An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 154

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

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Christian church. Mr. Douglass' fraternal connec- tions are with the Modern Woodmen and the Woodmen of the World. In political matters, he is an ardent supporter of President Roosevelt. His property interests consist of a valuable forty- acre farm, three and one-half miles east of Zillah, a comfortable home in the town and some real estate in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Douglass is known as a man of strict integrity, of exceptional business and executive ability, energetic and pro- gressive, and he is held in high esteem by all with whom he comes in contact in a business or social way.

GEORGE W. MASON, for fourteen years a resident of Yakima county, is now farming five miles east of Zillalı. He is a native of Pennsyl- vania, born December 25, 1837, the son of Jacob and Amanda ( Harroun) Mason, the father a na- tive of Pennsylvania and a pioneer of Minnesota, and the mother a native of Vermont, born in 1806. Mr. Mason received his education in the common schools of Wisconsin; quit school at the age of nineteen and, until twenty-six years of age, as- sisted his parents on the farm. At this age he enlisted in Company B, Tenth Minnesota volun- teer infantry, for service in the Civil war. He served from August 14, 1862, to May 22, 1865, the date of his honorable discharge, and during this time took part in some of the most important and decisive battles of the war. Prior to 1862 he saw service in Minnesota and Dakota against the Sioux Indians, participated in the hazardous en- gagenients of the campaigns and escaped un- harmed. For ten years after the war he engaged in farming in Minnesota. In 1875 he moved to Linn county, Oregon, and for three years farmed near Harrisburg, meeting with good success, but failing in health. In 1879 he removed to Golden- dale, Washington, where for ten years he followed carpenter work and farming. In 1890 he again changed his location, this time going to North Yakima, where he opened a hotel and also worked at the carpenter's trade. In 1892 he purchased forty acres of land, where he now resides, and which he has transformed from a wild sage-brush tract to a very productive farm and a most com- fortable home On the farm is an orchard of four acres, a good dwelling and other buildings, and twenty head of stock, the result of energy and perseverance. While a resident of Minnesota, Mr. Mason served on the board of supervisors in his home county and also as township treasurer. He is now a district road supervisor of Yakima county. He put up the first building in the town of Prosser, hauling the lumber fifty miles. He has three sisters and two brothers living : Mrs. Camelia Sanborn, in Portland; Mrs. Lucinda Mills, in Cal- ifornia ; Mrs. Harriet Baker, in Minnesota; David,

in Oregon, and Edgar E., in Klickitat county. In 1869 Mr. Mason was married in Minnesota to Miss Melinda Twitchell, who was born in Maine, August 18, 1844, the daughter of Hiram and Maria (Dodge) Twitchell, natives of Maine, and both long since dead. Mrs. Mason was the oldest of a family of six children. The names of her brother and sisters follow: William Twitchell; Mrs. Mary Mason, Klickitat county ; Mrs. Anna Williams, Goldendale; Mrs. Helen Merton, Zillah, and Mrs. Effie Hackley, Cleveland, Washington. To Mr. and Mrs. Mason have been born seven children, four in Minnesota and three in Washington: Mrs. Lettie Faulkner, born March 5, 1870, now in Cleveland, Washington; Mrs. Clara B. Sprague, September 17, 1871, living in Zillah ; Artemas, May 2, 1873, farming near Zillah; Ralph, October 7, 1874, farming near Zillah; Albert, July 8, 1880; Jesse, January 17, 1883, and Ethel, May 10, 1886; the three younger children reside with the parents. Mr. Mason has resided nearly all of his years on the frontier and is familiar with the dangers and hardships of pioneer life. He has led a busy and a useful life; is a man of correct principles, fair and honorable in his dealings with others, and is held in high esteem by his fellow men wherever he is known.

ROBERT D. HEROD, for ten years a resi- dent of Yakima county, resides in Zillah and oper- ates one of the best farms in the section, situated a short distance from town. He is one of the most successful farmers in the valley. Mr. Herod is a native of Ontario, Canada, born June 6, 1862. He is the son of John and Eliza (Robinson) Herod, the father a farmer by occupation, born in England in 1823 and still living, in good health, in Canada ; the mother (deceased) born in Canada in 1830. The son, Robert D., spent his youth and early man- hood in the country of his birth and was there educated. He remained in school until twenty years old, engaging at this early age in contract- ing and building and remaining so occupied for five years. In 1889 he moved to Tacoma, Wash- ington, and for a time followed brick laying, being very successful in this occupation. Shortly after- wards, because of his proficiency, he was made foreman by the contractor, A. E. Barrett, and eventually formed a partnership with him in the contracting and building business. The firm built some of the finest brick business blocks in Tacoma ; they also built the science hall and the boys' dormi- tory at the State Agricultural College at Pullman, Washington. In 1894 Mr. Herod came to Yakima county and purchased thirty acres of land two miles from Zillah, which he transformed from a sage-brush wilderness into a beautiful fruit farm and an ideal home. In 1899 he went to British Columbia on a prospecting and mining trip but did

