An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 180

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

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they lived until 1872; at that time the family took up its abode at Staten. There the subject of this biography grew to young manhood, receiving his early education in the public schools. From the public schools he went to the state university at Eugene and later attended the Willamette Univer- s.ty, from the medical department of which he was graduated in 1884. Following his graduation, the young physician began the practice of his chosen profession at Brownsville, Oregon, where he was a successful practitioner for three years. Leaving Brownsville, he went to Seattle, where he remained a year, then became a resident of Ellensburg. Be- sides pursuing his profession with creditable suc- cess, Dr. McCauley has operated extensively in real estate since coming to Ellensburg, and is at the present time prominently identified with the mining interests of the state.

Dr. McCauley and Miss Maria Elizabeth Sprague, the daughter of Edward J. and Elizabetlı (Lafferty) Sprague, of Portland, Oregon, were united in marriage in 1885, the ceremony taking place in the city mentioned. Mr. Sprague is a native of England. He came to Portland in 1878 and for many years filled the responsible position of superintendent of the Portland Iron Works ma- chine shop. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague are now living in Washington. Dr. McCauley has only one sis- ter, Mrs. E. B. Sellwood, who resides in Portland. Mrs. McCauley was born in Youngstown, Ohio, and came west with her parents in 1878. One son, John W., fifteen years of age, has blessed the mar- riage of Mr. and Mrs. McCauley. The family are members of the Episcopalian faith. Since coming to Ellensburg, Dr. and Mrs. McCanley have been closely connected with the social life of the city and have gathered around them a wide circle of loyal friends. Fraternally, the doctor is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and the Elks. Politically, he is an influ- ential and active Republican and has been honored by his fellow men with the offices of mayor and councilman of Ellensburg. Probably no man in the city has been more interested in and closely allied with the upbuilding and advancement of his com- munity than Dr. John C. McCauley.

WARREN A. THOMAS. Among the educa- tors of central Washington, Warren A. Thomas, superintendent of public instruction in Kittitas county, is one of the most successful, both in the work of the schoolroom and in the organization of teachers and schools for the most effective work in the advancement of educational matters toward a higher degree of perfection. The fact that he has been twice elected to the same posi- tion is conclusive evidence of his special qual- ifications as an educator. Mr. Thomas came to Kittitas county in 1888 and settled in Ellensburg, since which time he has been almost contin-

uously in school work. At one time he left the county, going to Port Orchard, on the Sound, where for eighteen months he was engaged in editing a weekly newspaper. With the excep- tion of this short period, however, he has lived in Ellensburg, where his time has been spent in school work. In 1896 Mr. Thomas was the reg- ular candidate, on the Fusion ticket, for county superintendent of schools and was elected. Two years later he was again the Fusion candidate, but was this time defeated. During his first term he became convinced that the country schools should and could be graded; that it would make the work of the teachers and the advancement of the pupils in every way more effective and satis- factory. In the work of grading these schools he met with a great deal of opposition, the coun- trv school boards not being in sympathy with the movement, believing it to be an innovation that would prove a hindrance rather than a help. This opposition is believed to have been respon- sible for his defeat in the second campaign. In° 1900 he became the candidate of the Democratic party for the same position and was elected by a good plurality. For the second time he took charge of the office in August, 1901. During this term he has graded all the country schools of the county and has had the satisfaction of witnessing the complete success of his efforts and of receiv- ing the approval of all the county boards. King county is the only other county in the state where the country schools have been successfully graded, and the superintendent of Kittitas county is certainly deserving of great credit for the accomplishment of this difficult task. His second term of office expired August 31, 1903. Mr. Thomas was born in Brown county, Illinois, December 28, 1861. James R. Thomas, his father, also a native of Brown county, now lives at Thorp, Washington. The father is a veteran of the Civil war; was a soldier of the 115th Illi- nois infantry, which was with General Thomas at Resaca, and in many other of the famous bat- tles of the rebellion. The grandfather before him was a pioneer of Illinois and was in the War of 1812. James R. Thomas was a pioneer of Nebraska, the family having moved to Hanı- ilton county, that state, in 1873. Warren Thomas' mother was Rachel A. (Cline) Thomas, a native of Indiana, where she was born in 1836; she is still living in Kittitas county. The parents of our subject first moved from Illinois to Mis- souri during his infancy ; thence, at the close of the war, to Iowa, near Monroe, where the father operated a sawmill for a number of years. When the family moved to Hamilton county, Nebraska, in 1873, the father took a homestead, and here the son Warren grew to manhood, working on the farm and attending the common schools, beginning his career as a teacher at the age of nineteen. A few years later he learned

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telegraphy and worked for a time as an operator, but eventually took up his life work as a teacher.

