Walla Walla County, Washington - Biographical sketches (2 of 2 so headed), 1901 (part 1 of 9)

Biographical sketches

HOLLON PARKER. - Not all men order their lives to their own liking; nor yet are all men true to their ideals and their potentiality for individual accomplishment. It is, therefore, ever gratifying to take under review the life history of one who has wrought earnestly and faithfully and has proved a power for good in various relations of human existence, maintaining a high sense of his stewardship and having a constant recognition of the extraneous re- \sponsibilities concomitant with personal success. Such a man is he whose name initiates this paragraph, and no compilation having to do with the annals of Walla Walla county or the present state of Washington would lie consistent with itself were there a failure to incorporate a summary of his active and signally useful career.

The subject of this review is a native of the old Empire state, having been born in Arcada, near Palmyra, Wayne county. New York, October 2, 1832. His father, Preston R. Parker, was numbered among the early settlers in the northwestern part of New York state, having located his farm about thirty miles east of the city of Rochester. He rendered yeoman service in the war of 18 12, after which he devoted his attention to the clearing and cultivation of his farmstead, which was as yet practically a primiti\-e forest. With his own hands hie felled the heavy timlier, laboring assiduously to establish a home for his familv. He was united in marriage to Miss Lana Sanford, and they became the parents of six sons and four daughters, Hollon Parker being the sixth in order of birth. The father was a man of spotless character and marked intellectual strength, and for about half a century he rendered devoted and efficient service in the ministry of the divine Master.

The preliminary educational discipline of our subject was attained through the somewhat meagre sources afforded in the early days, and through which so many of our most eminent men have risen to exalted station and high preferment. He attended the primitive log schoolhouse, where he laid the foundation for that broad general information and ripe intellectuality which have marked his later years. Plis later successes in life are doubtless due not less to his own indomitable spirit and firmness of character than to the atmosphere of his early youth and the worthy example of his honored father and most estimable mother, the latter being a representative of one of the foremost families of the old Empire state. Endowed with sturdy independence of spirit and with a courage born of his recognition of his own powers to will and to do, Hollon Parker severed home ties at the early age of nineteen years and started for the far west, intending to return at the expiration of two years and to fit himself for college. Crossing the isthmus of Panama, part of the distance on foot, he ar- rived in San Francisco on May 22, 1852. following- tlie rusli into the mines in the northern part of tile state. Although fatigued from his long journey and emaciated by the fevers of the swamps of Panama, he finally succeeded in reaching the mines alive. It was here that the true grain and fiber of his most commendable nature manifested themselves to the best advantage. Fully seven thousand miles from home, by the isthmus route, five hundred dollars in debt, a veritable walking skeleton, alone and among strangers, with not a dollar in his pocket and with a hard, cold winter at hand, - the prospects were assuredly not alluring. After various efforts he finally secured an indoor position for the winter, at fifty dollars per month. This stipend seems all the more diminutive when we take into consideration the circumstance that in the more remote mining- districts fiour was at this time worth one dollar and twenty-five cents per pound, salt sixteen dollars per pound, and other necessities in proportion. This was in the winter of 1852-3. Mr. Parker afterward taught school in the northern part of the state, saving his earnings, and finally, on October 28, 1853. engaged in business with a jiartner. under the firm name of Parker & Roman, in Yreka, Siskiyou county, California, handling a line of books, stationery and notions. He continued in this line for over seven years, within which tinie he had accumulated about forty thousand dollars' worth of real estate and other property. These investments, mostly brick stores and merchandise, were lost during the dry winters which proved so disastrous to that country at that time, and by his being deceived in those in whom he trusted and had confidence.

had been declared impossible by Fremont. In the party were three physicians, two of whorn were overcome with the gases and sulphurous vapors emanating from the boiling springs of the old crater at the summit of the mountain, several weeks elapsing before they were fully recovered from the effects of this ordeal.

In 1856 ^Ir. Parker returned to his home in New York state, and while there was an acti\e member of the Wayne county convention whicli supported James Buchanan for the presidency. After the election Mr. Parker attended the inaugural ceremonies at the federal capital, and while there was one of over four hundred victims who, with President Buchanan, were poisoned at one of the leading hotels in the city, and of whom forty or more died, while many were left injured for life, Mr. Parker hmiself not recovering from the effects for man}^ years.

In the spring of 1862, after having closed his stores at Yreka, California, and Jacksonville, Oregon, Mr. Parker started north for the then celebrated Oro Fino mining camp in northern Idaho, arriving at Portland. Oregon, the following April. Continuing his journey northward, he arrived at Walla Walla about the middle of July, 1862, and here he lias ever since maintained his home. His intention had been to visit his brother, Esbon B. Parker. who owned some valuable mining property at Oro Fino. and then to return to San Francisco, w here he had his dental instruments and stock, intending to go to Lima, South America, for the purpose of entering upon the practice of dentistry in tliat place, for he had become an expert in this profession. However, after looking about in Wall Walla, he decided to again enter the mercantile business, handling his old line of books, stationery, etc.

papers, Mr. Parker effected in \\'alla Walla the organization of the L'nion Leagne. whose object was the promotion of a spirit of patriotism among the citizens of the commnnit}-, and he was an active and zealons worker in the Union cause throughout the entire period of the war of the Rebellion. Although it met with some opposition, the league proved a success and gave to the country the impetus then necessary to clear it of the blacklegs and thieves who had secured such a vital hold upon the community that it had become necessary to organize a vigilance committee to protect the lives and property of the citizens. During this time Mr. Parker, with the able co-operation of Messrs. Thomas K. ]\IcCoy and Anderson Cox, worked incessantly to secure for the people honest and just go\-ernment and a more fa\'orable condition of judicial affairs.

In the summer of 1863 Mr. Parker was elected a delegate to the Republican territorial convention, held at Vancouver, \\niile there he entered into a contract with the registrar and the receiver of the United States land office, and agreed to pay their expenses, which the United States refused to do, in order that the}' might come to Walla Walla and give settlers an opportunitv to secure titles to their land before the same could be bought by speculators, as there was to be a government sale of the same lands the following month. Ijt this praiseworthy undertaking he was successful and thereby saved for the community over fifteen thousand dollars which would have been lost liad the settlers been obliged to go to the land office. In 1864 Mr. Parker, in connection with his other business, and at an outlay of several thousand dollars, opened a private land office in Walla Walla, the object being to enable the new settlers to file on their land claims without going to Vancouver and Oregon City land ofiices. Simultaneously he engaged in the practice of law. Although his busine.-s had now assumed such proportions as to recpiire almost b.is entire time, he practiced one year in the L'nited States district court, and became interested very successfully in politics, so continuing until i86g.

During this time there was \-igorous agitation of the question of annexing southeastern Washington to Oregon, the territory in cjuestion lying south of the Snake river and including what are now the counties of Walla Walla, Columbia, Asotin and Garfield. The measure was favored by Anderson Cox and many other prominent men in both Washington and Oregon. Mr. Cox having been elected to the Washington legislature, instead of approaching that body, appeared at Salem, Oregon, and helped to secure the passage by the legislature of that state of a memorial praying congress that the territory mentioned might be annexed to the state of Oregon. Upon learning of this action ]\Ir. Parker forthwith brought strong but secret forces to bear in opposition to the proposed scheme of annexation, and by his influence with the political leaders of Washington succeeded in preventing this consummation. The direct import of this movement may not have been evident to those of less foresight, but had this portion of Washington been annexed to Oregon, strongly Democratic in its political complexion as it then was, it would have thrown Oregon into the Democratic fold, in which case the entire political status of the nation would have been changed, as the Democratic vote of Oregon, with such supplemental territory, would have elected Tilden to the presidency of the United States. For his services and zeal in behalf of the country and his party Mr. Parker received the consideration and confidence of the government, and it may safely lie said tb.at through such inlluence he could have procured almost any office or position pertaining tc the territory of Washington, had he so desired.

On the 4th of February, 1869, ^h. Parker started to attend the inauguration of President Grant. By means of a stage coach, a sled and a mud wagon he succeeded in traversing a distance of eight hundred miles, reaching the western terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad, at a little town called Wasatch, where he discovered that the railroad was blocked by snow. After a short delay the railroad company transferred the party to Rawlins, where they found about two hundred other delayed passengers, many without provisions or money. From Rawlins they telegraphed to the Congressional committee on railroads at Washington a repeated message for aid, the cost of transmission Ijeing forty dollars. The passengers selected ]\Ir. Parker as leader and as one of a committee of three to devise ways and means of transportation and relief. After an unsatisfactory interview, the railroad officials proposed that if the passengers would provide themselves with food for three days they themselves would furnish a carload of shovels for digging out the snow, and would thus send them on. This proved to be a gross deceit, for the engine was run into a snowfilled cut and the passengers were left without the implements for digging the snow, at the little coal mining place and station of Carbon. Realizing the danger of distress and even starvation with their scanty provisions, the able bodied men left the bulk of the food for the women, children and old men and set out afoot for Cheyenne, a distance of over a hundred miles. After much distress (some having feet and hands frozen) they reached Cheyenne and an open railroad and proceeded thence to Omaha. One passenger died from exposure before reaching Omaha. From Omaha they proceeded to Washington, where they arrived three day3 after the inauguration.

