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Mr. Lohse was married in Chicago, in 1866, to Meta Cirjack, and they have three children living. They also lost two by diphtheria in 1890. Those who still survive are Henry. a contractor ; Gretchen L., who is now traveling in Europe : and Frank, who is foreman in his father's brickyard. Mrs. Lohse belongs to the Frauenverein, a ladies' aid society. Mr. Lohse holds member- ship in the Turnverein and in the Ancient Order of United Workmen. In politics he is a Republican, but has never sought or desired office. lle and his family attend the Lutheran church. During the years of his residence in the United States he has never had occasion to regret his determination to seek a home in the new world, for he found that the reports of business oppor- tunities here were not exaggerated, but that good openings lay before men of energy. determination and ambition. He has steadily worked his way up- ward, and in Seattle has established an industry of importance, bringing to him an excellent financial return.
JOHN WOODING.
John Wooding is a retired farmer living in Auburn and since 1877 has made his home in Washington. He was born in Saginaw, Michigan, Feb- rmary 10, 1858, and is a son of John Wooding, Sr., whose birth occurred in Canada in 1818. When a young man his father removed from the domin- ion to Michigan, and was there engaged in the lumber trade at Saginaw, remaining in that business until his death, which occurred in 1873. He was of Welsh-English stock, and his wife, who bore the maiden name of Erma Garland, was of English descent. She was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1837 and is now living in Auburn.
At the usual age John Wooding entered the public schools, and after he had mastered the common English branches of learning further contin- ued his studies in the high school at Toledo, being graduated in that insti- tution. When nineteen years of age he sought a home in the northwest, making his way to Washington, where he secured a claim in the Green river valley comprising one hundred and sixty acres of land. This is located on the river, five miles from the town of Auburn. The tract was a tangle of underbrush and trees, as was all of the surrounding country at that time, but hie cleared it and with characteristic energy began to make it arable. Since that time his attention has largely been given to farming and his agricultural intetrests have brought to him a creditable and desirable financial return. Since 1800 he has rented his farm. For ten or twelve years prior to 1890 he was extensively engaged in hop-growing in King county. He afterward
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devoted his attention to dairying and general farming and these lines of agricultural work also prove quite profitable. Since 1889 he has made his home in the town of Auburn, and for five years after his arrival was engaged in merchandising as a partner of C. P Lacey, Dave Hart, Dr. Hoge and W. H. Hemphill. This business was conducted until 1894, when it was closed out.
In Auburn, in 1878, Mr. Wooding was united in marriage to Lucretia Brannan, who was born at the home of her parents in the White river valley of Washington, a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Brannan, who were among the first settlers of the valley. To our subject and his wife have been born four children, and the family circle yet remains unbroken by the hand of death. Their names are as follows : Guy, Blanche. Grace and Ethel.
For many years Mr. Wooding has been a prominent worker in the ranks of the Republican party and does everything in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of that party. He has served as county commissioner, and in 1894 was elected to represent his district in the state senate and re-elected in 1898. He was nominated for sheriff of King county on the 27th of June, 1902. Socially he is connected with King Solo- mon Lodge, F. & A. M., at Kent, and Chapter No. 3. R. A. M., at Seattle. He is also a member of Valley Lodge. I. O. O. F., and Douglas Lodge, K. P., at Auburn. From the time when he entered upon his business career he has cherished a desire to provide a good home for himself and his family, and he has prospered in his business affairs as the result of this determina- tion. Ilis dealings have been in strict accordance with business principles, and in Auburn and the surrounding district, where he is best known, Mr. Wooding has many friends.
CLARK M. NETTI.ETON.
Clark M. Nettleton is the business manager of the Seattle Bridge Com- pany and director of the Mensing-Muchmore Printing Company, a trustee of the Seattle & Shanghai Investment Company, and a member of the civil service commission of Seattle. These interests indicate something of the extent and scope of his efforts. A man of resourceful business ability, he stands among those whose keen discrimination not only enables them to recognize the opportunity of the present. but also the exigencies and possi- bilities of the future, and his work is proving a substantial and important element in the upbuilding and development of the great northwest, which is fast becoming the center of the world's commercial and industrial life.
