An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 177

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

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Scotch-Irish parentage. His wife Mary, Don- ald's mother, was born in Iowa, of German parents, her people being pioneers of that state. She was married when sixteen, crossing the Plains with her husband in the early fifties. Our subject first entered the Willamette University, located at Salem, Ore- gon, and after completing a course there, attended the Pacific University, at Forest Grove; also being a scholar at the State University at Eugene. For a period of four years he taught in the Oregon schools, next taking up the study of mining, and traveling throughout the states of Idaho and Montana for a further space of three years. He then joined a government surveying party, and was with them for six months, making extensive surveys throughout Utah, Montana, and parts of Idaho. The next year was spent in the employ of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Company as a field engineer, and the following four years in the service of the locomotive engineering department of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in Oregon. The ensuing six months were passed in California, in the same line of work. From railroading he now branched out into the steamboat service, devoting six months to that in the city of Seattle, there be- conting connected with the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad Company, and remaining in their employ two years. It was during this time that Seattle was devastated by the big fire, and Mr. Cresswell was engineer of the first train moved over the burnt district of the city. He then removed to Salem, Oregon, and accepted a position at the State Insane Asylum, remaining there two years, then re- turning to Seattle, and engaging in the lodging house business for a year. His next move was to Umatilla, Oregon, there leasing the ferry, and oper- ating it with success for two years. In 1895 he came to Yakima county, buying his present place, and en- gaging in stock raising, and later in raising wheat.

He was married at Salem, Oregon, in 1892, to Eva Allmer. Her father, John Allmer, a native of Sweden, born in 1838, came to this country in 1885. He lived for two years in Minnesota, thence going to Portland, Oregon, and later to Powell's Valley, Oregon, some fifteen miles from Portland, where he still resides. He is a minister of the Congrega- tional church. Her mother, Christinia (Johnson) Allmer, was also a native of Sweden, in which coun- try she was married, and is now living in Oregon. Mrs. Cresswell was born in Sweden in 1868, and was there educated. She immigrated to this coun- try when eighteen, and was married five years later. There have been two daughters born to this unicn : Edna, at Seattle, October 20, 1892, and Ruth, at Kennewick, January 23, 1899. Mr. Cresswell is affiliated with the Masons fraternally, and is also a member of the Congregational church. He is a Re- publican in politics, and has served three years as road supervisor, and two years on the school board. His farm consists of one thousand four hundred

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acres of land, nine hundred acres under cultivation. He also has leased one thousand four hundred and forty acres, nearly half of this tract being culti- vated. He is quite an extensive stock raiser, mak- ing a specialty of O. I. C. hogs. As a public-spirited citizen and progressive farmer, he takes high rank in his community.

WILLIAM W. MASIKER, a Yakima county farmer and dairyman, resides on his property five miles and a half from the town of Kennewick in a westerly direction. He was born in Kane county, Illinois, February 10, 1848, the son of George and Falmira E. (Trumble) Masiker. His father was a native of York state, and removed to Illinois in 1840, and later married in that state. He crossed the Plains in 1852, and wintered at Fort Boxelder, the site of the present city of Ogden, Utah. The following spring he journeyed to Oregon and set- tled in Polk county, and a few months after his arrival took up a donation claim, residing in that locality for seven years. From 1860 to 1862 he made his home in Wasco county, and thence re- moved to Sherman county, in the same state, where he passed away in the year 1863. His mother is likewise a native of the state of New York, and removed to Illinois with her parents in 1840. She was married there. Her husband dying, she was in 1863 again married, to Mr. Price, with whom she still lives. Her son attended the common schools of Oregon, and as his father died when he was fifteen, he took care of the family for two years, at which time his mother was again married. He remained at home with his mother and stepfather, until he was slightly over twenty-two years old, when he engaged in riding the range for a period of eleven years. He also attended to the stock, and learned a great deal about the business. The two succeeding years were spent in the sheep business, and in the fall of 1882, he moved to Klickitat coun- ty, Washington, and bought a fruit ranch near Columbus, devoting the ensuing six years to that business, in which he met with success. Disposing of his place to advantage, he moved nine miles northwest of Goldendale, where he lived for eleven years. His next home was in the Moxee valley, and after two years' residence there he moved to lais present place near Kennewick.

