An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 156

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

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November 25, 1897, Mr. Cloud and Miss Cora E. Harper were united in marriage at Spokane,

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Washington. Mrs. Cloud is a native of Iowa, born in 1874, the daughter of George W. and Rebecca (Harvey) Harper, living in Iowa. Two children born to Mr. and Mrs. Cloud died in in- fancy. Mr. Cloud is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and in political matters supports the Republican party. He was elected a member of the Sunnyside city council in 1902. Be- sides an eight thousand-dollar stock of merchan- dise, he owns a valuable farm of forty acres near the town and a good business lot in the city. He is a man of energy, of recognized integrity, of progressive ideas and good business qualifications and, as one of the substantial business men of the city, he enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him.

HENRY H. WENDE, mayor of Sunnyside, Washington, and a prominent lawyer of Yakima county, is a native of Wende, Erie county, New York, born July 28, 1870. He is the son of Her- man A. and Mary (Ries) Wende, natives of Ger- many. The father was born near Gorlitz, Saxony, October 29. 1825, and died in the state of New York, March 15, 1892. The mother, still living in New York, was born in Lautenhausen, province of Hesse, Germany, February 15, 1833, and came to America alone at the age of fourteen; she and her husband met and were married in New York state. Henry H. Wende spent his youth and early manhood in his native county in New York, at- tending the district schools until his eighteenth year. He then entered Parker's Union school, a higher institution of learning, situated five miles from his home, attending for six months and walk- ing to and from the school each day. At the close of this term he accepted a position as clerk in the master mechanic's office of the Sinnamahoning Valley Railroad at Austin, Pennsylvania, remain- ing there for five months and returning home on account of his father's illness. Following his re- turn he was variously employed until September, 1894, when he entered the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating therefrom June 24, 1896, with degree of Bachelor of Laws. After graduation he went to Buffalo, New York, where, until March 1, 1898, he was a clerk in the law office of J. W. Fisher. On the date named he was appointed clerk of the supreme court for Erie county, remaining in this position until January 1, 1901. April 10, 1902, he left New York and came to Yakima county, Washington, and one month later, May 4, opened a law office in Sunnyside; he rapidly built up and is now enjoying a lucrative practice.

Mr. Wende is the youngest of a family of seven children: he has brothers and sisters as follows : Gottfried, a lawyer of Buffalo, New York; Charles H., agent for the New York Central Railroad at

Crittenden, New York; William H., postmaster at Millgrove, New York; Mrs. Anna W. Johnson, of Buffalo, New York; Mrs. Mary W. Cutler, of Buf- falo, and Otto H., agent for the New York Cen- tral Railroad at Wende, New York. Fraternally, Mr. Wende is connected with the Masons, Elks and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He is an influential Democrat and takes an active in- terest in the success of his party. December 8, 1903, he was elected the third mayor of Sunnyside. He is rapidly attaining prominence in the profes- sional circles of Yakima county, is highly esteemed by a large circle of professional and social friends, and has before him a most promising future.

WILLIAM H. CLINE, a resident of Sunny- side and one of the commissioners of Yakima county, Washington, has followed farming under the Sunnyside canal successfully for ten years. He is a native of Indiana, born February 5, 1855, the son of John and Caroline (Ortt) Cline. The mother (deceased) was of German descent, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1834. The father, now living in Des Moines, Iowa, was born in In- diana, April 8, 1833, and was a pioneer of Iowa, going there overland from Indiana in May, 1855. He was for thirty-one years in the mercantile busi- ness in Guthrie county, Iowa, and the business was continued by one of his sons until 1902. The son, William, spent his youth and early manhood in Panora, Guthrie county, Iowa, and was there educated in the public schools. Leaving school at the age of nineteen, he entered his father's store as a clerk, remaining with him until thirty-one years old, and having in the meantime a capital interest in the business. In addition to their gen- eral merchandise business, they had built up an immense grain trade and operated seven elevators along the line of the Des Moines and North- western Railroad. In 1885, having traded a farm for a stock of merchandise in De Witt, Nebraska, the subject of this biography found it necessary to go there and sell out the stock. This occupied eight months in 1885 and, in the spring of the year 1886, he went to Broken Bow, Nebraska, erected a brick block and opened a general store. The business grew rapidly and he soon found it neces- sary to secure more commodious quarters. He built what is now known as the Opera House block, where he continued his business until January, 1891, when he was forced to make an assignment owing to his inability to collect accounts from farmers who had been financially crippled by drought and insects. In August, 1892, he moved to Tacoma, Washington, and engaged for a few months in the grocery business. Selling out in 1893, he chartered a vessel, loaded it with mer- chandise and went to Alaska, enduring many hardships, but disposing of his stock at a fair profit

