An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 68

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

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rectors, made a canvass of the town for sub- scriptions to keep the schools open after the public fund was exhausted. He also served as a member of the city council for one term. His object in entering the council was to be instrumental in completing the much-needed Monroe street bridge, and this object he was successful in carrying out.

JOHN A. WILSON, deceased, was a na- tive of Canada, born March 17, 1826. He passed his youth and early manhood in the land of his birth, and early engaged in the lumbering business and in contracting. In 1848, he moved to East Saginaw, Michigan, where he continued in his former occupation until the time of his death, April 5, 1877. In religion he was a Presbyterian. He was mar- ried in Saginaw, Michigan, September 18. 1855, to Miss Mary A. Smith, a native of New York, who still survives him. Mr. Wil- son also left four children, namely: John H., William A., Frances E. and Mildred E. Mrs. Wilson has been a resident of Spokane since 1890 and she now has a nice home in Lidgerwood Park, tastefully furnished and well supplied with the comforts of life. She is an active member of the First Presbyterian church of this city.

PAUL BUCHHOLZ, a pioneer of 1884. is a native of Germany, born July 6, 1821. In 1856, he came to America and located in Minnesota where he took up a pre-emption of one hundred and sixty acres. He followed flour milling in that state for a number of years, then in September, 1884, came to Spo-

kane county, bought a large tract of land near Cheney and engaged in farming. In 1891 he retired from active life and moved to his present place of residence in Spokane. He is passing the evening of his life in peace and comfort in a magnificent home surrounded by all the conveniences and luxuries which mod- erate wealth can command. He has been three times married. On May 5. 1842. he was united in marriage to Miss Wilmenia Kærnig, a native of Germany, who died be- fore Mr. Buchholz came to America. He subsequently married Miss Frederica Dumpke. and she died in Minnesota. His third mar- riage took place in St. Paul. Minnesota, the lady being Mrs. Henrietta Pfieffer, a native of Germany. They have a family of ten chil- dren, namely: Emanuel, in Minnesota : Hen- ry, in Helena, Montana; Gustave, a farmer : Herman, a miller; William, a millwright : Minnie, now wife of Fred. Wagner: Annie. wife of John Ferber: Fred, a farmer : Paul. a member of the Spokane police. and Louis, baggagemaster in the Great Northern depot at Spokane. Mr. Buchholz is a member of the Evangelical church of this city.

L. G. DEMERT. proprietor of the Demert Drug and Chemical Company. 814 Sprague avenue, is a native of Waterloo, Illinois, born March 20. 1850. He was educated in the public schools of that city, and in 1865, went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became an apprentice in the employ of the Morris & Will- iams Drug Company. He remained with then three years, diligently engaged in the study of pharmacy, and earnestly endeavoring to acquire a mastery of that difficult profession. Determined to be thorough at whatever cost.

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he then entered school and took an extensive course in chemistry, also a general business course. In 1871 he came west and spent a few years in travel, visiting various cities and points of interest in the Pacific states and territories. At length, in 1874. he located at Virginia City, Nevada, where he received from Challer & Company a situation as book- keeper in their establishment. Subsequently hc removed to Arizona to become co-manager with Mr. Fuller of the post sutlership at Camp McDowell, which position he retained until 1878. In that year he went to Portland, Ore- gon, and entered the employ of C. H. Wood- ward & Company, as a druggist. He re- mained with them until 1882. then moved to Pendleton, Oregon, and engaged in a drug business for himself. Three years later, how- ever, he came to this city and purchased a store and a fine stock of goods from his former employers, C. H. Woodward & Company. and he has been engaged in business here con- tinuously since. Mr. Demert is thoroughly mas- ter of the drug business in all its details, hav- ing spent many years in the study of phar- macy, and he naturally occupies a place of prominence among the business men of eastern Washington. A public-spirited citizen. he has ever manifested a deep interest in the gen- eral welfare of Spokane, contributing liberally to the early enterprises and to every under- taking which promised to advance the material and social interests of the city and county. He was married in Oregon City, Oregon. Sep- tember 19, 1882, to Miss Virginia C. Win- ston, a native of that state. They have one son, Louis. Mrs. Demert is a member of the First Baptist church of this city. Both of her parents were leading pioneers of the state of Oregon, her mother, whose maiden name was Mary Johnson, having crossed the plains in

