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Joseph L. Jenott had but limited educational privileges in the public schools of his native country. but through observation and experience he has added largely to his knowledge and is now a well-informed, if self-educated, man. At the age of seventeen years he left Canada and went to Michigan, where he was connected with the logging interests of that state, spending
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about eight years in that way in Michigan and Wisconsin. In 1888 he came to Washington, having read of the country, its advantages and opportuni- ties. Believing that it would be a good field of labor he and his brother made their way to the coast and took up their abode in Seattle and engaged in chopping wood on Queen Anne Hill, now one of the most beautiful residence districts of the city, but then all covered with timber. As the man for whom he was working could not pay him. Mr. Jenott purchased a team and hauled the wood off for himself, and so gained a very comfortable financial return for his labor. as prices were very high at that time on account of the extra demand for lumber caused by the great fire which had occurred in Seattle in June. 1889.
Mr. Jenott started in business at Ballard, but there he suffered losses by fire on two different occasions in the same month, and as he had no insur- ance he was thus badly crippled financially. In 1894 he felt a desire to go to Alaska, and in the following spring sold his interests in Seattle, locating his family in that city, and in 1895 took passage on a boat for Alaska. At Junean he purchased thirty dollars' worth of provisions, thence proceeded to Dyea and from there walked over the summit. It required forty-five days to make the trip from Seattle to Forty Mile, and when he arrived there he had only seventy-five cents remaining. He then went on a prospecting tour in that locality and also at Sixty Mile creek. He made some little money in helping a couple in transporting their goods, and in the fall he went to work cutting wood in order to get money needed to buy provisions. The following spring a stampede started on American creek, and his partner wanted to go there, but as Mr. Jenott had to get something which would bring him in an income sufficient to keep his family. he and his partner there separated. In the fall Mr. Jenott went to what is now Dawson, and staked a claim which he afterward soll for one hundred dollars. In the fall of that year. 1806. he returned to Seattle and spent the winter with his family, but in the spring of 1897 again went to Alaska, proceeding to Dawson, where the town was just being established. He took a claim on Twenty-one. above Bonanza, and this proved a profitable move. as he cleared up a good stake on it. In the summer of 1898 Mr. Jenott returned to Seattle, but in 1899 again went to Alaska, and made two trips that year. getting machinery to a claim on Dominion. This was placed in working order in 1900, and Mr. Jenott then made a trip to Paris. In 1001 he returned to Dominion and disposed of his property there, again coming to Seattle in June of that year. Here he has since made his home.
On the 2d of October. 1800. was celebrated the marriage of Joseph L.
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Jenott and Miss Mary Sherman, a daughter of Chris Sherman of this city. They have two daughters, Winnie and Lena. In the fall of 1898 Mr. Jenott built his pleasant home at 2520 Fifth avenue, designing all of the work him- self. He has also erected two other houses here, including one for his father, built in 1901. He has invested in other city property in Seattle, and owns a good business block which brings him in a very desirable rental. Mr. Jenott is a plain, unassuming man, but possesses strong worth of character and has gained many friends. He is numbered among the honored citizens, and his earnest efforts have contributed to the improvement of Alaska and to the work of opening up that district to the uses of the white man.
WV. C. WEEKS.
Though living upon the Pacific coast. Mr. Weeks was born on the Atlantie slope, and at one time was a resident of Florida, so that the places of his activity are widely scattered. His birth occurred in Laneaster, New Hampshire, February 25, 1863, his parents being William D. and Helen (Fowler) Weeks. His father, also a native of Lancaster, was born Feb- ruary 28. 1818, while the mother was born in Woodstock, Connecticut. Both were of English descent and lived for many years in happy wedded life at Lancaster, but were separated in death in 1884, when Mr. Weeks was called to his final rest. His wife survived him and died in 1897.
