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D. S. PRESCOTT Spokane
F. L. PRESCOTT Spokane
M. S. BENTLEY Spokane
H. PREUSSE Spokane
JULIUS A. ZITTEL Spokane
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LORENZO F. LEE Spokane
A. D. COPLEN Spokane
C. J. T. HEISE Spokane
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the city, but lost most of his property during the panic of 1893. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a prominent citizen. His wife was Esther E. Leslie, a native of Maine.
CHARLES S. PENFIELD, M. D., in the Rookery, Spokane, is a pioneer of 1883. He is a native of Ohio, born in Huron county, Jan- uary 28, 1858. He attended the district schools of his home and Oberlin College, then entered the Hahnemann Medical College, from which he graduated in February, 1880. He began practice in Chicago, remaining two years, then removed to Kansas City, and in the spring of 1883 came to Spokane, where he now has a large practice, having been engaged in practice longer than any other doctor in the city. He is a member of the State Homeopathic Medical Society and president of the County Homeo- pathic Society. In early days he served as cor- oner and was appointed a member of the state board of medical examiners. The Doctor is well liked and enjoys the confidence of the peo- ple. He was married in Hudson, Wisconsin, December 23, 1880, to Jennie Jefferson, a native of Wisconsin. They have three children : Herbert, Ruth and Wilder.
CHARLES B. SYPHERT, a pioneer of 1879, dealer in real estate, office in the base- ment of Fall City block, is a native of Oregon, born at Salem, September 21, 1860. He was brought up there on a farm and on November I, 1879, in company with John Glover and A. J. McGunion, started by steamer for The Dalles, and from there came overland to Spokane, engaging in the hack and truck business, the
first in the city. At the time of his arrival the town had about two hundred and fifty white inhabitants and thousands of Indians. He spent a few years in the hack line and then en- gaged in the real estate business, in which he has been successful. He is a member of the Pioneer Society and the Junior Order of Ameri- can Mechanics. When the call was made for volunteers for the American army he enlisted and went to San Francisco as quartermaster- sergeant in Company A, First Washington Vol- unteers, but supposing there would be no work but garrison duty, he secured his discharge and returned home to the present business.
HON. EUGENE B. HYDE, a pioneer of 1881, one of the prominent men of the city, was born near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, January 13, 1849. He was brought up in his native state on a farm and later engaged in farming in Iowa. In 1881 he came to Spokane and en- gaged in buying and selling real estate, in which he was very successful. He has erected several large buildings, among them the Hyde block, built in 1886 and burned in 1889, but rebuilt in its present beauty and elegance. Mr. Hyde was the first city marshal, chief of police and chief of the volunteer fire department, also served as a member of the city council in 1885-7 and was chairman of the street committee; through his efforts the numerous fine roads were built to Spangle, Rockford, Deep Creek Falls, Four Mound prairie and elsewhere. In 1888 he was elected a member of the territorial council; served as a delegate to the national Republican convention in Chicago, being the only delegate west of the Rocky mountains who voted con- tinuously for Benjamin Harrison. He was elected a member of the state senate in 1889 for
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a term of four years, and served as chairman of the committees on municipal corporations and insane hospitals. He assisted in organizing the Citizens National Bank and served as its president for five years. Mr. Hyde was mar- ried in Spokane January 8, 1893, to Miss Flor- ence Molinelli. His father, Eli N., died when he was eighteen, but his mother, Mrs. Susan S. Hyde, now resides in Spokane. Mr. Hyde is a thirty-second-degree Mason, an active Re- publican and a much respected citizen.
ROBERT E. CLARKE, mining man, of- fice in Van Valkenberg block, Spokane, is a son of George H. and Hulda W. Woodruff, born in Litchfield county, Connecticut, March 29, 1836. He was raised in his native state and in 1857 located in Rochester, New York, where he opened a book store and carried on a successful business for several years. In 1873 he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and engaged with his brothers, Charles W. and George H., in the manufacture of furniture, doing a large and successful business. They sold out in 1883 and, in company with Cyrus Bradley, came to Spo- kane and purchased a large tract of land twelve miles from Spokane and engaged in the cattle business. In 1889 they went to Post Falls and conducted a large real estate business until the panic of 1893, when they closed out and Robert E. engaged in mining in British Columbia for three years, since which time he has been in the mining business in this city, and doing a good business in developing new properties and handling the stock of paying companies. In July, 1899, he was appointed city commissioner and made chairman of the board of fire commis- sioners. Mr. Clarke was married in 1863 at Rochester, New York, to Miss Rosina Hughes,
of that city. They have two sons: Roy H., a mining engineer, at Rossland, British Colum- bia, and Rowley J., a student in the high school.
