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In February, 1874, Mr. Lewis married Fannie Bostwick Shaw, the daughter of his business partner, Marshall Shaw. The fol- lowing summer his health failed from over work, and under the advice of his physician he went to California, passing the winter of 1874- 75 in Los Angeles county, and in the spring returned to New York by the way of the Isth- mus of Panama. The condition of his health
preventing his continuing the mercantile busi- ness, and his partners desiring to retire from business, the firm sold out and the co-partner- ship of Shaw and Lewises was dissolved.
During the Centennial year Mr. Lewis en- gaged with the Kansas Pacific Railroad in its emigrant department under Land Commis- sioner Gilmore. The road was then in the hands of a receiver, who afterwards became promi- nent in the Northern Pacific Railway Com- pany, to-wit: Henry Villard. After severing his connection with railroad work he studied law, as admitted to the bar and in 1883 re- moved to Spokane Falls, arriving with the first through train after the driving of the gold- en spike, celebrating the completion of the Northern Pacific. in September. He im- mediately opened a law office and has since been engaged in the active practice of his pro- fession, being the senior member of the law firm of Lewis & Lewis, who have one of the largest and most successful law practices in eastern Washington.
HON. C. F. CLOUGH. of the firm of C. F. Clough & Co. (incorporated). dealers in mines, stocks and real estate. 5 Jamieson block. pioneer of 1884, is a native of Rhode Island. born in Woonsocket. December 26. 1843. He grew up on a farm and enlisted in the army September 8, 1861, in Company E. Fourth Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry, and served until July 25. 1865. He was veteranized at Ports- mouth, Virginia, with the rank of corporal. Mr. Clough served with credit in the engagements at Roanoke Island. New Berne and Fort Macon. all in North Carolina, with Burnsides, then with the Army of the Potomac at South Moun- tain, Antietam and Fredericksburg. In 1863
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he was transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, where he was in various skirmishes. He returned to the Army of the Potomac in 1864 in front of Petersburg, Virginia, and was in the general advance which led up to the surrender of Lee. At the close of the war he returned to his na- tive home and for several years was engaged in selling pianos and sewing machines, after which he removed to Providence and followed the same business for several years. In 1876 he went to California and served as a commer- cial traveler. This line of work brought him through this section frequently, and in March. 1884, he came to Spokane on account of a min- ing excitement and the surroundings which he had previously noted. He opened a book and stationery store which he conducted very suc- cessfully for three years, when he sold out in 1887 to engage in the real estate business. For seven years the business was conducted by him- self and Jay P. Graves, under the firm name of Clough & Graves. They were very extensive real estate dealers and assisted very materially in building up the city. They erected some of the prominent buildings and were among the heaviest dealers in real estate in Spokane, oper- ating in various . enterprises, building roads, soliciting public improvements and in various ways contributing to the development of the place. They made a specialty of organizing syndicates for the purpose of buying large tracts of land and platting and selling the same. and in these venturesome undertakings they were remarkably successful, thereby building up an enviable reputation in both the east and the west. The present company, of which Mr. Clough is president, and his son, Lester F., is secretary and treasurer, was organized in 1896. In political matters also Mr. Clough has been very active. He was a member of the city council from 1886 to 1888, and in 1890 he was 24
elected on the citizens' ticket mayor of the city, receiving a large majority. His administra- tion was a credit to himself and fully justified the confidence reposed in him by the people.
