Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 4 of 23)

Hon. George Turner

Among Spokane's citizens who have figured in national affairs Hon. George Turner is prominent. His public service has rested upon the firm basis of a wide and thorough knowledge of the law and he has never regarded a public office as a personal asset to be used for the promotion of individual interests but rather as a trust to be sacredly guarded for the benefit of his country and his constituents. While in the courts he has been an important factor in the interpretation of the laws and in congress he has aided in formulating the legal principles which constitute the stable forces of the nation. It would be difficult to point out that period of his life M-hich has been of greatest benefit to his fello^vmen, for as supreme court justice of Washington during territorial daj's, as a member of the constitutional convention of the state, as a member of the United States senate and in diplomatic service his work has all been fruitful of good results.

Judge Turner was born in Edina, Knox county, Missouri, February 25, 1850, a son of Grenville Davenport and Maria (Taylor) Turner. His parents in 1825 had removed from Kentucky to Missouri and had cast in their lot with the pioneer settlers of the latter state, where they maintained their residence until called to their final rest. The father, who was a cabinetmaker by trade, came of English and Dutch ancestry, while his wife, a daughter of George and Maria Taylor, was representative of a family of Scotch-Irish origin that had settled at an early period in the part of Virginia which is now West Virginia.

About 1859 Grenville D. Turner removed with his family to Lebanon, Laclede county, Missouri, and his son, George, then a lad of nine years, became a pupil in the public schools, but his education was interrupted owing to the fact that the schools were obliged to be closed when ^Missouri became the scene of conflict between contending armies in the Civil war. His father and all of his brothers promptly espoused the cause of the Union and served with the volunteer soldiers in the northern army. Judge Turner also proved his worth to his country in that trying hour for, although but thirteen years of age, he became a military telegraph operator in his home town of Lebanon, continuing at that work until the end of the war. He was. in the south during tlie reconstruction period and passed the examination for admis- sion to the bar at Mobile, Alabama, in 1868, although but eighteen years of age. The same year he entered upon the active practice of law in Mobile in connection with a friend, Charles E. Mayer, and displayed such ability in the conduct of cases that in 1 87-1 the republican party of Alabama named him as its candidate for the office of attorney general of the state. Such was his personal popularity and the confidence reposed in his ability that he polled a very large vote, being defeated by only a small majority. Again and again at different periods in his life he has been called from private practice to public service. From 1876 until 1880 he filled the position of United States marshal for the southern and middle districts of Alabama and in tlie latter year and again in 1 881 he was chairman of the Alabama delegation in the republican national convention, giving his support in 1880 to General Grant as the presidential nominee.

Judge Turner's identification with Washington dates from 1884, in which year he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of this territory. He was assigned to the fourth district, which included the greater part of eastern Washington, and had first made his home in Yakima but in 1885 removed to Spokane, wliere he has since resided. He proved himself the peer of the ablest members who have sat upon the supreme court bench of this state, but in 1887 he resigned his judicial position to enter upon the private practice of law as a member of the firm of Turner, Foster & Turner. That association continued until 1890, when he became senior member of the firm of Turner Graves & McKinstry, so continuing until his election to the United States senate in 1897. He is now practicing in the firm of Turner & Geraghty, a foremost one in the ranks of the legal profession in the state. His opinions while on the bench showed great research, industry and care and expressed a solidity and an exhaustiveness from which no members of the bar could take exception. While well grounded in the principles of common law when admitted to practice, he has continued through the whole of Iiis professional life a diligent student of those elementary principles that constitute the basis of all legal science. He has been connected with few business interests outside the strict path of his profession, y<t was one of the men largely interested in the celebrated Le Roi mine in British Columbia.

The bent of Judge Turner's active mind has made him take a lively pleasure in the study of the science of government and because of this his labors have been particularly effective and beneficial in public offices to which he has been called. In 1889 he rendered valuable service as chairman of the judiciary committee in the convention which was called to form the state constitution of Washington and left the indelible impress of his individuality upon the organic law of the state. In his political relations he acted with the republican party until 1896, when he supported \Villiam Jennings Bryan on the silver issue. In the following year he was elected United States senator from M'^ashington and in that office served for the full constitutional term, retiring in 190,S. Presidential appointment made him a member of the Alaska boundary tribunal, which met in London in the summer of 1903 and settled the Alaskan boundary dispute between the United States and England. In 1910 he received from Secretary of State Root the appointment as leading counsel of the United States in the northeastern fisheries arbitration at the Hague. Upon his retirement from tile state department Mr. Root became a participant in the case, whereupon Mr. Turner insisted upon withdrawing as leading counsel in favor of Mr. Root.

The case was opened for the United States by Mr. Turner, following Sir Robert Finley, who opened for Great Britain, each occupying eight days.

On the 4th of June, 1878, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mr. Turner was united in marriage to Miss Bertha C. Dreher, a daughter of George and Catherine (Scheiss) Dreher, the father a native of Saxony and the mother of Switzerland. They came to this country at an early day and were married in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and later removed to Alabama. His social and fraternal relations are with the Masons and the Elks, the Spokane Club, the Spokane Athletic Club, the Spokane Country Club, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D. C. Association with him means expansion and elevation. He has throughout his life been a close student of men and affairs and his analytical power has brought him clear understanding of both. This same power has enabled him at all times to see below the surface of things in his consideration of vital state and national questions and to correctly determine the possible outcome of a critical situation. The judicial trend of his mind has kept him free from personal bias or prejudice in his public acts and his course has at all times sustained the honor of state and country without the sacrifice of the rights of other lands. A gracious presence, a charming personality and profound legal wisdom all combine to make him one of the most distinguished and honored residents of the state of Washington.

Warner Cobb

Warner Cobb, deceased, was born in Breckinridge county, Kentucky, October 7, 1832. The family is of Scotch lineage, having been founded in America by his grandfather, who came from Scotland and settled in Virginia. The birth of his father, Jesse R. Cobb, occurred in Bedford coimty, Virginia, and throughout his life he followed the occupation of farming. He died, however, in 1839, and was long survived by his wife, Mrs. Sallie (Lamb) Cobb, who was born in Campbell county, Virginia, representing one of the pioneer families of that state, and died in Fairfield, Washington, in May, 1889.

Warner Cobb acquired his education in the public schools of Illinois and Iowa and made his initial step in the business world as a farmer in the latter state, but in five years removed to Clark county, Missouri, where he also carried on general agricultural pursuits. Later he went to California where he spent six years, residing there from 1852 until 1858. He then returned to Missouri where he engaged in farming until 1861, at which time he enlisted in the Confederate army and served for three years. He was first a member of Company H of the Missouri State Guard for six months, and then joined the Confederate forces that were with General Price at Lexington. He participated in the battle at that place, also at Prairie Grove and in other smaller engagements, remaining at the front until disabled by a broken collar-bone in 1864, when he was honorably discharged.

Following his military service Mr. Cobb went to Illinois, where he engaged in farming for two years, and then purchased a tract of land in Bates county, Missouri, upon which he resided until 1880. In the spring of that year he came to Washington, bringing his family across the plains in wagons. At length they reached Hangman Creek and Mr. Cobb bought a relinquishment and filed on a homestead. The nearest place where he could purchase goods then was at Colfax, about forty-five miles away, Spokane at that time boasting only of a little trading store. He gave his attention to the development and further improvement of the farm until the spring of 1905, when he sold out and came to Spokane, having in the meantime served for a number of years in public office. In 1882 he was elected probate judge of Spokane county on the democratic ticket and filled that position for two years. In 1886 he was elected for a two-years' term to the office of county commissioner and in 1910 was again chosen county commissioner, in which capacity he served until his death which occurred August 9, 1911. A democrat in politics from the time when age conferred upon him the right of franchise, he had been a delegate to many county and state conventions, and was a member of the county central committee, doing all in his power to promote the growth and secure the success of democracy.

In January, 1867, in Jackson county, Missouri, Mr. Cobb was united in marriage to Miss Alice Carter, a daughter of Joseph Carter, who was a farmer and a representative of a pioneer family of both Kentucky and Missouri. Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Cobb, as follows: Nevada, the wife of W. C. Clark, a government employe in the collector's office at Nash\'ille, Tennessee; Elizabeth, who married J. C. Lodge, of Tacoma, Washington, where he is engaged as bookkeeper for a lumber company; Jesse T., a farmer of Montana; Joseph E., who is married and resides in Northport, Washington, where he carries on mining; John P., following agricultural pursuits in Malheur county, Oregon; James W., who married Miss May Cleary and is serving as deputy assessor of Spokane county; and Cordelia Ann, the wife of H. C. Worley, a druggist of this city.

