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he was made postmaster of the little town, but in 1889 he disposed of his interests in the east and came to Seattle.
Since that time Mr. Lilly has been closely associated with the interests of this city and his labors have placed him in the front ranks of business circles. From March until November he was engaged in street contracting and in hauling building materials. Mr. Bogardus, his former partner, had gone to California after selling his property in Illinois, but came from the Golden state to visit Mr. Lilly in Seattle. They looked the city over together, agreed that its possibilities were good, its future promising, and then formed a partnership, which has since been maintained. They first did teaming, and in 1889 established their present business in a small store with a paid-up capital of three thousand dollars. They gave their business the closest at- tention and it grew rapidly so that they were soon obliged to secure additional buildings in order to increase their warehouse room, until they had the largest grain and feed business of the northwest. In 1894 the firm was in- corporated, each member still owning a half interest. At the same time they opened a branch house at Whatcom and the business was incorporated under the name of Lilly, Bogardus & Bacon, continuing under that style for four years. At the end of that time the branch at Whatcom was discontinued, the partners deeming it best to concentrate their efforts at Seattle. In 1897, owing to the discovery of gold in the Klondike, the business received a fresh im- petus and increased still more rapidly, and in 1900 Judd M. Elliott, who had formerly been in the employ of the firm and had gone to Alaska, where lie had been very successful in his search for gold, returned to Seattle and pur- chased one half of Mr. Bogardus' interest-the style of Lilly, Bogardus & Company, incorporated, being then assumed. Their efforts have not been confined alone to dealing in cereals, seeds, etc., for they are also the pro- prietors of the new North Coast Flouring Mills, of Seattle, and they have the largest and best arranged storehouses and warehouses and mill, all under one roof, to be found in the west. The dock which adjoins the large ware- house is one hundred and five by four hundred and sixty feet, and the wharf building is eighty by four hundred and sixty feet, and the largest building under a single roof in the city. The main brick edifice, which has been erected especially for their business, is one hundred and twenty-five by two hundred and six feet, is three stories in height and is supplied with all modern appli- ances and apparatus to accommodate and expedite business. Their new roller process flouring mill has a capacity of three hundred and fifty barrels per day and can be increased to five hundred barrels. The company are also agents for thirteen steamers called the Mosquito Fleet of Puget sound.
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Thus the efforts of the firm have been extended into broader fields of labor. The partners are all men of good business ability and carry forward to suc- cessful completion whatever they undertake.
In 1885 Mr. Lilly was happily married to Julia Putnam. of Champaign, Illinois, and their union has been blessed with four children, as follows: Henry Wilmot, Farwell Platt, Phebe E. and Marion F. The parents are members of the Presbyterian church and Mr. Lilly is a Knight Templar Mason and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Modern Woodmen Camp, the National Union, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants' Association. He has attained a distinguished position in connection with the great industrial and commercial interests of the state and his efforts have been so discerningly directed along well defined lines that he seems to have realized at any one point of progress the full meas- ure of his possibilities for accomplishment at that point. A man of distinct and forceful individuality, of broad mentality and mature judgment, he has left and is leaving his impress upon the business world of Seattle and his enterprises add not alone to his individual prosperity, but also advance the general welfare and upbuilding of the city in which he makes his home.
ALBERT S. KERRY.
The prosperity of any community depends upon its business activity, and the enterprise manifest in commercial circles is the foundation upon which is builded the material welfare of town, state and nation. The most im- portant factors in public life at the present day are therefore the men who are in control of successful business interests and such a one is Albert S. Kerry, the well-known president of the Kerry Mill Company of Seattle and one of the most prominent and successful business men of that city.
