An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 150

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

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ANDREW H. RANDLER, a leaser of lands on the Yakima Indian reservation, living one- fourth of a mile south of Toppenish, has been a resident of Yakima county for six years and has been exceptionally successful in the production of the cereals. He is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Lancaster county, November, 1866. He is the son of Michael and Fannie ( Heslet ) Randler, the father a native of Germany and the mother of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Michael Randler came to the United States when a young man ; was a soldier in the Civil war, during which he was captured and confined for seventeen months in the noted Andersonville prison; he died in Pennsyl- vania in 1901. His wife, the mother of Andrew Randler, still lives. The son Andrew spent the years of his youth in his native state, working on the farm with his father until nineteen, when he was married and began farming for himself. In addition to the production of cereal crops he dealt extensively in cattle, buying and feeding on the farm for the city markets, and finding it a very profitable business. After following this business successfully for over twelve years, he decided on a change of location, being possessed with a desire to test the advantages of the Northwest. Accord- ingly, in 1898, he sold out his Pennsylvania inter- ests and came to Washington, stopping first in New Whatcom (now Bellingham). Not being able to locate there to good advantage, he re- mained but a few months, coming to Yakima county in the fall of the same year and taking charge of a dairy ranch, which he conducted suc- cessfully for about four years. In 1902 he located on the reservation and began farming. He pur- chased a relinquishment to a lease on a large ranch from which, in 1903, he harvested 30,000 bushels of oats, barley and wheat, some of the land sown to oats yielding 110 bushels per acre. He also operates a steam thresher and a hay press. Mr. Randler is one of a family of nine children. The names of his brothers and sisters follow: Alice, Elizabeth, Mary, Kate, Harry, William, Eli and Michael. March 21, 1885, Mr. Randler was mar- ried to Miss Alice Young, a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, and a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (Myers) Young, also natives of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Randler have five children, as follows : Fannie, Howard, Alice, Leona and Mable. Mr. Randier's fraternal con- nections are with the Woodmen of the World, and in political matters he votes with the Republican party. He believes the Yakima valley to be an ideal country in which men of energy can make desirable and permanent homes. He is himself a man of energy and good business ability, of sound principles and strict integrity; is meeting with success and enjoys the confidence and respect of his fellow men.

WILLIAM HARRISON MARBLE. One of the successful fruit and hop growers of Yakima county, is William H. Marble, whose farm is lo- cated nine miles northwest of Toppenish, on rural free delivery route No. 1. Subject of sketch was born in Kennebec county, Maine, April 5, 1837. His carly education was obtained in the common schools of his native state. This was supplemented by a course in the Hampden Academy, from which he was graduated in 1859, a classmate of for- mer Vice-President Hamlin's son. At the age of twenty-three he engaged in the lumber business and later tried farming for a time. He then moved to Illinois and for eighteen months followed the grocery business ; selling out at the end of this time and going to Nebraska, where he farmed for twenty years, with the exception of two years during which the hardware and implement trade claimed his attention. In all these ventures he met withi good success. Leaving Nebraska, he went to northwestern Kansas and invested heavily in land, this investment proving unfortunate, eventually costing him all the accumulations of former years of toil. In 1889 he came to Washington, remain- ing here for two years. Satisfying himself that the country had a prosperous future before it, he went back to Kansas, straightened out his affairs there and prepared to return to this state for per- manent settlement. He again reached Washing- ton in 1894, landing in Yakima county without a dollar of capital. He at once leased the farm on which he now resides, one of the first to be im- proved in Parker Bottom, and, from the proceeds of three years' crops, was enabled to purchase and pay for the farm which he now owns. Mr. Marble was in Illinois when the Civil war broke out and in 1862 organized a company of which he was com- missioned captain. They went into service as Com- pany I, Eighty-fifth Illinois volunteers. At the ex- piration of one year affairs at home compelled Cap- tain Marble to resign his commission and leave the company, which was afterwards commanded by Captain Collins. During his service Captain Marble participated in the battles of Perryville, Kentucky, and Stone River, Tennessee. During his residence in Nebraska, Mr. Marble served one term in the state legislature, elected by the Democratic party in 1885. At this session he succeeded in get- ting an important transportation bill advanced from the bottom to the top of the calendar and passed ; this bill required railroads to receive freight in car load lots from other roads at junction points, and proved of great advantage to his constituents. William H. Marble is the son of Hiram and Rosan- na (Smith) Marble, the father a native of New Hampshire and the mother of Maine. He was married in Illinois, August 26, 1860, to Miss Saralı J. Council, daughter of Alfred F. and Hannah C. (Michem) Council, Southern people who were wealthy planters and slaveholders in ante-belluin

