An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 129

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company
Number of Pages: 1146

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his father until twenty, then worked two years for a railroad company. He then engaged in mining and followed this for some eight years, during which time he opened a saloon in North Yakima, which he conducted for twelve years. He then sold out and turned his whole attention to mining for some six years, one year of which he spent in the Nome gold fields. He returned to North Yakima in 1901, and has continued to reside here since. He was married in February, 1887, to Cora C. Lindsay, a native of Yakima City, where she was born in 1867. Her father, John Lindsay, was a native of Missouri, and crossed the Plains to Oregon in 1850, and later came to Yakima county, settling at Yakima City. He has a daughter, Jessie A., born in North Yakima, September 7, 1889. Mr. McDaniels is socially connected with the Eagles and Red Men. Politically, he is a Democrat. Mrs. McDaniels was a member of the Christian church, and passed away in North Yakima, May 20, 1899.

CASPER FEUERBACH, who owns and ope- rates one of the leading barber shops in North Yakima, is an 1882 pioneer in the county. He has seen the city of North Yakima spring from sage brush and sand to its present pretentious conditions, and has added his influence and ef- forts to bring about that desirable end. He was born in Germany, June 15, 1837. His father, Jacob Feuerbach, a miller by trade, was also of German birth. He immigrated to the United States in 1848, locating at St. Louis, Missouri, where he shortly afterwards was carried away in the great cholera epidemic. Subject's mother, Magdalene (Haas) Feuerbach, was born in Ger- many and came of a family of high standing and wealth in the old country. She came to the United States with her husband, in 1848. Sub- ject received the principal part of his education in the old country, but being young and of a bright, observing turn. he was soon able to make the most of his early acquirements and turn them to account in the land of his adoption. At the age of twelve he began to learn the trade of a barber, and on his father's death he at once began to assist in the support of his mother. He con- tinued to work at his trade in St. Louis until 1858, when he moved to St. Charles, Missouri, where he opened a shop and continued to run it twenty-four years. In 1882 he came west to Washington, locating at Yakima City. Here he took charge of the shop owned by his son, who had preceded him several years. At the end of three years he moved to North Yakima and built a shop, which he has continued to operate for the last eighteen years. He was married in St. Louis in 1855, to Louise Sieglinger, a native of Germany, where she was educated when a girl, later taking private lessons in the United

States. To this marriage were born twelve chil- dren, of whom seven are still living, as fol- lows: Louisa Winters, Portland; Joseph, San Francisco; Kate Tyler, Lena Younger, Portland; Amelia, of Portland; Alma Rankin, likewise of Portland, and Blanch, who lives at home. Mr. Feuerbach has prospered in a business way, and owns business and residence property in the city. He is a straightforward man in his dealings and is esteemed as a good, worthy citizen by all.

FRANK X. NAGLER, manufacturer of ci- gars, North Yakima, was born in Bavaria, Ger- many, June 15, 1867. The father and mother, Jacob and Mary (Lechner) Nagler, were both natives of Germany, where the latter still lives. The father was leader of a military band, which position he held for forty-seven years. In addi- tion to schooling in the ordinary branches, sub- ject took a course in a conservatory of music in Germany when a boy, and, being talented in this line, he made rapid progress, becoming very proficient in music at an early age. When but sixteen he came to the United States and located at Faribault, Minnesota, where he learned the trade of cigar-maker. In 1886 he came to Ellens- burg, where he engaged in the manufacture of cigars, and at the same time became the leader of the band and gave instructions on stringed instruments. From Ellensburg he came to Nortli Yakima in 1890, where he opened a cigar factory and also followed music teaching. He was mar- ried in North Yakima in 1891, to Sarah Ward, daughter of Robert Ward, a mining man of Boise, Idaho, and at one time a member of the legis- lature of that state. Mrs. Nagler was born in Boisc, and was educated in the convent there. Mr. and Mrs. Nagler's children are: Earl, Mer- lin, Raymond and Francis. Mr. Nagler is con- nected with the Ancient Order of United Work- men, Yeomen and Red Men. The family is con-

nected with the Catholic church. Mr. Nagler has succeeded financially, and owns a homestead in the county, city property, his cigar factory and store, and mining stock, being treasurer of the Elizabeth Gold Hill Mining Company. Mrs. Nagler was at one time assistant in the county auditor's office at North Yakima. Mr. Nagler is a Roosevelt man; is esteemed for his strict integrity, and is known as a worthy and reliable citizen.

