Spokane, Washington - History, 1912 (part 5 of 23)

Any enterprising man with keen insight and sagacity recognizes the wonderful possibilities offered in the natural resources of this section of the country and does not usually confine his operations to a single field but extends his efforts to various activities, the tangible results of which are seen in the already splendidly improved districts. In the extension of his business connections Mr. Wayland has become interested in a development company which is successfully cultivating six hundred and forty acres of land in the Alberta district, of Canada, eighteen hundred acres near Kohlotos, six hundred and forty acres near Eureka, Washington, and three hundred and twenty acrfs near Helix, Washington. They are also improving two fruit tracts of twent3--four acres near Milton, Oregon, which have already been brought into excellent condition. Mr. Wayland is likewise interested in a fine hog ranch in Idaho, consisting of six hundred and forty acres all in alfalfa. From this ranch they sell about one thousand hogs annually. Further investment has made him one of the owners of a property o'f seven thousand acres in San Juan county, Utah, on which with an equipment of tliirty-six liead of horses and necessary machinery, a splendid wheat tract is being developed. The caterpiller engines are used and no effort or expense are spared in making this one of the best wheat-producing ranches in the district. Mr. Wayland and his associates are also improving one thousand acres of fruit land in the same county, using artesian wells for irrigation, and in so doing accomplishing a notable engineering feat, for they traced the water by means of geological formation and struck it within fifty feet of where they had believed it to be. They have also invested considerable money in the Coeur d'Alene district in development work and have holdings there at the present time.

Mr. Wayland votes with the republican party but has never taken active part in politics, owing to the demands of his varied business interests. Those who meet him socially find him a genial, courteous gentleman and he is well known to the membership of the Spokane and Spokane Athletic Clubs, and also in the Chamber of Commerce. He stands with those men to whom opportunity is ever an incentive for renewed and persistent eiifort. wlio find pleasure in solving intricate business problems and in working out means and methods for meeting any condition that exists. With determined purpose he has steadily advanced beyond the goal of success and his operations, conducted on a mammoth scale, have constituted an important factor in the growth and development of the Inland Empire.

Henry Mickels

The newspaper business is constantly attracting men from the various walks of life, many of whom find in this work a pleasant and profitable occupation. To this class belongs Henry Mickels, editor and proprietor of the Free Press of Cheney. He became identified with the publication of newspapers many years ago and is recognized as one of the thoroughly experienced and capable men in this line in tlie northwest. A native of Winneshiek county, Iowa, he was born August 27. 1871. a son of E. and Christina Mickels. The mother died in 1873 and the father in 1901.

!Mr. ^Mickels of this sketch was educated in tlie public schools of his native state. He depended very largely upon his own efforts in his boyhood in securing an education, attending school in winter and working at such occupation as he could find in summer, in order to meet the necessary expenses. He was a student of Decorah Institute of Decorah, Iowa, and the University of North Dakota. At the age of eighteen he began teaching school and continued as a teacher for twelve years in Traill, Cass and Grand Forks counties, North Dakota, mth the exception of two years when he was a student at the University of Nortli Dakota. He was also interested in a small newspaper at Portland for two years while teaching school and owned a paper at Northwood, North Dakota, for one year, and at Halstad, Minnesota, for the same length of time. In 1899 he came west to Idaho and spent two years prospecting in the mountains. However, he discovered that he was more interested in the newspaper business than in prospecting for gold and silver and, accordingly, he came to Cheney in 1902 and purchased the Sentinel and Free Press, consolidating the two papers into one publication which he has since successfully published as the Free Press.

On the 1st of November, 1901, Mr. Mickels was married in North Dakota to Miss Marie Rauk, a daughter of O. K. Rauk. Mr. Mickels is an active worker in the development of Spokane county and is a valued member of the Commercial Club of Cheney. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows and has proved himself to be eminently efficient in promoting the general welfare. He conducts his paper on a liberal and progressive basis and the popularity of the Free Press is evidence of his ability in meeting the wants of an intelligent and discriminating class of readers. Judging by the respect in which he is held by the community it is evident that he chose wisely when he selected Cheney as his home. Being a man of pleasing appearance and fine address, he has made many friends and ranks among the leaders of the country press of Washington.

Lauchlin MacLean, commencing his career as a railroad man, in which connection he won success, and advancing from that into the real-estate field, is now a leading factor in the development and sale of irrigated lands, being todaj"- one of the best known and most prominent irrigationists of the west. He has not confined his efforts alone to Spokane and vicinity but has also promoted many other projects throughout the Inland Empire and if, as has been often stated, "that man is blessed who makes two blades of grass grow where one had grown," ]SIr. Mac- Lean has contributed much to general progress and has merited the prosperity which has crowned his own labors. He was born in Tyne Valley, Prince Edward Island, July 24, 1836. His parents, Donald and Sarah (Ellis) MacLean, were also natives of that island, the former born near Port Hill and the latter at Bedford, of Scotch and English descent respectively. The IMacLean family went to Prince Edward Island from Mull, Scotland, and Donald MacLean became a very prominent and influential citizen there, serving as one of the three judges of that district, a judgeship in that locality being equivalent to a seat on the superior court bench in the United States. He was also very active in the Presbyterian church, in whicli he served as a deacon and treasurer for thirty years. He died in 1891 and the same year his wife passed away. Her famih' were shipbuilders and went to Prince Edward Island from Bedford, England. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Donald MacLean were born five sons and eight daughters : William, a farmer living at Nortbam, Prince Edward Island; Hugh, a farmer of that locality: James Ed- ward, an agriculturist of Tyne Valley; Dan, living on the old family homestead: Emilj', the wife of Alexander McArthur, a farmer of Northam; Mary Ann, the wife of Lauchlin McNevin, a tanner and harness manufacturer of Tyne Valley; Rachael, whose husband, Mr. Horn, is a farmer of Elmsdale, Prince Edward Island: ISIaggie, Mina and Minerva, all of whom married farmers on Prince Edward Island; and Mrs. Caroline McAusland and Sarah Horn, both deceased.

The otlier son of the family is Lauchlin MacLean, who was educated in the public schools of his native isle and until he reached the age of fifteen years remained on the old homestead. He then worked as water boy for a contractor on the Prince Edward Island Railway, which was then being built, and subsequently he spent three years as a stone cutter and builder, thoroughly acquainting himself with the trade during that period. When the road was completed he had charge of a section as foreman for three years and then came to the west. He spent two years with an engineering party on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad at Beatrice, Nebraska, after which he proceeded to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and obtained a position as brakeman on the Union Pacific Railroad, being thus employed for six months. Later he was promoted to the position of conductor and ran a train on that line for two and a half years.

'Mr. MacLean became connected with the Northern Pacific Railroad Company at the time when the eastern terminus of the west end of its line was just east of what is now Plains, Montana, and was one of the first conductors during its construction. Follo^ving the completion of the line he ran a passenger train on the Montana division until the company started to build its line from Pasco to Ellensburg. He acted as conductor of the construction train connected with laying the track from Kiona to Ellensburg, after which he retired from railroad service. During the succeeding two years he was general agent for the Home Accident Company of San Francisco for the territory of Washington and at the end of that time formed a partnership with Major Fred R. Reed, now of southern Idaho, in the real-estate and insurance business at North Yakima, entering that field in 1886. The town was o'ivned by the Northern Pacific Railroad Company and he had full charge of the town site and all the Northern Pacific lands in that district. In February, 1S90. hf came to Spokane, arriving here shortly after the fire.

In this city Mr. MacLean entered the real-estate business, in which he continued for two years, but the "wanderlust" was not yet satisfied and he removed to Chelan Falls in what was then Okanogan county. There he laid out the town site of Chelan Falls, remaining at that place until the autumn of 1900, during which period he not only managed the town site and conducted liis real-estate interests but also owTicd the hotel, the ferry boat and in addition occupied his superfluous energies in managing his stock ranch near Chelan Falls. He still owns the stock ranch of one tliousand acres. In November, 1900, Mr. MacLean removed to Wenatchee and acted as agent for the Northern Pacific land department, . selling land in Chelan and Douglas counties. In 1901 he promoted the high line ditch at Wenatchee. an immense irrigation project covering at that time eight thousand acres. In .Tune, 1903, he returned to Spokane, organized the Spokane Canal Company and promoted what is now the famous Otis Orchards, one of the garden spots of the Inland Empire and destined to be one of tlie greatest producing centers of the northwest. He continued as president and general manager of tlie company until April 21. 1911. and in the development of that project six tliousand acres were irrigated. Since coming to Spokane he has also organized the Methow Canal Company and built the high line canal of the Methow valley, wliich covers four thousand acres. Three years ago, in 1908, he formed a partnership inth Harry L. Irwin, of Chicago, and purchased the Fruit Land Irrigation Company at Kettle Falls and completed the last nineteen miles of ditch line. He is still president of that company, whose line waters eight thousand acres of land. In June, 1910, he bought out the Garden Valley Irrigation Company and still owns that system in Ferry county, on the west side of the Columbia river, near Kettle Falls, irrigating in that connection four thousand acres. !Mr. MacLean has closely studied the subject of irrigation and his efforts have been a most practical element in the development of the Inland Empire in the reclamation of wild lands and the conversion of arid tracts into regions of productivity. Mr. MacLean is also well and widely known in connection with farming and ranching interests, being now president of the Sheep Creek Land Company, which planted one thousand acres in Stevens county to alfalfa and put in a complete irrigating system to cover it. On his ranch up the Columbia river which he still owns he has two hundred acres under irrigation by means of the gravity and pump system. He is also interested in other companies - all irrigation enterprises of great importance and all under development. The soil of this region is naturally very fertile and the only thing required is the water supply to make the land extremely fruitful. Recognizing these facts, Mr. !MacLean has promoted man_v projects to bring about tlie desired results and his labors are attended with success. His efforts have not only brought liim financial reward but have constituted a most important factor in the development of this section of the state, the entire public being thus indirectly benefited owing to the fact that emigration is constantly attracted to this section and thus values in all lines of business are advanced.

