An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 169

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

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WARREN C. TRAVIS is another member of a well known and popular family of Yakima county pioneers which is among Yakima's most extensive wheat raisers. His ranch lies ten miles southeast of Kiona. He was born in Nova Scotia in 1868, to the union of Nathaniel and Harriet (Ring) Travis, also natives of that province, the father born April 17, and the mother April 2. 1843. They immigrated to the United States in 1878, set- tling first in Nevada, where Mr. Travis engaged in the mining and transportation industries until the fall of 1881. After spending a year in California, he moved to Oregon and in the fall of 1883 set- tled upon pre-emption and timber culture claims in the Horse Heaven region. Since that time Mr. and Mrs. Travis have made Yakima county their home, though at present they are visiting in Cali- fornia. Nathaniel Travis is of Scotch and Eng- lish descent ; his wife, of English and Irish extrac- tion. Warren C. Travis did not accompany his parents to the United States, but remained with an uncle to finish his education in Nova Scotia. In 1882, however, he bade adieu to his birthplace and journeyed to Weston, Oregon, joining his par- ents there. He lived with them until eighteen years old, then entered the service of Mathews & Baker, stockmen. A year later he engaged in railroad work, and in 1889 went to California. His first work there was driving stage, but after a year's experience in this trying occupation, he entered the mines. Mining occupied his attention until 1900, when he returned to Yakima county and settled upon a homestead near his relatives. The appearance of his ranch indicates a large amount of thrift in the owner, as it is well fenced, has good buildings and is all in cultivation.

He was married in Lundy, California, in 1891, to Miss Lulu V. Montrose. Her parents, Rodney G. and Eliza (White) Montrose, were born in the

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province of Ontario, Canada, married there and came to Nevada in 1867, the father preceding his family. He went to California in 1877, his family following three years later, and he is still living in that state. By trade, he is a millwright. Mrs. Montrose died in Nevada, in 1875; she was the mother of six children. Mrs. Lulu Travis was born in Carson City, Nevada, in 1871, and received her education in the common schools of Nevada and California and in the high school of Bridgeport, California. Mr. and Mrs. Travis are the parents of two children: Naomi, born in Kennewick, De- cember 12, 1895; and Nathaniel, born in Califor- nia, May 9, 1898. Both husband and wife are mem- bers of the Baptist church. Mr. Travis is an enthu- siastic Republican, ever active in behalf of his party. In California he served his community as justice of the peace. He is a director and clerk of his school district, a leader in all movements looking toward the improvement of his community or county and in fact is one of the most influential citizens of the wheat belt. He and Mrs. Travis enjoy the fullest confidence and esteem of the en- tire community. His nine hundred and sixty acre wheat ranch is all in cultivation.

BOTSFORD S. TRAVIS, living eleven miles southeast of Kiona, is one of the substantial and popular wheat farmers of Yakima county and a brother of Lovell C. and Warren C. Travis, also large wheat growers. Born in 1871 in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, he is the youngest son of Nathaniel and Hattie (Ring) Travis, likewise na- tives of Nova Scotia. Nathaniel Travis was born April 17, 1843; Mrs. Travis, April 2d, of the same year. They were married in 1863 and lived upon their Nova Scotia farm until 1878. In that year, however, they immigrated to Nevada, where the father engaged in mining and freighting until the fall of 1881. Then he went to California for a short time, but the next fall, that of 1882, he moved to Oregon. The same year he visited the Horse Heaven Plains and so deeply impressed was he with their adaptability to farming that in the spring of 1883 he removed thither and established his permanent home. Mr. and Mrs. Travis are still living. Botsford S. was eleven years old when he came west. For three years after his arrival in Yakima county he attended school. He then commenced riding the range for Mathews & Baker and during the succeeding twelve years rode for himself and that firm. His father, his brother, Lovell, and he entered into a partnership in the nineties, his father and brother looking after the farms while Botsford cared for the stock interests. This partnership was dissolved in 1899, Botsford at that time settling upon a homestead and thence- forth farming for himself alone.

