor in public benefit. He is now the second vice president and traffic manager of the Spokane & Inland Empire Railroad Company, which resulted from the consolidation of the Spokane & Coeur d'Alene Railroad, the Spokane & Inland Railroad, the Spokane Traction Company and the Spokane Term'inal Company. They are now operating two hundred and forty miles of railroad and are steadily extending the system.

On the 23d of October, 1889, in St. Paul, Mr. Paine was united in marriage to Miss Louise Nettleton, a daughter of William Nettleton, of that city, who was one of the early residents of both Duluth and St. Paul, homesteading the town site of Duluth. He also became an early resident of Spokane and at one time owned half the power of the Spokane river. He also owned and put on the market the well known Xettleton's addition. He comes from one of the early New England families of English descent. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Paine have been born two sons and a daughter: William Nettleton, now a junior in Cornell University; Alan Grant, a liigh-school student in Spokane; and Helen Roselle, who is likewise a high-school pupil.

Mr. Paine is identified with various clubs and societies, many of which have for tlieir immediate object the welfare and upbuilding of the city. He is a director of the Spokane Interstate Fair Association, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and is a member of its publicity committee. He is also president of the Spokane Transportation Club and belongs to the Spokane Club, the Inland Club and the Sjwkane Country Club. He likewise belongs to the Elks lodge of Spokane, the Societv of Colonial Wars and the Sons of the American Revolution, sen'ing as the first vice president of that society and ex-president of the local chapter. His interests and activities are wide and varied and constitute a forceful element of public progress as well as of individual advancement. He looks at life from the standpoint of a practical, energetic business man who is cognizant of the fact that opportunities are open to all and that the attainment of success depends upon the energy, determination and persistency of purpose of him who seeks it.

A. H. Myers, chief of the Spokane Fire Department, is one of the oldest firemen of the United States in years of continuous connection with the service. His long career in the field began in San Francisco, California, where he became a fire fighter forty-seven years ago. He was also the pioneer plumber and steamfitter of the Inland Empire, entering upon that work in Spokane in 1884. He was the second white child born in Oakland, Alameda county, California, his natal day being April 30, 1848. His father was B. K. Mj'ers, who was born in Columbus, Ohio, and crossed the plains in 1846 or 1847. He was one of a company of seventy-five who attempted to make the journey in prairie schooners but when they reached Utah the caravan was set upon by Indians and every member of the party with the exception of B. K. Mj'ers and a man by the name of Frank Miller were massacred. These two escaped through the brush and after enduring untold hardships succeeded in making their way to the coast. Companions in their misfortunes, the}" then formed a partnership and prospected in Placer and other counties, both acquiring large fortunes. They afterward went into the cattle business and were associated with the firm of Lux & Miller. Subsequently they went to the Black Hills, North Dakota, where they engaged in the work of boring artesian wells, but their labors there were without result so that they were badly crippled financially. They continued in mining in California and as far north as Lewiston, Idaho, and won two or three fortunes, but like many of the California pioneers sunk their earnings again in the attempt to develop other mining properties. B. K. Myers became widely known because of his activity in political affairs and many times did campaign work on the coast for the republican party, the last time entering the field in support of Grant and Colfax, candidates respectively for the office of president and vice president. At one time he was largely interested in real estate in Oakland and in East Oakland, California, and his death occurred in the former place soon after the memorable earthquake of 1907. In early manhood he had wedded Harriet Kelly, a daughter of Zeno Kelly, a pioneer of California and Oakland's first contracting builder. Mrs. Myers came from Augusta, Maine, in a clipper ship around the Horn and after a voyage of six months landed at San Francisco in 1 847. The ship was loaded with red granite for the first custom house built in San Francisco. Mrs. Myers is now living at No. 1412 Twelfth street in Oakland in a residence that adjoins the little old home that she occupied a half century ago. In the family were two sons, one being Zcno K. Myers, who is manager and secretary of the Hawaiian Trust Company, now on the Hawaiian islands, where three branch banks have been opened, the principal one being at Hilo.

The other son, A. H. Myers, was educated in the common schools of his native city and began working on his own account when thirteen years of age. He learned the plumber's and steamfitter's trade and a year later was following that pursuit in the state of Oregon. Subsequently he had charge of the plumbing and heating of the Napa (California) Insane Asylum for a period of five years, occupying that position by state appointment, and also had charge of similar work at the Mare Island navy yard, and left San Francisco to take a plumbing contract on the Tabor Opera House in Denver, Colorado, at that time the finest playhouse in the west. He also worked on the Palace Hotel in San Francisco from the time it was begun until its completion and has done plumbing work in connection with nearly all of the courthouses in California. He also went to Hawaii to put in the first Springfield gas machine used in that country and in Walla Walla, Washington, installed the plumbing and heating systems in the Sisters Hospital and also the plumbing, heating and lighting in Small's Opera House in Walla Walla.