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days. Mr. Marble was second in a family of eight children, whose names follow: Andrew, a North Dakota druggist; Allen, farming in Parker Bot- tom; Sarah (Marble) Richardson, deceased ; John, deceased; Charles E., a police officer in Tacoma ; Wallace, deceased, and Thursa (Marble) Darr, whose husband is a carpenter in Tacoma. To Mr. and Mrs. Marble have been born three daughters and four sons, whose names and dates and places of birth follow: Bell D., Illinois, March 26, 1862, deceased; Hiram F., Illinois, February 13, 1864, a civil engineer living in North Yakima; Henry A., Illinois, May 24, 1866, civil engineer ; Elsie M. (Marble) Wallace, Nebraska, October 2, 1868, living in Spokane; Jasper W., Nebraska, August 22, 1871, now in North Yakima; Harry E., Nebraska, March 9, 1874, editor and manager of the Melton Valley News, published at Twisk, Okanogan county, Washington, and Ruby R., Nebraska, November 15, 1878, and married March 14, 1904, to Herman A. D. Trauck, of the Hy- potheke Bank, Spokane. Mr. and Mrs. Marble are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Marble was one of the organizers of the Parker Presby- terian church in 1897. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias; is prominent in local affairs and a man of influence wherever he is known. Mr. and Mrs. Marble are held in high esteem by all with whom they are associated, in public or in the home life.

JAMES S. WILLIAMS is a successful farmer and fruit grower, residing fifteen miles northwest of Toppenish, on rural free delivery route No. I. He was born in Missouri on December 9, 1857, the son of John B. and Nancy J. (Jennings) Williams. His father, now dead, was born in Mis- souri in 1828, and followed school teaching for thirty-five years. His mother, also dead, was a native of Virginia, born in 1832. Mr. Williams spent his youth in Missouri and, until nineteen years old, attended the common schools of that section, receiving a good education. At this age he began to do for himself and eventually became a locomotive engineer, his first work being on the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad. He afterwards farmed for a short time, but, in 1890, left Missouri for the west and came direct to the state of Washington. For a time he ran an en- gine for a lumber company, remaining with them for one year, then going to Sedro, Washington, where for several months he was similarly em- ployed. In 1895 he again made a change of loca- tion, this time coming to Yakima county, where lie was first employed in running an engine in a saw mill on the Wenas. Afterwards he engaged for a few years in farm work and then leased twenty acres of orchard near Zillah, receiving one- half the crop for his care of the place. The

first year lie sold three thousand two hun- dred dollars' worth of apples. The second year was a failure. The third year he sold six thou- sand dollars' worth of fruit. After the first year's crop he purchased twenty acres of land near Zillah, selling it a few months later for double the amount paid for it. In 1901 he bought his present place of one hundred and sixty acres, which he has greatly improved, making it a very valuable property, and on which there is a bearing orchard of ten acres. Mr. Williams has two broth- ers and one sister: George W., in Missouri; Fran- ces (Williams) Smith, of Fort Scott, Kansas, and Vernon H., farming in Yakima county. Mr. Will- iams was married in Missouri in 1880, to Miss Alice Chambers, who was born in Addison county, Missouri, November 10, 1862, the daughter of Robert and Martha J. (Harris) Chambers. To Mr. and Mrs. Williams have been born three sons and two daughters as follows: Harry, February 10, 1885; Guy, October 30, 1887; Earl, September 5, 1888, Nebraska being their birthplace; Mabel, in Washington, November 15, 1890, and Nellie in Oregon, September 25, 1893. Mrs. Williams is a member of the Christian church. Mr. Williams is a prominent Mason and an active Democrat. He is a man of energy and excellent business fore- sight, fair and honorable in his dealings with his fellows, and is held in high esteem by all with whom he comes in contact.

