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trude Horton, a native of Illinois. They have five daughters: Mabel, a teacher in the city schools, wife of Dr. A. H. Gundlach; Vinnie, wife of Joseph W. Childs; Jessie, Hazel and Ruby.
EDWIN D. SANDERS, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Kansas City, December 30, 1852. In 1860 the family moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he grew to man's estate on the farm. He was married there, May 25, 1876, to Miss Maggie E., daugh- ter of Isaac and Margaret Willis. Her fa- ther was a wealthy farmer of Calhoun coun- ty, Michigan, and her grandfather was a very prominent man in the early affairs of that state, having constructed the Michigan Central Railroad, and having secured an ap- propriation from congress for the preliminary survey of a ship canal to connect the lakes. He belonged to an old Philadelphia Quaker family. In 1877 Mr. Sanders came to Walla Walla, Washington, and ever since has been en- gaged in mining enterprises, being one of the leading men in the development of the min- ing region tributary to Spokane. He was one of the original owners of the now far-famed Le Roi mine, and when it was sold owned 14,- 283 shares, for which he received one hundred and fifteen thousand, eight hundred and thir- ty-five dollars, besides having previously re- ceived over twenty-five thousand dollars in dividends. This mine sold for about four and one-half millions of dollars. He is still heavily interested in numerous very promising claims. Since coming to Spokane he has served as dep- uty sheriff of the county four years and has act- ed as receiver in several large concerns. Mr. Sanders is a prominent. substantial citizen, and one who has done much for the upbuild-
ing and welfare of Spokane. He is a member of the F. & A. M., also of the I. O. O. F. In 1899 he built an elegant home on the south- east corner of Seventh avenue and Washington street, surrounded by grounds which have been beautified by the landscape gardener's art.
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders are parents of one son. Charles W., who served through the Cu- ban campaign, taking part in the battle of San Juan Hill, after which he received an honorable discharge. Later he re-enlisted in the Fourth United States Cavalry for service in the Phil- lipines, and was shortly promoted for meri- torious service to the rank of corporal in Troop E.
WILLIAM SHANNON, member of the police force of Spokane, a pioneer of 1879. was born in Gibson county, Indiana. January . 3. 1846. In 1873 he moved to Madelia. Min- nesota, where he was married October 18. 1874. to Miss Sarah Robbins, a native of Low- ell. Massachusetts. In April. 1877. they went to Petaluma. California. but soon came on to Tumwater, Washington, where they lived till 1879. They then moved to this city. traveling by rail. by water, and by ox-team, and consum- ing thirteen days in the trip. They arrived here March 28, of that year, and Mr. Shannon has since been in various occupations. His first home in the city was a log house which had been erected by the government for the use of soldiers. The roof was gone and also the floor, but he carried lumber on his back with which to supply these deficiencies. In 1880 he built a small, three-room frame house on the north side of Riverside avenue, between Mill and Post, in which he lived for two years. He also helped to build the first street railway, driv- ing the first spike, and taking charge of the first
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team of mules used on it after its completion. Mrs. Shannon was a member of the Home Dramatic Company, organized in the winter of 1879 and '80, and took part in the entertain- ments given for the amusement of the people. For the past ten years Mr. Shannon has been on the police force of the city, and his efficiency as an officer has gained him a very wide reputa- tion. But while his name has been a terror to law-breakers and vagabonds, he is well liked by the law-abiding citizens and his friends are numbered by the hundreds. He has had two children, both natives of Spokane, namely. Ethel, born December 2, 1881, living, and Edna J .. born May 14, 1884. died August 14, 1887.
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JAMES D. BUCHANAN, of the Wash- ington Undertaking Company, 919 Riverside avenue, is a pioneer of 1880. He was born in Clark county, Indiana, April 14, 1858. In 1865 the family moved to Pike county, Illinois, where Mr. Buchanan grew up on a farm, but on attaining his majority he came west to Walla Walla, and in March, 1880, located in Spokane, where he was employed for a short time in a shingle mill, and afterwards in vari- ous occupations. He took as a homestead, in 1880, one hundred and sixty acres of land, northeast of this city, on which he resided for several years. In the spring of 1890, he opened a confectionery business in Spokane, conducted it for the ensuing seven years, then went into undertaking. In December, 1898, he bought in with the present company and is now doing an extensive and very successful business. As a man and a citizen he stands well in the city. He is a member of the Elks, the Modern Wood- men and the Young Men's Institute, also of the Catholic Order of Foresters and the Catholic
Knights of America. He was married in Cœur d'Alene, Idaho, June 1, 1898, to Miss Ella M. Ryan, a native of St. Thomas, Canada, who is a professional nurse, having graduated from several different hospitals. She nursed for a time in the Sacred Heart hospital, of this city. They have one child, Mary B., born August 12, 1899.