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not meet with very great success. Returning to the farm, he sold it in 1902 for seven thousand five hundred dollars. He then purchased eighty acres near Zillah, on which he is putting out forty-two acres of orchard and fifteen acres of hops; the re- mainder is seeded to alfalfa. Those who have as- sisted materially in the development of the Yakima valley, now one of the most famous agricultural regions of the Northwest, are entitled to special credit, and none has been more successful in this great work than Robert Herod. His industry has met its just reward and he is now the possessor of the valuable farm described above, besides a beautiful home in Zillah on which he has erected a fine eight- room dwelling. He also carries a paid-up, twenty- year endowment life policy for three thousand dol- lars and owns two thousand five hundred shares in the Kootenai-Tacoma mine in British Columbia. Mr. Herod is seventh in a family of ten children. One brother, John, lives in Detroit, Michigan; the other members of the family, whose names follow, live in Canada: Mrs. Rebecca Clark, William, Thomas, Mrs. Mary A. Ford, James, Charles, Ed- mund and Matilda. November 25, 1891, Mr. Herod was married in Tacoma to Miss Emma Thorndyke, a native of Canada and the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Thorndyke, the father a native of England and the mother of Canada ; both the par- ents are dead. Mrs. Herod's brothers and sisters are as follows: John Thorndyke, deceased, Will- iam, Mrs. Ellen J. Gibson, Mrs. Elizabeth Derby- shire, Mrs. Anna Salter, Edward, Joseph, Adelaid, Mrs. Hortense Oliver, and Mrs. Maria Oliver. Mrs. Gibson lives in Yakima county, Mrs. Derby- shire and Mrs. Salter in Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Hor- tense Oliver in England, and the others in Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Herod have one child, Alice Mig- non, born in North Yakima, August 15, 1902. Husband and wife are members of the Episcopal communion. Mr. Herod is a member of the Mod- ern Woodmen of America and, as a politican, sup- ports the principles of the Republican party. He is industrious, and progressive in his ideas; is a man of exceptional business ability and of the strictest integrity. He has good business fore- sight and an abiding faith in the future of the Yakima valley. He is a man of influence in local and county affairs, is making a success of life and, wherever known, is respected and highly esteemed by his fellow men.

ISAAC M. McCART, who came to Yakima county in 1893, is engaged in farming and fruit growing one-half mile east of Zillah. His birth- place was New Orleans, Louisiana, and the date of his birth September 15, 1853. He is the son of James R. and Matilda (Wheat) McCart, natives of Kentucky, both deceased. His father was a tobac- co merchant, born April 17, 1827, and his mother

was born February 9, 1833. Until fourteen years of age, the son of Isaac attended the common schools of Kentucky and Indiana, receiving a good education. During the next six years he learned the trade of a practical machinist and also became a mechanical engineer. Completing his appren- ticeship at the age of twenty he went to Leaven- worth, Kansas, and entered the employ of the Leavenworth Mining Company, continuing with them for five years as chief engineer in the boiler room and pump house; thence he went to Rich- mond, Missouri, and for four years acted as the chief engineer of mine No. 7. His next move was to Portland, Oregon, where for a time he was variously employed; then moving to Gray's Harbor, Washington, and remaining for eighteen months as first assistant engineer for the Cos- mopolitan Commercial Company; thence to Ocos- ta, Washington, where for fourteen months he was chief engineer for A. P. Watton & Company. In 1893 he came to North Yakima and shortly afterwards to Zillah, where he purchased a home- stead relinquishment to one hundred and sixty acres of land, on which he is still residing. Al- though having many obstacles to overcome, he has persevered in the work of improvement and now has one of the most productive and valuable farnis in that part of the country. Not until the third year did he produce enough to meet expenses; then raising forty-six tons of potatoes on five acres, and selling for eleven dollars per ton, he was given a start and has since netted each year a good income from the place, thirty acres being directly under the big ditch and under a high state of cul- tivation. From one and one-fourth acres he sells each year four hundred dollars worth of straw- berries, and from his orchard receives a handsome income. He is also a breeder of fine stock; has some registered Jersey and Shorthorn cattle, also a Hambletonian horse, a gelding, registered num- ber, 79027. He has also a thoroughbred gelding, seven years old, that is considered a phenomenon ; it is fifteen hands high and weighs one thousand three hundred and fifty pounds. In addition, lie . raises standard bred hogs and poultry. Mr. Mc- Cart has one sister and two brothers, Mrs. Flor- ence E. Brown, Benjamin F. and James H. Mc- Cart, junior, living in Richmond, Missouri, and one sister, Mrs. Carrie B. Jones, in Centerville, Iowa. He was married in Washington, Indiana, in 1897, to Miss Katherine Herbert, who was born in Champaign, Illinois, October 25, 1858, the daughter of Dorsey and Mary (Moore) Herbert ; the father (deceased), a native of Kentucky; the mother now living in Indiana. Mrs. McCart has three sisters and one brother, residents of Indiana : Mrs. Margaret B. Carter, Mrs. Mary E. Janott, Joseph Herbert and Mrs. Callie Hutchinson. Mr. and Mrs. McCart attend the Episcopal church. In politics, Mr. McCart is a Silver Republican and takes

