An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 134

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

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with the products of the farm and with stock. Mr. Granger was at one time elected commissioner of Stevens county and, when Okanogan was formed, was appointed one of the first commissioners by Governor Ferry. He was prominent in the early history of that county and is well known for the part he played in the Indian troubles of the late seventies. As a deputy sheriff, he arrested Sal- usakin and Wyanticat, two of the Indian par- ticipants in the murder of the Perkins family, an account of which will be found elsewhere in the volume. Mr. Granger is third in a family of ten children, all of whom are living. Two sis- ters, Margaret (Granger) Bush, and Ann (Gran- ger) Scott, were born in Canada and are 110w living in Michigan. The others were born in Michigan and are still residing in that state; their names follow : Thomas, Joseph, George, James, Elizabeth (Granger) Hartford, Mary (Granger) Shaw, and Anna. Mr. Granger was married in Yakima City, October 1, 1877, to Miss Charlotte Bunting, who was born in Steilacoom, September 8, 1858, the daughter of Joseph and Martha A. (McAlister) Bunting. The father was killed by Indians while mining in Arizona, and the mother, a native of Missouri and a pio- neer of Washington, is now Mrs. Martha Cheney, residing five miles southeast of North Yakima. Her biography will be found on another page of this volume. Mrs. Granger has three brothers, one half-brother, and one sister, living. Their names with other particulars will be found in connection with the biography of Mrs. Cheney, the mother. One sister, Blanche (Bunting) Per- kins, was killed by the Indians July 9, 1877; a full account of the massacre is given on another page of this history. To Mr. and Mrs. Granger have been born the following children: Harry, born January 3, 1879, the first white child born in Okanogan county ; Ella and Elmer, twins, born May 4, 1889; Henry Roy, born March 28, 1885, deceased ; Martha, born September 23, 1898. Mr. Granger has one hundred and sixty acres where he makes his home; five acres are in orchard and the balance in hnny. The place is well equipped with modern residence and other buildings, a most de- sirable home, and at present is stocked with seven hundred sheep. In politics, Mr. Granger is a Demo- crat, always interested in the success of his party. The sterling qualities which have brought success in a business way have given him also the confidence and respect of his fellow men and have made of him a man of influence and a substantial citizen of the county.

HENRY V. HINMAN, the present register of the North Yakima United States land office and a respected citizen of Yakima county, is a native of the Empire state, born in 1836. His father, who bore the same name as the subject of

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Photograph by F. J. Tickner. HENRY V. HINMAN.

WILLIAM GRANGER.

Photograph by F. J. Tickner. JAMES W. HARDISON.

WILLIAM J. HACKETT.

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this biography, was also born in New York state and lived there until his death. By profession he was a successful lawyer. Mrs. Hinman, whose maiden name was Laura Van Note, was the daughter of Dutch parents and a descendant of the earliest settlers of New York. She was-born in New Jersey, and died at Kinderhook, New York. After receiving an excellent common school education in the schools of Kinderhook, Columbia county, New York, Henry V., Jr., ap- prenticed himself for four years to the printer's trade and, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, followed that occupation. How- ever, seven years of such work weakened his eye- sight so greatly as to oblige him to turn to some other ·line of work, and so, in 1857, he came as far west as Illinois, whose broad, fertile prairies appealed so strongly to him that he settled in Whiteside county and engaged in farming. Four years later he bade farewell to family and friends, put aside the plow and the sickle for the old Springfield rifle and the knapsack and, as a private in the Sixty-fourth Illinois infantry, marched southward with the boys in blue. Three years and eight months he served his country on the battlefield, participating in the battles of Farmington, Corinth and many others of note, besides being with Sherman on his famous march to the sea. Near Atlanta, Georgia, he was wounded and confined in the hospital for sixty days. Upon his return to service he was re- warded for his bravery by being commissioned first lieutenant of Company B of his regiment. After being mustered out at Louisville, Ken- tucky, in 1865, he returned to the farm in Illinois, where he lived until 1866, when he moved to Mis- souri and engaged in railroad construction. At the end of six years experience in this line of work in Missouri and seven years experience at Atchison, Kansas, Mr. Hinman again returned to agricultural pursuits, this time in Washington county, Kansas, where his home remained for eleven years. Like many another resident of that section, he became familiar with the ways of cyclones and was an unwilling victim of one. In 1879 he removed to Manhattan, Kansas, and in 1889 immigrated to the Northwest, locating a homestead near Mission, Chelan county, Wash- ington, where he lived for the following five years. Then came a short experience in the mer- cantile business in Ellensburg, with his son, a position for four years in the Kittitas . county court house and, in June, 1902, his appointment as register of the land office in the Yakima dis- trict. During the second year of his residence in Illinois, 1858, Mr. Hinman wooed and won Miss Jane L. Brakey, at that time a young school teacher of eighteen years. She was the daughter of William and Mary (Cooley) Brakey, natives of Pennsylvania and early settlers in Illinois, where both are buried. During the awful years of 1861-

