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

Edward N. Robinson supplemented his public-school education by study in the University of Missouri, where he won the Bachelor of Law degree in 1898. He thought to make the practice of law his life work and to this end took a course of study which has proven to him of marked value in his later business career. However, he was for ten years actively engaged in the practice of law in St. Louis. He arrived in Spokane in 1909 and became one of the organizers of the Arcadia Orchards Company, which was formed in March of that year and took over the property of the Arcadia Irrigation Association and the corporation known as Arcadia. The holdings of the two companies comprised eight thousand acres lying in Spokane and Stevens counties about twenty-two miles north of Spokane. Since then the company has increased its holdings until it now owns eighteen thousand acres, while its sales have already amounted to over two million dollars.

The work of improvement is being carried steadily forward. The company sells land under contract to plant winter apples, irrigate and give the orchard four j^ears' care. Six thousand acres are now planted to winter apples and the entire property is under irrigation with a gravity flow from Loon and Deer Lakes. There is now a population of over one thousand represented by sales and all will probably make their homes there during the next three years. The company is rapidly clearing and planting the remainder of the tract and practically all the land is suited to the raising of apples. Most of this will be sold in five and ten acre lots on the monthly payment plan. The property brings five hundred dollars an acre under the contract to plant it and care for it for four years, including a perpetual water right. They have water to cover fifty thousand acres and the enterprise is proving one of the most important forces in the utilization of the natural resources of the northwest. In fact the Arcadia is the largest orchard property in this part of the country and is handled on the strictest scientific basis by men who are prominent and practical orchardists. The sales of the company now amount to about three hundred acres per month and the land has been disposed of largely to eastern people. On the tract are found one hundred young men who are members of eastern families, many of them being college graduates. Their parents have purchased the tracts of land and wish their sons to learn the business, so that the young men are there employed by the day. Some very fine buildings are being erected in Arcadia and the district is supplied with all modern conveniences. One feature which they have developed is the taking of carloads of apples back to the east to advertise the west and in this the company has been more than repaid. At one time the property was all timber land, being covered with fir and tamarack. The company clears away the stumps and brings the land to the highest state of cultivation, clearing on an average of forty acres per day and utilizing a force of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty men daily during the summer. The Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad traverses the tract, which is fast becoming one of the most important fruit-bearing districts of the region. Already the company has expended over one million dollars, including the purchase price of the land. The work is largely directed b_v Mr. Robinson, who is president of the company and whose executive force and administrative ability are manifest in the continuous development of the lands and their sale. He has followed the most progressive methods in the conduct of the business and his labors have also been an important element in public progress as well as in the attainment of individual prosperity. He is not only president of the Arcadia Orchards Company but also of the Olsen-Robinson Companj-, dealers in general merchandise at Deer Park, where they carry stock valued at thirty thousand dollars. In the Arcadia Orchards Company he is associated with W. W. Hindman, who is vice president and O. L. Olsen, who is treasurer. In politics Mr. Robinson is a democrat but is not strictly partisan. He belongs to the Knights of Pythias lodge, in which he has served as past chancellor and is also connected with the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan. He is likewise a member of the Inland Club, of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Presbyterian church - associations which indicate much of the nature of his interests and the rules which govern his conduct. No one occupies a more enviable position in business and financial circles, not only by reason of the success he has achieved but also by reason of the straightforward business policy wliich he has ever followed and the .progressive methods which he has inculcated, leading to the development, upbuilding and settlement of a large tract and thus contributing to the general prosperity of eastern Washington. He has closely studied tlie possibilities of the country and the scientific methods which may be used in its improvement, and at all times works toward high ideals, his methods, however, being of a most practical cliaractcr.

Frank R. Corbaley

Frank R. Corbaley, land office attorney and abstractor of Spokane wlioso business interests, however, extend to irrigation projects and his activities to political service, was born in Plymouth, Indiana, March 18, 185-1. In the year 1700, members of the Corbaley family sailed from Scotland and established a home in Maryland. One of the family was numbered among the heroes of the Revolutionary war. The paternal grandfather of Frank R. Corbaley was a pioneer of Indiana and at one time had a sugar camp where the fine statehouse in Indianapolis now stands. His son, Richard Corbaley, was a native of that city, being the first white child born in Marion county, Indiana. He became a minister of the Church of God and at one time served as county clerk of Marshall county, Indiana. He died in 1903 and is still survived by his wife, who bore the maiden name of Jane Croco. She was born in Ohio and was the daughter of a farmer of German descent. Two of her brothers lost their lives when serving as soldiers in the Civil war. Mrs. Corbaley now makes her home in Los Angeles, California, where her eldest son, John A. Corbaley, is engaged in the hardware business. Another son, W. G. Corbaley, is owner of the waterworks at Eureka, Humboldt county, California. A third son, Piatt M. Corbaley, was in Spokane in 1878 and built the old Blackhawk stables. He was one of the first deputy sheriffs here, serving at the time the Northern Pacific Railroad was being built. He is now engaged in planting orchards at Los Angeles, endeavoring to cultivate the same quality of apples as are raised in Washington by planting his orchards at the right altitude on the mountains. A. L. Corbaley, another son, is a farmer of Waterville, Washington. The only sister, Marie O., is the wife of Leon Oppenheimer, of Spokane.

Frank R. Corbaley, becoming a resident of California in his childhood days, pursued his education in the public schools at Healdsburg and in the Western Business College at Livermore. He was first with the Western Union Telegraph Company after entering business life, being employed in different parts of California, and he later engaged with the Wells Fargo Express Company and in railroading. He turned his attention to the hotel business at Lytton Springs and afterward engaged in the liverj^ and stage business in Sonoma, California, until 1886, when he left that state and came to Spokane.