Clark M. NetterTon
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Mr. Nettleton was born in Lewis Center, Ohio, September 25, 1868, and is a son of Stiles R. and Amelia ( Mills) Nettleton, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Michigan. The father was identified with Jay Cook & Company in extensive business and railroad interests, and in 1872 he went to the Red river valley of Minnesota as a representative of the land department of that company during the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. He was thus engaged until 1884, and was extensively interested in real estate operations in that section of the country. In the latter ycar he removed to Northfield, Minnesota, where he purchased the Northfield News, which he conducted with success for four years. He then purchased a stock farm in southern Minnesota and took up his abode thereon. In his family were seven children, namely: Elva, the wife of Edgar C. Turner, a resident farmer of Snohomish county; H. S., who is the buyer for the Frederick & Nelson Furniture Company, of Seattle: Clark M., of this review; Alice, who is a professional nurse, of Seattle: Mabel, a teacher in the public school of that place; S. R., Jr., in charge of the rock quarries of the Seattle Bridge Company : and Marie.
Clark M. Nettleton, now well known in Seattle and throughout Wash- ington, was reared under the parental roof, acquiring his preliminary edu- cation in the public schools, while later he pursued a three years' literary course in Carleton College, of Northfield, Minnesota. In 1887 he entered his father's newspaper office, learning the printer's trade, and after his father sold the paper and purchased his stock ranch Clark remained at home on the ranch for two years. He then went to Minneapolis, where he pursued a course of study in a business college. Upon the completion of his business course in Minneapolis he accepted a clerical position with his uncle. A. B. Nettleton, with whom he remained until 1890.
That year witnessed his arrival in Seattle, where he engaged with E. F. Cassell as a stenographer, continuing in his employ for six months, when he accepted a position as private secretary to Mr. L. S. J. Hunt, and acted in that capacity until 1894. He next took a position on the Post Intelligencer and after serving as a reporter for one month was transferred to the tele- graphic department, where he spent about eight months, going from there to the local room. Three months later he was made city editor of the paper and continuously and capably served in that position for three years. He was then offered and accepted a position with C. J. Smith, manager of the Pacific Coast Company, acting as his private secretary in the conduct of his official business. He remained until Mr. Smith left the company in 1889. after which he was retained by his former employer in the position of pri-
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vate secretary in the care of his individual interests mitil November, 1900. At that date Mr. Nettleton resigned in order to assume his present position as part owner and business manager of the Seattle Bridge Company. Mr. Nettleton is yet a young man, having hardly reached the prime of life, yet he has achieved success which many a man of twice his years might well envy. He stands to-day prominent among the builders of the great north- west, energetic, determined and resolute, and his past achievements argue well for a successful future. Mr. Nettleton was married in 1894 to Miss Jennie M. Brophy, the daughter of C. A. Brophy, a manufacturer of Chicago.
GEORGE A. BROOKE.
Whether there is anything in hereditary tendencies or whether ability may be developed in certain lines without ancestral qualifications, is a much discussed question. Mr. Brooke's choice of a vocation may have been in- fluenced by the work of his ancestors, but at all events his labors have been an important factor in the mining interests of the northwest, where he is now acting as manager and engineer for the Issaquah Coal Company in the extensive operation of valuable coal beds. Such a business claimed the attention of both his father and his grandfather. The latter, Samnel Brooke, was one of the original developers of the Pennsylvania coal fields. His son, Lonis P. Brooke, was born in Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1816. and was of English descent. For many years he was extensively engaged in the wholesale drygoods business in Philadelphia, but later be- came largely interested in the ownership of anthracite coal mines in that state. He married Margaret Weaver, who was born in Sunbury. Pennsyl- vania. in 1826, and was of German lineage. Her father, Martin Weaver, was one of the first shippers of anthracite coal over the Reading Railroad. Mr. Brooke died in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, in 1894. and his wife passed away there in 1891.
