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USA > Montana > History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana : 1845-1889 > Part 33
USA > Washington > History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana : 1845-1889 > Part 33
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John Hoyt, born in Ohio in 1842, came to Wash. in 1879; for eight years was judge of the supreme court; had been a member of the Mich. legislature 2 terms, and speaker of the house, and was appointed governor of Arizona. He was a member of the banking firm of Dexter, Horton, & Co. of Seattle.
Frank M. Dallam, born in Mo. in 1849, but raised in Ill., came to Wash.
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especially, as required by the public, and settled the
in 1882, settling at Spokane Falls; was printer, publisher, aud editor of several journals in Ill. and Cal., and established the Spokane Falls Review.
John M. Reed, horn in Mo. in 1842, removed to Or. in 1869, and to Wash. in 1879; had been a member of the Or. legislature from Clackamas co., and county commissioner of Whitman co., W. T .; by occupation a farmer.
O. H. Joy, born in N. H. in 1830, came to Cal. in 1849, where he assisted in forming the mining laws; removed to Wash. in 1878, and settled at Bris- fort in Lewis co., as a farmer and mill-owner.
Trusten P. Dyer, born in Warren co., Mo., in 1856, graduated from the Central Wesleyan College of Warrenton in 1874, taught school for 3 years, was admitted to law practice in 1875, was chief clerk of the registry depart- ment of the St Louis post-office, city attorney of St Louis in 1885-6, prosecut- ing attorney for St Louis co., twice elected to the legislature, colonel of the National Guard of Mo., and member of the national convention of Chicago. He settled in Seattle 1888, was first president of the Harrison legion of that city, and married Miss Mary A. Pontius, also of Seattle.
Thomas Milburne Reed, born in Sharpsburg, Ky, in 1825, attended such schools as the country then afforded during the winter terms, at the age of 18 began teaching and studying at the same time, and was clerk in a country store. When gold was discovered in Cal. he came by sea from N. O. to the Pacific coast, mined 2 years, formed a partnership with John Conness, after- ward U. S. senator from Cal., in a store at Georgetown; went to Fraser river in 1858, and thence to Olympia, W. T., where he continued to reside, with the exception of 2 years in Idaho during the Salmon river gold rush. He was returned to the Wash. legislature from Lewiston in 1862-3, and to the Idaho legislative body in 1864; was admitted to practice law in Idaho, but returned to Olympia in 1865, and qualified himself as practical surveyor and civil cn- gineer, becoming chief clerk in the office of the U. S. surveyor-general for 7 years, after which he resumed surveying. In 1876 he was elected a mem- ber of the Wash. council, was chosen president at the session of 1877, and appointed by the governor auditor-general the same year.
H. F. Suksdorf, born in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, in 1843, came to the U. S. in 1858, settling upon a farm in Scott co., Iowa, where he worked until 20 years of age, when he began his studies at the Quincy, Ill., acad- emy and Iowa state university, graduating from the law department in 1870. Was appointed deputy U. S. marshal to take the census of Davenport, 1870; elected delegate to the liberal republican national convention at Cin- cinnati in 1872, which nominated Horace Greeley for president; removed to Or. in 1872, was deputy county clerk under J. A. Smith; was appointed U. S. supervisor of census for Or. in 1880, and removed to Spokane Falls, Wash., in 1881, engaging in farming.
T. T. Minor, born in Conn., in 1844, was educated in the public schools, and studied medicine. At the age of 17 years he volunteered as a private soldier in the 7th Conn. regt, was made hospital steward, and afterward asst surgeon of the Ist S. C. regt. In 1864 he resumed his medical studies, and received his diploma from Yale in 1867. The following year he came to Wash. for the Smithsonian institution, and decided to make his home on Puget Sound. He was chiefly instrumental in establishing the marine hospital at Port Townsend, but subsequently removed to Seattle, of which city he was mayor, and a most influential and helpful citizen. His death occurred by drowning in the Sound, together with Col G. M. Haller, son of Col G. O. Haller, and Lewis Cox, while hunting in cauoes, in Dec. 1889.
