Walla Walla County, Washington - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1901 (part 6 of 9)

JOHN H. KERSHAW, a farmer and stock raiser at Dixie, a pioneer of i86r, was born in England on December 29, 1838. In 1 84 1 his mother, wdio was a widow, brought him and his two brothers and sister to America. They lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Massachusetts for varying periods of time until 1856, the boys working in factories and wherever they could find employment to .support themselves and hel]i their niother. In 1856 they removed to Illinois, where for over four years they were engaged in farming. In 1861 the mother and her three sons (the sister had been accidentally drowned in New York) came across the plains in the primitive fashion in vogue in those days to Walla Walla valley. They located at Dixie, took up land and began farming and raising stock. The mother died in 1875, and was the first person buried in Dixie cemetery. One of the brothers, Willam J. Kershaw, was accidentally killed in 1891, and the two surviving members of the family are still farming and raising cattle in the locality in which they first settled. They are among the oldest and best known residents of their neighborhood, having lived there before the town of Dixie came ir.to existence.

ULYSSES H. BERNEY is a native of Switzerland, born in 1862. He sjjcnt the first eighteen years of his life in his fatherland, acquiring a thorough public-school education there. In 1881 he came to St. Paul, Minne- sota, for six months he worked in a store during the day and attended school at night. He then niaved to CaHfornia and after spending a year on a fruit farm came to Walla Walla, whence, soon afterwards, he removed to Klickitat county. He was in the stock raising industry there for six years, then sold out and returned to A\'a]la Walla. Here he immediately engaged in fruit raising, and a few }ears later started the shipping-house in partnership with his hrother-in-law, John Thonney. The house has acquired an enviable reputation and their goods are in demand all over the northwest, also in man)' eastern cities and some of their fruit even goes to Europe. Thus their industry, progressiveness, business ability and alertness to know what the demands of the times are and to provide for them have enabled them to build up a large and profitable business.

iMr. Berney was married, in 1887. to Miss Anna Rochat, of St. Paul, Alinnesota, and he and Mrs. Berney are now the parents of eight children. The entire family left their home in the fall to see the Paris Exposition and visit ^Ir. Bernev's relatives in French Switzerland.

DR. \\"ALTER E. RUSSELL, physician and surgeon, 25 E. ]\Iain street, was born in !Milledgeville, Illinois, in 1858. He was reared in the town of his birth and educated in the local public school. During the time intervening between his twentieth and tw^entj'-fifth year he was engaged in the dual occupation of farming and school teaching, but he then entered the Hahnemann Medical College, of Chicago, from which institution he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 18S9. He has since spent two years in post-graduate work, being ambitious to become very proficient in his chosen profession. Immediately after graduating he came out to Walla \\'alla county and located at \A'aitsburg, but in January of the ensuing )-ear he removed to Walla Walla, where he has maintained offices for the practice of medicine ever since.

Dr. Russell is a thorough and diligent student of his profession, devoting his entire time to it alone, and he has long been recognized as one of the leading practitioners of his system in the state. At present he is discharging the duties of city health officer of Walla Walla. The Doctor is a very active man in the Masonic order, being identified with all of its branches from the blue lodge to the commandery, also district lecturer of the fraternity and one of the five custodians of the work. He is. moreover, quite prominent in the A. O. U. W., being grand foreman for the state. Dr. Russell was married, in this city, in 1898, to Mrs. N. S. Garrahan, a native of California, and a member of a pioneer family of that state.

ELROX EDGERLEY, a farmer residing on the upper ]\Iilton road, three miles south of Walla \\'alla. was born in Princeton, Washington ccnnity, Maine, and in that town he grew to manhood and was educated. He remained at home with his father on the farm until 1883, when he came to California. For eight years after his arri\ al in the Golden state he followed logging as an occupation, but in 1 89 1 he came to Walla Walla, settled on the farm on which we now find him and engaged in raising wheat, hay and stock. He is a thrifty, industrious man. successful in liis business and highly esteemed as a man and a citizen. He manifests a livelv and intehigent interest in

In fraternal affiliations Mr. Edgerley is identified with the Woodmen of the World. He was married, in Walla Walla, on January 26, 1890, to Miss Alice M. Lasater, a native of the \-alley, whose parents, J. H. and Emily Lasater, were early pioneers of the county. Her father died in 1896, and her mother in 1875. Mr. Edgerley 's father is still living at Princeton, Maine, and is enjoying good health, though seventy-eight years old, but his mother passed away in January, 1871. Both were early pioneers of their section and highly respected by all with whom they came in contact.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgerley have a family of three children, Emily E., Elron E. and Harry L., all at home with their parents. The family have real estate interests near Princeton, Maine, in Oregon and in the town of Eureka, Humboldt countv, California.

JOHN H. FULLER, a farmer four miles north of Dixie, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Arkansas March 17, 1871. He passed the first twelve years of his life in that state, and began his education there, but his father and mother then came overland to Walla Walla county and of course he accompanied them. He completed his education here, then procured a tract of land 'and engaged in farming, an occupation which he has followed continuously since. He is a young man of push and energy and is rapidly coming to the front as one of the well-to-do and comfortable farmers of his neighborhood. He was married in Dixie, in April, 1896, to Miss Mary Kershaw, a native of that town, and they have one son, Emerson H.

;\Ir. Fuller's father, John W., was a native of Missouri, born in 1844. He was reared on a farm and followed that business all his life except during the Civil war, when, true to his convictions of what patriotism and duty required, he took up arms in defense of the Union and served four full years. Coming to Walla Walla in 1883, he engaged in farming in the vicinity of this city, following the same until his death, which occurred Februarv 25, 1887. He was married, in Arkansas, to Miss Elizabeth Underwood, a native of that state, and to their union seven children were born, two of whom are still living : John H. ; and Anna, wife of Garland Taylor, of Waits- Inirg. Mrs. Fuller followed her husband to the tomb December 31, 1900.

JOHN REHORN, a carpenter residing at 416 W. Alder street, a pioneer of 1871, was born at Niederkleen, near \\'etzlar, Germany, ^larch I, 1846. He resided there until twenty years old, receiving the customary public-school education, and learning the carpenter trade. In 1866 he came with his mother and sisters to the United States, landing in New York, whence, after remaining only ten days, they came via Panama to Canyon City, Oregon, where Mr. Reborn worked in the placer mines until 1869, washing out the gold on his own account. Returning then to San Francisco he followed his trade in that city as a journeyman for two years, after which he came direct to Walla Walla, where he has worked at his handicraft continuously since, except between the years 1886 and 1892, when he was operating a brewery owned by him at Pomerov, Washington.

in the first place, as all must who serve an apprenticeship in Germany, and he has followed the same line assiduously and almost uninterruptedly for more than thirty years, so that, as would naturally be exiiected, he has attained a skill and thoroughness in his craft seldom found in carpenters on the coast. As a man and a citizen, also, his standing is of the highest. He has given substantial evidence of his interest in Walla by serving for nine full years as a member of Tiger Volunteer Fire Department. He is prominently identified with Enterprise Lodge, Xo. 2. L O. O. F.. of which he is a past noble grand.

In Walla Walla, on September 25, 1877, our subject married Amalia Anchutz, a native of \\"aco, Texa-5, and to their union seven children have been born: John H., a farmer; Frederich C a clerk; Walter R., a graduate of the high school, at present learning the trade of a machinist; Frank, a lumber handler; and Henrv. Louisa and Christina, in school. ^Irs. Reborn's father was killed in Texas during the Civil war on account of his L'nion principles.

ROBERT McCOOL, a farmer and stock raiser, a pioneer of 1S59, was born in count}- Donegal, Ireland, in 1S18, He remained in liis fatherland until 1858, receiving a public school education, and then engaging in farming. \\'hen he arrived in New York, he found to his dismay that he had to return to Liverpool, his money having been retained there by mistake, and the complications being such that the matter could not be adjusted without his presence.

He has ever since been engaged in farming and stock raising, his home being not far from the fort. He now has four hundred acres on Stone creek which is still owned by the family and farmed by his sons. Mr. McCool is a thrifty, industrious man, and an esteemed member of society. He was married in Bar Head, Scotland, in 1847, to ^liss Maggie O'Donnell, a native of his home county in Ireland, whose death occurred in Walla Walla, December 11. 1896. To their union were born six children, Hugh, a miner and mine owner, at present engaged in buying horses for the United States government : James, a farmer at the head of Birch creek, in Oregon: Marv Ann, who died in Ireland ; ^largaret, later Mrs. James ^lonnaghan, of Spokane, now deceased ; Ellen, who was the wife of Edward 0"Shea, of Spokane, deceased; and one that died in infancy. The familv are members of Rev. Father Flohr's church in Walla Walla.

SAMUEL B. SWEENEY, a grain buyer, residence | | ) Crescent street, Walla Walla, was born in Marion county. Oregon, in 1858. He passed the first six years of his life there, then three years in Lewiston, Idaho, then a short time in California, whence he removed with his parents to Albany, Oregon. He had been a pupil in the public schools of all these places, also enjoyed the advantages of a college in California, and the Albany Collegiate Institute.

