An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 61

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever
Number of Pages: 888

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cisco Examiner. He has always taken a very active part in politics, stanchly supporting the Republican party. For a young man he is very prominent in this county and his record as a newspaper man and in other branches of ac- tivity is one of which he may well be proud. He was married in Rockford February 27, 1891, to Miss Ada Hensley. a native of Day- ton, Columbia county, Washington. They have one son, Mckinley.

ELISHA C. THOMPSON, a pioneer of 1877, was born in Porter county, Indiana, Au- gust 29. 1847. When he was quite young. his family moved to Appanoose county, Iowa, where they lived on a farm. In 1870 Mr. Thompson moved to Smith county, Kansas, and became one of the first settlers of that sec- tion. He took up a farm, but only remained four years, then came to Eugene, Oregon. In 1877 he moved to Latah, purchased one hun- dred and sixty acres of railroad land near the town and farmed until 1895, when he moved into Latah and assumed charge of the Coplen House. After spending two years in the hotel he went to Harrison. Idaho, and en- gaged in the restaurant business. In Janu- ary, 1899, he came to Spokane to take a posi- tion as jailer. Socially. Mr. Thompson is associated wth the I. O. O. F., being a mem- ber of Latah Lodge, No. 76, and also of the Rebekahs. He was married first in Iowa, to Nancy Manning, who died in Latah, Septem- ber 6, 1887. leaving five children, namely : Della, wife of Albert Bauthman, Cora, Edson D., Walter and Hugh. He was married again in Rockford. Washington, May 7. 1893, to Mrs. Eleanor Motley, a native of Polk county, Oregon, whose first husband came to Latah

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in 1876 and located a homestead there. She has four children, George, Frank, Samuel and Ivy.

C. A. COLE, sheriff of Spokane county, a pioneer of 1880, was born in Oneida county, New York, August 27, 1855. When eighteen years old he came to Portland, Oregon, and secured employment as clerk in the postoffice. a situation which he retained for six years. He next served as mail agent and in the em- ploy of the Wells Fargo Express Company, then was a clerk in a store for a time. In 1879 he accompanied. Francis H. Cook, who started for Spokane with a hand printing press and a stock of paper. They stuck in the mud and could haul the outfit no further than Col- fax, so they set up in that town and the first two issues of the Spokane Times were printed there. Soon, however, the press was brought on to this city. Mr. Cole remained with it as a solicitor for three months. While here, he took as a homestead one hundred and sixty acres of land, now a part of Heath's addition, but soon abandoned it and joined the Northern Pacific surveyors. In 1881 he went to Astoria, where for a year he was in the employ of the O. R. & N. as freight clerk on the docks. He next moved to Portland and spent three years in the real estate business, then to Yaquina Bay. Here, with E. B. Jones, he established the Yaquina Mail. Eight months later he bought out Mr. Jones and ran the paper alone for a time, after which he went to Corvalis to become editor and manager of the Corvalis Gazette. In 1887 he came again to Spokane and conducted a fish and poultry market for one year, then returned to the real estate busi- ness. For four years from 1889 he was dep- uty sheriff under F. K. Pugh. He then be-

came expense bill clerk at Union depot. In January. 1899, he was appointed chief deputy under Sheriff R. D. Speck and when Mr. Speck resigned he received that officer's place. As an officer, Sheriff Cole is giving excellent sat- isfaction to the entire county. He belongs to the I. O. O. F., the Red Men and the Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He was married in Eugene City, Oregon, Janu- ary 4. 1884, to Miss Iula Walton, and they have four children, Maggie E .. Nina E., Charles A. and Ralph W.

JOHN WETZEL, county surveyor. is a na- tive of Newport, Kentucky, born May 17. 1860. In 1882 he went to St. Louis, was engaged by the Mississippi river commission as a recorder on the topographical survey, remained in their employ for two years, then went to Texas and became an engineer on construction. He remained till 1888, when he came to the Cœur d' Alene country and entered the employ of the O. R. & N. as an engineer in the construc- tion department. In February, 1889. he came to Spokane and became an assistant in the office of the city engineer. In 1898 he was nominated on the Republican ticket for the office of county surveyor, and in the election following he defeated Oskar Huber by a plurality of about one thousand votes. He is also United States deputy surveyor. Mr. Wetzel has for many years devoted his ener- gies. exclusively to his profession, performing successfully the duties of many important and responsible positions, and no better man for the office he now holds could have been found anywhere. Socially, he is affiliated with the Mount Carleton Lodge, No. 103. 1. O. O. F., also with the Junior Order of United American

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Mechanics. He was married in Spokane Feb- ruary 4, 1890, to Nellie S. Scott, a native of Scotland.