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and returning in September of the same year. In December, 1893, he came to Sunnyside, put up the first business building in the town and opened a store, which he conducted for seven years in con- nection with farming. He had much to endure and met with many reverses; many of the settlers left the country in 1895-96 and there was a great scarcity of money and work, but Mr. Cline had his business and forty acres of fruit trees to attend to. He left his family in Tacoma, where school privi- leges could be enjoyed, and himself remained with his farm and business until the return of pros- perity brought to him the reward of endurance and perseverance. Besides attending to his private affairs, he guarded the stock from the shade trees in the streets of Sunnyside, cared for them as best he could, and to his watchfulness is due much of the beauty that is now added to the streets by the presence of these trees. He served as postmaster from 1893 to 1897. Mr. Cline is second in a fam- ily of eight children, he having brothers and sis- ters as follows: Joseph M., Mrs. Viola La Pettit, Mrs. Lizzie Roberts, Mrs. Emma Baughman, James and John, living in Iowa, and Mrs. Etta Gilbert, living in Pendleton, Oregon.

Mr. Cline was married in Iowa, in 1878, to Miss Margaret J. Maddick, a native of England, born in 1856, the daughter of Thomas and Anna (Tur- ner) Maddick, also natives of England. The mother is dead; the father is living in Iowa. The brothers and sisters of Mrs. Cline are : Mrs. Emma Jones, wife of the Sunnyside physician ; Mrs. Anna Snyder, in Kansas: Mrs. Nellie Jones, in Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Susan Plaine, Mrs. Gertrude Emers, Thomas and Ford, living in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Cline have one daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Young, born in Panora, Iowa, November 20, 1879, now living in Sunnyside. Mrs. Cline is a member of the Episcopal church. Fraternally, Mr. Cline is connected with the Masons. Politically, he is an active and influential Republican. January I he was appointed county commissioner to fill a vacancy, the term of service being until the next general elections. He has the largest farm under the big canal and a beautiful home in Sunnyside. He is a representative citizen, highly respected by all who know him.

HARRY W. TURNER, city clerk of Sunny- side, Washington, is also engaged in small fruit farming within the city limits. Mr. Turner is a native of England, born November 4, 1856. He is the son of John and Charlotte (Busby) Tur- ner, natives of England, the father now dead and the mother living in Iowa. The son Harry re- ceived his education in his native country, where his youth and early manhood were spent. At the age of fourteen he left school and accepted a cler- ical position with a business house, continuing

so employed by different firms until he was twenty-two years old. At this age he concluded to try his fortune on the western continent and in 1878 embarked for the United States, locating first at Sheffield, Iowa, near which town he en- gaged in farming for one year. He then removed to Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, where he re- mained, following farming, for about fifteen years, meeting with fair success. In 1894 he again changed his location, this time going to Utah, but, at the end of one year. he returned to the north, locating in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and making this his headquarters for three years, while he traveled, two years as salesman for a tea and coffee house and one year for a whole- sale fruit establishment. At the end of this period he was called home on account of the death of his father and, after a short time spent with his mother, he came to Washington, pur- chasing ten acres of land within the city limits of Sunnyside, where he has since resided, occupy- ing himself with the culture of small fruits and berries and with the raising of thoroughbred White Plymouth Rock chickens. In these pur- suits he has been exceptionally successful and he now has a valuable property of which he has niade a comfortable and most desirable home. In his father's family were six children, all of whom are living; the names of his brothers and sisters follow: Mrs. Fannie De Bar, living in Pennsylvania; Mrs. Polly Hubbard, in Iowa; William, in Iowa; Mrs. Alice Clark, wife of the sheriff of Cerro Gordo county, Iowa, and Mrs. Kate Van Lone, also in Iowa.

