An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 144

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

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buildings for his own use, and has expended thousands of dollars in the development of mines. He has eight children: Jane Johanes, Wisconsin; Margaret Keyser, Nevada; Jessie Hesson, Nevada; Emma J., deceased; Mary D. Parsons, North Yakima; Bell, Yeates and Frank, deceased. Socially, he is identified with the Masonic order, of which he is past master. For many years he was a high official in Odd Fel- lowship. Politically, he is a Republican. He has followed the banner of that party through the vicissitudes of war as well as in the halcyon days of peace. He has been honored with office in the past and was at one time county superintendent of public instruction of Elko county, Nevada.

JAMES D. McINTOSH, teacher and ranch owner, in Selah valley, Yakima county, dates his residence in the county from 1893. He was born in Illinois in 1857. His father, John S. Mc- Intosh, was a native of Maryland, and the mother, Esther J. (Manchester) McIntosh, was born in Canada in 1822. They are both now deceased. Subject's maternal grandfather was an Englishman by birth, and a subject of King George III at the time of the American revolu- tion for independence, but his sense of justice and right caused him to cast his lot with the revolutionists, and he enlisted in colonists' cause heart and soul, undergoing all the hardships and deprivations of those perilous times with the cheerfulness of the born patriot and soldier. His feet were so badly frozen on one of the expe- ditions in which he participated that he was cap- tured by the British. Subject received his higher education in the high school and the academy of Rockford, Illinois; a diploma being granted him from the latter educational institution in 1880. He then taught awhile in the academy, and later moved to Kansas, where he resided for many years, teaching school and music all of the time-in fact, he has followed teaching continu- ously since his graduation in 1880. In 1893, he came west and settled in the Selah valley, where he purchased his present place and began teach- ing. He taught the first school in that valley. He was married, August 2, 1887, at Deerfield, Iowa, to Jennie M. Goodlander, a native of Rock- ford, Illinois, where she was born, May 1, 1857. Her father, Henry H. Goodlander, was a native of New York, but lived most of his life in Penn- sylvania. He was a veteran of the Civil war. The mother, Elizabeth (Fisher) Goodlander, was born in Ohio in 1836, and is now deceased. Subject had five brothers and one sister, all of whom are dead but Jerome J. and Joseph E. Mr. and Mrs. McIntosh have four children : Alberta M., Gladys, Jean M. and Clarence D. Mr. McIntosh is a stanch Republican, and he and wife are active members of the Baptist church.

He is a man of decided literary tastes, and is highly respected and esteemed by those by whom he is best known.

ROBERT W. SCOTT, farmer and stock raiser in the south Naches valley, Yakima county, was born in Canada, December II, 1866. His father, Robert Scott, was born in Scotland in 1840 and emigrated with his parents to Canada when quite small. He was a resident of the vicinity of Galt, Ontario, until about nineteen years old, when he came to the United States and settled in Illinois, where he was married April 16, 1863. He enlisted in the Ninety-eighth Illinois infantry and served three months, then was discharged on account of disability. In 1865 he took his family, consisting of wife and one son, and went back to Canada, where the subject of this sketch was born. When he was about six weeks old, however, they came back to the United States, settling in southwest Missouri, where they resided until R. W. was about seventeen years old. In 1884 they immigrated to Washington and settled in the south Naches valley, where he was engaged in farming with his father for several years, also in working with him as a carpenter. During this time he made a trip to Idaho, where for a while he worked in a sawmill. His father being elected to the of- fice of county assessor, he was appointed deputy and did field work for two years. In 1900 he and his brothers, Charles E. and Tom H., purchased one hundred and sixty acres in the Nachies valley. He has since purchased two other tracts of one hundred and sixty acres and one hundred and twenty-six acres in Cowiche and Naches valleys respectively, on the latter of which he now resides.

Mr. Scott was married December II, 1900, in North Yakima, the lady being Elsie A. French, a native of Minnesota, born August 18, 1882. Her father and mother, Angus and Alice (Hawn) French, were natives of Canada, and had ten chil- dren, of whom Mrs. Scott was fourth, and all of whom are living but three. Mr. Scott was the second of eleven children : Walter D., Robert W .. Charles E., Maggie S., James N., Tom H., Harry H., Amy K., Bert E., George R. and an infant brother who died, Walter D. and Maggie S. being deceased also. The rest are all residents of Wash- ington. Mr. and Mrs. Scott have two children, Thelma Alice and Raymond W.

