An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 69

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

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Since then he has won for himself an enviable reputation as a promoter of extensive enter- prises. Indeed, his abilities as such are phe- nomenal. He helped build Rossland, British Columbia, has aided in the promotion of many of the finest mines in that region and has in- duced large amounts of capital to seek invest- ment in the mining camps of the northwest. At present he is operating chiefly in Idaho. Few men have done more for the material de- velopment and prosperity of the northwest than has Mr. Mulcahy and few have a better title to be counted among its benefactors. His judgment of prospects is excellent and so far has in every instance proven correct. He was married in Ruby. Washington. in 1889, to Louise Richenberg, and they are parents of two children, Helen U. and Grace E

JOHN B. BLALOCK, a pioneer of 1879, is a native of Sevier county, Tennessee, born July 21. 1856. He grew to manhood there, receiving such educational advantages as the common schools afforded, but as soon as he became twenty-two years old he set out for the west. His objective point was the Willamette. Valley, Oregon, but he did not long remain there. He returned to Walla Walla before the year was over and thence the next spring to Spokane, which was at that time beginning to attract attention as a town of great promise. He made the trip on a freight wagon belong- ing to Cannon & Warner. Upon his arrival here he sent back to Walla Walla about sev- enty dollars, all the money he then possessed, for a stock of leather and shoe findings, and with these he opened a small shop over Cannon & Warner's store, on the southwest corner of Howard and Front. Soon afterwards he

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purchased, for one hundred and fifty dollars, a lot on Front street, just west of Howard, upon which he erected a small one-story build- ing. 14x28. This was his place of business until, in 1880, he bought, for five hundred dol- lars, forty feet square on the northwest cor- ner of Riverside and Howard. The same year he also purchased an eight-hundred-dollar stock of shoes in Colfax, and from that on he en- joyed great prosperity in business. In 1881 lie built on his own lot on Riverside a twenty thy forty one-story frame building, into which he moved his stock. The next year he added to this a store building for rent, and shortly afterwards he purchased for six thou- :sand five hundred dollars the lot and building adjoining him on the west. Moving his stock into this, he afterwards tore down the build- ings on the corner and in 1887 built in their stead a four-story brick with a basement, the cost being twenty-one thousand dollars. This was the first four-story building in the city and was soon rented to the First National Bank for three hundred dollars per month. In 1886 Mr. Blalock sold out his shoe business to Mr. N. B. Dolan, formed a partnership with Mr. R. C. Hyde, and became a real estate speculator. They bought and handled a large amount of city property, making many improvements and erecting, among other numerous buildings, eight splendid residences on Caznovia Heights. Mr. Blalock lost about twenty thousand dollars in the fire of 1889. In 1890 he built the Blalock block on the southwest corner of Stevens and Sprague, a six-story brick, costing, with the ground upon which it stands, two hundred and nine thousand dollars. He continued prosper- ous and was doing a large and eminently suc- cessful business until the panic of 1893. when. like many others, he lost most of his property. Hle is at present living on his farm six miles

west of Medical Lake. Mr. Blalock's business record challenges our most sanguine admira- tion. Starting in an humble way, practically without capital, he pushed forward with zeal, . energy and resolution, his unerring judgment enabling him to take advantage of every fa- vorable circumstance, until he reached the top- most round in the ladder of business success. He has always been a firm friend of the city with which his destiny has been linked. con- tributing with liberal hand to railroads. churches and bridges and to all the early en- terprises which seemed likely to promote its highest interests. He was married in Spokane. October 27, 1884. to Miss Mattie Hyde, and they are parents of one child, Shirl M.

WILLIAM H. HUNTER, son of James and Sarah Ide Hunter, mine operator, office, 13- 14 Jamieson building, was born in Marquette county, Wisconsin, May 17, 1850. In 1856 the family moved to Buffalo county, that state, and there Mr. Hunter resided until 1884, en- gaged, after he became old enough. in farming and stock raising. He gave special attention to the rearing of fine cattle and was eminently successful in that business. In 1884, however, he came to Spokane county, purchased a one- hundred-and-sixty acre farm on Moran prairie, and began making improvements and building a comfortable home for himself and family. He set out forty acres of fruit trees and erect- ed a fine house, a splendid barn and other build- ings, but in 1898 he moved into Spokane for the purpose of trying his fortunes in the real es- tate business. He became so interested in min - ing that in 1899 he abandoned the real estate entirely, and concentrated all his energies upon that industry. At the present time he is en-

