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also has the agency for the Squaw Creek Irrigation project and the State Tumalo Lands. In 1920 Mr. Miner purchased a lot on Wall street in Bend, seventy-five by one hundred and forty feet, upon which he has caused to be erected a handsome brick structure covering the entire lot. The lower floor is divided into four stores and the upper floor into forty-four suites of offices. The building is known as the Miner block and is the largest and most modern structure in the city. It stands a most suitable memorial to the orphan boy, who by his own intelligently directed effort won his way to success.
In 1901 Mr. Miner was united in marriage to Miss Eva C. Alf, a native of Louisiana, and a daughter of Andrew Alf. One son, Jack R., who is attending the grade schools of Bend, has been born to their union. Mrs. Miner is a Seventh Day Adventist and is a teacher in the Sabbath school. She is a woman of much refinement and personal charm and is prominently known in the club and social circles of the community.
Since attaining his majority Mr. Miner has given his allegiance to the republican party, although he has never taken an active interest in its affairs, neither seeking nor desiring political preferment. Fraternally he is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Fraternal Brotherhood and he has filled all of the chairs in the latter order. Mr. Miner boosts Bend and Oregon because he believes in both and he boosts not only because it is good business to boost, but because he believes in what he boosts. He is indeed a representative citizen and one of whom any community has a right to be proud.
ERNEST P. MAHAFFEY.
Ernest P. Mahaffey is a prominent representative of the financial interests of Bend, Deschutes county, where he is vice president and manager of the Central Oregon ' Bank. He has always been successful in a business way and is regarded as safe and sane in his judgment on all matters of finance and investment. He is a native son of Oregon, his birth having occurred at La Grande in 1879. His father and mother were Pierce A. and Lou (McWaters) Mahaffey and they were prominent and highly respected citizens of the state. On both paternal and maternal sides Mr. Mahaffey can trace his ancestry back to pre-Revolutionary days and although he is proud of his family be does not contend that that makes him superior to his fellows. but he is proud of his hundred per cent Americanism. Patrick Mahaffey located in Ohio in 1801. His parents had come to this country early in the eighteenth century. Wyatt McWaters came to America in 1669 and his descendants took up residence in the south, becoming pioneer settlers of Kentucky. Mahaffey, South Carolina, is named in honor of the ancestors of Ernest P. Mahaffey, and Mahaffey Corners in Union county, Oregon, was named for his father. Pierce A. Mahaffey came to Oregon in 1860, upon the death of his father, accompanied by his mother, sister and brother, and they located in Union county for the first six years. During that period he engaged in freighting and soon established an enviable reputation as an honest and energetic young man. He retired from that business, however, in 1866, and went into the drug business, along which line of work he was active for some time. Subse- quently he built and operated the Blue Mountain hotel and that venture won for Mr. Mahaffey both fame and fortune. It was one of the famous hostelries of the early days and he operated it until 1887.
In the acquirement of an education Ernest P. Mahaffey attended the common schools of Union county and later entered the Portland high school. In due time he became a student in Bishop Scott's Academy and then took a course in the University of California. In 1888, upon the demise of his father, who left a considerable estate, he took over its management and the following two years were spent in settling up his father's affairs. For three years he was assistant cashier of the Farmers' and Traders' Bank and for the next eleven years was associated with the O. W. R. & N. Company, in the operating department. At the expiration of that time he became chief clerk of the circuit court of Multnomah county and in 1917, after four years in that capacity, he was tendered the position of vice president and manager of the Central Oregon Bank of Bend. He accepted the position and has since been active in that connection. As the result of his keen business ability and wise management the bank has prospered from year to year and its deposits are now more than a half million dollars. The
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capital stock is fifty thousand dollars and the surplus and undivided profits amount to twenty-four thousand dollars.
In 1906 Mr. Mahaffey was united in marriage to Miss Agnes White, a daughter of James White, one of Oregon's honored pioneers who came to this state in 1852. Mrs. Mahaffey is well known in all social and club circles and has won many friends as a result of her attractive personality.
