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ings, and removed to Spokane, where he was elected cashier of the bank. In January, 1892, he was elected to the presidency. an office which he has held ever since. Under his able and efficient management, the bank has achieved great success, standing today among the leading financial institutions of the north- west.
Mr. Cowley is an active member of the Catholic church and is prominent in forward- ing the various charitable and educational in- stiutions of that denomination. Thoroughly public-spirited, he gives liberally of his means to every worthy cause. He owes his financial success to hard. unceasing effort. rather than to fortune, and his wealth is the reward of much self-sacrificing toil and the fruit of ju- dicious investment. Personally, lie is loyal and generous in his friendships and a great favorite with all whom he meets. either socially or in business.
He was married in Walla Walla, Washing- ton, in October. 1873. to Miss Annie Connelly, and they have two daughters, both of whom reside with them in their beautiful home in this city.
JOHN M. SEMPLE, M. D., office, rooms 7. 8 and 9. Jamieson block, is a native of Scot- land. born in Strathbungo, a suburb of Glas- gow, August 21, 1857. When he was ten years old his family emigrated to Utica. New York, where he learned telegraphy and was employed for two years in taking press dis- patches for the Utica Herald. He then moved to Albany and was made chief operator for the Baltimore & Oliio Telegraphı Company. At the same time he was studying medicine, and soon received an appointment as apothecary and clinical clerk, under Dr. John P. Gray.
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superintendent of the Utica state hospital. In 1886 he graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York City,and shortly afterwards received an appointment on the medical staff of the state hospital, at Auburn. New York. He soon resigned, however, to enter the general hospital at Flat Bush, a suburb of Brooklyn. After spending a year there, he was again called to the Auburn state hospital and remained till December. 1889, when he came to Spokane and opened an office. In December, 1890, he became superintendent of the state hospital for insane, at Medical Lake, which position he held till July, 1897. After resigning his charge at Medical Lake, he returned to Spokane and has since built up a large private practice. Dr. Semple is presi- dent of the Spokane County Medical Society. and is a member of the American Medical As- sociation and of the Washington State Med- ical Society. He also belongs to the F. & A. M. He was married in Auburn, New York, October 30, 1890, to Miss Almira B. Clary, a native of Auburn. They have two sons, John C., born August 28, 1891, and Andrew, born July 1, 1896.
G. S. ALLISON, M. D., whose office is at 8 and 10 Granite block, Spokane, is a pio- neer of 1882. He was born in Louisiana, Missouri, July 22, 1848. He pursued his studies in home district chools until the age of fifteen, when he entered the Cherry Grove Seminary, Abington, Illinois. After attending this school for three years, he entered the St. Louis Medical College, where he graduated in 1871. He practiced for one year under a preceptor, and then removed to Macon county, Illinois, where he practiced medicine for some years. In 1881 he spent six months in the
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, of New York, and after graduating came west and located in Spokane.
He began his practice in this city in July, 1882, and is now the oldest resident physician, has a fine business and is a much respected citizen. He was president of the first medi- cal society in this city. is at present a member of the State Medical Society and a member of the Masonic fraternity.
The Doctor was married in Mount Zion, Macon county, Illinois. May 2, 1876. to Ellen E., daughter of William and Agnes Marriner, born in Lebanon. Tennessee. They have four children-Ida. Mabel, Walter and Gladys.
HON. MILLARD T. HARTSON, attor- ney-at-law, was born in Allen, Erie county, New York, May 13. 1857. At the age of ten he moved with his parents to Vineland, New Jersey, where he attended the public schools. Upon graduating from the high school he en- tered the Pennsylvania Military College, at Chester, as a cadet. In 1879 he graduated as junior captain, standing fifth in a large class. He then studied law until admitted to the bar, but shortly afterward moved to Fargo. North Dakota, where for a year he practiced his pro- fession.
Coming then to Spokane, he opened an office here. He was soon elected city attor- ney and in the discharge of his duties as such, he displayed great ability and a profound knowledge of the law. The electors of Spo- kane county, appreciating these qualities, after- ward made him probate judge, an office which he held for two terms, winning, by his fairness and integrity. the respect and confidence of all. After the territory was admitted to statehood.
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he served as commissioner of the superior court.
