Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 20 of 23)

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After pursuing a course in the State Normal School in Potsdam, New York, Charles 'M. Delameter later became a student in the law office of Graves & Graves, attorne3's of Spokane. His initial experience in the business world, however, came to him at a very early age. He was a youth of seventeen when he made his way westward to North Dakota and afterward to Montana, where he drove a stage and worked as a cowboy on the Diamond cattle ranch. He arrived in Spokane in 189i and devoted some time to the study of law. In the meantime he had allied his interests with those of the northwest through his investment in farm land in Idaho. He entered the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in the special service department and was afterward advanced to the legal department, with which he remained until 1901, when he resigned and organized the claim department of the Graves Electric System, of which he took charge, remaining in that connection for five years. He resigned from the claim department in July, 1908, owing to the growing demands of his own law business. He had studied law at intervals throughout these years having begun when but sixteen years of age, and during his connection with the Northern Pacific devoted his leisure hours to study. As previousl}' stated, he became a student in the office of Graves & Graves of Spokane, who directed his reading for two years and in October, 1903, he was admitted to practice, since which time he has been actively connected witli the work of the profession. In the early days of his connection with the bar he was appointed one of the attorneys for the Travelers Insurance Company, which position he filled for seven years but resigned when he entered upon irrigation work. His practice has been largely in the field of corporation law and he is especially well known in connection with tlie legal phases of railway work. For five years he practiced in partnership witli Bruce Blake under the firm style of Delameter & Blake but during the past four years has been alone.

The progressive citizen of the northwest, whatever else may be his business connections, usually becomes interested in projects for the development and improvement of this section of the country. He realizes the wonderful opportunities here for the upbuilding of a great inland empire and becomes imbued with the spirit that has made men accomplish big things on the Pacific coast. Here the history is but in the making and each day new chapters are written. Mr. Delameter, like other enterprising men who do not fear to venture where opportunity leads the way, has become connected with land and irrigation projects and is now president of the Little Spokane Land & Irrigation Compan}', which he organized, and of the Little Spokane Water Company, which was formed in May, 1910. This is strictlv an irrigation jMwer company and they have eleven hundred acres, twenty-two miles nortli of Spokane, on the Little Spokane river. They have developed two hundred and fifty liorse power and pump from tlie river. They have now sufficient power for tlie irrigation of two thousand acres and have four hundred acres under cultivation, on a jiart of which have been planted seven thousand trees which are now from one to four years old. Only a small part of this land is to be placed upon the market, the rest to be converted into a large dairy and fruit ranch. Within a year fifty thousand dollars have been invested in improvements and their efforts arc constituting an important element in the growth and progress of this section. Their land lies in three level benches and is ideal for the purposes intended.

On the 19th of March, 1903, Mr. Delameter was married to Mrs. Eleanor D. GrifBtts, the widow of Thomas C. GrifKtts, of Spokane, and a daughter of Charles A. Davis, of Au Sable Grove, Kendall county, Illinois. Mr. Delameter is a thirt}-- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. His initial connection with the order is with Spokane Lodge, No. 74, F. & A. M. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican, active as a worker in party ranks in Spokane and serving at different times as a delegate to city conventions. He has never sought nor desired political office, however, preferring to concentrate his energies upon professional and business interests.

Albert J. Laughon

Realizing at the outset of his career that all honorable success has its root in earnest endeavor and unfaltering perseverance, together with comprehensive knowledge that enables one to meet the needs of a specific business, Albert J. Laughon has ever so directed his efforts as to meet all three requirements and upon the foundation of natural and acquired ability, intelligently directed, he has builded his success, being now recognized as one of the foremost representatives of the bar of Washington. He was born in Texas, December 10, 1873. The family is of Scotch descent although long represented in America. An uncle of Albert J. Laughon is the Rev. W. A. Laughon, now a retired minister of Virginia, where for many years he engaged in preaching as a member of the !Methodist Episcopal conference of that state. John E. Laughon, the father of our subject, was born in the Old Dominion and is now living retired in Spokane. For many years he devoted his life to farming and during the period of the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving under General Van Dorn and James C. Pemberton. He responded to the call of the south for troops at the beginning of hostilities and remained in active duty for a year, and then because of illness was honorably discharged, after which he went west to Nevada. By trade he was a carpenter and followed that pursuit in Virginia City, Nevada, when the Comstock mine excitement was at its height. From that city he went to San Francisco and by boat to New York. It was in July, 1880, that he arrived in Spokane county, where he followed the occupation of farming for a number of years, but is now living retired, enjoying in well earned rest the fruits of his former toil. At one time he took an active part in the politics of the county and has ever been in hearty sympathy with all movements and measures that promote public progress and improvement. He married Fannie A. (Flynn) Smithson whose first husband had been killed in the war. She was born in Virginia and represented one of the old families of that state, her ancestors in both the paternal and maternal line having resided in this country from a period antedating the Revolution. The death of Mrs. Laughon occurred February 25, 1895, when she was sixty years of age. In the family were two sons, Albert J. and W. E. Laughon, the latter an engineer who was employed at the Bancroft School building for nine or ten years. The two half-sisters of our subject are: Katie, the widow of W. E. Pierce, a pioneer of the Spokane country, who was at one time owner of the Echo Mills and a business man of this city; and Mrs. Edward

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Albert J. Laughon was but seven j'ears of age when the family came to the northwest and in the country schools of Spokane county near Spangle he pursued his early education. Afterward he became a pupil of the Bancroft School of this city and for one year attended the high school. While yet a school boy he contributed to his own support by carrying a paper route on the old Spokane Spokesman. He soon directed his attention to those business interests where keen intellectuality must supplement unfaltering energy and, taking up the study of law, he pursued his reading with a firm then composed of Senator George Turner, Frank Graves and J. C. ^McKinstry. Later this firm became Turner & Graves and was succeeded by Graves, Kizer & Graves. AVhile pursuing his law reading Mr. Laughon also engaged in teaching school and pursued a commercial course in the Spokane Business College, in which he was afterward employed as a teacher, giving instruction in bookkeeping. At the same time he was employed as bookkeeper by the Spokane Gas Light Company and taught school in the country districts. Every available opportunity, however, was used for the perusal of his law books and gradually he mastered the principles with which every successful attorney must be familiar. Ere he was ready to enter upon active practice he conducted and edited a newspaper in connection with Oscar Loe called the Fairfield Standard, which is still being published, and at one time he edited a newspaper in Waverly, Washington, called the Waverlv Optimist, which he founded.

All this time Mr. Laughon was studying law under the direction of Mr. Graves and on the 15th of May, 1897, he was admitted to the bar at Olympia. He entered upon active practice in connection with Del Cary Smith, and later was employed by Graves & Graves with whom he continued for three years, gaining much practical and valuable experience during that period. In the fall of 1904 he was appointed deputy prosecuting attorney under Horace Kimball and when R. 'M. Barnhart became prosecuting attorney Mr. Laughon was his cliief deputy prosecuting attorney for three years. In September, 1907, he was appointed assistant attorney for the Great Northern Railroad Company in Spokane. In September, 1909. lie was appointed special deputy prosecuting attorney of Spokane county, for the purpose of handling the county's brief work in the supreme court, which position he filled until January, 1910. On January 1, 1910, he formed a partnershij) with Judge W. E. Richardson for the general practice of law and is now senior partner of tlie firm of Laughon, Lavin & Fitzgerald, the second member of the firm having formerly been the assistant of Mr. Laughon in his work with the Great Northern. They engage in general practice and have a large number of personal injury cases and Mr. Laughon devotes much time to supreme court brief work in which h<? lias been very successful. During the last year in which he was associated with the Great Northern he tried many personal injury cases with Mr. Lavin's assistance and in every trial was very successful. He is now representing the plaintiff instead of the defendant and is equally successful in his work'. He is a very able writer; his briefs always show wide research, careful thought; and the best and strongest reasons which can be urged for his contention presented in cogent, logical form and illustrated by a style unusually lucid and clear. His arguments, too, have elicited warm commendation not only from his associates at the bar but also from the bencli. In all of his work his success is. due largely to the preparation which he gives to everj' case, for he never enters the courtroom unless thoroughly conversant with every phase and ready for trial to the minutest detail. He finds absolute pleasure in the preparation of briefs and in the work of looking up decisions and harmonizing them and in preparing his case for presentation. He has a particularly retentive memory and a point or fact once mastered is seldom forgotten. He seems to have ready for immediate use every decision that he has ever read. He never takes notes in the trial of a case but depends entirely upon his memory which never seems to fail him. He successfully defended ten damage suits against the company while prosecuting attorney and has had a number of important murder' cases which he briefed and argued in the supreme court. Two of these which created widespread interest were those of Dalton and of Fillpot, both murder cases. The court sustained the charge of murder in the first degree in both cases, although the governor afterward commuted the charge to life imprisonment. His colleagues at the bar have no hesitancy in proclaiming Mr. Laughon one of the prominent representatives of the legal profession in Spokane.

