An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 94

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

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DAVID A. MASTERS, a young miller of Gold- endale, and a popular member of society, was born in Goldendale, June 19, 1883. He is the son of Thurston L. and Mary J. (Story) Masters, the former a native of Oregon and a butcher by trade. The older Masters was born in Washington county May 9, 1851, the son of Andrew J. and Sarah J. Masters, natives of Kentucky and pioneers of Ore- gon of 1843, both now deceased. He learned the butcher business at the age of thirteen and worked at it for several years afterward, also following stage driving as an occupation for some time. He came to Klickitat county in the spring of 1871 with a band of cattle and took a pre-emption claim twelve miles east of Goldendale, which he later sold. He moved into the city in 1878, bought a butcher shop, and continued to run the business until 1898, then disposed of it. He kept a hotel and stable at the Summit Place, between Goldendale and North Yakima, for two years. At present he is a resident of Goldendale, as is also his wife, who is the daughter of David and Pheba (Pugh) Storey, natives of Ten- nessee and Kentucky, respectivelv. She was herself born in Illinois October 24, 1853, but was edu- cated in the schools of Washington county, Oregon, and married at Goldendale the day before Christ- mas, 1872, at the age of twenty. David A. Masters is one of a family of five. He was educated in the public schools of Goldendale, also attended the Klickitat Academy and took a course in the state university at Seattle. He learned the butcher's trade from his father when a boy of twelve, and at the age of seventeen accepted employment in a drug store in his native town. After following that busi- ness for nearly a year he gave it up and spent a sea- son on the farm. In the fall of 1901 he started in his present business under L. C. Caples, of the Goldendale Milling Company, and he has now learned the miller's trade thoroughly and still fol- lows it. Mr. Masters' sisters and brothers are : Sarah E., now Mrs. Hess, living in Goldendale ; Mrs. Ethel Russell, now at Silverton, Oregon ; Sarah

S. and Howard T., at home with their father and mother.

Mr. Masters was married on May 5, 1902, the lady being Miss Pearl E. Shoemaker, a native of Washington. Her father, Peter Shoemaker, came to Klickitat county in 1878, and· passed away in 1902. Her mother's maiden name was Catherine Ames. Mrs. Masters was born in Centerville, Klickitat county, and received her primary educa- tion in the local schools, later attending a Portland school. She took a course in elocution in the latter institution, becoming an accomplished elocutionist. She and Mr. Masters have one child, Evelyn, born in Ellensburg December 18, 1903. Fraternally, Mr. Masters is connected with the Maccabees and the Order of Washington, and in politics he is a Repub- lican, while his religious faith is that of a Method- ist. With youth still his, and with a good trade well learned and plenty of energy and ability, he can hardly fail to exert a very sensible influence in the material and social development of his native town.

WILLIAM E. HORNIBROOK, a prosperous and well-known farmer and stockman, resides two and one-half miles south of Goldendale, Washing- ton. He is a Canadian by birth, born October 4, 1851. His father, Samuel Hornibrook, also a na- tive of Canada, was a minister and farmer, but con- fined his pastoral work largely to the community in which he resided. The mother, Sarah (Dwyer) Hornibrook, also of Canadian nativity, is now re- siding in Goldendale.

William E. received his education in the com- mon schools of Canada. Until twenty-one years of age he lived at home with his parents, and during that time gained experience both as a school teacher and a lumberman in the lumber camp which his father then maintained, in addition to learning agri- culture. When twenty-one years old he accom- panied his parents to Iowa, and there followed rail- roading for four months. Abandoning this occupa- tion he purchased a farm, and for fifteen years fol- lowed farming independently. His next move was in 1888 to the Klickitat valley, where he acquired the fine farm of several hundred acres, which he occupies at present.

Mr. Hornibrook was married in Cherokee coun- ty, Iowa, June 21, 1882, to Miss Ellen F. Lau- camp. She was the daughter of Bernard Laucamp, a farmer and stockman, and native of Prussia, who, after leaving the old country for America, served in the Mexican war. The mother, Sarah ( Rice) Laucamp, was born in Wisconsin. From Wiscon- sin Mrs. Hornibrook's parents moved to Iowa, where she was educated in the common schools. When twenty-four years of age she married Mr. · Hornibrook. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hornibrook, namely: Samuel. in Iowa, May 28, 1883 ; Sadie and Cvnthia, twins, September 15, 1885, and William, September 22, 1892. Mr.