In this city Mr. Corbaley took up the real-estate business but afterward engaged in the live-stock business at Waterville, giving his attention largely to the raising of fine horses. In 1891 he accepted the position of deputy in the United State land office, where he remained until 1902, when he became connected with the Spokane land office. At length he resigned that position to engage in business on his own account as land office attorney, his previous experience in this field giving him comprehensive knowledge and thorough training. He does contest work and also the abstracting of land office records. He is likewise interested in irrigation property at Cashmere as a member of the Wenatchee Orchards Bonds Company.

Mr. Corbaley has been married twice. In 1879, at Healdsburg, California, he wedded Miss Katie M. Cook, a daughter of Dr. Gordon A. Cook, of that place, who came west with Fremont in 1849, settling in Placerville, California, in that year. Dr. Cook participated in the Mexican war and carried messages between Washington, D. C, and General Scott's army. Mrs. Katie M. Corbaley passed away in 1887, leaving two children: Gordon C, manager of the Arthur D. Jones Company of Spokane; and Edna K., who was recently graduated as a nurse from Mayo Brothers, the celebrated specialists hospital at Rochester, Minnesota, and is now married to Walter J. Sperry, of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and living in that city. On the Mth of October, 1904, at Spokane, Mr. Corbaley was again married, his second union being with Miss Effie Brockman, a daughter of George H. Brockman, retired, who came to this city in 1880.

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Politically jMr. Corbaley is well known as an active republican who has frequently served as a delegate in the county and state conventions and was a naember of the Douglas county central committee. His fellow townsmen, appreciative of his worth and ability, have called him to public office and in 1901 and 1902 he served as a member of the city council and as mayor of Waterville. He had previously been deputy assessor in Spokane in 1887-8, at which time the county assessment was seven million dollars, while today it is one hundred million dollars, the wide difference indicating something of the growth and prosperity of this district. Mr. Corbaley is a Mason, his membership being in Sonoma Lodge, No. 14, F. & A. M., of California. He started out in life without any special advantages to aid him and has gradually worked his way upward, placing his dependence upon industry and determination rather than upon a fortunate combination of circumstances. He has won a creditable measure of success and his record shows what may be accomplished in the great west where opportunity is open to all.

Patrick William Clark

Although a young man, Patrick William Clark has already made for himself an enviable place in the world of finance through the management of some of his father's vast interests, for he is a mining expert. He also has extensive realestate holdings which he personally supervises and which indicate his judicious investment and sound judgment. He seems to possess an aptitude for successful management and a keen sagacity that enables him to at once recognize the jiresent and possible value of business conditions. He has always lived in the west and soon became thoroughly imbued with the progressive spirit which has been the dominant element in the upbuilding of this section of the country.

Mr. Clark was born in Butte, Montana, February 28, 1882. He is a son of Patrick Clark, who is better known throughout the west as "Patsy Clark" and of whom a sketch appears elsewhere in this volume. Liberal educational advantages were afforded the son, who completed his course of study in the Georgetown College at Washington, D. C. He has principally followed mining, looking after his father's interests in Nevada, there remaining until 1906, during which time he acted as superintendent for his father. He then went to old Alexico. where he spent two years, again supervising his father's mining interests in Jalisco. He became a resident of Spokane in 1908, after which he traveled considerably through this part of the country, investigating mining prospects, for he had studied mining engineering in New 'York. He passed expert judgment upon properties in connection with the assistance of other engineers and in February, 1910, he organized the firm of Clark Brothers & Klein. His brother, James B. Clark, who is associated with him, was born in Spokane. September 1, 1888, and also attended Georgetown University of Washington, D. C. This firm is conducting a general real-estate business, jiractically liandling only their own jjroperty, wliich lies largely in Spokane and Spokane county, nltliough they also ha\ e some interests in the Coeur d'Alenes.

On the 26th of December, 1908, Mr. Clark was married in Spokane, on which occasion Miss Edna Lavelle, a daughter of Geoffrey Lavelle of Butte,' ^Montana, became his wife. Her father was a rancher and one of the old-time settlers of Silverbow county, Montana, where he was also long engaged in the lumber business. !Mr. and Mrs. Clark now have one son, Geoffrey, who is two years of age.

In his political views Mr. Clark has always been a republican since age conferred upon him the right of franchise. He belongs to Spokane Lodge, No. 128, B. P. O. E., to the Knights of Columbus and to the Catholic church. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Inland Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He is interested in all manly outdoor sports, enjoys the companionship of those whom he meets in these different organizations and is a social, genial gentleman, whose interests are wide and varied and who is making his presence felt as a business man of substantial worth and activity in this community.

Dr. Charles Gordon Brown, physician and surgeon, was born at Jacksonville, Illinois, July 6, 184'8. His parents, Reuben S. and Sarah (Wright) Brown, were farming people of that district and in youthful days Dr. Brown attended the rural schools but supplemented his preliminary knowledge by a course in the Illinois College at Jacksonville, from which he was graduated with the class of 1871. He studied medicine at the Long Island Hospital of New York and was graduated with the class of 1876. He then returned to his native city where he located for practice,' continuing there until 1882. Thinking, however, that the west offered better opportunities, he made his way to Helena, Montana, where he remained for five years. The succeeding year was passed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in 1888 he came to Spokane, where he has now remained in active practice for almost a quarter of a century. Ever since 1889 he served on the staff of the Sacred Heart Hospital and has been the chief surgeon of the Spokane International Railway since its organization. He is thoroughly versed in the great scientific principles which underlie his chosen life work and he keeps informed on the advancement that is being made by leading members of the profession through his perusal of medical journals and the best literature of the profession. He is conscientious and faithful in his work, holding ever to high ideals, and believes that the standard of medical practice should be kept very high. Dr. Brown is also well known as a representative and leading republican of this city and has been very prominent in the ranks of his party, his opinions carrying weight in its councils while his labors have contributed in considerable degree to its success. His fellow citizens, appreciative of his worth and ability, called him to the office of representative in 1891 and that his services in the state legislature won general approval is indicated by the fact that in 1896 he was sent to the state senate. He gave careful consideration to eacli question of importance which came up for settlement and is known as the "father of the state medical practice act," which set a standard for professional service, prohibiting from active practice all those whose qualifications were not adequate to the important demands of the responsible work in which they engage.

