An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 130

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

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Heaven country, six miles south of Kennewick. It was then he began wheat raising, the business in which he has had such excellent success. In 1886 he became associated with his two brothers, William and Clinton, in farming and the three that year cul- tivated some two thousand acres, only a small part of which belonged to them. At the present time they are still farming, but mark the difference-they now cultivate in the vicinity of six thousand acres, and it is all their own. Nor does this constitute all their holdings. In 1895, they opened a store at Kiona which, under the firm name of Kelso Broth- ers, is still in operation, and they are having the same success as merchants which has always at- tended them in wheat raising. The Mr. Kelso of this article, while achieving success as a farmer and in mercantile pursuits, has never lost his interest in. things more distinctively intellectual. In 1893, he moved to North Yakima to accept a position as dep- uty county treasurer under D. W. Stair. For two. years he was thus employed ; then he became deputy county auditor under F. C. Hall. His services in. these capacities must have been eminently satisfac- tory to the general public, for in 1898 he was elected to the office of county auditor. In 1900, the people reaffirmed their choice and gave a further token of their confidence in his abilities and integrity by bestowing upon him the same office for another term. During the fall of 1897, Mr. Kelso purchased an in- terest in an abstract, insurance and real estate busi- ness in North Yakima, forming the co-partnership of Kelso & Foster, and the two carried on a success- ful business together until October,. 1903, when the senior partner sold to the junior. Since that time Mr. Kelso has given his undivided attention to his farming and mercantile businesses, though his resi- dence is still in North Yakima.

December 14, 1898, Mr. Kelso married Rosella, Mae Newcomb, a native of Columbia county, Wis- consin, born October 6, 1878. She was educated in the common schools of her native state and in the North Yakima high school, then learned the trade of a milliner, serving an apprenticeship under Madame Connolly. It is fitting that some mention be made of her parents. Her father, John I. New- comb, was born in Vermont in 1844, but was taken from the Green Mountain state to Wisconsin while vet in infancy, and there grew to man's estate and" was married. By occupation he was a farmer, though he also spent some time at his trade, that of a painter. Delia D. (Christler) Newcomb, the mother of Mrs. Kelso, was born in Wisconsin, July 14, 1849, and it was in that state that she married Mr. Newcomb. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Kelso are: Waldo E., born in North Yakima, No- vember 20, 1899; Gordon N., born in North Yak- ima, August 1, 1901, and Delferna, a native of the same city, born January 27. 1904. Fraternally, Mr. Kelso is affiliated with the Knights of the Macca- bees, and in religion he is a Methodist, his member-

HON. JOHN H. HUBBARD.

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ship being in the North Yakima church, of whose board of trustees he is secretary. He belongs to the Republican party.

JOHN H. HUBBARD (deceased), carpenter and farmer, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, June 3, 1828. He was a pioneer of Washington, lo- cating at Yakima City in 1879, near which place he took a homestead and lived for sixteen years. In 1896, he moved to North Yakima, where he pur- chased land and built a fine residence, and where he continued to reside until his death, July 13, 1900. Mr. Hubbard came of English stock on his father's side and Holland Dutch on his mother's. His father, Willis Hubbard, was born in Virginia, in 1793, in which state his parents settled in a very early day. He himself was a pioneer in both Ohio and Illinois. His mother, Catherine Haines, was a native of Ohio. Mr. Hubbard remained at home in Illinois until six- teen, when he went to Iowa and was there married, at the age of nineteen, to Sarah Sullivan. His wife died within a year of their marriage, after which he returned to Illinois, and engaged in the stock busi- ness for six years. He was, during this period, on March 20, 1854, united in marriage, at Lafayette, Indiana, to Elizabeth A. Vickroy, daughter of Will- iam and Mary (Myers) Vickroy ; the former a na- tive of Bedford, Pennsylvania, and the latter of Maryland. After his second marriage Mr. Hub- bard moved with his family to Minnesota, where he followed the carpenter's trade for five years. He again returned to Illinois, where he resided until 1875, when he moved to California. After a resi- dence of four years there he came to Yakima county.