65, Mrs. Hinman again taught school as an aid toward supporting the family while the hus- band and father was fighting for his country's preservation. Seven children came to the Hin- man home: William E., born in Illinois in 1859 and living in Washington; Mrs. Laura. E. Cash, born in Illinois in 1861, living in Ohio; Mrs. Mamie M. Clark, born in Illinois, living in Chelan county : Charles H., born in Missouri in 1871; Agnes M., born in Kansas in 1879, now a teacher and also supervisor of music, in the Ellensburg schools ; Mrs. Sadie Dix, born in Kansas in 1881, now living at North Yakima, and Jennie P., born in Kansas in 1884, living at home. Mr. Hinman is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and politically, a Republican, having belonged to the party since John C. Fremont's candidacy for the presidency in 1856. Besides his valuable homestead in Chelan county, he owns a fine home in the city of North Yakima, No. 201 North Seventh street. As a government official, Mr. Hinman's integrity and ability are the pride of his many friends.

WILLIAM J. HACKETT, farmer and threshing machine operator, who lives upon his ranch, six miles west and four south of North Yakima, is a pioneer of 1877 in Yakima county. He was born in the State of Massachusetts, No- vember 10, 1848, but grew up and was schooled in the pineries of Wisconsin, where self-reliance and hardiness of constitution are early acquired in life and are pre-requisites to success in the lumbering business. His father, Peter Hackett, was a lumberman, born in the Emerald Isle. He immigrated to Canada when eighteen years of age and from there emigrated to Massachusetts, where he was married. Subsequently he removed to Wisconsin and there lived the remainder of his life. The mother, Phoebe (Hall) Hackett, was born of Yankee stock in Massachusetts, her father, Lyman Hall, being a pioneer in her native state. At the age of sixteen the subject of this article began to serve a three years' apprentice- ship at the blacksmith's trade. At the end of that service he went farther north into the lumber district, where he worked ten years. In 1876 he emigrated to the Pacific coast country, settling for the first year in Portland. The following year he came to Washington Territory. After work- ing five years for the firm of Polly & Emery, he filed upon a tract of land on the Ahtanum, which is his present home. Here he has since made his home, rearing and educating his family and en- joying the fruits of his labors. He has operated a threshing machine for the past twenty years during the summer.and fall months and at present has a steam thresher. There is probably not a man in the county more skilled in this line of work than Mr. Hackett. In 1890 he built a saw-

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mill near Soda Springs, which he ran for ten years. He was married in Wisconsin in 1870 to Miss Barbara Ditenthaler, daughter of Ferdinand and Helen Ditenthaler. She died and he was again married in 1891, this time to Miss Hattie Greenwalt, a native of Missouri, born in 1865. Her parents were Abraham and Louise (Billings) Greenwalt, both natives of Pennsylvania, who came from California .to Yakima county, where they still reside. Mr. Hackett's children are: Edgar, May, Maude, William, Ted, Lincoln W. and Rex. Mr. Hackett is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows and politically, is an avowed Republican. His wife is a member of the Christian church. He owns a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, which he devotes to hops, hay and grain, besides having it well stocked with horses, cattle and hogs. He is a well respected citizen.

