An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 196

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

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Mary Strande, is a resident of Iowa.

Mr. Strande was educated in the land of his birth, where he also learned the trade of a stone mason, which he followed seven years after his arrival in this country. After freighting, Mr. Strande in the spring of 1874 filed a pre-emption on eighty acres of land. He was married at Ellens- burg, February 14, 1875, to Rebecca Anderson, and they have made their home since on the farm. The original eighty acres has greatly increased. Mr. Strande used his homestead right on eighty acres of railroad land, which he had to contest, and secured

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another eighty by purchase, making him two hun- dred and forty acres in his home farm. He has also one hundred and sixty acres of grazing and timber lands. Mrs. Strande was the daughter of Andrew Anderson, a native of Norway, who died in Iowa in 1879. She was born in Norway, June 6, 1846. She has had six brothers, John, Michel, Isaac, farm- ers in Minnesota; Mangus and Arne, in Norway, and Albert, deceased, all natives of Norway. Mr. and Mrs. Strande have four children. Their eldest child, Melinda Strande Nelson, was born at Ellens- burg, November 19, 1875, and is the wife of a farmer living near there. The other children are: Theodore, born June 26, 1880; Matilda, born De- cember II, 1884, and Oscar, born August 20, 1887. Mrs. Strande's mother, Mrs. Anderson, who was born June 15, 1812, is still living, a resident of Minnesota.

Mr. Strande is a Republican and takes an active interest in political matters. He and Mrs. Strande are members of the Methodist Episcopal church.

WILLIAM A. RICE, now engaged in farming his home place, two miles south of Ellensburg, Washington, is considered one of the best forest rangers in the state. He received an appointment as forest ranger in 1899 and served until 1901, when he resigned. Since that time the national depart- ment has tried earnestly to induce him to re-enter the service, for the performance of the duties of which he has shown conspicuous ability. There is a position open for him in the forest reserve force at any time he wishes.

Mr. Rice was born in Montgomery county, In- diana, January, 19, 1856, and is one of a family of seven children. His father, James M. Rice, was born in Shelby county, Kentucky, in 1823, and was the leading Republican of the county. Mr. Rice received his early education at Waveland Collegiate Institute, in Indiana, for about six years, when sick- ness required him to leave school and his native state. He went to Colorado in search of health in 1877, and there spent ten years in farming and freighting. He then moved to Ellensburg, invested in city property and engaged in carpentering for about four years. He then bought one hundred and ten acres of raw and partially uncultivated lands. He has now brought about seventy-five acres under cultivation and has built a home on the place that is one of the finest farm residences in the county. It contains nine rooms, and bath and modern con- veniences are to be put in at once.

Mr. Rice was married April 4, 1882, in Rock- ville, Indiana, to Miss Mary Ellen McCampbell, a native of the state, born May 18, 1856. She is one of a family of eleven children, and her father, John H. McCampbell, was born in Kentucky, about 1818, and died in 1881. Her mother, Sarah A. (Gris- more) McCampbell, was born in Kentucky in 1820 and died in 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Rice have three

children : Emma V., born April 6, 1883; James L., April 23, 1886, and Thomas H., December 8, 1892. The eldest two were born in Buena Vista, Colo- rado, and the youngest boy in Ellensburg. Mr. Rice is a Republican and served three consecutive terms as councilman in Ellensburg, where he was the leading advocate of good sewerage and was to a large extent responsible for the installing of the system which has made that city one of the most healthful in the country. He was nominated for a fourth term, but declined to run, being averse to office holding. Both lie and Mrs. Rice are mem- bers of the Presbyterian church.