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His standing in the profession is indicated by the fact that he lias been honored with the presidency of the Spokane County and State Medical Societies in 1892 and 1899, respectively, and his administrations contribute largely to the efficient work of those organizations.

On the 21st of December, 1871, Dr. Brown was united in marriage to Miss Olive Stevens, a daughter of James L. and Rebecca (Sipes) Stevens, of Divernon, Illinois. They have one son, Carl Stevens Brown, of this city, and they reside at 716 Superior avenue. Dr. Brown is well known in Masonic circles and has crossed the sands of the desert with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belongs to the Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. He has a wide acquaintance in Spokane, and in political and professional circles throughout the state. It has ever been known that his position is not an equivocal one. What he says he will do, he does, and his reliability in every relation of life has gained for him the high confidence and regard of those who know him. He has advanced to a prominent position along several lines and deserves recognition as one of the leading representative citizens of the Inland Empire.

Dr. George A. Rohrer, one of the highly successful younger members of the medical profession of Spokane, who is located in the Jamieson building, where he has a very pleasant and appropriately furnished suite of oflSces, was born in Carson City, Nevada, in 1874. He is of Swiss extraction, his parents, Joseph and Regina (von Flue) Rohrer, having been born and reared in the little European republic, and in the maternal line he is descended from one of the ancient, noble families of that country, his mother tracing her descent back in an unbroken line nine hundred years. In his early manhood Joseph Rohrer emigrated to the United States, locating, in 1871, in California and there he was later married to Miss von Flue, who made the long journey from the old country for that purpose in accordance with previous arrangements. They subsequently located in Carson City, Nevada, where the father was identified with the mining interests until 1879, when together wth his wife and family he removed to Washington. They drove over the Oregon trail from Carson City to The Dalles, Oregon, and then came by way of Jackson, Umatilla and Walla Walla to Spokane. Upon their arrival here the father filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres of land, west of Spokane near what is now known as Grand View. There they still reside, but they now only own one hundred and twenty acres of their original tract, having sold the remainder. They have brought this land under high cultivation and it is well improved with all modern conveniences, being now one of the valuable properties of the vicinity.

The education of Dr. Rohrer was pursued in the common schools of Spokane until he had attained the age of fifteen years. Following the fire in this city in 1889 his parents sent him abroad, where he remained for thirteen years pursuing his studies in various colleges and universities of Switzerland and Germany and also of Paris. His course was completed with his graduation from the University of Wiirzburg, Germany, in 1902, with the degree of M. D. Very soon there- after he returned to Spokane and established an office that he has ever since maintained. He is a most capable ph_vsician and surgeon as has often been manifested during the nine years of his connection with the profession of this city and has succeeded in building up a large and lucrative practice. Dr. Rohrer keeps conversant with new methods, treatments and discoveries in his profession through the medium of the County and State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, in which he holds membership and which associations are the means of an exchange of professional opinion with his colleagues. As he has great confidence in the future of Spokane and the northwest he has invested quite extensively in real estate and owns several valuable properties in this section. He is also interested in the Coeur d'Alene mining district, and is president of the Bear Top, a silver and lead mine located near Murray, Idaho.

This city was the scene of the marriage of Dr. Rohrer in 1903 to Miss Mary Bucher, a daughter of William Bucher of Switzerland, and they have become the parents of one child, Elsie, whose birth occurred in 1904. They have a beautiful residence at 1918 Tenth avenue, this city, over which Mrs. Rohrer graciously presides, extending the hospitality of their home to their many friends. Dr. Rohrer is not affiliated with any fraternal order save the Sons of Herman nor does he prominently participate in political activities, giving his undivided attention to the demands of his large and constantly increasing practice, as he is conscientiously devoted to the interests of his patients.

In a careful college training Dr. Frank Hinman laid the foundation for the success which has come to him in the general practice of medicine and surgery in Spokane. Oregon numbers him among her native sons, his birth having occurred at Forest Grove April 1, 1880. His father, Arvid Hinman, was also a native of that state and a son of Alanson, who removed westward from Oswego, New York, taking up his abode in Oregon in the early '50s. Reared upon the western frontier Arvid Hinman was thoroughly familiar with the history of Oregon's development and progress, and became identified with the commercial activities of Forest Grove as a merchant. In 1881, however, he removed with his family to Moscow, Idaho, where he filled the position of postmaster for a number of years. His death occurred in 1892 but his widow, who bore the maiden name of Flora Elenor Smith, is still living.

After mastering the common branches of learning in the graded schools of Moscow, Dr. Hinman continued his education in the high school of Forest Grove, Oregon, and afterward attended Tualatin Academy of that place. Subsequently he entered Leland Stanford, Jr., University of California, where he completed his more specifically literary course by graduation with the class of 1902 with the degree of A. B. His professional training was received in Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, Maryland, where he received his medical degree in 1906. To his theoretical knowledge he added the practical experience of eight months' service as interne in the Johns Hopkins Hospital there.

