Walla Walla County, Washington - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1901 (part 4 of 9)

OSCAR HAYNES, confectioner at Wait;- burg, was born in Johnson county, Missouri, July 5, 1872. He passed the first twelve years of his life in his native state, then accompanied his parents to Waitsburg, where, for several years, he was engaged in farm work. Later, however, he came into the town and embarked in the livery business on his own account. He followed that continuously and successfully until the outbreak of the Spanish- American war, then enlisted, becoming a member of the First Washington Volunteer Infantry, May i, 1898. He was in the army for eighteen months, participating in all the principal battles of the Philippine insurrection. On November I, 1899, he was mustered out in San Francisco, California, and returned forthwith to Waitsburg, where he resumed the business which he had left at the call of patriotism. He sold this business January 16, 1901, and engaged in the confectionery business on J\Iain street. He is an enterprising, progressive young inan, possessed of excellent business abilities, ami the force of character necessary to carry whatever lie undertakes to a successful conclusion, if that is within the range of p(^ssibility. His standing in the town as a man and citizen is of the highest. His fraternal affiliations are with the Knights of Fythias, in which he is very active and popular. He was married, in Waitsburg, August 21, 1900, to Miss Bertha Foster, a native of this county.

DR. Y. C. BLALOCK, physician and surgeon in the Rees-Winans building, was born in Mitchell county. North Carolina, August 3, 1859. He was early taken by his parents to central Illinois, where he resided until 1S73, attending the public schools. He then started across the plains to Walla Walla, driving a four-nuile team all the way from Alacon county, Illinois. For a number of years after his arrival he worked on his father's farm during the summer months, attending school in winter, and at last, by dint of hard, patient effort in the face of difficulties which would have overwhelmed a less resolute man, he prepared himself for entrance to Jefferson Medical College.

Immediately after graduation Dr. Blalock Ijegan practice in Walla W'alla, opening an office on April i, 1S84. Since that date he has devoted his energies assiduously to his profession, building up a large practice, and attaining a high standing among his fellow practitioners. At present he holds the office of county coroner, and for four terms he was health officer of the city. His interest in the welfare of Walla Walla is manifested in many ways, but finds more particular expression in his activity in connection with the Volunteer fire department, of which he has served as chief for six years. The Doctor is very active in politics. In 1898 he was elected chairman of the Republican County Central Committee, and in the present year he was again chosen to fill that office.

In fraternal circles tlie Doctor is intensely active. He has held many high offices in the Masonic order, both in the grand and subordinate lodges, and is also very prominent in the K. of P., and a member of the I. O. O. F. He was married, in April, 1883, in Walla Walla, to Julia Sanderson, a native of that city, who died in October, 1885, leaving one son, Jesse N. In 1890 he again married, the lady being Lillian Ballou, who resided just across the Oregon line from Walla Walla, and to this marriage was born one daughter, Phoebe I.

ALONZO GILLHA:\I, a farmer on the state line, southwest of Walla Walla, a pioneer of the northwest of i860, was born in Devonshire, England, March 30, 1834. He passed his first sixteen years in his fatherland, then was a sailor on the St. Lawrence river for two years, after which he settled in London, Ontario, where for some time he was manager of a hotel.

When ^Ir. Gillham first came to the United States he engaged in the lumbering industry, but he afterwards accepted a commission from the American Fur Company as "wagon boss." He brought, at the instance of this company, the first wagon train which ever crossed the plains by the northern route. The winter of i860 was passed by "Mr. Gillham at the company's trading post, at the mouth of the Poplar river, and in the spring it was his good fortune to witness the famous fight between the Crow and Gros \'entre Indians, in which each side lost forty-five warriors killed, and which ended in a treaty of perpetual peace between the two tribes, a treaty never broken. Early in 1 86 1 he made a trip with dispatches down the Missouri river in flat-boats to St. Joe, where he arrived the day Fort Sumter was fired upon, thence by rail to St. Louis, Missouri. From that city he went back to St. Paul, Minnesota.

The next spring our subject entered the employ of the government, which sent him to Fort Benton, Montana, to lay out a military road to Fort Abercrombie. He did not remain with the party until this was completed, however, but joined a prospecting company for the purpose of searching for hidden treasure in the Prickly Pear and Bannock creek districts. Selling out his interests in this company in 1863, he removed to Virginia City, Montana, Avhere he was quite successful during the three years of his stay. He was employed from 1866 to 1870 as a contractor in cjuartz mining, but in the latter year he took a squatter's claim - in Montana and turned his attention to farming, stock raising and freighting. In the fall of 1873 he drove his stock through to Boise City, Idaho, from which tQwn, shortly afterwards, he came to the Walla Walla valley. He followed freighting as a business until 1888, then took a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres on Basket mountain and again engaged in farming. He has ever since made his home on this tract, on which he is at present raising wheat and hay.

Few men have seen more of pioneer life and hardships than has Mr. Gillham, and few have done more than he to develop new regions and blaze the way for the advent of civilization. He has been active in several Indian wars. serving as a teamster to haul government supplies in both the Xez Perce and Bannock wars, and as a guide to a train sent from Lewiston through the Palouse country under Colonel Whitten, for the purpose of heading off Chief Joseph. Mr. Gillham was married, in Walla Walla, April 30, 1876, to Miss Mary C. Price, a native of Iowa, and an old pioneer of the Walla Walla valley. They have four children : Elizabeth E., wife of Charles Stribe; Harry J., a farmer; Alonzo C, a farmer; and Lidia, v.dio resides with her father.

HARRY DEBUS, whose connection with Walla Walla county dates back to 1875, was born in Baden, Germany, December 3, 1825. He grew to manhood and was educated in his fatherland, remaining there until 1849. In that year he emigrated to Philadelphia, where he secured employment as a tailor (that being' his handicraft) from Wannamaker & Brown. He worked for this firm about twelve years. In 1875 he came out to Walla Walla and resumed work at his trade, giving some attention also to farming. At present he is engaged in business on Fourth street, that city. Mr. Debus was married, while in Philadelphia, to Miss Elizabeth Besserer, a native of Baden, Germany, and to them have been born three children : Harry ; Freno, wife of J. W. Wahn; and Lena, wife of William Ruddock.

Harry Debus, Jr., was born in Philadelphia November 7, 1869. He came with his parents to Walla Walla, where he received a good education in the public schools and in St. Patrick's Academy. He early learned the trade of a blacksmith, and for ten years worked at that craft in Walla Walla, but for the past five years he has been engaged in the liquor business. In 1879 he became connected with the fire department, a cnnnection that has ne\er been per- manently severed, and he is at present acting secretary of the department. He is very active in poHtics, having served as delegate to every Democratic county convention since lie became of age. He also has the honor of having served in the Spanish-American war, and is now a leader in Lawton Post, Spanish-American Veterans. He was married, in Walla Walla, August 27, 1891, to Miss Dora Picard, a daughter of one of the old pioneers of this county, and they now have a family of three children, William R., Henry L. and Erma.

Lodge, No. 19, in which he is quite active. lit 1890, in the city of \\'alla Walla, our subject married Miss ]\Iaude Kirkman, a scion of an old pioneer family, and to them has been born one son. John Edward.

GEORGE E. BARNETT, dentist, 3 and 4 Post Office block, Walla Walla, was born in Oakland, Oregon, in 1866. He attended both public and private schools there until eleven years old, then came with the remainder of the family to Walla Walla. Here he completed his public-school education and took a course in AMiitman College. He then entered the Universitv of Pennsylvania as a student of dental surgery, graduating with distinction in the class of 1889. Returning home, he practiced in Walla Walla one winter, then spent two years as a practitioner of his profession in Seattle. Subsequently, howe\'er. he located in Walla Walla, where his home and his business have ever since been.

Dr. Barnett is a thorough student of his profession, and has attained the skill and proficiency in it which concentration and assiduity, coupled with good natural ability, are sure to bring. He is justly regarded as one of the leading dentists in the city, and enjoys a large patronage. Tlie Doctor gives some attention to mining, l;eing quite extensively interested in Lake Chelan properties. His fraternal connections are with the I. O. O. F., Washington

ADRIEN MAGALLON, a pioneer of 1882, was born in France August 10, i860. \\'hen fourteen years old he emigrated to San Francisco, California, whence he moved to Los Angeles to secure a job as a shepherd. He was thus employed there and at Santiago for about nine years, during which time he accumulated considera1)le money, his ambition being to start in the sheep business for himself. He then came to Walla Walla and herded for ^Ir. Sturgis a year and a half, at the end of which time he was master of sufficient funds tt warrant him in embarking in the industry on his own account. So he purchased a number of sheep, and started in the business in which we now find him. He has been remarkably successful, and is at present the owner of about thirteen thousand sheep. He also has about eight thousand acres of land on the Snake river, besides some very valuable Walla Walla real estate. He resides in a magnificent home at 313 N. Sixth street, surrounded by all the comforts and conveniences of life.

But above all Mr. Magallon is so fortunate as to enjoy the unwavering confidence and hearty good will of all who know him, and to command the respect always bestowed upon those who work their way by industry and thrift from obscure beginnings to competency and comfort. In fraternal affiliations I\Ir. Magallon is identified with the L O. R. M. He married, in Walla Walla, November 26, 1889, ^lary Charrier, a native of Quebec, Canada,

]Mrs. Magallon has been a resident of Walla Walla for twenty-two years, coming xia San Francisco with her parents, who made this county their home.