Mr. Turner was married in Iowa in 1894 to Miss Jennie Olson, who was born in Racine, Wisconsin, December 31, 1871, the daughter of Iver and Christine (Knutson) Olson, natives of Norway, the father long since dead, the mother still living, in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Turner are members of the Methodist church. Mr. Turner is connected with the fraternal orders Modern Woodmen and Knights of Pythias, and is also local secretary of the Modern Brotherhood of America. In political matters he supports the Republican party and always takes an active interest in the campaigns. He is a man of influence in the com- munitv, fair and honorable in all his dealings with his fellow men, and enjoys the confidence and respect of all with whom he is associated in a business or social way.

DR. FRANK C. JONES, a practitioner of the school of osteopathy, although comparatively a recent arrival in Sunnyside, Washington, has built up an excellent practice in and around the little city and has come to be recognized as one of its worthv and substantial citizens. He was first scoffed at: now he has converted the scoffers into friends. Dr. Jones is a native of

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Illinois, born April 13, 1856. He is the son of William and Sarah ( Winterbottom) Jones, the father (deceased) a native of Wales, and the mother, still living in Illinois, a native of Eng- land. The doctor has one sister living, Mrs. Emma Starr, of San Francisco, California. The son Frank received his early education in the public schools of Illinois. At the age of thirteen he left school and served an apprenticeship in a machine shop, remaining so employed for six years or until his nineteenth year. At this age he entered the Chicago Medical College and, after one year of study in this institution, matric- ulated in the medical department of the Univer- sity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, graduating there- from in 1880 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He is also a graduate of the Chicago Ophthalmic College, and took a post-graduate course in New York Post-Graduate School. After graduation he practiced for a few months in Chicago, then went to Iowa, where he continued in his profes- sion for twenty-two years. In the meanwhile he took up the study of osteopathy at Still College, became satisfied that it constituted a most scien- tific method of healing disease, and, in 1898, abandoned drugs and devoted his time exclu- sively to its practice. In 1893 he made a visit to the Puget Sound country and, meeting there his brother-in-law, W. H. Cline, was induced to come to Sunnyside country. There was no town where he purchased a tract of sage-brush land, and where he now makes his home and follows his profession. The land has been transformed into a most valuable farm and an ideal home.

Dr. Jones was married in Iowa in 1882 to Miss Emma Maddick, a native of England and the daughter of Thomas and Anna (Turner) Maddick, English people, the mother now dead and the father still living, in Iowa. Mrs. Jones is one of a family of eight children, all living. The names of her brothers and sisters follow : Mrs. Margaret Cline, wife of W. H. Cline, of Sunny- side; Mrs. Anna Snyder, living in Kansas; Mrs. Nellie Jones, Denver, Colorado; Mrs. Susan Plaine, Mrs. Gertrude Emers, Thomas and Ford Maddick, all residents of Iowa. Dr. and Mrs. Jones have one son, W. Raymond, born in Iowa October 4, 1894, now a student in the University of Puget Sound, at Tacoma, Washington. Dr. and Mrs. Jones are members of the Methodist church. Dr. Jones is a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Odd Fellows, and in political matters supports Republican principles. The family home is one of the prettiest and most de- sirable in Sunnyside, and Dr. and Mrs. Jones are among the most popular and highly esteemed cit- izens of the thriving little city.

Dr. Jones takes special pride in his work and has demonstrated to the people in this valley that osteopathy is the successful method of healing

the sick. He has healed hundreds and hundreds of cases, and the wonderful success that he has is all-convincing. He now has patients coming from all parts of the state. Osteopathy is des- tined to revolutionize the healing art. Dr. Jones is one of the pioneer osteopaths of the state and is teaching the public that there is better health in keeping the body right than by taking poison- ous drugs.