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gaged in developing several very promising properties in the mining region tributary to this city. Mr. Hunter is a man of great energy and enterprise, and possesses a degree of deter- mination which insures success in anything he undertakes. His mining ventures will be car- ried to a successful issue, if that is within the range of human possibility, under the circum- stances. He was married while in Mondovia, Wisconsin, to Miss Martha Warren, who died in Spokane in 1889, leaving six children, Grace, wife of H. C. Phillips; Minnie; Luella, wife of Edward Murphy ; William; James and Nel- lie. He was again married in this city in 1894 to Mrs. Anna Fisher, and they have had one child, Genevieve, deceased. Mr. Hunter's par- ents are both living in Portland, Oregon, though both are advanced in age.

HON. E. D. OLMSTED, M. D., offices in Trader's block, rooms 400-1-2, is a man with an enviable standing in his profession, in busi- ness circles, in politics, and as an honored and esteemed member of society. He was born in Davenport. Delaware county, New York, June 6, 1848, but when he was seven years old his family moved to the vicinity of Galesburg, Illi- nois. In 1876 he entered the Missouri Homeo- pathic Medical College, graduated two years later. opened an office in Plymouth, Illinois, where he practiced until 1887. He then came to Spokane and has succeeded in building up a large and desirable practice. In 1897 he was elected mayor on the citizen's ticket, and lie discharged the duties of that office in an able and efficient manner for a term of two years. He is now president of the Chamber of Com- merce, which position he has held since its or- ganization, and of the board of pension exam-

iners through two administrations; president oi the board of trustees of State Normal School, president of the Spokane Industrial Exposition, and vice-president of the Golden Lion Little Four Consolidated Mining Company and of the Conquest Mining Company. He is also in- terested in many other mining enterprises. Socially he is a member of the Elks, and is very prominent in Masonry, having taken all of the thirty-three degrees, and having been com- mander-in-chief of the consistory for the past six terms. He is at present worshipful master of Oriental Lodge, No. 74, and vice-president of the Pacific Coast Masonic Veteran Associa- tion. He is an ardent admirer of William Mc- Kinley and is honorary president of the Mc- Kinley club of the county. He is also a mem- ber of the County Medical Society, ex-presi- dent of the State Homeopathic Medical Society, and a member of the American Institute of Homeopathy. He was married first in Victoria, Illinois, April 15, 1869, to Miss Ella Laing, native of Illinois, by whom he has two daugh- ters, Amy L., wife of Bert M. Taylor, a farm- er in Tecumseh, Nebraska; and Carrie E., wife of Frederick Taylor, a farmer at Fairfield, Ne- braska. He was married again at Plymouth, May 15, 1882, to Miss E. L. Sutton, a native of Illinois.

WILLIAM T. PARKER, blacksmith, 02223 Hamilton street, is a native of Minneapo- lis, Minnesota, born October 17, 1861. When twelve years old he accompanied his parents to Rome, Georgia, and he resided there until 1879, then moved to Walla Walla, Washing- ton. The next year the family came to Spo- kane county, and the father took up three hun- dred and twenty acres of land on Four Mound

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prairie. They also had a blacksmith shop there in which Mr. Parker worked during his stay in that neighborhood. Subsequently he came into Spokane to accept a position as ex- pert machinist for the J. I. Case Company. He remained with them four years, then entered the employ of the Sioux Railroad Company as en- gineer, but in 1894 opened a shop at No. 0522 Monroe street. He later built a blacksmith shop at 1011 Riverside avenue. especially equipped for repairing general machinery, but this he sold in 1897. He then moved to his present location, where he owns a fine shop fitted up with a full and complete outfit. He also owns three fine residences in this city, one of which ranks among the finest in that local- ity, and he has a splendid farm of two hun- dred and thirty-seven acres in Whitman coun- ty, on the Snake river. Mr. Parker is one of the enterprising, industrious and progressive men of Spokane, and one of its most highly esteemed and respected citizens. Fraternally he is identified with Northern Light Lodge. No. 121, I. O. O. F., of Minneapolis, and he also belongs to Unique Encampment, No. 32. and Canton No. 2, of Spokane. Mr. Parker has been twice married. On March 24. 1878, in Rome, Georgia, he wedded Minnie D. Per- kins, who died in Spokane, May 24, 1880, leav . ing one child, Agnes, now wife of William Brown, a street car conductor in Spokane. He was married again in Minneapolis, April 17. 1889, to Nancy E. Ford, and they are parents of five children : Myrtle, Catherine, Frances, Will- iam and Marie.