Mr. Masiker was married to Laura A. Hender- son, at Columbus, Washington, in 1876. Her father, Joseph C. Henderson, a native of Indiana, was born in Clark county in 1827. He is a farmer by occu- pation, and a Civil war veteran, enlisting in 1862 in Company I, Seventieth regiment Indiana volun- teers, and serving throughout the entire war. He left Indiana after the war and settled in Missouri, in 1873 moving westward to Columbus, Washington, where he still resides. He is of Scotch-Irish parent- age. Mrs. Henderson's maiden name was Lucy A.

Stark. She is also a native of Clark county, Indi- ana, born in 1834. Her daughter Laura was born in Johnson county, Indiana, in 1857, attended the schools of both Indiana and Missouri, and was mar- ried at the age of twenty. She has two sisters and two brothers now living: Mary, the eldest, in Oregon ; a married sister, Mrs. Ida Sanders, and a brother, Ira L. Henderson, at Columbus, and Oscar, near Portland, Oregon. This union was blessed with seven children, four of whom are now deceased. The eldest, Amos O., now living in Yakima county, was born in Klickitat county, September 16, 1877 ; Effie O., born in Sherman county, Oregon. Decem- ber 13, 1879, is deceased ; Walter O., born in Sher- man county, Oregon, December 24, 1881, and Palmyra E., born in Klickitat county, April 21, 1889. Albert E., Omar and Lulie are deceased. Mr. Masiker is an Adventist in religion, and a Re- publican in politics. He was school director in Klickitat county for a number of years. His prop- erty consists of nearly a hundred acres, all watered by the Kennewick ditch, and his residence is a com- modious nine-room house. He is making a spe- cialty of Jersey cows for his dairy. He is success- ful in business, an energetic man and has a good future before him.

WILLIAM F. MARTIN, a Yakima county farmer and stockman living on the banks of the Columbia river, about three miles west of the town of Kennewick, is a native of Oregon, born in Lane county, on Christmas Day, in the year 1854. His father, Evin Martin, was of Welsh parentage, and a native of Green county, Ohio, born in the year 1828. He followed farming as an occupation. He re- moved to Missouri in the early days, and in 1853 crossed the Plains to Oregon by ox-team, the trip consuming six months. Locating in Lane county, he there took up a donation claim, upon which he made his home until his death, which occurred in 1900. Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Mary A. Turpin, was a native of Missouri. She married in her native state and crossed the Plains with her husband to Oregon, in Lane county of which state she died when William was quite young. She was of English and Irish descent.

Our subject received his education in the com- mon schools of Oregon, and worked for his father on the farm until he became nineteen years of age, then began to ride the range for various stockmen, an occupation which he followed for a period ex- tending over five years. At the expiration of this time he took up farming and stock raising on his own account, and in 1890, some ten years before his father's death, he moved to Yakima county, settled at Kennewick and there continued in the stock busi- ness. Shortly after his father's death in 1900, he bought eighty acres of land three miles west of the town, on the Columbia river, and he has since made

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his home on this land. The same year he also pur- chased six hundred and forty acres of railroad land in the Horse Heaven district, and he has two hun- dred and ten acres of this tract now under cultiva- tion and the entire property well fenced.

Mr. Martin was united in marriage in Union county, Oregon, in 1878, the lady being Martha E. Jasper, a native of Oregon. Her father, Merrill Jasper, was born in the Blue Grass state, and was by occupation a farmer and stockman. He crossed the Plains in the early fifties, and located near the town of Corvallis, Oregon, where he took up a donation claim. He then removed to Union county in the fall of 1868, which county he served one term as state senator some years later. He died there in 1885. Her mother, whose maiden name was Nancy Means, was married at fifteen years of age; she died in Benton county, in 1870. Mrs. Martin was born near Corvallis on the 28th of February, 1862. She attended the schools of Union county, and was married at the age of seventeen. She was one of a family of seven children, her brothers and sisters being : Terrell J., deceased ; Mrs. Ella Bernough, de- ceased ; George, William J., Mrs. Viney Grey and Mrs. Rodie Morton, all residents of Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have a family of six children : Jes- sie, who died when quite young; Clarence E. and William M., born in Oregon; Mrs. Ella McClem- ans, who now lives at Mission, Washington ; Eliza- beth and Van Buren, living at home with their par- ents. Elizabeth was born in Kennewick. Mr. Mar- tin is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and in politics, an active Democrat. He owns over a hun- dred head of cattle. Mr. Martin is one of the pros- perous farmers and stockmen of the county, and stands high in the esteem and regard of his neigh- bors.