Home life, social interests and political activity have all Iiad their place in the life of Mr. MacLean. He was married January 15, 1888, to ]\Iiss Laura G. Stone, a daughter of Nathan N. Stone, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and her grandmother was a first cousin of Horace Greeley. They now have one son. Donald, who was born February 22, 190i, and resides ^vith his parents at their home at Otis Orchards. Mr. !MacLean has always voted with the republican party and has been very active in its support, deeming its principles most potent forces in good government. He has been a delegate to various conventions, both county and stale, principally from Douglas, Chelan and Okanogan counties. He has always assisted materially in all elections and takes a keen interest in the gro^rth and success of his party. Fraternally he is a Mason, having been made a member of Alexander Lodge, No. 5, Prince Edward Island, under the Grand Lodge of England. He later demitted to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and afterward became a charter member of the lodge under dispensation at North Yakima, which afterward was consolidated and became Lodge No. 21', of North Yakima. He demitted from there to join Lodge No. 34, of Spokane, after the reorganization following the great fire, and became one of the charter members of the Masonic lodge at Wcnatchee. His membership is now in Oriental Lodge, No. 7i, Spokane, and he is also a Royal Arch Mason, while both he and his wife are connected with the Order of the Eastern Star. He likewise holds membership witli the Knights of Pythias at Wenatchee, was the first president of the Eagles there and is still a member of the aerie. His membership relations with the Elks is in Everett, Washington, he being the first Elk from the central part of this state to place his membership there. He belongs also to the Spokane Club and is a valued member of several organizations which have for their object the advancement and development of the northwest and the exploitation of its resources and opportunities. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, of which he was a director for six and a half years but resigned in 1910. He has been a director of the National Apple Show since its organization and was also chairman of the Spokane county committee of the Alaska- Yukon Exposition at Seattle. He has attended six national irrigation congresses and by reason of the extent and importance of his business along that line his opinions have largely come to be regarded as authority concerning irrigation projects. The influence and benefit of his work are inestimable and the worth of his service no one doubts, as he has taken cognizance of the conditions and needs of this part of the country and in meeting the latter has contributed in large measure to the development of the country which is fast rivaling any section of this broad land in its productiveness.

Fred Flint

In Fred Flint Spokane has a citizen who possesses remarkably keen sagacity and foresight and when others were holding vacillating opinions concerning future values he boldly supported his own views and never lost an opportunity to invest in real estate in this city. With intuitive perception and wisdom he selected the right locality and his keen judgment has been proved in the constantly increasing valuation of his property. Moreover, he is one of the few who came through the never-to-be-forgotten period of financial depression in 18d3 without losing a dollar, although he carried heavily mortgaged property before the pressure ceased. With the return of better days, however, he was able to release his property from mortgages and is today the owner of valuable realty interests, largely handling his own property in the conduct of his present extensive and growing real-estate business.

Mr. Flint is one of New England's native sons, his birth having occurred in Troy, Vermont, May 22, 183G. His parents were Fred and Elvira (Richardson) Flint, the former of Irish and the latter of Scotch descent. There were three brothers of the name of Flint who came from Ireland and took jiart in tiic Revolutionary war, one settling in Vermont, another in ]\Iaine. and a third in Mass.icliusetts. It is from the Vermont branch of the family that Fred Flint of this rt view is descended. His father was for many years engaged in the hotel business in the Green Mountain state and owned the stage line which in early days ran through Vermont. He was also engaged in farming and was thus active in business in his locality for many years. He died in 1885, while his wife, surviving for three years, passed away in 1888. It was her grandfather who established the Richardson family on American soil. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Fred Flint, Sr., were born three sons, of whom Frank J. is now in business with his brother Fred in Spokane, while Albert is living on the old home farm in Newport, Vermont.

In the public schools of his native state Fred Flint of this review pursued his education and when he left New England, in 1877, he went to California, believing that he might have better opportunities upon the less thickly settled and more rapidly growing Pacific coast. He secured a position as clerk with Kelley Brothers, a mercantile house in San Francisco, with which he remained for two years, and subsequently he went to San Diego, California. At that time the California Southern Railway was being built and he secured a position with the company as commissary, continuing in that employ for eighteen months, when the road was sold to the Southern Pacific. He then returned to San Francisco where he spent the succeeding year, after which he removed to Seattle, where, in 1882, he opened a real-estate office. Three years later he came to Spokane and instantly became a factor in real-estate circles here. He was first associated with Fred B. Grinnell, in 1886, with whom he was connected for eight months. He then started out independently and has .^iince been alone. In 1908 he organized the business under the name of the Flint Investment Company, for the purpose of conducting a general real-estate business, and in the interxening period he has negotiated many of the most important property transfers that have occurred in the history of the city. Some of his deals have been particularly interesting. In 1887 he purchased a lot on the south side of Front street, between Bernard and Browne, for which he paid forty-five hundred dollars. It was improved with a brick residence and later he removed another house to the same lot. In 1909 he there erected a brick hotel, fifty by one hundred and forty-two feet, and four stories in height, after which he leased it for ten years at one thousand dollars per month, thus receiving for the entire decade one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The building cost him thirty-two thousand dollars and is now paying him seven per cent interest on one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It is called the B. M. & R. Hotel. Another one of the business transactions which indicates Mr. Flint's keen sagacit.y and capable management had its beginning in 1885, when he purchased two lots, one hundred by one hundred and forty-two feet, on the southeast corner of Front and Browne streets for five thousand dollars. In thirty days he sold of this fifty by one hundred feet on the alley for seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, and a portion fifty by ninety-two feet, on the inside, facing on Front street, for seventeen hundred and fifty dollars, reserving the remainder, fifty bj' ninety-two feet on that corner, fifteen hundred dollars representing his investment for that corner. In 1910 his wisdom in reserving the corner was indicated when he refused fifty thousand dollars cash for the property - a notable increase over the fifteen hundred dollar investment. In 1902 he purchased the southwest corner of Sprague avenue and Ivy street, securing a tract, one hundred and fifty by one hundred and seven feet, for seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. In the spring of 1910 he was offered and refused twenty-five thousand dollars, such had been the increase in valuation in the short space of eight years. In 1901' he purchased the southwest corner of Second avenue and Arthur streets, securing one hundred by one hundred and forty-two fret for four hundred and twent.v-five dollars, and in February, 1911, he refused sixty-five hundred dollars for this property. He has made many similar investments throughout tlie city with a corresponding increase in values and although in the panic of 1893 he was carrying about thirty thousand dollars' worth of property on which was a mortgage of eight thousand dollars, he managed to pass through the troublous times without suffering any loss. He is now president of the Flint Investment Company, Incorporated, and his position as a leading business man and safe investor has long since been demonstrated.

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On the 2d of April, 1890, Mr. Flint was united in marriage to Miss Alice L. Gray, a daughter of Captain Mark Gray, of Boxport, Maine, Mr. Flint belongs to the Independent Order of Foresters, also to the Spokane Club and the Inland Club. He is likewise a member of the Chamber of Commerce and in politics is a republican but has never found time to put aside business cares even for a brief moment to enter actively into politics. When he left New England he was comparatively without financial interests, having little more than was necessary to bring him to the coast. Today he is numbered among Spokane's capitalists and his record indicates what may be accomplished through the wsc use of time and opportunities when enterprise, industry and intelligence form the basis of success.

Zach Stewart

Zach Stewart is a faithful custodian of the public funds and since 1909 has tilled the office of county treasurer, his reelection coming to him as the expression of public faith and confidence on the part of his fellow townsmen. He was born in Miami count}^, Ohio, October 19, 1864, a son of Er. and Eliza (Gephart) Stewart, who were likewise natives of the Buckeye state and are now residents of Pine Village, Indiana. The father is descended from an old North Carolina family, whose establishment in America antedates the Revolutionary war, Scotch colonists of the name liaving come to the new world and founded the family on this side of the Atlantic. The father of our subject was a soldier of the Civil war and for many years followed farming but is now living retired. His wife belonged to an old family of Hollandish origin that was also established in America in colonial days. Her father was a resident of Pennsj'lvania before his removal to Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart became the parents of three sons and two daughters: Zach; Joseph A., who is deputy county auditor of Spokane; William, a farmer of Troy, Ohio; Mary, the wife of Harry :\Ic- Kenzie, who follows farming near Attica, Indiana; and ]Mabel, the wife of A. .f. McKenzie, of Chicago.