WINFIELD D. SMITH, undertaker and embalmer, 130 E. Alder street, was born in Morgan county, Ohio, December 22, 1850. and there the first fourteen years of his life were passed. From that time until 1880 he was a resident of McLean county, Illinois. He received a thorough public-school education, supplemented by a course in the Wesleyan University, located at Bloomington, Illinois, then engaged in teaching, which profession he followed for the ensuing five years. He then came west with a car-load of horses. These he disposed of at The Dalles, Oregon, where for the next three years he was engaged in stock raising.

Coming to Walla Walla in 1883, Mr. Smith turned his attention to the manufacture of woven wire matresses, and in 1885 he liecame a shipper of fruit and produce. In 1890 he built the first fruit evaporator in the county, and this he still owns and operates. He has recently begun the manufacture of cider vinegar, and in November of this year he began the erectinn of a factory for that purpose, which will have a capacity of thirty-five hundred barrels per annum, and which, he says, will be the first and only pure cider vinegar factory in the state.

Alder street. He is also interested in mining in the Rocky Bar district in Idaho. Mr. Smith is one of the most enterprising and progressive Ijusiness men in the county, and a man wdio stands high in the esteem of bis fellow towns- people generally. In fraternal affiliation he is connected with the Masons, the Odd Fellows and the Knights of Pythias. He was married in Portland, Oregon, in 1893, to Miss Nathalie Grenier, a native of Ohio, and they have two children, Madeline and Laura.

CAPTAIN JOHN E. BOYER is a native of the city of Walla Walla, born December 29, 1866. He received unusual educational advantages. In 1887 he took the degree of bachelor of arts from ^Vhitman College, graduating in the second class ever sent out by that institution. He then went to the University of Michigan and spent two years in the study of political science, history and law, taking the first year's work in the law department and' receiving the degree of bachelor of arts from their liberal arts department. He next went to Columbia University, where, in 1891, he finished the law course. He was admitted to the bar in New York city, but began practice in Seattle in partnership with the Hon. E. Heister Guie, with whom he was associated until the death of his father called him to Walla Walla in 1897. He then gave up the practice temporarily to act as one of the executors of his father's estate, the affairs of which engaged his attention until, in April, 1898, the outbreak of the Spanish-American war called him into the military service of his country. For this service Captain Boyer had fitted himself by close study and application to military duties in the national guard of Washington. While in Seattle he was identified with Compan)- E, N. G. W.. of which he was first lieutenant at- the time his removal from the city led him to resign his commission.

At the first call of the jjresident on the national guard for volunteers, however, he applied to Governor Rogers for reinstatement as an officer in the N. G. W.. but was refused, there being no \-acancy. 1 le thereupon enlisted as a private in the Walla Walla company and proceeded to the state rendezvous. Here, however, while the First Washington Regiment Avas in process of formation from the N. G. A\'., the governor found one of the companies so disorganized as to necessitate its disbanding, and Captain Boyer was called on to organize a new company from the material on the grounds. This company was mustered into the service of the United States as Company M, First Washington Infantry, United States Volunteers, on May 13, 1898, with Captain Boyer as commanding officer. It made a splendid record for itself both in garrison duty on the Pacific coast and campaigning in the Philippines until mustered out in San Francisco November i, 1899.

Captain Boyer was on duty constantly with his company except from September 29, 1898, to Fcl)ruary 8, 1899, during which period he was disabled by an operation for acute appendicitis. His military service was of the most worthy character throughout. He received special mention in orders from the head- (juarters of the army for "especialh' meritorious conduct in service," in saving, at the risk of his own life, a soldier from drowning in the Pasig river.

On being mustered out lie returned to Walla Walla and to his duties as executor of the Boyer estate, on the settling of which, in the latter part of 1900, he expects to resume his practice of law in Seattle. He has recently been appointed judge advocate for the department of Washington of the Spanish-.American ^^'ar \'eterans.

JOHN HOFFMANN, a farmer residing at 621 South First street, a pioneer of 1878, was born in Weinheim, Germany, iMarch 18, 1852. He was reared on a farm and educated in the public schools until sixteen years old, then came alone to the United States. He spent five years in the city of New York, employed in a piano factory, afterwards going to San Francisco, where he followed the same occupation for five years longer.

At the end of that time Mr. Hoft'mann came to Walla Walla, arriving in August, 1878. He was engaged in freighting here for several years, but in 1883 took a pre-emption of one hundred and twenty acres on Eureka flat with a view to becoming an agriculturist. He proved to be an unusually successful farmer, and his real estate holdings have kept increasing until he is now the owner of 2,560 acres, all except one quarter in one tract and adjacent to the original pre-emption. He also has an elegant home in Walla Walla, and two fine warehouses of his own on Eureka flat. On his place is a well 945 feet deep, drilled, but the water rises only 245 feet, so that it has to be elevated full seven hundred feet by artificial means.

Mr. Hofifmann has achieved that for which all are stri\-ing and which comparatively few attain, namely, success in life, and he has done so, too, under the most unfavorable circumstances. Coming to this country when a mere boj', without means, without influence, without even a knowledge of our language, and without experienced relatives to advise and direct, he has worked his way to a high standing in the social and financial world. He is a prominent fraternalist, being identified with Walla Walla Lodge, No. 13, F. & A. M., all the chairs of which have been occupied by him ; with Tribe No. 23, L O. R. M. ; with Integrity Lodge, No. 4, A. O. U. W., and with the Sons of Herman. He also belongs to the Royal Arch and Commandery, branches of Masonry. Mr. Hoffmann married in Walla Walla, on April 25, 1881, Miss Theresa Kirchner, a native of Minnesota, who was brought by her parents to the valley when four years old. Her father, Melchior Kirchner, died in Florida, to which state he had gone for his health, m 1891, and her n^other ncnv lives at Uniontown, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Hofi^mann are the parents of nine children : Edward. Bessie D., Annie, Valline, Philip and John, all at home and pupils in the public schools; Joseph, Henry and Lena, all deceased. The family affiliate with the Cumberland Presbyterian church of Walla Walla.

JAMES CUMMINS, of Cummins Bros. Livery Company, Walla \\'alla, was born in Henry county. Indiana, January 6, 1859. When three years of age he was brought by his parents to this county. He acquired a public-school education, then engaged in raising, buying and selling horses and cattle near Touchet Station, on Touchet river, where he still owns seven hundred acres of land, fifty head of dairy cattle and five hundred range horses. Of this ranch his son, John R., is now foreman, Mr. Cummins giving his time to the management of the livery business owned by himself and brother in Walla Walla.

undertake to a successful issue, and his standing in Walla Walla and wherever he has lived is an enviable one. His interest in the cause of education is manifested by the fact that for fourteen years he was school director in his district at Touchet Station.

In Walla Walla county, on September 14, 1879, Mr. Cummins married Miss Addie E. Byrnes, a native of Minnesota, who died August 16, 1900. Their children are John R., foreman of the ranch at Touchet; Lizzie, a student in Whitman College; Evelina, Albert, Lillie and Mary L., all in the public school; James H., the baby, now with his grandparents ; and Floyd, deceased.

JOSEPH L. HARPER, secretary of the Preston-Parton Milling Company, of Waits~ burg, was born in Iowa May 3, i860. After completing his education he followed the trade of a carpenter and the profession of teaching in his native state until 1882. then came to Waitsburg and turned his attention to farming. He was in that occupation until 1886, when he accepted a position in the mill, by which he is now and ever since has been employed. He is one of the silent partners in the business. Mr. Harper has always manifested a deep interest in the general development of Waitsburg, and ever shown himself willing to do his share for the promotion of the general welfare. For the past three years he has represented his ward in the city council. He was married in Waitsburg, November 21, 1888. to Miss Anna Co.x, who was born on the Co.x homestead, si.x miles south of the town, March 30, 1867. They have one son, Wayne. Mr.

and yirs.. Harper and their little boy live in a comfortable home of their own in Waitsburg, supplied with all the conveniences of life, and very pleasantly situated.

JMrs. Harper's father, ]\Ir. Lewis Cox, is one of the oldest and most prominent settlers of this section. He was born in Illinois in 1840, but has been identified with the Pacific coast ever since he was about twelve years old, having crossed the plains to Oregon in 1853. He farmed for a number of years in Linn county, Oregon, near Albany, but later moved thence to Waitsburg, where he farmed until failure of healtii compelled him to retire. In 1897 he sold his farm and moved into the town of Waitsburg. He was married August 29, 185S. His children are Albert, deceased; Grant U. ; Bertie E. ; Annie -M. ; Frank L., deceased ; Fred O. ; Nathan B. ; Anderson B. ; Elmer E. ; Lulu V. : Jennie E. : Tina J. and Grace.

ALFRED BACHTOLD is a native of Switzerland, born in 1870. When only twelve years old, however, he came to America, locating first in South Dakota, where for about six years he was engaged in farming. He then went to Wisconsin and directed his attention to the plumbing business, a line which he followed until 1 89 1. The ensuing twelvemonth was spent in Dakota. Coming then to Portland. Oregon, he remained a few months in tb.at city, but before the end of the year 1892 he became identified with Walla Walla. For the following five years he was engaged in manufacturing wire fencing and in various other enterprises, but in 1897, in company with Charles Ackerman, he opened a wholesale wine and liquor establishment. His trade extends over a large section of country, including Portland, Seattle, The Dalles, Astoria and many other cities and towns. Mr. Bachtold is an enthusiastic man in fraternal circles, and is connected with the Red Men, of which he is past sachem ; the Eagles, and the Sons of Herman. He is also an active member of the fire department. Our subject was married, in Walla Walla, in 1897, to Mary Ganswig, and to them were born two children, the oldest now deceased.

