An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 184

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

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Mr. Stulfauth's parents removed from Pennsyl- vania to Illinois in 1855, two years before his birthi. At the close of the war they again moved west- ward, this time settling in Franklin county, Kansas, where the boy received his early education, remain- ing there until his seventeenth year. At this age he went to Salt Lake and entered the employ of The Tribune, at first in the mechanical department, afterwards on the telegraph and reportorial staffs. At the end of ten years, 1884, he went to Portland to take charge of a partner's interest in the Port- land Daily News. For three years he made Port- land his home, but spent the greater portion of the time in San Francisco, as special correspondent of his Portland paper. Removing to San Francisco later, he occupied the telegraph desk on The Even- ing Post and for a time was a reporter, both with The Chronicle and The Examiner. In 1889 he pur- chased an interest in The Capital with A. N. Ham- ilton, his former partner at Portland. In 1899 lie bought out his partner's interest and has since con- tinned editor and sole proprietor of that publica- tion, which ranks among the best and most suc- cessful periodicals in the valley. Though originally an independent sheet, under Editor Stulfauth's man- agement it became, in 1892, stanch in its support of Republican principles.

In the fall of '83 Mr. Stulfauth was married to Blanch Henry, of Mattoon, Illinois. Mrs. Stul- fauth's father, a physician of Mattoon, and a former surgeon in the army, was a native of Kentucky. He was a lineal descendent of Patrick Henry. Her mother, Elizabeth (Stoddert) Henry, who was born in Maryland, was a granddaughter of Richard Stoddert, first secretary of the navy. Mrs. Stul- fauth is a member of the Congregational church. Mr. Stulfauth has one sister, Mrs. Mary A. Rivers, who resides in New York City.

Fraternally, Mr. Stulfauth is associated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is an ardent Republican and naturally, by virtue of the position he holds in the community, is active in the councils and campaigns of his party. He is an acknowedged success as a journalist and The Capi- tal is well patronized by the citizens of Ellensburg and the Kittitas valley.

SIMON P. WIPPEL. One of the chief sources of wealth in the Kittitas valley is the creamery busi- ness and one of the most successful companies in the county is the Kittitas Creamery Company, of which S. P. Wippel is one of the proprietors. In writing Mr. Wippel's biography it is interesting to note that he learned the dairy business in this county and, by close attention to its details, has built up and is now a partner in one of the most extensive concerns of this character in the county. Mr. Wippel is a native of Ripley county, Indiana, where he was born, March 17, 1871. His father, Frank Wippel, is a farmer, native of Germany. He was born there in 1843 and was brought to the United States by his parents when three years old, in 1846. He still lives in Indiana, which has been his home for fifty years. The mother of Simon Wippel, Gertrude (Zinser) Wippel, was born in Germany in 1845 and came with her parents to this country when an infant. Until his nineteenth year Mr. Wippel remained on the Indiana homestead with his parents, working on the farm and attend- ing the district schools. In his young manhood he was a great reader and values highly the general store of information he accumulated in this way. Leaving Indiana when nineteen, he went to Kansas, settling near Topeka and, in a short time, becoming manager of a ranch and an extensive herd of thor- oughbred Shorthorn cattle. At the end of three years he left Kansas and came to Kittitas county, in the spring of 1893, entering the employ of Helm & Reed, who at that time were engaged extensively in the stock business on a ranch of several hun- dred acres; at the end of two years he was made manager of this ranch and continued in this posi- tion for three years. The firm of Helm & Reed dissolving, Mr. Wippel became the employee of Mr. Reed in operating a skimming station in connection with the Ellensburg Creamery. One year later he bought an interest in the business. In 1900 he sold his interest in the Ellensburg Creamery and, with his brother, Fred, established the Kittitas Creamery Company, erecting and equipping buildings in which to operate the business. In the fall of 1901 the brothers bought the Cloverdale Creamery of John Goodwin at Thorp and have since operated the two plants. The business is each year becoming more extensive, the principal product being butter. large quantities of which are shipped to the Sound country.

In April. 1902, Simon Wippel and Gertrude E.