LEONARD C. McDONALD, now serving Sunnyside as councilman, was born in Pierce county, Wisconsin, February 20, 1869, the son of William and Catherine (Miller) McDonald. William Mc- Donald, who followed farming during his life, was born in New York state in 1837; Mrs. McDonald was a native of Ontario, Canada. The subject of this sketch attended school in Wisconsin until he was seventeen years of age, securing a good educa- tion. After leaving school, he went on the farm and worked with his father, at the same time learn- ing the carpenter's trade and undertaking inde- pendent employment along that line. Wisconsin ceased to be his home in 1894, the family emigrating to Washington and locating in the sparsely inhabited Sunnyside valley. There they purchased land near the. town of Sunnyside, but owing to a defective title, lost it. For the first two or three years Leon- ard C. was engaged in farming; then accepted the position of manager of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company's yard at Toppenish, remaining with the company three years. Since then he has spent considerable time mining in northern Wash- ington and pursuing his trade in the Sunnyside region, always making his home at Sunnyside. Suc- cess has smiled upon him, as it does in Washington upon most young men of energy, perseverance and correct principles. Mr. McDonald has four brothers and sisters: Mrs. Vina Bolin, living in Wisconsin ; George E., Mrs. Esther Webber and Lucy C., all residents of Sunnyside. He is a member of one fra- ternal organization, the Modern Woodmen. As a Prohibitionist, he is a strong and aggressive member of that party and never hesitates to champion its platform. As a member of the Methodist church he is also active. Mr. McDonald was placed on the Citizens' ticket at the last city election as one of its candidates for councilman, and was chosen by the people to serve them in that important capacity. As an officer he is making a creditable record. With his brother George, he owns forty acres of raw land a mile and a half from Sunnyside. Mr. McDonald can truthfully be said to be a popular, capable and rising citizen of Yakima county.

CHARLES S. WENNER, the manager of Coffin Brothers' large department store at Sunny- side, is a well-known and popular business man of

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that section of Yakima county, who has demon- strated his business ability by increasing the size of his establishment, within less than two years, from a two-room affair, employing two men inclusive of himself, to the present store, employing ten people in all. It is a fine record, one of which any man might feel proud; and still the business is gradually increasing. Mr. Wenner was born at Tiffin, Ohio, in 1852, the son of Samuel and Caroline (Dible) Wenner. The father was a machinist by trade. He enlisted in the Union army in 1861 and served throughout the Civil war. Mrs. Wenner is still liv- ing, residing in North Yakima. Charles S. grew to young manhood in the town of Tiffin, attending the public schools and taking a course in bookkeeping and business methods. Further equipping himself by the healthful occupations of farming and work- ing with his father in a sawmill and tile and brick yard, he early entered upon the activities of life on his own responsibility. However, his health failed, and in 1883 the young man crossed the continent to Arlington, Oregon, and there entered the general mercantile business. For eight years Arlington was his home, and he became prominently identified with the affairs of that town. He then went to North Yakima and took charge of the Hotel Yakima, placing it upon a paying basis. Two years of hotel life satisfied him. He sold his interest and removed to Chicago, where he engaged in the manufacture of bicycle cements, building up a lucrative business, for which he refused ten thousand dollars. Financial disaster overtook him in Chicago, leading him to once again seek the Yakima country, coming to Sunnyside in 1902 and opening the establishment of which he is manager. Besides a general mercantile business, this store handles hay, grain, stock, etc.

Mr. Wenner and Miss Ina Weatherford were united by the bonds of matrimony in Seattle. May 21, 1889. Mr. Weatherford, who died in 1893, was born in the Willamette valley to pioneers of that state, who crossed the Plains in 1852. He was a physician and druggist, and for many years lived in Portland. Mrs. Ellen (Robinson) Weatherford was a native of Ohio. She came to Oregon when a child one year old, and also died in 1893. Three children survive: Frederick, Mrs. F. A. Snow, both living in Portland, and Mrs. Wenner. She was born in Portland, and received a thorough education in her native state. For two years she was a deputy coun- ty clerk in Gilliam county, and also spent a year in the clerk's office of King county, Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Wenner have one child, Charles Stanley, a bright, handsome lad of six years. Mr. Wenner has one sister, Anna, the wife of Stanley Coffin, of Coffin Brothers, North Yakima, and a brother, Will- iam L., living in Ohio. As a fraternity man, Mr. Wenner is very active and prominent, being affiliated with the Masons, the Knights of Pythias, the Wood- men of the World and the Elks. In political affairs,

he is also energetic, and is identified with the Re- publican party. He is a public-spirited man in every sense of the word and takes part in all commendable public movements. At Arlington he was for some time a member of the city council. Socially, Mr. and Mrs. Wenner are well known in the community, and surely no one is more faithfully doing his share in the upbuilding of the Sunnyside region than this successful, respected, progressive citizen and mer- chant. Mrs. Wenner is doing her share also in mak- ing the business a success, having charge of the books.