Professor Samuel Harrison

PROFESSOR SAMUEL HARRISON LOVEWELL, director of the Conservatory of Music, of Whitman College, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, March 9, 1865. He took a thorough public-school course, then entered the New England Conservatory of Music, from which he graduated in 189 1. A great part of his instruction was, however, received from George E. Whiting, Otto Bendix and other private teachers of note. His first experience in the practice of the musical profession was acquired in Easton, Pennsylvania, .where he was engaged as organist and choir master of St. John's Lutheran church, and in private teaching. Two of his pupih ^\d^ile there were members of the family of Francis A. March, the great scholar and philologist.

Subsequently Professor Lovewell went to Georgetown, Kentucky, to become organist and choir master in the Christian ciiurch there located, and to further prosecute iiis work as a private instructor in music. In 1S96 he removed to Columbia, South Carolina, and took charge of the Trinity Episcopal church choir, also became director of music in the Presbyterian College for Women, located in that city. He retained these positions until, in 1898, he was called to Walla Walla to take charge of the music teaching in Whitman College.

The Professor is a thorougli musician, familiar with all the great composers, and inspired with a great love for that which is highest and best in this moSt sublime of all arts. He is doing much to elevate and improve the musical tastes of his pupils and of all who come under the influence of the college. Professor Lovewell was married, in 1893, in Easton, Pennsylvania, to Anna A. Sandt, and they have four children, Elizabeth, John S., Dorothy and Ruth.

JESSE CU?^1MINS, of Cummins Bros. Livery Company, at 318 Main street, a pioneer of 1862, was born in Mahaska county, Iowa, January 17, 1853. The first nine years of his life were passed there but he then started with his parents over the long trail to the west. He came in the Canada train, consisting of two hundred and seventeen wagons, and experienced no difficulty with the Indiarls. The family settled in this county, taking a homestead six miles southeast of Walla Walla. They resided here for about seven years, then sold out and moved over onto the Walla Walla river, where they might have better pasture for their herds.

Mr. Cummins received such educational privileges as the public schools of those early days afforded, and when nineteen years old began to work for wages. Two years later he homesteaded land near Dayton, where for the ensuing thirteen years he was engaged in farming. He then traded off his place and went to raising horses at Pine Tree Rapids, of Snake river, in Franklin county, at which he was employed for four years. Thereafter he traded a tract of two hundred and twenty-eight acres on the Snake river, which he had bought from the railroad company, for a farm of two hundred acres in the Grande Ronde valley, Oregon, Upon this land he resided until July, 1900, v.dien he sold out and returned to Walla Walla to become a partner of his brother in the livery business here.

Mr. Cummins has always been a friend of progress and a promoter of the general welfare wherever he has lived. He is a great friend of education, and has served as school director in dift'erent places for a number of years. He was married, in Walla Walla, on November

EDWARD McDonnell, chief night turnkey at the state penitentiary, a pioneer of 1872, was born in Ireland May 6, 1844. He received his education in Iowa, to which state his parents emigrated when he was five years old. For several years he attended college in Milwaukee, and thereafter was engaged in farming and teaching until 1872, wdien he came out to Walla Walla. He took land here and at once embarked in the sheep business, an industry which continued to engage his energies until 1878. When Columbia county was organized he became one of its first county commissioners, and in 1876 he was elected to represent it in the legislature. In 1879 he moved into Walla Walla, from which city he directed operations on his farm two miles out. For the two years following 1883 he was a farmer ir. Spokane county, but he then returned to Walla WaW^.

political history of state and county, serving a term in the legislature as above mentioned, presiding over the board of county commissioners for four years, and leading the deliberations of the Democratic party in many of its most important conventions. He was the nominee of his party in the first election held under the state constitution for the state senate, and was appointed I)y Governor Rogers to the stewardship of the penitentiary in 1897, but was afterwards given the post of chief night turnkey, which he still holds.

Jilr. ilcDonnell married, in Dubuque, Iowa, January 29, 1878, Miss Sarah A. Curran. a native of that city. They have a family of three children, Curran, Blanche and Shirley. Mr. McDonnell is the owner of a comfortable home at 109 Second street and of considerable other valuable city property.

BEXJA:^IIX L. SHARPSTEIN, of the law firm of Sharpstein & Sharpstein, a pioneer of 1865, was born in Bath, New York, October 22. 1827. In 1834 he accompanied his parents to Michigan, and when nineteen years of age he moved to Wisconsin, where he studied law, gaining admission to the bar in 1852. For the ensuing thirteen j'cars he practiced his profession there, but in 1865 he set out across the plains to Washington, traveling in the primative fashion of those days, namely, with teams and wagons.

Arriving in Walla Walla in due time, ]\Ir. Sharpstein opened an office and again engaged in law practice. He seems to have come into prominence in his new home almost immediately, for in 1866 he was elected to the territorial legislature. As his subsequent career proved, the choice was a wise one, and the people, appreciating the faithfulness and ability of his public service, twice returned him. In 1889 he was elected a member of the state constitutional convention. Afterward, for three successive terms, he was chairman of the Tide Lands Commission, a most important post, for upon this board fell the burden and responsibility of superintending the sale of tide lands.

Mr. Sharpstein has labored in many ways for the development and ujilniilding of ^^^alla Walla, but it is in the educational work of the city that his beneficent influence has been most sensibly felt. For many years he was a faithful and judicious member of the board of education. He takes rank among the leading attorneys of the Inland Empire, and the firm of which he is the senior partner is doing an extensive business. They are the owners of large tracts of land in Walla \\'alla and other counties, besides considerable valuable city property.

In fraternal affiliations Mr. Sharpstein is a prominent thirty-second-degree Mason. In Wisconsin, on December 27, 1855, he married Miss Sarah J. Park, and to them have l)een lx)rn five children: John L.. a partner in the firm; Addie, now Mrs. C. B. L'pton: Frank B.. of the law firm of Sharpstein & Rader ; Charles ;M., in Chicago; and Arthur P.. deceased.

HORACE J. ]MURPHY. a retired farmer, residing in Waitsburg, is a son of the west, having been born in Oregon June 22. 1854. He lived in that state until fifteen years old. acquiring most of his education there, then came to Spring Valley, Washington, and engaged in stock raising. He continued in that Inisiness until 1S77, then took up land seven miles west of Waitsburg and commenced general farming. For fifteen years thereafter he was one of the most enterprising- anil successful farmers in the valley, increasing his real estate holdings until they amounted in all to a full section, but in 1892 he rented his land and retired from active participation in any of the callings of life. He now resides in Waitsburg, where he has some valuable property.

native of Pennsylvania, and they have become the parents of nine children : Alcestes, deceased; James T., Florence 'Si., Eliza J., Alta, Isaac E., Anna G., Hiram L. and Arrabella Gertrude.

JAMES WICKERSHAM, a stone and brick mason at Waitsburg, is a native of Ohio, born November 16, 1832. He acquired a common-school education and learned his trade there, then went to Iowa, where he worked as a journeyman until the fall of 1865. He then went to east central Kansas, bought a farm of one hundred acres one and one-half miles east of Ottawa, the county seat of Franklin county, and turned his attention to agricultural pursuits and contracting. Wliile there he was quite prominent locally, holding the positions of township trustee and assessor for a period of five years. After farming there steadily for more than a score of years he, in the spring of 1888, came to Waitsburg, where for half a decade he was engaged in the dual occupation of farming and merchandising.

In 1892 Mr. Wickersham sold both his farm and his store, and purchased a half interest in the Waitsburg planing mill, but he afterwards sold this also and returned to the pursuit of his trade. He took a trip east in the fall of 1899, visiting the old home place and eating ajjples from the trees he had himself planted in 1849.

Thmigh quite well advanced in life, Mr. Wickersham is so well preserved that he is able to hold his own with the average man on a brick or stone wall. He was married in lnwa, on October 18, 1855, to Miss Mary Smith, a

BENJAMIN W. MARCY, a fruit grower, one-half mile west of McMinn's drier, a pioneer of 1 86 1, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, January 27, 1834. When he was but two years old the family moved to the vicinity of Beardstown, Illinois, then a very new country, and there Mr. Marcy grew to maturity and was educated. His mother died when he was seven years old and his father when he was seventeen. He then stayed with his sister about a year, after which he set out across the plains tc California, traveling with ox-teams. The emigration from the eastern states was heavy that year, so that his train never was out of sight of wagons ahead or behind.

Arriving in California August 20, 1852, ilr. Alarcy at once proceeded to the placer mines, where for a short time he worked for wages, getting six dollars per day. Soon, however, he engaged in mining on his own account, following this as his occupation continuously for nine years. In August, 1861, he came to the Walla Walla valley. For the first three months of his residence here he busied himself in shooting prairie chickens for the market, and when winter came on he engaged in hunting deer for the same purpose. Next spring he went to Florence, Idaho, on a prospecting trip, but that summer he and his partner went to Camass Prairie, Idaho, and engaged in making hay, for which they got one hundred dollars per ton.

sixty acres on Cottonwood creek, where for tlie next nineteen years lie was engaged in agricultural pursuits. In addition to his homestead he also became the owner of a half-section of railroad land on the Oregon side of the line, and a quarter-section of school land. He sold the last of this real estate in 1890, and in 1892 purchased seventeen acres, upon which he is now raising fruits, berries, etc. Mr. Marcy possesses the true pioneer spirit. He has the resourcefulness, courage and ability to make the best of circumstances, for which the first settlers of any country are usually noted, and he has contributed his full share towards the subduing and civilizing of this section.