Fraternally Mr. Mahaffey is identified with the Masons, in which order he has attained the thirty-second degree and is a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is like- wise an Elk and past exalted ruler of Bend Lodge, No. 1371. Mr. Mahaffey has always maintained an active interest in the development and improvement of the com- munity and to that end is an important member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is accounted one of the energetic, prosperous and capable young business men of the town, a stanch supporter of all worthy and beneficial movements, and a general favorite among those with whom he has come into contact.
OTTO C. LUECKE.
Otto C. Luecke, prominently identified with the business interests of Linn county as vice president and manager of the Harrisburg Lumber & Manufacturing Company, was born in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, April 19, 1876, a son of Fred and Hen- rietta (Stock) Luecke, natives of Germany. The parents emigrated to America in the '50s, and going to Wisconsin, the father took up a homestead of two hundred acres in Sheboygan county, which he improved and developed, continuing to culti- vate his farm throughout his remaining years. He was a most progressive and enter- prising man and became one of the pioneers in the manufacture of cheese in Wiscon- sin and also one of the first to engage in dairying in his section of the state. He passed away in 1905, at the age of seventy-nine years, and the mother survived him for five years, her demise occurring in 1910, at which time she was seventy-four years of age.
Otto C. Luecke was reared and educated in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, and remained with his parents until he reached the age of eighteen years, when he be- came traveling salesman for a furniture house and was thus engaged for a few years. He then became representative for a line of shoes, his territory comprising the states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana and Pennsylvania. He was con- nected with that firm until 1917, when he returned to his former employers as manager of their furniture factory, proving most efficient and capable in this responsible posi- tion, which he continued to fill until November 1, 1919, when he became a resident of Harrisburg. He became identified with the business interests of this city as one of the organizers of the Harrisburg Lumber & Manufacturing Company, of which he is now the vice president and manager and one of the directors. Mr. Luecke is a man of keen business discernment and sound judgment and under his capable direc- tion the business has ejoyed a continuous and healthy growth until it is now one of large extent and improtance.
In December, 1910, Mr. Luecke was united in marriage to Miss Josephine Weid- ner and they have a large circle of friends in the city where they reside. He is in- dependent in his political views, casting his ballot for the man whom he considers best fitted for office, regardless of party affiliation. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America and in religious faith he is a Lutheran. Mr. Luecke is a man of high principles and substantial qualities, progressive and reliable in business, loyal in citizenship, and at all times displaying devotion to the duties that devolve upon him.
JOHN J. CRAMER.
John J. Cramer, a real estate dealer of Harrisburg, who is also engaged in the fire and life insurance business, is a man of enterprise and progressive business methods, whose efforts are bringing to him substantial and well deserved success. Wis- consin numhers him among her native sons, for his birth occurred in Marshfield, Wood county, that state, October 9, 1878. He is a son of Henry and Margaret ( Wilhelm)
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Cramer, natives of Germany. The father of Henry Cramer made the voyage to America in a sailing vessel, which was six weeks in making the trip, and upon arriv- ing in this country he made his way to the west, becoming a resident of Wood county, Wisconsin. That he thoroughly identified his interests with those of his adopted land is shown in the fact that he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil war and served through- out the period of hostilities.
His son, Henry Cramer, was reared and educated in Wood county, Wisconsin, and after his textbooks were put aside he learned the blacksmith's trade, at which he worked for many years with good success. He accumulated considerable property, including a large tract of timber, which he later sold to the owners of a sawmill, who made him foreman of the mill, and there he was accidentally killed in 1884. The mother survives and is a resident of Harrisburg, Oregon.