1845, making most of the journey on horse- back and carrying with her a baby sister who was too sick to ride in a wagon. Her father, Mr. James Winston, crossed the plains the next year (1846), traveling the entire distance on muleback. He became one of the pioneer merchants of Oregon City, Oregon, and for many years was eminent in the life and devel- opment of that state, occupying many responsi- ble positions of a political character. The orig- inal Winston homestead, upon which he was born, was sold to the Confederate government, and during the war of the Rebellion was used as a place of residence by Jefferson Davis. Mr. Winston was married in Oregon City, in 1847. to Miss Mary Johnson, above mentioned. They became parents of seven children. Mrs. Win- ston's mother was a direct lineal descendant of Aneke Jans, and was an heiress of the mil- lions of dollars' worth of property of the Trin- ity church corporation of New York. She was a daughter of Rev. Hezekiah Johnson. a Baptist minister, and one of the early mission- aries of the coast. Mr. Winston died June 7, 1892, and Mrs. Winston December 6, 1896.

DR. NATHAN A. GODDARD, physician and surgeon, 644-45 Hyde block, is a native of Nashua, New Hampshire, born January 14, 1874. In 1890 he went to Minnesota and en- tered Shattuck's Military Academy. Three years later he returned to Nashua, and complet- ed his preliminary education in the high school there, graduating in 1894. He then entered the medical department of the University of Minnesota, taking his degree from that insti- tution in 1897. He then took the competitive examination for senior surgeon of St. Joseph's Hospital at St. Paul, Minnesota, and being the

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successful competitor, received the position. He held it one year, then entered the clinical wards of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and gave his attention exclusively to surgery for a while. He later came to Spokane, passed the examination required by the state board of medical examiners and began the practice of his profession. He gives special attention to surgery and diseases of the nose and throat. Dr. Goddard has spared no pains to become proficient in his profession, and the successes he has already achieved prove that his efforts have not been in vain. He is one of the ris- ing young men of the city and can hardly fail to climb rapidly to the front rank of medical practitioners of this state. He is affiliated with the B. P. O. E., No. 228, is sachem of the I. O. R. M., No. 9, and lodge physician of the F. O. E., No. 2, all of Spokane, and he also belongs to the Alpha Delta Phi college fraternity. He was this year elected one of the board of cen- sors of the Inland Empire Clinical Society of Spokane, which comprises among its members all of the leading physicians of Washington, Idaho and western Montana.

HON. JOHN L. WILSON, ex-United States senator from Washington, is a son of James Wilson, who defeated Senator Voorhees in the election of 1856, becoming the first Re- publican representative from the eighth dis- trict of Indiana. He was born in Crawfords- ville, Indiana, August 7, 1850. He graduated from Wabash College in 1874, then studied law in the office of his uncle, Colonel W. C. Wil- son, passing his admission examination in 1877. After a year's practice he was elected on the Republican ticket to represent Mont- gomery county in the state legislature. He

served one term, helping to elect Benjamin Harrison to the senate. In February, 1881. he was appointed by President Arthur receiver of public moneys in the Colfax, Washington, United States land office. He served four and a half years, rendering a complete and correct account of all moneys at the close of his term. When the land office was removed to this city he came with it and has been a resident of Spokane ever since. In 1889 he was elected to congress, defeating Thomas C. Griffiths. In 1891 and again in 1893 he was renominated by acclamation, and in the state legislature of 1895 and 1896 he was elected to the United States senate for the term ending March 4. 1899. During his long service in the house of representatives and in the senate lie was very active in behalf of his state. He worked un- tiringly for the Nicaragua canal. organized the mail service of the state. establishing over half the postoffices in Washington, adjusted the Cœur d'Alene treaty, provided homes for the Spokane Indians, opened the Colville reserva- tion, built the dry dock at Port Orchard and secured appropriations for improving Gray's harbor and for building the jetty. the light house. the life saving station, the marine hos- pital and the quarantine station at Port Town- send. He also secured appropriations for coast fortifications and the passage of a bill in the house establishing a United States court in this state. Senator Wilson has the honor of being the first Republican member of congress from Washington and was therefore accorded the privilege of witnessing the signing by Presi- dent Harrison of the proclamation admitting Washington to the Union. He still retains the confidence and political allegiance of his for- mer constituents and is among the most pop- ular men, politically, in the state. During the Civil war he served as messenger on the staff

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of his father, who was a colonel. Senator Wil- son was married in 1883 to Miss E. Sweet, of Chicago, and they have one daughter, Helen S.