S. H. Marly, born in Norwalk, O., in 1847, came to Wash. in 1882. He was a physician, and had represented Whatcom, San Juan, and Skagit counties in the territorial legislature, where he was instrumental in placing the insane asylum in Pierce co.
Lewis Neace, born in Germany in 1835, migrated to the U. S. in 1847, was brought up in Penn., and came to Wash. in 1859, locating in Walla Walla co., where he continued to reside, farming and stock-raising.
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vexed question of tide-lands,4 which it claimed for the state, except such as had been patented by the United States, thus settling disputed titles. It provided for five supreme judges, and ordained superior courts in all the counties. It fixed the number of representa- tives at not less than 63, nor more than 99, and the senate at not more than half nor less than a third of that number, the first legislature to have 70 members in the house and 35 in the senate. The salaries fixed upon for state officers were liberal with- out being extravagant, and left the question of the seat of government to the choice of the people at the election for the constitution; or if not decided
James A. Hingate, born in McDonough co., Ill., in 1844. He first set- tled in Umatilla co., Or., then in Walla Walla, but removed to Pullman in ISSO. He bad served as deputy circuit clerk in Ill., and had been county commissioner in Or.
P. C. Sullivan, born in Nebraska iu 1859, came to Wash. in 1883, settling in Colfax with his brother E. H. Sullivan in legal business, but removed to Tacoma in 1888.
J. J. Travis, born in Tenn. in 1858. He was appointed to the Colville Iud. agency during the administration of President Cleveland.
J. J. Browne, born in Ohio in 1844, was brought up in Ind., and became a lawyer by profession. He removed to Kansas and thence to Or., finally locating at Spokane Falls, in Wash., where he was president of the Browne National bauk, and ranked as the first capitalist of the city.
George H. Stevenson, born in Iron co., Mo., came to Wash. in 1882, and located at the Caseades, where he engaged in salmon fishing. He was auditor of Skamania co., and a member of the legislature of 1887-8.
Thomas Hayton, 57 years of age, came to Wash. in 1876, and settled on a farm in Skagit co., near La Conner.
S. A. Dickey, born in Penn. iu 1858, was a teacher, and superintendent of schools iu Kitsap co., near Silverdale.
H. M. Lillis was a teacher in the public schools of Tacoma, and member of the city council.
C. T. Fay was 60 years of age, and had for a number of years resided in the territory, and was one of the commissioners of Pierce co.
The vexed question of tide-lands was settled ouly as to the future; but the trouble of Seattle and Tacoma was that Valentine and McKee held tide- laud in front of these towns which had been taken up with scrip authorized by congress, to be issued in payment for certain lands acquired by Valen- tine, known as the Mirande Mexican grant, in Sonoma co., Cal., and which he deeded to the U. S .; the terms of the certificates being that locations could be made on any ' uuoccupied, nnappropriated public lands of the U. S., not mineral,' etc. The cases to be settled in the courts will involve the ques- tion of the right of the U. S. to give or sell the land properly belonging to the future state. The Seattle and Walla Walla R. co. had received a dona- tion of these lands from the city of Seattle, and held them peaceably for years; but after outside lands began to be valuable, there arose trouble with squatters, who disputed the right of the eity to these lands belonging to the government. The same trouble existed at Tacoma, and even at Walla \Valla.
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then by a majority of all the votes, to another elec- tion between the two places having the highest num- ber of votes; and when it should be located, it could not be changed except by a two-thirds vote of all the electors of the state. Three articles were to be voted upon separately, namely, woman suffrage, pro- hibition, and the seat of government.5
Conventions were held, and party forces marshalled for the election of state officers and representatives, to be held at the same time that the election for the constitution was commanded to be had; namely, on the 1st of October. The returns showed that there were 40,152 votes for the constitution, and 11,879 against it. For woman suffrage, 16,527, and 34,513 against.® For prohibition, 19,546, and 31,487 against. For the capital at Olympia, 25,490 votes; for North Yakima, 14,718; for Ellensburg, 12,833; for Centralia, 607; Yakima, 314; Pasco, 120; scattering, 1,088- leaving the seat of government to be decided in the future.