. Mr. Kerry was born in Kingston, Canada, on the 15th of April, 1865. and is a worthy representative of a good old English family that for many years has been engaged in the milling business. His father. Aaron Kerry. emigrated from England to Canada in 1846, but for the past thirty-three years has made his home in Port Huron, Michigan. Throughout his active business life he was a carriage manufacturer, but now, at the age of sev- venty-four years, is living retired. He is held in the highest esteem by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, who appreciate his sterling worth. In politics he is a Democrat, and in religious faith is a Methodist. When a young man he was united in marriage to Miss Matilda Wilson, who was born in the city of Toronto, Canada, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and was the
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daughter of George D. Wilson. She departed this life in 1873. Of her eleven children nine are still living, and four of that number make their home in Washington, these being J. W., Almond, Arthur and Albert S.
In the public schools of Michigan Albert S. Kerry acquired a good prac- tical education during his boyhood and youth, and since attaining his ma- jority has devoted his entire time and attention to the lumber business. In 1886 he came to Seattle, Washington, and found employment in the sawmill of the Oregon Improvement Company as tallyman, and from 1887 until 1894 had charge of their large sawmill. Mr. Kerry embarked in his pres- ent business in 1895, and two years later the Kerry Mill Company was in- corporated with him as president, in which official capacity he has since served. They have met with some misfortunes, their mill property being burned in 1897, at a loss of sixty-five thousand dollars, and although they at once rebuilt fire again destroyed their mill in July, 1901, this time their loss amounting to fifty-two thousand dollars, but they carried thirty-nine thousand dollars worth of insurance. Notwithstanding these disastrous events the company has steadily prospered and now has assets and timber lands amounting to two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. At the present writing they are building a larger and better mill in every respect. Much of the success of the enterprise is due to Mr. Kerry, who is a wide-awake, energetic and reliable business man, who is not discouraged by adversity and is very progressive.
In 1889 he was happily united in marriage with Miss Mary Monroe, who was born in Saginaw, Michigan, and this union was blessed by a charm- ing little daughter, but at the birth of her baby Mrs. Kerry died, leaving a loving husband and many friends to mourn her loss, for she was a lady of many admirable qualities and was very popular socially.
In his political views Mr. Kerry is a stalwart Republican. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, having taken all of the Scottish rite degrees up to and including the thirty-second. A man of keen perception, of unbounded enterprise, his success in life is due entirely to his own efforts, and he deserves prominent mention among the leading and representative business men of his adopted city.
CHARLES G. AUSTIN.
Well known as an attorney of Seattle and ex-police justice of the city, Judge Austin has been prominently connected with the substantial improve- inent and upbuilding of the northwest along many lines that have contrib-
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uted to the general good. He was one of the pioneers in the grain trade of this section of the country, but is now giving his attention almost exclu- sively to the demands of a constantly increasing law practice. A native of Ohio, he was born in Avon, Lorraine county, on the 18th of March, 1846, And is of English and German descent. Ilis great-grandfather, Lewis _Aus- tin, when a young man emigrated from England and settled in the state of New York, becoming one of the early residents of Auburn. His son, Lewis Austin, the grandfather of our subject, was born in that city and was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, who fought for American independence. He afterward became an early settler of Avon, Ohio, where Jerome A. Austin, the father of the Judge was born, being the youngest of a family of eleven children. The grandfather and his family formed a part of the Black River colony that settled in Ohio about fifteen miles from Cleveland, first reclaiming the wild tract for the use of the white man.
.After arriving at years of maturity Jerome A. Austin was married to Miss Electa Teachout, a native of Germany, who was brought by her parents to the new world when but two years old, the family joining the Black River colony. The father was a minister of the Lutheran church and was sent as a missionary to the colony and became one of the pioneer preachers of that faith in Ohio. Unto the parents of Judge Austin were born six chil- dren. The father died on the 21st of May, 1898, at the age of eighty-two years, while his wife departed this life in her sixty-seventh year. One of the daugliters is Mrs. E. A. Dodge, of Seattle, while Mrs. Alec M. Smith, another dangliter, resides in Springer, Washington. Arthur .A. is in Monte- video, Minnesota, and Mrs. Ada George is also living in that state.