Mr. Travis was married in Portland December

28, 1898, to Miss Clara McElvain, a daughter of Samuel and Amanda (Simpson) McElvain. Mr. McElvain was born in Illinois, moved to Oregon in 1891, and with his family, is at present a resident of Kennewick. He is a contractor by occupation. Mrs. McElvain was the first white child born in Butler county, Nebraska. Her parents are still liv- ing. Mrs. Travis was also born in Butler county, in 1880, but was educated in Portland and Ken- newick. At the age of eighteen she married. Mr. and Mrs. Travis have two children, Ivan V., born in Renton, Washington, November 23, 1899; and Louise V., born on the ranch, October 23, 1903. Mr. Travis belongs to the Republican party and takes an active interest in all political matters He owns five hundred and thirty-three acres of wheat land, all under cultivation, ten acres of land at Kennewick, and considerable stock. Mr. Travis has achieved a very enviable success in his en- deavors to amass a competence and make for him- self and family a comfortable home. In his ardor to do this, however, he has not been unmindful of his community and fellow men, but has ever shown himself public spirited and patriotic.

REMUS E. CARTER, a pioneer and success- ful wheat grower living twelve miles south of Kiona, is a Kentuckian, having been born in Davis county, Kentucky, in 1854. His father, Dr. Will- iam A. C. Carter, was a native of Virginia, who became a pioneer of Davis county and there mar- ried Sarah Hobbs, the daughter of Kentucky pio- neers and herself born in that state. They removed to Illinois in 1863, where the father practiced his profession, that of a veterinary, until his death in 1877. Mrs. Carter died in 1864. Remus E. Car- ter remained at home until twenty-one years old, or until 1875, when he went to Texas and com- menced working on a ranch. A little later he returned to Kentucky, thence to Illinois and re- mained there until 1882. That year marks the date of his immigration to the Northwest. He first located at Pilot Rock, Oregon, working in a sawmill, then a livery stable and finally herding sheep. The next May he made a trip through the Palouse country, stopping for short periods ac Genesee and Moscow. From Moscow he went to Medical Lake, thence to the Coeur d'Alenes, back to Medical Lake and thence returned to Pendleton1, where he remained until November. At that time, late in the fall of 1883, he settled upon a homestead in the Horse Heaven region and since that time has been successfully engaged in farming and horse raising upon his place, sowing between four hundred and five hundred acres to wheat each year. His holdings consist of fully eight hundred acres of excellent wheat land and considerable stock. His farm is well improved with comfortable build- ings and two excellent wells, a rarity in that coun-

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try, and thoroughly equipped with machinery. Of the fourteen members of his immediate family, only Mr. Carter and one brother, Alfred J., living in Ohio county, Kentucky, are living. Mr. Carter is a loyal friend of education and for some time served on the school board in his district. He is a member of one fraternity, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, i an active Republican, and con- nected with the Baptist church. As a public- spirited citizen, an industrious, thrifty farmer, a good neighbor and a man of high principles, Mr. Carter enjoys the esteem of all who know him.

LOUIS, JORGEN AND PETER ANDER- SON. In all the Yakima country there probably cannot be found three more successful, more pop- ular or more contented citizens than the trio whose names commence this sketch. They reside at Horse Heaven postoffice, fourteen miles south- west of Kiona and together cultivate one of the largest farms in central Washington. They are also among the foremost stockmen of that section. All are natives of Denmark and the sons of James and Christina H. (Hansen) Anderson, both of whom were born in 1823. Mrs. Anderson died at the age of fifty-seven, and her husband passed away at the ripe old age of eighty.

Louis Anderson was born April 11, 1852. Hav- ing completed his education, he worked at various occupations in Denmark until he was twenty-seven years old, then came to America, first settling in Pennsylvania, where he lived four years. He emigrated to Washington in 1885 and settled upon the homestead which is his present home. He has been engaged in general farming and stock raising since that date. In 1878 Mr. Anderson was united in marriage to Miss Margretta A. Espus, also a native of Denmark, born June 17, 1857. She was educated in the schools of her native land. They have six children: James A., born in Denmark, September II, 1879: Carl C., in Penn- sylvania, March 30, 1882; Minnie C., in Pennsyl- vania, January 17, 1884, a graduate of the Prosser high school and now mistress of the schools at Horse Heaven; Clara M., on the Yakima home- stead, July 18, 1886; Lucile C., on the homestead, December 20, 1888; and Chester L., also born on the homestead, September II, 1892. Mr. Ander- son is a member of the Odd Fellows fraternity, and is a stanch Republican, as are also his broth- ers. He takes a keen interest in all educational affairs and for the past ten years has served on the school board of his district. May 6, 1903, Mrs. Anderson was appointed postmistress of Horse Heaven postoffice.

Jorgen Anderson's birth occurred February 7, 1856. At the age of seventeen he began learning the carpenter's trade and served a four years' ap- prenticeship. In 1878 he came to America, set-

tling first in Illinois, where he followed his trade a short time; in the fall he went to California and there followed farming until 1884, when he moved to Washington and filed upon goverment land in the Horse Heaven region. He lived upon this place until 1898, when he spent a year in Alaska, mining. Thence returning home with renewed devotion to agriculture, he has since given his un- divided attention to farming and stock raising.