W. C. Weeks obtained his early education in the public schools of his native city and later studied in the academy there. His youth was passed upon the home farm, and he assisted in its cultivation until twenty-one years of age, when he left home and in 1886 took up his abode in Orlando, Florida, where he was engaged in the dairy business for about two years. In 1889 he came to Washington, loeating at North Bend, King county, and for two years occupied a position as salesman in the store of Gusten & Tibbetts, who then made an assignment. Mr. Weeks later purchased the store from the assignee and conducted the business from 1892 until 1897. securing a good patronage and meeting with fair success. . At the same time ne operated a shingle mill and conducted a hotel. For the past three years he has been contracting and logging, owning large tracts of timber land in the vicinity of North Bend and shipping the log's to points on the sea coast. He has built up a good business in this line and is thus connected with one of the most important industries of the northwest. He is a Republican in his political views, but has no time nor inelination for public office, preferr- ing to give his attention to his well managed business affairs, which are bring- ing to him excellent returns.
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ยท WILLIAM R. BRAWLEY.
William R. Brawley, one of the leading business men of the city, has made his home in Seattle since 1879, actively interested in all measures advanced for the good of the people. and has performed his full share in the development and improvement of the city. He was born in Meadville, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, on the 20th of February, 1840, and is of Scotch. German and Irish descent. his ancestors having been among the first to locate in the United States. His grandfather, James Brawley, was a native of Eastport, Pennslyvania, but later became a prominent settler of Crawford county, that state, and William R. Brawley, the father of our sub- ject, was the first white child born in that county. James Brawley was a farmer and lumberman by occupation. In his family were eleven children, and he attained to the good old age of eighty-three years, leaving behind him at his death a record for honorable and upright dealing.
William R. Brawley, the father of our subject, married Miss Jane Stewart, of Erie county, Pennsylvania, and her ancestors were from the north of Ireland, and were also among the early settlers of this country. Mr. Brawley followed the tilling of the soil as a life occupation, and in addi- tion he also owned and operated a flouring mill. Both he and his wife were valued and active members of the Methodist church, and for many years he served as superintendent of the Sunday-school. For the long period of forty years he was also a justice of the peace. His death occurred when he had reached his seventy-fourth year, but his wife long survived him, pass- ing away at the age of ninety-three years and three months. To this worthy couple were born five children.
William R. Brawley, the subject of this review, was reared and received his education in the place of his nativity. He had just attained to mature years when the great oil discoveries in Pennsylvania were made, the famous Drake well, the first one to be successfully operated, being located within twenty miles of his home, and he and his three brothers at once began work in the oil fields. Purchasing the necessary tools, they began constructing wells by contract, but soon they were able to lease land and construct wells on their own account, at one time owning as high as twenty-five wells and leasing twelve thousand acres of land. Their principal well, known as the Troutman, produced a flow of eight hundred and fifty barrels of oil a day. In 1879, however, Mr. Brawley and his brother D. C. became convinced of the many advantages to be secured in Seattle, and accordingly the former came to this city to make investments, while the brother remained in the east
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and continued to look after their interests there. After a residence here of ten years the great fire occurred, and like many others Mr. Brawley met with heavy losses, but with characteristic energy he at once began the work of retrieving his lost possessions, and is now the owner of much city property and one of the leading business men of the city. He has been especially in- terested in the purchase and improvement of farming lands, and is also one of the owners of the Bell & Crown copper and gold mine, also of the Copper Whale mine, near Index, both valuable properties. In 1883 his brother, DeWitt Clinton Brawley, joined him in Seattle, and together they continued operations in this city until they were separated by the hand of death, the brother passing away on the 14th of March. 1900. He was a member of the Baptist church, and his loss was deeply mourned in this community, but his memory is enshrined in the hearts of scores of his old friends and associates, to whose interests he was ever faithful.