Judge Austin was educated in the public schools of Ohio and Wiscon- sin, but in answer to President Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the spirit of rebellion in the south that threatened the destruction of the Union, he put aside his books, and in September, 1864. although only eight- cen years of age, enlisted in Company G. First Minnesota Heavy Artillery. With his regiment he participated in the battles of Nashville, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, and was afterward in the infantry service. Following the engagement at Dalton he was detailed to thie ord- nance department of the Army of the Tennessee as clerk and served in that capacity until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged at Nashville and was paid off at St. Paul, Minnesota. After his return home Judge .Austin worked in a grain elevator and also took up the study of law under the direction of his uncle, William Teachout, being admitted to the bar in 1860. He had learned the milling business with his father, who was a
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till owner, and was in the grain and milling business in Minnesota until 1877, which was the year of Judge Austin's arrival in Washington. He first lo- cated in Walla Walla, where he was engaged in the grain trade for a short time and then removed to Almota, on Snake river, when he entered the flour and milling business. Subsequently he removed to Colfax and had charge of the collections of the Frank Brothers Implement Company for all the district east of the mountains. This brought him continually into the courts in the trial of cases in which the company was involved. In 1883 he removed to Pomeroy, Garfield county, where he was engaged in the grain business and also served as clerk of the courts for the first judicial district, filling that position until Grover Cleveland became president of the United States. He continued in the grain trade at that place umtil 1889, during which time hie built up a very extensive business, having thirteen warehouses on the line of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company, and handling most of the grain raised in that part of the country. He has the honor of being the first wheat buyer in the county.
In the fall of 1889 Mr. Austin was elected a member of the first state senate of Washington, representing Garfield, Columbia and Asotin conn- ties. He was a member through two sessions and was chairman of the im- portant committee on tide lands. In 1890 Judge Austin came to Seattle and organized the Seattle & Terminal Railway Company and built the elevator in West Seattle, of which he was the manager. He shipped the first cargo of grain from Seattle, sending it on the Mary L. Burrell. This brought the railroad to terms and gave to the city equal opportunities with Tacoma in the export business. Mr. Austin continued in the grain business until 1896 and was the owner of a mill in Moscow. He thus became a promi- nent factor in the commercial interests of the northwest and contributed largely to the commercial prosperity upon which the growth and improve- ment of any sections largely depends. In the latter year, however, he was again called to public office, being nominated and elected police judge of Seattle. He served for a term of two years and was also justice for a year and a half, capably discharging his duties, his impartiality and knowl- edge of the law rendering him an efficient officer. In January. 1901, he opened his law practice in partnership with F. M. Jeffrey and is now prac- ticing, his clientage increasing constantly. His first presidential vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln.
Judge Austin was married on the 25th of December, 1873, to Miss Emma L. Grow, a native of East Randolph. Vermont, and a daughter of Mason B. Grow, who was descended from an old family of the Green Moun-
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iain state, prominent in its affairs. They now have four children: Ward C., Jennie L., the wife of V. J. Hahn, Herbert \. and Jay C. The family have a pleasant home at No. 1323 Third avenue, west, and are members of the Episcopalian church, of which Judge Austin is serving as a vestry- man, while his wife also takes an active and helpful interest in church work. Socially the Judge is a Mason, having become a member of the fraternity in Minnesota, and is a past master. He received the Royal .Arch degree in Pomeroy Chapter, No. 10, R. A. M., and became a Sir Knight in Seattle Commandery, No. 2, K. T. He is also a member of Alfifi Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in Tacoma. His life history is in some respects not unlike that of many other citizens of this land, where opportunity is not hampered by caste or class. Quick to note and utilize an opportunity, earnest and dis- criminating in carrying out his plans, he has succeeded in the lines of work to which he has directed his energies and in the practice of law is also win- ning distinction.
HERMAN B. BAGLEY, M. D.