Fraternally, Mr. Scott is connected with the Royal Tribe of Joseph, and in politics, he is a Republican. He gives a great deal of attention to stock raising and dairying.

LOUIS LANCH, a pioneer of Yakima county of the year 1879, is one of the successful farmers of Cowiche valley. He was born in Germany,

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September 25, 1847. His father, David Lanch, was water tender in the mines of that country and died in 1853 of rheumatism contracted in underground work. His mother, Eva (Buhl) Lanch, now deceased, was also of German birth. When nineteen, our subject came to the United States, and settled in Wisconsin, where he en- gaged in farming for a time and then in stone quarrying. Although he had been educated in the fatherland, he was ambitious to learn the ways and language of his adopted country as soon and perfectly as possible, and while his time was occupied working in daytime he attend- ed night schools for two years, thus fitting him- self for future usefulness in the new country. He went to Pennsylvania in 1868 and engaged in general work, depositing his savings in the bank, all of which were swept away in a bank failure in 1873, leaving him stranded. He headed then for the Pacific coast. Engaging in steam- boating in California, he again saved up some money. In 1879, he came to Yakima county and located in the Cowiche valley, where he is now living, taking up the first land in his township. He was married in Yakima county in the fall of 1883 to Melissa Weddel, who died seven years later, leaving four children, Frank, William, Bell and Martha, all of whom are dead but the first named. He was married a second time in Yakima county on May 7, 1897, to Augusta (Kriebel) Schoenroke, a native of Germany, in the hospitals of which country she took a thor- ough nurse's training course. She now has a diploma granted her for proficiency. Her parents were August and Charlotte (Flocha) Kriebel, both natives of Germany, where the latter still lives at the ripe old age of 77. The father died in 1863. She has two brothers and one sister living: Gustave, a farmer in Yakima county ; Paul, in Germany, and. Christianna Bosse, in New York. Mr. and Mrs. Lanch are both members of the Lutheran church. Mr. Lanch is a prosper- ous farmer and stock raiser. He owns a fine farm eighteen miles from North Yakima, well stocked and with good orchard and other im- provements. He is a public spirited citizen, and has always been identified with all movements for the betterment of his community, and especially is this true in educational matters, he having built at his own expense and maintained for the year 1896 the school in his district, No. 14. The number of his friends is only limited by the extent of his acquaintance, and he is widely known.

ORLIN I. HART, dairy farmer in the Cow- iche valley, fourteen miles northwest of North Yakima. is one of the pioneers of his county, hav- ing lived there since 1877. His father, Orlin I., Sr., was a native of Pennsylvania and was one of the early pioneers who crossed the Plains to

Oregon and underwent the many hardships of those brave men and women who staked their lives and their all on the cast and blazed the way of civilization, making the path easier for the oncoming generations. Our subject's mother, Mary J. (McCalister) Hart, was a native of Ken- tucky ; she was also called upon to undergo the rough experiences of pioneer living. In this new land of the extreme western frontier, the sub- ject of this sketch first saw the light May 19, 1865, and before he was old enough to realize his sur- roundings, his parents, in 1867, moved to Yakima county and settled near Yakima City. Here young Hart attended the city schools until fif- teen, when he abandoned his home surround- ings and school and went on the range as a rider. He followed this business five years and then engaged in the stock business for himself, in which he met with excellent success for a number of years. Finally he moved his stock into the Okanogan country and there in the winter of 1890 met with disaster along with hundreds of others, the winter of 1889-90 being memorable in central Washington for its length and severity. After meeting with this reverse, Mr. Hart re- turned to North Yakima in 1892 and engaged in the dairy business, which he continued there until 1901, when he removed to his present home in the Cowiche valley. He was married in Yakima county, November 30, 1899, to Jessie Elliott, a native of Kansas, born October 1, 1876, to the union of James and Harriet (Butner) Elliott. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are living with Mr. and Mrs. Hart, owning the land upon which Mr. Elliott and Mr. Hart carry on a dairy business. Mr. Elliott was born in South Shenango, Penn- sylvania, January 23, 1837, his parents being John and Mary (Porter) Elliott, the father a na- tive of Shenango also, the mother born in Ire- . land in 1808. James was reared on a farm, remaining with his parents until eighteen years old, when he went to Greene county, Wisconsin, and learned the blacksmith's trade. In 1857, he settled upon government land in Shawnee county, Kansas, and a year later joined his father in Jefferson county. In the spring of 1859, he joined the rush to Pike's peak; returned the fol- lowing year minus a fortune. The next year he- returned to the mines, where he worked until 1862, when he became blacksmith and horse- shoer for the Overland Stage Company, which carried the mail between North Platte and Fort Bridger. Then he went to Utah and in 1864 placed a freighting outfit on the road between Utah and Virginia City, Montana. After two. years of this exciting work and a year in Helena, in October, 1867, he returned to Kansas and for twenty years farmed in Wilson county. How- ever, in the spring of 1889, he again sought the far West, settling on his Cowiche ranch, which he purchased from A. J. Lewis. Here, hale and:

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hearty, he is contentedly spending the winter of his life. Mrs. Hart has four brothers and sisters : Jay, a ranchman on the Cowiche; Ola, attend- ing the North Yakima High school; Don, at home, and Mrs. Effie Donley, who also lives in the Cowiche valley. Mr. Hart is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America, and po- litically, he is a Democrat. He is a member of the Catholic communion. Prosperous and re- spected, both Mr. Hart and Mr. Elliott are members of that type of citizenship which is most desir- able in any community.

EDWARD A. LINDSEY, a native son of Yakima county, resides upon his place just with- out the limits of North Yakima. He was born in the city of Yakima, July 16, 1868. His par- ents, William and Addie J. (Wright) Lindsey, came to Yakima county in an early day, where they resided until the seventies, when they moved to the Willamette valley, Oregon. They re- mained there but three years, when they returned to Yakima county. Young Lindsey first attended school in Oregon and later, on their return to Washington, he attended the winter schools of that state until seventeen. He then went out to do for himself, working at farm work in the Kittitas valley. He then employed himself at- tending stock until 1800, when he went to the Nile valley and squatted upon a tract of land there, which he held for a short time. Then man- aged the ranch of A. T. Splawn for a season, at the end of which time he purchased an eighty- acre tract on the Cowiche creek. Selling this after a short time, he leased land and raised hops for a couple of seasons, then ranched for five years on the north fork of the Cowiche. He was married in Yakima county. November 17. 1892, to Ida Parker, daughter of Jefferson and Lydia (Sumner) Parker. Mrs. Lindsey was born in Missouri, June 2, 1871. She has brothers and sisters living, as follows: Joseph, Thomas, Eva Daverin and Leroy, all residing in Yakima coun- ty. Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey have two children : Harry and William, born respectively in 1894 and 1896. Mr. Lindsey is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America, and Mrs. Lindsey is a member of the Christian church. Politically, he is a Democrat, but outside of serving his school district as director for three years he has never been an office holder or seeker. He owns his home place, and is interested in mines in the Swauk country.

ISAAC DAVIS, farmer on the Cowiche and veteran of the Civil war, was born in Hardin county, Illinois, March 15, 1840. His father, John Davis, was a farmer in Indiana, where he was born, April 5, 1813. His mother, Nancy (Hughes)

Davis, was born in Illinois, January 31, 1819. Our subject, after reaching the age of sixteen, went to live with his uncle, Asa Davis, helping him on the farm and at the same time learning the cooper trade. In the spring of 1861, when he had reached the age of twenty-two, the call came to the patriotic citizens of the country to arouse to defend their nation from disruption and dis- solution, and at the first call he enlisted in Com- pany A, Twenty-ninth Illinois infantry, and con- tinued throughout the entire war in the service of his country, receiving his discharge at Hemp- stead, Texas, November 6, 1865. He was in nine engagements, among the number being the bat- tles at Forts Donelson and Henry, the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Vicksburg. At the battle of Shiloh he was wounded in the face and con- tracted rheumatism, from which he has since been a sufferer, and for which disability he draws a pension. At the close of the war he returned to Illinois and engaged in farming and coopering for a number of years, removing in 1873 to Kan- sas, where he made his home for fifteen years, following agricultural pursuits. In the fall of 1888 he moved to Yakima county and purchased a farm, and at the end of a year bought out a relinquishment on a quarter section of land, upon which he moved, and where he has since resided. He was married in Illinois, November 20, 1866, to Hannah C. Hufford, a native of Illinois, the date of her birth being December 25, 1846. Her father, Abram Hufford, was a native of Virginia. The mother, whose maiden name was Betsy Pat- terson, was a native of Illinois. Mrs. Davis was an only child. The subject of this article had one brother, Abraham, who enlisted in the war when a mere boy and never returned home, dying while in service. His sister Sarah, the oldest one of the family, is also dead, as are also two half- brothers and sisters. Mr. Davis has eight chil- dren living and two dead: Laura A. Willard, Flora A. Fear, Charles T., Cora D. Fear, James E., Maggie Parker, Mary E., and Laura M. Mr. Davis is a Republican, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Religiously, he is connected with the Holiness church. He owns an eighty-acre farm, well stocked, and is enjoy- ing life.