The state officers elected were John L. Wilson, congressman; Elisha Pyre Ferry,7 governor; Charles E. Laughton, formerly lieutenant-governor of Ne- vada, lieutenant-governor; Allen Weir, secretary of state; A. A. Lindsley, treasurer; T. M. Reed, auditor; William C. Jones, attorney-general; Robert B. Bryan, superintendent of public instruction; W. T. Forrest, commissioner of public lands. The supreme judges elected were Ralph O. Dunbar, Theodore L. Stiles, John P. Hoyt, Thomas J. Anders, and Elman Scott. Every candidate elected was republican.
5 I am aware that this summary of the constitution is too brief to do jus- tice to that instrument, but space does not permit me to make an extended review. Fortunately, the instrument itself is open to all in the laws of the new state.
6 The suffragists laid the defeat of their cause to the prohibitionists, who were hated by the saloon men, who lumped the two together and fought both. A good many women voted under the law of 1883, but their votes were not counted, and some suits at law were threatened to grow out of it. 7 E. P. Ferry was a popular man with all parties, although he polled ouly the regular majority of his party, 8,979, and I regret that his modesty bas left his antecedents unknown to me.
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The election for state senators and representatives was an overwhelming triumph for the republicans, there being but one democratic senator and six dem- ocratic representatives elected, making the republican majority on joint ballot 96.8 The choice of republican senators was therefore assured. Owing to a delay in the issuance of the presidential proclamation,? the state was not admitted until after the legislature had assembled. Considerable confusion and agitation fol- lowed, the several senatorial candidates improving the time in labors to increase their following.10 The state
8 These are the names of the first state senators, with their counties: F. H. Luce, Adams, Franklin, aud Okanagan; C. G. Austin, Asotin aud Gar- field; C. T. Wooding, Chehalis; Henry Landes, Clallam, Jefferson, and San Juan; L. B. Clough, Clarke; H. H. Wolfe, Columbia; C. E. Forsythe, Cowlitz; J. M. Snow, Douglas and Yakima; Thomas Paine, Island and Skagit; W. D. Wood, J. H. Jones, O. D. Gilfoil, John R. Kinnear, W. V. Rinehart, King; W. H. Kneeland, Kitsap and Mason; E. T. Wilson, Kitti- tass; Jacob Hunsaker, Klickitat and Skamania; J. H. Long, Lewis; H. W. Fairweather, Lincoln; B. A. Seaborg, Pacific and Wahkiakum; John S. Baker, L. F. Thompson, Henry Drum, Pierce (Drum was the one democrat in the senate); Henry Vestal, Snohomish; Alexander Watt, E. B. Hyde, B. C. Van Houton, Spokane; H. E. Houghton, Spokane and Stevens; N. H. Owings, Thurston; Platt A. Preston, Geo. T. Thompson, Walla Walla; W. J. Parkinson, Whatcom; John C. Lawrence, J. T. Whaley, A. T. Farris, Whitman.