RICHARD J. CURRY, a leading tailor of North Yakima, is a native Californian, having been born, July 14, 1872, at Sacramento. His citizenship in Yakima county dates from 1879, when at the age of seven he came to this coun- try with his parents. His father, Thomas Curry, was born in Ireland and came to the United

JOHN P. MARKS.

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States in 1852 at the age of nineteen, and fol- lowed mining for years in the Black Hills, Colo- rado, Nevada and California, living in the latter state for ten years. He then resided two years in Tacoma, afterwards taking up land in Yakima county, locating a timber culture claim. He claims the distinction of being the first one in the country to take advantage of the arid land act. He was the youngest of a family of twenty- nine children, all of whom were living at the time of his death, in 1896. The mother of our subject, Mary F. (Doyle) Curry, came of Irish parentage. Subject attended school until twelve and for the next four years was variously em- ployed. He then went to Seattle for three years, at the end of which time he returned to North Yakima and learned the tailor's trade. In the course of a few years he and his brother John bought out the tailoring shop where he worked, and together they ran the business until 1899 under the firm naine of Curry Brothers, when he bought his brother out and has since conducted the business alone. He has built up an exten- sive and successful business. He has two broth- ers, John and Thomas, living in North Yakima. He was married in North Yakima, in 1897, to Florence M. Smith, daughter of Thomas and Emma B. (Hubbard) Smith. The father was an early settler on the Pacific Coast, and was for twenty years head man in one of the leading shoe establishments in San Francisco. The mother was a native of Illinois. Mrs. Curry was born in San Francisco, April 3, 1881, and came with her parents to Yakima county when a small girl. Her sister, Blanche Carr, lives in North Yakima. Mr. and Mrs. Curry's children are: Ira R. J., Florence E., Godfrey and Esther R. They are members of the Catholic church. Politically, Mr. Curry is an active Republican ; fraternally, he is connected with the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Ancient Order of United Workmen. He has a comfortable home in the city and a well estab- lished business, and ranks well as a business man and citizen.

JOHN P. MARKS, farmer and dairyman in the Ahtanum valley, has made his home in that fer- tile valley ever since 1871, at which time he settled upon the old homestead, where he now lives. He was born in Bluegrass, Kentucky, January 31, 1838, to the union of Bluford B. and Martha W. (Moore) Marks, both natives of the same state. In an early day both removed to Missouri with their parents and were there married. The father was a farmer and an Oregon pioneer, living in that state at the time of his death in 1871. The subject of this biog- raphy, at the age of fifteen, crossed the Plains with his parents, driving an ox team all the dreary way, taking his turn with the men in the train at guard

duty, and otherwise manfully bearing his share of peril and work. At the end of six months the emi- grants reached the Willamette valley, and there, in Linn county, in the year 1853, hewed out the new home in the far West. Here he worked with his father several years, attending the Lebanon Acad- emy. In 1859 he went into the wild Rogue river region, and there hunted and trapped for three years, going into the mining regions of Idaho and Montana from Oregon, in the spring of 1862. The first year he was engaged in mining, visiting all the famous camps of Idaho at that time; then for five years he operated pack-trains in those territories, enduring the hardships and braving the dangers common to such regions in those times. Six years of this rough life satisfied his ambition in that direc- tion, and he again took up his abode in Oregon, where he was married and resided for two years, or until his removal to Puget Sound. His stay on the western slope was of short duration, however, for in 1871 he immigrated to the Yakima country and set- tled on the Ahtanum. For a year he taught in the district schools of the settlement, and such was his success that his fellow citizens rewarded him by electing the young schoolmaster county superin- tendent. In this capacity he faithfully served two successive terms, aiding materially in establishing the schools of his county upon a firm foundation. In 1867, he was united in marriage to Ellen Wil- liams, a native of Illinois, who crossed the Plains with her parents when she was but five years old. Her father, Charles A. Williams, made that journey in 1843, settling in Oregon. Mrs. Marks died in 1891, leaving five children, three of whom, Mrs. Nora V. Frazer, Elmer B. and Charles A., are still living. Mr. Marks was married again in 1892, this time to Mrs. Mattie (Hastings) Smith, whose father was a farmer in Canada, where she was born in 1838. She was educated and grew to woman- hood in Vermont, teaching and also holding the po- sition of matron in the reform school for a number of years, before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Marks are zealous members of the Congregational church, and socially hold the esteem of a host of friends. He is affiliated with one fraternal order, the Yeo- men. In politics, he has always been active and in- fluential, and is to-day, having been one of the Dem- ocratic nominees for representative to the legisla- ture from his district at the last election. Until 1896 Mr. Marks was a Republican, but the issues in- volved in that famous campaign were such that he sought a new political standard under which to serve his country. As a business man he has been successful, owning at present four hundred and forty acres of well improved farming land and a considerable band of stock; as a pioneer, he took a prominent part in redeeming the Yakima wilderness and converting it into fields of hay, hop yards, or- chards and gardens ; and as a public-spirited citizen who respects both the civil and moral laws, he is act-