John J. Cramer was reared and educated at Marshfield, Wisconsin, and later pur- sued a three years' course in the Wisconsin Agricultural College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1902. He then took charge of a large shorthorn herd owned by a live stock breeder, with whom he continued for four years, during which time he acted as a judge of live stock at several state fairs of Wisconsin. He then turned his attention to the real estate business at Marshfield, where he conducted oper- ations for a period of about twelve years. In March, 1909, he made a trip to Oregon and after spending three months in the Willamette valley he was so favorably impressed with this section of the country that he decided to locate here permanently. He re- turned to Oregon in 1911 and engaged in the real estate business in Harrisburg, where he has remained. He purchased city property and also farm lands and now has quite extensive agricultural interests, leasing his farms. He is the only real estate dealer in the town and as he is thoroughly familiar with every phase of the business he has built up a patronage of extensive proportions and he also writes a large amount of insurance annually. He is watchful of every detail of his business and his close appli- cation and unfaltering energy have been the dominant features in his advancement. In addition to his realty holdings, Mr. Cramer is also a stockholder in the Harrisburg Lumber & Manufacturing Company and the Harrisburg Warehouse & Lumber Com- pany and is continually broadening his activities with good results.
On the 12th of September, 1900, Mr. Cramer was united in marriage to Miss Anna Bertha Schultz and they have become the parents of eight children, namely: Alphon, Margaret, Frederick, Helen, John, Everett, Emily and Joan. In his political views Mr. Cramer is a democrat and in religious faith he is a Catholic, while his fraternal connections are with the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. He is a man of high personal standing, of marked business integrity and ability, and the sterling worth of his character is recognized by all with whom he has been associated.
JACOB FREDERICK HOSCH, M. D.
The state of Oregon, with its pulsing industrial activities and rapid development, has attracted within its confines men of marked ability and high character in the various professional lines and in this way progress has been conserved and social stability fostered. Jacob Frederick Hosch has gained recognition as one of the able and successful physicians of the state and by his labors, his high professional attain- ments and his sterling characteristics, has justified the respect and confidence in which he is beld by the medical fraternity and the local public. Dr. Hosch has also been of service to his fellowmen along political lines and has held the office of mayor of Redmond since 1912, except for the time he was in service during the World war.
A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Dr. Hosch was born in that city in 1880. His father, Peter Hosch, was born in Wisconsin, his grandfather having settled in that state prior to the Civil war. Dr. Hosch's mother, Celine Eckerlin, was also born in Wisconsin and was a descendant of French ancestry, her father having been a native of that country.
When Jacob Frederick Hosch was two years of age his parents removed to the Pacific coast, settling in Oregon, and his father's demise occurred within a year after their arrival here. The little family were left to care for themselves and Dr. Hosch obtained his education as the result of his own efforts. At an early age he deter- mined to enter the medical profession and after completing his preliminary courses
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he entered the University of Oregon, from which he was graduated in 1905, with the M. D. degree. He immediately established offices at Cascade Locks and there le re- mained until 1910, having built up an extensive and lucrative patronage. In that year he removed to Redmond where he has engaged in general practice since, with the exception of the time spent in the service of the United States in the World war. In 1912 Dr. Hosch was elected mayor of Redmond and is still serving in that office. He has done much to further the development and improvement of the community and his administrations have brought to Redmond a great deal of prosperity. In July, 1918, putting all personal interests aside, Dr. Hosch enlisted in the medical corps of the United States army and being commissioned a lieutenant, was sent to Ft. Riley and thence to Jefferson Barracks near St. Louis, Missouri. In December, 1918, he was demobilized as captain and placed upon the Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., with that rank.
In 1906 was celebrated the marriage of Dr. Hosch and Miss Winnifred Munkers, a daughter of T. J. Munkers, one of Oregon's pioneer citizens. He is now retired from active business life and is residing in Portland. Dr. and Mrs. Hosch have one daughter, Louise, who is a student in the Redmond high school. Mrs. Hosch is ex-president of the Woman's Club and while prominent in club and social circles her reputation as a careful mother and excellent housewife equals her recognition as a most charming hostess.
In the line of his profession Dr. Hosch holds membership in the Central Oregon Medical Society, of which he is now president, and although his large practice and official duties demand much of his time, he remains a student of his profession. He is president of the Union high school board, which is now building a one hundred thousand dollar high school, is prominent in the activities of the Bend Commercial Club and is a stanch supporter of the American Legion, of which he is likewise a mem- ber. Dr. Hosch is very fond of reading and in addition to his large medical library he has a miscellaneous library of more than fifteen hundred volumes. Aside from his profession he is a great lover of nature and his home is made heautiful by gardens and flowers, for like Beecher he helieves that: "Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into." He has many of the choicest roses that can he grown anywhere in the United States.
