An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 145

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

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JAMES M. EGLIN, who is a resident of the city of North Yakima, is engaged in buying and selling horses, in which occupation he has been successful and made himself well known through- out central Washington. He is also one of Yak- ima county's pioneers, having come here in 1871. Indiana is his birthplace, and there he was born November 24, 1845, the son of Cornelius and Margaret Ann (Dolson) Eglin. The father was born in New York in 1798 and died in Indiana at the age of sixty-two; the mother's birthplace was also New York, her birthyear being 1806, and she died in Oregon eleven years after her hus- band's demise. James lived in Indiana until nine- teen, meanwhile attending school; at that age he went to the Montana placer mines, where he worked two years. In 1866 he pushed farther westward, settling in Benton county, Oregon, where for eight years he was the proprietor of a successful transfer business, Corvallis being his home. But in 1875 he sold this business and pur- chased three hundred and forty-five acres of land, where he farmed two years, and then migrated to the Ahtanum valley, Washington. Here he became one of the first successful sheep raisers, owning at one time six thousand head. The se- vere winter of 1889-90 seriously crippled Mr. Eg- lin's business affairs, as the result of which he left the Yakima country for a time, going to Vic- toria, British Columbia, where he lived with his daughter. In 1892 he returned to Yakima county and filed on a quarter section of land, which he farmed until three years ago. At that time he sold his land and engaged in his present business. Miss Frances M. Kerns. whose parents were na- tives of Pennsylvania and of Dutch descent, was united in marriage to Mr. Eglin at Corvallis Feb- ruary 28, 1868. She was born in Ohio, November 3, 1849, and was the youngest of six children-

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Mary, Alice, John, Milton, Arthur and herself. Her sisters are now Mrs. Mary Kiger and Mrs. Alice Tucker. Mr. Eglin's brothers and sisters are : John, Thomas (who is now dead), Mrs. Lu- cinda Clement, Abraham D., George W., Mrs. Margaret A. Ferguson and Sobrina, who is also dead. To Mr. and Mrs. Eglin have been born the following children: Mrs. Sarah E. Cameron, January 30, 1869, now dead; Lucinda, died in in- fancy; Mrs. Ivy Card, April 6, 1874, living near Spokane; Mrs. Rosella Flint, March II, 1876, liv- ing at Sunnyside; Fred C., May 3, 1877, propri- etor of Eglin's feed stables, North Yakima; Mrs. Jessie Perry, June 1, 1882, living at Milan, Wash- ington ; and Mrs. Neva Field, July 1, 1887, living in Yakima county. Mr. Eglin served a term as sheep inspector of the state of Washington, and has many times refused nominations for county offices in both Oregon and Washington, being more interested in seeing his friends elected than in holding office himself. He belongs to the Re- publican party. Mrs. Eglin is a member of the Baptist church. Mr. Eglin is recognized as an expert in his business, and is well regarded by all who know him.

JOHN ROBSON BELL, farmer and stock raiser, living in the Moxee valley, six miles southeast of North Yakima, was born January 28, 1847, in Scotland, and during his life has lived in a greater variety of climes than falls to the lot of most men. The fact that he and scores of other travelers have finally concluded to perma- nently settle in the Yakima country is worthy of deep consideration. Dumfries was his birth- place and Irvin and Jennie (Robson) Bell, na- tives of Scotland, where they lived and died, were his parents. The father lived near Thomas Carlyle and was himself a man of talent in literary work. John Bell attended the public schools of Scotland and when seventeen years of age was graduated by the Annan Academy. The follow- ing two years he spent in a mercantile house; then was at home for a year and a half. At the age of twenty-one he left the British Isles, going to Australia, where he mined two years. Following this the stock industry attracted him so strongly that he purchased a band of horses and prepared to live in New Zealand. The ani- mals failed to withstand the rough voyage, how- ever, so that Mr. Bell was forced to give up horse raising and instead he farmed and mined, living in New Zealand until 1884. In that year he immigrated to America, taking land in the Cowiche valley. There he farmed two years and then accepted the superintendency of the Moxee Company's immense ranch, occupying this responsible position nearly three years. He then purchased a farm in the Moxee basin, or valley, and on it has since resided. In New Zealand,