Mr. Myers arrived in Spokane on the morning of Thanksgiving day of 188i, and became master mechanic for J. H. Boyd & Company. He installed the first sewage system of Spokane and a portion of the first water system, all included in Brownie's addition, the western part of Cannon's addition and a small portion of that territory lying between Division and Bernard streets. After remaining with J. H. Boyd & Company for a number of years he purchased the plumbing and steamfittings from that firm and embarked in business for himself, organizing the Falls City Plumbing & Heating Company which carried on business until early in the j'ear 1889, when his establishment was destroj^ed by fire with the loss of eighty-five thousand dollars. Soon afterward he embarked in business again but in a short time disposed of his interest in that connection and later opened a shop which he conducted until 1896, when the financial stress that brought trouble to so many in that year forced him out of business. On the 27th of November, 1896, Mr. Myers was appointed chief of the Spokane fire department, in which position he lias since continued through all the succeeding administrations. His first experience in fighting fire was obtained in San Francisco, California, where he became torch boy with the old Tiger Company, No. 2, with its station at that time where tlie Palace Hotel now stands. He was then but sixteen years of age. On the removal of his parents to Oakland he there became assistant to Fire Chief D. E. La jMontana, serving for a number of years in that capacity. He was one of the organizers of the Spokane Falls Fire Department, the organization being effected July 22, 1887, and hanging over his desk is the original roster signed on that evening, containing the names of A. H. Myers, James W. Young, Charles Byron, D. S. McCrea, H. G. Gillette, James Mulroy, R. A. Wilson, Harry Rosenhaupt, R. B. Dawson, Charles Blanchett, Louis Stratton, Charles Dyer, B. F. Wing, J. C. Odell, E. P. Gillette, Hank Greenberg, E. M. Powell, Gus Martin, Lee Kelly, Tom AUpliin, Charles Schoin, E. L. Swartz, M. Abrahams, and Frank Gillette. The majority of these charter members have passed away and the old document remains as one of Mr. Myers' most prized possessions. Chief ]\Iyers has exemjition papers from both the state of California and the state of Washington. He is a member of the International Association of Fire Engineers and for fifteen years has been treasurer of the Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs and among the fire-fighting fraternity in the west is regarded as an authoritj' on all matters pertaining to the prevention and extinction of fires. He is held in the highest regard by insurance men and by all who know him in his home city. The Fire and Water Engineering Weekly of New York said in an article relative to him: "Chief Myers is a good mechanic and has always evidenced great interest in the various improvements in fire-fighting machines and many manufactories today owe their improvement to the idea advanced by him. His department is conceded to be one of the best in the United States. He is a thorough disciplinarian and yet the men of his department look up to him as a child does to the kind and indulgent parent. The department consists of eleven stations, one hundred and twenty-five men, seven engines, four hook and ladder trucks, two chemicals and eleven hose wagons. Chief Myers has recently added auto apparatus, having placed an auto chassis under his eighty-five foot aerial truck." In the fire of 1889 which destroyed the business district of Spokane Chief Myers had his department working in a most systematic .and effective way but because of the nature of the buildings the task was hopeless from the first. The conflagration started in an old planing mill that was occupied as a horse barn and covered about a half block. A forty-mile gale was blowing at the time and carried the flames directly across the alley to the wholesale house of the Spokane Drug Company. Mr. Myers describes this as one of the shortest and hardest fights of his career.

In December, 1893, occurred the marriage of Mr. Myers and Miss Winnifred Phillips, a daughter of J. L. Phillips, a pioneer carpenter and contractor of Denver, Colorado. His social relations have brought him a wide acquaintance. He became a charter member of Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E., in which he has occupied all of the chairs except that of exalted ruler. For twelve j'ears he has been a trustee and was especially active in the building of the Elks Temple, and on its completion the lodge presented him with a life membership card in recognition of his services. He holds membership with the Eagles, the Spokane Protective Rod and Gun Club and the Inland Club. His military experience is limited to that of McClure's Academy in California and the Emmett Guard of San Francisco, becoming one of the first members of the latter. Not all days in his busi-. ness career have been equally bright, for adversity has at times overtaken him, yet on the whole he has prospered and is today the owner of considerable real estate in Spokane, besides being interested in a large tract of land known as the Kalispell Duck Preserve. His salient characteristics have ever been such as to command admiration and regard and in liis public service he has ever been actuated by a high sense of duty and of efficiency that has made him one of the most distinguished and honored fire chiefs of the Pacific coast.

Harry J. Carman

Harry J. Carman, vice president and manager of the Carman Manufacturing Company, engaged in the manufacture of mattresses and furniture and also conducting a wholesale furniture department, has proven his ability in the building up of an immense business which covers much of the territory of the northwest. He has been a resident of the state since 1891, arriving here when a young man of twenty years. His birth occurred in southern Illinois, June 12, 1871, his parents being Joseph Lincoln and Mercy Maria (Crane) Carman. In his youthful days he pursued a public-school education in Illinois and Kansas and, as previously stated, came to the northwest at the age of twenty years in company with his brotlier,

Joseph L. Carman, Jr. They settled at Tacoma, Washington, and Harry J. Carman secured a position as paying teller in the Fidelity Bank. Eventually his brother established himself in business under the name of the Pacific Lounge & Mattress Company, in Tacoma, and in 1893 Harry J. Carman resigned his position in the bank and went upon the road as a traveling salesman for his brother. After two years, or in 1895, he removed to Seattle, where he opened a branch house for the company, remaining there for six years. In 1898 the company was reorganized and incorporated under the firm name of the Carman Manufacturing Company, of which his brother, Joseph L. Carman, became president, while Harry J. Carman became vice president and manager of the Seattle branch. In 1905 the company changed its base of operations to Spokane, purchasing the plant of the Spokane Lounge & Mattress Company, which they have since operated. All of their mattresses are made in Spokane, cotton felt being the material used, and they have built up a tremendous business throughout the northwest. Their trade is continuously growing and their business is today recognized as one of the important industrial activities of this section of the country. They have also added a line of furniture and sell only to the wholesale trade.