ARTHUR M. PRINGLE.
Arthur M. Pringle is well known throughout Bend, Deschutes county, and the state of Oregon as a representative member of the civil engineering profession. Since 1913 he has been president and manager of the Bend Warehouse Company and in that association has likewise proved his ability, the business becoming the largest in central Oregon. Like many other prominent men in Oregon he is her son hy adoption, for his birth occurred at Prince Edward Island in 1885, a son of John and Jessie (BignaII) Pringle.
His father, Major John Pringle, is now moderator of the entire Presbyterian church of Canada. He was born in Canada and became a Presbyterian minister. He has held charges in all sections of Canada, from Charlottestown to Port Arthur and into the Yukon country with headquarters at Dawson City. A man of intensely patriotic nature he answered the first call of his country for service in the World war and in 1914 went to France as chaplain of the Sixteenth Canadian Scots, with the rank of captain, and later of major, until the signing of the armistice. Aboard the transport carrying him to France was one of his sons, Jack Pringle, a broad, ponderous, hrawny man, six feet, two inches in his stocking feet. Jack Pringle had been holding down a homestead at Dunvegan, Alberta, and at the first news of war he boarded up the slit windows of the homestead shack, trudged five miles to leave a sorrowing dog in the safekeeping of a friend, and started on his trip of three hundred miles down the northern river, to join the army. He enlisted in the Third Battalion, First Canadian Overseas Contingent on the 28th of August, 1914, at Edmonton. The meeting of father and son aboard the ship, their service to their country and the high regard in which each was held by his brother soldiers is hest illustrated hy the following excerpts reprinted in the Bend Press from "Private Peat" published hy the Bobbs Merrill Com- pany. Copyright 1918:
A. M. PRINGLE AND SON
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"It was not until we got on board the Zeeland and were steaming out of Gaspe Bay that we saw Pringle, the father.
"Taller than the son, stooped a trifle, and a shade of gray showing over the dark hair of the man, we saw him first on deck superintending the announcement of a service to be held on board ship the following day. He was a chaplain, a sky pilot. I knew Jack had a father, a dad of whom he was inordinately but almost marticulately proud and fond; but I had never thought of inquiring as to his profession. Soldiers do not question a comrade.
"I went to the service. Maybe four hundred of the men all told stood to attention as Major John took his place before us. I went because he was Jack's father. I went because Jack did; I went because I had nothing else to do. As a boatload of men we were chary of sermons. We were not real soldiers yet and we did not know.
"I forget if there were any text, but I don't think so-no definite book and verse, I mean. The sermon was a story, a string of stories, the talk of a fighting man to men who would become fighting men in a few weeks' time. The urgency of things did not allow of either a year or months of training.
"Rev. John Pringle told of the trail of .'98. He described to us how he had battled in company with other men against nature on the Yukon Pass. He told of Dawson, he told of mines and gold and fights and deaths and conquerings.
"He had not gone up there himself to seek the gold of nature's hiding; he had gone up for the gold of men's souls. And here he was on the trail again, Major John! The deck would not hold the men who crowded up for the next service. No, sir, we wanted stuff like this. We wanted religion sure enough, but no tracts, nor Bible thumping, nor hell, nor torture, nor marble streets, nor golden harps.
"We got what we wanted, and the dredge of the Master Miner went to work on the siftings of our souls. He was finding gold.
"But Major John rarely spoke himself * Jack wasn't his only son. I thought he was. He has another-another in pattern like Jack. I met 'Nigger' Pringle (he has a proper christened name, of course) in an eastern city, both of us passing through. What is the size of this world after all?
"And then the trial and sorrow of his life came to Major John. It was on the Somme. I'll never forget the story, although I did not see the action. I was knocked out first myself.
"Jack had got slightly wounded and was sent back to base some weeks before, then he was handed his commission and transferred to the Twenty-sixth. We boys hate a transfer, if it's not a straight ticket 'west,' it means a severe and permanent blighty. Superstition, you may think, but surely backed up by happenings.