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Miller were un'ted in marriage. Mrs. Wippel is a native of Minnesota and is the daughter of Nicholas and Isabelle (Schwingler) Miller, the former a native of Germany and the latter of Minnesota. Nicholas Miller was a teacher in his native country ; he came to Kittitas county in 1886. The father and mother are still living. Mr. Wippel's brothers and sisters are: Fred, his partner in business ; Katherine, Marguerite, Peter, Anna, Elizabeth, Frank and Gertrude. Raymond Wippel is the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Wippel. Mr. and Mrs. Wippel are members of the Catholic church. In politics Mr. Wippel is a Republican. With his brother, Fred, he owns a section of land in the valley. Mr. and Mrs. Wippel have an attractive and comfortable home in Ellensburg and are enjoy- ing the fruits of years of industry and successful management.

FREDERICK WIPPEL. Kittitas county has produced many successful stockmen and dairymen. Its extensive ranges make of it an ideal stock coun- try and the inclination of the later settlers to en- gage in diversified industries led to experiments in dairy farming which proved wonderfully success- ful and which resulted in the opening of many dairy farms and the establishment of creameries in various parts of the county. The Kittitas Cream- ery was established in 1900 bv Frederick Wippel and his brother, Simon. In this year Frederick Wippel came to Kittitas county from Kansas, in- duced to make the change in location by the encouraging reports concerning the advantages of the country sent him by his brother, Simon, who had been a resident of the county for several years. On his arrival here Mr. Wippel went to the State Agricultural College at Pullman and took a thor- ough course in the dairy department, after which he took up the work as butter maker in his own creamery at Ellensburg and is still so engaged. With his brother Mr. Wippel has built up a very extensive business, both at Ellensburg and at Thorp, having purchased at the latter place in 1900 the Cloverdale Creamery, owned by John Goodwin. Frederick Wippel is a native of Ripley county, Indi- ana, being born there in 1868. He is the son of Frank and Gertrude (Zinser) Wippel, both natives of Germany, the father born in 1843 and the mother in 1845. The father was brought to this country by his parents when three years old, in 1846; the mother also came to America with her father and mother in her infancy; both attained maturity in Indiana. The grandparents settled in Ripley county, Indiana, and there the father and mother of the subject of this article have lived for fifty years. Frederick Wippel spent his boyhood days on the homestead farm in Indiana; he worked on the farm with his father, attending the country schools during the fall and winter months. until seventeen years of age. At this age he went to

Kansas with his grandfather, Michael Wippel, in 1885, in quest of a new farming location. The grandfather not being suited, returned to Indiana, but the grandson remained, settling near Topeka. Here he engaged in farming and raising stock, finding the business reasonably profitable and con- tinuing in it for fourteen years, until 1900. In this year, as has been previously stated, he came to Kittitas county and to Ellensburg, where he has since made his home and which has become the permanent field of his business activities. In it he has won success and has established himself as one of the reliable and substantial citizens of the community.

June 4, 1901, Mr. Wippel was married in To- peka, Kansas, to Kate Renyer, a daughter of John Renyer, a carpenter, of German extraction; the mother's maiden name was Boley, she also being of German descent. Mr. Wippel has three brothers . and five sisters : Simon, his business partner ; Peter, Frank, Katherine, Marguerite, Anna, Elizabeth, and Gertrude. In religious faith Mr. and Mrs. Wippel are Catholics. Mr. Wippel holds membership in the fraternal order, A. O. U. W. Heretofore Mr. Wippel has been a Democrat, but he is now a Roose- velt Republican, believing firmly in the man and his public policies. He is a partner with his brother in the possession of 640 acres of valley lands, and owns the home in which he and Mrs. Wippel reside. He is progressive and energetic, and wins success in whatever enterprise he engages.

CHARLES S. BAKER, a member of the firm of the Putnam Grocery Company of Ellensburg, Washington, was engaged for many years in the profession of teaching before he entered business life. He is a native of Illinois, having been born in Adams county, May 7, 1855. He grew to young manhood there, working on a farm and attending school, finishing his education at Quincy ( Illinois ) college. At twenty he began the work of teaching, his first school being in Adams county. After six years as teacher in Illinois Mr. Baker moved to Klickitat county, Washington, in 1891, and con- tinued in the same profession. He was selected principal of the Centerville schools, which position he held four years. In 1898 he moved to Ellens- burg and engaged in teaching in the country schools and also was bookkeeper for the Ellensburg Grocery & Commission Company. June Ist he formed a partnership with James J. Putnam and took over tl-is business, changing the firm name to that under which the business is now conducted. Mr. Baker has been most successful in his business undertak- ings. He is the owner of the Webb building in Ellensburg ; has property still in Klickitat county and owns business property at Waterville, Wash- ington. He is a Republican and has always taken an active interest in politics, being now secretary of the county central committee. During his resi-