JOHN O'NEAL, who lives on his farm on the Cowiche, sixteen miles northwest of North Yakima, is not only a pioneer of Yakima county, but is a native born Washingtonian, having made his advent into the world in Thurston county, Washington, September 22, 1862. He comes from pioneer stock, his father, Abijah O'Neal, having crossed the Plains from his native state, Indiana, to Oregon, in 1852, when he was in his twenty-sixth year. He passed through all of the early Indian wars in Oregon and Washington,

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and is credited with being a most willing and efficient Indian fighter in his day. Subject's mother, Melinda J. (Underwood) O'Neal, was born in Illinois in 1827, and died in 1874. She was of German and her husband of Irish descent. Mr. O'Neal was educated at Olympia, and at the age of thirteen came to Yakima county with his parents and settled in the Cowiche valley. Here he grew up, working with his father and attend- ing school in the winters. He continued with his father until his death in 1887, when he as- sumed control of the estate, and has continued to operate the place ever since. He was married in North Yakima, March 10, 1889, to Jane Reyn- olds, who was the second of a family of four girls and five boys. Her eldest sister, Mary, resides in Missouri, and John, Date, Amy Fear, Sadie Carr, Frank, Sell W., and Jesse, all live in Washington. Our subject's children are : Charles, Freddie, John and Anna, twins ; Alice and Myron. Mr. O'Neal was next to the youngest of a family of six children ; their names are: Charles, Mar- garet Butler, Mary, William and Anna Butler. Mrs. O'Neal's parents, Jesse W. and Susan Reynolds, live on the Ahtanum, where they are engaged in farming. Mr. O'Neal, fraternally, is connected with the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica ; politically, he is an active Democrat, always taking interest in the success of his party and the election of his friends. He has prospered in this world's goods, owning a good farm of one hundred and sixty acres, well stocked, and town property in North Yakima, besides other inter- ests. He is well esteemed among his neighbors and acquaintances.

WILLIAM WESLEY BEEKS. Although the subject of this biography is yet in the very prime of his life and appears even younger than his age would portend, there are probably few older pioneers of the Northwest than he. For fifty-six years he has lived in this section of the United States, having been born in Washington county, Oregon, June 24, 1848, and during his more than half a century of residence in this sec- tion he has witnessed one of the most rapid and marvelous developments for that space of time that any portion of this country has ever under- gone. His father, Jacob Beeks, was born in Ohio in 1819, and was the son of George Beeks, a na- tive born pioneer of Indiana. Thus is a chain of paternal pioneers established which reaches over more than a century of the nation's history, each man carrying the Stars and Stripes farther and farther westward. Jacob Beeks married Mary A. Beal, a native of Pennsylvania, and the daughter of George and Rosa Beal, whose ancestry is pio- neer American. William's intrepid pioneer parents crossed the great Plains and mountain ranges lying between Ohio and Oregon and set-

tled upon a donation claim in Washington county in the year 1847, and there the son lived with them until sixteen years of age. His father was a breeder of fine running stock, and, as a boy, Will- iam attained a reputation as a track rider on the Oregon circuit. But at the age of sixteen he set out into the wide world to make his own way. In 1864, with his uncle, Charles Beeks, he took a band of cattle north to British Columbia, passing through the uninhabited Yakima valley in 1854. Returning, he continued to ride the range until the Bannock Indian war of 1878, when he en- listed under General Howard. He participated in nearly all the battles and skirmishes of that cam- paign. The following year he was with the troops who quelled the rebellion at the Warm Spring agency, Oregon, and at the lava beds distin- guished himself by rescuing his wounded captain from the clutches of the redskins. The troops had made an unsuccessful charge, and among those who had gone down before the fire was their gal- lant captain. Trooper Beeks, when he saw how matters stood, made a daring run to the Indians' fortifications, fastened a rope around his captain's body and dragged him to 'a place of safety within the line, all under a terrific fire. After this cam- paign the young man returned to Klickitat county, where he had previously been employed as fore- man for Rean & Smith, and purchased a ranch, entering the stock business on his own account. To this county, also, came his father and mother, and there, too, his mother died in 1893. His father lived until the ripe old age of eighty-three, laying down life's burdens in North Yakima two years ago. Mr. Beeks met with success 'in the stock industry, but suffered very severe losses in the middle nineties, at which time he had one hundred and eighty head of blooded horses. In 1897 he drove a band of horses to Cheyenne, Wyoming, and there disposed of them for good prices. Upon his return he took up his residence in Yakima county, where he has since lived, en- gaged in buying and selling stock and raising cattle and horses. He still owns a quarter section of farming land, situated eleven miles east of Goldendale, though his home is now in North Yakima. Mr. Beeks was married in Washington county, Oregon, September 4, 1877, to Miss Irene Dorson, daughter of John and Mary (Dickson) Dorson, Southerners by birth. Irene Dorson was born in Missouri and died in Klickitat county in 1885, leaving the following children: Mrs. Anna Remley, born in Klickitat county, living near Centralia ; Mrs. Ada Holt, born in Klickitat county, living at Toppenish; and Mrs. Lillie Arm- strong, born on the Ahtanum, and living in Yak- ima county. Mr. Beeks had four sisters and one brother : Philip, now dead ; Mrs. Charity Tuttle and Mrs. Rosa Butler, living at Yakima City .; Mrs. Mary Stump and Mrs. Josephine Bacon, living in