In 1864 he married Miss Ellen Artheion, a native of Iowa, who died in 1873. Of this marriage five children were born, three of whom are still living: Carrie, wife of John Savage; Charles, a farmer; and Dwight, also a farmer. Mr. Marcy was again married, in 1875, tli^ ''^'^y being j\Irs. Emma Lilly, iicc Campbell, a native of New Jersey, and they are the parents of six living children: Charlotte, now Mrs. Herman Flaherty; ]\Iartin, May jNL, Nellie C, Pearlie P. and George W. ; also of one named Claude, deceased.

CHARLES ACHERMANN is a native of Switzerland, born in 1870. When twelve years old he went to France, where he remained for the ensuing eleven years, coming then to America, the date of his arrival being 1893. He located first in Coolman, Alabama, remaining, however, only a brief period. From that locality he went to St. Helena, California, where for three and a half years he was engaged in the manufacture of wines, thereafter coming to Walla ^\'alla. Shortly subsequent to his arrival here he engaged in the wholesale wine and li<iu<ir business with Alfred Bachtold, like whom he is, in being energetic and progressive He aftlliates with the Red Men, the Sons of Herman and the Maennerchor. He manifests his local patriotism by taking an active interest ii' the \'olunteer fire department.

WILLIAM A. CLARK, a dairy farmer, seven miles southwest of Walla Walla, was born in Missouri August 10, 1850. His father died when he was eight years old, and when he reached the age of fifteen he and his mother started across the plains with ox-teams to the west. Mr. Clark, though so young, made the entire trip on foot, driving the oxen all the v/a}'. In their train were one himdred wagons, so that, though they were compelled to sustain a running fight with the Indians all through the journey, they were too strong to be closed ir by their enemies. They settled first on Dry creek, this county, in the fall of 1865, rented land and began farming, but later they moved to Pine creek, where they had bought a small place.

Having disposed of this shortly afterwards, tb.ey returned to Dry creek and purchased two hundred and sixty-five acres, which was their home until Mr. Clark bought his present fortyseven-and-one-half-acre tract. He is also the owner of a quarter-section of land on Blue mountain, which he took as a homestead that he might have a pasture for his cattle, of which he has a fine band, all shorthorn Divrham stock. He gives the major part of his attention to the dairv business. ]\Ir. Clark has never been troubled in the least by Indians since settling in the valley, though during the war of 1878 he thought best to send his family to Walla Walla. He himself remained on his farm.

sentative men of his neighhorlKKHl, taking a very deep interest in everything which promised to iiromote the general welfare. His interest in the cause of education is evinced by the fact th.at for nine years he was director in the Couse creek district. He was married, in this county. July 3, 1873, to jNIiss Eliza P. Kinney, a native of JNIinnesota, whose parents were pioneers of 1859. They have seven children living : Eva, wife of J. L. Rogers ; Myrtle, Willie, Louis, Elizabeth. Josephine, and one born January 16, 1901, not yet named; also four deceased, - Edwin, Dora. Millie and Bessie.

Mr. Clark's mother, Mrs. Cyntha Clark, was born in Madison county, Kentucky, January 7, 181 1, and is still living and in good health, though over ninety years old. At present she is residing with her daughter, Mrs. Mildred Swaggart, at Heppner, Oregon. She is one of the earliest and most highly and uniformly respected pioneers of this section and is affectionately called "Grandma" by all her acquaintances far and near. When the Methodist Episcopal church was divided by the formation of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, she, though she had been reared in that denomination, withdrew her membership and joined the Baptist church, of which she has ever since been a faithful and consistent member.

JOPIN H. HODGIS. a native of Walla Walla, was born March 2. 1863. He received such education as the primitive schools of the pioneer town afforded, then turned his attention to steamboating. For a number of years he was captain of steam vessels on the Columbia river, and he also spent much time as an engineer on steamboats on Puget Sound. For the past two years, however, he was engaged in farming in the vicinity of Walla \\"alla, but at present is li\-ing a retired life. He is identified with the A. O. U. W. of that city. On October 2, 1890, he was married, in King county, this state, to Mary Christman, a native of Oregon.

Mr. Hodgis' father, Hemen M., a native of Michigan, born in 1831, crossed the plains in 1857 as captain of a w-agon team, becoming identified with the town of Walla Walla the following year. He was quite prominent and active in the early political history of the city, filling several county and local offices. In 1857 he was married, in Linn county, Oregon, to Miss Irene Havird, who died in 1869, and lies buried in the Whitman Mission. Mr. Hodgis passed away in 1881, leaving four children, - Mary E., wife of W. H. Johnson, of Wallula ; John H., whose name heads this article; Ida S., Avife of William Hufif; and Emma I., wife of F. D. Sharp, a farmer near Prescott.

CHARLES E. GHOLSON, a farmer and fruit dryer, residing seven miles southwest of Walla Walla, was born in this city March 20, 1875. He has passed his entire life thus far in this county, receiving his education in the public schools and in Empire Business College, of Walla Walla. As soon as he had finished his course of business training he assumed charge of his father's farm, of w-hich he is now the owner, having purchased it in 1896. He is also interested in a fruit drier, which he and his father erected together in that year, and which has a capacity of three tons daily. The drier is constantly rushed in the effort to handle the large quantities of fruit which are brought to it.

what lias lieeii already recorded, gives the major part of his attention to fruit raising and drying, and to finding markets for the products in eastern cities, but he is also interested in raising hay and dairy cattle. He is the owner of a beautiful herd of Jerseys, consisting of forty head, principally thoroughbreds. For a young man, Mr. Gholson is displaying remarkable energy, good judgment and business ability, and he has already given earnest of becoming one of the leading fruit raisers and handlers in the Liland Empire. He is quite interested in politics, too, and in the recent campaign was active in the counsels of the Democratic party, to whose county convention he was a delegate. He married, in Walla Walla, in 1895, Miss IMary McEvoy, a pioneer of the valley, and a graduate of the Catholic college established in this city. They have two children, Ralph W. and Marion.

Note. - On October 2, 1900, since the above was written, our subject's fruit drier and the entire year's product were destroyed by fire, but with his characteristic energy he at once began planning for the erection of a new drier in the early spring. He also recently purchased the livery business of the Cummins Bros., at 318 West Main street, and is conducting this new business on plans that insure success.

JOHN BACHTOLD, 124 W. Main street. Walla ^^'a]la, was born in Switzerland in 1865, but emigrated to America when only fourteen years old. For nine years after his arrival in the new world he followed farming ir South Dakota. He then removed to Gray's Harbor, \\'ashington, where for the ensuing two years he was clerk in a Imtel. The next year he was projirietor of a hotel at Oswego,

Oregon, but in iSgo he came to ^^'alla Walla and opened a restaurant. The following year he opened his present establishment, and his energies have been given to it continuously since. His interest in the city's welfare is manifested by the intense actixity he displays in maintaining the efficiency of the volunteer fire department, of which he is president. He is acti\e in fraternal circles also, being identified with the Red Men, the A. O. U. W., the Foresters, the Eagles, the Sons of Herman and. the ]\Iaennerchor. He was married in Gray's Harbor, in 1892, to Miss Annie Schwich, and to their union have been born three children, Ida, Annie and George.

THOMAS QUINN, deceased, was a native of Toronto, Canada, born March 7, 1837. He lived in his fatherland until twenty-five, rece'ving the advantage of the excellent public schools for which that province is noted and also learning the trade of a harness-maker. He tlien remo\-ed to California, going liy way of the isthmus, and followed his handicraft there for some time. Subsequently, however, he came to Walla Walla. He worked here two years as a journeyman, then started m business for himself and continued to devote his energies to the development and extending of his trade until the time of his death.

yiv. Ouinn was a true friend of the city, and took a lively interest in all local afYairs. For two terms he was a member of the city council and discharged his duties as such faitlifully, conscientiously and with an eye single to the city's welfare. He further demonstrated his interest in Walla Walla by serving as a volunteer fireman in the early days. For many years he was afiiliated with the I. O. O. F..

Thomas Quinn

but at the time of his death he Ijcloiiged only to the Catholic Knights of America. He was married in Walla Walla, in i868', to Clara Paris, and to them were born nii:e children, namely : Joseph, deceased ; Teresa, deceased ; Thomas, now in charge of his father's store; Catherine, deceased; John, also in the store; William, Albert, Edward and Clara. Mrs. Quinn has been a resident of Walla Walla for thirty-four years.

At Air. Quinn's death the entire estate came to Mrs. Quinn and she has ever since conducted the business left her by her husband in a most successful manner. She has i^lways, however, retained her eldest living son, Thomas, in her employ as manager of the store.