JOEL F. WARREN, ex-chief of police. a. pioneer of 1879. son of Hugh .G., a native of North Carolina, and Esther C., a native of West Virginia, is a native of Missouri, born in Sullivan county, January 8. 1858. The fam- ily came to Walla Walla in 1865 and father and son engaged in the cattle business. In 1879 they came to Spokane with a band of cattle, and each took up one hundred and sixty acres of land twenty miles west of the city, where both parents died. The father was first postmaster at Greenwood, this county. Joel F. carried on farming for some time and was deputy county assessor in 1883. On March 25. 1884. he was deputized by Pat Dillon, the sheriff. to arrest Bill Jackson, a notorious character and mur- derer, and when he succeeded in arresting the man his friends placed him on the police force. In 1887 he was elected chief and held that posi- tion for three years, being appointed again in July, 1897. In 1893 he opened a private. de- tective bureau, which was incorporated, and he became the manager and superintendent. In May, 1897. he went to San Francisco and cap- tured two men guilty of a jewelry burglary at Rossland. He went with nine special officers in 1891 to Bonner's Ferry where two thou- sand, five hundred Italians struck, and succeed- ed in disarming them and getting them to re- turn to work. Mr. Warren has always been a very efficient officer and performed his duty in a creditable manner. He has been shot at on thirteen different occasions, and has taken five medals in different tournaments. He was mar-
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ried in this county November 28, 1885, to Miss Emina Carstens, who died October 17, 1887, leaving a daughter, Eva. He next married in Spokane, February 28, 1895, Miss Ida Rick, a native of Wisconsin.
WALTER H. WISCOMBE, of the Suburb Roller Mills, office 712 Railroad avenue, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of England, born .September 24, 1843. The family came to the United States in 1848 and located in Osage 'county, Kansas, where he grew up on a farm. He was married there on March 23, 1870, to Jennie, daughter of John and Lucinda Jolly, born in southern Illinois June 4, 1853. They have two living children : Frederick, born Sep- tember 1, 1879, now in the employ of the mill company, and Clarence, born July 19, 1884. In 1873 they removed to Healdsburg, Cali- fornia, where he was engaged in the grocery business. They came to Spokane in 1879 and he worked for a time at the carpenter's trade, which he had learned of his father. In the spring of 1883 he and W. S. Burns built a steam planing mill, having the first steam whistle ever blown in Spokane. After operat- ing the mill for two years he was made street commissioner and built the fine road to Spangle, also one to Rockford and several others. He then superintended the construction of the Spo- kane Street Railway, the first in the city, and managed the running of this line until 1890. In 1891 he was appointed city street commissioner under the new city charter. He was elected city treasurer on the Republican ticket in 1892 and had to give bond for seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. He was re-elected in 1894. In 1895 he was appointed city commis- sioner and served for two years. In September,
1889, he and W. E. Pierce bought the Suburb Roller Mills at Marshall, and are now operating this plant. The mill has a one-hundred-barrel capacity, is fitted up with all the most modern improvements, is run by water power and is kept going at full capacity all the time.
Mr. Wiscombe is an old soldier, having enlisted in 1863 in Company M, Eleventh Kan- sas Cavalry, and served in the Sixteenth Army Corps in the Army of the West. He was in several engagements, among them being the ones against Quantrell, Price and Thornton .. He was wounded in one engagement in Mis- souri, being shot in the right hand and losing two fingers. As a result he was discharged in March, 1865. He is a respected member of the F. & A. M. and the Knights Templar, also the A. O. U. W. He has been a stockholder in the Exchange National Bank since its or- ganization.
EDWARD PITTWOOD. dentist. in the Wolverton block, a pioneer of 1883. is a native of Illinois, born in Iroquois county. March 12, 1860. He was raised in the town of Watseka. and studied dentistry, graduating from the Ohio Dental College at Cincinnati and from the Ohio Medical College. After graduating he returned to Illinois and opened an office in Kankakee, where he practiced dentistry for two years, then came to Spokane in 1883. In the early years of Spokane history he contributed freely to the several public enterprises and did his share in assisting to build up the city. . As an index of his liberality, the Doctor had only two hundred dollars when the Catholic church was being built. and although not a member, he gave one hundred and twenty-five dollars to the fund for its erection. He has been a heavy owner in real estate and is at present interested
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in mining. He owns a fine residence at the cor- ner of Fifth and Cœur d' Alene, built of logs, in a very unique and attractive manner, at a cost of ten thousand dollars. His office is well fitted up with the best and most modern in- struments, and he enjoys a fine practice, being the oldest graduated dentist in the state. The Doctor is well liked among the profession and has been honored with many offices conferred upon him both in this state and the east. He is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Elks, Ben Hur and Independent Order of Foresters, and is a very progressive citizen and respected profes- sional man. He was married in Spokane, Feb- ruary 14, 1889, to Elizabeth Reid, a native of Ohio. They have two children, Lucile and Ed- ward H.