J. D. CAMPBELL, M. D. Although he can- not properly be called an early pioneer of Yakima county, Doctor Campbell, of Sunnyside, is yet among the men who are engaged in developing the resources of that young community, besides as- suming the responsibilities and duties which are his by virtue of the noble profession he practices. He came from his old home in Tennessee to Sunny- side in the spring of 1903, but already he has taken a prominent place among the citizenry of the region as a man of enviable skill in his profession, a good neighbor and a man of strength in public affairs.

Born in Washington county, Tennessee, in the year 1861, he is the scion of two prominent old pioneer families of that state, the Campbells and the Carsons. His father, James, followed the oc- cupation of a farmer until his death in 1865 and. was an influential man. The paternal grandfather, Hugh Campbell, was one of the earliest settlers in Washington county. Another son, Brookens, brother of James, was an officer in the Mexican war and was afterward elected to congress. His death occurred in Washington, District of Colum- bia, while attending to his duties. Susan (Carson) Campbell was born in Tennessee in 1823, the daughter of one of the oldest families in Wash- ington county ; she died in February, 1902. The subject of this biography spent his boyhood on the old homestead and attending the district school. In 1886 he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from Washington College, Tennessee, the oldest chartered institution of learning in the Mississippi valley. He then studied medicine under a precep- tor for fifteen months, following which he at- tended the University of Nashville and Vanderbilt University and the University of Louisville, finally securing his degree of Doctor of Medicine, and completing a most thorough course of general and technical training. After graduation in 1890, he immediately entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in his native state and was so engaged un- til 1903, when he came to the Yakima country, deeming it a field of greater opportunities for him- self and children.

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Tennessee, became the bride of Doctor Campbell in September, 1893. She is of Swiss descent, being the daughter of A. J. and Eliza (Buffat ) Truan, " who crossed the Atlantic from their Swiss home in 1848, both families making the journey on the same ship. In America the two children became husband and wife and to this union Louise was born. Four children bless the home of Doctor and Mrs. Campbell: James, Frank, Roe and Lynn, all born in Tennessee. Mr. Campbell has one brother, M. B. Campbell, living upon his farm in Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Campbell are consistent members of the Presbyterian church at Sunnyside and are active participants in the social life of the community. Fraternally, he is a member of one order, the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. On national political issues he is in sympathy with the principles of the Democratic party. As show- ing his faith in the country in a substantial way, it may be stated that Doctor Campbell has pur- chased a fine ranch lying near Sunnyside, on which he raises hay. He is a man of stability and reliability whose settlement in any community would be hailed with pleasure by its citizens.

OLIVER HIBARGER, contractor and build- er of Sunnyside, is a native of Ogle county, Illi- nois, born February 1, 1863, to Frank and Cath- erine (Waltermyer) Hibarger .. His paternal ances- try is of Dutch, English and French extraction; his maternal ancestry of Dutch, who immigrated to Pennsylvania generations ago. The father was born in Maryland in 1831 and as a man followed the occupation of a brick mason. In 1845 he went to Illinois, becoming an early settler of that state. The mother's birth occurred in 1837, also in Mary- land. Oliver Hibarger spent his youth in Ogle county, securing a good education in the common and high schools. Until he was twenty years old he lived on a farm, but at that age he commenced learning the carpenter's trade with an uncle. His first independent work was done in Iowa; then he went to Marshall and Gage counties, Nebraska. Smith county, Kansas, was his next field of work. He then entered the employ of a Kansas City con- tracting company, and while in its service visited Colorado Springs and Pueblo, assisting in the erec- tion of many large buildings in those cities in 1888 and 1889. Leaving their service, he filed upon a homestead claim in Oklahoma territory, and en- gaged in work at Kingfisher and Okarche during the succeeding five years. From there he went to Arkansas; then he participated in the opening of the Cherokee Strip and the Cheyenne and Arapa- hoe countries to settlement. In 1896 he left that section of the United States and settled in Brown county and later in Morrill, Kansas, which was his home until August, 1902, in which month he came to Sunnyside. There he opened a shop and

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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 156

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