In the common schools of Warren county, Indiana, Zach Stewart acquired his early education and afterward attended De Pauw University, at Greencastle, Indiana. He was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors incident to the devolpment of the fields. He afterward took up the profession of teaching in Warren county, Indiana, and to that work devoted his energies until he came to Spokane in April, 1889, He at once became identified witli educational interests here, serving one j'ear as principal of the Spangle school, but in 1891 left the schoolroom to establish a grain business at Plaza, Washington. In the fall of 1 894 he was elected superintendent of schools of Sjjokane county, which position lie acceptably filled until 1897. He then became a teacher in the city schools of Spokane and was thus identified with the educational interests of the city until 1903, serving for four years of that time as principal of the Garfield school. In 190,'? he was elected county auditor and served until 1907, after which lie spent about two years in farming. In 1909 he was elected county treasurer and in the fall of 1910 was reelected for a two-years' term, his incumbency in the office to continue until January, 1913.

Mr. Stewart is a republican, active in tlic ranks of the ji-irty and has been a delegate to the county convention. Some idea of the liigli regard in wliicli he is held by his party may be gathered from the fact that at the last election there was no opposition in the nominating convention and practically no opposition at the polls, the democrats placing no name upon their ticket as a candidate for office. For four years Mr. Stewart has served as a member of the city board of education. His interest in the public schools is unfaltering and his efforts have been of a practical and tangible character in promoting the welfare and progress of the schools and in raising the standard of public instruction.

On the 7th of April, 1891, Mr. Stewart was married to Miss Annie Jackson, who lived near Pine City, Whitman county, her father, John Jackson, having been a pioneer farmer there, dating his residence in that locality from 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart are the parents of five children: Harriet, at home; Mabel, Donald, Mary and Margaret, all of whom are attending school. The family attend the Vincent Methodist Episcopal church and Mr. Stewart is an exemplary representative of the Masonic fraternity, holding membership in Tyrian Lodge No. 96, A. F. & A. M., of which he is a past master. He is likewise a member of Red Cross Lodge, K. P., and a past chancellor commander. He has been honored with election in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, being a past noble grand of Samaritan Lodge No. 52. He belongs to the Spokane Athletic Club and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, in which organization are gathered the representative men of the city who desire to promote public progress and who uphold the principles and projects that work for tlie continuous and substantial growth of the city.

John A. Neaville

The veterans of the Civil war who willingly risked tlieir lives in defense of the Union are entitled to the gratitude of all lovers of liberty. Their numbers are each year diminishing but their deeds will stand out more gloriously in proportion as the years descend into eternity. Of the old soldiers now living in Spokane county John A. Neaville, of Deer Park, is one of the most favorably known. He is a native of Council Hill, Jo Daviess county, Illinois, and was born January 31, \8H: His father, John D. Neaville, died in 1853, and his mother, whose maiden name was Maria L. Meredith, passed away in 1846. The father was of good pioneer stock and participated in the Black Hawk war under Captain Abraham Lincoln, afterward the great war president of the United States. The grandfather of our subject on the maternal side was also a fighter and served as major in the United States army.

Mr. Neaville of this review received his early education in the common schools of Wisconsin and subsequently became a student of Tafton Academy and was graduated from that institution. In response to the call for men to protect the flag, he enlisted in the Civil war in Company F, Tenth and Forty-ninth Wisconsin Volunteers, and performed his duty in the field for three years, participating in many of the important battles and movements of the war. During this time he learned many lessons which can be acquired only by contact with men and which had an important effect in shaping his character. He became a school teacher and taught for twenty-two years in Wisconsin, also serving for four years as treasurer of Grant county. In 1 893, having heard of the great development which was taking place in the northwest, he came to Spokane, Washington, and maintained an office as pension attorney for five years and for three years was superintendent of the county poor. In 1901 he located in Deer Park as pension attorney, but after three years went to Colville, where he spent a short time, and then returned to Deer Park. Here he has been appearing in behalf of dients in the justice courts and for three years past he has filled the office of justice of the peace, discharging its duties in a manner that meets the hearty approval of the best people of the community.

On the 14th of September, 1875, Squire Neaville was married at Potosi, Wisconsin, to !Miss i\Iyra Goodrich, a daughter of David Goodrich. To this union four children have been born: Anna, who is married to Roy R. Grove; James D., who married Sarah Crowel; Libby M., who is now Mrs. O. L. Olson; and J. Rae, who married Miss Flora Ellsworth. Squire Neaville is an earnest advocate of the republican jaarty and has served as delegate to county, state and congressional conventions. He was one of the delegates in Wisconsin, who first presented Robert ]M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, for important public office. Fraternally he is identified with the JSIasonic order and also with the Grand Army of the Republic. He is an attendant of the Congregational church and is a generous contributor to religious and all other worthy causes. As a young man he was a true soldier and in all his acts as a citizen he has aimed faithfully to discharge his duties to his state and to his fellow^llen. He ranks today among the most respected citizens of Spokane county - a position he has earned by a life of unselfishness and willing service in behalf of others.

Archibald MacCorquodale, district freight and passenger agent at Spokane for the Oregon & Washington Railway & Navigation Company, was born in Inverness, Scotland, April 6, 1865. His parents, John and ^Margaret MacCorquodale, were likewise natives of the land of hills and heather and are still living there. They are both representatives of old families of that countrv and throughout the period of his connection with business interests the father has always followed farming and stock-raising. In the family are four sons : Roderick, who is now connected with the Railway Steel Spring Company, of New York; Donald, who is with the Malmera Anglo-Argentina Company at Buenos Aires, Argentina; and James, who is connected \vith the Highland Railroad in Scotland.

The other son of the family is Archibald MacCorquodale, of this review, who pursued his education in the schools of Inverness, Scotland, attending the high school there. Tliroughout his entire life he has been connected with railway service, entering the emjjloy of tlie Highland Railroad at Inverness on the 7th of !May, 1880. Believing that the new world offered broader and better opportunities, he sailed for Canada in July, 1883, and his first position on this side of the Atlantic was that of freight clerk of the Grand Trunk Railroad at Quebec, while later lie occupied a similar position at Bellville and Brockvillc, Ontario. On severing his connection witli the Grand Trunk he went to Utica, New York, on the 26th of January, 1886, and was employed by the Utica & Black River Railroad as clerk in the general freight office until ^larch, 1891. From that point he went to Oswego, New York, and was in the service of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad until he came to the west in 1893. Here he entered the service of the Oregon & Washington Railwav & Navigation Company as clerk in the general freiglit office and in !May, 1899, was made traveling freight agent, which position he filled acceptably until September,

1905, when he was chosen chief clerk of the general freight office at Portland. In May, 1906, he became general agent of the freight department at Portland and on the 1st of Februarj', 1907, was made district freight agent at Spokane, and in May, 1910, became district freight and passenger agent at Spokane, which position he still fills. This is a record of rapid and deserved promotion which shows his adaptability for railway service and the excellent record which he has made in his chosen field.

yir. MacCorquodale has two daughters: Helen, now in school; and ^Margaret, who is in California. He belongs to St. Andrews Society of Portland, Oregon, and also to Clan Macleay of the same city. He holds membership with the Elks Lodge at Moscow, Idaho, and his membership relations in Spokane are with the Spokane Club, the Spokane Country Club, the Spokane Athletic Club, the Inland Club and the Chamber of Commerce. Politically he is a republican but neither time nor inclination have allowed him to seek or hold office. He has a wide and favorable acquaintance among the leading residents of the city, a fact indicated by his club relations and the cordiality with which he is everywhere received. He has strong attachment for the land of his birth but even a stronger feeling for the land of his adoption which has been the scene of his business activities, giving him the opportunities that, well improved, have brought to him a creditable and remunerative position in railwav circles.

Charles Jasper

Denmark has furnished a valuable class of citizens to the new world. They have brought with them from the old country the unremitting energy and perseverance characteristic to that nationality, and in a great majority of cases have attained success in the management of varied business affairs. To this class belongs Charles Jasper, who is now engaged in the general contracting business and has offices in the Peyton building. He came to America in 1882 when a young man of but seventeen years, his birth having occurred in Denmark in 186.). His parents were Peter and Maren (Jensen) Jesperson.