Judge Hartson has always been prominent in the politics of this county, and is at present chairman of the county Republican central committee. He is also a member of the ex- ecutive committee in the state central com- mittee. In the recent Republican county con- vention he was nominated by acclamation for the superior judgeship of this county. The Judge is an active member of the Pioneer As- sociation and has been secretary since its or- ganization in 1895. He was married in Vine- land, New Jersey, March 21, 1884, to Mar- garet S. Roberson, and they have three chil- dren, Clinton H., Nelson T. and Joseph T.
COL. DAVID P. JENKINS, a pioneer of 1879, and a retired attorney, has the distinc- tion of being the oldest attorney living in Washington. He was born near Mount Pleas- ant, Ohio, August 25, 1823. At the age of nineteen he entered the law office of Hon. Samuel Stokeley, at Steubenville, and studied for two years. Later he attended the Cincinnati Law School, from which he graduated in March, 1845.
He began practicing law in Lafayette, In- diana, afterwards removing to Cincinnati, thence to La Salle county, Illinois, where he remained until the beginning of the war of the Rebellion, when Governor Gates appointed him major of the First Illinois Cavalry. He was the first major of volunteer cavalry ap- pointed west of the Alleghany mountains. While in the engagement at Lexington, Mis- souri, he was taken prisoner, with seven com- panies of his command. . He was later pa- roled and went to St. Louis. Early in No-
vember he was released from parole and sent by General Halleck to Birds Point, Missouri. The regiment took part in the engagements of New Madrid and Island No. 10, and assisted in guarding supplies in the Ozarkmountains. June 2, 1862, Mr. Jenkins resigned and returned to Illinois, where in September he assisted in raising a regiment of cavalry. Re-entering the army as lieutenant-colonel of the Four- teenth Illinois Cavalry. he had engagements in Kentucky and Tennessee, and was with General Sherman at the capture of Atlanta. His regiment, which took part in the Stone- man raid, attempted to rescue some officers at Macon, Georgia. and while returning was overhauled by the enemy in greatly superior numbers. It was completely disorganized and scattered in the many fierce fights which fol- lowed.
At the close of the war he began law prac- tice in Knoxville, Tennessee, then removed to Colorado and from Colorado came to Seattle March 13. 1873. where he practiced until June 3. 1879. He then located in Spokane, where he has ever since resided. He has been active as a Republican in politics, and con- nected with many local enterprises. He now owns about seventy acres of land. and several houses and lots in the city and several ranches ; also a town site and mining property in Stevens county. He is a member of the Ma- sonic fraternity and is a prominent and re- spected citizen.
. REV. SAMUEL G. HAVERMALE. a retired Methodist minister, residing at So7 Chelan avenue, Spokane, is a son of Peter and Maria Gardenor, and was born in Sharpsburg. Washington county. Maryland. October 15. 1824. When he was eight years old the fam-
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ily removed to Montgomery county, Ohio, where he grew up on a farm. In 1844 the family removed to Fulton county, Illinois, where he engaged as salesman in a store, at- tended school and later entered the Rock River Seminary. He taught school in Fulton county for several years, and in 1852 entered the min- istry.
After laboring for twenty-one years in Illinois, he was transferred to Walla Walla, Washington, in 1873, and one year later was appointed presiding elder for the district, then comprising an area of about forty thousand square miles. In 1875 he became a resident of Spokane and on November 14th of that year preached the first sermon to a white con- gregation in this city.
He served as president of the first town board of trustees, during which administra- tion the fine system of water works was estab- lished. He, in company with George A. Davis, built the original Echo flouring mills, the first full roller mill in Washington.
He was married in Joe Daviess county, Illi- nois, November 1, 1849, to Elizabeth Gold- thorp. They have two living children-Laura V., wife of Dr. B. F. Burch, and Schuyler S., a stockman of San Diego county. California.