ANDREW JACKSON ROSS, deceased, was born in Pennfield, Monroe county, New York, May 2, 1836. When a young man he removed to Rochester, where he was engaged as a railroad contractor and in the mercantile business until 1884. On April 16, of that year, he arrived in Spokane and began investing in land in and near the city. In 1886 he pur- chased four hundred and eighty acres from the railroad company, comprising what is now known as Ross Park addition. This property he laid off into five-acre lots. He at once erected a comfortable home on the corner of Center street and Riverton avenue, planted a fine garden and orchard and succeeded in dem- onstrating that the gravelly soil, though ap- parently barren, was really very productive when supplied with water. In just one year from the date of purchase he was enabled to form a syndicate, which gave him eighty-five thousand dollars for a four-fifths interest in this
property. He then, with A. M. Cannon and J. J. Browne, formed the Spokane Street Rail- way Company, which built the first street rail- way in the city. Mr. Ross had the entire man- agement of the road, while he retained his in- terest in it, but he soon sold out to Browne & Cannon. In 1889 he and Jacob Hoover or- ganized the Exchange National Bank, of which Mr. Ross became vice-president. Mr. Ross took a great deal of pride in this institution, giving it the aid and advice by which it was enabled to pass through the panic safely and to become the leading bank in this city. In his later years he became extensively interested in mining property, and his wife is now a stock- holder in the Wonderful Group, the Miller Creek and the Josie Mack. She also owns a fine farm of four hundred and eighty acres southeast of town, and many pieces of prop- erty in this city. During his lifetime Mr. Ross was very active and zealous in developing Spo- kane and perhaps no one man has done more to advance its interests than he. When it was necessary to subsidize a railway, to construct a bridge, to build a road or improve a street, Mr. Ross could always be depended upon for a liberal subscription. He could also be counted upon for active, persistent personal effort. He helped organize the first fire company of the city and himself became a member. He worked hard to secure a right of way for the Great Northern Railroad, contributing toward that end with a liberal hand. He and Mrs. Ross founded the kindergarten system of this city, which for the first four years was sustained solely by private subscription. Under their beneficent influence eight schools were estab- lished and sustained until they were finally in- corporated into the city school system. Mr. Ross will also long be remembered by the early settlers as the organizer and first president of
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the Spokane Pioneer Society. It was originated by him in 1895 at a dinner party given at his home. His death occurred September 5, 1898.
EUGENE J. FELLOWES, collector for the city water department, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Louisiana, born in New Orleans, March 17, 1847. He grew up in the south and graduated from the University of Louisi- ana, and studied law, graduating from the Law College of Louisiana in 1867. After practicing for four years in his native state, he removed to Chicago, Illinois, and practiced his profession for eleven years. He was elected a member of the Illinois state legislature in 1881 on the Dem- ocratic ticket. After serving in that capacity for a term of two years he came to Spokane and opened a law office, where he has since prac- ticed, except when serving in public offices. He was the first city assessor and served as a mem- ber of the city council for two years, served as a member of the legislature for two years and as clerk of the municipal court for six years. Mr. Fellowes has always been active in all pub- lic matters, being chairman of the committee to establish the first city fire department, and drafted the bill creating and establishing the insane asylum at Medical Lake. He served as one of the regents in the State Agricultural College at Pullman, was adjutant of the Waslı- ington Brigade of state militia, is a member of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., K. of P., Elks and Foresters, and a well known and much re- spected citizen. During the past three years he has served as city water rent collector. He was married in Binghamton, New York, De- cember 15, 1873, to Georgina Kendall, born in Paris, France. They have one child. Kendall. who enlisted in Company A, First Washing-
ton Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as sergeant. He was wounded February 6, 1899, at Manila, receiving a rifle ball through the right hip. Mrs. Fellowes was the first li- brarian of the first circulating library of Spo- kane. She is at present proof clerk in the United States land office of Spokane. She was one of the founders and is at present treas- urer of the Spokane Art League. During the late war she was an active worker in the Spo- kane Art League.