^Ir. Parker was introtluced by Horace Greeley, May 18, 1869, to the Farmers' Club American Institute, New York city, and before this body was given a hearing as to the Walla' Walla valley and its various resources. The report which he thus entered was publislied in many of the leading papers throughout the east, in a circulation of over half a million (see report of said meeting in the New York Herald, Tribune, Sun, W^orld, Times, Scientific American, Independent, Rural New Yorker and many other papers), and this constituted the first legitimate advertising of the Walla Walla valley. As a result of this Mr. Parker received a great many letters from various parts of the United States, and these were faithfully answered. For two months or more he worked at Washington city, serving the public in his efforts to secure better mail facilities and to further other important measures. Realizing the immense value of such work to them, Leland Stanford, president of the Central Pacific Railroad, the authorities of the Union Pacific Railroad and John Haley, Sr., of the stage lines, placed their transportation at the disposal of ]\Ir. Parker, gratis. In the same year, in the month of May, Mr. Parker was an active member of the first national woman's tjufifrage convention, the same being held in New York city.

It was through JNIr. Parker's efforts while in Washington, in 1869. that the commissioner of the general land office so changed the rules of the department for all the United States land offices that the settlers on government land could prove up by deposition instead of the personal appearance of witnesses, thus saving the cost of their journey to the land office, which was o\'er one hundred dollars for each witness. Mr. Parker also succeeded, by the aid of Senator Wilson of Massachusetts, after- Avards vice-president of the United States, in securing the enactment of a provision of law whereby veteran soldiers could receive the hundred dollars bounty to be paid to each by draft on the United States treasury without the expense of a journey to Oregon Cit)% where the paymaster was located.

For nearl}' two years the judges of the supreme court of Washington Territory, the delegate to congress and others of unmistakable influence had made efforts to ha\'e appointed for the territory registrars in bankruptcy, under the United States bankrupt law. All these efforts had resulted in failure, but I\Ir. Parker, tlirough his private influence with Chief Justice Chase, succeeded in having three lawyers of his own selection appointed to fill the positions noted. For five consecutive years the Walla \Valla Board of Trade elected Mr. Parker delegate to the Columbia river waterway conventions, which were held at various places, the object in view being to aid and en- -courage the movement to open the Columbia river to navigation, and it was through his efforts that much was done toward agitating this important question. Its importance may be understood when we revert to the fact that the people now living in the great Columbia basin, which is drained by the Columbia river, and whose area is more than two hundred and fifty thousand square miles, - equal in extent to the whole area of New England, New York and Ohio, and a portion of Pennsylvania. - could not but receive untold benefit by the opening up of the river to navigation, as this area is opulent with the wealth of mines of gold, silver, copper, iron and other metals, also of timber and other products - an area capable of supporting many millions of people. (See Smalley's Magazine, St. Paul, Minnesota, August, 1887, for information in regard to this.) In this connection Mr. Parker was on the committee for memorial to congress, the most important committee, and in October, 1890, he was unanimously elected its president, which incumbency he has since retained.

After nearly a quarter of a century of close application to sedentary business Mr. Parker found it necessary to seek employment in the open air, accordingly taking to the saddle and for four years superintending the fencing and cultivation of several thousand acres of land which he had acquired in \'arious counties. His diligence rewarded him by a return of from tliirty to fort}' bushels of wheat to the acre on land upon which ten years before he would not have paid the taxes. Wheat at this time was bringing only thirty cents per bushel, owing to exorbitant transportation charges, and eighteen per cent, interest paid on money secured from the banks. Mr. Parker has since continued to devote his attention to the superintending of his farming and various other properties, his success in temporal affairs being exceptional and entirely the result of his own well directed eft'orts. After his arrival in the beautiful \Valla \Valla valley, although he had traveled extensively throughout the United States, in almost every latitude, the various ar,d wonderful attractions of the valley, the mild, healthful, invigorating climate, the various prolific resources, implying the production of almost every kind of vegetable, fruit and grain, - have kept him so cliarined since first he found the Eureka of his travels that

.Vmong the tourist experiences of Mr. Parker's life that which he recalls with the keenest pleasure is his tour to .Vlaska in August. 1899, in what was known as the "Presbyterian excursion." There were some two hundred excursionists, and when they reached that marvel of marvels. Muir glacier, only fifteen of the number dared to .scale its icy clilYs and cross its treacherous crevasses. Mr. Parker, active in spite of his years, was one of the fifteen to accomplish this feat. He regards the Muir glacier and its surroundings as the most sublime and awe-inspiring of all the scenes that he has witnessed.

Mr. Parker is now in the ripe fullness of a perfectly matured life and has reached that point along the journey where he may pause and glance with calm retrospection upon the labors and vicissitudes of his past life, noting the obstacles he has surmounted, the efforts which it has been his to render in the cause of humanity, the successes which have been worthily gained and the manifold blessings which have been iiis portion, feeling in the meanwhile the satisfaction which ever comes to one who has striven to do his duty to his fellow men. To him has come the tranquil leisure which is the crown of a well spent life, and in the community where he has lived and lalx)red he is held in high esteem by all who have appreciation of honest, sterling worth and character. His life has been exemplary, - his charity broad but discriminating, his benefactions to the public of wide scope and importance an,d his influence ever arrayed in support of the right. He has lived a strictly temperate life, even through the years of early settlement, while intemperance has hurried many of his acquaintances and comjianions into untimely graves. He has ever kept in touch with the questions and topics of the hour, bringing to bear a mature judgment and rare discrimination in considering all matters of public polity, and his opinions as expressed through the press or by personal dictum, carry weight under all circumstances.

Thoroughly con\inced of the justice and value of the single ta.x principles as advocated by Henry George, Mr. Parker has given to the same the strongest indorsement, having given the matter careful and discriminating study and having become confirmed in the belief that through the operation of these principles, as practically applied, will result the greatest good to the greatest number. Xever lacking the courage of his convictions, he made a very vigorous effort, in 1899, to secure a popular indorsement of this measure by the people of the state, and to provide for a better comprehension of it. His princely offers of financial contributions to the cause are a matter of history, and he is still hopeful that his own state may be enabled to introduce the measure in which he so earnestly believes. Mr. Parker, after forty years of actual litigation in the courts of the land, from the lowest to the highest, gives as his admonition to all the statement that it is far better it possible for all disputes to be settled by arbitration rather than in the courts. He has, however, been compelled in his extensive practice, to secure two mandamuses from the supreme court of the L'nited States.

While residing in the east Mr. Parker identified himself with the time-honored fraternity of Free and .Vccepted Masons. He rose to the degree of Master Mason in Palmyra Lodge. Xo. 248, in Wayne county. Xew York. He also took three degrees in Lodge Xo. 463,

L O. O. F., in East Palmyra. Some years afterward he secured a dimit and traveling card from each of these lodges, but so pressing have been the demands upon his time and attention tl'.at he has nnt maintained an active affiliation with these bodies during his residence in the west.

On the 13th of January, 1872, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Parker and Miss Laura Glenn, of New Lisbon, Columbiana county, Ohio, she being a sister of the late Dr. J. G. Glenn, of Portland, Oregon. Of the three children of this union only one is living, Orrin (jlenn Parker, who was born June 2, 1876, and who is now assisting his father in the management of their large interests. The beautiful tuin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Parker died of diphtheria in the winter of 1878-9, aged six years.

Among the mental characteristics of the subject of this review may be mentioned keen discernment of the meaning and measure of things about him, determination to accomplish whatever lie undertakes, self-reliance, and independence of thought and action, and an imagination fervid and yet signally tempered by good judgment. In religion he has a deep and abiding reverence for those fundamental principles which are the conservators of the welfare of men and the favor of the Deity. His faith in the Divine Master is fixed and unwavering and in the declining years of his long and useful life he will have the solace and consolation of the "faith that makes faithful."

GEORGE W. BABCOCK. - It is with marked gratification that we accord representation in this work to one who has been so prominentlv identified with the affairs of the Pacific coast region and who has so materially aided in its development as has the gentleman whose name introduces this paragraph. A native of the far east, he is yet a pioneer of the far west, and his life has been one of ceaseless endeavor in varied fields of activity, while his sterling worth has retained to him an unwavering respect and confidence. As one of the leading citizens of Walla Walla, where he holds high prestige as an architect and builder, it is clearly consistent that a review of his life should be entered in this compilation.

]\Ir. Babcock, whose pleasant home is located at 109 Alder street, was born in the historic old city of Providence, Rhode Island, in the year 1832, and that place continued to be his home until he was a lad of six years, when he accompanied his parents on their removal to the Empire state, where he received his preliminary educational discipline in the public schools, attending the same until the age of fourteen. His parents then made a second removal, this time locating in the state of Illinois, where the young man again took up his school work, completing the same by one year's attendance at Hillsboro College.

In that town also he gave inception to his business career, early proving his distinctive capacity for successful individual effort. For about five years he engaged in selling clocks, pumps, lightning rods, etc., at the expiration of which period he yielded to the western fever which animated him and in 1S50 emigrated to California, making the long and weary journey across the plains with a team and wagon, the trip being of si.x months and nine days duration. ,

-Arriving in the Golden state, he was there engaged in mining pursuits for a decade, his headquarters being at Hangtown. now known as Placerville. From this point he proceeded to San Francisco, where he devoted his attention to work as an architect and builder for some time, meeting with success and eventually curtailing his operations to the functions of an architect only.

