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AMIEL 0. SCHUBERT.
Amiel O. Schubert, a prominent and successful farmer of Athena, Umatilla county, was born on the old Schubert homestead one mile northeast of Athena on the 7th of January, 1875, a son of Charles and Phoebe (Asbury) Schubert. Charles Schubert was born near Hamburg, Germany, while the mother was a native of Berryville, Arkansas. The father was a member of the German army for a period of three years, and later came to the United States on a sailing vessel, the journey taking sixty-nine days. He located in Wisconsin, where he worked on a farm for some time and later went to Bourbon county, Kansas, settling near Uniontown, there operating land for eight years. Selling his land in that vicinity he removed west, locating in the Willamette valley in Polk county. For two years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits in this county and in October, 1872, came to Umatilla county and bought a claim of one hundred and sixty acres, proving up on it, and there residing until his death in 1893, at the age of seventy five years. Mrs. Schubert's death occurred on this homestead, also. Mr. Schubert had gradually added to his original tract and at the time of his demise he had three hundred and three acres of well improved land. Throughout his life he was a stanch supporter of the republican party, in the interests of which he took an active part.
The boyhood of Amiel O. Schubert, whose name initiates this review, was spent on the old farm and he received his education in the country schools of the vicinity. He assisted his father on the farm for some time and then decided to enter into farming on his own account and leased some land, which he later purchased. Mr. Schubert is now in possession of two hundred and seventy acres of well improved land, on which he now resides.
On January 10, 1900, Mr. Schubert was united in marriage to Miss Rosa Zerba a daughter of Oren and Amanda (Law) Zerba, and a native of Nebraska. Her parents came west in 1876 and settled north of Athena, where they engaged in farming. The mother is deceased but the father is living. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Schubert five children have been born: Velma, Lela, Itol, Lorena, and Doris.
Mr. Schubert follows an independent course in politics, supporting the man rather than any particular party. He is always keenly interested in the affairs of town and county and has kept in touch with the trend of modern progress along agricultural lines. He has carefully conducted his agricultural affairs and his success in this direction is the direct outcome of persistent and earnest labor.
FREDERICK G. HAAS, M. D.
Dr. Frederick G. Haas, who throughout his professional career was located in Port- land, where he won an enviable place as a physician and surgeon, was born in Elgin, Iowa, in 1874, his parents being Ulrich and Magdalena (Scheidegger) Haas. The mother was born in the canton of Berne, Switzerland, November 9, 1845, and on the 14th of December, 1866, she became the wife of Ulrich Haas. In 1873 they crossed the Atlantic and first settled at Elgin, Iowa, where they resided until 1896, when they crossed the continent to Salem, Oregon. In the same year they removed to Washing- ton county, where Mr. Haas purchased a large farm in the vicinity of Hillsboro, and Vol. III-29
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thereon both spent their remaining days, being most highly respected and esteemed people of that community.
Dr. Haas of this review acquired his early education in his native town in Iowa and afterward accompanied his parents to the northwest. A desire to become a mem- ber of the medical profession led him to attend college at Salem, Oregon, while later he went to San Francisco and was there graduated in 1908, on the completion of a course in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, of which Dr. Anderson was then the dean.
With his return to Oregon Dr. Haas opened an office in Portland, where he began the practice of medicine, which he successfully followed to the time of his death on the 19th of October, 1918. He made a close study of everything that had to do with the laws of health and the treatment of disease and was constantly broadening his knowledge and thereby promoting his efficiency. He discharged his duties with the utmost sense of conscientious obligation and won the highest respect of his colleagues and contemporaries by his devotion to the advanced standards and ethics of the profession.
On the 24th of November, 1898, Dr. Haas was united in marriage to Miss Mary Joseph, the adopted daughter of David Joseph and a resident of Salem. She was born in New Zealand, where her father was a Presbyterian minister. Three children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Haas: Alice Magdalene, Mary Jeannette and Helen La Verne.