On the home farm in Denmark Charles Jasper spent the days of his boyhood and youth and attended the common schools. From time to time he heard interesting reports concerning America, its business conditions and its opportunities, and at length these proved to him an irresistible attraction, and leaving behind him his parents, brothers and sisters he departed for Hamilton, Ontario. For three years he resided in that city and worked as a cabinet-maker, but in 1885 removed to the United States, settling first at Grand Forks, North Dakota and engaging in the carpenter's and builder's business. He was thus engaged for three years before coming to Spokane in 1888 and started at once in the general contracting business. He had previously learned the rudiments of the building science, and having ambition and courage, after arriving in this city he directed his attention almost entirely to the erection of large buildings in Spokane and adjoining cities. The first building he erected was the Concordia Hall, which was located at the corner of Second and Jefferson streets but which has since been destroyed by fire. This piece of work showed his ability to the prospective builders of Spokane, and from that time he has always enjoyed a large patronage. He has since erected many prominent buildings, the most recent of which is the Eiler building at the corner of Sprague avenue and Post street. In Lewiston he built the Weisgerber building and

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Weisgerber brewery, and at Tekoa he erected the Sisters Academy. Among the forty or fifty buildings which he has erected in Spokane the Western Union Life building stands out prominently as one of his best pieces of work, while others are the White Hotel, the Jones & Pettit building, the John W. Graham building, the Spokane & Eastern Trust Company's building and the Pantages Theater building. In 1906 Mr. Jasper was married to ]Miss Emily F. Brown, a daughter of George W. and Mary (Knittle) Brown, of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, and a grand-daughter of Dr. G. W. Brown, a well known physician of Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Jasper is an accomplished dramatic reader, and is well known in that respect to the public in Spokane, where she has frequently given recitals which attest her unusual ability. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper reside in an artistic home at South 919 Adams street, where, because of their hospitality and high social qualities, they receive many friends. Mr. Jasper has now been a citizen of the United States for thirty years and he never feels he has any reason to regret his determination to leave his father's valuable and well developed farm in Denmark to seek his fortune on this side of the Atlantic, for he has here met with remarkable success in his business and has made many friends whose regard and companionship make life pleasant for him.

Louis Carlton Jesseph

Louis Carlton Jesseph, who since 1900 has been a member of the bar of the state of Washington, is one of the capable younger members of the legal fraternity of Colville. He is a native of Michigan, his birth having occurred in Shiawassee county, on October IS, 1877, and a son of Leonard E. and Leora (Sinclair) Jesseph. The father passed away in 1905, while the mother, who is fifty-nine years of age, is living. On both sides our subject is descended from America's early colonial families, among his mother's ancestors being numbered John Quincy Adams and John Hancock.

The early years in the life of Louis Carlton Jesseph were spent in Micliigan and Illinois, whose public schools he attended, completing his education in the high school of Spokane, Washington. Having decided to become an attorney following his graduation, he entered the law office of Graves, Wolff & Graces, where he pursued his legal studies for four years, being admitted to the bar in 1900. Immediately following he went to Republic, this state, where he became associated with his brother. M. E. Jesseph, in the practice of his profession, under the firm name of Jesseph & Jesseph, this connection continuing for two years. In December, 1902, he came to Colville and in the following March opened an office. In March, 1907, he formed a partnership with F. L. Grinstead, the firm being known as Jesseph & Grinstead. They have now been associated together for practically five years, during which time they have succeeded in building up a practice that bespeaks success, both members of the firm having proven themselves to be thoroughly efficient and trustworthy in every respect. An analytical mind, studious habits and rare powers of concentration have been instrumental factors in forwarding !Mr. Jesseph's professional attainments. He is careful and thorough in his preparation of his cases, cautious and alert in the presentation of his cause and in his arguments his deductions follow in logical sequence. He is always able to open a case with the confidence and assurance that in his preparations he has exhausted every available resource in the acquirement of his authority as based upon precedent.

In this city on the 1th of September, 1901, :Mr. Jesseph was united in marriage to Miss Flora Dingle, a daughter of P. B. Dingle, who is one of the pioneers of Stevens county, having located here about twenty-six years ago. Of this union there have been born two children: Georgia and Joseph.

Fraternally Mr. Jesseph is united with the Masonic order, being a member of the chapter and a past master of the blue lodge. He is also a member of the Knights of Pythias. In his political views he is a democrat and is now representing his ward in the city council, while from 1904 to 1908 he served as city attorney, the responsibilities of which office he discharged in a manner highly creditable to himself and his constituency.

William Wayne Dickson

William Wayne Dickson, who is assistant postmaster at Chewelah, and is identified with various mining interests in this section, has the distinction of having been the first mayor of the town. He was born in Piedmont, Missouri, on the 1st of December, 18-'36, and is a son of Thomas M. and Elizabeth (Cliitwood) Dickson. The father passed away in 1905 but the mother is still living and has attained the venerable age of seventy-two years.

The boyhood and early youth of William Wayne Dickson were spent in his native state, his education being obtained in the public and high schools of Piedmont. Following his graduation in 1875 he engaged in teaching for two years and then came to Washington, locating in Garfield county, in 1877. He filed on a preemption and timber claim and for sixteen years thereafter gave his undivided attention to the cultivation and improvement of his land. Disposing of his property at the end of that time he came to Springdale, W^ashington, and clerked in a general mercantile store. A few years later he removed to Chewelah and established a mercantile business that he most successfully conducted until 1905, when he withdrew from commercial activities and has ever since given tlie greater part of his time and attention to mining operations. He is quite extensively interested in mines and mining and is treasurer and a director of the Blue Star Mining Company. In connection with his other duties for the past year ]\Ir. Dickson has been filling the position of assistant postmaster, the responsibilities of which office he has discharged in a very satisfactory manner.

On the 26th of April, 1881, at Piedmont, ^Missouri, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Dickson and Miss Mary C. Reed, a daugliter of Tliomas and Carolyn Reed. Five children have been born imto 'Mr. and Mrs. Dickson. Susie, who graduated from Galudetta College at Washington, D. C, and is now teaching in the State School for the Deaf at Salem, Oregon, is the wife of T. A. Ludstrom, also a member of the faculty of that institution. The next two in order of birth are Flossie and Frankie, who graduated from the normal school at Cheney, this state, and are now teaching. Hilda and Wayne, the two youngest members of the family, are attending high school.

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The religious views of the family are manifested through their affiliation with the Congregational church. Fraternally Mr. Dickson is a Mason, having taken the degrees of the blue lodge, and he is past venerable consul in the Modern Woodmen of America and present treasurer of the local lodge. He also belongs to the Chewelah Commercial Club, while his political support he gives to the democratic party. He has always been prominently identified with municipal affairs and after the expiration of his term as mayor served as a member of the council for two years, then was elected mayor for another term. Educational matters have always engaged much of Mr. Dickson's attention and for the past twelve years he has been a member of the school board, and has given valuable service in tliis connection^ having been one of those who organized and promoted the development of the Union liigh school of Chewelah. During the period of his residence here Mt. Dickson has won the esteem of the community, by reason of liis faithful discharge of all matters of trust and his high standards of citizenship, as these alone would make him an acquisition much to be desired in any town.

Hon. William Cary Jones

A most earnest and discriminating student of vital questions of the day, a forceful and eloquent orator, Hon. William Gary Jones has won distinction in the national halls of legislation and at the same time has maintained his place as a distinguished representative of the Washington bar, having served as attorney general of the state, wliile in private practice he has been connected with important litigation that has evoked decisions which have become precedents in judicial history. Spokane moreover is indebted to him- for plans and projects that have contributed directly to her progress.

Mr. Jones is a native of the Empire state, having been born at Remsen, Oneida county. New York, April 5, 1855, a son of Rev. William and Maria (Vaughan) Jones, both of whom were natives of Wales, in which country they were reared and married. The father had a most extensive acquaintance among people of Welsh nativity or descent from the Mississippi river eastward to New York. He was an ideal type of the Christian minister, broad and liberal in his views, far in advance of his times, loyal in his faith and beloved by all with whom he came in contact. In a letter written to his son, W. C. Jones, by Dr. H. O. Rowlands, the well known pastor of Calvary church at Davenport, Iowa, the following tribute was paid to the memory of the Rev. Jones. The letter in part reads: "Few men ever made such an impression on me as your honored father. As I write these words, his large, dark, benignant eyes rise before me and, well, I'll write no more except that to me he is even to this day an ideal type of the true minister - dignity without formalism, courteous without obsequiousness, kindness without patronage, reverential without pharisaism, social without levity, - a prophet of God and a man among men. I thank God I met him ! As a religious man he was loj'al to his faith, the faith, rather, of deep convictions, of sympathetic nature and a thorough Baptist." Both Rev. and Mrs. Jones passed away in 1893 at the age of seventy-eight years, the wife surviving her husband but three months. Their family numbered onlv two sons, the brother of our subject being Dr. Samuel Jones, a practicing physician at Frazee, Minnesota.