D. M. THOMPSON, superintendent of rentals and real estate for the Northwestern & Facific Hypotheek Bank, office in the Frankfurt block, is a native of Illinois, born in McHenry county, October 6, 1856. In 1859 the family removed to Winona county, Minnesota, where he grew up and attended school. Soon after he became of age he engaged in the real estate business in Winona, and after three years went to Austin, Minnesota, where he engaged in the mercantile business for three years. In 1884 he came to Spokane and opened the first ab- stract office in the county, adding loan and in- surance. He conducted this business until 1893, then sold the abstract business to the Spokane Abstract Company. In July, 1895. he engaged in his present business and has been a faithful worker. An active Republican, he has served as delegate to several state and county conven- tions. He has been very active in assisting all local enterprises, and is a prominent and re- spected man. He was married in Osage, Iowa, April 17, 1879, to Anna D., daughter of John and Delight Richardson, born in Madison coun- ty, New York. They have two sons: Percy, born May 19, 1882, and Louis. January 4, 1884.
J. KENNEDY STOUT, attorney and counselor at law, a pioneer of 1881, was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1849. The family removed to New Jersey when he was nine years old and he attended the district schools there. He studied in Ever-
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est's school, Hamlin, Connecticut, then in Trin- ity College and Hartford College, graduating as a B. A. in 1870 and a M. A. in 1873. He followed the newspaper business five years, being connected with the New York Tribune; at the same time he kept up the study of law and was admitted to the bar in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in June, 1877. He practiced there until 1880, when he came to Walla Walla. In De- cember, 1881, he removed to Spokane, where he has since resided. He served as clerk of the United States district court, under Judge Nash, and was the first city attorney of Spokane, be- ing appointed December 26, 1881, and re-ap- pointed in 1882. He served in the state militia, holding the rank of colonel. Is an active Dem- ocrat and has served as delegate to many con- ventions. He had the honor of organizing the Spokane Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, and in 1899 was elected president of the Washington State Society, S. A. R. He also organized the Society of Colonial Wars in Washington, and holds the office of governor of the State Society and governor general of the National Society ; is a member of the Penn- sylvania German Society, the Aztec Club of 1847 and the Masonic fraternity. He was mar- ried October 29, 1892, in Brooklyn, New York, to Ida T., daughter of George W. and Adele Schiller Homan, born in New Orleans.
SAM T. ARTHUR, proprietor of the hotel Fernwell, is a pioneer of 1878 and a native of Washington county, Oregon, born June 5, 1853. He grew up on a farm. In 1876 he lo- cated in Colfax, Washington, where he was, for a time, engaged as a hotel clerk. In 1878 he came to Spokane and for one year was in the employ of Glover & Cannon. In the spring of
1879 he opened the first restaurant in Spokane. In the spring of 1881 he built the Northern Pa- cific Hotel, which he conducted several years, when he sold to J. M. Grimmer and built the Occidental Hotel in Missoula, Montana. In 1884 he returned to Spokane and purchased the Northern Pacific Hotel property, moved off the old hotel and built the first four-story brick in this city, and opened up in it the Arlington Hotel, which he conducted until the fire of 1889. At the same time he was one of the pro- prietors of the Grand Hotel, which also burned in the fire. In 1881 he was elected a member of the board of county commissioners, serving two years. In 1894-5 he was manager of the Hotel Spokane. In 1896 he purchased the Grand Hotel, which he ran successfully for two years. Mr. Arthur's long experience in the hotel business has made him one of the most popular hotel men of the west. He is a member of Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., has served as a member of the city council and was one of the first board of directors of the Ex- change National Bank. He was married in Colfax July 21, 1878, to Nettie L .. daughter of Levi H. and Elizabeth Marsh, a native of Mich- igan. They have two children: Charles and Edith.