Coming to Walla \\'alla county, at an early date he. with L. K. Grim, took charge of \\'hitman Academy, now in connection with Whitman College, and he was thus employed for two years. He afterwards entered the employ of the Oregon Railway & Navigation

Company, taking, in ]Mr. Hill's place, charge of the transfer at Wallula. Three years later, he moved the transfer to Umatilla, and assumed charge of it in that town, his duties being to oversee the remo\-aI of freight from the trains to the steamboats and vice versa. Later, he was given similar duties to perform at The Dalles, and he distinguished himself there, as he had done in other places, by accomplishing more with the same number of men than could be accomplished by the other overseers who were given a trial. A vear afterwards, he was mo\-ed by the companv to Sand Point, and promoted to the assistant superintendency, and after a year's service there he went to Portland to settle the construction report for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. That task required three and a iialf months, and when it had been carried to a successful termination he came back to the city of Walla Walla. For a number of years, he has been occupied as a grain buyer and shipper here, hand- Hng immense quantities of wheat and other cereals every year. He recently returned from a trip to Cape Nome, where he has some good mining property.

Mr. Sweeney is one of the l)est and most successful business men of this section, beingpossessed of the foresight and good judgment requisite for success in the difficult branch of commerce in which he is engaged. He was married in Walla \\'alla, March i, 1891, to Miss Adna Fudge, a member of a pioneer family. They have two children, Philips Brooks, and Elynore Frances.

JOSEPH J. MANGAN, excavating and street grading contractor, residing at 435 S. Seventh street, was born in Fond du Lac, \Visconsin, November i, 1858. He remained there until twenty-two years old, acquiring a good public school education, and afterwards working on his mother's farm. In the fall of 1880, the family started for Walla Walla, arriving in November, and Mr. Mangan turned his attention to teaming, an occupation which he followed for two years. Removing then to Garfield county, he purchased a homestead right, and on the land thus secured he lived and farmed continuously until 1896, when he sold out, mii\'ed into Walla Walla, and engaged in the business in which we now find him. While on the farm, he also had charge for three years of the warehouse and tramway, near Wawawai ferr}-, and he is still a stockholder in the company.

Mr. Mangan has been and is a very successful man in whatever he has undertaken. He is one of the reliable men and esteemed citizens of the city in which he lives, enjoying the confidence and respect of those who know him. He is quite active in fraternal circles, being identified with the Modern Woodmen of America, guide of the A. O. U. W., and a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He was married in Walla Walla, January 10, 1884. to Miss Mary Whooley, a native of Wisconsin, and they have had eight children : Cornelius D. ; Mary E. and Joseph L., twins; M. Louisa, i\L Agnes, and George M. Dewey, all at home and attending De La Salle and St. \'incent's Academy; also Daniel and John T. E,, Ijorli deceased.

Mr. Mangan's mother, Mrs. Mary Mangan, was born in New Brunswick, August 19, 1 8 19. She became identified with Walla Walla in 1880, after spending a g^reat many years in Wisconsin. When her family was quite young, she was deprived of her husband by death, but, by judicious management and great effort.

she succeeded in rearing and educating the j-oung people and in bringing tlieni up to become useful and esteemed members of society. Mrs. Mangan was a devout Catholic, and all her diildreii are also members of tliat church. At tlie time of her death, which occurred on March i j, iqoo. at the home of her son Joseph, she being then eighty years and six months old, she had twenty-three grandchildren and twelve great grandcJiildren.

HOX. JAMES M. L.\MB, deceased, a pioneer of 1S59. was bom in Logan county, Kentucky. FebruaT\- 19, 1835. He was reared and educated in his native, state and in Oregon, Missouri, but in 1854 came with his parents over tlie long trail to California, traveling with ox-teams. They lived where the present \\"oodland is for five years, tlien came to Walla Walla county, and locateil on a farm on Dry creek, one mile south of Dixie, where Mr. Lamb's home was continuously thereafter until his death, which occurred in Lodi. San Joaquin county, California, March 5, 1898. He was the owner of three hundred and sixt}- acres of land in the \-icinity of Dixie and was engaged in farming and stock raising, also in general blacksmitliing during all the \-ears of his residence there- Mr. Lamb was a prominent man in political circles, and a leader of the Democratic party, which elected him to the territorial l^slatnre in 1867. He was active, energetic, industrious and public-spirited, ever ready to do what lay in his power for the advancement of the general welfare and the cause of good local government. Religiously, he was identified with the Christian church.

Mr. Lamb marTiei1,.in Sonoma county, California. December 17, 1856, Miss Jane Pearce, a native of Kentucky, who came with her parents to California by the overland route, shortly before her wedding. To their union were born eleven children, John D., in Walla Walla; Georgia Ann, wife of G. W. Howard, of Oakland, California; ^Martha E., wife of A. H. Johnson, of Potter valley. California; Cora, widow of James Cation, Walla Walla; and William T. and Daniel W., liA-ing; also five deceased. The family still own and farm the land near Dixie, and they also have title to some valuable residence property in Walla Walla.

RASSEL.\S P. REYNOLDS, city clerk of Walla A\'alla. was bom in Fort \\"a\Tie. Indiana. Januan,' 23, 1S43. He was reared there and in Whiteside count}', Illinois, w-liither his family moved in 1854. He received his education in the public scliools, and in the State Normal University of Bloomington, Illinois, from which institution he would doubtless have graduated had not the call of patriotism summoned him to fight the stem battles of the republic. To that call he. with most of tlie teachers and other students, responded promptly. On August 21, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-third Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and from then until December 24. 1865. his connection with tlie anny of the Union was never severed. He participated in the \"ick5- burg campaign, the siege of Mobile and other great operations of the war, being present in numerous engagements.

In the spring of 1866 Mr. Re\niolds started for Washington witli a government sur\-e\nng party, and in the fall of that year he reached \\'alla Walla. In 1869 he was appointed clerk of the L'nited States district cv>urt, a position which he retained for the ensuing three years. He then became bookkeeper in Repiolds and Day's bank, and was employed by tliem until 1S79. The next year, 1880, he moved to Alpowa, \\'ashington, where for the following six years he kept a general store and a warehouse. Returning to Walla Walla he engaged in the business of painting roofs with a special material of his own manufacture. In January, 1899, he was appointed city clerk to complete an unexpired term ; in July of the same year he was elected to that office, and in July, 1900, he was re-elected.

Mr. Reynolds is one of the leaders in the local politics of the city and county. He is public spirited and enterprising, and has earned an honored place among the progressive men of that section. FraternalU- he is a charter member of A. Lincoln Post, No. 4, G. A. R., of which he is past commander. He was married in Walla Walla, on October 28, 18S8, to iliss Carrie 'SI. Baker, a native of Maine.

FRANK \'ILLA, a gardener residinAf one mile south of the city limits of Walla Walla, was born near Genoa, Italy, in May, 1837. He remained in his sunny fatherland until eighteen years old attending the local public schools, then decided to try the more rigorous New York, so emigrated to that city. After a residence of only lifteen days, however, he embarked on a vessel bound for the south, and came via Nicaragua to Calavera county, California, where he worked in the placer mines for seven years. He then followed market gardening in East Portland, Oregon, about eight years, after which he took a trip to his native land.

\\'alla A\'alla, and bought a place of thirty-five acres, upon which he now resides, his business being to raise fruits and vegetables for the supply of the local markets. He is an industrious, thrifty man, possessed of the skill in gardening and fruit culture for which men of his nationality are noted. He took his first citizenship papers in California in October, 1858, and at the time of the Snake river Indian war, he testified his willingniess to defend the country to wliich he then swore allegiance by offering his services to the government. He participated in the battles at Camp Crook and Camp Warner, also in the last fight near the mouth of Malheur ri\er, where the Indians surrendered, but he escaped without a wound. He endured a great deal of hardship in this campaign, the winter being unusually severe, but his excellent constitution prevented any serious effects upon his health.

^Ir. ^'illa was married in Portland, Oregon, April J, 1872, to Miss Marie Reible, a native of Switzerland, and they have five children, Frank G. R., an attorney, now at Cape Nome; ^lamic, residing with her parents; Amelia C. a trained nurse; Harriet, a school teacher; and Eleanor, a student in St. Paul's Academy. Mr. Villa and his children are members of the Catholic church, but Mrs. \'illa belongs to the German Lutheran church.

EDWARD H. MANGAN, a contractor residing at 115 North Fifth street, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Fond du Lac, \\'isconsin. May 13, 1854 He received a public school education, then worked on his father's farm until twenty-six years of age, after which he came direct to the Walla Walla valley, where he homesteaded one luuulred and sixty acres.

situated between Dry creek and the Touchet. He resided on it three years, then proved up, paving tlie government price. Sliortly afterwards he sold out. and went to Montana to become an employe of the X. P. R. R-, helping to construct its track through that state and Idaho.

After remaining with the company ten months, Mr. Mangan took service with the O. R. & X. Company, in Washington and Oregon, as a carpenter. He assisted in building numerous depots for that company, and put in the first turn table at Pendleton, also the first turn table at Blue Mountain station, after the road was changed to a broad gauge and contiued through to Pendleton.

After serving that company atout twentytwo months, he returned to \\'alla Walla, and went to work as a journeyman carpenter, which was his business for about four years, during which time he assisted in the construction of the Catholic church and many other imposing structures. But since 1887 he has been contracting for himself. He has erected many of the finest buildings in the valley, among them, Mr. John Martin's elegant residence on Dry creek, :Mr. Ryan's residence, ^Mr. Joseph Fallon's residence, and Mrs. Fasset's brick biulding, in which is Prendergast Bakery, also Mr. IMcCool's beautiful residence. During the wheat season, Mr. Mangan busies himself in building elevators, using on an average four hundred thousand feet of lumber in that industrv per annum. He is a very enterprising, energetic man and one of the most skillful and successful builders in this section of the Xorthwest. His time and attention for many years have been devoted almost exclusively to his handicraft and to contracting, with the natural result that he is now able to succeed where others less experienced would fail.