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Dr. Hinman has been a resident of Spokane since 1907, at which time he entered upon a year's connection as interne with St. Luke's Hospital. In 1908 he opened an office for the general practice of medicine and surgery, and has since made steady progress, an extensive practice being now accorded him. At the present time he is city bacteriologist and is also pathologist of St. Luke's Hospital and a member of its staff. The Spokane County Medical Society to which he belongs has honored him with the position of secretary and he keeps also in close touch with professional advancement through his membership in the Washington State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. His social nature finds expression in his membership in the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Tennis Club, and the University Club, of which he is a director. He greatly enjoys the companionship of people of kindred tastes and interests, yet he never allows social affairs to interfere with the faithful performance of his professional duties. He has a wide knowledge of advanced methods and this knowledge has stood the test in an active and growing practice.

Arthur Burcham Lee

Arthur Burcham Lee is practicing at the Spokane bar as a member of the law firm of Cullen & Lee, and his work as a corporation lawyer is worthy of more than passing interest and attention. He was born in Clear Water, Minnesota, August 14, 1866, his parents being James and Rebecca (Burcham) Lee. The father was born in Dover, Delaware, and in tracing back his ancestry finds that the family is of English origin although representatives of the name came to America when this country was still numbered among the colonial possessions of Great Britain. Settlement was made in Camden, New Jersey, where the record goes back to 1699. Thomas Lee, the great-great-grandfather of our subject, married Margaret Edmondson, a descendant of one of the oldest American families. James Lee was a farmer by occupation and on leaving the east established his home in 1857 in Wright county, Minnesota, where he was living on the frontier during the period of the Civil war. He died in 1899 and is still survived by his wife, who is a native of Ohio and now a resident of Los Angeles, California. Their family numbered three sons and three daughters: James Franklin, who was a member of the Minnesota legislature during the last session; Arthur B., the subject of this sketch; William, who is living on the home farm at Clear Water, Minnesota; Sarah, who is the widow of George Furber, residing in Los Angeles, California; Mabel, a teacher in a mission school at Nagoya, Japan; and Lucy Grace, the wife of Leman Fish, who is engaged in the life insurance business in Minnesota.

In the common schools of Minnesota Arthur B. Lee mastered the elementary branches of learning and later was graduated from the state normal school at St. Cloud, Minnesota, with the class of 1890. Taking up the profession of teaching he served for two years as assistant principal of the higli school in Fargo, North Dakota, and during the summer months was connected witli the botanical department of the agricultural college of that state in making botanical surveys. When he had devoted two years to the profession of teaching he took up tlie study of law in the office of Judge Burleigh F. Spalding at Fargo. He continued for a time with the firm of Newman, Spalding & Phelps, completing his studies while acting as assistant in their office. He remained with them until April, 1895, when he was admitted to practice by the supreme court of North Dakota, and at once opened an office at Fargo, where he remained in active practice until the 1st of June, 1907, being alone for a part of the time while later he was a member of the firm of Turner & Lee and afterward of Lee & Fowler. On coming to Spokane he formed a partnership with E. J. Cannon under the firm style of Cannon & Lee, this connection continuing until the 1st of August, 1910, when he became a member of the firm of Cullen, Lee & Foster. He has engaged in general law practice, specializing somewhat in railroad work, both in North Dakota and Spokane. He has much corporation practice and is special counsel for the Washington Water Power Company, for the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway Company, and a number of other corporations. His practice has constantly grown in volume and importance and is now of a distinctively representative character.

On the 11th of October, 1894, Mr. Lee was married to Miss Mary J. Mills, a daughter of Joseph and Celia Mills, the former a Minnesota farmer. Two children have been born of this union: Edward Arthur, now a high-school pupil; and James Sydney, who is also in school. The parents are members of the Vincent Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Lee belongs also to the Masonic fraternity in which he has attained high rank, being a member of the consistory and of El Katif Shrine. In politics he has ever been a republican since age conferred upon him the right of franchise, and in North Dakota he frequently served as a delegate to party conventions but is not an active worker in party ranks at the present time. He nevertheless keeps well informed on the political and other vital questions of the day and his influence is also an element in progress along material, social, intellectual and moral lines in Spokane.

Ora B. Setters

As legal representative of the Washington Consolidated Telephone Company, the Western Casualty Company and other leading corporations, it is not difficult to determine the professional status of Ora B. Setters who since the fall of 1905 has engaged in practice in Spokane. He was born in Sullivan, Missouri, July 4, 1876. His father, Peter Setters, was a native of Indiana and followed the occupation of farming yet devoted a portion of his time to the work of the ministry of the Baptist church. At the time of the Civil war he espoused the cause of the Union and commanded a company in the Forty-fourth Missouri Infantry as captain. He was descended from a family whose establishment in America antedates the Revolutionary war and was of Swiss German descent. He died in 1905 and is still survived by his widow, who is living in Reardan. Washington. She is of Irish descent, was born in Indiana and in her maidenhood was Helen Warren. In their family were nine children: Ora B.; J. W., a farmer residing near Seattle, Washington; P. W., an engineer of Spokane; Dr. M. F. Setters, practicing medicine and surgery in Spokane ; Charles, a farmer of Reardan ; Mary, the wife of William Kitt, of Reardan ; Mamie, who married L. A. Cone, also a farmer of Reardan ;

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Hettie, the wife of J. J. Smith, who is likewise following agriculture near that' city; and Flora, who wedded E. R. Carstens, a Reardan farmer.

During his youthful days Ora B. Setters was brought by his parents to the northwest, arriving in Reardan in 1879. There he pursued a common-school education until he came to Spokane, where he again entered school and later pursued a commercial course in the Blair Business College, then known as the Spokane Business College. Subsequently he went to Indiana and entered the law department of the Northern Indiana Law College at Valparaiso, where he won the ,LL. B. degree upon his graduation in 1899. The following year he located for practice in Reardan and also became identified with its journalistic interests, becoming the founder of the Reardan Gazette. He also served there for a year as justice of the peace and was otherwise interested in public affairs, being a member and clerk of the school board throughout nearly the entire period of his residence there. His weekly paper was the first in the town and is now running in its eleventh year. Mr. Setters continued its publication until 1904, when he sold out and removed to Palouse, Whitman county, where he practiced law for one and a half years, and in the fall of 1905 came to Spokane. While he still continues in the general practice of law he has conducted important corporation litigation and has been retained as counsel by several leading companies, including the Washington Consolidated Telephone Company and the Western Casualty Company.