On the 9th of November, 1899, at Seattle, Mr. Carman was united in marriage to Miss Maude Braden, of that city, and they have two children, Virginia, born August 22, 1900; and Helen, born April 18, 1902. Mr. Carman has never been interested in politics or held public office but is prominent and active in ^Masonry, belonging to Cataract Commandery, No. 2, K. T., and to El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Spokane and Inland Clubs. His social nature renders him appreciative of good-fellowship and his business abilitj' has placed him in prominent connection with the manufacturing interests of the northwest. He stands as a typical citizen of liis section of the country with belief in its future and active in cooperation with its affairs which are making its history and promoting its upbuilding.

Harry Green

"There's a whole lot of us that are poorer since he's gone, for he was a man whose friendship was worth more than money," was a tribute paid to Harry Green when he was called from this life. It was but one of many such expressions that were heard on every hand and among all who knew him, for he was a whole-souled, generous man, possessed of a large fund of humor and a kindly disposition.

He was born at Prenn, in the province of Poland, August 10, 1863, and was therefore more than forty-seven years of age when he passed away at the Hotel Ridpath in Spokane on the 14th of December, 1910. His parental name was Harry Gurinsky, wliicli by due process of law he had changed to Green after coming to Spokane. After coming to America, when fifteen years of age, he spent several years in Texas, where he was engaged in various pursuits, and in 1891 he arrived in this city. From that time forward he was particularly prominent in the sporting circles of the Pacific coast as the owner of fine racing stables, as a breeder of fine dogs, as a promoter of baseball and in other ways. The element of chance in anything always awakened in him interest and yet he had the qualities, too, of a conservative business man of sound judgment, as was manifest in his investments in propertj' and valuable stocks. In October, 1900, he acquired a one-half interest in the Club cafe, being an equal partner with Messrs. Scott and Sorg, this relation continuing for ten years or until the death of Mr. Green. He owned a racing stable for several years, entering his horses for the big stakes oflfered bj' the Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Spokane racing associations. His horse Royalty was the winner of the Seattle and Spokane derbies of 1903. In California he was a conspicuous figure for the heavy stakes which he put upon his favorites and one of the San Francisco papers therefore called him "The Duke of Spokane," which sobriquet clung to him for years.

It was Mr. Green who took hold of the baseball team of Spokane when it was at the bottom of a long list of city teams and promoted its interests until the team became a recognized factor in baseball circles in the northwest. In 1902, long before baseball had been placed on its present businesslike basis, Mr. Green purchased an interest in the Spokane Northwestern League Club and as the result of his efforts he gave Spokane one of its best and most popular ball teams. He promoted Spokane's first aviation meet, largely financing the movement which brought Hamilton, the well known aviator, to this city. He likewise became interested in the theatrical world through his intimate friend, John Considine of Seattle, and was the o^vner of stock in the Orpheum and the Washington theaters of Spokane and also in Vancouver theaters. He was a promoter of boxing contests and the owner of one of the finest kennels of the northwest.

On the 18th of June, 1892J Mr. Green was united in marriage to ^liss Emma Thatcher, of Spokane, who survived him together with three brothers, an uncle, a cousin and an adopted child, Helene J. He left his widow most comfortably provided for by reason of his well directed investments in business. He at times met heavy losses in his sporting interests but no one ever heard him complain of this.

When he passed away words of regret were heard on every hand and such tributes were paid to him as: "I knew him for twenty years and I never knew him to do a mean trick." Another said: "Harry Green was the most popular man Spokane ever had. He had a personal speaking acquaintance with thousands and always a good word for all of them." Another said: "When you say that Green was a lover of fine horses and fine dogs, you can pay him no higher compliment, for there's always a lot of good in such a man. With animals he was gentle - just as he was with his friends." Death came to him after a twelve days' illness wth pneumonia and impressive funeral services were held in the Eagles Hall, which proved entirely too small to accommodate his many friends who gathered to pay their last tribute of friendship and respect to him. One of the local papers said: "Scarcely less impressive than the outpouring of friends at the funeral exercises were the floral tributes. The entire south end of the hall, the rostrum and the casket in front of it were literally buried in flowers. There were roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, lilies and smilax worked into the most elaborate designs." Judge J. Stanley Webster, president of the order, paid high tribute to him in a brief address, saying: "He was both a friend and a brother. He valued liberty, love and the truth and was just in his dealings with all men. He believed in tlie hereafter and in God. He did what he thought was right at all times and he has gone to his reward." His friends were found in everj' rank and walk of life, a fact which indicated his intellectual hospitality. He had the faculty of j^utting all at ease in his presence and his whole life seemed to radiate good nature and kindliness. It is said that he was particularly the friend of the man who is "down and out" - a characteristic that is found in few and indicates a nature that is indeed commendable. He was indeed always held in high esteem for his personal integrity, his thorough manliness, his whole-hearted spirit and his generosity.