ALBERT F. BROCKMAN, M. D.

NELSON B. BROOKS.

IREDELL S. STONE.

SAMUEL SINCLAIR.

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Hornibrook is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and is now serving honorably as a trustee of his church society. He has served several terms as a school director, and in this, as in other matters, his judgment has rarely been found faulty. In the fall of 1902 he was elected county commissioner by the Republican voters of his county for a term of four years. His farm now comprises 640 acres of excellent land, and is supplied with all necessary implements and stock to carry on successfully agri- cultural pursuits. It is Mr. Hornibrook's belief that the slip-shod method of farming, for which farmers have often been justly criticised, is destined to become a thing of the past. In accordance with his conviction, he is setting an excellent example in the management of his own ranch. The judgment of his fellow men in selecting him for the responsi- ble office he now fills has proven good, for he is universally credited with being a faithful, capable officer. Commanding the confidence of those around him and the frienship of those with whom he is inti- mate, Mr. Hornibrook is, indeed, one of Klickitat's leaders.

ALBERT F. BROCKMAN, M. D. Numbered with those capable, energetic, broad-minded citizens of Klickitat county who are devoting the best that is in them to the upbuilding of the country in general and the Bickleton section in particular is he whose name initiates this paragraph. For more than a decade he has been prominently identified with the progress of his community. Born in Pleasant Mount, Missouri, June 4, 1868, Albert F. Brockman is a son of James M. and Martha E. (Adcook) Brockman, of German and English descent, re- spectively. The elder Brockman is a native of the Buckeye state, born in 1841. When a boy he was taken by his parents to Missouri, they being among the first settlers of Miller county, where he was engaged many years in farming. He also served for a number of years as sheriff of that county. He served as a Union soldier in the Civil war and was under General Sherman for more than three years, participating in most of that famous general's great engagements. In 1890 he came to Washington, locating in Kittitas county, where he now lives, his home being at Ellensburg. Mrs. Martha (Adcook) Brockman, who is also living, was born in 1847. Missouri remained the home of Albert F. until he had attained man's estate. There he received his education, and for the first sixteen vears of his life lived on the farm. He then secured employment as a clerk in one of the stores of his native town and later entered the drug store of his uncle, Henry H. Brockman, who was also a physician. . His ambi- tions to be a physician, too, were soon aroused, and he immediately began the study of medicine. When twenty vears of age he matriculated at the American Medical School, of St. Louis, Missouri, and from that institution he received his degree two years

later, in 1890. His first location was at Russell- ville, Missouri, but after a few months he crossed the continent to Friday Harbor, San Juan island, Wash- ington, whence on February 12, 1891, he came to the sparsely settled Bickleton country. The young doctor made friends and prospered. He opened a drug store in the town of Bickleton in 1894, and four years later was able to erect the present sub- stantial Brockman block, in which he placed the drug store and a furniture establishment. From time to time he has increased his business interests, among other things which have claimed his attention being the extensive buying and selling of stock, in all of which he has done well.

Dr. Brockman married Miss Anna E. Sigler, the daughter of James C. and Frances E. (Moore) Sigler, at Bickleton, September 5, 1895. She is of German and English stock and was born in Lake county, California, in November, 1877. Her father was a pioneer of the Golden state, as also of Klickitat county, to which he came in 1883. Mrs. Sigler is a Washingtonian, born near Walla Walla. Both parents are still living, residents of Oregon. One child, Cecil C., born June 17, 1896, has blessed the union of Dr. and Mrs. Brockman. Dr. Brockman has one brother, George B., living at Ellensburg, and three sisters-Mrs. Lucy J. Hick, of Ellensburg also; Mrs. Mary M. Sharp, of Boise, Idaho, and Mrs. Bessie O. Riegel, a resident of the Kittitas valley. The doctor is one of the most prominent men in fraternal circles in this section of the state. He holds membership in the following lodges : Olive Branch Lodge, No. 89, A. F. & A. M .; Sim- coe Lodge, No. 113, K. of P .; Bickleton Camp, No. 6249, M. W. A .; Arlington Lodge, No. 63, A. O. U. W .; Excelsior Lodge, No. III, I. O. O. F .; Homestead Lodge, No. 20, B. A. Y., and Wheatland Union, No. 74, Order of Washington. He has held every office in the local Odd Fellow lodge and has been a delegate for many years to the grand lodge of that order. In politics he is also active. For ten years he has attended the Republican state conven- tions as a delegate, and he is now serving his party as central committeeman. He has not only won success in his profession, but has built up large interests in business lines, being a member of the firm of Clanton. Mitty & Companv, a stockholder in the Bank of Bickleton, owner of the northern part of Bickleton's townsite, besides owning a drug store, furniture store, and other valuable town property ; he is also a dealer in horses. The doctor is one of the county's truly successful citizens, respected by his fellow men and popular with all who know him because of his genial, generous qualities.