On the 25th of April, 1900, Mr. Setters married Delia Knapp, a daughter of C. H. Knapp, a business man of Palouse. She died in 1906, leaving two children, EUzabeth and Esther Setters. On the 21st of August, 1907, in Spokane, Mr. Setters was married to Miss Bess Reinhardt, a daughter of Mrs. E. G. Reinhardt. Her people were among the pioneer settlers of Washington, coming from California, and were of German descent. Mrs. Setters was a native of Illinois. Her mother, who is of English lineage, is living in Spokane, but' her father died in 1891.

The republican party of Spokane numbers Mr. Setters among its active members. While in Whitman county he served on the central committee and has frequently been a delegate to city, county and state conventions. He has been selected several times as speaker by county committees both here and elsewhere. He is a prominent member of the Order of Moose, having become a charter member of Lodge No. 161, which was organized in September, 1909, and of which he is now dictator. He served as a delegate to the national assembly which convened August 21, 1911, and also attended the national assembly in 1910. In 1911 he served on the advisory and grievance committee and is ver_v prominent in the order. Spokane Lodge has thirty-three hundred members, being the largest single lodge in the west. This organization had its inception in Kentucky but lay dormant until 1907, when it was revived and since then the number of lodges has increased from two to nearly one thousand lodges, with an approximate membership of one million gained during four years. It is today one of the prominent fraternal organizations of the United States and the grand lodge of 1911 held its meeting in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Setters is also a Mason, belonging to Spokane Lodge, No. 34; and to the Knight Templar Commandery. He has passed through all of the chairs in the local lodge in the Independent Order of

Mr. Setters deserves recognition for what he has accomplished. He lived upon a farm until seventeen years of age and worked his way through college, and the spirit of energy and determination which enabled him to accomplish that result has actuated him in all of his undertakings and has brought him into prominent connection with legal and political interests.

Levi W. Hutton

The great west has constituted a source of irresistible attraction to many. Its great uncultivated prairies, its uncut forests and its undeveloped mines have proved a lodestone which has drawn thousands to the Pacific coast, knowing that here was the opportunity for empire building and that to the individual was offered the chance for advancement which comes when industry and close application are applied to the natural resources of a district. Levi W. Hutton was but a boy in his teens when he resolved that he would try his fortune in the west. Kipling wrote :

And so it was with Mr. Hutton. That he chose wisely in his location is indicated in the success which has ultimately rewarded his labors. He is today a prominent representative of mining interests and of real-estate activity and is also a heavy stockholder in the Old National Bank.

He was born in Fairfield, Iowa, October 22, 1860, his parents being Levi and Nancy (Holsinger) Hutton. The father, attracted by the discovery of gold in California, came to the coast as a prospector in 1849, but after remaining for a few years in that state returned to Iowa, where he engaged in farming. He died when his son Levi was but three months old and the boy was left an orphan at the age of six. The other members of the family were: Jacob and Mary, both now deceased; Asa, who owns a farm near Des Moines, Iowa; Stephen, a ranchman living near Vancouver, Washington; and Laura, the wife of Wilson Abraham, of Fairfield, Iowa.

In the public schools of his native state Levi W. Hutton was educated but in 1879, when not yet nineteen years of age, he started for the Pacific coast with Salem, Oregon, as his destination. After a year there spent he went to northern California, where he remained for a year, and in May, 1881, he arrived in Spokane, having driven a four-horse team overland from Portland, Oregon. He spent a year in Pend d'Oreille Lake, working on a steamboat, and in 1883 he entered the service of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company as fireman on a locomotive running out of Missoula, Montana. After two and a half years' service in that capacity he was made engineer and was thus connected with the operative department of the railroad for seventeen years. In 1887 he was transferred from the main line to the branch running through the Coeur d'Alenes and there became interested in mining and in 1896 became one of the partners of the now famous Hercules mine. For five years they continued to put every dollar they could earn into running the tunnels and in 1901 the main body of ore was found and the Hercules mine proved to be one of the largest and most profitable in the Coeur d'Alene district. This brought to Mr. Hutton well merited success and laid the foundation for the present comfortable fortune which is now his. He continued to reside at Wallace until August, 1907, when he came to Spokane to make permanent residence and the same year erected the Hutton building, which was then a four-story structure. The foundation was laid broad and deep so that it c.ould sustain the additional weight of other stories if necessary, and in 1910 three more were added, making this one of the finest office buildings in the city, its cost, exclusive of the site, being over three hundred thousand dollars. As prosperity has broadened his opportunity Mr. Hutton has become interested in a great many enterprises and is now president and director of the Gertie Mining Company, president and director of the Progressive Investment Company, director of the Ajax Mining Company and a heavy stockholder of the Old National Bank. His business judgment constitutes him a valuable factor in the management of all these organizations.

Mr. Hutton's pleasant home life had its inception in his marriage on the 2-ith of November, 1887, to Miss Mary Arkwright, a daughter of Isaac Arkwright, of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Hutton has been one of the most prominent representatives of the woman's suffrage movement in the state of Washington and is now advocating that cause in California,, doing much by her work and arguments to win for women the legal and franchise rights which, when denied our forefathers, brought on the Revolutionary war.