Mrs. Hubbard was born in Pennsylvania, in 1831, and was educated for a teacher, which profes- sion she followed in the three states of Ohio, Vir- ginia and Pennsylvania. She was united in mar- riage to Mr. Hubbard at the age of twenty-three, and their married life extended over a period of forty-six years. She owns a fine farm of eighty acres on Nob Hill, adjoining the city on the west, and her residence in the city. She had the honor of christening "Nob Hill," the district where her farm is located. Her children are Florence M. Lince, North Yakima; Floyd W. (deceased) ; Emma B. Smith, and John B. (deceased). Mr. Hubbard was a member of the Universalist church, as is also Mrs. Hubbard. He was an active Republican and frater- nally was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a good citizen and neighbor, and highly esteemed by all for his many good qual- ities. He was the promoter of the Cowiche and Naches (or Hubbard) ditch.

ROBERT D. FIFE, miner and mine operator, North Yakima, was born in Scotland, December 12, 1857. His father, John Fife, a mining man, was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United

States in 1865. He located first in Pennsylvania, where he mined for a time and then came west to Wyoming and mined for a number of years, locating finally in Yakima county, where he died in 1889. The mother, Jennett (Adamson) Fife, was born in Scotland and died in Wyoming. Subject commenced mining at the very early age of nine years, in Penn- sylvania, where he worked for three years and then came west to Wyoming with his parents, where he remained until 1882, when he came to the mines in Washington and worked until 1887, principally in the coal mines. In that year he moved to North Yakima, and turned his attention to prospecting for the precious metals, and developing his prospects. He was the locator of the Elizabeth Gold Hill mine, which took its name from his daughter. He is the president and business manager of this mining com- pany. He was married at Alma, Wyoming, Novem- ber 15, 1879, to Agnes Livingston, a native of Scot- land, born August 26, 1861. She came to the United States with her parents when eleven years old. She has two brothers, John, in Idaho, and Sandy, in Washington. Her father, Alexander Livingston, was born in Scotland and came to the United States in 1870, and located in Wyoming. Mr. and Mrs. Fife's children are John, Elizabeth B., Robert, James, Eillie R., Ora, Thomas and Agnes. Mr. Fife is an independent Democrat. He and family are members of the Presbyterian church. He is con- sidered an expert prospector and a good judge of mineral, and knows how to develop a property when he takes hold of it. He is enterprising and public spirited, and to such men as Mr. Fife is largely due the progress that has been made in the mineral fields of central Washington.

GEORGE N. TUESLEY, business manager of The Yakima Herald, was born in Minnesota, thirty- six years ago. He spent his school days in that state, entering a country printing office at the age of sixteen, where he acquired an insight into the news- paper business and learned something of the "art preservative." In 1888, he removed to the state of Washington, acquiring an interest in one of the largest job printing establishments in Tacoma, later becoming its business manager.

Mr. Tuesley came to the thriving little city of North Yakima in 1894. Here, in 1897, together with C. F. Bailey, he leased the Herald from E. M. Reed. Mr. Bailey retired shortly afterward, Mr. Tuesley continuing the business and later taking in as associates his brother, Walter, and Robert Mc- Comb, and purchasing the plant. Under Mr. Tues- ley's management, the business and influence of the Herald grew steadily, until now it has a plant and business second to none in central Washington. Mr. Tuesley is a practical man in the business, having had experience in almost every branch of publishing, which he has given careful study and consideration, with the result that he is reaping an enviable success ..

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He was married in 1890 to Miss Ada Ross, at Vern- dale, Minnesota, and has three children. Quite re- cently Mr. Tuesley and E. L. Boardman, formerly of the Republic, have acquired the Herald, and are now joint publishers. A sketch of the Herald ap- pears elsewhere in this book.

JOHN D. MEDILL, editor and publisher of the Yakima Democrat, was born in Rock Island county, Illinois, June 27, 1865. He spent most of his early years at work on his father's farm and attending the public schools of his community. At the age of eighteen he left the parental roof, bound for the far West, like many other young men, there to seek his fortune. He resided in Nebraska three years, from that state coming to Washington in 1889 and settling first at Tacoma. In 1892, he located at North Yakima, then in its infancy, where he was engaged in different lines of business until 1898.