JAMES N. SCOTT, a prosperous merchant of the town of Kennewick, in Yakima county, Wash- ington, is a native of Missouri, and was born in Bar- ton county, in 1872. He is the son of Robert and Sarah A. (Moorehouse) Scott, his father being of Scotch birth, a contractor by trade, and at present living in North Yakima. Their biographies will be found elsewhere in this volume. His mother is a native of Illinois, and the mother of a family of eleven children, three of them now deceased. Her son, James, received his early education in the com- mon schools of Missouri and later attended the pub- lic schools in North Yakima, Washington. At the age of fourteen he started to learn the carpenter's trade, and worked with his father during this time. This occupation did not turn out to his liking, and two years later he took up the trade of a painter and thoroughly learned the duties in connection with this following. For a period extending over almost nine years he continued at the painter's trade, work- ing for various people, also engaging in business on

his own account, and prospered. During the Span- ish-American war he enlisted in the First Washing- ton volunteers; in 1898 his regiment was ordered to Manila, and on reaching that country, was en- gaged in numerous encounters with the Filipinos. Mr. Scott was promoted to a sergeantcy, was taken sick on the Islands, and after a nine months' stay, was sent home with others of his regiment, and mustered out of the service in San Francisco. He then came to Washington, and once more took up his trade of painting. In 1901 he branched out into the retail business, and opened a clothing store in Everett, Washington. He continued in business in that place fourteen months, and in the spring of 1893 came to Kennewick and opened a clothing and gents' furnishing goods store, which business he still follows. He carries a large and well-assorted stock of furnishings, is an up-to- date and progressive business man, and is doing a lucrative business, which is expanding, with the town, in a rapid manner. Mr. Scott still remains single, and has seven brothers and sisters now liv- ing. His brother Walter, the eldest of the family, died in 1898, and his brother John passed away at the age of six months. Margaret, a sister, likewise died when an infant of six months. Robert W. Scott, another brother, born in Canada, is living in the Naches valley, and Charles E. Scott, born in Missouri, also lives in that locality with his brother Thomas H., likewise a native born Missourian. Harry H. Scott, a Missouri boy, lives in North Yakima. The other three brothers and sisters, by names : Amy K., Bert E. and George R. Scott, now live in Yakima county. James N. Scott is an Elk, and also belongs to the Modern Woodmen of Amer- ica. In politics, he is a Republican. He is a young business man of strict integrity, and is popular with his fellow citizens.

AUGUST E. TIMMERMANN, a prosperous Yakima county stockman, resides on his ranch sit11- ated eight miles west of the town of Pasco, Wash- ington. He is a native born German, and born in the year 1857. William Timmermann, his father. was likewise born in Germany, in the year 1825. He followed the occupation of a farmer and died in his native land during the latter part of the year 1871, his son being fourteen years old at the time. His wife, whose maiden name was Christina Holler, was also of German parentage, and passed away in her native country some years ago. Her son re- ceived his education in the public schools of his home town, and at the age of eighteen took service in the army, and for a period of three years was a soldier ; at the expiration of that time he returned home for a stay of twelve months. In May, 1881. he immigrated to the United States and located in Nebraska, only remaining there for six months, and then removing to Denver, Colorado. He made his

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home in Denver for almost four years, following various pursuits, and then made a trip to his home in the old country, crossing the ocean to America once more after a five-months' visit with his mother and friends. On his return he came west and locat- ed in Washington, at Washtucna Lake, residing there for nearly ten years. He built the Columbia Cable Ferry across the Columbia river at Pasco, during the year 1894, and the following year brought his family to Pasco. Since coming to the state of Washington, he has followed the stock business principally, and at present writing has a band of three hundred cattle, and is making a spe- cialty of Herefords.

Mr. Timmermann was married in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1890, to Mary M. Sohl. Her fath- er, Claus Sohl, was of German birth, and by occu- pation a farmer. He died in Germany a number of years ago. Her mother belonged to a German fam- ily by the name of Slechting, and also passed away in Germany some years after her father's decease.

Mrs. Timmermann was born in Germany in 1868, and was educated in the common schools of that country, marrying at the age of twenty-two. Mr. and Mrs. Timmermann have a family of five chil- dren : Walter E., the eldest, born in Walla Walla, December 31, 1892; Annie J., born in Franklin county, Washington; Edna M., born in Pasco, No- vember 28, 1896; Christal A., born in Yakima coun- ty, January 10, 1901, and Norbet C., born in Yakima county, June 3, 1904. The father of this family is fraternally connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is also a Mason. He is a mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and in politics, a Demo- crat. He has served two terms as county commis- sioner in Franklin county. His property consists of fifty acres in Yakima county, and one hundred and sixty acres near Pasco, in Franklin county, his residence being across the river from Pasco, and in Yakima county. He is an agreeable gentleman, making a success in his work, and is well liked by his neighbors and friends.