October 28, 1874, he was united in marriage to Miss Jean Cochrane, the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Patterson) Cochrane, parents and daughter being of Scottish birth and descent. The mother still lives, residing in New Zealand. Mr. Bell has the following brothers and sisters: George, Jeanette, James, Bessie, Irving, Bella, Mary, Jean, Arthur and Isabel, all born in Scot- land. Mrs. Bell was the oldest of a family of six girls and six boys. To Mr. and Mrs. Bell have been born the following children, the first of whom is dead: Irving, Lillie, John, William and George, living in Yakima county, the youngest at home. Both parents are devoted members of the Presbyterian church, in which they are active. Mr. Bell is a stanch supporter and admirer of President Theodore Roosevelt and a thorough believer in the fundamental principles of the Re- publican party, though liberal minded. Upon his sixty-acre ranch he produces all of the staple crops of central Washington and there he has built a comfortable home. His stock interests include three hundred head of cattle and about fifty head of horses. Mr. Bell has been a suc- cessful man during his entire life and is con- sidered a substantial, progressive man of sterling character by all with whom he comes in contact. A host of friends testify to the congeniality of Mr. and Mrs. Bell.

ERNEST S. HILL, living eleven and one- half miles southeast of North Yakima, is one of Yakima county's progressive young farmers and a prominent hop grower. Born in Polk county, Wisconsin, February 12, 1864, he is the son of Nelson and Mary (Colton) Hill, the former a native of New York, the latter of Wisconsin, where both died. His education was obtained in the public schools of Wisconsin, ending in his seventeenth vear, when he began steady work for his father. A year later his mother's death broke up the home and sent him into the world to do for himself. At first he was employed in the sawmills of Polk county, remaining at that occu- pation ten years. Then he immigrated to the Pacific Northwest, arriving at North Yakima December 24, 1890. In Yakima county he and his brother purchased W. H. Packett's sawmill on the Ahtanum and operated it until 1893. when ill-judged timber purchases, due to his inexpe- rience with western timber, and the financial stringency forced him into bankruptcy. But with commendable energy and courage he immediately went into the hop raising industry, cultivating this profitable crop on leased land until 1900, wlien he was able to purchase his present ranch in the Moxee coulee. Mr. Hill was united in marriage to Miss Emma Lang at North Yakima in 1892. She passed into the valley of the shadow November 26, 1899, leaving, besides her

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husband, three children: Floyd, born October 21, 1893; Clell, May 2, 1898, and Emma, Novem- ber 26, 1899. These are Mr. Hill's only children. June 23, 1901, he was again married, his bride this time being Miss Mary B. Case, born in Illinois, November 30, 1865, to the union of David and Mary A. (Mull) Case. The father was a New York farmer, born in that state in 1831 to Jonathan and Theressa (McDowell) Case, also natives of New York. John Mull was a native born pioneer of Indiana, 1816 being the year of his birth, and his wife, Rachel (Fuller) Mull, was also a native of Indiana, born in the year 1823. Mrs. Hill had the following brothers and sisters: Ella, Franklin and James, now dead ; Mrs. Rachel Marsh, living in Illinois; John R., conducting a confectionery in North Yakima. Mr. Hill is the ninth child of eleven children, of whom seven are living: Mrs. Cleona Beal, in Wisconsin; Edward, in Yakima county ; Milzer, in North Dakota; Mrs. Rusha Parslon, in Wis- consin ; Mary, also in Wisconsin ; Mrs. Eva Guy, in Wyoming. Mr. Hill is affiliated with the order of Yeomen, and in political matters is a stanch Republican. Mrs. Hill is a member of the Bap- tist church. Socially, he and his wife are popular and have a host of friends. The ranch consists of eighty acres, of which twenty-two are in a hop yard and the balance principally in hay and a young orchard. A strictly modern, eleven-room house, commodious hop house, dryer and baling house, a fine barn and other substantial buildings make the place both comfortable and more valu- able than it would otherwise be. Mr. Hill has by his progressiveness, energy and ability raised himself to a position among the most successful ranchmen of the county, especially in hop grow- ing, and by his many commendable traits of character has gained the esteem of his fellow men.