Mr. Mangan is identified with the Y. M. I. and the I. O. E., of ^^'alla Walla. He married in this city, on June 18, 1888, Mrs. Katie Siuith. a member of the Roman Catholic church, to which he also belongs.

ROBERT E. LYXCH. - An enterprising young business man, a mechanic of no mean abilitv, and a citizen who commands the respect and confidence of the community in which he was born and in which his home has always been, the man whose name forms the caption of this article is deserving of representation among the forces which have made and which will continue to develop the county with the history of which our volume is concerned.

yir. Lynch was born in this city in 1872. and in the public schools here established he acquired his education. Shortly after graduation, he succeeded in passing the teachers' examination, receiving the highest grade certificate which could be lawfully awarded to one without experience in teaching. He then learned the plumbing trade, taking his initial lessons under a firm now out of business and completing his apprenticeship in Portland. Oregon, to which city he went for the purpose in 1889. After an absence of eighteen months he returned to this part of the country, whence he shortly afterward moved to -Moscow. Idaho. He was in charge of a plumbing establishment there one year, then returned to Walla \\'alla to accept a position with G. H. Sutherland, by whom he was employed for a period 'of three years.

Desiring then to see more of the country, he started on a trip east, going as far as Chicago, and working in different towns on the road. A vear later, he returned to Walla ^^'alla and opened a shop, equipped with all things necessary for an effective business in plumbing, steam and gas fitting, etc. He was alone in this venture for three years, after which he took Mr. O'Rourke into partnership and consolidated his business with that of W. J. j\lc- Graw. Tliey have enjoyed an excellent patronage, and have been instrumental in bringing about many valuable improvements in the sanitary condition of the city.

Fraternally, Mr. Lynch is identified with the Catholic Knights, and the Young Men's Institute, and he also belongs to the volunteer fire department.

NICHOLAS SEIL, proprietor of the shoe store at No. 20 Main street, a pioneer of 1878, was born in the province of Luxemburg, August 19, 1846. He was brought by Ins parents to the United States when eight years old, but had the misfortune to lose his father by death shortly after their arrival in New York state. He was kindly cared for by an uncle, who took him to Alassillon, Ohio, educated him in the parochial schools of the Catholic church, and also taught him the trade of a shoemaker. When he became about twentythree years old, he emigrated to Oregon. For the two years following his arrival, he resided in Portland, but in 1873 'i^ returned to Massillon, Ohio, and purchased an interest in a shoe establishment, his' partner being Mr. Nicholas Hanson.

After being in business there for a year, our subject sold out to Mr. Hanson, and -worked at his trade there about three years. afterward returning to Scio, Oregon, where he l)ecame foreman of a shoe shop. He later pur- -r.hased all the tools and e(|uipments, and moved to Walla Walla, where, in 1876, he opened a custom-made shop. His business increased until he was soon able to keep six men employed. He later added ready-made shoes, and gradually built up and extended his trade until his quarters became inadequate and he moved to the quarters in which we now find him, and which have been occupied by him for the past sixteen years. In business, Mr. Seil is carefid and conservative, yet progressive, and to these qualities, together with an untirdevotion to the mastery of details, his success is largely due. He is public-spirited and ever ready to contribute his share toward the furtherance of worthy public enterprises or to charity, but is especially active in the affairs of the Catholic church, to which he has always belonged.

In fraternal afiiliations, he is identified with the C. K. of A. and the German Maennerchor. In May, 1886, he married Mis.-; Susan Schrantz, a native of Wisconsin, whose home was in Portland, Oregon, at that time. To their union have been born two children, Emma C. and Edward F.

WILLLXM H. HAYS, a farmer at Prescott, is a native of Missouri, born May 3. 1858. He grew to man's estate there, his business after he became old enough being farming. In 1886^ he went to Colorado, and after a very brief residence there remo\ed to Washington. He passed one winter in this state, .but in the s])ring returned to his old home in the east. He seems to iiave been pleased with the west, however, for in the spring of i88g he sold the old Missouri home, and returne<I to the Inland Iuu])ire.

gaged as a lal)orer tliere for a year, but he subsequentlj' went to the Big Bend country. and took a homestead. The next year, however, he returned to Prescott, rented land and engaged in farming, an occupation which he has ever since followed. In 1898, he purchased a fine tract of 494 acres, two and a half miles northeast of Prescott, where his home now is. He is one of the thrifty and substantial citizens of that neighborhood, and bears an enviable reputation wherever he is known. He has served for the past two years as road supervisor of his district, and in numerous other ways has at all times manifested his interest in the general welfare. He is, in fraternal connection, a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

In August, 1S77, Mr. Hays married Miss IMary A. Wheatly, a native of Missouri, and to their union have been born two children, Henry A., and Minnie M. Mrs. Hays is a member of the Degree of Honor, the ladies' auxiliarv to the L'nited Workmen.

J. H. MORRO\\'. of the firm of Morrow & Son, proprietors of the W'aitsburg Department Store, was liorn in Randolph county, ]\Iissouri, in 1853. He resided in the state of his nativity until twenty years old, acquiring his eilucation in the public schools, and in McGee College, where he took a complete classical course. In 1874, he removed to California, and for the ensuing three years he was engaged as a teacher there. He then came to Walla Walla and accepted the principalship of what is now known as the Baker district, his assistants being Miss Martin and iliss Johnson. In July, 1878, he accepted a position with Preston Powell & Company, of Waitsburg, by whom he was employed for five or si.K years. He then engaged in the notion business, but in 1887 he embarked in his present line, namely, general merchandise.

Mr. Morrow has always met with good success in his business ventures, being a man who combines industry and strict attention to details with shrewdness and sagacity. He is. moreover, a public-spirited citizen, ever ready to do his share for the general welfare, and for the progress and development of the town in which he resides. For several years he was a member of the city council. Six years ago he served a term as mayor, and at present he is again serving in that capacity. He belongs to all liranches of Masonry up to and including the Commandery, also affiliates with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. ]\Iorrow married, in California, in 1876, !Miss Emma C. Glotzbach, a native of that state, and they had three children. Piatt Preston, Calla and Clara.

JOHN C. STOREY, a farmer at Dixie, a pioneer of 1870, was born in Pennsylvania, December 24, 1841. He grew to man's estate and was educated there, but no sooner was he ready to start in life for himself than the voice of patriotism summoned him to fight the battles of the republic. Enlisting in August, 1861, -as a member of Company H. 102nd Pennsvlvania \'olunteers, he served from that time until the close of hostilities, participating in almost all the battles and campaigns of the famous Army of the Potomac, including the Wilderness and those preceding the downfall of Richmond. He was in the firing line when the Confederate capital hung out the white flag. In all these battles, he escaped without injury, except at Petersburg, where he received a bullet wound in the right thigh.

After being discharged on July 3, 1865, Mr. Storey returned to Pennsylvania, where for two years he worked in the oil regions. He then went to Missouri and followed school teaching for a couple of years, then to Montana, whence, in 1870, he came to Walla Walla county. He taught school here for fifteen years, spending fifty-four months in one district in Spring Valley. At length, however, he decided to try farming, so took a homestead on Pataha prairie, near Pomeroy, where he resided for a number of years. He also farmed for some time, five miles east of Dixie, but finally sold out.

Mr. Storey was a very active man in former years, and has done an incalculable amount for the cause of education in this part of the state ; indeed, he ranked among the most successful educators of the early days. He has been twice married. In 1877, in Dayton, Washington, he wedded Miss lone White, a native of Oregon, who died in 1879, leaving one son, Mark. He was again married in 1881, the lady being Georgie E. Look, a native of California. They have five children. Flora, Carl, Clarence, Ralph and Dewey.

FRANCIS M. CORKRUM, a farmer, a pioneer of 1865, was born in Kentucky in October, 1834. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother moved with him to Spring Garden, Illinois, where he grew to manhood on a farm with his uncle. When twenty years old, he tried farming in Jefferson county one year, after which he worked for wages a while, but soon went onto a place for himself again, and the next year bought a farm.

Mr. Corkrum lived on this place for a number of years, but finally decided to come west, so sold out and started across the plains with a team consisting of oxen and cows. He at first intended to locate in either Oregon or California, but changed his plan and came to \\'alla Walla valley. He purchased a squatter's right to a claim on the Spring branch for $20 in greenbacks, then worth about fiftycents on the dollar. He afterwards added to this three tracts of forty acres each, and the entire farm sold fourteen years later for eleven thousand and two hundred dollars. Of course much of the increase in value was due to the improvements which Mr. Corkrum made, and it testifies to his industry and enterprise as much as to the development of the country.

After selling his first home, our subject purchased Mr. Kennedy's ranch of five hundred and twenty acres, and this he still retains, together with one hundred and sixty acres on Dry creek, and one hundred and sixty acres of timber in the mountains, purchased later. Mr. Corkrum also bought a farm for each of his three boys. He now resides in a fine home in Walla Walla, and owns the house and lot adjoining. Few of the early pioneers of the county have had more to do with the development of its industrial resources than has Mr. Corkrum and few have shown greater acumen in discerning how best to take ailvantage of the opportunities offered by the new and fertile valley.