Dr. George W. Libby, physician and surgeon, and for twenty-eight years a resident of Spokane, was born in Hiram, Oxford county, Maine, January 29, 1850. His father, Daniel Jeremy Libby, was a grandson of Daniel Libby, whose life record covered the period from 1715 to ISO*. He was a resident of Berwick, Maine, and a member of the committee of correspondence and safety during the Revolutionary war. Daniel J. Libby devoted the principle part of liis life to farming. He married Mary Chase, a daughter of Gideon and Salome (Lombard) Chase, of Standish, !Maine, and a cousin of Solon Chase, the greenback candidate for president. The death of Daniel J. Libby occurred in Spokane in 1906, when he had reached the advanced age of eighty-six years. He had for two decades survived his wiie, who passed away in 1886. In their family were two sons, one of whom is I. C. Libby, teacher of classics in the Spokane liigh school. The daughter of the family is now ]\Irs. Samuel B. Locke, a widow residing at West Paris, Maine.

Dr. Libby attended the common schools of Cumberland county, Maine, also the Westbrook Seminary of Westbrook, Maine, and the Maine Wesleyan Seminary of Kents Hill, Maine. In early manhood he also took up the profession of teacliing, teaching in the common schools both before and after his graduation from the high school and later becoming a high-school teacher. His professional training was received in the Harvard Medical College and the Bowdoin Medical College, winning his M. D. degree from the latter in 1876. He served as interne in the Maine General Hospital of Portland, Maine, for one year and then located for practice in the town of Searsport in his native state, where he continued from 1876 mitil 1883. During the succeeding year he was in Middletown, Connecticut, and thence came to Spokane in 1884. He has formed no professional partnerships, practicing independently, and has gained a wide recognition not only from the general public but also among the profession.

In addition to his private practice Dr. Libby is now serving as United States medical pension examiner. He was appointed to the position by President Cleveland during his first administration, was reappointed by President Harrison and has since continued in the office. For six years he served on the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital, accepting the position soon after the institution was founded. He is now a member of the board of control of the Spokane Deaconess Hospital and is medical examiner for the Germania and the Fidelity Life Insurance Companies of Philadelphia. He belongs to the county medical society, of which he has been president, has also been honored with the presidency of the state medical society, is a member of the American Medical Association and is representing the state as delegate-elect to the house of delegates of that body for 1912 and 1913.

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Dr. Libby's membership relations extend to the Chamber of Commerce, which finds him a cooperant factor in all its practical and progressive movements for the benefit of the city. He like\vise belongs to the Inland Club. When in Maine he became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and in his younger years occupied some of the chairs in liis local lodge, including that of vice grand. He has attained high rank in Alasonry, being now a member of the Consistory and of the Mystic Shrine. His religious belief is indicated in his membership in the First Methodist church, wliich his family also attend. He was married at Townsend, Massachusetts, on the 31st of Maj', 1877, to Miss Jacova D. Pribble, a daughter of Gabriel and Sarah Pribble, of Augusta, Kentucky, representatives of a prominent family of the northern part of Kentuckj^ The war records show that representatives of the name participated in the revolution. Unto Dr. and Mrs. Libby have been born two children, Elva and George W. The former was graduated from the Spokane high school and the Washington State College and for three years studied medicine in the University of Minnesota. She is now the wife of Arthur A. Young, a civil engineer of North Yakima, Washington. The son is a graduate of the Spokane high school and has completed two years' work in Whitman College.

The family are prominent socially and occupy a leading position in those circles of society where intelligence and true worth are accepted as passports. Dr. Libby has ever held to high ideals in his professional service, has utilized every opportunity to promote his knowledge and thus advance his efficiency and has the tact and ready sympathy which enables him to understand the mental as well as the physical condition of liis patients. Along other lines, too, his reading has been broad and his interests are wide, bringing him into close connection with many lines of thought and various activities which are contributing to the world's progress and improvement.

In the history of Washington's educational progress the name of H. C. Sampson figures largely and, turning from professional to commercial interests, he has won notable success as general manager of the Western Union Life Insurance Company, which position he has occupied since the 1st of May, 1910. He was born in Monroe City, Indiana, November £2, 1870, the son of Hiram W. Simpson, who devoted his life to merchandising and bore the reputation of an honorable, upright business man and citizen. He was public-spirited and took an active and helpful part in civic matters and was prominent in Masonry. He wedded Mary C. Whitla, who was born in Pennsylvania and came of Irish ancestry. She died in 1 874 while the death of Hiram W. Sampson occurred in 1 880.