At that time he assumed charge of The Dem- ocrat and has since been so occupied, steadily build- ing up a most valuable property and widening his influence both at home and throughout the state. Mr. Medill is quite active in politics, although he has never been a candidate for office. He was a delegate from the state of Washington to the Dem- ocratic national convention, held in Chicago in 1896, and also to the Kansas City convention of 1900. A sketch of The Democrat will be found in the press chapters of this work.

LEGH R. FREEMAN, editor and publisher of the Northwest Farm and Home, was born in Culpeper county, Virginia, December 4, 1842, the son of Arthur R. and Mary A. Freeman. He was educated at Kemper College, Virginia, taking a preparatory course for the state uni- versity. He came west in 1859, and on the frontier learned the printer's trade and entered newspaper work. He was among the first to explore the western two-thirds of America, writ- ing a description of the scenery and resources of the country through which he passed. He also lectured upon his experiences and the sights he had witnessed. For forty-five years Mr. Free- man has been engaged in newspaper work in the west and has seen the western two-thirds of the union become peopled by one-third of the population of the country. His wife, Mrs. Mary R. Freeman, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 31, 1863, her parents having been John T. and Mary (Dorrington) Whitaker. She was married to Mr. Freeman, July 11, 1900. Mrs. Freeman is a highly educated woman, being a graduate of the St. Paul high school and of the commercial department of the University of Minnesota, besides holding the highest grade teachers' certificates issued in Minnesota. She is associate editor of the Farm and Home. A

sketch of this journal appears in the press chap- ter of this history. Few residents of the North- west have been engaged in newspaper work as long as Mr. Freeman or are as well known.

E. L. BOARDMAN, editor of the Yakima Herald, a sketch of which will be found in the press chapter, came to Washington January I, 1903, purchasing a half interest in the Yakima Republic. He disposed of his interests in that paper in August of the same year and last Febru- ary (1904) bought a half interest in The Herald. Mr. Boardman is a native of Ohio, having been born in Hillsboro, in the year 1857. His father is one of the oldest newspaper men in that state, his uncles and other relatives on both sides of the family being well known journalists. Prior to coming to Washington, Mr. Boardman resided for thirteen years in Montana, the last three years of which he was the publisher of the Evening Herald in Helena. During his residence in Montana, he also published the Billings Ga- zette and other papers. Prior to his residence in Montana, Mr. Boardman was connected for a number of years with several of the metropolitan papers of the country, having begun his news- paper career, while a boy, on the New York Trib- une. Mr. and Mrs. Boardman have four daugh- ters. Though having lived a comparatively short length of time in the Yakima country, Mr. Board- man has become favorably and widely known through his business connections and is counted one of the city's substantial citizens.

ALBERT E. HOWARD, manufacturer of sash and doors, North Yakima, was born in Woodville, New York, in 1858. His father, Albert W. Howard, was born in New York, where he spent his life until 1903, when lie came west to North Yakima to live with his son, the subject of this sketch. He is a bridge builder by trade and lias followed it all his life. He is of English descent. The mother, Olive C. (Noyes) Howard, was born in Pennsylvania in 1832, and came of Dutch parents. She is living with her son. At the age of fifteen subject left his home in New York and went to Iowa. He there engaged in hunting and cleared several hundred dollars. He then attended the Dunning academy at Jefferson, where he finished his education, preparing himself for teaching. But not liking the profession of teaching, he abandoned it and went to work with his brother at the carpenter's trade. After a year he returned to New York and worked at building and cabinet work, and later went on a revenue cutter as ship carpenter. He then took charge of a large force of men on contract work, at Syracuse, and later engaged in business for himself, which he conducted for four and a half

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years. In 1890 he came west to Centralia, Wash- ington, and in 1891 he came to. North Yakima, where he began contracting and building. He has constructed some of the best buildings in the city, among others the Opera house, Clogg, Dit- ter and Wisconsin blocks, and some of the best residences .. He was married in Syracuse, New York, in 1884, to Grace M. Ashfield, a native of that city and daughter of William H. and Rhoda (Kemp) Ashfield. The father was a native of New York and was a druggist for years. He was a veteran of the Civil war and was one of Presi- dent Lincoln's body guards at the time of his assassination. His mother was born in New York, of Scotch parents. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Howard were born the following chil- dren : Bessie, Frank W., Warren, Alexander H., and Florence. Fraternally, Mr. Howard is a member of the Masonic, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and Elks orders. He is a pronounced Democrat, and owns a comfort- able home in the city.