Mr. Cobb belonged to Fairfield Lodge, No. 342, F. & A. M., and held nearly all of the offices in the organization, save that of master. He was a member and president of the Spokane County Missouri Club for three years, until the time of his death. He was recognized as a public-spirited and progressive citizen and was thoroughly loyal to the interests of Spokane and his adopted state. The city had a population of only two hundred when he arrived here and he witnessed its growth to its present proportions. The village has been converted into a city of many thousands with every kind of commercial, industrial and manufacturing enterprises, while all the educational advantages known to the older east are also to be found here. Mr. Cobb was very enthusiastic in his support of the city and of the northwest and in the discharge of his public duties proved himself thoroughly loyal to the state.

Lyman F. Miller

A descendant of Revolutionary ancestry and of good fighting stock, Lyman F. Miller, of Deer Park, fearlessly performed his duty as a soldier in the Union army and has also ably discharged his responsibilities as a private citizen and a public officer. A native of Vermont, he was born September 1, 1844, his parents being Julius W. and Harriet E. (Field) Miller. The father died in 1895 and the mother passed away many years previous, in 1852. The grandfather of our subject on the

Lyman F. Miller was taken to Wisconsin when he was eight years old and received his preliminary education in the public schools of that state and Illinois. In response to the call of President Lincoln he enlisted in Company C, One hundred and sixth Illinois Infantry, and served in the Civil war under General Sherman, under General Grant at Vicksburg, and under General Steele in Arkansas. After receiving his honorable discharge he went to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, and was engaged in a mill, doing millwright work and filing. In 1871 he engaged at his trade as millwright at Lebanon, Missouri, and became half-owner in a mill. After three j'ears he went to Marshalltown, Iowa, and followed his trade for eight years in that place, He then took up his residence at Bartlett, Nebraska, where he became quite prominent, serving as county surveyor for four years. He removed to Kinbrae, Minnesota, at the end of the time named and followed his trade there, also filling the position of mayor of the town for six years and postmaster for eight years. Believing that the northwest offered more favorable inducements than he perceived in Minnesota, he came to Washington and was for three years a resident of Newport, where he engaged as a millwright, and from there he removed to Deer Park, where he has since remained. He has prospered in his work at this place and is now superintending the construction of the new high school building.

On the 2d of April, 1868, Mr. Miller was married in Wisconsin, to Miss Harriet C. Cook, a daughter of Jacob Cook. Her ancestors were among the first German settlers of New York state. Mr. and Mrs. Miller became the parents of the following children: Edward, who married Cora Shipman ; Ida M., who is the wife of W. J. Drake; Laura E., now Mrs. H. A. Noyse; Nellie H., who married J. Moore; and Myrtle. The mother of these children died in 1888. Mr. Miller has given his support to the republican partj' ever since he arrived at manhood and is now serving as mayor of Deer Park. He is not identified with anj' religious denomination but is an attendant of the Congregational church. Fraternally he is connected -vvith the Odd Fellows and has passed through all the chairs of the subordinate lodge, being at the present time chaplain of Deer Park Lodge. He is also a member of the Rebekahs and of the Grand Army of the Republic. As is indicated by the various offices he has filled, Mr. Miller is highly active and efficient in anything he undertakes. He has never shirked responsibility and as he is a man of good judgment and tact he has been successful in many important undertakings. He sees no reason to regret establishing his permanent home in Deer Park, as here he has found friends and is recognized as one of the most useful men of the communitv.

Fred H. Oliver

Many corporate interests have been promoted and stimulated by the enterprise, business activity and executive ability of Fred H. Oliver, who is now largely engaged in the development and sale of mining properties and is an officer in a number of mining companies. His life record had its beginning in New York state on the 27th of April, 1862, He is one of a family of seven children, having one brother and five sisters. His parents were William H. and Elizabeth (Shaw)

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Oliver, both of whom were born in ]Maine. Both were of English descent and belonged to families that were represented in the Continental army during the Revolutionary war. The mother died in 1881 but the father still survives and now makes his home in Spokane. Of their children Frank G. is now a resident of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the five sisters are: Mrs. F. E. Snodgrass, of Los Angeles, California; Mrs. Paul Brown, of Portland; Mrs. George Beystone, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Mrs. Fannie Devitt, of Denver, Colorado; and ^Irs. F. R. Fiske, the wife of Dr. Fiske, of Spokane.

The youthful days of Fred H. Oliver were passed in Eau Claire, where he passed through consecutive grades in the common schools and became a high-school pupil. He entered business life in connection with lumber interests in California, whither he went in 1879, and there was connected with the lumber trade until 188:2, when he removed to Spokane. He was here engaged in mining until 1888 at which time he was appointed Chinese inspector and served for two years. The next office to which he was called was that of deputy United States marshal, in which he also served for two years, and later he was appointed state road commissioner by Governor McGraw and served for two years. Since his retirement therefrom he has been connected with mining interests, devoting his time to both the development and sale of mining properties. He is largely interested in British Columbia, Ontario, Canada, and in southern Oregon properties, and as an official has voice in the management of a number of these. He is president of the Salmon River Gold Mining & Milling Company of British Columbia, is president of the Fairview Copper Mining Company of Ontario; president of the Big Four Development Company of Nevada; president of the Southern Oregon Water Power Company, of southern Oregon; and also has many other mining interests. The Fairview Copjjer Mining Company has its property' twenty-five miles from the silver camp of Cobalt in northern Ontario. They have a body of copper ore carrying three per cent copper and heavy excess of iron, together with eight-tenths of one per cent nickel. It is being developed by diamond drilling and they have already gone down four thousand feet with diamond drills and have reached a depth of fourteen hundred feet. The plant of the Southern Oregon Water Power Company lies in Lake county, Oregon, five miles from the California line. The minimum liorse power it is proposed to develop is twenty-one hundred and the maximum is twenty-six tliousand. They hope to have the first three units of seven hundred Iiorse power each in operation in the latter part of 191:2. They can thus dispose of this at Lakeview and other small towns of that district. It is presumed that a great deal of the power will be used in pumping. The company is incorporated for three hundred thousand dollars under the laws of the state of Washington with head offices in Spokane. The officers are F. H. Oliver, president; Dr. F. R. Fiske, secretary-treasurer; with Dayton H. Stewart, George McDonald, of Coulee City, and M. R. Jennings, of Edmonton, Alberta, as directors.

In his political views "Mr. Oliver is a republican and has been an active party worker in Spokane and Stevens county, but the importance of his business interests precludes personal activity along that line. He has represented his party in both county and state conventions, was a member of the first state convention at Walla Walla and served on the Stevens county central committee. His fraternal relations are with the Elks Lodge, No. 228.

On the 13th of May, 1891, Mr. Oliver was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth McCallum, a daughter of D. W. McCallum, of Mendocino county, California, who was. one of the pioneers of that state and is now representing his district in the general assembly. His parents were Canadians of English descent. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver have two daughters, Mildred and Margaret, who are both students in the high school. The family is well known socially and their circle of friends is an extensive one. Mr. Oliver is a splendid representative of that class of citizens who find in the conditions of the west the broader opportunities that call forth enterprise and determination. He recognizes the chances for the progressive business man to develop the country and utilize its splendid natural resources and he is taking his part in this work which promises good results both to the individual and to the communities in which his activities are called forth.

Noah David Showalter

There is no doubt that the teacher is one of the most important forces in the progress of the world and the successful teacher deserves the respect and honor of all friends of humanity. Noah D. Showalter, principal of the Normal school at Cheney, is a conscientious and progressive educator and deserves prominent mention in a work relating to Spokane county and the men who have contributed most to its development.

He is a native of Cass county, Nebraska, born February 22, 1869, a son of Noah and Nancy (Shoopman) Showalter. His ancestors came from Leipsic, Germany, in an early day and settled in Southwestern Pennsylvania, which is still considered the old homestead of the family. The grandfather on the paternal side moved south into old Virginia, where he reared a family of nine children. He became a pioneer on the frontier in the United States, and moved west into Illinois during the early settlements in the northwestern territory. The grandfather on the maternal side also settled in central Illinois soon after the war of 1812, and the uncles, six in number, in the same line of descent, were all soldiers in the Civil war. Three of them are now living and are prominent members of the Grand Army of the Republic.

The father of our subject took no part in the Civil war, as it was necessary for him to remain at home because of his wife's physical condition, although he was through life a patriotic and a liberty-loving man. He began his work as a minister in the Primitive Baptist church at the age of twenty-four and occupied the pulpit from that time until his death, which took place during his eightieth year. He lived on a farm with his family and this was their direct means of support. The mother is still living and has reached the age of sixty-nine. Ten children were born to this union, of which our subject was the oldest son.

Noah D. Showalter received his common-school education in the country, but came west in 1891, when he was yet a very young man. He subsequently attended school at the State Normal school, at Ellensburg, at the University of Moscow, and graduated from the Lewiston Normal school in 1899. Following this he attended the State College at Pullman, Washington, where he received his master's degree in the department of economics, science and history. His first teaching

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in the country schools of Whitman county, from which place he went to serve as principal of the schools of Farmington, Washington. After being at this place for four years, he was elected as city superintendent of the Oakesdale schools, where he remained for two years. He was then elected county superintendent of the schools of Whitman county, an office which he filled for two terms. In 1909 he came to the Normal school at Cheney as head of the rural school department, and the year following was elected as principal, a position which he has since held.