H. C. Sampson, of this review, has one brother, M. W. Sampson, now a minister in Oklahoma, and a half brother, S. W. Sampson, a merchant of Oakland City, Indiana. Like the others of the household Mr. Sampson, of this review, was accorded good educational privileges, supplementing his public-school course by study in Vincennes University of Indiana, and the L^niversity of Indiana, from which he was graduated vriih the B. A. degree in 1897; in 1901-1902 he was a graduate student at Harvard, holding an Austin teacher's scholarship. Before the comple- tion of his own education, however, he had had business experience, for in liis boyhood he worked on a farm for two j-ears and when a student in Vincennes was employed in a mercantile establishment. At seventeen years of age he became a teacher and followed that profession for three years. It was subsequent to this time that he spent two years in the Indiana Universities and then, resuming the profession of teaching, was superintendent of schools at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, for two years, followed by a two-years' incumbency in the mathematical professorship at Vincennes. He next accepted the position of professor of mathematics at the Cheney Normal School of Washington and at the close of the year there became principal of the preparatory school at the state college in Pullman, where he continued for two years. He was principal of the summer school and professor of education at the state college at Pullman for six years and afterward served for two years as president of the state normal at Cheney. Each change indicated an advance and he became widely recognized as one of the leading educators of the northwest, liis withdrawal from that field bringing a distinct loss to educational circles. He has spent at least one hundred and fifty weeks in lecture work with teachers in the four northwestern states, one hundred and twenty-five weeks of this time being passed in Washington. He has lectured to teachers in every county of this state and when in the normal school at Cheney established the first rural school department ever conducted in the United States. He also introduced a rural training school in connection with the normal school work. For years he carried on a propaganda for manual training, domestic economy and agriculture before those branches were taught in the northwest. He was also the first one to introduce physical, dental and medical inspection of students in the normal school at Cheney. His entire work in the educational field was characterized by a spirit of progress that found its manifestation in practical results which constantly broadened the scope of education, promoting the ability of teachers and rendering the work of the schools much more effective and beneficial as a preparation for the practical duties of life. The excellent results which he accomplished established him as one of the foremost educators of the northwest.

Following his withdrawal from the educational field Professor Sampson became general manager of the Western Union Life Insurance Company, which position he has fiUed since the 1st of May, 1910. This company was organized November 23, 1906, as a imion of financial and business interests in the Pacific northwest for the purpose of keeping capital in this section at home. The new company was capitalized for two hundred thousand dollars, fully paid up, and now has over twelve million dollars of insurance in force. Its assets amount to three quarters of a million, its gross surplus is one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, its legal reserve is over four hundred thousand dollars and it has more than one hundred thousand dollars on deposit with the state treasurer of Washington to safeguard its pohcy holders. The company was organized under the laws of the state of Washington and in accordance therewith is a public business. Its interests are safeguarded by the state and the business is under the direction of the insurance commissioner of Washington. Its growtli has been phenomenal - far beyond that of any company of similar age in the western part of the country. The Western Union Life now operates in the four northwestern states with general agency offices at Portland, Oregon ; Missoula, Montana ; Ellensburg and Lewiston, Idaho ; Walla Walla, Wenatchee and Seattle, Washington; while the head offices of the company are in the Home Office building in Spokane, which is owned by the company. The six hundred stockholders include some of the most prosperous and best known agriculturists, business and professional men and bankers of the Pacific northwest, among whom are numbered prominent residents of Helena, Boise, Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and most of the smaller cities of Washington. The business has been founded on a safe basis and is conducted along the most progressive lines in keeping with the modern spirit of the age and the results achieved are notable and gratifying.

On the 25th of June, 1902, at Pullman, Washington, Mr. Sampson was united in marriage to Miss Jessie Hungate, a daughter of James A. Hungate, a retired farmer and a representative of one of the oldest families of Walla Walla county, having crossed the plains before the railroad was built. Mr. Hungate served in the Washington constitutional convention. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Sampson have been born four children, Alan Hungate, Donald Calvin, Mary Elizabeth and Patricia.

Mr. Sampson has always been deeply interested in civic and public affairs and his influence has ever been found on the side of advancement, and his intelligent discussion of vital questions is based upon a thorough understanding of facts and principles involved. In politics he is an independent republican and believes that the general good should always transcend partisanship and that legislation that fosters the interests of the few rather than the many is a detriment and menace to the high ideals of republican government. He is a trustee of the Chamber of Commerce, is treasurer of the Northwestern Development League, is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity and a member of the Spokane Club. These associations indicate much of the nature of his interests and the lines along which he is working toward that progress which should ever be the goal of a loyal, high-minded citizen, whose interests are not self-centered but reach out to the broader activities and more significant problems of life.

Edward R. Northrop

Edward R. Northrop, who since 1905 has been engaged in the general practice of medicine in Spokane and is also serving as chief surgeon of the Inland Empire Railroad System, was born at Seymour, Connecticut, December 3, 1870, a son of the Rev. Henry D. and Josephine L. (Merrick) Northrop. The father's birth occurred in Poultney, New York, March 10, 1836. He pursued his education at Amherst College, from which institution he was graduated in IS-IT. His first pastorate was the Seymour Congregational church and, although he was there but for a short time, he won the affection of all who knew him. After having a charge in New Haven, where he also attended a course of lectures at Yale University, he went to London, England, in 1862 and founded the Victoria Park Congregational church. Two years later he returned to America and served as pastor of the West Twentythird Street Presbyterian church of New York, the Fourth Congregational church of Hartford and the North Tenth Street Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, the latter being his last pastorate. Upon retiring from the active work of the ministry Rev. Northrop devoted himself to literary pursuits and became chief editor of the National Publishing Company of Philadeliihia. He was the author of many well known and highly regarded books, among them being "The Golden Manual ;" "Earth, Sea and Sky;" "Beautiful Gems of Thought and Sentiment;" "Bible Stories for the Young;" and the American story "John Winslow." As a preacher he possessed great power and eloquence, and as a literary man exceptional ability, being well fitted for both of these professions because of his rare intellectual attainments. He is survived by his wife, formerly Miss Josephine Merrick, a member of an old New England family, and by three children: Dr. Herbert L. Northrop, professor of anatomy and dean of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia ; Dr. Edward R. Northrop, of this review; and Mrs. A. S. Hathewaj', of Nepperhan Heights, Yonkers, New York.