The representatives were W. K. Kennedy, Adams; William Farrish, Asotin; L. B. Nims, J. D. Medcalf, Chehalis; Amos F. Shaw, John D. Geoghegan, S. S. Cook, Clarke; A. B. Luce, Clallam; A. H. Weatherford, H. B. Day, Columbia; Chandler Huntington, Jr, Cowlitz; E. D. Nash, Douglas; O. H. Flummerfell, Franklin; W. S. Oliphant, Garfield; George W. Morse, Island; Joseph Kuhn, Jefferson; J. T. Blackburn, W. C. Rutter, W. H. Hughes, Alex. Allen, W. J. Shinn, George Bothwell, F. W. Bird, F. B. Grant, King; M. S. Drew, Kitsap; J. N. Power, J. P. Sharp, Kittitass; Bruce F. Purdy, R. H. Blair, Klickitat; S. C. Herren, Charles Gilchrist, Lewis; P. R. Spencer, T. C. Blackfan, Lincoln; John McReavy, Mason; Harry Hamilton, Okanagan; Charles Foster, Pacific; George Browne, A. Hewitt, George B. Kandle, Oliff Peterson, James Knox, Stephen Judson, Pierce; J. E. Tucker, San Jnau; J. E. Edens, B. D. Minkler, Skagit; George H. Stevenson, Skamania; Alexander Robertson, A. H. Eddy, Snohomish; J. W. Feighan, J. E. Gandy, S. G. Grubb, J. S. Brown, A. K. Clarke, E. B. Dean, Spokane; M. A. Randall, Stevens; W. G. Bush, Francis Rotch, Thurston; Joseph G. Megler, Wahkiakum; Joseph Painter, Z. K. Straight, James Cornwall, Walla Walla; R. W. Montray, George Judson, Whatcom; J. C. Turner, E. R. Pickerell, J. T. Peterson, R. H. Hutchinson, B. R. Ostrander, Whitman; John Cleman, Yakima. The democrats in the house were Weatherford, Nash, Flummerfell, McReavy, Judson, and Stephenson. 9 The delay was occasioned by the omission of the signature of Gov. Moore to the certificate attached to the copy of the constitution forwarded, the en- abling act requiring it to be signed by both the governor and secretary.
10 The candidates were, iu eastern Washington, John B. Allen, Thomas H. Brents of Walla Walla, and S. B. Hyde and Ex-judge George Turner of Spokane. Tacoma furnished Gen. J. W. Sprague and Walter J. Thompson,
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was admitted on the 11th of November. Although the legislature had convened on the 6th of November · as required by the constitution, voting for senators could not take place, as the lieutenant-governor could not take his seat as president of the senate until the Monday following, which was the 18th, and to that day the inauguration ceremonies were postponed. Governor Ferry was sworn in by Justice John P. Hoyt, and very great enthusiasm prevailed at the capital. On the following day the legislature being fully organized, balloting for senators took place im- mediately, J. B. Allen11 being chosen on the first ballot in both houses, the vote being 25 in the senate and 46 in the house-total 71. On the second ballot Watson C. Squire was chosen by a vote of 30 in the senate, and 46 in the house-total 76, the remainder scattering.
The justices of the supreme court had already drawn their terms, Scott and Anders drawing the two slips marked three, and Stiles and Dunbar those marked five, which left Hoyt the seven year term. Scott re-
and Seattle, Ex-gov. Watson C. Squire. These were the principal aspirants, although Ex-congressman Voorhees of Colfax was in the field, with Chauncey WV. Griggs of Tacoma. S. C. Hyde of Spokane Falls withdrew before the election.
Thompson was the youngest man in the race. He was born in Wis. in 1853, was educated in the common schools of Burlington, and learned the tradle of carpentry. At 18 years of age he began to go west, living a few months in Iowa, in Hebron, Nebraska, 2 years, where he was deputy county treas- urer. On attaining his majority in 1873, he formed a law partnership, and in 1875 was admitted to practice. He also organized a bank, and engaged in stock-raising and various undertakings, in which he was successful. In 1883 he removed to Wash., locating in Tacoma, where he purchased the bank of A. J. Baker, organizing the merchants' national bank, of which he became president. From a capital of $50,000 it has increased to $250,000. Ont of his wealth he donated $20,000 to establish a training school of manual skill at Tacoma. He served in the legislature in 1886, and was elected to the senate in 1887-8.
11 John Beard Allen was born in Crawfordsville, Montgomery co., Ind., May 18, 1843, received a common school education, and in 1864 enlisted in the 138th Ind. infantry, serving in Tenn. and Ala. until mastered out, when he went to Rochester, Minn., as agent for a grain firm. He read law, and attended the law school at Ann Arbor, Mich., being admitted to prac- tice in 1869, and coming to Wash. in 1870, and opening an office in Olympia. His talents were soon recognized, and he was appointed U. S. attorney for W. T., which position he held for ten years. He removed to Walla Walla in 1881, and was, as elsewhere mentioned, elected to congress, though he did not take his scat.