As opportunity has offered ]\Ir. Laughon has from time to time made wise investment in reality, owning considerable property in Spokane while at the same time he is interested in mining property at Murray in a company of which he is vice president. The mine is known as the Iron Clad and is a promising field.

In October, 1900, in Spokane, Mr. Laughon was married to Miss Mae Sweet, a daughter of E. R. Sweet, of Waverly, who is a retired farmer and pioneer, having become a resident of the Walla Walla country in 1879. Mr. Laughon votes with the republican party and is an active champion of its interests, believing it the duty as well as the privilege of every American citizen to support the principles which he regards as conducive to best government. He has served on the county committees and has been delegate to city and county conventions. He is a past grand of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., past consul commander of Spokane Camp No. 99, Woodmen of the World, and past worthy president of the Eagles. He likewise holds membership with the Red Men. All these things, however, are but side issues in his life, for his attention is closely concentrated upon his professional duties and his devotion to his clients' interests is proverbial. He is an able, efficient and conscientious minister in the temple of justice, is always courteous to the court and to the witnesses, and never forgets the duty which he owes in connection with the righteous administration of the law. Moreover, he deserves much credit for what he has accomplished as his advancement has been based upon his own ability developed through close study and unremitting energy. He has ever been a keen observer and his particularly retentive memory is one of the strong and admirable features in his success.

George F. Bitner

George F. Bitner, a well known capitalist of Kellogg, is now living retired save for the supervision which he gives to his numerous real-estate holdings in Kellogg and Wardner as well as his private investments. His birth occurred in Adams county, Pennsylvania, on the 17th of March, 1857, his parents being Henry and Nancy (Glass) Bitner. He acquired his education in the schools of his native county and after putting aside his text-books worked for his father in the nursery business until twenty years of age. In 1877 he left the parental roof and made his way to Springfield, Ohio, where he worked in a grocery store for three years. In the spring of 1880 he went to Colorado, there being employed in the construction department of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, while subsequently he opened a saloon at Antonito. In 1883 he came to Spokane, before the railroad was completed to that city, and from there went to Sprague. In April, 188'i, at the time of the gold discoveries on Eagle and Pritchard Creeks, he made his way to Murray, Idaho, here working in the mines until the winter of 1888. At that time he embarked in the saloon business at Wardner, Idaho, and conducted an establishment of that character until 1890, when he sold out and opened a wholesale beer depot in Kellogg, continuing its conduct until he retired from active business life in 1908. He now devotes his time to the supervision of his extensive real-estate holdings lu Kellogg and Wardner as well as his private investments.

On the 16th of October, 1900, Mr. Bitner was united in marriage to Miss Sarah Elizabeth Crebs, of Colfax, Washington, by whom he has three children, namely: Ella ^largaret, who was born on the 5th of August, 1901; William Henry, whose natal day was July 5, 1903; and Phillip George, whose birth occurred on the 12th of ^larch, 1907. Fraternalh' Mr. Bitner is identified with the Eagles and the Knights of Pythias at Wardner, belonging to Galena Lodge, No. 12, of the latter organization. He owns an attractive home at Kellogg and enjoys an extensive and favorable acquaintance throughout the community.

William F. Dorgan

William F. Dorgan, who for the past four years liad been manager of the Ritzville warehouse Company, was born in Yolo county, California, on November 28, 1877. His parents, William and Kate (Murphy) Dorgan, were among the pioneer settlers of California, having come around the Horn during the years of the early movement toward the western coast.

Reared on a ranch in his native state, while engaged in the mastery of the common branches William F. Dorgan assisted his father in the work of the fields. He began his agricultural career at the age of nine years, and after leaving school he gave his undivided attention to farming until he was twenty- four. In 1901 he left home to begin working for himself and coming to Washington, he located in Harrington, where he was employed in a grain warehouse and mill for a year. At the expiration of that time he came to Ritzville and obtained employment on a ranch, continuing in this work until 190.1. In the latter year lie withdrew, in order to become bookkeeper for the Ritzville Warehouse Company. He was an efficient employe and early gave evidence of being capable of satisfactorily filling a more responsible position, so in 1907 he was made manager. During the four years he has been engaged in this capacity he has proven to be fully equal to the expectations of his employers and has discharged his duties most ably. Mr. Dorgan is an energetic man, possessing the enterprise and resourcefulness essential to the successful management of any undertaking. He conducts his transactions in an Iionorable, straightforward manner and is thus held in high esteem by all who have had dealings with

In November, IQO-l, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Dorgan and Miss Maggie Estell, a daughter of Mrs. T. J. Davis, of Warden, Washington, and they have become the parents of three children : Violet, whose natal day was August 9, 1905; Donnie, who was born on the 1st of June, 1907; and baby Eunice, who will celebrate her first anniversary in April, 1912.

The fraternal relations of Mr. Dorgan are confined to his membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has filled all of the chairs except that of Noble Grand ; and the Modern Woodmen of America, his affiliation with both of these organizations being with Ritzville lodges. During the period of his residence here Mr. Dorgan has at all times manifested those qualities that make him a most admirable citizen and desirable friend as well as respected business man, and hf is lield in high esteem in local commercial and social circles.

Hon. Miles Poindexter

As lawyer and law maker Hon. Miles Poindexter has since the earW '90s had much to do with shaping the policy and molding the destiny of his adopted state. He has left the impress of his individuality upon its legal and judicial history and is now numbered with those who are framing the laws of the nation, having since 1909 had voice in the settlement of the significant and vital questions which have come before congress and the United States senate. He ranks with the eminent representatives of the republican party in the northwest. He was born at Memphis, Tennessee, April 22, 1868, while liis parents, William B. and Josephine (Anderson) Poindexter, were temporarily residing there although their home was in Malvern Hill, Henrico county, Virginia. The father devoted his time to agricultural pursuits and the practice of law, but at the time of the Civil war put aside all business and personal consideration and served with distinction as a member of Stuart's Cavalry, of the Confederate army. His vrife was a daughter of Judge Francis T. Adams, who was at one time a prominent iron manufacturer and afterward served as a judge of the supreme court of appeals of Virginia.

Miles Poindexter supplemented his preparatory course, pursued at Fancj' Hill Academj' in Rockbridge county, Virginia, by study in the Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, in both the academic and law departments. He won his B. L. degree there upon his graduation in June, 1891, and, attracted by the opportunities which he believed the northwest furnished, he came to Washington in the fall of the same year, reaching Walla Walla on the 10th of October. There he at once opened an office and entered upon the practice of law and had given substantial evidence of his ability to ^vin him election to the office of prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county in November, 1892. He continued in practice as a public official or as a private member of the bar at Walla Walla until October 10, 1897, when he removed to Spokane.

For six years Judge Poindexter filled the office of assistant prosecuting attorney of Spokane county, in which connection he ably defended the public interests and gave further proof of his comprehensive knowledge of the law and his ability to correctly apply its principles. He continued in that office imtil November, 1904, when he was elected judge of the superior court of the district and remained upon the bench until nominated for congress in the newly created third district at the primary election held September 8, 1908. He was regularly elected to the sixtj-- first congress and in the primary held on the 13th of September, 1910, his popularity was indicated by the fact that in a ballot cast for United States senator he received sixty-seven thousand, seven hundred and fourteen votes against twentysix thousand, eight hundred and forty-six cast for Thomas Burke; fourteen thousand, five himdred and eighty-one for James Ashton; three thousand, nine hundred and twenty-four for John E. Humphries; and one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-five for L. R. Freeman. On the 18th of January, 1911, he was elected United States senator by the Washington legislature by a vote of one hundred and twenty-six to eleven and took his seat on the 17th of April following, his term to continue until March 3, 1917. His previous experience in the house well qualified him to take up the added duties that devolved upon him when he came to the highest law-making body of the nation. His work sjseaks for itself. He has stood fearlessly in defense of principle and while his course has naturally awakened the opposition of those holding different views, his personal popularity remains unshaken and wherever he goes he wns friends.

In June, 1892, Senator Poindexter was married in Walla Walla to Miss Elizabeth Gale Page, of that place, a daughter of Thomas and Frances L. M. (Gale) Page. They now have one son. Gale Alett, who is attending the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, as an ajapointee of Congressman W. L. La Follette.

Frederick H. Haupt

Frederick H. Haupt, cashier of the First National Bank of Ritzville, has been a resident of Adams county for the past ten years. He was born in iSIankato, Minnesota, on the 1.5th of December, 1863, and is a son of John C. and Dora A. (Funk) Haupt. The parents were both natives of German}', whence they emigrated to the United States in the early '60s, locating in Minnesota. Tliey were pioneer settlers of the latter state, and resided there during the period of the early Indian troubles, when the safety of the citizens was in doubt from day to day in the more sparsely settled portions of the country. Upon their arrival in !Minnesota they first located at Mankato, remaining there until 1866, when they removed to St. Paul.