Edward R. Northrop pursued his preliminary education in the public schools of Philadelphia and prepared for his professional career as a student in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1898, and the Medico-Chirurgieal College of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1899. He entered upon the practice of his profession at Grand Forks, British Columbia, as chief surgeon for the Granby Smelter. After remaining in that position for six years he came to Spokane in 1905 and became chief surgeon of the Inland Empire Railroad System, a position which he still holds in addition to his general practice. He is a deep student and keeps in touch with the advanced thought of the profession, as investigation and research are continually broadening knowledge and promoting efficiency among the members of the medical fraternity. Aside from his professional duties Dr. Northrop interests himself in the apple-growing industry, being therein extensively engaged as the owner of large tracts in the Spokane valley and Methow districts. Another of his profitable investments is in the Silver Hoard Mines Company, a well known silver and lead bearing property at Ainsworth, British Columbia, of wliich company he is the president.

Dr. Northrop was married on the 1st of June, 1899, to Miss Laura Merwarth, a daughter of Sylvester Merwarth, of Easton, Pennsylvania. To their union two sons have been born: Jay Graves, whose birth occurred at Grand Forks, British Columbia ; and Seymour, who was born in Spokane. Because of the extensive practice which he enjoys Dr. Northrop has had little time to engage in politics and he has never been an office seeker. He is a member of the Spokane Club, the University Club and the Phi Alpha Gamma fraternity. He maintains an office in the Paulsen building.

Robert John Danson

Robert John Danson, senior partner of the law firm of Danson, Williams & Danson and a practitioner at the Spokane bar since 1890, was born in Pewaukee. Wisconsin, February 2, 1857. His father, Robert W. Danson, became an early settler of the Badger state, establishing his home in Pewaukee in 18tO. There he died in 1867, while his wife, who bore the maiden name of Miclial Giles, survived him until 1898.

After attending the graded and high schools of Pewaukee, Robert J. Danson entered the State Normal at Whitewater, Wisconsin, and when his course there completed lie went to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he read law in an attor- ney's office. His last year's reading was pursued at Davenport, Iowa, where he was admitted to the bar in December, 1881. He then practiced in that city until 1883, when he removed to Algona, Iowa, where he followed his profession until 1890. In that year he came to Spokane and formed a partnership with Judge Prather under the firm name of Prather & Danson, which association was maintained for four and a half years. During the succeeding year and a half Mr. Danson practiced alone and was then joined by Mr. Huneke under the firm style of Danson & Huneke, which was continued until January 1, 1905, when the firm name was changed to Danson & Williams. On the 1st of September, 1911, they were joined by Mr. Danson's son, Robert W., at which time they adopted the firm name of Danson, Williams & Danson. Their clientage is extensive and of an important character and in the work of the courts Robert J. Danson is proving himself the peer of the ablest members of the Spokane bar.

Aside from his professional activity Mr. Danson is known in business circles as one of the organizers and stockholders of the Pasco Reclamation Company and has done much to upbuild and improve that district through his efiorts in connection with the company. He is also a trustee of the Washington Trust Company and of the Union Park Bank.

On the 17th of March, 1881, Mr. Danson was married to Miss Ella J. Lilly, a daughter of John Lilly, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They have five children: Ella E., now the wife of Clyde Higgins; Robert W., a member of the law firm of Danson, Williams & Danson; IMichal L. and May, both at home; and Ethel, who is attending Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, Illinois.

Mr. Danson is well known in Masonic circles, having attained tlie thirtysecond degree of the Scottish Rite and also crossed the sands of the desert with the nobles of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is likewise a member of the Spokane Club and 'the Spokane Country Club. In a profession where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit and ability he has worked his way constantly upward and at the same time has proven his resourcefulness in his capable management of other business interests and investments.

C. Ferris White

C. Ferris White, long engaged in general architectural and engineering work, sometimes in partnership relations and again alone, but in all connections ^vinning that success which comes in recognition of superior ability and merit, has in this connection contributed largely to the upbuilding and improvement not only of Spokane but of other sections of the state. He was born in Chicago, August 22, 1867, and in the paternal line his ancestry is traced back to some of the oldest New England families. His grandparents, Alpheus and Lydia (Taft) White, were the founders of the Petersham branch of the family, removing to that place from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. The latter was a descendant of Robert Tnft. who left his native country of Scotland and made his way to the town of ]Munden in 1680. After King Philip's war, when Uxbridge was cut off from London, the Taft family there resided until they removed to Petersham. An uncle of C. Ferris Wliite was