Peter Anderson, the youngest of the brothers, was born April 23, 1858, and like his brothers re- ceived a common school education in Denmark. He remained in the old country, until the spring of 1880, then crossed to Pennsylvania, where he spent three years learning the painter's trade. After a year in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he spent two years in California working at his trade and farm- ing, and in 1886 joined his brothers in Washing- ton, settling upon a homestead near them. How- ever, he soon left the county and engaged in farm- ing near Pomeroy, where he lived eight years, or until 1895, the year in which the Anderson Brothers formed a partnership. He is an Odd Fellow, also.

Anderson Brothers own four thousand four hun- dred acres of wheat land, all under cultivation, three hundred head of cattle, one hundred head of horses, and forty-five acres of land irrigated by the Kiona canal, one of the best in the state. Forty acres of the irrigated land are in alfalfa and several acres are in orchard. After the county well was dug, the Andersons were the first to get water at a great depth. Their well had to be sunk three hundred and fifty feet through hard rock, but the labor and expense of its excavation were abun- dantly rewarded, for the water in it is two hundred feet deep. They have several shallow wells on their ranch. To their large interests the brothers give their personal attention with the result that the property is thriving and each season nets them handsome returns on their investment. They are men of energy, integrity and ability, respected by all and possessing a host of warm friends. Such citizens Yakima welcomes to its plains and valleys.

EMERY W. R. TAYLOR, of Prosser, mayor, merchant, and owner of the flouring mills, is one of Yakima county's best known citizens and ear- liest pioneers, being the youngest son of Honor- able George S. Taylor, deceased, whose biography, together with that of his wife, Rebecca (McGloth- len) Taylor, who is still living, will be found else- where in this work. The subject of this biography was born in Iowa, May 12, 1859, and crossed the Plains with his parents in 1864. After a few months spent in Umatilla county and a longer period near Puget Sound, in 1866 the family settled in the Selah valley, Yakima county, where the fam- ily home has since remained. In that frontier re- gion the Taylor boys spent the early years of their

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lives, assisting their father in raising stock and cultivating the soil. Emery left the parental roof when he attained his majority and filed upon home- stead and timber culture claims in the Wenas val- ley, where he lived seven years. At the age of twenty-eight he moved to Prosser and engaged in manufacturing flour, purchasing the mill at that point. Two years later he opened a general store and during the next few years both enterprises prospered. However, the hard times of the middle nineties affected Prosser, as they did the rest of the country, and, though keeping the mill in oper- ation, Mr. Taylor decided to remove the store to North Yakima. Accordingly, in 1898, it was re- moved to the larger city and for three years Mr. Taylor conducted it, selling the business in 1901, and returning to Prosser. By this time the new era had dawned on that commercial center and the business prospects being so excellent, he again engaged in the mercantile business with encourag- ing success from the beginning.

Mr. Taylor and Miss Hannah A. Sutton, a daughter of John and Mary (Kelly) Sutton, were united in marriage in the year 1879, the cere- mony taking place in Yakima county. Mrs. Taylor was born in Indiana in 1862, received her educa- tion in the schools of her native state and was mar- ried at the age of seventeen. Her father was killed by lightning while she was a little girl. Six children bless the Taylor household, all of whom are native sons and daughters of Yakima county. They are named: Pearl, born February 13, 1881 ; Arthur, 1884; Roy, 1886; Claude, 1889; Edna, 1892, and George S., 1895. Arthur and Roy assist their father in the store. Mr. Taylor has two brothers, Harley and George, living in North Yak- ima, and one sister, Mrs. Rosa Brooker, also a res- ident of North Yakima. He is connected with the Odd Fellows fraternity and is an active member of the Democratic party. When Prosser was incor- porated in 1899, Mr. Taylor was honored by his townsmen with the highest office in their power to bestow -- that of mayor-and served two years, or until he resigned and moved to North Yakima. Upon his return in 1901, he received another token of Prosser's esteem for its favorite son,-a re-elec- tion to the mayoralty-and was elected in 1903. Mayor Taylor is still serving with credit to him- self, in the administration of public affairs in a thrifty, progressive city, and retains the fullest con- fidence of his fellow men. Besides his large mer- cantile establishment, and one of the two flour- ing mills in Yakima county, Mr. Taylor has other city and county property, all of which receive his careful, untiring management. Mr. and Mrs. Tay- lor are highly esteemed by a host of friends and acquaintances.