From "Frisco"' Mr. Backcock came forward to identify his interests with those of the famed "Inland Empire," remaining in Spokane for six months and coming thence, in 1885. to \\'alla Walla for the purpose of locating the \Vashington state penitentiary, for the buildings of which he furnished the plans and specifications and personally superintended the erection thereof. He has ever since been a resident of this city, where he has erected many of the most important public and private buildings and where he has been continuously engaged as an architect.

Mr. Babcock has ever maintained a lively and discriminating interest in pul)lic affairs of a local nature, having been a member of the city council in Oakland, California, prior to his removal to Washington, w'hile in 1899 he was chosen to a similar incumbency in Walla Walla, being chairman of the finance committee of the council at the time of this writing. Fraternall)" he is very prominently identified Avith the Masonic order, in which he has attained the Knights Templar degrees in the York rite and has advanced to the thirty-second degree, as a sublime prince of the royal secret in the Scottish rite. He is also a noble of the Mystic Shrine, the social adjunct of Freemasonry. In connection with other business associations he is vice-president of the Farmers' Savings bank, of Walla Walla.

In Eldorado county, California, in the year 1856, Mr. Babcock married Miss Annie Shirley, whose demise occurred in 1864. In 1867. in San Francisco, he consummated a second marriage, being then united to ^Irs.

JAMES P. GOODHUE. - The man whose life history it is now our task to briefly outline is one whose connection with the Pacific coast dates liack to the earliest times, so he has naturally witnessed a great deal of the pioneer de\-elopment of this section, and has had an opportunity such as falls to the lot of comparatively few men of assisting in the work of expelling the darkness of barbarism and ushering in the light of civilization.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, on March II, 1834, he was early taken thence to New York, from which city, at the age of eighteen years he came to California, making the trip Ijy the Cape Horn route, on the cli])per ship Siren, Capt. Ed. Silsbee. After a short stay in the Golden state and a residence of a year in the Sandwich islands, he returned to his native city to visit his parents. In 1855, he crossed the Columbia river bar as mate of the brig Kingsbury, soon after going to Corvallis, Oregon, where he remained until the outbreak of the Rogue river war, during the continuance of which he served as an employe of the quartermaster's department, of the Oregon Volunteers. During a portion of the year 1856 he served as purser of the steamer Belle, and he subsequently spent some time with Captain Ingalls in the quartermaster's department of the regular army at Vancouver barracks. In 1857 he was sent by the government to the Cascades as transfer agent, and in i860 he came to Walla Walla to become wagon master at the fort.

the mining districts of Idaho and Montana, but between the years 1868 and 1874, he served at different times as purser on the steamers Active, California, Idaho, George S. Wright and Gussie Telfair, plying between Oregon and British Columbia points and Sitka, Alaska. For the ensuing seven years he was agent at Victoria, British Columbia, for the Oregon Steamship Company, and between the years 1881 and 1891 he held the position of material and transfer agent for the N. P. R. R. Company.

In the latter year he came to Walla Walla, wliere his home had been since i860, though his work was such as to keep him absent most of the time. His purpose was to establish an express office in this city for the Northern Pacific Express Company, which he did and he has remained in charge of the same ever since.

Mr. Goodhue has been twice married. On April 29, i860, he became the husband of Miss Anna Turnbull, a niece of Captain James Turnbull, the pioneer captain of the Columbia river. This lady died in Walla Walla in July, 1868, leaving three children, Frank, chief clerk in the quartermaster's department at Seattle, Washington : James : and Edith, widow of Lieutenant William Moffat, Second United States Infantry. His second marriage was solemnized in Victoria. British Columbia, when Miss Fannie Cooper became his wife. To this union three children were Ixirn. namely : Charlotte H., Ada Putnam and Claude Howard, the last-named of whom is ticket agent for the X. P. R. R. Company in Walla ^^'alla.

Mr. Goodhue has the jiniud distinction of being a lineal descendant of the noted Israel Putnam, he being a grandson of Colonel Purley Putnam f)f the war of 1S12, who was a near relative of the man whose name is sd well known in history.

ALVAH BROWN. - The esteemed and courteous gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article has been a resident of the \\^alla Walla valley for nearly twenty years, and during that time has held various positions both public and private which have brought him into personal relations with a great number of men, and it is safe to say that he is one of the most widely acquainted of all the citizens of the county. His unfailing faithfulness in the discharge of every duty entrusted to him has won the respect of those who know of his record, while his uniform kindliness and af-- fability have made him a universal favorite.

Mr. Brown, popularly known as "Jerry" Brown, is a native of Silverton, Clarion county, Oregon, born October 20, 1855. His mental discipline was acquired in the public schools established in the vicinity of his home, while his physical man was developed to the fullest by vigorous early and late exercise on his father's farm. When his majority was attained, he received an appointment, signed by President U. S. Grant, to the office of postmaster at Silverton, and the duties of that incumbency were discharged by him faithfully and well for a period of four years. W'hen his successor, Mr. T. R. Hibbard, took charge, our subject was appointed assistant postmater, continuing in the same position for three years thereafter.

In May, 1883, he retired from the postal service and came to Walla Walla, where he entered the employ of J. Jones, whose place of business was on the corner of Third and Main streets, serving him in the capacity of a clerk for about eighteen months. Fie then took service as secretary of the Walla A\'alla Water Company, from which position he retired two years later to accept an api)ointment on the city police force under Chief T. J. Robinson.

During tlie five years of his service as a police ofificer he made a record of which he has just cause to feel proud. When Chief Robinson died he resigned his appointment and became clerk and bookkeeper in the employ of H. Mc- Arthur, a cigar and tobacco merchant, and with him has remained uninterruptedly since, his personal magnetism and affability of manner making him an especially successful man in that business.

Mr. Brown's marriage was solemnized in Silverton. Oregon, on March 14, 1878. when Miss Viola Davis, a schoolmate and childhood friend of his, became his wife. They have two children living, Gertrude and Gladys, both in the public school, also had one, Stanley D., who was accidentally killed while hunting, his demise occurring August i, 1899. Mr. Brown's father, James M., came to Oregon in 1846. and died at Woodburn in that state, January 8, 1886. His mother passed away in Silverton, on September 20, 1876. Mrs. Brown's father, Dr. P. A. Davis, arrived in Oregon in 1852, and still resides in Silverton. Her mother also died in Silverton, in April, - 1866.

Ex-Goverxor Miles C. Moore

EX-GOVERXOR MILES C. MOORE, president of the Baker-Boyer National bank, the oldest institution of its kind in the state of Washington, is a native of Muskingum county, Ohio, born April 17, 1845. When twelve years old he accompanied tlie rest of the family to Point Bluff, Wisconsin, and he was educated in the Methodist Episcopal Institute, there located. In 1863 he came to Walla AValla, A\'ashington. He was first employed as a clerk in the store of Kyger and Rees. Thereafter, at the age of nineteen, he embarked in business on his own account in Blackfoot City, a mining town in Alontana. He returned to Walla Walla in the fall of 1866 and became postmaster and a partner in the book store of H. E. Johnson & Company. In 1869 he opened a general store in company with Paine Bros., the firm name being Paine Bros. & IMoore. This establishment was later converted into an agricultural implement house, the first in eastern Washington.

Mr. iloore subsequently became associated with his father-in-law, Dr. D. S. Baker, in the grain business and in various other enterprises, and this connection was maintained until 1888, when Doctor Baker died. 'Sir. Moore then became one of the administrators of the estate. For many years he was an active participant and a leading spirit in the politics of Washington, but of late years he has given less attention to public and more to his own private affairs. He was elected mayor of the city in 1877, and in 1889 he was appointed to fill the gubernatorial chair, during that period of our history when the territory was donning the dignity of statehood. Commenting upon his administration the Tacoma Ledger said, "Of all the able governors the territory has had, beginning with Isaac I. Stevens, who was a distinguished soldier, engineer and political leader, no one has brought to the oflice more intelligence, dignity and grace than Governor Aliles C. Moore."

In 1889, when the Baker-Boyer National bank was organized. Governor Moore became a stockholder and vice-president, and on the death of Mr. Boyer, in 1898, he was promoted to the presidency. He is also a stockhoK'.er in the First Xational bank of Walla Walla, and senior member of the firm known as M. C. Moore & Sons, loans and investments. He is, moreover, e.xtensivelv interested in real estate

\h. Moore was married in Walla Walla, in ^March, 1873, to Mary E. Baker, a native of East Portland, Oregon, and t<) them have been liorn three sons, Frank A. and Walter B., assistants in the bank, and Robert L., a student at Whitman College. The family live in a beautiful home on the southeast edge of the city, surrounded by beautiful grounds, and adorned with everything which good taste could suggest.

Governor Moore's father, Amos L., was a native of Delaware, of English extraction, and his mother, ucc Monroe, was a scion of the famous \^irginia family to which President Monroe belonged.

WASHINGTON SMITH GILLIAM, a retired farmer and well known citizen of Walla Walla, residing in a pleasant home at 315 Newell street, is a native of Clay county, Missouri, where he was born on the 24th of February, 1829. He continued to reside in his native state until he attained the age of fifteen years. His parents were General Cornelius and Mary (Crawford) Gilliam, his father having attained distinction in connection with the militia and through effective service in the Indian wars. The subject of this sketch accompanied his parents on their journey overland from Missouri to Oregon, the transportation facilities being those afforded by an oxteam and the trip being protractetl over a period of six months. They settled where Dalles, Polk county, Oregon, is now located, the family being the first to settle south of Rickreall creek. Our subject altenrled school for a brief interval prior to the removal of the family from Missouri and completed his educational discipline in the schools of Oregon, which were of somewhat primitive character, owing to the exigencies of place and period.