Captain Lyman A. White, father of C. Ferris White, was born in Petersham, Massachusetts, and was a practical man of affairs who pursued his education in Brown University and was for a time a successful teacher. Withdrawing from professional connections, however, he turned his attention to farming and in 1857 he removed to Clifton, Illinois, becoming the owner of a tract of land, but when the call came for volunteers in 1861 he put aside all business and personal interests and enlisted as a private of the Nineteenth Illinois Infantry with which he served throughout the entire war under General Grant. When mustered out he was captain of Bridge's Battery. One writer says of him: "He combined with strict discipline an unusually sj'mpathetic nature which left an imprint on the personal lives of many of his soldiers as it had previously done on his pupils." He sacrificed much to enter the army but never allowed his personal interests to stand in the way of his duty to his country and when the war was over he became a hotel proprietor, opening the Clarendon, among the first family hotels in Chicago. During the four years of his arm}' life he visited Clifton, Illinois, the scene of his pioneer farming experience, and there formed the acquaintance of a young lady from the east, Annie Hungerford Ferris, whom he wedded after the close of hostilities, their home being established in Chicago. Mrs. Wliite was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and became a physician, practicing in Chicago. She was a graduate of the Hahnemann Homeopathic College of Medicine of that city, which conferred upon her the degree of M. D. She had one brother, Franklin W. Ferris, who gave his life for his country when only seventeen years of age, being killed in the battle of Chickamauga. Her uncle, William Albert Ferris, was at one time prominent in the south, serving as mayor of New Orleans. Their ancestry were Quakers of English descent and were engaged in the East India! trade. Unto Captain and Mrs. White were born three sons. Frank White, bom in 1873, died March 2, 1906. He was a most popular young man, beloved by all who knew him, and after his death his friends published a memorial of his life, beautifully bound, and containing fine engravings of the young man at different ages. He had studied law and was actively engaged in practice but his professional interests were never allowed to warp the spiritual side of his nature which was strongly developed and prompted him to many good deeds in his short life. The memorial volume is entitled "A Short Life Well Lived," the introduction being written by Robert E. Speer, secretary of the Presbyterian board of foreign missions, and also contains many personal tributes, among them being one written by the Rev. Wilbur Chapman, secretary of the Evangelistic committee of the Presbyterian church, and another by John Willis Baer, president of Occidental College, of Los Angeles, with letters from other prominent men of the bar and church. One says: "In telling of a life which in its essence so nearly approached the one ideal Life that often the comparison was made involuntarily. ... It was a great privilege to know Frank AAHiite. One had but to look upon his face to realize that he was a marked man, that God's seal of approval was upon his life." Another said: "He lived a great life, short as it was," and still another wrote: "He was frank and there are no men who knew him who will not declare him a man who was to the very darkest corner of his soul a white man." Still another expression in this tribute of love was: "His death caused a loss to the profession and to the city as a lawyer and a Chris- tian gentleman." Harold White, the second son of the family, bom in 1877, is now a member of the law firm of Eastman & White, of Chicago, occupying large and well appointed offices and enjoying a fine practice. He is prominent in reform politics, as was his brother Frank.

C. Ferris White pursued his education in the common schools of Chicago and his boyhood was employed in numerous ways. He took up the study of architecture in that city in 188-i and became head draftsman in the office of W. W. Meyers, and was also associated with the firm of Sprague & Newell and with W. W. Clay. He was identified with architectural work in his native city until March, 1890, when he came to Spokane under contract with Herman Preusse, to take charge of interests in his office. After a month, however, Mr. White entered the employ of C. B. Seaton, with whom he formed a partnership six months later under the firm name of Seaton & White, the firm establishing branch offices in W^hatcom, now Bellingham, and ]\Ir. White removed to that city to take charge of the work in that district, there remaining until the partnership was dissolved in April, 1892. He then removed to Everett, where he continued in business until his return to Spokane in November, 1896. Here he again became associated with Mr. Seaton but the latter died soon after the partnership was formed, passing away in December of that year. In April, 1 897, Mr. White formed a partnership %vith W. A. Alexander, of Seattle, under the name of White & Alexander, but the junior member of the firm died in October, of the same year. In the fall of 1898 Mr. White became a partner of A. E. Permaine under the firm style of White & Permaine, and they were thus associated for one year, after which they admitted Oscar Huber and John W. Strack, Mr. Permaine withdrawing from the firm, and the firm stj'le of White, Huber & Strack was assumed, the company doing general architectural and engineering work. Six months later Mr. Strack and Mr. Huber were appointed on important railroad work and Mr. White was again alone in business until 1904. Owing to the severe illness of his wife he took her to California, leaving Alfred Jones to look after the business as a partner. In 1905 he became the senior partner of the firm of White & Hyslop, his associate being W. W. Hyslop, but since 1906 has been alone. The work accorded liim has been of a most important character and as an architect he is widely known throughout the northwest. While associated with !Mr. Seaton they made the plans for the Spokesman-Review building, the old exposition building and a number of others of less importance. They also made the plans for the state normal building at Chenej' and while at Everett !Mr. \^nute devoted the major portion of his time to the erection of public-school buildings and business blocks. In 1905 he was engaged by the Potlach Lumber Company as architect for the town of Potlach and in that connection designed and superintended the erection of more than three hundred buildings, consisting of working men's cottages, ranging in price from five hundred to two thousand dollars, and for the officers of the company erected residences ranging in price from two to eight thousand dollars. He also built in the town a hotel, a theater, store houses, school houses, churches and depots, and in ten months had under contract work amounting to five hmidred thousand dollars. He built the entire town except the mill and when he left Potlach fifteen hundred people were in the town and all were housed.