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a lively interest in campaigns, taking the stump for his party in both state and national contests. He is a forceful and effective speaker. He is a man of integrity and influence, is making a success of life, is one of the substantial and reliable citizens of the county and commands the confidence and re- spect of all who know him.

GEORGE P. EATON, living five and five- eighths miles southeast of Zillah, is a native of New York state, born in Oxford, February 25, 1855, the son of Warren and Eliza (Penston) Eaton, the father (deceased) a farmer, born in Vermont in 1814, the mother, still living in Oxford, born in Utica, New York, September 12, 1818. The son, George, received his education in the Oxford acad- emy and in Cornell university, being graduated from the latter institution with the class of 1878. After graduation he at once entered the employment of Dr. Jackson, of the Dansville (New York) Sanitarium, as his private secretary, continuing so employed until March, 1880, when he started for the Pacific coast, locating for a short time at Waitsburg, Washington, as reporter on the Waitsburg Times. During the same summer Mr. Eaton entered the surveying department of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, quitting in the fall of the year, and employing himself one term as a school teacher. From December, 1880, to October, 1881, he was engaged in the United States land office at Walla Walla, first as stenographer and later as clerk; thence going to Tacoma and entering the land department of the Northern Pacific railroad. He went to Portland, Oregon, when the company's office was removed there in September, 1882, and was promoted from clerk to assistant chief clerk, then to chief clerk, and eventually to assistant general land agent. He afterwards served for one year as secretary of the Washington State Immi- gration Association, and was subsequently for several years chief tax clerk for the Northern Pacific railroad at Tacoma. He is now secretary of the Sunnyside Railway Company, organized for the purpose of building a railroad from Toppenish to Prosser via Sunnyside, and is also president and general manager of the Sunnyside Farm Company. In 1891 he filed on three hundred and twenty acres of desert land five miles from Zillah, and began im- provements in the spring of 1892, being among the first to begin improvements under the big ditch. This land he eventually sold to the Sunnyside Farm Company, of which he is president.

Mr. Eaton has three sisters: Mrs. Amanda C. Fletcher and Lizzie B. Eaton, of Oxford, New York, and Mrs. Emma M. Brown, of Waverly, New York. One brother, Charles B., is a member of the firm of Bowman, Bolster & Eaton, court stenog- raphers, of Seattle. Another brother, James W., served in the Civil war in Company H, New York

heavy artillery, was taken prisoner in the battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, and died in Salisbury prison in January, 1865.

Mr. Eaton was married to Miss Emma Kinnear, youngest daughter of William C. Kinnear and Eliza- beth Kinnear, of Crawfordsville, Iowa. Her parents died when she was a child. Mrs. Eaton came west with her brothers, Alvin L. Kinnear, deceased ; Emera Kinnear, now a merchant of Spokane, Wash- ington, and W. L. Kinnear, a merchant at Bonner's Ferry, Idaho, and her sister, Mary J. Williams, of Oakesdale, Washington. She received her educa- tion in St. Paul's school, Walla Walla, being one of the first graduates and afterwards a teacher in that institution. To Mr. and Mrs. Eaton have been born the following children: Emma K. Eaton, born in Portland, Oregon; Warren, born January 15, 1888: Edith, born February 22, 1890, and Clara, born June 25, 1895, the three younger children be- ing born in Tacoma, Washington. Mıs. Eaton be- longs to the Episcopal church. In political cam- paigns, Mr. Eaton supports the principles of the Republican party. He is a man of exceptional busi- ness and executive ability, of strict integrity, fair and honorable in his dealings with others, and is esteemed and respected by all with whom he comes in contact in a business or social way.