HON. NELSON B. BROOKS. Prominent among the most substantial citizens of Klickitat county, widely and favorably known throughout southern Washington and northern Oregon, a suc- cessful business man and a leading attorney of the

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state in which he resides is the subject of this bio- graphical sketch. His labors have been directed along many lines, but, notwithstanding this diversity, he has won success in all and has developed to an un- usual degree that rare and characteristically Ameri- can quality-versatility. Amid the pine forests of Lenawee county, Michigan, Nelson B. Brooks was born January 23, 1858, the son of Emory E. and Martha (Taylor) Brooks, pioneers of that state. Emory E. Brooks was of English parentage, born in New York state, but in 1840, when eight years old, was brought to the Michigan frontier and was there educated and reared. The discovery of gold in California drew the young pioneer to the Pacific coast in 1850, the lad bravely making the hazardous journey across the continent. He plunged at once into the placer fields with such success that within three years he accumulated a small fortune. With this he returned to his Michigan home, via the Isthmus of Panama, and bought large tracts of wild land, which he improved as rapidly as possible. However, the attractions of the Pacific proved too strong for him to resist, and in 1874 he recrossed the plains, settling in Washington county, Oregon, where he still lives. Mrs. Brooks was also a native of New York, born in 1838, who came to Michigan when a child, and died there while still a young woman; she was of Scotch descent. Nelson B. was fifteen years old when he came to Oregon with his father. He assisted on the farm and attended school during the next five years, receiving a high school education. Then, when twenty years old, he com- menced teaching school, first in Washington and Yamhill counties, Oregon. He came to Klickitat county in the month of May, 1880, and that spring filed on a homestead claim lying twenty miles west of the city. The succeeding seven years he made this farm his home during the summer months and taught school in the surrounding country during the winter months. Four years after coming to the county he was elected principal of the Goldendale school, and capably filled this position during the years 1885 and 1886, leaving it late in 1886 to be- come county superintendent by appointment to fill an unexpired term. In that capacity he served five years, being twice elected to the same office after- ward. While superintendent he determined to enter the legal profession, and. with that end in view, read law in the office of Hiram Dustin four years. His energy and perseverance were rewarded by his admittance to the bar October 8, 1892, after having passed a creditable examination before the state board of examiners. He at once opened an office in Goldendale, and since that date has been steadily rising into prominence in his chosen profession. As an attorney, Mr. Brooks won national recognition in 1898 through his victory over the Northern Pacific Railway Company in a suit involving the title to 230,000 acres in Washington and Oregon. The case was dropped by the company after decisions had been rendered against it by the superior and

state supreme courts. Mr. Brooks, who fought the settlers' case unaided, won his magnificent victory through the establishment of an interpretation new to the courts of the United States. For his services he received a sum that did not even pay his ex- penses, acting for a small coterie of poor settlers. The history of this notable case is treated elsewhere in this volume.

