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is at present the manager of the Pequod Mining & Milling Company of Spokane.
Mr. Scott was married in Denver, Colorado, September 4. 1883. to Miss Adella A. Wag- ner, daughter of H. O. Wagner.
Mrs. Scott was born in Chicago. Her father, H. O. Wagner, was a widely and well- known character in the anti-slavery days, and a worker in the "underground railroad." He had at his home in Chicago at one time the martyr of Harper's Ferry. John Brown, and twelve of his fugitive slaves, all of whom he assisted to reach the British side in safety. Mr. Wagner is still living, and is eighty-four years old. A brother of Mrs. Scott. H. O. Wagner. Jr., was United States consul at Lyons, France, for five years. Mrs. Scott is quite a prominent figure in the Woman's Relief Corps. and is now the patriotic instructor for the department of Washington and Alaska, installed on June 22, 1899. Mrs. Scott is also prominent in the Independent Order of Foresters, being the first vice chief ranger in the first companion court organized in the state of Washington, and is now court deputy to the supreme chief ranger.
Mr. and Mrs. Scott have three bright chil- dren-Rudolph B., the third boy born in Spo- kane county outside the Indians; Henry W. and Addie S.
J. H. SHORT, of the firm of Short & Son, liverymen, 112 Bernard street, is a native of Delaware, born November 5, 1828. When he was four years old the family removed to Dela- ware county, Ohio, and when he was fourteen they went to Andrew county, Missouri. In 1851 they crossed the plains in ox teams, being six months on the road, and located in Marion
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county, Oregon. He then went to California. locating at Crescent City, where he built the first hotel. Later he returned to Oregon and took part in the Indian wars, and served as county treasurer of Josephine county for six years. In 1864 he settled in Walla Walla and engaged in the butcher and livery business. He came to Spokane in 1887, and has since been engaged in the livery and auction business. He served under General Joe Lane in Oregon in 1853, and in 1855-56 was under General Lam- rick at Grave Creek and the Big Bend of the Rogue river. He was in many skirmishes, and had several narrow escapes. He once went eighty miles on foot from Grave Creek to Jack- sonville to carry an important package, making the trip from 2 o'clock in the afternoon of Sat- urday to daybreak of Sunday, the Indians being numerous along the entire route. Mr: Short was married in Kirbyville, Oregon, in 1858, to Lot- tie Kirby, of the family for whom the town was named. They have six children-Edward, Joe. Eugene, Fred, Nancy B. and Birt.
H. PREUSSE, the oldest architect in the profession in Spokane, is a native of Germany, born in 1847, son of Carl Victor and Victoria Preusse. . His father died when he was three years old, and his mother subsequently mar- ried Mr. Wilhelm Mehl, a leading architect, so that Mr. Pruesse had an excellent opportunity to begin young the study of his profession. At the age of thirteen he went to Halle, and in the famous institutions of that city studied for three years, then returned home and spent about three years in his stepfather's office, after which he attended the noted college of archi- tecture at Holzminden. From that institu- tion he was sent by the faculty to superintend
the construction of the large Bessemer steel works in Osnabruck. He completed that work, then came to America, arriving in New York in June, 1870. He at once came to Chicago, where he found employment in the North Chicago Rolling Mills, but shortly after the great fire Mr. Preusse was compelled to leave that city on account of ill health. He visited the various western states and territories. finally locating in: San Bernardino, California, where for some time he had a thriving business. He afterward lived in San Francisco a while, then moved to Sterling. Kansas, and from there to Kansas City, Missouri. In 1882 Mr. Preusse came to Spokane and commenced the practice of his profession, and many of the imposing buildings destroyed by the fire of 1889 were designed by him and erected under his supervision. Since the fire he has made plans and specifications for a large number of the finest blocks, residences and other buildings in this city and in eastern Washington. In 1893 he took in J. A. Zittel as a partner, and they now employ one assist- ant. Mr. Preusse has devoted the efforts of his lifetime to the study and practice of his chosen profession, and as a naturel result of such concentration he is in the front rank among the architects of this state. Socially, he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. He is a public-spirited citizen, and takes a lively interest in every enterprise for the promotion of the general welfare. but is especially interested in educational matters. Mr. Preusse is a lover of agriculture and hor- ticulture, has owned three farms of one hundred and sixty acres each, and has taken great pride in having then highly improved. While in Sterling. Kansas, he married Miss Rosa Cole. a native of Pennsylvania, who died in Spokane. leaving four children, namely : Olga May and Florence Augusta, now attending an eastern
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university ; Carl Victor and Arnold Bismark. Mr. Preusse believes in educating his children well, and expects to give them each a good ed- ucational training.