Upon beginning a life of personal responsibility Mr. Gilliam directed his attention to the basic industry of agriculture in varied phases, continuing to retain his abode in Oregon until 1859, when he cast in his lot with the pioneer settlers of Walla Walla county, where he has ever since resided, being now recognized as one of the venerable and honored pioneers of this section. L^pon coming to this county he secured land by both pre-emption and purchase, and much of this land has since continued in his possession. - a period of more than forty years. Careful and discriminating in his methods, success attended his efforts and he became one of the extensive agriculturists of the county. In this connection it is gratifying to recall the fact that he has never swerved in his allegiance to husbandry, having been a farmer all his life and being at the present time identified with this line of industry through the leasing of his land to good tenants.

Mr. Gilliam has been a man of marked public spirit and has never failed to discharge the duties devolving upon him as a citizen, having been called upon to serve in positions of distinctive trust and responsibility. He was sheriff of Polk county, Oregon, in 185 1-2, was a member of its territorial legislature in 1853-4; held a similar incumbency in the Washington legislature in 1861, while in 1863 he served with marked efificiency as sheriff' of \\'alla Walla county. Mr. Gilliam is a man of marked intellectual and executive force and has left an unmistakable impress upon the annals of this count}-, where he has lived and labored to such goodly ends.

On the 23d of Fel)ruarv. 1S54. in Polk county, Oregon, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Gilliam and Miss Esther A. Taylor, \vho came to the Pacific coast region in 1852. To them have been born six children, of whom we make brief record, as follows : Ellen, widow of Jesse X. Day, is a resident of \\'alla Walla ; Lane C, a mining expert, resides in the city of Spokane; Mitchell is a resident of Seattle; J. Benjamin is one of the successful farmers of \\'alla Walla county; IMary remains at the parental home ; and i\Iarcus H. is a miner in British Columbia. Of the children three were born in Oregon and three in Washington.

In conclusion we are i)leased to record an interesting historical fact recalled by Mr. Gilliam, to the effect that the first settlers in this section came hither to secure pasture for their cattle, little imagining the great agricultural wealth and productiveness which were eventually to give the locality its greatest precedence.

WILLIAM O'DOXXELL, retired hardware merchant of Walla Walla, a pioneer of 1862, is a native of Ireland, born January 16. 1S36. When a boy of eight he came with his father to America, landing in Xcw Orleans. He thence proceeded to St. Louis. Missouri, where in 1845 ^^^ ^^'^^ l^ft ^n orphan b\- the death of his father, his mother having passed away in 1837. For the ensuing seven years he remained in St. Louis, solving the difficult problem of existence as best he could. In 1852, however, he went to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he learned the trade of a tinner, and where he lived until 1857. He then removed to Atchison, Kansas, and thence, two years later, to Georgetown, Missouri, which was his place of abode until 1861.

In that >'ear he set out with an o.\-leam for Salt Lake City, but upon arrival he and his party purchased a new outfit and proceeded to Carson City, Xevada. Here Mr. O'Donnell followed his trade for a short time, but soon came on to Placerville, California. He did not remain, however, but soon went to San Francisco, then by steamer to Portland, Oregon, where he and three other persons built a small boat. In this they proceeded to Lewiston, Idaho.

After a residence of only fourteen days, Mr. O'Donnell returned to Portland, and entered the employ of ^Messrs. A. M. and L. M. Starr, working for them as a tinner until August, 1863, when he came to W'alla Walla. In this city he has resided continuously since, except for a brief period during which he was on a mining expedition in British Columbia. He was employed by ^Ir. Phillips almost constantly until 1872, in which year he engaged in business for himself, eventually becoming the owner of the old stand where his former employer started. He disposed of his hardware establishment October i, 1900, and retired from active business.

Mr. O'Domiell has been known as one of the most successful business men of Walla Walla, and he also ranks among its most highl_v esteemed citizens. He has long taken a leading part in the municipal affairs of his home city, having served as county treasurer as early as 1880, and having since been a member of the city council. Fraternally, he affilr iates with the F. & A. ^^1., the B. P. O. E., and the Catholic Knights.

On May 7, 1869, INIr. O'Donnell married Miss Margaret Flaherty, a native of Ireland, who died in Walla Walla September 25, 1889. They became parents of one daughter, Grace, born February 4, 1871, now deceased.

JOHN KYDD. - Perhaps no other country on the face of the earth of equal size and population produces so many men who distinguish themselves for thrift, progressiveness and sterling character as does old Scotland. Her sons have won renown the world over for all those traits which go to make up true manliness and to win esteem and respect. Not the least worthy of those who claim for their fatherland fair Caledonia is the man whose name forms the caption of this brief article. He was born in Kincardine county, Parish of Fordoun, on February 9, i860, and there he resided until twelve years of age, attending the public schools. His father having died, he then removed with the rest of the family to Arbroath, where he received a high school training. Upon retiring from school he followed farming with his brother until twentytwo years old, but the desire to try his fortunes in America had taken hold of him and in 1882 he set sail for the new world, coming alone. He took up a temporary residence in the Red river valley in ilinnesota, but not being satisfied with the rigorous climate, he soon came on to Walla Walla.

He purchased a quarter section of land on the Touchet river, from Dr. Dorsey Baker, also homesteaded another quarter adjoining, and he has been increasing his realty holdings from time to time since until he is now the owner of a magnificent farm of nine thousand acres. He raises about one hundred and sixty acres of wheat annually and about sixty acres of alfalfa, retaining the remainder for pasture. He keeps four thousand head of sheep, forty head- of cattle and horses enough for his own work. His annual wool clip averages about fifty thousand pounds.

ital, and having acquired by dint of energy and good management, a rank among the moderately wealthy. The same qualities of mind which have enabled him to accomplish his industrial success have secured for him the esteem and respect of the community in which he lives, while his many good and neighborly characteristics have won all hearts. Fraternally, he i.- identified with Washington Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F., of Walla Walla, also with Walla Walla Tribe, No. 23, Improved Order of Red Men.

On July 12, 1900, Mr. Kydd left his place in charge of a foreman and visited the Paris Exposition, visiting also his old home in Scotland where his mother and one of his brothers reside. He found his mother in excellent health though past seventy-five years of age. His other brother, William, is a farmer near the town of Harris Smith, Orange Free State, Africa. From him he recently received a letter saying that the Boers had just recently made a raid on his farm and taken all his crops and stock, depriving him of the accumulations resulting from the assiduous efforts of twentyone years and compelling a new start in life.

HENRY SANDERSON, deceased, a pioneer of i860, was a native of Paris, France, where his early years were passed, and where he was married. He came to America about 1845, ^'^d located in San Francisco. He was engaged in the hotel business there and in Napa City for a number of years, but at length removed to Corvallis, Oregon, whence, in i860, he came to Walla Walla. He opened here what was known as the W'alla Walla hotel, the first in the city. In 1870, he went to Alaska, opened a bakery and restaurant there.

and operated the business for many years afterwards. He returned to Walla Walla in 1897, but died the following year. He was an industrious, energetic man, successful in business, and highly respected by all his neighbors. His wife died in 1887. Emil Sanderson, their son, was born in Napa City, California, July 4, 1857. He was reared in Walla Walla, having been brought here by his parents when he was about three years old. He has lived in the city almost continuously since, engaged in the restaurant business and in various other enterprises. He has always taken a lively interest in the city's welfare, manifesting his desire to promote the public good in many ways, but especially by his activity in the fire department, in which he was for two years first assistant chief. In politics he is a Democrat. He was elected a constable in 1896, and the duties of that office are still being discharged by him. In Denver, Colorado, he married I\Iiss Mabel O. Crawford, a native of California, and they ha\'e become parents of one daughter, Grace. Mr. Sanderson is quite prominent in fraternal circles, being identified wMth the Odd Fellows, Elks, Eagles and Red Men.

CHARLES B. STEWART, M. D. - The \ocation of the physician and surgeon is one of the most exacting and responsible in the ei";tire category of human undertakings, demanding of its votaries a most discriminating preliminary discipline and an alert human sympathy and unflinching nerve, since it touches most closely the ultimate issues of life and death. Walla \\'alla has been signally favored in the character and ability of her medical practitioners, and among those who have precedence through sterling professional and personal worth must certainly be mentioned the subject of this brief review, whose offices are located in rooms i and 2, postoffice block.

Dr. Stewart is a native of the Pacific northwest, having been born in Jackson county, Oregon, in 1858, a representative of one of the early pioneer families of this now opulent section of the Union. He has passed practically his entire life in \\'alla \\'alla, having been brought hither when but four years of age, and here he received his preliminary educational discipline, attending the public schools and later Whitman College. Having determined to prepare himself for the profession of medicine, he matriculated in the time-honored Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he completed the required curriculum of studies, with the incidental clinical and surgical w'ork; but so earnest was his desire to thoroughly reinforce himself for his life w-ork that immediately after his graduation he took two post-graduate courses, fortifying himself by the most careful study and investigation.