Mr. Showalter has also been successful in business affairs, and believes that every teacher should be directly interested in the business world, as well as to keep in touch with the latest and best ideas in education. He owns two wheat farms, a twenty-acre apple orchard in the Columbia river valley, has considerable interest in the mining property in the Coeur d'Alenes, and owns five acres in the North wood addition to Spokane. He has shown clearness of judgment and a discrimination as a business man, which gives bright promise of gratifying financial returns.

On the 12th day of March, 1891, at Kingman, Kansas, Mr. Showalter was married to Miss Arra Belle Thomas, a daughter of James M. and Nancy Thomas, whose home was in Green county, Pennsylvania. To this union five children have been born: Royce L. ; Vera Kathleen; Carrol Adel, who is deceased; Virginia Belle; and Noah D., Jr.

In politics, Mr. Showalter supports the principles of the republican party. He was a member of the central republican committee for a number of years, and has many times acted as a delegate both to county and state conventions. He is an active worker in all progressive movements which aim to promote the general welfare, and at the present time is a member of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce and the Cheney Commercial Club. Fraternally he is identified with the Woodmen of the World.

Mr. Showalter is especially interested in the rural-school problem, and in all his work in the Normal school he emphasizes the great need of raising the rural school to a higher standard of efficiency. He is one of the pioneer workers in this Une and his plans worked out in many country-school districts have proved to be most successful in setting higher standards for the community. Earnest, energetic, and progressive in his profession, he has devoted his best abilities to the instruction of boys and girls, the preparation of young men and women for the active duties of life ; and he takes a great pride in preparing teachers in the Normal school who will measure up to the highest requirements and carry forward the educational work of the state in the most efi'ective manner. He is president of the Washington Educational Association and justly ranks among the leaders in educational circles of the northwest.

Frank R. Culbertson

While Frank R. Culbertson is now identified with the commercial interests of Spokane as president of the Wonder Department Store, one of the large and attractive mercantile enterprises of the city, he is widely known throughout this section of the country because of his former activity in mining and his efforts in that direction constitute a valuable asset in the development and substantial improvement of this section of the country. He has ever had firm faith in the future of this district and therefore has never hesitated to make investments and thus promote the business enterprise which is always the foundation of a country's growth. The course he has followed in all of his business life is such a one as ^vill bear close investigation and scrutiny and is an object, lesson of what may be accomplished when determination and energy lead the way.

Mr. Culbertson is a native of Lawrence county, Ohio, born April 2, 1858. His father, Cambridge C. Culbertson, was one of the pioneer manufacturers of pig iron in Ohio and was among the first to open up the Hanging Rock iron district of that state. His business interests were extensive and of an important character and he remained an active factor in connection with industrial and financial enterprises of that region up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1898. In early manhood he had married Emily A. Rankin, who survived him for about thirteen years, passing away in 1911, being eighty-eight years of age.

In his youthful days, Frank R. Culbertson was a pupil in the public schools of Ironton, Ohio, but the desire to enter the business world led him to put aside his text-books when fifteen years of age and accept a position with a surveying party. The business spirit was strong within him and his ability was manifest in the fact that when but sixteen years of age he took a contract from the county to build five miles of county road, which project he carried to successful completion. He next engaged in the management of a company store for one of the iron blast furnace companies of that place, which he conducted successfully for three years. Ever ready to take a forward step as the way opened, he next engaged in the mining and contracting business, successfully executing a contract to mine five thousand tons of iron ore. He has ever seemed to know just when and where and how to put forth his efforts to jsroduce the best results and at the same time to secure the best possible cooperation of those who have been in his employ. His next venture connected him with the wholesale grocery trade at Ironton, Ohio, where he remained for three years and then sought a still broader field of labor by opening a wholesale grocery house in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1881, under the name of the Glidden-Griggs Company. The business is still conducted under the name of the Griggs-Cooper Company and is the largest wholesale grocery house west of Chicago.

In the spring of 1885 he transferred the field of his operations to the northwest, still in connection with S. S. Glidden, his father-in-law. The latter purchased a controlling interest in the Tiger mine, situated in the Coeur d'Alene district, at Burke, Idaho, and Mr. Culbertson became general manager of the mine, which was the first quartz property to be discovered in the Coeur d'Alene district. Thus from the very outset Mr. Culbertson was closely associated with the development of mining interests in this section and the value of his work is inestimable. When the Coeur d'Alene excitement was at its height in 1884, Mr. Glidden was operating at Thompson's Falls, at that time the main gateway of the mining section. He secured an option on the Tiger mine and in the spring of 1885 he and Mr. Culbertson sold tlieir joint interest at St. Paul for the purpose of locating permanently in this part of the country and devoting their undivided attention to the development of tlie Tiger mine, wliich, after a tliorough investigation showed a big tonnage of low-grade ore. The problem tliat confronted them was to devise some means of gettina: the ore out of the mine and to a convenient place for shipment. To this problem Mr. Culbertson and Mr. Glidden bent their attention and largely solved it by building a wagon road fifteen miles in length to connect with the Thompson's Falls road. The hauling, however, was all done by teams and the method was found to be impracticffble on account of the great cost of transportation in that way. They then attempted to secure other means of transportation from Coeur d'Alene city up the south fork of the lake. At that time a steamer was being o]ierated on the lake between Coeur d'Alene and the Jesuit Mission. Messrs. Glidden and Culbertson succeeded in interesting some prominent business men of Spokane in making a survey of the route from the mines to Burke, Idaho, and tliis was really the initial step in the building of the railroads in the Coeur d'Alene district. The same fall D. C. Corbin began operations in the neighborhood in the building of the road to Wardner. The following year the Northern Pacific & Oregon Navigation Companies were attracted by the tonnage of the Coeur d'Alene mines and both started to build to Wardner, the Northern Pacific from Missoula on tlie east and the Oregon Navigation Company from Tekoa. Being assured that these railway lines would reach Wallace, Messrs. Culbertson and Glidden began the building of a railroad from their mines to Wallace, which they afterward sold to D. C. Corbin and he in turn to the Northern Pacific. The Tiger mine in which they had invested became one of the valuable properties of the Coeur d'Alene district and !Mr. Culbertson acted as general manager from the development of the mine at grass roots until they had sunk a shaft to the depth of eighteen hundred feet. In 1889 the property was sold to Charles Sweeny.

The work which Mr. Culbertson and Mr. Glidden did for the development of the Coeur d'Alencs cannot be overestimated, for they were almost the first moneyed people to enter the district and use their capital in developing the country. At the same time Mr. Glidden was conducting a banking enterprise in Spokane and while Mr. Culbertson spent much of his time in Coeur d'Alene, he also made frequent visits to Spokane, coming at least once a month and has the right to claim that he is one of its pioneers. The sale of the Tiger did not conclude his activities in the field of mining, for in 1900 he became associated with Charles Sweeny in the develo))ment of mining properties in California, where he remained for three years. In igOi he returned to Spokane and became connected with the commercial affairs of the city by purchasing a controlling interest in the Wonder Department Store, which is one of the most extensive and best equipped stores of this character in the Inland Empire. They have been located in their present quarters since 1905 and have a splendidly equipped establishment, while the large line of goods which they carry is attractive to the public as indicated in the large and growing trade which thev now enjoy. Mr. Culbertson is also one of the directors of the Spokane Title Company. Energy has been the foundation of his advancement and intelligent direction of his labors and investments have brought him to the present creditable position which he occupies as a business man of Spokane.

At Chattanooga, Tennessee, on the 16th of February, 1881, Mr. Culbertson wedded ]Miss Jessie B. Glidden, a daughter of Steven S. and Sue M. Glidden. who were then living at Chattanooga, Tennessee, but came to St. Paul in 1882 with INIr. Culbertson and in 1885 they both came to the northwest, Mr. Glidden taking active part in the development of this region as indicated in the foregoing paragrajilis. The only child of this marriage is a son, S. Glidden Culbertson, who is a student here. They reside at the Westminster Hotel. Mr. Culbertson has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Masonry and is also a member of El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine, of Spokane. He belongs to Wallace Lodge, B. P. O. E., and is popular among the membership of the Spokane, Spokane Country, Inland and Spokane Amateur Athletic Clubs.

His high standing in business circles of the city is indicated by the fact that he is now the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce. In his entire life he has looked beyond the exigencies of the moment to the possibilities and opportunities of the future and in his connection with the Chamber of Commerce is putting forth most earnest and effective effort, to advance Spokane's interests and give to the city all those requirements that will be demanded in its rapid growth. He has never sought nor desired office and the public work that he has done has largely been of a nature that has brought him no pecuniary reward, yet has made extensive demand upon his time, his thought and his energies. In the business world opportunities that others have passed by heedlessly, he has noted and improved and his record proves that success is ambition's answer.

