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Mr. Andrews has been prominent in public affairs and is a strong sup- porter of the principles of the Republican party. He advocated such prin- ciples even before the formation of this old political organization. He has always been active in party work and his services have been recognized in various ways. His first vote for president was cast in behalf of General Winfield Scott, the Whig candidate in 1852. He was elected the first county clerk of Brooklyn township, Hennepin county, Minnesota, after the admis- sion of that state to the Union. After coming to the territory of Washing- ton he was continuouly connected with public affairs and was sent as a dele- gate to the national convention at Philadelphia when General Grant received the nomination for his second term. He also attended the national conven- tion in Cincinnati, in 1876, as a national committeeman, having been ap- pointed to the position in 1872. In 1878, at a constitutional convention at Walla Walla, he represented the county of King, and when the constitution was framed by this body, it was submitted to the people and ratified by a two- thirds vote, but congress did not act upon it and the work had to be gone over again. In 1864 Mr. Andrews received the appointment of clerk of the United States District Court and held the office for ten and one half years, acting under five different judges. In the territorial legislature he served as chief clerk for one term and he has been a member of the city council of Seattle for a number of terms, exercising his official prerogatives in support of every measure for the general good. For two years he was police judge. After
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the formation of the state he was elected to represent his district in the state legislature in 1891-3. In 1898 he was elected to the state senate, represent- ing the twenty-eighth district comprising the sixth and eighth wards of the city. He proved an active working member of the senate, leaving the impress of his individuality upon the legislation enacted during the session of 1899. He secured the passage of an appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars by the state for an exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, New York. He was then appointed by Governor Rodgers one of the members of the state commission and elected by the other members to attend the exhibi- tion and throughout nearly the entire period of the operation of the fair he gave . the state his time and services without charge. He was much interested in the success of the state exhibit, labored earnestly to get it together and in seeing that it was properly shown. He also was able to give general informa- tion to visitors concerning the state and his work was of great benefit to the state. In 1896 he was on the Republican ticket as one of the presidential electors, and although it was the year of the Populist success, he led his ticket by several hundred votes. On the 29th of April, 1902, his name was sent to the senate as that of a nominee for the responsible position of receiver of public moneys in Seattle and on the 8th of May following the appointment was confirmed by the senate. He took charge of the post on the ist of July. In addition to the duties which devolved upon him as receiver in the land office, he is also special disbursing agent of the government, having been nominated to this office by the secretary of the interior. He furnished surety bonds for both positions. Having had large experience in local departments both in Minnesota and Washington, he is specially well fitted to act as receiver of the land office and is thoroughly experienced in the routine of the work.
Of the four children of Mr. Andrews, all are yet living and are mar- ried. William R., is an attorney of southern California; Mrs Eva Pat- terson resides with her husband, near Gilman upon a ranch which was given her by Mr. Andrews. Judge R., a printer by trade, is largely interested in Seattle and is engaged in erecting buildings upon his property on Seventh avenue. Lyman Ralph also has extensive real estate interests in this city.
Such in brief is the life history of Mr. Andrews. He has taken an active part in the business that he has transacted, in the council chambers of his state, and his course has ever been above suspicion. The good of the public he places before partisanship and the welfare of his constituents before personal aggrandizement. He commands the respect of the mem- bers of the legislature, and at home, in the city of his adoption where he is
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best known, he inspires personal friendships of unusual strength and all who know him have the highest admiration for his good qualifications of heart and mind.
FRED A. GASCH.
A man who has served the public long and well and been a highly re- spected citizen during his residence in Seattle is Mr. Fred A. Gasch, now retired from an active business life.
Mr. Gasch comes of a noted German family of musicians. His grand- father and his father, August Gasch, were both well known musicians, though the younger member of the family has not elected to follow in their footsteps. He was born in Hermstedt, dukedom of Brunswick, Germany, February 20th, 1843. He was reared and received his education in Ger- many until the age of eighteen, when he started out to make his own way in the world. He chose America as a future home, and having some rela- tives in San Francisco went directly to that place, where he immediately went to work in a machine shop, which trade he had learned in Germany. He enlisted in the Sixth California Infantry and served from August, 1864, until the close of the war. During this time he was detailed for special work on boats from San Francisco to Panama, guarding mail and treasure.