George A. Brooke was born to the last mentioned parents, at Philadel- phia. Pennsylvania, November 15, 1854. He pursued his education in the public schools and in Lehigh University, at Pottsville, being graduated in the latter institution in the class of 1876. This college was founded by Asa Packer, who was engaged in the operation of coal mines and at his death left a fortune of fifty million dollars. On leaving school Mr. Brooke accepted a position as mining engineer with the Philadelphia & Reading Coal Company, with which he remained for sixteen years as one of its trusted employes, a fact which is indicated by his long continuance in the
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service of the company. In 1892 he came to Washington and for about a year was with the Green River Coal & Coke Company, at Palmer, King county. In 1803 he accepted the position of engineer and superintendent with the Seattle Coal & Iron Company, at their coal mines in Issaquah, and served in that capacity until 1897. In that year he went to the East Kootenai country in British Columbia as superintendent of a group of silver mines owned by an English company. After a year with that corporation lie went to Alaska, where he was engaged in prospecting for a year, and in 1900 he returned to Washington and resumed his former position in the Issaquah coal mines. The name of the company had in the meantime been changed to the Issaquah Coal Company. although the stock is still in possession of those who composed the Seattle Coal & Iron Company. This company built the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad from Seattle to Snoqual- mie and North Bend, and also a branch to Sumas, their franchise in- cluding territory and right of way through Snoqualmie Pass to Spokane, at which place they built a short spur of the road. The name of the road was later changed to the Seattle & International, and sub- sequently the entire railroad franchise was sold to the Northern Pacific. but the company retained all of its coal interests. They own three thous- and acres of valuable coal and timber land and have two mines in operation, one at Issaquah, and the other at Grand Ridge, two miles east. The out- put of the Issaquah mine is a thousand tons daily and of the Grand Ridge mine three hundred tons per day. The Issaquah plant was equipped in 1901 with three-thousand-ton bunkers, washing plant and modern appli- ances for preparing coal for market. The coal is adapted for domestic purposes. The operation of the mines is under the direct supervision of Mr. Brooke, whose college training and practical experience well fit him for the important position he now occupies.
In Pottsville. Pennsylvania, in 1882, Mr. Brooke was united in mar- riage to Miss Gertrude Sheafe Fisher, a member of one of the pioneer fami- lies of New England. Her grandfather, Samuel Fisher, was one of the first developers of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal regions. Her father, Howell Fisher, was a prominent lawyer of Pottsville and died in that city. His wife bore the maiden name of Charlotte Sheafe, and belonged to one of the old and distinguished families of Massachusetss. Two children have been born our subject and his wife: Charlotte Sheafe, named for her grandmother, and George Albert, aged, respectively, eighteen and sixteen years. In his political views Mr. Brooke is a stalwart Republican, being recognized as one of the leaders of the party here, and for a number of years
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he has been a member of the county central committee. His interest in politics arises from a spirit of loyal citizenship, which desires the welfare of county, state and nation, and not from any desires for office. for his business affairs leave him no time for office-holding.
TIMOTHY J. HOWLEY.
Clearly defined purpose and energetic effort in the affairs of life will eventuate in the attaining of a due measure of success, but in following out the career of one who has attained success by his own efforts there comes into view the intrinsic individuality which makes such accomplishment pos- sible. The qualities which have made Timothy J. Howley one of the most prominent and successful business men of Kent have also brought him the esteem of his fellow townsmen, for his career has been one of well directed energy, strong determination and honorable methods.