VERNON H. WILLIAMS, a farmer and stock raiser, whose home is six miles northwest of Toppenish, on rural free delivery route No. I, has been a citizen of Washington since 1883, and of Yakima county since 1885. During his twenty years' residence in the state he has partici- pated in its wonderful development and has be- come one of its substantial citizens. Mr. Will- iams is a native of Missouri, where he was born October 25, 1865. He is the son of John B. and Nancy J. (Jennings) Williams, his father a na- tive of Missouri and his mother of Virginia; both parents are dead. Mr. Williams spent his youth in Missouri, receiving his education in the common schools of that state. In 1883, at the age of eighteen, he left home and came to Walla Walla, Washington, where he worked for one year on a fruit farm. The next year he spent on the Sound, in Snohomish county, where he filed on a homestead. At the end of the year he made a relinquishment of his homestead right for a fair consideration, and came to Yakima county. This was in 1885, and until 1900 he was em- ployed on hay ranches in various localities. In the year last named he purchased sixteen acres of land in Parker Bottom, where he now resides, and has since been occupied in cultivating and improving it, and has now a very desirable home

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as the reward of industry and perseverance. In 1882, Mr. Williams was married, in Missouri, to Miss Rachel E. Harper, who was born in Ohio in 1863, the daughter of Peter J. and Hannah (Williams) Harper, natives of England; both parents are dead. Mrs. Williams is the youngest of a family of four girls and three boys. Their names follow: Mrs. Diana Hurt, living in Yak- ima county ; Mrs. Sophia Eickelberger, living in Ohio; Fred, living in Yakima county ; Thomas, deceased : Mrs. Addie Carns, living in Seattle, and Owen, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Two sons and three daughters have come into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Williams: Jessie, born in Missouri in 1886; John and Myrtle, twins, born in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1888; Richard, born in Snohomish county, Washington, 1892, and Bes- sie, born in Yakima county, 1893. Politically, Mr. Williams affiliates with the Republican party. Fraternally, he is connected with the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a man of strict integrity, of progressive ideas, of influ- ence in local matters, and holds the esteem and respect of his fellow men.

MILTON W. BREWER, an agriculturist, living eight miles northwest of Toppenish, is a native Washingtonian, and has spent his entire life in the state. As a pioneer of the state, and the son of a pioneer, we are pleased to accord him a place of honor in these records which are to be handed down to succeeding generations. Mr. Brewer is the son of Oliver and Margaret (Stevens) Brewer; his father a native of Arkan- sas, born in 1834; his mother a native of Georgia, born in 1836. The parents are still living, citizens of Chehalis county, Washington. Rev. Oliver Brewer is a minister of the Methodist church. In 1852 he and his wife crossed the Plains from Arkansas to Oregon, settling on a donation claim on Fern ridge. After remaining here for three years they moved to Thurston county, Washing- ton, and here the son Milton was born August 5, 1861. The family subsequently moved to Che- halis county, where Milton spent his youth and early manhood, receiving his education in the common schools. In his eighteenth year he dis- continued his studies, but remained with his parents until twenty-three, when he married and engaged in farming in Chehalis county. In 1899 he sold his interests there and came to Yakima county, purchasing the farm where he now re- sides. This farm consists of thirty-two acres, of which he has made a valuable property and a comfortable home. He keeps a number of dairy cows, diversifying the products of the farm, and finding the venture very profitable. Mr. Brewer was married in Oakville, Washington, January 12, 1884, to Miss Jennie Newton, whose native state is Illinois, where she was born September

14, 1862. Her father died when she was a child. Her mother, Mrs. Delia Newton, lives in Che- halis county, Washington. Mr. Brewer has two brothers and one sister, living in Washington. Their names follow: Mrs. Charity (Brewer) Ba- ker, Alonzo and Loren. To Mr. and Mrs. Brewer have been born the following children: Orpha, born June 18, 1885; Pearl, born August 31, 1888; Della, born April 21, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Brewer and daughter are members of the Methodist church. In political matters, Mr. Brewer affiliates with the Republican party and always takes a lively interest in the success of his party. He is known as a man of honor and uprightness, fair in all his dealings with his fel- low men, and has the confidence and respect of neighbors and friends.