In 1882 was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Brawley and Miss Ger- trude Parkhurst. She, too, is a native of Pennsylvania, and is a daughter of Henry Saxton Parkhurst, a descendent of an old Swiss family who were early settlers of Vermont. Her great-grandfather. Elim Parkhurst, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and her father fought throughout the period of the Civil war, during which time he was twice taken prisoner, but each time made his escape. At the close of the war he entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, continuing until his death in 1875. at which time his wife and family came to Seattle, where they have since resided. To Mr. and Mrs. Brawley have been born four children, all natives of Seattle, and the two now living are W. Parkhurst and Edith. The fami- ly are prominent members of the Methodist chruch. In 1888 Mr. Brawley erected a beautiful and commodious residence at 302 Ninth avenue, where his family and also his brother's widow and children now reside, and all are held in high regard by many friends and acquaintances.
J. H. PAYNE.
Daniel Payne, the father of the subject of this brief biography. was a native of Ohio, born there on April 9, 1822, and after reaching manhood followed farming in the states of Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. Dur- ing the Civil war he followed the flag of the Union and died at Springfieldl. Illinois, in February, 1863. His wife, Sarah J. Wheeler, was born in Kentucky December 27. 1828, and died at Nenia, Ohio, in February, 1896. Their son James H. was born on a farm in Whitley county, Indiana, on
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the 12th day of September, 1849; he worked on his father's farm in the sum- mer and learned the lessons of the district schools in the winter in Porter and Laporte counties, Indiana, and in his eighteenth year left home to farm on his own account, continuing till 1876. In March, 1877, he went to Sher- man, Texas, where for four years he engaged in the different pursuits of stock-raising, contracting, butchering and farming. In June 1881, he moved to Bureau county, Illinois, where he engaged in agriculture for eight years, and in March, 1889. arrived in King county, Washington. He took up a homestead on the Snoqualmie river five miles from Fall City; he spent much time and labor in clearing and improving this land and in 1895 traded it for town lots and farm property at Fall City, where he now resides and devotes his attention to farming and stock-raising.
Mr. Payne has always taken an active interest in the affairs of the Republican party, and is chairman of the Republican precinct committee, has served as constable for several years and is usually a delegate to the nominating conventions of his party. Mr. Payne's marriage was celebrated at Princeton. Illinois, on January 5, 1873, when he became the husband of Hester A. Morton, who was born in Henry county, Illinois, in 1853, her mother being a native of Canada, and her father of Ohio. They are the parents of six children: Fred Morton, Franklin L., Elmer E., Elsie E., David and James Clayton. Mr. Payne is a man of much ability, of straight- forward, honest purposes, and seeks to advance the best intersts of city and county.
CARL KLEINSCHMIDT.
Nowhere are men so thoroughly grounded in the principles of education and in science generally as in the great German empire; and the educated German is the synonym of the well rounded, broad cultured man, who may be depended upon to execute affairs of great importance and requiring pow- ers of mind and persistence. One of such men and one who has accom- plished the saving of large sums of money to the shipping interests of the world by his inventions and study, is Carl Kleinschmidt, the general man- ager and treasurer of the Atlantic and Pacific Pile and Timber Preserving Company, whose offices are located at 429-430-431 Burke building at Seattle, Washington, and the laboratories and works including the boring machines are on the tide flats.
Mr. Kleinschmidt was born and reared in Prussia, received a liberal education and then went to the famous mining school at Clausthal, where
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he studied under his uncles, Professor Bode and William Kleinschmidt, and completed a thorough course in mining, mastering all the technicalities and the practical work of mining, including the concentrating of ores by hydraulics. At the age of twenty he entered the Prussian army to complete his military duty in the Fourth Army Corps in the fortress at Magdeburg. His coming to America was in 1860, and he first located at St. Louis, Missouri, where for two years he engaged in mining engineering and concentrating in the lead districts. In 1863, in Lawrence, Kansas, he was enrolled in the Third Reg- iment, Kansas troops, and appointed master of transportation for the divis- ion, under command of General Williams, and served till the close of the war. He then went across the plains and landed at Confederate Gulch in Diamond City, Montana, where he engaged in hydraulic and quartz mining and mer- chandising, later was engaged in stock-raising and grazing on a large scale in Deer Lodge county on the Big Blackfoot river, and was also in wholesale merchandising in Helena, Butte and Bozeman; he was successful till the winter of 1888, when he met with severe losses in cattle, horses and sheep. In 1891 he operated in the Slocan country and on the Salmon river, and in he next year came to Seattle and has ever since been engaged in mining operations in the northwest. In 1898 he went to Dawson and as a mining engineer located and purchased thirty-four claims, some of which he still re- tains, principally the copper claims near Five Fingers on the Lewes river.