CORNELIUS H. FURMAN, proprietor of the Hotel Zillah and dealer in real estate in Zillah, Washington, is a native of Illinois, where he was born August 6, 1855, the son of William and Maria (Morton) Furman. His father was a miller by trade, born in Rochester, New York, in 1826. His mother, born in Ohio, of Vermont parentage, in 1835, still lives, a resident of Zillah. The son, Cornelius, received his education in the schools of Wisconsin and Iowa, and, at the age of fifteen, quit his studies to assist his father on the farm. In the meantime, between the ages of eleven and fifteen, he had learned the miller's trade, and, at the age of seventeen, took charge of a flour-mill in southern Minnesota, con- tinuing its operation for five years. From 1879 to 1889 he served the government most satisfactorily in the capacity of railway postal clerk. At the end of this time he engaged in the real estate and improve- ment business in the employ of the St. Paul & Du- luth Railroad Company. During this period the dis- astrous Hinkley, Minnesota, fire occurred, which, spreading to adjacent territory, destroyed all the buildings on a farm belonging to Mr. Furman. He assisted in the rescue of the Hinkley sufferers, and at once rebuilt the farm buildings, which a short time afterwards were carried away by a cyclone. May 30, 1899, he left Minneapolis for Yakima county, Washington. Arriving here, he invested in some land near North Yakima, selling the same six months later at a fifty per cent advance over the pur- chase price. He then came to Zillah, and purchased

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the hotel and stage line, with which he has since been identified, and also engaged in the real estate busi- ness. He has since become interested in valley lands; owns forty acres in the vicinity of Zillah, and a number of lots in the town. He also has a fine bunch of horses and cattle. He is the oldest in a family of four children. The names of his three brothers follow: Benjamin C., deceased ; Adilbert D., who served with the Fifteenth Minnesota boys in the Spanish-American war, now an electrician, living in Minnesota; and Charles B., a grain in- spector, living in West Superior. Mr. Furman was married in Windom, Minnesota, December 20, 1878, to Miss Ella V. Hopkins, born in Pennsylvania, January 20, 1858, the daughter of Oliver and Rachel (Randolph) Hopkins, native of Pennsylvania and New York, respectively, and both dead. Mrs. Fur- man has one brother, Stephen Hopkins, a Minnesota farmer. She had two brothers who died in the Con- federate prison at Andersonville. Mr. and Mrs. Furman have three daughters and one son, all born in Minnesota, as follows: Mrs. Mildred B. Haynor, of Faro, British Columbia ; Mrs. Rachel M. McCor- mick, and Mrs. Clara M. Renehan, living in Yakima county ; and Benjamin C., at home. Mr. and Mrs. Furman attend the Methodist church. In political matters, Mr. Furman is an influential Republican, and is now justice of the peace at Zillah. His fra- ternal connections are with the Modern Woodmen, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Re- bekahs, and Mrs. Furman is a member of the Royal Neighbors. He is a leading citizen and a man of in- fluence in local affairs, of exceptional business ability and of strict integrity, and commands the respect and esteem of his fellow men.

JULIUS F. CRITTENDEN, for ten years a resident of Yakima county, is engaged in agri- cultural pursuits three miles southeast of Zillalı. His native town is Saline, Michigan, where he was born September 20, 1851. His father, Byron B. Crittenden, was a farmer and a photographer, born in the state of New York in 1827. His mother, Eliza (Morgan) Crittenden, was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1829. Both parents are dead. The son Julius spent his early life in his native state, where he received his education. At the age of twenty he quit his studies and for sey- eral years assisted his father on the farm, re- maining so employed until 1880. At this time he entered the employ of the Michigan Central Rail- road as a brakeman, remaining with them for seven years and eventually becoming a con- ductor. In this capacity he was afterwards em- ployed by the Burlington railroad and later by the Chicago Great Western road. Concluding to abandon railroading as a life business, he re- signed his position in 1894 and came directly to Washington, stopping for a short time in Ta-