Sydney S. Beggs

Sydney S. Beggs, engaged in the express and transfer business in Colville, has been a resident of Stevens county for twenty-one years, during a large portion of which time he has been more or less prominently identified with political activities. He was born in Hastings county, province of Ontario, Canada, May 8, 1858, a son of Andrew L. and Mary Ann (Gregory) Beggs. His father, who was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, was actively engaged in the preaching of the gospel until his death in 1897. The mother passed away in 1871. Although he is a native of Canada, Sydney S. Beggs' ancestors on his mother's side came from the L'nited States, his grandfather having been born in New York in the year 1800; on his father's side he is of Scotch descent. The grandfather was a lumber merchant in New York but received the most of his stock from Canada, the timber being cut in the woods there and shipped to Montreal arid Quebec to be sawed.

The early boyhood of Sydney S. Beggs was spent in his native country where he began his education, this being completed in the schools of Nebraska, which he attended until he was thirteen years of age. The energies of the youth were then turned to farming, in which occupation he was associated with his father vuitil he was eighteen and from that time until he was thirty he engaged in farming for himself in Nebraska. He moved to Washington territory in 1888 and first located in the vicinity of Brents, now called Creston, and there worked in a sawmill for three years ; then went to Rathdrum, Idaho, for a year, following the same occupation. At the end of that period he came to Stevens county and filed on a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres. He spent the succeeding six years there, during which time he worked in the sawmills and harvest fields, devoting such time as he could spare in clearing and improving his land. Disposing of his holding in 1902 he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land near Colville. that he cultivated until 1909. He met with good success in his agricultural pursuits during that time and added to his holdings another quarter section. In 1909 he withdrew from farming and coming to Colville has ever since resided here and has been engaged in the express and transfer business since July, 1910.

On the 8th of May, 1880, Mr. Beggs was united in marriage to Miss Edna T. Beedy, the event occurring at Wilbur, Nebraska. Mrs. Beggs is a daughter of Frederick E. Beedy and the niece of one of Minneapolis' first mill owners. She had four brothers, all of whom were in the Civil war and four sisters. Five children have been born unto Mr. and Mrs. Beggs: Grace S., who married W. P. Townsend ; Garland C, who chose for his wife Elva Twitchell ; Mozelle and Stewart, who are deceased ; and Leo F. ; all of the living children residing in Stevens county.

In his political views, Mr. Beggs is a democrat and has always taken an active interest in county governmental affairs. He first served as county treasurer, being elected in 1896 and was reelected in 1898, and in 1906 he was elected county commissioner, filling this office for four years. While serving in the latter capacity he was a delegate to the commissioner convention in Tacoma in 1908; Olympia in 1909; and Yakima in 1910. In the latter year, in February, he was also a delegate to the State Good Roads Convention at Aberdeen, Washington, and in November of the same year was a delegate to the annual convention of the Good Roads Convention in Walla Walla. In addition to his various other public services, Mr. Beggs served two terms as field deputy county assessor, and has been state and congressional committee man for Stevens county at the democratic conventions since 1908. He is a member of the county central committee at the present and has occupied that position a number of times, acting as chairman on three or four occasions. He is an active member of the Independent Order of Foresters and the Odd Fellows fraternity, having filled all of the chairs in the latter organization. At the present time he is chairman of the building committee of the new Odd Fellows temple, now under construction in this city. He has always been one of the popular members of his lodge and in 1902 was representative to the Grand Lodge at Bellingham, Washington. Mr. Beggs has alwaj's taken an earnest interest in all organizations for the promotion of the county's development and is now serving -as one of the board of directors of the Stevens County Producers' Association. He has always taken an active part in the Colville Commercial Club and while not a member is affiliated with them and assists in boosting all public projects. He is one of the public-spirited, enterprising citizens of Colville whose personal interests are at all times identical \vith those of the community at large, in the promotion of which he seems tireless.

Robert W. Collins

Engaged in the real-estate business and also handling insurance and loans, Robert W. Collins, of the firm of this name, has built up a flourishing commercial enterprise in Coeur d'Alene within the past seven years, meeting with unusual success in his venture. He was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1848, and was a son of John and Elizabeth P. (Johnson) Collins. The father died when Robert Collins was only a few years old and in 1852 the mother with her eight children removed to northeastern

Missouri. In this locality Robert W. Collins acquired his education in the common schools, beginning farming at an early age. In 1 879 he started a grocery and hardware business in Atlanta, Missouri, in which he continued for three years. 1882 saw his removal to Nelson county. North Dakota, where he became a builder and contractor and conducted a livery business, meeting with success in the seven years of his residence there. He then set out for the west continuing his building and contracting business in various places during the following years, in Helena, ^lontana, from 1889 to 1893; in Anaconda, Montana, from 1893 to 1899; and in Butte, Montana, from 1899 to 1902. During his residence in Anaconda, from 1893 to 1897 he had charge of the building of bridges and buildings, in the construction of the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad, between Anaconda and Butte. In 1902 Mr. Collins came to Coeur d'Alene and here resumed his building and contracting business, but in 19041 discontinued it and engaged in the real-estate and insurance business exclusively, winning a large measure of success in this undertaking. The firm Robert \V. Collins, Real Estate & Loans, is one of the largest firms of its kind in this section of the country and is conducted by ^Ir. Collins and his partner, John Christ, the latter being the present city clerk and police judge of Coeur d'Alene.

In 1871 Mr. Collins was married to Miss Johanna Snell, of Macon county, Missouri, who passed away a year and a half later. He was again married in 1873, this union being with Miss Martha R. Sprinkle, a daughter of Zeno and Elizabeth Sprinkle, of Macon county, Missouri, and by her had five children of whom three are living: Ada Elizabeth, the wife of ^Milton E. Spencer; Lola Rivers, the wife of Charles A. Reid of Spokane, Washington; and Ruby J., living with her parents in Coeur d'Alene.

Since his election to the office of tax collector in 1873, in Macon county, Missouri, Mr. Collins has been actively interested in politics and has served as public official in many varied capacities. During his residence in Nelson county. North Dakota, he was deputy United States marshal, count}' sheriff, and chairman of the county commissioners. He was mayor of Coeur d'Alene from 190i to 1905 and has filled other offices of honor and trust. Efficient in the administration of business affairs, Mr. Collins has a comprehensive grasp of details and is also thoroughly competent in handling large situations involving the solution of intricate problems. Among his business associates he is regarded as conscientious and trustworthy, never stooping to do anything not in accord with tlie liighest standards of business ethics.

J. W. Binkley of Spokane has been associated with various interests which have constituted elements in the growth and progress of Spokane and the surrounding country. He now occupies a prominent position in financial circles as president of the North Pacific Loan & Trust Company, in which connection he is a partner of Jacob R. Taylor. He was born in Ontario, Canada, July 10, 1856, his parents being George and Mary (Rymal) Binkley. He had the advantage of liberal educational training, attending the Collegiate Institute of Ontario and afterward the Toronto University, in which he took up the study of law, pursuing his course until qualified for practice. After leaving college he made his way direct to this state.

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settling first in Seattle. He was admitted to the bar at Tacoma in 1883 and the same year came to Spokane, where he formed a partnership ^Wth his cousin, Jacob R. Taylor, which relation has since been maintained. They entered at once upon the active practice of law and made steady progress in that field but have gradually withdrawn to concentrate their energies and attention upon other business interests. Mr. Binkley served as probate judge of the county in 1885 and 1886, having been elected on the democratic ticket, but for some years he has not taken an active part in politics aside from exercising his right of franchise. ]\Iore and more largely his efforts and activities have been concentrated upon his business affairs and he is now president of the North Pacific Loan & Trust Company, which deals entirely in farm mortgages and handles foreign capital from Holland. The firm have now loaned on these mortgages over one million dollars. They first organized the Northwestern & Pacific Mortgage Company in 188i, it having a continuous existence until 1896, when it was taken over by the Northwestern Hypotheek Bank, subsequent to which time they organized their present business under the name of the North Pacific Loan & Trust Company. In this way Mr. Binkley has contributed much toward the upbuilding, progress and improvement of this district and his progressive work has also been done as the president of the first and second fruit fairs which were ever held here.

In 1880 Mr. Binkley was married to Miss Josephine Clarkson, of Ontario, who died in Spokane. They had one daughter, Ethelyn, who is the wife of Aubrey L. White, of this city. Mr. Binkley belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and in more strictly social lines is connected with the Spokane Club, the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club and the Spokane Country Club.

William Hunter Brownlow

William Hunter Brownlow, who founded the Chewelah Independent, which, together with his sons he edited for five years, was born in the vicinity of La Crosse, Wisconsin, his natal day being the 7th of September, 1860. His parents are Joseph and Frances L. (Kellow) Brownlow, formerly residents of Wisconsin, but now living in Yakima, the father having attained the venerable age of seventy-eight and the mother of sixty-eight years.