HON. WILLIAM E. RICHARDSON, judge of the superior court of the state of Washington for Spokane and Stevens counties, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Lane county, Oregon, August 1, 1857. From his fifth to his thirteenth year he lived in Portland, attend- ing the city schools; then his father, a carpenter by trade, moved with the family to Bitter Root valley, Montana, driving along a band of cat- tle, which he had purchased in the Willamette valley. After spending a few months in that vicinity they returned to Oregon, locating in Independence, Polk county, and Judge Richard- son attended Christian College at Monmouth, Oregon (now known as the Oregon State Nor- mal School), for four years, graduating from the classical course in 1882. His health being poor, he then moved over to this region for a change of climate, and lived for a short time near Spangle, then came to Spokane. In 1886 he entered the law office of Hyde & Turner, was admitted to the bar May 14. 1890, and in January, 1891, formed a partnership with the present state senator, H. D. Crow. About two years later this firm was dissolved. Judge Richardson next practiced in partnership with Mr. A. E. Gallagher about a year, then with J. A. Williams, under the firm name of Richard- son & Williams, until 1896, when he was elected to the bench on the Fusion ticket. He is discharging the duties of the difficult and re-
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sponsible position he now holds with marked ability and in a manner well calculated to com- mand the confidence and respect both of the bar and the public. In the trial of causes he is invariably courteous to attorneys, litigants and all persons concerned. His decisions are reached only after a careful consideration and weighing of the law and the evidence and they are generally sustained when tested in the su- preme court. Indeed, his entire administration of justice is uniformly characterized by a spirit of fairness and an honest desire to do what is just and right between man and man. Judge Rich- ardson also takes an active interest in mining enterprises, and is one of the board of trustees of the Spokane Co-operative Mining Com- pany, organized in 1899. Socially he affiliates with the Knights of Brotherhood. He was married in Albany, Oregon, February 19, 1889, to Mrs. Viola I. Patterson, a native of Wis- consin, but raised in Oregon. They are parents of two children: Curtis, born December 21, 1889, and Hugh, born February 21, 1897.
IV. R. PARKS, county commissioner from the third district, a pioneer of 1888, was born in Franklin county, Tennessee, September 6. 1853. In 1854 the family moved to Grayson county, Texas, where Mr. Parks grew up to the life of a farmer and stock raiser, and when he started in life for himself he naturally followed the same business. In the spring of 1888 he came to the state of Washington, and in the fall of that year arrived in Spokane. He soon engaged in farming in this vicinity, but two years later bought a grocery store in Marshall and has been in that business ever since. He also has a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres three miles west of Marshall. He was ap-
pointed postmaster during Harrison's adminis- tration, a position which he held till the fall of 1896. At that time, however, he was elected county commissioner on the People's party ticket, and he has been discharging his duties as such officer in a manner highly satisfactory to his constituency and the county generally ever. since. As a business man and a citizen he has the confidence and esteem of those who know him. and he ranks as one of the lead- ing men of the county. Socially he is a mem- ber of the I. O. O. F. He was married in Grayson county, Texas. November 19. 1876, to Miss Jane Looney, a native of that county and state. They have eight children. viz. : Jesse. Mary. William. Virgil, Carl and James, living, and Zenar and Minnie, deceased.
