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Liberty lake, where he now lives. He is en- gaged in raising grain hay, but also gives considerable attention to horticulture. He was married, at Latah, Spokane county, in! 1881, to Malissa Price, and they have been parents of eight children : Elsie E., who died when two and a half months old, also Daisy A., Ruby B., Liddie C., Ray B., Oscar K., Bessie A. and Ruth A .. living.
THOMAS PREST, one of the rising young business men of Spokane, was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1872, and the first eight- een years of his life were spent in that noted Canadian city. He was a butcher by trade, but on coming west went to work as a miner in the gold region of California. After two years of life in the mining camps, he came to Spokane county and resumed his early oc- cupation. He ran the Idaho market for a while, then opened in partnership with Charles Mulholland at Second and Cedar, where they have a fine market, always well supplied with everything in their line. Mr. Prest is an in- dustrious, energetic young man and one who will succeed in anything he undertakes if suc- cess is at all possible. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the Foresters, the Red Men and the Masons. He was married in California, June 9, 1893, to Miss Mary Edwards and they have one child, Thomas.
JOHN W. GLOVER, a pioneer of 1879, was born in the state of Missouri in 1842. When seven years old he crossed the plains with his parents to Oregon, making the en- tire trip with ox-teams. He remained in that
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state continuously for the ensuing thirty years, engaged, after reaching adult age, in farm- ing. He then moved to Spokane county. where he became a transfer man and teamster, using in his business the first hack ever brought to the city. He continued thus employed until 1889, at the same time running a livery stable with Mr. L. C. Gilliam, under the firm name of Glover & Gilliam. They had a stage route from Spokane to Marcus, via Chewalah and Colville, and they also, in 1887, ran to the Little Dalles. In 1889 Mr. Glover sold his property and engaged in the real estate business. He has been prominently identified with the devel- opment of the county and city of Spokane. Fraternally, he is affiliated with the I. O. O. F. He was married in Spokane, in June, 1884, to Mrs. Maggie Paynton, and they have one son, Sherman.
A. R. STEIN, a pioneer of 1884, was born in Germany, in 1840. He lived in his father- land until twenty-seven years old, acquiring the usual common-school education, then learn- ing and following the trade of a harness- maker. In 1867 he emigrated to America. locating first in Michigan, where he farmed for two years. He then went to Illinois and ran a harness-shop there for five years. after which he followed farming in Nebraska for eight successive years. At the end of that period he came to Spokane county and pur- chased land five and a half miles south of Medical Lake, upon which he has made his home ever since. He now has a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres and raises wheat, oats and garden products. Mr. Stein has a splendid three-acre orchard, the oldest in his part of the county. He is an enterprising.
progressive and successful farmer. He takes a lively and intelligent interest in all affairs of local concern and has served for some years as a member of the board of school directors. He was married in Illinois, in 1872, to Anna B. Fretus, and they have six children living, two sons and four daughters.
ALONZO MANNING, a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Indianapolis. Indiana, born De- cember 25, 1858. When a year old he was taken by his parents to Genesee county. Michi- gan, where he grew to manhood. receiving his education in the public and high schools.
In April. 1884. he arrived in Spokane, and having faith in the future of the "City by the Falls." has remained.
He was married in Spokane, October 12. 1894, to Miss Louise Miller, a native of Penn- sylvania.
EMIL SIEGENTHALER. proprietor of the Plantation cigar factory. 329 Main av- enue, was born in Switzerland. October 4. 1874. When ten years of age he accompanied his parents to America, finally locating at Humbolt. Nebraska. The next year. how- ever, they removed to Columbus, Nebraska. where Mr. Siegenthaler attended the public school, afterwards learning the trade of a cigarmaker. He worked as a journeyman there for a number of years, but in 1891 moved to Tacoma. Washington, and opened an es- tablishment known as the Plantation cigar factory. The next year he came to Spokane and established a plant by the same name here. where he manufactures all kinds of high-grad- cigars. He does a large business, employing
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ten men steadily, their average daily output being about two thousand cigars. Mr. Siegen- thaler is an excellent tradesman, having de- voted the efforts of many years to his handi- craft exclusively. He also possesses good commercial ability, so that his business will doubtless continue to grow and improve as it becomes older. Fraternally. he is identified with the Improved Order of Red Men and with the Swiss Gruettli Society. of Spokane. He was married in this city, in September. 1897. to Miss May Dickenson, a native of Iowa. and they have one daughter. Lucetta L.