Hon. William Cary Jones, reared in a home of culture and refinement, where character was valued above all else, there laid the foundation for the success and prominence to which he has attained in later years. His public school course was completed by graduation from the high school at Salem, Wisconsin, in 1873, after which .he attended the seminary there. He was for two years a student of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and then entered the Wisconsin Law University from wliich he was graduated with the class of 1876. The same year he was admitted to the bar at Madelin, Minnesota, and at once entered upon the practice of law in association with F. D. Joy, now a resident of Glendora, California. ^Ir. Jones followed his profession in Madelin until the spring of 1883, when he came to Washington on a pleasure trip but without thought of making the state his place of permanent abode. He remained for a time in Cheney while court was in session and after its adjournment secured a cayuse and started out, accompanied by Mr. Levison, a reporter for the Oregonian, and Mr. Woodbury, who was a reporter for the Lincoln County Gazette and also editor of the Chronicle. They made the trip through the Colville valley and down the Columbia river to Camp Spokane, after which they proceeded up the Spokane river to the city - then village - of Spokane. At that time there were two farm houses on the north side of the river and only two white women in the Colville valley. After reaching Spokane Mr. Jones met on the streets of the city W. R. Andrews, a prominent member of the bar, who had offices in both Spokane and Cheney. He insisted that Mr. Jones should give him professional assistance for a month as he was overwhelmed with business. This temporary relationship proved to both that they could work together in harmonj' and accordingly a law partnership was formed between them under the firm style of Andrews & Jones, the relation being maintained until Mr. Andrews removed to Medford City in the latter part of 1885. This firm drafted the charter when Cheney was incorporated as a city in 1884 and Mr. Jones became the first city attorney there and continued in the office for some years after he removed to Spokane. In 1886, however, he was elected prosecuting attorney for this district and in the following January came to Spokane where he formed a partnership with Judge H. E. Houghton and Frank H. Graves under the firm name of Houghton, Graves & Jones, which continued until Judge Houghton's election to the state senate and Mr. Jones' election to the office of attorney general of Washington in 1889. For eight years after the admission of the state to the Union Mr. Jones continued to fill that position in a most acceptable manner, for his patriotic devotion to the newly created state was supplemented by marked ability as a lawyer, his power in that connection having its root in comprehensive understanding of the principles of jurisprudence. About 1901 he formed a partnership with Judge George W. Belt and Judge P. F. Quinn under the firm name of Jones, Belt & Quinn, which was continued until Mr. Jones was elected congressman at large in 1896, together with James Hamilton Lewis. Follo^\ing his retirement from the national halls of legislation he resumed practice alone and followed his profession independently until 1906, when he became a partner of A. W. Salisbury. This connection, however, was of short duration and ^Ir. Jones was then again and has since been alone.

His record as attorney general, as a lawyer in private practice and as a member of congress is fraught with much important service in which the public has been a direct beneficiary. One of the most valuable features of his attorney generalship was the tliwarting of the efforts of various corporations and indi\'iduals of Puget

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Sound in their attempts to steal the tide lands of the Puget Sound, particularly in the district near Tacoma and Seattle. In the case of Prosser versus the Northern Pacific, the latter secured an order from Judge Hanford restraining the harborline owners from filing a plat of the harbor line, claiming it would be a cloud upon its title and making claim that the property involved was worth over seven million dollars. 'Sir. Jones demurred to their bill and when Judge Hanford overruled the demurrer, Mr. Jones appealed from this decision to the supreme court of the United States, wliich dismissed the bill on the ground that it was not a taking of property within the meaning of the federal constitution. In the case of Bolby versus Shively, which originated in Oregon and involved the same question, and which was argued and submitted together with the Prosser versus Northern Pacific Railroad case, Judge Gray wrote an exhaustive opinion on its merits and the court held unanimously that the state was absolute owner of the bed of all her harbors up to the line of ordinary high tide. This decision effectually and forever settled the question so far as Washington was concerned. Seattle at the present time is trying to get back some of the property the city gave away, wanting it for a mmiicipal wharf. Another case of widespread interest with which Mr. Jones was connected involved a Section of school land in the heart of Tacoma - the state versus McBride. The latter attempted to locate that section as placer-mining ground. The case was argued five times before the commissioner general of the land office and the secretarj' of the interior, and on motion for review the case was decided emphatically in favor of the state's hard-fought legal contention, in which Mr. Jones was as usual victorious. The last time it was argued was in 1897 after Mr. Jones had ceased to be attorney general and was occupying a seat in congress. It is against the rules of the department and the law for any congressman to practice before the interior department, but in view of the fact that the two counsel who had been associated with Mr. Jones early in the case, namely Judge Calkins and Judge Haines, of the Seattle bar, were both dead, and there were two very voluminous records which would take new counsel many months to familiarize themselves with, a special dispensation was made authorizing Congressman Jones to argue the case. The argument lasted six days.

In his discussion of questions of national importance Mr. Jones has aroused the attention, interest and commendation of many of the most distinguished statesmen of the country. On the 22d of February, 1898, while a member of congress, Mr. Jones made a speech on the money question and on the 2-ith he saw United States Senator Jones, of Arkansas, who was chairman of the democratic national committee, and who selected the speech of Congressman Jones for campaign purposes, ])referring it to one already prepared on that subject, and afterward sent out one million copies for general distribution. Mr. Jones of Nevada stated that the speech of the Washington congressman was the best that had ever been made on that subject. In it he had used a large chart to show the consequence of the decline in silver and wheat, from which circumstance he gained tlie sobriquet of "What Chart Jones." When Mr. Jones made his speech in congress on battle ships William Sterritt, now editor of the Galveston (Texas) News, was in the reporter's gallery and said that for the first time in twenty years every reporter dropped liis pencil to listen to the speech. The subject came up on the 1st of April. 1891. in connection with the naval appropriation bill. Cannon of Illinois offered an amendment striking out ten million dollars from the fifteen-million-dollar appropriation for battle ships and appropriating it for smaller craft for quick service. He said that the first engagement would demonstrate that the battle ships were not worth that amount for scrap iron, and after the battle of Santiago three contracts were cancelled.

During his service as attorney general his work in many respects was notable. While filling that office he ruled the Bible out of the schools, on the 18th of September, 1891, rendering a decision that Bibles could not be read as a part of the public-school exercises. He has ever been fearless in defense of his convictions and his position has never been an equivocal one. While his early political allegiance was given to the republican party and he was elected on its ticket as attorney general in 1889 and again in 1892, he became an advocate of the free coinage of silver in 1896 and in that year was elected congressman on the fusion ticket, called the people's party ticket, as a silver republican. In congress he affiliated, as did all the silver republicans, with the democratic party and occupied tlie seat next to Champ Clark on the democratic side of the house.

In 1900 !Mr. Jones was employed on some special work for ¥. Augustus Heinze in Butte, in connection with certain mining litigation. He made the campaign in 1900 throughout the state with Joseph K. Toole and in 1902 with F. A. Heinze in a special car. This campaign was replete with interesting events and was the most spectacular campaign in the history of Montana. While in that state in 1902 Mr. Jones delivered a speech on monopolies which aroused great enthusiasm, and was quoted and discussed throughout the country. He spoke of the erroneous impression prevalent in regard to trusts, that they were a new feature in the public life and that some new remedy for them must be found. He said that the word trust was merely a new name for an old crime ; that as used today it means a combination made between men for the purpose of creating a monopoly and the latter was as old as human greed, as ancient as human avarice. He went back to the time of Zeno in support of this statement and proved it. He told of the trust at the time of the Revolutionary war when a few men dictated the price to be paid for necessities, and how the Pennsylvania legislature not only broke up the combine but took steps to punish the men concerned therein. Mr. Jones depicted the story of the continuous struggle of the people of England to overthrow the little trusts of that day, and the legislation that had been enacted on the subject, and of the effecive work of Lord Coke in behalf of the people. !Mr. Jones also expressed his personal belief that few people of America realize the extent to which the wealthy men of the United States have been planning for their own financial aggrandizement and the ruin of the country. In brief, he depicted in brilliant argument and forceful words existing conditions and oncoming events and what he said would happen has all come to pass, as he foretold do^^-Il to the smallest detail. In regard to his speech on monopilies Senator Miles Poindexter wrote ^Ir. Jones a long letter in June, 1911, in which he stated that in view of the present situation of affairs, the present discussions on the subject and the issue raised between the opinion of the supreme court and Justice Harlan's dissenting opinion, the speech was one of the most remarkable declarations he had ever read; that it could be taken for a discussion of its most recent phases. Senator Poindexter agreed entirely with the views set forth by Mr. Jones in that speech and s.iid tliat the trust question was the great overshadowing issue of the present.

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On the 12tli of October, 1887, Mr. Jones was married to :\Iiss Rosa Marvin, who was then county school superintendent of Spokane county, a daughter of W. R. Marvin, retired. When elected county school superintendent she was filling tht office of county auditor of Lincoln county. She comes of an old New England family and her father was a soldier of the Civil war while some of her ancestors served through the Revolutionai-y war. Five children have been born unto Mr, and Mrs. Jones: Vaughan M., private secretary of the manager of Scrips ^McCrea; Richard L., a reporter on the Daily Chronicle; Helen M., who graduated from the Spokane high school and was editor of the High School Annual; Florence M., now a pupil in the high school ; and William Cary Jones, Jr., also pursuing his education. The family have lived in the same house probably longer than any other resident of Spokane, having since 1889 made their home at No. 1807 Riverside avenue. They attend the meetings of the Unitarian Society, of which !Mr. Jones is a member. He belongs to the blue lodge, chapter, consistory and Mystic Shrine in Masonry, and has been orator of the order part of the time. He also holds membership in Elks Lodge, No. 228, of Spokane. While in Washington he was a member of the Army and Navy Club, in Butte was a member of the Silver Bow Club, and in Helena of the ^Montana Club. His life work has by no means reached its fruition in the world. He is still a close student of the living issues of the day, and his opinions, publicly or privatelv expressed, carry considerable weight and influence. Added to the intrinsic element of character are the high professional attainments of the man, his fine mind and his power as a leader of public thought and action - and along this line there must be accorded due consideration for William Cary Jones and a recognition of the high prestige which he has gained.