Dr. Haas, following the outbreak of the World war, attempted to enlist hut was rejected on account of overweight. He then systematically began to reduce his weight and accomplished this, being accepted for the service; but he was taken ill with influenza and passed away. Portland recognized that in his death a citizen of value had passed on. He had not only been a successful practitioner but at one time was a druggist of Portland, having opened a drug store on Williams avenue soon after his arrival in this city, and previously he had been engaged in the drug business at Salem for many years. His political endorsement was given to the republican party and he was keenly interested in everything that had to do with the adoption and success of the principles in which he firmly believed. He was at one time a member of the city council of Salem and on another occasion was a candidate for the office of city treasurer, being defeated by only one vote. For many years he belonged to the Masonic fraternity and loyally espoused its teachings and its purposes. He also had membership with the United Artisans, while his religious faith was manifest in his membership in the Third Baptist church. He was yet in the prime of life when called to his final rest, being but forty-four years of age. It seemed that he should yet be spared for many years of usefulness, his passing being the occasion of deep regret to the many whose friendship he had won.
A. B. MANLEY.
A. B. Manley, president of the Pacific Abstract Title Co., and the Manley Auto Co., with extensive investments in real estate, has resided continuously in Portland since 1881, and in the intervening years has been closely associated not only with business interests but with activities bearing largely upon the municipal progress of the city and also its relation to the state.
Mr. Manley is a native of Michigan, born in Hartford, Van Buren county, December 7, 1858, and is descended in both the paternal and maternal lines from old American families founded on this side of the Atlantic prior to the Revolutionary war. His great-grandfather, Richard Manley, settled in Pennsylvania several years prior to the war for independence and afterward removed to the state of New York. He was a brother of Captain Manley, who was in command of a frigate engaged in the defense of New York harbor during the war of the Revolution. His son, Adrian Manley, be- came the founder of the family in the middle west, removing from the Empire state to Keeler township, Van Buren county, Michigan, about the year 1834, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Almira Manley, and their children. Their son, Joseph Briton Manley, was but a year old at the time of the removal westward. He became a farmer of Van Buren county, Michigan, whence he afterward removed to Cooper township, Kalamazoo county, that state. He married Olive Maria Tousey, who was born in Cooper township, Kalamazoo county, a daughter of Luzon Tousey, who was born in Plymouth township, Wayne county, Michigan, and afterward removed to Cooper township, Kalamazoo county,
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where he passed away in 1864. He married Lucy Lyman, a native of Connecticut and a descendant of an old Puritan family.
In the public schools of Michigan A. B. Manley pursued his education, completing his course in the Decatur high school. His observations of the people in his home neighborhood brought him to a recognition of the fact that they were not far in ad- vance of the starting point of ten or fifteen years before, and desiring that his own life should show some decided progress, he determined to avail himself of the oppor- tunities offered in the west. Accordingly he made his way to Oakland, California, in April, 1878, and in November of the same year came to Oregon. He was first employed in the northwest on government survey and afterward on railroad construction for the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company. In 1881 he returned to Portland, where he engaged in the real estate and mortgage loan business. In 1887 be removed to Albina and took an active part in organizing its city government. He built the first three-story brick block on Williams avenue, known as the Manley block, and not only took an active part in business affairs but also in many public movements of material benefit to the city. He was president of the Albina volunteer fire department, consisting of four companies, and held the office continuously until the annexation of the city to Portland. In June, 1892, he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature and served during the session of 1893, at which time he secured the passage of the first bill provid- ing for free ferries. In January, 1901, he organized the Pacific Abstract Title Co., of which he has since been president, and in this connection has carefully executed well formulated plans and policies, in keeping with the highest standard of financial ethics and investments. In 1916 he organized the Manley Auto Co., which is now one of the substantial automobile enterprises of the city, being distributors for the Hupmobile in the state of Oregon. His business interests have at all times been so wisely managed as to constitute resultant factors in the attainment of that success which is the legiti- mate goal of all business endeavor.