About twenty-three years ago, he and his wife and two children were conx-erted in the school house he had helped to build, and since that time he has had the pleasure of seeing all of his children, except one, become members of the same church to which he belongs, and in which he has been an active worker for so many years. He has also demonstrated his interest in the cause of education in a very sub- stantial way. serving as director and helping to organize the (Hstrict in wliich he lived and to build and ec|ui[) the tirst rude school building. In Spring Garden, Illinois, February ii, 1857, our subject married Miss Mary Killebrue, a native of Jefferson county, Illinois, and to their union have been born ten children : William J.; Rosalie, wife of ^\'ilIiam York, of Walla \\'alla; Nora, wife of Thomas Wilson, a farmer near Dayton ; Uriah, Eva and Leo, at home with their parents ; Sarah, afterwards Mrs. Jeff Jennings, deceased; David, deceased, and two that were taken away by death before being named. Mr. and Mrs. Corkrum are also the proud possessors of twenty-four grandchildren. The couple are enjoying excellent health and are line specimens of well preserved old age.

A. S. DICKINSON, postmaster at \\'aitsburg, was born in Walla Walla county, in 1868. He received a thorough education in the public schools and in Waitsburg Acadeiuy, then took a business course in the Empire Business College at Walla \\'alla. In 189.2, he embarked in the hardware business at \Vaitsburg, and for two years thereafter he followed that branch, of commerce, but in 1894 he turned his attention to farming. One year was spent in tilling the soil and one in a grain warehouse. In 1897 he received an appointment as ix^tmaster of Waitsburg and he has been serving in that capacity ever since. He is also interested in mining, being the owner of stock in Repulilic and Sumpter camps. For some time lie acted as local treasurer of the Equitable Loan & Savings Company, of Portland, Oregon, and of the Aetna Loan and Trust Company, of Butte. Montana.

yir. Dickinson has always manifested a lively interest in local affairs, and may be fairly counted among the progressive forces of the town. He served one term as a member of the city council. In fraternal affiliations, Mr. Dickinson is ^ identified with the Knights of Pythias, and the .\.ncient Order of United Workmen. He was married in Waitsburg, in 1896, to Miss Addie E. Denny, a native of the state of Washington, who received her early education in the public schools here and later graduated from the San Jose, California, Normal school. She has been teaching in the public schools of Waitsburg ever since completing her educational disci]iline.

HARLAN D. ELDRIDGE, a farmer one and a half miles southeast of Dixie, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Iowa, born April 6, 1858. He grew to manhood and was educated there, follmving teaching as his profession for some time after attaining years of maturity. In 1880, he came out to Walla Walla county, took a homestead near Starbuck, and engaged in farming. He resided there for several years, but in 1S90 removed to the place upon which we now find him. He owns at present over fi\-e hundred acres of land and is one of the most extensive and successful farmers in the vicinity of Dixie.

Mr. Eldridge is quite active in the aft'airs of his community, and takes an intelligent interest in politics, local, state and national, but displays no ambition to become particularly prominent in ])olitical circles and has never been a candidate for any office. He is an active member of and one of the elders in the Christian church of Dixie. In fraternal atifiliations, he is iilentified with Welcome Lodge,

No. 117, L O. O. F., and with the Rebekahs. He is very prominent in tlie subordinate Odd Fellows' lodge, having passed through all the chairs. Eldridge was married in this county, September 14, 1884, to Miss Etta Barnes, a native of the county, and they have become parents of five children : Whipple, Taylor B., Earl, Gene\-a M., and Bonnie G.

ALFRED F. PERRY, a retired farmer and contractor, residing at 525 North Sixth street, is a native of St. Benoit, province of Quebec, Canada, born on June 7, 1853. He was early taken to California, whither his father had gone in 1849, becoming so enamoured of the countr)- that he could be content nowhere else. They lived a short time in San Jose, then moved to Oroville, in Butte county, where the father engaged in mining.

When ]\Ir. Perry arrived at the age of seven years, he severed his connections with the remainder of his family, and' accompanied a number of miners overland from Los Angeles. He passed through the famous Death Valley, and had the pleasure of seeing the wonderful petrified ship, as it is called, which is a large rock the exact shape of a ship, and is supposed by some to have been an actual ship at one time and to have been sunk in the days when the valley was an inland sea. There are also other curious remains such as (apparently) petrified cities and even the form of a man with a pen behind his ear, and a bunch of papers in his hand. The company of miners to which Mr. Perry belonged located in the White mountains eighty miles from the present Tucson, Arizona, and our young hero learned to read and spell as best he could with the newspaper and such other literature as might chance

Mr. Perry remained in this camp, far from the haunts of civilization, for thirteen and a half years, locating five mines, one of which, the Mariposa, is a well-known gold and silver producer at this day. He then returned to his old home, recrossing the Death Valley, and confirming the observations of his childhood. Three days after his arrival at home, he set out for San Francisco, and took a contract to supply the Pacific Coast Distilling Company with potatoes. He was thus employed for five years.

On March 2, 1877, our subject arrived in Walla Walla. He purcha;^ed one hundred and twenty acres of land three miles below tfnvn, where he engaged in diversified farming an<l gardening. He has been adding to his original home from time to time until he is now the owner of se\-en hundred acres in two tracts, on which he. at present, raises timotin- and alfalfa uKJStl}', his annual crop averaging about thirteen hundred tons. Mr. Perry has also been a successful contractor for the past fifteen years. He built the penitentiary, finishing the walls in sixty-nine da_\-s, also graded manv of the Walla Walla streets, and did much contract work on the various railroads running into the city.

Mr. Perry is in every sense of the word a self-made man, having started to work out his own destiny when seven years old without capital or education, and having achieved, in spite of ojjstacles wdiich would have overwhelmed a less resolute spirit, the high .standing in the social and financial world which he now enjoys. He is a man of truly remarkalile abilities and giant force of character. He was married at Lewiston, Idaho, on July 11, 1879, to Miss Nettie V. Coffin, a native of Oregon, whose parents came overland from ^lassachusetts to that state in 1855. Air. ami Mrs. Perry have had two children, Fred D., deceased, and William C, a stntlent in Whitman College. On February 5. 1901, Mr. Perry had the misfortune to lose iiis wife, who IkuI been ill for over sixteen months previous to her demise. Her remains lie buried in the Walla \\"alla cemetery beside those of her son.

EDWJX W. IMcCANN. lately dealer in hardware and implements, at Waitsburg, is a native of Dodge county, W'isconsin, born in 1S47. When he was ciuite young, his family nidved to a dilYerent part of the state, to Omro, and here ]\Ir. jNIcCann resided until fourteen years old. In 1862, he moved to Filmore county, Minnesota, where he completed his ]nil)lic school education. He then engaged in farming. In 1869. he moved to Chippewa county, took a homestead, and' engaged in farming there. In 1878, he entered the employ of L. K. Stone as a wheat-buyer and elevator man and this was his occupation until April, 1887, when he sold out his holdings and came to Waitsburg, Washington.

Shortly after his arrival here, he formetl a partnership with ]Mr. Macomber, for the purpose of starting a hardware and implement store and to that business his energies have been given ever since nutil quite recently, but he lately sold out. He is an excellent business man, being possessed of the shrewdness' foresight and unerring judgment characteristic of the truly successful in commercial life. He is also a public-spirited man, ever ready to do what lies in his power for the social and material amelioration of the neighborhood in which he lives. In 1889, he was elected a school director, and has served as such ever since except for a period of two years. In 1897, he was elected to the mayoralty of Waitsburg. His re-election followed in 1898, and in 1899 he declined renomination.

In politics Mr. McCann was a Democrat until 1896, when his gold standard principles compelled him to support McKinley, and he has since belonged to the Republican party. In fraternal affiliations he is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a Workman. He was married at Montevideo, Minnesota, in 1879, to Mary G. Anderson, a nati\'e of ^Minnesota, and to their union have been born two children, Elma L. and Josephine.

GEORGE DELANY, farmer, 422 Rose street, Walla Walla, was born in East Tennessee in 1 83 1. When eight years old he removed with his parents to southwestern Missouri, whence seven years later he set out on the journey across the continent to Oregon, traveling by team. He resided in the Willamette valley, that state, engaged in farming until 1858, then came to W^alla Walla and turned his attention to freighting and handling stock. His teams conveyed supplies into Montana and Idaho, ami he drove cattle into British Columbia. In 1880 he again became a tiller of the soil, this time on an extensive scale, for he rented five thousand acres of land and purchased twentythree hundred, the latter tract being just over the Oregon line from Walla Walla. He is still farming and stock raising in Yakima and Columbia counties.

Mr. Delany has made his way in the world under dilificulties, having been denied all the school prixileges ordinarily enjoyetl by American bovs. for he has ne\'er been within the walls of a schoolhouse in session time. He has, however, by his own efforts largely overcome these early disadvantages, and his industry, good judgment and splendid 'business ability have enabled him to attain a success in life which may well be the envy of many who have been much more unfortunate in their early environment. He was married in Marion county, Oregon, in 1870, to Olive Day, a native of Illinois, but an early pioneer of the west. They have si.x children, namely, Sarah, Roxie, Henry, Burton, George and Harvey H.

JOHN B. McDonald, deceased, a pioneer of 1882, was born in Green Lake county, Wisconsin, January 2, 1845. He was the first white child born in that county. His father was an officer in the United States army, and in 1830 had been sent into Wisconsin to keep the Indians quiet. Mr. McDonald resided in the neighborhood in which he was born until nineteen years old, receiving a public school education, then started to do for himself. He visited New York state and Vermont, and finally entered the service of the United States government, his duty being to take horses to the front for the use of the army. He was present in Washington at the time of Lincoln's assassination, and was detailed for a short time to guard tlie city limits in order, if possible, to prevent the escape of the assassin.