HON. LEANDER H. PRATHER, su- perior judge of the state of Washington for Spokane county, a pioneer of 1884, is a native of Indiana, born in Jennings county October 25. 1843. He grew up on a farm until at the age of fourteen years, when his father bought some land and laid out the present town of North Vernon. His father, Hiram, was a prominent farmer and attorney and represented Jennings county in the legislature during several ses- sions. The Judge's grandfather. William, was the first settler in Jennings county, locating there about the beginning of this century, and was the first judge of the county court. His father was the man who raised the first regi- ment of Indiana troops for the war of the Re- bellion, serving as lieutenant-colonel, and was wounded in the battle of Pittsburg Landing and had to resign. The Judge attended the schools of North Vernon until his eighteenth birthday, when he enlisted as a private in Com- pany I, Sixtieth Indiana Volunteers, and served in the One Hundred and Thirty-seventh and One Hundred and Fortieth, being discharged as a second lieutenant and assistant quarter- master on General Cortes' staff, being chief of ambulances of the Third Division of the
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Twenty-third Army Corps. He was dis- charged at Greensboro, North Carolina, July II, 1865. He was in the engagements at Mumfordsville, Pittsburg Landing ( where his father was wounded), Murfreesboro and Wil- mington, North Carolina, and many skirmishes. After the war he attended college at Asbury University, now De Pauw College, at Greencas- tle, Indiana, taking a classical course of three years. He then taught school, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Columbus, Indiana, in May, 1869. The Judge opened an office at Columbus and then removed to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he remained one year, and went to Arkansas, where he practiced until 1879. He was married there May 6, 1879, to Miss Edna, daughter of Judge M. L. Rice, of Lit- tle Rock. They then removed to Abilene, Kan- sas,, where he practiced until 1882, then went to Leadville, Colorado, remaining there until February, 1884, when he came to Spokane and opened a law office, since which time he has en- joyed a very lucrative practice. He has served in the offices of the state board of education for two terms, and his present position, to which he was elected on the fusion ticket in 1896. The Judge has always been a very active and prom- inent man in building up the city, being a stockholder in many of the pioneer enter- prises. He is well liked by both attorneys and people. He is a member and past commander of Sedgwick Post, No. 8, Washington and Alaska G. A. R., and a member of the Pioneer Society. His five children are: Rose Leah, Lee H., Kate Edna, Mary Milton and Rice.
IV. S. NORMAN, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Cheltenham, England, born January 8, 1861. He was raised in England, and grad-
uated from the Cheltenham Grammar School. His father was the owner of two papers in that town, and W. S. was employed on them, becoming an editor. In 1883 he came to Spo- kane and bought a farm near the city. The next year he was purser on the steamer Koot- enai, and then did work as a stenographer and typewriter, being at that time the only stenog- rapher in the city. In the spring of 1886 he was made private secretary for Paul Mohr and A. M. Cannon, constructors of the Spokane & Palouse Railroad. He then became a member of the firm of A. A. Newberry & Co., agents for the Northern Pacific land department. This company did a very successful business. About this time Mr. Norman purchased a telephone line from Charles B. Hopkins, and organized the Spokane Telephone Company. This com- pany started with thirty subscribers, and soon branched out to the Cœur d'Alenes and the Big Bend country. In 1890 he sold his interest to the Inland Telephone & Telegraph Company, and served as president of the company until 1897. He became a stockholder in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company. then running a small plant, and was made secretary and gen- eral manager. In the fall of 1887 he organ- ized a syndicate of the principal stockholders of the Electric Light Company, and formed the Washington Water Power Company, acquir- ing possession of the various interests, making twenty-eight acres, or two-thirds of the entire water power. This company was officered as follows: F. R. Moore, president : John W. Chapman, vice-president : J. D. Sherwood, treasurer, and W. S. Norman, secretary and manager. Work was immediately started on the construction of the great dam across the river. When the big fire occurred, the Edison and Telephone companies lost their lines, but began reconstruction at once, arc lights being
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put up on scantlings the night after the fire. Within six weeks the entire system was in use again, and the business increased so that today the plant has a three-thousand-horse-power capacity, and runs continually. In 1890 the Washington Power Company acquired all the property of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, the Spokane Cable and Spokane street railways, and franchises of the City Park Transit Company, and additional franchises, and converted the entire system into an electric plant now covering a total of thirty-two miles. The money for all this work was secured in Brooklyn, and the capital increased to one mil- lion five hundred thousand dollars. After suc- cessfully manipulating all the deals and making this great combine of forces for improving the city, Mr. Norman retired from the manage- ment in January, 1897, and has since devoted himself to other pursuits, prominent in which was the organization of the Rossland Water & Light Company. He served as secretary of the Board of Trade for three years, and helped to locate many of the enterprises of the city, tak- ing an active part in everything for building up the place. Mr. Norman is a charter member of the Elks, and is interested in the Spokane Hotel.