On the 21st of February, 1883, in the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal church of Portland, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Manley and Miss Helen D. Kelly, a daughter of Hampton Kelly, a Portland pioneer of 1848. She is a granddaughter of Clinton Kelly, in whose honor the Clinton Kelly school was named. Having no children of their own, Mr. and Mrs. Manley have reared and educated several girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Manley attend the Methodist church and Mr. Manley is identified with various fraternal and social organizations, being a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of Industrial Lodge, No. 99, I. O. O. F., and Ellison Encampment of that order, having been presented with a jeweled badge in recognition of his thirty-five years' connection therewith. He is also a life member of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, the Multnomah Amateur Athletic Club, the Irvington Club, the Press Club, and Automobile Club. In his political views he is a republican. He was formerly first sergeant of Company D of the First Regiment of the Oregon National Guard. He has been active in civic and industrial affairs in the city and state and his interests have been of a varied character, touching many lines which are of vital import in the life of the community and in all of which he has borne himself with such signal dignity and honor as to win the unqualified respect and confidence of his fellowmen. The spirit of laudable ambition which prompted him to leave his boyhood home and seek a broader field in the growing west has been a stimulating force throughout his life and led him into important relations whereby he has not only won success for himself but has also contributed in large measure to public progress.
FRED RAYMOND DAVIS, D.D. S.
Dr. Fred Raymond Davis, prominent citizen and skilled dentist of Rainier, Colum- bia county, was born in 1877 at Grand Rapids, Michigan, His parents were W. T. and Minnie (Schelling) Davis. His father was at one time engaged in farming but later became a builder. In 1889 they came to the Pacific coast and settled at Snoho- mish, where his father became a contractor and builder.
Dr. Davis' education was completed in Washington, and attended the North Pacific Dental College, where he finished his course in 1906. Immediately after receiv- ing his sheepskin he purchased a dental establishment in Rainier and has practiced there continuously for fourteen years. At the time of his locating in Rainier, he
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was the only dentist in Columbia county, and his practice is now the largest in the county. While his work is general, he inclines to oral surgery and were he located in a larger city he would practice only that branch of the profession.
Dr. Davis has membership in the Knights of Pythias and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a member of the Commercial Club and being a lover of nature, he belongs to the Rainier Gun Club. While not a member of any church denomination he has attended the Methodist church of late years. He has served as city councilman of Rainier and as water commissioner, and while he is a progressive citizen in every sense he is devoted to his profession. Dr. Davis being a deep student of the growth of his profession gives much of his time to reading and is much interested in the progress of the science of dentistry. He has one child, Alice Elizabeth, a girl of unusual beauty. She is attending school in San Francisco.
ANDREW J. THAYER.
Andrew J. Thayer, who at the time of his death in April, 1873, was a judge of the supreme court of Oregon, was born at Gainesville, New York, November 27, 1818. His father, Gideon Thayer, was a cavalry soldier in the War of 1812. Reared in the Empire state Andrew J. Thayer there acquired his early education and afterward took up the study of law in Warsaw. Following his admission to the bar he practiced his profession in Buffalo for several years in connection with his brothers, W. W. and Edwin Thayer. W. W. had his office in Tonawanda, New York, the other two had theirs at Buffalo. He had already become well established in his profession when he decided to seek a home in the west and in 1852 crossed the plains with ox team and wagon, traveling after the slow manner of the times until at length the long and weary journey was ended by his arrival in Oregon in the late fall of that year. He settled about three miles from Corvallis, where he took up a donation claim of six hundred and forty acres and while there residing engaged in the practice of law in Corvallis. He early became recognized as one of the able members of the Oregon bar. In 1861, following the death of Senator Baker at Balls Bluff, the latter being killed, Mr. Thayer was appointed to fill the vacant position, but Senator Eli who had the credentials rec- ommending A. J. Thayer for the office, went to see the battle of Bull Run and while there was captured and held as a prisoner of war and hence never delivered the cre- dentials. This caused Mr. Thayer to lose the position, but he had the mileage, which amounted to about seven thousand dollars. Later Mr. Thayer was elected judge of the supreme court and occupied a place on the bench until April, 1873, when his life's labors were ended in death. He possessed a comprehensive knowledge of the law and his ability to apply accurately its principles made him a strong advocate, a wise counselor and a safe judge, who was thoroughly fair and impartial in his rulings.