F. H. MASON, president of Holley, Ma- son, Marks & Company, a pioneer of 1883, is a native of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, born July 17, 1856. When he was ten years old the family moved to Quincy. Illinois. He grad- uated from the Military College of Pennsyl- vania in 1875, then was in business for a while. but subsequently went to Minneapolis, Min- nesota. He started traveling for the Price Baking Powder Company, came out west and finally arrived in Spokane. Having great faith in the future of the city, he invested quite heavily in real estate, purchasing seventy-seven and one-half feet where the firm's building now stands, also much other property. In 1883 the company was started by E. J. Brickle, W. R. Newport and J. B. Holley, with a capital of five thousand dollars. Three years later Mr. Mason purchased a third interest for eighteen thousand dollars and the firm became Holley, Mason & Company. Mr. Holley died and a joint stock company was organized and Mr. James Marks was taken in as a partner. The firm then became Holley, Mason, Marks & Company. In August, 1889, they were burned out, but the following year their present build- ing, a six-story block 77x95 feet, was erected by the Hypotheek Bank Company. The pres- ent business requires from fifty to seventy-five employees, including traveling salesmen. They handle shelf, builders' and heavy hard- ware, iron, sheet metals, hardwood lumber for wagon manufacturers, stoves, house furnish- ings, plumbing supplies, iron pipes, fittings, mining supplies, arms, ammunition, sporting goods, etc. They also do manufacturing, pro-

ducing, among other things, the Queen heat- ing stoves, the patent for which is controlled by them. Mr. Mason served as president of the Chamber of Commerce one year and is now a director in that body. He helped to organize the Country Club, of which he was the first president. He is also a director in the Spo- kane Falls & Northern Railroad and is con- nected with many other enterprises. Mr. Mason is one of the leading business men of the Pacific coast and he owes his wealth and business standing to his own dauntless courage, unerring judgment, rare sagacity and foresight and indomitable will, combined with a mar- velous faculty for mastering the details of a large and intricate business. Socially, he affiliates with the Elks fraternity.

EDWARD H. JAMIESON. owner of the Jamieson building, a pioneer of 1882, was born January 12, 1852, in Ambala, the British mili- tary headquarters in India. His father, after twenty-five years of service as a Presbyterian missionary in India, came with his family in 1857 to Monmouth, Illinois, and the young Mr. Jamieson graduated from the Monmouth College in 1871. He became principal of the high school in Keithsburg. Illinois, and re- tained the position several years. He then came west and accepted a situation as a prin- cipal of the San Jose, California, high school. Meanwhile he had been giving his spare mo- ments to the study of law and soon was admit- ted at San Francisco to the supreme court of California. He practiced in San Francisco till 1882, then came to Spokane and opened an office here. Before long he became exten- sively interested in real estate and for the past ten years has devoted his time exclusively to

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his own affairs. He built several business blocks, two of which were burned in the fire of 1889. In 1890 he built the Jamieson block, a large brick and stone building, Sox90 feet. six stories high above the basement and containing one hundred and twenty offices. Mr. Jamieson is also much interested in fruit growing. He owns twelve hundred acres on Moran prairie. about one hundred of which are in fruit, mostly winter apples and prunes. He has one of the finest collections of ornamental trees and shrubs on the coast. Mr. Jamieson is one of the substantial men of Spokane, and it may be doubted whether any one man has done more than he to build up this city. His beneficence has also extended to the surround- ing country, for he has been a liberal contrib- utor to the early railroads, bridges, fine coun- try roads, etc. He was married in California to Ida Hoag Haskins, a native of Ohio. They llave five children : Mattie M., Josephine, Ed- ward H., Evelyn and Kathryn Irene.