Frederick H. Haupt was a child of three years wlien his parents removed to St. Paul, to whose public schools lie is indebted for his education. He was a most industrious, independent little lad, who was very anxious to become self-supporting, so at the age of nine years he began selling newspapers. As he was enterprising and businesslike he made a success of the undertaking and later established a route, that he managed for five or six years. This was a pretty big undertaking for a youth of his years, as he had both morning and evening papers, and occupied the greater part of the time when he was not in school. His student days were terminated at the age of eighteen years, in 1881, and he became a telegraph messenger, later working in an insurance oflSce. In 1882 he obtained a position as clerk in the Second National Bank of St. Paul, where he remained for three years. He next became identified with the Bank of Minnesota of St. Paul, entering tlieir employ in

1885 and continuing in their service until their failure on the 22d of December, 1896. He continued to be connected with this institution, however, being retained in the service of the receiver until the first of March, 1902. After the affairs of this concern were adjusted, Mr. Haupt came to Adams county to take the position of cashier in the Bank of Lind, entering upon his duties on the 15th of March, 1902. The entire charge of this enterprise devolved upon him, but that he was equal to the responsibility is evidenced by the long period of liis service. On the 1st of January, 1910, he severed the connection and removed to Ritzville to take the position he is now holding. During the period of his connection with banking affairs in Adams county, Mr. Haupt has become recognized as an efficient and entirely trustworthy man, whose reliability can at all times be depended upon.

In 1889 Mr. Haupt was united in marriage to Miss Louise Rausch, a daughter of J. C. Rausch, one of the pioneer settlers of Mankato and the Blue Earth valley, Minnesota, and for many years a close friend of the Haupt family. One cliild has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Haupt, Frederick, whose birth occurred in 1897.

During the latter seventeen years of his residence in Minnesota, Mr. Haupt was a member of the national guard, being sergeant of Company D, First regiment. This was one of the crack militia regiments of the United States, and was awarded second prize in a competition between one hundred and thirtj' regiments held at Washington, D. C, in 1887. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Masonic order, and holds membership in the Lind lodge, No. 147, F. & A. M., and was treasurer of the organization during the period of his residence there. He now belongs to the Order of the Eastern Star at Ritzville, and he is also identified with the Commercial Club of this city and the Inland Club of Spokane. His political support he gives to the republican party, and during his residence in Lind represented his ward in the local council. Mr. Haupt's life has never been characterized by any unusual events or exciting experiences, but is very similar to those of the majority of American citizens, who comprise the nation's strength, and faithfully discharge the duties of life as they see them to their country and their families.

Levi G. Adams

Levi G. Adams, who is the president of The Adams Leather Company, which is located at Nos. 172-174 South Post street, Spokane, was born in Newton, Illinois, on the 8th of June, 1864. He is a son of William and Caroline (Vanderhoof) Adams, who passed away in 1905 and 1898, respectively.

Until he was sixteen years of age Levi G. Adams was a pupil in the public schools of Newton, Illinois. During these years he displayed many of the qualities which have since characterized his life. After leaving school he learned the shoemaker's trade in his father's shop and remained his father's able assistant for four years. Subsequently he removed to Maroa, Illinois, where he was employed for four years before going to Springfield, Illinois, and engaging in the shoe-findings business. For eight years and a half be followed this occupation and during that time became thoroughly acquainted with the various details of the shoemaking business. For the first four years of his residence in Springfield he was also employed by a large leather firm and had ample opportunity to put into practice the principles which he had learned in his father's shop and also to make a study of the more recent and advanced ideas of the business. He next removed to Minneapolis, where he again engaged in the leather and shoe-findings business, this time associating himself with J. H. Martin as his partner. For nine and a half years they conducted this enterprise and during that time they also established a similar concern in Spokane. In 1907 Mr. Adams removed to this city and has since been the president and manager of The Adams Leather Company, having dissolved his partnership with Mr. ]\Iartin, who assumed full control of the Minneapolis house.

Mr. Adams was married in ^laroa, lUinois, to Miss Ida A. Moyer, a daughter of Joseph and ^Nlary Moyer, on the 18th of March, 1884. To their union two children have been born, both of wliom are associated witli their father in business, Glenn L. and Mary Helene. The death of Mrs. Adams occurred on the 11th of March, 1911.

In politics ^Ir. Adams is a republican and in religious faith is a Congregationalist, holding membership in the Congregational church of Spokane. He is a member of the Inland Club and for twenty years has held membership with the United Commercial Travelers. He has worked diligently and persistently for success, knowing that effort, intelligently applied, ultimately means prosperity. He has. thoroughly acquainted himself with the various details of his business and because of his knowledge, his force of character and industrious habits has accomplished what he set out to do, making continuous progress in the business world until he is now at tlie head of an extensive and prominent commercial concern.

John M. Cannon

John M. Cannon, who has been engaged in the practice of law in Ritzville, Adams county, since the fall of 1909, during which time he has manifested the public spirit that would make him an acquisition to any community, was born in Juneau county, Wisconsin, on the 18th day of April, 1869. He is the third son of James and Elizabeth (Noonan) Cannon, and is of Irish descent, his grandmother, wlio lived to attain the age of one hundred and eight years, well remembering much of the history of Ireland for a century.

Although born in Wisconsin, ]Mr. Cannon was reared on a farm in Iowa, receiving his earlier education in the country district school, and later at the School of the Assumption at Cresco, Iowa, and at the Cedar Valley Seminary and Osage high school of Osage, Iowa. After attaining manhood he entered the University of Minnesota, and graduated from the law department of that institution with the class of 1896. Upon his graduation he was admitted to the bar of Minnesota and soon thereafter to the bar of the state of Iowa, and established an office at Cresco, Iowa, where he continued in the practice until 1905. He then moved to St. Paul and associated witli James Manahan, where he practiced law under the firm name of -Manalian & Cannon. Tliis firm was active in the progress movement whicli resulted in the two cent rate passenger fare on railway lines, in greatly reducing the freight rates, and in the final pass of the reciprocal demurrage acts of Minnesota. It was this firm, also, that started the original suits against the Pullman Sleeping Car Companj' for the reduction of berth rates which ultimately resulted in the establishment of a different rate for upper and lower berths.'

In 1909 Mr. Cannon formed a copartnership with Judge W. W. Zent, for the practice of law in Ritzville. This partnership was terminated about a j'ear later when Judge Zent moved to Spokane, and Mr. Cannon took over the business of the firm. Since locating at Ritzville, he has been connected with much important litigation and in every instance he has acquitted himself in such a digniiied, able and scholarly manner as to not only call for the admiration of the colleagues, but of his opponents. Mr. Cannon is generally recognized as one of the capable representatives of his profession in this section, and in addition to his large private practice, he is also attorney for the Northern Pacific Railway Company, in Adams county.

In 1898 he was married to Miss Caroline M. Klein, a daughter of A. Klein, of Calmar, Iowa, and they are the parents of four children : Marie, who was born in 1899; Joseph, whose birth occurred in 1901; Angela, in 1903; and John, Jr., born in 1904.

The family are members of the Roman Catholic church, and Mr. Cannon is a fourth degree Knight of Columbus, a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and a member of Spokane Lodge No. 228, B. P. O. E. He is also a member of the Ritzville Commercial Club, and president of the Ritzville Realty Company and can at all times be depended upon to champion the interests of the Inland Empire,

Some time ago he instituted a Lincoln Day gold medal contest, whereby each year he gives on Lincoln's birthday a gold medal to the member of the Ritzville high-school class who delivers the best essay on the life of Lincoln. Naturally progressive and energetic, he has high ideals of the duty of citizenship, that he endeavors to maintain by according his support and cooperation to every movement that he believes to be for the welfare of the community.

William E. Stauffer

William E. Stauffer, president of the Spokane Detective Agency and Merchants' Police, was born in Boone, Iowa, on the 26th of March, 187-1. He is a son of Joseph and Hannah (Craft) Stauffer, both of whom passed away in 1909. When but four years of age William Stauffer was taken to Chicago by his parents and in that city he was reared and educated. He attended the public schools until seventeen years of age when he began his study of the profession in which he is now engaged. Until 1896 he was employed in various parts of the United States as an expert detective, but desiring to open an agency of his own he came to Spokane and established the present firm which is the oldest detective agency in this city and has a working force of about twenty-five men. Mr. Stauffer, although only thirty-eight years of age, has already attained a position of eminence and has won a national reputation for his astuteness, penetration and persistency in detecting crime and placing its perpetrators in the hands of the law. His fearlessness and daring in making arrests are subjects of public note and have won him much of the fame which he now enjoys. He has been active in many cases which have been famous throughout the west, the first of these being the case of Johnny Gerard who had been kidnapped more than two years previous to the detection of the kidnappers. ]\Ir. Stauffer and his partner captured Fred Wood and I. E. Marsell, two desperate criminals whose depredations so terrorized the people of that city that the mayor had sworn in four hundred citizens as special officers to effect their capture. These notorious lawbreakers were captured while in the act of burglarizing Wentworth's Clothing store, and for their capture five hundred dollars was given by the city to the detectives. Mr. Stauffer also arrested John McLean, a professional burglar, who, an hour before his arrest had broken into the Holley, Mason, Marks & Company Hardware store. This arrest called for great physical strength and was so strongly resisted that a man of less ability than Mr. Stauffer would have been unsuccessful. In November, 1899, Mr. Stauffer was employed by the citizens of Spokane to detect men who were committing numerous clever burglaries throughout the city, and although he worked on the case alone, it was only a week before he had succeeded in arresting the criminals. Other cases with which he has been connected are the capture of Harry Tracy, the famous outlaw, and Mr. Stauffer was one of the men who lifted Tracy into the wagon after he had been killed. He also captured Harry Nichols, Harry Hall and Guy Thompson, professional box-car robbers and Winifred Moter, accused of forgery. Many other cases might be mentioned, but Mr. Stauffer's reputation is well known throughout the country. He is not only active in detecting crime but is also one of the influential men of this city who are trying to prevent its possibility. He introduced in Spokane the well known police register clock system.