But it is in a more scientific direction that Mr. Kleinschmidt has been chiefly successful. He is also a student of chemistry and has for many years maintained a private laboratory, where he has assayed quartz and ores, sam- pled out of mines on which he made reports, and of other districts to get familiar with the formations, acquiring an increased knowledge of the di- verse mining districts and ore values. About eight years ago, during his fre- quent traveling on the Sound and Pacific ocean, his attention was called to the vast losses caused by the ravages of the teredo, or ship-worms, on the wharves, docks and other marine and submarine constructions, and the great expense entailed by the replacing of the material destroyed by these worms. He therefore determined to thoroughly experiment and ascertain if some ef- fective chemical compound might not be applied to the marine and submarine wood construction to make it immune from the attacks of this pest and of other mollusks. After extended observation and study he arrived at two im- portant conclusions : that the processes then in use were neither the most ef- fective nor the cheapest, and that chemicals could be so united with some suit- able medium as to penetrate every fibre of the wood in the submarine con- struction and render it absolutely impervious to the attacks, at the same time
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increasing the durability of the timbers; and he finally produced the com- pound which promises to displace all previous primitive and crude attempts to accomplish this end. The modus operandi consists of making a longi- tudinal bore through the timber, with which a lateral bore connects; after the timber is in place the cavity is filled with the liquid compound either from the top or side, and the fibres become so permeated that the pile is rendered practically immune from the teredo attack; where the boring is impractical, the same result is gained by immersion of the timbers. This method has also been found equally efficacious in countries where the termite, or white ant, is the scourge of all wood structures. On October 4, 1901, Mr. Kleinschmidt filed application for a patent in the United States office, which was duly granted, and recently steps have been taken to secure patents in foreign coun- tries. In January, 1902 the Atlantic and Pacific Pile and Timber Preserv- ing Company was incorporated with paid up capital stock of two million dollars, and with Dr. Thomas MacGuire as president, Carl Kleinschmidt as general manager and treasurer, and George B. Cole as attorney and secre- tary; the main office is at Seattle. The company has secured a site of six hundred feet frontage on the water front, where the plant, laboratory, bor- ing machines and pile booms are located, and it is satisfactory to note that all details for carrying on the business have been completed. The company also owns the patent right for the boring machine invented by Mr. Klein- scinidt, which is so constructed that a boring of almost any length and diam- ter in the center of a timber shaft can be made in a short time and at low cost, making the machine available to bore conduits and pipes for many other purposes.
Mr. Kleinschmidt was married in Germany to Miss Emma Marie Carus, a native of that country ; she has not only been to him an excellent wife from a domestic standpoint, but is herself a business woman and is one of the directors of the company. They have become the parents of ten children, five of whom survive; their son Kurt, who was lost on the fated steamer Elbe in 1894, was also a mining and engineer metallurgist of great promise and with fine qualifications, having completed six years of study in one of the best technical mining schools of Europe, that in Freiburg, Saxony. The other children are: Carl, Jr., the manager of the Montana Copper Com- pany; Henry. a hydraulic mining engineer in Alaska; Emma K. is the wife of Leo Sutor, of Los Angeles: Anna K. is the wife of Mark David, of Seat- tle; and Marie K., the youngest daughter, is still at home with the family in their fine residence at 312 Seventeenth avenue. Mr. Kleinschmidt has al- ways been firm in his adherence to the Republican party, and is a member of
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the James A. Sexton Post, Grand Army of the Republic. Such is a brief sketch of a man whose work and influence have been no doubt of great value not only to his own community but to the world in general, and although he is very near seventy years of age, he looks and feels hale and hearty, so that no one would attribute to him such advanced years.