ALVIN BOSTON, dentist, 27 West Main street, was born in Hartland, Maine, in 1857. He acquired his early education in that city and in Boston, but in 1879 came out to The Dalles, Oregon, where for about two years he was engaged in a general stock raising and handling industry. He subsequently began the study of dentistry, and in the spring of 1881 opened offices for the practice of that profession at Lone Rock, Fossil and Heppner, Oregon. He afterwards came to Colfax, where for nine years he maintained dental parlors. Seized with a desire to try his hand at mining, he then went to the Coeur d'Alene country, and during the next six years he was engaged there in the search for hidden treasures. At the end of that time he came to Walla Walla, and again took up the practice of his profession. He enjoys quite an extensive patronage, being looked upon as one of the leading dental surgeons of the city. He

Association of Butte, Montana, Portland, Oregon, and Walla Walla. In fraternal affiliations he is an Odd Fellow, a Forester and a member of the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Idaho, in 1894, to Miss May Anger, a native of Hancock, Michigan.

VALENTINE WILSON, a farmer at Waitsburg, is a native of Virginia, born October 10, 1829. He was, however, reared and educated in Hancock county, Illinois, whither his parents took him when seven years old. After leaving school he clerked a while, then farmed two years, but in 1852 he started across the plains with ox-teams, determined to try his fortune in California. For two years he tried mining, then, in 1854, went to Suisun valley and resumed his former occupation of farming. Three years were given to that industry and three to the livery business, then he sold out and took a trip east in a steamer, via Panama, visiting Havana, also New Orleans, and all Mississippi river points as far north as Quincy, Illinois.

Returning to Suisun City, California, after fourteen months absence, he secured stock in the City Water Works Company, and continued in that business for nine years. He was also quite active, during this period, in political and semi-political matters, and held dilTerent positions, such as road master, constable, deputy sheriff and tax collector. In 1871 he removed to Two Rocks, California, where for the third time in his life he engaged in farming, an occupation to which his energies were thereafter given uninterruptedly for about seven years. The needs of a growing family then compelled him to seek better school advantages, so he spent a few

In September. 1881, he came to Waitsburg. Washington, took up land and again engaged in farming and stock raising. He was for many years one of the most enterprising and progressive agriculturists of his neighborhood, though he did not farm quite as extensively as some. Of late years, however, he has been living a retired life.

Mr. Wilson was married in Illinois March 28, i860, to Miss Eliza A. Tracy, a native of Ohio, and their union has been blest by the advent of nine children : Dr. George B., at Pullman, Washington; Albert C. ; Isaac E. ; Luella, deceased; Valentine L. ; Gaston; Stella M. ; Walter, deceased ; and Harmon.

THOMPSON M. McKINNEY. - Prominent among the rising young attorneys of the county, and high in the esteem and regard of all of his fellow townspeople, stands the man whose name initiates this sketch. His naturally fine intellectual endowments have been fully developed by years of faithful and patient study, and he needs but the added experience and prestige which come only with greater age to place him among the leading barristers of the Inland Empire.

Born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, on July 8, 1865, he was reared and educated in his native state, receiving the advantages of West Sunbury Academy, from which he graduated in 1885, and of Westminster College, at New Wilmington, which conferred upon him the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 18S9. Immediately after graduation he set out for the west, believing that it offered greater advantages for a voung man of education and ability than were to be had in the older civilization of his native state. He settled in Waitsburg,- where his services were soon called into requisition by the Waitsburg Academy, but his inclination led him to seek entrance to a profession opening a wider sphere of activity to an ambitious person than is to be found in the school room or the professor's chair. Accordingly he went to Spokane, entered the office of Henley & Scott, one of tlie leading firms of that city, and began vigorously the study of law. In 1892 he was admitted to the bar of the state, and he at once opened an office in the city in which he had received his legal education. He practiced there until December, 1894, then decided to try his fortune in the town to which he had first come after arriving in the state. He opened a law office there and began building up the desirable and lucraiive practice he now enjoys. He is a leading man in politics, and is active in promoting in every way possible the best interests of his town and county. Between the years 1895 and 1898 he served as city attorney and city clerk of Waitsburg, and in 1900 he was the nominee of his party, the Democratic, for the office of prosecuting attorney, but, with most other Democratic nominees, was defeated. The majority received by his opponent was, however, very small.

Though deeply devoted to his business, Mr. McKinney recognizes the fact that in times of need or danger his first duty is to the dag that protects him, and accordingly, when the war with Spain broke out he quickly responded to the call of patriotism, and enlisted as sergeant of Company K, First Washington Volunteers. He accompanied his regiment on all marches, and was found at his post of duty in every battle in which the First Washington participated. When the regiment

JMr. IMcKinney is quite a leader in fraternal circles, being a member of Touchet Lodge, No. 5, L O. O. F., of which he is noble grand ; of Delta Lodge, No. 70, K. of P., of which he is chancellor commander ; and of Occidental Lodge, No. 8, A. O. U. \\\ He also belongs to all the societies auxiliary to the orders above mentioned.

CHARLES -M. TAYLOR. - Among those who have attained marked success in agricultural pursuits, and who have by their industry and toil forced the rich Walla Walla valley to bring forth the bountiful harvests of which it is capable, the subject of this brief sketch deserves an honored place. His early educational advantages were not such as to develop the ]X)wers of his mind to their fullest extent, but were sufficient to prepare him for success in the line of activity in which he has engaged. Furthermore, he always possessed a degree of hard common sense anrl inherent force of character which, for all practical purposes, are often better than scholastic training.

Born in Johnson county, Missouri, January 10. 1859, he grew to man's estate on a farm in that locality, and busied himself in assisting with the farm work when not attending the district school. On attaining his majority he came direct to Waitsburg, where for about two years he followed railroading, but he soon decided to go back to the business he had followed in his boyhood, so, renting a tract of land, he began farming, and so successful was he that before long he had saved enough to purchase land for himself. He has been adding to his original home from time to time since until he is now the owner of a very large farm in the vicinity of Waitsburg. He and his l)rothers cultivate about twenty-eight hundred acres, raising wheat mostly, though they also have considerable stock.

Mr. Taylor is considered one of the representati\e men of his community, and is quite active in promoting every enterprise which tends toward the general progress and the amelioration of conditions. At present he is serving as a member of the city council. He is a member of and noble grand in Touchet Lodge, No. 5. L O. O. F., also belongs to Occidental Lodge, No. II, A. O. U. W., and to the ladies' au.xiliaries of both these fraternities. He was married in Missouri, February 5, 1880, to Miss Nannie E. White, a native of that state, and their union has been blest by the advent of one daughter, Estella M.

Mr. Taylor's father, Simon, who was born ir We.st Virginia in 1823, died in Walla Walla county in July, 1899, but his mother, Harriet, is still living and resides at Waitsburg. She also is a daughter of West Virginia, born in 1839. She has five sons living, all of whom are residents of Waitsburg, namely : Charles M.. ^^'illiam M.. John F., Garland B. and James W. She also had one daughter, Henrietta, afterwards Mrs. Francis M. Wooldridge, who died in Missouri in June, 1900.

JOHN H. HARER, a farmer residing near Whitman Chapel, six miles southwest of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1865, was born in Lane county, Oregon, February 25, 1859. He was, however, reared and educated in this valley, having been brought here by his parents when six years old. After leaving school he was engaged in farming and sheep and cattle raising with his father until the Litter's death, which occurred in June, 1883, but he then removed to Umatilla county, Oregon, where he followed the same occupation until 1887.

Returning in that year to his father's place near Valley Chapel, Mr. Harer farmed the entire estate until, in 1890, it was divided among the heirs, then he moved onto his own portion, consisting of one hundred and thirty acres, upon which he is now raising timothy and alfalfa hay. His home is within sight of the place on which the Whitman massacre occurred, and is less than a mile distant from that historic spot. His own family have seen their share of the unromantic side of pioneer life, being compelled to move into Walla Walla for safety during the war of 1878. Nor was danger from Indians the only drawback to life in an uncivilized region. Transportation facilities \vere wholly lacking, and as late as 1882 Mr. Harer had to drive his stock from Oregon and Washington all the way to Wyoming and Colorado before they could be loaded on board the cars for transportation to the eastern markets. But the pioneers were a dauntless, hardy, persevering race, and finally conquered in spite of every difficulty.

Mr. Harer was married in Walla Walla county February 15, 1892, to Miss Eva Waterman, a native of the valley, and they are the parents of two children, Inez U. and Bertha. fThe family belong to the Christian church of Walla Walla.

Mr. Harer's father, David, was born in Arkansas in 1820, and resided in that state until 1852, when he crossed the plains by oxteams to the vicinity of Eugene, Lane county, Oregon. In 1861 he drove his salable stock of sheep and cattle into Walla Walla, and thence to the mining regions of Oregon and Idaho, and in 1864 he returned to Walla Walla, that he might open a meat market there. He maintained this until 1872, then, sold out to Kirkliam & Dooley, and gave his entire attention to stock buying, going to Kansas and Texas for that purpose and driving his herds when purchased into Wyoming.' As before stated, he died in 1883, but his widow still lives and resides with her son John H. Though in her eighty-third year, she is hale and hearty, and as happy as any of her little grandchildren, whom she strives to amuse.

Mrs. John H. Harer's parents were also among the earliest pioneers of the west, having crossed the plains from Iowa in 1859. They lived a short time in California at first, then for many years were identified with the development of Walla Walla valley.