On the 10th of April, 1901, Mr. Stauffer was married to Miss Matilda Fogenthaller at Spokane. To their union two children have been born: Horan Ivan and Wayne Wilbur. Fraternally Mr. Stauffer is identified with the Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, I. O, O. F.; with the Unique Encampment, No. S2; the Canton Patriarchs Militant; and with the Woodmen of the World. In fraternal and social circles he is well liked and very prominent, and his engaging personality has won him many friends.

Dr. A. Starke Oliver, who engages in the practice of dentistry in the Mohawk building, this city, was born in Quebec, Canada, on the 12th of July, 1865, and is a son of Robert W. and Jessie (Starke) Oliver. The mother passed away in 1902 and the father in 1908.

In the early youth of Dr. Oliver his people came to the United States, locating in North Dakota, in the public schools of which state he continued the education that he had begun in the schools of Montreal. Having decided to adopt the profession of dentistry for his life vocation he subsequently matriculated in the dental department of Washington University at St. Louis, from which institution he was graduated in 1889 with the degree of D. D. S. Immediately thereafter he went to Butte, ^lontana. where he established an office that he maintaied for a year. From there he removed to Olympia, Washington, where he engaged in practice until 1896, wlun he came to Spokane. He has a well equipped office and as he is a skilful and efficient representative of his profession, has succeeded in building up a good practice.

Wliile residing at Olympia, this state. Dr. Oliver was united in marriage to Miss Mira Simmons, a daughter of Roland E. and Maria Simmons, tlie event being

Dr. Oliver is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity and has attained the rank of the thirty-second degree in the Scottish Rite and is affiliated with the El Katif Temple. He is also a life member of Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. At the present time he is serving as a member of the governing board of the Inland Club, with which he has long been affiliated, and in politics he is a republican. Dr. Oliver is one of the able representatives of his profession, and served as a member of the state board of dental examiners in 1903 and 1901, and in 1910 he was reappointed to the same office and is still serving in this capacity. He also served one term as secretary of the Washington State Dental Association. During the sixteen years of his connection with the dental fraternity of Spokane, Dr. Oliver has manifested the ability that ranks him among the leading representatives of the profession in the city.

J. F. Collier

J. F. Collier, a well known real-estate dealer of Ritzville, is one of the highly successful pioneer agriculturists and extensive landowners of Adams county, where his grain fields alone aggregate thirty-three hundred acres, in addition to his town holdings and a ranch of two hundred acres in Whitman county. He was born in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, on the 21st of September, 1852, and is a son of Dr. Harrison and Louisa (Hostetler) Collier. The father, who was a physician, engaged in practice in Wisconsin for seven years, but at the expiration of that period, in 1856, he removed with his wife and family to Indiana. There the mother passed away when our subject was a child of four and a half years, and the father subsequentl}' removed to Illinois, and after practicing there for a time went to Missouri, where he continued to be identified with his profession.

The boyhood and youth of J. F. Collier were passed on a farm in Indiana, where he obtained his agricultural training. His educational advantages were verj' limited being confined to the course of the district school, which he attended at such irregular intervals as he was not needed in the tilling of the fields and the care of the stock. He remained in that state until about 1870 when he went to Illinois, continuing to engage in farming in the latter state until February, 1884. The west had long had a strong attraction for him, as he felt it afforded greater possibilities for an enterprising and ambitious man, so in the spring of 1884 he came to Washing^ton and homesteaded a tract twenty miles south of the present site of Ritzville. During the succeeding twenty years he industriously applied himself to the further cultivation and improvement of this place, his efforts meeting with such lucrative returns that he was able to extend the boundaries of his ranch from time to time until he had acquired thirty-three hundred acres. This is under high cultivation and well improved, and is now numbered among the valuable grain ranches of the county. In 1903, Mr. Collier withdrew from the active work of the fields and came to Ritzville and engaged in the real-estate business. He conducted this alone at first but later took J. L. Cross in the firm and they have since continued operations under the firm name of Collier & Cross. Twenty-eight years have elapsed since Mr. Collier first located in Adams county, during which period he has been an interested observer of the country's wonderful development. He assisted in plowing the first five acres broken in Rattlesnake flat, now known as the finest wheat belt in the county, and to him likewise belongs the distinction of hauling the first load of wheat shipped from Waslitucna, which has become one of the largest shipping points for wheat in this section. In addition to his valuable holdings in this county, ]\Ir. Collier has a ranch of about two hundred acres in Whitman county, near Pullman. Prosperity has attended liis efforts but he well deserves his success, as during the early years of his residence here he worked incessantly and suffered all of the hardships and privations tliat are usually associated with life on the frontier.

In Indiana, on the 4th of February, 1875, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Collier and Miss Mary E. Hunter, whose family removed from Kentucky to Indiana during the pioneer period, locating in Washington county. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Collier numbered nine, seven sons and two daughters, all of whom are married with the exception of one son. Their residence is one of the most attractive in Ritzville and is one of the city's show places, owing to its beautiful grounds. Airs. Collier is very fond of flowers and is one of those people who possess the knack of making everything grow and develop in a marvelous manner. As a result their yard is a bower of beauty from early spring until late autumn, tlie various plants apparently striving to outdo each other in their efforts to reward her labor with a profusion of blossoms.

Mr. Collier is one of the substantial and well-to-do citizens of Adams county and at different times has been identified with various local enterprises, and for four or five years was a director of the German-American State Bank of Ritzville. He is held in high esteem throughout the county, where he has many friends of long years standing whose loyalty he has won and retained through his fine principles and sterling worth, being a man of upright conduct and incorruptible integrity.

Joseph Rosenhaupt

Joseph Rosenhaupt, long one of the prominent merchants of Spokane, and also associated with the improvement of real estate in the city, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, October 17, 1810. His father was a native of Germany. The son spent his youthful days in Maryland and at the age of nineteen years removed to Illinois, where he was living at the time of the outbreak of the Civil war. He enlisted for service with the One Hundred and Seventh Illinois Regiment, with which he was connected for three and a half years, participated in the battle of Franklin, was vnth Burnside at Cliattanooga, and went with Sherman on his famous march to Atlanta. He also proved his valor in other hotly contested engagements and when the war was over returned with a creditable military record to Illinois. For a time he resided in Peru, that state, and later in La Salle, where he engaged in merchandising until 1885, when he came with his family to Spokane. Here lie has been largely interested in mercantile affairs and is now one of the active heads of the Chicago Clothing and Mercantile Company, which is a leading establishment of this ciiaracter in the northwest. The business lias been greatly developed along safe and substantial lines. It has passed through the era of fire and financial panic undisturbed, owing to the reliability of the men at its head, and, watchful of all the details of the business and of all indications pointing to success, Mr. Rosenhaupt has moved steadil_y forward to the goal of prosjjerity and belongs to that class of representative American citizens who promote public interests in advancing their individual affairs.

Moreover, ]\Ir. Rosenhaupt assisted greatly in raising the subsidy for the Great Northern Railroad of Washington and also a part of the subsidy for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad. He was always more or less actively connected with public enterprises in early days here and has been interested in the building of important business blocks and dwellings. He is interested in property at the corner of Division and Riverside streets and is one of the owners of the Fraternal building at the corner of Riverside and Wall streets. He was also largely connected with the building of the Spokane Theater and the Auditorium Theater, the leading one of the city, and the Empress Theater, a vaudeville house on the Sullivan and Considine circuit. Associated with his son Frank he is the ovraer of six hundred and forty acres in an apple ranch and also property in the Snake river district.

In early manhood Mr. Rosenhaupt married but in June, 1905, was called upon to mourn the loss of his wife, Mrs. Johanna Rosenhaupt, who for many years had been to him a faithful helpmate and companion on life's journey. In politics Mr. Rosenhaupt has ever been an active republican, unfaltering in his support of the principles of the party, and his social relations extend to the Masonic fraternity and the Grand Army of the Republic, in which he maintains pleasant relations with the boys in blue. In matters of citizenship he at all times displays the same fidelity and loyalty to his country which he manifested on southern battle fields.