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quested that Anders, who was his elder, should be elected chief justice, which was so done. Solomon Smith of Goldendale was elected clerk, and the rules of the territorial supreme court were adopted for the time, the court adjourning to the first Monday in January.12
Although the new-made state had been thirty-six years in the condition of a territory, few of its mem- bers were born on its soil. Yet the average age of its first senators was not far from forty years, although the young majority had mingled with them a dignifying proportion of pioneers, as a few threads of silver on the brow of a mature man add dignity to his still evident youthfulness. Only about half a dozen members of both houses had resided in the territory from the year of its organization; several were Oregonians or Californians by birth, and a few were of foreign birth. Almost enough to constitute a company had fought in the battles of the civil war; some had in other states gained experience as legislators, and in both bodies there was a high order of practical intelligence.13
12 Chief Justice Anders was born in Seneca co., Ohio, in 1838, and admit- ted to the bar at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1863. He came to Wash. in 1871, was associated with Thomas H. Brents of Walla Walla in law practice, and was prosecuting attorney of that district for five terms.
13 C. G. Austin was born in Avon, Ohio, March 18, 1846. Served in the war of rebellion, was twice clerk of the 7th judicial district of Minnesota, and after removing to Wash. was appointed clerk of the district court for Garfield and Asotin counties. His business was that of a dealer in grain and agricultural machinery.
John S. Baker was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1861, and removed to Tacoma in 1881.
L. B. Clough was born in Waterbury, Vt, May 12, 1850. He removed to Vancouver, W. T., in 1877, and engaged in fruit-raising. He was elected sheriff in 1884, and served two years. In 1888 he was elected representative from Clarke co., but the legislature not assembling, he was elected state senator.
Henry Drum was born in Girard, Macoupin co., Ill., in 1857, and educated at the Illinois state university. He removed to Hebron, Nebraska, where he was a banker, and also engaged in stock-raising until 1883, when he re- moved to Tacoma, where he, with Walter J. Thompson, purchased the bank of New Tacoma, which was reorganized as the Merchants' National bank, of which he was, when elected to the senate, vice-president. He was president of the school board of Tacoma, and was elected mayor in 1888, serving one year; and was director in several commercial enterprises.
A. T. Farris was born in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, which he left in 1867, and
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The machinery of the new state was now in motion,
removed to Wash. in 1883, where he engaged in hardware business at Pull- man. He was elected to the legislature in 1888, and state senator in 1889.
C. E. Forsythe was born in Penn., in 1850, and received a common school education, with an apprenticeship at carpentering. In 1875 he removed to Hood river, Or., but settled in Kelso, Wash., where he taught school. He was elected county auditor in 1880, on the republican ticket, serving four years; was also clerk and deputy clerk of the district court. Subsequently engaged in real estate and acquired a comfortable fortune.
O. D. Gilfoil was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., July 8, 1863. He was brought up on a farm, but worked himself up to a railroad contractor. In Wash. he built bridges and constructed other works on the Lake Shore, Seattle, and Eastern R. R. He was the youngest man in the senate.
H. E. Houghton, who migrated from Wisconsin to Wash., was about fifty years of age, and had been a state senator in Wis. He was several times city attorney of Spokane Falls, where he was member of the law firm of Houghton, Graves, and Jones.
Jacob Hunsaker was a native of Illinois, about forty-four years of age. In 1846 his parents emigrated to Or., and he obtained his education at Pacific university, after which he taught school in Or. and Wash. He went to Peru and spent a year on the Challas, Lima, and Oroya R. R., in the employ of Keith & co., returning in 1873 to Thurston co., where he married a daughter of Hon. A. J. Chambers of Olympia, and finally settled in Klickitat co., as a merchant and farmer. He was county commissioner for four years.