Thus well equipped for his work, the Doctor returned to Walla Walla, where he forthwith opened an office, in 1888, and prepared to enter upon the active practice of his profession. No dreary novitiate awaited him, and he soon gained a position as one of the successful and able physicians of the city, devotnig himelf to a general practice of medicine and surgery and securing a representative sup- IDort. The Doctor is a member of the alumni association of Jefferson Medical College and also of the Walla Walla Valley ^^ledical Society. He keeps well abreast of the advances made in the science to which he devotes himself, being a constant and discriminating reader of the best medical periodicals and standard publications. He served for a number of years as coroner. Fraternally be is identified \vitli tbe Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In tbe year 1870 was celebrated tbe marriage of Dr. Stewart to Miss Etta B. Wolfard, tbe union being solemnized in Wbitman county, of wbicb Mrs. Stewart's parents are pioneers, as are tbey also of Spokane county. The Doctor and bis wife are tbe parents of two cbildren, - Charles P. and Maggie M.

JUDGE E. B. WHITMAN, deceased, a pioneer of 1858. was a native of Boston, Massachusetts, born January 20, 1824. In that historic city, bis early youth was passed, but on attaining his majority his adventurous spirit led him to cross tbe plains to Stockton, California, where for some years afterwards be was engaged in tbe stock business. Failing health, however, at length compelled him to seek a more salubrious climate, and he moved to Walla Walla, arriving July 10, 1858. Shortly afterwards be engaged in the general merchandise business with the Baldwin Bros.

Subsequently Judge Wbitman spent eight years in tbe employ of tbe Wells Fargo E.xpress Company, as agent, then resigned to engage in the insurance business, a line to which his best efforts were given until August 6, 1899, when he died.

During the many years of bis residence in Walla Walla, Judge Whitman took a very active part in promoting the devclnpnient and prosperity of the city, presiding in its council chambers, and ever exerting a very sensible influence in its material and municipal advancement. His name w'as on tbe petition presented to the first board of county commissioners, praying that tbe town of Walla

W^alla be laid out and established, and to him belongs tbe distinction of having been the first mayor of the city. He was again elected to that responsible post in 1866, and for the third time in 1871. In 1872, tbe electors of Walla \\'alla again testified their faith in him by placing him in tbe mayor's seat, and the following year be was for a fifth time their choice. Judge Whitman also served as sheriff of tbe county for a time in 1863, and from 1889 to 1 89 1 he was county clerk. For many years he held the of^ce of justice of tbe peace and for fourteen he was a director in school district No. I. He was always prominent in tbe promotion and encouragement of railroad building. Indeed no enterprise for the benefit of the city was without bis generous support, and few men have a better right to the grateful remembrance of posterity.

For more than fifty years Judge \\'hitman was a prominent Odd Fellow, and be also belonged to tbe Blue Lodge, the Chapter and Commandery in the F. & A. M. Religiously, he was an Episcopalian. He was married in Brooklyn, New York, to Maria I. Greenwood, a native of Portland, Maine, who died in \\'alla Walla, December 25, 1898, leaving two sons, Edward S. and Stephen G.

Edward S., a pioneer of 1862, was born in Ware, Massachusetts, Septemljer 10, 1846, and tliere he passed bis youth, and received his education. At tbe age of sixteen, he came with bis mother and brother to Walla Walla, and for ten years thereafter he was engaged in packing to the various mining camps. During tbe Nez Perce war be had charge of a packtrain for General Howard, but as soon as the trouble was over he engaged in stock raising in Garfield county, Washington. He still owns a stock farm there, but owing to ill health was compelled to give up that occupation in

1897, and since tliat date lie has been employed as secretary for Dr. Shaw of Walla Walla. He is one of the most highly esteemed and respected citizens of the city. On April 14, 1887, J\Ir. Whitman was united in marriage to Miss Delphine A. Walker, a native of Montreal, and they have one son, Mason G., born October 11, 1889.

DR. DORSEY S. BAKER was born in Wabash county, Illinois, on the i8th of October, 1823. He came of Puritan stock, numbering among his ancestors General Ethan Allen, of Ticonderoga fame. While he was a boy in his "teens his father was engaged in milling and merchandising, and in the management of these enterprises Dorsey S. assisted, thus acquiring business experience and training that was useful to him in after life. In 1845 he graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia.

After practicing his profession for a short time at Des Moines, Iowa, he determined to try his fortune in the west, and accordingly, in 184S, set out for Oregon, where he arrived in the fall of the same year, without friends or fortune. He began the practice of his profession immediately upon arriving at Portland, then a very small town. Gold was discovered in California the following year, and the Doctor joined the rush for the famous Eldorado. He remained in California until the spring of 1850, then returned to Portland and entered into partnership with L. B. Hastings in the general merchandise business. He again went to the mines the following spring, his objective point being Yreka, then a new mining camp. Returning to Oregon in May of the same year, l,e located in the Umpcjua valley, where, for several years, he was variously engaged in stock-raising, milling and the general nierciiandise luisiness. The first flour mill built in southern Oregon was erected by him at the old town of Oakland, Douglas county. In 1858 we find him again in Portland, engaged in the hardware business. In 1869 he established a store in \\'alla Walla and placed William Stephens in charge of the business, but the following year he assumed personal management of it. In 1862 he entered into partnership with his brother-in-law, John F. Boyer, establishing the firm of Baker & Boyer, so well and so favoral)lv known in eastern W'ashington. In that year he also became associated with Captain Ankeny. H. W. Corbett and Captain Baughman for the purpose of organizing a steamboat company to run a line of boats on tile Columbia and Snake rivers. They built the steamer "Spray," for the upper river, and the "E, D. Baker" for the lower Columbia trade. These lines were sold the following year to the O. S. N. Company.

Some nine years later we find the Doctor engaged in the construction of a line of railway from Walla Walla to the Columbia. This he built almost entirely with his own personal resources. Despite many prophecies of friend and foe alike that this undertaking would end in disaster, the genius of Dr. Baker was equal to the task of carrying it to a successful termination. It not only greatly enhau'.ed the private fortune of its promoter, but brought prosperity and wealth to the entire Walla ^\'alIa valley and adjacent country. It was a source of no little gratification to the Doctor that during his ownership and management the \\'alla Walla & Columbia River Railroad was never encumbered with a mortgage and never had a floating debt. This road was finally sold, in

During the remaining years of his life Dr. Baker devoted his energies to banking and to the inauguration of various enterprises in and about \\'alla WaHa. The Baker-Boyer bank, organized in 1S69, is the oldest institution of its kind in Washington. The Doctor died at his home in Walla Walla July 5, 1888, and was universally lamented in the community in which he had lived so many years, and which had come to regard him as its ablest and most enterprising citizen. A fine monument of granite, emblematic of his rugged strength of character, marks the spot in Walla Walla cemetery where his remains repose, but, as is the case with most of earth's great and good men, his most lasting monument is in the grateful memory of his appreciative fellow citizens. His life is an illustration of what can be accomplished by energy, courage and perseverance, coupled with integrity and force of character.

Dr. Baker was married in Portland, Oregon, in June, 1850, to Miss Caroline Tibbetts, a native of Indiana, In' whom he has four living children: Edwin Franklin, residing in Ventura county, California; also Mary E., wife of Ex-Governor !Miles C. Moore, Henry C. and W'. W.. all residents of Walla Walla, W'ashington.

In August, 1867, he married Elizabeth H. McCullough, who lias four living children, Ida M., wiie of Prof. L. F. Anderson, of Whitman College; Anna A., now Mrs. T. C. Elliott, of Walla Walla; Rosalia I., wife of Rev. Edward L. Smith, of Seattle, Washington; and Ada L.

WM. GLASFORD, justice of the peace, Walla Walla, was born near Ottawa, Canada, January 14, 1834. When seventeen he went io Gouverneur, New York, where he served an apprenticeship to the trade of carpenter and joiner. Returning to Canada he followed his trade until 1862, then started on a prospecting trip to the Eraser river. However, he only got as far as Walla Walla, wdiere he started the first planing mill east of the Cascade mountains. He afterwards erected a mill north of Spokane, and had two others in the mountains, all of wdiich .were required to supply his extensive trade. He constructed many large buildings in Walla Walla and elsewhere, employing about one hundred and_fifty men continuously during the season of 1883. In 1889 he took the contract for cutting all the timber for the bridges on the S. F. & N. R. R., and for erecting the bridges between Spokane and Colville. In 1890 he sold out, and turned bis attention to other matters.

Air. Glasford has long taken a very active interest in the development of Walla W^alla and in its local government. He was a member of the city council from 1881 to 1885. In politics he is an ardent Republican, and during all the years of his residence here he has been prominent in the campaigns of that party. In 1898 he was elected justice of the peace, and appointed to fill an unexpired term as city police justice. He has held both offices ever since, having been twice elected to the latter.

Fraternally Mr. Glasford is identified with the Masons. He was married in Canada, October 17, 1857, to Agnes Montgomery, and they have had five children ; William H., clerkin Walla Walla ; Edward P., a stock dealer, as is also \\'alter li.; Bertha J.; and Mamie, deceased.