JAMES W. HARDISON, a pioneer of 1875 in Klickitat county, and a native pioneer of Ore- gon, is engaged in farming and raising stock ten miles Northwest of Toppenish. He was born in Polk county, Oregon, May 17, 1846, the son of Gabriel and Barbara (Slater) Hardison, the father a native of Kentucky and the mother, of Pennsylvania; both parents are dead. His mother was a second cousin of ex-Senator Slater. The family crossed the Plains in 1845 and took up a donation claim in Polk county, Oregon, upon which the father resided until his death. The son James was the first white child born in Polk county. His youth and early manhood were spent in' Polk county and here he received his educa- tion, attending first the common schools and eventually being graduated from Monmouth Col- lege, to the endowment of which he afterwards contributed considerable sums. At the age of twenty-three he engaged in farming in Polk coun- ty, so occupying himself for six years, when he sold out and moved to Klickitat county, Wash- ington. The old homestead in Oregon was one of the best farms in that region and the elder Hardison took great pride in its products. He had an exhibition of Gloria Mundi apples at the first Polk county fair that weighed slightly more than two pounds each and which were sold for one dollar each. His first apple crop sold for twelve dollars per bushel and the second crop for nine dol- lars per bushel. Another year he sold five hun- dred bushels of onions at five dollars per bushel. From 1875 to 1892, James Hardison was engaged in stock raising in Klickitat coun- ty. In the year last named he came to Yakima county and purchased one hundred and sixty acres of land, where he now resides, and which was prac- tically a barren sage-brush plain. This he has im- proved, transforming it into a most productive farm and making of it one of the most desirable homes in

the county. He has ten acres in hops, a good young orchard, eighty acres in hay, a comfortable dwell- ing, other buildings, and all the accessories of an ideal home and farm. He also raises cattle and horses, having twenty-five head of the latter, and his ·herd of cattle including twenty-five milch cows. Mr. Hardison was an active participant in the events associated with early history of this section, with which he is very familiar. He had the honor, with Samuel Fister, of conveying the first seal of Yakima county from Umatilla Land- ing, a mule being the means of transportation, to the Moxee valley and delivering it to Mortimer Thorp. James Hardison was ninth in a family of ten children. Their names follow: Mrs. Amanda Thessing, Sylvester, John, Walton and Angelo, deceased; Mrs. Melissa Locke, in Oregon; Peter, in Iowa; Mrs. Mary McFarland and Mrs. Vic- toria Hobbs, living in Oregon. Mr. Hardison was married in Polk county, Oregon, in 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Wherry, a native of Iowa, born in 1852, the daughter of Wyatt and Josephine (Hen- derson) Wherry. Mr. Wherry was a veteran of the Mexican war and at the time of his death owned the townsite of Odell, Iowa. Mrs. Hardi- son is a first cousin to Senator Henderson. To Mr. and Mrs. Hardison have been born the fol- lowing children, Oregon being the birthplace of all but the youngest, who was born in Klickitat county : Earl, a stock buyer of Seattle ; Ellis, de- ceased ; Elbert, a farmer and stock raiser of Yak- ima county ; Nellie, Margaret and Eula, living with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Hardison are members of the Methodist church. Mr. Hardison is a Democrat, influential in the councils of his party. He is a man well known among the pio- neers of central Washington and is highly re- spected for those sterling personal traits of char- acter possessed by so many of those who have accomplished so much in the development of the great Northwest.

WALTER G. GRIFFITHS, farmer and stock raiser, living six miles west and three miles south of North Yakima, is a native of South Wales, born in 1848. His father, James Griffiths, was born in Wales in 1803, in which country he farmed until his death in 1871. The mother, Mary (Watkins) Griffiths, was also born and died in Wales. Mr. Griffiths remained in the country of his nativity until twenty-two, when lie took passage for the United States, and set- tled in Iowa, where he attended the Troy nor- mal school, finishing his education already begun in the common branches in his native country. In 1874 he went to California, and in 1875 opened a butcher shop in Downey, Los Angeles county, which he ran until 1877, when he sold out and went to Arizona. After mining there two years he returned to California, and in September, 1879,

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came to Yakima City, and purchased a timber culture claim in Wide Hollow. He and five other citizens put in an irrigation ditch, the sec- ond one in that valley, and he put forty acres of his new place in cultivation. He sold this place in 1882, and moved up on the Cowiche, where he rented for two years, at the end of which period he returned to the Ahtanum and took up his resi- dence with Fenn Woodcock, where he had pre- viously made his home while improving his tim- ber culture land. He was married at this time, and rented his present place for a while, bought the farm in 1888, and has here made his residence continuously since that time. He has one brother, William, living in California. He was married in Spokane, in 1886, to Miss Fannie D. Strong, daughter of George W. Strong, a native of New York, born in 1845. Her father was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church, and died in Oregon in 1885. Her mother, Sallie (Thomas) Strong, was born in Greene county, Ohio, in 1846, and followed teaching for a time. Her parents were pioneers in Iowa and Kansas. She moved from Kansas to Cheney, Washington, with her husband, in 1881, where he was a pastor of the church. After the death of Mr. Strong she was married to J. W. Brice, and now lives in Yakima county. Mrs. Griffiths was born in Iowa, April 25, 1867. She was educated for teaching and taught two terms in the city of Spokane, and one term in Yakima.county. She has two sisters, Ada S. Pitt, Yakima county, and Lucile E. McMan- amon. Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths are Congregation- alists, of which church he is a trustee. He is a Democrat, politically, and active in the councils of his party. In addition to his home place of one hundred acres, he has filed upon a homestead near White Bluff. His home place is well under cul- tivation, and is devoted to hay, hops and fruit, while he is handling some three hundred head of cattle, of the Holstein and Durham breeds.