D. BRAINARD DUNN, druggist, son of Dr. John W. and Delilah J. Dunn, was born in Linneus, Missouri, April 26, 1867, and he was

raised and educated in his native state. In 1883 he commenced to study pharmacy, and after devoting four years of hard work to the mastery of that profession he came to Spo- kane and with his brother, Arthur S., opened up a business here, which they carried on suc- cessfully for five years. They then removed to Fairfield. Washington, and immediately com- menced business again. Theirs is the only drug store in the town and is supplied with about three thousand dollars' worth of fine, fresh stock, consisting of a full line of drugs. toilet articles, stationery, etc .. etc. Mr. Dunn has devoted much careful and painstaking study to pharmacy and is considered an un- usually skillful and reliable dispenser. Fra- ternally he is affiliated with the I. O. F., being associated with Court Silver Lodge. No. 1568. of Spokane. He was married in Spokane Oc- tober 27, 1899. to Miss Marguerite Dimmick, a native of Oregon.

C. J. THEODORE HEISE. contractor in all kinds of cut stone, cemetery and monu- mental work, quarries and shops at Little Spo- kane, is a native of Berlin, Germany, born June 10. 1860. He served a five-year appren- ticeship in his native city, learning the trade of a stone cutter, and in 1882 came to the United States. He has since followed his trade in various parts of this country and in nearly all the large cities, his services being in de- mand wherever the finest quality of work is desired. He lived in San Francisco for eiglit- een months, working most of that time on the Leland Stanford University buildings. In 188g lie came to Spokane and took charge of a large shop in this city. He opened the Little Spokane quarries in 1897 and two years later

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purchased them, and he has since employed most of the time from eight to ten men in their development. He has a fine quality of granite, the best building stone in the Pacific north- west. He is a heavy contractor and furnished the cut stone for the Washington school build- ing. Gonzaga College, St. Joseph's Orphanage and many other fine structures, and he ships large quantities of cut stone to various towns in eastern Washington. His monumental busi- ness also is developing into an industry of no mean proportions. Mr. Heise is a man of great energy and enterprise and he combines a thor- ough mastery of his handicraft with rare busi- ness ability, so that his splendid success is not greatly to be wondered at. Socially he is iden- tified with Samaritan Lodge, No. 52, and with Unique Encampment, No. 32. I. O. O. F., and he is a past grand in the subordinate lodge. He was married in Mayfield, California, Sep- tember 1, 1888, to Miss Minnie Krause, a na- tive of Liverpool, and they have three children : Hazel. Wilhelmina T. and Elma K.

JAMES C. CUNNINGHAM, special agent and adjuster for several of the leading fire insurance companies, is a native of Prince Edward county, Ontario, Canada, born March 10, 1864. He graduated from the public schools there and in the year 1881 came with his parents to Watertown, South Dakota, where he attended the Dakota Agricultural College, holding the positions while there of manager and editor of the college paper. He was also secretary and treasurer of the Inter- collegiate Oratorical Association. He after- ward taught school for a while ( holding a first- grade certificate ), and was for a time employed in the county treasurer's office. Leaving this

position he went to Chicago, where he was employed in a wholesale fruit and nut house. In the year 1889 he came west and located in Spokane. He opened an office for the trans- action of fire insurance and real estate, whichi business has been continued until the present time. In 1897 he was promoted to the position of special agent and adjuster for the American Central Insurance Company of St. Louis, Mis- souri, the St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company of St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Lloyd's Plate Glass Insurance Company of New York, his territory being Washington. Oregon, Idaho. Utah and Montana. Mr. Cun- ningham is also interested in a number of min- ing enterprises and has considerable real estate in the city. He is a public-spirited young man and takes a lively interest not only in the busi- ness enterprises of the city, but also in the re- ligious and charitable organizations. He is president of the board of trustees of the Maria Beard Deaconess Home and Hospital and has been for many years secretary of the board of trustees of the First Methodist Episcopal church. He took an important part in the or- ganization of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation. He also served as a member of the board of education and was a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Spokane Amateur Athletic Association and in every way possible he has done his full share for the general good of the city. He was a member and helped to make the muster of Company B, National Guard of Washington, which company was afterward mustered out and re-enlisted as Company L, United States Volunteers. Mr. Cunningham is a prominent and active member of the Odd Fellows fra- ternity, being a past grand of Imperial Lodge, No. 134. He is also a member of Unique En- campment and is affiliated with Oriental Lodge.