In 1887 Mr. Thomas was united in marriage to Miss Bertha E. Shears, a daughter of George N. and Charlotte (Storrs) Shears, of New York, where Mrs. Thomas was born in 1869. Her parents are living at Norman, Oklahoma, the father being engaged in the mercantile business. He is a veteran of the Civil war; is a skilled mechanic and a successful inventor. Mr. Thomas has three brothers living; James, at Cle-Elum; Ira E., an Oregon farmer, and Charles, a teacher, who lives at Thorp. His sisters are Ella, Anna (deceased), Alice and Nora. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, all of whom are at home, are Francis, Myrtle, Florence I., Sylvan and Frances I. Mr. Thomas is a member of the Modern Brotherhood of America ; is independent in his political views; is public spirited and keeps well posted on educa- tional and other matters that occupy the minds of the thoughtful and progressive men of the day. He is the editor and publisher of the School Bulletin, which was established in 1901, and is devoted to educational affairs purely. Mr. Thomas is esteemed by all as a man of learning and especial executive ability, and is one of the foremost citizens of Ellensburg.

JULIUS CAESAR HUBBELL, manager of the Ellensburg Water Supply Company, dealer in real estate and insurance agent, is one of the unique characters of his town. He was born in Clin- ton county, New York, June 4, 1863. His father, John W. Hubbell, is still living in New York, his native state, at the age of seventy-five. Mr. Hubbell, Sr., at one time held the office of colonel in the Thirty-second New York infantry. The sub- ject's grandfather and namesake was once num- bered among the wealthiest men of New York; and his great-grandfather has the honor, during the Revolutionary war, of marching and serving under Gen. George Washington's command. The line of ancestors numbers Richard Hubbell, one of the famous Mayflower's passengers. J. C. Hub- bell's mother was, before her marriage, Miss Mar- garet Beckwith, daughter of Judge Beckwith of the county of Clinton, New York, and she as well as her husband boasted a good, patriotic family, for her mother's father was Gen. Benjamin Moores, a commander at the battle of Plattsburgh in the War of 1812. J. C. Hubbell passed his boyhood in the state of his birth. At the age of twenty- two he was graduated from Williams college, whereupon he assumed the position of chemist of the Crown Point Iron Company. Later, he occupied a like position in the emplov of the Chautauguay (Oregon) Iron Company. In the spring of '93 Mr. Hubbell came to Ellensburg under engage- ment to take the management of the Ellensburg Water Supply Company, which position he still

holds. Besides his work for the water com- pany, Mr. Hubbell has carried on an extensive insurance business. That his executive ability and capacity for business are recognized by his constituents is shown by the fact that upon the Kittitas Valley National Bank's becoming in- solvent he was appointed by the court to act in the capacity of receiver, July 10, 1896, and in a creditable and satisfactory manner he closed up the business of that defunct institution.

June II, 1889, Julius Caesar Hubbell was united in marriage to Miss Carrie L. Loomis, a member of a prominent old Massachusetts family. Mrs. Hubbell was born in Springfield, Massachu- setts, and is a college graduate. She is a niece of Judge Hoyt, a widely known jurist of St. Albans, Vermont .. To Mr. and Mrs. Hubbell have been born four children: Wolcott, Francis, Beckwith and Ruth. The father himself is a member of a family of eleven children. The re- ligious connections of the family are with the Congregational church. In politics Mr. Hubbell has always taken an active interest. He is allied with the Republican party. During his residence in Ellensburg the subject has accumulated a con- siderable amount of valuable property, being the owner of the Geddis block and the Brick Bank building, the only brick building left from the fire of 1889 in Ellenburg, and several hundred acres of choice valley land, besides one of the hand- somest homes in the city.