LEOX F. C. JAUSSAUD. - We are now permitted to touch briefly upon the Hfe record of one wlio lias accompHshed a worthy success through his own efforts and who has the distinction of being a native son of la belle France, having been born in the canton of Orchiere, Sen Jen, Sen Nicola, on the 19th of May, i860. Our subject remained in France until he had attained the age of twenty years, receiving his educational discipline in the public schools. Having determined to seek his fortunes in the New \\'orld, he bade adieu to home and friends and set sail for America, arriving in Los Angeles, California, on the 29th of November, 1880. There he was employed on a sheep ranch for a period of seven years, becoming thomughly familiar with all details of the industry, to which he has since devoted his attention with so marked success.

ilr. Jaussaud came to Walla Walla in March, 1887, remaining only a few days, after which he went to Pendleton, Oregon, where he was again employed on a sheep ranch for one and one-half years. He then drove sheep into Idaho, where he remained six months, when he again came to \Valla Walla, whence he dro\'e another band of sheep to Idaho in 1889. On his return he purchased a restaurant of Lucien Genevay, who subsequently repurchased an interest in the enterprise, becoming associated with Mr. Jaussaud in the conducting of the same for a period of about a year, when our subject sold out and again became identified with the sheep business, this time in the state of \\'ashington. He followed w-ork in this line for about twenty-one months, after which he purchased six hundred and fifty head of sheep for himself and entered vigorously into the wool-growing business upon his own responsibility, his previous experience having strongly fortified him for the work in hand.

To this important branch of industry he has since given his attention, and it is gratifying to note that success has attended his efforts in a pronounced degree. He now has over three thousand head of sheep, and his wool crop reaches an average annual aggregate of about thirty-five thousand pounds.

Mr. Jaussaud owns about four hundred acres of excellent land near Washtucna, Frankhn county, and in addition to this he leases sixteen sections of grazing land from the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. He is the owner of an attractive home in the city of Walla Walla, the same being located at the southwest corner of Tenth and Alder streets, while he also owns two lots and twenty feet additional frontage adjoining. Religiously the family are all members of the Roman Catholic church, while fraternally Mr. Jaussaud is identified with the Young Men's Institute; Tribe No. 23, I. O. R. M. ; and Aerie No. 26, Order of Eagles. Our subject is a man of pleasing address, charitable in thought and action, and he enjoys an unmistakable popularity in the city of his home.

The marriage of Mr. Jaussaud to Mrs. Demerise Berrard was solemnized in Walla Walla, on the 28th of February, 1896. and they are the parents of three children, - Leon J., Victor P. and Louis F. ]\Irs. Jaussaud had two children by her former marriage, - Francois and Leon, the latter being deceased.

FRANK S. DEMENT. - He whose name iiiitiates this paragraph stands at the head of one of the most important industrial enterprises in the city of Walla Walla, being president of the Dement Brothers Company, proprietors of the Eureka Flouring Mills. Mr. Dement is one of the sons of the Pacific north- west, having been born in Oregon City, Oregon, on November 3, 1853, the son of William C. Dement, who crossed the plains in 1843, becoming one of the earliest pioneers of Oregon and continuing to reside in Oregon City until his death, which occurred in 1864.

The immediate subject of this review received his educational training in the public schools of his native city, where he remamed up to the time of his removal to Walla Walla. There he also pul)lished the Oregon City Enterprise, a weekly journal of distinct merit and vitality, disposing of the property at the time he determined to identify himself with the business interests of \Valla Walla, whither he came in 1879. Here he was engaged in the grocery trade for nearly two years, after which he associated himself with his brother, Fred G. Denient, and W. D. Chtuxh, in the purchase of the finely equipped milling property of the firm of Welch & Schwabacher, in the conduct of which enterprise they have since continued under the title of Dement Brothers Company. The mills are supplied with full roller process equipment of the most improved order and the output capacity is two hundred and thirty-five barrels per day. The trade of the company transcends local limitations, shipments being made not only in contiguous states but also to the oriental trade. The enterprise is conducted with much discrimination and due conservatism and is established on the firmest commercial basis.

The public-spirited attitude of Mr. Dement is shown when we revert to the fact that prior to his removal to Walla Walla he was the county treasurer of Clackamas county, Oregon, an office which he resigned at the time of his removal. He is at the present time chairman of the board of school directors of Walla AValla, having been a member of said board for

The year 1877 marks the date of the marriage of j\Ir. Dement to Miss Frances Miller, the ceremony being solemnized in Oregon City, where Mrs. Dement was a member of one of the honored pioneer families. Our subject and his wife are the parents of three children, - Charles F., Olive M. and Frank B.

STEPHEN G. WHITMAN, a native of Massachusetts, was born March 15, 1849. When thirteen years old he came with his mother and brother to Walla Walla, where his father had resided since 1858. The next year he returned to Boston, Massachusetts, to enjoy the superior educational advantages of that city, and upon graduating entered a wholesale woolen and dry goods store, where he remained until 1868, in which year he went to California.

In 1870 he returned to Walla Walla, remaining until 1880, when his business called him to Spokane, in which city he was for some time in the employ of the Wells Fargo Express Company. Subsequently, however, he returned to Walla Walla. He is at present engaged in the real estate business in Room 3, Paine Block.

Like his father, Mr. Whitman has borne an important part in the development of the Inland Empire, and has long occupied a place of leadership among his fellow men. To him belongs the honor of having been elected the first clerk and police judge of Spokane. He is prominently identified with the F. & A. 'SI. and tlie B. P. O. E. In Walla Walla, on April 14, 1879, was solemnized his marriage to iliss Jennie J. Andrews, daughter of one of the pio-

LUCIEN GEXEVAY. - The successful business man and sheep raiser whose name begins this article was born in Switzerland February 15. 1859. He passed the initial twentyfour years of his life there, receiving a good public-school education, and afterward engaging in farming. Thinking that the new world presented better opportunities for an ambitious young man. he. in 1883. emigrated to America, locating first in Cresco, Iowa, where he tried his hand at farming. In 1886 he removed to St. Louis to accept a position as a sawyer in the St. Louis Car shops, but after remaininsf in that work for nine months he returned to Iowa, whence he shortly came to Dayton, Washington, arriving in March, 1887. He tried market gardening in that vicinity for a year, afterward coming to Walla Walla, where he opened a restaurant. This he operated continuously for a period of two years, but in 1890 the building burned down and he purchased an interest in the business of Frederick Lehn on Third street. The partnership then formed only lasted eight months, our subject then selling his interest to another man.

Investing a portion of the proceeds in the business established by Charles Rose, also on jMain street, he remained in that for two years, after which he again sold out. In February, 1893, 'i^ formed a partnership with ]\Ir. La Fortune for the purpose of establishing a place of business at 222 West Main street, and this has been the scene of his activities and endeavors continuously since.

near Dayton, which comprised the right of the latter to some ten sections of land in Garfield county held under lease issued by the Northern Pacific Company, and twenty-seven hundred head oi sheep. Mr. Genevay now owns between four and five thousand head of sheep, from which he sells an annual wool crop of about thirty-one thousand pounds.

JMr. Genevay conducts all his business affairs on correct principles, bestowing on them the requisite amount of attention and exercising a sufficient degree of good judgment to insure the greatest success attainable under the circumstances, so that his material prosperity since he came to America has naturally been great. Landing in this country without means or influential friends, he has steadily progressed, working his own way to fortune, until he is now among the moderately wealthy men of the county.

In his fraternal affiliations he is identified with the Walla Walla !\Iaennerchor and with Tribe Xo. 23, Improved Order of Red Men. In March, 1880, in Bassins, canton Vaud, Switzerland, the marriage of our subject was solemnized, ^liss ilary Kach, a native of Berne, then becoming his wife. They have one son, Robert, born in their home in Switzerland April 21, 1881. now in his father's employ. !Mrs. Genevay is a member of the German ^Methodist church of this city. The familv reside in a comfortable and elegantly furnished home at 828 West Main street.

JOHN W. }.IcGHEE. Jr. - A son of Walla \\'alla county, and one whose career has been such as to reflect credit upon the valley in which he was born, the subject of this brief biographical review is especially deserving of representation in a work of this character. His jsarents, John W. and Rachel (Wiiiteaker) Mc- Ghee, were old pioneers of the valley, residing on the Coppei three miles south of Waitsburg, and on the parental farm our subject was born, the date being February 11, 1867. He acquired his education in the local public schools, in Waitsburg Academy, in Whitman College and in the Empire Business College of Walla A\'alla.

Upon retiring from the last named institution he entered the office of the Fidelity Abstract Company, by which he was engaged for a short time, after which he entered the employ of the Washington Loan and Trust Company, of whose bookkeeping he had charge for about three years thereafter. He resigned in 1892 to accept a position as deputy county treasurer, under H. H. Hungate.

In the Democratic convention of 1894 Mr. McGhee was one of the candidates for nomination for the office of county treasurer, and he proved to be the choice of his party, but was defeated in the Republican landslide which followed, his opponent, however, receiving a majority of only ninety-seven votes. The ensuing year he was appointed receiver of the Walla Walla Savings bank, and he continued to discharge his duties as such until the affairs of the liank were settled. In the campaign of 1898 he was again the nominee of his party for the county treasurership, and this time his candidacy was successful. The Republicans were almost uni\-ersally x'ictorious in that election, Init the fact that Mr. McGhee ran two hundred votes ahead of his ticket speaks volumes for the esteem and confidence in which he is held among the people of his native valley. He has given his entire energies to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office ever since the county's bcjoks were first placed in his hands, proving true to this, as he had to every other trust reposed in him by the people. Mr. McGhee was also treasurer of the city of Walla Walla from 1896 to 1898.

