An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 143

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

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Mr. and Mrs. Clark have the following children : Charles, born September 18, 1883; Clarence, born April 10, 1885; Winfield, born November 3, 1886; Jessie, born March II, 1890; Clara, born August 12, 1891 ; John, born February 10, 1896, and Ma- rian, born November 15, 1898. Mr. Clark is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is a Republican. He has about two hundred and forty acres of land, a good house and barn, and has about sixty acres of his place under cul- tivation. He has a nice orchard of ten acres and about one hundred head of cattle and horses. He is a successful agriculturist and stands high in the community as a substantial and progressive citizen.

NEWTON KINCAID is a farmer and stock raiser residing about twelve miles northwest of North Yakima, Washington. He was born in Or- egon June 8, 1870, the son of James and Mar- tha Ann (Liscomb) Kincaid, both residents of this state. His brothers and sisters are: Mary J. (Kincaid) Burnett, Elizabeth (Kincaid) Clark, William Kincaid, John (deceased), Samuel and James Kincaid. He was educated in the com- mon schools of Oregon and Washington, chiefly in those of the latter state, for he was only six years old when his parents moved to the Naches valley. Since he was eighteen years old he has been en- gaged in farming and stock raising, with the ex- ception of three years when he served in the Phil- ippines in the army of the United States, as a member of Company E, Second regiment, Wash- ington volunteers. £ On completion of his service with the army he returned to the farm, and he has since been engaged there continuously. He owns about one hundred and sixty acres of land, a good house and barn, and some twenty head of horses and cattle. He is also the owner of the Brown Horse mines. It is a gold and copper proposition from which assays as high as thirty- three dollars and twenty-five cents to the ton have been received and, encouraged by the showing, Mr. Kincaid has started a tunnel to develop the property. He is an ambitious, industrious man, and is fast acquiring wealth. In politics, he is an enthusiastic supporter of President Roosevelt.

WINFIELD S. STEVENS is a farmier and stock raiser living twenty-five miles northwest of North Yakima, Washington. He gets his mail in that city. He was born in Ohio June 29, 1851, the son of John and Louisa (Landers) Stevens. He was educated in the schools of his native state until he was sixteen years old, when he engaged in farm work for his father. In 1869 he moved to Pennsylvania, where he worked at lumbering for four years. He returned then to his father's

farm, remaining until 1876, then started west, making stops at Lincoln, Illinois, in the Wiscon- sin lumber camps, and in Wyoming. Finally, in 1877, he arrived at Walla Walla and engaged in farming. In 1880 he sold out, came to Yakima county, and located on railroad land, but, dis- posing of his improvements in 1888, he then squatted on his present farm, one of the finest in the valley. It is known as the Buckeye ranch.

Mr. Stevens was married at North Yakima December 23, 1880, to Miss Nancy J. Clark, who was born in Missouri January 22, 1854. Her par- ents, John and Mary (Moore) Clark, are both dead. Her father was born in Ohio in 1823, and her mother in Indiana in 1830. She was the third of a family of ten, of whom six are dead. Mr. Stevens' brothers and sisters were: Temperance (Stevens) Roler, Levi Stevens, Steward A. Ste- vens, Mary (Stevens) Ferris, Henry M. Stevens, Effie J. (Stevens) Holden, Caroline and Sarah 'E. Stevens, both dead; Alfred Stevens and Ennis Stevens. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens have four chil- dren-Edmund E., born September 16, 1881; John, born July 25, 1885; Mary L., born June 28, 1887, and William T., born September 4, 1889. Mr. Stevens is a Democrat. He owns two hun- dred acres of land, about fifty-five acres of which are under cultivation; also a good home and barn. He has, moreover, a third interest in about forty- five hundred acres of grazing land and ninety head of horses and cattle. He is considered to be one of the most progressive and public spir- ited citizens of the valley, being always to the front in matters affecting the betterment of the community, and having been liberal in contrib- uting time and money to build about seven miles of heavy road from the upper Naches valley to the Nile vallev. He is a man of high character, industrious and deservedly popular.