Charles J. Anderson

Among the successful business men of Spokane few have displayed more resolute will power and greater determination than Charles J. Anderson, manager of the Anderson Land Company. Of Scandinavian lineage, Mr. Anderson has put into his activities in this country of great opportunities, all the sturdy, thrifty, energetic and persevering qualities which characterize his ancestral people. He was born in Bismarck, North Dakota, on the -ith of November, 1880, and is a son of John and Augusta (Ekstrom) Anderson. The father's death occurred when his son, Charles J., was but six 3'ears of age, and being one of the elder cliildren responsibility fell to the lot of Charles at an early age. He availed himself of every opportunity to secure a good education, and by working faithfully during the summer and evenings he was able to complete the course in the high school of Bismarck, graduating with the class of 1898. Immediately after this he accepted employment as clerk in the Pacific Hotel of Bismarck, and for one year held this position. By careful management and strict economy he was able to earn enough to support his mother and himself as well as assist in the care of the younger children, but realizing that the west would give him greater financial opportunities, and the duties he owed to his family strongly impressing this necessity upon him.

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he left Bismarck and accepted a position with Dr. H. J. Riesland as advertising agent, traveling between Minneapolis and Missoula, Montana. Until he was twenty-one years of age he remained in this position, but at that time filed a claim for a homestead and took up a timber claim in Klamatli county, Oregon. During all this time he was the sole supporter of his widowed mother and was financially responsible for the education of the younger children. His life in Oregon was one of hardship and constant labor, and because of the unsettled condition of the country he frequently found himself exposed to the dangers of the pioneer. On one occasion, while looking over the timber tracts on his property, he lost his way, and for three days and three nights tramped the woods, vainly seeking the location of his home. During this time he lived on the berries to be found in the woods and suffered untold hardships. Leaving Oregon after two years he came to Spokane, and although a total stranger, he immediately embarked in the real-estate business. During tlie first year he met with many difficulties and his sales were not numerous, although he succeeded again in earning enough to support his mother and her family in North Dakota. In his filial devotion he has always been untiring, and although still a young man he can well feel he has already performed one great duty completely. At the present time he is manager of the Anderson Land Company and is also actively engaged in the real-estate and loan business. He is a small stockholder in the Scandinavian American Bank of Spokane, and is a heavy stockholder in the Sunrise Gold Mining & Milling Company. He seems to possess an intuitive sense of land values, and has frequenth^ availed himself of the opportunity of purchasing property which he holds for investment purposes. At present he is the owner of several farms and also timber holdings.

On the 22d of September, 1910, at Spokane, Mr. Anderson was married to !Miss Anna Vollmer, a daughter of Joseph and Barbara Vollmer. He is a member of Oriental Lodge No. 74, of the Masonic Order of Spokane, and is active in fraternal circles. One element of his success perhaps is due to the persistency of purpose which has permitted him to devote his energy throughout his business career to the undertakings in which he is immediately engaged. He has thoroughly mastered the details of the real-estate business, and is therefore most competent to build up and control an extensive enterprise of this character.

Ferdinand R. Wolfle

One of the successful mining men of the northwest is Ferdinand R. Wolfle, whose offices are in the Hutton building. He was born in Yankton, South Dakota, on the 20th of August, 1882. and is a son of Conrad and Anna (Meyer) Wolfle, who were among the pioneer settlers of South Dakota and removed to Portland, Oregon, in 1888, where they now reside.

Ferdinand R. Wolfle was educated in the public schools of Portland and when he had passed all the consecutive grades entered the high school, from wliich he was graduated with the class of 1902. Immediately after finishing his schooling he started upon his independent career, going at first to the mining districts of the British Columbia country. For more than three years he remained in this region although he liad his headquarters at Spokane, from wliich city he carried on his business deals. Subsequently he was interested in the mines of Nevada for a short time, before going to the Coeur d'Alene country where he remained until 1908, after which he located permanently in Spokane. Since he has taken up his permanent residence in this city, he has been engaged in both the real-estate and mining business and is at present manager of the Florence Silver Mining Company of British Columbia and is interested in the United Copper Mine. Mr. Wolfle seems to possess intuitive judgment for mining valuations, which has enabled him to master the intricacies of mining and place him in a high standing in his profession.

He is a stanch republican and by his judicious consideration of the party principles is persuaded that republicanism is essential to the permanent prosperity of the nation. He holds membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Inland Club. Without special advantages at the outset of his career, he has steadily worked his way upward by the merit system and has thus won a position involving wide responsibility and at the same time bringing substantial financial benefits.

Charles A. Plackett

Charles A. Plackett, auditor of the New World Life Insurance Company, whose offices are in the Paulsen building, was born in London, England, on the 30th of November, 1868, a son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Plunkett) Plackett, whose deaths occurred in 1909 and 1883 respectively.

Charles A. Plackett received his education in the schools of the Haberdashers Company in London until he was sixteen years of age. At that time he accepted employment in a wholesale chemical company of this city and six months later entered the treasury department of the Midland Railroad Company of England, where he was employed for five years. Subsequently he left his native land and came to America, locating at Winnipeg, INIanitoba, where he entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the traffic department. He held this position until 1897, when he went to Vancouver, British Columbia, and for a year and a half worked for the Union Steamship Company. After he gave up that position he again entered the employ of the Canadian Pacific and was with them for a short time before coming to Spokane in 1899 and entering the employ of the Spokane Falls & Northern Railway Company. By that time he had mastered many of the details attendant upon the affairs of railroad operations and was a highly valuable employe but, desiring to engage in the insurance business and make use of his expert mathematical ability, he accepted employment with the Western Union Life Insurance Company as chief accomitant and auditor. In April, 1910, he resigned from that position and entered upon a similar one with the New World Life Insurance Company. He has since been their most valued and efficient auditor. His comprehensive knowledge of mathematics and his broad experience in active work of railroads and insurance companies all qualify him in large measure for the duties of his present position, and since entering the company he has been a forceful factor in its success and promotion.

On the 24th of September, 1900, Mr. Plackett was married in Spokane to Miss Helen McKay, a daughter of William and Elizabeth McKay. His political in- dorsement is given to the republican party and he holds membership in the Inland Club, the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club, the Knights of Columbus and the Woodmen of the World. His entire life work has been in mathematical lines and in this connection he has gained wide recognition, being regarded as one of the ablest representatives of the insurance circles of Spokane.

Richard G. Keizer

Richard G. Keizer, who is manager of the sales departments of the Panhandle Lumber Company of Spirit Lake and the Blackwell Lumber Company of Coeur d'Alene, was born in La Crosse county, Wisconsin, on April 1, 1879. He is a son of Nicholas and Ella (Mulder) Keizer, and in the paternal line is of Dutch extraction, his grandparents having emigrated from Holland about 1840, locating in Wisconsin. In 1887, Nicholas Keizer together wit hhis wife and family removed to Spokane, Washington, but in the fall of the following year thev returned to Wisconsin, where they thereafter made their home.

With the exception of the one year the family lived in Spokane, Richard G. Keizer obtained his education in the public schools of La Crosse, Wisconsin. After the completion of the work of the grades he entered the high school of that city, where he pursued a commercial course, terminating his school days at the age of fifteen years. During the succeeding two years he was employed at various things, his age and inexperience making it difficult for him to find a position commensurate with his ability. In 1896 he was employed to report the speeches of Knute Nelson, made during the ^IcKinley campaign of that year. The following year he secured a position as bookkeeper and salesman with the C. H. Nichols Lumber Company of La Crosse, with whom he remained for two years, ever since having been identified with lumber interests. He subsequently went to Cloquet, Minnesota, where he held positions with both the Cloquet and Northern Lumber Companies until December, 1907. Severing this connection he came to Spokane to assume charge of the sales department of the B. R. Lewis Lumber Company of Coeur d'Alene, continuing in their employment until the 8th of August, 1908, when he came to Spirit Lake to organize the sales department of the Panhandle Lumber Company, which had but recently been incorporated. Practically the entire period of Mr. Keizer's business life has been spent in the lumber business, every detail of which he has thoroughly mastered. In October, 1909, he was asked to organize and take charge of the sales department of the Blackwell Lumber Company, which he has ever since been managing in conjunction with the sales department of the Panhandle Lumber Company.

On the 5th of September, 190,5, INIr. Keizer was united in marriage to Miss Emma D. Jones, a daughter of Samuel M. Jones of Platteville, Wisconsin. Her father was one of the early gold seekers of the northwest. His party left St. Louis and met Colonel Bridger, who guided them from Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to Virginia City, Montana, returning by way of Fort Benton and the ^lissouri river to St. Louis. This being prior to the founding of the cities of either Helena. Montana, or Bridger, Wyoming. Of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Keizer there liave been born two children: Ruth, whose birth occurred on the 18th of October. 1907; and Margaret, who was born on January 12, 1910.

Mr. Keizer is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Spirit Lake Lodge, No. 57, F. & A. M.; Duluth Chapter, No. 20, R. A. M., of Duluth, Wisconsin; Duluth Conimandery, No. 18, K. T. ; and he is a Noble of the Mystic Shrine of El Katif Temple of Spokane. He maintains relations with the retail lumbermen through the medium of his membership in the "Hoo-Hoos," No. 20992; and he also belongs to the Inland Club of Spokane, an organization of a purely sccial nature. Mr. Keizer has made a success of his work owing to his appreciation of the value of thoroughness, the essential qualities of salesmanship and the mental ability to grasp and retain a vast amount of detail ready for use at all times. As an organizer he excels, and although both progressive and original in his methods^ is too conservative to become impracticable in his ideas or their execution.