KARL VOLNA LIVELY.
Karl Volna Lively, engaged in the insurance business in Portland, was born in Jackson, Ohio, February 17, 1875. His father, James Madison Lively, was a native of Ohio and was married in Ohio to Miss Louisa Backus, whose birth occurred in the Buckeye state, and she passed away in Portland in March, 1901. The parents had come to the west in 1891, locating in Port Townsend, Washington. The ancestral record of the family is one of close connection with Virginia. The grandfather, Lorenzo D. Lively, was born in the Old Dominion and at the time of the Civil war entered the Union army from West Virginia.
Karl V. Lively pursued his education in the public schools of Ohio and in the college of Wooster, that state, while subsequent to the removal of the family to the northwest he attended the University of Washington at Seattle. He was connected with manufacturing interests at Port Townsend from 1891 until 1896 and then became connected with insurance interests in Portland, Oregon, where he has since remained. Throughout the intervening period he has been engaged in the insurance business and is today one of the recognized leaders in this field in Oregon. The firm of Mc- Cargar, Bales & Lively is one of the most prominent in the state. Their interests have been most carefully organized and systematized and they have surrounded them-
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selves with a capable corps of employes, while with every phase of the business the partners are also familiar, thus being able to direct and advise those in their service.
On the 22d of November, 1899, in Seattle, Mr. Lively was united in marriage to Miss Agnes Ward, a daughter of David B. Ward, who was born in Kentucky and became an Oregon pioneer, crossing the plains in 1851. Mr. and Mrs. Lively have become parents of five children: James Ward; Philip Madison; Elizabeth; David; and Barbara. The youngest son died in infancy. The religious faith of the family is that of the Presbyterian church. Politically Mr. Lively is a republican and fraternally he is connected with the Masons, having obtained the Knight Templar degree of the York Rite and with the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine he has crossed the sands of the desert. He is likewise connected with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent Pro- tective Order of Elks, and is a member of the Multnomah Club, the Portland Golf Club, Tennis Club, Press Club, Ad Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Sons of the American Revolution. All these associations indicate the nature of his interests and the rules that govern his conduct. He stands very high in the business circles of Portland, having made for himself a creditable position, which indicates that his future career will be well worth watching.
JESSE GARFIELD ARNOLD.
Jesse Garfield Arnold, for nine years a representative of the Portland bar, was born in Marshall, Arkansas, December 8, 1885. His father, Newton Arnold, was born in Waynesville, Tennessee, and in that state was united in marriage to Miss Mary Baugus who was likewise born in Tennessee. The father died in Marshall, Arkansas, in 1895, and there the mother passed away in 1897. The father had served with the Union army during the Civil war, enlisting from his native state.
Jesse G. Arnold was reared in Searcy county, Arkansas, where he attended the country schools and afterward continued his education in the State University. He later went to the eastern coast and was graduated in 1910, from the Washington and Lee University of Lexington, Virginia. He completed his law course in the Washing- ton University at Seattle as a member of the class of 1911 and following his gradua- tion came to Portland and was admitted to the bar of this state. Through the inter- vening years he has here practiced and in the calling where advancement depends entirely upon individual merit, he has made consecutive progress and is now accorded a gratifying clientage.
In his political views Mr. Arnold is a republican and during the war period served on the legal advisory board and in connection with the loan drives. His interest in com- munity affairs is shown in his connection with the Chamber of Commerce. He belongs to the Ad Club, the Press Club, the Automobile Club, and the Multnomah Club and his religious faith is that of the Baptist church.
ARTHUR WILSON MANCHESTER.
Arthur Wilson Manchester, in partnership with his father as a member of the firm of Manchester & Company, interior house finishers and cabinet-makers, is a native of the Empire state, born in Greensboro, New York, in 1883. The father, Charles M. Manchester, is a millwright and lumberman by occupation. He married Matilda Burr, who was also of old New York stock, her father being one of the old captains on the Great Lakes and a man of importance in his section of the country.