ROBERT BURNS, general agent of the freight and passenger departments of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, is a native of Hamilton, Ontario, born in i860. He lived in his fatherland until fifteen years old, receiving his education in the public schools and in a collegiate institute, graduating from the latter. He learned telegraphy in St. Thomas, Ontario, and when competent accepted an agency on the Canada Southern, with which company he remained five years, eventually leaving that he might accept a like position with the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Company, by which he was employed a year.

Since that time Mr. Burns has been identified with railway development and operation in the west. He has served the Union Pacific Railroad Company in one capacity or an- other for the past eighteen years, and at present is in the employ of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, an affihated Hne, as general agent in their freight and passenger department.

Mr. Burns has devoted his entire life, since he became old enough for any kind of business, to railroad work, and has that mastery of tha details of that intricate and complex occupation which can be attained in no other w^y than by assiduous effort for many years. He is one of the most valued and trusted employes in the service of the company. As a man among men, also, Mr. Burns' standing is of the highest. He is affiliated with the Masonic order, in which he is quite prominent, being a Knight Templar, and he also belongs to the Elks fraternity. In Glendale, Montana, on December lo, 1885, our subject married Louise Whitney, a native of Utah, and they have one child, Lewis A.

EMERSON L. WHEELER. - No line of enterprise in which a young man may engage offers better opportunities for exerting a powerful influence for good in the community than journalism. The orator holds his audience spell-bound by the beauty and force of his diction and the magnetic influence of his personality, l)ut his words can reach only a few hundreds or thousands, while the influence of the press goes wherever the mails go, and reaches even to the humblest dwellers in the humblest homes of our land. It must follow, then, "as the night the day," that a calling thus potential in moukling the opinions and sentiments of a community is worthy the best talent which can be found anywhere, and it is pleasing to see young men of as fine

Our subject is quite a young man, having been born March 22, 1878, but he has already been a leader of public thought and a moulder of public opinion for nearly a decade. His entire life thus far has been passed in Waitsburg, and' in the public schools of that town and in Waitsburg Academy he received his education. After retiring from school he taught a year, then became editor of the Waitsburg Times. His paper, like many other important enterprises, had an humble beginning, but it has steadily advanced in power and influence, keeping pace with the development of the town and cuunty, nay, rather taking a position in the advance guard of the progressive forces which have wrought that development, and contributing a lion's share toward the general progress.

Mr. Wheeler is a member of Delta Lodge, No. 70, K. of P. He is possessed of exceK lent musical talents, and for several years has been president and manager of the Waitsburg Military band. He was married in his home town, June 5, 1900, to Miss Myrtle Duncan, a nati\'e of California.

IWA S.. MOLKINS, a farmer on Whitman road, five miles west of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1871, was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, on September 4, 1855. He lived there imtil the spring of 1864, then accomjianied his parents on the long journey across the plains with ox-teams to Yamhill county, Oregon, where he lived about six years, working on his father's farm and attending public school. In 1871 the family moved to what is now known as College Place, on the old Daniel Stewart farm, and the father took a homestead near Dayton, onto which he moved his wife and children in 1872. They were engaged in raising grain there for the ne.xt ten years, but in 1882 they sold out and removed to the vicinity of Rathdrum, Idahc, whither our subject had gone the year before. Both father and son were engaged in farming for about four years, but on April I2; 1886, the old gentleman died.

Mr. ;\Iolkins had taken a homestead beside the father's place in 1882, and after the death of the latter, having been appointed administrator of the estate, he farmed both places. In 1895 he sold t)ut and returned to the valley, where he has ever since resided. He is a thrifty, progressive farmer, and one of the most highly esteemed and respected citizens of his part of the county. ^Ir. Molkins was married in Rathdrum, Idaho, October 12, 1890, to Miss Mary E. Adkins, a native of Missouri and a pioneer of Idaho. They have four children, Arthur \\'., Wayne E., Henry Clay and Lester.

ilr. ]\iolkins was traveling alone on the road to Lewiston the day the great battle was fought between the volunteers and the Indians on Camas Prairie, but got through without molestation, and helped to guard the town that night.

FRAX'CIS G. H.\RT, a miner, is a native of Xew York, born October 19, 1832. He livetl in the state of his nativity until about twenty years old, receiving a public-school education, then came by steamer to San Francisco, whence be went into the mining region. He was there for six years, engaged in a

In 1866 he came to Lewiston, Idaho, where for two years lie devoted his energies to carrying express packages on horseback from Lewiston to Warren's for the Wells- Fargo Express Company.

In 1869 he embarked in a livery lousiness in Waitsburg, and his time was thus occupied until 1895, when he accepted a position as superintendent for a mining company operating in the Okanogan mining region, in whose employ he has continued ever since. Mr. Hart is a man of unusual ability, as is evinced by the fact that he has been uniformly successful both in business and as a mining expert.

He was married in 1863 to Miss Isabella M. Thorm, a native of Iowa, born in March, 1844. ^^'hen nine years old she made the long trip across the plains to Oregon, and in Douglas county, that state, she grew to womanhood and was educated. She and Mr. Hart are parents of five living children, Adelbert, Edward, Fred G., Charles A. and Harry H. The family reside in their own comfortable home in Waitsbura:.

HON. JOHN F. BREWER, member of the Walla Walla city council, was born in Scotland county, Missouri, November 9, 1842. When ten years old he crossed the plains with ox-teams, arri\ing in Salem, Oregon, in 1853, after a six months' journey. He had attended the public schools for several years in his native state, and he continued his education in his new home, completing the common-school course and taking a term in Sublimity College. For the first five years after leaving the college he was engaged in teaching. In 187 1 he came to Walla Walla county, but before long he received employment as a teacher in Umatilla county, Oregon, just across the line. The following spring he went to \\'hitman county and located as a homestead the site of the present town of Garfield, but the next fall he was called back to the school he had taught the preceding winter. He had been elected assessor of Whitman county, but thought best not to qualify.

For the ensuing three years Mr. Brewer followed the teaching profession in the vicinity of Walla Walla, but in 1876 he purchased land and turned his attention to farming, a business which has engaged the greater portion of his energies ever since. He was, however, a resident of Seattle most of the time during the seven years prior to 1897, and while there gave much attention to the real estate business, though without neglecting his farming interests. He is now the owner of a section of fine land in this county, and takes rank among the most successful and enterprising farmers of this section.

In political matters our subject has long been a leader. He served in the city council as early as 1889, and in 1898 he was again called upon to assume the duties of that office. His popularity as a councilman may be judged from the fact that in the present year he was re-elected. Indeed, he has had experience enough in municipal government to render him very expert in- that difficult branch of civil administration, having also served as councilman in Seattle for four years. He was also a member of the board of education in the same city for two years, resigning the latter office when he returned to Walla Walla in 1897. In 1884 he was elected to the territorial legislature from Walla Walla county, and he served as its representative during the session of 1885-1886, displaying much political acumen and legislative ability. His reputation as a man and a citizen is most flattering wherever he is known. In fraternal affiliations he is prominently connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Knights of Pythias, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Royal Arcanum. In JNIarion county, Oregon, March 31, 1872, Mr. Brewer married Adora B. Stanton, a native of that state, and to their union have been born eight children: John W., mail carrier; Merton E., bookkeeper; B. Frank, clerk in the City drug store; M. Maude, Bertha A., Adora B., Rob Roy and Lula ]\Iay.

CHARLES B. PRESTON. - -\mong the young men who have been born, reared and educated in the thriving town of Waitsburg, and who, by their industry and business ability, have reflected credit upon the place of their nativity and the home of their childhood, Mr. Preston is deserving of special mention. He was born on the nth of September, 1877, ^""J; ^s soon as he became old enough, entered the public schools of his native town. He was, however, too ambitious to be content with a common-school education, and did not allow the attractions of commercial life to lure him from school until he had completed a thorougli course in Waitsburg Academy. He then engaged with his father in the latter'S flouring mill, and has ever since contributed! largely to the success and prestige of the business. Being a young man of excellent intellectual development and good executive ability, he i)romises in due time to become one of the leading business men of the town.

Li his fraternal affiliations Mr. Preston is a member of Enterprise Camp, No. 5209, M. \\'. A. Li Walla Walla, October 12,1898, he married Miss Virgie Nelson, daughter of James E. Nelson, who is one of the early and respected pioneers of the coast. Mr. Preston's father is also a pioneer, and has long been a leader in the industrial development of W'aitsbury.

WILLL-VM KIRKMAN, deceased, was a native of England, born December 7, 1831. In 1 85 1 he emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, and the next year he removed to San Francisco, the isthmus. For a time he followed mining, but he soon took to the sea and made a trip on a sailing vessel to Australia and the Sandwich Islands. On his return he joined an expedition to the Eraser river country. For four years he remained under the British flag, meeting with varied fortunes and some thrilling ad\-entures. In i860 high water carried away a bridge belonging to him and left him financially at the foot of the ladder t) start life again, shadowed by heavy indebtedness. In 1862 he returned to San Francisco and the following year purchased cattle on the Umpqua river for the Boise (Idaho) market. He remained in Idaho until 1S65, engaged in the stock business, with a meat market at Pioneer City. In 1866 he took an eighty-mule pack train of goods from Walla W^alla to Montana, w-here he disposed of all and became interested in a milk ranch. He prosecuted the dairy business for six months there, then returned to San Francisco, California, whence a year later lie came to Walla Walla.