Reared on his father's farm, William Hunter Brownlow attended the common schools of Mindoro, AVisconsin, in the acquirement of a preliminary education, being supplemented by a two-years' course in the normal school at Genoa, Nebraska. He completed his education in 1879, at the age of nineteen, and turned his attention to farming, devoting his energies to this occupation for two years in Nebraska. At the end of that time he came to Washington, becoming a resident of Ellensburg, wliere for twenty years he engaged in operating a grist mill and also in mining. Owing to the state of his health he was forced to withdraw from active work in 1899. and believing that tlie climate of Alaska would prove beneficial he went to that northern country to spend a year. Upon his return he settled in Prosser, Wasliington, and engaged with his sons in the newspaper work for four years, before coming to Chewelah, where he was associated with them in founding and publishing the IndeiJpndent until about a year ago, when he turned the management of the paper entirely over to his sons, but on the retirement of A. T. Brownlow, he again took charge of the Independent as manager and editor in the latter months of 1911. All the time he was engaged in newspaper work, Mr. Brownlow was constantly trying to promote and develop the mining industry in the locality by interesting capitalists throughout the country. He is still very much interested in mines and mining, and having been more or less actively identified with the work for nearly a quarter of a century is well informed and is regarded as an authority, owing to his wide and varied experience. He was one of the first men in the state to write exhaustively on the natural resources of this part of the country for eastern papers and periodicals, his efforts along this direction unquestionably having been productive of results.

On the 20th of September, 1879, Mr. Brownlow was united in marriage to Miss Jane J. Truman, the event being celebrated at Genoa, Nebraska. Mrs. Brownlow, who passed away on the 27th of June, 1910, was a daughter of George and Susan Truman, and was one of the last members of the Society of Friends. Eight children were born unto Mr. and Mrs. Brownlow: Gertrude S., who became the wife of W. D. Smith; Alexander T., who married Irene Toner; William K., who is associated with the Independent; Ralph A., who married Iva Mowatt; and Truman Y., Arthur \V., Helen and Alta M.

The political views of Mr. Brownlow coincide with the principles of the democratic party, for wliose candidates he always casts his ballot. He has taken an active interest in municipal affairs during liis residence in Chewelah and served for four years as mayor, having entered upon the duties of that office in January, 1906. ^Ir. Brownlow has been an enthusiastic promoter of the town at all times and is a member of the Commercial Club, to all of the efforts of which association he gives his support and cooijeration. Although he has not long resided in Chewelah he has won and retained the esteem of its best people, who hold him in high regard because of his many substantial personal qualities and high standards of citizenship.

Orris Dorman

Orris Dorman, whose contagious enthusiasm has been a factor in the upbuilding, settlement, development and progress of the west, is justly classed with the representative business men of Spokane, where he has important realty holdings. He is here engaged in the real-estate, investment and banking business, his association with the latter being that of vice president of the Fidelity National Bank. His birth occurred in Sigourney, Iowa, April 28, 1871, and he is therefore yet a young man. His salient qualities include the enterprise and ambition of youth and in the conduct of his affairs he brooks no obstacles that can be overcome by persistent and earnest purpose and effort. His father, Hiner Dorman, was a native of Indiana and represented an old Pennsylvania family of German descent. He devoted his life to farming, save for a period of nearly four years, when he served as a private in the Thirty-third Iowa Infantry, during the Civil war, his regiment being attached to the Army of the Mississippi. His mother was a descendant of General Morgan of Revolutionary war fame. Hiner Dorman was united in marriage to Miss ISIartha Knox, a cousin of

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James Knox Polk, at one time president of the United States. She is living in Ritzville, Washington, and is of English descent. Her father's name figured prominently in connection with the family tree, of which Press Knox was a leading representative. Unto Mr. and !Mrs. Hiner Dorman there were born three sons and three daughters: Orris; Ortho, who is associated ^vith his brother in the real-estate business and who married Alice Jay; Jess, a newspaper man, residing at Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Lois, the wife of John M. Woehr, the owner of an orange ranch at Redlands, California; Alice, the wife of V. A. Chargois, of Ritzville, Washington; and Lou, who is making her home with her mother in Ritzville.

Orris Dorman was a young lad when brought by his parents to Washington in 1887, and in the common schools and the Normal school of Cheney he pursued his education. He then turned his attention to the newspaper field, becoming connected with tlie Ritzville Times, continuing in that field from 1895 until 1898. During the succeeding three years he was connected with mercantile and real-estate interests in that place, and in 1903 he came to Spokane, where he concentrated his energies upon real-estate investments and banking. Here he devotes much time to financial interests as vice president of the Fidelity National Bank. He first became associated with real-estate interests, when in 1 897 and 1 898 he invested heavily in unimproved lands in the Big Bend and Palouse country. This formed the basis for his present extensive holdings. With a keen insight into what the future held for the wheat country, lie wisely made his purchases of property. He was one of the first to advocate the advisability of investing in those districts and at an early day would frequently go aboard an immigration train from the east with dodgers, which referred to the hidden wealth of the virgin soil. His belief in the country and his activity in exploiting its resources were the cause of much of the material development of this part of the state. He has been tlie means of bringing much money into the country, peopling a vast tract of semi-arid land, which has been converted through the labors of the settlers into one of the garden spots of the world. Mr. Dorman still owns finely improved wheat ranches in Whitman county and time has proven the wisdom of his judgment and his investments. His stock in the Fidelity National Bank also brings him a good annual dividend and he has had active voice in the management of the bank as its vice president since January, 1911. Some idea of the volume of business transacted by this bank may be gained from the fact that the deposits in June, 1911, were one million, five hundred and twenty thousand, three hundred and fift_y-one dollars, and sixty-two cents, while on the 7th of January of the same year they were only one million, one hundred and eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-nine dollars, and twenty-four cents, showing a gain in five months of four hundred and twelve thousand, two hundred and twelve dollars, and thirty-eight cents. The capital stock is two luindrcd thousand dollars, the surplus and undivided profits fifty-four thousand, nine hundred and thirty-five dollars, and eighty-six cents, arid there is in circulation two hundred thousand dollars. The bank is certainly in a most healthy condition and its business activity and success are attributable in no small degree to the efforts of Mr. Dorman. !Mr. Dorman is also connected with the firm of Dorman Brothers as president, and he is vice president of the Otis Orchard Company, president of the Newman Lake Canal Companj', and secretary of the Inland Securities Company.

He does not concentrate his energies, however, upon business affairs alone but cooperates in many movements having direct effect upon the general welfare, upbuilding and prosperity of the community. He is a director of the Young ]Men's Christian

Association of Spokane and has ever taken a most helpful interest in its work during the two years of his connection therewith. In politics he is an active democrat and was elected chairman of the county central committee in 1910, but press of business made it impossible for him to accept the position. Frequently he has been a delegate to the city, county and state conventions, and he does all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of the party. He cooperates in the projects for municipal progress that find their root in the Chamber of Commerce and no movement for the welfare of Spokane seeks his aid in vain. Fraternally he is connected with Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. and he is a member of the Inland Club. He attends the Christian church.

On the 9th of ;March, 1898, at Walla Walla, Washington, Mr. Dorman was married to Miss Etta E. Zaring, a daughter of Alvin and Mercy Zaring, the former a pioneer of that country and now a retired orchardist, who came across the plains in 1862. The mother is long since deceased. As the name indicates, the family is of German descent. Mr. and Mrs. Dorman have become the parents of four children: Donald O., aged twelve; Dorothy M., aged ten; Martha A., aged eight, and Richard A., aged six, all now in school. For twenty-five years Mr. Dorman has been a resident of Wasliington and has therefore witnessed much of the growth and development of Spokane and the surrounding country. That he has made wise use of bis time and opportunities is evidenced in the success which has come to him, and that the course he has followed is consistent with the highest principles of manhood and citizenship, is indicated in the warm regard which is uniformly extended to him.

Ralph Carlton Dillingham

Without any special advantages at the outset of his business career Ralph Carlton Dillingham has steadily advanced and the steps in his orderly progression are easily discernible. No unusually fortunate conditions awaited him but with determined purpose and laudable ambition he has met competition in honorable manner, has proven his worth and today receives the reward of indefatigable and honorable effort in his position as a partner in the leading wholesale and retail paint business in the inland empire. He was born at Thomaston, Maine, June 12, 1867, so that the width of the continent separates him from his birthplace. He is one of the three sons of Edward L. and Elizabeth (Carlton) Dillingham, who were also natives of the Pine Tree state. The father is still living in Thomaston, where he is engaged in general merchandising. He represents an old New England family of English lineage. In his home town he has been active in political work and is now serving as selectman of his village. His wife, who was also of English descent, although the Carlton family was founded in New England at an early day, died in Maine in 1869. The onl}' brother of our subject is George Dillingham, who is now associated witii him in business in Spokane.