EDWARD J. HACKETT. Among the thrifty, prosperous young farmers and stock rais- ers of Yakima county is the subject of this art- icle, Edward J. Hackett, who came to the county with his parents when a small boy and has here been reared and educated, and is in a fair way to become one of the leading citizens and heavy property owners of the county. He was born in Wisconsin October 25, 1872, to the marriage of William J. and Barbara (Dettendoll) Hackett. His father, a native of Massachusetts, is a farmer in Yakima county, where he came in 1876 from Wisconsin. He is of Irish and English parent- age. He is living at this time on his farm in the Ahtanum valley, which he took up as a home- stead shortly after coming to the county. The mother was a native of Illinois and came of Ger- man parents. She died in 1891. Young Hackett

has followed farming and threshing since he first began work, growing up on his father's farm and engaging with energy in the multifarious lines of employment connected with diversified farming, and has thus become what might properly be termed an intelligent agriculturist. In 1896 he took up a desert claim, which he proved up on at the end of three years, having put it in a good state of cultivation. In 1897 he purchased a forty acre tract adjoining his place, and to this he has since added two hundred and eighty acres. He was married in Yakima county in 1900, to Miss Zelma E. Greenwalt, daughter of Abraham Greenwalt, native of Pennsylvania, who came to Yakima county in 1887, and now lives on the Moxee. He is of German descent. Mrs. Hackett was born in Oregon in 1882, and was brought to Washington when five years of age, and has here been raised and educated. She has three brothers and two sisters. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Hackett has been born one child, Carl E., whose birth occurred on October 2, 190I. Mr. Hackett is an active Republican, taking interest in the councils of his party, and lending his influence to the success of the same. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. He owns five hundred and forty acres of land, all but one hundred acres of which is under cultivation ; one hundred and fifty head of cattle, with a large number of horses and hogs, and town lots in North Yakima.

JOHN E. DAVERIN, living some ten miles west of North Yakima, has the distinction of be- ing the first male white child born in Kittitas county. He first saw the light under very pe- culiar and decidedly unusual circumstances. He was born August 14, 1869, under the thorn bush near where the town of Ellensburg is now lo- cated, while his parents were traveling in a wagon through the country, looking for a loca- tion. The town of Ellensburg was then un- known, and its present site was marked by a single log cabin, which was used by some cattle men as headquarters while they grazed their herds in the valley and on the surrounding hills, the place bearing the euphonious, but suggestive, and, withal repellent title of "The Robbers' Roost." He is one of a pair of twins, his sister Emma, now Mrs. Fitterer, of Ellensburg, being born on the same day. His father, Martin Dave- rin, was born in Wisconsin and crossed the Plains in an early day, to Washington, locating in Kittitas county, where he died in 1885. His mother, Bridget (Downs) Daverin, was born in Chicago and died in 1893. Subject was reared and educated in Yakima county and worked upon the farm with his father until the death of the latter, when subject, at the age of eighteen, was called upon to take charge of the farm, and he also

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cared for his mother until her death, six years later. He continued to run the home place until 1902, when he sold it. He has now leased his present place and is engaged in hop growing. His brothers and sisters are: Mary J. Splawn, deceased ; Maggie Nevins, North Yakima; Ella Bounds, North Yakima ; William, Yakima; Eliza, Sholtz, Washington ; Emma Fitterer, Ellensburg ; Andrew, Yakima. He is socially, a member of the Eagles. Religiously, he is a Catholic; politic- ally, a Democrat.