FRANK BRACHT, chairman of board of county commissioners, is a native of Berlin, Germany, born April 18. 1847. The entire family possessed a great deal of musical talent. and Frank early began to develop his natural gifts. He studied music under Kullack in Ber- lin, then went to Leipsic, where he completed his musical education, after which he entered the German army, becoming a musician in the Royal Guards. He took part in the war be- tween Prussia and Austria and received from Emperor Frederick the iron cross, presented on account of the exceptional bravery which he displayed in the storming of Trautenau. In 1867 Mr. Bracht's regimental band won, at Paris, the first prize in a musical contest be- tween the leading bands of Europe. The prize was conferred by the Empress Eugenie. After three years of service in the German army, he came to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1867. He followed his profes-
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sion there, joining Dodworth's old guard band. Later he joined the Gilmore band, became its manager and treasurer and took it on a tour through Europe, traveling over England, Ire- land, Scotland, Belgium and Holland, then to the Paris exposition and back into Germany. They were accompanied by Lillian Norton, now the well known vocalist, Madam Nordica. Mr. Bracht was connected with this band for several years and also with Theodore Thomas' orches- tra. In 1887 he came to Spokane, opened a store for the sale of musical instruments and conducted it till 1899, and still handles pianos and organs. He was conductor of the Con- cordia Singing Society for a long time and professor of music in Gonzaga College two years. He has appeared in public entertain- ments in this city on several different occasions and is very popular with the music-loving peo- ple of Spokane. He is the owner of a model farm of three hundred and twenty acres ten miles east of the city on Spokane prairie, where he now resides, surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries of life. He has a splendid orchard of six thousand fruit trees, rare and costly shrubbery, magnificent farm buildings and fine cattle and horses. He also owns considerable property in this city, including a three-story brick block on Howard street. In 1898 he had occasion to appear before the county commis- sioners to object to the railroad taking in the public highway running through his and other property, which had long been used by the gen- eral public. So well did he manage this busi- ness that his friends said that he himself was the right man for county commissioner. Ac- cordingly he was nominated on the Republican ticket in the fall of 1898 and elected. He is discharging the duties of his office in a manner eminently satisfactory to his constituency. So- cially Mr. Bracht affiliates with the F. & A. M.
He was married in New York City to Mary Bagley, of Pennsylvania. They had one son, Edward, who was a bright, promising, well- educated young man, but he died in 1890, hav- ing caught cold while serving as a member of the volunteer fire department in the fire of 1889. The first Mrs. Bracht also died in Spokane, and Mr. Bracht was married again December 26, 1898, to Mrs. Mary Reinhardt. They have one child. Verna Cecilia Adelaide. Mrs. Bracht has one son, Edmund, by former marriage.
E. P. GALBRAITH was born in Jackson, Missouri, in 1844. He came of the old border family in Scotland of the house of Galbraith, an offshoot from Buccluch. When Mr. Gal- braith was ten years old a childless uncle, who was a wealthy planter in Kentucky, gave him a home, and he resided with him for some years. Mr. Galbraith afterward joined his parents at Kingsville. Ohio, and there he attended the Kingsville Academy until 1861. He then en- listed, responding to the first call for troops in the Civil war. He was wounded several times, the last, at the battle of Perryville, being a very close call. The ball shattered the left arm and shoulder in a shocking manner and at present he has but very little use of the afflicted mem- ber. After the war Mr. Galbraith again re- sumed his studies at the Kingsville Academy, including a course in medicine, of which he made no use. He engaged in the mercantile business for several years in the east and finally made a snug fortune in oil. Afterward, how- ever, he suffered heavy losses. He came to Spokane in March, 1887, in time to take ad- vantage of the boom which Spokane was hav- ing at that time. He suffered much financially through the fire of 1889 and subsequent hard
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times, but is proud of this city and confident that people who invest in any enterprise here now will realize all that they desire. Mr. Gal- braith has always been a stanch Republican and is conspicuous in all public enterprises.
NELSON MARTIN, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Illinois, born in Kankakee county November 22, 1844. He graduated from the St. Joseph's Academy in St. Louis, Missouri, and shortly afterward, in November, 1861, en- listed as a private in Company E, Twelfth Illi- nois Cavalry. He served till the spring of 1864. then re-enlisted, remaining in the service till May 5. 1865. He was wounded three times. the first being a rifle ball wound on the left wrist, received at Manassas Gap, Virginia. The second resulted from the explosion of a shell, injuring him in the calf of the left leg, and the third was a rifle ball wound in the side, received at Alexandria, Louisiana. Mr. Martin was also captured three times, but invariably succeeded in effecting his escape. He was first sergeant of his company for two years and commissary sergeant about a year. After the war he became a dealer in paints and oils and later in furniture at Ottumwa, Iowa. In 1871 he moved to Truckee, California, where he con- ducted a general merchandise business till the fall of 1883. He then came to Spokane. On arriving here he bought out the Cœur d'Alene Transportation Company and continued in that business till the railroad was built. He then conducted a truck and dray business for two years, after which he was agent for the Union Pacific coal office till 1894. In that year he installed and equipped a large Hlouring mill in Marshall, which he operated for one year. Since 1895 he has been dealing extensively in mines.