WILLIAM A. J. McDANIEL (deceased) was a farmer and stock raiser who lived two miles north of Nile, Washington. He was born in Adams county, Illinois, April 4, 1836. His father, William McDaniels, was born in Baltimore, Mary- land, in 1778, and died in 1838. He was of Scotch descent, and served in the War of 1812. His mother. Frances B. (Embree) McDaniel, was born in Kentucky, March 22, 1806. When he was two years old his parents moved to Missouri, where his father died. When he was eight years old he came with his mother to Oregon, crossing the Plains in an ox wagon. They lived in Polk county, where his mother took up a donation claim. He went to school there until 1848, and then went to Salem and attended the Methodist mission school. September 18, 1849, he went to California during the gold excitement. He re- turned in 1850 and attended school until 1854.

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October 15, 1855, he enlisted in Company G, First Oregon volunteers, and at once came to Yakima county to fight Indians, who were on the war- path. He was mustered out May 8, 1856, after many engagements. He then engaged in farming and stock raising in Oregon until 1863, when he went to Boise, Idaho, and spent two years mining and conducting a butchering business. In 1865, he came to Yakima county and located on a farm. He followed farming from this date till the time of his death. He was married in Yakima county, June 2, 1872, to Elizabeth E. (Lindsey) Grant, daughter of Walter and Elizabeth A. (Ben- nett) Lindsey, who was born in Ohio, June 18, 1838. Her brothers and sisters are : Rachel, Jesse, William, John, Edward, Sarah and George. His brothers and sisters are: Elisha, Joshua, Nancy, Elizabeth, Margaret and John, all of whom ex- cept Joshua, are dead. His children are: John (deceased) ; William E., born May 8, 1876; Mary F. (McDaniel) Newman, born February 9, 1878; Charles P., born April 4, 1879, and Laura A., born August 23, 1881. Mr. McDaniel was a Democrat. He was living on unsurveyed land, on which he had improvements valued at three thousand six hundred dollars. For many years he received a pension from the government for his services as a volunteer in the Indian wars. He was one of the best-known old-timers of the Northwest, and was familiarly known as "Uncle Andy."

He was highly respected by all. Concern- ing his death we quote the following from a North Yakima paper: "William A. J. McDaniel, a well- known old pioneer of the Yakima valley, died at the residence of his son-in-law, John Lindsay, of Fruitvale, at one o'clock p. m., Wednesday, April 27, 1904. He was a man of many sterling qual- ities who had many warm friends, particularly among the old settlers. For several years he had made his home in the Nile settlement, where he had taken up a homestead and where his hos- pitable home was always open to all who chanced that way. In the death of 'Uncle' Andy McDaniel we feel that we have lost a good friend, and we sincerely regret his taking off."

JAMES A. BECK. Among the men who have had a prominent part in the development of Yakima county, he whose name forms the cap- tion of this article is certainly to be counted as one. For many years a resident of this valley, he has enjoyed good opportunities to stamp his im- press upon it, and he has made the most of such opportunities, making his influence especially felt in agriculture and irrigation, though he has ever manifested a deep interest in everything tending to promote the general welfare of his community. Born in Indiana, June 26, 1853, he nevertheless spent many of his childhood's years in Missouri,