OWEN B. WHITSON, farmer and fruit grower, resides seven miles northwest of Toppenish. He has lived in Yakima county for sixteen years, having located here in 1887. For a number of years he was variously employed in different parts of the county, and has been closely identified with much of its wonderful development. He was em- ployed on the North Yakima water supply ditch, afterwards by the Washington Irrigation Company on the Sunnyside ditch, and has spent a great deal of time in the improvement of raw land. He has de- veloped the farm on which he resides from a sage- brush plain to a high state of cultivation, and has made of it a very productive tract and a comfortable home. He assisted in the building of the first church erected in Zillah, donating his labor. He was one of the organizers of School district No. 50, together with Rev. F. Walden and Mrs. James Beattie, one of the best in the county, having in the beginning twenty-seven pupils ; was one of the first directors, and is now a member of the board. The first teacher employed here was Miss Harriet Sawyer. The dis- trict was organized in February, 1899. Mr. Whit- son was born in Kansas, April 18, 1861, the son of Jesse and Louisa (Bond) Whitson. His father, now dead, was born in Indiana in 1830; the mother is now living in Michigan. The son, Owen, received his education in Indiana. At the age of twenty he quit school and began to do for himself. Two years later he moved to Traverse, Michigan, remaining there four years, and at the end of that time coming to Yakima county, Washington. In 1899 he leased forty acres of school land, his present home, and is improving it with the intention of buying it when it is placed on the market. Three acres of orchard have been set out, and the balance is in hay, the hay land yielding one hundred and twenty-five tons per year. Mr. Whitson has the following brothers: George and Orange J., in Michigan ; Ellis J. (an en- gineer), and Lawrence, in Nebraska; two brothers died when small children. In 1892 Mr. Whitson

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was married to Miss Carrie Van Buskirk, at North Yakima. She is the oldest daughter of a family of ten children, all still living but two. Kansas is her native state, where she was born in 1870, the daugh- ter of Reuben and Julia A. (Walrod) Van Buskirk, the father a native of Indiana, born in 1831, and the mother of Illinois, born in 1851; the parents are residents of North Yakima. Four children have come to bless the home of Mr. and Mrs. Whitson, their names as follows: Lutetia, born December 23, 1893; Marion, July 4, 1898; Hazel, June 17, 1900, and Julia, April 12, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Whitson attend the Christian church. In political principles Mr. Whitson is a Prohibitionist. He is progressive in his ideas and his opinions are valued in local affairs. A man of integrity, always honorable and fair in his dealings with his fellow men, he has earned and holds their confidence and respect.

JOSIAH D. LAUGHLIN, farmer and fruit grower, resides four miles northeast of Toppenish, on rural free delivery route No. I. Although but comparatively a recent arrival in Yakima county, he has already become thoroughly identified with its interests, and during the last four years has assisted materially in the reclamation of its arid lands. Mr. Laughlin is a native of Ohio, born in Pike county, October 13, 1847. He is the son of William H. and Selina (Brill) Laughlin, both natives of Pennsyl- vania; the father, now dead, was born in 1818, and the mother, living in Ohio, born in 1822. Mr. Laughlin received his education in the schools of his native state, and, after the completion of his studies, engaged for a time in teaching. At the beginning of the Civil war he was too young for enlistment, but in 1864, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in Com- pany G, Ninety-first Ohio volunteers, and served with this regiment for eighteen months. One mem- ory that thrills him even at this late date is that of Sheridan's famous ride to Winchester, of which he was an eye-witness. After the close of the war he followed teaching for two years, and then entered the employ of the Chicago, Danville & Vincennes railroad, remaining in the car department for three years, at Danville, Illinois. At the end of this time he removed to Iowa, where he followed farming successfully for sixteen years. In 1900 he came to Washington and located on his present farm, pur- chasing forty acres at first and adding twenty more later. This tract he has developed from its wild state and has made of it a very productive farm and a comfortable home. A commodious and an attract- ive dwelling and other buildings have been erected, and eleven acres of orchard set out, which is just beginning to bear. Mr. Laughlin was married in Illinois, November 22, 1874, to Miss Martha J. Howser, who was born in Ohio, March 8, 1854, the daughter of Jonathan N. and Margaret (Dillman) Howser, natives of Ohio. To Mr. and Mrs. Laugh-

lin have been born the following children: Mrs. Cleo M. Stephenson, living in Iowa; Byron B., in Sedro Woolley, Washington ; Ossie M. and Effie G., engaged in teaching school in Yakima county, living with parents ; and David R., also at home. In polit- ical matters Mr. Laughlin advocates Republican principles ; he is a man of progressive ideas, of cor- rect principles, and fair in his dealings with others; is recognized as a man of integrity, whose influence is always exerted in the right direction, and com- mands the esteem and confidence of all who know him.