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ive in promoting the welfare of his home county and state, and commands the respect of his fellow citizens.

ANDREW F. SNELLING, living near North Yakima, was born in Johnson county, Missouri, July 8, 1840. Vincent L. Snelling, his father, a na- tive of Kentucky, was a clergyman and a steamboat captain. In 1844, he crossed the Plains, taking up a full section of donation land in Yamhill county, Oregon. During his residence in Yamhill county he preached the gospel and served as captain of a boat on the Willamette river. He was the first Bap- tist minister on the coast. He died in California in 1855. Adelia (Tandy) Snelling, his wife, and the mother of A. F. Snelling, was born in Virginia of Welsh and English parents. Her ancestors came to Virginia early in the nineteenth century. Mr. Snell- ing was four years old when his parents crossed the Plains. He was educated at McMinnville college, in Oregon. He resided on the Yamhill county homestead until his twenty-first year, when he was appointed deputy in the county clerk's office at Eugene, Oregon. Two years later he went to Mon- tana, and for five years engaged in mining; during the last two of these years, however, he represented his county in the territorial legislature. After a brief time spent in Nevada, he went to Goose Lake val- ley, Oregon, and for four years followed lumbering. He was then elected clerk of Lake county, and, two years later, was re-elected. A third time he re- ceived the nomination for this office, but declined, accepting instead the appointment as register of the United States land office at Lakeview, Oregon, prof- fered him by the Cleveland administration. At the end of his term as register, he moved to Pierce county, Washington, and engaged for a time in mer- cantile pursuits. In 1891, he became a merchant of North Yakima, but, during President Cleveland's second administration, was appointed register of the North Yakima land office and continued in this position for four and one-half years. In 1892, he purchased a tract of land near the city, where he has since made his home. Mr. Snelling has two broth- ers, Vincent and James, ande one sister, Adelia. He was married in 1877, in Lakeview, Oregon, to Miss Mary Watson, a native of Illinois, where she was born in 1854. Her father, William Watson, was also a native of Illinois and a soldier of the Civil war, during which he contracted a disease from ex- posure, which ultimately caused his death. Her mother, also a native of Illinois, still lives, in Wash- ington. Mrs. Snelling has five brothers and three sisters. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Snelling are : Otta, Lena L., Jessie D., and Adelia M. The family attend the Baptist church. Fraternally, Mr. Snell- ing is connected with the Masons, Independent Or- der of Odd Fellows and Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is past grand of the Odd Fellows.

He is a leader in the Democratic party and is a man highly esteemed by his neighbors and fellow citizens.

FREDERICK E. SHAW, salesman with the North Yakima Furniture Company, was born in Pennsylvania, May 27, 1877. His father, Edward Shaw, was a native of England and a miller by trade, following this vocation continuously for forty-five years. He came to the United States, where he worked at the milling business in almost every state. He died in Goldendale, Washington. Our subject's mother, Mary (Wainwright) Shaw, who is now making her home with her daughter, is also a native of England. Mr. Shaw is a graduate of Klickitat Academy, at Goldendale, where his parents lived for several years after coming west. When he was but six years old they movd to Portland, and there, at the age of thirteen, he entered the large wholesale furniture house of Peters & Roberts, where he learned the trade of upholsterer. He continued with this firm for eight years, then returned to Klickitat county and took a course in the academy at Golden- dale. After finishing his studies he came to North Yakima and accepted a position with the firm with which he is now connected. He has now been with this company four years. He has one sister and one brother living: Mary Perce and Charles Shaw, both citizens of North Yakima. Mr. Shaw was married in North Yakima, in 1901, to Miss Maud Palmer, who was born in Minnesota, April 4, 1879, but raised in Goldendale, where her parents settled in an early day. Her father, George B. Palmer, was a veteran of the Civil war. He was a pioneer of Klickitat county. Mrs. Shaw has eight brothers and sisters living. Fraternally, Mr. Shaw is asso- ciated with the Masonic and the Maccabee orders and is commander of the latter lodge. He is also secretary of the Order of Washington. He is a Re- publican politically, and religiously, is connected with the Episcopal church. He has a comfortable home in North Yakima.