but the force of Horace Greeley's advice, "Go west, young man," soon began to influence him, and, in 1865, he came to Washington territory. In Whit- man seminary, Walla Walla, he received an un- usually thorough and broad education. When eighteen years old he took up the study of law, and for two years Blackstone and Kent were his companions, but he then turned his attention to theology. A year was spent in study for the min- istry. The year 1869 found him in Yakima county. His parents, John W. and Martha G. (Goodwin) Beck, who were likewise natives of the Hoosier state, had also come west. becoming prominent pioneers of the Yakima valley. Some of their early experiences are chronicled in another portion of this volume. Upon their farm James worked for a few years, but in 1878 he took a homestead on what has now become so famous as Nob Hill, near North Yakima. It was during his residence there that he accomplislied one of his greatest undertakings for the good of the general public by becoming the originator of the Hubbard ditch, which, he says, was the first high line canal in the state. Until 1888, Mr. Beck busied himself in the cultivation and improvement of his own home place, after which he sold out and purchased the parental homestead. This he farmed for eight years. In 1896, however, he sold it also and pur- chased from the railway company his present home, situated at Nile. To the cultivation and im- provement of his half section of land he has since devoted himself with assiduity and zeal. His long experience in farming under the conditions ob- taining in Yakima county and his wisely di- rected industry have enabled him to build up a home of which he has reason to be proud. His ranch is supplied with a good house, also fine barn and outbuildings and an abundance of live stock of all kinds.

Mr. Beck was married at North Yakima, Jan- uary 5, 1888, the lady being Vestina McKillips, a native of Iowa, born August 18, 1857. She is the daughter of John and Electa (Wheelock) Mc- Killips and the fifth child of a family of eight, all of whom are now dead except herself and brother John. Mr. Beck had three brothers, Roshell, de- ceased, and Douglas and Orlando, living in this county. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Beck con- sists of three children, John, born October 10, 1898: Bessie, born February 22, 1890, and Charles, born November 5, 1892. In political faith, Mr. Beck is a Democrat, while in religion he belongs to the vast concourse of people who believe in the truth of spiritualism, as do also his wife and family. The Nile postoffice is on his place, and for the past five years he has been postmaster. Mr. Beck is still in the prime of life, and the memory of early experiences is as fresh in his mind as if they were ocurrences of yesterday ; he relates these ex- periences in an interesting and zestful manner, as

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he would more recent happenings. He was an active participant in many of the stirring events of the early days. He assisted in the capture of the Indians who murdered the Perkins family in 1879, and witnessed the hanging of the murderers.

WILLIAM D. BECK, who lives at No. 4 South Kittitas avenue, in North Yakima, Washing- ton, is a farmer and stock raiser. He was born in Owen county, Indiana, January 3, 1856. He received his early education at Walla Walla, Washington, having come west with his parents when he was but nine years old. He left there when he was thirteen, and came to Yakima county, where he attended school. When he was twenty-one he left school. Before that time he had become interested in cattle raising. In 1873, he was employed by W. R. Ballard in the survey of the Yakima Indian reservation, and was later engaged in the survey of the Northern Pa- cific through the Cascades. In 1878, he located a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres and an eighty acre timber culture claim, and has fol- lowed farming much of the time since. He now has the mail contract between North Yakima and Nile. He was married at Old Yakima, June 10, 1877, to Miss Frances Cook. There was one child, who died. He was separated from his wife in October, 1879, and September 21, 1881, he mar- ried Senora E. Morrison, who was born in Illinois March 4, 1862. Her parents were John L. and Caroline (Belch) Morrison. Three children were born : Ruby, September 9, 1882; Pearl, March 24, 1884, and Senora, December 7, 1885. The mother died May 12, 1887. Mr. Beck was again married May 24, 1891, to Mary Etta Clark, who was born in Kansas, November 8, 1868, and who was the daughter of John and Mary (Moore) Clark. To this union three girls were born: Georgia M., April 2, 1892; Lilly A., June 25. 1894, and Clara B., July 7, 1897. Mr. Beck is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and is a Roosevelt man. He has about one hundred and twenty acres on the Nile river and two lots and a good home in North Yakima. He owns about thirty head of horses and cattle. He is active and energetic and quite popular.