E. B. Hyde was born in Utica, Winnebago co., Wis., Jan. 13, 1849, and resided on a farm until he was thirty years of age. He removed to Wash. in May, 1881, settling at Spokake Falls. He was the first marshal of that city, holding the office four terms; was a member of the city council two years, and held other minor offices. His business was real estate and bank- ing. He was a delegate from Wash. to the Chicago republican convention, which nominated Benjamin Harrison for president.
J. H. Jones of King co. was born in England in 1857, soon after which his parents removed to the U. S., settling in Penn. He was a coal-miner in Penn., and on removing to Wash., in 1885, again engaged in coal mining. He was elected to the legislature in 1888, and the state senate in 1889.
W. H. Kneeland was born in Lincoln, Me, Dec. 11, 1848. He secured an education by alternate study and teaching. In 1869 he engaged in lum- bering in Penn., and in 1876 became interested in the oil regions. About 1880 gas-wells were discovered in the northern end of the petroleum belt in the state of N. Y., and he conceived the idea of converting the gas to practi- cal use. To this end he organized a company with half a million capital stock, and constructed the Empire gas line, with over 100 miles of pipe, and with about 8,000 patrons. In 1882 he sold out all his property, and removed to Wash., engaging in lumber business in Mason co. He was unfortunate, los- ing all his capital, but afterwards partially recovering from his losses.
Henry Landes was born in Germany in 1843, but emigrated thence with his parents in 1847. In 1861 he enlisted in a union regiment, serving through the war. At its close he removed to Wash., weut to the mines of B. C., was appointed Indian trader at Neah Bay reservation for six years, after which he established himself in business at Port Townsend. He held various city offices, and was member of the board of commissioners to locate the govern- ment buildings, the territorial penitentiary, and the site of deaf, mute, blind, and feeble-minded schools. He founded the First National bank of Port Townsend in 1883, of which he was president; was a projector of and direc- tor in the Port Townsend Southern R. R. company, and president of the Olympus water company, besides being colonel of the national guard of Washington.
John C. Lawrence was born at Mount Gilead, Morrow co., Ohio, in 1861.
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and running without any perceptible jar. It was
His father dying when he was young, he removed with his mother to eastern Washington in 1878. He was county superintendent of schools, and mem- ber of the territorial board of education; also for one term superintendent of public instruction. Later he engaged in real estate business.
J. H. Long was born near Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 27, 1846, and removed to Iowa with his parents in 1860. In 1864 he drove an ox-team to Boisé City, Idaho, as payment for his board en route, and in 1865 made a further remove to Lewis co., Wash. He was elected county assessor in 1869, treas- urer in 1873, member of the legislature in 1877, and joint councilman of Lewis and Thurston counties in 1881. He began life in Wash. as a farm hand, but became a proprietor, and engaged in cheese-making in several places, also in milling, being president of the Chehalis flouring mill con- pany, and in stock-raising. He married in 1868 a daughter of Stephen Hodg- den, a pioneer of 1849. His daughter married Wm B. Allen, a banker of Tacoma.
F. H. Luce was born in Wisconsin, May 23, 1859. He studied medicine, bnt removed to Wash. in 1887, and engaged in real estate and banking at Davenport, Lincoln co.
Thomas Payne of Skagit co. was born in New York City in 1855, and removed to Wash. in 1882. He was a telegraph operator, having charge of Mount Vernon station.
J. M. Snow was a civil engineer at Waterville, and about 35 years of age.
N. H. Owings was born in Indianapolis, Dec. 21, 1836, and educated at a seminary in that city. He graduated from the law school of the North- western Christian university, and commenced practice in Indianapolis. When the rebellion occurred, he enlisted in the Clay Guards in Washington City to guard the white house, and served 60 days, when he was honorably discharged. He was appointed by Lincoln a general staff-officer, with the rank of captain, and served on the staff of Grant and Sherman, receiving one promotion and two brevets, resigning in 1865 with the rank of lieut-col. He Was appointed special agent of the post-office department, and subsequently asst superintendent. On the 5th of Feb., 1877, he was appointed secretary of Washington territory, and held the office four terms.
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