THOMAS F. MEAGHER. The proprietor of the People's meat market at Ellensburg, Washington, has had an adventurous career. Son of Nicholas Meagher, a California pionecr who crossed the Plains at the time of the gold excite- ment, Mr. Meagher started out to battle with the world when but ten years of age. His father was a resident pioneer of Shasta, California, where Thomas Meagher was born March 16, 1853. His mother died when Thomas was a small child and he was taken to raise by outside people and has never been with his own folks since. He worked on a farm and when he had a chance he attended school. When he was eighteen years old he went to work for wages, the first he ever re- ceived, and from that time on was independent. His father, in the meantime, had located at Port Angeles, Washington, and owned nearly the whole town, so he went there for a year. He remained at different places on Puget Sound for about eight years, and in 1877 he moved to Ellensburg. That was at the time of the Indian war. In part- nership with Mr. Kenneth he ran a threshing machine in Kittitas county for three years and took up a farm. Later he spent several years riding the range and then went into part- nership with J. H. Smithson in the butchering business. They were partners for seven years,

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and supplied meat to the railroad contractors at the time the road was built into Ellensburg. In 1885 he sold out to his partner and started min- ing in the Swauk district. He was the discoverer of Williams creek. The town of Meagherville was named in his honor. He took out about $65,000 from the Discovery and Teresa claims, which he worked until 1898, when he sold them at a good price. He still owns a part of the Bigney mine and the town of Meagher. He re- turned to Ellensburg and engaged in copper mining at Mount Stuart. He was also in the fish business for a year, and disposed of it. Then he started up his present butcher business. Wil- liam Rhempke, his partner, died a few days after they started out, and Mr. Meagher bought the interest of the estate and has' since conducted it alone.

Mr. Meagher was married in 1885 to Eliz- abeth Mitchels, a native of Minnesota. Her · parents, Martin and Margaret Mitchels, are na- tives of Germany, and are pioneer residents of the Kittitas country, owning a farm near Ellens- burg. They have four children, Martin and Mar- guerite, who are attending school, and Louis and Agatha. The family are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Meagher is a Republican and an active party worker. He attends cau- cuses and conventions and is at present a member of the Ellensburg city council, repre- senting the second ward. In addition to his butcher business he has large mining interests and owns considerable farm and city property.

FREMONT L. CALKINS is the principal of the public schools, at Ellensburg, Washing- ton, a position he has filled with conspicuous success since 1901. Since his graduation from the Northern Indiana Normal school at Val- paraiso, in 1882, Mr. Calkins has been constantly engaged in his profession with unvarying suc- cess. The high reputation of the city schools of Ellensburg is a testimony to his ability as an educator. Mr. Calkins was born in Knox county, Illinois, February 12, 1860. His father, Albert Calkin's, born in New York in 1808, was a pioneer Illinois farmer, having bought land from the government and settled in that state in 1836. He was of English descent and traced his ancestry back to 1636. He died in 1896. Mr. Calkins' mother, Lois M. (Park) Calkins, was born in Massachusetts in 1815 and died in 1887. She was of Welsh extraction. Her ancestors were early settlers in Massachusetts. Mr. Calk- ins grew to manhood in Illinois, working on his father's farm and attending the common schools. He graduated from the normal school in 1882 and was in turn principal of the Chatsworth, Illi- nois, schools for four years; of the Chenoa, Illi- nois, schools for two years; at Gilson, Illinois,

for a year; at Washington, Illinois, for five years, and at Delavan, Illinois, for seven years, before coming to Washington to accept his present position. He has four brothers living : Calvin, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; Leonard, of One.da, Illinois; Leroy, of Galesburg, Illinois, and Dwight, of Cambridge, Nebraska.

Mr. Calkins was married in 1895 to Hellen P. Parker, a native of Fredonia, New York, who was educated in that city and in the State Nor- mal school there, and who taught for a number of years. Mrs. Calkins was the daughter of J. J. and Mary (Wheelock) Parker. Her father was a member of the firm of Parker & Co., large seed dealers of Fredonia. Her mother was the daughter of Rev. Dr. Wheelock, a noted divine of the Baptist church and an extensive traveler. Mr. and Mrs. Calkins have five children, named Frederick Park, Forrest F., Frances Mary, Julius Brown, and Norman Floyd Calkins. Husband and wife are members of the Methodist Epis- copal church. Mr. Calkins is a Mason and a Knight Templar and belongs to the Modern Woodmen of America. He is a member of the Republican party. He owns a fine ranch near Ellensburg.