FitzHerbert ^McCuUough, engaged in the general real-estate business in Spokane, has been a resident of this city from the period of its villagehood, arriving liere in 1883, long before its population had reached the thousand mark. He was born in Brockville, Canada, September 6, 1854, and his parents, William and Eunice McCullough, were also natives of that country. The father, who was of Irish descent, became a manufacturer of Brockville and was also prominent and active in civic matters, serving as a member of the school board and in other public connections. He died in that city in August, 1885, having for a long period survived liis wife, whose death occurred August i, 1866.

FitzHerbert AlcCullough pursued his education in the graded and Iiigli schools of Brockville and afterward became connected with a surveying party having in charge the surveying of a road out of Montreal which is now owned by the Canadian Pacific system. He was then about seventeen years of age. The following year he entered the London branch of the Bank of Montreal at London, Ontario, spending between eight and nine years in tliat institution. He resigned his position to tour the country with his father in the summer of 1882. This brought him knowledge of the west and in 1 883 lie came to S))okane. There was a town near the Falls of about one thousand inhabitants and to some extent outlying districts were claimed and were being placed under cultivation, yet on the wliole this was a wild and unimproved region. For two or three years Mr. McCullough was engaged in the piano business and then turned his attention to real estate, in which he has since been engaged, handling in the meantime much property and negotiating many important realty transfers.

On the 31st of December, 1890, Mr. jSIcCullough was united in marriage in Spokane to Mrs. Henriette Campbell, of this city, who died February 13, 1909. Mr. McCullough has two stepdaughters, Edna and Effie Campbell. In his political views he is a republican but has never been an aspirant to office. He belongs to the Chamber of Commerce - a manifestation of his interest in all that pertains to the city's business development and to its improvement and progress along every line, for that organization has as its object the broader interests of the city. That Mr. McCullough has met with a substantial measure of success in his undertakings is indicated in the fact that he has continuously remained in one line of business.

Herman Preusse

Herman Preusse, now living retired, was for many years the senior partner of the firm of Preusse & Zittel, architects of Spokane. He received most thorougli professional training in Germany, his native country, and has contributed perhaps more largely to the upbuilding of Spokane in his line of business than any other one man, being today the oldest architect in the profession in this city.

He was born in Germany in 1847, a son of Carl Victor and Victoria Preusse. He was only three years of age when his father died and his mother afterward became the wife of Wilhelm Mehl, a leading architect, so that Mr. Preusse had excellent opportunity to begin preparation for his profession at a very early age. He was a lad of thirteen years when he went to Halle on the Saale river and in the famous institution of that city studied for three years, after which he returned home and had the practical experience of three years' service and instruction in his stepfather's office. He then resumed his studies in the noted college of architecture at Holzminden and such was his standing that he was sent by the faculty of that institution to suiserintend the construction of the large Bessemer steel works in Osnabriick. After completing the work there he came to America, realizing that in this country, which was only sparsely settled comparatively and yet was enjoying rapid growth, he would find better and broader opportunities than could be secured in the more thickly settled and older European countries. He arrived in New York in June, 1870, and at once made his way to Chicago, where he found employment in the North Chicago Rolling Mills, but shortly after the great fire of 1871 he was compelled to leave that city on account of ill health. He then visited the various western states and territories and finally settled in San Bernardino, California, where for some time he conducted a thriving business. He afterward lived in San Francisco for a time and subsequently established his home in Sterling, Kansas, whence he went to Kansas City, Missouri.

In 1882 Mr. Preusse came to Spokane, where he began the practice of his profession and is todaj' the oldest architect of this city in years of continuous connection thercwitli. He has seen the development of Spokane from a population of one or two hundred to the leading city of the Inland Empire and one of the most promi- nent cities of the Pacific coast. Many of the imposing buildings which were destroyed by the fire of 1889 were designed by him and erected under his sujiervision. Since this he has made plans and specifications for a large number of the finest business blocks and residences and other buildings in this city and eastern Washington. In 1893 he admitted J. A. Zittel to a partnership and they also employed an assistant. Mr. Preusse has devoted the efforts of a lifetime to the study and practice of his chosen profession and as a natural result of such concentration he is in the front rank among the architects of the state. Economy, practicability, utility and beauty all enter into his work and whether following a unique style or building according to modern construction, comfort and convenience are always matters of consideration in his plans. As he has prospered in liis undertakings he has made judicious investment in farm property, for agriculture and horticulture have always been matters of interest to him. He has owned four farms, each of which contained one hundred and sixty acres, and under his supervision these have been highly improved. This, however, has been but a side issue or interest in his life, for he has devoted himself almost entirely to the practice of his profession. Among some of the best known buildings which he has designed are the Auditorium block, the Jamieson block, Blalock building, Fernwell block. Granite building, Ziegler building, Victoria Hotel, Hotel Pacific and many other structures. He designed the first permanent buildings of Gonzaga College and the School of Science of Pullman. In fact, the starting of the latter institution was due entireh' to his efforts.

Mr. Preusse has been twice married. While a resident of Sterling, Kansas, he wedded Miss Rosa Cole, a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Spokane, April 17, 1897, leaving four children, namely: Olga May and Florence Augusta, who were educated in an eastern universit}'; Carl Victor; and Arnold Bismarck. Mr. Preusse believes in educating his children well and expects to give them every possible advantage in that direction. On the 3d of October, 1910, he was married to Mrs. Emma (Keller) W^ilke, a daughter of Dr. S. and Marie (Wingender) Keller, who came from Germany at an early age and settled in Wisconsin. Her father, however, is now a retired physician of Spokane and her mother died nearly thirty years ago. Mrs. Preusse has two brothers, and one sister, who are numbered among the pioneers of this region. Socially Mr. Preusse is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks and he is a public-spirited citizen who takes a commendable interest in every enterprise for the promotion of the general welfare but is especially interested in educational matters.

Hon. William M. Ridpath

The activities in which the Hon. William M. Ridjiath has engaged have been of a varied character, but at all times the trend of his career lias been upward and with each forward step he has had a broader outlook and wider opportunities. Today, as owner and proprietor of the Hotel Ridpatli, he occupies a leading position in business circles of Spokane. His birth occurred in Putnam county, Indiana, October 11-. 1845, his parents being Abraham and Sally (Matthews) Ridpath. both of whom were Virginians by hirth. The father, who devoted his life to the occupation of farming, _ passed away in the early '70s, having for a number of years survived his wife, who died when her son William was but twelve years of age. His brother was John Clark Ridpath, the famous historian who died in the Presbyterian Hospital at New York, July 31, 1900.

The early educational opportunities which William M. Ridpath enjoyed were those offered b_v the district schools of Putnam county. He was not yet eighteen years of age when, on the 20th of June, 1863, he offered his services to the government, his patriotic nature having been aroused by continued attempt of the south to destroy the Union. He enlisted for six months as a member of Company H, One hundred and fifteenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, but served for eight months and eight days, after which he was mustered out at Indianapolis. At once he reenlisted, becoming a member of Battery E, First Indiana Heavy Artillery, with which he served until July 26, 1 865; when, the war having closed, he was honorably discharged at New Orleans. In the meantime he had become convinced of the necessity of further education as a foundation for success in life and upon his return to the north entered Asbury University at Greencastle, Indiana, from which he was graduated with the class of 1870. He then taught school but regarded this only as an initial step to other professional labor, for while thus engaged he took up the study of law and following a course of thorough preliminary reading was admitted to the bar at Brazil, Indiana, on the 1st of June, 1872. For about ten years, or until June, 1882, he continued in active practice in that place, and in the meantime also became recognized as one of the local leaders of the republican part}', which in 1880 elected him to the state legislature as the representative of Clay, Putnam and Hendricks counties. He served as speaker of the house for the regular and special sessions of 1881 and proved himself a capable parliamentarian, discharging his duties unbiased by partisanship or personal prejudice. In May, 1882, he received from President Arthur appointment to the position of Indian agent for the Yankton-Sioux Reservation on the ]\Iissouri river and at once entered upon his duties in the northwest, there continuing until the summer of 1885, when he resigned. Immediately afterward the department appointed him agent to the Quapaw Reservation in the Indian territory, where he remained until November, 1 886, when removed by President Cleveland, because of his political views.