Mr. Hutton has been a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers for twenty-seven years. He belongs to the Spokane Club and to the Pioneer Society and is prominent in Masonry, serving for five years as master of Wallace Lodge. He has also taken higher degrees and is a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He has never been actively identified with politics nor held public office yet is interested in the welfare and progress of the city and is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also treasurer of the Florence Crittenton Home and in many other ways has manifested a helpful interest in benevolent and charitable projects. He has never allowed the accumulation of wealth to in any way affect his relations toward those less fortunate but maintains a kindly interest in those who are attempting to work upward by honorable means and is ever willing to extend a helping hand to such.

Dr. John H. O'Shea is a Harvard man, and thorough preliminary training and broad experience in hospital work have qualified him for the onerous duties which devolve upon him in his professional relations. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, March 2, 1883, and although one of the younger is also one of the more successful physicians of Spokane. His parents, Michael and Catherine (Egan) O'Shea, made permanent settlement in Spokane in 1890. .-iltliough the father had been here for some years before the arrival of the family. He is now proprietor af the Spokane Cab Company.

John H. O'Shea was a lad of seven years when the family home was established in this city. He supplemented his early education by a course in the Gonzaga College, from which he was graduated in 1901, with the Bachelor of Arts degree. He afterward entered Harvard College for his medical course and completed four years of study by his graduation in the class of 1905. He then put his theoretical training to a practical test in two years service in the Boston City Hospital, and in the wide and varied experience of hospital work gained a training which well qualified and equipped him for the duties which have devolved upon him in his private practice. In February, 1908, he returned to Spokane, and in the intervening period of four years has won substantial success as an active member of the medical profession. He had charge of the Spokane Emergency Hospital for two years, and is also surgeon for the fire department. Furthermore, he is surgeon for the Northern Pacific Railway Company and a lecturer at Sacred Heart Hospital.

He is thoroughly acquainted with the advanced work of the medical profession by reason of the proceedings of the Spokane County and Washington State Medical Societies and the American Medical Association, of which he is a member. He belongs to the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, Spokane Lodge No. 228, and the Knights of Columbus, of which he is a past district deputy ; the University Club, the Spokane Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He is not only popular in these organizations, but has also gained a wide acquaintance socially in the city and has many warm friends who entertain for him a high personal regard.

E. A. von Hasslocher, fully imbued with the spirit of American institutions and thoroughly devoted to the best interests of the community with which he has been identified, was born in Germany when his father was serving as ambassador in that countrjr. He is well known as promoter of the Inland Club, of which he is the secretary. His birth occurred at Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, September 30, 1867, his parents being E. and Charlotte von Hasslocher. At the time of his son's birth the father, who is a descendant of a German baronial family, was at the head of an embassy to Germany from the Hawaiian Islands. He had come to America from Germany in 1849 and had settled in California, whence he was sent by the German government as its representative to Hawaii. He had been trained early in life for the diplomatic service and was prominently identified with the affairs of the Hawaiian government for many years.

In his early boyhood E. A. von Hasslocher was taken by his parents from Germany to California, where he pursued his education as a public-school student in Oakland. Subsequently he entered business circles as an employe in a wholesale house in San Francisco and in 1890 went to Cassiar, British Columbia, as secretary of a mining company and remained there for one year, at the end of which time he became associated with business interests on Prince of Wales Island as the proprietor of a general mercantile establishment and a sawmill. He was also a representative of different steamship lines in southeastern Alaska and for sixteen years continued his residence there, taking active and helpful part in the development of that section of the country. In 1906 he returned to Seattle, where he took up the real-estate, investment and bond business and in association with A. D. and C. C. Coulter organized the Arctic Club of that city, which is today one of the leading social organizations of the northwest, having one of the finest liomes on the Pacific coast, land and building having cost one million dollars. Mr. von Hasslocher remained as secretary of this club until September, 1910, when at the request of a large number of members of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce he came to this city, together with C. C. Coulter, to organize the Inland Club. Of the latter he remained secretary and his efforts in connection therewith have been as successful as were his labors in the upbuilding of the Arctic Club. With splendid powers of organization, combined with executive ability, and with ready understanding of the most effective methods of exploiting the resources of the country and making known its possibilities he is well qualified for the position of leadership to which he has attained on the Pacific coast. While in Seattle he was a member of the Arctic Brotherhood and was one of a committee of ten to supervise their building at the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific Exposition in 1909.

Mr. von Hasslocher belongs to no fraternal organization other than the Arctic Brotherhood and his club membership is limited to the Arctic and Inland Clubs. He was married February 14, 1903, to Miss Anna Elizabeth Carlyon, of Victoria, British Columbia, and they have one daughter, Dorothy Kathleen. There are few men more thoroughly informed concerning the northwest, its natural resources and its opportunities than Mr. von Hasslocher, who is an enthusiastic champion of this section of the country, his interest in its upbuilding being manifest in many tangible efforts for the public good. Well known for his ambition and industry - his dominant qualities - he has been untiring in his efforts to develop the Inland Club, wliich imder his guidance is becoming a power not only in the social life of Spokane but also in the progressive and material development of tliis section of the country.

Archibald W. Witherspoon

Archibald W. Witherspoon, for thirteen years a member of the Spokane bar. . l^racticing successfully as a member of the firm of Wakefield & Witherspoon, was born in Detroit, Michigan, June 11, 1876, his parents being William W. and Isabelle (Grant) Witherspoon. In 1882 the father brought his family to Spokane, where he is now living retired. He has been very active in the support of the republican party and held the office of chief of police. He was also city commissioner for a number of terms and was chief of the volunteer fire department during the pioneer epoch in the history of Spokane. In fact his prominence and influence were important factors in guiding the destiny and sha}>ing the Jiistory of the city during early days. Unto him and his wife were born five cliildren: Archibald W., of this review; Herbert W., of the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company; Charles G., now of Moscow, Idaho; Eva, the wife of Herndon Hord, of Spokane; and Florence, who resides witli her parents.