Dr. Herman Beardsly Bagley, now deceased, was one of the firs homeopathic physicians and surgeons in the western part of the territory of Washington-having come to this section of the country long before the admission of the state into the Union. He was a graduate of the homeo- pathic college of Cleveland, Ohio, and of the Bellevue Hospital of New York and was elected professor of the principles and practices of surgery in the Michigan Medical College at Lansing, Michigan. He and his father, who was also an eminent member of the medical fraternity, were instrumental in continuing the great struggle to obtain a chair of homeopathy in the Michi- gan State University at Ann Arbor and it was largely through their efforts that this desired result was at last obtained. Well equipped for the import- ant life work which he chose Dr. Bagley came to the northwest, a gradu- ate of both schools of medicine, thoroughly understood the great laws gov- erning the science and made a record as an eminent physician.
The Doctor was born at Auburn, New York, on the 12th of March, :845, and was of English and Dutch ancestry. His grandfather, Herman Van Valkenberg, was descended from one of the noted Dutch families that first settled in New York, and was in his honor that Dr. Bagley was given his first name, Herman. The Doctor's father, Dr. Alvin Bagley, was born in the Catskill mountains of New York and was a member of the same family to which Governor Bagley of Michigan belonged. He became well known
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as a medical practitioner in New York, Ohio and Michigan, and in the year 1872 arrived in Seattle, where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1885, when he was eighty-four years of age. His wife bore the maiden name of Jane Van Valkenberg.
When Dr. Herman Beardsley Bagley was only five years of age the family removed to Marshall, Michigan, where he was reared to manhood. He began his medical studies under the direction and guidance of his father and was graduated in the Homeopathic Medical College of Cleveland, Ohio, with the class of 1868. The following year he took a post-graduate course in the Bellevue Hospital of New York and in 1872 was elected to the pro- fessorship of the principles and practices of surgery in the Michigan Med- ical College at Lansing, which position he acceptably filled until 1874. In that year he resigned because of ill health and desire to join his father at Seattle.
Soon after his arrival Dr. Bagley became sufficiently well to resume the practice of his profession and almost immediately took high rank as a member of the medical fraternity and during the remainder of his active life he stood at the head of his school of medicine in what was then the territory and later the state of Washington. In 1889 he was elected president of the King County Homeopathic Medical Society and in 1890 was chosen president of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the state of Washington. In May, 1890, he was appointed a member of the state board of medical examiners and throughout his career here he was regarded by the profession and the public as one of the most eminent representatives of the homeopathic school in the northwest. In addition to his high attainments as a physician and surgeon the Doctor also possessed marked business ability and good judg- ment, so that he was very successful in his real-estate investments in the growing city, being one of the city's most active promoters. He was pos- sessed of generous and liberal impulses and was a ready contributor to every public enterprise that had for its object the improvement and advance- ment of the best interests of this place. He was the friend and was in touch with the best and most prominent men in Seattle-the men who shaped her destiny. He was associated with D. T. Denny, George Kinnear and E. M. Smithers in organizing an enterprise for connecting Lake Wash- ington with Lake Union by a canal and for some time he was the presi- dent of the Seattle Improvement Company. In 1888 when the Washington National Bank was organized he was made one of its directors and at one time he was also a member of the city council. His influence was felt in many important public movements that contributed to the substantial de- velopment and progress here. 4
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In politics the Doctor was an ardent Republican, a lover of liberty and a despiser of oppression of any form. While in Ohio, before the great Civil war, his father's home was one of the stations on the famous under- ground railroad, whereby many a negro was befriended and aided as he was making his way to Canada, where he might obtain freedom from bond- age. In the practice of his profession Dr. Bagley showed forth his real nature, for he was exceedingly kind and devoted to the poor and needy and by his many acts of helpfulness and kindness he endeared himself to both rich and poor, and thus as citizen and professional man he enjoyed the con- fidence and esteem of all with whom he came in contact.