NELSON J. DICKSON, living ten miles southeast of North Yakima, is a native of Brook- lyn, New York, born February 21, 1859, to the union of James M. and Alzina (Nelson) Dick- son, both born in Vermont, where the mother died when Nelson was a baby. Reverend James M. Dickson, D. D., of Scotch descent, has been in ministerial work for upwards of forty-six years and for ten years past has been pastor of the Reformed Church of East New York. He is at present living in retirement in Brooklyn. Nelson Dickson attended school in New York and New Jersey and for three years studied at the Montgomery Academy, leaving that institu- tion when seventeen years of age to engage in the mercantile business. The first three years of his experience were had in Boston; then he came west to Kansas City, and for seven years was in the service of Bullene, Moores & Emery. In

1886, he came to the territory of Washington, settling in Yakima county. Here he farmed a year, then managed a bottling works in North Yakima for three years and in 1890 purchased a farm in the lower Moxee valley. Four years later he sold this place and leased land near Tampico for another four years. Six years ago he obtained a relinquishment title to the eighty acre tract where he now lives, and upon which he has a homestead filing. Mr. Dickson was married, September 9, 1889, to Miss Alethe Conrad, born in Illinois, February 22, 1865, the daughter of James H. and Mary A. (Gere) Con- rad. The father was a native of New York, the mother a native of Illinois; both are living in Yakima county. Alethe was the oldest of seven children, her brothers and sisters being: Pal- mer, Mrs. Lennia M. Sickler, Warren B., Elosia, Ray Y. and Purdy J. Mr. Dickson has one brother, Clarence, and one sister, Margarella M., both living in New York. To Mr. and Mrs. Dickson have been born the following children, all in Yakima county: James G., February 7, 1891; Warren G., October 29, 1893; Clarence P., September 18, 1895; Mary H., May 15, 1898; Allen D. and Alethe, twins, March 27, 1900, and Kezzia, October 4, 1903. Mr. Dickson belongs to the Brotherhood of American Yeomen ; he and his wife are members of the Christian church, and politically, Mr. Dickson takes his stand with the Democratic party. He has a fine five-acre orchard, but the major portion of his land is in hay; he also owns fifty head of cattle and horses. His time is spent in dairying and in the horse and cattle business. Mr. Dickson is a suc- cessful farmer and is respected and esteemed by all who know him.

JAMES H. CONRAD, pioneer citizen of Yak- ima county and one of its prominent stockmen, resides in the Moxee valley, nine and a half miles southeast of the city of North Yakima, whose site he well knew before even a railroad was thought of by the little handful of settlers in the country. He came to the Yakima valley when there were not more than two score perma- nent residents in the Kittitas valley and only two or three hundred people in what is now Yakima county ; and because of his prominence in the county's early life, no history of that section would be complete without a biographical sketch of him. James H. Conrad was born in Tompkins county, New York, March 28, 1839, the son of Samuel R. and Keziah (Hollister) Conrad, natives of Connecticut and New York state, respectively. James was educated in the district schools of the community where he spent his boyhood, leaving school when about eighteen. When he reached his majority he went to Mary- land for a year and in the spring of 1858 took