LORENZO D. LAPE, proprietor of the Hotel Lape, Prosser, has been identified with the devel-

opment of Yakima county since the year 1883 and has been a resident of Prosser since 1897, during which time he has taken no unimportant part in the upbuilding of that section of the county. For many years he was one of the largest wheat grow- ers in the Horse Heaven region. He was born in Fayette county, Illinois, 1855, to the union of Henry W. and Lucy (Hazlip) Lape, both of Dutch extraction. Henry W. Lape was born in Ohio, settled in Illinois in 1830 and lived in that state until 1880, when he removed to Kansas and a little later to Missouri; his death at the age of seventy- seven occurring in the latter state. Mrs. Lape was born in Virginia, came to Illinois in 1829 and was married at the age of seventeen ; she is now liv- ing in Missouri. Lorenzo D. was educated in the public schools of his native state and at the age of twenty-one commenced to farm on his own ac- count. In 1880 he went to Kansas and farmed a year, also conducted a grocery store in Girard a year ; then spent six months in the mines of Col- orado, visited Gunnison, and in March, 1883, ar- rived in Pendleton, Oregon, having walked the entire distance between that city and Glenn's Ferry. Idaho. That fall he filed on homestead and timber culture claims in the Horse Heaven wheat region and the following spring returned to the land and began its improvement. Upon this place he made his home until 1897, attaining great success in wheat raising. For some time he cultivated two thousand three hundred acres. However, in the fall of 1897, an accident deprived him of his left foot and influenced him to leave farming and de- vote himself to a quieter occupation. So he re- moved to Prosser in the spring of 1898, built the Lape Hotel, leasing it for three years, and then opened a harness shop. In 1902 he sold the shop to C. R. Boney, and in July of the same year took personal charge of his hotel, now known as one of the most comfortable and well managed hostelries in Yakima county.

In Pendleton, 1889, Miss Mary V. Reed, daughter of Philander and Lucinda (Eurit) Reed, became the wife of Mr. Lape. Her parents were both born and reared in West Virginia, and Mrs. Lape was also born in that state, in April, 1865, al- though she received her education in Kansas. In 1891 the family came to Yakima county, settling in the Horse Heaven country, and there the father died in 1892; Mrs. Reed, who is the mother of eleven children, is living in Prosser. To.Mr. and Mrs. Lape two children have been born, both of whom are living: Lena, born August 18, 1890; Loren B., December 23, 1891. Mrs. Lape is a member of the Methodist church, and her husband is affiliated with the Democratic party. Besides his fine hotel property and other Prosser holdings, Mr. Lape owns one hundred and sixty acres of wheat land, all in cultivation. He is an enterpris- ing citizen who has done much toward the up-

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building of his home city and possesses the confi- dence and esteem of his fellow men.

FRANK H. GLOYD, cashier of the Prosser State Bank, secretary of the Prosser Falls Land and Irrigation Company and president of the Pros- ser Board of Trade, is one of Yakima county's substantial citizens and a business man of the type which is giving the Yakima country continental prominence. His early ancestors were inhabitants of the British Isles, the Gloyds being Welsh and his mother's people English. The father, Ben- jamin F. Gloyd, was born in Massachusetts, 1831, and by trade was a mechanic, though he followed farming extensively. In 1852 he took up his resi- dence in Kentucky and there wooed and won a Southern girl, Susan Mason. She came of old Vir- ginia colonist stock, was born in that state and is related to Henry Clay. In Kentucky, also, the subject of this biography was born in the year 1862. From Kentucky the family removed to Il- linois. There the father engaged in the mercan- tile business and the son, Frank, began to acquire his education, attending the common and high schools of that state, besides receiving the benefit of tutoring. His education was finished in Ohio, and in 1881 he joined his parents in Kansas, to which state they had removed from Illinois. The family later decided to seek a home in the North- west and accordingly, in 1882, crossed the Plains by wagon to the Willamette valley. Subsequently they removed to Puget Sound, where both par- ents are still living. While in Ohio, however, Frank H. had decided to enter the profession of law and spent some time reading law in the office of a brother of Chief Justice Waite, United States Supreme Court. Upon arriving in his northwest- ern home, the young man entered the employ of Waters & Thorne, then compiling a set of abstract records for Marion county, Oregon. In the spring of 1883, he engaged in the same kind of work, compiling abstract records of Pierce county, Washington, for E. C. Pentland, owner of the copyright. A few months later the energetic young abstracter bought Pentland's interests, sold a half interest to W. N. Spinning, and, together they conducted the abstract business until 1889. when the Bankers' Title Insurance & Trust Com- pany was organized and absorbed the partnership. The next August the abstract business was con- solidated with the Fidelity Trust Company and a new company organized, the Real Estate, Title, Insurance & Abstract Company, absorbing all in- terests. Mr. Gloyd was president of this company until the fall of 1894. Between the years 1884 and 1894 he also held the position of deputy county auditor of Pierce county, and in the fall of 1894 was elected auditor, serving one term in that ca- pacity. In the spring of 1892 Mr. Gloyd had his