EDWIN P. EMERSON is a successful agricul- turist residing at present four miles south and five miles east of the thriving town of Ellensburg. He was born in Stetson, Maine, thus being of that popu- lar class of American citizens known as Yankees. His parents also were Yankees, both being natives of Maine. Cyrus W. Emerson, the father, was born in 1825, and died February 22, 1903, having lived his entire lifetime in his native state. The mother, Hannah (Hammonds) Emerson, was born in 1831, and attained womanhood and was married in the Pine Tree state, but resides at present in Seattle. Edwin P. lived with his parents on the farm in Maine until he reached his nineteenth year, dur- ing boyhood acquiring a fair education in the com- mon schools. At the age mentioned, he migrated to Minnesota, this being in 1882. He remained in Minnesota only ter months, however, then came west to Kittitas county, where for four years fol- lowing his arrival he was employed as a lumber- man. In 1877 he went to the Puget sound region and for the ensuing three years logged on Skagit river. After this time he went to a point near Tacoma, there logging for four years. In 1894 he discontinued this vocation permanently, having filed a desert entry on his present farm eight years previ- ously. Water was first put on the place in 1889, since which time eighty acres have been put under cultivation, the other eighty being left as a salt grass pasture.

On January II, 1898, Mr. Emerson married Miss Maggie Bollman, a native of Yakima, born in 1875. Her parents, Mose and Susan (Funk) Boll- man, are at present residing in Kittitas county. Mose Bollman was born in Pennsylvania in 1837, and since attaining manhood has been a contractor and farmer mainly. When the gold fever in Cali- fornia was at its height he crossed the Plains with a wagon train, like thousands of others at that time, bent on the acquiring of fortune at whatever hazard to life or health. After following divers occupa- tions for a number of years in that state he came to Kittitas county, arriving in the early seventies. He is of German descent. Susan (Funk) Bollman was born in Missouri in 1851, and when a young woman came west, afterwards being married in The Dalles,

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Oregon. As mentioned, she is at present residing with her husband in Kittitas county. Children that have been born to the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Emerson are: Cyrus M., born April 11, 1901 ; Roy, born June 5, 1902; Fred, born April 25, 1903. All are natives of Kittitas county. In religion Mr. Em- erson is an Adventist, and in politics he holds to the Republican views. He is a good representative man, popular wherever known, and possessed of industry and integrity.

NIELS LARSEN is one of the many Danish settlers who live in the Ellensburg country, his home being four miles south and four and one-half miles east of the city of Ellensburg. Mr. Larsen was born in Denmark, August 21, 1860, the son of Anders and Mary (Nelson) Larsen, the latter deceased and the former at present residing in Denmark. The elder Larsen was born in 1834, and now at the age of seventy years is residing in the old country, farm- ing, as he has ever been since attaining manhood. The mother was born in 1834 and died in 1901, hav- ing lived all her life in Denmark and raised a family of six children. Niels grew to manhood and was educated in the land of his nativity. He lived with his parents until he was twenty-seven years of age, from his twenty-first year till that age being in partnership with his father on the farm. When twenty-seven, he came to the United States, his objective point being Duluth, Minnesota, where for a year and a half after arrival he followed occupations of a diverse nature. Then he came west to Wash- ington, arriving at Ellensburg in 1889. Here he was first employed in a brick-yard for three months, after which he accepted employment from the Northern Pacific Company as a section workman. For three years he was thus engaged, during the time his wages being one dollar and sixty cents per day. Quitting the section gang, he went into the round-house as an engine-wiper, following the voca- tion for a year afterwards. The big strike of 1894 compelled him to cease his work with the railroad company, so he tried the life of a farm hand. A year of this was sufficient, however, and the strike being then settled, he returned to his old vocation on the railroad section. He continued at this work for four years following, and during that time accum11- lated enough money to purchase his farm. During the last nine months of his work with the railway company he was employed in the car repairing shops, having been promoted from the section gang. He bought the farm, as mentioned, in 1901, and since then has made the place his home.