C. W. CARSON, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Frankfort-on-the-Main November 24, 1848. His mother died when he was three years old. and at the age of nine he came to the United States with a friend. and grew up in New York City, where he learned the trade of a miller, and worked at the business until 1873. In 1874 he went to Portland, Oregon, and started a bakery, which was not a successful venture, and he went to milling, later working at Salem, and finally at Ainsworth, Washing- ton. He came to Spokane in 1877 and looked over the place, but did not like the appearance and returned to Ainsworth. In 1880 he re- turned to Spokane and engaged in the restau- rant business, opening the first on Main street, between Howard and Stevens, where the old Wilson stables are located. After eighteen months he sold out and located another restau- rant on Front and Howard, where he remained until the fire of January 16. 1883. when he lost all his stock. He opened in his own building. which he had purchased before the fire, and had dinner ready for the next day. As he owned only the building and had a lot just east of where the city hall now stands. he removed the house from the corner of Howard and Front and kept business going during the removal. He soon sold out. but followed the restaurant business for many years, accumulating a great deal of property. In 1884 he went to Rathdrum and opened a restaurant. clearing three thou- and five hundred dollars in twenty-five days. In 1885 he had a restaurant and lodging house
where the Hyde block now is. and during the period from 1884 to 1889 he made an average of one hundred dollars per day in the restaurant business. He has always been liberal with his money in contributing to all the early enter- prises for building up the city. Mr. Carson was married in Spokane October 14, 1884. to Alice Balhem. She died here March 10. 1889, leaving two children-Hazel B. and Roy E.
J. C. MYRTLE. a pioneer of 188o. is a na- tive of Missouri, born April 15. 1850. The fam- ily crossed the plains when he was an infant, and located at Eugene City. Oregon, where he grew up and learned the trade of a blacksmith from his father. He went to California in 1869. then to Nevada, where he followed his trade ; then went into the Black Hills with two hun- dred trappers and prospectors. He purchased a mine in Deadwood, and made a success in operating it. after which he went to California. and latter came to Walla Walla with a drove of horses. In 1880 he arrived in Spokane, and in company with J. W. Arthur, put in a ferry where Trent is now located. They operated this in connection with a store and boarding house for about two years. He was married March 8. 1883. to Maude, daughter of Callo- way and Elizabeth Hodges. born in Monterey county. California. May 27. 1861. He then took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, on which he built a residence and made his home for seven years, after which he came to the city and has since been engaged in handling real estate and prospecting. Mrs. Myrtle's father was from Virginia, and her mother from Missouri, and were among the early Oregon settlers, the father locating in 1847 and the mother in 1845. They came to
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this county in 1879 and took up one hundred and sixty acres where Trent now is, and lived there until 1893, when they removed to Ore- gon. Mrs. Myrtle is a horseback rider and has forded the river many times below the Trent ferry, where two men have been drowned in trying to cross.
A. C. EDWARDS, broker, rooms 233-4 Hyde block, is a native of Wisconsin, born at Beaver Dam, Dodge county, June 10, 1851. At the age of twelve years he left home and learned the trade of a printer, at which trade he worked in different parts of the country till he was twenty. He then served on the editorial force of the Daily World at Helena, Arkansas, where he was married January 29. 1872. shortly after which he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he accepted the position of general foreman of the Southern Baptist Pub- lication Society, a very extensive printing and publishing house.
After remaining with this establishment for several years he moved to Kearney, Nebraska. where he established the Gazette, a Democratic paper, which he conducted for about two years, in the meantime establishing other papers in connection therewith in different parts of the county. He later founded a temperance paper called The True Citizen, which had a great in- fluence in the temperance cause.
In 1879 he went to Colorado and engaged in mining, and later was with "Brick" Pomeroy in the publication of the Great West. He came to this city in 1884, and established the Bel- knap & Eagle City Transfer Company, doing business between Belknap, a small station on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and the Cœur d'Alene mines. After about six months he
sold out and engaged in the grocery business in Spokane, and then went into mining.