In 1870 he settled in Seattle, which was then a small village of six or seven hundred people. For a number of years he was employed in dif- ferent mills and shops, until 1875, when he had enough capital to engage in business for himself, in which he continued until 1886. Foreseeing the future of Seattle he made some investments in real estate which have since proved very profitable. He believed in improving his property, and thereby showed his faith in its value. In 1889 he was elected county commissioner on the Republican ticket, which office he held for eight years, two years under territorial and six under state administration. He had previously held the office of city councilman in 1883, and refused to be re-elected. One of the most important things which came under his administration was the building of the county court house, which was started in 1889 and completed in 1901. When it came to deciding the location he was in favor of the best possible location, and used his efforts toward purchasing land where it would be convenient for the general public. His efforts in this direction met with no response, and it was finally built on ground owned by the county. He then turned his attention to conducting the county affairs, which he has always done to the entire satisfaction of every one, and has now retired from office-holding. The next important work which came
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under his supervision was the reorganization of the poor farm. There was but a small building, insufficient to accommodate the patients, and the board set to work to put up a good alms house, which had rooms for one hundred and twenty-three patients with proper accommodations for both sexes. The poor farm had been run at a great expense to the county, as they were buying produce, etc., which should have been made on the place. Mr. Gasch set to work to inculcate some thrifty German principles into the economic methods of the farm, and very soon made a good farm of it, planting an orchard and improving it in many ways. There was some dissatisfaction on the part of tax payers, as every one did not consider such extensive im- provements were necessary. Mr. Gasch invited an inspection of the build- ing and the working methods. A thorough examination was made by men of standing in the building line, and it was pronounced to be in accordance with the plans and specifications, and later the movement was upheld by everyone. He earned the respect of every citizen of the county, and it was with deep regret that he could not be induced to continue in the administra- tion of its affairs. King county owes a great debt to Mr. Gasch.
In 1890 he erected the double building, 608-10 Terry avenue, in half of which he makes his home. He fraternizes with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
In 1869 he was united in marriage to Anna Landgrabe, and to this couple have been born two children : Haibee, wife of Henry Sheabe, of Los Angeles, California; Fred, who has spent the last six years in the Klon- dike.
GEORGE W. WARD.
The life of George W. Ward is closely identified with the history of Seattle, which has been his home for many years. He began his career here when the population of the city did not exceed twelve hundred inhabitants, and throughout the years which have since come and gone he has been closely allied with its interests and upbuilding. His life has been one of untiring activity and has been crowned with a degree of success which numbers him among the substantial residents of his adopted city.
Mr. Ward is a native son of the Empire state, his birth there occurring in Cattaraugus, Cattaraugus county. March 23. 1838, and he is of English and Irish descent, his ancestors having settled in New England prior to the Revolutionary war, in which his paternal grandfather was a participant. The
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latter was born in Massachusetts, as was also his son, C. H. Ward, the father of our subject. The family subsequently removed to Cattaraugus county, New York, where the latter was united in marriage to Miss Mary Hustetter, and in 1854 they removed to Illinois. He was a mechanic, and both he and uis wife were members of the Baptist church. His death occurred in Chi- cago when he had reached his seventy-seventh year, and his wife was called to ber final rest at the comparatively early age of forty-five years. They were the parents of four children, two sons and two daughters, three of whom are residents of Washington. William H. is a resident of Snohomish and Mary R. is the wife of C E. Brown, of Seattle.