KITTITAS COUNTY BIOGRAPHY

STATE NORMAL BUILDING, ELLENSBURG, WASH.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES KITTITAS COUNTY

PATRICK J. CAREY. Although not a native of the United States, P. J. Carey is thoroughly American in his ideas and is among the most suc- cessful ranchmen of Kittitas county. Mr. Carey was born in Ireland in 1839, and came with his parents to New York in 1847. He is the son of John Carey, who, after twelve years' residence in New York, became a pioneer of Minnesota, settling in Freeborn county in 1859. His homestead here consisted of a half-section of land, on which he lived until his wife's death, in 1879. P. J. Carey's mother, who came after her husband to New York in1 1847, was Mary (O'Mara) Carey. She died in Minnesota in 1875.

Mr. Carey was fourteen years old when his parents moved from New York to Minnesota, and here, for a number of years, he worked with his father on the farm and attended the common schools. When still a young man he returned to New York, and in 1859 enlisted in Company E, Second Dragoons (now termed cavalrymen), reg- ular army. After drilling at Carlisle Barracks for nearly a year, he was mustered into the service at Salt Lake in November, 1860. In 1861 his regi- ment crossed the Plains to Leavenworth, and was sent on to Washington, D. C. Mr. Carey served in a regular brigade throughout the Civil war under Generals Buford, Merritt and Pleasanton. He was in the battles of Bull Run, Manassas Gap, Manas- seh, Gaines' Mill, Whitehouse Landing, Malvern Hill, Winchester and the famous Sheridan ride, the Wilderness, through the Maryland and Penn- sylvania campaign to the battle of Gettysburg, and in other important engagements. He was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness and, while attempt- ing to assist a wounded comrade named Wilsie from the field, was taken prisoner, May 8, 1864. After spending eleven months in the Richmond hospital and in prison, he was paroled and ex- changed. He rejoined his company later at Win- chester. In 1863 he was made a sergeant for mer- itorious conduct. During two years of his service

he was field messenger, carrying dispatches from one commander to another, both on the field of battle and during encampments. At one time he captured a rebel spy and thirteen Confederates, who were temporarily housed in a building outside of Gen. Kilpatrick's lines, known as the "Yellow Tav- ern." The spy was clothed in the blue uniform and was addressed by the members of the party as "Major Jones," but proved to be a woman.

Mr. Carey received his discharge at Winchester May 3, 1865, and went to Washington, D. C., where he was employed for a time in the Bureau of Freedmen under Gen. O. O. Howard. The pe- riod intervening between 1867 and 1872 was spent at his old home in Minnesota, in the latter year returning to Washington, D. C., where he remained in the employ of the government until 1874, going this year to California, making his home for three years in San Francisco. In 1876 he came to Old Yakima and shortly afterward took up a homestead in the Kittitas valley. During the Indian troubles in 1877 he carried the news of the supposed up- rising to the people of Wallula and other settle- ments.

December 13, 1878, Mr. Carey married Mrs. Anna (Jullong) Frederick, a native of Ohio. The wife died in 1897.

April 14, 1899, he was married to Mrs. Clara Schroeder of Sprague, Washington. Mrs. Carey died September II, 1900. There is one child of the second union, Essie L. Carey, now three years old. Mr. Carey has two stepchildren, who make their home with him: Jacob C. and William Schroeder. His sisters, Mary and Alice, live in Sabley county, Minn. He also has a sister, Sarah Moore, in St. Paul, and another, Hannah Doyle, in Montana. A brother, David, lives in Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Carey is a Republican, and is always in- terested in the success of the party. He is a mem- ber of Stephen Post, No. I, G. A. R .; also of the Hibernian Society. He owns 160 acres of land in

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Kittitas valley and 80 acres in Lincoln county, Washington. He has made a success of farming and stock raising, and has a comfortable and well- appointed home.

MRS. JOHN C. ELLISON is engaged in farming, a mile and a half south of Thorp, Wash- ington. Her husband, the late John C. Ellison, was born in Missouri, November II, 1853. and spent his boyhood days in Kansas. He lived in Nevada and Oregon before locating in the Kittitas valley. His father was Thomas Ellison, a Kentuckian and a farmer, who came to Washington in 1880, and his mother, Mary ( McCubins) Ellison, was likewise a native of Kentucky. They both died after the family moved west. Mr. Ellison was married Jan- uary 9, 1884, to Amy A. Childs, who survives him, he having passed away a few years ago. He had the distinction of having served at one time as assessor of Kittitas county.