ALBERT ALLEN. a pioneer of 1887. is a native of Plymouth, Indiana, born August 17. 1846. In 1854 his parents moved to Minnesota and thence. in 1857. to Hudson. Wisconsin. where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the law depart- ment of the University at Madison, Wisconsin. then read law with Senator John C. Spooner until admitted to the bar in 1871. In 1876 he removed to Deadwood, South Dakota. where he practiced successfully until 1884, coming then to Eagle City, Idaho. He made the trip over the Bitter Root mountains on foot, pulling a toboggan over the trail, though the snow at the time was fifteen feet deep on the summits. He practiced law in Eagle City for a time and was one of the owners of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines when they were sold. It was through his efforts, pre- vious to the sale, that a contract was made with the Helena Concentrating Company for the working of the mines. This caused the building of the narrow gauge railroad by the Cœur d' Alene Railway & Navigation Com- pany. He was attorney for that railroad
from its organization until it was sold to the Northern Pacific in 1888 and for the Northern Pacific at Spokane from 1889 to 1893. He was also attorney for the Spokane Falls & Northern Railroad from its incipiency to 1899. He is now engaged in the general practice of law in this city, but devotes most of his time to mining litigations in Washington, Idaho and Montana. He ranks among the leading law- yers of this state and his fame as a mining attorney extends generally over the entire Pa- cific coast. He is himself a mining man and has contributed very much towards the de- velopment of the region tributary to Spokane. In the councils of the city, also, his influence has been very sensibly felt. especially in the framing of the new charter. Mr. Allen was married in Wisconsin. December 24. 1873 to Miss Lillie D. Munson, a native of Vermont. Their family consists of one son Frank D .. and two daughters. Gertrude. now wife of Clarence Smith. of Spokane, and Fannie May.
FRANK HURLIMAN. a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Switzerland, born Septem- ber 21. 1856. He grew to manhood in the land of his birth, attending college there. After completing his education he spent some time in traveling. making a trip over various parts of France, Italy and Africa. In 1883 he came to the United States, locating in Dayton, Ohio, but in the following year he came to Spokane and entered the employ of Mr. Rohrer on a dairy farm. Subsequently he went to work for Palmtag & Mueller in the California brewery and later for Victor Desert in the Sprague branch brewery, which he afterwards bought. He also owned the Cœur d' Alene Exchange. In 1888 he visited
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Europe, traveling over several of the coun- tries, and on his return, the following year, he purchased the O. K. saloon on Sprague street, also a residence on the north side. In the big fire of 1889 his buildings were all burned, but he started the O. K. saloon again on Lincoln street and he later bought the Howe Plate saloon on Washington street. He then opened the Washington sample rooms on Washington street near Riverside, but in 1894 sold out. The next year he started in business on Stevens street, then moved to Third and Pine and opened a lodging house, but in 1899 he sold this also. He is a member of the Quartette Swiss Society, the Sons of Herman and the Foresters of America. He was married in Spokane, in 1887, to Miss Mary Krouse, a native of Austria, who died in 1893. He was next married, in 1895, to Mrs. Theodora Schwarz, a native of Germany, and they have two children : Roy A. and Theo- dora F.
FRED W. STEFFER, of the firm of Steffer & Parmeter, a pioneer of 1889, is a native of Germany, born in 1867. He was, however, reared in this country, having been brought to America by his parents when only eighteen months old. The family finally located in Sibley county, Minnesota, and Mr. Steffer lived there until 1889, in which year he came to this city. He followed the hotel business here for six years, then became proprietor of a grocery store, and he has been engaged in that species of enterprise continuously to the present time. Since August, 1899, he has been located on the corner of Monroe and Broadway, where they have a large store build- ing, supplied with a splendid stock of new and fresh goods. He is a thrifty, up-to-date bus .-
ness man and enjoys a good patronage. Like most of the leading citizens of Spokane, he takes a lively interest in mining enterprises, and is himself owner of some promising prop- erties in the region tributary to this city. He owns a comfortably furnished home at 0507 Ash street. Mr. Steffer was married in Cheney, in 1892, to Paulina Betts, and they have a family of two children : Florence and Myrtle.