GEORGE M. BROWN, secretary and treasurer of the Hazelwood Company, Limited. 12 South Post street, is a native of Galena, Illinois. In the spring of 1889 Mr. Brown came to Spokane and engaged in the dairy business with J. L. Smith. The next year his brother, David, came out with two car loads of fine milch cows and was admitted to the firm. In February, 1899, the present company was organized with a capital stock of fifty thousand dollars, and Mr. Thomas E. Armitstead was taken in. They have a fine dairy farm of three thousand acres, seven miles west of town, and keep three hundred head of cattle, Jerseys, Holsteins and Guern- seys. This farm is under the management of

Mr. J. L. Smith; Mr. Thomas E. Armitstead is the salesman: Mr. Brown does the office work, and his brother. David, has charge of the creameries. seven in number, located in various parts of the state. They manufac- ture from one thousand to two thousand pounds of butter per day, giving employment to fifty men steadily. In 1892 they opened in their present location sales rooms for their wholesale and retail department, where they market their butter, eggs, cheese, etc. They are all young men, but are among the best known dairymen in the state. They have spared no pains to make their product the finest that modern methods and improvements can pro- duce, and they have secured for Hazelwood products an enviable reputation in this and neighboring states.

BERT O. GRAHAM, attorney in the claim department of the Great Northern Rail- road, a pioneer of 1879. is a son of Oliver J. and Martha Sprague Graham, born in Men- docino county, California, August 18. 1871. When Bert was eight years old the family came to Spokane, where the father had a wagon shop for some years, also being leader of the local orchestra. They finally located on a farm on Pleasant prairie and resided there for a number of years, then returned to this city and Mr. Graham, Sr .. organized a band of musicians known as Graham's orchestra. He is at present retired from active life. The young Mr. Graham grew up in Spokane, went through the city schools and took a business course, after which he engaged in the study of law, being admitted to practice in 1894. Since January, 1897. he has been in his present office. The fact that AAttorney Graham has

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already attained to so high a standing in his profession gives promise of great success to be realized in the future. He is one of the rising young man of the Spokane bar, and. if appearances do not deceive, is destined to be- come one of the leading lawyers of the state. Socially, he affiliates with the Woodmen of the World. He was married in Spokane, No- vember 23, 1895. to Miss Myrtie, daughter of Charles A. and Cora Bailor. They have one son, Harold, born November 10, 1896.

HON. EUGENE MILLER, attorney and counselor at law, office in Rookery building. is a native of Louisiana. He was educated at Centenary College of Louisiana, located in Jackson, graduating with the A. B. degree. He also received the degree of A. M. from the same institution two years later. He read law in Pennsylvania, was admitted to the supreme court of that state in 1880, and subsequently practiced in Butler, a city in the oil region. He was afterward admitted to the supreme court of Minnesota, and followed the profes- sion there two years, a member of the firm of Miller, Young & Miller. On February 6. 1884, he came to Spokane and began practic- ing here. In 1892, without any solicitation on his part, he received from Mayor Drumheller an appointment as city commissioner of Spo- kane. but, after serving a few months, he re- · signed to become judge of the municipal court of this city. To this office he was re- elected, serving as judge of that court until it ceased to exist, January 1, 1898. He then resumed the general practice of law. Judge Miller is a man of splendid judicial ability, and his administration of justice while in the municipal court was characterized by imparti-

ality, accuracy and dispatch. That he dis- charged the duties of his office to the satis- faction of the people is evinced by the fact that he was elected every time he came before them for their suffrages. Socially he is affiliated with the Knights of Pythias and the Odd Fel- lows. He was married in the spring of 1899, to Mrs. Bessie G. Talbot, a native of Cali- fornia.

REV. JONATHAN EDWARDS, a pio- neer of 1886, was born in Monmouthshire, South Wales, June 15. 1847. He was early taken by his parents to Trelyn, and in 1866 he accompanied the rest of the family to America. He had attended the public schools of Wales. also spending two years in a select school, and when he came to the United States he con- tinued his studies here. Mr. Edwards early became interested in literary work, and has de- voted much energy to it since, writing many pamphlets, monographs. and newspaper articles. also a few more pretentious works. In 1873 he enrolled as a student in Bangor Theologi- cal Seminary, from which he graduated in 1876. He was then called to the pastorate of the Congregational church at East Orrington, Maine, where. in June, 1876, he was ordained. His next pastorate was in West Newfield, Maine, whence, in 1882, he was called to a new church at Scranton. Pennsylvania. He served them very successfully for four years. In April, 1886, he came to Spokane to take charge of the First (now Westminster) Congrega- tional church of this city. He remained with them until 1890, when he accepted a position as financial agent of Whitman College, Walla Walla. To the upbuilding of this institution his best energies were devoted for three years, then he returned to Spokane at the call of