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dence in Illinois he was alderman and city clerk at Loraine, having been elected on the anti-saloon ticket. Both of Mr. Baker's parents are living and are residents of Ellensburg, Washington, having moved west in 1902. His father, James Baker, was born in Maryland, in 1834, of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He was a pioneer farmer in Illinois, settling there in 1850. Mr. Baker's mother, Roxanna F. (Hecox) Baker, like her son, was a native of Adams county, Illinois, where she was born, in 1844. She was the mother of seven children. Mr. Baker's three broth- ers are : John L., in the real estate business at Ho- bart, Oklahoma Territory; Marcus F., railroad agent for the M. K. & T., at Tibbitts, Missouri, and Rufus A., a resident of Ellensburg, Washington. His sisters are: Laura, now Mrs. J. B. Roley, of Denver, Colorado; Minnie, now Mrs. L. W. Tay- lor, of Edmunds, Washington, and Pearl, now Mrs. Clyde Williams, of Tacoma, Washington.

Mr. Baker was married in Illinois in July, 1891, to Gertie Reece, who was born in Adams county, Illinois, in 1869. She taught in Illinois from 1887 to 1891, at which time she was married and came west, locating at Centerville, Washington, where she taught in the city schools with her husband. She graduated later from the Washington State Normal school at Ellensburg, and is now teaching at Cle-Elum, Washington. Her father, Richard M. Reece, was born in Adams county, Illinois, and fol- lowed farming and was for many years postmaster at Loraine. He now resides in Chicago. Her mother, Sarah ( Hooper) Reece, is dead. She has three sisters living in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Baker have three children, Ronald Franklin, Gladys Frances and Lessie Luella. Mr. Baker is promi- nent in a number of fraternal orders, being an active member of the K. of P., I. O. O. F., Women of Woodcraft and Royal Tribe of Joseph. He is also a member of the county board of education and a member of the eighth grade examiners.

ALFRED M. WRIGHT, a successful business man of Ellensburg, has the honor of having built, with his brother, the first saw mill erected in his city. Born in New York City, March 22, 1864, he was the son of Ezra W. Wright, who operated a saw mill on Staten Island and one in central New York. Of French descent, the father was born in Herkimer county, New York, in 1827. Being in ill health, he came west and settled in Kittitas county, Washington, in the vain hope of improve- ment, dying here in 1891. Two brothers of Ezra W. Wright gave up their lives in the cause of the Civil war, one of whom, serving as aid on the staff of Gen. Sheridan, was killed in the Shenan- doah valley. The mother of Alfred M. Wright, Emma Cuttrell, of Scotch-English ancestry, was born in Jersey City, 1829, and died in 1873. Her father was proprietor of a shipyard in her native c.ty, where members of her family even now con-

tinue to build ships. The boy, Alfred, grew up in the Empire state, working in his father's mill until reaching the age of twelve, when he removed with lı's father to a farm. Here he worked for two years, when he left his country home to learn the machinist's trade. In 1883 he sought health in Dakota, where, for three years, he followed his trade, at the end of which time he came to Ellens- burg, entering at first into carpentering and con- tracting work. The year 1892 found him with his brother, William, engaged in the lumber milling business, in which success has rewarded their efforts. At the present time they . jointl" own two mills, one at Cle-Elum and one at Teanaway, together with a half interest in a third.

Mr. Wright was married, June 21, 1886, in New York state, to Miss Bertha R. Georgia, an old school-mate, a native of Otsego, New York. Being a woman of finished education, before her marriage she was engaged in teaching. Her father, Orrin Georgia, and hier mother, Susan ( Murray) Georgia, both were born in the state of New York, where she has three brothers and three sisters now living. The father d'ed some years ago. Mr. Wright was a member of a family of seven, three sisters and one brother, Ezra H., being dead. Of his two sur- viving brothers, Frank C. Wright is living in Cali- fornia and William, Mr. Wright's business partner, makes Ellensburg his home. To Mr. and Mrs. Wright six children have been born: Nellie, Doris, Charlotte, Luvern, Acenith and, Alfred. By the death of Mrs. Wright, September 30, 1901, this family of growing children were left motherless and since that time have been cared for solely by the father. Though the subject was in Ellens- burg at the time of the great fire, he was fortunate enough to e:cape with little loss. Mr. Wright has ever taken a lively interest in the affairs of his city, and has served eight years as a member of its council. 'He is a wide-awake Republican, sel- dom being absent from a caucus or a convention of his chosen party.