R. MACKENZIE, who came to this county in 1890, is a native of Nova Scotia. born in 1838. He lived in the province of his birth until twenty years old. then went to Boston and worked at the carpenter trade for the en- suing six years. He next moved to Nebraska and was engaged in a general stock raising business until 1890, when he came to Spokane county. Shortly after his arrival here he pur- chased eight hundred and six acres on the west side of Liberty lake, where he is now ex- tensively engaged in diversified farming. He has a herd of thirty-five full-blood Jersey cattle which he brought from the East. He also owns a hotel of twenty rooms, which in the summer seasons are all occupied by pleas- ure seekers from Spokane who come out to enjoy the fishing, boat-riding and bathing facilities. Mr. Mackenzie has seventeen boats for the use of his guests and two large stables for their teams. The lake is three miles long by about one and a half wide, and is from twenty- five to forty feet deep. There are on Mr. Mackenzie's place several curiosities, among which are an Indian house, supposed to be the birthplace of Quinny Moses, deputy Indian chief, and to be over one hundred years okl. also the largest apple trees in the state, said to have been planted over thirty years ago
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by the Hudson's Bay Company's employees. Mr. Mackenzie is a very enterprising. indus- trious and successful farmer, a good business man and a representative citizen of the county and he is highly esteemed and respected by all who know him. He was married in Nova Scotia, in 1869, to Miss Anabel McLean, and they have a family of five children, namely : Ella May, Charles L .. Carrie L., William A. and John S.
SAMUEL GREEN was born in Iowa. in 1854. and lived there until twenty-eight years old, then came to Washington. He resided in different parts of this state and in Idaho for some time. then located in Koot- enai county, Idaho, and purchased one hun- dred and sixty acres of land not far from Spokane Bridge postoffice, also one hundred and sixty acres two miles southwest of Spo- kane Bridge. He has a fine farm, well im- proved, and a splendid orchard of eighteen hundred fruit trees. He is also interested in market gardening. Mr. Green is a very active, energetic and progressive farmer and one of the most successful orchardists in his com- munity. He was married, in Iowa, in 1879, to Miss Charlotte Huffman, a native of that state, and they are parents of four children, namely : Frank, Harry E., Hallie A. and Charles.
THOMAS J. OVERMAN, manager for the Fred T. Merrill Cycle Company, in Spo- kane, is a native of Oregon, born in 1860. He was educated in the public schools of that state, then learned the harness and saddlery business, a line which he followed exclusively until coming to Spokane. In 1895 he estab-
lished in this city a branch of the Fred T. Merrill Cycle Company. He is now located at 810 Riverside avenue, where he has an im- mense stock of up-to-date bicycles, repairs and sundries. Mr. Overman is a very suc- cessful business man and his record as a citi- zen is above reproach, he having always shown himself a man of integrity and sterling quali- ties. Fraternally, he is identified with the Order of Pendo. He was married in Oregon. in 1890, to Miss Minnie Bishop. and they are parents of one child, Loring F.
DR. A. B. BAILEY, dental surgeon, 207 Hyde block, is a native of Oregon, born in Hillsboro, November 18, 1873. He attended the public schools there, then studied for a while in Pacific University, at Forest Grove, Oregon, and at the State Normal School at Monmouth. In 1891 he became registered as a pharmacist, engaged in the drug business at Hillsboro and continued there for two years. He then began the study of dentistry, taking lectures for a year at Louisville, Kentucky, and for two years in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, from which he graduated in 1896. He returned to his home in Hillsboro and practiced his profession for two years, then came to Spokane, where he has a very good practice. His office is supplied with all the most approved modern equipments and he is in every. way prepared to do the best work, so that it is safe to predict that a very suc- cessful professional career lies before him. He is an honorary member of the Washing- ton State Dental Society and belongs to the Delta Sigma Delta dental fraternity. He is a prominent member of Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M., and a past worthy patron
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of the Order of the Eastern Star. He also belongs to the Native Sons of Oregon. He was married in Hillsboro, December 1, 1897, to Miss Ethel Merryman, a native of Oregon, and they have one son, A. B., Jr. Dr. Bailey's parents were early settlers in Oregon. His father. Dr. F. A. Bailey, came to that state in 1865, and his mother was born there, her parents having come in 1845. Mrs. Bailey's father, J. D. Merryman, came to Oregon in I866.