He was connected with the Daily Review for two years, then engaged in real estate and made a fortune, which was lost in the panic of 1893. In 1895 he was appointed United States commissioner for Alaska, and resigned in Au- gust. 1897. In coming home he and his wife were on the wrecked steamer Mexico, and spent twenty hours in a life-boat without food or water, when they finally drifted to an island and remained three days with the Indians at the station of Metlahkatlah. They lost every- thing they owned. On his return to Spokane he went into mining and has been successful.
He is one of the trustees of the Pioneer So- ciety, and a prominent member of the I. O. O. F., being largely instrumental in establishing Samaritan Lodge. No. 52, of that order in Spo- kane, which lodge has grown to be the largest and wealthiest in the state. He was its first noble grand, and has been twice elected as representative to the Grand Lodge of Wash- ington.
SYLVESTER HEATH. dealer in real estate, office 5-6 Heath block, is a native of Indiana, born in Indianapolis March 20. 1847. He was raised in Indiana on a farm, but subse- quently removed to the city, where he graduated from the Indianapolis high school, and spent several years as bookkeeper. In April. 1878. he came to Walla Walla, and the following year, January. 1879. he located in Spokane. and was engaged as clerk in Cannon & War- ner's store. also as assistant postmaster. About 1881 he was appointed postmaster, and served in that capacity for seven years. In 1880 he took up three hundred and twenty acres of land and laid out what was known as the Heath's addi-
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tions, which were platted and sold as town lots. He built a fine residence on Mission avenue, costing ten thousand dollars, and erected sev- eral other buildings, including the Heath block, corner Monroe and Riverside. In con- nection with the postoffice he kept a book and stationery store, which was burned out during the big fire of 1889, then succeeded by the John WV. Graham Company, book and paper dealers. Mr. Heath contributed liberally to all the early enterprises, and has always been one of the foremost men of the city. His time is now oc- cupied in handling his own property, which extends over a large area and includes valuable possessions. Mr. Heath was married in Spo- kane June 11, 1882. to Ida E., daughter of Asbury and Ada Ellis, born in Brownsville, Oregon, June 4. 1863. Her family came here from Oregon in 1879, and her father owned the Union Park addition. He died in 1896. Her mother is still living on Moran prairie.
MILTON S. BENTLEY, of the firm of Prescott Bros., real estate, rental and insurance agents, 316-17 Hyde block, is a native of Mis- souri, born in Putnam county, August 6, 1862. The family, consisting of father, mother and six sons, crossed the plains with horse teams, starting May 1, 1882, and arriving in Deep Creek August 12. They bought one hundred and sixty acres in what was then Spokane, now Lincoln county. Father was a Baptist minister, and died there. Mr. Bentley came to Spokane April 1, 1883, and began work as a bricklayer. In 1890 he succeeded Henry Brook as contrac- tor and builder, and built the Hotel Spokane, Blalock and Fernwell and other blocks, and in company with J. N. Van Dorn built the Van Dorn and Bentley block, a three-story brick, on
Riverside, in 1888. He also built the Orient block, on Front street, which he now owns, and many of the city residences, and was quite a successful builder. In 1891 he bought and platted Bentley's addition, and in 1894 he en- gaged in the mining business and handling real estate. Mr. Bentley's father was chaplain dur- ing the Civil war, and the G. A. R. post at Crescent Park, Lincoln county, was named in his honor. He is a member of Spokane Lodge, No. 34, F. & A. M.
ALBERT P. WOLVERTON, dealer in real estate and mining properties, 304 Fernwell block, was born in Polk county, Oregon, Sep- tember 17, 1855. He was raised there on a farm, and followed that occupation until he was twenty-four years old, when he took a col- lege course and graduated from the scientific department of the Monmouth College. In 1880 he came to Spokane and looked over the situa- tion, then purchased a fifty-six-foot lot, where the Holland block now stands, for three hun- dred and fifty dollars. February 22, 1882, he and his brother, William M., put in a stock of hardware in a two-story brick block. 30x60 feet. where the Wolverton block now stands. This was the first brick block put up in this city. After two years A. P. sold to his brother, and two years later purchased the property and or- ganized the Spokane Hardware Company, of which he was manager for two years, when he sold out because of ill health. In March, 1884, he and M. Conlan bought one hundred and fifty-five acres and platted Wolverton & Con- lan's addition. Mr. Wolverton put up the Tem- ple Court block in 1889, also the Grand Central Hotel, and several residences. He was one of the original stockholders of the Ross Park
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Street Railway, and assisted in every way pos- sible in the building up of the city. He is a member of Imperial Lodge, No. 134, and Unique Encampment, No. 32, I. O. O. F. Dur- ing the campaign of 1896 he served as chair- man of the Silver Republican party. He was married in Albany, Oregon, March 14, 1888, to Lula, daughter of Lewis and Amelia Miller, born in New York state. They have had three children-Van Albert and Margaret, living, and Vernice, deceased.