George W. Ward received his education principally in the schools of Illinois, and in early life he began business career as an insurance agent. In the Prairie state he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Van Doren, a daughter of C. M. Van Doren, who was descended from an old American family. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ward in the Prairie state, Arthur C. and Susan E., both of Seattle, and the daughter is the wife of Henry D. Temple. With his family Mr. Ward came to Seattle in 1871. locating on a farm sixteen miles south of the city, where they resided for two and a half years, and on the expiration of that period, in order to give their children better educational advantages, they removed to the city. He had learned the carpenter's trade in Illinois, and he then engaged in contracting and building in this city and also in the manufacture of sash and doors, thus continuing for about five years. Since that time he has been engaged in the real-estate, insurance and loan business in company with Mr. Llewellyn. Mr. Ward is a man of splendid business and executive ability, and carries forward to successful completion whatever he undertakes. Through the channels of trade he has greatly promoted the interests of Seattle, and at all times he is alert in his efforts to improve the conditions of all lines of business that the country may thereby become more prosperous and that all people may enjoy more of the comforts of life.
One child has been added to the family circle in Seattle, Mabel V., now the wife of W. M. Olney, of this city. The family are valued members of the Baptist church, in which Mr. Ward has served as dencon for forty years. In political matters he is a Republican and is a zealous advocate of the policy and principles of his party. Since his removal to the Pacific coast he served as a justice of the peace for a number of years. He is emphatically a man of enterprise. indomitable energy and liberal views, and is thoroughly iden- tified in feeling with the growth and prosperity of the county which has so long been his home.
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THOMAS SANDERS.
Thomas Sanders, president of the Bryant Lumber & Shingle Company. owning a mill at Bryant and one at Fremont, has attained to an enviable position in industrial circles and is now the owner of an extensive business which has been built up through the enterprise and ability of the partners. Mr. Sanders is a native of England, his birth having there occurred in 1856. His parents, Jolm and Mary (Clements ) Sanders, were both natives of the same country and in 1870 they emigrated to Petersburg, Canada, bringing with them their eight children, all of whom are yet living in Canada with the exception of the subject of this review. The father was a farmer. He belonged to the Methodist church and the family is one of the highest re- spectability.
Thomas Sanders attended school in England and through observation, experience and reading has constantly broadened his knowledge, keeping well informed on all matters of general interest. In 1875 he went to Sagi- naw, Michigan, where he engaged in lumbering, and in October, 1879, he arrived on the Sound. Here he was first employed for wages and later engaged in contracting. In 1889 he entered into partnership with Mr. Verd, under the firm name of Verd & Sanders, and in 1891 they incorporated the Bryant Lumber & Shingle company. They own the entire stock and in the business they have met with gratifying success. They first established a shingle mill at Bryant and in the new enterprise prospered, their output continually increasing to meet the growing demand of the trade. In 1894 they bought their large plant in Fremont and placed it at once in successful operation, at the same time retaining their mills at Bryant. After their arrival in Fremont they continued to increase their facilities until the mill now has a capacity of one hundred thousand feet of lumber in ten hours. They also have a door and sash factory and do all kinds of work in that line, employing one hundred and ten men in Fremont and one hundred men in Bryant, when running to their full capacity. The plant at the former place is worth seventy-five thousand dollars and at the latter place fifty thousand dollars. They also have a large body of timber land, which will supply their mill for many years. This is worth fifty thousand dollars. The mem- bers of the firm are men of the highest honor in their methods of busi- ness and in that way have gained their splendid success. They have a large local demand for their manufacture and also ship to outside markets.
On the Ist of May. 1883, Mr. Sanders was united in marriage to Miss Mary Woodin, who was born in the city of Seattle, a daughter of Ira
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Woodin, a resident of Woodinville, Washington, which place was named in his honor. He came to the Sound in 1852, soon after the arrival of the Dennys and is one of the honored and valued pioneers of this sec- tion of the country. He married Susan Campbell, who was born in Port- land, Oregon, one of the first white people born in that district. Mr. and Mrs. Sanders have seven children: Guy T .. William, Howard W., Ellen, Allen Mckinley, Ruth and Esther. They have a pleasant home in Seattle and the family attend the Congregational church. Mr. Sanders is a Re- publican in his political affiliations and has served as road supervisor and postmaster, but has never been an active politician in the sense of office seeking. Fraternally he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica. A self-made man in the best sense of the term, he has worked his way steadily upward in the business world. maintaining a reputation for honor and reliability that no man can question.