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Pilgrim Congregational church, of which he has ever since been pastor. Mr. Edwards has also ministered to the churches at Pleasant Prairie, Hillyard and Trent, and has assisted in build- ing four church edifices and two parsonages in this county. He has labored zealously and untiringly for the cause of temperance, educa- tion and Christianity, and in every way possible for the amelioration of his fellow man. Mr. Edwards is greatly interested in the early his- tory of the Pacific Northwest, and endeavors to familiarize himself with every publication upon the subject. He is himself the author of the historical part of this volume. Mr. Ed- wards was married in Providence, Pennsyl- vania, in December, 1869, to Miss Elizabeth Williams, a native of Wales, and they are the parents of six children : Rev. Rosine M., pastor of the Congregational church at Tolt, Wash- ington; David; Anna R., wife of David Rob- erts, Roseburg, Oregon; Lillian ; Orville G. and J. Whitman.

SAMUEL THORSLAND, of Thorsland & Sampson, of the Riverside Bakery, 333 Riverside avenue, is a native of Norway, born March 1, 1868. He learned the trade of a baker in his native land and emigrated to this country in 1888, coming directly to Spokane. He followed his trade here as a journeyman until 1893, when he opened his present place of business. In 1897 he admitted Louis Sampson, forming the present firm. They also handle confectionery and are doing a large and thriving business. Mr. Thorsland has practically grown up with this city, and is well and favorably known to all the old residents. He is a member of Mount Carleton Lodge, No. 103, I. O. O. F., and affiliates also with the Knights of Pythias. He was married in

Spokane in 1894, to Miss Bernice Irish, who died June 13, 1894. He was again married in Spokane, May 24, 1898, to Reitha Keating. They have one child, Delmont S .. born July 7, 1899.

EDWIN R. CHILDS. president and mana- ger of the Childs Lumber Company. is a native of Greenfield. Huron county. Ohio, born De- cember 28, 1842. At the early age of eleven. he was left an orphan, and had to work out the difficult problem of existence for himself. In 1859 he went to Jennings county, Indiana, and on April 16. 1861, enlisted as private in Company G. Sixth Indiana Volunteer In- fantry. After three months' service he re- enlisted, becoming a private in the Thirty- seventh Indiana Infantry, which formed a part of the Fourteenth Army Corps. He took part in the engagements at Stone River, where he was slightly wounded, Chickamauga, Mis- sionary Ridge, Nashville, Resaca and Atlanta, was veteranized February 11. 1864. and was in Sherman's famous march to the sea. He after- wards became duty sergeant, and served as such till the cessation of hostilities. Few men now living have seen longer service or more hard fighting in the war of the Rebellion than has Mr. Childs. Returning to civil pursuits. after four years of faithful military service. he came out to Minnesota and bought one hun- dred and sixty acres in Blue Earth county, but soon located in Fort Leavenworth. Kan- sas, where he had charge of a government saw mill for two years. He next went to Des Moines, Iowa, and secured employment in a planing mill, of which he afterward became manager. In 1883 he came to Spokane and worked in a planing mill one year. after which he was engaged in contracting and building

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for several years, putting up the Lincoln school and many of the largest buildings and finest residences of the city. In 1887 he organized the Spokane Manufacturing & Lumber Company, of which he was manager for one year. In 1892 he built a small planing mill, which two years later was enlarged and moved to its present loca- tion, and which, since then, has been again en- larged and improved in many ways. It is now owned by Mr. Childs and his two sons and Mr. L. F. Williams. They employ forty hands and manufacture all kinds of building materials. Mr. Childs is a man of commanding personal appearance, tall, erect and soldierly in his bear- ing. He owes his success in life solely to his own unaided efforts and to his unusual energy and force of character. Since coming to Spo- kane he has been a prominent factor in the de- velopment of the city, not only building up the enterprises in which he himself has been inter- ested, but contributing liberally to others of a public or semi-public nature. He was mar- ried in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1869, to Miss Isabel Baker. They have four children : Dee, wife of Charles Hayward, electrician in this city; Leroy L., who, inheriting his father's patriotism, enlisted in Company L. First Wash- ington Volunteer Infantry, served through the Philippine war, receiving a slight wound in ac- tion, and was discharged as first sergeant ; also Jonas WV. and Isabel.