JOSEPH S. WILLSON, deputy United States collector for Spokane, Stevens, Okano- gan, Douglas, Lincoln and Whitman counties, is a native of Canada, born in Ottawa Novem- ber 30, 1855. When thirteen years of age he left home and located at Flint, Michigan, where he was engaged by the Governor Crapo estate, working up to bookkeeper and salesman, then to chief inspector of the lumber department. In 1879 he located in Denver, Colorado, as a book- keeper for a large lumber firm, and later en-
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gaged in freighting supplies to the mining dis- tricts. He finally had several contracts for building parts of the Rio Grande Railroad. and later was a contractor on the Mexican Cen- tral. employing large numbers of the natives. In 1882 he sold out and returned to Michigan and the next year came to Spokane, arriving in April, 1883. He engaged as clerk in the Cali- fornia House and later handled tobacco and cigars until 1898, when he was appointed dep- uty revenue collector. Like many others he assisted in building up Spokane, and during the disastrous fire year of 1889 lost about five thousand dollars in property. He is a mem- ber of the Scottish Rite consistory of the F. & A. M., and a much respected citizen. He was married in Spokane July 24, 1889, to Mrs. E. May, a native of Chicago.
L. C. GEMMILL, lumber manufacturer and dealer at Wayside, was born in Indiana January 27, 1849. He was brought up in his native state and attended the home district schools. When twenty-five years of age he removed to California, where he spent six years, and came to Washington, locating at Dayton and engaging in the carpenter trade. In the spring of 1883 he came to Spokane coun- ty and soon after went into the lumber busi- ness near Wayside, putting up the first saw mill north of Spokane in this county. He em- ploys about twenty-five men all the time, and is extensively interested in manufacturing all kinds of lumber products. He owns eleven hundred and twenty acres of timber land, near his mill, and cuts about two million feet of lum- ber annually. He was elected a member of the county commissioners on the Democratic ticket in 1896 and served two years ; is a charter mem-
ber of the Morning Star Lodge, No. 142, I. O. O. F., and a prominent man in the com- munity. He was married in Wayside March II, 1887, to Lillie Wilber, nec Kaiser. They have four children : Hazel, Lewis W., Carrie L. and William B.
CHARLES W. CLARKE, of the firm of Cook & Clarke, real estate and loan agents, of- fice 3 and 4 Van Valkenberg block, is a na- tive of Connecticut, born December 31, 1848. He was brought up in the district schools of his home place and when fourteen years of age started out to manage for himself. He entered the schools of Rochester, New York, took an academic course and graduated in the business college, then engaged as commercial corre- spondent for N. B. Phelps & Co., of New York City. Later he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and entered a partnership with his brothers there in the firm of Clarke Brothers & Company, manufacturers of furniture. On March I, 1884, he arrived in Spokane, when the three brothers purchased thirty-one hundred acres of railroad land and engaged in the cattle business. In 1887 they quit this business and opened a real estate office. Charles W. and Robert E. had an office in Post Falls, where they platted a large part of the town and spent four years. C. W. came to Spokane and was engaged as deputy assessor and soon after, with Harl J. Cook, formed the real estate firm of Cook & Clarke. The company is doing a fine business and handling some of the best properties. C. W. is a member of the K. of P. lodge and sec- retary of the Washington & Idaho Irrigation Company, organized for the purpose of irri- gating the Spokane prairie. He has served as chairman of the county commissioners of
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Kootenai county, Idaho, and was the commis- sioner from Spokane county who assisted in locating the insane asylum at Medical Lake.
F. S. MEADE, merchant tailor, pioneer of 1883, is a native of London, England, born March 25, 1833. In 1848 he came to the United States and learned the trade of a cutter in New York City. He moved west in 1866, locating at Junction City, Kansas, where he had a shop and did a good business at tailoring. In 1868 he removed to Portland, Oregon, where he was cutter for Fishel & Roberts for five years, then went to Astoria, where he followed his trade for three years. He then spent four years in Walla Walla, where he did a good business. On March 16, 1883, he came to Spokane and pur- chased a building on Riverside avenue, between Stephen and Howard streets. After returning from a trip to Europe, he and N. Johnson opened a tailoring establishment, which burned in the big fire, he losing heavily. They rebuilt and started business again and have been very successful. Mr. Meade has been the manager for the company since 1889 and he has given perfect satisfaction. In 1892 they opened in the Blalock block, under the name of N. John- son & Company, merchant tailors. Mr. Meade is president of the Detroit Mining Company, a member of the advisory board of the Spo- kane Co-operative Mining Company, and is in- terested in real estate.