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his first step westward, settling in Illinois, where he was engaged in the drug business for five years and subsequently in farming. In 1871 he decided to go farther west, and in that year came to Yakima county, arriving April 20th. In that erstwhile stock range he filed upon land lying on the upper Ahtanum, where he, too, engaged in raising cattle and horses and tilling the soil. During the Indian troubles of '1877-8-9 he was acting as deputy sheriff and in that capacity was prominently identified with the Perkins affair. He was one of the party which discov- ered the bodies of Perkins and his wife, he and an Indian name Stick Joe being the first to find them, aided in the arrest and conviction of the Indian murderers and placed the death caps and pinions upon the murderers who were hanged. In 1896, Mr. Conrad moved to the Moxee valley, where he has since been engaged in farming and raising stock. He was married, August 5, 1863, in Illinois, to Miss Mary A. Gere, the daughter of James S. and Elizabeth (Lyons) Gere, natives of Ohio and Kentucky, respectively. Mrs. Con- rad was born in Illinois, the date of her birth being August 24, 1844, and had the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Emma Wright, War- ren B., living in Ililnois; Mrs. Olive Radebaugh, Mrs. Nettie Murphy, now dead, and Mrs. Alice Lochrie, living in Iowa. Mr. Conrad was an only son and had three sisters, Mrs. Hestira Wil- son, now dead; Mrs. Martha Beardsley, living in Illinois, and Mrs. Mary Vickers, living in New York City. To Mr. and Mrs. Conrad have been born seven children, six of whom are still liv- ing: Mrs. Alethe Dickson, February 22, 1865; Palmer, December 24, 1868; Mrs. May Sickler, January 23, 1870; Barclay W., December 3, 1871 ; Elosia (deceased), May 10, 1879; Ray Y., Au- gust 30, 1880, and Purdy J., February 7, 1883. In political matters, Mr. Conrad is an active Demo- crat, taking part in all county elections, and is every ready to aid a friend whom he believes worthy of office. Mrs. Conrad is a member of the Baptist church, in which she is a zealous worker, and both she and her husband are justly proud of the circle of friends in which they move. Mr. Conrad has by energy and economy accumu- lated a goodly holding of property, of which we may mention his forty acre ranch, seventy head of cattle and about two hundred head of horses. He is looked upon as a substantial citizen, and as a pioneer of central Washington is known far and wide throughout that region.

JAMES H. GANO. When the reader consid- ers the fact that the subject of this biography came to the Moxee valley at the age of fifty-six. with a large family and exhausted means of support, it is but the recording of his thought to say that Mr. Gano is a man of unusual pluck, courage,

perseverance and energy. At the age of sixty- seven he is apparently as capable as ever, and is reckoned as one of the leading farmers of the Yakima valley. Champaign county, Ohio, is his birthplace, and his birthday was December 3, 1837, his parents being Isaac and Nancy (Hogg) Gano. The father was born in Virginia, April 25, 1811; the mother in Clark county, Ohio, July 19, 1819. She was a cousin of Governor Hogg of Texas fame. James Gano received his education in the district schools of Ohio, leaving school when sev- enteen years old, and at once commencing steady work for his father on the farm. When twenty- two, he left the home place and leased a farm in his own name. Subsequently he purchased a place and for thirty-five years, counting from the time he began working for himself, he was en- gaged in farming in Ohio. So many misfortunes came upon him, however, in the shape of floods, droughts, etc., that in the fall of 1892 he immi- grated to the Northwest, where he was convinced that irrigated crops rarely failed. Settling in Yak- ima county, he spent a year farming on another's land, becoming acquainted with irrigation methods; then he filed upon his present place in the upper Moxee valley, the land being covered by sage-brush and without water. However, it was situated in what is known as the artesian area, and after many discouraging efforts Mr. Gano was able to tap the basin and place his land under cultivation. Today his place is one of the best in the district and upon it stand a comfortable home and other farm buildings. Mr. Gano was united in marriage in Ohio, April 26, 1860, to Miss Rhoda M. Gardner. She was born in that state, December II, 1841, the daughter of John and Sophia (Huff) Gardner, natives of New York and West Virginia respectively. The father was born in 1803 and died at the age of sixty-nine; the mother was born in 1807 and died in her forty- seventh year. Rhoda Gardner was the seventh child in a family of eleven, seven of whom are now living: Rhodes, Benjamin, Mrs. Martha Ray, George, Mrs. Mary Shockey, Mrs. Frankie Trumbo and Mrs. Gano. Mr. Gano has two brothers living, David S., in Ohio, and Charles L., in California; and one sister, Mrs. Sarah J. Bald- win, in Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Gano's children are as follows: William H., born May 15, 1861, living in Ohio; Mrs. Ida J. Benson, July 6, 1852, in North Yakima; George A. and Mrs. Emma J. Purdy, April 13, 1864, living in Yakima county; Mrs. Elva Heffelfinger, April 3. 1869, living in Ohio; Mrs. Estelle McElree, April 13, 1872, living in Ohio: Mrs. Avanell Pat- terson, August 28, 1875, living in California; Ira J., February 6, 1877, in Yakima county; and Wes- ley E., August 25, 1881, at home. Miss Avanell Gano's marriage to Mr. Patterson took place at the family home on the evening of October 7.