Here, in company with Mr. John Dooley, he engaged extensively in stock-raising, and the meat market business, a line which he followed successfully for many years afterwards. About 1890 he purchased the interest of Mr. Dooley and formed a corporation known as the Walla W'alla Dressed Meat Company, of which he was president. He also gave a portion of his attention to the real estate business. Scon, however, failing health compelled him to seek a change of environment, so he went back to Europe. He died near St. Paul while returning home, April 25, 1893.

A natural leader, 'Mr. Kirkman exerted a powerful influence in the development of Walla Walla, and few of her public enterprises have not benefited by his encouragement and support. He was president and one of the founders of the W^alla Walla Club and one of the directors of Whitman College, to which latter institution he bequeathed five thousand dollars. His interest in education was further testified by the faithfulness with which for several years he discharged the duties of school director in his district. He was also a leader in the Republican party, serving as a delegate to the Minneapolis convention, and on the Notification committee of 1892.

Mr. Kirkman was married in San Francisco, February 4, 1867, to Miss Isabella Potts, a native of Ireland, and they have four living children: \\'illiam H.. an attorney at Walla Walla; Fannie, now wife of Allen H. Reynolds; Myrtle B. and Leslie Gilmore. Their deceased children are George D., Agnes A., Robert J., Grace F., Mabel and Dasie.

ELIJAH INGLE, a fruit grower and farmer on the state road, five miles southwest of Walla Walla, a pioneer of September, 1862, was born in Henry county, Kentucky, April 23, 1824. He was left an orphan in early in- fancy, and was reared by an uncle, who took him to Illinois when he was seven years old. He received a public-school education in Edgar county, that state, then worked on a farm until twenty-one, after which he started farming for himself. He followed that industry renting land for the purpose, for a number of years, then removed to Iowa, where he was engaged in the same occupation ten years longer.

In 1862 Mr. Ingle started to California, but so many of the train to which he belonged were coming to this valley that by the time they reached Green river he had decided to come along, too. Arriving here in September, he rented land one year, then purchased a squatter's right to the place on which we now find him, and which he took as a homestead as soon as the survey had been made. He kept increasing his holdings until he became the owner of five hundred acres, but in later years he sold off all but seventy acres. Half of this is in orchard and the remainder is producing alfalfa hay. Our subject is also the owner of some real estate in Milton, Oregon, and seven acres of highly improved land within the city limits of Walla Walla.

Mr. Ingle has always shown himself a public-spirited man, ever ready to do all in his power for the promotion of the general welfare, and considerably interested in local, state and national politics. He has served as constable two terms and commissioner of his own county, Umatilla, one term, but his interests center rather in Walla \\'alla than in any town in his own county.

While crossing the plains the train to which Mr. Ingle belonged was at one time hard pressed by Indians, but their safety lay in their strength, the train consisting of two hundred and ninety-two wagons. Mr. Ingle has not, however, experienced any difficulties with the aborigines since settling in the valley, having always treated them kindly and received like treatment at their hands. He was married in Vermilion county, Illinois, on May 5, 1865, to Miss Mary Ann Hanson, a native of Virginia, who died in Milton, Oregon, on July 24, 1879, leaving nine children, all of whom are doing well in life. The couple also became parents of two children now deceased, namely, J. Lemuel and Melvina.

Mr. Ingle was married again at Pendleton, Oregon, on August 5, 1880, the lady being Mrs. Amanda McElrath, a native of Tennessee and a pioneer of this valley of 187S.

Lieutenant Thomas D. S. Hart

LIEUTENANT THOMAS D. S. HART, deputy county auditor, was born in Louisville, Kentucky, July 6, 1865. He has, however, been a resident of the west nearly all his life, having accompanied his parents to Albany, Oregon, when only six years old. He acquired his education in the public schools and in Albany College, also learned the printer's trade in that city. In 1879 he moved to Goldendale, Washington, in which town and in North Yakima he passed the ensuing five years, his business being printing and news^ paper work in general. In 1884, however, he became a citizen of Walla Walla, and in that city he pursued his calling until 1889, when he removed to Seattle. Returnins: in 1 89 1, he again entered the journalistic profession here. In 1900, however, he retired temporarily from the pursuit of his vocation to accept a position as deputy county auditor, a post which he still retains.

paper man. and his work in connection willi different periodicals has made liim quite well known in many parts of the state. He is, iiowever, fully as well known as one who had a prominent part in the Philippine war. Leaving Walla Walla as second lieutenant of Company I. he went with them to Camp Rogers, thence to San Francisco and thence to the scene of hostilities. His company formed a part of the first division of General King's brigade, commanded by General Anderson. Lieutenant tiart was in command of the company in every engagement, distinguishing himself in the very first encounter with the foe, at the battle of Santa Anna, and winning special mention for meritorious service. That his good record was maintained throughout succeeding conflicts is evinced by the fact that on August 25, 1899, he was promoted to the lirst lieutenancy. He returned with his company in Noveml)er, 1899, and the following January received the appointment to his present situation. He is a prominent and enthusiastic member of the Knights of Pythias, being a major in the second regiment, Uniform Rank. He is also, at present, commander of Henry W. Lawton Camp, Spanish- American War Veterans.

JAMES W. BRUCE. - Among the enterprising and respected agriculturists and stock raisers of the vicinity of Waitsburg Mr. Bruce holds a prominent and leading place. He is a son of the west, having first opened his eyes to the light of day in Oregon, the date of his birth being April 17, 1S56. He is one of the earliest pioneers of Waitshurg, in fact, he was on the site of the town as early as 1861, long before the establishment of an organized and incorporated town had been thought of.

He grew to manhood in this locality, receiving his education in the Waitsburg schools, and wlien he engaged in business for himself he naturally drifted into the enterprise which his father had followed before him and in which he had been reared. He is a man of energy and good judgment, thoroughly interested in everything pertaining to his business and ready to profit by any new method or improvement which his own experience or that of others may bring to light. At the present time he is the owner of a fine fru'ni of about a thousand acres, also an elegant brick residence in Waitsburg. He is quite prominent in fraternal circles, being an active member of the United Artisans and the Independent: Order of Odd Fellows.

On November 17, 1885, was solemnized, in Columbia county, Washington, the marriage of our subject and Miss Addie L. Harmon, the latter being a native of Iowa, born October 23, 1864. Three children were born of this marriage: William E., on September 18, 1886; Zula E., on Janury 31, 1888; and Hobart O., on November 4, 1895. Mr. Bruce had been previously married to ]\Iiss Lottie M. Seward, the date of their union being in -August, 1874, and the issue one daughter, Carrie B., now wife of Ralph Lloyd.

Our subject's fath.er, William P. Ilruce, was a \-ery old iiioneer of the west, having crossed the plains to Oregon in 1850. In 1861 he became identified with Waitsburg, of which he continued to be a respected and representative citizen until his death, which occurred November 17, 1888. He was long an active worker in the iiolitical campaigns of tlie c(junty, and for some years served on its board of county commissioners. IJis widow, Caroline Bruce, nee O'Neal, survived him until January, 189 1, residing on the old home. The couple became parents of five children, namely: Mary E., widow of the late 11. J. Abbey, of Waitsburg; J. W. ; Dora E., wife of K. L. Powell, of Spokane; also Edward, who was drowned when two years old, and John H., who died near Vancouver, Washington, in 1898.

To i\Ir. William P. Bruce belongs the honor of pioneership in Waitsburg, he having been the man who secured from the government by homestead the place where that city now stands, the date of his homestead entry being 1863.

Air. Perkins was married in Waitsburg June 15. 1896, to Miss Iny Mitchel, a native of Washington, and a member of a pioneer family. They have three children, Voyle L., Eldon M. and Ethel M.

PERRY C. PERKINS, a drayman in Waitsburg, was born in Iowa December 13, 1868. He attended the local public school, and worked betimes on his father's farm until about nineteen, then decided to try his fortune in the west. Accordingly he came to this county, located at Waitsburg, rented land, and began farming. For the ensuing five years he was a successful tiller of the soil here, then he tried the same occupation in Idaho for a year. In 1893, however, he went to California, where for about four years he worked on the John Bidwell farm, near Chico. Returning then to Waitsljurg, he engaged in the transfer business, and to that he has devoted his energies ever since. By his careful attention to the interests of his customers and strict application to business he is building up a very good trade. He is one of the solid and substantial men of Waitsburg, and enjoys an enviable standing among the people of that city.

DENNIS LA GRAVE, a retired farmer residing at College Place, a pioneer of the valley of 1873, was born in Massena, New York, on -May 29, 1844. He resided there, attending sch(jol after he became old enough, until seventeen years old, then enlisted in Company A, Ninety-second New York Infantry. He remained in the .service until 1864, as a member of that company, then re-enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Ninety-third New \'ork Infantry, serving with them till the close of the war. He was in the thickest of the fight from the first year of the war till the last disloyal gun was silenced, and naturally participated in some very stubbornly contested and sanguinary engagements, among which may be mentioned the battles of Mud creek, h'air Oaks, Kingston, Whitehall, Goldsboro, Kiciimond, Petersburg, Cold Ilarl)or, the capture of Fort Harrison, and the seven days' fight at Malvern Hill under General McClellan. He was wounded in the terrible battle of C<ild Harbor, where the Union forces lost ten thousand men in twenty-two minutes, and he was again injured in the .blowing up of the mines after the capture of Peterslnu'g. His eyes also were permanently injured in the service, and have never been strong since.