December 22, 1891, Mr. Larsen married Miss Christena Somesen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hans C. Somesen, who came not many years ago from Denmark to the United States. The parents are now residing in Wisconsin, their home having been there since 1898. Miss Christena was born in Denmark, August 27, 1863, and in her native land

grew to young womanhood and was educated. She came with her parents to the United States when a young woman, her marriage to Mr. Larsen occur- ring later when she was twenty-seven years of age. The event was solemnized in Ellensburg. Children that have been born to this marriage are: Harry, July 17, 1892; Myers, July 18, 1894; Daniel, Sep- tember 29, 1896, and Betena, July 22, 1898. All were born near Ellensburg. Mr. Larsen is a mem- ber of the Lutheran church, and in politics a Re- publican. He is an honest, hard-working man, who, as did many of his Danish neighbors in this locality, came from the old country with neither money nor experience, his sole reliance being a determined will. He is worthy of respect for his patient, persevering industry, to which quality he is mainly indebted for his success.

ERICK A. MOE. Among the numerous ranch- ers of the Ellensburg country who by industry and capable management have acquired comfortable homes and well improved farms none is more worthy of mention than Erick A. Moe. Mr. Moe is a native of Norway. He was born in this land of noble traditions, November 26, 1871, and was the son of Anders A. and Mary (Erickson) Moe, the former now living in Norway, and the latter deceased. The elder Moe was born in Norway in 1843, since his birth having resided there continu- ously. The mother, Mary Moe, likewise a native of Norway, was born in 1853, and, as mentioned, is now deceased. Erick A. resided at home with his parents till his seventeenth year, at that age coming to America. This was in 1888. He came at once to Tacoma and was immediately employed on a steamboat plying on Puget Sound. He was thus en- gaged for a year. His next employment was with the railroad company between Tacoma and Steila- coom, here spending nearly a year. Next he came to Ellensburg, where he was employed for six years in the mill of that place, owned by R. P. Tjossem, during which time he married the daughter of his employer. In 1897 he gave up his position in the mill and rented a farm, shortly afterwards buying his present farm. He moved onto this ranch with his wife in 1898, and since then has resided there continuouslv.

On April 27, 1897, Mr. Moe married Miss Torena Tjossem, then residing with her parents in Ellensburg. She was the daughter of Rasmus P. and Rachel (Heggem) Tjossem, the former a mill- owner and one of the prominent business men of the Ellensburg country. Rasmus P. Tjossem was born in Norway in 1841 and came to the United States in 1876, first visiting the eastern states. He arrived in Ellensburg in the early eighties, and before becoming a mill-owner was a farmer. Rachel (Heggem) Tjossem was born in Norway, and when a young woman came to the United States. She married the elder Tjossem in Iowa, and later came

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west with him, settling at the present location near Ellensburg. Miss Torena was born in Marshall county, Iowa, in 1872, and when a child came west with her parents. She married Mr. Moe when twen- ty-four years of age. Children that have been born to this marriage are: Rachel, born March 25, 1898; Mary A., born January 27, 1900, deceased at the age of thirteen months; Dollie T., born October 24, 1903, all born near Ellensburg. In religion, Mr. Moe is a Presbyterian, and in politics he espouses the Republican cause. From the point of view of property interests he is undoubtedly one of the most substantial citizens of the county in which he re- sides, and he is no less worthy in all the manly attributes.

WILLIAM T. SHELDON is a wealthy farmer and stockman residing five miles south and four miles east of Ellensburg. He was born in Clinton county, Iowa, February 4, 1862, the son of Iram and Catherine (Ellis) Sheldon, the former now deceased. Iram Sheldon was born in New York state in 1847 and when a youth moved with his parents to Iowa, in which state he grew to man- hood and was married. He died when thirty-three years of age. Catherine (Ellis) Sheldon was born in Illinois, and when a girl moved with her parents to Iowa, in this state marrying the elder Sheldon, as mentioned. She was of Scotch-Dutch descent and her husband of English. William T. grew to manhood and was educated in Iowa. His mother married a second time, and William lived until nine- teen years of age with this parent and his step- father in Cherokee county, Iowa. At the age men- tioned, he took up the carpenter's trade, but worked at it only a short time, then returning to his former vocation of farming. After a year of farming in Iowa he came west, his objective point being Kit- titas county, where he settled near Ellensburg. For five years following his arrival he teamed, generally out of The Dalles, Oregon, to tributary points. Then he went to the Palouse country, where he spent three years at farming, after which he returned to Kittitas county and bought an eighty-acre tract of land, which property he owns at present. He is now farming and raising stock, as mentioned, and in addition operates a threshing machine and hay- baler every fall.