Our subject is a prominent Odd Fellow, his membership being in Washington Lodge, No. 19, of which he is recording secretary, and in. Walla Walla Encampment, No. 3. He also belongs to the Royal Arcanum.

CHARLES RUSSELL, deceased, a pioneer of September, 1856, was born in New York September 13, 1813. Upon attaining his fifteenth year he set out for San Francisco, by water, and for several years thereafter he followed the life of a sailor. He was on the vessel Yale during the entire Mexican, war, rendering excellent service to his country. As soon as hostilities ceased he returned to San Francisco, where for a number of years he took contracts for street-grading from the United States government. He served throughout the entire Modoc Indian war and was master of transportation at the time of the celebrated Custer massacre, being on that fatal day only a mile and a half distant from the scene of battle. In 1856 he came to Walla \\'alla as government wagon master, and in that city he resided until his death, August 7, 1891. Few men have spent more time in the service of their country than has Mr. Russell, he having been in the employ of the LTnited States continuously from his fifteenth year, and few indeed are they whose record is so worthy of the highest commendation.

Air. Russell was married in Walla Walla, October 22, i860, to Miss Anna Sheets, a daughter of John and Marguerite Sheets, and a native of Ohio. They liecame the parents of five children : Charles H., William L., Harry. Lavenia. widow of Mr. William True, and Nellie. ]\Irs. Russell's father, who crossed the plains in 1859, died in Walla Walla in 187S, and her mother passed away in 1880.

DANIEL T. KYGER. - One of the most highly respected of Walla Walla's citizens, an esteemed pioneer of this valley and a leading business man, the subject of this brief review is deserving of a place of eminence among the men who have been instrumental in building up and shaping the destiny of the county.

He was born on the 17th of November, 1852, in the town of Kokomo, Indiana, and there he received his education. In 1864 he accompanied his parents to Nemaha county, Kansas, and thence to Missouri, where, in 1868, he joined a surveying party, with which he remained nearly a year. The next spring he came west, intending to try his fortunes in Arizona, but, on account of the Indian hostilities in that region, he changed his plan, coming north to the Walla Walla valley, with which he became identified July 3, 1869. He was a member of the first party sent out by Dr. Baker to raft logs down the Yakima river for the doctor's railway from Walla Walla to Wallula, and in 1873 he became a clerk in the employ of Paine Brothers & Moore, with whom he remained until they retired from business. In 1876 he opened a tobacco store on bis own account, conducting the same for two years thereafter, but, at the end of that time, entering the employ of Johnson, Rees & \Vinans.

Mr. Kyger was industrious and frugal, so that by 1889 he had accumulated enough to enable him to purchase the business of his employers, which he did. Shortly afterward he disposed of a half interest in the establishment to ^Ir. Frank Foster, and the present firm of Kyger & Foster was formed. Their business has always been conducted on correct jjrinciples, with the natural result that it has come to be one of the best paying in the city, the patronage of the establishment coming from a large section of the surrounding county, and goods from their shelves finding their way into the remotest parts of the valley. They keep always on hand a large stock of dry goods, clothing, ladies' furnishing goods, etc., and are ever read to cater to the wants of their customers.

Mr. Kyger has long been a prominent and leading man in politics, supiwrting the issues of the Republican party, and he is also an enthusiastic leader in the Masonic fraternity, being a past eminent commander of Washington Commandery, No. i. Knights Templar.

In August, 1875, the marriage of our subject and Miss Addie Sickler was solemnized, and their union has been blest by the advent of six children, four daughters and two sons.

The sons, Miles E. and Daniel T., Jr., earned the right to rank among the world's heroes by sacrificing their noble young lives on the altar of their country, they having passed away while fighting the battles of the Republic in the Philippines. While they did not die on the field of battle, they are deserving of the same credit as though they had done so, for in enlisting for service in a pest-laden climate they encountered not only the danger from the bullets of the enemy liut also that from the insidious encroachments of disease, and it is no disparagement of their right to the title of hero that they fell victims to the latter rather than to the former foe.

on May 21, 1876, and in the common and high schools of tliis city he received his general education. He graduated in the high school class of 1895, then engaged in the mercantile business in his father's store, rendering himself almost indispensible by his faithfulness and devotion to the duties in hand. \Vhen the call to arms was sounded, however, he thought the claims of patriotism paramount to those of business, so generously offered his services to his country. They were accepted and he was sent to Manila, where, on the 3d of February, 1899, he succumbed to that dread disease, typhoid.

Five days, afterward his younger brother, Daniel T., who had also felt it incumbent upon him to enlist, suffered a similar fate, and so the bereaved parents, and in fact the entire city of Walla \\'alla, were called to mourn a double loss. The younger brother had completed his public-school education at the time war was declared, and was diligently pursuing a course in the business college with the intention of thoroughly preparing himself for commercial success. Both the boys were energetic, promising young men, intensely popular with their associates, and respected by all who admire thrift, industry and sobriety, coupled with fine intellectual powers.

When they passed away the entire state realized its loss, and many were the expressions of condolence received by the bereaved family, even the state senate taking cognizance of the matter and adopting the following resolution : "Li grateful remembrance of our fallen heroes. Sergeant Miles E. Kyger and Daniel T. Kyger, Jr., comrades of Company I, First Washington Volunteers, who died in our country's service at Manila, to the bereaved parents, who sacrificed their only sons on the altar

GEORGE W. W^HITEHOUSE, a member of the well known firm of Whitehouse, Crimmins & Company, dealers in and manufacturers of lumber, sash, doors, moldings, etc., in the city of Walla Walla, is one of the representative business men of the city and no compendium of this nature would be consistent with its defined pro\'ince were there failure to accord him consideration within its pages.

Mr. Whitehouse is a native of the state of Illinois, having been born in Decatur, in the year 1856. He continued his residence in that commonwealth until he had reached the age of twenty years, having received excellent educational advantages in the public schools. At the age noted he journeyed westward to California, where he remained one year, at the expiration of which interval he identified himself with the business interests of Walla Walla, of which city he has been a resident practically ever since.

Upon his arrival here, in 1877, he engaged in Ijusiness as a contractor and builder, having had careful training and ample experience in this line, and to this branch of industrial activity he devoted his attention, with marked success, until the year 1881, when he accepted the position as foreman of the building department of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, later identifying himself also with the Northern Pacific Railroad, and serving eventually as superintendent of constructinn of buildings for both roads during a jieriod of two and one-half years. At the c.xpira- tion of this time he again became a resident of Walla Walla, where he engaged in contracting and building until 1888, when he became identified with his present important enterprise, which stands as one of the most potent factors in conserving the industrial pre-eminence of our city. His business associates are Dennis J. Crimmins and Charles Cooper, the mills and yards of the concern being eligibly located at the corner of Xorth Third and Cherry streets, where employment is given to a corps of about twenty competent workmen.

In Union county, Oregon, in 1884, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Whitehouse and Miss Emma Paul, and they are the parents of one son, George Paul, who was born in 1887. Mr. Whitehouse has but recently completed a residence, at the corner of Birch and First streets, which is one of the most attractive in the city, and this is the family home. The dwelling is of modern and effective architectural design and is equipped throughout with the best of improvements. Thus is added one more to the many beautiful homes for which Walla Walla is so justly celebrated throughout the Pacific northwest.

JOHN E. BINGHAM, M. D.. physician and surgeon, a pioneer of 1874, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1846. When nineteen he came out to California, via the isthmus, and for about two years thereafter he was in the service of the United States government. Returning then to Pennsylvania, he enrolled as a student in the Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he received his degree in 1873. Immediately after graduation he came to Port Townsend, Washington, to assume charge of the Marine hospital, located there.

and he retained that position until 1874. when he resigned to come to Walla Walla. Here he engaged in the genera! practice of medicine, but he was soon called into the service of the government again, being appointed acting assistant surgeon of the United States army and assigned to duty at Fort Walla ^^'alla. That position he now holds.

Dr. Bingham served as surgeon of the state penitentiary for seven years. He has also served as health officer of the city, and in different public capacities, and at present is local surgeon for the N. P. R. R. and for the O. R. & N. The Doctor served during the Nez Perce and Bannock Indian wars. Dr.. Bingham has been in active jjractice here for twenty-five years. He has the confidence and esteem of the general public, and enjoys a large and desirable patronage. Fraternally he is identified with the F. & A. ^I. and the B. P. O. E.

JOHN F. BOYER. - In the death of Mr. Boyer, on the 8th of February, 1897, there passed away a man of exalted character and one whose history was conspicuously and indissolubly identified with that of the city of Walla Walla, where for a long term of years he had lived and labored to goodly ends, ever maintaining a high sense of his stewardship and ordering his life upon a lofty plane. No citizen of the county was more highly honored and none contributed in greater measure to the material progress and substantial upbuilding of this section of the state. His was a noble and useful life, and no compilation purporting to touch the history of \\'alla Walla county would

John F. Boyer

Mr. Boyer was a native of Kentucky, havinsr been born in Castle Rock county on the 28th of JMarch, 1824. W'hile he was still an infant liis parents removed to a point on the Ohio river, whence, some twelve years later, they proceeded to Jefferson county, Indiana, which thereafter continued to be their home. The subject of this review received his educational discipline in the common schools, and he began his individual business career at the age of twenty years, when he severed home ties and proceeded t<.) Van Buren, Arkansas, where he secured a clerkship in a mercantile establishment, this being in the year 1844. Mr. Boyer was distinctly the architect of his own fortunes, and the marked success he attained in temporal affairs was won by fair and honorable methods, his entire business career being without blot or stain, even as was his personal character. In 1849 Mr- Boyer joined the tlirong of gold-seekers who looked to the new Eldorado of California as a source of wealth and advancement. Having successfully made the long and perilous journey across the plains and over the mountain heights, he eventually engaged in mining in the Golden state, later abandoning the search for gold and engaging in the mercantile business at Sonora, California. In 1852 he left his business in charge of his partner and returned to Arkansas. In the meanwhile he learned that the greater ])ortion of his California property had been destroyed by fire and accordingly he decided t" remain in the east.