A little later Mr. McDonald went to Baltimore, where he was taken sick with fever and ague, and practically laid up for two years, but at intervals he was able to do a little at the business he then followed, namely, putting in lightning rods for the protection of buildings. In 1867, he returned to his old home in Wisconsin and farmed a year, afterwards going to

Blue Earth county, Minnesota. He followed farming there one summer and in the fall purchased a threshing machine and engaged in that industry. A serious accident befell him, however. His foot was caught in the cogs of the power, laying him up for two years completely and making him permanently lame. In 1871 he bought railroad land, and for a while followed farming and teaming, but eventually sold out and engaged in selling farm implements, wagons, etc., for an eastern firm. Two years later, he was called home to take charge of his father's farm, and he was engaged in agricultural pursuits there and at Fond du Lac for the next four years, but in 1878 he removed to Petaluma, California.

After farming there also for a number of months Mr. McDonald started via Portland, for this valley, but, owing to the Indian outbreak, wintered on the Lewis river, where the next spring he engaged in the dairy business. Shortly afterwards, he moved to a place thirty miles from The Dalles, and here Mr. McDonald worked in a sawmill until 1882. He then tried farming again, but lost everything by grasshoppers.

In the fall of 1882 he reached \\'alla Walla, the point he had started for so many years before, and the next spring he took a homestead on Eureka flat. He was a farmer in that neighborhood until 1891, when he moved into the city of Walla Walla for the benefit of his children. He died on March 27, 1893.

Mr. McDonald was for many years one of the leading men in his part of the county serving in almost all the local offices and once refusing the nomination for county commissioner. He was married in I'ond du Lac, Wisconsin, February 27, 1873, to Miss Eliza L. Sharratt, a native of Wisconsin, who assisted her husband by teaching and in every way in her power to acquire the competency tliey enjoyed before his tleatli. She is now the owner of one thousand one hundreil and twenty acres of land in the county.

ilr. and Mrs. McDonald became parents of five children: John H.. an attorney in Walla Walla, who has the honor of having served in the Philippine war as a member of the First Washingtons ; Elsie M.. now Mrs. Edward H. Bradbury; Jessie E., a student in the \\'ashington Agricultural College, at Pullman : and Lila G.. a student in the public schools, also William P.. who died at the age of eighteen. The family afiiliate with the First Presbyterian church of Walla Walla, and Mrs. McDonald also belongs to the Woody Glen Circle. \\'omen of Woodcraft, and to the Order of Washington.

MARTIN MEINERS, one of the prosperous and well-to-do farmers of the county, residing ten miles east of \\'alla Walla, was born in Germany. March 6, 1847. Like most German vouth. he enjoyed the privileges of the public school until fourteen years old. In 1S64, he, with his father and the remainder of the famih", except his mother, who had died some years before, came to America. They located in Illinois, where Mr. Meiners !i\-e(l until 18S3. In that year, however, he came out to Walla Walla county, invested the savings of the nineteen years he had passed in Illinois in a section of land, and engaged in farming. He has followed the same occupation on the same place continuously since, and now has a pleasant home and surroundings.

Mr. Meiners is a thrifty, industrious farmer, possessed of those neighborly qualities which render a man esteemed and respected in the community in which he lives. He is not especially active in politics, though he takes a lively and intelligent interest in local affairs. He was married in Illinois in 1874, to Miss Ettje Beenders, a native of Germany, and they have a famih' of four children, Cornelius M., John E., Grace W.. and Elsina M.

ANDREW J. TASH, a farmer residing ten miles east of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1 86 1, was born in the state of Indiana, January. 15, 1839. He resided there until nine years old, then accompanied his parents to ^lissiiuri. in which state the ensuing five years were passed. During the next six years, he was a resident of Iowa and there he completed his education.

About that time the emigration to the west was at its height, and the prospects of realizing a fortune in a day were becoming very attractive to the adventurous mind of the youthful Mr. Tash, so. in 1859. he joined the rush for California. He made the long journey with ox-teams, and in due season reached the iirmnised land. He remained in California two years, but, failing to find conditions as he had hoped, he came to Walla Walla county in 1861. For the next half decade, he was operating in the various mining regions of Idaho, among them. Oro Fino. l)ut in 1866 he took a homestead where we now find him and settled down to the life of a farmer and stock 'raiser. He is. at present, the owner of three hundred and twenty acres of fine land, well improved, and everywhere bearing eloquent testimony to the thrift and industry of its owner.

Mr. Tash was married in Walla \\'alla county, on September 16, 1866, to Miss [Mary E. Brooks, a native of Missouri, who died April 30, 1874, leaving one child, Frank E. On

September 16. 1876, he was again married, the lady being Lucy M. Klemgaard, a native of Utah. Of tliis union, seven cliildren have lieen born: Ilarrv A., Hattie E., Ehner E., Neoma D., Gertrude, Raymond and Chfford Watson.

HARRY GILKERSON, a farmer residing about seven miles east of Walla Walla, was born in this county in 1866. He received such education as was to be had in the public schools of the neighborhood, then went to the Big Bend country, where for four years he was engaged in farming. At the end of that period, he came to the section in which we now find him, and purchased one hundred and thirty acres. of land, twenty acres of which are now under cultivation, the remainder being grazing and timber land. He has a fine home nicely located and supplied with all the improvements necessary for comfort. For the last six years, he has been agent at tlie Dudley warehouse for the Pacific Coast Elevator Company, hand- Hng about seventy thousand sacks of grain per annum. He is a young man of energy, progressiveness and force, and possesses moral good qualities wliicli win fijr him the respect and confidence of the community in wliich he lives. He belongs to the local camp, Modern Woodmen of America. In Februar\-, 1890, in Walla \\'alla county, he married Malina J. Rohn, and they have had three children, two of whom are now living, Freddie and Jessie May. The deceased child was named Harry Lewis.

father on a farm there until seventeen years. of age, receiving a public school education, then engaged in jjrick making with a brotlier, and this was his business for the next fi\'e years. In 1855 he went to Illinois, and nine months later he removed thence to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, where for four years he followed the lightning-rod business. He then crossed tlie plains with o.x-teams, his objective point being Boise City, Idaho, but three weeks after his arrival he started north to the Walla Walla valley.

The first season after coming here Mr. Caris farmed a rented place on the Touchet river, then, joining the rush, he went to the Coeur d'Alenes and opened a provision store in the mountains among the Indians, twenty-five miles from any other white settler. For four years thereafter he spent his summers in the Cceur d'Alenes and his winters on the Touchet river, where he collected his supplies. Visiting his old home in the east in 1869, he passed the winter there, and in the spring l)r(jught a carload of wagons to Boise City and disposed of them there. He ordered another car shipped to Walla Walla, and as soon as they arrived opened an agricultural imi)leiuent and wagon establishment here, the first of its kind in the city.

After remaining in this business twelve years he sold out and began farming on a ten-hundred-and-sixty-acre ranch, which he liad secured by using his pre-emiitiun and timber-culture rights and by purchase. For ten years he was one of the leading farmers of the county, but in 1890 he moved back into the city and engaged in his present business, teaming and contracting.

success in the various lines of activity in which he lias been engaged. He was married first in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, March ii, i860, to I\Iiss Rachael Johnson, who died in Walla \\'alla July 30, 1869, leaving one son, Charles F., in business with his father. He was again married at Athena, Oregon, on May 16, 1880. the lady being Miss Maria M. Blum, a native of Pennsylvania, but reared and educated in \\'isconsin. She has been a resident of this valley most of the time since 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Caris are both members of the First Congregational church of Walla Walla, which they joined in 1895.

ROBERT M. GRIFFITH, a farmer residing twelve miles east of Walla Walla, a pioneer of September, i860, was born on the island of Barbadoes January 6, 1832. He came to the United States in 1841, landing at Philadelphia, and before long embarked on a vessel and went to sea. Young though he was, he stuck to that rigorous occupation four years, but, disembarking in Massachusetts in 1845, he accepted a position as overseer of a cotton mill. He was employed thus for thirteen years, then as a napper of cotton flannels in a mill in Xew York for four years. Influenced by a desire for the wild, free life of the west, he then came out to Minnesota and Dakota, and thence in course of time made his way to the mining regions of Idaho.

In i860 he came to Walla Walla county, -whence for several years he freighted into the various mining regions, Oro Fino. Florence, the Xez Perce country and other places. He took an active part in repressing the various Indian uprisings of this period. Subsequently he engaged in farming, an occupation to which his best energies have been given ever since. For the past nine years he has resided on his present place, where he has established a comfortable home for himself and his family. Mr. Griffith has always taken the interest that every good citizen should in the affairs of county, state and na^;ion, and though he has never held or coveted any office, he is recognized as one of the representative men in politics. He was married in Walla Walla county in 1882, to ^liss Annie Sorrenson, a native of San Pete county, Utah, and now has a familj- of two children, Catherine A. and Robert \\'.

While in Utah Mr. Griffith experienced some trying ad\entures, being at one time fired upon by Mormons, and once robbed by Indians in the neighborhood of Burnt river, losing thirteen hundred dollars' worth of property. The family belong to the Methodist church.

JOHN BUSH, a retired farmer and stock raiser of Eureka, is a native of Germany, born January 29, 1832. He remained in the land of his nativity until twenty years old, receiving the customary education, but in 1852 he emigrated to Xew York. After a residence of only a few months he removed to Chicago, Illinois, and enlisted in the regular army. He was sent to Xewport Barracks in Kansas, thence to Fort Worth, Texas, where he remained a year, being thereupon sent to the Rio Grande to protect a gang of surveyors who were locating artesian wells in Xew Mexico, Eighteen months were thus passed, then he spent a brief period of time in San Antonio, Texas, from which city he w-as sent to Fort Meyers, Florida, to assist in settling the Indian difficulties there. He was next or- dered to Salt Lake, where he resided until 1857, Avhen he was honorably discharged. However, he served during the next seven months as a volunteer in the United States army in the Mormon war, then hired to a quartermaster as a teamster, coming with him to Fort Walla in 1859.