ELDRIDGE CROSNO, farmer and dairyman, living in the Ahtanum valley, is a native born Washingtonian, and was born June 14, 1872, on the old home place where he now resides. He was born to the union of William P. and Frances (Smith ) Crosno. His father was born in Illi- nois, January 25, 1838, and crossed the Plains to Washington in 1864, settling first in Clarke coun- ty, where he took a homestead, but on which he did not prove up. Selling his right in 1869, he came to Yakima county and pre-empted one hun- dred and sixty acres in the Ahtanum valle . Here he engaged in stock raising until his death in 1895. The mother was born in Illinois in 1843, and traced her ancestry back to the Smiths who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. She died in 1875. Young Crosno devoted the greater portion of his boyhood days to educational pursuits, at- tending the Whitman college, the State Normal school at Ellensburg, and finishing with a four years' classical course in the Woodcock Academy. His vacations he devoted to assisting his father on the farm. When at the age of twenty-three, his father died and he was appointed one of the ad- ministrators of the estate. He then took charge of the home place. where he has lived ever since. His brothers and sisters are: Horatio, Mrs. Mollie Greenwalt, both living in the Ahtanum valley; May, a graduate of the State University at Seat- tle, and Ollie, now teaching in the Wenatchee high school. Mr. Crosno was married in the Ahtanum valley, October 19, 1898, to Miss Vida E. Wardle, a native of Yamhill county, Oregon, born December 17, 1881, and a graduate of the State University at Seattle and the California State University. Randolph Wardle, her father, was a blacksmith, born in California February 27. 1856, of English parents, and now lives in the Webfoot state. Nancy S. (Ticknor) Wardle, her mother, was born in Chehalis county, Wash- ington, in 1863. Mrs. Crosno has one brother, Clarence W., living in Idaho. To the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Crosno have been born the follow- ing children : Lois, Lillian and Clara. The fan- ily are members of the Congregational church. Fraternally, Mr. Crosno is connected with the Woodmen of the World, and politically, he is a

Democrat. He has been road supervisor of his district, and has held the office of school clerk for six years. He owns three hundred and sixty acres of land, the greater part of which is grazing land, and also has a nice bunch of cattle and other stock.

JONATHAN O. TRAYNER (deceased) was one of the honored pioneers of Yakima county, hav- ing located near Prosser in 1882. At the time of his death he was living on the upper Ahtanum, where he had resided for nearly twenty years, having taken up his homestead in 1884. He was the son of James and Sarah (Osmond) Trayner, both natives of . Pennsylvania, where they were born, the father in 1801 and the mother in 1805, and in which state they resided until their deaths. James Trayner was a farmer, and on the Pennsylvania homestead Jona- than was born March 8, 1833. He remained with his parents, working on the farm and attending the neighboring schools, until he was twenty-one years old. At this time, in 1854, he bade his parents. good-by, went to New York and took passage by steamer, via Nicaragua, for San Francisco, reaching his destination January 21, 1855. He went from San Francisco direct to the Feather river country and engaged in the butcher business, so occupying himself for ten years. In 1864 he went to the Idaho mines; thence to Montana ; thence to White Pine, Nevada; thence back to Montana, spending some time in each location, engaging in business in the mining regions of Idaho, Nevada and Montana un- til 1882. He then determined to change his occu- pation and engage in agricultural pursuits. With this object in mind, in 1882, he came to Yakima county and, as narrated above, settled near Prosser ; thence moving to the Ahtanum valley two years later and taking up the homestead on which he after- wards resided continuously until his death, which took place October 24, 1903. Mr. Trayner was married in the Congregational church at Ahtanum, December 11, 1889, to Miss Mary M. Clyse, daugh- ter of John and Minerva (Sigle) Clyse. Her father was a native of Maryland and a mechanic ; he died in Ohio. Mrs. Clyse was a Virginian by birth. of German parentage; she raised a family of ten chil- dren, of which Mrs. Trayner was one. Mrs. Tray- ner was born in Ohio April 23, 1838. She grew to womanhood and was educated in her native state. In 1888 she came to Washington, met Mr. Tray- ner shortly after her arrival and, in 1889, married him. The farm on which she resides is one among the many comfortable homes in the Ahtanum valley, and consists of forty acres of well-improved land, devoted principally to alfalfa and fruit. Mrs. Tray- ner is a woman highly esteemed by her neighbors and friends for her commendable traits of character. Of Mr. Trayner's death we quote the following from the columns of the Yakima Herald: "Jon- athan O. Trayner, an old and well-known resident

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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 134

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