"Jack left us and then the push came.
"That day there was to be a raid over the top. The bayonets clicked into position, every foot was on the fire step, every eye ahead, every heart eager. The whistle sounded as the barrage lifted, and over they went, Jack leading his men ahead as an officer, even as he had always been foremost as a private.
"But the Boche had a concealed gun and our artillery had missed it. The spatter of machine gun bullets was like April rain on our men's faces. They fell and fell again. They rushed forward, then back. It was no good: no one, not a creeping insect, could have faced the stream of molten metal and escaped. The men at command crawled to cover-all but Jack and the sorely wounded who could not move.
"Jack went ahead-on, on closer and yet closer to the sheet of leaden death. His life seemed charmed. His great height towered as a giant silhouette against the blue of the horizon. He rushed, then rested, rushed and rested. His men yelled to him to come back. He paid no heed. All in the watching trench hung breathless on his every move.
"He disappeared.
"There was the disjointed hum of a machine gun balking-a few bullets scattered wide.
"Silence-but Lieutenant Jack did not come back.
"They found him ten minutes later when the reorganized men charged the German position afresh. He was lying on his face. As they lifted him blood spurted from an ugly gash in the strong, sinewy, brown throat of his.
"Jack Pringle had 'gone west.' He had gained the greatest adventure.
"Before him, overturned, lay the German machine gun. Beside it six Boches were flung, dead as only such a man as Jack could make them-a man intent on saving his own boys at any cost to himself.
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"They recommended him for the Victoria cross for valor, it reads, and then carried his mortal remains back of the line to the maple grove outside the village. He does not lie lonely among strangers. There are hundreds of Canadians and British from the earth's ends to bear his dust company, each in his narrow dugout.
"Major John whispered the prayer over the flag-wrapped body of his son. Boche shells flew to right and left of the funeral company, a Boche plane swooped around and over to drop death bombs on those who still lived in flesh. But it seemed the spirit of Lieutenant Jack hovered near in protection-for none were touched.
"Someone came for Major John before the last sod had gone to place. It was the call of duty to comfort a fallen comrade of his boy.
"The Major went, his own sorrow lessened by the imminent grief of others and the help that he could bring them.
"Those are the men who have been keeping the safety of nations as their own; those are the men who are safe-guarding the honor of women; those are the men who are holding aloft the flag of freedom.
"Major John, we salute you!
"To the soul of your noble son we bare our heads in hallowed memory. H. R. P."
Arthur M. Pringle, whose name initiates this review, received his education in the grade and high schools of St. Paul, Minnesota, and took up the study of civil engineering. Becoming thoroughly familiar with every phase of that line of work he was for nine years active as civil engineer of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway and in 1906 came to Bend in the service of the Oregon Trunk Line, then building through the Deschutes canyon. In 1912, upon completion of the road, he decided to remain in central Oregon and as a result became associated with the Bend Warehouse Company. His connection with the firm proved so valuable an asset that in 1913 he was made president and manager, official positions which he now occupies. Under his able management the business has grown to extensive proportions and is conceded to be the largest in central Oregon. The present warehouse is eighty by three hundred and eighty feet and has maple floors and is located on the tracks of both the Oregon Trunk and the Southern Pacific railways, therefore insuring the best of railroad service. This company sells all the wool crop of central Oregon and is the agent for such concerns as Swift & Company, Allen & Lewis of Portland, Flour Mills Company, Wasco Mill & Warehouse Company, Kerr and Gifford and others. More than six hundred thousand pounds of Oregon wool is handled annually.
In 1912 occurred the marriage of Mr. Pringle to Miss Tot Taggert, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of John W. Taggert, one of Portland's best known and most popular insurance men. One child, John P., has been born to this union, a sturdy little fellow whose bright face peers over his father's shoulder in the accompanying picture. Mrs. Pringle is accounted one of Bend's leading society matrons and her home is a center of intellectual gatherings. She is a prominent member of all of the best clubs.
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