JOHN CAMERON is a native of Canada, where he was born April 22, 1860, and is engaged in farming twelve miles northwest of North Yak- ima, Washington. His father, Donald Cameron, was born in Nova Scotia in 1824 and is dead. His mother, Jane E. (Jardine) Cameron, was born in Canada in 1833 and still lives there. He was ed- ucated in Canada and left there when twenty-two years old and located in Chippewa, Wisconsin, where he engaged in blacksmith work, a trade

he had learned in his native land. He came to Washington in 1888. While employed with the Blakely Mill Company, he learned the trade of machinist. After eleven years he quit on account of his health and engaged in the oyster business. Failing health compelled him to sell out in 1901, and he moved to Yakima county and bought two hundred and forty acres of farm land, to which he has added two hundred and forty acres more. Later, he sold the farm first purchased and now lives on the last purchase. He was married in New Westminster, Canada, June 28. 1897, to Mrs. Minnie S. Countryman, who was born in Iowa, August 27, 1870. She had two children by a former marriage, Samuel, born July 14, 1886, and Winnie Maude, born July 1, 1889. Mr. Cameron has one child, Bertie, born March 8, 1894. Mr. Cameron's brothers and sisters are: Lizzie, Mar- garet (dead), James, David, Jennette, Allen, Bur- gess and Howard. Mr. Cameron is a Democrat. He has two hundred and forty acres of land and a good house and barn, seventeen head of horses and cattle, and has some city property at West Seattle. He is a substantial citizen who stands well in the community.

ROBERT E. CAMERON is a farmer and stock raiser, living twenty miles north of North Yakima, Washington. His postoffice is Wenas. He was born in California, October 23, 1873, being the son of Ephraim and Emily (Butler) Cameron, now Chambers. Mr. Cameron came to Yakima county with his parents when he was two years old, and received a meager education in the common schools here. When he was sixteen years old he began farm work. He worked on his mother's ranch for four years, and then leased land on the Indian reservation for one year. Then he leased the farm he is now occupying. He was married at North Yakima, November 10, 1901, to Miss Maude Best, who was born in Missouri, July, 1882. She was the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Best. Her brothers and sisters are: Anna, Martha, Richard, Callie, Etta, Minnie and Joseph. Mr. Cameron has a brother and sister : John F. and Clara. Mr. Cameron is a member of the Woodmen of the World, and is a Republican. He has about thirty head of horses and cattle, and owns half of forty acres of land in the Wenas valley. He is well liked and a hard working citizen.

JOHN F. CAMERON is engaged in running a dairy farm, eighteen miles northwest of North Yakima, Washington. His postoffice address is Wenas. He was born in California, September II, 1871, and he is the son of Ephraim Cameron, born in Ohio, May 26, 1830, and of Emily (Butler) Cameron, who was born in Illinois, December 25,

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1846. His parents came to Yakima county when he was three years old. He attended school here until he was fifteen. He then engaged in farm work and stock raising until he was twenty-three years old, when he leased the farm he is now work- ing, in partnership with his brother, until 1895, since which time he has run it alone. He was mar- ried at North Yakima, July 4, 1895, to Miss Lorena Longmire, who was born in Oregon, April 4, 1876, and who was the daughter of Simeon and Eliza (Plimm) Longmire, botlı residents of Ellensburg. Her sisters and brothers follow : Addelmer, Ada, Wayne, Addie and Ellsworth. Mr. Cameron's brother and sister are Robert and Clara. Mr. Cam- eron is a Republican, and he takes considerable in- terest in matters political. He has served as road supervisor. He owns a half interest in forty acres of land, and has twenty-three milk cows and about forty-five head of cattle and horses. Ten miles northwest of his home is located a sawmill, of which he is part owner. The capacity of the mill is eight thousand to ten thousand feet of lumber per day. A box factory is operated in connection. Mr. Cam- eron is a hard worker, and is building up a valu- able property.

ROBERT H. KANDLE is engaged in conduct- ing his farm, fifteen miles northwest of North Yakima, Washington. His postoffice is Wenas. He is a native of Indiana, born March 10, 1847. His father was born in Indiana, and came thence to Washington by team in 1851. His mother, Margaret (Hill) Kandle, was born in Ireland, in 1817, and died May 23, 1879. Their other chil- dren were a pair of twins, who died in infancy ; Garrett, who is also dead; George B. Kandle, of Tacoma ; William A. Kandle, of Pierce county, and Franklin J. Kandle, county commissioner of Yakima.