FRANK C. LAVIGNE, of the firm of F. Lavigne & Co., real estate, insurance, and mine promoters, Van Valkenburg block, is a native of Tennessee. born in Memphis. November 29, 1866. His father was a merchant, and Frank C. attended Christian Brothers College, from which he graduated, and engaged as a grocer's clerk. He then engaged for several years in manufacturing grocers' supplies. On Sep- tember 18, 1884, he came to Spokane and en- gaged in the sawmill business in company with M. M. Swingler. At the end of two years he sold out and returned to Memphis, but after two years came back and engaged in the real estate business, being also a member of the Spokane Grocery Company, organized in 1896, and he was made secretary and treasurer. This was consolidated in 1898 with the Lindsay- Lavigne Company, and did an excellent busi- ness until 1899, when they sold out. Mr. La- vigne then returned to the real estate business and opened an office with his father, F. La- vigne. They are doing a fine business. Mr. Lavigne has a fine residence on Spirit Lake and one and one-half miles water front, where he is making a pleasure resort. He is a stock- holder in several mining companies, a member of the Elks, Foresters of America and Red Men.
He was married in Spokane February 27, 1890, to Mildred M., daughter of M. M. and Fannie M. Swingler, born in Corinne. Utah. They have two sons-Anthony F. and Edwin T.
RALPH L. CLARKE, a mining man, is a native of Oregon City, Oregon, born Septem- ber 4. 1864. He is a step-son of A. M. Cannon, and for several years was bookkeeper for his step-father in his sawmill, bank and various other enterprises. At the time of the panic and consequent failure of the bank, Mr. Clarke was assistant cashier. Since that time he has been engaged in mining exclusively. He is secre- tary of the Washington Mining Company, and is interested in various other mining enter- prises. He was married in Portland, Oregon, June 15, 1887. to Jennie G., daughter of George A. and M. W. Sheppard, and they are parents of two children-George S. and Dorothy.
JOHN SENGFELDER, of the Spokane Bakery & Confectionery Company, 11 Howard street, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Wilkes Barre December 14. 1859. He learned the trade of a candy maker and confectioner in Philadelphia, and when eighteen years old re- moved to Colorado. In 1884 he went into the Cœur d'Alene country and paid fifty dollars per barrel for flour, and sold bread at fifty cents a loaf. He opened a shop in Spokane in 1886, and has been successfully engaged in the busi- ness ever since. In June. 1896. the Spokane Bakery & Confectionery Company was organ- ized, and he was made general manager and treasurer. The firm manufactures all kinds of candies, bakers' and confectioners' articles, and does a good business, employing twenty assist- ants. Mr. Sengfelder was quite extensively in-
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terested in real estate before the panic. In 1889 he and J. D. Maxwell built the Windsor block and considerable other property, worth at that time fully ten thousand dollars. He is a mem- ber of the F. & A. M., I. O. O. F., and the Elks, and treasurer of the Pioneer Society. He was married in Spokane July 11, 1888, to Eliz- abeth Stevens. They have two children-Vera S. and Helen A.
E. J. WEBSTER, a pioneer of 1882, is a native of Hudson, Michigan, born October 2, 1847. He was raised in Michigan, and at the age of sixteen years enlisted in Capt. Van Val- ler's company, afterward a portion of the Fourth Michigan Infantry. Among the en- gagements in which he served were the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Bethesda Church, North Anna River and Cold Harbor, where he was shot through both legs and kept in the hospital over a year, and had to walk on crutches four and one-half years after. When he returned to Michigan he took a high school course, and completed bookkeeping in Detroit, then studied law in an office one year and en- tered Ann Arbor University, from which he graduated in 1870. He served as Hon. Thomas M. Cooley's private secretary two years. He was admitted to practice in the supreme court, and opened an office in Hudson, but in less than one year his office was burned. He served as deputy United States marshal and census enu- merator in 1870, then went to California, where he was deputy county clerk of Oakland. After making a trip through Mexico. South and Cen- tral America, he returned to Oakland and prac- ticed law until 1882. He then came to Spo- kane and practiced law several years, but later branched out into real estate. In 1892 he was
assessed at six hundred thousand dollars, own- ing five additions and three thousand lots, be -. sides one thousand seven hundred acres of land near the city. Among the buildings he put up were the Genesee and Riverside blocks, and he purchased the Tidball. He owned and had leased thirteen store buildings, which were burned during the big fire. In 1888 he formed the Fairmount Cemetery Association, of which he is president. Mr. Webster has served six years as a member of the school board, being president for four years, and labored hard for the erection of several of the fine, large school buildings. He donated over four miles of a right of way through his own lands for rail- roads, and contributed freely of his means. He assisted in locating the army post and building the early bridges, and for several years main- tained Minnehaha Park without expense to the city. Mr. Webster is now operating in mining with a fair degree of success. Mr. Webster has never worried, with all of his losses. He still has unbounded faith in the future of Spo- kane and surrounding country.