At the usual age Raljih C. Dillingham entered the public schools of Thomaston, mastered the work in successive grades and eventually became a high-school pupil. His early business training was received in his father's store, in which he clerked for two j'cars and tlien went to Chicago. He was in the employ of Wadsworth, Howland & Comi)any. jiaiiit ni.inufacturers, for three vears and in November, 1889, came to Spokane, where he entered business circles as a wholesale and retail dealer in paints, forming a partnership with Charles H. Jones, which relation has since been maintained under the firm style of Jones & Dillingham. For twenty-two years this firm has existed and they are today the leading and largest paint house in Washington on the east side of the mountains. They established a retail enterprise but soon began the manufacture of paint, selling to the wholesale trade, and they also manufacture art glass and mirrors and are jobbers of plate glass. Aside from his commercial interests Mr. Dillingham has many important business connections in Spokane and has been a large investor in real estate, his property holdings now returning to him a gratifying income.

On the 8th of June, 1892, Mr. Dillingham was married in Spokane to Miss Edith Paine, a daughter of George W. Paine, a real-estate dealer of Spokane, who represents an old [Maine family but lived for a time in Illinois before coming to Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Dillingham have two daughters, Evelyn and Elizabeth, both of whom are students in Brunot Hall. The family have a beautiful home justly celebrated for its extensive and warm-hearted hospitality, and the parents are very prominent socially. Mr. Dillingham enters with zest into the interests and work of the [Masonic fraternity, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, also holding membership in the [Mystic Shrine. He belongs also to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. He is interested in politics as a supporter of democratic principles, has been a delegate to city conventions and was nominated for the office of city councilman, but a democrat has never been elected in his ward. He holds membership in the Chamber of Commerce and is interested in its various projects for Spokane's welfare and upbuilding. He is now the president of the Spokane Club, a member of the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Athletic Club and the Spokane Tennis Club, all of which indicate something of the nature of his interests and recreation. He is at all times alert to the interests of his business and to the welfare of the city and labors as earnestly for the one as for the other.

Julius Stohle

Julius Stohle, prosjierous owner of a well equipped meat market in [Medical Lake, Washington, was born in Germany, January .), 1 877. His father, Melchior Stohle, died in 1907, while his mother, whose maiden name was Paulina Haas, is still living. Passing his childhood under the jiarciital roof Julius Stohle obtained his education in the public schools of his native locality, where he was trained in accordance with the rigid but thorough and disciplinary rules of the German educational system. At the age of fourteen years he crossed the Atlantic locating with his uncle at Alton, Illinois, and there learned the butclier trade, at which he worked for five years. He then left Alton and from that time until 1903 he worked at his trade in a number of diiferent places, in California, Oregon and [Montana. He purchased a butcher shop in Medical Lake, Washington, in 190.3, which he lias conducted ever since, meeting with much success in his enterprise. He is competent in his work and conscientious in his dealings witli his customers, so that he enjoys a large and steady jjatronagc.

With an eye to the future he has invested his savings in western lands, owning a tract of two hundred and sixty acres of rich farm land near Medical Lake.

Mr. Stohle was married to Miss Augusta Vaas, on February 20, 1908, at Cheney, Washington. They are the parents of a son, Louis. Mr. Stohle and his wife worship in the Catholic church and in his political faith he votes with the republicans. Coming to America in 1891 when a mere boy, Mr. Stohle gives evidence of what a newcomer to our shores may do in a comparatively short space of time provided he has good judgment, is not afraid to work, is temperate and thrifty in his habits and can recognize the opportunities which are everywhere open to the earnest young man who is determined to win liis wav.

George E. Stone

George E. Stone is now serving as sheriff of Spokane county and during his residence in this district, covering nearly twenty years, has been a prominent factor in the development of the country, his activities being largely directed toward the improvement of farming lands lying adjacent to the city of Spokane. He was born at Avon, Livingston county, New York, December 7, 1861, and is a son of George S. and Susan Jane (Streeter) Stone, both of whom were natives of New York, but are now residing in Spokane county. They are descended from old New England families and both the paternal and maternal grandfathers of Mr. Stone were soldiers of the war of 1812, Ebenezer Stone serving with the rank of colonel, while Hazelton Streeter was a drummer.

During tlie boyhood of George E. Stone, his parents removed with their family from New York to Wisconsin, and his education, begun in the common schools of the former state, was continued under public instruction in the latter and also in the State Normal school of River Falls, Wisconsin. The winter months were devoted to the acquirement of liis education, while the summer months were given to work upon his father's farm. When about twenty years of age he began teaching school in St. Croix county, Wisconsin, but later turned to railroading as a locomotive fireman and steam shovel engineer, working at the latter pursuit during the summer months, while in the winters he was a fireman upon the road. While thus engaged he resided at different times in Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, Wisconsin and northern Michigan. He first visited Spokane in February, 1889, and finding here the fairest land he had ever seen, concluded to make his home here. He did not feel however, that he was financially able to carry out his plans and tlierefore returned once more to tlie occupation of firing and shoveling, sending his money back to Spokane for the jiurchase of land and in February, 1892, with his brother-in-law purchased four liundred and eighty acres, becoming a permanent resident of this district, making his way beyond Deep Creek, where he engaged in farming for nine years. In 1901 he sold his interest in the four hundred and eighty-acre tract and took up his abode in tlie city, where he became connected with a crematory company, acting as its secretary and treasurer for eiglit years dealing during this time also quite extensively in real estate. Tlie crematory was then turned over to the city and is now the Spokane Crematorv.

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After disposing of some of his real-estate holdings in the city, Mr. Stone purchased land near Rockford, which he cleared and placed under cultivation. Not long afterward he invested in other property, becoming the owner of a tract four miles from Deep Creek, which he also cleared and planted. In this way he contributed largely to the material development of the district in which he was located, but closing out his farming interests, he purchased land on Third street in the southeastern part of the city, and also twenty lots with a nice residence on Nora avenue, and various other pieces of jaroperty. He has taken an active interest in civic matters and through his efforts much has been accomplished in the improvement of streets in the localities where he was interested.

Appreciative of the privileges of citizenship and believing it the duty of everyindividual to support his honest opinions in regard to the vital questions and issues of the day, ^Ir. Stone has taken active part in p6litical work and his fellow townsmen, recognizing his worth and ability, have on several occasions called upon him to fill positions of public trust. For six years, from 1884 until 1890, he was justice of the peace of Deep Creek precinct. Prior to 1896 he gave his political allegiance to the republican party but since that time, has advocated democratic principles. He has been a delegate to nearh' every county convention since residing in Spokane county and has also been chosen as a delegate to two or three state conventions, including the democratic state conventions held in EUensburg and Tacoma. In 1908 he was candidate for sheriff against F. K. Pugh, on which occasion he was defeated, although he ran twenty-four hundred votes ahead of his ticket. In the fall of 1910 he was once more the opponent of Mr. Pugh and won out with a clear majority upon official count of nineteen hundred votes. He is employing business methods in the conduct of his office and is endeavoring to give the taxpayers the best administration possible. He has been successful in his private affairs and has done all in his power to promote the mining interests of the district, backing his opinions with financial sujjport. He was one of the men who received material remuneration for their confidence in the Sullivan Company in the Fort Steele mining district, in British Columbia.

On the 1.5th of December, 1887, in Hammond, Wisconsin, Mr. Stone was married to Miss Daisy V. Gates. They are well known socially in Spokane and the adjoining districts and have gained many friends during the period of their residence in this jiart of the state.

Frederick V. Phinney

Frederick V. Phinney, one of the reliable citizens of Coeur d Alene, is the present incumbent of the office of county surveyor of Kootenai county. He was born September 5, 1872, at Areola, Illinois, his parents being George B. and Bessie (Goodall) Phinney. His father was a civil engineer and followed this calling throughout his life, assisting in the construction of various railroads in almost every section of the country from ^Massachusetts to California.

Frederick V. Phinney obtained his education in the grammar school of his native locality and in the high school of Fort Scott, Kansas, after which he attended the University of Kansas at Lawrence, that state. He began active work as levelman in Utah on the construction of what was then called the Utah, Nevada & California Railroad, but is now known as the Salt Lake, Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad. He remained with this company two years when he returned to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he became assistant city engineer, a position which he held for several years. In 1899 he went to Wallace, Idaho, and engaged in mining engineering, continuing in tliis occupation for eleven years. He then came to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in January, 1910, and established himself in the business of surveying, finding much demand for his specialized knowledge of engineering and surveying. In November of the same year he was elected to tlie position of county surveyor for a term of two years. As a public official he has demonstrated his ability to serve the public good in a most efficient manner and to the complete satisfaction of the residents of the county who find him altogether obliging, and whenever called upon to appeal to his judgment or his technical knowledge have entire faith in the accuracy of iiis conclusions. In deference to his thorough equipment he has been appointed a member of the examining board of engineers for the state of Idaho.