William D. Parks

Spokane, a village of less than one hundred and fifty population at the time of the arrival of William D. Parks in the fall of 1878, has become during the period of his residence here a city of one hundred and twenty-five thousand. He has been an interested witness of all the changes which have occurred and has ever kept step in the march of improvement here. He was at one time the owner of a homestead that covered the sites of Cannon Hill Park, Irving Heights addition and Parks addition, and the rise in realty values and his business activity in other connections have brought him to a financial position that now permits of rest from further labor.

Mr. Parks is a native of the Empire state, his birth having occurred in Malone, Franklin county. New York, October 3, 1838. His grandfather was Captain Robert Parks of the British army who after the Revolutionary war married a daughter of Colonel Seth Warner, of the Continental army, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill and to whose memory a shaft was erected on the spot where he is supposed to have fallen. The parents of William D. Parks were Robert and Lydia Parks, the former a native of Canada, whence he removed to Franklin countv. New York, about 1830. Unto him and his wife were born five sons and seven daughters.

In the district schools of Malone, William D. Parks pursued his education and subsequently engaged in farming and railroading. He was about sixteen years of age when in 1854 the family removed to Winnebago county, Wisconsin, where for a period of seven years he engaged in farming and in lumber manufacturing. In 1861 he became a resident of St. Charles, Minnesota, and on the 16th of February, 1863, enlisted in Company D, Seventh Minnesota Infantry, with which he served as a private for nearly two years, participating in the engagements at Holly Springs, Mississippi, where the Union troops chased the rebel Generals Forrest and Price, and broke up their guerrilla bands. He also took part in the battle of Big Blue, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Mobile, Alabama; and other skirmishes. In June, 1865, he was mustered out at Vicksburg when he was acting as second lieutenant. His military record was a most creditable one, characterized by loyalty and by valorous defense of the old flag.

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When the war was over Mr. Parks returned to St. Charles, Minnesota, where he engaged in the grocery and butchering business until 1868, when he removed to Canton, South Dakota. There he carried on mercantile pursuits until the fall of 1878, when, attracted to the western country, he came to Spokane by way of Walla Walla. He found a little village of less than one hundred and fifty inhabitants but the beauty of the surrounding country was pleasing to him and he homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres on the hill south of the town, never dreaming then that his claim would one day constitute one of the finest residential districts of the city. With the growth of Spokane and the extension of its boundaries in his direction he subdivided his land, establishing what is now Cannon Hill Park and also laying out the Irving Heights and Parks additions. He has also handled his own real estate and in addition has engaged in carpentering and in moving buildings, and throughout the years of his residence here has enjoyed the reputation of being a straightforward, upright business man and citizen. Mrs. Parks, too, became identified with the commercial interests of the city and opened the first military store in Spokane in 1879, conducting it successfully for several years.

It was on the 15th of April, 1860, at Waukau, Wisconsin, that Mr. Parks was united in marriage to Miss Emma Bertrand, a daughter of Eli and Mary (Dumas) Bertrand, of Franklin county. New York. ]Mr. and Mrs. Parks were among the organizers of the First Methodist Episcopal clnirch in Spokane, having always been active workers in support of the denomination, and are now members of the Vincent Methodist church. He has never held public office nor engaged actively in political work, nor does he belong to any clubs but maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through liis membership in Reno Post, G. A. R. He is one of the reliable and honorable citizens of Spokane who well deserves mention in the pioneer history of the city.

Hakvin Sahlin

Among those who are operating in real estate in Spokane and found tlie field of labor a broad and profitable one is Hakvin Sahlin, a native son of Sweden. His birth occurred in that country on the loth of June, 1878, and he is a son of Nels and Anna (Bojrk) Sahlin, both of whom are still living.

In the public schools of Sweden Hakvin Sahlin received his education and until he was twenty years of age followed the courses of study offered by the schools of that coimtry which are equivalent to the high schools of America. After he had finished school he accepted employment with a lumber company in Sweden and was thus engaged for five years. During this period he learned the fundamental details of tlie lumber business and became rather expert as a judge of the valuation of lumber and also in predicting the needs of the market. After he resigned from this position he started in the lumber business for himself and for two years conducted a successful independent undertaking. Although he was meeting with a good degree of success he realized tliat the northwest offered opixirtunities more advantageous and profitable and accordingly he left Sweden and came direct to Spokane, Washington, where he at once identified himself with the Anderson

Land Company and he has since been manager of the real-estate department. Before coming to America he was a student in a business college and there learned modern business methods. His education covers a wide range and he is conversant in both French and German as well as Englisli and Swedish. Like many other Scandinavians he has an innate love of music and also possesses marked musical ability. Politically Mr. Sahlin is a republican and in religious faith he is a Lutheran, holding membership in the Swedish Lutheran church. He is also a member of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America and of the North Star. Although he has been a resident of Spokane for only a short period, he has during this time demonstrated his business ability and proven that he possesses those qualities necessary for success in any line - perseverance, diligence and energy'. In his chosen pursuit he is alert and is ready at all times to follow the trend of progress and the growth of the city. The success with which he has met has amply repaid him for the associations which he gave up when he left his native land and he has never had cause to regret the step he took when he came to America.

David Ackermann

The German-American element has long been recognized in our American citizenship. The sons of Germany have brought \vith them to the new world the salient characteristic of industry, which has long constituted a potent force in the civilization of the world. In America they have been active in promoting the agricultural and industrial interests and they have the perseverance to continue along a given line until success is achieved. Mr. Ackermann is a worthy son of the fatherland, where he was born on the 26th of January, 1873, a son of Sigmund and Amelia (Oppenheimer) Ackermann, both of whom are still residing in Germany.

David Ackermann was sent as a pupil to the public schools, where he pursued his studies until sixteen years of age, when he set out for the United States, landing at Boston, Massachusetts. For one year he was employed in a cigar store in that city before removing to Portland, Oregon, where he worked for a wholesale boot and shoe company until 1893. In that year he accepted employment ^vith F. Westheimer & Sons as a traveling salesman and he remained in their employ until 1906, when he purchased the Spokane Bakery. During his service for others industry and careful management brought him the capital to enable him to engage in business on his own account on a large scale. The original plant Mr. Ackermann purchased was located at Second and Washington streets, but in 1909 he erected the present well equipped bakery, supplied with all modern improvements, which is located at the corner of Post street and Broadway. The new building covers an area of one hundred and twenty by one hundred and twenty feet and is admitted to be the finest bakery on the Pacific coast. The standard of his products comes up to the fine equipment and they find ready sale because of their excellence and his earnest desire to please his customers. He has always been president and general manager of the company and the greater part of its success has been due to his careful supervision and study of the business.

On the 2d of June, 1901, Mr. Ackermann was married to Miss Edith Davis, a daughter of Simon and Henrietta Davis, of Seattle. They have one son, Sidney, who is attending school. In politics Mr. Ackermann is a republican and fraternally he is a member of the Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. In religious faith he is affiliated with the Hebrew church of Spokane. He has never had occasion to regret his determination to come to the United States, for he has here found the opportunities which he sought and in this country, where like advantages are offered to all, he has steadily worked his way upward.

Edward H. Moffitt

Edward H. Moffitt, who is prominently identified with various mining and commercial enterprises of Wallace, was born in Allegheny city, Pennsylvania, on the 22d of August, 1845. He is a son of Thomas and Maria L. (Patterson) Moffitt, who removed from the Keystone state to Illinois in 1858, and there the father, who was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, followed his calling for thirty years.

As he was only a youth of thirteen years when he accompanied his parents on their removal from Pennsylvania to Illinois, Edward H. IMoffitt completed his education in the public schools of the latter state. In February, 186i, he enlisted in Company F, Second Illinois Cavalry and went to the front in defense of his country. He participated in a number of notable battles remaining in the service until the close of hostilities. When mustered out he returned to Illinois and very soon thereafter engaged in the mercantile business in Monticello, that state, continuing to be identified with this enterprise for two years. In 1867 he disposed of his interests and went to Colorado and for twelve years directed his energies in mining in that state. At the expiration of that time he came to Idaho, locating in the Wood river section, where he continued his mining operations for four years. In the spring of 1884, Mr. Moffitt came to the Coeur d'Alene mining district, and has ever since remained in this vicinity. He was one of the first in the Eagle rush to Pritchard creek, and has always been one of the most prominent of the local mining men, during the period of his residence. In 1899 he was manager of the Standard and Hecla Mining Companies, as well as general manager for the properties of the Finch & Campbell Companies in the Coeur d'Alene district. At the present time he is secretary and treasurer of the Coeur d'Alene Hardware Company, of Wallace, and also a director of the First National Bank of Wallace, as well as president and manager of the Star Mining Company.

On the 15th of February, 1888, IMr. Moffitt was united in marriage to Miss Effie J. Colborn, a daughter of Joseph Colborn, of lola, Kansas. Mrs. Moffitt passed away in 1908 leaving two sons: Robert C, who was born on April 25. 1895; and Thomas E., whose birth occurred on the 22d of February, 1898.