In the year 1864 the Doctor was happily married to Miss Catherine Minerva Sweet, a native of Battle Creek, Michigan, and a daughter of Daniel Sweet of that city, who was of English ancestry and belonged to an old New York family. In addition to his other investments the Doctor had become the owner of a fine farm of over six hundred acres of rich land at Renton, and there on an eminence overlooking the town of Renton and the Black River Valley he built a beautiful residence and there he and his wife lived very happily, surrounded by beautiful scenery and enjoying all the comforts that go to make life worth the living; but death entered this peaceful home, the Doctor being suddenly called to his final rest on the 8th of February, 1889. His loss was a sad bereavement to his devoted wife and to the whole community. Mrs. Bagley had entered heartily and with deep sympathy into all her husband's plans and had been a valued help- meet to him. Both were Episcopalians in religious faith, holding member- ship in the Trinity church of Seattle. Such had been the Doctor's suc- cess in business that he left his wife in possession of a very good fortune, but in 1892 a disastrous fire burned the beautiful residence to the ground.
Mrs. Bagley in 1901 gave her hand in marriage to her present husband, Colonel Mitchell Glenn, a native of Newark, New Jersey, and a veteran of the Civil war, having volunteered on the 17th of April, 1861, as a mem- ber of Company I, Eighth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, with which com- mand he served until the close of the war. He and one of his brothers were in the Union army and they had three brothers in the Confederate army. By an act of great bravery Colonel Glenn recaptured the flag of his regiment, but in so doing sustained a very severe wound in his hand, the scar of which he still carries, and for this and other acts of valor he was from time to time promoted until he rose from the ranks to become the colonel of his regiment. Ilis war record is a brilliant one, but like many of the truly brave men who fought for the Union, he is very reticent concerning his army
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life and his achievements during the period of his military service. After the war he became engaged in the manufacture of engines and boilers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he continued until his removal to the Pacific coast. He has always been a stanch believer in the principles of Democracy and while a resident of Minneapolis he held various offices of honor and trust. He came within one hundred and thirty-seven votes of being elected mayor of the city on the Democratic ticket, although it is well known that Minneapolis is a Republican stronghold.
Colonel Glenn and his wife have just completed the erection of a splen- did home on the site of the one destroyed by fire, and in planning this have exhibited much taste, both in the exterior adornment and interior finish. It is one of the most delightful homes in the whole northwest country, not only because of the introduction of a cultured and refined taste, but also on account of the generous hospitality which is ever extended to their many friends.
JOHN TAYLOR.
John Taylor, an honored veteran of the Civil war, who is now so effi- ciently serving as a member of the city council of Seattle, Washington, was born in Adams county, Ohio, on the 22nd of August, 1836. His ancestors came to America from England at an early day in the development of this country and settled in Virginia, and his great-grandfather Taylor was one of the men who fought so bravely for the freedom of the colonies in the Revolutionary war. Jesse Taylor, our subject's grandfather, was born in Frederick county, Virginia, and in pioneer days removed to Adams county, Ohio, becoming one of the prominent and wealthy farmers of that locality. He died at the age of seventy-four years, leaving to each of his three chil- dren five hundred acres of land.
His son, James W. Taylor, the father of our subject, was also a native of Frederick county, Virginia, born in 1815, and at an early day accom- panied his father's family on their removal to Adams county, Ohio, where he grew to manhood. There he was united in marriage with Miss Cather- ine Laney, who was from his native county, her father having also removed to Ohio with his family at an early day. Throughout his active life James WV. Taylor followed farming, and died at the age of seventy-two years. His wife had passed away in middle life. Both were devout Christians, hold- ing membership in the Methodist church, and assisted in building the Eben- ezer Methodist church near their old home in Ohio. In the family of this worthy couple were five children, three of whom are still living.
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John Taylor, oldest of the surviving members of the family, was reared in his native county, educated in its public schools and engaged in stock- farming until after the Civil war broke out. Prompted by a spirit of patriot- ism, he enlisted on the 24th of October, 1861, as a private of Company H, Seventieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but was afterward pro- moted to the rank of second lieutenant. During the hard fought battle of Shiloh he received a gunshot wound, which took from him his good right arm. Being unfitted for further service he was then honorably discharged on the Ist of November, 1862, after having served his country faithfully and well for over a year.
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