Arthur W. Manchester was educated at the graded schools of his native town, and on leaving school he entered the lumber business. For five years, from 1903 to 1908, he served as hardwood lumber inspector for a large New York firm of lumber merchants. In the latter year the family removed to Oregon and settled at Three Mile, Wasco county. For a time Mr. Manchester worked as a carpenter and was also engaged in the lumber business. In 1914 he entered into partnership with his father in the interior house finishing and cabinet-making business, under the firm name of the Manchester Manufacturing Company. This company, under the able guidance of father and son, enjoys a large trade in Wasco and the adjoining counties, and has an established reputation for standard goods.
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In July, 1917, Mr. A. W. Manchester was elected an alderman of The Dalles, his services during his first term proving so satisfactory that he was reelected for a second term, expiring in January, 1921. As chairman of the street committee, he was largely responsible for the paving and improving of many of the thoroughfares of the city, especially those in the residential section. Under his charge more paving and improvement work was carried on than during the period of any previous admin- istration, and to Mr. Manchester more than to any other citizen, do the people of The Dalles owe the present satisfactory condition of the streets. He is generally regarded as one of the most progressive citizens of The Dalles.
In 1903 Mr. Manchester was married in New York state to Mina E. Castor, daugh- ter of Theodore D. Castor, a well known lumberman of that section. They have one child, Alva, a student of the graded schools of The Dalles. Mr. Manchester is a mem- ber of The Dalles Chamber of Commerce, in the affairs of which, as well as in other civic matters, he takes a warm interest. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and has filled all the chairs in that organization, being now district deputy grand master.
JOHNSON FRANK DITTO, M. D.
Dr. Johnson Frank Ditto, engaged in the practice of medicine at Rainier, was born in Ohio in 1882, his parents being George Lewis and Lois (Cunningham) Ditto. His father was a merchant and farmer in Ohio, and his forebears were Americans for five generations. The family removed to Nebraska when Dr. Ditto of this review was but a lad and it was there that he received his primary and collegiate training. He studied medicine at the National Medical University in Chicago and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in St. Louis. He received his degree early in 1915 and at once set out for Oregon. For a short time he practiced in Portland but wisely decided that a smaller city gave greater promise to a young man, so in 1916 he located at Rainier, where he soon obtained a lucrative practice. While his work is general he specializes in obstetrics and abdominal surgery.
In May, 1910, Dr. Ditto was married to Miss Florence L. West, a daughter of Henry West, of Nebraska. Miss West was a fellow student in the medical colleges attended by him and was graduated as an M. D. about the same time he finished his course. They have been associated in the practice of medicine as Johnson and Florence W. Ditto. Dr. Florence Ditto is a woman of much artistic talent which has been utilized by the city of Rainier, where she has been appointed park commissioner. She is a member of the Maccabees and has served as executive. They have one child, Mary Louise, two years old. Dr. Johnson Ditto is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and has membership in the Moose and Odd Fellow lodges. In politics he is a republican. "Talented trained physicians, good neighbors and valuable citizens" is the characterization the people of Rainier give to this young couple, and surely there is little more to be said of anyone.
JUDGE RALEIGH STOTT.
Judge Raleigh Stott, of whom the Portland Oregonian wrote at the time of his death: "He was a man of genial, kindly disposition, of large attainments and of fine character, practiced for many years at the bar of the state and at one time occupied a circuit court bench in Multnomah county." Practically his entire life was spent in the west and he was of that high type of citizen who builded a great empire by reason of his support of all those forces that made for the material development and the intellectual, civic, and moral progress of this region.
Born in Indiana in 1845 Judge Stott was but six years of age when he came with his parents to Oregon, the family home being established in Washington county. A contemporary writer, speaking of the arrival of the Stott family in Oregon, said: "His- tory was then scarcely in the making and the entire state was in its formative period, yet the settlers who had come to the northwest in the latter part of the '40s and the early part of the '50s had not come here for the purposes of trade with the hope of returning to the east to spend the wealth which they might have acquired, but were actuated with the desire of becoming owners of homes in this section and becoming the
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