Mr. Howley was born in Ontario, Canada, on the 15th of October, 1862. a son of Timothy and Susan ( Fitzgerald) Howley, both born in Ire- land in 1822. When a young man the father removed to Ontario, Canada. where he has ever since followed farming near Ottawa. His wife died on the farm there in 1866. Their son Timothy received his early education in the district schools near his boyhood home, and until his twentieth year assisted his father in the work of the farm. In 1882 he went to the lumber districts of Wisconsin, where he was engaged in lumbering at various localities for five years, and in 1889 he came to the White river valley in Washington. For a number of years after his arrival in this state he was engaged in rail- road and timber contracting, and in 1898 he embarked in the real estate and insurance business in Kent. Since that time he has handled a large amount of the real estate which has changed hands in the town of Kent and the sur- rounding country, and at the same time has been an extensive purchaser of different kinds of property. One among the many important missions which he has successfully engineered was the obtaining of the right of way for the Seattle & Tacoma Railway in 1901. this requiring six months of difficult work on the part of Mr. Howley. During the building of this line he received the contract for furnishing all the lumber used in its construc- tion, including ties, bridges, etc. Through his efforts the company was in- duced to make Kent its headquarters and the terminal of the road, thus securing for this city the barns, power house, machine shops and general office of the company. Mr. Howley is widely recognized as a man of unre-
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mitting energy and perseverance, but his business methods have ever been characterized by integrity, and his career is a most commendable one.
He was married at Kent in October, 1893, to Mary Downey, a daugh- ter of Patrick Downey, a pioneer farmer of the White river valley. She was born on her father's farm on the 22d of June, 1873, and by her marriage has become the mother of two children, Timothy Joseph and Mary Eliza- beth. Mr. Howley exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Republican party, and is an active worker in its ranks. For a number of years he was the choice of his fellow citizens for the office of city councilman. His social relations connect him with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Red Men, of Kent, and with the Knights of Pythias at Auburn. He well merits the friendship which is so universally accorded him, and his name is found on the roll of King county's representative citizens.
KEARIN H. MCCABE.
No better illustration of the character, energy and enterprise of the typical son of Erin con be found than that afforded by the career of this well kown farmer of King county. He was born at Roscommon, Ireland, on the 2d of April, 1832, and is a son of Michael and Bridget ( Saunders) Mc- Cabe, both also natives of the Emeraldl isle, the father born in county Fer- managh in 1792. and the mother at Roscommon. Both died at the later place, the mother in 1862 and the father in 1872. He followed the life of an agriculturist, and was prominent in the social and public affairs of his native county, for many years being an officer in the revenue service.
Kearin Henry McCabe received an excellent education during his youth under his father's instruction, and later, spent a year at the Roscommon Academy. At the age of twelve years he went to live with his uncle, Aver McCloskey, with whom he made his home for four years, or until he left the land of his birth for the new world. After his arrival on American soil he took up his abode at Newark, New Jersey, where he learned the molder's trade, and from that city journeyed to Georgia, there remaining for a year and a half. By the isthmus route he then went to California, where for four years he was engaged in trading in cattle, on the expiration of which period. in 1858, he joined the tide of emigration making its way to the Fraser river in British Columbia, where for the following year he devoted his attention to mining and trading. In 1859 he arrived in Washington, first locating in Seattle, and in the same year he became the owner of his.
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present farm, located on the west side of the White river, near Kent. His place comprises one hundred and eighty acres of rich and fertile land, and there for forty years Mr. McCabe has labored earnestly and effectively as a hop-raiser, dairyman and farmer. During that time, in the early sixties, he also made two trips to the mines in Idaho and Oregon. He began the rais- ing of hops about 1882, and from that time until the present has annually devoted about twenty acres to that commodity, while he has also been ex- tensively engaged in dairying and farming. He is a man of keen discrim- ination and sound judgment in business affairs, of energy and perseverance, and the prosperity which has attended his efforts is the merited reward of his own labor. In politics he is an independent Republican, and for two years he ably served his county as a commissioner. He expects to enjoy his declining years in the land of his birth, where he has business interests and many old-time friends.
IRVIN K. WEITZEL.
Back to the old Keystone state must we turn in tracing the lineage of the subject of this review. That section of the country which was the cradle of so much of our national history became the home of his ancestors in early colonial days, and the records extant tell of representatives of the family having been loyal to the nation in the crucial periods when grim-visaged war reared its horrid front, and bespeak the activities of honest and indus- trious men who have also honored their country in the "piping times of peace."