JOHN P. MATTOON. Not only is John P. Mattoon, the subject of this article, one of the oldest pioneers of Yakima county, but he is among the oldest remaining settlers of the North- west, having crossed the Plains to Oregon in the year of the famous "Whitman massacre," at the age of thirteen. He was born in Lucas county, Ohio, December 26, 1834, to Abel and Sarah M. Mattoon, natives of the state of New York. His parents moved to Ohio in an early day and were counted pioneers of the state as well as of In- diana, to which latter state they moved from Ohio. On March 10, 1847, subject started from LaGrange county, Indiana, to cross the Plains with ox teams, which he succeeded in doing after many months of slow, tedious travel, meeting with no serious interruption on his journey, and with no interference from the Indians. He ar- rived in the Willamette valley in the fall and settled at Oregon City, where he completed his education and then engaged in farming. He fol- lowed agriculture there for seventeen years, mak- ing a success of it, so much so, that in 1864 he was appointed by the government as farm in- structor at Fort Simcoe, under Indian Agent Bancroft. He served in this capacity for four and one-half years, most of the time under J. H. Wilbur, better known as "Father Wilbur," who superseded Bancroft the same year of Mr. Mat- toon's appointment. In 1869 he engaged in stock raising on the east side of the river, where Parker is now located. He followed the stock business for some eighteen years and then sold out and opened a livery stable, which he still runs. He has one sister, Mrs. William Hughes, living in Whitman county. He was married in Oregon, October 29, 1858, to Martha Hickenbothom,

daughter of George and Jerusha Hickenbothom, the former a native of Ireland and the latter born in Connecticut. Mrs. Mattoon was born in Tazewell county, Illinois, March 23, 1839. Her brother William, who now resides in Oregon, was a volunteer in the Indian war in that state; the other brother, George, is a farmer in Oregon. Mr. Mattoon has one daughter and one son, George Lincoln and Annie J. Watt .(now de- ceased), wife of George H. Watt, professor of pharmacy in the State Agricultural College at Pullman. Mr. and Mrs. Mattoon are members of the Congregational church.

JOSEPH MONDOR. One of the substantial farmers of the Tampico country is Joseph Mon- dor, a Canadian by birth, born in 1835, from the union of Isadore and Sallie (Laplish) Mondor. His parents were both of Canadian birth, and farmed there for years. The mother died when her son Joseph was but four years of age, the father living to the ripe old age of eighty. At the death of the mother our subject was taken to raise by his grandparents, attending school until the age of sixteen, when he went to learn the blacksmith's trade. At the end of two years he quit the trade and worked on a steamboat for three years on the St. Lawrence river ; following which he spent a year in Upper Canada. He went to California in 1856 via Nicaragua, landing in San Francisco in November of that year. In the spring he started for Placer Falls, traveling the entire distance of three hundred miles on foot. He remained there but a short time, return- ing to Sacramento, where he purchased a place and farmed for three years. He then tried Ne- vada for a time, but not liking it, returned to California again and engaged in farming. In 1868 he returned to Canada and was married, bringing his wife to California, where he pur- chased a fine farm and a large tract of railroad land and settled down for many years to farming and raising stock. In 1882 he sold out every- thing, and the following year moved to Walla Walla, Washington, and in the fall of 1884 came to Tampico, and rented a farm, afterwards pur- chasing the ranch where he now lives, and where he has made his home ever since. He put a homestead filing on his ranch, and starting in right from the foundation has developed his place into a high state of cultivation, with fine orchard, eight-room house, large convenient barns and out buildings. He is a diversified farmer, giving his attention to raising hops, hay. fruit and stock. He was married in Canada in 1868 to Eliza Arcand, daughter of Francis Ar- cand, a blacksmith by trade, who lived and died in Canada. Mrs. Mondor was born in Canada in 1845, graduated from the St. John Academy and followed teaching for six years. She is well read

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and of a literary turn. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Mondor have been. born the following children : Isadore, Alphonse, Mrs. Mary Slavin, Joseph L., Frank A., Henry G., Louise and Wil- lie. They are of the Catholic faith, and Mr. Mondor is an active Democrat. He has been school director at Tampico for five years, and takes deep interest in educational matters.