EDMOND DUFRESNE, cigar manu- facturer, Factory No. 16, District of Oregon, was born in Montreal, Canada, November 3, 1856. He grew to manhood in the city of his nativity, was apprenticed to learn the cigar- maker's trade when fifteen years old and served four years. He moved to Spokane in March, 1888, and went into business, but was burned out the following year, losing almost everything. In 1893, however, he opened a
factory in company with Frank Delour, and after doing business with him for three years, bought him out. He then moved to his pres- ent location, No. 1007 \'est Broadway, and went into partnership with C. F. Barth. They remained in company until 1898. since which time he has been alone. He employs nine assistants and has built up a large and pros- perous business. He manufacturers several fine brands of cigars, among others the Con- gress, Perfectos. the D. W. C., the Eagles and the Senate Bouquet, most of which are consumed in this city. All his employees are union men. While Mr. Dufresne is a good business man, yet the secret of his success lies in the fact that he has thoroughly mastered his business, so that he is able to put upon the market products of real intrinsic excellence. He is a member of, and a trustee in, the Eagles, and also belongs to the Foresters of America and the Cigarmakers' Union. He gives considerable attention to mining. and is interested in many properties.
ISAAC S. KAUFMAN. of the real estate firm of I. S. Kaufman & Company, was born near Decatur, Illinois, January 4. 1844. He was educated and grew up in Decatur, and on August 12, 1862, when eighteen years of age, he enlisted in Company F, One Hundred and Fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, com- manded by Captain F. L. Hays, and served until the close of the war, being mustered out an orderly sergeant, at Camp Harker, Ten- nessee, July 11, 1865. His regiment was in the engagements at McAffee Church, Chicka- mauga, Dalton, Resaca and Nashville, and many skirmishes. After being honorably discharged he returned home and entered the
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Mount Zion Academy, but on account of poor health soon went to Minnesota, where he en- gaged for four years in the real estate and brokerage business. In 1883 he came to Spo- kane and opened a real estate office with George W. Odell, and is still doing business under the same firm name.
In company with H. L. Tilton he built the postoffice block in 1888, and after the fire re- built it and the Granite block on Riverside avenue.
He was one of the incorporators of the Ross Park Street Railway Company, assisted in organizing the Exchange National Bank, served as a member of the city council, and has always been an active representative man in all local enterprises.
Mr. Kaufman was married in Coles county, Illinois, January 1, 1874, to Claribel, daughter of Thomas H. and Louisa M. Odell, born in Coles county, September 21, 1850. They have five children-George W., Raymond T., Ralph O., Clara B. and I. Karl.
DR. MARY A. LATHAM, a pioneer of 1887, is a native of New Richmond, Ohio. Her preliminary education was acquired in the public schools of that state and at Claremont Academy. In 1884 she graduated from the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, in the first class of women who were admitted to the clinical wards of the Cincinnati General Hospital. Immediately after graduation, she began the practice of her profession in Cin- cinnati, but she soon was compelled to seek a more salubrious climate and accordingly, in 1887, came to Spokane. Her learning and skill soon came to be recognized here and she has since steadily advanced, though she has
long held rank among the foremost medical practitioners of the state. She has been es- pecially successful in the treatment of diseases of women and children. Thoroughly devoted to her calling, and animated by a noble desire to alleviate suffering, she has always been a tireless worker and student. Such is her mar- velous capacity for labor that she also finds time from her study and from her large prac- tice to engage in literary work, and she is gaining an enviable reputation as a newspaper and magazine writer. A public-spirited citi- zen, her influence has been sensibly felt in many undertakings for the welfare of this city. She was one of the promoters of the Union Library Association, and a director in that in- stitution until it merged into the City Library Association. She is actively identified with various associations pertaining to her profes- sion, also with the Humane Society, of which she has been secretary and treasurer. She was chairman of the Washington branch of the Queen Isabelle Association (medical de- partment ), at the World's Columbian Expo- sition. On July 28, 1870. she married E. H. Latham, M. D., a gentleman of ability and culture and a physician of high rank. They have three sons. Frank A .. James A. and Warren.