Mr. Moffitt is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being connected with Shoshone Lodge, No. 25, F. & A. M.; Wallace Chapter, No. 7. R. A. M.; Wallace Commandery, No. 5, K. T. ; and he is also a member of El Katif Shrine, of Spokane. In addition he is one of tlie charter members of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Wallace Lodge, No. 331. in which he has held all of the offices wth the exception of exalted ruler, wliile he has been one of the trustees since its organization. Mr. Moffitt is one of the public-spirited citizens of the town, taking an earnest interest in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the community, particularly those of an educational nature, and at the present time is a member of the board of education, while since 1908 he has been a regent of the University of Idaho. He belongs to the board of trade of Wallace and is a member of the Inland Club of Spokane. Mr. !MofBtt is one of those who has won the high regard of his fellow citizens through his own personal worth and the many substantial qualities he has displayed during the period of his residence here. As a business man he has shown himself to be efficient and trustworthy; in matters of citizenship, active and progressive ; as a friend, loyal to every trust.

Dr. James R. Bean, an able and successful medical practitioner, has followed his profession at Mullan since 1907. His birth occurred at Sellersburg, Indiana, on the 7th of May, 1881, his parents being William E. and Caroline (Walker) Bean, who still reside in the Hoosier state. Dr. Bean was educated in the high school at Washington. Indiana, and pursued his medical course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of Illinois, winning the degree of M. D. in 1904. He began his professional career as an interne at the Alexian Brothers Hospital in Chicago, remaining there for a year and a half. On the expiration of that period he became assistant to the chief surgeon of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company in the western metropolis, serving in that capacity for one year. In 1907 he came to Mullan, Idaho, which town has since remained the scene of his professional labors. During the entire period of the forest fires, when the town was threatened, he remained loyally at his post. His practice has steadily grown as he has demonstrated his skill and ability in coping with the intricate problems which continually confront the physician in his efforts to restore health and prolong life.

On the 22d of January, 1908, Dr. Bean was united in marriage to Miss Mabel Van Wagenen, a daughter of F. H. Van Wagenen, of Chicago, Illinois. Unto them have been born two daughters. Fraternally Dr. Bean is identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at ^Mullan. Though yet a young man, he has already attained a creditable position in professional circles, while the salient characteristics of his manhood are such as have brought him the warm regard of those with whom he has been otherwise associated.

Walter H. Hanson

Walter H. Hanson is one of those who must be numbered among the more promising members of the legal fraternity of Wallace, where he has been engaged in practice for the past eight years. He is a native of Wisconsin, his birth having occurred at Deer Park, that state, on the 27th of December, 1881, his parents being John and Carretta M. (Abrahamson) Hanson.

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The early years in the life of Walter H. Hanson were not particularly unlike those of the average boy who is reared in the more sparsely settled communities of the middle west. When he had attained the usual age he entered the public schools, which he attended until he had graduated from the high school. He subsequently matriculated at the University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, that state, where he pursued his professional studies, being graduated with the degree of LL. B. in the class of 1904. He was admitted to the bar very soon thereafter and the same year came to Idaho, feeling convinced that he would here find better prospects and greater opportunities in his chosen field of activities. That he was not mistaken is attested by the extent of his practice, which has attained gratifying proportions and is constantly increasing. In recognition of his ability his constituency elected him prosecuting attorney of Shoshone county in 1906, his term expiring in 1908, and in April, 1909, he was elected mayor of Wallace, holding this office for two years.

Mr. Hanson is unmarried. Fraternal!}' he is connected mth the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, being affiliated with Wallace Lodge, No. 331, of which he is past exalted ruler, and he also belongs to the Grand Lodge of Elks. His political support he gives to the men and measures of the republican party, ever sustaining its principles. In addition to his professional connections, Mr. Hanson is interested in mining not only as a stockholder but as an official member of several local companies. His practice has proven as lucrative as his various mining ventures and Mr. Hanson is also a stockholder of the First National Bank of Wallace. He is one of the popular and highly esteemed young men about the town, being held in high regard not only professionally but among his political associates, and he is now a member of the republican state central committee.

Otho Clay Moore

Otho Clay Moore, engaged in the general practice of law as a partner of the firm of Poindexter & Moore, of Spokane, was born in ^Moniteau county. ^Missouri, January 19, 1872, and is a representative of one of the old colonial families established in North Carolina when that state was still numbered among the possessions of Great Britain. Robert Moore, the great-grandfather and David, the great-greatgrandfather of O. C. ;Moore were both soldiers of the Revolutionary war. His father, Livingston Moore, who was born in ^Missouri, was a farmer by occupation and at the time of the Civil war became a Confederate soldier, serving under General Price for three years. He was captured and imprisoned and when released in 1863 went to California. He married Charlotte Caroline Dickinson of Bath county, Virginia. Among her ancestors were also numbered Revolutionary soldiers and her grandfather was a colonel in the war of 1812. The Dickinson family is of Scotch-Irish descent. Her father was a physician of Bath county, Virginia, and it was there that Airs. Charlotte Moore was born but much of her life has been passed in Missouri where she is now living. The death of Livingston Aloore occurred in January, 1911. In the family were two daughters, Gertrude and Alta, both residents of Missouri.

Otlio C. iSIoore, the only son, was prepared for college at Hooper Institute in Clarksburg, Missouri, and afterward entered the Washington Lee University at Lexington, Virginia, in which he pursued an academic course. He later pursued a law course in the University of Missouri and was graduated with the L. B. degree in June, 1897. In March of the following year he came to Spokane and for a brief period practiced in partnership with Judge W. F. Townsend, who passed away several years ago. Later Mr. Moore was alone in law practice until the summer of 1908, when he joined Judge Poindexter, who had resigned from the bench in order to become a candidate for congress. This partnership has since been maintained, the firm engaging in the general practice of law. ^Ir. Moore has made for himself a creditable position in his profession, working his way upward by that merit which is the only source of substantial advancement in the courts.

In politics Mr. ^loore is a progressive republican, recognized as one of the leaders of the party in this city. He is now serving as state central committeeman from Spokane county and is chairman of the executive committee. He has frequently been a delegate to state and county conventions and has always been active in support of party principles yet has never been a candidate for office. During the last campaign he acted in behalf of Judge Poindexter for whom he managed his campaign. Mr. Moore was urged by many to become a candidate for the federal judgeship to succeed Judge Whitson, but Judge Rudkin secured the appointment. While undoubtedly not without that creditable ambition which is the incentive of faithful service in public office, he regards the pursuits of private life as in themselves abundantly worthy of his best efforts and his devotion to his clients' interests has become proverbial. Mr. Moore belongs to both the Spokane Club and the Spokane Country Club and socially as well as professionally has gained a large following.

Dr. Daniel E. Keys, a prominent and prosperous resident of Mullan, practiced medicine in connection with the conduct of his drug store for a number of years but since 1907 has devoted his attention exclusively to his drug business. His birth occurred at La Due, Missouri, on the 30th of ]\Iarch, 1870, his parents being George W. and Cora A. (Beaty) Keys. The father, who served as second lieutenant in the Twenty-first Ohio Cavalry during the Civil war, passed away in 1872.

Daniel E. Keys obtained his education in the academy at Clinton, Missouri, and prepared for a professional career in the St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, winning the degree of M. D. in 1893. Locating for practice at La Due, Missouri, he there followed his profession successfully for five years. In 1898 he came to Mullan, Idaho, and opened a drug store, attending to its conduct and also practicing medicine until 1907. In that year he abandoned practice and has since devoted his time and energies to his drug business, in which connection he has built up an extensive and profitable trade. He likewise owns a third interest in the Mullan Water Works and until April, 1911, served as vice president of the Wallace National Bank of Wallace. He is also largely interested in mining companies in this section and is a stockholder in the celebrated Caledonia mine.

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On the 27th of May, 1895, at Clinton, Missouri, Dr. Keys was united in marriage to Miss Emma Rudolph, a daughter of C. F. Rudolph, of that place. He gives his political allegiance to the republican party and served as coroner of Shoshone county for six years or from 1903 until 1909. From January 1, 1909, until January 1, 1911, he acted as commissioner for Shoshone county, discharging his official duties in a most prompt and capable manner. He is alert and enterprising, ever watchful of opportunities pointing to success, and in the management and control of his business interests displays keen discernment, executive ability and sound judgment.

Chester Edwards

The experiences which constitute the life record of Chester Edwards have been varied. He has been successful in theatrical ventures, was one of the originators of the Order of Eagles, has participated in the conduct of irrigation projects and is counted one of the best detectives on the city force. Thus is suggested the lines of activity along which Chester Edwards has come to be widely known, winning the respect of all with whom he is associated.