On December 19, 1905, Mr. Phinney was united in marriage to Miss ]\Iinnie Key, a daughter of Thomas Key of Clarks, Nebraska. They reside in a pleasant home at No. 611 Garden street, Coeur d'Alene, where they are often the center of a merry group of guests who find much enjoyment in their cordial hospitality. In Masonic circles !Mr. Phinney occupies an honored place. He is a thirtj'-third degree Mason, secretary of Kootenai Lodge, No. 24, F. & A. M., the secretary of all the Scottish Rite bodies in Coeur d'Alene, and also deputy of the inspector general of the Scottish Rite of northern Idaho. Sociallj' he finds recreation in the Commercial Club of Coeur d'Alene in which he is a popular member. He is a loyal friend and well liked by all who know liim for his straightforward, undemonstrative nature, and the kindh' spirit which he manifests toward all.

Aubrey Lee White

Aubrey Lee White is one of the prominent and successful men of the Inland Empire who have grappled with big problems in finance, who have capably directed and managed mining and railroad interests and have won brilliant success in everything they have undertaken. Mr. White has not specialized as many have done but has extended liis efforts into many directions, finding ample reward in everj' line for his industry, perseverance and determination. Nevertheless business represents but one phase of his character and interests. Regarded as a citizen and in his social relations he belongs to that public-spirited, useful and helpful class of men whose ambitions and desires are centered and directed in tliose channels from wliich flow the greatest and most permanent good to the greatest number. His civic pride has led to tangible efforts in all movements for the city's progress and he has also been a pioneer in the development of irrigation interests, making personal sacrifice and devoting much time and money to bringing water to the arid lands, improving their productiveness and having moreover the satisfaction of seeing such districts reclaimed, becoming second to none in fertility in the world. Much of liis work in behalf of Spokane has been in the direction of the "city beautiful." He lias been a cooperant factor in the Municijial League and

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Mr. White is a native of Houlton, Maine, born February 17, 1869. His father, George White, was a native of New Brunswick and died in 1885, after having throughout liis business life followed the occupation of farming. The well known "Guide to Plymouth" wliich gives a full account of the Pilgrim fathers and their descendants shows the name of White to be a corruption of the name Wise, which was of Holland origin. The family was established on American soil on Long Island and the great-great-grandfather of Aubrey L. White was an itinerant preacher and a loyalist who served as cliapalin in King George's army. In recognition of his services to the crown King George gave him a grant of sixty acres of land in the Keswick district of New Brunswick which he afterward exchanged for property at Hodgdon, Maine, which his father owned. The Guide to Plymouth gives an account of Perigrine White, together with mention of the cradle in which he was rocked, for he was the first white child born on the American continent. The founder of this branch of the family was William White, who came from Pljinouth as a passenger of the Mayflower. In the maternal line Aubrey L. White comes of English lineage. His mother, who bore the maiden name of Jane Maria Beardsley, was born in New Brunswick and died in 1873. She was a daughter of Ralph Beardsley, who married a Miss Curry from Scotland. The grandfather, John Beardsley, was the fourth of the Johns of the family in direct line to become identified with the Episcopal clerg}-. Captain John Beardsley, the great-greatgrandfather of Mrs. W^Iiite, was in the English service with the troops of King George in the Revolutionary war and his brother, Levi Beardsley, was at one time lieutenant governor of the state of New York.

Aubrey Lee White was one of a family of four daughters, all of whom are now deceased, and six sons, of whom five are yet living. His early education was acquired in the common schools of Houlton, Maine, and later he attended the Ricker Classical Institute wliich was a preparatory school for Colby College. After leaving school he went to W^oodstock, New Brunswick, where for eighteen months he was engaged in the furniture business but at the end of that time severed his trade relations with the east and made his way direct to Spokane, arriving in the fall of that year. Here he was first employed b_v Arend & Kennard in the market business on Sprague avenue where the book store of J. W. Graham now stands. He was with that house for four years, covering the period of the great fire, and when he left the establishment he resigned the position of manager of the book department to engage on his own account in partnership with Jay P. Graves in the mining business. Returning to the east Mr. White opened an office in Montreal, Canada, and became interested in the organization and development of the Old Ironside and Granby properties. For six years he remained in the east representing the Spokane interests in the New York, Montreal and Philadelphia offices. During the latter years of his residence in New York he was identified with Mr. Graves in interesting capital in the development and financing of the Spokane Traction Company and with ;\Ir. Blackwell and 'Sir. Graves he also became interested in the Coeur d'Alene electric railway. Throughout the period of his residence in the northwest he has always seemed to readily recognize the opportunities here to be secured and the possibilities for the upbuilding of the country. His efforts have been an important factor in tlu' substantial growth of the north- west as well as in the promotion of his individual success. He was associated with Mr. Graves in the Spokane & Inland Company and finally in the reorganization of the three companies named into the Inland system under the corporation name of The Inland Empire Railway Company with J. P. Graves as president, Mr. White as vice president, and Waldo G. Paine as second vice president, with Clyde M. Graves as manager and director. These officials resigned when the Great Northern system took over the road in June, 1911, with Carl Gray as president. The Great Northern about a year ago bought the controlling interest. Mr. White has had the satisfaction of seeing the system which was instituted with practically nothing develop into a railway line two hundred and forty miles in length, proving the greatest source of development in the district that it traverses.

In connection with Mr. Graves and others Mr. White owned a large area of land and gave ninety acres of it to Spokane for a park which is called Manito, and purchased the old Cook line extending up Riverside avenue to the park. This street railway constituted the nucleus from which has resulted the organization of the Spokane Traction Company, the business of wliich they have developed, obtaining a franchise and extending their lines until they now have forty miles of street railway. Their activity in railway matters has been the means of adding from twenty-five to thirty thousand population to the city, so that these gentlemen deserve prominent mention among those who are regarded as the builders and promoters of Spokane. In all of his business operations Mr. White has never waited until the need was a pressing one but has anticipated conditions that would arise and has therefore been prepared to meet the conditions ere the inconvenience and discomfort of a situation were strongly felt.

It would be almost impossible to mention all of the business projects which have felt the stimulus and have profited by the cooperation of Mr. White, for his activities have been of a most diverse character and of notable magnitude. After liis return from the east he became a director of the Spokane Valley Land Company which owned Green Acres, East Green Acres and other valuable properties which they afterward sold to D. C. Corbin. They were very desirous of inducing people to settle along the line of the Coeur d'Alene railway and Mr. White took the matter in hand, bringing it to a successful termination. Mr. White was a director of the Spokane Canal Company which irrigated Otis Orchards and did all he could to encourage the enterprise but sold his interest after having it well established. It was he who first demonstrated that the valley was capable of being irrigated and proved the productiveness of its soil. His business connections further extended to the Traders National Bank and the Granby Company which carries with it the Hidden Creek properties, and in both of these he is a director. He is also largely interested in many other valuable mining properties both proved and unproved and has extensive real-estate holdings in and near Spokane.

Business affairs, however, represent but one phase of !Mr. White's activity, for he has never selfishly centered his interests upon his own personal concerns. He has never been neglectful of the duties of citizenship and has been a most active factor in utilizing the opportunities for the city's development, improvement and adornment. His political support is given to the republican party and during all the period in which he has been so busily engaged in the management of large financial projects he has still found time to advance civic improvement. He became largely interested in city questions wliile a member of the Munici])al League of New York and when he came to Spokane his knowledge of civic affairs was used in the inception of the 150,000 Club. At a meeting of this club he suggested a "City Beautiful Club" and of the new organization he was made president. He has done much for the city in various ways, including the inception and promotion of the playgrounds movement, making the first subscription to the fund and becoming the first officer. Through the assistance of the Chamber of Commerce a charter amendment was passed by the city creating a non-partisan park board and ten men were apj3ointed, of which Mr. White was one. He was then chosen president of the board and still fills the office. The board is composed of ten of the most substantial citizens and business men of Spokane, vitally interested in the city's welfare and at the same time having the business ability to utilize jjractical and efi'ective efforts in the attainment of desired ends. They have increased the park area from one hundred and seventy acres to twelve hundred acres and have had one million dollars park bonds voted. By personal solicitation Mr. White has secured four hundred acres for park purposes and the board has spent only one million dollars doing all of the work in the parks. For five or six years Mr. White was a director of the Chamber of Commerce and was a member of its publicity committee, the work of which attracted many people to Spokane and added materially to the population of the city. He regarded Spokane as in its formative stage and believed that acreage for park purposes should be secured at that time - breathing places for the people to be purchased while land was comparatively cheap instead of waiting until the price was almost prohibitive. Upon that belief he has always based his labors and the citizens of Spokane will ever have reason to feel grateful to him for his efforts in this connection.

While the veil of privacy should ever be drawn around one's home relations with all their secret ties, it is well known that Mr. White's home is a most attractive and hapjj}' one and that warm-hearted hospitality is freely accorded to the many friends of the family. He was married in Toronto, Canada, in 1905, to IMiss Ethelyn Binkley, a daughter of Judge J. W. Binkley, now of Spokane, her mother being a member of the Clarkson family of Toronto. Mrs. White is of English descent and a B. A. of Cornell University. ^Ir. and Mrs. White have become parents of three daughters, Mary Jane, Elizabeth Binkley and Ethelyn Louise.