JAMES M. FITZPATRICK, secretary and treasurer of the Union Iron Works, is a native of this state, born in Colville, Stevens county, October 2, 1868. In 1876 the family moved to Portland, Oregon, where James at- tended school until 1879, when the family came to Spokane county. After completing an aca-

demic course in Cheney, he went into a hard- ware business in that town and conducted it successfully for four years, then went to Ta- coma as weighmaster for the Northern Pacific Elevator Company, and was thus employed till 1890. In that year he came to Spokane and purchased a fourth interest in the Washing- ton Fuel Company, of which he became sec- retary and treasurer. He sold out his interest in 1898, and, when the Union Iron Works were reorganized in September, became a stock- holder and was elected secretary and treasurer. He is also a director in the Diamond Ice & Fuel Company. Mr. Fitzpatrick's achieve- ments in business are something remarkable for one so young as he, and they give promise of great success to be realized in the future. He is a public-spirited young man and has in- variably been a liberal contributor to the dif- ferent enterprises of the county. Socially he is a prominent thirty-second-degree Mason and was at one time potentate in the Mystic Shrine.

H. E. MACCAMY, assistant superintend- ent of the Union Iron Works, is a native of Canton, Fulton county, Illinois, born January 25, 1854. When only nine years of age he was left an orphan and has made his own way un- aided ever since, traveling extensively over nearly all the west. He learned the trade of an iron molder in the Minnesota Iron Works at Minneapolis, and has since been employed as foreman in many shops. He was head foreman for a while in the St. Paul foundry shops and later had charge of the American Hoist & Derrick Company's business in St. Paul. In 1889 he came west, located in Spokane just after the fire, erected a small foundry, and in January, 1893, took Harry Curtis into part-

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nership. They burned out the next December, losing nearly everything, but in January, 1894, they rebuilt, increasing the size of their plant. They incorporated in 1897 as the Union Iron Works Company, but in September, 1898, Mr. Curtis retired ; the plant was again enlarged and the present company was organized. They build and equip plants for the reduction of ores and manufacture all kinds of machinery and structural iron, steam engines, boilers, etc. Mr. MacCamy belongs to that class of men, who, starting without anything, have made their way in the world by self-reliant industry and enterprise, and he receives the respect which men of that character always command. So- cially he affiliates with the Modern Woodmen. He was married in St. Paul, Minnesota, Jan- uary 30, 1883, to Miss Annie F. Tollerton, a native of St. Paul. They have five chidren, namely : Claudia, Harry. Roy, Willard and Carl.

C. H. PRESCOTT, superintendent of the Union Iron Works, is a native of Massachu- setts, born in Leominster January 19, 1855. In 1855 the family came to Burlington, Iowa, and remained until it was broken up by the death of the mother in 1863. In 1872 C. H. returned to Massachusetts, locating at Taun- ton, where he served an apprenticeship of five years learning the trade of a machinist. He then came west to Creston, Iowa, where he was employed in the shops of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy Railroad, then moved to North Platte, on the Union Pacific, and was fireman on an engine for two years. He next went to Billings, Montana, to accept a position as a machinist on the Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1886 he became master mechanic for the Cœur d'Alene Railway & Navigation Com-

pany, and two years later he was given the same position on the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad. In 1889 he entered the service of the Spokane Falls & Northern Rail- road as master mechanic, but resigned in May. 1899, to accept the position he has since held. namely, the superintendency of the Union Iron Works. Mr. Prescott has devoted almost his entire life to the study of machinery and his thorough knowledge of all the details of the business renders him exactly the right man for the responsible position he now holds. He is a prominent member of the F. & A. M. He was married in Billings, Montana, October I, 1884, to Miss Matilda Mathewson, a native of Canada. They have one son, Daniel C., born April 12, 1899.

J. F. C. ABEL, a pioneer of 1883. was born in Mechlenburg, Germany, September II, 1838. In 1850 the family emigrated to the United States, coming to Chicago and later lo- cating in Fond du Lac county, Wisconsin, where Mr. Abel grew to manhood and learned the cabinetmaker's trade, also becoming skilled as a patternmaker in a foundry. In 1859. in- fluenced by the gold excitement. he started. in company with his brother John and two brothers-in-law, for Pikes Peak. Colorado. They kept right on to California, coming all the way by ox-team, and arriving in Siskiyou county after a trip lasting a little over six months. He secured employment in a machine shop and remained at work there till the spring of 1862, when he moved to Walla Walla, Washington. In 1866 he passed through the locality where Spokane now stands and camped over night beside the falls. On returning to Walla Walla he established a foundry and

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 61

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn Publication date: 1900 Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever Number of Pages: 888

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever
Number of Pages: 888