Mr. Sheldon was married September 8, 1881, to Miss Viola Hayes, who, at the time of marriage, was residing in Nebraska. She was the daughter of Sanford and Rebecca (Fry) Hayes, who were among the pioneer settlers of Washington. Sanford Hayes was born in Vermont in 1827. After reach- ing manhood he farmed for a few years in his native state, later moving to Iowa, which was then being settled up. He lived in Iowa several years, marry- ing during this period, then, with his bride, crossed the Plains, his objective point being Washington. He first settled in Olympia, but later visited Ore-

gon and California, traveling at a time when the "prairie schooner" and pack-train were the only means of transportation and the settler's rifle the only protection from hostile Indians and animals. Eventually, however, he settled in Kittitas county, where he is residing at present. Rebecca (Fry) Hayes was born in Pennsylvania in 1835, and when a child moved with her parents to Iowa, in which state, as stated, she was married. Her present resi- dence is in Kittitas county. Viola Hayes was born near Olympia, April 15, 1865, and accompanied her parents during their travels in Oregon, California, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri. In the three latter states she received her education. While in Ne- braska, as mentioned, she married W. T. Sheldon, being seventeen years of age at the time of her marriage. Children that have been born to this marriage are : Villy, born in Whitman county, June 9, 1885 ; William B., April 10, 1891 ; Clara, Septem- ber 19, 1893; Milo F., July 25, 1897; Iram, August 12, 1899, and Howard M., July 26, 1901, all in Kit- titas county. Mr. Sheldon belongs to the Reorgan- ized Church of Latter-Day Saints. He is a Repub- lican, and ardent in his support of the Roosevelt ad- ministration. His property holdings are extensive, comprising slightly over thirteen hundred acres of land, two hundred and fifty head of cattle, and numerous other possessions in line with the busi- ness which he conducts. It is worthy of mention that Mr. Sheldon owns the largest apple orchard in Kittitas county. It is twenty acres in extent, almost all the trees being in full bearing.

WILLIAM D. CARTER, a transfer man at El- lensburg, Washington, is a Virginian, as his father and mother were before him. Born in the famous old Shenandoah Valley, August 19, 1860, he left home July 4, 1887, to come west and eventually located at Ellensburg. His father, John L. Carter, who was a farmer and a native of the Shenandoah valley, saw service during the war. His mother was Virginia E. (Rawlings) Carter, born in Vir- ginia in 1839. Mr. Carter has two brothers and a married sister. Marge L. (Carter) Kinchloe, the sister, and Shelby H. Carter, the younger brother, live in Virginia. J. P. Carter, the elder brother, re- sides in Washington, District of Columbia.

Mr. Carter was educated in the Shenandoah academy at Winchester, Virginia, and when eighteen years old went to Charleston, West Virginia, where he handled wheat stocks successfully for two years. He then moved to Millwood, Virginia, and clerked in a general merchandise store two years, after which he spent a vear at home before moving west. He arrived at Ellensburg July 12, 1887, and went to work in a flour-mill owned by R. P. Tjos- sen1. With a blacksmith from his old home he formed a parnership and engaged in blacksmithing, but sold out next spring and engaged in the trans- fer and livery business. He sold out in 1894, but

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the purchasers failing to make payments he resumed control in 1896. Two years later he closed out the livery, went into partnership with Mart Mason and secured a lease on three hundred acres of Yakima Indian reservation lands, the first ever sanctioned by the government. He was engaged in farming until 1900, during which time he purchased six car- loads of horses and took them to North Dakota for sale. December 15, 1900, he bought an outfit and started his present transfer business. He has now two outfits running, thoroughly equipped, has a nice five-room house, two lots and a good barn.