Mr. Weitzel was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on the 29th of March, 1844, and in the same house his father, Jacob Weitzel, was born in 1812. The great-grandfather served as an officer in the Revolutionary war. Jacob Weitzel became a tin and copper-smith, and his death occurred at Lancaster in 1888. His wife also claimed that city as the place of her nativ- ity, her birth occurring in 1810, and in 1889 she was called to her final rest. Both she and her husband were of German descent.
Irvin K. Weitzel enjoyed the educational advantages afforded by the common schools of his native place, and at the breaking out of the Civil war, on the 14th of October, 1861, he offered his services as a loyal defender of the stars and stripes, joining Company F. Ninth Pennsylvania Cavalry, at the first call for three-year troops. He became a member of the Army of the Cumberland, and as such participated in all the engagements and skir- mishes throughout Kentucky and Tennessee, also participating in Sher-
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man's famous march to the sea. Among the most notable battles in which he took part were Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain and Rome, and at the last named engagement, in 1864. he was seriously injured, receiving a bayonet wound below the right knee. His regiment was discharged on the 31st of December, 1863, but on the follow- ing day. January 1. 1864. they re-enlisted at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, and on the 18th of July, 1865. were honorably discharged at Lexington, South Car- olina, for the war had ended and the country no longer needed their services.
Returning to his home with a most excellent military record, Mr. Weit- zel made a short visit to his old Pennsylvania home, after which he went to North Carolina. there purchasing a drove of government mules at. auction. which he brought to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He there disposed of a por- tion of them and with the remainder established himself in the teaming and ice business, which he continued for a year, while for the following year he resided at Nevada, Story county, Iowa. Going thence to Charlevoix conn- ty, Michigan, he was engaged in farming for two years, on the expiration of which period he sold his possessions there and returned to Pittsburg. where he purchased the ice business he had originally established. success- fully conducting that enterprise from 1870 until 1878. In the latter year he purchased a farm in Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, on which he made his home for five years. Disposing of that property, he again returned to Pittsburg. and through the earnest solicitation of his brother George became his partner in a planing mill, but this venture proved unprofitable, and during the year and a half in which he was thus engaged he lost all his earn- ings of former years, amounting to several thousand dollars. During the succeeding two years he found employment in the car shops of the Pennsyl- vania Railroad Company, and in April. 1884, he came to Washington, first locating on Vashon Island, near Tacoma, where he secured a soldier's claim. In the fall of 1886 he came to the White river valley, purchasing the A. B. Young place of eighty acres near Orillia. to which he afterward added an adjoining thirty acres, thus increasing his landed possessions to one hundred and ten acres, where he has made for himself and family a comfortable home. and has devoted his attention to dairying and general farming. He has long held rank among the practical and thrifty agriculturists of his locality, and his farm is one of the valuable ones of the valley.
At Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on the 29th of March. 1867, Mr. Weitzel was united in marriage to Eleanor Deniston, a native of that city, and her death occurred on the farm in Lawrence county. Pennsylvania, in 1881. She became the mother of five children, namely: William, a plumber at
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Seattle: Jennie, the wife of Levi Snow, a farmer on Vashon Island; Re- becca, the wife of Richard Hayden, a surveyor of Seattle; Jessie, the wife of Ailen Clark, engaged in agricultural pursuits on White river; and Irvin, at home. For his second wife Mr. Weitzel chose Jennie Chadwick, and their marriage was celebrated in Westmoreland county, near Pittsburg, Pennsyl- vania, in 1882. She was born in that city on the 18th of October, 1849, and is of English and Irish descent. This union has been blessed with four chil- dren : Harry, a machinist employed at Moran's shipyards in Seattle; Mary, a young lady of fourteen years; Lizzie, who has reached the age of twelve years; and Eddie, who was born in 1892, and died at the age of five months. Mr. Weitzel is an active worker in the ranks of the Republican party, and in 1900, by the county commissioners, he was appointed bridge inspector for the second district of King county, and he has proved a competent official. He maintains pleasant relations with his old army comrades through his membership in John F. Miller Post, Grand Army of the Republic. depart- mient of Washington and Alaska.
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