ABRAHAM P. WILLIAMS, county assessor, a pioneer of 1885. is a native of Coles county, Illinois, born September 23. 1843. When he was fourteen the family moved to McLeod county, Minnesota. On September 26. 1861. he enlisted as a private in Company B. Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. He served until May 22. 1863. when, at the siege of Vicksburg. he received a bullet wound in the leg. He was sent to the
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hospital and on September 26, of the next year, was mustered out. He participated in the en- gagement at Iuka, Mississippi, in the siege and battle of Corinth, in the battles of Port Gibson, Raymond. Jackson and Champion Hills, and in the Vicksburg campaign. He again enlisted in February, 1865, in Company A, of Hancock's Veteran Army Corps, was appointed duty sergeant and served one year. After the war he located in Silver Lake, Min- nesota, where he was engaged in farming, teaching, and as a merchant till 1882, when he moved to North Dakota. He helped to organize Sargent county, becoming its first treasurer. In 1885 he came to Spokane and started a line of express wagons, but after- wards bought out the United States Hotel. This was burned in the fire of 1889, and he lost the accumulations of his lifetime. He then built the Northern Hotel and conducted it two years, then served as court bailiff under Judge Buck four years. He next moved out on his fine fruit farm of forty acres, living there . till 1898, when he was elected county assessor. Mr. Williams is a public-spirited and enterpris- ing citizen and is faithfully performing the duties of his office. He is a member of Reno Post, No. 47, G. A. R. He was married in Hutchinson, Minnesota, November 4, 1868, to Miss Harriet Whitelock, a native of Knox county, Missouri. They have ten children, Grace, Eva, Teressa, Maude. J. Carl, Walter, Orton, Frank, Cecil and Ralph.
HON. S. A. WELLS, receiver in United States land office, is a native of Canton, Iowa, born March 18. 1855. In 1858 the family moved to New Orleans, where four of the five members were taken with yellow fever, which
in the father's case resulted fatally. The mother moved to Sterling, Illinois, where Mr. Wells began clerking at the age of twelve. continuing in the same occupation for seven years. When eighteen he began studying law in the evenings and he continued to apply himself to his law books during spare mo- ments for several years afterwards, while acting as collector. He graduated from the Iowa Law School. Des Moines, in 1880, and, in com- pany with Mr. Fred Sackett, a very prominent attorney, opened an office in Sterling. At his suggestion his partner, Mr. Sackett. prepared the work entitled, "Sackett on Instructions to Juries," and Mr. Wells spent two years assist- ing in the writing of the book, then one in in- troducing it. They finally sold their rights to Callahan & Company, of Chicago. In May. 1883, Mr. Wells came to Washington for the benefit of his health, and located in Ritzville, where he conceived the idea of dividing Whit- man county and establishing Franklin and Adams counties. Through his influence this was done and the county seat of Adams county was located in Ritzville. He was elected the first auditor of the county and served as such during 1884 and 1885, then was elected to represent Adams. Franklin and Whitman counties in the lower house of the state legis- lature during the session of 1885 and 1886. He secured the passage of a bill appropriating . six thousand dollars to sink an artesian well, after such persistent efforts that he became known as S. Artesian Wells. When the United States court was established in Spo- kane, he was appointed deputy clerk and he moved to Spokane to take the office, May 16. 1890. After two years' service, he resigned and resumed the practice of law, the firm name being Feighan. Wells & Herman. When Colonel Feighan was elected county prosecut-
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ing attorney, he received an appointment from him as chief deputy, and was thus employed for two years. He was chairman of the Re- publican county central committee from 1896 to 1898, and in April of the same year was appointed receiver in the United States land office, which position he still retains. Since Mr. Wells arrived in Washington he has made his influence felt in both county and state and he deserves rank among the prominent and leading men of the northwest. He is well known and highly esteemed in this city. He was married in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 1881, to Miss Annie Scribner, of Malvern, Illinois. They have four children, Elmer. Edna E., S. Leroy and Anna F. Socially, Mr. Wells is affiliated with Imperial Lodge, I. O. O. F.
ELMER DRAKE, county superintendent of schools of Spokane county, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of Medina county, Ohio, born January 7, 1847. When he was three years old the family moved to Green county, Wis- consin, where he grew up on a farm, attend- ing the common schools till 1865, when he en- tered Hillsdale College, Michigan. He studied in the classical course three years, but was compelled to leave before graduating on account of failing health. He then taught a short time. In 1869 he went to California, where he was engaged in teaching for eight years, serving as principal of the schools in San Buena Ventura, and then in Cacheville, Yolo county. In 1877 he drove to Oregon and resumed his former occupation in that state. After teaching there for two years he come to Spokane county, and in the spring of 1880 homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land eight miles south of Spangle.