MALCOLM McLENNAN. Malcolm McLen- nan, a widely known sheep raiser, and for a num- ber of years sheep commissioner of his county, which position he still holds, was born in Scotland, in the northern part, during the month of Septem- ber, 1866. His parents, Murdock and Anna Mc- Lennan, were both born, reared, and both died in Scotland ; the mother dying in 1887 and the father in 1896. The first sixteen years of his life Mal- colm McLennan spent in his native country on his father's farm, where he received a common school education. Regarding the United States as a coun- try offering better inducements for a man of limited means than any other of which he had any knowl- edge, he chose this country as his future home; and in 1886 he made his advent in The Dalles, Oregon. Being somewhat familiar with the sheep business,

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and desiring to learn more of it as it is conducted in this country, young McLennan hired out as a herder to one of the extensive sheep men of eastern Oregon. This vocation he followed until he became thoroughly acquainted with all the details con- nected with the management of a sheep ranch. He then invested his savings in a small flock of sheep and went into business on his own account. With this as a nucleus he continued to add more sheep as he was enabled to do until at the present time he owns flocks numbering between nine and ten thousand head. After four years in eastern Ore- gon, he brought his sheep to Kittitas county, pas- turing them among the hills and making his head- quarters in North Yakima and Ellensburg. In the fall of 1898 Mr. McLennan was married in Yakima, to Mary Ledfield, a native of southern Oregon, born in 1880. . Her life spent in the Yakima valley dates from her first year, when her parents, Thomas and Metta (Davis) Ledfield, removed to the town of Yakima, where Mr. Ledfield worked at his trade, that of jeweler. Mrs. McLennan's father and mother both were born in Oregon, and the parents of both were early pioneers of that state. Mr. Mc- Lennan has one brother, Ewen, and two sisters, Maggie and Jessie, all of whom live in Scotland. To Mr. and Mrs. McLennan has been born one son, Malcolm, now aged four years. Mr. McLennan is an enthusiastic worker in the Republican party, is a wide-awake, energetic business man, and is a living example of the success which can be brought about only through hard work and assiduity, coupled with sound business judgment. His opinion of the country in which he lives is that, while it has been a great stock region, the business is now somewhat overdone, and he further opines that the day is close at hand when the large stockmen will be forced to reduce their herds, in order that the business may be divided more equally among the masses and not practically controlled by a few ex- tensive dealers, as is the present state of affairs. He also considers it not so good a country for cattle as for sheep, owing to the overstocked con- dition of the range where they pasture.

CARL A. SANDER. One of the finest ranches in Kittitas valley is owned by Carl A. Sander, who unites farming and dairying with the rearing of stock one and one-half miles northeast of Ellens- burg. Mr. Sander began life in Berlin, Germany, in 1840. His father, Christian Sander, was born in Boyton on the Oder, in 1818, and died in 1895. His mother was Elizabeth (Wilach) Sander, also a. native of Germany ; she died the same year that her husband died.

Mr. Sander's early life was spent in his native land. At twenty-one he entered the German army, remaining in the service two years, during which period was fought the war between Germany and Denmark. He was severely wounded by the burst-

ing of a shell in an engagement between the oppos- ing forces, and was compelled to retire to private life. After having learned the miller's trade he came to the United States in 1864 and for two years followed the milling business in Florida, removing at the end of this time to Salina, Kansas, and later, across the Plains to New Mexico and Arizona, in which territories he worked in the quartz mills. Going to Seattle a few months later, he joined twenty companions in the purchase of a boat, in which they sailed to Alaska in search of gold. In this venture he lost all the accumulations of former years and on one occasion barely escaped with his life. Returning from Alaska, he settled first in Portland, Oregon, and afterward in The Dalles, where he operated The Dalles flour mill, during the years 1870-71, coming to Kittitas county April 20, 1871. He at once took up 160 acres of land and began clearing it, succeeding in making 25,000 rails the first winter. Leaving the farm in the spring he went to Yakima, and for two years worked there in a flour mill, later he bought the plant, afterwards dividing his time between the mill and the farm. In the meanwhile he had acquired a small herd of cattle which was growing into money on the range. At the end of ten years, with his sav- ings, added to the profits from his cattle, he bought the mill, becoming thenceforth its owner and oper- ator. At the same time he purchased one-half inter- est in 300 additional acres of land. In 1880 he sold his mill interests at a considerable profit, and also his land in Yakima county, at once erecting on his own land a large flour mill, which unfortunately was destroyed by fire. This was the fifth mill to be built in the county, Fort Simcoe claiming the first.