Among the fine residences of Spokane designed by Mr. White are those of Frank H. Graves, T. W. Spencer and George W. Wooster, ranging in cost from twenty to tliirty thousand dollars. He has erected and prepared plans for over eleven hundred buildings in this state of all kinds and classes, building on an average of about fifty each year. Until a recent day he was also engaged in the decorative business but retired from that field to devote all of his attention to arcliitecture. Since 1910 he has been secretary-treasurer of the Spokane Wrecking Company, Inc., and has done a large amount of business in tliis connection, razing most of the buildings on the new lines of the Milwaukee and Great Northern Railways.

In April, 1898, Mr. White was united in marriage to Miss Florence A. Sargent. Fraternally he is connected with the Elks and in social organizations liis membersliip is in the Athletic Club, the Inland Club and the Coeur d'Alene Boat Club. In politics he is an active republican and was the organizer of the silver wing of that party of Snohomish county. He served as a delegate to county conventions in that county and was also a member of the coimty central committee. His military experience covers service with the Second Infantry Regiment of the Illinois National Guard at Chicago. Mr. White comes of an ancestry honored and distinguished and is fortunate in that his lines of life have been cast in harmony therewith. The same qualities which made his forefathers worthy citizens and active factors in the growth, progress and development of the east have made him a valuable citizen of the northwest, his labors constituting an eifective force in the material upbuilding and adornment of various sections, his well developed skill and ability gaining for him recognition as a foremost architect of Spokane.

L. B. Whitten

A well spent life has brought to L. B. Whitten substantial success in a business way, and sound judgment has prompted judicious investment in real estate until he is now the owner of valuable city and farm property. Moreover, he is numbered among the early residents of eastern Washington, having for thirtv-one years resided in this district, so that he is largely familiar with its upbuilding and progress, while toward its growth and development he has contributed.

He was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, November 15, 1850, and is a son of James and Sidney (Hook) Whitten, who were early residents of Pennsylvania and were descended from old families of the east. In the public schools of his native state L. B. Whitten pursued his education and then, turning his attention to the carpenter's trade, became familiar with that business in its various phases. It was his father's wish that the son should remain in Virginia and become a farmer, but this seemed to limit his opportunities, and when he had mastered the carpenter's trade he left the Old Dominion and made his way to the state of Missouri. There he conducted a photograph gallery for a short period but was still not content with his location. The west seemed to call him and he started overland with a mule team for the Pacific coast country.

Mr. Whitten first made his way to Oregon, settling at The Dalles, but after a brief period came to Spokane, where he arrived on the 3d of January, 1880. He bought a lot on Front street, where he erected a carpenter shop and worked for several years. In 1881 he purchased a lot and erected a frame building at No. 19 Howard street, there establishing a drug store which was destroyed by fire in

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1888. In the spring of 1889 he replaced this by a three-story brick building and again suiTered heavy losses in the great fire which occurred in the fall of the same year. Still undiscouraged, he at once rebuilt upon that site and also erected the fine five-story Whitten block which occupied the corner of Sprague and Post streets. In 1890 he erected a brick residence at the corner of Sixth and Madison streets and in 1893 built a two-story building at 616 Front street and a two-story brick store and office building at 222 Mill street. He is now engaged on the construction of a three-story brick hotel, which he and his son Paul will conduct. His investments in realty and his building operations have brought him a substantial measure of success and in addition to his city propert}' he is also the possessor of much fine farming land throughout the community. He is very active in realestate circles and has also been identified with a number of mining projects in this part of the country.

On the 5th of November, 1888, Mr. Whitten was married in Spokane to ]\Iiss Georgia J. Ballon, a daughter of Ellis and Laura (Clark) Ballou, both of whom were natives of Ohio and were graduates of Hiram College in that state. They removed to Zanesville, Ohio, and afterward to Helena, Montana, Mr. Ballou becoming receiver in the United States land office. On the maternal side Mrs. Whitten is descended from an old, prominent and distinguished French family, her ancestors having settled in this country early in the eighteenth century. Mr. and Mrs. Whitten have three children, namely: Paul B., who is associated with his father in his various real-estate interests; Lester C, who is now a student in Spokane, preparing to enter Harvard College; and Virginia, a student at Brunot Hall.

Politically Mr. Whitten is a democrat but has never been an aspirant for office, preferring always to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, in which he has displayed keen foresight, sound judgment and unfaltering enterprise. His labors have been an element in the city's growth and improvement and he has also contributed to the civic welfare and development in other ways. His own success is due also to the fact that he is an excellent judge of human nature and that in all business dealings he is strictly reliable, so that his word has come to be regarded as good as any bond ever solemnized by signature or seal.

George W. Fuller

George W. Fuller, librarian of the Spokane public library, was born November 17, 1876, in Charlestoivn, IMassachusetts. He belongs to one of the oldest New England families, his first paternal ancestor in America coming from England in 1670, at which time he made settlement at Lynn, Massachusetts. The birth place of Mr. Fuller's mother was Ballymore, Ireland, where her father was extensively' engaged in farming. The family removed to the vicinity of Albany, New York, when the children were very young.