ERNEST B. HUSSEY.
Ernest Bertrand Hussey has had an eventful career, in which he has visited many sections of the globe, viewing many nations in their own lands and gaining broad knowledge of their ways of living. He has sailed twice around Cape Horn, once around the Cape of Good Hope, has twice crossed the Isthimnus of Panama, four times crossed the United States and has been a resident of every continent, excepting Europe and Australia. In busi- ness, too, he has had a noteworthy career, and has attained to a position of distinction as a civil engineer. His labors in this direction have been of great benefit and value to Seattle and to-day he is accounted one of the prominent men of the city. He is now the general purchasing agent of the White Pass & Yukon route and is also engaged in private enterprises as a civil engineer.
Mr. Hussey was born January 10, 1865, at sea off the coast of south China at the mouth of the Saigon river, on the ship Lyemoon, of which his father, Peter Hussey, was commander. The family is of Scotch-Irish an- cestry, and was founded in Nantucket. Massachusetts, in 1650, William Hussey being the progenitor of the family in America. Benjamin Franklin also came of the same line. Another William Hussey, the grandfather of our subject, married Phoebe Folger, of Nantucket. a member of the family to which the distinguished Judge Folger belonged. Mr. and Mrs. Hussey were members of the Society of Friends or Quakers and he served as one of
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the selectmen of Nantucket. He went to California at an early day and died there at the age of fifty years.
Peter Hussey, the father of our subject, was born in Nantucket and early in life went to sea, where he was rapidly advanced until he became com- mander of a ship and in that capacity he was in the merchant marine ser- vice during the greater part of his life. He married Miss Lavina Doane, a native of West Dennis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, also descended from an old New England family, of English ancestry. When our subject was but two years of age his mother died at sea, while the vessel was on a trip around Cape Horn. Both parents were members of the Episcopal church. Captain Peter Hussey died in Japan during the fall of 1894 at the age of sixty-six years.
Ernest B. Hussey was only three years of age when on a voyage with his father on the barque "Nellie Fogerty" the vessel burned at sea when three hundred miles off the South American coast, but they took to the boats and landed in Pernambuco, Brazil, where they were compelled to re- main for six months before they could get means of returning. At length, however, they reached New York, and the father afterward went to Cali- fornia, taking his son Ernest with him. He had become tired of the sea and they settled on a farm in the San Joaquin valley, but after a year the father again entered the merchant marine service, going to China and then to Japan, continuing in command of a vessel until his death, which oc- curred in 1894.
Ernest B. Hussey returned from California to New Bedford, Massa- chusetts, and there began his school life, crossing the continent by the newly completed Union Pacific Railroad. After a year at school he returned to San Francisco by the way of the Isthmus of Panama and thence went to Japan, joining his father. He attended school for a time in Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, after which he made various extended trips to Corea. Siberia, China, the Philippine islands and India with his father. He was also with him during the campaign of the Satsuma rebellion in Japan. In 1879 he left Yokohama for New York, going by way of the Cape of Good Hope. He then spent four years in acquiring an education in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and later took up the study of civil engineering in Boston, in the office of E. S. Philbrick, the engineer who built the Hoosac tunnel. After this Mr. Hussey entered the employ of Charles A. Putnam, a civil engineer of Salem, Massachusetts, with whom he remained for six years. Here he ad- vanced to the position of chief associate, acquiring wide experience in water works and sewerage construction, and in municipal and railroad work
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throughout New England and also in various extensive harbor improve- ments along the Massachusetts coast.