RUDOLPH B. SCOTT, a pioneer of Spokane county, came to Spokane Falls from Denver, Colorado, in 1883, and has since re- sided here. He has been engaged in farming, real estate, mining, fire and life insurance, and was United States inspector of customs for five years in the Puget Sound district. Mr. Scott was a delegate from Spokane county to the state convention that organized the state of Wash- ington, held at Walla Walla, in September, 1889, and was a delegate to the state conven-
tion held at Seattle to elect delegates to the na- tional convention at Minneapolis.
Mr. Scott is an American of Indian, Afri- can and Scotch extraction. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and comes of New England fighting stock. His maternal grand- father was a Pequot Indian chief, who married a Scotch woman, and fought throughout the war of the Revolution. His paternal grand- father was a West Indian African of the Tous- saint L' Ouverture stock, and the son of a Bar- bados planter, sent to New Haven, Connecti- cut, to be educated at Yale College. Mr. Scott was schooled in the Lancasterian School of New Haven, Connecticut, which institution has furnished Connecticut with four governors. Helearned the trade of wood-turner in Chauncy Jerome's clock manufacturing establishment in New Haven, Connecticut. When Abraham Lincoln stumped that state in 1859. Mr. Scott, as a boy, carried a torch for him in the proces- sion at New Haven.
Mr. Scott and a brother fought in the war of the Rebellion. He served in the North At- lantic squadron on board the United States gunboat Chickopee, and was one of the men that volunteered to go with Lieutenant Cush- ing when he blew up the Rebel ram Albemarle. He was severely wounded at the capture of Plymouth, North Carolina. Since the close of the war he has mined in Coorado, New Mex- ico and Washington, and has served in the U. S. mail service. He was U. S. mail agent from Danville, Illinois, to Chicago at the time of the historic Republican convention held at Chicago in 1880, and while the three hundred and five delegates stood solid for U. S. Grant for pres- ident, Scott hield back forty thousand copies of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which was full of abuse of U. S. Grant, and was intended to flood Chicago and defeat Grant's nomination.
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The copies did not arrive until the day after the convention-too late to harm his old com- rade.
Mr. Scott is one of the prominent Grand Army men of the state. He served on the staff of Commander Cosgrove, department commander G. A. R., Washington and Alaska. He was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Russell A. Alger, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R .: also chief mustering officer of the depart- ment of Washington and Alaska. In 1893 he was a member of the council of administration. In 1894 he was a delegate from Washington and Alaska to the twenty-fourth national en- campment at Boston. In 1890 he was inspector of the department, and in 1895 chief mustering officer. He was elected junior vice-comman- der of the department of Washington and Alaska, G. A. R., at Seattle at the department encampment, June 23, 1889.
He enlisted at Seattle April 25. 1898, as a private in Company B, First Washington Vet- eran Artillery, and was honorably discharged at Seattle as first lieutenant November I. 1898, by reason of the close of the war. He is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason ; also a prominent member of the Independent Order of Foresters, being deputy supreme chief to Oronhyateka, the Mokawk Indian who is the supreme chief of the order. Mr. Scott repre- sented Spokane in the High Council of the Independent Order of Foresters in 1897, 1898 and 1899. He was a personal friend of Gen- eral John A. Logan and of Chief Joseph, the great Indian chief of the Nez Perces Indians, and went to Washington, D. C., in 1897, with Chief Joseph and his chiefs to represent their case before the Indian commission and the President, and again in 1900. He has done much to shape the public opinion of the past few years in favor of Chief Joseph. Mr. Scott
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