Col. Ridpath has been a resident of Spokane since March 17, 1888, and for twelve years was here engaged in the practice of law, having as his associates in partnership during that time the late Judge R. B. Blake, Judge H. E. Hoton and Judge J. W. Marshall. By Governor !Miles C. Moore he was appointed prosecuting attorney and served for one montli during territorial days and following the admission of the state into the Union was continued in office until January 1, 1891. His public service also ihcluded membership on the board of control under Governor Rogers. In politics he has ever been a stalwart republican, unswerving in his allegiance to the party because of a firm belief in the efficacy of its principles as factors in good government. His unbending integrity of character, his fearlessness in the discharge of his duties and his appreciation of the rsponsibilities that have rested upon him have been such as to make him a most acceptable incumbent in the offices which he has filled, and his worth then as now was widely acknowledged.

In the meantime Col. Ridpath became interested in mining properties of the northwest as one of the principal owners and promoters of the famous Le Roy mine, of which he remained treasurer until it was sold to the British syndicate. From time to time he has made extensive investments in real estate until now his property holdings are very large, and in 1899 he built the Hotel Ridpath, which is one of the best hotels of the citj', remaining still its owner and proprietor.

On the 9th of February, 1873, while living in Indiana, Mr. Ridpath was married to Miss Sarah J. Cole, a daughter of Robert S. and Mary J. (Hutton) Cole, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Their three children are: Dr. Paul C. Ridpath, of Chicago; Mary, the wife of John D. Ankeny, of Walla Walla, Washington; and Nellie, who makes her home in Chicago. Mr. Ridpath has never been a club man but maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in Reno Post, G. A. R., and is also in hearty sympathy with the principles and purposes of the ^lasonic fraternit}', to which he belongs. His has been a notable career inasmuch as he has worked his way upward to a prominent position in business and financial circles and also by reason of the excellent service which he has rendered in public office. He is justly accorded a place among the prominent and representative citizens of Spokane, for he belongs to that class of men whose enterprising spirit is used not alone for their own benefit ; he also advances the general good and promotes public prosperity by his ably managed individual interests, thus placing this section of the country on a par with the older east.

Albert W. Anderson

iVlbert W. Anderson, who for the past five years has represented Stevens county in the state senate, is one of the enterprising citizens of Chewelah, who despite the many demands made upon his time b}' his various personal and official responsibilities, it always able to give his cooperation and assistance in promoting any movement that will forward the development of the community. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on the 17th of August, 1870, and is a son of Charles F. and Betsy (Lewis) Anderson. The father who is one of the pioneers of Washington is still living at the age of sixty-nine years, but the mother passed away in 1878.

The boyhood and youth of Albert W. Anderson were spent in the town of his birth, whose public schools he attended in the acquirement of an education until he was fourteen. Laying aside his text-books he began to make his own way in the world, and during the succeeding four years was employed in the shops of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company, where he learned the painter's trade. He subsequently worked for a short time in both Peoria and Chicago, and then came to Washington, locating in Stevens county in 1889. He took up a homestead west of Addy, and later, after three years' travel through California and Washington, he settled at Addy, Washington, where he worked in a general mercantile store until 1902, when he erected a sawmill that he operated for four years. Disposing of his property at the expiration of that period he organized the Addy Mercantile Company, which enterprise he most successfully conducted until May. 1911, when he became associated with others in founding the Bank of Chewelah. Although he is still president of the Addy Mercantile Company, and a member of its board of directors, the greater part of Mr. Anderson's time is devoted to the discharge of his responsibilities as cashier of the bank, of which institution he is also a director. He is recognized to be one of the most capable business men of the

Mr. Anderson was married on the 22d of June, 1902, to Miss Frances Plowman,, a daughter of Henry and Etta Plowman, of Addy, Washington. Her parents were among the early settlers of Minnesota, the father having been a member of the legislature of that state for about twelve years. Of the union of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson there have been born two children: Dorothy and Paul.

Mr. Anderson has taken the degrees of the blue lodge of the Masonic fraternity and he also belongs to the Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. In politics he is a republican and has served his municipality and county in various public capacities, having been called to the state senate, in 1906, and reelected in 1910. Mr. Anderson has always been one of the enthusiastic promoters of the state and its utilities, and together with Senator Meyers introduced a bill in the senate in 1909, asking for an appropriation from the state of fifty thousand dollars for the improvement of the Columbia river between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls. This was conceded and Mr. Anderson was appointed chairman of the commission appointed by the governor to take charge of the work. They bought and fitted up the steamer Yakima, beginning operations in November of that j'ear. Their efforts resulted in such valuable and permanent improvements that their work was indorsed by the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, through whose influence another appropriation of one hundred thousand was obtained from the federal government for further work. An enthusiastic member of the Chewelah Commercial Club, Mr. Anderson has always been one of the active and energetic citizens whose personal interests have at all times been identical with those of the community, in promoting the advancement of which he has been a tireless and constant worker.

Harry L. Cohn

Although one of the more recent additions to the Spokane bar Harry L. Cohn has already proven his right to rank with those men whose comprehensive understanding of the law and correct application of its principles entitle them to advancement and success in this field. He was born in Palmyra, Missouri, December 2(5, 1 874. His father, Morris L. Cohn, was a native of Germany and became well known in educational circles as a member of the faculty of the University of Berlin. Ill commercial circles he was also known through his active connection with merchandising. It was subsequent to his arrival in the new world that he wedded Bertha Marks, who was born in Germany and is now living in Omaha, at the age of sixty-five years. She represents one of the old families of Chicago, her father having been one of the pioneer merchants of that city. Two branches of the business which he established are still to be found there. The death of Morris L. Cohn occurred in 1893. Unto him and his wife were born four sons and three daughters: Harry L. ; J. P., who is the owner of the baseball team at Spokane; L. M., a merchant of Omaha, Nebraska; A. B., a traveling salesman living in San Francisco; Anna, who is the widow of P. H. Stepp and makes her liome in Kansas City, Mis- souri; Jean, the wife of Fred ^M. Raymond, a wholesale fruit dealer of North Yakima ; and Rae, who married Carl Furtli, a merchant of Omaha.

The removal of his father's family from his native town of Palm3'ra, Missouri, to Clifton, Kansas, enabled Harry L. Cohn to pursue his education in the schools of the latter place and his preparation for the bar was made as a student in the law office and under the direction of Judge Nathan V. Harlan, of York, Nebraska. Thorough preliminary training qualified him for admission to the bar of Nebraska in the spring of 1S96. He located for practice in Lake City, Colorado, where for two years he filled the office of assistant district attorney. In 1899, however, he returned to Nebraska and settled at Omaha, where he formed a law partnership with his former preceptor. Judge Harlan, there continuing in practice until 1904, when he received appointment to the position of first assistant district attorney for the third division of Alaska. He continued in that position for two years and a half and during the last year of the time filled the office of district attorney ex officio, owing to the illness of Judge Harlan. Mr. Cohn has been numbered among the practitioners of Spokane since the fall of 1907, when he entered into partnership relations with Harry Rosenhaupt and Bruce Blake, under the firm name of Cohn, Rosenhaupt & Blake. The third member of the firm withdrew the first year but the relationship with ^Mr. Rosenhaupt still maintains. Mr. Cohn continued in the general practice of law, preparing his cases with care and precision and presenting liis cause before the courts in a clear and forceful manner. His success is the best evidence of his ability and the large clientage accorded him is indicative of the fact that he lias won a creditable position as a representative of the Spokane bar.

On the 30th of April, 1906, at Omaha, :\Ir. Cohn was married to Miss Ella Rosenfeld, a daughter of Jacob Rosenfeld, who was a merchant of Council Bluffs, Iowa. The family is of Roumanian descent and was established in Iowa in pioneer times. :Mr. and Mrs. Cohn have one daughter, Helen L. Mr, Cohn holds membership in the Progress Club and in Masonry has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite, holding membership in Oriental Consistory, S. P, R, S., and also in El Katif Temple, A. A, O. N. ^l. S. He votes -ivith the republican party and has neither the time nor inclination for office holding, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his growing law practice.

Theo Hall

In a state in which the women exercise the right of franchise on the same level and with the same qualifications as those governing their brothers at the polls, one is by no means surprised to find as a natural accompaniment to their recently won rights that they are also enjoying the privilege of holding public office. In a few isolated cases, however, women have held positions of trust as servants of the commonwealth years before they won their final victory in securing the ballot, and of this number Miss Theo Hall, the present incumbent of the office of postmaster of Medical Lake, Washington, is a representative,

A native of Albany, Wisconsin, she is a daughter of Dr. Jolui C. and Theodate (Stackpole) Hall, Her father, who was a man of considerable note in his day.

was born at Langdon, New Hampshire, May 21, 1821, and was a direct descendant of Peregrine M^hite, distinguished for having first beheld the light of day on the voyage of the Mayflower. Dr. Hall's parents removed to Maine when he was a young boy and in the common schools of that state he obtained his early education, later attending Yarmouth Academy and Westbrook Seminary. In 1852 he was graduated from the medical department of Harvard University with the degree of M. D., and immediately after his marriage in the same year he took his bride to their new home in the west, settling at Monroe, Wisconsin, where he began to practice medicine. During the Civil war he entered the ranks of the Union army with the Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers, occupying the position of assistant surgeon. He served three years during which time he was advanced in recognition of the faithful performance of his duties and his invaluable service on the battlefield and in hospital wards. Before the close of the war he was surgeon-in-chief of the famous old Iron Brigade and served until the end, when he returned to Wisconsin and resumed the practice of his profession. Ever conscientious in his recognition of the responsibilities of citizenship he was elected to the state legislature as senator from his district, acting in this capacity^ from 1870 until 1872 and for a number of years was president of the examining board for pensions at Madison, Wisconsin. In 1892 he brought has family west, making his home in Medical Lake, Washington, where he was appointed to the examining board for pensions, being associated in his duties with Dr. Olmstead and Dr. Luhn. After a life unselfishly devoted to the cause of humanity, alleviating the sick and diminishing suffering. Dr. Hall passed away at his home in Medical Lake, November 29, 1896, at the age of seventy-five years.