ROBERT CRORY. Few men have had a more varied career, or have taken a more thor- ough course in training in the school of life than has he whose name forms the title of this article. He has been as far north and as far south as civilized men usually go and he has sought the favor of Fortune in many parts of the globe. Like most other men of an adventurous turn, he has given much attention to mining, and like most other devotees of the business he has · had his ups and downs.

Mr. Crory is a native of the province of New Brunswick, born near St. George, December 24, 1835. His father, David, and his mother, Mary (Stenson) Crory, were both from the vicinity of Belfast, Ireland, and by occupation the former was a farmer and lumberman. Public schools had not been established in New Brunswick at that time, but around the family hearth our sub- ject got the rudiments of an education. He fin- ished his training in the school of experience, a very good college, but one that often exacts a high tuition fee. Most of his time after he be- came ten years old was spent away from home working in mills, lumber camps, on the farm and at fishing and sometimes before the mast. He also spent three years at the cooper's trade. The 15th of April, 1865, he set out by the isthmus route for the Pacific coast. The steamer on which he embarked, the Golden Rule, was wrecked on a coral reef one hundred and eighty miles from Aspinwall, on the Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama. Passengers and crew numbered about eight hundred and twenty- five persons, and to feed them were two bar- rels of salt meat and enough biscuits to fur- nish each person one a day for six weeks. Water on the island there was none, but they found that they could slake their thirst in a measure by lying in the ocean water and allowing the pores of the skin to absorb what they would of it. They dispatched a life-boat to Aspinwall, but she met with an accident, lost her compass and failed to bring relief. Next day, however, another life-boat was dispatched and she had better success, reaching the town in due time. Shortly after she arrived there two American men-of-war, the State of Georgia and the Huntsville, entered port, and these at once went to the rescue, finding, however, on arrival that certain turtle fishermen from the Mosquito

Coast, into whose hands the first life-boat's crew had fallen, had reached the scene of the wreck before them. The shipwrecked crew and passengers were brought away to safety after eleven days of hardship and partial starvation.

Mr. Crory crossed the isthmus and came on to San Francisco, thence to Puget Sound, where he entered the employ of the Port Gamble Mill- ing Company, with whom he remained for three years. Shortly after quitting their service he returned to New Brunswick for a visit, again crossing the isthmus. He intended to stay at home for a considerable time, but soon the White Pine, Nevada, silver excitement reached him and he hastened back to the West, although he was dissuaded by adverse reports from going all the way to the silver mines. He was soon again in the lumber business, this time working for the Port Madison mills. He was thus employed for four years except while making another short visit home. The trip there was made by the isthmus route, but the return was by the Union Pacific and San Francisco. Upon leaving Port Madison, Mr. Crory went into the Omanika min- ing district over the Arctic divide in Alaska, but though coarse gold was there in abundance the expense of living was so great that little could be made, and our subject went back to the Sound, after spending a couple of mining seasons there, with little money in his pocket. As soon, how- ever, as he had made another stake he returned to the North, going this time up the Stikeen river. He made the trip in the winter time with forty- four other white men and one hundred and twen- ty-five Indians, and though the weather was bit- terly cold he suffered little inconvenience, so thoroughly habituated did he become to the rigors of the climate. They prospected on one of the streams whose waters finally flow into Peace river and Mr. Crory struck an exceedingly rich claim. Had he held it he could have made his fortune, but he soon acquired other property, which he was led to believe was just as good and being unable to work all to advantage he sold his interest in it. He later discovered that the vender of the other property had grossly mis- represented it. The result of it all was that instead of making a fortune he lost heavily.

With what money he had left Mr. Crory start- ed for South America, but learning that reports of rich prospects there were ill founded he went to South Africa instead, passing through New York, Liverpool and London on the way. Land- ing at Port Natal, he went thence to Petermarits- burg, where the British soldiers were stationed, thence by ox team and cart to the Transvaal, where was a rich placer deposit known as Pil- grim's Rest, the object of his visit to South Africa. He found that the deposit was indeed richi, but it was quite well worked out and there was no show for him there. His partner wished

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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 130

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