Archibald W. Witherspoon was but six years of age when the family came to Spokane and in the public schools here he acquired his general education, after which he entered upon the study of law in the office of Forster & Wakefield, who carefully directed his reading until his admission to the bar in January, 1899. He continued with the firm in the capacity of assistant until the death of Mr. Forster, when he became a partner in the business under the present style of Wakefield .& Witherspoon. They now have a good clientage and their business is often an important feature in the work of the courts. Mr. Witherspoon has ever been a hard worker and his diligence and energy in the preparation of his cases, as well as the earnestness, tenacity and courage with which he defends the right as he understands it, challenges the admiration of his associates and usually wins for him success in the trial of his causes.

On the 6th of November, 1901, Archibald W. Witherspoon was united in marriage to Eda Mauseth, a daughter of Peter and Caroline Mauseth, of Spokane, and they now have three children: Margaret, William W. and Helen Elizabeth.

Mr. Witherspoon is a life member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club but is not a public man in the sense of wide connection with those interests and activities which claim the attention of many. He prefers to concentrate his energies upon his professional duties and spend his leisure hours in the enjoyment of home associations, and the wisdom of his course is shown in the success which he has achieved in the practice of law.

Charles H. Cassill

Charles H. Cassill, banker, orchardist and political leader, in all of which connections his ability has won him success, was born in Dewitt, Clinton county, Iowa, April 2, 1 868. His father, A. B. Cassill, a native of the Buckeye state, died in 1895. He was of English lineage, representing a family, however, that antedates the Revolutionary war in its connection with America. The family name has been corrupted from Cassel to its present form. A. B. Cassill was a carpenter and devoted much of his life to building operations yet had studied for the ministry. Fol- . lowing the outbreak of the Civil war he enlisted in Company C, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, became a corporal and was retired with the rank of sergeant. On one occasion he was wounded and for a year was in a hospital, after which he was discharged because of disability. He thus made great sacrifice for his country, to which he was ever most devoted. In early manhood he wedded Alice Wright, who was born in Ireland and is of Scotch Irish lineage, representing the United Presbyterian stock that was found in County Down, Ireland. She is now living in Garner, Iowa, and of her family, four sons and three daughters are yet living. These are: Charles H.; William W., a farmer of Colorado; Thomas E., the secretary of the state board of railroad commissioners in South Dakota; Clarence B., a general merchant of Greenfield, Iowa ; Martha, living at Fort Morgan, Colorado ; Mayme, who is at home with her mother and Lyda, the wife of F. M. Spayde, a practicing dentist of Garner, Iowa.

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Charles H. Cassill, after completing a course in the high school of Garner, Iowa, attended the Northern Iowa Academy, from which he was graduated in 1890. He secured a position in the state bank of Hull, Iowa, now the First National Bank, entering that institution as bookkeeper in 1892. There he continued until November of that year, when he went to Hudson, South Dakota, to become cashier of the Hudson State Bank, of which he was one of the organizers and directors. There has been continuously a Cassill in that bank until July 4, 1911, when Frank Cassill, who was filling the position of cashier, died. Charles H. Cassill continued his connection with that institution until October, 1903, when he removed to Canton, South Dakota, where he organized the Farmers State Bank, of which he was cashier and director until coming to Spokane in 1908. Here he organized the Cassill Investment Company, Inc., with a capital of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, becoming its president with L. B. Cassill as vice president and D. H. Slade, secretary and treasurer. The company purchased three thousand acres of land three miles north of the city limits, have irrigated and planted this and are selling it in orchard tracts. It is known as the City Gardens and nine hundred acres are improved, with six hundred acres planted to orchards. The company takes care of the land for four years and it was an unimproved timber tract when it came into their possession. They had the soil analyzed and were confident it was adapted for fruit growing. Then they measured the water from Peone Creek, Little Deep Creek and the Little Spokane river, all running through the property, installed a pumping system, put in a steam pump plant complete and this is now ready to connect with electric power under the pipe system. The pipes are already in the ground covering the nine hundred acres that are already developed. This is practically level land and the company are putting it out to commercial orchards in five-acre tracts and have already disposed of about six hundred acres of their developed property. The railroad station at Mead on the main line of the Great Northern adjoins the tract. It also adjoins the country residence of Jay P. Graves, which adjoins the Country Club. On the east the property is bordered by the state road known as Regal street. There is every evidence that this tract will become valuable as the work of development continues and already it has netted the company a good return.

On the 6th of September, 1893. Mr. Cassill was united in marriage to Miss Louella Brown, of Hull, Iowa, a daughter of C. R. Brown, a veterinary surgeon of that place and a representative of the old Crane family of Revolutionary fame and of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Cassill are parents of three children: Scott K., attending the high school; Charles Harvey and Loraine, both in school.

The military chapter in the life history of Mr. Cassill covers connection with Company E of the Fourth Regiment of the National Guard of Iowa, of which he became a member when at Hull, that state, and of which he was corporal. In politics he is a republican and while in Dakota was active in the ranks of the party, which he represented in county and state conventions. He was also called to a number of public offices, serving as treasurer of the town of Hudson for six terms, as justice of the peace and as treasurer of the school board for three years. Lincoln county sent him to the state senate and he was one of the original eight insurgents in that session of the legislature. He served in the upper house from 1895 until 1897 and in the latter year was elected state treasurer, on which occasion Senator Kittridge was defeated and the "progressives" obtained control of the state convention and nominated the entire ticket. His political record is one characterized by unfaltering loyalty to duty as he has understood it. He stands for principle rather than for partisanship and has ever made self-aggrandizement subservient to the public good.