L. B. WHITTEN, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Alleghany county, Virginia, November 15, 1850. He was raised in Virginia, and learned the trade of a carpenter, which he fol- lowed until 1885. On January 3, 1880, he ar- rived in Spokane. and bought a lot on Front street. where he erected a shop and worked for several years. In 1881 he bought a lot and erected a frame drug store at 19 Howard, which was burned in 1888. In the spring of 1889 he rebuilt this into a three-story brick, which was burned in the big fire, but rebuilt im - mediately, and which he still owns. He built Į the fine five-story Whitten block on the corner
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of Sprague and Post streets in 1890, and the following year put up his nice brick residence, on the corner of Sixth and Madison. In 1893 he built the two-story brick, 616 Front street, which he now owns, also the two-story brick store and office building at 222 Mill street, erected in 1899. Mr. Whitten is also much in- terested in farming, having one place of three hundred and fifty acres, three five-acre tracts in the city and about twenty lots in different parts of the city. He is at present engaged solely in looking after his personal interests and is kept busy. Mr. Whitten was married in Spokane November 5, 1888, to Georgia J. Bal- lou, a native of Ohio. They have four children -Paul B., Lester C. and Virginia, living, and Elbie, deceased. Mrs. Whitten was at the time of her marriage a practicing physician in Spo- kane, having graduated from the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, and has just finished a post-graduate course in the same in- stitution, with the intention of again entering the profession.
SAMUEL GLASGOW, secretary and treasurer of the Centennial Mill Company, is a native of LaPorte, Indiana, and came here in April, 1882. He served as a clerk for three years, then was a bookkeeper for Clark & Cur- tis' flouring mills for four years. In 1889, when the Centennial Mill Company was organized, he became secretary and treasurer. The com- pany has a mill in Seattle and does a very large trade with the Orient. The Spokane mill has a capacity of seven hundred barrels per day, besides the manufacture of rolled oats, cracked wheat and other cereal products. The output of the two mills runs about two thousand seven hundred barrels per day, which is
shipped to the markets of the Oriental isles. Mr. Glasgow is a member of the board of direc- tors of the Washington Cracker Company. He is a prominent man in the fraternal societies, a Shriner Mason, and assisted in the organiza- tion of the Imperial degree, I. O. O. F. He owns a fine farm of three hundred and forty acres west of the city, and raises grain.
H. W. GREENBERG. of the Wright- Greenberg Company, printers, publishers and bookbinders, is a native of Minnesota, born at Hastings, October 23, 1858. He was raised there, and learned the trade of a printer. When he was eight years old his parents removed to Glencoe, where he was afterward one of the proprietors of the Register. In 1883 he came to Spokane, where he was engaged on the Chron- icle, and soon became foreman of the printing department. He left the Chronicle about 1886 and was engaged on the Review, having charge of the mechanical department and owning part of the plant. In 1888 he sold out, and, in com- pany with H. T. Brown, opened a printing office. He bought Brown's interest and founded the Review job printing office, which was burned twice, and lie lost about forty thou- sand dollars. AAfter getting a start again, he organized, in November, 1897. thie Pigott- French-Greenberg Company. In 1899 George H. Wright bought the others of the company, and they are now equal partners, and are doing an extensive business. They run a linotype, job printing, blank books, publishing and book- binding business. Mr. Greenberg served as city councilman in 1891-92, and as a member of the state legislature in 1893-94. being elected on the Republican ticket. He is a prom- inent fraternal man, being a member of the F.
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