ALEX TIEO. It is a pleasure to chronicle the life of the man whose name stands at the be- ginning of this biography, for he is one of the native indians of the Northwest who has accepted the white man's ways and, by personal effort, raised himself to a leadership among his brothers of the red skin. His ability, honesty and energy have also won for him high opinions from those of the white race, and none among the Indians upon the reservation is held in greater respect than Alex Tieo. He was born in Vancouver, in 1855, his father being Cowlipe Tieo, a native of Honolulu, and his mother a native of Washcum, or Wasco, Oregon. When a child he was taken to Oregon City and in 1872 came to Cascade. When twenty-three years old Alex began railroading on the little six-mile line at the Cascades, and by perseverance arose to the position of conductor from that of brakeman. Then for a time he worked at the steamboat business, and subsequently for eight years operated a flatboat on the Columbia between The Dalles and the Cascades. Ten years ago he came to Yakima county as foreman of a hop picking crew, and the same year settled upon allotted land in the Yakima reservation. When he is not farming he engages in picking hops, having been for many years field foreman for Max Jackson and Dell Hitchcock. Mr. Tieo has taken and is taking a prominent part in ditch construc- tion on the reservation, being at the present time Indian foreman of the new government canal, commenced October 7, 1903. He was also fore- man of Indian forces on the ditch extending twelve miles southeast of Wapato and on all the laterals that have been built. He was married the first time to Mary Bonifar, a Cascade Indian, who is now dead. Two children resulted from this union : Wilson and Harry. His second marriage was to Mabel, a Tumwater Indian, and to this union no children have been born. On his one hundred and sixty acre, improved ranch, of which one hundred and twenty acres are in cultivation, he raises hay, potatoes, wheat and all kinds of vegetables, besides cattle and horses in large num- bers. This ranch was the first one occupied on that prairie. Mr. Tieo has made much of his op-

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portunities and as a progressive, honest, skilled man is a leader whom his race would do well to follow.

MICHELLE MARTINEAU, retired steam- boat captain and sailing master and at present living upon his two hundred and forty acre ranch three and a half miles west of Toppenish, is the son of one of the noted pioneers of the Northwest, and himself is a man of striking character, well known in the later history of the Northwest. His father, Michelle Martineau, senior, was a native of Montreal, Quebec, of Canadian French stock. Early in life he came into the wilderness of west- ern Canada, accompanying Doctor McLoughlin to his post at Vancouver. First the father served as a mail carrier in the Rocky Mountain region, working for the Hudson's Bay Company; then he entered other departments of the service, traveling all through the west. It is said that he and an- other white man named Bozmah were the first whites to find Doctor Whitman's body after the massacre. History refers to this intrepid French Canadian in dealing with the story of the west. He was at one time accused of killing John McCoy, another well-known pioneer. The senior Mar- tineau died in 1902. The mother was a Wickham, a member of the Cascade tribe of Indians. Her father was Chief Tompha, hanged in 1856 at the Cascades by order of Colonel Wright. She died in 1871.

The younger Martineau was born at Vancou- ver in 1848, while Oregon was yet a territory, and the only settlements in the Northwest were along the Columbia and Willamette rivers and on Puget Sound. He was reared at Portland, the Cascades and The Dalles, thoroughly imbibing the free, rest- less, dashing spirit of the life around him. At the age of sixteen he entered the steamboat business in the kitchen department, rising thence very rap- idly to engineer and then to a captain's berth. He was the first captain of the General Humphreys, plying between the upper Cascades and The Dalles in 1879. He has been captain of all the steam- ers owned by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company and has served the government fleet on the Columbia and its tributaries, among the steamers under his captaincy being the R. Thomp- son, the Harvest Queen, Emma Howard and the Modoc. In 1898 he went into the Alaskan waters for an English syndicate. There he was captain of the Flora, the first boat built on the Yukon river, and since 1898 he has spent each season on the Yukon. In 1903 he had charge of the Frantz. Early in his steamboat experience he was recog- nized as one of the ablest masters on the Colum- bia river, and each year since has added to his reputation in that line. He has, however, decided to retire from his steamboat life, and with that 43

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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 150

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