D. S. Baker, with whom he was subsequently so long and intimately associated in business in Walla Walla. In 1859 Mr. Boyer returned, with his family, to the Pacific coast, making the journey by the isthmus route. He again established himself in the mercantile business at Sonora, where he remained until 1862, when he entered into a copartnership with Dr. D. S. Baker in the mercantile branch of his business in Walla Walla. Concerning this enterprise we quote from a sketch of the life of Mr. Boyer published in Gilbert's history of the county: "At the time Mr. Boyer first took charge of the store, and for years after, the miners were in the habit of depositing their gold dust with the firm for safe keeping. They would come with little and big sacks of it with the owner's name attached, leave their mountain accumulations for days, and sometimes months, without a scratch of a pen or witness in the world, except Mr. Boyer, to prove that they had ever left anything on deposit. No receipts were given or asked for, and although this practice was continued for years, and the deposits often reached from thirty to forty thousand dollars at a time, no trouble, misunderstandings or loss ever occurred."

In 1870 the firm decided to close out the mercantile luisiness and establish a bank. The Baker & Boyer bank became one of the most solid financial institutions of this section of the L'nion and so continued until it was merged into the Baker-Boyer National bank, whose prestige is to-day unexcelled. Upon the organization of the national bank Mr. Boyer became its ]jresident, retaining this incumbency until his death and guiding its course with that rare executi\'e ability and far-sighted policy which had ciinser\-ed the upbuilding antl reliability of the original institution. Of the bank-

From a memorial brochure published at the time of his death we make several extracts touching the character and career of our honored subject : "He served Walla Walla county with great acceptability for six terms (twelve years) as treasurer. Always concerned with rratters pertaining to the public good, Mr. Eoyer was of necessity .interested in education. He early became a devoted friend of Whitman College, and gave generously of his means and time to its' supijort. He was for thirty years a member of the board of trustees of the seminary and college. During that time he was treasurer of the institution, which position he held until a few months before his death, when he was chosen president of the board of trustees. For years he was a vigorous supporter and mainstay of St. Paul's school. Mr. Boj'cr was for many years a leading supporter, vestryman and warden of the Episcopal church. It was a pleasing sight during the Isst few years to see him, with his snowy hair, in the church choir, seemingly as full of life and vigor as the younger members. In fact, until the last year, his vitality was proverbial, and lie bid fair to outlive many younger men than he. One of the most warm-hearted, charitable and sympathetic of men, Mr. Boyer ever ready to assist the needy and to extend a hand to the unfortunate." The death of Mr. Boyer was mourned by the entire community in which he had lived for so many years and in which he had ever been a power for good. The funeral was attended by "all sorts and conditions of men," each of whom felt tliat he had suffered almost a personal bereavement. The services were conducted by the rector of St. Paul's church, of which the deceased had been so loyal a supporter, and a special memorial service was held at the church on the Sunday following his death. In his address the rector spoke feelingly of the honored dead, of whom he said : "Mr. Boyer was a man of remarkable modesty and would not have desired a eulogy. He needs none other than the memory of his noble and generous life." Resolutions of respect and regret were passed by the vestry of St. Paul's church, by the executive committee of the board of trustees of Whitman College, by the directors of the First National bank and by Blue ^fountain Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, of which he was a charter member and a zealous adherent. His was the faith that makes faithful, and he passed to his reward in the fullness of years and well earned honors. As long as there remains memory to those who knew the man or of him, so long will he be recalled as a noble example of true manhood and as one whose entire life was consecrated to lofty ends.

Mr. Boyer was survived by his wife and seven children. The surviving children are as follows : Charles S., a resident of New York city; Franklin D., of Dawson City; Arthur A., of East Orange, New Jersey; Eugene H., of Walla Walla; John E.. of Seattle; Mrs. Annie I. Norton, of Bennington. Vermont ; and IMiss Imogen, of Walla Walla.

whose life history it is now our task to briefly outline belongs a share of the honor we instinctively bestow upon men who rise superior to an inauspicious early environment and achieve success in the face of great disadvantages.

Blooming Grove, Franklin connty, Indiana. His father died while he was very young and naturally he early had to assume such responsibilities and duties as he was able, in this manner acquiring in boyhood habits of industry and self-reliance of inestimable value. When four years of age he was taken by his mother to Knox county, Illinois, where he remained until 1S65. After acquiring a log-cabin education he turned his attention to agricultural pursuits, continuing in the same as long as he remained in the state. When about twenty-eight years of age he removed to Boone county, Iowa, and opened a grocery store, conducting that business in conjunction with a farming industry near by. Subsequently closing the grocery establishment he went into the grist mill business, and being in connection with his duties about the mill, much of his time in the engine room, he in due time became a skilled engineer. Eventually the engine was placed in his charge.

In the performance of his duties in this connection he met with a very serious accident, falling from a tank which he was engaged in cleaning, striking on the fly wheel of the engine and breaking his leg and several ribs. He was unconscious for several hours and confined to his bed for about sixty days, but ultimately recovered almost entirely and resumed the discharge of his duties as engineer.

In 1874 Air. Crowell came to Walla Walla, via San Francisco, Portland and the old Baker road. For a short time after his arrival he worked for wages on a farm, but his abilities as an engineer were soon discovered and a position was given him as engineer in the old Dovel Sash and Door, Molding and Furniture factory. After continuing in this for some time his services were called into requisition as a molding-maker fur the same firm, and he

Mr. Crowell then worked for varying periods of time for other mills, also ran engines for threshermen during the harvest seasons until 1896, when he entered the service of Whitehouse & Crimmins, of whose engine he had charge for about a year, afterwards w^ithdrawing to accept an appointment as pound master, tendered him by the city council, and this office he still retains, discharging his duties with faithfulness and fairness.

In fraternal affiliations our subject is identified with the time-honored Masonic fraternity, his immediate connection being with Blue Mountain Lodge, No. 13. While he was a resident of Knox county, Illinois, Mr. Crowell's marriage to Miss Jane Stevens was duly solemnized, but they were not permitted to live long together, she passing away on July 4, 1865. On August 24, 1867, our subject was again married, in Knox county. Illinois, the lady being Miss Mary A. Thurmen, a native of Kentucky. They have two living children: Ella, now Mrs. O. T. Cornwell, of Walla Walla; and Sibley A., a bookkeeper for Samuel Loney, of this city. They also became the parents of two other children now deceased. Mr. Crowell is the owner of a very pleasant and comfortable home on the corner of Rose and Tukanon streets.

CLARK N. McLEAN, auditor of Walla Walla county, was born in College Springs, Iowa, November 11, 1862. He was reared on a farm in the vicinity of his native town and received an unusually good education, graduating from the scientific course of Amity College. After receiving his degree he engaged ill the mercantile business with his brother, James L., at College Springs, carrying a course in the Gem City Business College, at Quincy, Illinois, at the same time.

In 1887 he retired from his business to become a bookkeeper in Kilpatrick Koch's wholesale dry goods company in Omaha, which position he retained until, in 1889, he came to Walla Walla. Shortly after his arrival here he opened an abstract office in company with Mr. S. E. Dean, and this establishment has been maintained ever since, being now known as the Dean-McLean Abstract Company.

He has long been one of the representative men of this city, and has always taken a prominent part in local politics. From 1895 to 1897 he was deputy county auditor, and from that date until 1899 he served as city clerk. In the fall of 1898 he was elected on the Republican ticket to the office of county auditor, a position which he still retains, being reelected in 1900.

In fraternal affiliations Mr. McLean is identified with the F. & A. M. and the B. P. O. E. He was married in White Cloud, Kansas, June 8. 1887, to Miss Annie Pugsley, a native of that town and state. They have two children. Rachael and Gilbert.

OSCAR CAIN, prosecuting attorney of Walla Walla county, is a native of Ringgold county, Iowa, born ?klay 25. 1868. When he was nine years old the family moved to lola, Kansas, and here he grew to manhood and received his education. Upon attaining the a.p-° of twenty-two he entered the law office of Henry .\. Ewing, under whose direction he studied law for two years. He successfully passed the examination for admission to the bar of that state, then came to Oregon, where for a few months at first he engaged in school teaching. In 1893 he removed to Dayton, Washington, and opened an office for the practice of his profession, the firm being Hamm & Cain. The next year, however, he came to Walla Walla and in 1895 began the practice of law here. The firm to which he belongs at present is known as Pedigo & Cain. He was elected in 1898 to the office of prosecuting attorney of the county, and he has been discharging the duties of that office with faithfulness, courage and ability ever since. For many years he has been an active worker and a leading spirit in all local affairs and conventions; and he holds rank among the representative men of the county. He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias and the Eagles.