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No. 74, F. & A. M. He was married in Brook - ings, South Dakota, in 1889, to Miss Sarah A. Haber, a native of Wisconsin. They have had born to them four children, one dying in infancy; the three living are Ila W., James Russell and Dorothy H. They occupy the family residence at 320 Adams street.

JUDGE A. G. KELLAM, of the law firm of Henley. Kellam & Lindsley, 503-509 Rook- ery, is a native of Livingston county, New York, born November 23, 1837. When nine- teen years old he began the study of law. About that time, however, he moved to Wisconsin, and later was admitted to the bar of that state. He began practice at Delavan, where he resided until he entered the army. In September, 1862, he raised a company known as Company D, Twenty-second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered into service as its captain. He served till the close of the war in the Army of the West, being a member of General Co- burn's staff, and later of General Dustin's, and participating in a number of engagements with General Sherman. He was in the battles of Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and Bentonville, took part in the siege of At- lanta, and was with Sherman on the march to the sea. He was taken prisoner at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, and spent three months in Libby prison. Judge Kellam was a brave and loyal soldier and a good officer. When mus- tered out he was major of his regiment. After the war, he returned to Delavan, resumed his practice and was there until 1871, serving for two years from 1868 in the Wisconsin state legislature. He next went to Hampton, Iowa, opened a private bank, and became cashier, and afterward president of the Franklin County

Bank. He also formed the law firm of Kel- lam, King & Henley. In 1881 he removed to Chamberlain, Dakota, engaged in the practice of his profession, and also opened and became president of the Brule County Bank. This ar- rangement continued until 1889, when he was elected on the Republican ticket judge of the supreme court of South Dakota. His re-elec- tion followed in 1893, but in January. 1896, lie resigned to come to Spokane and form a partnership with D. W. Henley. They have one of the finest libraries in the city. and are doing a large business. Judge Kellam has long been a careful and assiduous student of the law, and he has a mastery of his profession to which few lawyers can hope to attain. He is a member of Sedgwick Post, G. A. R., also of the F. & A. M. He was married in Jefferson county, New York, October 23. 1865. to Miss Clara Cole, a native of Wisconsin. They have one son, Fred, a graduate of Yankton College, South Dakota, now studying law in his father's office.

EPHRAIM DEMPSIE, wholesale and re- tail clothier and furnisher, 719 Riverside ave- nue, is a native of the north of Ireland. He came to the United States in 1876 and located first in San Francisco, where he was in busi- ness several years. He then went to the Sand- wich islands as the representative of a mer- cantile establishment, remaining until 1883. when he returned to San Francisco and from there made a trip back to Ireland. remaining among the scenes of his youth for some months. Returning to San Francisco in the early part of 1884 he decided to cast his lot in eastern Washington and selected Spokane as his future home, where he engaged in business in the early spring of the same year. In business he

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has always enjoyed a large patronage and has forged ahead through seasons of depression as well as prosperity. He now has an excellent wholesale business, extending over part of British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and eastern Washington. Mr. Dempsie is also interested considerably in mining and is a stockholder in several local enterprises, besides having large real estate interests. For the past five years he has been a member of the board of trustees of the State Normal School at Cheney. He was appointed trustee by Governor McGraw immediately after the state legislature had ap- propriated sixty thousand dollars for a normal building, and the magnificent edifice at Cheney shows how well the money was spent. He is a member of the Masonic order, having held the office of commander in the local commandery and potentate in the Shrine. He also served two terms as exalted ruler of the B. P. O. E. Mr. Dempsie was married in Portland, Oregon, to Marie Eaton, a native of England, and they have three children: Arthur S., Kathleen and Stewart G.