In September, 1899, he opened his present busi- ness, namely, a cigar store and billiard room, on the corner of Sprague avenue and Post street. He is a prominent citizen of the city and has always been an enterprising business man. Socially he is affiliated with Imperial Lodge, No. 134, I. O. O. F., also with No. 228. B. P. O. E. He was married in Ottumwa. Icwa, April 16, 1869, to Mattie Burckhalter. a native of Iowa. They have one child, Fred N .. agent for the Pacific Express Company in this city.
MAJOR JAMES A. DRAIN, county clerk, was born in Warren county, Illinois, September 30, 1867. He was reared on a farm and when sixteen began life for himself. He attended. for a while, the Western Normal College in Iowa, then located in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was clerk for the Burlington, then clerk and teller for the Capitol National Bank. In 1890 he came to Spokane. He was with the Citizens' National Bank as receiving teller until they failed in 1893, then served in the Old National Bank one year and afterward as private sec- retary for D. C. Corbin two years, then opened an office as an expert accountant. He was elected county clerk in 1898 on the Republican ticket, defeating Mr. James R. Low. the then incumbent of the office. Major Drain, though only a young man, has attained to quite a prom- inent standing, not only as a banker and expert accountant, but as a military man also. In May, 1898, he raised and became captain of a volun- teer company, which was mustered into the Washington National Guards as Company A the following August. He has since been ele- vated to the rank of major by order of Gover- nor John R. Rogers, commander-in-chief of the state militia. Major Drain was one of the orig-
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inators and has since been a leading member and supporter of the Spokane Amateur Ath- letic Club. As a county officer he is giving ex- cellent satisfaction and in every way he gives promise of becoming one of the influential men in the future development of this city and coun- ty. Socially he is affiliated with the F. & A. M. He was married in Lincoln, Nebraska, June 24, 1891, to Miss Ethel Marsland, a na- tive of Detroit, Michigan, but of English descent. They have three children : Doris, Kathryn and Gertrude. Their home is at No. 1425 Sixth avenue.
H. H. HUBBARD, county auditor, was born in Cattaraugus county, New York, March 9, 1846. He was reared on a farm until six- teen, then attended and graduated from Alfred University, New York, after which he was em- ployed as a clerk for two years. He next went to Buffalo to accept a position as invoice and shipping clerk in the Union Iron Works, re- mained with them two years, then moved to Alamo, Michigan, where he farmed for eight years. He next went to Dayton, New York, and was employed as a carpenter until 1886, when he came west and entered the service of the Northern Pacific, working on telegraph construction until the spring of 1888, then as land viewer. In the fall of 1888 he located in Cheney and purchased a book, stationery and confectionery store, of which he remained pro- prietor for ten years. In June, 1898, he came to Spokane and bought a grocery store on the corner of Howard and Third, which he con- ducted until November of the same year, when he became county auditor, elected on the Republican ticket. While in Cheney he held a leading place in the affairs of that town, being
a member of the city council two years and mayor for one. He has also been prominent and active in the politics of the county and state, and has been a delegate to many state and local conventions. Mr. Hubbard is performing the duties of his present office in a manner highly satisfactory to all. He owns a nice home in this city, No. 2004 Sharpe avenue, where he now resides surrounded by the comforts of life. Mr. Hubbard is a member of the F. & A. M. and the Red Men, also of the J. O. of A. M., but is especially active in the S. of V. For three successive terms he was captain of the camp at Cheney and during 1896 and 1897 was senior vice-commander of the Washington division. He was married in Cattaraugus county, New York. February 8, 1868, to Miss Adell Neare, a native of Dayton, that state. They have three children, namely: Clarence G., conductor on the Northern Pacific Railroad; Edith D., wife of Marshall M. Taylor, of Wallace, Idaho, and Rollin C., deputy county auditor.