In 186 1 Mr. Bush retired from the army entirely, took up land and engaged in farming and stock raising. For a number of years thereafter he was one of the thrifty and substantial farmers of the county, but of late years he has retired from active participation in any business, and is enjoying a well-earned rest. He was married in August, 1872, to !Miss Lena Myer, a native of Germany, who came to this country after she had grown to womanhood. They have one daughter, ^Vnna, born in August, 1873.

GEORGE F. LEWIS, one of the thrifty, enterprising farmers of the vicinity of Dixie, a pioneer of 1862, was born in Iowa November II, 1842. He grew to man's estate there, receiving good educational advantages, and when twenty years old started across the plains with ox-teams, determined to try his fortunes in the west. He in due time came to a halt in Walla Walla county, secured an outfit, and engaged in the business of hauling freight to the different mining regions in Idaho. In this sturdy occupation ten full years were spent, Init in 1870 he located his present place and settled down to the life of a ranchman. He has one hundred acres of excellent land, well improved and furnished with all buildings and machinery necessary to a well-ecpu'pped little farm. He raises stock principally, but is a diversified farmer, and does not entirely neglect anything which can be produced at a profit in this section of the county.

Mr. Lewis married at Oakland, Oregon, in 1872, Miss Efifie Williams, a native of that state, who was taken from him by death a few years ago. By this marriage he has had two children, David W., deceased, and Dollie F., wife of Samuel Ad well, of Dixie. In 1898 Mr. Lewis again married, the lady being J^Iina Jackson, a native of Iowa.

CHARLES GILKERSON, a farmer residing seven miles east of Walla Walla, is a native of this county, born in 1864. He received a public-school education, and, having been raised on a farm, naturally turned to that occupation when he went into business for himself. He spent about four and a half years in Whitman county, engaged in tilling the soil, then returned tu his home county and purchased a two-hundred-and-forty-acre farm, all wheat land, on which he has ever since resided. He is an enterprising man, and ranks among the prosperous and well-to-do farmers of his part of the county. He was married in Walla Walla county in 1898, to Miss Catherine Tracy, a member of one of the oldest pioneer families of the Inland Empire. Her father was an Indian war veteran of note. Mr. and Mrs. Gilkerson are parents of one son, Eddie.

THOMAS GILKERSON, a farmer re^ siding on Mill creek, six miles east of Walla Walla, was born in England October 19, 1837. When a boy of four he was brought by his parents to New York state. His father located in Homer, and in that town Mr. Gilkerson passed his early youtli and actiirred liis education. In 1859, influenced by a commendable desire for larger and better opportunities than were to be had in his home town, he started, via Panama, to the coast. Landing in British Columbia, lie spent a brief period of time tiiere, but, failing to find anything to his liking, he soon came to \\'a!la \\'alla county.

During the first two years of his stay here ]\Ir. Gilkerson worked as a farm hand for his wife's first husband, and, by industry and frugality, managed to acctimulate enough to purchase a quarter section, and to start, in a small way. in farming un his own account. Industrious and frugal, he was also, as his venture in farming soon proved, a careful and conservative, yet progressive, man, and he continued to prosper and to increase in wealth until he became one of the comfortable and well-to-do farmers of the county. He now has four hundred acres of land and is raising grain and stock.

L'nlike many farmers in this countv. 'Sir. Gilkerson is a believer in diversified farming, so he keeps and raises cattle, hogs, horses, sheep and other live stock, not, however, neglecting wheat, barley, fruits and other farm products. In this way he always has something for sale in every season of the year. He has always taken an active, intelligent interest in the affairs of county, state and nation, though he has never manifested any ambition for per- .sonal preferment, and has never held an oftice. His party atfiliation is with the Democrats.

In this county, in 1863, our subject married Mrs. Eliza McWhirk, ncc Sickley, a native of Pennsylvania, and a pioneer of 1859. Her first husband died in 1862. leaving one son, George H. She and Mr. Gilkerson have four children living, Charles, Harrv, Thomas and Lewis. By her marriage with Mr. Mc- Whirk, in 1860, Mrs. Gilkerson gained the distinction of being the first white lady married in Walla Walla county. The solemnization was by Judge Kennedy, who gave her a black silk dress in recognition of her being the first to take upon herself matrimonial bonds within the limits of the county. It is wt)rthv of mention, as illustrating the conditions obtaining at that time, that Judge Kenned}- had to send to The Dalles, Oregon, for the dress, there being nothing of so expensive a nature in Walla Walla or any town nearer at that early period.

MOSES S\\'.VIM. one of the leading farmers of the county, is a native of Indiana, born September 15, 1840. When nine years old he accompanied his parents to Illinois, and there he grew to manhood and received his education. He enlisted for service in the Civil war in the fall of 1861, and was a member of Company I, Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, until after the close of hostilities. He was honorably discharged at Ouincy, Illinois, in 1866, after a military career of which he and his family have just rea.son to lie proud.

Our subject then located at Fort Scott, Kansas, where, during the ensuing seven years, he followed fanning as a business. In 1873, however, he removed thence to Missouri, where he farmed for seven years more, after which he passed six years in the same business in South Dakota. In 1886 he set out for the west, but did not reach Washington till the spring of 1887, having stopped for the winter at Rollins, \\'yoming. He finally located in the \icinit\- uf Walla Walla, where he rented land and farmed until 1893. I" that year, however, lie, in company with the Bass Bros., purchased a tract of land on the Touchet river, and they have ever since resided there, engaged in stock raising and general farming. They are thrifty, industrious, energetic men, possessed of the good judgment and force characteristic of those who are really successful in any calling.

On July 25, 1875. Mr. Swaim was married to Mrs. Sarah A. Bass, by whom he has two children, Mary A., born August 2, 1876, and Leona M., born January 22, 1884. Mrs. Swaim also has two sons by her former marriage, Frank L., born January 20, 1871, and John L., born August 25, 1873. They are in partnership with Mr. Swaim in the farming and stock-raising business. Their father, Mr. John F. Bass, died in Vernon county, Missouri, February 11, 1873.

GEORGE R. CROWE, a retired house painter residing at 433 North Fifth street, Walla Walla, a pioneer of March, 1862, was born in London, England, April 27, 1836. He attended the public schools of his fatherland until fourteen years old, then went to sea as an apprentice aboard the sailing bark "Harold," engaged in the East India trade. For five years thereafter he sailed continuously, visiting South Africa, Australia and all far eastern ports. He spent two years in South Africa, engaged as a shore whaler, his business being to take the whales when, at certain seasons, they came tu the nmuths of the ri\-ers to calve. He also passed two years in Australia in the gold diggings of Ballaratt and Bendigo, and while there was often attacked liv white bushrangers under the famous bushranger chief "Black Pete." Fortunately, however, he escaped without a wound.

Mr. Crowe came thence to California, arriving at San Francisco in March, 1859, and went direct to Nevada City. He was engaged there and at Grass Valley and Forest City in the business of placer mining about two and a half years, then returned to San Francisco, and about three months later we find him enlisting as a member of Company A, First Washington Territorial Volunteers, for service under Captain Taylor and Colonel Steinberger, in guarding the British frontier during the Civil war. He continued to perform this duty for three years, participating in several skirmishes.

After being discharged at Walla Walla, in 1865, Mr. Crowe opened a house painting shop on the corner of First and Alder streets, where he did business continuously until 1896, in which year he sold out and retired. Mr. Crowe has always proven a good neighbor and citizen, an industrious, thrifty man and a highly estimable member of society. He enjoys an enviable standing in the community in which he has lived so long. He is quite prominent in the A. Lincoln Post, No. 4, G. A. R., to which he has belonged for the past fifteen years, and of which he has been senior vicfe commander.

In Walla Walla, on April 19, 1875, Mr. Crowe married Miss Elizabeth Cah'ert, a native of Illinois, and a pioneer of 1864. She is a leading member of the W. R. C, which has bestowed upon her all the honors in its gift, and she also belongs to Lodge No. 48, L. O. T. ]\I., of which she is a charter member and lady commander. Her father is a farmer on Mill creek, where she was educated and where she lived until the time of her marriage. Mr. and ^Irs. Crowe are parents of three children hving: John E., a clerk; Harry B. and Lizzie A.; also of one, George R., who died at the age of three years and seven months.

THO^L-\S J. FERREL. a farmer residing about nine miles east of Walla Walla, is a native of Wayne county, Iowa, born in 1862. When he was but two years old his family started across the plains with mule-teams to Walla Walla county, so that he has been practically reared in the west. The family located on Russel creek, and there Mr. Ferrel grew to man's estate and was educated. He early engaged in farming for himself, and has followed that industry continuously for many years. At present he is the owner of a splendid little farm of ninety acres, and is raising wheat and horses. He is a progressive, enterprising man, and enjoys the confidence and good will of all his neighbors. He was married in this county, in 1884, to Miss Percilla Edward, and they are parents of three children, Xettie P., Carrie E. and Elphe B.