Mr. Carter was married at Ellensburg. Decem- ber 6, 1888, to Miss Anna Hardwick, daughter of Hugh M. Hardwick and Fannie (Gridder) Hard- wick, both natives. of Tennessee. Mrs. Carter was born at Decatur, Texas, was educated as a school teacher, and taught for a time in her native state. Her mother and three sisters and four of her broth- ers live in Oklahoma. One sister, Cora (Hardwick) Ewing, is dead. The others are: Mattie (Hard- wick) Culbertson, Jennie (Hardwick) Smith, Jes- sie (Hardwick) McBee, Lee, Hugh, Roy and Homer Hardwick.

Mr. and Mrs. Carter have one child, Phelma V. Carter, born at Ellensburg, June 22, 1900. Both Mr. and Mrs. Carter are members of the Presby- terian church. Mr. Carter is a Republican and has served five terms in the Ellensburg city council. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and has been through all the chairs, also has the distinction of having been elected a delegate to the grand lodge session held at Seattle, Washington.

CATHERINE MORRISON is a successful farmer and stock raiser, whose home is one mile south and seven miles east of Ellensburg, Wash- ington. She is one of the few women who have displayed business ability and sagacity in the suc- ·cessful conduct of such enterprises in the Northwest. Her ability in this line is possibly due to the fact that she comes from a race of successful tillers of the soil.

Mrs. Morrison was born in Pierce county, Wash- ington, April 17, 1859-a time when the residents of the Northwest were few in number. Her father, Charles Wheeler, a native of Illinois, was a farmer and moved from the coast to Kittitas county in 1870. Her mother, Maria (Fry) Wheeler, was born in Ohio in 1832, her father being also an agriculturist.

Mrs. Morrison received her education, thougli it was a meagre one, in the schools of Pierce county, Washington. She was but twelve years old when her father moved to Kittitas county. July 15, 1876, she was married to William Morrison. Her broth- ers and sisters include the following: Samantha (Wheeler) Curtice, now a resident of Okanogan county, Washington; George Wheeler and Abe Wheeler, residents of Kittitas county, Washington ;

Virenda (Wheeler) Cook, also a resident of Kittitas county, and Carrie (Wheeler) Harper, now resid- ing in Iowa.

Mrs. Morrison is the mother of seven children. Her son, Thomas J. Morrison, was born May II, 1877; Mary V. (Morrison) Roberson, born May II, 1879, died May 1, 1903 ; Charles W. Morrison was born September 16, 1881 ; Abraham Morrison was born January 9, 1884; Georgie Morrison was born February -13, 1886, and died December 9, 1899; Grant Morrison was born February 9, 1888; Anna Morrison, the youngest child, was born March 22, 1891. Mrs. Morrison has one grandchild, John T. Roberson, born April 21, 1901.

Mrs. Morrison owns a farm of one hundred and seven acres, of which she has thirty acres in cultiva- tion. She also has about sixty head of good cattle and horses.