HENRY L. KENNAN, police justice and justice of the peace, is a native of Norwalk, Ohio, born April 11, 1852. He graduated from the public schools and also from the Western Reserve University, then studied law with his brother. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced for a time with his brother. In 1882 he was elected probate judge of Huron county, Ohio, and served as such until 1891, when he came to Spokane and opened an office here. He was engaged in active practice for a number of years, but in the fall of 1898 was elected justice of the peace and appointed by the mayor police justice. Judge Kennan is a prominent citizen and a lawyer of ability, and he is discharging the duties of both his public
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offices in a manner highly creditable to himself and satisfactory to the people. He is a very prominent Mason, being past grand master of the Grand Council of R. & S. M., past grand patron of the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and holding at present the office of senior grand warden of the Grand Lodge of Washington, F. & A. M. He is also a past potentate of El Katif Temple of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and has presided over all the Masonic bodies with which he is connected. He was married in Sandusky, Ohio, June 13, 1877, to Miss Fanny Anthony, a native of Sandusky. They have two children, namely : Ralph A., in the employ of the Central Pacific Railroad, and Alga A., at present a member of the senior class of the high school.
JAMES P. CAMPBELL, county com- missioner from the second district, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Sheridan county, Mis- souri, December 16, 1844. In 1847 the fam- ily moved to Oregon and were among the earliest settlers of Polk county, that state. where they resided for many years. In No- vember, 1864, Mr. Campbell enlisted at Dal- las, Oregon, in Company A, First Oregon In- fantry, as a private, and served as a musician till July 1, 1866, when he returned to his farm. In 1876 his father, Samuel L., came to Latah, this county. Mr. Campbell followed him the next year, and took as a homestead one hun- dred and sixty acres, near Latah, on which he has resided ever since. In 1898 he was elected county commissioner on the Republican ticket and has been discharging his duties as a member of that board in a very creditable manner ever since. Mr. Campbell is well
known to the residents of Spokane county and enjoys the good will and esteem of the people generally. His record as a man and a citizen is above reproach, and his cordial, affable man- ner makes him a universal favorite. He was married November 5, 1867, to Miss Flora Smith, a native of Illinois. They have seven children, Charles A., Effie B., Claude. deceased, Samuel W., Fred I., Elta and Opal. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic, Post No. 62, at Latah.
FRANCIS K. PUGH. deputy county sheriff, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Linn county. Oregon. April 7. 1860. He was raised on a farm and when he started out for himself followed farming and stock raising. In 1878 he came to Dayton. Washington, and after re- maining there one year went to Shedd, Linn county, Oregon. In 1880 he came to this coun- ty with his brother, Felix M., and bought of an Indian a right to one hundred and sixty acres of land at Salteese Lake, fourteen miles east of this city, living on this farm till the spring of 1889, when he became deputy sheriff under E. H. Hinchliff. Sheriff linchliff hay- ing retired in August. 1890, on account of ill health. Mr. Pugh was appointed to fill the un- expired term. So successfully did he discharge the duties of the office that in November. 1890. he was elected sheriff, and another token of his popularity as an officer was given in the fall of 1892 when he was re-elected. He served till 1895, then went back to his farm and into mining. Two years later he moved his family into town and in May, 1899. he became deputy sheriff. Mr. Pugh is a cordial and pleasant gentleman and one of great personal popularity. Hle is affiliated socially with the Woodmen of
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the World. He was married in Shedd, Oregon, June 27, 1880, to Miss Carrie Hughbanks, a native of Linn county. They have five children, namely : Ollie, Lottie, Bertrand, Raymond and Beatrice. Mr. Pugh's father, Francis A., was a pioneer of 1846 in Oregon. He crossed the plains from Iowa by ox-teams, but when he reached Walla Walla the oxen gave out and he and his wife made the remainder of the journey to the Willamette valley on horseback. The old gentleman is still living at Salteese Lake, though more than eighty years old, but his wife, Francis K.'s mother, died February 23, 1895.
H. W. DESGRANGES, chief deputy sher- iff, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Berner coun- ty, Iowa, January 28, 1870. When he was ten years old his family moved to this county and located two miles northeast of Rockford. His father, Peter, is still living, at the age of seventy-four, and is a farmer there, but his mother, Sophia Dushen, died in Rockford Feb- ruary 11, 1898. H. W. grew up on his father's farm and when fourteen entered the office of the Rockford Enterprise. At the age of fifteen, on the death of the proprietor, J. B. Hayer, he became editor and owner of the paper, a fact which gives him the distinction of having been the youngest editor in the state. He still owns an interest in the same paper. In 1893 he started in Harrison, Idaho, a publication then known as the Harrison Fog Horn, but which is now published under the name of the Harri- son Messenger. In January, 1899, Mr. Des- granges was appointed an office deputy under Sheriff Speck, and when Sheriff Cole took the office was promoted, becoming chief deputy. He was for some time a correspondent of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the San Fran-
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