MOSES N. ADAMS, of Yakima City, came to Yakima county in 1879, where he has made his home continuously, with the exception of two years spent in Alaska. He is a native of Ohio, born in 1844, from the union of James H. and Eliza (Cox) Adams. The father was a native of Ohio, but spent almost his entire life in Illinois, where he followed farming and milling. He was a man held in high esteem and was a pronounced abolitionist during the war times. Subject's mother was born in New Jer- sey. Her father, who was a Scotchman, served in the Revolutionary war and lived to be almost a cen- tenarian. At the age of seventeen our subject en- listed in Company C, Eighth Illinois cavalry. He was wounded at Malvern Hill in 1862, and was dis- cliarged for disabilities arising therefrom, but re- enlisted in the same company as soon as he recov-

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ered, and served until the close of the war. In 1866 he went west to Colorado and entered the mines in Lake county, where he remained until 1870. From there he took a trip through New Mexico, Arizona, California and Nevada, working in the various min- ing camps and having several engagements with the Indians. In 1877, he moved into the Klickitat val- ley, Washington, where he remained until 1879, when he came to Yakima county and took up land thirty-five miles south of North Yakima. Here he continued to live and farm until 1890, when he moved to Yakima City and bought a place, where he has since made his home. He was married in San Francisco, in 1875, to Louise Ferrell, daughter of John Ferrell, a farmer and na- tive of Ohio, who now lives on the old homestead originally taken up by the subject of this sketch. He was an argonaut of '49 in California. Mrs. Adams was born in California in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Adams' children are: Florence, Nellie Court- wright, Rosa Adams, Robert A., Clarence, John C., Bessie and Kate, all residing in Yakima county. Socially, Mr. Adams is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and Independent Order of Odd Fellows orders; politically, he is a Republican, and in 1893 was honored by his party with the nom- ination for county commissioner. He was duly elected and served throughout the term with credit.

EDWIN R. LEAMING first settled in Wash- ington in 1875, locating at Walla Walla. In 1880, he moved his family to Ellensburg, himself engag- ing in the nursery business at Yakima City, and in 1883 he bought eighty acres, now a portion of the town site of North Yakima, and upon which he at once moved his family. Mr. Leaming is a native. of Cape May county, New Jersey, born February 14, 1827. His parents were Christopher, and Ann (McCrey) Leaming. His father, of English descent and a lawyer by profession, died in 1865. The moth- er, a native of New Jersey, lived to the ripe old age of ninety-five. Our subject received an academic ed- ucation, and at the age of sixteen went to Phila- delphia and learned the tailor's trade, serving a four years' apprenticeship. He then ran a business of his own for four years, at the end of which time he moved west to Jackson county, Iowa, and bought a farm. Two years of farming satisfied him. He sold out and went to Wisconsin and mined for a time, then opened a store, and later engaged in the lum- bering business. In 1858 he moved to Kansas, where he lived seven years, and from which state he enlisted in the Civil war, receiving his discharge in May, 1865. He then engaged in merchandizing in Missouri for some nine years, at the end of which time, 1875, he moved to Washington (then a ter- ritory), where he has since made his home. After purchasing the tract of land at North Yakima, he engaged in the nursery business, following it with success to the present date. He has contributed ma-

terially to the development and improvement of North Yakima, having, in addition to erecting nine buildings on his tract of land, set out and brought to a fine bearing condition numerous orchards about the city. He was married in New Jersey, September 6, 1849, to Harriet Pennington, daughter of James and Rebecca (Kindle) Pennington. The father, who was of English descent, was a native of New Jersey and a shipbuilder. The mother was also born in New Jersey of English parents. Mrs. Leaming taught school for three years. She de- parted this life in 1900. To this marriage were born five children, of whom two are living: Lois I. Parker, Yakima; and William C., in Bacoachi, Sonora county, Mexico. Mr. Leaming was mar- ried the second time March 19, 1903, to Mrs. Mi- nerva Kester, his present wife. Fraternally, Mr. Leaming is connected with the Grand Army of the Republic and the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. He is an active member of the Presbyterian church, and at present holds the office of elder in the North Yakima congregation, of which he was one of the organizers. In addition to a fine tract of land, he owns considerable city property and is a stockholder in the First National Bank of North Yakima. He is highly esteemed by all.