WILLIAM J. WILSON, a pioneer of 1880, is a native of Toronto, Canada, born July 25, 1855. He learned the trade of a butcher and followed that business for a number of years in the city of his birth, then came to Spo- kane and, in company with Hiram Still, opened a shop on Howard, between Main and Front. A year later, Mr. Drumheller bought Still out. In a short time the new firm had an extensive business, supplying the railroads and shipping in large quantities to many of the surrounding points. They sold out their butcher business in 1888 to Homeson & Huffman, and in 1894 opened a packing house where one hundred

hogs were slaughtered and packed daily. They ran two shops and had a large business, requir- ing twenty employees, but in 1897 they were compelled to close their establishment on ac- count of the scarcity of hogs. Mr. Wilson is an active, energetic man, possessing excellent business ability and a degree of determination which insures success in whatever he under- takes. He is also a very public-spirited man. and was ever willing to contribute his full share toward the early enterprises of the city. Mr. Wilson is also extensively interested in mining. He was married in Toronto, March 6. 1882, to Miss Mary A. Sellers, a native of that city, and they are parents of three children, Freder- ick, Georgie and John.

CHARLES H. DOUGHTEN, a pioneer of 1878, is a native of Tazewell county. Vir- ginia, born May 10, 1848. When fourteen years old he left school to enlist in the Twenty-first Virgnia Cavalry and served for three months before he was entrusted with a gun. His company was first detailed as guards at Bristol, Tennessee, but later was sent to escort prisoners to Richmond. Mr. Doughten served as standard bearer in the Shenandoah valley and participated in the engagements at Piedmont, Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and in numerous others. After eighteen months' service he left the army and returned to school. In 1868 he came out to Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was engaged in farming for the en- suing nine years. He came to the coast in 1878 and located on a homestead of one hun- dred and sixty acres five miles southeast of Spangle. After spending a number of years on this farm he moved to Cheney, ran a livery stable there for nine years, then became in-

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terested in the Riverside stables in Spokane and had charge of them from 1891 till 1895. In the latter year he sold out and engaged in mining in the Nelson, Rosslyn and Slocan dis- tricts, where he now has some very promising claims. Mr. Doughten is a very active, en- terprising man and it is to be hoped that the result of his mining ventures will be such as to reward him for the courage and energy em- ployed in their discovery and development. He was married in Leavenworth county, Kansas, in: 1870. to Miss Sarah Ziegler, a native of Tennessee, and they have one child, Alice, wife of Grant Robinson, of Portland, Oregon.

NULTON E. NUZUM, of the law firm of Sullivan, Nuzum & Nuzum, 46-49 Ziegler block, is a native of Wisconsin, born in Viro- qua, April 28, 1862. When twenty years old he left the farm on which he was born and raised, went to Chicago and became a commer- cial traveler, carrying a line of shoes. He fol- lowed that business for eight years, reading law at the same time. In 1888 lie came to Spo- kane and two years later was admitted to the bar and began practice. The next year the firm of Griffith & Nuzum was organized. In 1896 this firm was dissolved and the firm of Nu- zum & Nuzum organized, and in January, 1899, the present partnership was formed by the admission to the firm of Judge H. E. Sulli- van. They have a fine practice and are doing well. Mr. Nuzum is a man who has made his way in the world against great obstacles, and he deserves the credit always due men who climb in spite of adverse circumstances. He is a charter member of the Elks, in which he is leading night, and he also belongs to the K. P. He is interested in mining, and is con-

nected with many enterprises for the develop- ment of properties. He was married in Eau Claire. Wisconsin, September 4. 1883. to Flora B. Watson, a native of Wisconsin, and they have one son. Harry W.

DANIEL W. HENLEY. of Henley, Kel- lam & Lindsley, attorneys in the Rookery build- ing. is a native of Hendricks county. Indiana. born January 26, 1852. He was raised on a farm and educated in Earlham College, grad- uating from the Latin scientific course of that institution. He next entered the law depart- ment of Simpson Centenary University and re- ceived his B. L. degree in 1876. He then opened an office with John H. King in Hamp- ton. Iowa, and two years later took in the Hon. A. G. Kellam, one of the men with whom lie is now associated in Spokane. In 1888 Mr. Henley went to Lawrence, Kansas, and carried on a very successful practice there until June, 1889, when he came to Spokane. He secured an office in the Tull block, furnished it very nicely, and got ready for business. He opened on Friday and the following Sunday the big fire burned him out. However, he tried once more, and practiced under the firm name of Connor, Henley & Scott, then of Fenton. Heu- ley & Fenton until March, 1896, when the firm of Henley & Kellam was organized. Mr. Lindsley at first served as clerk, but lie was taken into the partnership in 1897. They are doing a fine business on the fifth floor of the Rookery. Mr. Henley has long been regarded as one of the leading lawyers in this part of the state, and he is now equally famous as a min- ing man. He was vice-president of the LeRoi from the time of its organization until it was sold. and this mine placed him among the

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 69

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