WILLIAM H. McKERNAN. a pioneer of 1881. is a native of Oregon, born in a Hud- son's Bay Company's camp at The Dalles Jan- uary 21, 1857. He grew to manhood on a farm. but in 1875 went to Portland and en- tered the employ of Keran & Macbeth as a salesman in a large general merchandise store. He remained with them until 1881, then came to Spokane to accept a situation from Frieden- richt & Berg as clerk in their general merchan- clise establishment, the first store of its kind in Spokane. He continued in their employ until

1885, when the firm went out of business. His next position was furnished by Walter L. Bean. who employed him as chief clerk in his grocery store until 1887, but in that year Mr. McKer- nan formed a partnership with C. L. Brickel and engaged in the grocery business for himself. He retired the following year, however, to become a member of the city police force. He served continuously until 1898. holding all the positions from patrolman to chief and dis- charging his duties faithfully and in a manner highly satisfactory to all good citizens. Since retiring from the police force he has been en- gaged in raising fancy poultry and as a con- tractor and builder. He owns a fine tract of fifteen acres near Natatorium Park, upon which he makes his home. Mr. McKernan has showed himself worthy of the highest esteem during the many years of his residence in Spo- kane, always proving faithful to every trust re- posed in him and ever manifesting a deep in- terest in the welfare of the city. He is a mem- ber of the A. O. U. W., the K. of P. and the

Pioneers Association. He was married in Spo- kane October 8. 1884. to Miss Esther J. Boone. a native of Oregon, daughter of D. M. Boone. who crossed the plains with ox-teams in 1844. Mrs. McKernan is also a lineal descendant of the far-famed. Daniel Boone. Mr. and Mrs. McKernan are parents of three children : Ger- trude, Marguerite and Frances. Mr. John M. McKernan, father of our Mr. McKernan. started from Boston, Massachusetts. for Ore- gon at a very early date, but was shipwrecked and finally picked up by an English sailing vessel and taken to Liverpool. Out of eleven hundred passengers on the lost vessel only one hundred and forty escaped with their lives. Mr. McKernan, however, was not to be dis- couraged. but again set out for his land of promise, arriving there as an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1854. He later on joined the United States army and participated in the Pacific coast Indian wars.

A. D. CAMPBELL, manager of the West- ern Union telegraph office, a pioneer of 1888. is a native of Ontario, Canada, born November II. 1863. He learned the profession of a tele- graph operator and in 1878 entered the employ of the Dominion Telegraph Company, with whom he remained until they consolidated with the Great Northwestern Telegraph Com- pany. He then worked for the combined con- cern until 1885, when he removed to Chicago and entered the service of the Western Union. He has been with that company continuously since, working with marvelous steadiness, hay- ing had only one week's vacation since 1886. In 1887 he came to Helena, Montana, to be- come chief operator there, and in 1888 he was sent on to Spokane to assume the management

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of the company's office here. Since that date he has been closely identified with this city. He is also manager of the Fort Steele Tele- graph & Telephone Company. Few men could have borne the strain that Mr. Camp- bell has passed through in discharging the du- ties of liis arduous and responsible position for more than fourteen years without recrea- tion. Thoroughly devoted to his work, Mr. Campbell nevertheless finds time to take an in- terest in the general welfare of the city and a leading part in many enterprises for its ma- terial and social melioration. He was one of the founders of the S. A. A. C., of which he has been a director since its organization, and he is also a member of the Bicycle Path Com- mission. He was married in Chicago, Illinois, to Miss Ella C. Simpson, a native of that city, and they have three children, Luella, Wallace S. and Russell.

MRS. JAMES ROE, widow of the late James Roe, came to Spokane with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Mayer, in 1884. She was afterward married in this city and became the mother of two children, Leah and Aileen. Her husband died in Spokane April 22. 1900. Mrs. Roe is an active member of the Westminster Congregational church, also is a prominent worker in the R. N. A., No. 1762, of which she is recorder. She is one of the most highly es- teemed and influential ladies of this city.