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North Yakima. In 1889 Mr. Beeks was again married, his bride being Mrs. Eliza A. Rowley, born in Missouri in 1867, to the union of Mr. and Mrs. John Martin. As a pioneer and a progressive, esteemed citizen of the Yakima country, Mr. Beeks is justly entitled to a place in this history.

WILLIAM A. LINSE, living three miles west of North Yakima, is one of Yakima county's suc- cessful fruit growers and a man of substantial standing in his community. Born in Germany, February 9, 1844, he is the son of German parents, M. Henry and Mary E. (Remtly) Linse, the former born in 1805, the latter in 1815. Both are still living, residents of South Dakota. William was the sixth of a family of twelve children, the others being Minnie, dead; Henry E., Mrs. Min- nie Pabst, Dora, Frederick, Edward, Mrs. Louisa Oertli, Mrs. Mary Simon, Sarah, Mrs. Amelia Rade and Mrs. Elizabeth Christ. He came to America when four years of age, his parents set- tling near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he at- tended the public schools ten years. Then he commenced making his own way in the world, working for wages until 1862, when he responded to his country's call by enlisting in Company G, Twenty-fifth Wisconsin volunteers, under Cap- tain W. Darvin. In this company he served until mustered out June 14, 1865, at Madison, Wiscon- sin. While in the army, Mr. Linse took part in every battle fought by Sherman between Chatta- nooga and the sea, and was wounded in the battle of Smithfield, the last one of a series of twenty- two. He now draws a pension. After the close of the war he engaged in farming on his father's place, purchasing it, and for thirteen years re- mained in Wisconsin. Then he sold out, moved to Minnesota, farmed there four years, then mi- grated to South Dakota. There he filed upon three hundred and twenty acres, and purchased an additional four hundred and eighty acres, and on this immense farm lived the succeeding eight- een years, selling it for seven thousand dollars in 1897 and removing to Yakima county. Here he purchased a tract of land near North Yakima, which he sold in 1902, purchasing with a portion of the proceeds his present home. He now de- votes his attention to the growing of apples, peaches, cherries, melons, etc.

December 13, 1866, Mr. Linse married Miss Elizabeth Oertli, born in Switzerland, in 1847, the daughter of Henry and Madgeline Oertli, both of whom are now dead. She was the sixth of a family of thirteen children, ten of whom are now living, all residing in America. To the union of Mr. and Mrs. Linse have been born the following children: William G., September 14, 1867, Wis- consin, a farmer in South Dakota; Mrs. Emma Smith, June 14, 1869, Wisconsin, living in Yakima

county ; . Lydia, Wisconsin, deceased; Henry, March 5, 1874, Wisconsin, living in Yakima county ; Mrs. Louisa Slagle, August 12, 1882, Min- nesota, living in Yakima county. Mr. Linse is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, and that he is a public-spirited man is shown by the fact that he served eight years as road supervisor in Wisconsin and six years as school treasurer in Dakota. Politically, he is a Republican. Both he and his wife are members of the Lutheran Evangelical church .. On his fruit ranch of seven- teen acres he has erected commodious and com- fortable buildings and other improvements de- signed to add to the comforts of home. With suf- ficient property to insure their spending the re- mainder of their days in the quiet enjoyment of life's blessings and in the consciousness that each of their children has been well started in life, Mr. and Mrs. Linse are content.

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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 144

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