'Sir. White is a believer in the Episcopal faith and his family attend the services of that church. He recognized the fact that well rounded character is based upon normal physical, mental and moral growth. He is a believer in clean living and in athletics and he has done much along those lines. He feels that every lite needs its periods of recreation, its study hours and its time for quiet, thoughtful meditation. He has membership relations with the Spokane Club, the Spokane Riding and Driving Club, the Spokane Country Club and the Spokane Amateur Athletic Club. He also belongs to the St. James Club and the Mount Royal Golf Club of Montreal, the Union League Club of New York, the Santa Barbara Club of California and the Coeur d'Alene Boat Club. He is a life member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken the degrees of Royal Arch Masonrj', of the Knight Templar Commandery, of the Consistory and of the Alystic Shrine. He is a past chancellor of the Knights of Pythias, has passed through all of the chairs of the uniform rank and is past captain in the division. He likewse holds membership with the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Kliorassan. He has been a strong supporter of many organizations including the American Civic Association and the Munici])al

League, and was an officer of the latter in New York. His activities have reached out to the various vital interests of life and while in business he has won that success wliich comes of aptitude for management, close application and keen discrimination, he has also made his work of usefulness and value to the world in many directions, especially in upholding the standards of manhood and citizenship. In his life there have entered the distinctive and unmistakable elements of greatness. He is endowed with a rugged honesty of purpose, is a man of independent thought and action, one whose integrity and honor are so absolute as to compel the respect and confidence of liis fellowmen, one whose life has been, filled with ceaseless toil and industry, while his motives are of that ideal order that practically make his life a consecration to duty and to the measure of his possibilities for accomplishing good.

Roy Hollister Kingsbury

Roy Hollister Kingsbury, of M^allace, holds the position of supply agent of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company, purchasing all supplies for the various mines owned by the concern. His birth occurred at Yankton, South Dakota, on the 19th of January, 1877, his parents being Theodore A. and Frances M. (Hollister) Kingsbury. The father was an early pioneer settler of the Dakotas, being employed in the United States land office at Watertowii, South Dakota, and later, in ISSl, becoming a clerk in the Dakota state legislature. He passed away in 1889, leaving a widow and two children, a son and daughter. Immediately afterward the daughter came to Spokane as the Spokane representative of a South Dakota firm, acting as a public and court stenographer. In August, 1891, the mother and son also came to Spokane, being among the pioneers of the new city which was then recovering from the great fire. The mother still resides in Spokane, but the daughter is married and makes her home in Chicago.

In the acquirement of an education Roy H. Kingsbury attended the schools of Watertown, South Dakota, and Spokane, Washington. Under the instruction of his sister he gained a comprehensive knowledge of stenography and in 1891 entered the employ of Bravender & Keats (Echo Roller Mills) of Spokane, whom he served for five years as stenographer and bookkeeper. In 1 899 he became connected with the lumber trade as stenographer and bookkeeper for the Washington Mill Company of Spokane, with which concern he remained until January, 1900, resigning his position to become stenographer for F. R. Cidbertson, of Burke, Idaho, who was manager of the Tiger-Poorman mine, then owned by the Buffalo-Hump Mining Company. Allien that concern was sold to the Empire State-Idaho Mining & Developing Company he remained with the latter firm, which was under the management of W. Clayton Miller, being employed as a stenographer at Burke until the 1st of September, 1903, when the Empire State-Idaho Mining & Developing Company was absorbed by the Federal Mining & Smelting Company. At that time he was given charge of the Wardner office of the Federal Mining & Smelting Company, at their Last Chance mine, remaining at Wardner until April, 1906, when he was transferred to the Wallace office of the concern to take charge thereof as the successor of Mr. North. At the time of the consolidation <if the S|)okanf and Wallace offices of the Federal mining

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& Smelting Company he took the position of supply agent, attending to the purchase of supplies of all kinds for the various mines belonging to the company. He is still ably discharging the duties devolving upon him in that connection and is a valuable attache of the concern which he represents. He is also interested with Dr. St. Jean in the ow^lership of the Wallace Hospital and is likewise the secretary and treasurer of the Seelig Grocery Company, of Wardner and Kellogg, Idaho, owning one-fifth of the stock of that company.

About 1895, while living in Spokane, Mr. Kingsbury became a non-commissioned officer of Battery A, Washington National Guard, remaining with that command until mustered out of service at the opening of the Spanish-American war. Owing to a slight illness at that time, he was unable to join the new regiment which was formed to take active part in the conflict.

On the 20th of February, 1901, Mr. Kingsbury was united in marriage to Miss Bertha L. Henderson, a daughter of John Henderson of Sprague, Washington. A son was born to them on the 2d of December, 1908, but passed away on the 29th of May, 1910. Mr. Kingsbury belongs to the Holy Trinity Episcopal church of Wallace and to the Inland Club of Spokane and is also a member of Wallace Lodge, No. 331, B. P. O. E. His life has been guided hy the most honorable principles and his self-reliance and unfaltering industry, combined with his integrity, constitute the salient features in his success.

A. Eugene Wayland

The prosperity of a community does not depend upon the machinery of government nor even upon the men who are called to public office, but rather upon those who are upholding the public stability through the establishment and careful and honorable conduct of legitimate business enterprises. From the time of his arrival in the northwest, in 1901, A. Eugene Wayland has been imbued with the true spirit of the pioneer. He is progressive and allows no obstacles to brook his path in carrying out the ideas and plans which he regards as essential for the country's best development. He has blazed the trail for others to follow in many sections of the Inland Empire not only in farming but also in the development of coal lands and the conduct of other business enterprises, success attending him in all of his ventures because of his determined spirit and straight-forward methods. His location on the Pacific coast, in 1901, did not prove to be a permanent one as he later had to return to the east for two years, but he never lost sight of the fact that the west held the opportunity for progressive men, remembering further that Spokane had made strong apjieal to him as the most favorable place on the coast to put into tangible form the plans which he had made for his own business development.

Washington has drawn her citizenship from all parts of the country. Every state in the Union has furnished her quota of men and Mr. Wayland is among tliose who have come to the northwest from Tennessee, his birth having occurred in Knoxville, on the 13th of August, 1877. His father was William H. Wayland, a native of Virginia and a representative of an old New England family of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The grandfather of A. E. Wayland became one of the prominent settlers of eastern Tennessee, and the family established and developed many large plantations in the south. William H. Waj'land, long connected with agricultural interests in the south, is now living retired in Knoxville. It was subsequent to his removal to that section of the country that he met and married Mary M. Goddard, who was born in Tennessee and belonged to one of the leading pioneer families of that district. The Goddards are of French and English origin and the family was represented in the American army during the Revolutionary war. Later representatives of the name removed from Virginia to Tennessee. Unto !Mr. and Mrs. Waj'land were born three sons and six daughters. The two brothers of our subject were David G. and D wight A. Wayland. The daughters of the family are: Lillie, Anna, Edith, Mamie, Carrie and Elsie, all residents of Knoxville with the exception of the first named, who is the wife of Richard M. Caldwell, of Oklahoma City.

A. Eugene AVayland supplemented his early education by a course in the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and in 1901, when a young man of twenty-four years, lie sought the opportunities of the northwest, making his way to Tacoma where he was emploj'ed during the period that he was investigating the subject of suitable irrigation. He afterward returned to Chicago where he spent a year in the grocery business and on the 1st of October, 1903, settled in Spokane. Here he began operating in the real-estate field in connection with R. G. Belden and, watchful of opportunities pointing toward success, the following year he incorporated the International Development Company for the purpose of mining coal in British Columbia. The scope of their operations was also extended to include extensive farming interests in the Inland Empire and the development of some large tracts of land in southern Utah. They were likewise the pioneers in the San Juan oil fields of southern Utah which are now being extensively developed. They have very large interests there, having put down the first well in that district, since which time they have developed a number of flowing wells. They also put down the first artesian wells in Sail Juan county and have two flowing wells there at the present time. The business of the company has ever been of a nature which has contributed in substantial measure to growth and progress in the district where they have worked. They were the pioneers in opening the coal fields of the north fork of Michel Creek in tlie Crow's Nest country, and to facilitate the development of that property tliey secured a charter for building a road in the valley and have partially completed a steam road, standard gauge, which when finished will be fourteen miles in length. This will enable them to market the output of their mines without difficulty. One of the salient features in Mr. Wayland's success is that he has never been afraid of earnest, hard work, and during the period when initial effort was being put forth to develop the mines, he never hesitated to perform any task necessary, engaging in the packing and in other labor that was helpful in advancing the projects in which they were engaged. They now liave four properties there, one of them proving to be the largest coal proposition in the west, and furthermore Mr. Wayland and his associates have the distinction of opening up some of the largest coal measures in that district. Business is carried on under the name of The Crown Coal & Coke Company with Mr. Wayland as its secretary-treasurer, his associate officers being: C. L. Butterfield, of Moscow, Idaho, as president; A. Hopson, of Walla Walla, as vice president; and Charles L. Hower, second vice-president.