HON. JAMES M. COMSTOCK, mayor of Spokane, is a native of Rome, Oneida coun- ty, New York, born September 6, 1838. In 1845 the family removed to Summit, Wauke-

sha county, Wisconsin, where he grew up, at- tending the school winters and working on a farm at all other seasons. When eighteen he began teaching. In 1858 he entered Carroll College in Waukesha and there the greater part of his time was spent until the outbreak of the war. On August 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company A. First Wisconsin Volunteer Cav- alry. He studied tactics diligently and soon was appointed to drill the other men. Later he served in Missouri as first lieutenant of Company H. participating in the engagements at Shelbyville and Chickamauga. He then went south, joined Sherman and took part in the battles of Dalton. Resaca, New Hope Church. Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain and other engage- ments preceding the fall of Atlanta. In July. 1863, he was promoted to the captaincy of Company F. which rank he held until mustered out December 1. 1864. The distinguished character of his military services is evinced by the fact that he was so frequently promoted. Upon retiring from the army he returned home and engaged in the dry goods business. In 1872 he removed to Algona, Iowa, where lie followed the same pursuit until 1890. He then came to Spokane and in company with R. B. Patterson opened a dry goods store. On January 1. 1895. the Spokane Dry Goods Company was organized, with Mr. Comstock as vice-president. The company have an ex- cellent wholesale'and retail establishment and are doing a splendid business, employing from ninety to one hundred assistants constantly. While Mr. Comstock is a business man of 110 ordinary ability. it is for his public services that he is best known in Spokane, he having been connected with the city government since 1894. He was for five years a member of the city council. during three of which he occupied the president's chair. In May, 1899, he was elected

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to the mayoralty of Spokane and he is dis- charging his duties as such officer with ability and faithfulness and in a manner well calcu- lated to promote the best interests of the city. He is a man of long experience in municipal government, having served for many years in the Algona, Iowa, city council and as mayor of that city one year. Mayor Comstock was married in Monterey, Wisconsin, March 29, 1866. to Miss Elizabeth Annis, a native of Cattaraugus county, New York, and they have two daughters, May and Josie.

HORACE KIMBALL, deputy prosecuting . attorney of Spokane county, member of the law firm of Moore, Poindexter & Kimball, is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, born of New England parentage June 4. 1868. He is a son of Judge Eben W. Kimball, of Little Rock, Arkansas, a leader of the bar of that state. The family have resided at Little Rock since 1873. and there Mr. Kimball grew to manhood and acquired his primary education. He received his college training in the University of Vir- ginia, entering in 1884 and graduating three years later. He was admitted to the bar by the supreme court of Arkansas in 1889 and immediately entered his father's office as a partner. In 1891 he came to Spokane, opened an office and started to build up a practice, an undertaking in which he has been unusually successful. Mr. Kimball is at present the dep- uty prosecuting attorney of the county and at the Republican county convention held June 8, 1900, he received by acclamation the nomina- tion of his party for prosecuting attorney. He is an ardent and life-long Republican, a very active worker in the interest of the party and one of its leaders. He has been a delegate to

numerous state and county conventions and is at present secretary of the Republican county central committee. Both as an attorney and as a political leader Mr. Kimball takes high rank. He enjoys the confidence and esteem of all who know him and is in every respect a very promising young man. He resides at No. 214 Walnut street, this city, with his family, which consists of his wife and one little daughter.

ROBERT D. SPECK, secretary of the Sheldon Milling Company of Rockport, is a native of Clinton county, New York, born July 4, 1859. At the age of fourteen he came to Chicago, where he secured employment from Thompson, Steel & Price, the last of whom is the well-known baking powder man. Later Mr. Speck was in the grocery and provision business with his brother. G. W. Speck. He afterward went to Steel City, Nebraska, and opened a general merchandise store, but he soon returned to Chicago. Not long afterward he went into the hotel business at Missoula, Montana, also serving as chief deputy and later as acting sheriff of the county. In 1884 he came to Spokane and accepted a position as manager of the Arlington Hotel. Subsequent- ly he went into the Grand Hotel, remaining till the fire of 1889. He then was manager of the Merchants' Hotel, then of the Pacific, but he subsequently removed to Rockford and en- gaged in farming and milling. He is a stock- holder in and secretary of the Sheldon Mill- ing Company, also has a fine one-hundred-and- sixty-acre farm five miles north of the town. Mr. Speck has long been a prominent man in politics, having served as a member of the territorial legislature and of the territorial council in Montana, and having also served in

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the legislature of this state. In November, 1898, he was elected sheriff of this county and he discharged his duties as such creditably and satisfactorily until the fall of 1899, when he resigned. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Speck is a member of Fairfield Lodge, No. '45. I. O. O. F., of Spokane Lodge, No. 228, B. P. O. E. and of the W. of W.