He lived on this farm till 1887. then moved to Spokane, where he was in the real estate business until 1894. In that year he again entered his profession, accepting the principal- ship of the Fairfield school in 1895. During the years 1895 and 1896 he was deputy county superintendent. and a member of the county board of examination. In the fall of 1896 he assumed charge of the Irving school. of which he was principal until 1899, when he resigned, having been elected county super- intendent on the Republican ticket. Professor Drakeis aman of long and successful experience as a teacher , and the common schools of Spo- kane are realizing the benefit of his able and en- thusiastic supervision. The last teachers' insti- tute. conducted by him, was one of the most in- structive and inspiring conventions of its kind ever held in the county, and many expressions of satisfaction with Professor Drake's super- intendency were heard from the lips of the teachers present. Unlike many teachers. he · has not neglected his duties as a citizen, but has always taken an active part in political matters, local and national. Socially, he is a member of the Royal Arcanum.
He was maried in Sacramento, California. January 30, 1875, to Miss Sarah A. Daven- port, a native of Jackson county, Iowa. They have three children, Ernest E., who served as a private in Company L all through the war in the Philippines: Sarah Merle, wife of W. P. Lucas, a merchant in Spangle, and Pauline E., a member of the junior class in the high school of this city.
J. J. L. PEEL. a pioneer of 1884, was born in Fayette county. Tennessee. April 1. 1834. His mother died when he was quite young
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and he was raised by an uncle, a physician in Memphis, Tennessee, under whom he studied medicine for some time. In 1850 the uncle moved with his family to Nevada county, California, and later to Plumas county, where Mr. Peel was engaged for several years in mining and in the merchandise business. During this time Mr. Peel served at different times as county assessor and county surveyor, also kept up a study of law during spare mo- ments. He was finally admitted to the bar and afterwards appointed associate justice in the county court. Later he moved to Truckee, California. In 1884 he came thence to Spokane, where he erected a two-story frame building, on Mill and Sprague, with two store apartments and twenty rooms above for lodg- ing. This building, he sold before the fire. In 1884 he was elected justice of the peace and he discharged the duties of that office, also those of police justice, for two years, after which he resigned to become postmaster. In 1889 he was appointed register and collector of water rents for the city. In the fall of 1890, he was elected on the Democratic ticket to the office of county auditor, and so able and efficient was his administration of that office that he was re- elected by a large majority in 1892. Since 1894 he has served as cashier for Holley, Mason, Marks & Company, about two years, but has been engaged mainly in mining and ranching. Mr. Peel has always been characterized by in- tense activity, and his interest in the general welfare has made him a leader, wherever he has lived. He has held several important of- fices in Spokane, and has invariably been found worthy of the trust reposed in him by the peo- ple. Socially he is affiliated with the A. F. & A. M. He was married in Big Meadows, Plumas county, California, October 21, 1860, to Miss Mary E. Robinson, a nativeof Missouri.
They have five children : Lelia, wife of E. J. Dyer; Martha E., wife of William O. Hill; Howell W., secretary and treasurer for Holley, Mason, Marks & Company; Henrietta, widow of Frank Landrum, and Belle.
HON. WILLIAM H. LUDDEN. register of United States land office, is a native of Brain- tree. Massachusetts, born September 13. 1851. In 1853. the family moved to California. and Mr. Ludden was reared there. He graduated from Hesperian College in 1871, then taught school for five years. He also became exten- sively interested in farming. and had charge of a two-thousand-acre tract in the Sacramento valley. He served as county commissioner four years in Yolo county. California. In 1890, he came to Spokane and entered the land office as chief clerk. Two years later he was elected to represent this district in the state leg- islature.
While in the house, he introduced and se- cured the passage of a bill granting a bounty of one-half cent per pound to beet sugar manu- facturers and one-half cent to beet raisers. In 1894 lie opened a law office in Spokane. where for the ensuing four years he was engaged in the practice of his profession. He served two years as deputy prosecuting attorney under Col. J. W. Feighan. On June 1, 1898. he was appointed register of the land office. a position which he still retains. Mr. Ludden has always ocupied a leading place among his fellow citi- zens, both in this and other states. As a law- yer, as a political leader, as a legislator, and in his present position, he has been eminently successful. He is a member of the F. & A. M,, the W. of W. and the Eastern Star. He was married in Sacramento, California, to Miss Ger-
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