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Mr. and Mrs. Patterson reside in Fresno, Cali- fornia, where he owns considerable city property and is interested in a lumber and planing mill. Both are highly esteemed young people. Mr. Gano was instrumental in the establishment of Artesian postoffice and was its postmaster and carrier until 1901, when he resigned, having successfully pro- moted rural free delivery route No. I. He was also prominent in the organization of school dis- trict No. 40, and cleared the site for its school- house and was the first director appointed by the county school superintendent, serving in that capacity. seven years. As road supervisor of his precinct, he has located all the roads in the district. Mr. and Mrs. Gano are members of the Methodist church and are highly esteemed by a large circle of friends. Mr. Gano's property inter- ests consist of eighty acres of improved land, twenty head of milch cows and ten head of horses. He is a substantial citizen and a successful, pro- gressive man.

MRS. MARTHA A. (McALISTER) CHE- NEY, a pioneer and the daughter of pioneers, is a successful farmer and stock raiser, living five miles southeast of North Yakima. In her youth she was known as Miss Martha McAlister and was born in Missouri, May 20, 1839, the daughter of James and Charlotte (Smith) McAlister. James McAlister was a Kentuckian by birth and was a pioneer of 1844 in Washington, where he finally died. The mother was born in Tennessee and is also dead. In 1844 the family crossed the Plains from Missouri, the daughter Martha being at the time in her fifth year. In September, 1845, they located at Olympia, witnessing the erection of the first building in that settlement. Until her six- teenth year Miss McAlister attended school, im- proving every opportunity to obtain an education. Educational privileges were very limited at that time and it was frequently necessary to employ an instructor to come to the house and give pri- vate lessons. By studious application to the work, however, she succeeded in acquiring a fair educa- tion in spite of the unusual difficulties attending the course. Discontinuing her studies at the age of sixteen, she spent two years at home, assisting her mother in the care of the house, and at the end of this time, October II, 1855, she was married in Olympia to Joseph Bunting, who was afterward killed by the Indians while mining in Arizona. The family moved later to Yakima county and here Mrs. Bunting was again married, this time in North Yakima, in1 1879, to Carlos Cheney. After twelve years of married life death again entered the home, the husband departing this life from natural causes March 22, 1891. Mrs. Cheney has eleven brothers and sisters, all living but three; their naines follow: America, George W., John,