Mr. Cassill is a very prominent Mason, as is indicated by his membership in the commandery, consistory and the Mystic Shrine. He was an officer of the blue lodge at Hudson, South Dakota, and held membership at Canton, that state. He was also connected with the Knights of Pythias of Hudson and served as the first chancellor commander when the lodge was instituted. He was one of twenty-two charter members and held a number of other offices, including that of master of finance, prelate, etc. A number of times he was a member of the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias, was one of its trustees for two terms, also master of the exchequer, prelate and grand chancellor commander for one term. He belongs also to the Modern Woodmen of America and he has membership in the Spokane Club and the Chamber of Commerce. In all of his life he has never deviated from a course which he believed to be expedient and right. He has followed a policy leading to substantial and honorable results and well merits the success which has come to him in business and the prominence in public life.

William J. Parks

William J. Parks is senior partner of the law firm of Parks & Day and is also recognized as one of the influential political workers of his district. However, he never allows anything to interfere with the faithful performance of his professional duties and his ability in the law has won him recognition as a leading attorney of Spokane. He was born in ]\Iilwaukee, Wisconsin, January 22, 1872, a son of James and Jane (Henry) Parks, of that city. They removed to Rio, Wisconsin, when their son William was but three years of age and to the public school system of his native state he is largely indebted for the education he has acquired. However, he supplemented his public school course in Rio by further study in a private school in Madison, Wisconsin, and later entered the Northern Indiana University at Valparaiso, from which he was graduated with the Bachelor of Science degree in 1898. In February of the following year he arrived in Spokane and with broad literary knowledge to serve as the foundation on which to build the superstructure of professional learning, he took up the study of law in the office of Crow & Williams, the senior partner of the firm being Judge Herman D. Crow, now a member of the supreme court of the state.

Mr. Parks was admitted to the bar in November, 1903, and has here continued in the active practice of the profession from that time to the present. In 1910 he formed a partnership with his brother-in-law, Vince A. Day, who came to Spokane from Butte, Montana, and is now practicing under the firm style of Parks & Day. Aside from his practice he has interests in mining, being now treasurer of the Coeur d'Alene Consolidated Mining Company.

On the 27th of June, 1908, William J. Parks was united in marriage to Miss Blanche M. Day, a daughter of John V. and Anna Day, formerly of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, but now residents of Spokane. Mrs. Parks came to this state in the fall of 1903 and for one year was a teacher in the high school of Anacortes, Washington. The following year she came to Spokane, where she engaged as teacher of English literature in a high school up to the time of her marriage. She also took a prominent part in the athletic training of the high-school girls, having charge of the girls' basket ball team and also was in charge of the class plays. Mr. Parks does not belong to any clubs but is prominent in Masonry, holding membership in Spokane Lodge, No. 3J<, F. & A. M. ; Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; and Spokane Council, No. 4, R. & S. M. He also holds membership with the Woodmen of the World and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, cooperating in its well organized movements for the benefit and upbuilding of the city. He is a republican in politics but has never held public office, although he has taken active part in the county and state conventions and has done considerable campaigning work in the interest of his party.

Vince A. Day

Vince A. Day, the junior partner of the law firm of Parks Sf Day, was born in Williamstown, Pennsylvania, November 21, 1883, a son of John V. and Anna Day, who removed to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, when their son Vince was quite j'oung. There he pursued his early education in the public schools and afterward attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska, where he pursued both the academic and law courses. He was graduated from that institution in 1906 and went to Butte, Montana, where he followed his profession until 1910, when he came to Spokane to join his brother-in-law, William J. Parks, in organizing the present law firm of Parks & Day. They are fast establishing themselves in a leading position among the law firms of this city and the clientage accorded them is of a large and distinctively representative character. Mr. Day holds membership with the Chamber of Commerce and also with the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. While in college he was awarded the honor pin of the Theta Kappa Nu, a college fraternity. He is one of the younger among the representatives of the Spokane bar but has displayed ability and has already attained a position that many an older practitioner might well envy.

Eugene C. Winburn

Intense and well directed activity has brought Eugene C. Winburn to his present position of responsibility as manager for the Mutual Life Insurance Company for eastern Washington, Idaho and Montana. His business career has been characterized by a continuous rise and since starting out in the world on his own account he has been associated with insurance interests, so that he is thorouglily acquainted with every phase of the business to which he now devotes his attention most untiringly and profitably. In 1899 he entered the service of the company in connection with the domestic agency department and later was sent from the head office to Peoria, Illinois. When six months had passed he was made cashier of the company's office in Ottawa, Canada, and a year later was transferred to Columbus, Ohio, as cashier at that point. Another transfer made him cashier in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he spent three years, in the meantime demonstrating his ability in such practical manner that the company selected him as their representative at Helena, Montana. Accordingly, as manager for the Mutual Life, he went to that city on the 1st of January, 1907, and under his direction the growth of business in that state was most noticeable and satisfactory. The scope of his activity was increased by adding to his territory the adjoining state of Idaho, together with eastern Washington, and later his headquarters were transferred to Spokane, where he took up his abode in 1908. Here he at once turned his attention to the development of his increased territory and such has been his success that Spokane has proved to be the headquarters of the most successful agency of the company in its Pacific territory. A phenomenal record was made in 1910 when the Spokane agency, the youngest of the company's branches, ranked second among all the agencies for the highest percentage of business paid for to quota. To prove that this feat was not beyond duplication, the Spokane office. led all of the company's agencies for the year 1911.

One of the strongest elements in Mr. Winburn's success lies in his ability to discover and develop producing agents. He always makes it a point to keep in close touch with the representatives of the company in his territory and he is at all times planning for the promotion of the business. The Underwriters' Report spoke of him as one whose life "furnishes an example of the success which awaits the young man who enters life insurance equipped with energy and an ambition to go ahead. At an age when most men are beginning to make progress, Eugene C. Winburn has reached a point in his business which ordinarily comes after long years of patient and faithful service. Socially he is a man of charming manners, a genial host and beloved by his friends."