FRED E. THOMPSON, fruit grower and ship- per, North Yakima, is a Washingtonian by birth, and owns Sumner as the place of his nativity. He was born May 29, 1863. His father, Levant F. Thompson, was born in Jamestown, N. Y., and crossed the Plains to California in 1849. His ox- teams gave out en route, and he completed the jour- ney of 300 miles on foot. After four years in the mines of that state he came to the Sound country and engaged in lumbering. He established the third mill on the Sound, which was destroyed by the In- dians during the uprising and war of 1855-56. In 1863 he commenced growing hops in Pierce and King counties, the experimental crop consisting of two and one-half acres. He was the first one to try hop-growing in the Northwest, and not even the wisest and most far-seeing of that day could have been made to believe that in the course of time this would become one of the greatest industries of this admittedly great country. His father died in 1896. The mother, Susan ( Kincaid) Thompson, was born in Missouri in 1844, and is still living in this state. Our subject made his home with his parents until he reached the age of twenty, when he engaged in liop growing on his own account, which he followed in Pierce and King counties for some ten years, with good success. In 1888, he came to Yakima county, and, purchasing a quarter-section of land, began fruit raising and shipping, which he has since followed. He made the first shipment of fruit from Yakima county that ever crossed the Missouri river. In 1898, he organized a wholesale and retail fruit and produce company in Billings, Montana, under

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the firm name of Thompson, Kain & Vaughn, and in 1901 he organized another company of similar character in Butte, Montana. At present he is the representative of the wholesale house of Ryan & Newton, of Spokane, Butte and Seattle. In 1902, he sold his fruit farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he had taken when in sage brush, and devel- oped into the largest fruit farm in Yakima county. He was married in Sumner, Washington, in 1893. to Miss Viola Kirkman, a native of Oakland, Cali- fornia, born in 1873. She is a lady of literary at- tainments and has a finished musical education ; is also a graduate of the Egan Dramatic. School. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson has been born one child, Hazel, whose birthday is November 13, 1894. Fraternally, Mr. Thompson is connected with the Masons and Elks. Politically, he is a Repub- lican.

EDWARD E. KELSO. In the winning of Yak- ima county, many characters of sterling quality have been developed. The rich but sometimes deeply buried natural resources were a challenge to the pioneer who had granite in his fiber and iron in his blood, and the men with these qualities have never lacked a field for their exercise here, nor have they often failed of their rewards. Prominent among the men who have had the courage to answer na- ture's challenge, and who have conquered in the fight, are the Kelso brothers, of whom the subject of this article is one: Coming to the country with little capital except their unbounded energy and their unusually good judgments in commercial and busi- ness matters, they have wrought their way steadily to fortune, at the same time winning and retaining a high standing in the various communities in which they have lived. Edward E., of this article, is a na- tive of Richland county, Ohio, born August 12, 1863, the son of John A. and Martha (Miller) Kelso. The former was born in Pennsylvania, April 13, 1832, came to Ohio when a small boy, grew up and was educated and married in Richland county, that state, and continued to reside there until 1863, when he moved to Williams county. He came thence in 1884 to Walla Walla county, Washington, and now lives two miles east of the city of Walla Walla. He is of Irish extraction and his wife, the mother of our subject, of German. She was born in Ohio in 1834, was married when twenty years of age and is now in Walla Walla county. Our sub- ject received his education in the common schools of Ohio and in the normal school at Fayette. At the early age of eighteen he began his career as a teacher, and for the ensuing three years he was a successful practitioner of the art of pedagogy, but upon attaining his legal majority he changed both · his residence and his business. He accompanied his parents to Washington, and in the fall of the same year (1884) filed on a homestead in the Horse

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An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 129

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1904 Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company Number of Pages: 1146

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company
Number of Pages: 1146