Mr. Kandle was educated in the schools of Thurston county, and when twenty-two years old he engaged in teaching. In 1871 he came to Yakima county, and began raising stock, and that year he located on the farm now owned by the Taylor heirs. He sold his stock and farm in 1874, returned to Thurston county, and engaged in farming. In the fall of 1901 he sold out there, and purchased his present farm.

He was married in Thurston county, June 5. 1870, to Miss Tillatha Longmire, daughter of James and Varinda (Taylor) Longmire, both natives of Indiana. She was born in Indiana, August 8, 1850, and was the third of a family of eleven children, all of whom but one are living in this state.

Mr. and Mrs. Kandle have nine children, as fol- lows: James, born March 13, 1871 ; Thomas Wal- ter, March 31, 1872 ; Maggie Anderson, born June 1, 1874; Anna Reynolds, born June 3, 1877 : Cora

Anderson, born August 17. 1879; Ella Brunner, born March 16, 1881 ; Frank, born January 22, 1883; George, born January 1, 1885; Flora, born January 16, 1891.

Mr. Kandle is a Republican. He has two hun- dred and twenty acres of land, two lots in Olympia and two good farm houses. He is one of the leading farmers of his district, and well liked by all.

WILLIAM FLYNN, whose address is Wenas postoffice, Yakima county, is one of the pioneers of the state, having settled here in 1866. He was born in Ireland, in 1839, his parents, Patrick and Kather- ine (McCall) Flynn, both being natives of the Em- crald Isle. When he was but eighteen months of age his parents immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City, where they resided for many years. Here our subject grew to man's estate. The war came on at this time, and the young man, fired with the true sentiment of patriotism and love for his country, at once enlisted, and was assigned to the duty of teamster, which position he continued to hold until the close of the rebellion. He then came west to what was then Washington Territory, in 1866, and engaged as packer for the government in the Indian war. He served through these excit- ing times, being a participant in the various expedi- tions, and a witness of the many events of interest and danger. At the close of this war, he took up land and became a farmer and stock raiser, in which business he has continued until recent years, when he retired from active duty. He has been a very successful business man, always reaping more or less financial returns from all of his ventures, until he has accumulated a vast amount of land, which he counts by the hundreds of acres. He has been iden- tified with the progress and general development of his community and county, and may justly be denominated a progressive citizen and a desirable neighbor.

Mr.Flynn is one of a family of four children, two boys and two girls. The brother he has not heard from in a number of years; the sisters came to this country, and were married, but died young. He has been raised in the Catholic faith. Politi- cally, he is a pronounced Democrat. In addition to his large real estate holdings and other inter- ests, he is a stockholder in the Yakima bank.

WILLIAM M. BADGER, contractor and builder, at North Yakima, came to the Pacific coast in 1875. since which time he has made his home respectively in California, Oregon and Wash- ington, in all of which states he has been actively connected with the upbuilding of the country, his calling especially fitting him for the accomplishment of such ends. His father, Robert Badger, was a native of Ohio, born in 1812, where he followed

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farming for years. Edith (Morris) Badger, his mother, was born in Ohio in 1815. Our subject was born, reared and educated in the Buckeye state, at- tending school there until nineteen years of age, and working with his father upon the home farm. He then learned the trade of carpenter and cabinet maker, and engaged in business for himself, having become an expert workman at the age of twenty- one. In 1861, at the age of twenty-two, he re- sponded to the first call of President Lincoln for vol- unteers to put down the rebellion, enlisting first in Company G, Ninth Indiana infantry volunteers, under Colonel R. H. Milroy, and later in Company K, Sixty-eighth Ohio volunteers. He served to the close of the war, being discharged at Buford Isle, South Carolina, April 11, 1865. He was engaged in thirty-one battles, among the number being Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg, through all of which he came unscathed. At the close of the war he returned to Williams county, Ohio, and engaged in farming for several years. Later he moved to Indiana, and then to Minnesota, in both of which states he followed farming and carpentering. He was carried away by the western fever in 1875, and at that time immigrated to the Golden state, where he farmed and worked at his trade for a number of years, later going to Oregon. His next move was to Yakima county, in March, 1883, where he was one of the very first to settle in the "Horse Heaven" country. He claims the distinction of having built the first cabin in that now famous wheat district. After six years' residence there he moved to North Yakima and established himself in the building and contracting business, which he has followed con- tinuously and successfully since.