Upon being mustered out, in January, 1866, Mr. La Grave returned to New York state and engaged in farming. He followed that industry there four years and in Wisconsin four years more, afterwards coming to tlie A\'alla \\'alla valley. He took a homestead and pre-emption in what is now Columbia county, and farmed there for twenty consecutive years, but in 1893 sold out, moved to College Place, bought a lot containing an acre and a quarter, built a comfortable home and retired. He is, however, indulging to some extent his fancy for mining and has some ver}'^ promising gold and silver claims in the Okanogan country.

Mt. La Grave has long been one of the solid and substantial men of the west. He is a good citizen in every respect, thoroughly loyal to the tiag for which he fought so long and so well, and ever ready to do what he can for the promotion of the general welfare of his locality. He is a member of Excelsior Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Dayton. He was married in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in April, 1873, to Aliss ^Niary E. Palmer, a native of Pennsylvania, and to them have been born five children: F. Leslie; Cora E., wife of Edward Miley, a mining man in the Okanogan; \'erna E. ; Verta E., wife of James Granger, of Sumpter, Oregon; and Myrtle. Verna and ^lyrtle are still at home with their parents.

J. AI. BALDWIN, formerly superintendent of the Union Publishing Company's job office, at present a partner in the Inland Empire Printing Company, is a native of the west, having been born in \\'alla Walla in 1870. He is the son of David S. Baldwin, a pioneer of 1858. He attended the public schools until about sixteen years old, then went to The Dalles, Oregon, and engaged in the printing business. He worked at his trade continuously there until 1892. in which year he returned to Walla Walla to accept the position on the Union above referred to. This he retained until the beginning of 1901, when he severed his connection with that paper and, in partnership with Messrs. Harris and Armstrong, established an extensive job printing concern on the corner of Alder and East streets, the firm name being the Inland Empire Printing Company. They have every facility for turning out first-class work with quickness and accuracy. In fact, the combination of energetic, progressive young men is looked upon as one of the strongest in its line in the state.

Air. Baldwin is a very skilled tradesman and a thoroughly reliable young man, one whose influence in the future will be very sensibly felt. In fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Woodmen of the World.

GEORGE A. RULAFORD, a carpenter and builder at College Place, a pioneer of the valley of 1875, was born in Clark county, Ohio, on December 7, 1848. He remained in his native town until about eighteen years old, acquiring his education in the public schools, then learned the trade of a carpenter, serving his apprenticeship at Coluinbus, Ohio. He afterwards followed his trade in different parts of the state until 1868, in which year he removed to Colorado City, Colorado, where he clerked and worked at his handicraft for a couple of 3'ears. Returning to Ohio in 1870, he followed his trade jthere for five years longer, then enlisted in Company L, First United States Cavalry. He was sent to Fort \\'alla A\'alla and remained there three years, going thence to Fort Klamath, Oregon, wliere he remained during the rest of his enlistment. During the war of 187S the com- pany to which he belonged fought many battles and sustained heavy losses in killed and wounded, but he was not permitted to participate, having been selected to remain in charge of the company's property at the fort.

Upon being discharged Mr. Rulaford settled in Walla Walla. He worked at his trade there until 1884, then removed to Medical Lake to reap the benefit of the boom. He continued in the pursuit of his handicraft there for seven years, coming thence to College Place, where he has since resided. When he came there were only two houses in the village, and he has witnessed its growth from that time to the present day. Nor has he been in any sense a passive spectator of this development, for by far the greater part of the houses in the town were built by him. He is one of the progressive forces of the place and is esteemed as one of its representative citizens.

In Walla Walla, on June 18, 1880, Mr. Rulaford married Miss Martha Ford, a native of Walla Walla valley and the first white girl born in it. They are parents of three children, Cecil C, Burnham S. and Ernest E., all students in Walla Walla College. The family own and occupy a comfortable home in the town.

MARTIN H. HAUBER. - This respected pioneer and successful ranchman of the vicinity of Waitsburg is a native of Indiana, born May 7, 1837. He, however, spent most of his life before coming west in jNIissouri, to which state his parents moved when he was about three years old and in which his education was obtained. In 1854 he crossed the plains with ox-teams to Benton county, Oregon, and before he was there a year his services were required in the Rogue river Indian war. He continued with the army in volunteer service for about eight months, then returned to Benton county, whence in 1857 he came to Walla Walla. Finding the valley an excellent place for cattle raising, he returned the following year to Oregon, bought a number of cattle, brought them here and engaged quite extensively in the stock business. He met with excellent success for several years, but the severe winter of 1861-62 caught him unprepared for its rigors and he lost practically all his herds. He then bought a bunch of sheep and turned his attention to that industry, continuing in the same for a period of fifteen years.

In 1858 he took a homestead on the Touchet river about three miles west of Waitsburg, and this afforded him a home and a base of operations during the many years in which he followed cattle and sheep raising. After disposing of his sheep he again engaged in the business from which he had been compelled to retire on account of his bad fortune in 1862, and he continued for many years to raise and handle large numbers of cattle and horses annually, gradually retrenching in this direction and giving more and more attention to agriculture as the country began to settle up, and the range became correspondingly diminished.

He now has a fine farm of about six hundred acres, well improved and cultivated, its natural fertility fully developed by his skillful husbandry. Evidences of his thrift and careful management are everywhere visible on his premises, and he justly ranks among the leading farmers in that community. As a man and a citizen his standing in the neighborhood is of the highest, his life being in all things

Tlie marriage of our subject was solemnized in Walla Walla county in 1865, when Miss Phebe A. Saylor, a native of Indiana, became his wife. The issue of their union was seven children : Charles, a physician in California; Kate, wife of E. Allen, in Idaho; Dora and Henry, living; also three deceased.

E. F. BABCOCK. - Prominent in the development of an industry, the importance of which t(] the future of the county is as yet scarcely realized, is the man whose name gives caption to this review. A nurseryman and fruit grower from the time he left the parental roof to inaugurate independent action, he thoroughly understands everything pertaining to the Imsiness, and the county of W'alla Walla is especially fortunate in having within its borders a man so eminently qualified to give an impetus to the fruit raising industry.

Born in Xew York on the 8th of January, 1 83 1, he passed his early youth in that state, but upon the advent of young manhood he removed to Washington, D. C, but it was in Rochester. Xew York, that he took his initial lessons in the nursery Imsiness. In 1857, he migrated to St. Louis, Missouri, and thence to Illinois, where he established what is known as the St. Clair nursery. He busied himself in connection with this until the outbreak of the Civil war. when, obedient to the voice of patriotism, he rallied to the support of the flag.

Enlisting in Company E. Second Illinois Cavalry, he served a year at the front as first lieutenant, but he was thereupon sent home on recruiting service. He was connected with the federal armv until the close of hostilities. Init when peace again visited our land, he returned to his former home and to his former business. He subsequently established nurseries at Memphis, Tennessee, and in Arkansas.

While serving as pomologist in the World's Fair, in 1893, 1^^ became so impressed with the excellent fruit on exhibition in the Washington state building and from other Pacific states that he decided to try his fortune in the rising young commonwealth. Accordingly, he came out to \\'alla Walla county. In due time he located near Waitsburg and began to employ liis herculean energies in the establishment and upbuilding of the Columljian orchard and nursery. He has about ten tin msand trees, bearing all the leading varieties of fruits, especially high-grade apples, and his nursery stock covers fifteen acres of land. We are pleased to record that experience has only served to strengthen the good opinion he had formed of Washington as a fruit country, until he has come to regard it as without a peer in the world for the production of apples.

Mr. Babcock has for twenty years been regarded as an expert in the art of preparing fruit exhibits for expositions. He selected the fruit from this state which won second and third premiums at the Paris Exposition, also made a shipment from his own orchard to Paris in September last. Thus he is performing a great work for the future of this valley not only in assisting to build up the fruit industry directly, but in advertising the possibilities of the country to the outside world. He also won two gold medals for fruit produced in the year 1900.

He was educated in the schools of this county, then accepted a position with the Preston- Parton Milling Company, for whom he \\oi-ked for six consecutive years. He then engaged in the business in which we now find him/ He gives most attention to small fruits, his crop of blackberries in the current year, 1900, exceeding live thousand pounds, and of strawberries twenty-five hundred pounds. He has, however, a choice lot of pears, apples, plums and prunes. His dairy stock consists of fifteen head of Jersey and Durham milch cows. Mr. Cox is an energetic man and a successful farmer. He is cpiite comfortably circumstanced for a young man, being the owner of ten acres of fruit land within the city limits of Waitsburg, a fine residence, and other city property, in addition to his farm and stock. He was married in Waitsburg February 28, 1893, to Miss Ada Harmon, a native of Oregon, born April 28, 1874, and they are the parents of one son, Merrill, now five years old. ]vlr. Cox is a member of the A. O. U. \\'., Occidental Lodge, No. 11, and Mrs. Cox belongs to the Degree of Honor.

ROBERT H. JOHNSON, hay and grain dealer, 105 North Third street, was born in Liverpool, England, in 1861. He received his education in that country, but early emigrated to America, being only fourteen years old at the time of his arrival in the United States. He came via Cape Horn in a sailing vessel to Portland, Oregon, where for the ensuing five years he followed steamboating. He then came to Walla Walla, entered the employ of Marshall, Jones & Roberts as a hand in their machine shops, and established a connection with that firm which lasted fourteen years.