CAPTAIN ALFRED C. STEINMAN. One of the substantial business houses of Ellensburg is that of Steinman, Bros., grocers, which was estab- lished in 1898. Alfred C. Steinman, of this firm, has had an interesting history, which we take pleas- ure in publishing in this volume. Born in Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, July 2, 1862, he was taken by his parents when two years old to Waubashaw county, Minnesota, where until his sixteenth year he worked on the farm and attended the district schools. At this age he entered the city schools, completing eventually the high school course and teaching one term after graduation. He then went into a general merchandise store, clerking for seven years, at the end of which period he came to the Pacific coast, settling soon afterward in Ellensburg, where for eight years he was associated with Mr. Stowell in the dry goods and grocery business. In 1898 the partners dissolved, Mr. Steinman taking the groceries, and with his brother, William, estab- lishing the business in which the two have since been engaged. He has been connected with the National Guard since 1890, a good portion of the time as the captain of the Ellensburg company, and in 1858, the entire company offering its services to the state, it was mustered into the United States forces as Company H, First Washington infantry, U. S. volunteers, Mr. Steinman remaining the cap- tain of the company during its period of service in the Spanish war. October 28 he shipped with the company from Presidio, California, reaching Manila December Ist. The force spent two hun- dred and thirty-six days on the firing line and took

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part in engagements around Manila, at Laguna de Bay, Pasig, Petaros, Morong, Tay Tay, Monta- loupe, Calamba, Santa Cruz and other places. For nine months Captain Steinman commanded a bat- talion as acting major, on a major's pay, while in the field. The company left Manila September 3d, arriving at San Francisco October 11, 1899, and, taking advantage of Senator Levi Ankeny's gener- ous offer, sailed for Seattle on the vessel Queen, which the senator had chartered for this purpose. Arriving again at Ellenburg, Captain Steinman re- entered business with his brother at the old stand, where they are enjoying a prosperous trade. Mr. Steinman is now captain of Company C, Washing- ton National Guard, organized under his directions at Ellensburg May 27, 1903.

Mr. Steinman was married in 1887 to Jennie Reynolds, a native of Winona, Minnesota, where her mother is still living, her father having died many years since. Mr. Steinman has two brothers and three sisters: Christian John, Mary and Lucy, living in Minnesota ; Anna, living in Washington, and William, the partner, at Ellensburg.

The parents of Alfred Steinman are Christian and Mary (Wheeler) Steinman, both natives of Switzerland, where the father was born in 1829. They were married in their native land and came to the United States in 1851, settling in Minnesota and engaging in farming, the father also working for a time at his trade, that of a wagon maker. He cleared a farm here, which he conducted with the assistance of his older sons. The ancestors of the mother were educators in Switzerland for several generations through which she traces her lineage. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Steinman are members of the Methodist church. Mr. Steinman is a Republican and keeps well posted on the varied issues of the day ; he was the candidate of the Republican party for county treasurer in 1900, but failed of election. He is president of the board of education and has been connected with that body for the past twelve years. He believes in affording the best possible educational facilities to the youths of city and coun- try and is untiring in his efforts for advancement in this direction. Mr. and Mrs. Steinman own a pleasant home in Ellensburg and are held in high esteem by a large circle of friends and neighbors. One pleasant event in Captain Steinman's life which he remembers with pride is the visit of President Roosevelt to Ellensburg on his tour of the west in the summer of 1903. With that feeling of comrade- ship which one brave soldier holds for . another, President Roosevelt upon alighting from the train called for Captain Steinman, and after a hearty greeting and complimentary remarks insisted upon his being seated upon the platform while he made his address.

HARRY S. ELWOOD. The Elwood phar- macy is too well known to the citizens of Ellens-

burg to require mention in this volume for com- mercial reasons. It is not the purpose of this arti- cle to make special mention of the business, but to write biographies of Mr. and Mrs. Elwood as rep- resentative citizens of Ellensburg. Harry S. El- wood was born April 4, 1866, in Leesburg, Ohio. His father is Clark Elwood, who was also born in Leesburg, Ohio, in 1839; he is now a resident of Ellensburg and, like his son, has been in the drug business. The paternal grandfather, Robert El- wood, was a pioneer of Ohio. He had three broth- ers in the Civil war, one a private, one a surgeon and the third a captain. The mother of Harry Elwood was Charlotte (Hiskay) Elwood, a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1839; her parents were natives of the same state and were pioneers of Jas- per county, Iowa; she had one brother, Jehu, in the Civil war. Her father still lives, at the age of eighty-six. The subject of this biography spent his early life in the public schools of Leesburg, Ohio; attended- school later at Cincinnati, taking a regular course in pharmacy, and, at the age of twenty, returned to Leesburg, where he established himself in the drug business. After a short time he moved to Washington Court House, continuing in the same business. In 1887 he came west, settling in Ellensburg, and accepting a position in the drug store of G. B. Henton, remaining in his employ for several years. In 1895 he formed a partnership with W. V. Stephens, but in 1897 purchased Mr. Stephens' interest in the firm and has since been sole proprietor ; he has built up an excellent trade and enjoys the patronage of the best citizens.