Mt. Sander was married in Old Yakima, in 1881, to Olive Cleman, born in Oregon in 1860. Mrs. Sander's father was. Charles Augustus Cle- man, a teacher, farmer and stockman, born in Ten- nessee. He crossed the Plains to Oregon during the early Indian troubles, and died in that state in 1882. He was a hard working and prosperous man. His wife, the mother of Mrs. Sander, was Rebecca (Griffith) Cleman, a native of Missouri. She crossed the Plains to Oregon with her parents in early life and died in 1902. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sander lived for a number of years in a log cabin, until fortune so favored them as to enable them to build their present sumptuous home. Prior to their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Sander were inured to the privations of pioneer life. Mr. Sander had had experience in grinding wheat for flour in a coffee mill and in taking lonely and hazardous journeys through the untrodden forest to The Dalles for provisions. Mrs. Sander was a pioneer of Oregon as well as of Kittitas county. Her husband assisted in the construction of the stockade at Yakima in 1877 and she was one of the first to seek refuge behind its walls. Mr. Sander has a brotlicr, Frederick W .. and two sisters, Pauline and Anstina, living in Berlin, Germany. Mrs. Sander has three

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brothers : Perry and Jacob, of Ellensburg; John, of North Yakima; also a half-brother, Clifton Cle- man, of Yakima county. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Sander are: Frederick William, Anna and Clara Edith, who are students in the State Normal at Ellensburg, and a younger daughter, Mabel.

When Mr. Sander settled here there were but ten families in the valley, the work of development having scarcely begun. He had faith in the future of the country and events have proven that his faith was well grounded. He has accumulated twelve hundred acres of land, about nine hundred in one body, and all supplied with water, improved with house, barn, granaries, etc., and stocked with dairy cows and other live stock. The first water system of Ellensburg was installed by Mr. Sander in 1887 and sold to a New York company in 1891.

Mr. and Mrs. Sander are connected with the Lutheran church. Mr. Sander is Republican in politics, though not an active partisan. He has ever been an active, enterprising man and his name must always be prominent in the history of the growth and development of the country in which he has irade his home.

PERRY CLEMAN. A man of thrift and busi- ness capacity is Perry Cleman, native Oregonian and sheep man of Ellensburg, born near Eugene, Ore- gon, in 1857. He was the son of a veteran printer, farmer and stockman, Augustan Cleman, born in Tennessee, who crossed the Plains to Oregon and settled in the Willamette valley, dying in 1882. Rebecca A. (Griffith) Cleman, Perry Cleman's mother, was born in Missouri, and crossed the Plains in the early fifties, when she met and was married to Augustan Cleman, and with him settled at Salem, Oregon. She passed away November 10, 1902.

When Perry Cleman was eight years of age his parents brought the family to make its home in the Yakima valley. The father later removed to the Kittitas valley, where he bought land. Perry remained in the Yakima valley, where lie made his home until 1883, when he also settled in the Kit- titas valley. However, he had visited the valley many times prior to making his home there and was thoroughly familiar with the country and was firmly convinced as to its advantages for his chosen vocation-that of handling stock. Since arriving at the age of eighteen, Mr. Cleman has had charge of his own affairs, and his boyhood days having been spent among stockmen, he naturally took up that line of business for himself. As early as the age of twenty he had accumulated a small herd of cattle of h's own and for years continued to add to the number until he became known as a pros- perous cattle raiser. Subsequently he began to till the soil, and to his live stock interests he added a flock of sheep. He continued business in this way unt'l about the year 1900, when he disposed of

his cattle and devoted his attention almost entirely to the rearing of sheep.

Perry Cleman was married in 1883 to Anna Lewis, also a native of Oregon, in which state hier parents were pioneers. Her father, William Lewis, came from Missouri, the state of his birth, in an early day and settled in Oregon. He was an Indian fighter in the war of 1855-56, and, in civil life, a farmer and stock raiser. He now makes his home in Okanogan county, Washington. Mrs. Cleman's mother, Ruth McCallister in her maiden days, was born in the state of Illinois. She, too, crossed the Plains and settled in Oregon early in the history of that state, where she was married to Mr. Lewis. She is still living.

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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 184

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