DR. BROWER GOOKIN, who has been a resident of Spokane since 1890, was born in Butte county, California, in 1858. In 1871 he went to Oregon, where for the ensuing seven years he was engaged in farming. He then moved to Moscow, Idaho, and followed the same occupation there for a brief period, but soon came to this state and engaged in the stock raising business. In 1883 he took up the study of dentistry under Dr. Phillips, of Portland, Oregon, in whose office he spent an apprenticeship of two years. He then lo- cated in Palouse City, Washington, practicing there and in Idaho until the spring of 1890. when he came to Spokane. His office has been located in the same place ever since his ar- rival here, namely, at 04251/2 Monroe, and lie has practiced his profession continuously since. Being a good mechanic naturally, and a diligent student of everything pertaining to his specialty, he has achieved no moderate success in the profession and has built up a flourishing practice. Fraternally, he affiliates with the Independent Order of Foresters and Modern Woodmen of America (Good Will Camp). He was married in Spokane, in 1891. to Lillie E. Day, and they are parents of two children : Capitolia and Ila.
S. S. PARMETER, proprietor of a feed store at 0803 Monroe street, was born in the state of New York in 1835. He lived there until twenty-two years of age, engaged, after he became old enough, in farming. In 1857 he removed to Minnesota, where he was en- gaged in farming continuously for the ensu- ing thirty-three years. During the last four he also maintained a hotel. Coming to Spo- kane in 1890, he at once received an appoint- ment as special policeman and so satisfactory were his services that in 1891 he was placed on the regular force. He discharged his du- ties with great faithfulness until May. 1899. then resigned and opened his present business. Mr. Parmeter is one of the substantial and respected citizens of Spokane and enjoys the confidence and good will of all who know him. In fraternal affiliations, he is identified with the Junior Order of United American Mechanics.
REINHARD MARTIN, proprietor of the Henco brewery, corner Fifth and AAsh streets, a pioneer of 1889. is a native of Baden, Ger- many, born December 14. 1861. At an early age he learned the trade of a brewer and en- gaged in that business. He emigrated to America in 1883. locating in New York City. where for the ensuing six years he followed his trade. In 1889. however, he came to Spo- kane and accepted a position as foreman of the New York brewery and after remaining with them for three years, entered the employ of the Galland Burke brewery, by which he was en- gaged until December 1. 1895. He then moved to Missoula, Montana, built a brewery and was in business for himself for three years, but at the end of that time he sold out and came again to Spokane. In 1899 he pur-
J. D. LABRIE Medical Lake
ANDREW LEFEVRE deceased) Medical Lake
ELKANAH DAILY (deceased) Five Mile Prairie
JOHN M. KEENAN (deceased) Little Spokane
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chased the Henco brewery, which has a ca- pacity of fifteen thousand barrels per year and gives steady employment to about twelve men. Mr. Martin is a member of the B. P. O. E., the I. O. O. F. and the Sons of Her- man, and he also belongs to the Turnverein. He was married in New York City, August 10, 1884, to Miss Lena Welle, a native of Germany, and they have three children. namely : Charles, William and Alfred.
A. F. MACLEOD, M. D., rooms 13 and 14 Sherwood block, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Nova Scotia, born August 27, 1848. He grew to manhood in his fatherland, re- ceiving a normal-school education, supple- mented by a term at Dalhousie College. In 1875 he entered the Halifax Medical College. and after attending that three years, became a student in the university, from which he re- ceived his degree in 1879. The next year he came to Spokane county and began the prac- tice of his profession at Spangle, where he re- mained for about a year and a half, subse- quently moving to Farmington, this state. After practicing there until 1892 he went back east and took a course in the Post-Graduate Medical School of New York, and at the Belle- vie Hospital Medical College, returning to Spokane the next spring. Since that date he has devoted his energies assiduously to the building up and maintaining of his large practice, serving for three years of the time as a member of the city board of health. Dr. Macleod is a close, careful and deep student of his profession, to which he is passionately devoted, and he has long held rank among the leading physicians of the city and of the state. He is ex-president of the Whitman County
Medical Society, a member of the Spokane Medical Society, of the Inland Empire Clini- cal Society, and of the Washington State Medi- cal Society. Fraternally. he is identified with the Masonic order, also with the I. O. F., of which he is past chief ranger and medical ex- aminer, and with the K. of P., of which he is a past chancellor. He is. moreover, surgeon to the Western Star Division. U. R. K. of P., with the rank of major. He was married in Farmington, in October. 1882, to Miss Addie B. Brink, a native of Washington, whose parents moved to this state in 1864. Dr. and Mrs. Macleod are parents of one daughter. Lilian. They have recently purchased a beau- tiful home at East 322 Indiana avenue, richly and tastefully furnished in the most modern style.