Eliza J., Julia A., Sarah A., Elizabeth, James, William, Louisa and Charlotte. Her children by her first husband are the following: George Bunt- ing, born in Olympia November 7, 1856, now in California; Charlotte (Bunting) Granger, born on Chambers' Prairie, September 8, 1858, wife of Will- iam Granger, living east of North Yakima ; Blanch (Bunting) Perkins, born on the Nesqually, Sep- tember 20, 1860, killed in Yakima county by the Indians, July 9, 1877, an account of whose atro- cious murder will be found in one of the general chapters of this work; Eliza ( Bunting) Percival, born in Steilacoom, July 17, 1862, now in Cali- fornia; James Bunting, born in Steilacoom, Jan- uary 13, 1864, and Frank H. Bunting, born Jan- uary 8, 1871, now living with his mother. By her second husband, Mrs. Cheney has one son, Fred A. Cheney, born May 23, 1881, living in Yakima county. Mrs. Cheney belongs to the Woman's Relief Corps and is a member of the Methodist church. She owns three hundred acres of farm land, fifty head of cattle and horses and one hun- dred head of sheep. The farm is one of the best found in the valley, and the dwelling is a modern and model house of nine rooms. No one is bet- ter entitled to honorable mention in the history of Yakima county than is Mrs. Cheney, who has faced the hardships of pioneer life and shared in the wonderful development of the country. She is highly respected as a woman of undaunted cour- age, of strict integrity, of excellent business quali- fication, and it is with pleasure that we enroll her with the honored citizens of Yakima county.

LINCOLN J. GREENWALT, foreman of the well-known land, canal and improvement com- pany, the Moxee Company, resides five miles southeast of North Yakima, on rural free delivery route No. I. Lincoln J. Greenwalt is a na- tive of Andrew county, Missouri, where he was born September 1, 1867. His father, who makes his home with him, is Abraham Greenwalt, a na- tive of Pennsylvania, of German descent, born in I835. His mother, Louisa (Billings) Green- walt, was also a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent, born in 1836; she has been dead some years. In 1858, when Lincoln was but one year old, the parents moved to California and he re- mained with them until his twenty-first year. He obtained a good education in the district schools of California, continuing his studies until he was seventeen. Leaving school at this age, he worked with his father until 1879, when they removed to Oregon. They remained in Oregon but one winter, however, and came on to Yakima City in 1880. Here Lincoln Greenwalt engaged in the stock business, ranging his cattle on the Indian reservation, and continuing in the business with good success until 1889. At this time he sold out

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his stock interests and purchased a farm in the Ahtanum valley, engaging for four years in its cul- tivation and management. In 1893, he sold the Ahtanum farm and entered the employ of the Moxee Company. This company has one of the most extensive ranches in the county ; operates an irrigation canal, and engages in diversified farm- ing on a very large scale. The history of the cor- poration will be found elsewhere in this volume. Mr. Greenwalt's position as foreman is one of im- portance and of great responsibility, and the fact that he has so long retained the place is evidence of his peculiar fitness for the position. Lincoln Greenwalt is fourth in a family of six children, all of whom are living; their names follow: Benton, Mary (Greenwalt) Cryder, Hattie (Greenwalt) Hackett, Walter, and Zelma (Greenwalt) Hackett. Walter lives in California; the others in Yakima county. Mr. Greenwalt was married in Yakima county, February 11, 1900. to Miss Dollie Mil- lican, who was born in Yakima City, October 16, 1878, the daughter of James and Sarah (Agy) Millican, natives of Missouri; both parents are dead. Mrs. Greenwalt has three brothers and three sisters, as follows: Lee, Etta (Millican) Jackson, Frank, John, Rose (Millican) Stone and Ella (Millican) Lampson. All are living in Yak- ima county except Mrs. Stone, who resides in Kit- titas county, and all were born in Yakima county except Lee, whose birthplace was Oregon. Mrs. Greenwalt is a member of the Presbyterian church. In politics, Mr. Greenwalt is a Repub- lican. His fraternal connections are with the Mod- ern Woodmen and the Woodmen of the World. He is a man of influence in local affairs, of progress- ive ideas and strict integrity; is ranked with the more successful farmers and stockmen of the county, and is highly respected by all who know him.

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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 145

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