At Middleton, Oregon, August 12, 1883, he was united in marriage to Miss Rosa Olds, a native Ore- gonian, born April 25, 1861, to the union of Green and Eveline Olds. The father, who now lives with his daughter in Goldendale, is of English parentage and a native of Ohio, born in the year 1824. He went to Coldwater, Michigan, when a young man and resided there until 1852, when he crossed the Plains and settled at Middleton, Oregon. He was Middleton's postmaster for a quarter of a century ; by trade he was a wagon maker and a blacksmith. Mrs. Olds was a native of Vermont, who went to Michigan as a child. She was educated in Michigan and there married. For many years previous to her marriage she taught school. Her death occurred at Goldendale in 1902. Mrs. Brooks was educated in the schools of Washington county and in the .Mc- Minnville high school. She taught school previous to her marriage, spending six years in the profes- sion in Oregon and Washington. One child, Zola O., born in Goldendale, July 18, 1892, blesses the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Brooks take a keen interest in the social life of the community and are inestimably rich in loyal friends and well wishers. Mr. Brooks is identified with the Masons, Knights of Pythias, United Artisans, Eastern Star and Rathbone Sisters, and Mrs. Brooks belongs to the auxiliary lodges. Politically, he is a Democrat, though in 1882, when barely twenty-two years of age, he was elected on the Republican ticket as Klickitat's representative in the territorial legis- lature. In 1898 he was the Fusion candidate for state senator from his district. During the year 1895 he served as mayor of Goldendale. He was city attorney for the two succeeding years, and for the past ten or twelve years has been a member of the city council. Mr. Brooks also served as the county's first court commissioner: Always a mili- tary enthusiast, he was for five years adjutant of the Second regiment, Washington National Guard. His property interests are large, including the own- ership of a large portion of the townsite of Golden- dale, a modern two-story brick block on Main street, a controlling interest in the opera house, two other valuable business blocks and 400 acres of timber land. He has been largely instrumental in securing a railroad for the valley, by his own personal efforts obtaining the greater part of the C. R. & N.'s right of wav. As early as 1895 he took a leading interest in railroad agitation, raising $1.300 that year for the purpose of making surveys and himself becoming a member of the surveying partv. He then col- lected an additional $2,000 from Goldendale's busi-

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ness men, and with this money the first mile of road was graded northward from Lyle. Mr. Brooks is recognized by all as a leader, and none has done more toward the upbuilding of Klickitat county and Goldendale than this "self-made" man of the peo- ple. His popularity with all classes is deserved, his success is justified.

IREDELL S. STONE, one of the prosperous sheep owners and cattle raisers of Klickitat county, lives on his farm nearly five miles east of the town of Bickleton. He was born near Little Rock, in the state of Arkansas, January 9, 1857. His father, Samuel B. Stone, a farmer by occupation, was a native of Tennessee, born in June, 1831. He crossed the Plains with ox teams the first time in the spring of the year 1854, settling in California, and for some time afterward he mined on John's creek, but finally returned east. His second trip across the Plains was made four years after the first, and Cali- fornia was again his objective point, but he stayed there only a few months, having soon concluded to try his fortunes in Oregon. He settled in the fertile Willamette valley, and for the ensuing nineteen years followed farming there. In the latter part of 1879 he came to Klickitat county, took up the land which his son still holds, and engaged in farming and deal- ing in horses. He died in September, 1900. He was of Scotch descent, and his wife, whose maiden name was Gabrilla Yeager, was of German, but her ancestors were among the first settlers in the state of Pennsylvania. She was born in July, 1836. When a small girl, she became a resident of Arkansas, and it was there she met and married Mr. Stone. She is the mother of three children-Iredell, the oldest ; Elias, engaged in business with him at the present time, and a daughter, deceased. The sub- ject of this article came to Portland, Oregon, with his mother when nine years old, reaching that town via New York and the Panama route. Arriving at Portland, he went to the Willamette valley with his mother, there joining his father, who had bought a ranch in the valley. He grew to manhood in Ore- gon, receiving his education in the common schools. At the age of twenty, he started out to make his own living, his first employment being sheep herd- ing. Coming to Klickitat county with his parents when twenty-two years old, he soon after leased a band of sheep, purchased some railroad land and engaged in the stock business. He did well with his sheep until the hard times in the nineties, when he, like all other sheep men, was exceedingly hard pressed, but he managed to weather the financial storm and came out all right. Since that time he has acquired possession of numerous tracts of land until he now owns a total of 2,200 acres, while but recently he disposed of four thousand acres to good advantage. This locality was wild and unsettled when he first came, there being numerous Indians about, who were not any too friendly, and plenty of

cowboys, the cattle men ranging their stock over the entire district without restriction. For some time he and the rest of the family were obliged to live in tents, not being able to get any lumber. It was al- most a year before they could secure enough to put up their house.