Miss Theo Hall obtained her education in Monroe, Wisconsin, and after her graduation in 1881 taught school in her home town during the following two years. She then went to Nebraska where she lived upon a preemption claim for six months. Later she went to the far west and bought out the Medical Lake Ledger, which she edited for one year when she received the appointment of postmaster at Medical Lake, in 1893, and has occupied this position ever since. Miss Hall is a woman of unusual strength of character, possessing initiative, determination and executive ability, qualities which are in keeping with the spiirt of the west. Just in her judgments of others and always charitable she has a host of friends who are proud of her success and are sincerelv devoted to her interests.

George A. Fellows

One of Cheney's pioneer citizens, who has tirelessly devoted his energies to the development of the town along the various lines of community welfare is George A. Fellows, who first located here twenty-nine years ago. During the long period of his residence he has been in the employ of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the greater part of the time in the capacity of station master, but despite the exactions of his position has always found time to give most efficient service in various public offices. He was born at Snow Point, Nevada county, California, on the 23d of January, 1860, and is a son of George and Ann Marie (McCabe) Fellows.

His father was one of tlie early pioneers of California, having crossed the plains to the gold fields in the vicinity of Sacramento in 1848. There he engaged in pros- pecting and mining until 1852, when he returned to St. Joe, Missouri, by way of the isthmus of Panama. He remained there but a few months, however, joining a party of eighteen and coming back to the coast the same year. They brought with them a large herd of horses and returned by way of the isthmus, the journey consuming nine weeks. The animals required much care and attention and this undertaking was connected with great risk, but turned out well worth while financially, as they were able to sell for one thousand dollars a span upon their arrival in Sacramento. Mr. Fellows resumed his mining operations again, meeting with excellent success, having soon acquired a capital of more than a half million. He had extensive holdings in quicksilver mines, but after the Langley failure disposed of his interests to a French syndicate. Having the most implicit faith in the future of the state, both as an industrial and agricultural center, owing to its innumerable natural advantages, he invested heavily in real estate. After disposing of his mining interests, he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and was successfully engaged in farming until 1 879. He then sold his property interests in California and came to Washington, buying six sections of railroad land that he operated until 1903, when he withdrew from all active work and retired to Mount View, California. There he and his wife continued to live until they passed away in 1905, the father dying in May and the mother in the July following. They were the parents of fifteen children, thil-teen of whom are living and reside either in the state of Washington or California.

George A. Fellows was reared in his native state and completed his education in the University of California, being graduated from that institution with the class of 1879. Immediately after leaving college he entered the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, in the capacity of traveling auditor between San Francisco and El Paso, Texas. In 1880 he took up station work, being located at San Francisco, Stockton and Los Angeles during the succeeding two years. He withdrew from the service of this company, in 1882, and entered that of the Northern Pacific, coming to Cheney as night telegraph operator. The following year he was promoted to the position of day operator and cashier, while in 1885 he became agent, which position he has ever since held. Mr. Fellows has large interests in the Shonee Mining & Milling Company, of which he is president, and is a stockholder and director of the Security National Bank of Cheney. He has always actively participated in affairs pertaining to the public welfare, particularly those of his immediate community, and is now acting as president of the board of trustees of the State Normal school located here. It is very largely due to his efforts that Cheney is now rated as a city of the third class, the advanced rating having been secured while he was serving as mayor in 1909 and 1910. Mr. Fellows was again elected mayor of Clieney, on December 5, 1911, on the Good Government ticket, for a one-year term. His majority was two hundred out of a total vote of three hundred and fifty-nine, and a total registration of five hundred and twenty-nine.

This city was the scene of Mr. Fellows' marriage on tlie 28th of September, 1898, to Miss Mabel J. Harris, a daughter of John A. Harris. They are tlie parents of two children: Irwin, who is deceased, and Arthur, who is attending school.

The family affiliate with the Congregational church and fraternally Mr. Fellows is a worthy exemplar of the Masonic order, of which he is a past master. He has taken thirty-two degrees in the Scottish Rite and is identified with the consistory. Knights Templar and the shrine. He also belongs to the Knights of Pythias, and has passed through all of the chairs in that lodge. In his political views Mr. Fellows is a republican, giving his unqualified indorsement to the principles of that bod)' for whose candidates he always casts his ballot. Mr. Fellows is descended from a long line of American ancestors, his forefathers having emigrated to this country from England and located in Ipswich, New Hampshire, in 1638, and he considers this to be the greatest country in the world, but having been born and reared on the Pacific coast, he naturally deems the west to be the best part of this great country. He is loyal in his allegiance to the interests of both his town and county and is one of the active and enterprising members of the Commercial Club, the efforts of wliicli he most enthusiastically champions on all occasions.

Thomas Redding Tannatt

Thomas Redding Tannatt, now living retired in Spokane, was born at Verplanck Point on the Hudson river in New York, September 27, 1833. His father, James S. Tannatt, died in 1843 and was long survived by his wife, who bore the maiden name of Mary C. Gilmore and died in 1891. The grandparents of Thomas R. Tannatt came from Scotland, near Lake Dunbarton. At the time of the Stuart rebellion all their lands were confiscated and in return they were given large tracts of land in Canada, near Ottawa. Accordingly they came to America and the grandfather named the town of Paisley, Canada. He lived to the very venerable age of one hundred and two years. James S. Tannatt was at one time a partner of Chauncey Depew's father in the ownership and operation of steamship lines on the Hudson river. He was a prominent whig during the Clay campaign and for four years he filled the position of purveyor at the Brooklyn navy yard.

In the absence of public schools Thomas R. Tannatt attended an academy at Peekskill, New York, now known as the Peekskill Military Academy, and while there was a schoolmate of Chauncey Depew. He was only ten years of age when liis father died and at that time he was sent to New Hampshire, where he worked on a farm during the summer months and attended school during the winter seasons for si.x years. The next three years he served as an apprentice at bridge building and large construction work in Salem, Massachusetts, and during his three years apprenticeship for three evenings of each week during the last two years, he attended an evening school for instruction in raatliematics, dra^^^ng and civil engineering. He then accepted a position as assistant resident engineer on the water works at Jersey City, New Jersey. He filled that position until nearly twenty-one years of age, when he was tendered an appointment to the West Point Military Academy from the Essex district of Massachusetts and was there graduated in 1858, being the seventh in rank in his class. While at West Point he rose to the captaincy of Company D, Cadets Battalion. Upon graduation he was commissioned as brevet second lieutenant, unassigned, and ordered to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, as instructor in use of the Ballistic pendulum and, by war department order, made a member of an artillery board, with the late Generals Barry and Ord, "to revise and establish a new table of ranges, for all guns in service, and others submitted by the secretary of war." This board was the first to determine ranges for the "Parrott," "Hotchkiss" and "Hexagonal guns" not then in ser\'ice. Subsequently he acted for one year as judge advocate of court martials and on special duty was then appointed second lieutenant of Battery M, Fourth United States Artiller\'. He joined his regiment at Fort Randall in South Dakota in June of 1860.

In April of 1861 three of the five batteries at Randall were ordered east under the command of the late General Getty. On June 5, 1861, Lieutenant Tannatt found himself the only commissioned officer at his post, save the surgeon; lois com- Qianding officer declining to renew his oath of allegiance to the United States, deserted the post, to join the Confederate army with rank of Brigadier General. On Christmas day of that year Lieutenant Tannatt crossed the Missouri river with two batteries and made a twenty-eight-daj- march to St. Joseph, Missouri, where he joined Major General Buell and moved with him to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was placed in command of Artillery Park at the fair grounds and also appointed inspector and assistant chief of artiller}' on General Buell's staff. He remained with that commander until they reached Huntsville, Alabama, when he was ordered to report to Governor Andrew of Massachusetts, after which, upon the request Df Governor Andrew, General Barnard, chief of U. S. engineers, and General Barry, chief of artillery, he was transferred to the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and assumed command of his brigade consisting of his own regiment and the Second New York Heavy Artillery, occupying five forts on the south side of the Potomac. He had been made colonel of the Sixteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and this regiment had been previously raised by Lieutenant Tannatt as colonel. The appointment made Mr. Tannatt a senior colonel in the Army of the Potomac. He engaged in the battle of Malvern Hill and other engagements up to the battle of Fredericksburg. While there he supervised the construction of Fort Whipple (now Fort Meyer), and also Fort C. F. Smith.