J. M. McISAAC, of the firm of Mckay & McIsaac, corner Main and Stevens streets, a pioneer of 1889. is a native of Canada, born in March. 1865. When quite small he was left an orphan, and went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he acquired his education and learned the trade of a granite cutter, serving an ap- prenticeship with the Hollowell Granite Com- pany. He came to Spokane in 1889 and en- tered the employ of Mr. J. B. Bye, a stone con- tractor. The next year. however, he went to the Cascade Lochs, Oregon, and was in charge of the stonework there as foreman for the United States government until its com- pletion in 1897. Returning then to Spokane he, in company with Mr. Keefe, took charge of the Iowa Stone Works, but in a short time he went into his present business with Mr. Mckay. Mr. McIsaac is a stockholder in the California Improvement & Commercial Com- pany, growers of high-grade coffees at Mata-
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galpa, Nicaragua, Central America, with general offices at Los Angeles, California. He also is interested in seven placer claims in the Klondike in company with his brother, who is now in the Cape Nome region with a view to making purchases of mining property there. Mr. McIsaac is a thorough trades- man, having spent a long apprenticeship with an excellent firm and having devoted the ef- forts of many years since to acquiring a mas- tery of everything pertaining to his handicraft. He still gives attention to stone contracting and granite cutting. Fraternally, he is affil- iated with the B. P. O. E. and with the K. P. He was married in Cascade Lochs, in Septem- ber, 1898, to Miss Etta McGrath, a native of Portland, and they have a daughter, Gladys C.
DARIUS MASON, M. D., rooms 2, 3, 4 and 5 Falls City block, a pioneer of 1886, is a native of Massachusetts, born in New Bedford, April 1, 1830. He completed the course in the common schools and was a student in the Friends' Academy at New Bedford from 1847 to 1850, then studied medicine under Drs. Ly- man Bartlet, Watts and Parker. He attended a course of lectures in the medical department of Harvard University, and two courses at the College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York city, graduating in 1853. He was physician to the Randall's Island Hospital from that time until 1855, then practiced med- icine at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, for twenty-two years, except while absent in the Union army. On September 25, 1862, Dr. Mason was commissioned surgeon of the Thirty-first Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and served in the field until Decem- ber 27, 1863, then became draft surgeon for
the third district of Wisconsin. In 1877 he went to Milwaukee, where he practiced for the ensuing nine years. Coming then to Spo- kane, he has been engaged in the pursuit of his profession here since. The Doctor has stud- ied and practiced medicine for more than forty years, and during that time has done all in his power for the general advancement of his science, endeavoring always to render his own knowledge as deep and thorough as possible. It has been his custom to keep full memoranda of the cases which have come under his obser- vation, and he had some very interesting rec- ords. These, together with his library and instruments, were destroyed in the great fire of 1889. The Doctor has performed many laparotomies and other difficult surgical oper- ations, often with truly marvelous success. Dr. Mason has allied himself with many learn- ed scientific bodies, among which are the Wis- consin State Medical Society, of which he was at one time president, the North Iowa Medical Society, the State Medical Society of Califor- nia, the American Medical Association, of which he is an officer. the Rocky Mountain Medical Society. the Washington State Med- ical Society, of which he was president in 1895. and the Spokane Medical Society, over which he presided in 1888 and 1889. His contribu- tions to medical literature include reports on vesico-vaginal fistula, and reports of various medical and surgical cases met in his extensive practice ; also many articles of a general na- ture. The Doctor is a prominent Mason, be- longing to the chapter and to Cataract Com- mandery, No. 2. of Spokane, also to the military order of the Loyal Legion. He was married, first, in Wisconsin, in 1861. to Miss AAdelaide Brisbois, a native of that state. In 1886 he was married to Miss Ella J. Bean, also a native of Wisconsin.
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