CHARLES W. C. PANSING is a successful farmer and stock raiser, and personally does much of the labor on his place despite the unfortunate accident which robbed him of both his feet. He has eight hundred acres of farm land, half a mile south and seven iniles east of Ellensburg, Washington, well supplied with farm buildings, implements and machinery. He also owns about one hundred and seventy-five head of cattle and twenty head of horses. Mr. Pansing is a native of Hanover, Ger- many, born March 20, 1846. His father, Edward Pansing, and his mother, Margaretta (Ameshoff) Pansing, natives of the same country, are both dead. Mr. Pansing was educated in Germany and. left 'school when he was fourteen years old to work on his father's farm. He came to the United States in 1868 and located in Montgomery county, Ohio, where, for ten years following, he worked on a tobacco farm. Leaving Ohio, he moved to Yamhill county, Oregon, but left there after a stay of eleven months, on account of his health, and moved to Yakima county in the spring of 1877. He worked for Mr. Sanders for about three years. It was during this period that he had the misfortune to have both his feet so severely frozen that it was necessary to amputate them at the instep.

He had four brothers and one sister, all born in Hanover, as follows: Henry, born about 1842; Sina (Pansing) Bultman, born in 1833; William, born in 1835, and Herman, born in 1839; are now dead. The surviving brother, Frederick Pansing, born in 1837, is a resident of Ohio, where he is engaged in farming and raising tobacco. Mr. Pan- sing does not take a great deal of interest in party politics, but is an ardent admirer and supporter of President Roosevelt. He is a member of the Ger- man Lutheran church.

S. NEWELL BANISTER, a farmer residing some two and one-half miles east of Ellensburg,

CHARLES W. C. PANSING.

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Washington, is of Scotch-Irish descent. He was born in Pierpont, Saint Lawrence county, New York, November 5, 1831. His father, Benjamin Banister, was born in Virginia, and enlisted in the American army in the War of 1812. The mother, Bethirah (Axtel) Banister, was born in Virginia about 1800. Mr. Banister was educated in the schools of New York and Illinois, and when about seventeen years old left school and began working on a farm. Three years later he started for Cali- fornia, by wagon, and arrived in the Golden state in 1852. He engaged in placer mining one year. For two years following he was engaged in freight- ing and then moved to the northern part of the state and bought a farm, which he cultivated for three years. He was a member of an independent company, organized to fight Indians, and had a number of narrow escapes from death at the hands of the wily savages. In 1862 he left Crescent City valley and located in Umatilla, Oregon, where he engaged in freighting for six years. In 1869 he filed on a homestead in Vancouver, Washington, and farmed there nearly seven years. He then moved to Kittitas county for the winter, the next spring went to Walla Walla and engaged in farm- ing for another period of seven years. He then re- turned to Kittitas county, where he has since made his home. His brothers and sisters include the fol- lowing: Mrs. Mandena Otis, of Spokane, Waslı- ington ; Jason, living in Idaho; Robert, an Oregon farmer; Lindon, killed while serving in General Sherman's army during the Civil war; Mrs. Sarah Isum, a widow, who resides in Illinois; Salmira Banister, who died when six years old; William, died at the age of eight; Daniel, died at the age of three, and Nathan, who has also passed away.

Mr. Banister was married in Vancouver, Wash- ington, May 5, 1868, to Miss Martha Dixon, who was born March 31, 1841. Her father, Elija Dix- on, born in Virginia in 1806, was a farmer, Her mother, Sarah (Cadwalader) Dixon, was born in North Carolina in 1804. Both were of Dutch-Irish descent. Mrs. Banister had four brothers and five sisters, as follows: John, of Kittitas county ; Mrs. Melinda Wigle, a widow, living in Yakima county, Washington; Charles, Drusella, Ruth and Isaac, all dead; Mary Hardester, wife of a retired farmer of Walla Walla, Washington; Sarah Cross, wife of a farmer of Vancouver, Washington, and Joseph Dixon, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Banister have five children: Sarah (Banister) McEwen was born March 28, 1870, and lives in Kittitas county ; Mrs. Melinda Dixon, born February 6, 1872, lives in Ellensburg; Mrs. Mamie Smith, born October 28, 1874, is dead; Mrs. Belle Lewis, born February 4, 1879, lives in Yakima county, and Lindon, born June 23, 1885, makes his home with his parents.

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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 196

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