In 1888 Mr. Elwood married Miss Florence Kin- zer, a native of Ohio, who died in 1892. In 1898 he married Miss Elvira Marquis, a native of P11- laski, Pennsylvania. Mrs. Elwood was educated in the high schools and in the Normal of her native state and at once became an instructor : was for six years a teacher in the State Normal at Beaver Falls, and for five additional years in the Indiana (Penn- sylvania) Normal. She came to Washington to accept a position as instructor in the State Normal at Ellensburg and continued for five years in charge of the department of literature. She has served two years as recording secretary, and two years as president, of the Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs: she is also an active worker in the Presbyterian church. Mrs. Elwood is the daughter of Andrew Marquis, a farmier and a native of Law- rence county, Pennsylvania ; he was of the Necrar stock, of Pennsylvania, of Scotch-Irish descent, and died when the daughter was a child. Her mother was Saphronia (Dickey) Marquis, a native of Sha- ron, Beaver county, Pennsylvania ; she died in De- cember. 18:,8. The mother was descended from the Adams family of Massachusetts, Captain Ben- jamin Adams, of Revolutionary fame, being an an- cestor. The maternal grandfather. John Dickey, was a prominent politician of Pennsylvania, a mem- ber of the state constitutional convention, of the

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state legislature and, in later years, a member of congress for several terms from western Pennsyl- vania. At the time of his death he was United States marshal for the state. His son, Oliver J. Dickey, was a law student under Thad. Stevens and eventually succeeded Mr. Stevens in congress. Another son, Charles Dickey, organized a company and served as its captain in the Civil war under General Logan, and was breveted major at the close of the war. Andrew Marquis' brother, D. C. Mar- quis, is now professor of Hebrew in the McCormick Theological Seminary of Chicago. Mrs. Elwood has a brother, Charles, living in Philadelphia, and a a sister, Mrs. Lydia Brothers, in Tacoma. John L. Elwood, a physician of Tygh Valley, Oregon, and Robert W. Elwood, a farmer near Ellensburg, are brothers of Harry S. Elwood. Mr. and Mrs. Elwood have one daughter, Lucile. Mr. Elwood holds membership in the fraternal orders Knights of Pythias and Woodmen of the World. He is a Republican, but not an active politician. By close attention to business and by adherence to honorable methods in all his dealings with others, Mr. Elwood has made a success of life and has earned the last- ing friendship and esteem of all his associates.

DAVID MURRAY, a pioneer and son of a pio- neer, having done his share and more toward the "winning of the west," had retired from active business to devote his entire attention to caring for his large interests, at his home in Ellensburg, Wash- ington, when the death message called him from the scene of action June 8, 1904. Mr. Murray was born in Montville, Waldo county, Maine, in Octo- ber, 1831. His father was a native of Maine, where he was a farmer and merchant. He was a pioneer in Iowa, moving to Dallas county in 1856, where he died in the early nineties. He was an active Re- publican and a temperance man, and had served as selectman of the town. His wife, Rhoda (Clifford) Murray, was a native of New Hampshire. She died in the early nineties, also after fifty-six years of married life. David Murray was educated in the common schools of Maine and learned the trade of stone cutter. He left there and came around the Horn to California in 1852-3, traveling in the ship Queen of the East, on which the dry dock was brought to the Mare Island navy yard, where he worked for a time. Later he engaged in mining, lumbering and farming. At the time of the placer gold excitement he joined in the rush to the Frazier river fields in 1862. His business instincts induced him to take up a farm on the banks of the Frazier river, from which he furnished supplies to the miners. When he disposed of the ranch in 1868 he had made about $10,000. After a visit east he came to the Yakima valley and settled in Parker Bottom and engaged in stock raising. Having the necessary means to engage ir the business exten- sively, he ranged his cattle on the hills as far as

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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 180

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