WILLIAM L. AIATHEW, a stock raiser near Clyde, is a native of Indiana, born January 4, 1832. \\'hen thirteen years old he came wdth his parents to Iowa, where for many years afterwards his father, James D., followed farming as an occupation. Upon attaining his majority Mr. Mathew set out across the plains to Walla ^\'alla. He purchased a number of horses and engaged in raising that species of stock, a business which he has ever since followed. He takes great pride in the production of high grade roadsters and draft horses, and has a large number of fine animals, w itli which any connoisseur of thoroughbred horses would be delighted. To him belongs the honor of having been the first to engage in fruit raising in the Snake river country, thereby introducing an industry which has proved a great blessing to the entire Inland Empire. At present he is the owner of two hundred and ten acres of fine land on the Snake river.

During the early days of Walla Walla Mr. Mathew, like other raisers and dealers in horses, was greatly harrassed and suft'ered frequent loss by a gang of horse-thieves which scoured the country in the pursuit of their nefarious vocation. At length, when patience ceased to be a virtue, a committee was organized, of which Air. Mathew was a leader, and which soon proved successful in driving out the obnoxious intruders. At one time thirty renegades were driven into Montana, where they afterwards suffered death at the hands of a vigilance committee.

NELSON CASTLEMAN was born in Canada December 21, 1849. Both of his parents died within a few years after his birth, and he was taken into the home of an uncle, hut the cruel treatment he received drove him away when ten years old. He came to the United States and located at Alassena Springs, in New York, where he made his home with various families as he could find opportunity to work for his board and schooling. He followed this life for seven years, but in 1866 went to Lowell, Massachusetts. He worked in the cotton mills there, also, by special effort, learned the painter's trade. He remained in the mills for several years and by close application to business secured promotion after pro-

Nelson Castleman

In 1870 l\Ir. Castleman moved tii Denver, Colorado, and a few days later found employment as a quarryman at Golden, twentyeight miles from Denver. Here he remained a year and a half, after which he returned to Lowell, passing through Chicago a short time after the big fire. He again took employment in the mills, working in them during winter and following painting and paperhanging in summer. In April, 1877, '''^ came west again, landing in San Francisco. A few days later he started north to Oregon and located in Portland, where he worked at his trade until August of the same year, when he came to Walla Walla. He has been engaged ever since in painting and paperhanging.

In March, 1898, Mr. Castleman was seized with the Klondike fever and made the then dangerous journey to Dawson City, where he remained for eleven months. When he came out in the spring of 1899 '^^ walked all the way from Dawson to Skagway over the ice on the Yukon river, a distance of six hundred miles, making the journey in thirty-three days, but actually traveling only thirty, as they stopped three days to rest. One day when the thermometer registered sixty-five degrees lielow zero his party traveled thirty miles.

Mr. Castleman is an Odd Fellow of thirty years standing. At present he is identified with Enterprise Lodge, No. 2, of Walla Walla. He belongs also to the city volunteer fire department, and has done so constantly since its organization, being a charter member of Vigilance Hook and Ladder Company. He has some real estate interests in Seattle and three houses and lots on West Chestnut street, Walla W'alla, in one of which he himself resides.

HENRY KUHL, a farmer nine miles east of Walla \\'alla, was born in Germany in 1854. He was, however, practically reared in this country, having come to America with his parents when seven years old. His first home in the United States was in Indiana, thirtymiles east of Chicago, and there he resided for twenty-eight years, engaged, after he became old enough, in farming. He also operated for three years the first creamery ever erected in Indiana, and for some time was landlord of a hotel. Coming west in 1889, he became a farmer on the Hudson Bay farm, nine miles east of Spokane, where he resided for three years. He then moved to Walla Walla county, bought land near his present home and engaged in wheat raising. At present he is the owner of a very fine farm, on which he produces wheat, barley, oats and corn. He also handles considerable stock.

Mr. Kuhl is one of the best farmers in the county, and the evidences of his industry and thrift are everywhere to be seen on his premises. His farm is highly cultivated and is improved with good buildings, fences, etc. He was married in this county in 1896, to Nancy, daughter of Henry Smith, one of the early pioneers of the state of Oregon. They have three children, Mabel, Jessie and Berner T.

CHARLES F. CUMMINGS, postmaster and merchant at Wallula, a pioneer of 1862, was born in Kansas September 5, 1861. He was, however, reared and educated in this ciiunty, his parents having brought him across the plains when he was only one year old. Upon attaining years of maturity, he engaged in the livery business at Wallula. He was in tliat line for a number of years, then tried farming a while, but finally entered the employ of the W. & C. R. R. R. Company as stationar)^ engineer in their shops. L'pon rehiring from that he embarked in the mercaniile business, and to this his energies have been given ever since, his location being Wallula. He is the proprietor of a fully equipped and nicely arranged establishment, and commands a good tratle. He also has a fruit farm in the vicinity.

Li 1898 Mr. Cummings was appointed postmaster, and he has since been performing his duties as such to the entire satisfaction of all the patrons of the office. He was married in the Puget Sound country, March 13, 1887, to Miss ilary J. Lindley, a native of Iowa. They have a family of five children, Leon E., W^nlter F., Flora E., Ula M. and Richard F.

Mr. Cummings' father, Gideon, a farmer three miles east of Wallula, a pioneer of 1862, was born in Indiana June 12, 1839. When two years of age he was taken by his parents to \\"isconsin, and he resided in that state and Iowa and Linn county, Kansas, successively, for different periods of time until 1862, when he crossed the plains to W'alla Walla. Having purchased an interest in the missionary f-arm ^f Rev. H. H. Spalding, he resided thereon until 1865. when he went to the \\'alla Walla river and engaged in the business of keeping station. For a while, also, he was himself the proprietor of a stage line to Lewiston, but in the early days he opened a mercantile establishment at ^^'allula, in company with his brother Amos. They conducted this business successfully for a full decade. Mr. was also engaged for a number years in the liusiness of buying, selling and storing wheat, one season handling four thousand tons, all raised in L^matilla countv, Oregon. He was the first to attempt to farm the hills south of Wallula, and for many years has followed that occupation there with good success. He is the owner of about two hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he raises a little of everything, though hay is his principal crop.

In the state of Kansas, on January i, 1861, he married Miss Lucy A. A\'hetstone, a native of Illinois, and they have five children: Charles F. ; I\I. Elizabeth, now wife of George J. McAvoy, an engineer on the O. R. & X. ; Amos G., a farmer; Rose E., wile of Marshall R. Hill, engineer on the W. & C. R. Railway;- M. Catherine, wife of D. E. Smith, a fireman on the N. P. R. R., residing at Genesee, Idaho.

]\Ir. Cummings has long been one of the leading men of the county, and he is well known and very highly esteemed by all the older and many of the newer residents of this section. His life has been successful financially, as well as in other ways, and in addition to his farm he has some valuable property in Wallula, Walla Walla and Seattle.

JOSEPH W. FERREL. a farmer residing about ten miles east of Walla ^\'alla, was born in this county in 1872. He acquired his education in the public schools and in \Miitman College, then went onto his father's farm, where he remained until last year. He then bought a farm of his own. Heretofore he has given most of his attention to cattle raising, but he is now going into the production of wheat more particularly. He is a thrifty, enterprising, industrious young man, and promises to become one of the leading farmers of \^'alla W'alla county. He was married in 1897 to Jkliss Belle De Baun, a native of Walla Walla county, and a member of a family which crossed the plains with ox-teams in 185 1. They have had one daughter, Bernice C, now deceased.

AUSTIN LYNN CAUVEL, who resides at 806 Alder street. \\'alla ^^'alla, is one of the early settlers of this city, having lived here since January i, 1880. He was born near Oil City, Venango county, Pennsylvania, September I, 1852, antl there received his education and grew to manhood. In December, 1873, he removed to Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, where he served an apprenticeship of two years, learning the trade of a carriage painter. Returning then to his old home he maintained a shop on his father's farm, at the same time giving some attention to agricultural pursuits, but in 1879 he started for this \-alley, coming west over the Union Pacific and Central Pacific to San Francisco, thence by steamer to Portland, and thence by water and team to Walla Walla. Though the distance from The Dalles to this city is only one hundred and ninety miles, it took them six days to make the journey, owing to tlie almost impassable condition of the roads and the scarcity of water. At one place a man who owned a well charged them twenty-five cents per head for the i)ri\-i!ege of watering their horses.

On his arrival in Walla Walla Mr. Cauvel went to work for his brother and Mr. Gardner in the old Ritz nur.-ery, where he remained six months. He then went into the service of William Kent, who owned a carriage shop in Walla Walla, remaining with him also six months; then, after working two months as an employe of Mr. Baxter, another carriage painter, he purchased the latter's shop and started in business on his own account. A year later he sold out and removed to Pendleton, where he, with Messrs. M. B. Johnson and J. A. Ross, purchased eighty acres of rich land and started a nursery. The business did not, however, agree with his health, so he sold out within eight months and returned to AV'alla Walla, where he found employment as a hack driver for Small & Miller, with whom he remained about three years. He then visited his relatives in Pennsylvania, and upon his return to Walla Walla bought a shop on East Main street and resumed work at his trade. He continued in this uninterruptedly for fourteen years, afterward selling out. Our subject and Charles Kurdey afterwards bought the property, but the former removed the shop to 503 South Second street, where he still maintains a carriage painting establishment.

Shortly after his arrival here Mr. Cauvel took a timber culture of one hundred and sixty acres about nine miles northwest of the present Ritzville, retaining the same until January, 1900, when he sold it for two thousand dollars. In 1888 he purchased a fifteen-acre tract about seven miles south of Walla W^alla, on which he planted a choice selection of fruit trees, and for which, in 1899, he received eleven hundred dollars.