coma. In May of this year he came to Zillah and purchased ten acres of arid sage-brush land and immediately commenced its improvement. He met with many reverses and was forced to endure many hardships, but being unable to get away, because of lack of means and for other reasons, he persevered, continuing his improve- ments, and by the year 1899 began to realize something from the farm. Since that year each season has witnessed an improvement in condi- tions. He eventually purchased fifteen acres ad- joining the original investment and the whole tract has, by skill and industry, been transformed from its wild, arid state to a beautiful farm and home, on which is a splendid orchard containing six acres. One brother, Clarence Crittenden, is a printer, living in Seattle. The marriage of Julius Crittenden and Miss Carrie Lewis was cel- ebrated in Michigan in 1872. Miss Lewis was born in Michigan November 24, 1856, the daugh- ter of Jacob and Mary (Agard) Lewis, natives of Ohio, the father (deceased), born in 1804, and the mother, born in 1829, now living near Lansing, Michigan. Mrs. Crittenden has two brothers living, Daniel and Alfred Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. Crittenden have two daughters and one son, all born in Michigan. Their names follow : Mrs. Blanche Smith, living in Connell, Washington; Mrs. Bessie Rowland, in Yakima county, and Earl J. Crittenden, at home. Byron B. Critten- den, father of the subject of this article, was a man well known in this section of the county and greatly reverenced and esteemed because of his genial nature and his devoutly Christian life. He was public spirited and charitable to a fault ; assisted by donations of money and labor in the building of the Christian church at Zillah, of which he was a member and, following his deatlı, near Zillah, January 13, 1901, his remains were followed to their last resting place by one of the largest processions of friends that has ever been witnessed in this part of the county. Mrs. Crit- tenden is a member of the Christian church. In political affairs, Mr. Crittenden is a Democrat ; his fraternal connections are with the Knights of Pythias. He is industrious and energetic and hence is meeting with success ; is a man of integ- rity and correct principles, and with his wife, shares the confidence and respect of all who know them.

JEREMIAH L. LEASE, agriculturist and fruit grower, resides three and one-half miles east of Zillah. He is a native of West Virginia, where he was born Januarv 18, 1838. His father, John B. Lease (deceased), was a Maryland farmer, born 1806, and his mother, Susanna (Flick) Lease (deceased), was a Virginian, born 1810. Jeremiah Lease, although a resident of the state of Washington for seven years only, is a typical

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pioneer and frontiersman, the blazer of many a "spotted trail" over which the forerunners of civilization penetrated the wilds of the Middle West and the Northwest. He belongs to that class known as "self-made" men whose knowl- edge of the world has been gained by experience and observation rather than by years of applica- tion to study. His life has been spent on the frontier, where school privileges were not enjoyed and where opportunities for acquiring "knowl- edge from books" were not afforded. But he has been a man of resources, of industry and per- severance, and has faced the dangers and hard- ships of life with true courage, forcing success where many others have failed. In 1846, when he was eight years old, his parents moved from Virginia to an unsettled portion of Ohio; thence in a short time to the Wisconsin frontier; in 1870 to South Dakota; then to North Dakota, where settlement was made on the Cannon Ball river. He was there during the Indian troubles that un- settled the affairs of that region and was among the Indians at the time Chief Sitting Bull was slain. In 1897 he came to Washington, locating in Asotin county, and in 1901, came to Yakima county and purchased the land on which he now resides. Here he has a valuable farm and a com- fortable home, ten acres of orchard and thirty acres of timothy and clover, twenty-five head of cattle and horses, and all the accumulations of the successful farmer. In 1860 Mr. Lease was married in Wisconsin to Miss Mary A. Shan- baugh, who died a few years later in South Da- kota. He was again married in Missouri in 1881 to Miss Emma Parsons. Mr. and Mrs. Lease have ten children, all living at home. Their names follow : Jeremiah, Jr., Thomas, Emanuel, Mary, Alonzo, Maude, Alice, James R., Katie and Fred- erick W. Mr. and Mrs. Lease worship with the Seventh Day Adventists. In politics, Mr. Lease votes with the Democratic party. Coming to the country comparatively a poor man, he has made a success of farming. He is known as a man of sound principles, fair and honorable in all ways, and enjoys the confidence and esteem of his fellow men.

ARCHIE J. ELLIOTT, the well-known black- smith of Zillah, Washington, is a native of Can- ada, born in the family home on the banks of the St. Lawrence river, in 1846. He is the son of Hiram and Margaret (Borden) Elliott, also na- tives of Canada. The father's ancestors were im- migrants to Canada from the state of New York. In 1863 Hiram Elliott moved to Illinois and later to Iowa, where he died. His wife, the mother of Archie Elliott, died in Nebraska, in 1902. The son Archie received his education in Canada and in 1863 went with his parents to Illinois. At the age of eighteen he began learning the black-

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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 154

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