first substantial experience in western banking, he and his brother-in-law purchasing a controlling interest that year in the First National Bank of Puyallup. Mr. Gloyd became president of that institution and served until January, 1894. In June, 1897, he entered the service of the land de- partment of the Northern Pacific Railroad Com- pany, and remained in their service until March, 1902, when he retired to become the cashier and manager of the Prosser State Bank.

Mr. Gloyd and Miss Alida M. Spinning, the daughter of Dr. Charles H. and Mildred D. (Stewart ) Spinning, were united in marriage at Pasadena, California, March 25, 1891. Dr. Spin- ning was born in Indiana and in 1852 crossed the Plains to become one of Oregon's early pio- neers, settling near Portland. Mrs. Spinning was a native of Iowa, the daughter of a Congregational minister who came around the Horn to Washing- ton in 1873. While Doctor Spinning was acting as government physician on the Puyallup Indian reservation in 1869, Alida M. was born. She re- ceived her education in the schools of Pierce county, at the Annie Wright Seminary, Tacoma, and the State University, Seattle. Her venerable father, who is still practicing his profession in Pierce county at the age of eighty-three years, is an ex-member of the Washington legislature. Mr. and Mrs. Gloyd have two children, both born in Tacoma: Frank Stewart, born November 28, 1895; and Charles Hadley, April 14, 1903. Mr. Gloyd and his wife are devoted members of the Christian church, of which he is an elder. His fra- ternal connections are limited to one fraternity, the Knights of Pythias; besides which he is a member of the National Union of Insurance. Politically, he is both an active and an influential Republican. His business interests are many and important and the undeviating success he has achieved is a substantial proof of his ability and standing in the business world. Mr. and Mrs. Gloyd are highly esteemed for their congenial and sterling personal qualities by all with whom they are associated.

DAVID M. ANGUS, M. D. Although not among the earliest pioneers of the county, during the twelve years he has resided in the Yakima val- ley, Doctor Angus has accomplished much to- ward the upbuilding of his community, has firmly established himself in the hearts of a large army of friends and has met with a goodly success in his endeavors. Born in Scotland, 1856, he is the son of Alexander and Jannett (Bruce) Angus, also natives of the land of Douglas and Scott. The father and mother immigrated to Canada in 1857, caine to the United States in 1890, settling in Tacoma, and are now residing in Prosser. Dur- ing the greater portion of his life Alexander

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Angus has followed agricultural pursuits. After finishing his public school education in Canada, David M. Angus taught school three years, and in 1880 and 1881 was a fireman and conductor on one of the Canadian Pacific's construction trains, all this time carefully saving his earnings to satisfy a higher ambition he had in view. The year 1882 witnessed the first step in satisfying this ambition, Mr. Angus, spending a year in the medical depart- ment of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. In order to complete his course, the young med- ical student was again obliged to leave college and teach two years in Illinois. The next year he pur- sued his medical studies at Ann Arbor, and the year following was graduated from a New York medical school, 1886. For a year he served as surgeon in the eastern district Brooklyn hospital, then went west to California, practicing his pro- fession two years in Vallejo. From Vallejo he came north to Tacoma, and lived there until 1892, meeting with excellent success. In 1892, how- ever, he left the Sound to take up his residence in Yakima county, having purchased sixty acres of land in what is now known as the Euclid set- tlement, so named by Dr. Angus in 1892, his ranch bearing that euphonious country name. He cleared the land of sage-brush, set out a forty-acre orchard, now one of the finest in the Yakima country, and seeded the balance to alfalfa, besides erecting a comfortable dwelling and other farm buildings. Seven years Dr. Angus made this pretty place his home, meanwhile continuing his practice of medicine and surgery and gradually establishing himself in the community. In 1899, he was influenced by the increasing pressure of his professional work and the bright prospects in store for Prosser to remove his home to that lit- tle city and since then has resided there. Three years ago he established the Angus Drug Com- pany, one of the best drug stores in the county.

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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 169

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