Mr. Badger was married in Ohio October 4, 1862, to Sarah Elizabeth Russell, a native of Mas- sachusetts, born in 1842. She is now deceased. To this marriage were born five children, three of whom, Charles, Mrs. Alice R. Ritchie, and Mrs. Bertha Weaver, are still living. Our subject has three brothers and one sister living, as follows : Ervin M., an ex-soldier; Mrs. Phoebe A. Derby, in Cali- fornia ; James F., ex-representative of Douglas county, Washington, and Robert M., residing in Oregon. His deceased brother, Charles A., was twice wounded in the Civil war, and was a prisoner in Libby prison and at Belle Island. Mrs. Badger's father and one brother, William Russell, served with distinction in the war. Fraternally, Mr. Badger is connected with the Masons, Eastern Star, Ancient Order of United Workmen and Grand Army of the Republic. Politically, he is a Democrat. He is a good citizen, and is still comfortably fixed in this world's goods, after having dealt gener- ously with his children.

ELIJAH S. YEATES, boot and shoe dealer in North Yakima, was born in England May 19,

1832, and came to the United States in 1851. His parents, Frances and Jane (Hodgkiss) ' Yeates, were both of English birth and ances- try. The father was a shoemaker by occupation and was also an ex-soldier, having served for over six years in the British army, from which he at last purchased his discharge and settled down to his trade. Our subject attended tuition school until the age of fifteen, when he entered his father's shop and learned the trade of shoe- maker. At the age of seventeen he ran away from home and traveled for three years through- cut the British Isles, working at his trade. Iu 1851, he went on a sailing trip, and landed in the United States in the spring of 1852, going directly to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he worked in a shop for a time and then estab- lished himself in a shop of his own. He then learned the trade of machinist, working at this until 1857, when he was thrown out of em- ployment by the hard times, and in 1859 crossed the Plains to California. He mined there for some nine years, but not meeting with the desired success in this line of employment, he engaged in the shoe and harness business, fol- lowing the construction of the Central Pacific railroad. Later he settled at Elko, Nevada, in the shoe and jewelry business, continuing there for some six years, when he sold out and went to Tuscarora, Nevada, where he engaged in the same lines of business. In 1885, he came to Yak- ima City, and opened up in the boot and shoe line, moving the next spring to the present site of North Yakima, at the time of the location of that city, and he has continued here in business ever since, being identified with the town's growth from its start to the present time. In 1886, he took up one hundred and sixty acres in the upper Naches valley, and there established a sawmill, from which was supplied the greater portion of the lumber that was used in the con- struction of the original North Yakima and the Selah canal. He was united in marriage in Green Bav. Wisconsin, in the spring of 1854, to Jessie Davidson, a native of Montreal, Canada. Her parents were Scotch, the father, John Davidson, being born at Firth, Scotland. Mr. Yeates is the oldest of a family of three and an only son. Of the two daughters, Ann Jeffery is dead, and Emma B. Lovelace, the youngest, is residing in California. He comes from a family of high standing in England, and traces his ancestry back many generations. His grandfather, Thomas Yeates, was for twenty-four years parish clerk at Upton, England, where he was honored and esteemed by all who knew him. Mr. Yeates is an energetic. progressive citizen, and has always been actively identified with the rustling, push- ing element of the communities where he has lived. He has constructed since coming to the Pacific coast fifty-four business and residence

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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 143

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