Mr. Stone was married in Klickitat county No- vember 28, 1895, to Helen Meier, a lady of Swiss and German descent, born in Russell county, Kan- sas, February 14, 1875. Her father, John Meier, a native of Switzerland, born in 1849, came to this country in 1867, and has-since followed farming. At present he resides at Lucas, in Klickitat county. Her mother, who is of German descent, was born in 1859. She, also, is in Lucas. Her maiden name was Mary Elms. She has three other children still living, namely, Harry, Mrs. Anna Stout, residing in Kansas, and Joseph, in Yakima county, Washing- ton. Mr. Stone has one sister living, Mrs. Leona Baldwin, residing near Kiona, Washington. He and Mrs. Stone have four children-Cynthia, Wal- ter Vernon, Ray and Lavina, the last named being the youngest. Fraternally, Mr. Stone is connected with the I. O. O. F. and the A. O. U. W., and his wife is a member of the Baptist church. He is at present one of the school board of District No. 31. In politics he is a Republican, sufficiently active to attend caucuses and conventions. An industrious, thrifty man, Mr. Stone has reduced most of his 2,200 acres to a state of cultivation and created for himself and family a fine home. His stock consists of 2,300 head of sheep and about sixty head of range cattle. As a man and citizen, he stands high in Klickitat county, his integrity and uprightness hav- ing won and retained for him the respect and good will of his neighbors.

SAMUEL SINCLAIR, an energetic business man, farmer and stock raiser at Dot postoffice, was born in Linn county, Kansas, on the 14th of March, 1873. His father, John Sinclair, was born in Ire- land in 1828; came to this country as a young man, and eventually settled in Kansas, where he raised his family. He was a soldier in the Civil war. In the spring of 1882 he moved to Klickitat county, where he has since lived. His wife, whose maiden name was Maria McKien, was a native of Missouri, in which state she was married. She died in Klicki- tat county in the year 1896. The subject of this re- view received his education in the common schools of Washington, having been only nine years old when he came to this state with his parents. At the age of fifteen he started out to make his own living, herding sheep for Frank Lyon, in whose employ he remained for six years. On reaching his major- ity, he entered into sheep raising on his own ac- count, and until the year 1901 he followed that busi- ness with assiduity and success. Selling out then, he purchased the Cleveland Roller Mills, which have a capacity of fifty barrels per day, and in the

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fall of the succeeding year he bought a half interest in a sawmill located at the head of Pine creek, six miles northwest of Cleveland. He disposed of the latter interest in 1903, selling to George W. Mc- Credy. His realty holdings consist of 140 acres of fertile land, about three-fourths in cultivation, also 320 acres of timber land and 480 acres of pasture lands. He has considerable stock of various kinds on his farm.

At Walla Walla, Washington, February 12, 1901, Mr. Sinclair married Miss Gertrude Bailey, daughter of Lyman Bailey, a native of the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts. Her father crossed the Plains in the early fifties, settled in Oregon and was married there, but some time in the seventies he came to Goldendale, Washington. He resided in the state until his death, which occurred near Cleveland in the year 1899. Mrs. Sinclair's mother, Mary (Graham) Bailey, was a native of Missouri. She crossed the Plains to Oregon with her parents when a small girl, and now resides some six miles south- east of Cleveland. Mrs. Sinclair has the distinction of being a native of Klickitat county, having been born in Goldendale September 15, 1876. She re- ceived her education in the local public schools. She has two brothers, Lee and Robert, the former living at Walla Walla, the latter four miles south of Cleveland. She also has two sisters, namely, Lenore, at Walla Walla, and Mrs. Harriet Raymond, near Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Sinclair have two chil- dren-Hugh, born April 18, 1902, and Helen, born March 8, 1904. . Mr. Sinclair is affiliated with the I. O. O. F., and Mrs. Sinclair belongs to the Presby- terian church. In politics, he is a Democrat. A young man of energy and unusual business talent, he has already achieved a degree of success in the commercial world of which a much older man might be proud, and his neighbors, who always admire thrift, respect him very highly as a shrewd homme d'affaires and a worthy citizen.

ELMER E. HINSHAW. There are compara- tively few citizens of Klickitat county who have been engaged in agricultural pursuits in this section and otherwise identified with its history during the past twenty-seven years. Among those pioneer farmers and present-day successful men is he whose sketch is herewith presented. He resides three miles south of Goldendale. A native of Morgan county, Indiana, he was born August 19, 1861, to the marriage of Isaac and Elizabeth (Hadley) Hin- shaw. They were of Southern birth, the father born in North Carolina April 15, 1831, the mother in the same state February 8, 1837. When Elmer E. was five years old he was taken to Kansas, where the family resided nine years. Then they went to Cali- fornia. In 1877 they came north to the rapidly de- veloping Columbia river basin and took up their home in Klickitat county, which was then very sparsely settled and principally in the hands of

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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 94

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