Mr. Cauvel is identified with the Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Walla Walla, No. 81 14, and was elected to represent that body in the subsidiary high court, which met at Oakland, California, in 1898, and in the one which met in San Francisco in May, 1900. He is also pjomincnt in Odd Fellowship, being a past grand of Enterprise Lodge, No. 2, and a past chief patriarch of Walla Walla Encampment, No. 3. He was married March 20, 1887, to Miss Mary E. Todd, a native of

Mr. Cauvel's parents reside near Oil City, Pennsylvania, and are enjoying good health, though aged, the father seventy-five and the mother seventy years. His grandparents were among the earliest pioneers of western Pennsylvania. Mrs. Cauvel's parents are old and respected pioneers of the Walla Walla valley.

Among the heirlooms of the Cauvel family is the staple of the ox-yoke used by Marcus Whitman when he drove into Walla Walla county. It was found in the ruins after the massacre and fire. ^Ir. Cau\'el also has a stufYed mountain lion presented to him by the Walla \^'alla Volunteer Fire Department, in recognition of the fact that he served that organization as president for a longer period than any other man. The lion had been presented to the company as an appropriate mascot, the name of the organization being the "Tiger" engine company.

(iEORGE W. BRADBURY, a farmer residing near Clyde, a pioneer of 1872, was born in (JIdtown. I\Iaine. October 8, 1846. While yet in infancy he was taken by his parents to St. Anthony, Minnesota, a town which bas since l:!een incorporated into Minneapolis, although at that time Minneapolis consisted of a government grist mill, and a cabin with a blanket for a door. At the time of the Minnesota massacre, perpetrated by the Sioux, Mr. Bradbury was a member of the expedition which was sent out from Fort Snelling against the Indians, proceeding up the Mississippi river to t Ridgely. He remained at St. Anthonv until seven- teen years old, attending the local public school, then went with General Sully on his campaign against the Sioux Indians, and during this campaign assisted in building Fort Rice, which stands on the Missouri river near the mouth of the Cannon Ball. He participated in a se\'en-days fight in which six thousand whites were pitted against three times that many redskins. The loss of white men was, however, very slight, not exceeding ten or fifteen. On the Little Missouri river they also had a threedays fight, but without serious loss. The most distressing thing which happened here was the accidental shooting of a man by his own brother, the latter mistaking the former for an Indian in the darkness of night. The Indian guide was also wounded in this battle, and, as might be guessed, he received careful nursing, for he was the only man in tlie expedition who knew where the command was. They continued their journey across the Bad Lands of South Dakota to the Yellowstone river, forded. this where Glendive. Montana, now stands, losing many men and mules by dnnvning, followed the Yellowstone to the Missouri, forded that ri\-er, pushed on to the site of the present b'ort Buford, and thence to Sioux City, Iowa. Here Mr. Bradbury quit the service and went on a trap]iing expedition. He had good success, but on his return was overtaken by a blizzard, which would have cost him his life had he not taken refuge in a sheltered spot and allowed himself to be covered over with snow. F!eturniiig at length to Minneapolis he engaged IV the lumbering industry with his father. He tollowed that business in winter and rafting in summer for three or four years, then engaged in saw-milling at Deer Lodge, Montana, but soon moNcd to Silver Bow, same state, and started a meat market for the purpose of supplying surrounding towns. He remained in tliat business until 1872. then came, via the Mullen road, to Walla Walla. Ke farmed a rented place for one year, then began freighting, but as soon as the Xez Perce war broke out he again offered his services to the government. He was in the Pendleton fight, and though not present at the Cottonwood and Bird Canyon battles was on the ground in time to assist in burying the dead.

At the close of hostilities Air. Bradbury engaged in freighting into Oro Fino, but subsecjuently took a homestead and timber culture on Eureka flat, wdiere he resided until 1893. He then sold out and purchased his present twenty-five-hundred-acre farm. He is now extensively engaged in raising wheat, cultivating, for that purpose, not only his own mammoth farm but also twenty-nine Inmdred acres of rented land.

Mr. Bradbury is a typical pioneer, possessed of the indomitable courage characteristic of those who have occupied a place in civilization's van, and of a resourcefulness which has enabled him to conquer or find a way around all difficulties. He is now one of the most progressive and successful farmers in the county, bringing to his agricultural pursuits the same invincible spirit which he displayed in the stern battles of former days.

In Deer Lodge, Montana, in 1871, he married Miss Milly Harrison, a native of Missouri, \\ho died in Walla W'alla in 1882, leaving tw-o children : Edward H., now a resident of Walla Walla, and Maude, \\ife of Thomas LytMis, of Walla.

EATHAN A. LINN, deceased, a pioneer of May, 1862, w^as born in Somerset, Ohio, August 25, 1832. He resided in the town of his birth until nine years old, then accompanied his parents to New London, Iowa, where he completed his education and grew to earlymanhood. In 1852 his ambitious and venturesome spirit led him to undertake the long jiiurney across the plains, though the route was beset with dangers and had to be traveled, with ox-teams. Fie went to Salem, Oregon, and thence south to California, where for ten years he followed mining with varvine fortunes. In 1862 he visited Walla Walla on bis way to the mines of Florence, Idaho, and in the fall he returned to this city. The next spring he decided to try his fortune in Boise basin, so went into that section and spent a year or two there, mining and packing. He returned to Walla Walla in 1864.

The next year Mr. Linn and his brother Homer came to Old Wallula for the purpose of 'Starting in the livery busTness and in draying. They met with excellent success in thi^ undertaking, and followed it continuously for a fifth of a century. Mr. Linn then moved to his present place of abode, built two steam ferry boats on the Columbia river and established himself in the transportation industry at that point. He also followed stock raising for a number of years, but some time before his death he retired from active business and enjoyed a quiet evening of life.

Mr. Linn always took a lively interest in all matters of local concern, and was ever an active worker in political campaigns, his party afiiliations being with the Republicans. He was a member of Walla Walla Lodge, No. 7. F. & A. M. In Walla Walla valley, on July 4, 1870, our subject married Caroline James, a native of Kansas, and an old pioneer of the coast. They became parents of six children : John E., manager of the warehouse at Wallula; Elizabeth, wife of W. F. Burger of Dayton; William H., deceased; and three that died in infancy. Mrs. Linn passed away in i88j, and her remains lie buried in the !Masonic cemetery. Mr. Linn's death occiUTed at liis residence in WalUila on December 4, 1900. His demise was ver}' sudden, his last illness being of but one hour's duration.

RICHARD GIXX. deceased, of Walla Walla, was born in Fife, Scotland, January 4, 1820. His father died when he was quite young, and in 1836 he came with his mother to Cornwall, Ontario. He was reared on a farm and received his education in the common schools. He followed the occupation of a farmer in Canada for twenty years, then removed to Fairpoint. Minnesota, purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres and for ten years was engaged in wheat raising there.

Mr. Ginn then came to Cmatilla county, Oregon, and located one hundred and sixty acres of land near the town of \\'eston. To this from time to time lie added by purchase of school and railroad land and by taking a timber culture claim until he had six hundred and forty acres. He was the first farmer to raise wheat in the hills near Weston, and threshed his product by using horses to tramp it out on the ground. He afterwards sold part of his land and purchased four hundred and eighty acres in Sherman county, Oregon.

After a residence of twenty-eight years near Weston, Mr. Ginn was compelled, on account of failing health, to abandon the hard life of a farmer and remove to Walla \\'alla. He purchased a beautiful home at X'o. 626 Whitman street, where he resided until the date of his death, April 8, 1899. Two of his sons continue to operate his large farm, which

While a resident of Minnesota Mr. Ginn was active in establishing the public-school system of that state, serving as school director and aiding in the building of school houses. While a resident of Oregon he was for a time road appraiser. In Scotland he was a member of the Orangemen, and while living in Minnesota he joined the Grange, becoming a charter member of Fairpoint Lodge some thirty-six years ago.

Mr. Ginn married, on ^larch 19, 1857, iMiss Catherine Kinnear, a native of Cornwall, Ontario. Her father, who landed in Canada ^lay 27i, 1819, was born in Ireland of Scotch extraction, and her mother in England. Mr. anil Mrs. GJin were both members of the Congregational church of \\'alia Walla, and Mrs. Ginn still continues to take an active interest in the work of that society. In the family are ten children: Robert J., at present a merchant in Moro, Oregon; Eliza J. died December 16, 1872; Ella M., now Mrs. J- RMorrison, of Fort Langley, B. C. ; Annie S., now wife of William Elliot, of Walla Walla; Caroline A., now Mrs. Thomas Thompson, of Pendleton, Oregon; John A., deceased; Walter T., on his father's old farm; ^Maggie J., wife of Alexander Brady; George A., also on the farm; Minnie A., with her mother. Three of the children, Maggie, George and ]\Iinnie, are graduates of the Weston Xormal School. The entire family are benevolently disposed people, and have assisted liberally in the building of churches Avherever they have lived and in the support of all charitable institutions.

in the valley we may note that when Mr. and Mrs. Ginn arrived in Weston their earthly belongings consisted of a wagon and two horses and nineteen dollars in greenbacks, then worth about ninety per cent, of their face value. Their nearest trading point was Walla Walla, twentv miles distant, and thither they had to go for the provisions and household articles necessary fnr their lirst rude home. But such was the dauntless spirit which characterized these early pioneers that they overcame every obstacle and mastered every opposing force, though the manner of achie\'ing their x'ictories is often a mystery to the rising generation.