FRANK W. DALLAM, editor of the Lin- coln County Times, a pioneer of 1883, was born in Potosi, Missouri, April 9. 1849. In early infancy he was taken by his parents to Illinois, where he was reared and educated. His father was a journalist, and to that pro- fession Frank also early turned his attention. He took his first lessons in typesetting in the office of the Quincy Republican. His first ex- perience as editor and publisher was in 1868, when he took charge of the Warsaw ( Illinois ) Bulletin, with which he was connected for sev- eral years afterward. In 1875 he removed to California and there he published the Hay- wards Journal for five years. In 1883 he mi- grated to the territory of Washington, founded the Spokane Review and continued its editor until 1888. A few months after retiring from that position he purchased the Lincoln County Times at Davenport, taking charge January 1, 1889. In the summer of that year he was elected a member of the constitutional conven- tion, which framed the constituton of this state, and in the fall of 1890 he became receiver in the United States land office at Waterville. He served in that capacity four years, also ed- iting the Big Bend Empire at Waterville dur- ing the campaign of 1894, then was elected auditor of Douglas county, an office which he retained for two years. In 1897 he started the

Palmer Mountain Prospector, at Loomis, and after conducting that periodical for over a year he again became editor and proprietor of the Lincoln County Times. Mr. Dallam has spent many years in the. newspaper business and has exerted a powerful influence in shaping public opinion and sentiment wherever he has lived. Thoroughly master of his profession. his career as a journalist has been eminently successful. His public service, also, was of such a character as to win for him the con- fidence and good will of all his constituents. In September, 1874, he was married at War- saw, Illinois, to Miss Alice R. Tuzadder, and they have four children.

CHARLES P. CHAMBERLIN. manag- ing director of the Evening Star Mining Com- pany, a pioneer of 1881, was born in Susque- hanna county, Pennsylvania. in September. 1855. He was reared on a farm but early embarked in the railway train service. following that ocupation until twenty-six years old. He then came out to Cheney. Washington, where for a number of years he continued railroad- ing. Later, however, he turned his attention to stock raising, a business which engaged his energies for the next few years. In the spring of 1891 he was appointed deputy United States marshal, with headquarters at Spokane, and he discharged his duties as such officer until June. 1893, when he again returned to the rail- road, becoming agent for the receivers of the branch lines operated by the Northern Pacific Railroad in this state. In the spring of 1895 he became temporary receiver of the C. W. R. R. Co., and in the fall of that year he was appointed permanent receiver, serving as such till the property was sold in 1898. During

CYRUS K. MERRIAM, M. D. Spokane

CHARLES H. MERRIAM Spokane

L. B. MERRIAM Spokane

A. M. MERRIMAN Spokane

MRS. J. A. C. MERRIMAN Spokane

AUGUSTUS ROSSELOW Spokane

JOHN T. DAVIE Spokane

PETER ERICKSON Spokane

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the last two years he has been engaged in min- ing and he is now interested in a number of very promising properties. Mr. Chamberlin has always stood well in this county, ever en- joying the confidence and esteem of those with whom he has been associated.

GEORGE P. MULCAHY, a pioneer of 1882. was born in Ireland. of American par- ents, November 10. 1864. In 1865 the family came to the vicinity of Toledo, Ohio, in which state and in Michigan Mr. Mulcahy received his education. He learned the telegraph busi- ness and when eighteen years old came to the Cœur d'Alene country. induced thither by the mining excitement. After the Cœur d'Alene boom he again followed telegraphy. entering the employ of the Northern Pacific Railway Company as train dispatcher at Sprague. Later he became manager of the Western Union tele- graph office and train dispatcher at Ellensburg. While there he organized the development com- pany which discovered the iron mines on the Teenaway. When the Okanogan reservation was opened he was among the first to enter the country and became interested in the first prospects located on Palmer mountain. He also became active in politics, helping to or- ganize the county, serving as deputy auditor and being nominated for the county treasurer- ship before becoming of age. He would doubt- less have been elected but for the county-seat fight. Subsequently going to eastern Oregon, Mr. Mulcahy served successively as train dis- patcher, chief clerk in the transportation de- partment and freight and ticket agent for the O. R. & N. Co. at La Grande. He after- ward followed real estate and mining broker- age until 1895, when he came to Spokane. 30

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 68

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