JAMES A. MOORE.
To the energetic natures, keen discernment and strong mentality of such men as James A. Moore, the president of the Moore Investment Company of Seattle, is due the upbuilding and improvement of the city, and in the hands of this class of citizens there is every assurance that the best interests and welfare of the city will be conserved. The life of our subject has been one of continuous activity, and to-day he is numbered among the substantial res- idents of Seattle. His interests are so thoroughly identified with those of the northwest that at all times he is ready to lend his aid and co-operaion to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or advance its material development, and while his labors have brought to him individual prosperity, no man in Seattle has done more to beautify and improve the city or to produce its splendid and attractive appearance than James A. Moore.
A native of Nova Scotia, Mr. Moore was born on the 23d of October, 1861, and is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. The family was founded in Nova Scotia in the seventeenth century by James Moore, who emigrated from the north of Ireland in 1650. He was one of the pioneers of the country and established on American soil the family of which our subject is a representa- tive in the fifth generation. During all the intervening years the Moores have for the most part been merchants, ship-owners or masters of vessels, and in religious faith they have been Presbyterians and Congregationalists. James Moore, the grandfather of our subject, was born in Nova Scotia, and was largely interested in ships and shipping, but not only did he become very prominent on account of his extensive business interests, but was also equally well known and honored because of his leadership in public affairs. His la- bors formed an integral part of the history of that land. He married Miss Agnes Sutherland, and lived to the advanced age of eighty years. They were the parents of nine children, of whom five are yet living. Their son, Andrew K. Moore, was born in Nova Scotia on the estate which had been in the possession of the family for two hundred years, and like his father he became one of the prominent representatives of ship-building and shipping interests in his native land. At one time he was the owner of forty sailing
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vessels. He married Miss Isabel McClellan, a lady of Highland Scotch an- cestry, born in Nova Scotia, and their union was blessed with six children. The parents held membership in the Congregational church, in which Mr. Moore served as an elder. He contributed most generously to the support of the church and was one of its most prominent and influential members. In politics he was connected with the Conservative party, strongly endorsing its principles. A life of prominence, of honor in business and of fidelity to every duty made him one of the most honored and respected citizens of his native land. He died on the 5th of May, 1900, at the advanced age of seventy-four, having for a number of years survived his wife, who passed away at the age of sixty-four.
James A. 'Moore was educated in the public schools of his native coun- try, and after his graduation in the high school he became associated with his father in the shipping business, with which he was connected for a num- ber of years. In 1886 he came to Seattle and was well pleased with the city. He deemed its future bright, and he soon began to invest in city real estate and to engage in its improvement. Since that time he has been one of the most prominent factors in the growth of the city, and his labors have been a most potent element in adding to the beauty of Seattle. In 1897 he organized the Moore Investment Company, which was capitalized for one hundred thousand dollars, and at once engaged in purchasing tracts of land and plat- ting additions to the city, foreseeing the demand for land which would be made by the city's rapid growth. He platted Latona, Brooklyn and Uni- versity Heiglits, and other smaller tracts, which have been largely built upon, extending the city's area and adding to it many desirable residence districts. In 1901 he began platting and improving Capital Hill on a gigantic scale, expending over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in improvements there. The addition comprises two hundred acres in a most attractive and delightful portion of the city, commanding a most magnificent view of the bay and a wide extent of scenery which partakes of the nature of the sub- lime, the mountain peaks towering into the regions of eternal snow. Mounts Rainier, Baker, St. Helens and Hood may all be seen, with altitudes of eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteen thousand feet respectively, standing guard over the beautiful city which lies nestling at their base with the broad and shimmering bay before it. On the hill one hundred fine residences have al- ready been built and one hundred are in process of construction, so that within an almost incredibly short space of time Capital Hill will have taken its place as the most beautiful and desirable residence district in the city. The minimum cost of these homes is three thousand dollars, and some of thiem partake of the nature of palaces.
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