J. H. GREINER, real estate dealer in the Jamieson block, Spokane, is a pioneer of 1878, being a native of Virginia, born in Augusta county, October 19, 1852. He was brought up
on a farm, educated in the district schools and at the age of seventeen learned the trade of a carpenter, working with his grandfather, Cap- tain Rodgers, an old warrior of 1812. In 1872 he moved to Terre Haute. Indiana, where he followed his trade for eighteen months, then went to California. In June. 1878. he started for Lewiston, Idaho, but on his arrival in Port- land volunteered to help fight the Nez Perces Indians, then on the warpath. He was elected sergeant of his company and served about thir- ty days. He came to Colfax in August, and in September to Spokane. He located one hundred and sixty acres of land near the town of Spangle and went to work at his trade. In 1882 he entered . the ministry of the United Brethren church and served in that work for three years. Later he became a contractor and builder and then entered the real estate and mining business. He served as a delegate to the county convention when Spo- kane was cut off from Stevens. He was mar- ried in Oroville, California, September 25. 1890, to Carrie A. Gifford, nec Tobias. She had three children : Eugene, Belle and Floy M., and they have one, Oleta, by this marriage.
HARRY C. BELL, secretary of the Won- derful Group and Miller Creek Mining Com- panies, a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Mis- souri, born at St. Louis, August 1, 1848. He was given a good common-school education and then graduated at the St. Louis Univer- sity. In 1867 he went to Montana and engaged in mining until 1870, when he removed to the White Pine mining country in Nevada. After spending two years in this field he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and engaged for ten years in general merchandising. In 1880 he
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went to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and followed mining and merchandising for a time, after which he went to Cœur d'Alene and was there in the mining excitement of 1883. He came to Spokane in 1884, purchased a stock of goods, and engaged in business on the corner where the Traders' Bank now stands. In com- pany with others he built the Columbia Hotel in 1890 and laid out Bell Park addition in the northeast part of the city. He was a part owner in the Daisy mine and manager of it for some time; also is connected with properties in Slocan, Republic, Baker and all the suround- ing camps. Mr. Bell has aways taken a promi- nent part in building up the city and develop- ing mines. He was married in Kansas City, December 13, 1878, to Belle Jackson, born in Fort Leavenworth, daughter of Dr. George T. Jackson, of the regular army. They have three children : Susie, James J. and Genevieve.
GEN. AMOS P. CURRY, of the firm of A. P. Curry & Co., promoters and brokers. 301 Traders' block, pioneer of 1883, is a na- tive of Maine, born July 7, 1836. When twelve years old he left home and went to Boston, where he engaged as a clerk in a grocery store at one dollar per month and board. In 1854 he removed to Dixon, Illinois, where he had a store until 1860, when the Pike's Peak gold ex- citement led him to Colorado where he spent one year, and returned to Illinois and enlisted in Company A, Thirteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Capt. H. T. Noble, be- ing the first regiment mustered into service. He served four years and seven months, at the end of which he was a colonel. In July, 1861, he was promoted to lieutenant in Company B, Tenth Missouri Cavalry, and in 1862 was
made captain. After three years' service he was appointed colonel of the First West Ten- nessee by order of the secretary of war, and was mustered out at Memphis. He was in many engagements in southwest Missouri un- der General Curtis, being in the three days' fight at Pea Ridge. Other engagements were at Helena, Arkansas, Corinth, Mississippi, Iuka, Jackson, Meridian, Guntown, Tupelo and the siege of Vicksburg. In 1864 he took part in the expedition against McGruder and was in numerous minor skirmishes. At the close of the war he settled down in Memphis and en- gaged in mercantile business. He was elected sheriff of the county three terms. He oper- ated as a railroad contractor in Arkansas on the Fort Smith & Memphis and on the Memphis & Little Rock roads. In 1877 he went to Leadville, Colorado, and engaged in mining. and served as city marshal; was major-general of Colorado National Guard for two years. In the spring of 1883 he came to Spokane where he has since been actively engaged in mining, and has done much to bring the mines of this country into favorable notice. He is president of the Alice Eureka Mining Company, and sec- retary of the Grey Eagle, and connected with many others. He has served as judge of the municipal court, department commander of the G. A. R .. and was brigadier-general of the state militia for six years. He is one of the prominent and well known citizens.