In the Spring of 1889 Mr. Hussey started for the Pacific coast with Tacoma, Washington, as his objective point, and devoted several months to visiting all of the Puget Sound ports, finally giving his preference to Seattle as the city destined to become the greatest on the Pacific coast. He had just become a resident of this place when the great fire of 1889 swept over the city. In the fall of that year he entered upon the practice of his profession and for five months was engaged on various surveys. including the entire harbor frontage of Seattle and Elliott Bay. He was also engaged in various land surveys throughout the western part of the state, and in the spring of 1890 he opened an office as a civil engineer, con- tinuing until the spring of 1892, at which time he accepted the office of general superintendent of the Union Trunk Line, constructing several of its extensions. He resigned that position in the spring of 1895 to again resume the private practice of his profession, opening his office in the Dexter Horton office building, where he has since remained. In the spring of 1898 the White Pass & Yukon route, with E. C. Hawkins as chief engineer, es- tablished headquarters in Mr. Hussey's office, and he immediately became actively connected with the purchase of supplies and the equipment for the entire system, and has since remained with the company in his present ca- pacity. To him can credit be justly given for being instrumental in the establishment of Seattle as the base of supplies for that Company in the construction of its railroad in the far north, and the locating of their Pacific coast offices here. Mr. Hussey is also engaged in various other enterprises, in all of which it is his design to make Seattle headquarters, thus promot- ing the business prosperity of the city.
Mr. Hussey has taken a very deep interest in Freemasonry. He was made a Master Mason in Star King Lodge, of Salem, Massachusetts, in 1886, and was senior deacon of his lodge at the time of his removal from Salem. He attained to the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite in Massachusetts Consistory of Boston, in 1887, and has held office in all of the branches of the order. He affiliated with the Scottish Rite branches in Seattle in 1894 and was elected to the thirty-third degree in the fall of 1897, but could not take the degree until he was thirty-three years of age, so that it was conferred upon him in 1898. He was one of the youngest Masons that has ever received this degree, it being conferred upon him by special dispensation of the supreme council. He received the decoration of the Grand Cross at the hands of the Supreme Council in 1895, there
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being only three elected every two years. He is head of the order in this section and is deputy inspector general of the state of Washington and territory of Alaska. In politics Mr. Hussey has been a life-long Democrat, but is not an office-seeker or office-holder.
In December, 1890, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Hussey and Miss Carrie Louise Brokaw, a native of Romulus, New York. She is of English and French Huguenot stock, and by her marriage she has become the mother of three sons: Bertrand Brokaw. Kenneth Peter and Wilfred Ernest. Mrs. Hussey is a valued member of St. Mark's Episcopal church. and is also a member of the Society of Daughters of the American Revolu- tion. Mr. Hussey received Episcopalian baptism in Japan and with his family attends that church. His record in all his undertakings is one of high honor and of successful accomplishment. He has become widely known as a reliable business man.
JOHN P. HOWE.
Probably no name is more widely known in connection with the the- atrical business of the Pacific coast than that of John P. Howe, for through thirty-one years it has appeared upon the programs of different theaters of which he has served as manager. Mr. Howe was born in Wayne county, Ohio, on the 22d of August, 1849, and is of English ancestry. The family was founded in America during the colonial epoch in its history and repre- sentatives of the name loyally aided in the long war which brought independ- ence to the nation. His grandfather. Samuel Howe, was born in Virginia. possessed splendid musical talent and was a very prominent and successful teacher of music. In 1818 he left the south, removing to Ohio. He was a cousin of General Robert E. Lee, and he attained the age of seventy years, while his wife lived to be about the same age. Their son, John Hiram Howe, the father of our subject, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, in 1826, and was for many years a prominent dry-goods merchant, his careful conduct of his business bringing to him splendid success. He married Miss Matilda Shel- ing. of Pennsylvania, who was of German lineage, her ancestors having been early settlers of Pennsylvania. Both Mr. and Mrs. Howe were members of the Presbyterian church and shaped their lives by its teaching. His death occurred when he was fifty-two years of age. while his wife, long surviving him, reached the advanced age of seventy-two years. They were the parents of three children: R. N., a resident of Portland, Oregon; Noble P. and John P.
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