Mrs. Ellison was the daughter of Isaac and Mary M. (Daniels) Childs. Her father was born in Virginia, but moved to Pennsylvania, where he met and married his bride. Mrs. Childs was born in the latter state in 1841. Mrs. Ellison is likewise a native of Pennsylvania, born August 7, 1867. When she was an infant her parents moved to Iowa and later to Nebraska, where she received her early education. Though only sixteen years old when she came to Washington with her parents, in the fall of 1883, the succeeding January she became the wife of the late John C. Ellison. Her brothers and sisters are: Elsworth Dannels, born in 1863, living in Pennsylvania; Martha J. Abbott, born February 9, 1866, living at Fairhaven, Washington ; Isidore M. Bailey, born in 1859, a resident of Idaho; Warren J. Childs, born in Nebraska, in 1870; Frances Frederick, born in 1871, a resident of Washington; Hannah E. Stazer, born in 1873, now residing at Spokane.

Mrs. Ellison's children are: John W., born February 10, 1886; Rosa E., born March 13, 1889; Dora M., born December 13, 1890; Alice P., born March 17, 1892; Olive M., born September 18, 1894; Mary E., born June 6, 1896; Mabel H., born October 8, 1884; Lydia A., born May 22, 1887- the last two deceased.

Mrs. Ellison belongs to the Church of Christ, in which also Mr. Ellison was an elder at the time of his demise, and she is a member of the Order of Rebekahs. She has four hundred acres of land, of which one hundred and sixty acres are in the home place. She is a thorough business woman, well thought of and highly respected by all who know her.

JOHN ALDEN SHOUDY, son of Israel Shoudy, was one of the honored pioneers of Ellens- burg and of the Kittitas valley. He was born in

Paw Paw, Illinois, December 14, 1842, and died at his home in Ellensburg May 25, 1901. Mr. Shoudy was the eighth in a family of nine children. When three years old his father settled with his family in Lee county, Illinois. Here he attended the com- mon schools, and, while assisting his father on the farm, saved money enough to pay for a full course of study in a business school at Rockford, Illinois. Shortly after completing his studies he enlisted for service in the Civil war in Company K, Seventy- fifth Illinois infantry, and was sent to the front. At the end of three years, during which he took part in many of the hard-fought battles of the war, he received an honorable discharge, and, in com- pany with a brother-in-law (Dexter Horton) and others, came to California by way of the Isthmus. He afterward went to Seattle, where he was em- ployed by Mr. Horton in a general merchandise store. He remained in Seattle until 1867, then went to Heildsburg, California, again accepting a posi- tion with Mr. Horton in a store at that place. While at Heildsburg he met and married Miss Mary Ellen Stuart of Oakland, California. After his marriage he returned to Seattle, and from 1868 to 1871 engaged in the transfer business. In 1871 he sold out and crossed the mountains into the Kit- titas valley as the representative of Seattle citizens who desired the construction of a road through the mountains to the settlers and Indians in the valley, that they might secure their trade. Arriving in the valley and realizing that a well equipped trad- ing post was a much needed institution, and one that must prove a profitable investment, he pur- chased of Jack Splawn, in 1872, a small log hnt, fourteen by twelve feet in dimensions, located on the present site of Ellensburg. The hut had been used by Mr. Splawn as a small trading post, but, as he had interests farther down the valley requir- ing much of his time, it did not become a trading point of importance until after Mr. Shoudy took possession. Mr. Shoudy sent thirteen pack trains across the mountains the first season he was in the valley. In 1872 a second log house was built, in dimensions sixteen by twenty-four feet and two stories high. Mr. Shoudy then sent for his family, who came by way of Portland and The Dalles, de- termined to make this his permanent home. From 1872 to 1878 there were occasional Indian scares throughout the valley, and Mr. Shoudy took an active part in quieting the Indians and restoring peace. While on a mission of this character to. Chief Moses in 1872 he narrowly escaped death at the hands of a band of renegade Indians, his life being saved by the timely interference of Moses. In 1875 he laid off into town lots a portion of the land he had taken up about the trading post, and sold the lots, those for residences at two dollars each, and those for business buildings at ten dol- lars each. He named the town Ellensburg, in honor of his wife. He erected the third building, a large two story frarre, in 1876, on the corner of what

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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 177

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