HON. J. E. GANDY, a pioneer of 18So, is a native of Wisconsin, born August 24, 1847. When he was three years old the family re- moved to Linn county, Iowa, where he grew up. Ile graduated from Cornell College literary de- partment, then entered the Michigan State Uni-
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versity at Ann Arbor, where his son Lloyd is now a student. He graduated from the medi- cal department, then opened an office in Cedar Rapids and practiced for two years. He then came to Washington and located in Pierce county where he practiced with success. In 1880 he came to Spokane and engaged as a practicing physician until 1887 when he gave up the practice and devoted his time to his large property interests. He was elected in 1879 on the Republican ticket to represent Pierce coun- ty in the territorial legisature, and in 1885 was elected from Spokane county as a member of the territorial legislature. He was after- wards elected to the first, second and fourth ses- sions of the state legislature, and has served as president of the city council of which he has been a member at different times. Mr. Gandy was one of the youngest soldiers in the war of the Rebellion, having enlisted in Company D, Forty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, at the age of sixteen years. He was in several engage- ments and returned home safe after faithfully performing his duty to his country. He, with others, built the Union block three times, it be- ing burned twice. He also built the Gandy block on Sprague avenue, and many other buildings in the city. He was one of the or- ganizers of the Exchange National Bank, a di- rector until 1898, and is a stockholder in the Big Bend National Bank at Davenport. Mr. Gandy has always been an active man in the financial interests of the city and assisted ma- terially in making it the successful metropolis.
J. B. SARGENT, mining and real estate man, 328 Hyde block, pioneer of 1882, is a na- tive of Illinois, born in Douglas county, De- cember 28, 1844. He was brought up in his
native state, and took a classical course in the DePauw University, Indiana, intending to be come an attorney. His health failing, he en- gaged in farming in his native state, and after six years removed to Bloomington and opened a real estate and loan office. He served as trustee in the Illinois Wesleyan University for six years, and has always been much interested in educational matters. In 1882 he came to Spokane and purchased a farm near the city where he resided for five years, then moved to the city and opened a real estate office. He served as a member of the board of education one year, during which the high school and five other fine large school buildings were erected. He was secretary of the school board for four years and took an active part in establishing the Spokane College. He has contributed freely to all the early enterprises of the city, and is known as an energetic and representa- tive man. Mr. Sargent was married in Green Castle, Indiana, September 1, 1869, to Flor- ence C. Farrow. They have five children : William F., S. Guy, Bernadine, Courtland C. and James B.
WILLIAM ABBOTT LEWIS. The sub- ject of this sketch was born at Hamden, Dela- ware county, New York, on the 7th day of April, 1852. His parents were both natives of Scotland; his father, William Lewis, came from Galashiels in 1834 with his parents who settled in Delaware county, New York. In 1851 his father married Jennette Neish, who was born at Peebles, Scotland, and came to America with her parents and settled in Dela- ware county, in 1830. They settled in the vil- lage of Hamden, where the husband was then engaged in merchandising with his father, William Lewis, Sr., under the firm name of
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Lewis & Company, established in 1849, in which business he continued at the same place until his retirement in 1875.
The early education of W. A. Lewis was had at the village school and later at the Dela- ware Academy, one of the oldest academical institutions in central New York, located at Delhi, the county seat of Delaware county, and he completed his education in 1869 at the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, New York.
Acting upon the popular advice of the then editor of the New York Tribune: "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country," he immediately upon completing his education turned his face to the setting sun, and engaged in teaching in Grant county, Wisconsin, where he remained until called East in 1870 by the offer of a partnership in the mercantile firm of Lewis & Company, in his native town, which offer he accepted, returned to Hamden and
during the next four years devoted his time and energies to the managment of the then
largest mercantile business in Delaware coun- ty, while the senior members of the firm, Will- iam Lewis and Marshall Shaw, devoted their attention to the business of building the Delhi branch of the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad (now called the New York, Lake Ontario & Western), for the building of which the firm had the contract, and also for a part of the main line of the same road.
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