A native of Helena, Arkansas, he was born January 1, 1873, the only son of A. C. Edwards, a man whose eventful life is written at length on another page of this work. In his youthful days the son pursued his education in the public schools and in the Territorial University, now the State University, and in the Shattuck Military School at Faribault, Minnesota. He came with his parents to Spokane in 1883, when a lad of ten years, and was the first newsboy on the streets of this city, selling the Spokane Falls Review. For some time thereafter he was associated with newspaper work, becoming a reporter on the Daily Spokesman and also the Evening Chronicle. He afterward conducted a newspaper from 1892 until 1895, being only nineteen years of age when he formulated and executed his plans for establishing a paper. That he possessed superior ability in this connection is shown by the fact that he secured for his paper the largest circulation of any weekly west of the mountains, bringing out an issue of over twelve thousand copies which he sold at retail for ten cents and at wholesale for six cents per copy. Mr. Edwards also became interested in theatrical ventures, conducting shows at the Trans-Mississippi Fair at Omaha, Nebraska, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, and the Lewis and Clark Exposition at Portland, Oregon. As the northwest has developed he has kept in touch with the trend of progress and improvement and, realizing the opportunities that lay in the field of real-estate operations, he turned his attention to the purchase and sale of property and to the development of irrigation projects under the pump system in 1905. In January, 1906, he became a member of the Spokane police department and since March 3, 1910, has occupied the position of police detective. Even all this does not comprise the extent and variety of Iiis activities and interests. While on a visit to Seattle in January, 1898, Mr. Edwards was one of seven men to found the Fraternal Order of Eagles, now having a membership of half a million. He wrote the ritual imder which the first ten thousand members were initiated. Tliis organization was founded as the "Seattle Order of Good Things," with the following named as original members: John Cort, Mose Goldsmith, Harry L. Leavitt, John W. Considine, Thomas J. Considine, Arthur G. Williams and Mr. Edwards. From this the organization was developed into the Fraternal Order of Eagles and he is now a life member of the grand aerie and was voted jDast worthy president of Seattle Lodge, No. 1, and the first member of that order. He holds membership with the Foresters of America, with the Owls, the Woodmen of the World and the Red Men, and when in business was a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

On the 15th of August, 1894, in St. Louis, Mr. Edwards was married to Miss Anna Mc^Lahon, a daughter of John McMahon, an alderman of Cliicago, now deceased. The family is of Irish descent and her great-grandfather was General McMahon, of Revolutionary fame. In disposition and in manner Mr. Edwards is social, genial and companionable and wherever he goes leaves behind him an extensive circle of warm friends.

Edward A. Moye

Edward A. Moye, manager of the Spokane branch of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company, which he organized and established at this point three years ago, has the unusual distinction of having been identified with but two enterprises during the thirty-three years of liis business career. A native of Michigan, his birth occurred in St. Clair county, that state, on November 27, 1860, his parents being William L. and Wilhelmina (Beier) Moye. In the paternal line he is of French Huguenot extraction. The father and mother emigrated to the United States in their early youth, locating in Michigan. There they were later married, subsequently becoming residents of Saginaw. Pioneer conditions yet prevailed throughout the state when they first located there, and in his early manhood the father worked on the first canal built on the Sault Ste. !Marie.

In the acquirement of his education, Edward A. Moye attended the graded and high schools of Saginaw, until he was seventeen, when he laid aside liis textbooks to earn his own living. He began his business career as an employe of D. H. Jerome & Company, prominent hardware dealers of his home city, his first duties being those of a minor office assistant. He was an enterprising and ambitious youth, however, and applied himself attentively and intelligently to whatever was assigned him, early realizing that his advancement depended upon the ability and development he displayed. His employers quickly recognized his worth and promoted him from time to time to positions of greater trust and responsibility until he became one of the stockholders of the company, and when he severed his connection with them in 1897, he was junior partner and manager of the firm. He next became identified with the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth, where he was retained as department manager until 1908. This is one of the largest hardware concerns in the northwest, and in addition to the main house located at Duluth maintains four flourishing branches, the last having been established at Spokane. When the company decided to extend the scope of their activities by opening a branch in this city, it was decided that Mr. Moye was better qualified to successfully organize and establish the plant than any other man in their employ. He was sent out here in 1908 entrusted with full authority and responsibility in connection with the establishment of the enterprise, the selection of his assistants and the organization of the business. It was an arduous undertaking and a heavy responsibility, but Mr. Moye's long connection and thorough familiarity with the hardware business, together with his enterprise and executive ability well qualified him to meet all of the requirements of the situation. That he was in every way fully worthy of the confidence reposed in him by his employers is manifested by the marvelous development of the establishment and the magnitude of their business. It is divided into six distinct departments under the supervision of as many managers, and it requires the services of nineteen traveling men to cover the territory controlled by this house. The entire enterprise is under the management of Mr. Move, who has displayed unusual powers of organization and executive ability in the direction and development of this business, which is now firmly established and is enjoying an excellent patronage that shows a marked annual increase. They carry a full and complete line of shelf and heav_v hardware, paints, cutlery and such sundries as are usually found in lines of this kind.

On the 6th of Jmie, 1888, at Bay City, Michigan, Mr. Moye was united in marriage to Miss Clara Bertch of that city, and they have become the parents of two sons: Bertch WiUiam, who was born in 1893 and is now a student of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire; and Edward A., Jr., whose birth occurred in 1900. They live at 1224i Eleventh avenue, this city, where they own a very attractive residence.

Mr. Moye is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Palestine Lodge, No. 79, F. & A. M., of Duluth; Duluth Commandery, No. 18, K. T., of which he is a past commander; and Aad Temple of the M3'stic Shrine, also of Duluth. His connections of a more purel_y social nature are confined to his membership in the Spokane, Inland and Countrj' Clubs of this city. As a business man Mr. Moye has always been distinguished by his marked enterprise and determination of purpose no less than by his reliability and absolute loyalty to every trust, which characteristics in all probability he very likely largely owes to his Huguenot forefathers, who so valiantly defended their faith in the days of the religious strife in France.

Dr. Charles S. Kalb is one of the most prominent physicians in Spokane, enjoying a practice second to none, and his prominence in the county and state medical societies indicates his high standing among his professional brethren throughout Washington. He is well known in the business circles of this city as the president of the Land Title Savings Bank and is interested in other business concerns which have a bearing upon the development of the state.

Dr. Kalb was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, on the 26th of January, 1867. His great-great-grandfather came from France by way of Spain to America in 1707, for at that time people were not allowed to leave France by any other route. He was of German descent and the family surname at the time was De Kalb, but the prefix has since been dropped. An uncle of our subject was Captain L. W.

Slater, who commanded the Loudoun Rangers. His father was the famous John G. R. Kalb, who was born in Virginia and became one of the best known horticulturists of his time, devoting his attention to fruit raising and farming in the Old Dominion. He stood in the same relation to that section of the country that Luther Burbank stands to California - second to none. He was an authority on fruit and ornamental trees and as a horticulturist confined his activities to Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. Aside from his business connections he was one of the best liked men in his section and had a very extensive acquaintance in his county and the northern part of the state. He married Ellen H. Slater, who rep-, resented an old New England family. Her brother, Isaac, was captured by Moseby's Guerillas and sent to Libby Prison notwithstanding the fact that he was a noncombatant. After being there incarcerated for four or five months he was exchanged. The death of John G. R. Kalb occurred in 1885 and his wife passed away in 1900. The two sons of the family are Dr. Kalb, of this review; and Harry P. Kalb, a farmer of Idaho.

In the pursuit of his education Dr. Kalb attended school in Washington, D. C, and was graduated from the Columbian University, which is now the George Washington University, at the capital city, there winning his M. D. degree. His youthful days had been passed on his father's farm where his time was divided between the work of assisting in the field and orchard, and in attending school. He had mastered some of the branches of high-school work ere he entered college in Washington. Following his graduation there he served as interne in a hospital of the capital city, thus adding to his theoretical knowledge the broad and valuable experience of hospital practice. In November, 1891, he came to Spokane where he at once opened an office. He has always practiced independent of partnership relations and his own worth, merit and ability have established him in the prominent position which he now occupies as a member of the medical profession of Spokane. He belongs to the County and State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, and has filled all of the offices in the first named. For four years he has served on the Washington state board of medical examiners, having first been appointed by Governor McBride and afterward by Governor Mead. Perusal of the best medical journals and of the latest contributions to medical literature keeps him in touch with the advanced work being done by the profession and his sound discrimination and judgment enables him to glean from his reading those truths and facts which will be of benefit to him in his professional service.

Dr. Kalb is also known in other connections, figuring prominently in financial circles of Spokane as the president of the Land Title Savings Bank, which he aided in organizing in 1905, since which time a general banking business has been successfully conducted. He is also interested in irrigation projects, having materially assisted in carrying to completion the Pinecroft project, on the Spokane river. He is also largely interested in irrigation land projects in Whitman county and has invested quite largely in real estate in Spokane and throughout the county. In addition he is a stockholder in the Trustee Company of tliis city and his cooperation is regarded as a valuable asset in the management of important business affairs.

On the 20th of June, 1892, Dr. Kalb was united in marriage at Pendleton, Oregon, to Miss Frances L. McMullen, of Dearborn county, Indiana, a daughter of John and Hannah (Wicks) McMullen, the latter a cousin of the patentee of the